Re: swap space issues

2020-07-12 Thread Scott Bennett via freebsd-stable
I have read this entire thread to date with growing dismay, and I thank Donald Wilde for reporting his ongoing troubles, although they spoil my hopes that the kernel's memory management bugs that first became apparent in 11.2-RELEASE (and -STABLE around the same time) were not propagated into

Re: swap space issues

2020-07-12 Thread Scott Bennett via freebsd-stable
Don Wilde wrote: > > On 7/11/20 11:28 PM, Scott Bennett via freebsd-stable wrote: > > I have read this entire thread to date with growing dismay, and I > > thank Donald Wilde for reporting his ongoing troubles, although they > > spoil my hopes that the kernel'

Re: Vinum deprecation for FreeBSD 14 - are there any remaining Vinum users?

2021-04-06 Thread Scott Bennett via freebsd-stable
Ed, On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 13:25:44 -0400 Ed Maste wrote: >Vinum is a Logical Volume Manager that was introduced in FreeBSD 3.0, >and for FreeBSD 5 was ported to geom(4) as gvinum. gvinum has had no >specific development at least as far back as 2010 and it is not clear >how well it works

Re: Vinum deprecation for FreeBSD 14 - are there any remaining Vinum users?

2021-04-09 Thread Scott Bennett via freebsd-stable
Eugene Grosbein wrote: > 07.04.2021 12:49, Scott Bennett via freebsd-stable wrote: > > > At least w.r.t. gvinum's raid5, I can attest that the kernel panics > > are real. Before settling on ZFS raidz2 for my largest storage pool, I > > experimented with gstripe(

Re: Deprecating base system ftpd

2021-04-10 Thread Scott Bennett via freebsd-stable
On Fri, 09 Apr 2021 07:32:12 +0900 aventa...@fastmail.fm wrote: >It makes me think that there should be an offering for two completely >different audiences: >(1) FreeBSD core (a very minimal offering for folks that want to build things, >like a Desktop, etc.) >(2) FreeBSD server (an