Re: What is a good choice of sata-ii raid controller for freebsd?

2007-02-09 Thread Artem Kuchin
hi! I am the original poster of this thread. I have read many interesting reply during these two days. However, as i said in the original message due to certification issues i am pretty limited to INTEL controllers and i have not seen a single relevant reply about them. This is interesting.

Re: fetch hangs on AMD64 RELENG_6

2007-02-09 Thread Sascha Holzleiter
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 04:56:09PM -0400, Charles Swiger wrote: On Jul 5, 2006, at 4:22 PM, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: Hmm. Seems we close the window unexpectedly and the remote side doesn't retransmit when we open it. Yes, interesting that. :-) Normally the stack only sets the window

Re: Still have BCE driver issues (dell pe 1950) and NFS

2007-02-09 Thread Fredrik Widlund
Hi, This is still an issue, we are experiencing hangs and loss of connectivity on 6.2-release Dell pe1950 machines without debug.mpsafenet=0. They last about a minute then the machines come alive again. Needless to say this is impossible to tolerate in a production environment. Kind regards,

Re: What is a good choice of sata-ii raid controller for freebsd?

2007-02-09 Thread Alexander Sabourenkov
Artem Kuchin wrote: hi! I am the original poster of this thread. I have read many interesting reply during these two days. However, as i said in the original message due to certification issues i am pretty limited to INTEL controllers and i have not seen a single relevant reply about them.

RE: What is a good choice of sata-ii raid controller for freebsd?

2007-02-09 Thread Jaime Bozza
Hardware RAID1 buys you nothing in perfomance and reliability for a prolonged headache with drivers, bios insanity and monitoring+control tools. Intel does seem to have a few hardware-based RAID controllers here: http://www.intel.com/products/server/raid/ I don't see any driver or support

BTX halted with MegaRaid SCSI 320-2 on 6.2R help

2007-02-09 Thread wsk
6.2R cd boot failed with follow error,and the MegaRAID fw version is FW_1L33 thanks with any info BTX loader 1.00 BTX version 1.01 Console: internal video/keyboard BIOS CD is cd0 BIOS drive A: is disk0 BIOS drive C: is disk1 BIOS 639kB/3668928kB available memory FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader,

Re: What is a good choice of sata-ii raid controller for freebsd?

2007-02-09 Thread Alexander Sabourenkov
Jaime Bozza wrote: Hardware RAID1 buys you nothing in perfomance and reliability for a prolonged headache with drivers, bios insanity and monitoring+control tools. Intel does seem to have a few hardware-based RAID controllers here: http://www.intel.com/products/server/raid/ I don't see any

Re: What is a good choice of sata-ii raid controller for freebsd?

2007-02-09 Thread Clayton Milos
- Original Message - From: Artem Kuchin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 5:15 PM Subject: Re: What is a good choice of sata-ii raid controller for freebsd? Alexander Sabourenkov wrote: Artem Kuchin wrote: hi! I am the original

Re: BTX halted with MegaRaid SCSI 320-2 on 6.2R help

2007-02-09 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Hi, This isn't the answer, but I'm attempting to provide triage for jhb who will probably look at it. This is a GPF, but it's not being caused by an attempt to enter protected mode, so it isn't the most-often reported BTX issue. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 6.2R cd boot failed with follow

Re: BTX halted with MegaRaid SCSI 320-2 on 6.2R help

2007-02-09 Thread LI Xin
Bruce M. Simpson wrote: Hi, This isn't the answer, but I'm attempting to provide triage for jhb who will probably look at it. This is a GPF, but it's not being caused by an attempt to enter protected mode, so it isn't the most-often reported BTX issue. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 6.2R cd

Re: What is a good choice of sata-ii raid controller for freebsd?

2007-02-09 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Friday 09 February 2007 09:15, Artem Kuchin wrote: Alexander Sabourenkov wrote: Artem Kuchin wrote: hi! I am the original poster of this thread. I have read many interesting reply during these two days. However, as i said in the original message due to certification issues i am

6.2 amd64 hang, continued

2007-02-09 Thread Guy Helmer
I will not claim to have any kernel locking foo, however it seems odd to me that this machine has lots of processes waiting on allproc but show alllocks doesn't show any process having the allproc lock. Is this correct? db show alllocks Process 89731 (perform_ca) thread 0xff0128c9fbe0

Desired behaviour of ifconfig -alias

2007-02-09 Thread Kevin Way
I recently ran into a bug in the jail startup scripts that caused this command to be executed: ifconfig bce0 -alias It turns out that this command eliminated the primary IP for the device. man ifconfig defines the behavior of -alias to be: -alias Remove the network address specified.

Re: pppd crashes, was: kde-freebsd

2007-02-09 Thread John Walthall
Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2007-Feb-08 17:16:23 -0500, John Walthall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: functionally obsolete. User PPP provides better service, and several tangible design benefits. User PPP is very easy to use, Kernel PPP is not. Actually, kernel PPP has one significant (at least

Re: Desired behaviour of ifconfig -alias

2007-02-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 04:06:56PM -0500, Kevin Way wrote: I recently ran into a bug in the jail startup scripts that caused this command to be executed: ifconfig bce0 -alias It turns out that this command eliminated the primary IP for the device. man ifconfig defines the behavior

Re: Desired behaviour of ifconfig -alias

2007-02-09 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 01:49:08PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 04:06:56PM -0500, Kevin Way wrote: I recently ran into a bug in the jail startup scripts that caused this command to be executed: ifconfig bce0 -alias It turns out that this command

Re: dd as an imaging solution.

2007-02-09 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Sean Bryant wrote this message on Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 14:07 -0500: John-Mark Gurney wrote: Antony Mawer wrote this message on Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 17:04 +1100: On 6/02/2007 1:47 PM, Sean Bryant wrote: Dominic Marks wrote: Check out G4U (NetBSD based) The only problem I can see here is that

Re: IPv6 over gif(4) broken in 6.2-RELEASE?

2007-02-09 Thread Dimitry Andric
Bruce A. Mah wrote: I've convinced myself that this problem needs to be tested in isolation (i.e. you have complete control over both ends of the tunnel) because incoming packets over the tunnel cause the host route to get added automatically if it wasn't there already. After reading the

Re: Desired behaviour of ifconfig -alias

2007-02-09 Thread JoaoBR
On Friday 09 February 2007 20:29, Brooks Davis wrote: On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 01:49:08PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 04:06:56PM -0500, Kevin Way wrote: I recently ran into a bug in the jail startup scripts that caused this command to be executed:

Re: What is a good choice of sata-ii raid controller for freebsd?

2007-02-09 Thread Mike Andrews
Josh Paetzel wrote: What hardware RAID buys you over gmirror is that you can boot from it. [snip] From a raw speed perspective on an unloaded CPU a 3.0ghz processor is probably just as fast or faster than the embedded processor on a RAID card running at a few hundred mhz. Sure, once you

Re: pppd crashes, was: kde-freebsd

2007-02-09 Thread Michael Nottebrock
On Friday, 9. February 2007 22:48, John Walthall wrote: Because of known problems with PPPD, KPPP should provide at least the option of using user land PPP. You may of course differ from this view. However, unless a large outcry arises, I will not close the bug. I think that it is, in-fact a

Re: Desired behaviour of ifconfig -alias

2007-02-09 Thread Kevin Way
Brooks Davis wrote: On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 01:49:08PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 04:06:56PM -0500, Kevin Way wrote: I recently ran into a bug in the jail startup scripts that caused this command to be executed: ifconfig bce0 -alias It turns out

Re: Desired behaviour of ifconfig -alias

2007-02-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 09:13:22PM -0500, Kevin Way wrote: I'm as much of a change-hating curmudgeon as the next guy, but if anybody is relying on ifconfig iface -alias 's undefined behavior, then they deserve the pain that will come with a fix. As it stands the behavior appears to vary

Re: Desired behaviour of ifconfig -alias

2007-02-09 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 09:13:22PM -0500, Kevin Way wrote: I'm as much of a change-hating curmudgeon as the next guy, but if anybody is relying on ifconfig iface -alias 's undefined behavior, then they deserve the pain that will come with a

Re: pppd crashes, was: kde-freebsd] Question about KPPP on FreeBSD

2007-02-09 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Michael Nottebrock wrote: On Thursday, 8. February 2007 08:38, Ian Smith wrote: On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Michael Nottebrock wrote: On Wednesday, 7. February 2007 18:45, Joe Vender wrote: On Wednesday 07 February 2007 01:59, Michael Nottebrock wrote: ...

Re: pppd crashes, was: kde-freebsd

2007-02-09 Thread Hajimu UMEMOTO
Hi, On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:24:11 +0100 Eric Masson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: emss Right, and an up to date pppd in base would be imho really nice to have. emss Kernel pppoe as in Net/Open would be an alternative to net/mpd. emss (No, I'm not volunteering to port NetBSD's kernel ppp to FreeBSD as

Re: pppd crashes, was: kde-freebsd] Question about KPPP on FreeBSD

2007-02-09 Thread Michael Nottebrock
On Saturday, 10. February 2007 07:34, Ian Smith wrote: Since once trying (and failing) to debug or even comprehend a spaghetti of scripts and configs behind a dialout-only linux pppd setup some years ago, compared to the much more straightforward ppp with mgetty setup for both dialout and