FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report January-March, 2012

2012-05-12 Thread Daniel Gerzo
FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report January-March, 2012 Introduction This report covers FreeBSD-related projects between January and March 2012. It is the first of the four reports planned for 2012. This quarter was highlighted by releasing the next major version of FreeBSD, 9.0, which

FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report October-December, 2011

2012-01-27 Thread Daniel Gerzo
FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report October-December, 2011 Introduction This report covers FreeBSD-related projects between October and December 2011. It is the last of the four reports planned for 2011. This quarter was mainly devoted to polishing the bits for the next major version of

REMAINDER: Call for FreeBSD Status Reports - 4Q/2011

2012-01-04 Thread Daniel Gerzo
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REMAINDER: Call for FreeBSD Status Reports - 4Q/2011

2011-12-21 Thread Daniel Gerzo
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Re: FreeBSD Status Report July-September, 2011

2011-11-09 Thread Daniel Gerzo
On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 09:55:09 +, Daniel Gerzo wrote: FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report - Q3/2011 Unfortunately, I managed to use an old status report entry for KDE/FreeBSD, instead of the current one. I am sorry for any inconvenience; the current entry for KDE/FreeBSD is below: KDE

FreeBSD Status Report July-September, 2011

2011-11-08 Thread Daniel Gerzo
FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report - Q3/2011 Introduction This report covers FreeBSD-related projects between July and September 2011. It is the third of the four reports planned for 2011. This quarter was mainly devoted to polishing the bits for the next major version of FreeBSD, 9.0,

FreeBSD Status Report April - June, 2011

2011-09-14 Thread Daniel Gerzo
FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report - April-June, 2011 Introduction This report covers FreeBSD-related projects between April and June 2011. It is the second of the four reports planned for 2011. Since this quarter, the work is being focused on the next major version of FreeBSD, 9.0,

Re: Networking - CARP interfaces

2011-06-15 Thread Daniel Gerzo
On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:01:21 -0400, Steve Polyack wrote: I'll just have to adapt and ensure they have the same IP addresses then. I have a suspicion that the important part may be the number of IP addresses on the CARP interface. If CARP sends an advertisement from each IP alias on a CARP

FreeBSD Status Report January-March, 2011

2011-04-27 Thread Daniel Gerzo
HAST URL: http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-hast.ht ml Contact: Daniel Gerzo dan...@freebsd.org A new FreeBSD Handbook section covering the Highly Available STorage, or HAST developed by Pawel Jakub Dawidek has been recently added

Re: powerd / cpufreq question

2011-04-11 Thread Daniel Gerzo
need to update the script to remove surplus data for non-existing cpus, but wonder if the extra data also appeared on your 12 core box? I haven't removed anything, it's a pure copypaste. -- S pozdravom / Best regards Daniel Gerzo, FreeBSD committer

Re: powerd / cpufreq question

2011-04-09 Thread Daniel Gerzo
. You may want to look here: http://wiki.freebsd.org/TuningPowerConsumption -- S pozdravom / Best regards Daniel Gerzo, FreeBSD committer ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: powerd / cpufreq question

2011-04-08 Thread Daniel Gerzo
On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:42:04 +0300, Alexander Motin wrote: Hello Alexander, thanks for quick reply; root@[s1-a ~]# powerd -v -r 1000 -i 600 powerd: 1000 is not a valid percent Well, that makes sense, but why powerd itself knows about load 100% but doesn't allow me to specify it? Is this

Re: powerd / cpufreq question

2011-04-08 Thread Daniel Gerzo
On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 18:02:28 +0300, Alexander Motin wrote: OK, I understand what you are saying here. On the other side, I know pretty well how the load is distributed - in this particular case, the box is a web server, running ~30 php-cgi processes. This kind of operation doesn't require very

FreeBSD Status Report - 4Q/2010

2011-01-25 Thread Daniel Gerzo
FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report Introduction This report covers FreeBSD-related projects between October and December 2010. It is the last of the four reports planned for 2010. The work on the new minor versions of FreeBSD, 7.4 and 8.2, has been progressing well and they should be

FreeBSD Status Report January-March, 2010

2010-04-22 Thread Daniel Gerzo
FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report Introduction This report covers FreeBSD related projects between January and March 2010. Being the first of the four reports planned for 2010 with 46 entries, it shows a good progress of the FreeBSD Project and proves that our committers are keeping up

HEADSUP: Call for FreeBSD Status Reports - 1Q/2010

2010-03-21 Thread Daniel Gerzo
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FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report for October - December 2009

2010-01-17 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Introduction This report covers FreeBSD related projects between October and December 2009. This is the last of the four reports covering 2009, which has shown to be a very important year for the FreeBSD Project. Besides other notable things, a new major version of FreeBSD,

Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.3 EoL coming soon

2010-01-06 Thread Daniel Gerzo
for at least 18 months There will be 7.4 release quiet soon (read in approx. 3 months from now) which should meet your requirements. -- S pozdravom / Best regards Daniel Gerzo, FreeBSD committer ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.3 EoL coming soon

2010-01-06 Thread Daniel Gerzo
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HEADSUP: Call for FreeBSD Status Reports (Oct - Dec 2009)

2009-12-19 Thread Daniel Gerzo
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FreeBSD Status Reports April - September, 2009

2009-10-11 Thread Daniel Gerzo
FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report Introduction This report covers FreeBSD related projects between April and September 2009. During that time a lot of work has been done on wide variety of projects, including the Google Summer of Code projects. The BSDCan conference was held in Ottawa,

HEADSUP: Call for FreeBSD Status Reports

2009-09-24 Thread Daniel Gerzo
-in XML template to be found at http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-sample.xml to mont...@freebsd.org, or alternatively use our web based form at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/monthly.cgi. We are looking forward to see your submissions! -- S pozdravom / Best regards Daniel Gerzo, FreeBSD

Re: make distribution Re: 8.0-BETA2 Available

2009-07-18 Thread Daniel Gerzo
fixes this problem. Please update your sources. -- S pozdravom / Best regards Daniel Gerzo, FreeBSD committer ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: RELENG_7 - has mergemaster changed logic since 7.2-RELEASE?

2009-05-07 Thread Daniel Gerzo
On Thu, 07 May 2009 09:40:52 +0200, Matthias Andree m...@dt.e-technik.tu-dortmund.de wrote: Am 05.05.2009, 09:46 Uhr, schrieb Daniel Gerzo dan...@freebsd.org: Manolis Kiagias wrote: I always use -iU too. I've lost motd, passwd, group and master.passwd During mergemaster -p I was asked

Re: RELENG_7 - has mergemaster changed logic since 7.2-RELEASE?

2009-05-05 Thread Daniel Gerzo
, hosts, crontab, syslogd.conf, passswd, master.passwd, group, sysctl.conf motd and maybe some more got overwritten :-( I had to restore from backups. -- S pozdravom / Best regards Daniel Gerzo, FreeBSD committer ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing

Re: interrupt storm on MSI IXP600 based motherboards

2009-01-16 Thread Daniel Gerzo
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:52:34 +, Pete French petefre...@ticketswitch.com wrote: trouble with onboard re(4) was resolved in -CURRENT and -STABLE, but storms are not bound to ethernet only. storm may appear on any device. if any device generates enough interrupts rate, storm will arrive.

Re[2]: interrupt storm

2009-01-14 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Marat, Dan, I suppose you guys are running amd64? Could you try i386? AFAIR the interrupt storms have gone away after I moved my MSI machine to i386 on an affected box. -- Best regards, Danielmailto:dan...@freebsd.org

Re[2]: re0 problem

2008-10-18 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Pyun, Saturday, October 18, 2008, 4:02:48 AM, you wrote: re(4) didn't require special PHY handling for 8169/8110 controllers. Did it ever work on older FreeBSD releases? I vaguely I don't know, I have bought this NIC 3 days ago :-) remember nork@ (Norikatsu Shigemura) also said Carbus

re0 problem

2008-10-17 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello guys, Recently, I have bought a pcmcia gige ethernet card and it seems it is re(4) based. However, when I plug the card into the slot, I get the following messages on my console: re0: RealTek 8169/8169S/8169SB(L)/8110S/8110SB(L) Gigabit Ethernet port 0x1000-0x10ff mem

Re: Status of ZFS in -stable?

2008-05-13 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Pierre-Luc, Tuesday, May 13, 2008, 6:26:49 AM, you wrote: Hi, I would like to know if the memory allocation problem with zfs has been fixed in -stable? Is zfs considered to be more stable now? It's still an experimental feature in FreeBSD, though the memory allocation issues might

Re[2]: Weird system cpu usage

2008-03-19 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Oliver, Wednesday, March 19, 2008, 6:53:36 PM, you wrote: Charlie Root [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] It's preferable to send mail as a real user, not as root, for various reasons. I know, I've just forgot to edit the headers, my apologies. I have to report, that I have a very

Re[2]: Weird system cpu usage

2008-03-19 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Mike, Wednesday, March 19, 2008, 9:32:13 PM, you wrote: Also, I believe there was a report from another user who saw similar issues with em(4), and found that disabling MSI fixed the storm in question. I believe you can disable MSI/MSIX by placing the following in /boot/loader.conf, then

Re[2]: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

2008-03-14 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello mv, Friday, March 14, 2008, 6:59:39 PM, you wrote: Hello Marc, Does yes it is mean the book is - still relevant; or - a second edition is coming soon. As a newbie I'm also interested in this book. Assuming the second edition covers FreeBSD 7 or 8, I would rather wait for it

Re[2]: packet loss with re(4)

2008-02-25 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Pyun, Monday, February 25, 2008, 3:01:23 AM, you wrote: Perhaps the recent MFC's for re helps? see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/re/if_re.c I have just upgraded my machine[1] to the latest 7-stable,so it is still too early to tell if re(4) is stable now.

Re[2]: Scheduler in Various Docs

2008-01-20 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Stephen, Sunday, January 20, 2008, 7:12:49 PM, you wrote: Jason C. Wells wrote: The comments regarding SCHED_ULE and SCHED_4BSD are inconsistent with information found in the email archives. LINT says ULE is experimental. The handbook doesn't mention ULE at all. The archives say

Re[2]: 2 x quad-core system is slower that 2 x dual core on FreeBSD

2007-12-01 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Alexey, Saturday, December 1, 2007, 10:37:32 PM, you wrote: I use OS Linux on my hosting for web-servers, base for all servers is the same m/b S5000PAL ( SR1500), 2 quad kernel cpu Xeon E5320 or E5345, 8Gb RAM. I decided to install FreeBSD 6.2 i386 on one of the servers, and the

Re: re(4) lockups on a MSI K9AG Neo2-Digital (7.0-BETA3 amd64)

2007-11-26 Thread Daniel Gerzo
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Re[2]: Status of FreeBSD 6.2?

2006-12-26 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Brett, Tuesday, December 26, 2006, 9:51:11 PM, you wrote: I'm not asking that the release be rushed; I'm asking that the projections, to-do lists, etc. be updated so that we who are anticipating it have some idea of the RE team's plans going into the new year. Even if the release date

Re[2]: EV1 Servers makes me sick

2006-10-03 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Nik, Tuesday, October 3, 2006, 4:31:11 PM, you wrote: Alexandre Vieira wrote: I was also told that http://www.serverpronto.com/ is freebsd friendly and extremely cheap. Since this seems to have become a recommendation thread, I'm a happy customer of http://www.johncompanies.com/.

Re[2]: Dovecot 1.0 rc7 on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE/i386 with kqueue eats much CPU

2006-09-22 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Pete, Friday, September 22, 2006, 12:15:29 PM, you wrote: Yes, I'm using kqueue support. Try taking it out and the problem should go away. this is indeed a nice workaround (at least if it helps :-)), but somebody(tm) should have a look why the kqueue support is broken there in the

Re[2]: Dovecot 1.0 rc7 on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE/i386 with kqueue eats much CPU

2006-09-22 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Taras, Friday, September 22, 2006, 12:59:24 PM, you wrote: Pete French пишет: this is indeed a nice workaround (at least if it helps :-)), but somebody(tm) should have a look why the kqueue support is broken there in the first place. I think it's a problem in Dovecot, not

Re[2]: arrrrgh! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's gmirror code?!

2006-09-17 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Alban, Friday, September 15, 2006, 9:44:07 AM, you wrote: On Sep 15, 2006, at 24:34, hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote: Hahahahaha... That's ironic... That wasn't meant to be ironic. Years of experience and observations of development lead to this conclusion. RIght. All i can say,

Re: Anyone??? (was Reproducible data corruption on 6.1-Stable)

2006-09-14 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Jonathan, Wednesday, September 13, 2006, 2:38:14 AM, you wrote: I set up a new server recently and transferred all the information from my old server over. I tried to use unison to synchronize the backup of pictures I have taken and noticed that a large number of pictures where marked

Re: Best practices for remote upgrade?

2006-05-08 Thread Daniel Gerzo
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Re: FreeBSD Handbook in Dutch

2006-05-04 Thread Daniel Gerzo
information about the translations statuses and so forth. -- Sincerely, Daniel Gerzo ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re[2]: bruteforce

2006-04-11 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Dmitriy, Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 7:04:37 PM, you typed the following: On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 10:58:48AM +0200, Matteo 'egon' Baldi wrote: Hy, I'm triing to find a solution to bruteforce attack, mostly on port 22, without moving services on different ports. try to use

Re[2]: [panic] Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode

2006-02-11 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Peter, Friday, February 10, 2006, 7:10:50 PM, you has on mind: Please don't cross-post. A problem with 6-RELEASE is not appropriate for [EMAIL PROTECTED] I apologize. On Fri, 2006-Feb-10 14:48:39 +0100, Daniel Gerzo wrote: I've just got installed a brand new box, and I can say

[panic] Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode

2006-02-10 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello, I've just got installed a brand new box, and I can say that it's hanging on regular basis, around every 10 minutes. The backtrace is included, as well as the dmesg. Any help with this will be appreciated. Thank you. -- Sincerely, Daniel Gerzo bigbang# kgdb

Re[2]: Jail to jail network performance?

2005-09-15 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Brandon, Thursday, September 15, 2005, 5:17:57 AM, you wrote: Robert Watson wrote: (1) Modifying the name space exclusion assumption for jails, so that the file system name spaces overlap. One way to do this is with nullfs. nullfs looks interesting. I was thinking about sharing

Re: Rebuilding world without physical access

2005-09-15 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Øystein, Thursday, September 15, 2005, 11:53:05 PM, you wrote about: I have usually followed the canonical way to update my system, as described in the handbook. But now I need to update a system that I cannot reach physically for a long time. Is there any way to do this? The system

Re[2]: Stress testing and TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA

2005-09-11 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hi Anthony, Sunday, September 11, 2005, 10:18:36 PM, you has on mind: I'm not seeing much in the way of responses to this post from freebsd-questions, so I thought I'd take it to freebsd-stable, where it is probably more relevant. ;-) Please see my original thread on freebsd-questions for

Re: auto cvsup

2005-06-26 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hi Maher, Sunday, June 26, 2005, 8:17:50 PM, you typed: how can i upgrade my cvsup weekly with an auto way? use cron -- Best regards DanGer, ICQ: 261701668 | e-mail protecting at: http://www.2pu.net/ http://danger.rulez.sk | proxy list at:http://www.proxy-web.com/

Re: 5.4-p1 crash

2005-06-18 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hi Mitch, Saturday, June 18, 2005, 12:23:19 AM, you typed the following: Below are details regarding another crash on a Dell 2600 SMP (HTT and USB disabled). It has been 9 days since the last crash. I didn't have the serial console in place for this last crash, but it is now. Text includes:

Re[2]: port-problem: apache2.0.54 mod_perl2 no Modules!!

2005-05-31 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Florian, Tuesday, May 31, 2005, 9:18:33 AM, you made these points: Sorry, my mistake we misunderstood: installed the mod_perl2 port. And I added to the httpd.conf: LoadModule perl_module libexec/apache2/mod_perl.so PerlModule Apache2 ^^ - remove this line, this is obsoleted

Re: IP Firewalling by DNS name

2005-05-31 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Ivan, Tuesday, May 31, 2005, 4:43:16 PM, si pisal: Is it possible to use ipfw to filter packets by domain name? What I need it for: I'd like to allow ssh logins only from a specific TLD (by reverse lookup...) - maybe there's another way? you can use AllowUsers sshd_config directive

Re: port-problem: apache2.0.54 mod_perl2 no Modules!!

2005-05-30 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Florian, Monday, May 30, 2005, 3:57:13 PM, you wrote these comments: Hi, I installed the mod_perl2 port. I added to the httpd.conf: PerlModule Apache2 this is wrong, you should add: LoadModule perl_module libexec/apache2/mod_perl.so Be careful, the mod_perl2 API was changed nearly

Re[2]: port-problem: apache2.0.54 mod_perl2 no Modules!!

2005-05-30 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Florian, Monday, May 30, 2005, 4:58:44 PM, you typed: Hello Gerzo, Thanks for your reply. Hi, I installed the mod_perl2 port. I added to the httpd.conf: PerlModule Apache2 this is wrong, you should add: LoadModule perl_module libexec/apache2/mod_perl.so Sorry, of course I added

Re[2]: FreeBSD 5.4 release status

2005-05-02 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Chris, Monday, May 2, 2005, 10:14:47 PM, you wrote these comments: Hi I am abit confused here, have seen a post from someone using 5.4-STABLE how is that possible if 5.4 isnt RELEASE yet, and good news RELENG_5 has a -STABLE tag since RELENG_5_4 was branched, so if you use _5 you will

Re: FreeBSD 5.4-BETA1 Available

2005-03-21 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Ken, Monday, March 21, 2005, 4:03:32 AM, you wrote: Announcement The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.4-BETA1, which marks the beginning of the FreeBSD 5.4 Release Cycle. This BETA1 release is in the same basic

Re[2]: FreeBSD 5.4-BETA1 Available

2005-03-21 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Ken, Monday, March 21, 2005, 9:19:30 PM, you wrote about: On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 21:04 +0100, Daniel Gerzo wrote: Hello Ken, ok, since there is official anouncement and there are already posted some information to news servers like osnews, i think we should update newvers.sh so