Re: FreeBSD 13/stable and zpool upgrade

On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 10:26:15PM +0100 I heard the voice of Kurt Jaeger, and lo! it spake thus: > > We do not need it automated. We need it to be described in enough > detail that we can write that BOOTx64.efi to the proper place. If > there are some steps to find out where to write it etc.,

Re: buildworld errors at outset on fresh svn checkout

On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 10:13:02PM -0700 I heard the voice of Kevin Oberman, and lo! it spake thus: > On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 10:16 PM, Scott Bennett wrote: > > > "/usr/src/Makefile.inc1", line 1113: Malformed conditional > > (${BUILDKERNELS:[) > > Unknown modifier '[' > > '['

Re: sed command does not behave equal from 10.3 to 11.0

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 09:45:23AM +0100 I heard the voice of krad, and lo! it spake thus: > are you sure you aren't hitting a port or something? Locale dependant. % echo "abc_ABC.def" | env LANG=C sed -e 's/[^A-Z0-9]//g' ABC % echo "abc_ABC.def" | env LANG=en_US.UTF-8 sed -e 's/[^A-Z0-9]//g'

Re: Have I got this VIMAGE setup correct?

On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 12:05:07PM -0500 I heard the voice of Garrett Wollman, and lo! it spake thus: > > The consensus when I asked seemed to be that VIMAGE+jail was the > right combination to give every container its own private loopback > interface, so I tried to build that. I noticed a few

Re: make buildworld is now 50% slower

Apropos of nothing, but... On Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 03:17:14AM -0700 I heard the voice of Jeremy Chadwick, and lo! it spake thus: WITHOUT_LIB32=true suggests you're running amd64, which I'm pretty sure means - I do increase kern.maxdsiz, kern.dfldsiz, and kern.maxssiz in /boot/loader.conf to

Re: shutdown -r / shutdown -h / reboot all hang and don't cleanly dismount

On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 08:04:14AM -0700 I heard the voice of Jeremy Chadwick, and lo! it spake thus: unrelated Readers: if any of you have a ST[123]000DM001 drive running the CC24 firmware, and can confirm high head parking counts (SMART attribute 193), and are willing to upgrade your drive

Re: shutdown -r / shutdown -h / reboot all hang and don't cleanly dismount

On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 09:16:35AM -0700 I heard the voice of Jeremy Chadwick, and lo! it spake thus: The above CDB + subcommand disables APM entirely. There is a lot more to APM than just parking heads (and in all honesty, APM should have nothing to do with parking heads). Disabling APM

Re: shutdown -r / shutdown -h / reboot all hang and don't cleanly dismount

On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 09:52:00AM -0700 I heard the voice of Jeremy Chadwick, and lo! it spake thus: Justified in your environment, but not in mine -- where most of my systems (at home) are extremely quiet (1000-1200rpm fans, lots of noise dampening material, etc.). A 10C increase *during

Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 10:37:08PM +1030 I heard the voice of Daniel O'Connor, and lo! it spake thus: Hi, I recently updated my 9.1-PRE system's ports and my previous X config now results in no mouse (but the keyboard does work). I found that I needed to add the following.. Section

Re: amdtemp does not find my CPU.

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 08:04:04PM -0400 I heard the voice of ill...@gmail.com, and lo! it spake thus: Just an aside (as I note you've got it nailed down), but AFIK the E-450 is a K-10 core not a K-8. None of the above. E-450 is a Bobcat. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) |

Re: branch 9 and uefi

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 05:37:01PM +0200 I heard the voice of Zoran Kolic, and lo! it spake thus: Hurrah! I shall get a bit cheaper version, plain m5a97 or pro. AFAIK, the only difference between the plain M5A97 and the Evo is that the Evo has better VRM's. If you're overclocking a 125w CPU,

Re: branch 9 and uefi

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 06:08:31PM +0200 I heard the voice of Zoran Kolic, and lo! it spake thus: It took me by surprise. The mobo I have on my mind for new desktop has uefi instead of bios. It is asus m5a97, with 970 chipset, well priced among users on the net. How would it behave with 9.1?

Re: less and vi fail on file whose name begins with +

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 01:03:30AM -0400 I heard the voice of Thomas Mueller, and lo! it spake thus: Has anybody noticed this bug? It's not a bug really; both can take an argument starting with '+' for various things. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fulle...@over-yonder.net

Re: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 05:40:26PM -0700 I heard the voice of Sean Bruno, and lo! it spake thus: I don't know if anyone responded to your question here. I suspect that the latest updates to xorg that have occured in freebsd will support your video card. That's an Evergreen. UMS support is

Re: /usr/bin/unzip not being installed on 8.3-STABLE

On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 04:24:32PM -0400 I heard the voice of Jason Hellenthal, and lo! it spake thus: I have just noticed the following depicting unzip not being updated/installed during a make installworld. From a quick look at history, unzip was never connected to the build in 8.x, only

Re: /usr/bin/unzip not being installed on 8.3-STABLE

On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 04:39:40PM -0400 I heard the voice of Jason Hellenthal, and lo! it spake thus: Funny... so there are probably alot of machines running around with old unzip binaries... including the already packaged releases. No, they wouldn't have _any_ unzip binaries. -- Matthew

Re: ports index on FreeBSD 9

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 02:23:05PM +0100 I heard the voice of Matthew Seaman, and lo! it spake thus: On 11/10/2011 12:31, George Kontostanos wrote: I was wondering if there is any progress regarding the http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=149232 . Nope. But you can just do 'make

Re: Heads up: you'll need to do a fresh config KERNEL etc

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 07:44:25AM -0400 I heard the voice of Rick Macklem, and lo! it spake thus: I thought that config KERNEL is what does that, but if buildkernel does, then config KERNEL isn't needed. buildkernel always starts with a fresh 'config KERNEL' (unless you -DNO_KERNELCONFIG

Re: buildworld FAIL.

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 05:52:47AM -0700 I heard the voice of Jeremy Chadwick, and lo! it spake thus: On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 09:04:42AM +0200, Pawel Tyll wrote: So was NO_OPENSSL deprecated or something? I think he's implying that hast indirectly relies upon OpenSSL. There's some

Re: buildworld FAIL.

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 02:25:01AM +0200 I heard the voice of Pawel Tyll, and lo! it spake thus: /usr/src/sbin/hastctl/../hastd/hast_proto.c:72: error: 'checksum_send' undeclared here (not in a function) /usr/src/sbin/hastctl/../hastd/hast_proto.c:72: error: 'checksum_recv' undeclared here

Re: ZFS - moving from a zraid1 to zraid2 pool with 1.5tb disks

On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 03:45:04PM +0200 I heard the voice of Daniel Kalchev, and lo! it spake thus: You should also know that having large L2ARC requires that you also have larger ARC, because there are data pointers in the ARC that point to the L2ARC data. Someone will do good to the

Re: MCA messages after upgrade to 8.2-BEAT1

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 09:57:26AM -0500 I heard the voice of John Baldwin, and lo! it spake thus: You are getting corrected ECC errors in your RAM. Actually, don't CPU 0 0 data cache ADDR 236493c0 Data cache ECC error (syndrome 1c) CPU 0 1 instruction cache ADDR 2a1c9440

Re: Panic in ZFS layer on 8.1-STABLE

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 11:55:40PM +0100 I heard the voice of Jeremie Le Hen, and lo! it spake thus: I think running a 64 bits kernel would help a lot in that case. Unfortunately I don't think my CPU supports the instruction set: It does. AMD Features=0x2000LM LM = Long Mode All the

Re: TTY task group scheduling

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 06:23:24PM + I heard the voice of Alexander Best, and lo! it spake thus: judging from the videos the changes are having a huge impact imo. Well, my (admittedly limited, and certainly anecdotal) experience is that Linux's interactive response when under heavy load

Re: Serious zfs slowdown when mixed with another file system (ufs/msdosfs/etc.).

On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 03:32:54AM +0200 I heard the voice of Pieter de Goeje, and lo! it spake thus: Note that I use a single filesystem for / and /usr. Obviously if those are separate filesystems more NFS exports and mount commands are necessary. Before the first run all immutable flags

Re: kernel MCA messages

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:06:43AM -0400 I heard the voice of John Baldwin, and lo! it spake thus: It is actually public at perforce.freebsd.org. :) However, it is tedious to download the files. Oh, I'd apparently blocked out of my mind that you could clicky-clicky files one at a time from

Re: kernel MCA messages

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 08:20:35AM -0400 I heard the voice of John Baldwin, and lo! it spake thus: It is not private, it is in //depot/projects/mcelog/... in p4. Which may as well be Siberia for us lowly non-developers. Any chance you could stick a tarball or a patch against upstream mcelog

Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 06:04:51PM -0700 I heard the voice of John Long, and lo! it spake thus: The i3/i5/i7 chips don't appear to offer ECC framework on their memory controllers (which are now on-die as I'm sure you know), which is why I plan to stay away from them for servers. I agree with

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

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 08:49:38PM -0500 I heard the voice of jhell, and lo! it spake thus: As I make final modifications to the script I will keep the below URLs updated and welcome any bug reports or modification requests to me personally. Well, here's one: OS Revision:

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

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 05:11:17AM -0800 I heard the voice of Jeremy Chadwick, and lo! it spake thus: I highly recommend putting some comments around it though so in the future you don't go What's this? Silly! and delete it. ;-) But do delete it every once in a while. My experience over the

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

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:46:04AM -0800 I heard the voice of Jeremy Chadwick, and lo! it spake thus: Technical footnote: I wish I understood 1) the difference between ACPI-safe and ACPI-fast, AIUI, they're nearly the same thing, and it has to do with some testing to determine how it can be

Re: hardware for home use large storage

On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 04:37:50PM +1030 I heard the voice of Daniel O'Connor, and lo! it spake thus: Probably the result of idiotic penny pinching though :-/ Irritating. One of my favorite parts of AMD's amd64 chips is that I no longer have to spend through the nose or be a detective (or,

Re: hardware for home use large storage

On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 03:56:46PM +1030 I heard the voice of Daniel O'Connor, and lo! it spake thus: I have something similar (5x1Tb) - I have a Gigabyte GA-MA785GM-US2H with an Athlon X2 and 4Gb of RAM (only half filled - 2x2Gb) [...] Note that it doesn't support ECC, I don't know if

Re: 7.1-R to RELENG_7 upgrade breaks re nic

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:47:07PM -0500 I heard the voice of Steve Wills, and lo! it spake thus: re0: RealTek 8168/8168B/8168C/8168CP/8168D/8111B/8111C/8111CP PCIe Gigabit Ethernet port 0x7e00-0x7eff mem 0xfd3ff000-0xfd3f, 0xfd3f8000-0xfd3fbfff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci8 re0: Chip

Re: Unhappy Xorg upgrade

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 04:25:21PM -0500 I heard the voice of Alex Goncharov, and lo! it spake thus: Csup can only go forward -- or can it go back?) You can specify a date in a supfile since, like, ever. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fulle...@over-yonder.net Systems/Network

Re: changing a ports final destination via make knobs question...

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 06:04:36PM -0500 I heard the voice of Paul Schmehl, and lo! it spake thus: If you plan on doing this often, pkgtools.conf is your best bet. If you plan on doing it once, commandline is probably the easiest and quickest. I would say using ports-mgmt/portconf would be

Re: BETA4 - acpi.thermal.tz0 always at 40,0C

On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 10:53:20AM +0100 I heard the voice of [EMAIL PROTECTED], and lo! it spake thus: $ sysctl hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature: 40,0C motherboard is a Asus M2A-VM, version is FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 amd64 I have the same board running on i386,

Re: /boot size in 7.0 beta3

On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 12:56:06AM -1000 I heard the voice of Parv, and lo! it spake thus: So, just what have you been stuffing in /? kernel.debug for one thing. But that's not what really kills it; it's when there are TWO kernel.debug's in the time between starting the upgrade and being sure

Re: /boot size in 7.0 beta3

On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 05:32:41PM -0800 I heard the voice of Doug Hardie, and lo! it spake thus: Between 6.2 and 7 /boot has grown from 45 MB to 114 MB. That poses a significant issue for those of us who have been running production systems for many years. I have the root partition set to

Re: /usr/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8

On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 11:28:43AM + I heard the voice of Alex Zbyslaw, and lo! it spake thus: In addition, considering an *option* to simply not have cat-ed manual pages (for people with machines fast enough to just not care, or who have machines where you just don't read man pages often

Re: /usr/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8

On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:43:41PM +0100 I heard the voice of Bernd Walter, and lo! it spake thus: Show me the positives that outweights the negatives and I'm on your side. Why do you think we're on different sides to begin with? I've not advocated removing catman capability, or denied that

Re: /usr/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8

On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 10:23:58AM + I heard the voice of Alex Zbyslaw, and lo! it spake thus: Of course, with modern systems where nroff-ing a man page takes negligible time and system resources, it could also be argued that cat-ed man pages should be a thing of the past :-) Quite. The

Re: /usr/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8

On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 08:08:31PM +0100 I heard the voice of Bernd Walter, and lo! it spake thus: I don't completly agree. Many people forget that FreeBSD is used on slow embedded systems as well and I prefer having manpoages there as well. Oh, I don't argue that there are cases where

Re: 5.x to 6.x source update, bootblocks?

On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 01:54:15AM -0400 I heard the voice of Charles Sprickman, and lo! it spake thus: I've been running around upgrading some boxes to 6.2 from 4.11 using the directions in UPDATING. I noticed that in the 4.x to 5.x step it's basically mandatory to install the new

Re: Making /var/mail mode 1777 (was Re: Installing sendmail SUID installworld suggestion)

On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 11:35:45AM +0100 I heard the voice of Oliver Fromme, and lo! it spake thus: What's the best way to prevent that? I tried editing the appropriate mtree file, but that feels like a hack rather than a clean solution. Well, I did it by the hack of stuffing a 'chmod 1777'

Re: Making /var/mail mode 1777 (was Re: Installing sendmail SUID installworld suggestion)

On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 01:06:57PM +0200 I heard the voice of Danny Braniss, and lo! it spake thus: in /etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist, change Yah, but you have to remember and maintain that across upgrades. In rc.local, it's set-and-forget. see also /etc/rc.d/var That hack landed and was

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

On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 10:43:12AM +1100 I heard the voice of Andrew Reilly, and lo! it spake thus: Matrox used to have a reputation for goodness (I used to have a G400 or the like), but it's been a long time... I'm sitting on a G450 here. Works great. I've never heard anything bad about

Re: Testing UFS/Snapshots/Quotas on -STABLE

On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 09:50:54AM -0500 I heard the voice of Doug Poland, and lo! it spake thus: In addition, it appears that compiling support for quotas in the kernel will force the Giant lock on UFS and I want to make sure I won't have a performance regression on the filesystem. I can

Re: Migrating from x86 (32) to amd64

On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 08:54:42PM +0300 I heard the voice of Artem Kuchin, and lo! it spake thus: Theoretically, what would be the procedure? - Do a full cross-build of the amd64 world/kernel. - newfs your swap partition (or an extra partition/drive). - installworld/kernel the amd64 stuff onto

Re: Background fsck causes kernel panic

On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 10:47:25PM -0500 I heard the voice of Kris Kennaway, and lo! it spake thus: As you discovered, the solution is to force a fsck to repair all corruption and then proceed (optionally disabling bg fsck permanently to prevent a recurrence ;-) Is it time yet to have

Re: g_vfs_done() failures on 6.2-RC1

On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 12:25:49AM -0700 I heard the voice of Scott Long, and lo! it spake thus: You mention that you are using a driver from the Areca website. Have you tried using the stock driver that comes with FreeBSD? I don't know if it will be better or not, but I was planning on

Re: Problems unmounting/fssyncking extern UFS filesystem

On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 12:18:03AM +0100 I heard the voice of O. Hartmann, and lo! it spake thus: Ronald Klop wrote: IMHO: Please discuss this on [EMAIL PROTECTED] And read the handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/handbook) about releases/versions/branches. -CURRENT is known to have bugs. I

Re: Problems unmounting/fssyncking extern UFS filesystem

On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 05:37:58AM +1100 I heard the voice of Peter Jeremy, and lo! it spake thus: All current Un*x filesystems will automatically flush all buffers as part of the unmount process That Depends(tm), partly on what you mean by 'unmount'. With my Nov05 and Jun06 -CURRENT's, I

Re: Downgrade to 5.5

On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 09:56:03AM +0100 I heard the voice of Albert Shih, and lo! it spake thus: make installkernel on /usr/src from 5.x reboot make installworld. This is highly likely (one might almost say assured) to not work, since the 5.x kernel isn't going to be able

Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 5.3, 5.4, 6.0 EoLs coming soon

On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 10:48:52PM +0800 I heard the voice of Eugene Grosbein, and lo! it spake thus: 4.11-STABLE: fdc0: NEC 72065B or clone at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 ^^^ 6.2-PRERELEASE: fdc0: floppy drive controller

Re: 6.1 quota issues

On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 10:56:47PM -0400 I heard the voice of Charles Sprickman, and lo! it spake thus: Trying again, it reported the same inconsistencies then sat there for more than an hour taking up all the available CPU on the box until I killed it. The mtime on quota.user had not

Re: FreeBSD 6.x CVSUP today crashes with zero load ...

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 10:29:04AM -0400 I heard the voice of John Baldwin, and lo! it spake thus: There is an 'ACPI' feature bit, but I think it has to do with preserving the TSC rate while the CPU is throttled. It's not required for core ACPI operation. Ah, well, I stand corrected. I

Re: FreeBSD 6.x CVSUP today crashes with zero load ...

On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 01:16:11PM + I heard the voice of Eprha Carvajal, and lo! it spake thus: I see no ACPI capability in the processor features ACPI is not a CPU feature. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems/Network Administrator |

Re: Gigabit ethernet very slow.

On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 05:05:26PM +1000 I heard the voice of Michael Vince, and lo! it spake thus: According to pftop (with modulate state rules) I am able to get about 85megs/sec when I don't have dd running. dd does indeed eats a fair amount of cpu (40%) on the AMD64 6-stable machine. dd

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

On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 11:38:44PM -0400 I heard the voice of Chuck Swiger, and lo! it spake thus: Yeah-- it's more common for a system to need more RAM for dynamicly allocated content which would be placed into the swapfile then it uses binary executable pages, it's possible to go the other

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

On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 08:33:05PM -0500 I heard the voice of Matthew D. Fuller, and lo! it spake thus: It's the vnode pager, not the swap pager. AIUI, that's mostly paging in and out pages of running binaries (from the image on disk), not moving stuff in and out of swapspace. Actually

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

On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 07:12:54PM -0300 I heard the voice of Marc G. Fournier, and lo! it spake thus: 31750 vnode pager pageins 209538 vnode pager pages paged in 15954 vnode pager pageouts 219494 vnode pager pages paged out This may be something to look at. My workstation

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

On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 10:02:22PM -0300 I heard the voice of Marc G. Fournier, and lo! it spake thus: Which is odd, no, if I'm hardly swapping? Well, 31750 vnode pager pageins 15954 vnode pager pageouts It's the vnode pager, not the swap pager. AIUI, that's mostly paging in and

Re: Dual Opteron system will not run SMP

On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 12:37:58PM +0100 I heard the voice of Pete French, and lo! it spake thus: I had been wondering what 'safe' does differently, and whether I could fill up loader.conf with approrpiate values to emulate what 'safe' does and then start commenting them out one at a time.

Re: How can I know which files a proccess is accessing?

On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 02:14:01PM -0700 I heard the voice of Clint Olsen, and lo! it spake thus: Linux has a cool program: lsof (list open files). Does FreeBSD have something similar? fstat. (or lsof in ports, if you wanted) -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: long timeout on boot

On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 10:48:43AM +1000 I heard the voice of Antony Mawer, and lo! it spake thus: ... but there have been a huge number of commits over the recent few years. I believe the actual culprit is GEOM tasting (or trying to taste) the media, and not getting the message that there

Re: RELENG_4 - 5 - 6: significant performance regression

On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 03:01:18AM -0400 I heard the voice of Jonathan Noack, and lo! it spake thus: Have you tried putting I586_CPU in there? See http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-December/020696.html. As Peter Jeremy mentioned in

INVARIANTS (was Re: RELENG_4 - 5 - 6: significant performance regression)

On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 10:37:40AM -0400 I heard the voice of Kris Kennaway, and lo! it spake thus: With respect to INVARIANTS, you just need to get used to the fact that running thousands of checks for bugs is incompatible with running at optimal speed. (I'm not sure what the point of

Re: INVARIANTS (was Re: RELENG_4 - 5 - 6: significant performance regression)

On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 11:58:26AM -0400 I heard the voice of Kris Kennaway, and lo! it spake thus: FYI, INVARIANTS adds checks but does not (is not supposed to) divert code paths. It does at least in UMA; it does a lot of bzero()/NULL'ing out of memory, which might hide later

Re: Pros and Cons of amd64 (versus i386).

On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 10:02:34AM -0400 I heard the voice of Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner, and lo! it spake thus: As you can see, the outside is more than twice as fast in this case. Just a guess, since both are IBM disks: You're using a Workstation/Server disk, which probably performs

Re: Pros and Cons of amd64 (versus i386).

On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 06:00:56PM -0600 I heard the voice of Scott Long, and lo! it spake thus: Modern disks (I don't know how to define a cutoff to this term, unfortunately) definitely put more bits onto the outer rim of the platter than the inner rim. Pretty much any disk you'd currently

Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released

On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 12:02:38PM +0200 I heard the voice of Patrick M. Hausen, and lo! it spake thus: That will be 1.1.5.2, of course. RELENG_1 is in maintenance mode, now. Y'know, I DO have a box running RELENG_2_1_0... -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ifconfig with rc.conf Broken

On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 01:56:47PM -0600 I heard the voice of James Wyatt, and lo! it spake thus: Don't alias interfaces have to be added to the network_interfaces= line? I thought only real interfaces were autodetected... I think you're thinking of interface name aliases, not additional

Re: calcru: negative time (Interrupt Storm on cpu0: timer)

On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 12:09:34AM +0100 I heard the voice of Frank Steinborn, and lo! it spake thus: cpu0: timer158483081 2000 That's not a storm, that's normal. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems/Network Administrator |

Re: install FreeBSS 6 from an existing filesystem?

On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 11:35:57PM +0100 I heard the voice of Torfinn Ingolfsen, and lo! it spake thus: The laptop has a FreeBSD-4.11 install on slice 1 of the disk, and the other half is free for my 6.0 installation. Actually, the easiest thing to do in this case is probably to label and

Re: Broken kde3 from ports, not downloading what it's supposed to. Will not compile; need advice please.

On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 11:49:46AM -0800 I heard the voice of Ryan R, and lo! it spake thus: On 2/9/06, Ryan R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh dear. I've got to do a make clean before trying the 'make install' again?! I spent hours compiling already :-( You don't have to clean the whole

Re: FreeBSD 4.9 won't upgrade ?

[ Redirecting to -stable, where it's more appropriate ] On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 07:31:10PM -0500 I heard the voice of Jim Keller, and lo! it spake thus: I go through the whole process, and although it does appear to recompile the system (my openssl went from the original distro to the newest

Re: [6.0-RELEASE] Trouble with Intel-SATA-RAID Controller

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 02:44:59PM +0100 I heard the voice of Raphael H. Becker, and lo! it spake thus: Note that this: 3ware: * 3ware Raid Controller Escalade 8006-2LP, 2 Channels, about 130-150 EUR is a real hardware RAID controller, while I'm pretty sure that this: highpoint: *

Re: 5-port (NEC) USB-2.0 PCI card support?

On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 01:31:48PM +1100 I heard the voice of Andrew Reilly, and lo! it spake thus: Hmm. No, nothing at all. (And it also clearly shows that the piece of dmesg.boot that I posted ([EMAIL PROTECTED]:7:3) was part of the Intel PIIX4 chipset.) FWIW, I've got an Adaptec 4-port

Re: Fast releases demand binary updates.. (Was: Release schedule for 2006 )

On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 09:51:15AM +0100 I heard the voice of Patrick M. Hausen, and lo! it spake thus: Any suggestions for an alternative to NFS if your 'client' servers are located all over the world and you want to installworld across the Internet? I was planning to use NFS/TCP secured by

Re: Fast releases demand binary updates.. (Was: Release schedule for 2006)

On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 01:09:04PM -0800 I heard the voice of Jo Rhett, and lo! it spake thus: No, you're missing the point. More core OS upgrades means less incremental patches (which are easier to apply than a full update). Right. I don't understand how B follows A here. These patches

Re: gmirror SCSI+IDE

On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 05:23:48PM -0500 I heard the voice of Martin Cracauer, and lo! it spake thus: Ivan Voras wrote on Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 06:39:18PM +0100: For example, AFAIK SCSI devices are under Giant and IDE are not In 6.x and 7.x both are finer-graded. I wish somebody would

Re: Fast releases demand binary updates.. (Was: Release schedule for 2006)

On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 02:00:21PM -0800 I heard the voice of Joe Rhett, and lo! it spake thus: Increasing the number of deployed systems out of date [...] This doesn't make any sense. If you install a 6.0 system, in 6 months (assuming you installed it right when 6.0 was cut, for simplicity),

Re: HEADS UP: Release schedule for 2006

On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 02:59:09PM + I heard the voice of Joao Barros, and lo! it spake thus: There have been some questions on the lists about what to expect from release x.y and I personnally have always looked at the TODO list like http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/todo.html It's

Re: Upgrading 5.3 6.0 buildworld failure now in libmagic

On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 08:34:42PM +1100 I heard the voice of Peter Jeremy, and lo! it spake thus: On Wed, 2005-Dec-07 13:34:53 -0800, Vizion wrote: development is so good. It deserves better and more professional attention to the role of end user documentation. Are you volunteering? It

Re: permanent per month panic on 5.4-p4

On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 09:50:50AM +0200 I heard the voice of Oleg Palij, and lo! it spake thus: Unfortunately this trace looks corrupted. Are you building your kernel with -O2? I guess that no. Isn't -O2 the default now if you're not explicitly setting it otherwise? -- Matthew Fuller

Re: cpu-timer rate

On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 09:42:08AM +0100 I heard the voice of kama, and lo! it spake thus: I appreciate that you took time to answer about the different clocks. But that does not answer why vmstat -i shows a rate of 2000 when I have set the hz to 1000. Because the rate is always twice hz.

Re: cpu-timer rate

On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 10:15:52AM -0800 I heard the voice of Kevin Oberman, and lo! it spake thus: From: Matthew D. Fuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because the rate is always twice hz. While I will concede that I have no explanation, but on all of my systems rate = HZ +/-1. I have never seen

Re: top(1) displaying threads

On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 06:55:19PM +0200 I heard the voice of Niki Denev, and lo! it spake thus: But the top(1) manual page still says that the default behaviour is NOT to show them. Because it's true. H mode shows the kernel-visible threads INDEPENDENTLY. Of course, it would be neat if we

Re: Freebsd 5.3 screw up.... deleted /lib/libc.so.5

On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 05:29:36PM -0800 I heard the voice of David Kirchner, and lo! it spake thus: There is still hope however -- the /rescue directory contains a statically linked binary and a whole bunch of hardlinks, including 'mount' and 'cp'. If you can get libc.so.5 onto a floppy

Re: i386 vs amd64 - benchmark results

On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 11:52:30AM -0400 I heard the voice of Vivek Khera, and lo! it spake thus: The amd64 memory architecture is NUMA -- that is, depending on how your RAM is layed out, some of it is faster to access for each processor. Accessing RAM local to the other processor(s) is

Re: SMP support maturity? AMD64x2 or FX-57?

On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 01:27:30PM -0700 I heard the voice of Frank Mayhar, and lo! it spake thus: Sigh. You know, I've been running with two processors since 4.1 or thereabouts. Sure, the BGL scheme is inefficient as far as the kernel itself is concerned, but for compute-bound user

Re: Problems with 5.x

On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 06:27:17PM +0200 I heard the voice of Torfinn Ingolfsen, and lo! it spake thus: On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:57:38 -0400 Matt Emmerton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The machine is a clunker - P2-266 with 48MB RAM and a couple of 2GB ATA drives. And you are not running out of

Re: load 1, no process using 10% CPU...?

On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 10:05:24PM -0400 I heard the voice of Damian Gerow, and lo! it spake thus: It turned out to be a runaway xmms process. But I still find it strange that it didn't show anything obvious in top. Threaded processes don't rack up CPU%. It's an (annoying) side effect of

Re: Sound problem

On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 01:49:22PM +0200 I heard the voice of Cristiano Deana, and lo! it spake thus: if it loaded something you will find your right sound module listed there. Not always, actually. My card uses snd_mss, but it took me a whole bunch of loading and unloading to find that out.

Re: SSH Protocol mismatch

On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 04:05:11AM +0800 I heard the voice of CryBaby, and lo! it spake thus: OS: FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE #3: Fri Jan 14 23:53:07 CST 2005 I ssh my host by using putty or any ssh client in WindowsXP, and I can't login lately. (But telnet and other services are ok.) Check that the

Re: php5.0.3_1 doesn't run after update

On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 04:16:51PM -0500 I heard the voice of bob, and lo! it spake thus: I am running 4.10 stable. I upgraded to php5.0.3_1 by: cvsup portsdb -Uu pkgdb -vuf portupgrade -v php5-session portupgrade -v php5-mysql ... portupgrade -v php5 you need to update the base

Re: TFTPD timeout

On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 05:51:02PM +0600 I heard the voice of Maxim V Tretjyakov, and lo! it spake thus: What is wrong? Firewall? -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ The only reason I'm burning my

Re: bug in pw, -STABLE [patch]

On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 09:00:52AM -0700 I heard the voice of Paul Herman, and lo! it spake thus: On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Geoffrey C. Speicher wrote: How so? I'm not suggesting unlink(2)ing /etc/master.passwd or /etc/spwd.db at all. No, but pw(8) does; making it not do so would require

Re: bug in pw, -STABLE [patch]

Sorry for the slooow response, I've had problems you wouldn't believe with my email... On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 06:40:57PM -0400 I heard the voice of Geoffrey C. Speicher, and lo! it spake thus: 1. The lock isn't very fine-grained. We grab one giant lock before doing any operations

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