Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.)

2007-03-15 Thread Clayton Milos
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:58:34 -0500 Nikolas Britton wrote: We need to start hounding on AMD to publish the developer documentation for all radeon chipsets. I for one will not buy any AMD or ATI components until they decide to fix the problem. Brilliant. Let's destroy years of good will with

Re: Openvpn tap uses 99% cpu time

2007-03-15 Thread Emile Coetzee
I have done some more investigation. Rolling back to RELENG_6_2 solves the problem. I have now had this problem on 3 boxes in 2 days and have been able to reproduce it on a 4th in our lab. Starting openvpn with full debug it stops just before the point where the TAP devices gets initiated. And

ixgb + altq

2007-03-15 Thread Mars G. Miro
Greetz, I happen to have ixgb hardware here that i can test the current ALTQ patches at: http://people.freebsd.org/~mlaier/ALTQ_driver/ However, the patch doesn't apply cleanly to 6.X or 7.X. Can i request for an updated patch? I'm more than willing to test ;-) Thanks. cheers

Re: ixgb + altq

2007-03-15 Thread Christian Brueffer
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 03:41:39PM +0800, Mars G. Miro wrote: Greetz, I happen to have ixgb hardware here that i can test the current ALTQ patches at: http://people.freebsd.org/~mlaier/ALTQ_driver/ However, the patch doesn't apply cleanly to 6.X or 7.X. Can i request for an

Re: Openvpn tap uses 99% cpu time

2007-03-15 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Emile Coetzee wrote: I have done some more investigation. Rolling back to RELENG_6_2 solves the problem. I have now had this problem on 3 boxes in 2 days and have been able to reproduce it on a 4th in our lab. Starting openvpn with full debug it stops just before the point where the TAP devices

Re: Openvpn tap uses 99% cpu time

2007-03-15 Thread Emile Coetzee
Hi Bruce I have run a ktrace as you suggested I put the following in a script /usr/local/sbin/openvpn --daemon --config /usr/local/etc/openvpn/tapserver.conf and called it tapserver.sh and then used ktrace -d -f openvpn.dump ./tapserver.sh This captured all the information for the

Re: ixgb + altq

2007-03-15 Thread Mars G. Miro
On 3/15/07, Christian Brueffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 03:41:39PM +0800, Mars G. Miro wrote: Greetz, I happen to have ixgb hardware here that i can test the current ALTQ patches at: http://people.freebsd.org/~mlaier/ALTQ_driver/ However, the patch doesn't

Making /var/mail mode 1777 (was Re: Installing sendmail SUID installworld suggestion)

2007-03-15 Thread Oliver Fromme
Joel Hatton wrote: When sendmail is set to SUID in /etc/make.conf with SENDMAIL_SET_USER_ID=y, it would be very helpful if installworld could also rename (or, to be consistent with /etc/mail/README, remove) /etc/mail/submit.cf. This is pretty trivial, but I seem to burn myself every time I

Re: Making /var/mail mode 1777 (was Re: Installing sendmail SUID installworld suggestion)

2007-03-15 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 11:35:45AM +0100 I heard the voice of Oliver Fromme, and lo! it spake thus: What's the best way to prevent that? I tried editing the appropriate mtree file, but that feels like a hack rather than a clean solution. Well, I did it by the hack of stuffing a 'chmod 1777'

imap-uw on FreeBSD 6.2

2007-03-15 Thread Willy Offermans
Dear FreeBSD friends, The following error appears regularly on my FreeBSD 6.2 server called sun. The frequency of appearance is higher than on FreeBSD 6.1, where I had this error from time to time. The error is not critical, since a new instance of the imap program is started upon the crash, I

imap-uw occasionally crashes

2007-03-15 Thread Willy Offermans
Dear FreeBSD friends, imap-uw crashes from time to time on my FreeBSD 6.2 server: Mar 13 09:51:10 sun kernel: pid 46336 (imapd), uid 1012: exited on signal 6 Mar 13 09:51:10 sun imapd Mar 13 09:51:10 sun in free(): Mar 13 09:51:10 sun error: Mar 13 09:51:10 sun chunk is already free Does

Re: Making /var/mail mode 1777 (was Re: Installing sendmail SUID installworld suggestion)

2007-03-15 Thread Danny Braniss
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 11:35:45AM +0100 I heard the voice of Oliver Fromme, and lo! it spake thus: What's the best way to prevent that? I tried editing the appropriate mtree file, but that feels like a hack rather than a clean solution. Well, I did it by the hack of stuffing a

Re: Making /var/mail mode 1777 (was Re: Installing sendmail SUID installworld suggestion)

2007-03-15 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 01:06:57PM +0200 I heard the voice of Danny Braniss, and lo! it spake thus: in /etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist, change Yah, but you have to remember and maintain that across upgrades. In rc.local, it's set-and-forget. see also /etc/rc.d/var That hack landed and was

Re: imap-uw on FreeBSD 6.2

2007-03-15 Thread Václav Haisman
Willy Offermans wrote: Dear FreeBSD friends, The following error appears regularly on my FreeBSD 6.2 server called sun. The frequency of appearance is higher than on FreeBSD 6.1, where I had this error from time to time. The error is not critical, since a new instance of the imap program is

Re: imap-uw on FreeBSD 6.2

2007-03-15 Thread Willy Offermans
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 12:29:48PM +0100, Václav Haisman wrote: Willy Offermans wrote: Dear FreeBSD friends, The following error appears regularly on my FreeBSD 6.2 server called sun. The frequency of appearance is higher than on FreeBSD 6.1, where I had this error from time to time.

Re: Openvpn tap uses 99% cpu time

2007-03-15 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Emile Coetzee wrote: I then ran ktrace -p 1083 -f openvpn2.dump This produced no data at all. Shouldn't. :-) You need to run ktrace then kdump to dump the trace. Correlate the cpu spin with the wallclock time in the kdump output, and paste an excerpt of what you get -- it sounds like

Re: Lenovo X60 em workaround

2007-03-15 Thread Rong-en Fan
On 1/23/07, Jack Vogel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Gleb, Acknowledge... I can do better than that, I have a fix for this problem, and its not temporary. Here is the code change (not a patch, I'm very busy), its in hardware_init, should be obvious how to patch: /* Make sure we have a

Re: tap device at boot time

2007-03-15 Thread Willy Offermans
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 11:06:15AM +, Vince wrote: Willy Offermans wrote: Dear FreeBSD friends, Is it possible to add and configure a tap device at boot time of FreeBSD? I mean the same as a normal NIC. In my rc.conf: snip ... ifconfig_xl0=inet 192.168.0.2 promisc netmask

Re: Openvpn tap uses 99% cpu time

2007-03-15 Thread Emile Coetzee
I then ran ktrace -p 1083 -f openvpn2.dump This produced no data at all. Shouldn't. :-) You need to run ktrace then kdump to dump the trace. I figured that part out on my own thanks ;) The second file is 0kb in size running a kdump on it produces no output. Correlate the cpu spin

Re: tap device at boot time

2007-03-15 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Willy Offermans wrote: Thank you for your response, but unfortunately adding cloned_interfaces=tap0 to my rc.conf did not solve the issue. The tap0 device only appeared after I started the openvpn daemon. Is there a way to determine the order to start the daemons. Maybe I can solve the problem

Re: Openvpn tap uses 99% cpu time

2007-03-15 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Emile Coetzee wrote: No worries below is the last part of the first ktrace. I have dropped a full copy on our webserver: http://www.clarotech.co.za/dump/openvpn.txt Hi, Still no diagnostic info I'm afraid. What is needed is for the problem to be reproduced, with the openvpn process which

RE: Openvpn tap uses 99% cpu time

2007-03-15 Thread Emile Coetzee
Emile Coetzee wrote: No worries below is the last part of the first ktrace. I have dropped a full copy on our webserver: http://www.clarotech.co.za/dump/openvpn.txt Hi, Still no diagnostic info I'm afraid. What is needed is for the problem to be reproduced, with the openvpn process which

Re: ANNOUNCE: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Errata Notice FreeBSD-EN-07:05.freebsd-update

2007-03-15 Thread Sohgo Takeuchi
I found some typos in the document of FreeBSD-EN-07:05.freebsd-update. with best regards -- Sohgo Takeuchi --- FreeBSD-EN-07:05.freebsd-update.asc.bak Thu Mar 15 17:10:13 2007 +++ FreeBSD-EN-07:05.freebsd-update.asc Thu Mar 15 22:35:00 2007 @@ -127,15 +127,15 @@ RELENG_6

Re: tap device at boot time

2007-03-15 Thread Willy Offermans
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 01:40:37PM +, Bruce M. Simpson wrote: Willy Offermans wrote: Thank you for your response, but unfortunately adding cloned_interfaces=tap0 to my rc.conf did not solve the issue. The tap0 device only appeared after I started the openvpn daemon. Is there a way to

Re: tap device at boot time

2007-03-15 Thread Hajimu UMEMOTO
Hi, On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:33:22 +0100 Willy Offermans [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Willy Thank you for the information. So this is _not_ the way to go with Willy FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #5. Naturally the following question Willy would be: how then to proceed with FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE? and most Willy

RE: Openvpn tap uses 99% cpu time

2007-03-15 Thread Emile Coetzee
Still no diagnostic info I'm afraid. What is needed is for the problem to be reproduced, with the openvpn process which is spinning under ktrace. You might need to hack your script to do this i.e. run openvpn directly from ktrace. Let it run for a bit, let it spin, then kill it. Check that you

Re: [Imap-use] Re: imap-uw on FreeBSD 6.2

2007-03-15 Thread Mark Crispin
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Willy Offermans wrote: On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 12:29:48PM +0100, Václav Haisman wrote: I advise you against using IMAP UW, unless you know your mailboxes won't grow beyond just few megabytes or that there will be only few of them. Their reading and rewriting of whenever you

Re: [Imap-use] imap-uw occasionally crashes

2007-03-15 Thread Mark Crispin
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Willy Offermans wrote: imap-uw crashes from time to time on my FreeBSD 6.2 server: Mar 13 09:51:10 sun kernel: pid 46336 (imapd), uid 1012: exited on signal 6 Mar 13 09:51:10 sun imapd Mar 13 09:51:10 sun in free(): Mar 13 09:51:10 sun error: Mar 13 09:51:10 sun chunk is

Re: tap device at boot time

2007-03-15 Thread O. Hartmann
Bruce M. Simpson wrote: Willy Offermans wrote: Thank you for your response, but unfortunately adding cloned_interfaces=tap0 to my rc.conf did not solve the issue. The tap0 device only appeared after I started the openvpn daemon. Is there a way to determine the order to start the daemons.

Re: tap device at boot time

2007-03-15 Thread Bakul Shah
maybe this is slightly OT, but I tried using /dev/tap0 by QEMU on FBSD 7.0-CU RRENT and 6.2-STABLE at boottime. ... (MAC_ADDRESS replaced by a valid MAC address). Reason ist I try to get an IP via DHCP - this is restricted by our computer center and their DHCP maintenan ce so I do not

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Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.)

2007-03-15 Thread Philipp Ost
Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:58:34 -0500 Nikolas Britton wrote: We need to start hounding on AMD to publish the developer documentation for all radeon chipsets. I for one will not buy any AMD or ATI components until they decide to fix the problem. Brilliant. Let's

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Re: imap-uw occasionally crashes

2007-03-15 Thread Ivan Voras
Willy Offermans wrote: Dear FreeBSD friends, imap-uw crashes from time to time on my FreeBSD 6.2 server: Mar 13 09:51:10 sun kernel: pid 46336 (imapd), uid 1012: exited on signal 6 Signal 6 is defined as: 6 SIGABRT create core imageabort program (formerly SIGIOT) So

Re: tap device at boot time

2007-03-15 Thread O. Hartmann
Bakul Shah wrote: maybe this is slightly OT, but I tried using /dev/tap0 by QEMU on FBSD 7.0-CU RRENT and 6.2-STABLE at boottime. ... (MAC_ADDRESS replaced by a valid MAC address). Reason ist I try to get an IP via DHCP - this is restricted by our computer center and their DHCP

Re: imap-uw on FreeBSD 6.2

2007-03-15 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Mar 15, 2007, at 6:29 AM, Václav Haisman wrote: I advise you against using IMAP UW, unless you know your mailboxes won't grow beyond just few megabytes or that there will be only few of them. Their reading and rewriting of whenever you make changes can stress server quite a lot. This is

Re: Clamav-90_2 Lockup with freebsd 6.2

2007-03-15 Thread Kevin Way
[snip patch] Does this patch make the libmap.conf hack unneeded? I frist thought so, but no, the more threads are running concurrently the slower libpthreads behaves, as it gets more lock contention. Until this is addressed somehow, use libthr.so FWIW, we have several machines running with

Re: [Imap-use] Re: imap-uw on FreeBSD 6.2

2007-03-15 Thread Ivan Voras
Mark Crispin wrote: . The new mix format is an indexed format in which all the message metadata is stored and maintained in a separate index. Opens are 1 to 2 orders of magnitude faster than mbx, which in turn is faster than traditional UNIX. Messages are distributed into multiple

Re: Clamav-90_2 Lockup with freebsd 6.2

2007-03-15 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 01:52 PM 3/15/2007, Kevin Way wrote: FWIW, we have several machines running with the libmap.conf hack. clamav no longer locks up, but has instead taken to occasionally dying altogether. Hi, I think there are other bugs in the current clamd, the main one that we run into is when it tries

Re: tap device at boot time

2007-03-15 Thread George Hartzell
Willy Offermans writes: On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 11:06:15AM +, Vince wrote: Willy Offermans wrote: Dear FreeBSD friends, Is it possible to add and configure a tap device at boot time of FreeBSD? I mean the same as a normal NIC. In my rc.conf: snip ...

Re: Clamav-90_2 Lockup with freebsd 6.2

2007-03-15 Thread Rob MacGregor
Mike Tancsa unleashed the infinite monkeys on 15/03/2007 19:58 producing: At 01:52 PM 3/15/2007, Kevin Way wrote: FWIW, we have several machines running with the libmap.conf hack. clamav no longer locks up, but has instead taken to occasionally dying altogether. Hi, I think there are other

Re: tap device at boot time

2007-03-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 09:24:38AM -0700, George Hartzell wrote: Are you sure that you need to initialize the tap0 device like this? I use tun's instead of tap's, but in my openvpn server config I have a line that says dev tun and a bit further down I have a line that says server

Re: Clamav-90_2 Lockup with freebsd 6.2

2007-03-15 Thread Laurent Frigault
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 08:28:10PM +, Rob MacGregor wrote: FWIW, we have several machines running with the libmap.conf hack. clamav no longer locks up, but has instead taken to occasionally dying altogether. Hi, I think there are other bugs in the current clamd, the main one that

Strange freeze on -STABLE

2007-03-15 Thread Deniss Lee
Nothing really has changed to my box (no new software, configuration issues). I just like rebuilding world/kernel to the latest -STABLE at least once in week. And about two weeks ago I started getting strange freezes. Since then I've tried doing anything to get away from those stupid freezes,

Request to update hptmv driver

2007-03-15 Thread Steven Hartland
The current version of hptmv in the source tree is very old now v1.12 (2005-06) vs current v1.14 (2006-3) and it contains some really nasty bugs. We've been running the latest version available from HighPoint + some additional fixes, to ensure multi card installs dont corrupt on shutdown, for

Re: Strange freeze on -STABLE

2007-03-15 Thread Steven Hartland
If its always when the box is quiet / no one using it, is it something to do with power saving settings? Steve Deniss Lee wrote: But what's interesting - music keeps playing (line-in). Both pf (firewall/routing) and sound card is loaded as modules, music keeps playing, but network is