Re: V8.x-PRE2 Serious PUC problem - Heads Up!

2009-11-20 Thread perryh
Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net wrote: ... the uart driver is BROKEN. It simply locks up on the port after some period of time, returning nothing. I have found no way to reset the port other than a reboot either ... Welcome to the distant past. I'll be interested to see what the root

Re: 7.2 dies in midnight run again

2009-11-20 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 20.11.2009 01:45, schrieb Randy Bush: i think the issue is how to tune for zfs i386 with 4G of RAM RELENG_7 cvsupped Nov 18 02:42 GMT panic: kmem_malloc(65536): kmem_map too small: 535019520 total allocated cpuid = 0 Uptime: 13h15m1s Physical memory: 3958 MB

Re: whats best pracfive for ZFS on a whole disc these days ?

2009-11-20 Thread Marius Nünnerich
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 01:48, Daniel O'Connor docon...@gsoft.com.au wrote: On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Tom Evans wrote: On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Daniel O'Connor docon...@gsoft.com.auwrote: On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Marius Nünnerich wrote:  operator    0, 164 Oct 21 15:34

zfs/nfs mkstemp() failure subsequent hangs

2009-11-20 Thread Gerrit Kühn
Hi all, I have a 8.0-PRERELEASE zfs/nfs server here that complains about i/o errors when using rsync on a nfs client: rsync: mkstemp /usr/portage/metadata/cache/app-mobilephone/.ksms-0.1.2.4.BynVFw failed: Input/output error (5) I found this to be quite similar to kern/135412. However, this

Re: whats best pracfive for ZFS on a whole disc these days ?

2009-11-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009, Marius Nünnerich wrote: Maybe the UUID label got their first so it won't have an alias (although the UUID is an alias for /dev/ad4p2..) Maybe that's been asked already but what version are you using? Does glabel work at all? 8.0-RC1 glabel works fine, I use it for

Re: whats best pracfive for ZFS on a whole disc these days ?

2009-11-20 Thread Marius Nünnerich
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 13:32, Daniel O'Connor docon...@gsoft.com.au wrote: On Fri, 20 Nov 2009, Marius Nünnerich wrote: Maybe the UUID label got their first so it won't have an alias (although the UUID is an alias for /dev/ad4p2..) Maybe that's been asked already but what version are you

Re: V8.x-PRE2 Serious PUC problem - Heads Up!

2009-11-20 Thread Karl Denninger
per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net wrote: ... the uart driver is BROKEN. It simply locks up on the port after some period of time, returning nothing. I have found no way to reset the port other than a reboot either ... Welcome to the distant past.

Recommendations on when to use soft updates

2009-11-20 Thread Mikael Bak
Hi list, I'm quite new to FreeBSD. I would like to know if there are any official recommendations on when to use soft updates and when not to use them. I currently maintain only one FreeBSD machine. $ uname -v FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p4 #0: Fri Oct 2 08:22:32 UTC 2009

Re: whats best pracfive for ZFS on a whole disc these days ?

2009-11-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009, Marius Nünnerich wrote: Actually that is an interesting point, the swap partitions don't have an entry in /dev/gptid, although perhaps that is because glabel has grabbed that node. If I remember correctly nodes vanish when another name for the same device is opened.

Re: whats best pracfive for ZFS on a whole disc these days ?

2009-11-20 Thread Marius Nünnerich
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 14:27, Daniel O'Connor docon...@gsoft.com.au wrote: On Fri, 20 Nov 2009, Marius Nünnerich wrote: Actually that is an interesting point, the swap partitions don't have an entry in /dev/gptid, although perhaps that is because glabel has grabbed that node. If I

Re: Recommendations on when to use soft updates

2009-11-20 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday 20 November 2009 7:57:56 am Mikael Bak wrote: Hi list, I'm quite new to FreeBSD. I would like to know if there are any official recommendations on when to use soft updates and when not to use them. I currently maintain only one FreeBSD machine. $ uname -v FreeBSD

Most files in subversion stable/8/sys touched by bms

2009-11-20 Thread Larry Baird
I use the following to get a feel of what is changing in FreeBSD 8 kernel. http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/stable/8/sys/?sortby=date Normally only a few directories show modification. Today, almost every directory show a modification by bms: MFC r199522..199528: Pullup IPv6 mcast SSM

Re: Most files in subversion stable/8/sys touched by bms

2009-11-20 Thread Dimitry Andric
On 2009-11-20 15:44, Larry Baird wrote: I use the following to get a feel of what is changing in FreeBSD 8 kernel. http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/stable/8/sys/?sortby=date Normally only a few directories show modification. Today, almost every directory show a modification by bms:

Re: Most files in subversion stable/8/sys touched by bms

2009-11-20 Thread Larry Baird
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 04:56:44PM +0100, Dimitry Andric wrote: On 2009-11-20 15:44, Larry Baird wrote: I use the following to get a feel of what is changing in FreeBSD 8 kernel. http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/stable/8/sys/?sortby=date Normally only a few directories show

Re: NSIS compile failed on FreeBSD 7.2

2009-11-20 Thread Matt Wilks
Just a note of closure. Apparently NSIS doesn't compile on 64-bit architectures. Compiled fine on an i386 7.2 install (same machine), once the proper library paths were provided. Matt Wilks wrote: I'm attempting to install NSIS (http://nsis.sourceforge.net/) on an amd64 FreeBSD 7.2 system

Re: NSIS compile failed on FreeBSD 7.2

2009-11-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 01:39:48PM -0500, Matt Wilks wrote: Just a note of closure. Apparently NSIS doesn't compile on 64-bit architectures. Compiled fine on an i386 7.2 install (same machine), once the proper library paths were provided. Matt Wilks wrote: I'm attempting to install NSIS

Re: whats best pracfive for ZFS on a whole disc these days ?

2009-11-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Sat, 21 Nov 2009, Marius Nünnerich wrote: On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 14:27, Daniel O'Connor docon...@gsoft.com.au wrote: On Fri, 20 Nov 2009, Marius Nünnerich wrote: Actually that is an interesting point, the swap partitions don't have an entry in /dev/gptid, although perhaps that is

Re: NSIS compile failed on FreeBSD 7.2

2009-11-20 Thread Mark Linimon
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:46:13AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: If that's indeed the case, then the port Makefile needs to be modified to reject building on any architectures other than i386. This should suffice: ONLY_FOR_ARCHS= i386 There's a (fine?) distinction between the usage

Re: 7.2 dies in zfs

2009-11-20 Thread Randy Bush
vm.kmem_size=1500M vm.kmem_size_max=2G i am trying this with some success. let's see how the day goes. BTW: I use auto-tuning of the ARC cache size: vfs.zfs.arc_min: 12288 vfs.zfs.arc_max: 98304 how the hell is a sysadmin supposed to guess all this bleep? if the freebsd sysadmin

Re: 7.2 dies in zfs

2009-11-20 Thread Svein Skogen (listmail account)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Randy Bush wrote: imiho, zfs can not be called production ready if it crashes if you do not stand on your left leg, put your right hand in the air, and burn some eye of newt. That just about sums up my impression. Nine out of ten for porting the