Re: trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode on 8.0-RELEASE (possibly bge(4) related)

2010-02-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
hdr=0x00 -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB

Re: netboot issues, 8.0, mfsroot mount failure

2010-02-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
-- glabel clear is supposed to do this for you. What I don't know is whether or not addition of a glabel decreases what GEOM thinks the total size of the disk is, so I can't say for certain doing some math + zeroing the last sector of the disk would actually work. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: ZFS tuning [was: hardware for home use large storage]

2010-02-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
assumptions about the contents of the file (ex. comments with the word zfs in them would match) The code should really be something like what's below. This should be much more manageable as well (@tunables that is), although I always worry when using grep()... -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: ZFS tuning [was: hardware for home use large storage]

2010-02-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
reference material), but decided... fuck it! :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others

Re: netboot issues, 8.0, mfsroot mount failure

2010-02-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 06:11:36PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: The NFS root mount you see happening later is a result of the root filesystem not being available. This is normal if mfsroot fails. A follow-up to my own post: The above paragraph is incorrect. The NFS root mount is proper

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
# mdconfig -d -u 16 # -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-February/055073.html [4]: http://blogs.sun.com/brendan/entry/test -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View

Re: kernel compile failure

2010-02-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
to do initial spin-up. Mark that command with CAM_HIGH_POWER flag, to allow CAM manage staggered spin-up. = I've CC'd the committer here. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:50:00AM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: Quoting Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com (from Mon, 15 Feb 2010 01:07:56 -0800): On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:49:47AM +0200, Dan Naumov wrote: I had a feeling someone would bring up L2ARC/cache devices. This gives

Re: More zfs benchmarks

2010-02-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
what the OP provided. I should note that powerd(8) is in effect on this box; I probably should have disabled it and forced the CPU frequency to be at max before doing these tests. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: ACK and RST packets sent after successfully terminating TCP connection

2010-02-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
-m output from the server? -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977

Re: ZFS ARC being limited below what is defined in /boot/loader.conf

2010-02-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
, outlining how all these things fit together as to avoid potential kernel panics or memory exhaustion issues; for example, people with 8GB of RAM installed who utilise both ZFS on the server in addition to a memory-hungry mysqld. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j

Re: ntpd struggling to keep up - how to fix?

2010-02-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 01:29:47PM +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:25:15 -0800 Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote: Your machine has a rapidly drifting clock, usually an indicator of a hardware problem (crystal gone bad is a common one -- seen

Re: ntpd struggling to keep up - how to fix?

2010-02-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:16:37AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:11:17 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com Sender: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 01:29:47PM +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:25:15

Re: ntpd struggling to keep up - how to fix?

2010-02-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 05:44:52PM +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:11:17 -0800 Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote: Please try doing this: - stop ntpd - rm /var/db/ntpd.drift - sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware=ACPI-safe - start ntpd Thanks, I'm

Re: ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address

2010-02-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
10.72.0.122 netmask 255.255.255.0 defaultrouter=72.20.98.65 -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard

Re: ntpd struggling to keep up - how to fix?

2010-02-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
to 72 hours for the clock drift to be calculated correctly. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard

Re: zpool vdev vs. glabel

2010-02-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
/zero'ing the entire disk. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977

Re: numeric sort(1) is broken on -STABLE

2010-02-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
=en_GB.ISO8859-1 LC_MONETARY=en_GB.ISO8859-1 LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.ISO8859-1 LC_ALL= -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
) and be done with it. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB

Re: hardware for home use large storage / remote management KVM card

2010-02-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
://www.realweasel.com/intro.html [2]: http://www.realweasel.com/design.html -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA

Re: Strange problem with 8-stable, VMWare vSphere 4 AMD CPUs (unexpected shutdowns)

2010-02-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
something else? I read what Andriy wrote to mean that the way FreeBSD utilises 4MB TLB on certain models of AMD processors is broken/quirky, and on those CPUs, users should stick to vm.pmap.pg_ps_enabled=0 (loader.conf). -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com

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

2010-02-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
/no --disable-ipv6 flag, etc.). -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977

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 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 Jeremy Chadwick
to SCSI, I've seen quite a few of the QLogic SAF-TE chips get in the way of drive failures and start changing SCSI IDs of all the disks (yes you read that right) on the bus willy-nilly. That means that basically the CSE-M34T or CSE-M35T-1 would be good choices. Yes they come in Black. -- | Jeremy

Re: zpool vdev vs. glabel

2010-02-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
situations (which are worthy of strangulation anyway ;-) ). -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
(home storage server), this really doesn't matter, I just want oodles of online storage, with redundancy and reliability. A PM? What's that? Port multiplier. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http

Re: Unresponsive keyboard after a few boots

2010-02-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
not be easy for me to download a ISO image. Can someone please help? Is the keyboard USB? -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA

Re: one more load-cycle-count problem

2010-02-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
) would improve customer satisfaction. But hey, I'm just an engineer, what do I know. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA

Re: ATA_CAM + ZFS gives short 1-2 seconds system freeze on disk load

2010-02-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
another thing that shows up on this machine. Lately, this too after putting the option ATA_CAM in the kernel, during boot there is a long pause(exactly one minute, as the message below states) in this point of the dmesg: This should probably be discussed in a different thread. -- | Jeremy

Re: ATA_CAM + ZFS gives short 1-2 seconds system freeze on disk load

2010-02-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
) repro test case which can induce the ZFS bursty sluggishness problem so I can try it with different loader.conf tunables? Thanks. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB

Re: FreeBSD 8-Stable with Samba too slow

2010-02-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
I can guarantee I saw the same speed/throughout as a result of the above tuning going back to 3.3.7. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator

Re: ionice in FreeBSD?

2010-02-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
stress tests over long periods of time? I'm probably mistaken, but I was under that impression. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain

Re: Inmutable bit in some binaries

2010-02-03 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
, or CD-based OS (good luck changing any files there). I can't help in that regard. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA

Re: patch for /usr/bin/mail

2010-02-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
have to manually check -- let me know if you want me to). -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard

Re: 8-STABLE outgoing scp stalling frequently.

2010-02-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
, but experience the same problem. Do you see this behaviour both directions, or just unidirectional? E.g. does the problem happen in both of the below examples, or just one? box1$ scp u...@box2:/file . box1$ scp file u...@box2:/some/path -- | Jeremy Chadwick j

Re: 8.0 install fails to create filesystem (unable to find device node)

2010-02-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
you get this disk into a system (or the same system if booting off CD, etc.) where you can do the following to it and then retry the installation? dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 bs=64k count=1 No, this isn't a joke. This should also clear up the GEOM label error/warning you see. -- | Jeremy

Re: terminfo missing?

2010-02-01 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
/local/lib/libiconv.so.3 (0x309ea000) libc.so.7 = /lib/libc.so.7 (0x30be3000) /usr/bin/less: libncurses.so.8 = /lib/libncurses.so.8 (0x3065e000) libc.so.7 = /lib/libc.so.7 (0x307a8000) -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius

Re: loading module sdhci causes panic

2010-01-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
controller I verified that this SD card is recognized by Windows XP. When I plug in a card, should some message appear on the console? Will it auto-mount? Can you please post your entire kernel configuration file (specifically the one which includes the above 3 drivers in it)? -- | Jeremy

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

2010-01-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
to easily redirect the prompt on the command line, it's fine with me. Right now I can do this in a script: echo -n $myprompt: ; su $somerole /dev/null ... If that doesn't work anymore, I'll complain. ;-) OpenPAM is des@'s responsibility. Has anyone brought this up to him? -- | Jeremy

Re: 8.0-RELEASE - -STABLE and size of /

2010-01-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-January/054269.html [2]: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2009-October/052256.html -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com

Re: 8.0-RELEASE - -STABLE and size of /

2010-01-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 04:25:27PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 29/01/2010 15:40 Jeremy Chadwick said the following: On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:29:51PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Ruben de Groot wrote: I don't think you need them unless remote debugging

Re: booting off GPT partitions

2010-01-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
know who's giving you the impression that everyone and their dog is using GPT. Why is this feature a deal-breaker for you? Why are you giving it so much attention? -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http

Re: ZFS zpool replace problems

2010-01-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
you attach ad18? Did you tell the system about it using atacontrol? If so, what commands did you use? 3) Can you please provide uname -a output, as well as relevant dmesg output to show what kind of SATA controller you have, what's attached to what, etc.? -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: ZFS zpool replace problems

2010-01-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
-X SATA controller card that's ICH9/ICH10-based. I guess there's more money in forcing people to buy motherboards with said southbridge. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems

Re: ZFS zpool replace problems

2010-01-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 04:03:20PM +0100, Gerrit Kühn wrote: On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:30:21 -0800 Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote about Re: ZFS zpool replace problems: JC 2) How did you attach ad18? Did you tell the system about it using JCatacontrol? If so, what commands

Re: em interface slow down on 8.0R

2010-01-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
have these issues without using VLANs, and turning off TSO fixed them. The recommendation is to disable TSO (TCP Segmentation Offloading) as well as TXCSUM (TCP Checksum Offloading). -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

2010-01-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
. If/once you get one, let me know so I can steal you as a beta tester for getting X7SPA hardware monitoring (fans, external CPU temps, voltages) working in bsdhwmon. :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http

Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

2010-01-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/e1000/ If you have issues with the NIC(s), Jack Vogel at Intel can be of great assistance. :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator

Looking for testers: atacontrol SMART support

2010-01-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2009-December/053464.html [2]: http://jdc.parodius.com/freebsd/atacontrol/ -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator

Re: Looking for testers: atacontrol SMART support

2010-01-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 08:38:26AM +0300, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: On 26.01.2010 7:40, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: - All of the code was written by hand; that is to say, there is no code copied/stolen from smartmontools, as it's released under the GPL. Hi, Jeremy. Some time ago i've began

Re: Extra keys in multimedia keyboard doesn't work

2010-01-24 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:47:46PM -, Krzysztof Dajka wrote: On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 01:43:14 -, Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote: If so: yes, FreeBSD's USB driver appears to lack support for these. Or, well, it did on RELENG_7 (which is a completely different USB driver

Re: make buildkernel failing on zfs - fixed but now everything is slow

2010-01-23 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
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Re: 8.0-RELEASE - -STABLE and size of /

2010-01-23 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 09:04:57PM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: [...] While I'm here, I figure I'd share how I end up partitioning most of the server systems I maintain. I use this general formula when building a new system, unless it's a 4-disk box (see bottom

Re: Extra keys in multimedia keyboard doesn't work

2010-01-23 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
in this regard. If someone wants to take up improving the quirks for this capability, let me know and I'll be more than happy to send them a free Microsoft Natural Ergonomic 4000 keyboard. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: Strange symbols in man-pages

2010-01-23 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
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Re: Multiple serial consoles via null modem cable

2010-01-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
/usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv4 530 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv3 529 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv2 528 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv1 527 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv0 Can you run the same commands on box2 please? -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius

Re: make buildkernel failing on zfs

2010-01-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
history of not breaking things + doing excellent work. Mistakes happen, we're all human. :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View

Re: 8.0-RELEASE - -STABLE and size of /

2010-01-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
data over to /spare, then remount /spare as /var to avoid use of the sectors involved in ad4s1d. I've had to do this on two separate occasions. There are network backups for all the boxes, so I don't OCD about it all too much. :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwick j

Re: Pack of CAM improvements

2010-01-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
disk - atacontrol detach ataX (where X = channel associated with disk) - Physically remove bad disk - Physically insert new disk - Wait 15 seconds for stuff to settle - atacontrol attach ataX (where X = previous channel detached) - zpool replace pool disk - zpool online pool disk -- | Jeremy

Re: posting coding bounties, appropriate money amounts?

2010-01-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
which the community feels need attention, and put the pooled donations to whatever things had highest priority -- or, if that isn't plausible, then to what interested developers wanted to work on. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
this quite a bit. This is one reason why I stay away from them. Fujitsu is another vendor I want absolutely nothing to do with (very high failure rates in addition to bad sectors with their SCSI-3 disks at my workplace). -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com

Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:07:24AM +0100, Gerrit Kühn wrote: On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:57:36 -0800 Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote about Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues: JC If you want a consumer-edition drive that's better tuned

Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:44:59AM -0500, Gary Palmer wrote: On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 03:24:49AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: WD2001FAAS - WD Caviar Black, 2TB, 64MB, 7200rpm Do you mean WD2001FASS? I can't find a WD2001FAAS. Yup, typo -- bound to be at least one given the amount of data

Re: ZFS performance degradation over time

2010-01-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
? Could it be caused by, for instance, a userland memory leak? What happens to active memory when you restart rtorrent? -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator

Re: Multiple serial consoles via null modem cable

2010-01-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
://www.sunix.com.tw/it/en/LinkCraft/UTS4009P_UTS7009P.htm -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard

Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
been discussing recently? http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-January/053845.html You might try the force-swap-out approach here to find out if what you're seeing is identical: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-January/053949.html -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: Drive light on all the time on 8-STABLE.

2010-01-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
it was many years ago -- but the similarity is that the disk was Seagate. I replaced the drive with one from WD and the behaviour disappeared. Footnote: I'm not slamming/insulting Seagate here, I'm just saying that in the past I've seen something similar. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: Regression with txcsum/rxcsum on vge(4) drivers on 8.0-Release

2010-01-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
(4) code from RELENG_8 (known as 8.0-STABLE)? I've seen some commits to this driver since 8.0-RELEASE: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/vge/ -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http

Re: Regression with txcsum/rxcsum on vge(4) drivers on 8.0-Release

2010-01-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 01:40:18AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:32:42AM +0100, Olivier Cochard-Labbé wrote: I've just upgraded on of my server from 7.2 to 8.0-Release and meet a problem with the vge(4) drivers: All my SCP transferts didn't works since

Re: AHCI and ZFS: root mount error

2010-01-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C) I didn't do anything else, just the line in loader.conf, and the system just works fine. Can you post your entire kernel configuration file? Thanks. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Recent ahci.c commit breaks buildkernel (RELENG_8)

2010-01-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
, ctlr-irqs[i].r_irq, # -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP

Re: Multiple serial consoles via null modem cable

2010-01-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
file that box name foo is attached to /dev/ttyU0, box name bar is attached to /dev/ttyU1 and so on. Then to get access to the serial console of either foo or bar, you'd SSH to the FreeBSD machine and type console foo or console bar. Voila. Make sense? -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: Oddities in dmesg

2010-01-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
seen Solaris 10 and (occasionally) Linux do this as well. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard

Re: Multiple serial consoles via null modem cable

2010-01-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
, the hardware, configuration details, wiring, etc.), I can describe it in greater detail. Just ask. [1]: http://www.mrv.com/oobn/ [2]: http://portmasters.com/ [3]: http://www.conserver.com/ -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: Multiple serial consoles via null modem cable

2010-01-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
for those who want modem-based OOB access to devices, since it can house a v.90 modem). For those with less requirements and want to spend less, the above USB-to-serial device looks fantastic -- and at almost 1/4th the cost of our MRV. :-) As usual, thanks for the insights, Charles! -- | Jeremy

Re: USB problems on 8.0-STABLE

2010-01-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
(WITH_USB) ${OSVERSION} = 800069 CONFIGURE_ARGS+=--with-generic-usb .endif Does this tell you? Please provide the output from: ldd -v /some/path/apcupsd -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http

Re: bin/115406: [patch] gpt(8) GPT MBR hangs award BIOS on boot

2010-01-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
do I find it's manpage, http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi comes up with nothing? Also, does this mean that GPT is _NOT_ in fact fixed regarding this bug? It's a typo -- it should have read gpart(8). -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius

Re: ZFS performance degradation over time

2010-01-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
that). It would help if you could provide the entire output from: sysctl kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View

Re: ZFS performance degradation over time

2010-01-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
tags in them, rather than having to grep /var/db/sup. I swore there was some command which did this, but I might be thinking of object files. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX

Re: ZFS performance degradation over time

2010-01-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 03:05:06PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: ... You can also explicitly enable prefetch by setting the value to 1, and this trumps the how-much-usable-RAM check. This should have read 'setting the value to 0'; sorry. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: smb driver for Nvidia ION (intel ATOM) chipset

2010-01-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
SpeedFan. If it works, you'll be able to at least figure out what H/W monitoring IC is used, and if it's via SMBus or LPC/ISA. What registers, slave address, etc. it uses are a different matter altogether (I'm not sure the software discloses that). -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: smb driver for Nvidia ION (intel ATOM) chipset

2010-01-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
on the datasheet. It's pretty easy, but will require that the program be run as root (to open /dev/io). I won't integrate it into bsdhwmon because that software strictly uses SMBus. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http

Re: smb driver for Nvidia ION (intel ATOM) chipset

2010-01-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
specific). -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB

Re: smb driver for Nvidia ION (intel ATOM) chipset

2010-01-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 10:38:31PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: If you look inside /usr/ports/sysutils/mbmon/work/xmbmon205 once the port is built (e.g. make), you'll find there are other utilities for attempting to find the slave address, such as testsmb Be aware that these devices can

Re: 8.0 regression: consecutive panics (iwi / wlan / zfs ?)

2010-01-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
to post these kinds of kernel messages taken directly from /var/log/messages instead of from dmesg -- the file in question is handled by syslog and will have timestamps. I can't help with the rest of the problems mentioned, sorry. :-( -- | Jeremy Chadwick j

Re: TIOCSTI possibly broken under 8.0 ?

2010-01-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
to the thread, who will probably be able to shed some light on things. :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making

Re: don't know how to make /usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/usr/lib/libusbhid.a

2009-12-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2009-December/thread.html (see bottom of page) -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA

Re: Hacked - FreeBSD 7.1-Release

2009-12-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 04:16:07AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, David Wolfskill wrote: On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 03:20:37AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: ... I've written my own script to do all of this. It parses periodic security mails (on a daily basis), and does

Re: don't know how to make /usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/usr/lib/libusbhid.a

2009-12-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
a little odd (to me) that it'd recur in bthidcontrol every time, but hey... worth a shot. :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA

Re: don't know how to make /usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/usr/lib/libusbhid.a

2009-12-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
are your old /usr/obj may have contained the usbhid.h file somewhere (e.g. a previous kernel or world was built there *before* you added WITHOUT_USB=1 to src.conf), then later you added WITHOUT_USB=1 to src.conf without nuking /usr/obj. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j

Re: Cannot list a particular directory through NFS with UDP

2009-12-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
at all on the FreeBSD server? If so, see the pf.conf(5) man page, specifically the 'no-df' flag. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain

Re: Hacked - FreeBSD 7.1-Release

2009-12-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
attackers) # ... Then I simply do /etc/rc.d/pf check /etc/rc.d/pf reload. I also have a script that pushes out the pf.conf.ssh-deny machines to other hosts on our network and executes the above commands. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: Hacked - FreeBSD 7.1-Release

2009-12-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
. :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB

Re: php5-5.2.11_1 Vulnerabilities

2009-12-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
/Markup/Perl.pm -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB

Re: 8-STABLE: support for this SMB controller?

2009-12-21 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
state whether or not it's tied in to the SMBus, what its base address is, or memory offsets for the data. Probing for such is risky business. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX

Re: 8-STABLE: support for this SMB controller?

2009-12-21 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 07:19:24AM +0100, Oliver Lehmann wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: If all you're looking for is CPU temperature, try looking at ACPI thermal zones. Some BIOSes/mainboard manufacturers implement this on workstations. Otherwise, if you have a Intel Core, C2D, or C2Q

Re: 8.0-RELEASE: disk IO temporarily hangs up (ZFS or ATA related problem)

2009-12-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
or oddly. Please note that SMART stats don't keep track of anything pertaining to the drive's on-PCB cache (which could be going bad, but you'd almost certainly see that at all times not, occasionally). -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius

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