Re: dump | restore fails: unknown tape header type 1853384566

2009-03-24 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Mikhail T. wrote: That said, I point out, that for me, dump is not failing (although it did hang this morning). It is the restore, which fails to read dump's output: unknown tape header type 213474529 abort? [yn] n resync restore, skipped 502 blocks expected next file 54, got 0

Re: Broken loader on 7.1-STABLE?

2009-02-08 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Mark Kirkwood wrote: ...specifying /boot/loader.old got me booted ok (not sure why this *didn't* work with the Asus, maybe I need to try it again with the Feb sources). I tried the latest RELENG_7 sources, same result - does *not* boot even specifying the old loader. I spent a bit

Re: Broken loader on 7.1-STABLE?

2009-02-07 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Mark Kirkwood wrote: I wrote: I am getting this too - update from RELENG_7 @12 Jan src to 20 Jan and I have: panic: free: guard1 fail @ 0x511d from /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/../../common/module.c:959 Can't work out which disk we are booting from. Guessed BIOS device 0x

Re: Broken loader on 7.1-STABLE?

2009-01-20 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Reuben wrote: I was wondering if anyone else was seeing loader (v1.02) break after updating from 7.1-RELEASE to 7.1-STABLE. After performing the prescribed updating procedure (via the handbook), the system will go through the normal steps and after the boot menu will present the following

Re: Broken loader on 7.1-STABLE?

2009-01-20 Thread Mark Kirkwood
I wrote: I am getting this too - update from RELENG_7 @12 Jan src to 20 Jan and I have: panic: free: guard1 fail @ 0x511d from /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/../../common/module.c:959 Can't work out which disk we are booting from. Guessed BIOS device 0x not found by probes,

Sound only on 1 channel, plus other quirks post snd_hda import

2009-01-18 Thread Mark Kirkwood
I am running RELENG_7 from 12 Jan, I noticed that I am only getting sound on 1 channel. Also opening up Volume Control from Gnome and altering either of Volume or PCM produces crackles on the non functioning channel, and kills susbsequent sound output on either channel! (Just to be sure I

Re: Sound only on 1 channel, plus other quirks post snd_hda import

2009-01-18 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Mark Kirkwood wrote: I am running RELENG_7 from 12 Jan, I noticed that I am only getting sound on 1 channel. Also opening up Volume Control from Gnome and altering either of Volume or PCM produces crackles on the non functioning channel, and kills susbsequent sound output on either channel

anoncvs1.FreeBSD.org broken?

2008-11-08 Thread Mark Kirkwood
I trying to update /usr/src via cvs from anoncvs1.FreeBSD.org and getting: $ cd /usr/src $ cat CVS/Root :ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ncvs $ cvs update -d -P cannot close CVS/Entries No space left on device ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: anoncvs1.FreeBSD.org broken?

2008-11-08 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Ah - too quick with the send button - sorry about the poor English. I wrote: I trying to update /usr/src ... ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: USB stall with creative nomad

2008-07-17 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Mark Kirkwood wrote: I wrote: Mar 27 13:32:30 zmori kernel: da0: CREATIVE NOMAD_MUVO 0001 Removable Direct Access SCSI-4 device Mar 27 13:32:30 zmori kernel: da0: 1.000MB/s transfers Mar 27 13:32:30 zmori kernel: da0: 125MB (256001 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 125C) Mar 27 13:32:39 zmori

Re: Sockets stuck in FIN_WAIT_1

2008-05-28 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Doug Barton wrote: Robert Blayzor wrote: On May 28, 2008, at 6:55 PM, Doug Barton wrote: That's a known problem with FreeBSD 4, which is now well past EOL. I would suggest moving to FreeBSD 7 ASAP. Is it? I searched and searched and never found any hits or PR's regarding this. Not

Re: BTX loader hangs after version info

2008-05-25 Thread Mark Kirkwood
John Baldwin wrote: Try this patch. I'm not 100% certain this will fix it as I can't reproduce the issue, but I think it might help. Specifically, when the boot code makes a v86 call, the loader/boot2/whatever swaps in/out a new set of registers via the v86 structure including the eflags

Re: BTX loader hangs after version info

2008-05-25 Thread Mark Kirkwood
I wrote: John Baldwin wrote: Try this patch. I'm not 100% certain this will fix it as I can't reproduce the issue, but I think it might help. Specifically, when the boot code makes a v86 call, the loader/boot2/whatever swaps in/out a new set of registers via the v86 structure including

Re: BTX loader hangs after version info

2008-05-25 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Peter Holm wrote: On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 08:33:01PM +1200, Mark Kirkwood wrote: I wrote: John Baldwin wrote: Try this patch. I'm not 100% certain this will fix it as I can't reproduce the issue, but I think it might help. Specifically, when the boot code makes a v86 call

Re: BTX loader hangs after version info

2008-05-25 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Peter Holm wrote: On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 08:33:01PM +1200, Mark Kirkwood wrote: I wrote: John Baldwin wrote: Try this patch. I'm not 100% certain this will fix it as I can't reproduce the issue, but I think it might help. Specifically, when the boot code makes a v86 call

Re: BTX loader hangs after version info

2008-05-22 Thread Mark Kirkwood
James Seward wrote: Hello, Two days ago I csup'd my desktop at home, which was running RELENG_7 from about 7.0-RELEASE time, to bring it up-to-date (still on RELENG_7). I followed my usual buildkernel/world procedure (the usual one) which has worked fine all the way since 5.x. After installing

Re: ATA APM and NCQ support in FreeBSD atacontrol

2008-05-12 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: I am too, but PRs that are 2 years old which include patches for severe bugs that affect reliability of RAID is (in my opinion) not acceptable. I've been spanked over saying this before (you don't understand how open source works), but necessity easily supercedes

Re: USB stall with creative nomad

2008-04-21 Thread Mark Kirkwood
I wrote: Mar 27 13:32:30 zmori kernel: da0: CREATIVE NOMAD_MUVO 0001 Removable Direct Access SCSI-4 device Mar 27 13:32:30 zmori kernel: da0: 1.000MB/s transfers Mar 27 13:32:30 zmori kernel: da0: 125MB (256001 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 125C) Mar 27 13:32:39 zmori kernel: umass0: BBB

Re: Upgrading to 7.0 - stupid requirements

2008-04-20 Thread Mark Kirkwood
FWIW - I have just completely *recompiled* my userland after the 6-7 upgrade - i.e: # portupgrade --batch -fa on a PIII 1.26Ghz system in just under 2 days (i.e over the weekend) for 836 packages - desktop system with Gnome etc. So it's not actually too bad. Using the packages option on

Re: USB stall with creative nomad

2008-04-20 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Mark Kirkwood wrote: Hi, I'm seeing a hang when I insert one of these guys into my 7 stable box (kernel from 28 Feb), after removing it all seems well: Mar 27 13:32:29 zmori root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x041e product 0x4106 bus uhub1 Mar 27 13:32:29 zmori kernel: umass0: Creative Tech

USB stall with creative nomad

2008-03-27 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Hi, I'm seeing a hang when I insert one of these guys into my 7 stable box (kernel from 28 Feb), after removing it all seems well: Mar 27 13:32:29 zmori root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x041e product 0x4106 bus uhub1 Mar 27 13:32:29 zmori kernel: umass0: Creative Tech NOMAD MuVo, class

Re: jerky mouse still in 7.0-RELEASE

2008-02-28 Thread Mark Kirkwood
David E. Thiel wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 08:30:17PM +0200, Teemu Korhonen wrote: Did anyone find a solution to the jerky mouse -problem? It still exists in 7.0-RELEASE. I experienced some relief from this by switching my single-CPU system to use hyperthreading, and using an SMP

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE Available

2008-02-27 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Ken Smith wrote: Just in case some interested parties are not subscribed to the freebsd-announce mailing list... FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE has been formally released. If you would like to see the release announcement it's here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/announce.html On behalf of the

Re: FreeBSD 7b3 - ZFS crashes

2007-11-29 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Stefan Huerter wrote: Hello Just testing the new FB 7beta3 - installed from the ISO-images. System is running on an SCSI 9GB disk, the machine has 750MHz with 512MB Ram and the zfs is using 8 ATA Disks, 4x120GB and 4x160GB connected to Promise Fasttrak TX2 (with no configs). Creating the ZFS

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD Questions

2007-10-31 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Roland Smith wrote: Remember to remove old files and libraries with `make delete-old' and `make delete-old-libs' as explained in /usr/src/Makefile. It is advisable to remove and install your ports from scratch when upgrading to a new major version, because the automatic port updating tools

Re: default dns config change causing major poolpah

2007-08-02 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Peter Losher wrote: One of the other objections I have with this change (other than the fact that it was made w/o consultation) is the fact that this is would become the default setting. Yes, busy mail servers may be better served by slaving frequently used zones, and as Vixie mentioned on the

Re: Corrupt fonts-alias (Re: xorg 7.2 start problem)

2007-05-24 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Kris Kennaway wrote: Grr, OK. Well, you might have got it wrong, so we still need to see a portupgrade log from someone who followed the directions. Kris, FWIW - I followed the instructions in UPDATING - unfortunately I did 'em pretty much as I read 'em... so I noticed the CAVEAT *after*

Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.)

2007-03-14 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: Since AMD/ATI doesn't make a native driver for FreeBSD, I only buy notebooks with nvidia, and I told my friends about this. We as FreeBSD users could write about this in our blogs and pages, which will widespread the word about the driver issues in better way,

Re: Cannot start install cd of 6.2-R at all

2007-01-22 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Artem Kuchin wrote: Mark Kirkwood wrote: I have seen this with a Tyan PIII board + TX2000. In my case re-trying the boot from cd several times would *eventually* get a working installer session. (If you search the archives you'll see several cases of folks encountering this). Unfortunately I

Re: Cannot start install cd of 6.2-R at all

2007-01-20 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Artem Kuchin wrote: Hello! I am having a VERY weird problem. The pc config is: 1) Celeron 1+ GHZ 2) Intel PCI ethernet nic 3) Fasttrak TX2000 raid + 2 mirrored disks (seagate 80gb) 4) teac dvd driver 5) 512 MB ram 6) Chaintech montherboard (old one) also tried on gigabyte motherboard I

Re: Cached file read performance with 6.2-PRERELEASE

2006-12-21 Thread Mark Kirkwood
JoaoBR wrote: I am not convinced that this kind of test is of any value for comparing systems at all because there are too much factors involved - unless the competitors are installed on identical hardware. On the other side I think it is usefull to compare tweaked settings on a particular

Re: Cached file read performance with 6.2-PRERELEASE

2006-12-21 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Wednesday 20 December 2006 11:38, Mark Kirkwood wrote: In fact if you note that the PIII HW *can* actually do 700MB/s, it suggests that your HW is capable of considerably more than 900MB/s - given that opteron's have excellent cpu to memory bandwidth, and the speed

Re: Cached file read performance with 6.2-PRERELEASE

2006-12-21 Thread Mark Kirkwood
A few more tests with a slightly improved version of the program (attached): We (i.e FreeBSD) do noticeably better with bigger block sizes. Cheers Mark Gentoo - 2.6.18-gentoo-r3: --- $ ./readtest /data0/dump/file 8192 0 random reads: 10 of: 8192 bytes elapsed: 1.2698s

Re: Cached file read performance with 6.2-PRERELEASE

2006-12-21 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Mark Kirkwood wrote: Pieter de Goeje wrote: It would be more interesting to see how random access to a (cached) file performs in Linux vs FreeBSD, which seems a more logical pattern for a database. Agreed, and good point, I'll knock up a simple program to do random and/or sequential

Re: Cached file read performance with 6.2-PRERELEASE

2006-12-21 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Wednesday 20 December 2006 11:38, Mark Kirkwood wrote: In fact if you note that the PIII HW *can* actually do 700MB/s, it suggests that your HW is capable of considerably more than 900MB/s - given that opteron's have excellent cpu to memory bandwidth, and the speed

Re: Cached file read performance with 6.2-PRERELEASE

2006-12-21 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Oliver Fromme wrote: Mark Kirkwood wrote: Exactly, that's why I did the comparison - I think you missed the part where I mentioned the 2 systems were *identical* with respect to cpus, memory, mobo - in fact even the power supplies are identical too! So I assume your benchmark measured

Re: Cached file read performance with 6.2-PRERELEASE

2006-12-21 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Bill Moran wrote: In response to Mark Kirkwood [EMAIL PROTECTED]: JoaoBR wrote: I am not convinced that this kind of test is of any value for comparing systems at all because there are too much factors involved - unless the competitors are installed on identical hardware. On the other side I

Re: Cached file read performance with 6.2-PRERELEASE

2006-12-20 Thread Mark Kirkwood
JoaoBR wrote: On Tuesday 19 December 2006 22:05, Mark Kirkwood wrote: $ dd of=/dev/null if=/tmp/file bs=32k # read it 81920 bytes transferred in 1.801944 secs (454620117 bytes/sec) hum, look my releng_6: # dd of=/dev/null if=/c/c1/file bs=32k 81920 bytes

Re: Cached file read performance with 6.2-PRERELEASE

2006-12-20 Thread Mark Kirkwood
JoaoBR wrote: On Wednesday 20 December 2006 07:37, Mark Kirkwood wrote: JoaoBR wrote: On Tuesday 19 December 2006 22:05, Mark Kirkwood wrote: $ dd of=/dev/null if=/tmp/file bs=32k # read it 81920 bytes transferred in 1.801944 secs (454620117 bytes/sec) hum, look my

Cached file read performance with 6.2-PRERELEASE

2006-12-19 Thread Mark Kirkwood
In the process of investigating performance in another area I happened to be measuring sequential cached reads (in a fairly basic manner): $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/file bs=8k count=10 # create file 81920 bytes transferred in 4.849394 secs (168928321 bytes/sec) $ dd of=/dev/null

Re: Cached file read performance with 6.2-PRERELEASE

2006-12-19 Thread Mark Kirkwood
What does the memory-related stats from top show you? Did you have any other memory intensive applications running at the time? A random example from one of my systems (1GB RAM): Thanks, good point - but no - absolutely nothing (machine is freshly booted, and the only thing running is

Re: vr speed issues

2006-11-30 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Mark Kirkwood wrote: Charles Sprickman wrote: I also did a little more digging and noticed that once I start pinging from one of these hosts using large packet sizes, I get about 50-60% packet loss (ie: ping -s 1500 other.vr0.host). If I ping something with a decent card, I get about 30-50

Re: vr speed issues

2006-11-30 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Mark Kirkwood wrote: I plugged in the card today, and seem to get pretty reasonable performance (8-10MB/s for scp - see attached). sorry, forgot to add... this is on: 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #0: Tue Nov 28 23:55:20 NZDT 2006 with a kernel that differs a small amount from

Re: vr speed issues

2006-11-29 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Charles Sprickman wrote: I also did a little more digging and noticed that once I start pinging from one of these hosts using large packet sizes, I get about 50-60% packet loss (ie: ping -s 1500 other.vr0.host). If I ping something with a decent card, I get about 30-50% packet loss. There's

Re: Dissapointing performance of ciss RAID 0+1 ?

2006-11-09 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Pete French wrote: You might be able to speed up the read by playing with the vfs.read_max sysctl (try 16 or 32). Wow! That makes a huge difference, thanks. Should this not be in 'man tuning' ? Yeah, I believe I've seen it mentioned *somewhere* with respect to working with RAID (of course,

Re: Dissapointing performance of ciss RAID 0+1 ?

2006-11-08 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Pete French wrote: I recently overhauled my RAID array - I now have 4 drives arranged as RAID 0+1, all being 15K 147gig Fujitsu's, and split across two buses, which are actively terminated to give U160 speeds (and I have verified this). The card is a 5304 (128M cache) in a PCI-X slot. This

Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x

2006-10-15 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Mark Linimon wrote: On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 02:01:08PM -0400, Michael Butler wrote: For everyone's benefit then, please feel free to submit your patches along with your technical analysis. I think his best bet is a fork, instead. Then he can tell all the people that volunteer to work on

Re: Question on runing STABLE on old Intel SMP boards

2006-10-12 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Sergey N. Voronkov wrote: Hello, Stable! Do anyone have running RELENG_6 branch on old Intel SMP boards? I have two of them: SCB2 and SDS2. Both are on RELENG_4_11 today. Thinking on proposed EoL of RELENG_4 branch I'v tryed to move one of them (SCB2) onto 6.1-RELEASE. That was very problematic

Re: RELENG_6 power button ignored after halt if ACPI enabled

2006-09-17 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Oops - didn't know about the -acpi mailing list, will post there, sorry. Mark ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RELENG_6 power button ignored after halt if ACPI enabled

2006-09-16 Thread Mark Kirkwood
I've just upgraded 2 machines to 6.2-PRERELEASE #1: Sat Sep 16 18:31:43 NZST 2006: - Supermicro P3TDER (Serverworks HE-SL Chipset, AMIBOIS) - Supermicro P3TDDE (VIA Apolla 266 chipset, AWARD) They both exhibit the same problem: If ACPI is enabled, shutting down via 'shutdown -h' appears to

Re: ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?!

2006-09-10 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Karl Denninger wrote: No, I would like -STABLE to be treated as what it is claimed to be - BETA code, not ALPHA code. There's a huge difference between the two, and MFCing something back to -STABLE without testing the BASIC functionality of the module you're working with first does not fit

Re: suggestions for SATA RAID cards

2006-09-09 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Mark Kirkwood wrote: Obviously if your array is RAID10, the 180MB/s is very good! Also unlikely - RAID10 with 5 disks?? - brain fade - sorry. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: suggestions for SATA RAID cards

2006-09-09 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Steven Hartland wrote: Mark Kirkwood wrote: If you are using RAID0|5, then something is slowing you down (possible clash between disk firmware and the Areca, or unfortunate choice of strip chunk size). Dont know which test I was remembering but just did a quicky: OS: FreeBSD 6.1 RAID: 5 on 5

Re: suggestions for SATA RAID cards

2006-09-08 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Steven Hartland wrote: I believe you are wrong here and my own performance tests here backs this up, showing it keeps up with the more expensive areca in a number of areas notably, providing 180MB/s in sequential read tests from a 5 disk array. Steve, Just out of interest what RAID level

Re: suggestions for SATA RAID cards

2006-08-24 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Friday 25 August 2006 01:52, Nikolas Britton wrote: I believe Promise *do* support FreeBSD quite a bit. Maybe as an after thought. I also don't see any link on their site for FreeBSD support, lets check google: shrugs cvs log ata-chipset.c..

Re: error: syntax error before _X_SENTINEL

2006-08-09 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Chris H. wrote: Hello, I just recenlly found that I am almost always unable to build X (Xorg) related applications on a 5.5 box that has pretty recent source. The applications all die during the make process with the following error: error: syntax error before _X_SENTINEL Any to fix this?

Nonlinear repeated malloc/free performance

2006-06-11 Thread Mark Kirkwood
I just upped kern.maxdsize to 1G, but noticed that a test program that mallocs and frees in a loop (increasing sized chunks 1M - 1024M) takes about 6 times longer for 1024 iterations than it does only 512 of 'em. Is this non-linearity expected? I see from a profile that ifree is taking most

Re: PostgreSQL uses more memory on 6.1?

2006-05-24 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Kirk Strauser wrote: Bumping shmall did the trick, but semmsl was pretty low so I bumped it up just in case. Is any of this stuff well documented other than in NOTES? I can see what each setting does, but don't really have a feel for *why* I'd need to increase a given setting, what the

Re: PostgreSQL uses more memory on 6.1?

2006-05-23 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Kirk Strauser wrote: On Tuesday 23 May 2006 16:19, Jung-uk Kim wrote: I meant 'kern.ipc.shmall', which used to be 'kern.ipc.shmmaxpgs'. :-( That did it! Bumping kern.ipc.shmall to 65536 got me back up and running with enough shared_memory to get my jobs done. Having not so long ago been

Re: internal compiler error: segmentation fault: 11

2006-05-23 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Jonathan Chen wrote: On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 09:03:06PM -0400, Dave wrote: Hello, I'm trying to compile 6.0-stable on a release box, prior to upgrade. I've tried several times and all end with an internal compiler error: segmentation fault: 11. And then i'm told to submit a bug report. My

Sequantial IO Performance improvement in 6.1-STABLE

2006-05-17 Thread Mark Kirkwood
I recently upgraded my FreeBSD machines from 6.0R to 6.1-STABLE I noticed a pleasant surprise - improved disk IO! In 6.0R best sequential throughput I ever saw was 170 MB/s (32k block size reads on an 4G file). In 6.1-STABLE I'm seeing 190 Mb/s (32k block size reads on an 4G file). The

Re: Sequantial IO Performance improvement in 6.1-STABLE

2006-05-17 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Mark Kirkwood wrote: I recently upgraded my FreeBSD machines from 6.0R to 6.1-STABLE I noticed a pleasant surprise - improved disk IO! In 6.0R best sequential throughput I ever saw was 170 MB/s (32k block size reads on an 4G file). In 6.1-STABLE I'm seeing 190 Mb/s (32k block size reads

Re: Sequantial IO Performance improvement in 6.1-STABLE

2006-05-17 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Mike Jakubik wrote: Mark Kirkwood wrote: Mark Kirkwood wrote: I recently upgraded my FreeBSD machines from 6.0R to 6.1-STABLE I noticed a pleasant surprise - improved disk IO! In 6.0R best sequential throughput I ever saw was 170 MB/s (32k block size reads on an 4G file). In 6.1-STABLE I'm

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Released

2006-05-11 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Mike Jakubik wrote: Patches? For what? It's too late now, 6.1 has been released. I sent reminders to the RE team and i made it quite clear on the lists that the quota issue should be described in the relnotes/errata before the release. If the RE team chooses to ignore major bugs and pretend

Re: 6.1-RC and the audit group

2006-05-09 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Doug White wrote: On Sat, 6 May 2006, Mark Kirkwood wrote: I found that installworld stops, because the 'audit' group has not been created. Now I just pressed 'return' for the default actions during mergemaster -p, but I didn't notice any mention of the audit group. The default action

Re: 6.1-RC and the audit group

2006-05-09 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Pieter de Goeje wrote: Hi Mark, On Wednesday 10 May 2006 00:51, Mark Kirkwood wrote: Just updated another box to 6.1-STABLE, and yes I did 'return' though it. The reason being mergemaster -p wanted to patch my group file to remove all the additions (i.e, useful groups and group - user

Re: 6.1-RC and the audit group

2006-05-06 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Doug White wrote: On Sat, 6 May 2006, Mark Kirkwood wrote: I found that installworld stops, because the 'audit' group has not been created. Now I just pressed 'return' for the default actions during mergemaster -p, but I didn't notice any mention of the audit group. The default action

6.1-RC and the audit group

2006-05-05 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Last night I updated on of my machines from 6.0-RELEASE to 6.1-RC. As far as I understand, I followed the instructions correctly - in particular: boot -s # fsck -p # mount -u / # mount -a # adjkerntz -i # cd /usr/src # mergemaster -p # make installworld I found that installworld stops, because

Re: No drives detected with TX4000

2006-04-06 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Mark Kirkwood wrote: I swapped out a TX2000 for a TX4000 today, and naively thought that I'd just be able to plug in the new card and reboot. Unfortunately, it does not detect the 4 drives (Maxtor 6E040L0). Booting off the 6.0R install cd shows the card detected ok, and 6 ATA channels - 2

No drives detected with TX4000

2006-04-05 Thread Mark Kirkwood
I swapped out a TX2000 for a TX4000 today, and naively thought that I'd just be able to plug in the new card and reboot. Unfortunately, it does not detect the 4 drives (Maxtor 6E040L0). Booting off the 6.0R install cd shows the card detected ok, and 6 ATA channels - 2 on-board + 4 on-card.

Re: Fresh install on gmirror'ed disks?

2006-03-04 Thread Mark Kirkwood
JoaoBR wrote: On Friday 03 March 2006 23:45, Mark Kirkwood wrote: I would certainly see the installer handling software RAID as a considerable benefit. From what I've seen on the net, to install and boot off RAIDed system disks is quite fiddly (maybe gmirror is the exception here, as I've

Re: Fresh install on gmirror'ed disks?

2006-03-03 Thread Mark Kirkwood
JoaoBR wrote: thank's for your kind advice :) so listen and learn: FreeBSD any version from CD is up in 10 minutes, reboot is 30-40 seconds that what you call complex procedure to set up a raid is done by three commands, 2 minutes for a slow typer perhaps? I would certainly see the

Promise SX4060 again - a little progress with 6.1

2006-03-02 Thread Mark Kirkwood
I tried a different setup - using a spare drive on the boards ata controller, booting off that - and attaching a single drive to the SX4060 after cvsuping to 6.1 Pre-5 Due to the boards buggy ServerWorks ROSB4 ata controller, I've set hw.ata.ata_dma=0 in loader.conf (This might have helped

Re: Change in Promise controllers

2006-01-31 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Christian Baer wrote: Good morning, everyone! There seems to have been some changes made concerning the supported Promise controllers. I have a SATA TX2Plus (PDC20775 chip). This is a sort of hybrid for SATA and PATA - it can run two drives of both. Until today I got this running with a sort

Re: Problems with PCI SATA Controller

2006-01-20 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Peter Hoskin wrote: Hi, I've had a number of problems with this card. Please note I'm not using this as a RAID card. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:3:0: class=0x010400 card=0x61121095 chip=0x31121095 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Silicon Image Inc (Was: CMD Technology Inc)' device = 'SiI

Re: Problems with PCI SATA Controller

2006-01-20 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Peter Hoskin wrote: Mark Kirkwood wrote: Unfortunately the sii 3112 is a bit of a horrornumerous people have experienced issues with it (web search on sii 3112 data corruption makes quite interesting reading). I seem to recall a posting suggesting that some success might be had

Re: System or file system panic on FreeBSD 5.x

2006-01-16 Thread Mark Kirkwood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! Once i installed ``old'' FreeBSD 5.0-STABLE with UFS file system. It had been working fine for a while without any problems but sometime later; it showed error messages on ttyv0; each error stated ad1: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=17998815

Re: kernel cpu entries

2005-12-14 Thread Mark Kirkwood
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: Freebsd Stable documentation

2005-12-11 Thread Mark Kirkwood
vizion wrote: Thiis was originally Upgrading 5.3 6.0 buildworld failure now in libmagic And on Mike Shultz recommendation I have relabeled the topic (mass snippage) I have not tried to upgrade directly from 5.3 - 6.0 (however, I did do 5.4 - early 6-current a few months ago, so this is

Re: Sysinstall automatic filesystem size generation.

2005-08-29 Thread Mark Kirkwood
C. Michailidis wrote: This is a very straight-forward way of doing things. Do you really think that sysinstall should use a similar method when it attempts to auto-configure a slice? From what I understand there are quite valid reasons why you would want a seperate /, /var, /tmp, and /usr.

Re: Sysinstall automatic filesystem size generation.

2005-08-29 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Matthias Buelow wrote: Mark Kirkwood wrote: FreeBSD's filesystems are very robust should you lose power. This sentence is completely bogus (or at best: wishful thinking) and should be deleted. It's probably correct if you have hw.ata.wc=0 (and are using IDE drives obviously

Re: Sysinstall automatic filesystem size generation.

2005-08-29 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Matthias Buelow wrote: (snippage...) I was merely pointing out the inadequacy of talking about robust filesystems in the context of softupdates and end-consumer harddrives. Would you be happy if the handbook section added a caution, or referred to the section that discusses the write cache?

Re: Sysinstall automatic filesystem size generation.

2005-08-29 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Matthias Buelow wrote: From what I understand from googling around on that issue, the write-barrier stuff should make that much more unlikely. Of course there could be the situation that it was a kernel that did not (properly) support write-barriers yet, or the Linux implementation has/had

Re: 6.0-BETA2 as reliable webserver?

2005-08-19 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Frans-Jan v. Steenbeek wrote: Hi all, I'm a sysadmin and a web-programmer at a company in the Netherlands. In the following month we will launch a webshop which will have a estimated 1000 full hits in the first weeks (estimated through calculation of the marketing-departement). I am writing the

Re: ad10: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=11441599

2005-08-16 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Mark Kane wrote: However, note that if I turn the drives speed down to UDMA100, the errors seem to go away. Has anyone else tried this for their problems? I currently do this, not due to problems, but to improve the write performance: 4xMaxtor 6E040L0 RAID0 UDMA133 - 40M/s UDMA100 -

Re: ad10: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=11441599

2005-08-16 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Mark Kane wrote: I do have a tall Antec case, and have both 200's and the 160 in 5 1/4 inch trays so the cables for those are long (36 inches IIRC). Hmm - 36 inch cable, makes me wonder if that is what is causing the problem in UDMA133 mode. IIRC the ATA spec says 18 inches, but most cables

Re: Reoccurring filesystem corruption

2005-08-14 Thread Mark Kirkwood
The Serverworks ROSB4 is known broken - I get instant file corruption on mine if I try to run it at udma33. Try $ atacontrol mode 0 PIO4 PIO4 (I have not tried this - I just use a Promise PDC2071 for all the disks instead...) Cheers Mark Philip Murray wrote: Hi, I have a 4.11 machine

Re: 5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash

2005-08-01 Thread Mark Kirkwood
A little update on this: I have upgraded my motherboard from Tyan S1854 (Award bios) to Tyan S2510 (Ami. Megatrends bios). Same Promise TX2000, same disks. same array. 5.4/6.0 install cds boot *fine*. So is bios change the significant factor here?. What I do notice is that the 5.4 (and 6.0) cd

Re: x for users slow

2005-08-01 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Eriq wrote: I notice that it takes a user about a minute after 'startx' to get into X. Yes I know, but I still like the colors :) anyway this doesn't happen when I logon as root and start X. Blackbox is the WM hope this helps. hmmm *not* slow as root suggests permissions - maybe on font

Re: FreeBSD IO Performance (was Re: Quality of FreeBSD)

2005-07-25 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Hmm - looks like I missed that thread, never mind - repeatability of findings is sound scientific principle :-) With respect to changing the default for vfs.read_max - makes sense to me, but it would be interesting to know if anyone has a system that performs *worse* with it set to 16.

FreeBSD IO Performance (was Re: Quality of FreeBSD)

2005-07-22 Thread Mark Kirkwood
I happened to have received a 'new' machine, and wanted to see what its IO system was capable of. So took the opportunity to run 4.10 and 5.4 against each other a few times. (fresh re-installs each time). Its documented at: http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/markir/freebsd/ I wanted to play with

Re: 5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash

2005-06-30 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 15:57, Doug White wrote: Try: . Zero off the first megabyte or so of the subdisks with dd or similar tool. . Force an array initialize from the controller BIOS. Wait for it to finish. . Install some other OS that recognizes the array, write the MBR

Re: 5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash

2005-06-30 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Mark Kirkwood wrote: Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 15:57, Doug White wrote: Try: . Zero off the first megabyte or so of the subdisks with dd or similar tool. . Force an array initialize from the controller BIOS. Wait for it to finish. . Install some other OS that recognizes

Re: Problems with 5.x

2005-06-30 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Matt Emmerton wrote: I gave precise descriptions of what happened on 5.[234] and can provide more details if requested Please provide dmesg output from 4.x, as this will help us help you! Cheers Mark ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Problems with 5.x

2005-06-30 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Matt Emmerton wrote: Processor: Intel Pentium II 266 MHz (Slot 1) Is the above typo, or have you underclocked it ? (from the dmesg : CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (*232.67-MHz* 686-class CPU) ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing

Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

2005-06-27 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Steve Roome wrote: I posted these results and anything else that went with this thread to the freebsd-performance mailing list. -current proved a slightly better performer for us, but not enough to bring it even close to the performance we get with gentoo. Off the top of my head the select

Re: 5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash

2005-06-25 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Daniel O'Connor wrote: Hmm strange.. I tried it a few times on an ABit AV8, once on an Epox 8KRDA+ and a few times on an Epox nForce2 board (I can't remember exactly which model) and it has never worked. They all have AWARD BIOSen (if it matters) I wonder if it's a problem where a memory

Re: 5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash

2005-06-25 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Daniel O'Connor wrote: I find even disconnecting the drives so no RAID is detected works - ie it's not the presence of the card per se that is a problem. Good test - I had not tried that. In addition, I can confirm your observation that merely deleting the array makes the loader work

Re: 5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash

2005-06-25 Thread Mark Kirkwood
I have experienced this (since about 5.3) on a dual PIII Tyan S1834. In my case perseverance seems to pay off - one in (approx) 10 boots will work... Mark Daniel O'Connor wrote: Hi, I am updating an old 4.x system to 5.4 here and it has a Promise FT100TX2 RAID controller (in mirror). The

Re: 4.x binaries on a 5.x machine ...

2005-06-21 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Glenn Dawson wrote: At 11:24 PM 6/20/2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote: I'm looking at adding my first 5.x server onto our network, but am wondering how 'backward compatible' things are still ... Mainly, could I run a 4.x jail'd environment on a 5.x server, or would I have to upgrade the jail

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