Re: ZFS performance degradation over time

2010-01-08 Thread Jonathan Noack
On Fri, January 8, 2010 11:31, Garrett Moore wrote: No, I haven't isolated the cause to only be uptime related. In my original email I mentioned that as suggested by someone in the thread, it's probably not directly related to system uptime, but instead related to usage - the more usage, the

Re: something fails with svn

2010-01-03 Thread Jonathan Noack
On Tue, December 29, 2009 23:33, jhell wrote: On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:18, oliver.pntr@ wrote: Hi list! Something fails, when updated the FreeBSD's svn repo to git. Since yesterday I get this warning: $ git svn rebase ... M sys/boot/pc98/kgzldr/crt.s Couldn't find revmap for

Re: check if file system is clean ...

2006-09-10 Thread Jonathan Noack
Marc G. Fournier wrote: I checked both fsck and fsck_ffs man page, and don't see anything in either ... is there some way I can check if a file system is actually 'clean', without running fsck? Google Groups revealed the following:

Re: portupgrade bug: -M no longer works after v2.1.0

2006-07-11 Thread Jonathan Noack
Atanas wrote: Matthias Andree said the following on 7/11/06 1:48 PM: Atanas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Recent portupgrade versions no longer obey the -M command line switch, i.e. any optional arguments to be prepended to each make command. How to reproduce: # portinstall -M

Re: Expensive timeout?

2006-06-28 Thread Jonathan Noack
Please don't top-post... User Freebsd wrote: On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, User Freebsd wrote: Just got this on the console of one of hte servers that has been causing problems ... Expensive timeout(9) function: 0xc0520e18(0xc8b223a0) 0.296959250 s not a very informative error, and that is all that

Re: vmstat 'b' (disk busy?) field keeps climbing ...

2006-06-26 Thread Jonathan Noack
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Max Laier wrote: On Monday 26 June 2006 20:25, Marc G. Fournier wrote: I think I might have found *at least* one of the problems, and that being the excessively high blocked states while ps isn't finding anything ... MySQL We just recently

Re: (bsd)tar is broken on 6.1

2006-05-26 Thread Jonathan Noack
On 05/26/06 04:37, Jean-Marc Zucconi wrote: Jonathan Noack writes: Jean-Marc Zucconi wrote: # tar cf /dev/null X11R6.old # archive_write_pax_header: 'x' header failed?! This can't happen. This seems to work fine here: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr] $ uname -rm 6.1-RELEASE i386

Re: kmem leak in tmpmfs?

2006-05-25 Thread Jonathan Noack
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 06:01:30PM +0200, Arno J. Klaassen wrote: I get a very easy to reproduce panic on 6.1-STABLE : /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate panics with panic: kmem_malloc(4096): kmem_map too small: 335544320 total allocated It looks like you are using a

Re: (bsd)tar is broken on 6.1

2006-05-25 Thread Jonathan Noack
Jean-Marc Zucconi wrote: # tar cf /dev/null X11R6.old # archive_write_pax_header: 'x' header failed?! This can't happen. This seems to work fine here: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr] $ uname -rm 6.1-RELEASE i386 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr] $ tar --version bsdtar 1.02.023, libarchive 1.02.026 Copyright

Re: FreeBSD Security Survey

2006-05-22 Thread Jonathan Noack
by rebuilding all dependencies or removing '-m -s'. -Jonathan -- Jonathan Noack | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | OpenPGP: 0x991D8195 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: FreeBSD Security Survey

2006-05-22 Thread Jonathan Noack
), but that's not a huge deal. -Jonathan -- Jonathan Noack | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | OpenPGP: 0x991D8195 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: drm/dri rocks

2006-05-20 Thread Jonathan Noack
yesturday? going by the ports/graphics/dri, it hasn't been touched in over three months. He was referring to an update of the kernel drivers: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-src/2006-May/063838.html -Jonathan -- Jonathan Noack | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | OpenPGP: 0x991D8195 signature.asc

Re: drm/dri rocks

2006-05-20 Thread Jonathan Noack
On 05/20/06 18:42, Matthew Gardiner wrote: On Sunday 21 May 2006 06:41, Jonathan Noack wrote: On 05/19/06 01:44, Matthew Gardiner wrote: On Friday 19 May 2006 05:07, Ronald Klop wrote: This commit of the drm/dri stuff yesterday on 6-STABLE rocks. It works out of the box on my i810. I think

Re: FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE + devel/php5-pcre incompatible?

2006-05-16 Thread Jonathan Noack
Pertti Kosunen wrote: Dominic Marks wrote: Is the php5-pcre module really incompatible with FreeBSD 6.1? If so, is there a workaround or a version I can roll back to? Also, it is just me (:-)) or is the php5 port complaining about a checksum mismatch for everyone else? I had some problems

Re: 6.1 RELEASE compiling problems:

2006-05-15 Thread Jonathan Noack
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: Hi, I am experiencing problems compiling FreeBSD 6.1 RELEASE; the following link has the relevant information: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=97240 The file does exist in the src/contrib/gcc directory, but it seems that the compiler/installer isn't picking

Re: RELENG_4 - 5 - 6: significant performance regression

2006-05-13 Thread Jonathan Noack
is an example /etc/rc.conf entry: ifconfig_fxp0=inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx link0 -- Jonathan Noack | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | OpenPGP: 0x991D8195 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: portsdb

2006-05-12 Thread Jonathan Noack
On 05/12/06 07:56, gareth wrote: On Fri 2006-05-12 (07:31), Jonathan Noack wrote: Ah, I made a mistake in my explanation. Replace INDEX-5.db with INDEX-5. Sorry for the confusion... make fetchindex downloads the INDEX-x file (where 'x' is the major release number of the version of FreeBSD

Re: portsdb

2006-05-12 Thread Jonathan Noack
On 05/12/06 03:20, gareth wrote: On Wed 2006-05-10 (11:29), Jonathan Noack wrote: You are probably experiencing some of the VFS limitations in 5.3 (you'll be pleasantly surprised by 6.1!). portsdb -Uu is very CPU and IO intensive; it takes a long time on a fast machine. make fetchindex

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Released

2006-05-11 Thread Jonathan Noack
this. -Jonathan -- Jonathan Noack | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | OpenPGP: 0x991D8195 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: portsdb

2006-05-10 Thread Jonathan Noack
, it creates the INDEX-5.db, so i'm not sure why i'm running 'portsdb -Uu' in the first place? I would highly recommend checking out portsnap; it builds an up-to-date INDEX-5.db file automatically as part of the update process. -Jonathan -- Jonathan Noack | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | OpenPGP: 0x991D8195

Re: imap w/cleartext on 5.4-RELEASE

2006-05-09 Thread Jonathan Noack
that prevent it from having to continually scan a mailbox for every request. For my largest folders (30,000+ messages), Dovecot was *at least* an order of magnitude faster. -Jonathan -- Jonathan Noack | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

Re: fxp0: ethernet freezes sporatically ...

2006-05-07 Thread Jonathan Noack
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Re: Hyperthreading in 6.x ... still frowned upon?

2006-05-04 Thread Jonathan Noack
Marc G. Fournier wrote: In 4.x, it was a 'shut it off' sort of deal .. my new amd64 don't appear to have it enabled, but my older i386 server that I just upgraded to 6.x does: user pid %cpu %mem vsz rss tt state starttime command root 14 104.0 0.0 0 8 ?? RL

Re: cc can't build 32-bit executables on amd64

2006-05-01 Thread Jonathan Noack
Mikhail Teterin wrote: понеділок 01 травень 2006 17:25, Paul Allen написав: This was originally mentioned in amd64/76224 which was closed by obrien with the terse remark: We don't yet support building 32-bit apps on a 64-bit system. We only barely support *running* them at this point. I may

Re: CPUTYPE=athlon-xp and loader

2006-04-18 Thread Jonathan Noack
Evren Yurtesen wrote: James Long wrote: Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 17:43:58 +0300 From: Evren Yurtesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CPUTYPE=athlon-xp and loader To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, I have a problem which I have found out from mailing lists that some

Re: Disappointed

2006-04-06 Thread Jonathan Noack
Stephen Clark wrote: [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: Stephen Clark wrote: [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: Alexey Karagodov wrote: hi. i think, this unstablity happaning just because developers trying to make two systems at one time, one is 6.0 and another 7.0 current and they supporting old version, lower then

Re: RCS file error in controllers/nfsmb - head expected

2006-03-26 Thread Jonathan Noack
in /usr/local/etc/cvsup/prefixes/FreeBSD.cvs/src/sys/modules/i2c/controllers/nfsmb/Makefile,v: 1: head expected I don't see this with cvsup17.us.freebsd.org. What cvsup server are you using? Have you tried a different one? -Jonathan -- Jonathan Noack | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | OpenPGP: 0x991D8195

Re: bash 3.1.10 breaks configure scripts (was Re: configure scripts ignores parameters)

2006-03-05 Thread Jonathan Noack
changed it in the first place, but it caused some interesting problems... -Jonathan -- Jonathan Noack | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | OpenPGP: 0x991D8195 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/

2006-03-02 Thread Jonathan Noack
looked at it as well, but I haven't had time to sit down and bang out a solution. It's at the top of my CVSweb TODO... -Jonathan -- Jonathan Noack | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | OpenPGP: 0x991D8195 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/

2006-03-02 Thread Jonathan Noack
and bang out a solution. It's at the top of my CVSweb TODO... it's: All tags/default branch (i was looking for latest changes to 6.1) Yeah, revisions on a branch which contains .0 may not appear at all... -Jonathan -- Jonathan Noack | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | OpenPGP: 0x991D8195

Re: tr(1) buggy with de_DE.ISO8859-1(5) locale?

2006-02-03 Thread Jonathan Noack
Martin wrote: There is a quite nasty bug in tr(1) when using de_DE.ISO8859-1(5) locale. Try this please: unsetenv LC_ALL setenv LANG de_DE.ISO8859-1 echo v | tr a-z A-Z I'm getting W as result. Shouldn't it be V? (Unexpected behavior explained elsewhere in the thread.) The correct way to

Re: powerd effectiveness

2006-01-11 Thread Jonathan Noack
Mike Jakubik wrote: Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 13:52, Mike Jakubik wrote: powerd won't run your CPU at a specific clock frequency - it varies the CPU frequency based on current load conditions. The load was 0, only thing that was running was mbmon. Fair enough.. still..

Re: asr-util Not work after upgrade to 5.4

2006-01-06 Thread Jonathan Noack
Paul.LKW wrote: As I upgraded to 5.4 I found the raid utilities 'asr-util' no longer work for me. I tried to deinstall and install again, but the problem still ! The error message in the console after the comman 'raidutil -L raid' is : Engine connect failed: COMPATILITY number Any one

Re: Odd performance problems after upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0-Stable

2005-12-14 Thread Jonathan Noack
Scott Long wrote: Also, taking out CPU_I586 is usually a bad idea. It offers no performance penalties (unlike CPU_I386 and maybe CPU_I486), but enables things like optimized bcopy. Is that documented? In /sys/i386/conf/NOTES I see: # You must specify at least one CPU (the one you intend to

kernel cpu entries (was: Odd performance problems after upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0-Stable)

2005-12-14 Thread Jonathan Noack
Kevin Oberman wrote: Scott Long wrote: Also, taking out CPU_I586 is usually a bad idea. It offers no performance penalties (unlike CPU_I386 and maybe CPU_I486), but enables things like optimized bcopy. Ahh, This is the sort of thing I never realized. Is there anything in the handbook that

Re: kernel cpu entries

2005-12-14 Thread Jonathan Noack
Scott Long wrote: Jonathan Noack wrote: Kevin Oberman wrote: Scott Long wrote: Also, taking out CPU_I586 is usually a bad idea. It offers no performance penalties (unlike CPU_I386 and maybe CPU_I486), but enables things like optimized bcopy. Ahh, This is the sort of thing I never

Re: kernel cpu entries

2005-12-14 Thread Jonathan Noack
Mike Jakubik wrote: Mark Kirkwood wrote: Is a minor update to the handbook needed in order avoid confusion then? e.g. I have been commenting out CPU_I586 on all my PIII systems in the (mistaken it would seem) belief that having CPU_I686 only was better. Agreed, i have always just used I686,

Re: Panic: sched_add: kse 0xc1c40f60 (named) already in run queue

2005-07-09 Thread Jonathan Noack
/2005-June/thread.html#50882 http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-June/051311.html -- Jonathan Noack | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | OpenPGP: 0x991D8195 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Fw: Re: Massive sound changes / fix (24/32bit pcm support, new sampling rate converter, various fixes)

2005-07-09 Thread Jonathan Noack
/IPv4) http://staff.MyBSD.org.my (IPv6/IPv4) http://tomoyo.MyBSD.org.my (IPv6/IPv4) -- Jonathan Noack | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | OpenPGP: 0x991D8195 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: How is the patchlevel set?

2005-07-01 Thread Jonathan Noack
a reboot just to avoid questions about whether the machine is up-to-date. -- Jonathan Noack | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | OpenPGP: 0x991D8195 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: How is the patchlevel set?

2005-07-01 Thread Jonathan Noack
curious and noticed that newvers.sh was one of the files changed with every security update. From there it was code inspection... -- Jonathan Noack | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | OpenPGP: 0x991D8195 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: CPUTYPE for Sempron

2005-06-13 Thread Jonathan Noack
,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2 AMD Features=0xc050NX,AMIE,DSP,3DNow! -- Jonathan Noack | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | OpenPGP: 0x991D8195 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: FreeBSD 5.4: Is it generally unstable?GCC broken for amd64 ? (was Re: FreeBSD 5.4: Is it generally unstable?)

2005-06-13 Thread Jonathan Noack
... Even if it was only a table of contents for that page, why not read it? Navigation is provided to save you time. Regardless of whether it is a table of contents for the page, a collection of links, or a combination of the two, it is still relevant. -- Jonathan Noack | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: asr ( 2015S ) support in 5.4 amd64?

2005-05-31 Thread Jonathan Noack
requires a non-trivial level of skill and effort. -- Jonathan Noack | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | OpenPGP: 0x991D8195 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Strange top(1) output

2005-05-12 Thread Jonathan Noack
a separate column for the thread info. -- Jonathan Noack | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | OpenPGP: 0x991D8195 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Strange top(1) output

2005-05-12 Thread Jonathan Noack
On 5/12/2005 9:58 AM, Matthias Buelow wrote: Jonathan Noack wrote: What happens if the command is long enough to overrun the screen? Is the thread information truncated and lost? I believe this was the argument for making a separate column for the thread info. How about leaving either SIZE

Re: Strange top(1) output

2005-05-12 Thread Jonathan Noack
On 5/12/2005 10:21 AM, Matthias Buelow wrote: Jonathan Noack wrote: I think you will have a very hard time removing anything from top because someone will always pipe up and say, I've been using random_option since the days when computers were measured in MILLIhertz... *shaking fist* Why not add

Re: SCHED_ULE with SMP broke libpthread/libthr on 5.4-RELEASE

2005-05-11 Thread Jonathan Noack
. These should be merged back to 5.4. The merging is done but ULE is still known to cause panics for some people, especially on SMP systems. Try it with extreme caution. In other words, ULE is known to not be stable and will remain so until someone fixes it. -- Jonathan Noack | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: PTHREAD_INVARIANTS in 5.x

2005-05-11 Thread Jonathan Noack
are production worthy, we should disable these checks for releases. That is, unless I am missing something... Anyone know any good thread tests to run to determine what performance impact this is having? -- Jonathan Noack | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | OpenPGP: 0x991D8195 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: PTHREAD_INVARIANTS in 5.x

2005-05-11 Thread Jonathan Noack
On 05/11/05 21:53, Daniel Eischen wrote: On Wed, 11 May 2005, Jonathan Noack wrote: I checked out _PTHREADS_INVARIANTS for libthr and libpthread on CURRENT. As far as I can tell, all but one of the defines under _PTHREADS_INVARIANTS are ASSERTs; they check for a condition and if it is false

Re: nfs bug df: Can I lock up my kernel and overflow this buffer?

2005-05-10 Thread Jonathan Noack
On 05/10/05 00:21, Billy Newsom wrote: Jonathan Noack wrote: On 05/09/05 23:14, Billy Newsom wrote: From the fstab(5) man page: The fourth field, (fs_mntops), describes the mount options associated with the file system. It is formatted as a comma separated list of options. It contains

Re: Performance issue

2005-05-09 Thread Jonathan Noack
0 messages received 0 signals received 7 voluntary context switches 26113 involuntary context switches -- Jonathan Noack | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | OpenPGP: 0x991D8195 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Performance issue

2005-05-09 Thread Jonathan Noack
On 5/9/2005 1:30 PM, Jonathan Noack wrote: On 5/9/2005 12:31 PM, Pete French wrote: 5.3 ships with SMP turned on, which makes lock operations rather expensive on single-processor machines. 4.x does not have SMP turned on by default. Would you be able to re-run your test with SMP turned off? I

Re: loader causes reboot

2005-05-09 Thread Jonathan Noack
On 5/8/2005 10:57 PM, Jonathan Noack wrote: On 05/08/05 14:29, David Gurvich wrote: cdrom /boot/loader from 5.3 has no problem. However, after updating world from kernel, /boot/loader is replaced with cvs version. This one goes into endless cycle of reboots. When replaced with /boot/loader

Re: Performance issue

2005-05-09 Thread Jonathan Noack
not been tested. When I tried to test this every threaded program died with sig 11. Does this require me to recompile the program before it will work? -- Jonathan Noack | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | OpenPGP: 0x991D8195 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: nfs bug df: Can I lock up my kernel and overflow this buffer?

2005-05-09 Thread Jonathan Noack
/dellbak nfs rw,-s,-x=2,-T 0 0 -- Jonathan Noack | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | OpenPGP: 0x991D8195 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: loader causes reboot

2005-05-08 Thread Jonathan Noack
people and no one has stepped up to resolve it. As it is easily worked around, I've brought it up a few times but haven't made too big of a fuss. Come to think of it, why didn't I ever open a PR? Hmm... perhaps I'll do that at work tomorrow (this is on a machine at work). -- Jonathan Noack

Re: Xorg - getting VESA to work on a Radeon Xpress 200?

2005-05-06 Thread Jonathan Noack
choice. If it doesn't work you should file a bug. I'm not sure how to fix your VESA problem... -- Jonathan Noack | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | OpenPGP: 0x991D8195 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: PostgreSQL in FreeBSD jails

2005-05-02 Thread Jonathan Noack
, a new instance will corrupt the shared memory of another instance (in another jail, on another IP address, etc.) *if* they are running on the same port. The workaround is to ensure every instance (regardless of jail or IP address) is running on a unique port. -- Jonathan Noack | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 release status

2005-05-02 Thread Jonathan Noack
to 5.4-STABLE to reflect that it is once again open for less-restricted development. As 5.4 will be released via the RELENG_5_4 branch, it is normal and expected to have 5.4-STABLE around before 5.4-RELEASE. -- Jonathan Noack | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | OpenPGP: 0x991D8195 signature.asc Description

Re: UPDATE: ATA mkIII official patches for releng_5

2005-04-28 Thread Jonathan Noack
. If this doesn't generate any leads, try make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE buildworld before building the kernel. I'm not sure but this could be an out-of-date make. Hope that helps. - -- Jonathan Noack | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | OpenPGP: 0x991D8195 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32

Re: UPDATE: ATA mkIII official patches for releng_5

2005-04-28 Thread Jonathan Noack
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 4/28/2005 1:54 PM, Damian Gerow wrote: Thus spake Jonathan Noack ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [28/04/05 14:53]: : Does this error happen all the time or only with ATA mkIII? Only with ATA mkIII. I'm running a system that I rebuilt this morning

Re: SATA RAID 1 controllers for Intel board

2005-04-27 Thread Jonathan Noack
/), but it looks like ATA mkIII didn't make it into the tree until 2 weeks after the last snapshot. Until the next snapshot is built it looks like you're stuck using the procedure Samuel described. - -- Jonathan Noack | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | OpenPGP: 0x991D8195 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1