gmirror on 7B4

2008-01-02 Thread Chris H.
Hello, I seem to remember a similar question being asked in the past. But never really saw a definitive answer to it. So let's try it again. :) I'm looking to upgrade all our servers to 7 in the not-to-distant future. As I look to overcome the quirks in 7 as they apply to our hardware (I'm

devfs.rules include rule question in 6.2 release

2008-01-02 Thread Geoff Roberts
Hi, It seems you can't recursively use the include rule specification with devfs in Freebsd 6.2. I couldn't see a note about this in the devfs man page so I'm not sure whether this is expected behaviour or not. For example, the devfsrules_jail is defined as the following in

aac tool regressions on 7.0-RC1

2008-01-02 Thread Mike Andrews
I'm seeing some regressions in the various management tools for Adaptec AAC cards on FreeBSD 7.0-RC1 amd64. I'm trying to use both the 32-bit FreeBSD aaccli binary from the sysutils/aaccli port, and also the 64-bit FreeBSD arcconf from the sysutils/arcconf port (v5.20.17414). The card is an

Re: gmirror on 7B4

2008-01-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Chris H. wrote: Where is the option to create, and install to a gMIRRORED drive-set? If not, why? If not, it possible to install to one drive, mirror all available drives with the data on the installed drive? sysinstall does not provide any

Re: ifconfig options?

2008-01-02 Thread Krassimir Slavchev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=118987 Ruben van Staveren wrote: Hi Krassimir, Krassimir Slavchev wrote: Hi, 'ifconfig -l [address_family]' does not work correct on RELENG_7 If you suspect a regression in functionality, and you

Re: devfs.rules include rule question in 6.2 release

2008-01-02 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 06:23:52PM +1100, Geoff Roberts wrote: Hi, It seems you can't recursively use the include rule specification with devfs in Freebsd 6.2. I couldn't see a note about this in the devfs man page so I'm not sure whether this is expected behaviour or not. The manpages for

Re: 7B4: kernel messages garbled

2008-01-02 Thread Kris Kennaway
Chris H. wrote: Hello, and happy New Year to all! I'm hoping to update all our servers to 7 in the near future. As such, I'm experimenting with it on one of our less prominent production servers. My procedure for it's installation and usage: download 7-CURRENT disk1 iso (B4) from nearest

Re: gmirror on 7B4

2008-01-02 Thread Chris H.
Hello, and thank you for your reply... Quoting Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Chris H. wrote: Where is the option to create, and install to a gMIRRORED drive-set? If not, why? If not, it possible to install to one drive, mirror all available

Re: 7B4: kernel messages garbled

2008-01-02 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Chris H. wrote: Hello, and happy New Year to all! I'm hoping to update all our servers to 7 in the near future. As such, I'm experimenting with it on one of our less prominent production servers. My procedure for it's installation and usage: download

Mixer default values not restored

2008-01-02 Thread Jouke Witteveen
Hello, I'm running FreeBSD 7.0 RC1 with the following in my kernel configuration: --- device sound device snd_emu10kx --- My soundcard is a Soundblaster Live! In trying to make the rear-channel volume default to 100 I added the following to my /boot/device.hints: ---

Re: gmirror on 7B4

2008-01-02 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Chris H. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I seem to remember a similar question being asked in the past. But never ---8---snip---8--- I had originally intended to create a raid mirror on the whole lot of HD's during the install process. But I wasn't presented, nor could I find that option

Re: aac tool regressions on 7.0-RC1

2008-01-02 Thread Vivek Khera
On Jan 2, 2008, at 3:54 AM, Mike Andrews wrote: Command Error: The miniport device driver is too old to work with the current AFAAPI.DLL. In my experience, this was caused by the firmware rev of the adaptec card. Basically, the combination of FreeBSD, amd64, and Adaptec RAID cards is

Re: Nagios + 6.3-RELEASE == Hung Process

2008-01-02 Thread Tom Judge
Michael Butler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc G. Fournier wrote: G'day ... Yesterday, I setup nagios to do some system monitoring ... installed the latest version from ports into a jail, so that I could easily move it around between machines as I upgrade, without

building system's libmilter with poll() support?

2008-01-02 Thread Vivek Khera
What's the procedure to configure buildworld to get sendmail to build libmilter using poll() instead of select()? There is discussion on the postfix mailing list that some high-load performance issues could be solved by switching this, but the fix was to hack the libmilter header file to

Re: building system's libmilter with poll() support?

2008-01-02 Thread Vivek Khera
On Jan 2, 2008, at 11:08 AM, Gregory Shapiro wrote: What's the procedure to configure buildworld to get sendmail to build libmilter using poll() instead of select()? Add this to /etc/make.conf: SENDMAIL_CFLAGS+=-D_FFR_WORKERS_POOL [ ... ] Note that bug 118824 has already asked for this to

Re: Nagios + 6.3-RELEASE == Hung Process

2008-01-02 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 15:26 +, Tom Judge wrote: Michael Butler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm pretty sure that he's getting ready to ship 3.0 release w/ broken threading on FreeBSD. I haven't had time to test it on NetBSD yet, but since it can be fixed by

Re: Performance!

2008-01-02 Thread Krassimir Slavchev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kris Kennaway wrote: Krassimir Slavchev wrote: Hello, I have read all related threads about performance problems with multi core systems but still have no idea what to do to make thinks better. Below are results of testing postgresql on HP

Re: building system's libmilter with poll() support?

2008-01-02 Thread Vivek Khera
On Jan 2, 2008, at 11:08 AM, Gregory Shapiro wrote: SENDMAIL_CFLAGS+=-D_FFR_WORKERS_POOL Do I want this one or just -DSM_CONF_POLL ? I'm running into issues with postfix failing to connect to the milter because it is too busy (specifically the dkim milter) and one theory was to use poll

Re: ifconfig options?

2008-01-02 Thread Krassimir Slavchev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, This patch fixes the problem! # ifconfig -l bce0 bce1 lo0 # ifconfig -l ether bce0 bce1 Thanks pluknet wrote: Hi, On 24/12/2007, Krassimir Slavchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'ifconfig -l [address_family]' does not work correct on RELENG_7

Re: building system's libmilter with poll() support?

2008-01-02 Thread Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz
Vivek Khera wrote: What's the procedure to configure buildworld to get sendmail to build libmilter using poll() instead of select()? There is discussion on the postfix mailing list that some high-load performance issues could be solved by switching this, but the fix was to hack the libmilter

Re: building system's libmilter with poll() support?

2008-01-02 Thread Gregory Shapiro
SENDMAIL_CFLAGS+=-D_FFR_WORKERS_POOL Do I want this one or just -DSM_CONF_POLL ? It would probably be safest to just use -DSM_CONF_POLL as that has had more testing and will get by the select() limits on fd_set. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing

Re: building system's libmilter with poll() support?

2008-01-02 Thread Gregory Shapiro
What's the procedure to configure buildworld to get sendmail to build libmilter using poll() instead of select()? Add this to /etc/make.conf: SENDMAIL_CFLAGS+=-D_FFR_WORKERS_POOL And then rebuild/reinstall libmilter: cd /usr/src/lib/libmilter/ make clean make depend make make install Note

Re: gmirror on 7B4

2008-01-02 Thread Chris H.
Quoting John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm not sure I remember everything from earlier in this thread so I don't know if it's relevant, BUT you can't boot from a gstripe volume (or from a gconcat one AFAIK). Inferring from your fstab example below it doesn't sound like you intend to but I

Re: RELENG_7 jerky mouse and skipping sound (still a problem -BETA3)

2008-01-02 Thread Josh Carroll
Can you confirm that this fix helped for you? i.e. do you still see the problem? FreeBSD 7.0-RC1 #14: Sun Dec 30 21:50:59 EST 2007 I'm still seeing this problem, but it isn't nearly as bad. I still get some jerky mouse movement, but music doesn't skip now when I'm compiling. I noticed

Re: gmirror on 7B4

2008-01-02 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting Chris H. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting Chris H. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I seem to remember a similar question being asked in the past. But never ---8---snip---8--- I had originally intended to create a raid mirror on the whole lot of HD's during the install process. But I wasn't

Re: gmirror on 7B4

2008-01-02 Thread John Nielsen
I'm not sure I remember everything from earlier in this thread so I don't know if it's relevant, BUT you can't boot from a gstripe volume (or from a gconcat one AFAIK). Inferring from your fstab example below it doesn't sound like you intend to but I just wanted to be sure. Quoting John

Re: aac tool regressions on 7.0-RC1

2008-01-02 Thread Ed Maste
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 10:19:15AM -0500, Vivek Khera wrote: On Jan 2, 2008, at 3:54 AM, Mike Andrews wrote: Command Error: The miniport device driver is too old to work with the current AFAAPI.DLL. In my experience, this was caused by the firmware rev of the adaptec card.

Re: aac tool regressions on 7.0-RC1

2008-01-02 Thread Mike Andrews
On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Ed Maste wrote: On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 10:19:15AM -0500, Vivek Khera wrote: On Jan 2, 2008, at 3:54 AM, Mike Andrews wrote: Command Error: The miniport device driver is too old to work with the current AFAAPI.DLL. In my experience, this was caused by the firmware rev

Re: aac tool regressions on 7.0-RC1

2008-01-02 Thread Scott Long
Ed Maste wrote: On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 10:19:15AM -0500, Vivek Khera wrote: On Jan 2, 2008, at 3:54 AM, Mike Andrews wrote: Command Error: The miniport device driver is too old to work with the current AFAAPI.DLL. In my experience, this was caused by the firmware rev of the adaptec

Re: aac tool regressions on 7.0-RC1

2008-01-02 Thread Vivek Khera
On Jan 2, 2008, at 12:45 PM, Ed Maste wrote: I'm not aware of any reason to avoid Adaptec RAID cards specifically on amd64 now; there were a number of problems in the past but they should be addressed now. My main concern is that there is no *reliable* way to monitor the status of an

Re: aac tool regressions on 7.0-RC1

2008-01-02 Thread Vivek Khera
On Jan 2, 2008, at 1:06 PM, Mike Andrews wrote: In my experience, this was caused by the firmware rev of the adaptec card. Basically, the combination of FreeBSD, amd64, and Adaptec RAID cards is a bad thing for production systems, and IMO should be avoided. Well, yeah, the error message

Re: gmirror on 7B4

2008-01-02 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting Chris H. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm not sure I remember everything from earlier in this thread so I don't know if it's relevant, BUT you can't boot from a gstripe volume (or from a gconcat one AFAIK). Inferring from your fstab example below it

Re: Nagios + 6.3-RELEASE == Hung Process

2008-01-02 Thread Jarrod Sayers
On 03/01/2008, at 1:56 AM, Tom Judge wrote: I have also seen this issue, but have always put it down to the way that we manage our nagios deployments with cfengine. I will try to deploy this change and monitor for the problem to see if it persists. I hope I can confirm your frustrations.

gstripe on 7B4 - was: gmirror on 7B4

2008-01-02 Thread Chris H.
Quoting John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting Chris H. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm not sure I remember everything from earlier in this thread so I ---8---snip---8--- to be sure. Are you sure? ---8---snip---8--- volume. Yes, I'm sure. In order to

HEADSUP: new wiki page: State of Packages on Sparc64

2008-01-02 Thread Mark Linimon
I've just posted a message with that title to sparc64@ with crosspost to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you're interested in deciding on where we're going with sparc64, I invite you to join that thread. (Please don't reply to this message; 2 lists is probably one too many). mcl

Re: Nagios + 6.3-RELEASE == Hung Process

2008-01-02 Thread Tom Judge
Jarrod Sayers wrote: On 03/01/2008, at 1:56 AM, Tom Judge wrote: I have also seen this issue, but have always put it down to the way that we manage our nagios deployments with cfengine. I will try to deploy this change and monitor for the problem to see if it persists. I hope I can confirm

Re: Nagios + 6.3-RELEASE == Hung Process

2008-01-02 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On Wednesday, January 02, 2008 22:54:33 + Tom Judge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure if this is related at all but out of the 3 nagios deployments we have here I have only ever seen it on one (It currently has 2 nagios threads spinning

Re: Performance!

2008-01-02 Thread Kris Kennaway
Krassimir Slavchev wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kris Kennaway wrote: Krassimir Slavchev wrote: Hello, I have read all related threads about performance problems with multi core systems but still have no idea what to do to make thinks better. Below are results of

Re: Performance!

2008-01-02 Thread Kris Kennaway
Kris Kennaway wrote: Krassimir Slavchev wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kris Kennaway wrote: Krassimir Slavchev wrote: Hello, I have read all related threads about performance problems with multi core systems but still have no idea what to do to make thinks better. Below

Re: Nagios + 6.3-RELEASE == Hung Process

2008-01-02 Thread Greg Byshenk
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 07:24:28PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: - --On Wednesday, January 02, 2008 22:54:33 + Tom Judge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure if this is related at all but out of the 3 nagios deployments we have here I have only ever seen it on one (It currently has 2

Re: Nagios + 6.3-RELEASE == Hung Process

2008-01-02 Thread Jarrod Sayers
On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Tom Judge wrote: Jarrod Sayers wrote: I hope I can confirm your frustrations. There is a threading issue with Nagios when it's binaries are linked against libpthread(3) threading library, the default on recent FreeBSD 5.x releases and all 6.x releases. The issue is random

Re: gstripe on 7B4 - was: gmirror on 7B4

2008-01-02 Thread Scot Hetzel
On 1/2/08, Chris H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, in the final analysis I've decided (now that it's (7B4) installed...) I'll just keep /boot, /root (and presumably /dev) on the already available and running install disk (da3). Then perform: # gstripe label -v -s 131072 bigstripe \ /dev/da0

Re: Nagios + 6.3-RELEASE == Hung Process

2008-01-02 Thread Michael Butler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc G. Fournier wrote: I never tried on i386, but in my case it was an amd64 system as well ... not sure if that is relevant or not ... has anyone seen this problem *with* i386? When I read about it, I was in the middle of upgrading the problem

Re: Nagios + 6.3-RELEASE == Hung Process

2008-01-02 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On Thursday, January 03, 2008 11:05:16 +1030 Jarrod Sayers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's actually good to know, as you're now (unless I am mistaken) the first user to contact me about this problem on non-i386 systems. One user, plus