Re: NFSv4: mount -t nsf4 not the same as mount_newnfs?

2010-02-09 Thread O. Hartmann
On 02/08/10 22:37, Rick Macklem wrote: On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, O. Hartmann wrote: So I guess the above one is the more 'transparent' one with respect to the future, when NFSv4 gets mature and its way as matured into the kernel? Yea, I'd only use mount -t newnfs if for some reason you want

Re: www/firefox: Firefox 3.6 crashes, Firefox 3.5.7 not

2010-02-09 Thread O. Hartmann
On 02/08/10 21:42, Eitan Adler wrote: I have no idea if this is related but from pkg-message Firefox 3.6 and HTML5 Certain functions used to display HTML5 elements need the sem module. If your Firefox crashes with the following message while viewing a HTML5 page: Bad system call (core dumped)

Re: www/firefox: Firefox 3.6 crashes, Firefox 3.5.7 not

2010-02-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 09:41:34AM +, O. Hartmann wrote: On 02/08/10 21:42, Eitan Adler wrote: I have no idea if this is related but from pkg-message Firefox 3.6 and HTML5 Certain functions used to display HTML5 elements need the sem module. If your Firefox crashes with the following

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Gerrit Kühn
CS pricey hardware raid cards for compatibility reasons. There seem to CS be no decent add-on SATA cards that play nice with FreeBSD other than CS that weird supermicro card that has to be physically hacked about to CS fit. BTW: I recently built some more machines with this card. I can confirm

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 04:37:50PM +1030 I heard the voice of Daniel O'Connor, and lo! it spake thus: Probably the result of idiotic penny pinching though :-/ Irritating. One of my favorite parts of AMD's amd64 chips is that I no longer have to spend through the nose or be a detective (or,

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:21:32 +1100 Andrew Snow and...@modulus.org wrote about Re: hardware for home use large storage: AS http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA.cfm?typ=H The good thing about this board is that the pineview atoms seem to be 64bit capable, which makes them

Re: one more load-cycle-count problem

2010-02-09 Thread perryh
Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote: The DOS utilities submit custom ATA CMDs or data to all WD disks to toggle or adjust these features. If someone could figure out what the command(s) were, the feature(s) could be implemented into atacontrol(8). Of course, that would require

Re: ionice in FreeBSD?

2010-02-09 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 09/02/2010 05:44, jhell wrote: On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 23:37, mv@ wrote: On 3/02/2010 10:52 PM, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: Some shell-scripts based on dd or rsync, for example. Even a daily antivirus (ClamAV) scanner means an extensive I/O. Programs like Rsync do provide --bwlimit= which

Re: one more load-cycle-count problem

2010-02-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 02:42:10AM -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote: The DOS utilities submit custom ATA CMDs or data to all WD disks to toggle or adjust these features. If someone could figure out what the command(s) were, the feature(s)

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Dan Langille
Charles Sprickman wrote: On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: I'm thinking of 8x1TB (or larger) SATA drives. I've found a case[2] with hot-swap bays[3], that seems interesting. I haven't looked at power supplies, but given that number of drives, I expect something beefy with a decent

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 6:15 AM, Charles Sprickman sp...@bway.net wrote: Here's the list: http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=8441629 Just over $1K, and I've got 4 nice drives, ECC memory, and a server board. Going with the celeron saved a ton of cash

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 09/02/2010 12:32 Matthew D. Fuller said the following: On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 04:37:50PM +1030 I heard the voice of Daniel O'Connor, and lo! it spake thus: Probably the result of idiotic penny pinching though :-/ Irritating. One of my favorite parts of AMD's amd64 chips is that I no

Re: www/firefox: Firefox 3.6 crashes, Firefox 3.5.7 not

2010-02-09 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:41:34 + O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: [snip maybe too much] On 02/08/10 21:42, Eitan Adler wrote: you need to load the sem module (kldload sem). SysV smaphore (or sem?) are built into my kernel by default. The error/system message when crashing

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Karl Denninger
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 05:21:32PM +1100, Andrew Snow wrote: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA.cfm?typ=H Supermicro just released a new Mini-ITX fanless Atom server board with 6xSATA ports (based on Intel ICH9) and a PCIe 16x slot. It

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 06:53:26AM -0600, Karl Denninger wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 05:21:32PM +1100, Andrew Snow wrote: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA.cfm?typ=H Supermicro just released a new Mini-ITX fanless Atom server

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Dan Langille
On Tue, February 9, 2010 7:51 am, Tom Evans wrote: On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 6:15 AM, Charles Sprickman sp...@bway.net wrote: Here's the list: http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=8441629 Just over $1K, and I've got 4 nice drives, ECC memory, and a

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Karl Denninger
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 06:53:26AM -0600, Karl Denninger wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 05:21:32PM +1100, Andrew Snow wrote: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA.cfm?typ=H Supermicro just released a

zpool vdev vs. glabel

2010-02-09 Thread Gerrit Kühn
Hi, I have created a raidz2 with disk I labeled with glabel before. Right after creation this pool looked fine, using devices label/tank[1-6]. I did some tests with replacing/swapping disks and so on. After doing a zpool offline tank label/tank6 remove disk camcontrol rescan all insert disk

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Dan Langille d...@langille.org wrote: On Tue, February 9, 2010 7:51 am, Tom Evans wrote: On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 6:15 AM, Charles Sprickman sp...@bway.net wrote: Here's the list:

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 08:45:12AM -0500, Dan Langille wrote: On Tue, February 9, 2010 7:51 am, Tom Evans wrote: On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 6:15 AM, Charles Sprickman sp...@bway.net wrote: Here's the list: http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=8441629

Re: zpool vdev vs. glabel

2010-02-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 03:06:06PM +0100, Gerrit Kühn wrote: Hi, I have created a raidz2 with disk I labeled with glabel before. Right after creation this pool looked fine, using devices label/tank[1-6]. I did some tests with replacing/swapping disks and so on. After doing a zpool

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 06:53:26AM -0600, Karl Denninger wrote: [...] http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/current/2008-01/msg01206.html http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=7750 http://www.beowulf.org/archive/2007-November/019925.html

Re: zpool vdev vs. glabel

2010-02-09 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 06:26:58 -0800 Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote about Re: zpool vdev vs. glabel: JC I'm running out of ideas here... JC Would zpool export and zpool import be necessary in this case? I tried that several times, does not change anything. JC Also, I'm a little

Re: Strange symbols in man-pages

2010-02-09 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 10:49:34AM +0300, Ruslan Mahmatkhanov wrote: On 24.01.2010 04:45, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:34:14PM +0300, Ruslan Mahmatkhanov wrote: I'm viewing dd man-page in gnome with gnome-terminal and i see some strange symbols instead `-`. For example

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Dan Langille
On Tue, February 9, 2010 9:09 am, Tom Evans wrote: On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Dan Langille d...@langille.org wrote: One thing to point out about using a PM like this: you won't get fantastic bandwidth out of it. For my needs (home storage server), this really doesn't matter, I just want

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09.02.2010 15:37, Miroslav Lachman wrote: *SNIP* I can't agree with the last statement about HP's iLO. I have addon card in ML110 G5 (dedicated NIC), the card is expensive and bugs are amazing. The management NIC freezes once a day (or more

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 10:01:23AM -0500, Dan Langille wrote: On Tue, February 9, 2010 9:09 am, Tom Evans wrote: On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Dan Langille d...@langille.org wrote: One thing to point out about using a PM like this: you won't get fantastic bandwidth out of it. For my needs

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Dan Langille d...@langille.org wrote: On Tue, February 9, 2010 9:09 am, Tom Evans wrote: On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Dan Langille d...@langille.org wrote: One thing to point out about using a PM like this: you won't get fantastic bandwidth out of it. For my

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Peter C. Lai
On 2010-02-09 06:37:47AM -0500, Dan Langille wrote: Charles Sprickman wrote: On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: Also, it seems like people who use zfs (or gmirror + gstripe) generally end up buying pricey hardware raid cards for compatibility reasons. There seem to be no decent

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Dan Langille
On Tue, February 9, 2010 10:16 am, Tom Evans wrote: On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Dan Langille d...@langille.org wrote: On Tue, February 9, 2010 9:09 am, Tom Evans wrote: On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Dan Langille d...@langille.org wrote: One thing to point out about using a PM like

Re: NFSv4: mount -t nsf4 not the same as mount_newnfs?

2010-02-09 Thread Rick Macklem
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, O. Hartmann wrote: Well, I guess I havn't uderstood everything of NFSv4. The 'concept' of the 'root' is new to me, maybe there are some deeper explanation of the purpose? Are there supposed to be more than one 'root' enries or only one? Only to specify different

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Peter C. Lai
That's faster than just about anything I have at home. So you should be fine. It should be good enough to serve as primary media center storage even (for retrievals, anyway, probably a tad bit slow for live transcoding). Also does anybody know if benching dd if=/dev/zero onto a zfs volume that

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Boris Kochergin
Peter C. Lai wrote: On 2010-02-09 06:37:47AM -0500, Dan Langille wrote: Charles Sprickman wrote: On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: Also, it seems like people who use zfs (or gmirror + gstripe) generally end up buying pricey hardware raid cards for compatibility reasons. There

Re: one more load-cycle-count problem

2010-02-09 Thread Freddie Cash
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Daniel O'Connor docon...@gsoft.com.auwrote: On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Freddie Cash wrote: I just did this to 8 of the 1.5 TB Caviar Green disks, without ZFS complaining in any way. I did test it on a spare drive before doing it to the 7 live drives. And I did

Re: zpool vdev vs. glabel

2010-02-09 Thread Freddie Cash
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.comwrote: Also, I'm a little confused as to the use of glabel in this case. In what condition do your disk indices (e.g. X of daX) change? Are you yanking multiple disks out of a system at the same time and then shoving

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Freddie Cash
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 3:37 AM, Dan Langille d...@langille.org wrote: Charles Sprickman wrote: On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: Also, it seems like people who use zfs (or gmirror + gstripe) generally end up buying pricey hardware raid cards for compatibility reasons. There seem

Problem with USB wireless keyboard/mouse

2010-02-09 Thread Holger Kipp
My son bought a wireless USB deskset (keyboard and mouse) from TRUST. Of course it does not work with freebsd 7.1 (I am currently updating to 7-STABLE just in case). Anyway, here the problem with TRUST Wireless Deskset: Feb 8 22:00:32 TheSimpsons root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x04fc

Re: Recent MFC to 7 causes crash on VMware ESXi

2010-02-09 Thread John Baldwin
On Monday 08 February 2010 9:49:00 am John Baldwin wrote: On Saturday 06 February 2010 4:47:16 pm Tom McLaughlin wrote: John Baldwin wrote, On 02/05/2010 08:27 AM: On Thursday 04 February 2010 10:00:55 pm Tom McLaughlin wrote: Hi all, a recent MFC to 7-STABLE has started to cause issues

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Andre Wensing
Freddie Cash wrote: On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 3:37 AM, Dan Langille d...@langille.org wrote: Charles Sprickman wrote: On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: Also, it seems like people who use zfs (or gmirror + gstripe) generally end up buying pricey hardware raid cards for compatibility

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Peter C. Lai
On 2010-02-09 07:52:05PM +0100, Andre Wensing wrote: Freddie Cash wrote: On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 3:37 AM, Dan Langille d...@langille.org wrote: Charles Sprickman wrote: On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: Also, it seems like people who use zfs (or gmirror + gstripe) generally

Re: Unresponsive keyboard after a few boots

2010-02-09 Thread Chris Rees
On 8 February 2010 11:47, Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 02:19:06PM +0530, Rohit Grover wrote: I am using a very recent Freebsd 8.0 STABLE on a Macbook. I updated my sources and rebuilt a kernel about 3 days ago. I was able to use the machine fine once

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Matthew Dillon
The Silicon Image 3124A chipsets (the PCI-e version of the 3124. The original 3124 was PCI-x). The 3124A's are starting to make their way into distribution channels. This is probably the best 'cheap' solution which offers fully concurrent multi-target NCQ operation through a

Re: zpool vdev vs. glabel

2010-02-09 Thread Elliot Finley
I ran into this same problem. you need to clean the beginning and end of your disk off before glabeling and adding it to your pool. clean with dd if=/dev/zero... 2010/2/9 Gerrit Kühn ger...@pmp.uni-hannover.de Hi, I have created a raidz2 with disk I labeled with glabel before. Right after

Re: 8-STABLE outgoing scp stalling frequently.

2010-02-09 Thread Olivier Cochard-Labbé
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Jonathan Chen j...@chen.org.nz wrote: Hi, I've noticed that on a recent 8-STABLE/amd64, scp(1) appears to be stalling very frequently. I've got the same problem since I've upgraded from 7.2 to 8-stable (32bit). My NIC is a vge(4), with txsum and rxsum

Re: zpool vdev vs. glabel

2010-02-09 Thread Ronald Klop
On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:10:21 +0100, Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.comwrote: Also, I'm a little confused as to the use of glabel in this case. In what condition do your disk indices (e.g. X of daX) change? Are you

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 i386 unable to boot...

2010-02-09 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: After doing some more research, it seems that I am having the same problem than described by this person: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=4502 So you get the same file system full message and then a panic

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 i386 unable to boot...

2010-02-09 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi-- On Feb 8, 2010, at 6:01 PM, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Going nowhere without my init cpuid = 1 Does anyone know what can be causing this and how to solve it? I don't suppose you built a custom kernel without the COMPAT_FREEBSD7 option? You need it until you

Re: 8-STABLE outgoing scp stalling frequently.

2010-02-09 Thread Pyun YongHyeon
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 09:31:54PM +0100, Olivier Cochard-Labb? wrote: On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Jonathan Chen j...@chen.org.nz wrote: Hi, I've noticed that on a recent 8-STABLE/amd64, scp(1) appears to be stalling very frequently. I've got the same problem since I've upgraded

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Matthew D. Fuller fulle...@over-yonder.net wrote: I have something similar (5x1Tb) - I have a Gigabyte GA-MA785GM-US2H with an Athlon X2 and 4Gb of RAM (only half filled - 2x2Gb) Note that it doesn't support ECC, I don't know if that is a problem. How's that? Is the BIOS just stupid,

Re: Recent MFC to 7 causes crash on VMware ESXi

2010-02-09 Thread Tom McLaughlin
John Baldwin wrote, On 02/09/2010 01:52 PM: On Monday 08 February 2010 9:49:00 am John Baldwin wrote: On Saturday 06 February 2010 4:47:16 pm Tom McLaughlin wrote: John Baldwin wrote, On 02/05/2010 08:27 AM: On Thursday 04 February 2010 10:00:55 pm Tom McLaughlin wrote: Hi all, a recent MFC

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: Charles Sprickman wrote: On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: Also, it seems like people who use zfs (or gmirror + gstripe) generally end up buying pricey hardware raid cards for compatibility reasons. There seem to be no decent add-on SATA cards

Re: Recent MFC to 7 causes crash on VMware ESXi

2010-02-09 Thread John Baldwin
On Tuesday 09 February 2010 5:17:32 pm Tom McLaughlin wrote: John Baldwin wrote, On 02/09/2010 01:52 PM: On Monday 08 February 2010 9:49:00 am John Baldwin wrote: On Saturday 06 February 2010 4:47:16 pm Tom McLaughlin wrote: John Baldwin wrote, On 02/05/2010 08:27 AM: On Thursday 04

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 06:53:26AM -0600, Karl Denninger wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 05:21:32PM +1100, Andrew Snow wrote: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA.cfm?typ=H Supermicro just released a

7.3-P r203700: what can I do about psm0: the aux device is gone!

2010-02-09 Thread David Wolfskill
I normally run X11 (via xdm) on my laptop. Today, running FreeBSD 7.3-PRERELEASE as of r203700, the mouse stopped moving. Logging in from a pty checking the last bit of /var/log/messages showed: Feb 9 14:30:27 localhost kernel: kbdc: TEST_AUX_PORT status: Feb 9 14:30:27 localhost kernel:

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Peter C. Lai
On 2010-02-09 05:32:02PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: One similar product that does seem to work well is iLO, available on HP/Compaq hardware. I've heard great things about that. It seems like a much better design - it's essentially a small

Re: www/firefox: Firefox 3.6 crashes, Firefox 3.5.7 not

2010-02-09 Thread O. Hartmann
On 02/09/10 13:54, Gary Jennejohn wrote: On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:41:34 + O. Hartmannohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: [snip maybe too much] On 02/08/10 21:42, Eitan Adler wrote: you need to load the sem module (kldload sem). SysV smaphore (or sem?) are built into my kernel by default.

freebsd7, radeon, xorg-server - deadlock or so

2010-02-09 Thread Oliver Pinter
Hi all! After updated the xorg* and dri* and dependency, the system going to deadlock at second start of xserver. I think it is not an uniqe issue, as others wrote them at freebsd-x11: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2010-February/009370.html The symptoms: * independent from

Re: su password prompt to stdout instead of /dev/tty

2010-02-09 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
Jeremy Chadwick a écrit : OpenPAM is des@'s responsibility. Has anyone brought this up to him? still no answer from des@ ! any idea ? Regards, Cyrille Lefevre -- mailto:cyrille.lefevre-li...@laposte.net ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Christian Weisgerber wrote: Matthew D. Fuller fulle...@over-yonder.net wrote: I have something similar (5x1Tb) - I have a Gigabyte GA-MA785GM-US2H with an Athlon X2 and 4Gb of RAM (only half filled - 2x2Gb) Note that it doesn't support ECC, I don't know if that

Re: one more load-cycle-count problem

2010-02-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Freddie Cash wrote: /d sets it (for me) to 6300 milliseconds (6.3 seconds). I took this as a special value that disabled it entirely (no idea why they didn't use 0 or 255..) I've seen reports of the same on various hardware forums.  Not sure if it's due to

Re: Recent MFC to 7 causes crash on VMware ESXi

2010-02-09 Thread Tom McLaughlin
John Baldwin wrote, On 02/09/2010 05:23 PM: On Tuesday 09 February 2010 5:17:32 pm Tom McLaughlin wrote: John Baldwin wrote, On 02/09/2010 01:52 PM: On Monday 08 February 2010 9:49:00 am John Baldwin wrote: On Saturday 06 February 2010 4:47:16 pm Tom McLaughlin wrote: John Baldwin wrote, On

Re: freebsd7, radeon, xorg-server - deadlock or so

2010-02-09 Thread O. Hartmann
On 02/10/10 00:24, Oliver Pinter wrote: Hi all! After updated the xorg* and dri* and dependency, the system going to deadlock at second start of xserver. I think it is not an uniqe issue, as others wrote them at freebsd-x11:

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Emil Mikulic
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 11:31:55AM -0500, Peter C. Lai wrote: Also does anybody know if benching dd if=/dev/zero onto a zfs volume that has compression turned on might affect what dd (which is getting what it knows from vfs/vmm) might report? Absolutely! Compression on: 4294967296 bytes

Re: freebsd7, radeon, xorg-server - deadlock or so

2010-02-09 Thread Christof Schulze
The situation is heavily unsatisfying, since one need an expensive AMD/ATi Radeon card to gain non-3D poor functionality, where a cheaper one should be do the same - but the cheaper ones don't work. Even if one uses AMD64, the situattion is worse and I have no reason using Linux-driver on a

Re: freebsd7, radeon, xorg-server - deadlock or so

2010-02-09 Thread Robert Noland
On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 01:36 +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: On 02/10/10 00:24, Oliver Pinter wrote: Hi all! After updated the xorg* and dri* and dependency, the system going to deadlock at second start of xserver. I think it is not an uniqe issue, as others wrote them at freebsd-x11:

Re: Unresponsive keyboard after a few boots

2010-02-09 Thread Rohit Grover
Yes, this is a USB keyboard. If I plug in an external USB keyboard I get the same behaviour. In the mean time, I have discovered that if I boot the machine with MacOSX and then reboot into FreeBSD, it is very likely that FreeBSD will have no problems with using the keyboard. I am sure that this

Re: freebsd7, radeon, xorg-server - deadlock or so

2010-02-09 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Christof Schulze wrote: The situation is heavily unsatisfying, since one need an expensive AMD/ATi Radeon card to gain non-3D poor functionality, where a cheaper one should be do the same - but the cheaper ones don't work. Even if one uses AMD64, the situattion is worse and

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 i386 unable to boot...

2010-02-09 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
About this problem, I have seen that in the past there have been problem with libdisk when a WinXP partition had an invalid name. Could it be something like that that could be causing this error? I guess the problem occurs somewhere in the Open_Disk function of libdisk, right? Should I be able

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Dan Langille
Boris Kochergin wrote: Peter C. Lai wrote: On 2010-02-09 06:37:47AM -0500, Dan Langille wrote: Charles Sprickman wrote: On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: Also, it seems like people who use zfs (or gmirror + gstripe) generally end up buying pricey hardware raid cards for

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Dan Langille
Trying to make sense of stuff I don't know about... Matthew Dillon wrote: AHCI on-motherboard with equivalent capabilities do not appear to be in wide distribution yet. Most AHCI chips can do NCQ to a single target (even a single target behind a PM), but not concurrently to

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Niki Denev
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:56 AM, Peter C. Lai pe...@simons-rock.edu wrote: On 2010-02-09 05:32:02PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: One similar product that does seem to work well is iLO, available on HP/Compaq hardware. I've heard great things

Re: 8-STABLE outgoing scp stalling frequently.

2010-02-09 Thread Olivier Cochard-Labbé
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Pyun YongHyeon pyu...@gmail.com wrote: I guess I fixed all known vge(4) issues, how recent stable/8 you use? Hi, my mistake, it's a release and not a stable version that I'm using: uname -a FreeBSD dev.bsdrp.net 8.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Tue

Re: Unresponsive keyboard after a few boots

2010-02-09 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Rohit Grover rgrov...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, this is a USB keyboard. If I plug in an external USB keyboard I get the same behaviour. In the mean time, I have discovered that if I boot the machine with MacOSX and then reboot into FreeBSD, it is very likely that