Re: Odd RS232 problem

2006-05-23 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 05:53 AM 23/05/2006, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Saturday 13 May 2006 22:00, Holger Kipp wrote: If you encounter silo overflows, you might need to increase cp4ticks in sio.c, eg - cp4ticks = speed / 10 / hz * 4; + cp4ticks = speed / 10 / hz * 40; and/or you might want to change hz from

patch for 6.2R

2006-06-14 Thread Mike Tancsa
Any chance someone could look at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=86598 for the next release of 6.2 ? ---Mike Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications

Re: force panic of remote server ... possible?

2006-06-26 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 07:55 AM 26/06/2006, Marc G. Fournier wrote: For the server that I'm fighting with right now, where Dmitry pointed out that it looks like a deadlock issue ... I have dumpdev/savecore enabled, is there some way of forcing it to panic when I know I actually have the deadlock, so that it will

Re: em device hangs on ifconfig alias ...

2006-07-09 Thread Mike Tancsa
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 that it broke something else, but I don't

Re: em device hangs on ifconfig alias ...

2006-07-09 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 12:06 AM 10/07/2006, User Freebsd 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. ---Mike ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing

Re: em device hangs on ifconfig alias ...

2006-07-10 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 03:09 AM 10/07/2006, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: Of course, any reasonable administrator would configure interface FastEthernet0/1 spanning-tree portfast for all ports connected to hosts. (shown syntax is Cisco's). Yes, its great if you have access to the cisco... Not always

Re: em device hangs on ifconfig alias ...

2006-07-10 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:55 PM 10/07/2006, User Freebsd wrote: 'k, I know nothing about Cisco but do have access to change my configs (knowing nothing tends to keep me from doing too much playing) ... what does the above do, exactly? Spanning tree is there to prevent switch loops as well as allow for

Re: ATA problems again ...

2006-07-16 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 03:02 PM 14/07/2006, Miroslav Lachman wrote: After reboot (command reboot), system boot up with both disks attached and start autosynchronization. I do not know, if this is hw or sw error, I got Install the smartmontools from /usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools/ and post the output of

Re: ATA problems again ...

2006-07-17 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 05:59 AM 17/07/2006, Johan Ström wrote: On 17 jul 2006, at 00.53, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 03:02 PM 14/07/2006, Miroslav Lachman wrote: After reboot (command reboot), system boot up with both disks attached and start autosynchronization. I do not know, if this is hw or sw error, I got

Re: ATA problems again ...

2006-07-17 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 11:02 AM 17/07/2006, Johan Ström wrote: On 17 jul 2006, at 16.51, Mike Tancsa wrote: This at least rules out the disks being bad for the most part. It still could be bad cables, but if you changed those out than its doubtful. Perhaps try updating to RELENG_6 ? If its a gmirror issue, I

Re: GIANT in arcmsr(4)

2006-07-31 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 07:13 AM 30/07/2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 7/29/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know why the giant is in arcmsr(4) or how to kill him? I did some work on the arcmsr(4) driver: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=101045 Is not the driver from the Areca

Re: fresh em(4) patch for RELENG_6 available

2006-08-14 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 06:45 AM 14/08/2006, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: The patch for RELENG_6 is available here: http://people.freebsd.org/~glebius/em-RELENG_6.patch Currently there is also a known problem - a race condition, that occurs on SMP triggering a fake watchdog event, that leads to unwanted NIC reset. Hi,

Re: ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?!

2006-09-12 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 10:15 AM 9/12/2006, Karl Denninger wrote: On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 09:06:15AM +0200, Bj?rn K?nig wrote: Karl Denninger schrieb: This is not cool folks. I think you misunderstood what -STABLE means. (Or maybe I do?) -STABLE is still a development branch without guarantee of a stable and

Re: DNS query performance

2006-09-13 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 01:27 PM 9/13/2006, Robert Watson wrote: The other common optimization advice that you may already have received is to check which time counter FreeBSD has selected. Right now, 6.x/7.x err on the side of accurate over fast. There's been quite a bit of debate about this approach, and it's

Re: em0: watchdog timeout -- resetting (6.1-STABLE)

2006-09-13 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 10:20 PM 9/13/2006, David Myers wrote: Sep 5 11:55:12 ronald kernel: em0: watchdog timeout -- resetting I got a bazillion of these, and a completely unusable machine, when I upgraded to 6.1-stable sources as of two days ago. The machine would simply freeze for minutes at a time.

Re: Problems with OpenVPN+routing and creating tun0 interface

2006-09-22 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 10:22 AM 9/22/2006, Václav Haisman wrote: The problme was on the server, it had my address restricted in firewall. I managed to make the tunnel. And I could ping the 192.168.23.1 address from mine 192.168.23.4. I had to restart the serivce because I did some changes to the OpenVPN client

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 09:25 AM 9/27/2006, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: Hi! On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 02:42:30PM +0200, Philippe Pegon wrote: it's just a me too. On our ftp server (ftp8.fr.freebsd.org), sometimes we see some watchdog timeout in the log with a bge card, but maybe it's not the same problem... : As

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 12:32 PM 9/27/2006, Scott Long wrote: My theory here is that something in the kernel, likely VM/VFS, is holding the Giant lock for an inordinate amount of time. During this time, an interrupt fires on the shared em/ichsmb interrupt. The em Hi Scott, Do you think this issue is

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS! [Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2]

2006-09-28 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 03:15 PM 9/28/2006, O. Hartmann wrote: /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/usb.c:282: error: for each function it appears in.) /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/usb.c: At top level: /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/usb.c:863: warning: 'usb_intr_task' defined but not used *** Error code 1 Are you sure the patch applied cleanly

Re: [PATCH] Various smbus(4) driver fixups and locking

2006-10-02 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 03:53 PM 10/2/2006, John Baldwin wrote: The patch below fixes various nits (mostly adding locking) in most of the smbus controller drivers we have in the tree. It should apply to both HEAD and RELENG_6 with the exception that the intpm(4) driver will require the style fixes to be applied to

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS! [Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2]

2006-10-04 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 12:27 PM 10/4/2006, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In my case, it's a bce driver that's doing it. I also have some em cards in this machine that I can test if the information will be helpful. Note that I can _not_ reproduce the problem with an em

Re: Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY?

2006-10-05 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 11:19 AM 10/5/2006, Karl Denninger wrote: So what do I buy to replace this thing? Well, looking at the serial hardware claimed supported, I seem to have a problem finding anything I can actually purchase! I don't need real high performance - a 16550 based multiport card is fine. I also

Re: Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY?

2006-10-05 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 08:09 PM 10/5/2006, Karl Denninger wrote: ugen0: American Power Conversion Smart-UPS 750 FW:651.12.D USB FW:4.2, rev 1.10/0.06, addr 2 Does apcupsd connect to it? I tried this back on 5.x and it failed miserably. It identified the unit, but wouldn't talk to it. I literally have 150+

Re: Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY?

2006-10-05 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 09:49 PM 10/5/2006, Karl Denninger wrote: What's your config like? I hooked the USB back up and it identified, but when I told it to use USB and specified the device I think it says in the docs not to specify the device. , it panics (the software, not the machine) with a complaint about

Re: Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY?

2006-10-05 Thread Mike Tancsa
about DIVING! http://genesis3.blogspot.comMusings Of A Sentient Mind On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 08:35:32PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 08:09 PM 10/5/2006, Karl Denninger wrote: ugen0: American Power Conversion Smart-UPS 750 FW:651.12.D USB FW:4.2, rev 1.10/0.06, addr 2 Does apcupsd connect

Re: Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY?

2006-10-06 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 01:53 PM 10/6/2006, Karl Denninger wrote: Now, where the problem comes in is that THIS line doesn't reference an attached port. That sucks, but might not be hard to fix: If there is just one USB *serial* device, it will always be /dev/ttyU0. It doesnt matter if you have 1 or 3 other USB

Re: PCIE 1x

2006-10-09 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 07:10 PM 10/9/2006, JoaoBR wrote: if you are using a pci express 1x NIC could you please so kind to confirm which brand/model is working fine for you? I use both the Intel (Pro1000/PT) and Broadcom (HP brand Broadcom 5751) of PCIe 1x cards. ---Mike

Re: Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY?

2006-10-10 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 11:48 AM 10/10/2006, othermark wrote: uart0: 16550 or compatible on puc0 uart0: [FAST] uart1: 16550 or compatible on puc0 BTW, why use uart instead of sio ? ---Mike ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: VIA C7 support

2006-10-12 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 11:37 AM 10/12/2006, Oliver Fromme wrote: Matthieu Michaud wrote: I rent a small server based on a VIA C7 on which I installed a 6.2-PRERELEASE as of today (see dmesg and kernconf attached). It runs fairly well but I wonder if it couldn't be faster. According to padlock(4) man page,

Re: Polling overflow ?

2006-10-12 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 05:00 PM 10/12/2006, Albert Shih wrote: The server have all NIC in polling mode because without this flag the NIC disapear (em0 watchdog etc...) Today the only solution I've found is ... reboot the server :-( I would try and disable polling and then try the patch in

Re: Patch available for shared em interrupts (Re: em, bge, network problems survey.)

2006-10-13 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 10:34 PM 10/5/2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: Based on successful testing on a machine with shared em interrupt, the following patch should work around the problem *in that case*. Note that this patch will not help you if you are not using the em driver, or if you are seeing the problem with

Re: Patch available for shared em interrupts (Re: em, bge, network problems survey.)

2006-10-13 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 12:31 AM 10/14/2006, Scott Long wrote: Mike, I have a new patch that I hope addresses the actual bug, instead of shuffling the timing. Would you be willing to test it? I can't guarantee that it's safe for production use yet, though. It seems to work, but it might set your dog on fire

Re: em0 problem

2006-10-14 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 08:09 AM 10/14/2006, Balgansuren Batsukh wrote: Hello, I installed FreeBSD-6.1 on my home PC. After sometime frequently get em0 UP/DOWN message. There is a patch you can try that might help you at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-October/029224.html ---Mike

Re: em0 problem

2006-10-14 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 10:32 AM 10/14/2006, Scott Long wrote: Mike Tancsa wrote: At 08:09 AM 10/14/2006, Balgansuren Batsukh wrote: Hello, I installed FreeBSD-6.1 on my home PC. After sometime frequently get em0 UP/DOWN message. There is a patch you can try that might help you at http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Panic: sched_add: kse 0xc1c40f60 (named) already in run queue

2005-07-10 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 07:52 PM 08/07/2005, Marcin wrote: I've seen posts about this issue on current@, but without any solution. Maybe my case will help to shed some light on this one. 2 Cpu 5.4 STABLE (from today 09.07.05) running without any problems. The kernel is almost a GENERIC, except: Enabled: SMP

Re: FYI - RELENG_6 branch has been created.

2005-07-11 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 05:04 PM 11/07/2005, Robert Watson wrote: As a further FYI, a variety of debugging features are still enabled by default in RELENG_6, including INVARINTS, WITNESS, and user space malloc debugging. These will remain enabled through the first snapshot from the Apart from the kernel

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 09:23 AM 21/07/2005, Joao Barros wrote: John started debugging this with another person with similar problems on 5 and the debugging never got to 6 (no feedback from the other person): http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-July/052727.html Yes, The other person is me :)

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 09:23 AM 21/07/2005, Joao Barros wrote: On 7/21/05, Robert Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Joao Barros wrote: I was hopping for you to mention user's feedback. I started this thread http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-July/052288.html There

Re: Machine Replication

2005-07-21 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 03:20 PM 21/07/2005, Eli K. Breen wrote: All, Does anyone have a good handle on how to replicate (read: image) a freebsd machine from one machine to an ostensibly similar machine? So far I've used countless variations and combinations of the following: dd (Slow, not usefull

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 03:26 PM 21/07/2005, Karl Denninger wrote: Ok, Robert, but then here's the question How come the ATA code which was very stable in 4.x was screwed with in a production release, breaking it, with no path backwards to the working code? I understand your frustration, but others would

Re: make -j as a stress test (was: Re: Quality of FreeBSD) [WARNING - 6.0-BETA1 still hosed!]

2005-07-23 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 12:00 AM 24/07/2005, Karl Denninger wrote: Finally, any pointers on a 2 port PCI SATA board that (1) is KNOWN to work, (2) has EXTERNAL SATA connections, and (3) isn't one of those whiz-bang all-in-one-RAID thingies that costs $500? 3ware makes an excellent 2 port SATA card (8000 series)

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-23 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:22 PM 21/07/2005, Karl Denninger wrote: ATA-NG (Soren's new code) is not (from what I understand) in the 5.x codebase. No, but its quite different from what was in 4.x. My understanding is that the 5.x code is a half-baked version of ATA-NG, and IMHO it had no business going into a

Re: make -j as a stress test (was: Re: Quality of FreeBSD) [WARNING - 6.0-BETA1 still hosed!]

2005-07-24 Thread Mike Tancsa
! http://genesis3.blogspot.comMusings Of A Sentient Mind On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 12:06:16PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 12:00 AM 24/07/2005, Karl Denninger wrote: Finally, any pointers on a 2 port PCI SATA board that (1) is KNOWN to work, (2) has

Re: make -j as a stress test (was: Re: Quality of FreeBSD) [WARNING - 6.0-BETA1 still hosed!]

2005-07-24 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 02:13 PM 24/07/2005, Karl Denninger wrote: On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 07:58:20PM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: Most likely the bug you have run into is difficult or impossible to reproduce on other hardware than the particular combination you are using. FWIW my earlier post about it appearing

Re: em(4) stops passing data

2005-07-26 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 09:19 AM 26/07/2005, Chris Howells wrote: Thanks, I've tried measuring that using a multimeter. The 12v rail measures at about 12.6v, but the 5v line is only 4.9v. Is this likely to cause problems? The PSU is a brand new 450W Antec. The same PSU in a very similar system measures similar

Re: setting sysctl-values with loader.conf (5.4-STABLE)

2005-07-26 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 09:35 AM 26/07/2005, Holger Kipp wrote: Hello, I have trouble setting sysctl-values via loader.conf on my 5.4-STABLE from 25.06.2005. This is my /boot/loader.conf: --- 8 -- snip --- # settings for xine kern.ipc.shmmax=67108864 kern.ipc.shmall=32768 # load sound module

Re: em(4) stops passing data

2005-07-26 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 09:47 AM 26/07/2005, Chris Howells wrote: On Tue, July 26, 2005 2:23 pm, Mike Tancsa said: If possible, try the version of the em driver that is in RELENG_6 or CURRENT. Not sure why the intel people didnt MFC it, but it supposedly has a number of bug fixes. That driver seems to have

Re: 3ware controller for SATA works - solves problem with SII chipset

2005-07-28 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 11:22 AM 28/07/2005, Karl Denninger wrote: Got a 3Ware controller. 6.0-Beta1 is now stable with gmirror. Just curious, why use gmirror with a 3ware ? Why not just use the native RAID features of the card ? They work very well. ---Mike

Re: New question - hot plug support on TWE driver / 3ware board

2005-07-28 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:19 PM 28/07/2005, Karl Denninger wrote: Is there a control program for the twe driver devices, and/or an option somewhere I'm missing? I've looked around and in the man pages, and found nothing thus far. Or is hot plug/unplug simply not supported with this board/driver set? Yes, look

Re: New question - hot plug support on TWE driver / 3ware board

2005-07-28 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 06:45 PM 28/07/2005, Karl Denninger wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 05:42:50PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 04:31:40PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 04:19 PM 28/07/2005, Karl Denninger wrote: Is there a control program for the twe driver devices, and/or an option

Re: ad10: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=11441599

2005-08-08 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 08:25 PM 08/08/2005, O. Hartmann wrote: Hello. My box is a FreeBSD 6.0-BETA2 driven ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe based AMD64 boxed (see dmesg). One of my SATA disks, the SAMSUNG SP2004C seems to show errors during operation (and also showd under 5.4-RELEASE-p3). Sometimes I get this error: ad10:

Re: ad10: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=11441599

2005-08-10 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 10:46 PM 09/08/2005, Matthias Buelow wrote: Karl Denninger wrote: SII chipsets were ok in 4.x, but the newer ATA code broke badly with them. I've had a PR open on this since February, and many others have reported similar issues. The problems still exist in the 6.x-BETA releases I've

Re: ad10: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=11441599

2005-08-10 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 09:31 AM 10/08/2005, Karl Denninger wrote: Also, I've yet to see a developer commit on the list that they WILL fix it if such a controller board is forthcoming (and will return the board when they're done) - I've got two of these cards here (choose between Adaptec and Bustek) and would be

Re: ad10: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=11441599

2005-08-16 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 12:10 PM 16/08/2005, Mark Kane wrote: However, note that if I turn the drives speed down to UDMA100, the errors seem to go away. Has anyone else tried this for their problems? Yes, I have had Maxtor drives in the past where they would not work properly at certain bus speeds-- even back in

Re: broken fxp driver in 4.x ...

2005-08-22 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 12:56 PM 22/08/2005, Colin Farley wrote: I have made this change on the switch my virtual machines are connected to. We use HP PorCurve switches, unfortunately the switch needs to be rebooted for the change to take effect, I will have to do this late tonight. I will let you know the outcome.

ata breakage from RELENG_5 to RELENG_6

2005-08-22 Thread Mike Tancsa
Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications,[EMAIL PROTECTED] Providing Internet since 1994www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada

Re: ata breakage from RELENG_5 to RELENG_6

2005-08-22 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:33 PM 22/08/2005, Søren Schmidt wrote: On 22/08/2005, at 22:24, Mike Tancsa wrote: I updated one of our boxes from RELENG_5 to 6. Couple of things I noticed was that the smartmontools and atacontrol seems to be broken now. I updated smartmon to the latest in the ports, but same

Re: ata breakage from RELENG_5 to RELENG_6 (nope, just a bit of pilot error)

2005-08-22 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:45 PM 22/08/2005, Kevin Oberman wrote: The arguments for atacontrol have changed. The update to the man pages was committed to current in the past day or two. I'm not sure it it has made it to RELENG_6. You can't just specify the channel number any more. The channel is now the device

Re: ata breakage from RELENG_5 to RELENG_6

2005-08-22 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:54 PM 22/08/2005, damir bikmuhametov wrote: On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 04:24:12PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: I updated one of our boxes from RELENG_5 to 6. Couple of things I noticed was that the smartmontools and atacontrol seems to be broken now. [...] [verify1] /usr/ports/sysutils

Re: ata breakage from RELENG_5 to RELENG_6

2005-08-22 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 05:05 PM 22/08/2005, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: On 2005.08.22 16:24:12 -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: [verify1] /usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools# smartctl -a ad0 smartctl version 5.33 [i386-portbld-freebsd6.0] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

RELENG_6 panic

2005-08-24 Thread Mike Tancsa
: / was not properly dismounted em0: link state changed to UP ichwd module loaded ichwd0: Intel 82801EB/ER watchdog timer on motherboard Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications

LOR on BETA3

2005-09-06 Thread Mike Tancsa
+0x2c3 fork_exit(c079232c,0,cc9aad38) at fork_exit+0xa0 fork_trampoline() at fork_trampoline+0x8 --- trap 0x1, eip = 0, esp = 0xcc9aad6c, ebp = 0 --- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex

Re: em(4) support for 82573 1000/PRO nic on 5.x [was: Re: em on 5.x]

2005-09-20 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:53 PM 20/09/2005, Hector Lecuanda wrote: Perhaps i should have explained that the em(4) driver in 4.x does include support for the Intel 82573 1000/PRO nic; while the one in 5.x does not. =( Is it planned to merge the work on 4.x to 5.x and HEAD? Hi, The driver in RELENG_4 is

Re: em(4) support for 82573 1000/PRO nic on 5.x [was: Re: em on 5.x]

2005-09-22 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 12:58 PM 22/09/2005, Gavin Atkinson wrote: Support seems to be in HEAD and therefore 6.x already. It looks like 5 has simply been missed. I suspect all that is needed in the 5 branch are the following changes, though that is untested: I think the version in 7 and 6 relies on other

Re: application to check cpu / system temp?

2005-10-14 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:54 PM 14/10/2005, Jayton Garnett wrote: Hello, Are there any apps/utilities to check the cpu and system temperature? Yes, check in /usr/ports xmbmon lmmon healthd e.g. % mbmon Temp.= 46.0, 77.0, 40.0; Rot.= 3750, 2766,0 Vcore = 1.30, 2.62; Volt. = 1.54, 5.67, 11.73, -10.68, -4.55

RE: application to check cpu / system temp?

2005-10-14 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 07:59 PM 14/10/2005, Darren Pilgrim wrote: I wouldn't trust any of these. It's been a few years since any of them have given me complete or even correct values on current hardware. I can provide examples on current hardware running RELENG_5 and -CURRENT, if anyone is interested. They

Re: 6.0 release date and stability

2005-10-17 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 07:46 PM 15/10/2005, Brett Glass wrote: The release schedule for FreeBSD 6.0, on the FreeBSD Web site, doesn't show a projected date for the finished product. How close is it? My guess, very soon. But for me, RELENG_6 has been small 's' stable for some time. Got with 6.0R when it comes

Re: 6.0 release date and stability

2005-10-17 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 09:56 PM 17/10/2005, Brett Glass wrote: At 06:38 PM 10/17/2005, Mike Tancsa wrote: Two of our scanners in the cluster are SMP boxes-- dual core AMD running in 386 mode and an Intel D830. Both work really well, and take quite a load against them network / cpu wise. Lots of threads running

Re: 6.0 release date and stability

2005-10-18 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 11:56 PM 17/10/2005, Brett Glass wrote: At 08:13 PM 10/17/2005, Mike Tancsa wrote: One thing we're looking at doing is deploying some single-core AMD64s. Some of the motherboards use the NVidia NForce chipsets, so we need to know if the nve driver works I have seen lots of problem

Re: General consensus about upgrading from 5.x to 6.x?

2005-10-20 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 08:59 AM 20/10/2005, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: I run a very small home office network and domain off of my DSL. Currently, I have a FreeBSD 5.4p8 firewall (pf) running. I am really not having any issues, but sometimes the machines gets a bit stodgy for no solid reason [load shouldn't be

Re: 6.0 RC1 and usb - rs-232 adapters

2005-11-03 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 07:39 AM 03/11/2005, José M. Fandiño wrote: Hello, Recently I have upgraded a FBSD laptop from 5-STABLE to 6.0RC1, all seems works except the usb-rs232 adapter which is detected by the umct and ucom modules as: ucom0: USB-RS232 Interface Converter USB Ver1.2 Device, rev 1.10/1.03, addr 3

Re: Facilitating binary kernel upgrades

2005-11-04 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 03:10 PM 04/11/2005, Richard Bejtlich wrote: devicecrypto options FAST_IPSEC options IPFIREWALL options IPDIVERT Can anyone shed light on why those three features are not available in GENERIC? It might be because FAST_IPSEC implies no IPV6 ?

Re: 6.0 Stable reboots randomly during high load.

2005-11-23 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 08:04 AM 23/11/2005, kama wrote: I have a HP DL380G3 Dual 2.4 w HT disabled. Polling and SMP is only a recent thing, as is polling support for the bge. I would try disabling that. In terms of seeing why its crashing,

Re: 6.0 Stable reboots randomly during high load.

2005-11-23 Thread Mike Tancsa
, it just builds an additional kernel (called kernel.debug) with debugging symbols that you can compare the crash dump against. In other words, it wont hurt performance. ---Mike /Bjorn On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 08:04 AM 23/11/2005, kama wrote: I have a HP DL380G3 Dual

Re: device em0 not showing up at boot

2005-11-29 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 09:29 AM 29/11/2005, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Forrest Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have an older PC (Compaq AP200) that I'm running FreeBSD-6.0 on. I have an Intel Gigabit interface installed in one of the PCI slots, along with another dual 10/100 Intel in another. The em0 device

Re: Intel device IDs (Intel S5000PAL board, onboard ether gige interfaces working?)

2006-10-27 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 12:33 PM 10/27/2006, Jack Vogel wrote: On 10/27/06, Kurt Jaeger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Can someone report success with the onboard GigE ports of an Intel S5000PAL board ? Thanks for any report 8-} This is one of our new systems, the onboard NICs require either the latest driver you

Re: Intel device IDs (Intel S5000PAL board, onboard ether gige interfaces working?)

2006-10-27 Thread Mike Tancsa
on a RELENG_6 kernel FreeBSD r6-32bit.sentex.ca 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #2: Fri Oct 27 17:10:03 EDT 2006 ---Mike Jack On 10/27/06, Mike Tancsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:33 PM 10/27/2006, Jack Vogel wrote: On 10/27/06, Kurt Jaeger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Can

Re: Intel device IDs (Intel S5000PAL board, onboard ether gige interfaces working?)

2006-10-27 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 05:52 PM 10/27/2006, Jack Vogel wrote: HMMM, ok, maybe I jumped the gun, if this thing says ICH7 then its not the NIC I was talking about, thats ICH8. I just didnt think there were any 10/100 parts that werent already in the fxp driver. I looked at the PCI ID, and its not what I was talking

Re: Intel device IDs (Intel S5000PAL board, onboard ether gige interfaces working?)

2006-10-27 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 06:49 PM 10/27/2006, Jack Vogel wrote: Any chance to commit the ID info to the driver ? Seems to work just fine as an fxp. ---Mike When the current firefight I'm in is over I'll check it out. Super, thanks! ---Mike ___

Re: [PATCH] Intel PRO/100 VE extra PCI ID

2006-11-03 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 05:03 AM 11/3/2006, Rink Springer wrote: Hi people, Recently, I installed FreeBSD on a Tyan GS14 barebone, which houses an bge(4) and a fxp(4). However, FreeBSD does not recognize the on-board fxp(4) NIC by default. All that was needed was just an extra PCI ID addition; the patch can be

Re: New em patch for 6.2 BETA 3

2006-11-03 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 09:16 PM 11/3/2006, Jack Vogel wrote: I, and re, would very much appreciate any test feedback you can Thanks very much for working on this! I was not able to easily reproduce the timeouts in the first place, but so far on the one box I have been testing, it seems to be fine (netrate

Re: em driver testing

2006-11-07 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:52 PM 11/7/2006, Scott Long wrote: I think it's more that the if_em driver watchdog was insulating the if_xl driver. Once the if_em component was removed, the if_xl driver was the next in line to be a victim. So yes, like you say, all of the drivers need to be fixed. I wonder if

Re: Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-09 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 08:19 PM 11/8/2006, Jack Vogel wrote: BUT, I've added the FAST_INTR changes back into the code, so if you go into your Makefile and add -DEM_FAST_INTR you will then get the taskqueue stuff. It certainly does make a difference performance wise. I did some quick testing with netperf and

Re: Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-09 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 08:19 PM 11/8/2006, Jack Vogel wrote: BUT, I've added the FAST_INTR changes back into the code, so if you go into your Makefile and add -DEM_FAST_INTR you will then get the taskqueue stuff. Not sure why you would want FAST_INTR and polling in at the same time, but I found that the two are

Re: Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-09 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 10:51 AM 11/9/2006, Scott Long wrote: Mike Tancsa wrote: At 08:19 PM 11/8/2006, Jack Vogel wrote: BUT, I've added the FAST_INTR changes back into the code, so if you go into your Makefile and add -DEM_FAST_INTR you will then get the taskqueue stuff. It certainly does make a difference

Re: usb serial lockup

2006-11-10 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 07:17 AM 11/10/2006, Vince wrote: Hi All, I have a bit of a wierd problem, My laptop has no serial ports, as is the norm these days, so i have a FTDI based usb serial connector which is very handy and works well. However, what i have found is that freebsd still detects a serial port

Re: Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-10 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 05:00 PM 11/9/2006, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 10:51 AM 11/9/2006, Scott Long wrote: Mike Tancsa wrote: At 08:19 PM 11/8/2006, Jack Vogel wrote: BUT, I've added the FAST_INTR changes back into the code, so if you go into your Makefile and add -DEM_FAST_INTR you will then get the taskqueue

Re: Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-10 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 05:00 PM 11/10/2006, Jack Vogel wrote: On 11/10/06, Mike Tancsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some more tests. I tried again with what was committed to today's RELENG_6. I am guessing its pretty well the same patch. Polling is the only way to avoid livelock at a high pps rate. Does anyone know

Re: Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-11 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 01:42 AM 11/11/2006, Scott Long wrote: surprised by your results. I'm still a bit unclear on the exact topology of your setup, so if could explain it some more in private email, I'd appreciate it. Hi, I made a quick diagram of the test setup that should make it more clear

Re: Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-11 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 01:42 AM 11/11/2006, Scott Long wrote: driver. What will help me is if you can hook up a serial console to your machine and see if it can be made to drop to the debugger while it is under load and otherwise unresponsive. If you can, getting a process dump might help confirm where each CPU

Re: Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-12 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 08:45 AM 11/12/2006, Adrian Chadd wrote: Should fiddling with the interrupt-coalescing stuff in the em driver via sysctl be tried? None of the recent tests in reply to your email indicate any particular tx/rx threshold settings. I was using whatever is the default. What would you like me

Re: Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-12 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 11:41 AM 11/12/2006, Scott Long wrote: Mike Tancsa wrote: At 01:42 AM 11/11/2006, Scott Long wrote: driver. What will help me is if you can hook up a serial console to your machine and see if it can be made to drop to the debugger while it is under load and otherwise unresponsive. If you

Re: Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-12 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 08:47 PM 11/12/2006, Scott Long wrote: 2. Try compiling in WITNESS and running the test as before, then break into the debugger as before. Run 'show locks'. I'm not sure how fruitful this will be, WITNESS might make it unbearably slow. It was in that kernel already So you're seeing the

Re: Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-12 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 11:05 PM 11/12/2006, Scott Long wrote: Mike Tancsa wrote: However, if I turn on fastforwarding, its back to the old behavior with it locking up. This was with the stock driver. I will try the same test with #define EM_FAST_INTR 1 as well as taking out the nfs option from the kernel

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: 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 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: 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: sio driver sucks

2006-11-15 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 05:27 AM 11/14/2006, Spartak Radchenko wrote: How do you switch it from sio to uart on RELENG_6 ? Build a new kernel with device uart, change sio to uart tn the /boot/device.hints file. Maybe rebuilding a kernel is not needed, I never checked it. Thanks, For me, sio on the

Re: 6.2-RC1 em(4) issue - freezes during CD boot

2006-12-14 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 11:13 PM 12/13/2006, Jack Vogel wrote: On 12/13/06, Chris Buechler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jack Vogel wrote: I need the PCI ID of that NIC, just to be sure that I can't reproduce this, but I doubt it, pciconf -l I have another case where an EM nic can lock up the box. But I am not

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