RELENG_6 panic under heavy load

2006-11-13 Thread Dmitriy Kirhlarov
Hi, list. One from my monitoring servers running with FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #0: Fri Nov 10 11:03:10 UTC 2006 i386 Under heavy load it panic several times per day. Backtrace accesable: http://clh.higis.ru/~dimma/btfull.0 Can somebody take a look? I send Problem Report, but not get feed back now

Re: sio driver sucks

2006-11-13 Thread Sergey Matveychuk
Matthew Jacob wrote: YMMV and your message is content free. I use sio all the time as a [EMAIL PROTECTED] w/o any problems. On 11/12/06, Sergey Matveychuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you know an old sio driver is hardly usable? There are many silo overflows, working with a terminal device

Re: Cruel and unusual problems with Proliant ML350

2006-11-13 Thread Ivan Voras
Ivan Voras wrote: - The showstopper: Sysinstall completes (though slowly), but on reboot the loader doesn't go further than the F1 prompt :( This is very curious, since when booting from install CD the loader shows it recognizes the CD drive and drives A: and C:, so BIOS seems to be ok. If I

Re: Cruel and unusual problems with Proliant ML350

2006-11-13 Thread Pete French
There's something unusual going on and I don't know what else to try. Finally, after fiddling with various options, I've sort-of got it to work by creating two slices (s1, s2), setting root partition on s1a and the rest (/usr, /var, etc.) on s2. Now, the F1 prompt boot stage behaves like

Re: sio driver sucks

2006-11-13 Thread Спартак Радченко
O. Hartmann пишет: Sergey Matveychuk wrote: Do you know an old sio driver is hardly usable? There are many silo overflows, working with a terminal device is a nightmare. There was a report about one crash with a message about a spinlock holed more than 5 seconds (there is no core dump

Re: Cruel and unusual problems with Proliant ML350

2006-11-13 Thread Ivan Voras
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Pete French wrote: There's something unusual going on and I don't know what else to try. Finally, after fiddling with various options, I've sort-of got it to work by creating two slices (s1, s2), setting root partition on s1a and the rest (/usr, /var, etc.) on s2. Now, the

Re: EM stability

2006-11-13 Thread Gleb Smirnoff
On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 02:26:36PM -0600, Barry Boes wrote: B After the last hang I added giant locks back in and the machine has B been up since. B B I don't have a serial console, just a graphic console. When the B machine hangs it stops replying to ethernet packets at all protocol B levels

Re: Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-13 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 12:15 AM 11/13/2006, Scott Long wrote: Is this with EM_INTR_FAST enabled also? Yes. Havent done the stock case yet, but will do so later today. ---Mike ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: sio driver sucks

2006-11-13 Thread Mike Voorhis
Спартак Радченко wrote: I had serious problems with sio on Intel STL2 motherboard and recent stable. Massive silo overflows (modem was almost unusable) and at least 1 sio-related panic (spinlock held for more than 5 sec). Now I changed sio to uart ant it works like a charm. All problems

RE: 6-STABLE oddity

2006-11-13 Thread Jaime Bozza
Download, burn to CD and run http://www.memtest86.com/ Usually problems of this sort are faulty ram. I had a buddy getting odd errors on copying files that happenned at random. Turned out to be bad ram too. I recently had this same problem with a recent 6-STABLE and thought the same thing.

Re: sio driver sucks

2006-11-13 Thread Spartak Radchenko
Mike Tancsa wrote: At 06:36 AM 11/13/2006, =?KOI8-R?Q?=F3=D0=C1=D2=D4=C1=CB_=F2=C1=C4=DE=C5=CE=CB=CF?= wrote: O. Hartmann ÐÉÛÅÔ: Sergey Matveychuk wrote: Do you know an old sio driver is hardly usable? There are many silo overflows, working with a terminal device is a nightmare. There was a

Re: adding an extra hard disk and adding space to /usr

2006-11-13 Thread Oliver Fromme
Andriy Gapon wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: Aaron Burke wrote: SNIP (FreeBSD 4.x) : cd /usr; tar clpf - . | (cd /mnt; tar xvf -) (FreeBSD 5.x+) : cd /usr; gtar clpf - . | (cd /mnt; gtar xvf -) iirc tar(1) has changed in 5.3. why do you use gtar please? is new tar

Re: Cruel and unusual problems with Proliant ML350

2006-11-13 Thread Oliver Fromme
Ivan Voras wrote: - The less serious problem: It looks like a whole bunch of built-in devices is routed to irq 29: bce, ciss, ohci and ehci. I notice last three are giant locked, which doesn't look good, especially since this should be a loaded web server. If it's really only a web

Re: Cruel and unusual problems with Proliant ML350

2006-11-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 05:33:24PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: If it's really only a web server, then you probably don't need the USB ports. In that case you should remove ohci and ehci from your kernel. The USB interrupt handler is quite heavy-weight, so it can have a noticeable impact if

Re: Cruel and unusual problems with Proliant ML350

2006-11-13 Thread Ivan Voras
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 05:33:24PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: If it's really only a web server, then you probably don't need the USB ports. In that case you should remove ohci and ehci from your kernel. The USB interrupt handler is quite heavy-weight, so it can have

Re: Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-13 Thread Ivan Voras
Mike Tancsa wrote: At 12:15 AM 11/13/2006, Scott Long wrote: Is this with EM_INTR_FAST enabled also? Yes. Havent done the stock case yet, but will do so later today. Do you have a comparison with Linux under the same circumstances? ___

6.1 with PAE on a recent server (HP DL380 G5 or Dell PE 1950) ?

2006-11-13 Thread Olivier Mueller
Hello, I will soon get some new servers with more than 4 GB of RAM, and I am wondering if they will work fine even with the PAE option activated: are all the required drivers (RAID mfid, bce on the Dell, ciss0 on the HP) 100% compatible, or should I expect trouble? If you have a working

Re: RELENG_6 panic under heavy load

2006-11-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 11:44:31AM +0300, Dmitriy Kirhlarov wrote: Hi, list. One from my monitoring servers running with FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #0: Fri Nov 10 11:03:10 UTC 2006 i386 Under heavy load it panic several times per day. Backtrace accesable: http://clh.higis.ru/~dimma/btfull.0

Re: 6.1 with PAE on a recent server (HP DL380 G5 or Dell PE 1950) ?

2006-11-13 Thread Mike Jakubik
Olivier Mueller wrote: Hello, I will soon get some new servers with more than 4 GB of RAM, and I am wondering if they will work fine even with the PAE option activated: are all the required drivers (RAID mfid, bce on the Dell, ciss0 on the HP) 100% compatible, or should I expect trouble?

Re: 6.1 with PAE on a recent server (HP DL380 G5 or Dell PE 1950) ?

2006-11-13 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 07:30:09PM +0100, Olivier Mueller wrote: Hello, I will soon get some new servers with more than 4 GB of RAM, and I am wondering if they will work fine even with the PAE option activated: are all the required drivers (RAID mfid, bce on the Dell, ciss0 on the HP) 100%

Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD

2006-11-13 Thread Vivek Khera
On Nov 10, 2006, at 6:35 PM, Nguyen Tam Chinh wrote: For the pg configuration, I use this on a 4Gb box: max_connections = 100 shared_buffers = 7 # min 16 or max_connections*2, 8KB each work_mem = 262144 # min 64, size in KB Thank you very much.

Re: Cruel and unusual problems with Proliant ML350

2006-11-13 Thread Greg Byshenk
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:19:45AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: I'll agree with this (re: webservers not needing USB), except in regards to one item: keyboards. More and more x86 PCs these days are expecting keyboards to be USB-based. Yes, PS/2 ports are still present on most (but not

Re: Cruel and unusual problems with Proliant ML350

2006-11-13 Thread Clayton Milos
Same for me Greg. Everything I use runs on serial console including my *BSD servers, SUN, DSLAMs etc. I would say any server worth it's weight has serial redirection in it's BIOS. Most of the servers I admin are international and I use the sesrial console to fix problems if and when they

Re: Cruel and unusual problems with Proliant ML350

2006-11-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 08:22:39PM +0100, Greg Byshenk wrote: Don't you really need to have a monitor, as well? I _have_ worked blind before, but I didn't enjoy it. I can imagine having a keyboard with me when wandering around, but wouldn't normally have a monitor. I had always thought

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Re: Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-13 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 12:15 AM 11/13/2006, Scott Long wrote: Is this with EM_INTR_FAST enabled also? Without it, the 2 streams are definitely lossy on the management interface ---Mike ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-13 Thread Scott Long
Mike Tancsa wrote: At 12:15 AM 11/13/2006, Scott Long wrote: Is this with EM_INTR_FAST enabled also? Without it, the 2 streams are definitely lossy on the management interface ---Mike Ok, and would you be able to test the polling options as well? Scott

Re: 6.1 with PAE on a recent server (HP DL380 G5 or Dell PE 1950) ?

2006-11-13 Thread Olivier Mueller
On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 22:14 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: Drivers that are either known to NOT work with PAE or were not tested with PAE are excluded by the PAE config file, you can check there. So it looks like all of them should work fine with PAE. merci! Btw, when will we see these new

em interrupt storm

2006-11-13 Thread Bill Moran
Just experienced an interrupt storm on an em device that disabled a server until I could reboot it. My initial research turned up this thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-November/058336.html Which seems related, even if it is a little old. I'm aware that there have

Re: Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-13 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 12:50 PM 11/13/2006, Ivan Voras wrote: Mike Tancsa wrote: At 12:15 AM 11/13/2006, Scott Long wrote: Is this with EM_INTR_FAST enabled also? Yes. Havent done the stock case yet, but will do so later today. Do you have a comparison with Linux under the same circumstances? I had a disk

Re: em interrupt storm

2006-11-13 Thread Jack Vogel
On 11/13/06, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just experienced an interrupt storm on an em device that disabled a server until I could reboot it. My initial research turned up this thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-November/058336.html Which seems related,

Re: 6.1 with PAE on a recent server (HP DL380 G5 or Dell PE 1950) ?

2006-11-13 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:57:50PM +0100, Olivier Mueller wrote: On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 22:14 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: Btw, when will we see these new servers listed under: http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html ? And you absolutely have no option of running

Terrible (3Ware) disk performance in 6.2-BETA3

2006-11-13 Thread Philip Murray
Hi, I just installed FreeBSD 6.2-BETA3 (amd64) on a Dual Xeon DC 5140 w/ 4GB of RAM and a 3ware 9550SX connected to 8x Seagate 250GB SATA drives (RAID5) and instead of the normal great performance I get from FreeBSD, it's taking over an hour to do a 'portsnap extract' and while it's

Re: Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-13 Thread Мирослав Славков
Hey. I've got one new machine for testing for 1-2 days... here's some output.. With the latest drivers (cvsup'ed from yesterday) Send box: 2x Intel Xeon 5110 (1.6GHz), SuperMicro X7-DBE, Intel Pro/1000 MT Server Adapter DMESG CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU5110 @ 1.60GHz (1600.01-MHz

Re: Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-13 Thread Scott Long
Mike Tancsa wrote: At 12:50 PM 11/13/2006, Ivan Voras wrote: Mike Tancsa wrote: At 12:15 AM 11/13/2006, Scott Long wrote: Is this with EM_INTR_FAST enabled also? Yes. Havent done the stock case yet, but will do so later today. Do you have a comparison with Linux under the same

panic in swap_pager_swap_init (amd64/smp/6.2-pre)

2006-11-13 Thread Alex Vasylenko
could upgrade gnome 2.14-2.16 with buildworld -j2 going at the same time) old dmesg: http://www.omut.org/~lxv/bbox-dmesg-20060824 new dmesg (-v): http://www.omut.org/~lxv/bbox-dmesg-20061113-v kernel config: http://www.omut.org/~lxv/bbox-GENERIC-BBOX Any advice is greatly appreciated. Thank

Re: 6.1 with PAE on a recent server (HP DL380 G5 or Dell PE 1950) ?

2006-11-13 Thread Michael Vince
Olivier Mueller wrote: Hello, I will soon get some new servers with more than 4 GB of RAM, and I am wondering if they will work fine even with the PAE option activated: are all the required drivers (RAID mfid, bce on the Dell, ciss0 on the HP) 100% compatible, or should I expect trouble? If

-mfpmath=sse?

2006-11-13 Thread Jason C. Wells
I am reading this document: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.4.4/gcc/i386-and-x86_002d64-Options.html Does |-march=|pentium3 imply |-mfpmath=sse?| Thanks, Jason C. Wells ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: -mfpmath=sse?

2006-11-13 Thread Gábor Kövesdán
Jason C. Wells wrote: I am reading this document: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.4.4/gcc/i386-and-x86_002d64-Options.html Does |-march=|pentium3 imply |-mfpmath=sse?| Thanks, Jason C. Wells No. I tried such flags, and there were some applications that failed with -march=athlon64

Re: panic in swap_pager_swap_init (amd64/smp/6.2-pre)

2006-11-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 11:36:01PM -0500, Alex Vasylenko wrote: I tried to upgrade an amd64x2 box from FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #36: Mon Sep 4 11:22:15 EDT 2006 to FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #1: Mon Nov 13 10:01:57 EST 2006 and found that a newly built kernel panics on boot and locks up solid after

Re: sio driver sucks

2006-11-13 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 06:36 AM 11/13/2006, =?KOI8-R?Q?=F3=D0=C1=D2=D4=C1=CB_=F2=C1=C4=DE=C5=CE=CB=CF?= wrote: O. Hartmann ÐÉÛÅÔ: Sergey Matveychuk wrote: Do you know an old sio driver is hardly usable? There are many silo overflows, working with a terminal device is a nightmare. There was a report about one

Re: 6.1 with PAE on a recent server (HP DL380 G5 or Dell PE 1950) ?

2006-11-13 Thread Josef Grosch
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 01:57:50PM -0500, Mike Jakubik wrote: Olivier Mueller wrote: Hello, I will soon get some new servers with more than 4 GB of RAM, and I am wondering if they will work fine even with the PAE option activated: are all the required drivers (RAID mfid, bce on the Dell,

Re: Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-13 Thread Michael DeMan
Hi All, Unfortunately our company hasn't had the resources to help FreeBSD much over the years, but I do want to say thank you to the folks who are helping sort out this issue with the em driver. That Intel gigabit interface is very, very common on server hardware nowadays and it means a

Re: update on dell precision 670 vs em death match

2006-11-13 Thread Russell Jackson
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 11:56:21PM -0800, Russell Jackson wrote: Whatever that last em commit was, it seems to have made the interrupt issues better. It still seems high, but it's a lot better than the 2000/s I was getting before. interrupt total rate irq1:

Re: RELENG_6 panic under heavy load

2006-11-13 Thread Dmitriy Kirhlarov
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 01:45:05PM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 11:44:31AM +0300, Dmitriy Kirhlarov wrote: Hi, list. One from my monitoring servers running with FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #0: Fri Nov 10 11:03:10 UTC 2006 i386 Under heavy load it panic several