Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-14 Thread Dan Langille
Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: After creating three different system configurations (Athena, Supermicro, and HP), my configuration of choice is this Supermicro setup: 1. Samsung SATA CD/DVD Burner $20 (+ $8 shipping) 2. SuperMicro 5046A $750 (+$43

RE: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-14 Thread Dan Naumov
On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: After creating three different system configurations (Athena, Supermicro, and HP), my configuration of choice is this Supermicro setup: 1. Samsung SATA CD/DVD Burner $20 (+ $8 shipping) 2. SuperMicro 5046A $750 (+$43 shipping) 3. LSI SAS

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-14 Thread Wes Morgan
On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: Dan Langille wrote: Hi, I'm looking at creating a large home use storage machine. Budget is a concern, but size and reliability are also a priority. Noise is also a concern, since this will be at home, in the basement. That, and cost,

More zfs benchmarks

2010-02-14 Thread Jonathan Belson
Hiya After reading some earlier threads about zfs performance, I decided to test my own server. I found the results rather surprising... The machine is a Dell SC440, dual core 2GHz E2180, 2GB of RAM and ICH7 SATA300 controller. There are three Hitachi 500GB drives (HDP725050GLA360) in a

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-14 Thread Alexander Motin
Steve Polyack wrote: On 2/10/2010 12:02 AM, Dan Langille wrote: Don't use a port multiplier and this goes away. I was hoping to avoid a PM and using something like the Syba PCI Express SATA II 4 x Ports RAID Controller seems to be the best solution so far.

trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode on 8.0-RELEASE (possibly bge(4) related)

2010-02-14 Thread Nick Rogers
I'm having repeated kernel panic issues on 8.0-RELEASE/amd64. Can anyone shed light on the below error? I unfortunately cannot provide a proper crash dump. The pointer addresses are always the same. The only other thing I've noticed that may be related is a watchdog timeout on bge0 error before

Re: loading module sdhci causes panic

2010-02-14 Thread Gavin Atkinson
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010, Steven Friedrich wrote: I stopped the boot before the timer expired, after it had loaded modules specified in /boot/loader.conf I loaded mmc, mmcsd, and sdhci. I continued the boot, and it panic'ed right after apic. I rebooted everal times, to load each

Re: More zfs benchmarks

2010-02-14 Thread Artem Belevich
Can you check if kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.memory_throttle_count sysctl increments during your tests? ZFS self-throttles writes if it thinks system is running low on memory. Unfortunately on FreeBSD the 'free' list is a *very* conservative indication of available memory so ZFS often starts

Re: More zfs benchmarks

2010-02-14 Thread Jonathan Belson
On 14 Feb 2010, at 19:13, Artem Belevich wrote: Can you check if kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.memory_throttle_count sysctl increments during your tests? ZFS self-throttles writes if it thinks system is running low on memory. Unfortunately on FreeBSD the 'free' list is a *very* conservative

Re: More zfs benchmarks

2010-02-14 Thread Jonathan Belson
On 14 Feb 2010, at 20:26, Jonathan Belson wrote: On 14 Feb 2010, at 19:13, Artem Belevich wrote: Can you check if kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.memory_throttle_count sysctl increments during your tests? ZFS self-throttles writes if it thinks system is running low on memory. Unfortunately on

Re: More zfs benchmarks

2010-02-14 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Sunday, February 14, 2010 5:28 PM + Jonathan Belson j...@witchspace.com wrote: Hiya After reading some earlier threads about zfs performance, I decided to test my own server. I found the results rather surprising... You really need to test with at least 4GB of data, else

Re: More zfs benchmarks

2010-02-14 Thread Joshua Boyd
Repeated the same tests on my AMD64 dual core 4GB system with 5 HD103SI 1T drives in raidz1 on a Supermicro PCI-E controller, running 8-STABLE. foghornleghorn# dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/zerofile.000 bs=1M count=200 200+0 records in 200+0 records out 209715200 bytes transferred in 4.246402 secs

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-14 Thread Dan Langille
Dan Naumov wrote: On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: After creating three different system configurations (Athena, Supermicro, and HP), my configuration of choice is this Supermicro setup: 1. Samsung SATA CD/DVD Burner $20 (+ $8 shipping) 2. SuperMicro 5046A $750 (+$43 shipping)

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-14 Thread Dan Langille
Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: DM other parts are regular SocketAM2+ motherboard, Athlon X4, 8G ram, DM FreeBSD/amd64 well, not exactly regular - it's ASUS M2N-LR-SATA with 10 SATA channels, but I suppose there are comparable in workstation mobo

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-14 Thread Dan Langille
Alexander Motin wrote: Steve Polyack wrote: On 2/10/2010 12:02 AM, Dan Langille wrote: Don't use a port multiplier and this goes away. I was hoping to avoid a PM and using something like the Syba PCI Express SATA II 4 x Ports RAID Controller seems to be the best solution so far.

Re: Kernel probe order issues

2010-02-14 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Feb-05 00:40:24 +0200, Andriy Gapon a...@icyb.net.ua wrote: I came up with some things with which you can try to experiment: 1. Boot with hw.pci.usb_early_takeover=0 in loader.conf. 2. Comment out the following line in sys/dev/usb/controller/uhci_pci.c: pci_write_config(self, PCI_LEGSUP,

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-14 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: Dan Naumov wrote: On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: After creating three different system configurations (Athena, Supermicro, and HP), my configuration of choice is this Supermicro setup: 1. Samsung SATA CD/DVD Burner $20 (+ $8 shipping)

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-14 Thread Dan Naumov
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Dan Langille d...@langille.org wrote: Dan Naumov wrote: On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: After creating three different system configurations (Athena, Supermicro, and HP), my configuration of choice is this Supermicro setup:    1. Samsung SATA

Re: More zfs benchmarks

2010-02-14 Thread Jonathan Belson
On 14 Feb 2010, at 21:15, Joshua Boyd wrote: Repeated the same tests on my AMD64 dual core 4GB system with 5 HD103SI 1T drives in raidz1 on a Supermicro PCI-E controller, running 8-STABLE. [ snip results ] I was hoping I'd get something closer to these figures... Here are my relevant

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-14 Thread Dan Langille
Wes Morgan wrote: On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: Dan Langille wrote: Hi, I'm looking at creating a large home use storage machine. Budget is a concern, but size and reliability are also a priority. Noise is also a concern, since this will be at home, in the basement. That, and

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-14 Thread Dan Naumov
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Dan Naumov dan.nau...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Dan Langille d...@langille.org wrote: Dan Naumov wrote: On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: After creating three different system configurations (Athena, Supermicro, and HP), my

Re: More zfs benchmarks

2010-02-14 Thread Joshua Boyd
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Joshua Boyd boy...@jbip.net wrote: On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Jonathan Belson j...@witchspace.comwrote: On 14 Feb 2010, at 21:15, Joshua Boyd wrote: Repeated the same tests on my AMD64 dual core 4GB system with 5 HD103SI 1T drives in raidz1 on a

Re: More zfs benchmarks

2010-02-14 Thread Joshua Boyd
Here's my bonnie++ results: foghornleghorn# bonnie++ -s 8192 -d. -n64 -uroot Using uid:0, gid:0. Writing a byte at a time...done Writing intelligently...done Rewriting...done Reading a byte at a time...done Reading intelligently...done start 'em...done...done...done...done...done... Create files

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-14 Thread Dan Langille
Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: DL I'm looking at creating a large home use storage machine. Budget is a DL concern, but size and reliability are also a priority. Noise is also a DL concern, since this will be at home, in the basement. That, and cost, DL

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-14 Thread Tortise
- Original Message - From: Dan Langille d...@langille.org To: Wes Morgan morg...@chemikals.org Cc: FreeBSD Stable freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 12:07 PM Subject: Re: hardware for home use large storage Whether I use hardware or software RAID is undecided.

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-14 Thread Artem Belevich
your ZFS pool of SATA disks has 120gb worth of L2ARC space Keep in mind that housekeeping of 120G L2ARC may potentially require fair amount of RAM, especially if you're dealing with tons of small files. See this thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/zfs-disc...@opensolaris.org/msg34674.html

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-14 Thread Dan Langille
Dan Naumov wrote: On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Dan Langille d...@langille.org wrote: Dan Naumov wrote: On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: After creating three different system configurations (Athena, Supermicro, and HP), my configuration of choice is this Supermicro setup: 1.

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-14 Thread Dan Langille
Dan Naumov wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Dan Naumov dan.nau...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Dan Langille d...@langille.org wrote: Dan Naumov wrote: On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: After creating three different system configurations (Athena,

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-14 Thread Dan Naumov
PSU: Corsair 400CX 80+ - 59 euro - http://www.corsair.com/products/cx/default.aspx http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139008 for $50 Is that sufficient power up to 10 SATA HDD and an optical drive? Disk power use varies from about 8 watt/disk for green disks to 20

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-14 Thread Dan Langille
Charles Sprickman wrote: On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: Dan Naumov wrote: On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: After creating three different system configurations (Athena, Supermicro, and HP), my configuration of choice is this Supermicro setup: 1. Samsung SATA CD/DVD

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: I priced a decent ZFS PC for a small business and it was AUD$2500 including the disks (5x750Gb), case, PSU etc.. Yes, and this one doesn't yet have HDD. Can you supply details of your system? 1 AP400791A 4U Rackmount chassis (no PSU) 1

[PATCH] VirtualBox headless VNC support by LibVNCServer (20100211)

2010-02-14 Thread Daisuke Aoyama
Hi, all First, thank you for using my patch. This archive contains individual patch files and modified Makefile. Please select options you want before building. then make with normal way. What's new?: Send ScrollLock when press Ctrl+Scroll or Ctrl+Pause. Fixed 16bpp mode have incorrect

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-14 Thread Alexander Motin
Dan Langille wrote: Alexander Motin wrote: Steve Polyack wrote: On 2/10/2010 12:02 AM, Dan Langille wrote: Don't use a port multiplier and this goes away. I was hoping to avoid a PM and using something like the Syba PCI Express SATA II 4 x Ports RAID Controller seems to be the best solution

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-14 Thread Alexander Motin
Dan Langille wrote: Dan Naumov wrote: Now add an additional PCI-E SATA controller card, like the often mentioned PCIE SIL3124. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816124026 for $35 This is PCI-X version. Unless you have PCI-X slot, PCIe x1 version seems preferable:

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-14 Thread Dmitry Morozovsky
On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: [snip] DL SAS controller ($120): DL http://www.buy.com/prod/supermicro-lsi-megaraid-lsisas1068e-8-port-sas-raid-controller-16mb/q/loc/101/207929556.html DL Note: You'll need to change or remove the mounting bracket since it is DL backwards. I was

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-14 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Dan Naumov dan.nau...@gmail.com (from Mon, 15 Feb 2010 01:10:49 +0200): Get a dock for holding 2 x 2,5 disks in a single 5,25 slot and put it at the top, in the only 5,25 bay of the case. Now add an additional PCI-E SATA controller card, like the often mentioned PCIE SIL3124. Now you