Re: [IMPORTANT] Adaptec no longer supporting iir(4) driver ...

2006-08-04 Thread User Freebsd
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, John-Mark Gurney wrote: User Freebsd wrote this message on Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 22:44 -0300: For those that haven't been following the discussion on this, the iir(4) driver in FreeBSD 6.x appears to have a deadlock issue under medium to heavy load, where the 'blocked' state

Re: em device hangs on ifconfig alias ...

2006-08-01 Thread User Freebsd
Any status on this patch being merged in? On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Atanas wrote: Pyun YongHyeon said the following on 7/7/06 8:32 PM: On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 10:38:01PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: Yes -- basically, there are two problems: (1) A little problem, in which an arp

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

2006-08-01 Thread User Freebsd
On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: Hi! On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 10:49:27PM -0300, User Freebsd wrote: Official word from Adaptec is that FreeBSD is no longer a supported platform, so, I either live with the deadlocks, or try and figure out a suitable replacement for the card

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

2006-08-01 Thread User Freebsd
On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Christian Brueffer wrote: On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 10:49:27PM -0300, User Freebsd wrote: I have a remote server, running the above RAID controller, that, as most ppl here have seen over the past few weeks, is causing endless headaches ... Official word from Adaptec

Re: [IMPORTANT] Adaptec no longer supporting iir(4) driver ...

2006-08-01 Thread User Freebsd
as such ... On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, User Freebsd wrote: 'k, I finally got ahold of someone @ adaptec, and the official word seems to be: FreeBSD 6 is not officially supported for the GDT based ICP RAID controllers. Nevertheless the inbox driver should work. Great, well, the inbox driver doesn't work

iir(4) driver (Was: Re: Safe card to replace for ICP Vortex GDT851...)

2006-08-01 Thread User Freebsd
On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: Hello! On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 09:51:59AM +0200, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: That's really really bad news. Oddly, ICP Vortex Germany told me the opposite wr/t to their new line of cards. They said, they were working on full FreeBSD support. I'll

Re: iir(4) driver (Was: Re: Safe card to replace for ICP Vortex GDT851...)

2006-08-01 Thread User Freebsd
On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Scott Long wrote: Ok guys, time for a small breather here. All these claims about EoE and orphanage and whatnot are a bit premature and underinformed. First, the iir driver is being worked on when the need arises. Several bugs were fixed in it a few months ago, and until

Safe card to replace for ICP Vortex GDT8514RZ ...

2006-07-31 Thread User Freebsd
I have a remote server, running the above RAID controller, that, as most ppl here have seen over the past few weeks, is causing endless headaches ... Official word from Adaptec is that FreeBSD is no longer a supported platform, so, I either live with the deadlocks, or try and figure out a

[IMPORTANT] Adaptec no longer supporting iir(4) driver ...

2006-07-31 Thread User Freebsd
'k, I finally got ahold of someone @ adaptec, and the official word seems to be: FreeBSD 6 is not officially supported for the GDT based ICP RAID controllers. Nevertheless the inbox driver should work. Great, well, the inbox driver doesn't work with FreeBSD 6.x, and support doesn't exist

Re: file system deadlock - the whole story?

2006-07-19 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 01:31:17AM -0300, User Freebsd wrote: Kostik/Robert ... does this provide enough (any?) information concerning the deadlock situation(s) that are being reported? is there anything else I should do the next time it happens

Re: file system deadlock - the whole story?

2006-07-19 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Kostik Belousov wrote: You did not provided the output of show lockedbufs, Added to my debug list ... but, even without that data, I doubt that the buf subsystem deadlocked by itself. I make an conjecture that the problem is either with you disk hardware (i.e., actual

Re: file system deadlock - the whole story?

2006-07-19 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Robert Watson wrote: On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, User Freebsd wrote: Also note that under FreeBSD 4.x, all three of these machines were pretty much my more solid machines, with even more vServers running on them then I'm able to run with 6.x ... once I got rid of using unionfs

Re: file system deadlock - the whole story?

2006-07-19 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 11:23:21AM -0300, User Freebsd wrote: On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Robert Watson wrote: On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, User Freebsd wrote: Also note that under FreeBSD 4.x, all three of these machines were pretty much my more solid

Re: file system deadlock - the whole story?

2006-07-19 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Robert Watson wrote: On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, User Freebsd wrote: Yes, this was going to be my next question -- if you're seeing wedges under load and there's a common controller in use, maybe we're looking at a driver bug. Bugs of those sort typically look a lot like what

Re: file system deadlock - the whole story?

2006-07-19 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Scott Long wrote: Now, uranus has all the various kernel debugging enabled right now, and a serial console, so we're good for the debugging side of things ... and I believe that I can fairly easily recreate the issue by just moving a whack of vServers onto that machine to

Re: file system deadlock - the whole story?

2006-07-18 Thread User Freebsd
:( On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, User Freebsd wrote: 'k, had a bunch of fun tonight, but one of the results is that I was able to achieve file system deadlock, or so it appears ... Using the following from DDB: set $lines=0 show pcpu show allpcpu ps trace alltrace show locks show alllocks show uma show

vm_map.c lock up (Was: Re: NFS Locking Issue)

2006-07-14 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Robert Watson wrote: If you can get into DDB when the hang has occurred, output via serial console for the following commands would be very helpful: show pcpu show allpcpu ps trace traceall show locks show alllocks show uma show malloc show lockedvnods 'k, after 16

Re: vm_map.c lock up (Was: Re: NFS Locking Issue)

2006-07-14 Thread User Freebsd
On Sat, 15 Jul 2006, User Freebsd wrote: On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Robert Watson wrote: If you can get into DDB when the hang has occurred, output via serial console for the following commands would be very helpful: show pcpu show allpcpu ps trace traceall show locks show alllocks show uma show

Re: vm_map.c lock up (Was: Re: NFS Locking Issue)

2006-07-14 Thread User Freebsd
On Sat, 15 Jul 2006, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 12:10:29AM -0300, User Freebsd wrote: On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Robert Watson wrote: If you can get into DDB when the hang has occurred, output via serial console for the following commands would be very helpful: show pcpu show

Re: em device hangs on ifconfig alias ...

2006-07-10 Thread User Freebsd
On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: Mornin'! On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 12:11:36AM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: Not sure what STP is Spanning Tree Protocol. Having the link go up and down would cause the switch port to block traffic for a period of time. Of course, any reasonable

Re: em device hangs on ifconfig alias ...

2006-07-09 Thread User Freebsd
On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 01:20 PM 08/07/2006, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: Ah, I see. Thanks for the insight. How about the attached patch? I've been working on this problem for Mike Tancsa about a year ago, and my fix was naive. I ended up not committing it because I found

Re: em device hangs on ifconfig alias ...

2006-07-08 Thread User Freebsd
On Sat, 8 Jul 2006, Michael Vince wrote: I thought I remember a developer working on the em driver saying just before 6.1 was released that this reset was needed and couldn't be avoided to ensure performance of the device to work at its best, I can't remember his explanation, but this topic

Re: em device hangs on ifconfig alias ...

2006-07-07 Thread User Freebsd
On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Atanas wrote: Robert Watson said the following on 7/7/06 7:17 AM: I just left a tcpdump -n arp host 10.10.64.40 on a third machine sniffing around and tested all em module versions I had (the stock 6.1, 6-STABLE and 6-STABLE with your patch), but got silence on all

Re: NFS Locking Issue

2006-07-05 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Robert Watson wrote: On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Danny Braniss wrote: In my case our main servers are NetApp, and the problems are more related to am-utils running into some race condition (need more time to debug this :-) the other problem is related to throughput, freebsd is

Re: NFS Locking Issue

2006-07-05 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Michel Talon wrote: So it may be relevant to say that i have kernels without IPV6 support. Recall that i have absolutely no problem with the client in FreeBSD-6.1. Tomorrow i will test one of the 6.1 machines as a NFS server and the other as a client, and will make you know

Re: NFS Locking Issue

2006-07-05 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Francisco Reyes wrote: Scott Long writes: For what it's worth, I recently spent a lot of time putting FreeBSD 6.1 to the test as both an NFS client and server in a mixed OS environment. I have a few debugging settings/suggestions that have been sent my way and I plan to

Re: NFS Locking Issue

2006-07-03 Thread User Freebsd
machines.. as we loose customers because of current problems with the 6.X line. Since nobody except you experience that problems (at least, only you notified about the problem existence) Did you miss the part of: User Freebsd writes: Since there are several of us experiencing what looks

Re: High vmstat, filesystem unresponsive then hang 6.1 Stable

2006-07-02 Thread User Freebsd
This is the same issue that I've been hitting, and that requires the serial console / DDB stuff described in the debugging deadlocks web page that I pointed you at ... So far *knock on wood* since adding all of the debugging to one of my server, none of mine have done it ... but the more

Re: NFS Locking Issue

2006-07-02 Thread User Freebsd
On Sat, 1 Jul 2006, Francisco Reyes wrote: John Hay writes: I only started to see the lockd problems when upgrading the server side to FreeBSD 6.x and later. I had various FreeBSD clients, between 4.x and 7-current and the lockd problem only showed up when upgrading the server from 5.x to

Re: em device hangs on ifconfig alias ...

2006-06-30 Thread User Freebsd
On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Atanas wrote: A workaround is to power both of the systems down and then power them up. This however cannot be done remotely and in case there were IP aliases, they still don't get any traffic. see 'arping' ... great little tool, solved all my problems as far as moving

Re: configuring sio1 for serial console ...

2006-06-29 Thread User Freebsd
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Robert Watson wrote: On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, User Freebsd wrote: On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Robert Watson wrote: On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, User Freebsd wrote: Instead of changing your kernel config, edit the sio1 entries in /boot/device.hints. (This assumes you left device sio

Re: em device hangs on ifconfig alias ...

2006-06-29 Thread User Freebsd
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Peter Jeremy wrote: On Thu, 2006-Jun-29 17:30:07 +1000, Michael Vince wrote: For me its IP alias additions take 1 or maybe 2secs, but it is noticeable, but really isn't an issue for me. But it obviously is for Atanas, who has 100's of aliases. In my case, it isn't

Re: 6.1-R ? 6-Stable ? 5.5-R ?

2006-06-29 Thread User Freebsd
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Francisco Reyes wrote: Kostik Belousov writes: Approved by:pjd (mentor) Revision ChangesPath 1.156.2.3 +16 -0 src/sys/nfsserver/nfs_serv.c 1.136.2.3 +4 -0 src/sys/nfsserver/nfs_srvsubs.c The above files are what I have. Yes from a 6.1

Re: NFS Locking Issue

2006-06-29 Thread User Freebsd
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Francisco Reyes wrote: Michel Talon writes: Strange, since i upgraded to FreeBSD-6.1 and the NFS server to Fedora Core 5, my machine, NFS client is happy, and lockd works. What volume are we talking about? My own problems and other reports I see are all under heavy

Re: em device hangs on ifconfig alias ...

2006-06-29 Thread User Freebsd
On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Michael Vince wrote: The thing that have to ask is if Atanas has 100's why can't he just boot Freebsd have have them all prebound to the interface at startup, why would you need to add and remove them constantly by the hundreds during normal server uptime? I do restart

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2006-06-28 Thread User Freebsd
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How to enter DDB through a terminal server / remote console ... ?

2006-06-28 Thread User Freebsd
'k, now that I'm up to 3 6-STABLE servers that are deadlocking, I'm spending time with the remote tech today to get a serial console put online ... how do I drop into DDB remotely, where the serial console is going through a Portmaster Terminal server? issuing CTL-ALT-ESC, I doubt, will

em device hangs on ifconfig alias ...

2006-06-28 Thread User Freebsd
has anyone figured out why the em device 'hangs' for about 30-45 seconds whenever you ifconfig alias a new IP on to the device? Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo

configuring sio1 for serial console ...

2006-06-28 Thread User Freebsd
Following hte instructions in the Handbook, I've added the following line to my kernel config: device sio1 at isa? port IO_COM2 flags 0x10 irq 3 but, when I try to build it: config: /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/kernel:71: syntax error *** Error code 1 so, obviously that is wrong for

Re: How to enter DDB through a terminal server / remote console ... ?

2006-06-28 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Robert Watson wrote: On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, User Freebsd wrote: 'k, now that I'm up to 3 6-STABLE servers that are deadlocking, I'm spending time with the remote tech today to get a serial console put online ... how do I drop into DDB remotely, where the serial console

Re: configuring sio1 for serial console ...

2006-06-28 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Robert Watson wrote: On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, User Freebsd wrote: Following hte instructions in the Handbook, I've added the following line to my kernel config: device sio1 at isa? port IO_COM2 flags 0x10 irq 3 but, when I try to build it: config: /usr/src/sys/i386/conf

Expensive timeout?

2006-06-28 Thread User Freebsd
Just got this on the console of one of hte servers that has been causing problems ... Expensive timeout(9) function: 0xc0520e18(0xc8b223a0) 0.296959250 s not a very informative error, and that is all that was there, nothing before, nothing after ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org

Re: Expensive timeout?

2006-06-28 Thread User Freebsd
Oh, wait, does this have something to do with the Deadlock options I just added to the kernel? On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, User Freebsd wrote: Just got this on the console of one of hte servers that has been causing problems ... Expensive timeout(9) function: 0xc0520e18(0xc8b223a0) 0.296959250

Re: configuring sio1 for serial console ...

2006-06-28 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Robert Watson wrote: On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, User Freebsd wrote: Instead of changing your kernel config, edit the sio1 entries in /boot/device.hints. (This assumes you left device sio in your kernel -- if not, you need to re-add it). 'k, re-adding ... and I take

Re: Expensive timeout?

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

Re: em device hangs on ifconfig alias ...

2006-06-28 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Atanas wrote: I have some newer machines with 2 Broadcom chips on-board. I plan to give them a try at some point in the future, but I'm not sure how stable the bge driver is when compared to fxp and em. I'm using the bge driver on our new HP servers, and haven't noticed