Re: Does FreeBSD 13 disable the VEV cache in ZFS ?

2021-05-14 Thread Pete French
> Could you check the values of the following sysctl variables: > > vfs.zfs.vdev.cache_size > vfs.zfs.vdev.cache_bshift > vfs.zfs.vdev.cache_max > kstat.zfs.misc.vdev_cache_stats.misses > kstat.zfs.misc.vdev_cache_stats.hits > kstat.zfs.misc.vdev_cache_stats.delegations As predicted, all zero,

Does FreeBSD 13 disable the VEV cache in ZFS ?

2021-05-14 Thread Pete French
Am just upgrading my machiens, and have noticed an oddity. This is on a machine runnign 12.2 # zfs-stats -D ZFS Subsystem ReportFri May 14 08:30:50 2021

Re: geli - is it better to partition then encrypt, or vice versa ?

2021-04-18 Thread Pete French
On 17/04/2021 21:18, Karl Denninger wrote: This also makes "geli groups" trivial in /etc/rc.conf for attachment at boot time irrespective of whether they physically come up in the same place (again typically yes, but in the case of a failure or you plug it into a different adapter.)

Re: geli - is it better to partition then encrypt, or vice versa ?

2021-04-18 Thread Pete French
On 17/04/2021 21:06, Alan Somers wrote: The answer depends on why you want to partition in the first place. What do you intend to store on those disks besides ZFS?  If the answer is nothing, then don't bother partitioning; just write ZFS over GELI over the whole disk. Well, actually thats

geli - is it better to partition then encrypt, or vice versa ?

2021-04-17 Thread Pete French
So, am building a zpool on some encrypted discs - and what I have done is to partition the disc with GPT add a single big partition, and encrypt that. So the pool is on nda1p1.eli. But I could, of course, encrypt the disc first, and then partition the encrypted disc, or indded just put the

Re: FreeBSD 13/stable and zpool upgrade

2021-02-19 Thread Pete French
On 19/02/2021 22:30, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: e.g., on one system BIOS-booting system, /boot/rewrite-bootcode.sh: -- #!/bin/sh -x for i in /dev/nda0 /dev/nda1; do gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ${i} done

Re: DHCP and chnaging the MAC address on a network card

2021-02-12 Thread Pete French
On 10/02/2021 23:50, Eugene Grosbein wrote: Try changing your command a bit: /sbin/ifconfig $1 ether d0:bf:9c:46:a3:7c up So, this worked. I also turned off the cable modem for five minuets before rebooting as well, but I suspect it was simply this which did the trick. thanks, -pete.

Re: DHCP and chnaging the MAC address on a network card

2021-02-11 Thread Pete French
On 10/02/2021 23:50, Eugene Grosbein wrote: Try changing your command a bit: /sbin/ifconfig $1 ether d0:bf:9c:46:a3:7c up Ah, interesting, yes - I did wonder about that, but looking inside network.subr it seemed to run ifconfig_up regardless of the result from ifcsript_up - but theres a

DHCP and chnaging the MAC address on a network card

2021-02-10 Thread Pete French
I have a machine runnign 12-STABLE, which gets its upstream IP address from my ISP using DHCP over a cable modem. What I just tried to do was to set the MAC address on that interface at boot time, but if I do that then it no longer acquires a DHCP address from the upstream. Is there something

Re: How to handle the pack files now we have switched to git?

2021-01-08 Thread Pete French
On 06/01/2021 15:47, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: That's not entirely correct. The packfile will only be rewritten if a) enough other stuff has accumulated b) you force a repack. You are fighting against git's GC mechanism a bit here, but you can still make it work. On your source of truth host,

Re: How to handle the pack files now we have switched to git?

2021-01-06 Thread Pete French
On 05/01/2021 15:58, Chris wrote: Brilliant minds think alike. I use nearly the same routine. ;-) Always good to know that I am not doing something completely idiotic ;) OTOH it won't be (easily) possible to "up" the repo(s) from the receiving hosts w/o the .git. Yes, this is my issue

How to handle the pack files now we have switched to git?

2021-01-05 Thread Pete French
So, for me the switch to git went very smoothly. I havent moved to etcupdate yet, but will probably do that soon. Hopwever I did hit one issue. What I do is to build on a single machine, and then send that to a number of places using rsync. But what seems to happen wuth git is that it has a

Re: 12.1p7 no longer boots after doing zpool upgrade -a

2020-07-09 Thread Pete French
On 09/07/2020 14:36, Kyle Evans wrote: We haven't quite standardized on a good process yet, IMO, but for right now the correct process is to just mount the ESP and replace loader.efi with your system's updated /boot/loader.efi. At some point we'll standardize a mountpoint for the ESP and

Re: 12.1p7 no longer boots after doing zpool upgrade -a

2020-07-09 Thread Pete French
On 09/07/2020 14:24, Kyle Evans wrote: gpart bootcode -p /boot/boot1.efifat -i 1 ada0 gpart bootcode -p /boot/boot1.efifat -i 1 ada1 This method of updating the ESP is no longer recommended for new 12.x installations -- we now more carefully construct the ESP with an

Re: HOWTO donate CPU to the fight against the Corona-virus

2020-03-22 Thread Pete French
On 22/Mar/2020 16:16, Alexander Leidinger via freebsd-stable wrote: This is now available as a port: biology/linux-foldingathome (thanks 0mp@). Thankyou! However I dont seem to be able to make it work - I get this in the log: 19:16:54: 19:16:54: 19:16:54: 19:16:54: 19:16:54:

Re: Running FreeBSD on M.2 SSD

2020-02-25 Thread Pete French
On 25/Feb/2020 13:28, Mario Olofo wrote: Good morning all, @Pete French, you have trim activated on your SSDs right? I heard that if its not activated, the SSD disc can stop working very quickly. On the curent dfives, yes, but I have run with trim disabled in the past, It kinds

Re: Running FreeBSD on M.2 SSD

2020-02-25 Thread Pete French
On 25/Feb/2020 10:52, Daniel Kalchev wrote: It might well be, that FreeBSD is more agressive with your motherboard/chipset or does not implement known quirk of that — which might trigger some edge cases for the SSD. Ultimately, if you can move that SSD to another motherboard and test it, it

Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 12.0 end-of-life

2020-02-18 Thread Pete French
On 18/Feb/2020 17:19, Tomasz CEDRO wrot> But also as this DRM user (for Intel and AMD) I have experienced the related hiccups, problems, and problems solutions. It does not look like a FreeBSD way, but more like Linux way. I never noticed anything like this before. Sure, I can see this only as

Re: Slow zfs destroy

2019-11-28 Thread Pete French
On 28/Nov/2019 07:03, Eugene Grosbein wrote: 28.11.2019 13:46, Eugene Grosbein wrote: Hi! Is it normal that "zfs destroy" for one ZVOL with attribute "used" equal to 2112939808 bytes (~2GB) takes over two minutes waiting on "tx_sync_done_cv"? The pool is RAID1 over five SSDs encrypted

Re: Long-shot: repeatable macOS samba share unmounting during Lightroom import

2019-11-24 Thread Pete French
I have a very similar setup to you for serving files to my Mac from a FreeBSD server. I haven't seen the unmount problem, but I di have a few oddities until I added the 'fruit' module on the Samba side, which helps with compatbiloty with the Mac. The appropriate bit of my config looks like

Re: python dameon coredumps when started from boot, but not by hand

2019-11-12 Thread Pete French
On 10/Nov/2019 22:20, Kevin P. Neal wrote: The rc script must have a function that starts the python program, right? Actually, no. It just looks like this: #!/bin/sh # PROVIDE: waagent # REQUIRE: sshd netif dhclient # KEYWORD: nojail .

Re: python dameon coredumps when started from boot, but not by hand

2019-11-10 Thread Pete French
On 04/Nov/2019 23:45, O'Connor, Daniel wrote: This would also capture the stderr output, and should be pretty easy to shoe horn into the rc.d file. Nice thinking! Just picking this up again, I have tried a few things, but am unable to actually get this to work in the rc.d file, any

Re: python dameon coredumps when started from boot, but not by hand

2019-11-04 Thread Pete French
Soo, I tried this on my desktop machine, and it doesnt coredump, but nor does it try and lauch the second python process, so a bit of a failed test there! -pete. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: python dameon coredumps when started from boot, but not by hand

2019-11-04 Thread Pete French
> Ah, does python get run before the ldconfig service runs? Nope, this is comming way after ldconfig has run - also the first python interpretter runs fine, is the one which that python script then tries to launch which fails. Thats the bit which really puzzles me - if it was python dying then

Re: python dameon coredumps when started from boot, but not by hand

2019-11-04 Thread Pete French
Thanks for the ideas, running through these in order... > Check "rcorder /etc/rc.d/* /usr/local/etc/rc.d/*" So, its running directly after sshd and before swaplate and the local stuff. > Check if ldconfig is runable (I ended up with permissions 0444 on=20 > /etc/rc.d/ldconfig after some

Re: python dameon coredumps when started from boot, but not by hand

2019-11-04 Thread Pete French
> Shot in the dark: Is it possible that python is trying to dynamically > load a shared library that isn't available yet due to being on a not-yet > mounted filesystem? I wondered about that, but I have these boxes confiured with only one filesystem for everything apart from mysql data. > Just a

Re: python dameon coredumps when started from boot, but not by hand

2019-11-01 Thread Pete French
> Hmm, does changing the command_args line to this work: > command_args=3D"start 2>/tmp/waagent.log" > work? That is byte-for-byte identical to what I tried :-) It creates the file in /tmp, but the file remains empty. I think I need to look at the source code to work out whats up with it (on the

Re: python dameon coredumps when started from boot, but not by hand

2019-10-31 Thread Pete French
> Hmm very odd.. > Does the tool depend on something else running? No, not at all. Earlier versions of the tool dont do this either. On a machine running the tool started by hand the two processes look like this: 0 86918 1 0 20 03426823860 wait I 0- 0:00.92 python

Re: python dameon coredumps when started from boot, but not by hand

2019-10-31 Thread Pete French
> Does it crash if you run it from the command line with 'env -i' in front? > > That clears out the environment and will be a lot closer to the rc.d > environment. Interesting idea, but no, that works fine. Annoyingly! > If that doesn't show anything then you will have to try capturing stderr >

python dameon coredumps when started from boot, but not by hand

2019-10-30 Thread Pete French
So heres an oddity - I have a service which runs under python3. It works fine if I start it from a terminal as root, but when it is started at boot the python interpretter itself coredumps. The program in question is the latest Microsoft 'waagent' form machines running in Azure. This apparently

Creating a bootable volume in AWS under 12.1

2019-10-21 Thread Pete French
Does anyone have any pointers to how to make bootable AWS volumes for FreeBSD ? I did this once, a long time ago, but its eluding me now. Am just trying to simply clone a machine I have deployed from the 12.1 AMI for now, just to see where I am going wrong. I ceate the machine, I attach a new

Re: Running iperf3 as a server drops all connections to a machine

2019-10-03 Thread Pete French
> > Any opinions or things people would ike me to check ? > > netstat -p tcp -ss > tcpdump -i $interface -npvs0 icmp or 'tcp[tcpflags] & (tcp-rst) !=3D 0' I havent had a chnace to look at this for a couple of days, but I thought I would give it mor testing now (doing the above). Updated to the

Running iperf3 as a server drops all connections to a machine

2019-09-29 Thread Pete French
This is odd - I have six FreeBSD boxes on the local ether here. Five are HP Microservers, one is an AMD Ryzen. They are all running 12.1 r352847 built yesterday - and its one compilation I did which is rsynced out to all the machines, so an identical build. I was running iperf3 -s on one machine

Re: Statement regarding employment change and roles in the Project

2019-06-21 Thread Pete French
On 20/06/2019 17:22, Glen Barber wrote: Dear FreeBSD community: As I have a highly-visible role within the community, I want to share some news. I have decided the time has come to move on from my role with the FreeBSD Foundation, this Friday being my last day. I have accepted a position

Re: Problem with STABLE-12

2019-05-30 Thread Pete French
Just to follow up on this thread from April, where people were talking about graphics/drm-kmod hanging on boot with an older Radeon card. I had the same issue and have bene using graphics/drm-legacy-kmod since then, but the changes to the Linux KPI which have come into STABLE in the last few

Re: ZFS...

2019-05-09 Thread Pete French
On 09/05/2019 00:17, Miroslav Lachman wrote: Time for some scripting :) This is what I have on the machine with weird controller # cat bin/zfs_bootcode_update.sh #!/bin/sh devs="ada0 ada1 ada2 ada3" for dev in $devs do     echo -n "Updating ZFS bootcode on ${dev} ..."     if !

Re: ZFS...

2019-05-05 Thread Pete French
On 05/05/2019 04:06, Michelle Sullivan wrote: Which I find interesting in itself as I have a machine running 9.3 which started life as a 5.x (which tells you how old it is) and it’s still running on the same *compaq* raid5 with UFS on it... with the original drives, with a hot spare that

Re: ZFS...

2019-05-04 Thread Pete French
On 04/05/2019 01:05, Michelle Sullivan wrote: New batteries are only $19 on eBay for most battery types... Indeed, my problem is actual physical access to the machine, which I havent seen in ten years :-) I even have a relacement server sitting behind my desk which we never quite got

Re: ZFS...

2019-05-03 Thread Pete French
On 03/05/2019 14:07, Michelle Sullivan wrote: I don’t think it will do that in write through.. it will everytime in write back. Yes, it really shouldnt do that. My server is so old that the battery on the RAID has failed, which definitely makes it go into write though mode. However not an

Re: ZFS...

2019-05-03 Thread Pete French
On 03/05/2019 13:11, Miroslav Lachman wrote: I had this problem in the past too. I am not sure if it was on Dell or HP machine - controller presents first disk only in the boot time so I created small (10 - 15GB partition) on each disk and use them all in 4 way mirror. Cannot say if it was

Re: ZFS...

2019-05-03 Thread Pete French
Hmm What happens when you do a “camcontrol devlist”? root@toybox:/usr/local/etc # camcontrol devlist at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (pass0,da0) at scbus0 target 1 lun 0 (pass1,da1) at scbus0 target 2 lun 0 (pass2,da2)

Re: ZFS...

2019-05-03 Thread Pete French
On 03/05/2019 08:09, Borja Marcos via freebsd-stable wrote: The right way to use disks is to give ZFS access to the plain CAM devices, not thorugh some so-called JBOD on a RAID controller which, at least for a long time, has been a *logical* “RAID0” volume on a single disk. That additional

Re: Problem with STABLE-12

2019-04-26 Thread Pete French
On 25/04/2019 15:07, Filippo Moretti via freebsd-stable wrote: Did you build world yesterday and now drm-kmod is working again?The only problem I have with legacy both drm and ati is that smplayer crashes the system and I have to reset via power switch.Filippo Si, I just tried this

Re: CFT for FreeBSD + ZoL

2019-04-20 Thread Pete French
On 19/04/2019 12:46, k...@ixsystems.com wrote: FreeBSD Developers, We're pleased to make available images allowing testing of FreeBSD using ZFS on Linux. During this development cycle, the ZoL code has been made portable, and available in the ports tree as sysutils/zol and

Re: Problem with STABLE-12

2019-04-18 Thread Pete French
I have a radeon graphics card, too.  Recently, I had a problem with the graphics/drm-kmod hanging on boot in multi-user.  My fix was to switch to graphics/drm-legacy-kmod, which at least lets the system boot again. I figure the newer graphics/drm-kmod no longer supports my old radeon card.

Re: em performs worse than igb (latency wise) in 12?

2019-04-05 Thread Pete French
On 05/04/2019 16:01, Kris von Mach wrote: I've upgraded from Stable 11 to Stable 12, and noticed that igb has been removed and is now part of em driver. However, the performance seems a lot worse. This is using HP 366FLR which is just HP's version of Intel i350 I believe. Something odd

Re: Observations from a ZFS reorganization on 12-STABLE

2019-03-18 Thread Pete French
On 17/03/2019 21:57, Eugene Grosbein wrote: I agree. Recently I've found kind-of-workaround for this problem: increase vm.v_free_min so when "FREE" memory goes low, page daemon wakes earlier and shrinks UMA (and ZFS ARC too) moving some memory from WIRED to FREE quick enough so it can be

Re: Binary update to -STABLE? And if so, what do I get?

2019-02-16 Thread Pete French
On 15/02/2019 08:06, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: We build from sources centrally, then zfs send/receive /usr/src and /usr/obj to all of the machines, then just do the install(kernel|world) part on all of them. I do this occasionally, but in the main I sumply NFS mount /usr/src and /usr/obj

Re: Binary update to -STABLE? And if so, what do I get?

2019-02-14 Thread Pete French
On 14/02/2019 01:43, Jason Tubnor wrote: I also have hit this IPv6 issue (I thought I was going crazy until I worked it out) and other iflib issues in 12.0, which have been fixed in -STABLE that really should be patched in 12.0 or bring forward an early 12.1 release. For our use case, 12.0 is

Re: Networking panic on 12 - found the cause

2019-02-12 Thread Pete French
Thanks guys! That was fast On 12/02/2019 20:13, Kristof Provost wrote: On 2019-02-12 13:54:21 (-0600), Eric van Gyzen wrote: > I see the same behavior on head (and stable/12). > > (kgdb) f > #16 0x80ce5331 in ether_output_frame (ifp=0xf80003672800, > m=0xf8000c88b100)

Networking panic on 12 - found the cause

2019-02-12 Thread Pete French
I found my panic. If I take everything out of rc.conf and loader.conf and sysctl.conf and boot the system it works fine when I add an IP address. If I add this one line to sysctl.conf net.link.ether.inet.garp_rexmit_count=2 Then I get a panic when I configure the interface:

Re: More CARP issues under 12

2019-02-08 Thread Pete French
So, another datapoint on this - I just PXE booted the 12.0-RELEASE image downloaded from https://mfsbsd.vx.sk/ and that works fine. Which means that it siether something which has crept in since 12.0-RELEASE or its something to do with my config on that machine. I did try and buld an mfsroot

Re: More CARP issues under 12

2019-02-06 Thread Pete French
On 06/02/2019 12:16, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: Hi, this doesn't look very useful. Do you have some specificity with this host except carp? Some modifications to kernel config, lagg, jails, etc. No, none of those. Its a supermicro motherboard, runs FreeBSD GENERIC and mysql+redis on top,

Re: More CARP issues under 12

2019-02-05 Thread Pete French
> Hi, > > What branch and revision do you use? Can you install gdb and then obtain > this information: The branch and revision is 12.0-STABLE r343538 GENERIC > # kgdb > > (kgdb) list *ether_output+0x6b6 trying to do this on the actual box is hard, as it panics, but on another machine running

Kernel panic going multiuser under 12 ( was Re: More CARP issues under 12 (maybe not CARP after all))

2019-02-05 Thread Pete French
Just to get the subject correct, as I tested this disabling CARP and I still see the panic when going multi-user. It netwprking related as the panic is in the ARP code, and seems to happen when the network interfaces are configured. The machine was using a mix of em and igb interfaces, but

Re: More CARP issues under 12 (maybe not CARP after all)

2019-02-04 Thread Pete French
> > To point out the obvious, booting a 12.0 kernel with 11.0 userland to > > multiuser mode is seriously unsupported. You really need to boot to > > single user and install 12.0 userland to really expect things to work. > > Yes, good point. This has worked on every other machine I have upgraded

Re: freebsd-12 and bhyve and the azure platform

2019-01-28 Thread Pete French
On 26/01/2019 16:43, tech-lists wrote: OK, thanks. I thought this might be the case. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't trying to reinvent the wheel ;) We use Azure extensivley with FreeBSD, and I havent installed from an image since the first one. Everything I do is taking a copy of an

Re: More CARP issues under 12 (maybe not CARP after all)

2019-01-20 Thread Pete French
To point  out the obvious, booting a 12.0 kernel with 11  userland to multiuser mode is seriously unsupported. You really need to boot to single user and install 12.0 userland to really expect things to work. Yes, good point. This has worked on every other machine I have upgraded from 11 to

More CARP issues under 12

2019-01-17 Thread Pete French
so, having got a workaround for yesterdays problems, I now went to upgrade my other pair of boxes using CARP. No 'pf' on these, just one shared address. This is the setup I have tested in development and it works fine. I install the new kenel and do the first reboot - and I get the panic below.

Re: CARP stopped working after upgrade from 11 to 12

2019-01-16 Thread Pete French
> I have confirmed that pfsync is the culprit. Read on for details. Excellent work. I;m home now, so won't get a chnace to out this into practice until tomorrow unfortunately, but it's brilliant that you have confirmed it. > I tried disabling pfsync and rebooting both nodes, they came up as >

Re: CARP stopped working after upgrade from 11 to 12

2019-01-16 Thread Pete French
> I can't see how any of those would impact carp unless pf is now > incorrectly blocking carp packets, which seems unlikely from that commit. Just looking at the code it does seem unlikely, true - but my working system does not run pf+pfsync and the non working one does, so it is suspiciously in

Re: CARP stopped working after upgrade from 11 to 12

2019-01-16 Thread Pete French
> Indeed. I am seeing the same thing. Which revision of 12 are you running? Ah, now that is very interesting - I wasnt expecting a reply so fast! I am running r342847 - not though, that this is also the version I am running on the two test systems which do work. > I am currently (yesterday and

CARP stopped working after upgrade from 11 to 12

2019-01-16 Thread Pete French
I just upgraded my pair of firewalls from 11 to 12, and am now in the situation where CARP no longer works between them to faiilover the virtual addresse. Both machines come up thinking that they are the master. If I manually set the advskew on the interfaces to a high number on what should be

Re: Any suggestions for a layer 3 load ablancer for 12, as relayd doesnt work anymore

2019-01-15 Thread Pete French
On 15/01/2019 14:48, Matt Garber wrote: For what it’s worth, HAProxy has the PROXY protocol for exactly the scenario you’re describing; I’ve heard it’s very straightforward and powerful to use, although haven’t had to use it on any of my HAProxy instances which are primarily doing L7.

Re: Any suggestions for a layer 3 load ablancer for 12, as relayd doesnt work anymore

2019-01-15 Thread Pete French
On 15/01/2019 10:24, Mark Blackman wrote: On 14 Jan 2019, at 18:44, Dave Cottlehuber wrote: haproxy does proper failover and allows custom health checks either via URL or real world traffic of external scripts. Traefik has lots of container oriented features. Dave There’s also the very

Any suggestions for a layer 3 load ablancer for 12, as relayd doesnt work anymore

2019-01-14 Thread Pete French
So, until the middle of this afternoon I was, doing my load balancing using relayd from ports and PF. My own fault for not checking, but I upgraded one of the firewall pair to 12 and then discovered that the relayd port is no longer available. Am now puzzling over solutions to this - I dont

Re: Congratulations on the Silver Anniversery Edition of FreeBSD

2018-12-12 Thread Pete French
> Glen, > It is just a bit shy of 25 years and 1 month that I shipped > the 1.0 Release. Its been a long road, but we are here now! Its alwasy really nice to see poeple who have been with the project since the start still around :-) So, time to start upgrading everything to 12.0! well

Re: Ryzen issues on FreeBSD ? (with sort of workaround)

2018-12-04 Thread Pete French
On 04/12/2018 18:26, Mike Tancsa wrote: I think I will downgrade the box that was having issues to RELENG11 to see if the problem is there too.  Unfortunately, the issue took ~ 10 days to show itself My issues showed up on releng 11 as well as releng 12 - I didnt ry the last 11 stable for

Re: Ryzen issues on FreeBSD ? (with sort of workaround)

2018-12-04 Thread Pete French
On 04/12/2018 15:04, Mike Tancsa wrote: Well, another lockup. This time after ~ 10 days of uptime. Box was idle at the time and just a solid freeze. This is an ASUS PRIME X370-PRO running BIOS from 09/07/2018 (latest).  Not sure if BIOS related or OS related. I have another motherboard (MSI)

Re: Ryzen issues on FreeBSD ? (with sort of workaround)

2018-11-26 Thread Pete French
On 26/11/2018 16:30, Mike Tancsa wrote: Interesting, I too have noticed my one test box have the odd lockup.  I think it started around the BETA series. Is it possible something "undid" one of the fixes ? I brought the box in question upto 12.0-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 12.0-PRERELEASE r340724 and

Re: Ryzen issues on FreeBSD ? (with sort of workaround)

2018-11-26 Thread Pete French
On 26/11/2018 16:28, Eric van Gyzen wrote: My Ryzen has never run 11, but I have never seen a single problem on 12. As you suggest, it's probably due to the particular hardware combination. If updating the BIOS doesn't help, I agree that lowering the memory clock is the best next step. I

Re: Ryzen issues on FreeBSD ? (with sort of workaround)

2018-11-26 Thread Pete French
Foolwing up an old thread I know, but my ssystem ahs been pretty stable until recently, when it started locking up about one a week at least. This co-incided with me doing two things to it: 1) Doubling the amount of RAM in it to 16 gig, using RAM which runs a bit faster than the original

Re: Just updated to 12 from11 - did ld change ?

2018-11-12 Thread Pete French
On 12/11/2018 22:12, Dimitry Andric wrote: If you are on amd64, ld is now LLVM's lld. You can check this with "ld -v": $ ld -v LLD 6.0.1 (FreeBSD 335540-125) (compatible with GNU linkers) Ah, yes, I am on amd64 - that would be it then, thanks! Worth menioning in the release notes

Just updated to 12 from11 - did ld change ?

2018-11-12 Thread Pete French
Just trying out the BETA4 version of 12, updating from 11-STABLE. All went nice and smoothly, but when compiing coe I had to make some tweaks to the arhuments I am passing to 'ld' when part-linking objects against static libraries. Did something chnage here ? Its not on the release notes that I

Re: Latest update to ATI driver broke in same way as using DRM-next did

2018-10-16 Thread Pete French
, xrandr only showed one outout on the card, which puzzled me (there are 4 outputs). -pete. [copying to -stable so others know the outcome] On 16/10/2018 12:39, Niclas Zeising wrote: On 10/9/18 12:32 PM, Pete French wrote: So this is kind of interesting - I posted here last month about trying

Latest update to ATI driver broke in same way as using DRM-next did

2018-10-09 Thread Pete French
So this is kind of interesting - I posted here last month about trying to use drm-next and it not finding my 2nd monitor properly. I did try and subscribe to x11@ but for some reaosn that didnt work, and I didnt worry abotu it too much so didnt investigate further as I wont be running 12.0 for a

Re: Latest STABLE locks up on boot for me

2018-10-05 Thread Pete French
> Been testing various kernels since I posted this, currently at r338931 > which runs fine. Will continue on Friday as am not inf ront of the > machine tomorrow. Just to uodate this, I have tried the update from this morning, r339193, and tthat works fine. I noticed some more ZFS stuff went in,

Re: FCP-0101: Deprecating most 10/100 Ethernet drivers

2018-10-04 Thread Pete French
On 04/10/2018 20:54, Doug Hardie wrote: I have a number of production servers that only have bge and I don't see that listed in either category. None of them are running FreeBSD 12 yet as it has not been released. Also there are some with rl. Those are add-on boards so they could be

Re: Latest STABLE locks up on boot for me

2018-10-03 Thread Pete French
On 03/10/2018 15:16, Pete French wrote: The machine is booting ZFS (unencrypted) and is a Ryzen CPU. I will start trying to work out where the offending commit is, but if anyone has an insight which might help shortcut the process then please let me know. Been testing various kernels since

Latest STABLE locks up on boot for me

2018-10-03 Thread Pete French
I just upgraded to STABLE, having been running r338093 since the end of August, and was su[psised when it locked up on boot for me. By which I mean the keyboard is unresponsible and the SATA drive access LED is on permamently. I have a small encryopted partition, and the boot gets as far as

Re: Good motherboard for Ryzen (first-gen)

2018-09-22 Thread Pete French
> I would like to build a Ryzen desktop.? Can anyone recommend a good > motherboard? I have oe of these: https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/X370-XPOWER-GAMING-TITANIUM but I just saw how much they are charging for it these days! I got one at about half that. I did originally get a B370 based

Re: Using drm-next in 11.2

2018-09-13 Thread Pete French
it's from the xorg-server port/pkg: $ pkg list xorg-server|grep modes /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/modesetting_drv.so /usr/local/man/man4/modesetting.4.gz Ah, OK, in that case I would have had it when I did my experiment with remiving all the existing xf86-* drivers. I wont be able

Re: Using drm-next in 11.2

2018-09-12 Thread Pete French
I believe your best bet is to let Xorg probe your devices automatically - i.e. don't have an xorg.conf in place when starting X. Yes, I dont have an xorg to conf - I was a bit unclear, I meant which drivers should I instal from the xorg-drivers package as I dont generally install all of

Re: Using drm-next in 11.2

2018-09-12 Thread Pete French
Starting from the beginning: how the "drm.ko" is loaded ? Thats a very good question! I am not loading it myself explicitly anyhere, so my guess is that xorg is loading it. On the machine right now (which I was using with X11 yesterday) it only has drm2 loaded - again, I assume from

Re: Using drm-next in 11.2

2018-09-12 Thread Pete French
can you post your dmesg output from when you've set kld_list="/boot/modules/amdgpu.ko"?  also, please verify that your user is in the "video" group.  but from what you've described it sounds like a conflict is popping up between the base amdgpu.ko and the one available in the ports tree.

Re: Using drm-next in 11.2

2018-09-11 Thread Pete French
I'd try a make deinstall inside drm-stable-kmod and drm-legacy-kmod directories and see if that fixes anything. On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 13:50:24 +0100 Pete French wrote: So, I was trying to switch to using this, as I realise its where things are heading, and I rather like the look of it. But I cant

Re: Using drm-next in 11.2

2018-09-11 Thread Pete French
On 11/09/2018 14:42, Pete French wrote: I think you have to use kld_list="/boot/modules/amdgpu.ko" to get the new one. Will give it a try - I think its unnecessary as the name doesnt clash, but worth a go... -pete. [quick reboot comming up] I tired this, it doesnt hel

Re: Using drm-next in 11.2

2018-09-11 Thread Pete French
I think you have to use kld_list="/boot/modules/amdgpu.ko" to get the new one. Will give it a try - I think its unnecessary as the name doesnt clash, but worth a go... -pete. [quick reboot comming up] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Using drm-next in 11.2

2018-09-11 Thread Pete French
So, I was trying to switch to using this, as I realise its where things are heading, and I rather like the look of it. But I cant get it to see my multiple monitors. I install the port, set 'kld_list="amdgpu"' and it boots up with the new modules, and appears to find all my displays in dmesg. But

Re: Ryzen issues on FreeBSD ? (with sort of workaround)

2018-08-10 Thread Pete French
So, having been stable for quite sme time, I have had three lockups on my Ryzen in the last week. two were whilst I was in X11, but one happened over the weekend whilst I was looged out, and thus I could get a screenshot of what was on the console when I got in this morning:

Re: How do I stop using local_unbound ?

2018-08-07 Thread Pete French
Hmm.  First, make sure that it isn't running (service local_unbound stop, etc). Then look at your /etc/resolv.conf -- unbound tends to rewrite that on initial startup, taking some of it's settings and inserting itself into the middle as a caching DNS server.  At the

How do I stop using local_unbound ?

2018-08-06 Thread Pete French
having enabled local_unbound in /etc/rc.d how do I remove that and go back to using just DHCP delivered nameservers ? I set it to 'NO' but yet the machine still seems to have traces of the config in other places and keeps trying to use them, for reasons I dont understand. Is there a quyick guide

Re: mail coredumping on yesterdays STABLE

2018-07-31 Thread Pete French
> Mark Johnston fixed this. See > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=230196 Thanks - I saw the commit go in earlier, but I hadnt checked my email until now. Sorry I didnt investigate this myself, as I am perfectly capable of doing so, to be honest, just very short of time :-(

Re: Ryzen issues on FreeBSD ? (with sort of workaround)

2018-07-30 Thread Pete French
I just brought everything upto date and re-tested and same issue. FreeBSD 11.2-STABLE #1 r336761 # mount | grep -v zfs devfs on /dev (devfs, local, multilabel) linprocfs on /compat/linux/proc (linprocfs, local) linsysfs on /compat/linux/sys (linsysfs, local) tmpfs on /compat/linux/dev/shm

Re: Ryzen issues on FreeBSD ? (with sort of workaround)

2018-07-27 Thread Pete French
On 27/07/2018 14:10, Mike Tancsa wrote: I havent used the linux emulator in ages. What is the easiest way to try this out ? in rc.conf have linux_enable="YES" when you boot. then pkg install linux_base-c7 /compat/linux/bin/bash and you should see a bash pprompt

Re: Ryzen issues on FreeBSD ? (with sort of workaround)

2018-07-27 Thread Pete French
I highly doubt that this can be related. Well, yes, it suroprised me too :-) Admittedly I dont have a very big samle set - I nly have one Ryzen box and a pair of Epyc boxes in Azure. but I cant make it run on any of them. I take the same OS and run it on Intel and its fine (literally I am

Re: Ryzen issues on FreeBSD ? (with sort of workaround)

2018-07-27 Thread Pete French
So, I have been running the patched kernel for quiet a while now, and it works fine for me, but last night I did hit a surprising issue - the Linux emulator does not work on Ryzen / Epyc. I tried this on two machines (both with the patches) and it coredumps when simply running bash on both of

Re: Linux binaries stopped working on latest stable ? - Only on Ryzen/Epyc

2018-07-27 Thread Pete French
> Hmm, I gte a core dump trying to run any Linux binary at the moment (stable > from Tuesday - r336665). I have remoed all packages and re-installed > and running /compat/linux/bin/bash coredumps. Running ldd on it coredumps > too, and gdb gets e nowhre. I did a bit more testing on this. It only

Linux binaries stopped working on latest stable ?

2018-07-26 Thread Pete French
Hmm, I gte a core dump trying to run any Linux binary at the moment (stable from Tuesday - r336665). I have remoed all packages and re-installed and running /compat/linux/bin/bash coredumps. Running ldd on it coredumps too, and gdb gets e nowhre. Unfortunately I have no idea when it last worked,

Re: Ryzen consensus

2018-07-22 Thread Pete French
On 22/07/2018 02:48, George Mitchell wrote: Based on people's recent Ryzen experiences, is it fair to say that FreeBSD 11.2 is now believed to work on Ryzens, if you have a recent enough Ryzen and your motherboard has been updated to the latest BIOS? I would still use the patches provided

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