Re: kernel panic in 6.1 - does no one care?

2006-03-23 Thread Mark Linimon
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 01:31:05PM +0800, James Gallagher wrote: > I also wonder if this would be better reported on -current rather than > -stable as the concerned version, 6.1, is pre-release/Beta? Nope, that's not the way it works. -stable is for 4.X/5.X/6.X. -current is for -HEAD, e.g., that

Re: new sk driver [was: nve timeout (and down) regression?]

2006-03-27 Thread Mark Linimon
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 12:15:55PM -0300, JoaoBR wrote: > well, the actual driver is trash and unusable and overall crashes SMP > systems ... so more testing to see if it crashes more? ;) As with any other software development project, you have to draw a line somewhere and say "these things will

Re: Disappointed

2006-04-05 Thread Mark Linimon
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 10:15:00PM +0200, Albert Shih wrote: > Le 05/04/2006 à 16:07:27-0400, Kris Kennaway a écrit > > On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 10:03:41PM +0200, Albert Shih wrote: > > > Hi all > > > > > > I'm disappointed by the stablity of FreeBSD 6-stable (I known it's > > > developpement bran

Re: bind() fd 6, family 28, port 123 at boot time

2006-04-05 Thread Mark Andrews
led the > kernel, i think the time is syncronized thoug. > what can i check? Send in a pr then ignore the messages. The ntp coded needs to specially handle the link-local addresses. I would suspect that scope6_id is not being set. Mark -- Mark And

No drives detected with TX4000

2006-04-05 Thread Mark Kirkwood
-card. Running 'atacontrol list' from a fixit shell lists the 4 channels with no drives attached. Is there anything special that needed for the TX4000, compared to the TX2000? Cheers Mark ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://li

Re: No drives detected with TX4000

2006-04-06 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Mark Kirkwood wrote: I swapped out a TX2000 for a TX4000 today, and naively thought that I'd just be able to plug in the new card and reboot. Unfortunately, it does not detect the 4 drives (Maxtor 6E040L0). Booting off the 6.0R install cd shows the card detected ok, and 6 ATA channels -

Re: Disappointed

2006-04-10 Thread Mark Linimon
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 05:23:53PM +0400, Alexey Karagodov wrote: > ok. then, freebsd-developers may change "The Power To Serve" to "The Power > To Test", "FreeBSD is an advanced operating system " to "FreeBSD is > an advanced operating system in stage of forever development", etc. > pay money to u

Re: Maximum Swapsize

2006-04-10 Thread Mark Andrews
;. This allowed to be able to swap between two processes consuming all of real memory. It dates backs to PDP 11 memory management models. Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: [EMAIL PRO

4-STABLE panic, samba related maybe?

2006-04-22 Thread Mark Cullen
I know 4.x is outdated and all that, and soon to be unsupported (probably very much unsupported already) but I thought I'd post anyway. I'm not ready to move to 5 / 6. I just got this panic while copying an old website to a new folder via samba, deleting it again (didn't quite work as expected

Re: 4-STABLE panic, samba related maybe?

2006-04-22 Thread Mark Cullen
Mark Cullen wrote: I know 4.x is outdated and all that, and soon to be unsupported (probably very much unsupported already) but I thought I'd post anyway. I'm not ready to move to 5 / 6. I just got this panic while copying an old website to a new folder via samba, deleting it aga

Re: cc can't build 32-bit executables on amd64

2006-05-02 Thread Mark Linimon
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 11:04:32PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > While it's always unfortunate and undesirable to have bugs in releases > or have missing features, it's even more undesirable to hold releases > indefinitely until "all the problems are solved". Even the most cursory review of GNATS wil

Re: quota deadlock on 6.1-RC1

2006-05-03 Thread Mark Linimon
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 06:21:39PM -0700, David Kirchner wrote: > Would there really be harm in putting off a release until these well- > acknowledged bugs are taken care of? Yes. We tagged the ports tree on April 14th, and that's the last date of any changes the CDs will ship with. That's a suf

Re: FreeBSD Newbie...

2006-05-03 Thread Mark Linimon
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:26:53PM +, John Dworske wrote: > FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE (GENERIC) #0: Mon Oct 27 17:51:09 GMT 2003 4.9 is no longer supported. You should use 5.4 or 6.0, or, preferably, wait for about a week and use 5.5 or 6.1. I would recommend 6.X; 5.X is at this point essentially

Re: em(4) device still 'freezes' on latset CVSup'd 6.x ...

2006-05-03 Thread Mark Linimon
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 05:42:41PM -0700, David Kirchner wrote: > I don't know the protocol for this -- would the old PRs be re-opened, > or should a new PR be filed for 6.x? I'd recommend filing a new PR but reference the older ones in case it is indeed the same problem. mcl

Re: resolver behaviour regarding searchlist and A/AAAA query replies

2006-05-04 Thread Mark Andrews
behavior for host.subdomain queries. I suggest that you raise the issue on the ipv6 IETF working group mailing list as that was where getaddrinfo() behaviour was specified and it really does not cover search lists. The current getaddrinfo() specification handles the non

Re: quota deadlock on 6.1-RC1

2006-05-05 Thread Mark Linimon
Make Jakubik wrote: > FreeBSD users now demand stability and performance, as opposed to an > influx of new bells and whistles just before the release [...] I fully > understand that this is a volunteer project [...] I'm sorry, but the former statement proves the latter false. Let's try to do our

Re: 6.x on an IBM T42 laptop

2006-05-05 Thread Mark Willson
and the battery life's > reasonable (with est enabled). > > Is anyone aware of any regressions in laptop functionality going from 5.4 to > 6.x? I've been running 6-STABLE on a T42 for a while and not noticed any problems in the subjects mentioned. The addition of iwi has made

6.1-RC and the audit group

2006-05-05 Thread Mark Kirkwood
'mergemaster' has a group temporary file with 'audit' in it (as it wanted to remove mine and add its own - I'd used 70 instead of 77 as gid). So...err, I obviously missed something in during mergemaster -p, where does it do the audit addition? Cheers Mark P.s : 6

Re: sk0: watchdog timeout

2006-05-05 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 12:10:46AM -0400, Miles Lubin wrote: > I know this is rather late in the release process, but given that this > issue will affect many people, I think it should be considered fixing > this driver for 6.1. The release is imminent. The last Ts are being crossed and Is dott

Re: 6.1-RC and the audit group

2006-05-06 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Doug White wrote: On Sat, 6 May 2006, Mark Kirkwood wrote: I found that installworld stops, because the 'audit' group has not been created. Now I just pressed 'return' for the default actions during mergemaster -p, but I didn't notice any mention of the audit group.

Re: quota deadlock on 6.1-RC1

2006-05-07 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 09:26:51PM +0100, Chris wrote: > 1 - it does increase stability if the extra time is spent fixing bugs > and testing the fixes. This assumes that you can persuade committers to focus on bugfixes instead of on other things that they consider more fun. > I happen to think be

Re: 6.1-RC and the audit group

2006-05-09 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Doug White wrote: On Sat, 6 May 2006, Mark Kirkwood wrote: I found that installworld stops, because the 'audit' group has not been created. Now I just pressed 'return' for the default actions during mergemaster -p, but I didn't notice any mention of the audit group.

Re: 6.1-RC and the audit group

2006-05-09 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Pieter de Goeje wrote: Hi Mark, On Wednesday 10 May 2006 00:51, Mark Kirkwood wrote: Just updated another box to 6.1-STABLE, and yes I did 'return' though it. The reason being mergemaster -p wanted to patch my group file to remove all the additions (i.e, useful groups and gro

Re: quota deadlock on 6.1-RC1

2006-05-11 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 08:16:42PM +0100, Chris wrote: > GNATS didnt reply so I will send the info about email address I used > and see if I can find the pr number as well. Any problems you have with GNATS not responding, please email them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and we'll try to figure out what's go

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Released

2006-05-11 Thread Mark Kirkwood
enter into this discussion (puts on flame suit), but might it be better to gently encourage the re/development team to make some of these a priority for 6.2? (as that gives everyone more lead time, and in the end what we all want is FreeBSD to steadily improve).

Re: Reproducable file corruption on 6-STABLE

2006-05-12 Thread Mark Kirkwood
n the 66Mhz PCI slots can shift quite a lot of data, if your working both of 'em!). Cheers Mark ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: RELENG_4 -> 5 -> 6: significant performance regression

2006-05-13 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 08:59:01AM +0300, Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote: > I'm just trying to understand why performance of RELENG_6 is worse than > in RELENG_4 _that much_, and whether this sad situation can be improved > somehow. The architecture of the system substantially changed in the 5.X timef

Re: SATA Failure Introduced between 6.0 and 6.1-RC1

2006-05-13 Thread Mark Kane
urchases or not and get this machine back up. Thanks in advance! -Mark I am experiencing the same problem as described in the original PR, but with Western Digital hard drives and the latest BIOS version (1001) which is known to fix the ACPI DSDT bugs that have plagued these boards. I have not lias

Sequantial IO Performance improvement in 6.1-STABLE

2006-05-16 Thread Mark Kirkwood
The machine in question is a Supermico P3TDER with 2G RAM, a 3Ware 7506 and 4 Maxtor 6Y080P0 RAID0. So anyway - very nice. Best wishes Mark ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stab

Re: Sequantial IO Performance improvement in 6.1-STABLE

2006-05-17 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Mark Kirkwood wrote: I recently upgraded my FreeBSD machines from 6.0R to 6.1-STABLE I noticed a pleasant surprise - improved disk IO! In 6.0R best sequential throughput I ever saw was 170 MB/s (32k block size reads on an 4G file). In 6.1-STABLE I'm seeing 190 Mb/s (32k block size rea

Re: Sequantial IO Performance improvement in 6.1-STABLE

2006-05-17 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Mike Jakubik wrote: Mark Kirkwood wrote: Mark Kirkwood wrote: I recently upgraded my FreeBSD machines from 6.0R to 6.1-STABLE I noticed a pleasant surprise - improved disk IO! In 6.0R best sequential throughput I ever saw was 170 MB/s (32k block size reads on an 4G file). In 6.1-STABLE I&#

Re: quota and snapshots in 6.1-RELEASE

2006-05-23 Thread Mark Kane
figure something else out hardware wise. Thanks -Mark -- GnuPG Public Key: http://www.mkproductions.org/mk_pubkey.asc Internet Radio: Party107 (Trance/Electronic) - http://www.party107.com Rock 101.9 The Edge (Rock) - http://www.rock1019.net IRC: MIXXnet IRC Network - irc.mixxn

Re: PostgreSQL uses more memory on 6.1?

2006-05-23 Thread Mark Kirkwood
36*4096 = 256Mb, but the maximum size any single segment can be is 128Mb. Cheers Mark ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: internal compiler error: segmentation fault: 11

2006-05-23 Thread Mark Kirkwood
th a Tyan Thunder LE, I'm using the same power supply and memory in a Supermicro P3TDER and it is rock solid. Best wishes Mark ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe,

RE: Trouble with NFSd under 6.1-Stable, any ideas?

2006-05-24 Thread Mark Morley
. Mark -- Mark Morley Owner / Administrator Islandnet.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: PostgreSQL uses more memory on 6.1?

2006-05-24 Thread Mark Kirkwood
sources is a bit hidden away - it usually takes me a couple of attempts to find it! cheers Mark ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

NFS processes locking up!!

2006-06-01 Thread Mark Morley
are, new RAID) and we saw the exact same issue on the machine that it replaced (which was running 4.11 on i386). Any thoughts on this? Any more info I should provide? Mark -- Mark Morley Owner / Administrator Islandnet.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

Re: NFS processes locking up!!

2006-06-01 Thread Mark Morley
FireWire support #device firewire# FireWire bus code #device sbp # SCSI over FireWire (Requires scbus and da) #device fwe # Ethernet over FireWire (non-standard!) Mark -- Mark Morley Owner / Administrator Islandnet.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: NFS processes locking up!!

2006-06-01 Thread Mark Morley
> > makeoptions COPTFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -funroll-loops -ffast-math" > > Don't use leet meaningless compiler flags, and try again :) > > Kris D'oh!I don't normally have that in my kernel configs. That carried forward from the old server. I'll

pf buggy on 6.1-STABLE?

2006-06-07 Thread Mark Morley
r anything like that. Any thoughts? Mark -- Mark Morley Owner / Administrator Islandnet.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: NFS processes locking up!!

2006-06-10 Thread Mark Morley
The change in compiler options did seem to lower the load averages a bit though. Possibly related: I am seeing "ufs_rename: fvp == tvp (can't happen)" messages periodically. Maybe one or two every 2-3 hours. Any chance that's a symptom of something related? Mark -- Mark

Nonlinear repeated malloc/free performance

2006-06-11 Thread Mark Kirkwood
ing most of the time. I guess this use-case is probably unusual (it's only a test program that I used to check I really can use the whole 1G...). I'm running 6.1-STABLE from about 09 May. (prog and gprof attached). Cheers Mark ___ freebsd-

gcc -pthread

2006-06-14 Thread Mark Andrews
-lc_r) The hacker handbook seems to indicate that you shouldn't need to use -lpthread or -lc_r. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/dads-pthread.html Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australi

Re: gcc -pthread

2006-06-15 Thread Mark Andrews
> On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Mark Andrews wrote: > > > > > Is there any good reason why "gcc -pthread" links in > > -lpthead except when -shared is specified? > > Because one may want to build applications to use different > threading libraries.

Re: vmstat 'b' (disk busy?) field keeps climbing ...

2006-06-23 Thread Mark Linimon
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 11:02:35PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > Just bothers me that its been running 4.x for 3 years now, no problems > and as soon as I upgrade it to 6.x, all the headaches start :( I am well familiar with Mr. Murphy and all his works :-) mcl

Pentax optio a10

2006-06-24 Thread Mark Andrews
Anyone have experience getting a Pentax optio a10 mounted? Mark umass0: PENTAX PENTAX OPTIO A10, rev 2.00/0.00, addr 2 drugs# usbdevs -v Controller /dev/usb0: addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x), Intel(0x) , rev 1.00 port 1 powered

Re: vinum to gvinum help

2006-06-26 Thread Mark Linimon
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 02:15:24PM -0400, Sven Willenberger wrote: > this is a production server that can at best stand an hour or so of > downtime. IMHO there are no 5.2.1 upgrade options that can be accomplish in even a small number of hours. The kernel libraries were all updated for 5.3; and h

Re: Whats the difference

2006-06-27 Thread Mark Linimon
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 10:26:23AM -0700, Mihir Sanghavi wrote: > My company is using BSD 4.7 currently and I would like it to change > to 5 or 6. What technical difficulties might I face or how much code > would be needed to re-written. Please see the article "Choosing the FreeBSD Version That Is

Re: 6.1-R ? 6-Stable ? 5.5-R ?

2006-06-29 Thread Mark Linimon
On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 01:38:54PM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote: > I am really wondering if 6.1 is ready for production under heavy load. And > for sure the NFS client in the whole 6.X line seems problematic (see my > post in the stable list under subject: NFS clients freeze and can not > discon

Re: 6.1-R ? 6-Stable ? 5.5-R ?

2006-06-29 Thread Mark Linimon
On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 01:57:13PM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote: > And this is why I have been trying to someone to PAY him/her to help us. OK, sorry, I had not picked this up from the thread, which I had mostly just been scanning. My apologies. > Should I contact the FreeBSD foundation for this

5.4-RC2 Cannot Boot boot-only iso (Tyan Tiger Again)

2005-04-18 Thread Mark Kirkwood
will see if plugging it into one of the std slots helps). Cheers Mark ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: 5.4-RC2 Cannot Boot boot-only iso (Tyan Tiger Again)

2005-04-18 Thread Mark Kirkwood
The 5.4-RC3 boot-only works...I will try a complete installation. - Mark Mark Kirkwood wrote: Thought I would see if my Tyan S1834 + Promise TX2000 makes trouble for the BXT Loader in 5.4-RC2. Unfortunately it seems to - locks up immediately after printing (note - hand transcribed) FreeBSD

Re: 5.4-RC2 kldload snd_driver crashes ums0

2005-04-19 Thread Mark Willson
I also encountered this on a Thinkpad T42. My workaround was to load the sound module via /boot/loader.conf (i.e. snd_ich_load="YES"). -mark ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Newbie Question About System Update

2005-04-19 Thread Mark Dixon
of the old kernel. In conclusion, its probably best if disk controller drivers and filesystem drivers don't have bugs in them. Mark pgpnPo205kKDu.pgp Description: PGP signature

fxp0: device timeout

2005-04-25 Thread Mark Huizer
s, but I can do some scripting to fix that of course :-) Greetings, Mark -- Nice testing in little China... Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserv

Re: 5.4-RC2 freezing - ATA related?

2005-05-23 Thread Mark Pheffer
w weeks and it hasn't locked up once. Whether or not the snapshots were the cause of the problem or just another symptom I can't really tell but deleting them definitely cured the problem. Right now I have a filesystem snapshot that's about a week old and it seems to be just

Named 9.3.1 caching problem AMD64

2005-05-30 Thread Mark Sergeant
I've got a very unusual problem running a bind caching name server on AMD64. I've tried FreeBSD-5.4-p1 and 5.4-STABLE and nothing has helped. Named goes into a "crash" state once hit hits approx 120M of memory in use, at which point it chews 100% cpu and doesn't respond to any futher querie

Re: Poor network performance: a lot of timeouts

2005-05-30 Thread Mark Kirkwood
TX full duplex anyway). And by way of interest, I have just experienced a similar problem with NICs + 100 baseT switch - it was a 3Com Office connect card (xl driver) that I had the issues with, and ended up replacing it with a DLink (vr driver).

Re: heavy named problems

2005-05-30 Thread Mark Sergeant
TABLE, either named will hang around the 100 - 250M memory mark with top output like ... last pid: 20483; load averages: 0.98, 0.67, 0.44 up 4+03:26:18 12:32:27 34 processes: 2 running, 32 sleeping CPU states: % user, %

Re: heavy named problems

2005-05-30 Thread Mark Andrews
) > > I'm seeing this on both FreeBSD 5.4-p1 and -STABLE, either named will > hang around the 100 - 250M memory mark with top output like ... > > last pid: 20483; load averages: 0.98, 0.67, > 0.44 up 4+03:26:18 > 12:32

Re: heavy named problems

2005-05-30 Thread Mark Sergeant
On 31/05/2005, at 3:08 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: 31-May-2005 13:23:51.045 general: error: /usr/src/lib/bind/ dns/../../../contrib/bind9/lib/dns/adb.c:1439: unexpected error: 31-May-2005 13:23:51.045 general: error: isc_mutex_init failed in new_adbfind() 31-May-2005 13:23:51.891 general: error

Re: heavy named problems

2005-05-31 Thread Mark Andrews
> On 31/05/2005, at 3:08 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > > > > > >> 31-May-2005 13:23:51.045 general: error: /usr/src/lib/bind/ > >> dns/../../../contrib/bind9/lib/dns/adb.c:1439: unexpected error: > >> 31-May-2005 13:23:51.045 general: error: isc_mutex_

Re: heavy named problems

2005-05-31 Thread Mark Sergeant
ither named will hang around the 100 - 250M memory mark with top output like ... last pid: 20483; load averages: 0.98, 0.67, 0.44 up 4+03:26:18 12:32:27 34 processes: 2 running, 32 sleeping CPU states: % user, % nice, % s

ipf and fragments

2005-06-01 Thread Mark Andrews
fragment order. FreeBSD bsdi.dv.isc.org 4.11-STABLE FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE #22: Mon Jan 3 22:18:47 EST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BSDI i386 Mark # ipfstat IPv6 packets: in 113941974 out 85668683 input packets: blocked 17889 passed 148735618 nomatch

5.4R - gcc/gprof profile not showing %time information

2005-06-07 Thread Mark Kirkwood
(238) _mcleanup [2] moncontrol regards Mark ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: 5.4R - gcc/gprof profile not showing %time information

2005-06-07 Thread Mark Kirkwood
rocess backend or similar Thanks for making me think about this! Cheers Mark ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

4.10-STABLE panic, twice

2005-06-18 Thread Mark Cullen
Not sure what triggered it, but it seems file system related. The second core dump didn't save because I forgot to move the dumpdir to /usr, it was something to do with ffs also though. GNU gdb 4.18 (FreeBSD) Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GN

Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

2005-06-20 Thread Mark Kirkwood
. (That reminds me, I don't recall seeing the original poster re-doing the tests with 6.0-CURRENT - that would be interesting). cheers Mark ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubs

Re: named coredumping

2005-06-20 Thread Mark Sergeant
I'd love to get to the bottom of it, but know one has come across this before it seems. Have a look at my posts on heavy named problems in late may. Cheers, Mark ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/l

Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

2005-06-20 Thread Mark Kirkwood
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Re: 4.x binaries on a 5.x machine ...

2005-06-20 Thread Mark Kirkwood
to upgrade the jail first? This option from the GENERIC kernel config in 5.4 would seem to suggest that it would work though I haven't tried it myself. options COMPAT_FREEBSD4 # Compatible with FreeBSD4 And install the 'compat 4.x' distribution

Re: 4.x binaries on a 5.x machine ...

2005-06-21 Thread Mark Kirkwood
7;compat 4.x' libraries until you update all the ports in the jailed environment. Good point - I had forgotten that the 4.x jails will have their libraries with 'em! Mark ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

Re: 5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash

2005-06-24 Thread Mark Kirkwood
I have experienced this (since about 5.3) on a dual PIII Tyan S1834. In my case perseverance seems to pay off - one in (approx) 10 boots will work... Mark Daniel O'Connor wrote: Hi, I am updating an old 4.x system to 5.4 here and it has a Promise FT100TX2 RAID controller (in mirror).

Re: 5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash

2005-06-25 Thread Mark Kirkwood
nstall CDs boot fine for me (have not tried 5.2), it is only 5.3 and 5.4 (also today 6.0 CURRENT) that crash (reg dump ) or reboot immediately. That fact that it *sometimes* works is interesting - I am curious to see if you can reproduce this (say try 10 - 15 times).

Re: Portupgrade in Xfree86 pkg failed

2005-06-25 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 09:14:26AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Why are you building xfree86? FreeBSD 5.4 uses Xorg. It's > just about the same code just different licensing. I don't think the > FreeBSD core is bothering to keep the xfree86 port working on FreeBSD 5.X > just FreeBSD 4.11

Re: Portupgrade in Xfree86 pkg failed

2005-06-25 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 02:45:45PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > I'm sorry to step on the toes of the port maintainer but instead > of complaining about it you need to respond to the realitites. In general I would rather do that than argue, yes. > make: don't know how to make /drm.h. Stop > **

Re: 5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash

2005-06-25 Thread Mark Kirkwood
oader work reliably again. Cheers Mark ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

2005-06-27 Thread Mark Kirkwood
this (apologies), thanks for updating us, well - me anyway :-) Hmmm - the results are a bit discouraging aren't they? I notice that (you mentioned) the Mysql guys were going to see if they can identify where the issue is. That would be good!

Re: 5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash

2005-06-30 Thread Mark Kirkwood
can't try any of these things since I don't have any spare hard disks or much time :( The disks I have used have been fresh from the maker so they shouldn't have any trace of FreeBSD on them anyway. I will have a look at these t

Re: 5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash

2005-06-30 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Mark Kirkwood wrote: Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 15:57, Doug White wrote: Try: . Zero off the first megabyte or so of the subdisks with dd or similar tool. . Force an array initialize from the controller BIOS. Wait for it to finish. . Install some other OS that recog

Re: Problems with 5.x

2005-06-30 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Matt Emmerton wrote: I gave precise descriptions of what happened on 5.[234] and can provide more details if requested Please provide dmesg output from 4.x, as this will help us help you! Cheers Mark ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Problems with 5.x

2005-06-30 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Matt Emmerton wrote: Processor: Intel Pentium II 266 MHz (Slot 1) Is the above typo, or have you underclocked it ? (from the dmesg : CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (*232.67-MHz* 686-class CPU) ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing lis

Port build issue mod_auth_kerb - 5.4-Stable

2005-07-01 Thread Mark Thomas
bj/usr/src/sys/RUBY i386 Based on some messages with similar symptoms I've rebuilt every ports, including libtool15 from scratch and done a complete system rebuild to no effect. Any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, --- Mark Thomas - IT Manager - BreakAway, Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: 5.4-p3 and bind9: isc_mutex_init failed in new_adbfind / exited on signal 11

2005-07-04 Thread Mark Andrews
de-reference. A stack backtrace from the core dump would pinpoint the error location. To get this you really need named to have been built w/ -g and set kern.sugid_coredump=1. You can avoid the issue by tuning named so that it doesn't run out of mem

Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available

2005-07-15 Thread Mark Linimon
While Scott's and Colin's responses should be viewed as canonical, for the record the place that the support matrix is documented is on the Security web page at http://www.freebsd.org/security/security.html#adv. Note that this only applies to the _security_ team. Traditionally the ports team has

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Mark Linimon
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 08:00:40PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: > [original poster wrote:] > >- I completely agree with MikeM - any kind of complex software could be > >tested with right prepared test cases, specially if they are going to be > >reused in the next release; For static problems -- yes

FreeBSD IO Performance (was Re: Quality of FreeBSD)

2005-07-22 Thread Mark Kirkwood
des some interest, again - gotta qualify, this is all one man's experiment on his hardware... Cheers Mark P.s : of course, it would be nice if 5.x (or perhaps more importantly 6.x) was *faster* than 4.10 Michael Schuh wrote: Hi, Now my question to you : is the performance of ata

Re: FreeBSD IO Performance (was Re: Quality of FreeBSD)

2005-07-25 Thread Mark Kirkwood
. regards Mark Chris wrote: Its been mentioned before and most experience the same as you by setting it to 16 a dramatic improvement in the sequential read, I currently run all my 5.x servers like this with no issues as a result. I am curious if the default will ever be changed

Re: 5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash

2005-07-31 Thread Mark Kirkwood
boot is quite slow compared with (say) 4.10 - presumably the newer code is doing a whole lot more probing(?) regards Mark Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Saturday 25 June 2005 21:26, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Hmm I see.. I know it works OK with 4. as I have installed plenty of systems like th

Re: x for users slow

2005-08-01 Thread Mark Kirkwood
- maybe on font directories? Check out the Xorg log in /var/log. I used to see the 1 minute startup with previous versions of FreeBSD - mainly with 'kdm' startup, and running : (root) # fc-cache -f would fix it (however in that case root too would be slow, but maybe wo

VIA vt6202 controller not recognised by FreeBSD 5.4-Release (ehci)

2005-08-10 Thread Mark Sergeant
ard has it's usb 1.0 component recognised as a VIA VT82xx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller, it also has the ehci part recognised by ubuntu. Any ideas ? Cheers, Mark ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/l

IPv6 router solicitation not being received

2005-08-10 Thread Mark Andrews
h. Anyone aware of any issues in this area? Yes the kernel is a bit old and needs to be updated. Mark tx0: flags=28943 mtu 1500 inet 192.168.191.233 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.191.255 inet6 fe80::2e0:29ff:fe19:c02d%tx0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet

Re: IPv6 router solicitation not being received

2005-08-11 Thread Mark Andrews
; (IFF_ALLMULTI | IFF_PROMISC)) { I can't see how that can have any effect as the shift is only 0..15 (0xf). filter[h >> 4] |= 1 << (h & 0xF); -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valle

Re: VIA vt6202 controller not recognised by FreeBSD 5.4-Release (ehci)

2005-08-11 Thread Mark Sergeant
Mark Sergeant wrote: Output from pciconf -lv [EMAIL PROTECTED]:7:2 class=0x0c0320 card=0x12340925 chip=0x31041106 rev=0x51 hdr=0x00 vendor= 'VIA Technologies Inc' device= 'VT6202 USB 2.0 Enhanced Host Controller' class= serial bus subcla

Re: Reoccurring filesystem corruption

2005-08-14 Thread Mark Kirkwood
The Serverworks ROSB4 is known broken - I get instant file corruption on mine if I try to run it at udma33. Try $ atacontrol mode 0 PIO4 PIO4 (I have not tried this - I just use a Promise PDC2071 for all the disks instead...) Cheers Mark Philip Murray wrote: Hi, I have a 4.11 machine

Re: Create 2.5TB file system on 5.4S?

2005-08-15 Thread Mark Linimon
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 11:13:29AM -0700, dpk wrote: > The most recent general data available appears to be at: > > http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk/ With my bugmeister hat on, I will note that I have tried to flag PRs about this issue with the tag '[2T]' and I would encourage anyone filin

Re: ad10: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=11441599

2005-08-16 Thread Mark Kane
her than hardware problems. Granted, I'm not using FreeBSD 5-STABLE, but I could certainly give it a shot if you guys think it would help anything. I just chose RELEASE hoping for the least problems. My dmesg is below. Note that I only have three of the drives in there currently. Tha

Re: ad10: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=11441599

2005-08-16 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Mark Kane wrote: However, note that if I turn the drives speed down to UDMA100, the errors seem to go away. Has anyone else tried this for their problems? I currently do this, not due to problems, but to improve the write performance: 4xMaxtor 6E040L0 RAID0 UDMA133 -> 40M/s UDMA

Re: ad10: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=11441599

2005-08-16 Thread Mark Kane
o? I'm not going to be doing huge file copying a whole lot, but I'd like the most performance I can get with no errors. Thanks for the replies. -Mark ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

Re: ad10: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=11441599

2005-08-16 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Mark Kane wrote: I do have a tall Antec case, and have both 200's and the 160 in 5 1/4 inch trays so the cables for those are long (36 inches IIRC). Hmm - 36 inch cable, makes me wonder if that is what is causing the problem in UDMA133 mode. IIRC the ATA spec says 18 inches, but most c

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