Re: genuine cpu I386_CPU kernel support

2009-09-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
Julian Elischer wrote: I think a 386 can assume non-SMP in which case that can be simulated just fine :-) it also simplifies a lot of the other breakages.. #if (CPU == 80386) defined(SMP) #error can't have smp on a 386 #endif Paging Terry Lambert...Terry Lambert, to the hackers lounge

Re: ACPI-fast default timecounter, but HPET 83% faster

2009-06-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
John Baldwin wrote: On Sunday 26 April 2009 10:27:42 pm Garrett Cooper wrote: I'm seeing similar results. [r...@orangebox /usr/home/gcooper]# dmesg | grep 'Timecounter ' Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 Timecounter ACPI-fast frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 Timecounter HPET

Re: FreeBSD 6.3/7.1 and Linux disk performance test

2009-02-08 Thread Kris Kennaway
Omer Faruk Sen wrote: as you can see there is a big difference in just simple dd test. Is there additional steps that I can follow to increase performance? Use a benchmark that matches your actual workload, and then see how things look. I would be surprised if your target workload was dd :-)

Re: lzo2 shows insane speed gap

2009-01-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
Christian Weisgerber wrote: Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: I'm running 8.0-CURRENT amd64 here on a Turion64 X2 machine. Without malloc debugging (malloc.conf - aj) 'make test' takes 25s; after removing malloc.conf thus turning on debugging, it takes over 10 minutes. Wow! That. Is.

Re: ZFS make install with exec=no in /tmp

2008-12-02 Thread Kris Kennaway
Pegasus Mc Cleaft wrote: Hello hackers, I was wondering if there is a work around for this... In 8.0-current I have installed the new version of ZFS and upgraded the filing systems to 13. I had a thought that I would make a zfs for /tmp and set the exec to no (thinking that nothing should

Re: Giant lock, bce and uhc using the same irq

2008-11-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 05:14:21PM +0200, Murat Balaban wrote: Hello hackers, In one of my production servers (64-bit Intel Xeon machine) running 6.3-RELEASE-p4 (amd64) FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p4 #0: Fri Sep 12 17:07:19 EEST 2008 I see this top -S output excerpt: 32 root 1 -68

Re: kvm on amd64 - 6G?

2008-08-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
Barry Boes wrote: With the advent of ZFS, Solaris users are devoting 30G or more to their ARC caches today. If FreeBSD 8 is going to up the KVM size, is there a reason to not increase the limit to something that will not be reached in the lifetime of 8? 100GB? It's easily configurable on

Re: kvm on amd64 - 6G?

2008-08-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Kris Kennaway wrote: will now get you this: vm.kvm_free: 547729960960 vm.kvm_size: 549755809792 on HEAD. :-) Holy fat cache Batman! Any chance it could be made a tunable? I don't know what the impact might be of changing these constants

Re: kvm on amd64 - 6G?

2008-08-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
Barry Boes wrote: I could apply such a patch to my servers, but there are two disadvantages : o who wants to apply kernel patches to mission critical servers? Isn't that a linux thing (joke!) A trivial tweak would let you set both parameters in your kernel configuration as an option.

Re: netstat: kvm_read: Bad address

2008-08-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
vasanth raonaik wrote: Hello Hackers, I am facing with this Issue. Though netstat -a does show some output but the error is consistently seen. Does any one has some pointers to the cause and fix for the same. It is usually caused when your libkvm and/or netstat binary was compiled against

Re: the future of sun4v

2008-08-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
Peter Jeremy wrote: [Replies re-directed to freebsd-sun4v] On 2008-Aug-21 14:42:55 -0700, Kip Macy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe that there is a general expectation by freebsd users and developers that unsupported code should not be in CVS. Although sun4v is a very interesting platform

Re: sun4v arch

2008-08-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
Nikolay Kalev wrote: I would also like to help as well. As KMacy knows before i asked a lot of questions for T2 types of servers but unfortunately i have no more access to those kind of hardware as well. I;m willing to participate if a team will be formated. Just so everyone is on the same

Re: kern/98388: [ata] FreeBSD 6.1 - WDC WD1200JS SATA II disks are seen as older SATA

2008-08-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
sam wrote: Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: sam wrote: FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #5: Tue Aug 12 13:54:27 MSD 2008root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 | please, any solution ? Probably speed is limited via

Re: Bug in calcru in he 6.2 and 6.3 kernels

2008-07-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
Murty, Ravi wrote: Jeremy, thanks. I look forward to switching to ULE in 7.0 and realize that it is a completely new scheduler (I spent some time yesterday looking at it) -- which is my porting effort is much harder than a simple cut and paste. I just wanted to find out if there was something

Re: SCHED_4BSD bad interactivity on 7.0 vs 6.3

2008-07-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
Nate Eldredge wrote: On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, Kris Kennaway wrote: Nate Eldredge wrote: Hi folks, Hopefully this is a good list for this topic. It seems like there has been a regression in interactivity from 6.3-RELEASE to 7.0-RELEASE when using the SCHED_4BSD scheduler. After upgrading my

Re: SCHED_4BSD bad interactivity on 7.0 vs 6.3

2008-07-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
Nate Eldredge wrote: Hi folks, Hopefully this is a good list for this topic. It seems like there has been a regression in interactivity from 6.3-RELEASE to 7.0-RELEASE when using the SCHED_4BSD scheduler. After upgrading my single-cpu amd64 box, 7.0 has much worse latency. When running a

Re: CFT: BSD-licensed grep [Fwd: cvs commit: ports/textproc/bsdgrep Makefile distinfo]

2008-07-08 Thread Kris Kennaway
Gábor Kövesdán wrote: Well, it seems you have missed the first nits of the discussion. GNU grep has some regression test, which doesn't pass completely itself either. :) I've mentioned here that I used those tests to find out what incompatible options are there. Unfortunately, I have to say

Re: Bug in calcru in he 6.2 and 6.3 kernels

2008-07-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
Murty, Ravi wrote: Hello everyone, Finally found what my last problem was. We were running top in a loop and running some workloads that called sched_bind() to bind threads to specific CPUs. The problem was that (and I am using ULE) sched_bind calls a function to notify another CPU of a

Re: CFT: BSD-licensed grep [Fwd: cvs commit: ports/textproc/bsdgrep Makefile distinfo]

2008-07-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
Maxim Sobolev wrote: Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Andrey Chernov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BSD sort as an idea will be a good project indeed, but BSD sort implementation we currently have at hand is totally misleading and should be rewritten from the scratch, I realize it when long time ago I

Re: CFT: BSD-licensed grep [Fwd: cvs commit: ports/textproc/bsdgrep Makefile distinfo]

2008-07-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
Andrey Chernov wrote: On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 10:06:31PM +0200, Kris Kennaway wrote: What regression suites do other implementations have? e.g. the GNU textutils. They basically have regex tests, but nothing locale specific, since locale ordering is different from platform to platform

Re: Bug in calcru in he 6.2 and 6.3 kernels

2008-07-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
Xin LI wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kris Kennaway wrote: | Murty, Ravi wrote: | Hello everyone, | | | | Finally found what my last problem was. We were running top in a loop | and running some workloads that called sched_bind() to bind threads to | specific CPUs

command-line bittorrent utility

2008-06-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
I am looking for a command-line utility that can fetch via bittorrent that a) doesn't use curses. It must be usable in a script and without a tty! b) doesn't use X11. Must be a command-line utility! c) Must be able to inform the script when the transfer is complete. A callback mechanism of

Re: command-line bittorrent utility

2008-06-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
Jille Timmermans wrote: (enhanced) ctorrent Seems to fail requirement a). Am I wrong? Kris Kris Kennaway schreef: I am looking for a command-line utility that can fetch via bittorrent that a) doesn't use curses. It must be usable in a script and without a tty! b) doesn't use X11

Re: command-line bittorrent utility

2008-06-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
Kris Kennaway wrote: I am looking for a command-line utility that can fetch via bittorrent [...] OK folks, you can stop telling me to use ctorrent now :) I had looked at that but assumed it was using curses (it's not). Thanks! Kris ___ freebsd

Re: CFT: CVSMode for csup with MD5 check

2008-06-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
Ulf Lilleengen wrote: Hello, As a followup to my previous patch on csup, I've tried to do some fixes to RCS-files. However, instead of doing major workarounds in csup to handle files which does not behave correctly to RCS, I implemented MD5 check of RCS content. This means that the MD5 sum from

Re: Impact of having a large number of open file descriptors

2008-06-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
Robert Watson wrote: fsevents allows user processes to subscribe, effectively on a per-filesystem basis, to namespace and file close operations. ... I think there's also considerable overlap with other kernel event systems, such as audit, and we might benefit from thinking seriously about

Re: Impact of having a large number of open file descriptors

2008-06-02 Thread Kris Kennaway
Ivan Voras wrote: Suleiman Souhlal wrote: I have an old patch that makes kqueue monitor every file write on the system and return the inode number in the knote's data field: http://people.freebsd.org/~ssouhlal/testing/kqueue-anyvnode-20050503.diff . I'd think it shouldn't be too hard to

Re: CFT: adding configuration file support to pkg_install

2008-05-31 Thread Kris Kennaway
Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Florent Thoumie wrote: This adds support for /etc/pkg.conf configuration file. Also, this adds support for naive multi-site package fetching. Any comment welcome (and appreciated). Patch is here: http://people.freebsd.org/~flz/local/ports/pkg-install-config.diff

Re: binary compatibility query

2008-05-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
Carl Shapiro wrote: FreeBSD Hackers, I have a general question about the compatibility of FreeBSD binaries within major releases. If I build a binary for a given release of FreeBSD can I make a reasonable guarantee that the binary will run on both previous and subsequent minor releases of the

Re: binary compatibility query

2008-05-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
Daniel Eischen wrote: Binaries compiled on a certain version of FreeBSD will continue to run on later versions, but are not guaranteed to run on earlier versions (and in fact *will* not run depending on the binary). This is because over time the system libraries and kernel grow new features

Re: binary compatibility query

2008-05-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
Julian Elischer wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Carl Shapiro wrote: FreeBSD Hackers, I have a general question about the compatibility of FreeBSD binaries within major releases. If I build a binary for a given release of FreeBSD can I make a reasonable guarantee that the binary will run on both

Re: binary compatibility query

2008-05-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
Carl Shapiro wrote: If my binary only executes system calls indirectly through libc interfaces, as far as libc and libm are concerned, are new symbols the only thing I need to worry about? I think so, yes. Kris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org

Re: cron(8) related summer of code project

2008-03-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
Pavel Prokharau wrote: I was thinking about updating our cron(8) implementation. This project is mentioned in ideas list http://www.freebsd.org/projects/ideas/#p-cron-and-atrun. For now my proposal is following: * update the code base to ISC (OpenBSD already has it for a while) * incorporate

Re: Summer of Code 2008 Project Ideas

2008-03-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
Robert Watson wrote: On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Murray Stokely wrote: The FreeBSD Project was again accepted as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code. The student application period will begin next week so if you have any ideas for great student projects, please send them to

Re: vkernel GSoC, some questions

2008-03-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
Matthew Dillon wrote: : Well, I don't think I would agree with your assessment but, : particularly, the way vkernels are implemented in DragonFly is NOT : in the least disruptive to kernel source. : :I was referring to the decision you made to rename all of the kernel :functions

Re: vkernel GSoC, some questions

2008-03-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
Maslan wrote: Hi all, Aren't we working on a FreeBSD/Xen port ??? I think we don't need a Linux like KVM or DragonFly's vkernel, if we could run FreeBSD in dom0. I agree that people interested in virtualization will get the most return on investment if they contribute to the Xen port, large

Re: vkernel GSoC, some questions

2008-03-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
Matthew Dillon wrote: :I don't think there's an issue that needs solving, GCC has -nostdlib and :-fno-builtin for precisely this reason. You are missing the point entirely. The point is to allow the vkernel to use libc, aka allow it to be compiled, linked, and run as a normal user

Re: vkernel GSoC, some questions

2008-03-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
Matthew Dillon wrote: I guess my problem is that you are holding this up as a red flag when it isn't even remotely close to being one. What I have said is that the dragonfly vkernel work is the interesting beginning of a project, but that further work needs to be done before the

Re: vkernel GSoC, some questions

2008-03-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
Jordan Gordeev wrote: Hello! I am a student who considers applying for Google's Summer of Code programme. One of my ideas for a GSoC project has the following synopsis: Add virtual kernel (vkernel) support to FreeBSD for the i386 and amd64 architectures. The vkernel support in question

Re: vkernel GSoC, some questions

2008-03-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
Matthew Dillon wrote: :Finally, the way vkernels were implemented in dragonfly was *very* :disruptive to the kernel source (lots of function renaming etc), so it :is likely that this would also have to be completely reimplemented in a :FreeBSD port. :... :Kris Well, I don't think I would

Re: Kernel crash on Asus A7N8X-X

2008-03-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
Frédéric PRACA wrote: Hello dear hackers, I own a Asus A7N8X-X motherboard (NForce2 chipset) with a Radeon 9600 video card. After upgrading from 6.3 to 7.0, I launched xorg which crashed the kernel. After looking in the kernel core dump, I found that the agp_nvidia_flush_tlb function of

Re: Question about http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/index.html

2008-02-08 Thread Kris Kennaway
Sean Bruno wrote: Does it seem correct to all concerned that each release actually lists all files twice? There is a torrent for the entire release CD ISO set, and then there is a completely separate torrent for each CD ISO file. At least that is what it looks like to me. Is this correct?

Re: gettimeofday() in hping

2008-02-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
Stefan Lambrev wrote: Greetings, Kris Kennaway wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Fixing all of the above I can send at about 13MB/sec (timecounter is not relevant any more). The CPU is spending about 75% of the time in the kernel, so that is the next place to look. [hit send too

Re: SCHED_ULE trouble after ugrade 6.2-RELEASE - 6.3-RELEASE

2008-02-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
Xin LI wrote: I can not speak for that, but my understanding is, no, it won't be MFC'ed. The performance enhancements on 7.x included a lot of factors, ULE is one of them, and there are also some other enhancements in the system, which could be not suitable for MFC due to ABI/KBI change.

Re: gettimeofday() in hping

2008-02-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
Stefan Lambrev wrote: FreeBSD - ACPI em1 in 13.157 MB/s 13.162 MB/s 23.697 GB out13.150 MB/s 13.153 MB/s 17.976 GB FreeBSD - TSC em1 in 18.624 MB/s 18.832 MB/s 25.507 GB

Re: SCHED_ULE trouble after ugrade 6.2-RELEASE - 6.3-RELEASE

2008-02-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yes, there is no possibility of ULE 2.0 being merged to 6.x. Use it in 6.x if you dare, just don't complain to us if it breaks your system :-) All right, I won't :-) i.e. if at any point you start experiencing problems, do

Re: gettimeofday() in hping

2008-02-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
Kris Kennaway wrote: Stefan Lambrev wrote: I run from host A : hping --flood -p 22 -S 10.3.3.2 and systat -ifstat on host B to see the traffic that is generated (I do not want to run this monitoring on the flooder host as it will effect his performance) OK, I finally got time to look

Re: gettimeofday() in hping

2008-02-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
Kris Kennaway wrote: Fixing all of the above I can send at about 13MB/sec (timecounter is not relevant any more). The CPU is spending about 75% of the time in the kernel, so that is the next place to look. [hit send too soon] Actually 15MB/sec once I disable all kernel

Re: Memory allocation performance

2008-02-02 Thread Kris Kennaway
Alexander Motin wrote: Robert Watson wrote: Hence my request for drilling down a bit on profiling -- the question I'm asking is whether profiling shows things running or taking time that shouldn't be. I have not yet understood why does it happend, but hwpmc shows huge amount of

Re: Memory allocation performance

2008-02-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
Alexander Motin wrote: Kris Kennaway пишет: Alexander Motin wrote: Alexander Motin пишет: While profiling netgraph operation on UP HEAD router I have found that huge amount of time it spent on memory allocation/deallocation: I have forgotten to tell that it was mostly GENERIC kernel just

Re: Memory allocation performance

2008-01-31 Thread Kris Kennaway
Alexander Motin wrote: Hi. While profiling netgraph operation on UP HEAD router I have found that huge amount of time it spent on memory allocation/deallocation: 0.14 0.05 132119/545292 ip_forward cycle 1 [12] 0.14 0.05 133127/545292 fxp_add_rfabuf [18]

Re: Memory allocation performance

2008-01-31 Thread Kris Kennaway
Alexander Motin wrote: Alexander Motin пишет: While profiling netgraph operation on UP HEAD router I have found that huge amount of time it spent on memory allocation/deallocation: I have forgotten to tell that it was mostly GENERIC kernel just built without INVARIANTS, WITNESS and SMP but

Re: gettimeofday() in hping

2008-01-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
Joseph Koshy wrote: OK, this is the famous problem with modern CPUs that jkoshy has declined to work around :( There are patches for this in perforce, see http://perforce.freebsd.org/changeView.cgi?CH=126189 Famous problem indeed :). I declined the patch because it is incorrect and

Re: gettimeofday() in hping

2008-01-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
Stefan Lambrev wrote: You also need changes to the userland libpmc and pmcstat. They should also be in that (or related) p4 changeset though. Those are the files that I fetched from p4 /usr/src/lib/libpmc/libpmc.c - rev2 /usr/src/sys/amd64/include/pmc_mdep.h rev2

Re: gettimeofday() in hping

2008-01-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
Stefan Lambrev wrote: Hi Kris, Kris Kennaway wrote: Stefan Lambrev wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Stefan Lambrev wrote: You should use hwpmc to verify where the application is really spending time, since gettimeofday doesn't seem to account for it all. pmc: Unknown Intel CPU

Re: gettimeofday() in hping

2008-01-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
Ivan Voras wrote: On 23/01/2008, Stefan Lambrev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greets, Now I have final results with Linux and FreeBSD on the same hardware CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 3070 @ 2.66GHz - dual core Lan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:3:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x10bc8086 chip=0x10bc8086 rev=0x06

Re: gettimeofday() in hping

2008-01-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
Stefan Lambrev wrote: Hi, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Stefan Lambrev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tested all different combination. The performance change is almost invisible (100-200KB/s), and can't be compared with the performance boost that TSC gain over ACPI-fast timecounter.

Re: gettimeofday() in hping

2008-01-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
Stefan Lambrev wrote: You should use hwpmc to verify where the application is really spending time, since gettimeofday doesn't seem to account for it all. pmc: Unknown Intel CPU. module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (hwpmc, 0x8029906d, 0x8054c500) error 78 OK, this is the famous

Re: gettimeofday() in hping

2008-01-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
Stefan Lambrev wrote: How much can Linux handle? Will install ubuntu on the same machine and let you know, but my experience shows that FreeBSD + TSC have the same performance as Linux With which timecounter? Here are the max speeds I can reach with different counters (on the test

Re: gettimeofday() in hping

2008-01-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
Stefan Lambrev wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Stefan Lambrev wrote: You should use hwpmc to verify where the application is really spending time, since gettimeofday doesn't seem to account for it all. pmc: Unknown Intel CPU. module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (hwpmc, 0x8029906d

Re: kernel panic while using tcpdump

2008-01-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
Bartosz Giza wrote: Hi, We are using a lot of i386 computers as routers for out network. All of those routers are using FreeBSD from 4.x to 7.x (exept 5.x) We are having problem with kernel panic on routers based on 6.x and 7.x while using tcpdump or trafshow. It is not that always we got

Re: Graceful failure instead of panicking in kmem_malloc

2008-01-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
cut I am just trying to handle failure gracefully. So asking again - if there is any way already discussed or standardized to make the system handle failures gracefully On Jan 8, 2008 4:30 PM, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bharma Ji wrote: In FreeBSD 6_2, if kmem_malloc is unable

Re: Graceful failure instead of panicking in kmem_malloc

2008-01-08 Thread Kris Kennaway
Bharma Ji wrote: In FreeBSD 6_2, if kmem_malloc is unable to find space it panics. The relevant code is in vm_kern.c if ((flags M_NOWAIT) == 0) panic(kmem_malloc(%ld): kmem_map too small: %ld total allocated, (long)size,

prefaulting MAP_ANONYMOUS pages

2007-12-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
I am trying to optimize a malloc-based benchmark that is mmapping anonymous memory (via mmap) and then eventually taking a page fault on every page that was allocated. This is pretty inefficient for two reasons: 1) Lots of page faults, which drop performance by a factor of 10 compared to the

Re: prefaulting MAP_ANONYMOUS pages

2007-12-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
Kris Kennaway wrote: I am trying to optimize a malloc-based benchmark that is mmapping anonymous memory (via mmap) s/mmap/malloc/ ;) Kris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers

Re: /lib/pthread.so.2 is sought during some port compilation

2007-11-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
Yuri wrote: Sorry about that. Please find the logs below. My system is upgraded from 6.3. And /lib/libpthread.so.2 is not a symlink. But when I make it a symlink (ln -s /lib/libthr.so.3 /lib/libpthread.so.2) I get another error, see log below. Some requisite libs are compiled with

Re: /lib/pthread.so.2 is sought during some port compilation

2007-11-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
Yuri wrote: Quoting Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So do I have to rebuild all ports to be able to run on 7.0? Yes. You have to do this whenever you upgrade to a new branch of FreeBSD. The old ports will work until you start upgrading them to new versions, at which point you will end up

Re: A TMPFS Implementation for FreeBSD

2007-11-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi , freebsd-hackers. I found this reference http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=372365+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2006/freebsd-hackers/20060226.freebsd-hackers how is it correct to conduct this procedure ? beforehand thank you !! tmpfs is included in

Re: /lib/pthread.so.2 is sought during some port compilation

2007-11-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
Yuri wrote: Quoting Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yes, that's what I am doing. portupgrade -af That is what you are doing now, or what you were doing when you found the problem? It should not occur during a portupgrade -af unless there is a port that is missing registration on some

Re: /lib/pthread.so.2 is sought during some port compilation

2007-11-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
Yuri wrote: I tried to compile firefox-2.0.0.10 on 7.0-BETA3. And one linking command failed seeking for malloc_lock symbol required by /lib/pthread.so.2. Obviously it tried to link obsolete /lib/pthread.so.2 with the new /lib/libc.so.7. By reading /usr/src/UPDATING I learn that the default

Re: Before After Under The Giant Lock

2007-11-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Quoting Robert Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: No problem -- just to be clear: in 7, users can still choose between libpthread (m:n) and libthr (1:1), but the default is now libthr rather than libpthread, as libthr seemed to perform better in most if not all

Re: amrd disk performance drop after running under high load

2007-11-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
Alexey Popov wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: what is your RAID controller configuration (read ahead/cache/write policy)? I have seen weird/bogus numbers (~100% busy) reported by systat -v when read ahead was enabled on LSI/amr controllers. I tried to run with disabled Read-ahead, but it didn't

Re: amrd disk performance drop after running under high load

2007-11-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
Kris Kennaway wrote: Alexey Popov wrote: Hi. Panagiotis Christias wrote: In the good case you are getting a much higher interrupt rate but with the data you provided I can't tell where from. You need to run vmstat -i at regular intervals (e.g. every 10 seconds for a minute) during the good

Re: amrd disk performance drop after running under high load

2007-11-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
Alexey Popov wrote: Hi. Panagiotis Christias wrote: In the good case you are getting a much higher interrupt rate but with the data you provided I can't tell where from. You need to run vmstat -i at regular intervals (e.g. every 10 seconds for a minute) during the good and bad times, since it

Re: amrd disk performance drop after running under high load

2007-11-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
Alexey Popov wrote: Hi. Kris Kennaway wrote:te: In the good case you are getting a much higher interrupt rate but with the data you provided I can't tell where from. You need to run vmstat -i at regular intervals (e.g. every 10 seconds for a minute) during the good and bad times, since

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Crash

2007-11-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
Atanas Gendov wrote: Hi all FreeBSD Hackers! :) My FreeBSD auto reboot itself and I got this report by kgdb, but actually I'm not a programmer. I don't know how to debug this error. Could someone helps with fixing? Thanx in advanced! FreeBSD .com 6.2-RELEASE-p8 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p8 #0:

Re: amrd disk performance drop after running under high load

2007-10-31 Thread Kris Kennaway
Alexey Popov wrote: Hi Kris Kennaway wrote: So I can conclude that FreeBSD has a long standing bug in VM that could be triggered when serving large amount of static data (much bigger than memory size) on high rates. Possibly this only applies to large files like mp3 or video

Re: amrd disk performance drop after running under high load

2007-10-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
Alexey Popov wrote: Hi Kris Kennaway wrote: So I can conclude that FreeBSD has a long standing bug in VM that could be triggered when serving large amount of static data (much bigger than memory size) on high rates. Possibly this only applies to large files like mp3 or video

Re: amrd disk performance drop after running under high load

2007-10-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
Alexey Popov wrote: This is very unlikely, because I have 5 another video storage servers of the same hardware and software configurations and they feel good. Clearly something is different about them, though. If you can characterize exactly what that is then it will help. I can't see any

Re: amrd disk performance drop after running under high load

2007-10-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
Kris Kennaway wrote: What else can i try? Still waiting on the vmstat -z output. Also can you please obtain vmstat -i, netstat -m and 10 seconds of representative vmstat -w output when the problem is and is not occurring? Kris ___ freebsd

Re: amrd disk performance drop after running under high load

2007-10-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
Alexey Popov wrote: Hi. Kris Kennaway wrote: After some time of running under high load disk performance become expremely poor. At that periods 'systat -vm 1' shows something like this: What does high load mean? You need to explain the system workload more. This web service is similiar

Re: amrd disk performance drop after running under high load

2007-10-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
Alexey Popov wrote: Hi. Kris Kennaway wrote: After some time of running under high load disk performance become expremely poor. At that periods 'systat -vm 1' shows something like this: What does high load mean? You need to explain the system workload more. This web service is similiar

Re: amrd disk performance drop after running under high load

2007-10-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
Alexey Popov wrote: After some time of running under high load disk performance become expremely poor. At that periods 'systat -vm 1' shows something like this: What does high load mean? You need to explain the system workload more. Disks amrd0 KB/t 85.39 tps 5 MB/s 0.38 % busy

Re: Video memory as swap under FreeBSD

2007-10-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
Vladimir Terziev wrote: Hi Hackers, i have found the following very interesting link: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Use_memory_on_video_card_as_swap It's a howto for Video memory utilization as a swap. Could someone point me whether the same is possible

Re: Kernel panic on PowerEdge 1950 under certain stress load

2007-09-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
Benjie Chen wrote: Ivan and Kris, I will try to get a kernel trace -- it may not happen for awhile since I am not in the office and working remotely for awhile so it may not be easy to get a trace... but I will check. It looks like the problem reported by that link, and some of the links from

Re: Kernel panic on PowerEdge 1950 under certain stress load

2007-09-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
Benjie Chen wrote: You are right, they may not be the same. From first look it seems like they are similar based on the description of the problems -- system stable, then under load related to network, get panic after different time intervals. I just assumed that kernel is typically stable

Re: Kernel panic on PowerEdge 1950 under certain stress load

2007-09-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
Ivan Voras wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Does it really? i.e. did you compare the function names in detail and find that they match precisely, or do you just mean they are both panics of some description and I dunno what it all means? :) I ask because the linked trace does not involve

Re: Kernel panic on PowerEdge 1950 under certain stress load

2007-09-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
Borja Marcos wrote: On 22 Sep 2007, at 00:26, Benjie Chen wrote: FreeBSD 6.2 on PowerEdge 1950, RAID1 setup with mfi driver (PERC5i). 4GB RAM. I am currently running i386, and not amd64, due to various reasons. Kernel panic is at 0xC066C731, which from nm shows it's in mtx_lock_spin

Re: Kernel panic on PowerEdge 1950 under certain stress load

2007-09-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
Benjie Chen wrote: Hi FreeBSD hackers and engineers, I am experiencing a kernel panic that comes on when my new PowerEdge 1950 FreeBSD 6.2 setup is under a certain stress load. I've emailed a few people on the list who have given me useful comments, some of which I am still following up. But I

Re: Kernel panic on PowerEdge 1950 under certain stress load

2007-09-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
Borja Marcos wrote: On 24 Sep 2007, at 11:33, Kris Kennaway wrote: Borja Marcos wrote: I don't have the exact IP address involved, but we experienced consistent panics in two heavily loaded mail servers (same hardware models, Dell Powereedge) runnning Postfix and FreeBSD 6.2. Suspecting

Re: Kernel panic on PowerEdge 1950 under certain stress load

2007-09-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
Ivan Voras wrote: Benjie Chen wrote: Kernel panic is at 0xC066C731, which from nm shows it's in mtx_lock_spin c066c7b4 T _mtx_lock_spin c066c85c T _mtx_unlock_sleep So this could mean that independent stress tests will not result in panic if there aren't enough concurrency to cause the

Re: Australian cvs repository

2007-08-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 08:49:21AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert McKenzie wrote: Has anyone noted that the Australian cvs repository seems to be so hopelessly out of sink that you cannot do a clean build using a clean cvsup. Because we are so far away it is hard to keep things

Re: [patch] enhance powerd(8) to handle max temperature

2007-07-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 11:28:59AM +0200, Pietro Cerutti wrote: Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote: Hi, On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:43:29 +0200 Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: gahr Hi list, gahr here is a patch to allow powerd(8) accept a -t tval option to set a gahr temperature limit above

Re: i386 with PAE or AMD64 on PowerEdge with 4G RAM

2007-06-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 05:15:30PM -0400, Martin Turgeon wrote: 2007/6/18, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 01:03:44PM -0400, Martin Turgeon wrote: I just receive 2 PowerEdge servers (a 1950 and a 860) both with 4G of RAM. I installed FreeBSD 6.2 Release i386

Re: i386 with PAE or AMD64 on PowerEdge with 4G RAM

2007-06-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 03:10:22PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 05:15:30PM -0400, Martin Turgeon wrote: My setup is fairly standard (as I described), should I expect problem with 64 bit version of these programs? Like I said, I don't run 64-bit OSes because I

Re: pkgdb -F calling portupgrade -a

2007-06-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 04:15:29PM -0700, Jeff Anton wrote: I'm very surprised and upset that running pkgdb -F has started a whole upgrade of my stable machine. Well, it didn't. I'm sure hacker's isn't the right list for this Correct. but it is so amazing that I don't know what the right

Re: pkgdb -F calling portupgrade -a

2007-06-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 07:59:14PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jeff Anton [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I'm very surprised and upset that running pkgdb -F has started a whole upgrade of my stable machine. I'm sure hacker's isn't the right list for this but it is so amazing

Re: pkgdb -F calling portupgrade -a

2007-06-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 08:15:33PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: --- Checking the package registry database Stale dependency: Xaw3d-1.5E_1 - xf86dgaproto-2.0.2 (x11/xf86dgaproto): Install stale dependency? ([y]es/[n]o/[a]ll) [yes

Re: Xorg port problem?

2007-05-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 12:07:44AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: Alex Dupre wrote: Doug Barton wrote: (Over 2GBs of RAM + Swap being used). It does this consistently when it tries to compile xf86PciScan.c (hope thats the right file). May not be the answer you want to hear, but I built all the

Re: DPS Initial Ideas

2007-05-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 04:52:47PM -0500, Rick C. Petty wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 10:25:12AM +0200, 'Michel Talon' wrote: niobe% sqlite3 index.db sqlite CREATE TABLE index6 ( pkgname varchar(1), path varchar(1), prefix varchar(1), comment varchar(1), descr varchar(1),

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