Re: PAE does not give any ram increase, why?

2007-04-22 Thread Martin Nilsson
Artem Kuchin wrote: the number do not change with or without PAE No need, i know this stuff. Hmmm :-) Problem is that asus p5p800-vm bios does not have such option (no memory remapping support in chipset) , so, and simply assumed that in PAE mode this simply does not matter and it

Re: PAE does not give any ram increase, why?

2007-04-21 Thread Martin Nilsson
Artem Kuchin wrote: Apr 21 18:01:30 osiris kernel: CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.00GHz (3000.33-MHz 686-class CPU) Why bother with PAE on a CPU that is 64-bit capable and can run the amd64 version of FreeBSD 6.2? /Martin ___

Re: install on USB flash memory

2007-02-13 Thread Martin Nilsson
Karel Miklav wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: I think this has been discussed before. The problem is that FreeBSD's bootloader doesn't support booting off of such devices, thus you need to use GRUB or another bootloader. But the guy from tutorial is doing that, and I made such a stick too.

Re: Watchdog Timeout - bge devices

2006-10-04 Thread Martin Nilsson
Scott Long skrev: In any case, SCHED_ULE is still considered to be highly experimental. Hopefully it will get some more attention in the near future to bring it closer to production quality. Can we have a commit (at least to STABLE) that adds a big fat message during boot that goes

Re: Watchdog Timeout - bge devices

2006-10-04 Thread Martin Nilsson
Jeremy Chadwick skrev: An alternate idea: remove SCHED_ULE from the GENERIC kernel config and instead make a ULE config which can be included (similar to SMP and PAE). The problem with ULE is that it works so well that you enable it and forget it. Then a couple of months later you find

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-10-01 Thread Martin Nilsson
Just an observation. All the boxes I've had this problem on have _two_ em interfaces. I have never seen it on my boxes with just one em NIC. The error is always em0 timeout - never em1 (I haven't seen any!) Yesterday my local network got completely wacky, the gateway had em0 timeouts on the

Re: Poor write performance with LSI 320-2 on 6.1-STABLE

2006-09-30 Thread Martin Nilsson
Albert Chin wrote: The arrays are configured with write-thru write policy, adaptive read policy, and cachedio cache policy. cachedio will slow you down on the old LSI cards. Only enable it on the PCI-X and above adapters. /Martin ___

6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Martin Nilsson
mailbox# uname -a FreeBSD mailbox 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #0: Fri Sep 22 00:31:29 CEST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj-local/usr/src/sys/SMP amd64 I get tons of these: em0: watchdog timeout -- resetting em0: link state changed to DOWN em0: link state changed to UP mailbox#

Re: em0: watchdog timeout -- resetting (6.1-STABLE)

2006-09-15 Thread Martin Nilsson
I'm also seeing these on a Supermicro PDSMi board with a recent stable. Please tell me what debugging info that is needed to fix this. /Martin FreeBSD mailbox 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #1: Sun Sep 10 17:43:15 CEST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj-local/usr/src/sys/SMP amd64

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

2006-09-15 Thread Martin Nilsson
Hans Lambermont wrote: Why not rename 'stable' into 'stable-api' ? .. or just stop calling it STABLE and call it RELENG_6 instead, which is what you are actually fetching from cvs :-) /Martin ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Safe card to replace for ICP Vortex GDT8514RZ ...

2006-08-02 Thread Martin Nilsson
Freddie Cash wrote: We've been bitten bad by these cards. LSI MegaRAID 150-6 SATA RAID controllers (PCI-X format). The management tools are crap, the throughput is crap, the onboard SATA chipset is a Silicon Image. The design is three years old and is showing its age. Their performance is

Re: Still getting 'calcru: runtime went backwards'

2006-07-08 Thread Martin Nilsson
John Baldwin wrote: On Thursday 06 July 2006 22:01, Mike Jakubik wrote: I'm getting a ton of them now, and i found a way to reproduce them. Basically i run a compile session in one terminal, say make buildkernel, and run top in another. As soon as i run top, the messages appear, and they seem

Re: 6.0 and -O2 option

2005-08-31 Thread Martin Nilsson
Jim C. Nasby wrote: Even if the identification can't be done automatically, it still seems like it would be good to start identifying ports that don't support -O by hand, and having the ports force a correct -O setting. Most ports support -O2 (if not -O3), and it would be nice if people could

Re: make -j as a stress test

2005-07-24 Thread Martin Nilsson
Karl Denninger wrote: Update - it appears that as long as I only use ONE of the two channels on the card, it works ok. That explains why I only got _one_ SATA cable with the $20 SiL 3112 card i bought last year :-) ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

2005-06-28 Thread Martin Nilsson
Roman Neuhauser wrote: In all honesty, I'm getting somewhat irritated by all the dd is meaningless performance measurement tool, use something real and similar arguments: dd is a real command for real work, and if it shows abysmal performance of sequential writes, then

Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

2005-06-28 Thread Martin Nilsson
Michael Schuh wrote: # cd /; /usr/bin/time dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024 count=1024k of=zerofile; I would only compare the performace from 2 Versions of FreeBSD, while i mean that the performance from RELENG_5 is more slower than under GENTOO and it is double as slow as under RELENG_4. Let me guess:

Re: SATA vs SCSI ...

2005-06-27 Thread Martin Nilsson
is going to give you bad performance. Regards, Martin -- Martin Nilsson, CTO Founder, Mullet Scandinavia AB, Malmö, SWEDEN E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Phone: +46-(0)708-606170, Web: www.mullet.se Our business is well engineered servers optimised for FreeBSD Linux

5.3-Stable Dual Opteron with 12GB memory!

2005-03-08 Thread Martin Nilsson
Anybody running a recent 5.3-stable amd64 on a box with lots of memory, and does it work? From very brief testing a Dual Opteron with 12GB memory just reboots when the kenel probes devices. SATA disks on built in SiL 3114 controller. 5.3-stable from yesterday compiled with -O, the system works

Re: 5.3 STABLE kernel compilation oddity

2005-02-01 Thread Martin Nilsson
. It is very annoying when using buildworld to see if a newly built machine is working OK. -- Martin Nilsson, CTO Founder, Mullet Scandinavia AB, Malmö, SWEDEN E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Phone: +46-(0)708-606170, Web: www.mullet.se Our business is well engineered servers optimised for FreeBSD

Re: Vinum versus abit

2000-11-20 Thread Martin Nilsson
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