Re: FreeBSD 7.2-RC1 Available

2009-04-24 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 17.04.2009, 19:15 Uhr, schrieb Ken Smith kensm...@cse.buffalo.edu: The first of two planned Release Candidates for the FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE cycle is now available. Testing of some of the recent work would be particularly appreciated. This includes: Can one peek at the release notes

Re: dri + ATI: dramatic performance slowdown

2009-04-24 Thread Oliver Lehmann
Hi Robert, there is one problem left here. When changing from inside X11 to the console (Ctrl+F1), and then changing back to X11 (Alt+F9), the the monitor keeps being black. From a remote login I can see, that Xorg is now unkillable and eats all my CPU. dmesg shows: info: [drm] wait idle failed

Looking for FreeBSD Update mirrors for 7.2-RELEASE

2009-04-24 Thread Colin Percival
Hi all, When 7.1-RELEASE came out, FreeBSD Update was overwhelmed by the burst of traffic as thousands of people tried to upgrade at once. I'd like to make sure this doesn't happen again, so I'm looking for some extra temporary mirror capacity. If you can provide me with (a) 40 GB of disk

policy for dumpdev in -stable

2009-04-24 Thread pluknet
Hi. I noticed that dumpdev in defaults/rc.conf was initially to be set to AUTO in -current only, and to be switched back to NO after creating a new stable branch (to be NO in .0 release). Nevertheless it was set to NO only just before 6.1 was out, and is currently AUTO before 7.2. -- wbr,

Re: dri + ATI: dramatic performance slowdown

2009-04-24 Thread Robert Noland
On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 15:11 +0200, Oliver Lehmann wrote: Hi Robert, there is one problem left here. When changing from inside X11 to the console (Ctrl+F1), and then changing back to X11 (Alt+F9), the the monitor keeps being black. From a remote login I can see, that Xorg is now unkillable

Re: dri + ATI: dramatic performance slowdown

2009-04-24 Thread Oliver Lehmann
Hi Robert, Robert Noland wrote: On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 15:11 +0200, Oliver Lehmann wrote: info: [drm] wait idle failed status : 0xA0003030 0x0003 Which chip is this with? vgap...@pci0:1:0:0: class=0x03 card=0x00281787 chip=0x95151002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'ATI

magic disappearing coredumps

2009-04-24 Thread Horst Günther Burkhardt III
I'm trying to debug a piece of software. It dumps a core file which mysteriously vanishes. it's not in the program directory, nor my $HOME, nor /var/crash nor /var/core ... Deliberately crashing /bin/sh also results in a core file which turns up nowhere on my filesystem. Crossposting to -stable

Re: dri + ATI: dramatic performance slowdown

2009-04-24 Thread Robert Noland
On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 19:52 +0200, Oliver Lehmann wrote: Hi Robert, Robert Noland wrote: On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 15:11 +0200, Oliver Lehmann wrote: info: [drm] wait idle failed status : 0xA0003030 0x0003 Which chip is this with? vgap...@pci0:1:0:0: class=0x03

Re: magic disappearing coredumps

2009-04-24 Thread Gary Palmer
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 01:21:18AM +1000, Horst G?nther Burkhardt III wrote: I'm trying to debug a piece of software. It dumps a core file which mysteriously vanishes. it's not in the program directory, nor my $HOME, nor /var/crash nor /var/core ... Deliberately crashing /bin/sh also results

Re: magic disappearing coredumps

2009-04-24 Thread Josh Carroll
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Horst Günther Burkhardt III ho...@sxemacs.org wrote: I'm trying to debug a piece of software. It dumps a core file which mysteriously vanishes. it's not in the program directory, nor my $HOME, nor /var/crash nor /var/core ... Deliberately crashing /bin/sh

Re: magic disappearing coredumps

2009-04-24 Thread Glen Barber
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Horst Günther Burkhardt III ho...@sxemacs.org wrote: I'm trying to debug a piece of software. It dumps a core file which mysteriously vanishes. it's not in the program directory, nor my $HOME, nor /var/crash nor /var/core ... Deliberately crashing /bin/sh

Re: Looking for FreeBSD Update mirrors for 7.2-RELEASE

2009-04-24 Thread Ivan Voras
Colin Percival wrote: Hi all, When 7.1-RELEASE came out, FreeBSD Update was overwhelmed by the burst of traffic as thousands of people tried to upgrade at once. I'd like to make sure this doesn't happen again, so I'm looking for some extra temporary mirror capacity. How are the servers

Re: Evaluating the performance of a single FreeBSD server

2009-04-24 Thread Ivan Voras
Michel Di Croci wrote: colocation environment) and use it as a starting server and runs an Apache + PHP + PostgreSQL (for a long run stable and expandable DB). If it starts to Even if we forget everything else you said, Apache + PHP + PostgreSQL means you have at least ... BOTE calculation ...

RE: 7.1-STABLE Sun Mar 29 01:06:46 ADT 2009 Locks up ...

2009-04-24 Thread Martin Schmidt
Hi Marc and List, i had similar issues with FreeBSD 7.2-PRERELEASE. Server (zfs,nfs) seems to hang in intervals of about 8 hours. kernel is still there but no connections can be made to nfs/ssh and login on local console doesn't seem to work due to incredible slowness. breaking to the

Re: Evaluating the performance of a single FreeBSD server

2009-04-24 Thread Karl Denninger
I agree. Beware high-volume DBMS transaction work. The structure of those SQL transactions is CRITICAL and that can easily be the bottleneck - especially if the indices and structure are poorly designed or simply won't fit in-core for most of the transactions. Ivan Voras wrote: Michel Di

FreeBSD 7.2-RC2 Available

2009-04-24 Thread Ken Smith
The second of the two planed Release Candidates for the 7.2-RELEASE cycle is now available. We believe with the exception of the new bce(4) driver not working with lagg(4) all the major issues that have come up from the testing have been addressed. We will work with the vendor to get that issue

Re: FreeBSD 7.2-RC2 Available

2009-04-24 Thread Pablo Mora
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 1:23 AM, Ken Smith kensm...@cse.buffalo.edu wrote: The second of the two planed Release Candidates for the 7.2-RELEASE cycle is now available.  We believe with the exception of the new bce(4) driver not working with lagg(4) all the major issues that have come up from

Gaming news link

2009-04-24 Thread ryan
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Boot error 16 lba

2009-04-24 Thread Ruben Lara
Hi all, All was working fine, i reboot and now i get: error 16 lba 752991 No /boot/loader Default: 0:ad(0,ad)/boot/kernel/kernel I lose my system? What can i do? Thank you in advance Rubén Lara _ ¿Quieres crear tus propios

Re: FreeBSD 7.2-RC2 Available

2009-04-24 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Ken Smith wrote: There is one known issue with 7.2-RC2. We switched from KDE3 to KDE4 Oh, I'd been kinda hoping that wouldn't happen till after release. I guess our KDE folks must reckon it's shaken out enough already now .. Will kde3 still be able to be installed from