How to verify a mirror raid using atacontrol?

2007-11-06 Thread Artem Kuchin
I have a mirror raid on Promise controller supported by atacontrol. How can i verify it? Thank you in advance -- Artem ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: How to verify a mirror raid using atacontrol?

2007-11-06 Thread Artem Kuchin
Steve Bertrand wrote: Artem Kuchin wrote: I have a mirror raid on Promise controller supported by atacontrol. How can i verify it? [snip] No, no. i meant completelly verify raid data, that is that bother drive match and no bad blocks on any of them. There is a special VERIFY raid command

Re: Question about 'top' values on memory usage

2007-10-15 Thread Artem Kuchin
William LeFebvre wrote: Artem Kuchin wrote: Hello! Maybe someone with deeper knowledge of the internals of FreeBSD can clean up something for me (any for many others)^ Here are lines from my top: PID USERNAMETHR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 9258 hordelo_ru1

Re: Question about 'top' values on memory usage, now threads

2007-10-15 Thread Artem Kuchin
William LeFebvre wrote: Artem Kuchin wrote: CPU is more than just enough in my case. There will a a lot https sitting there but load, i am sure, will be low. If the load is low then you may not need very many processes. They belong to different sites ;) so they need to be run constantly

Question about 'top' values on memory usage

2007-10-14 Thread Artem Kuchin
in advance! -- Regards, Artem Kuchin ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

how to compiel kernel and world to maxium optimization

2007-10-12 Thread Artem Kuchin
for this CPU and optimization for it, so i would get myself a speedy system and less memory hungry, right? The only option known to me which is related to the isee is cpu setting in kernel config file. Anything else? Thank you very much in advance -- Regards, Artem Kuchin

Re: Heads UP - MFC for em coming shortly

2007-10-05 Thread Artem Kuchin
Jack Vogel wrote: I am preparing to update the em driver to the equivalent of my 6.6.6 driver. Just doing some last minute sanity checking, I hope to the checkin before end of day. This will provide support for devices up to our latest, the next stage I'm planning will incorporate multiqueue

Re: Quation about HZ kernel option

2007-10-04 Thread Artem Kuchin
Oliver Fromme wrote: Artem Kuchin wrote: What value of HZ option would you recommend for a hosting (web) server with a lot of processes (about 900) and polling off (as decided from previous discussion polling is useless in this situation). In that case, I would recommend not to override

Re: Panic with RELENG_6_2 on DELL PE 4600 with PAE

2007-10-04 Thread Artem Kuchin
Claus Guttesen wrote: Why would there be no space when I have 24GB of memory? 1. Any process, including the kernel can only allocate up to 4 GB of memory on a 32-bit system (since a 32-bit integer can only hold that many values) 2. The kernel is further constrained so the user programs can get

Re: Quation about HZ kernel option

2007-10-04 Thread Artem Kuchin
Craig Boston wrote: On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 02:32:39PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: In that case, I would recommend not to override the default at all (which is 1000). ISTM that it would be better to use kern.hz=100 in this case. My reasoning is that a web server shouldn't be terribly

Re: Panic with RELENG_6_2 on DELL PE 4600 with PAE

2007-10-04 Thread Artem Kuchin
Stephen Clark wrote: Artem Kuchin wrote: Claus Guttesen wrote: Why would there be no space when I have 24GB of memory? 1. Any process, including the kernel can only allocate up to 4 GB of memory on a 32-bit system (since a 32-bit integer can only hold that many values) 2. The kernel

Re: Quation about HZ kernel option

2007-10-04 Thread Artem Kuchin
effect. I would not go under 100, though. I personally believe that a default of 1000 is ridiculously high, especially on a SMP system. Nuts! Everybody has his own opinion on this matter. Any idea how to actually build syntetic but close to real benchmark for this? For example:

Quation about HZ kernel option

2007-10-03 Thread Artem Kuchin
Hello! What value of HZ option would you recommend for a hosting (web) server with a lot of processes (about 900) and polling off (as decided from previous discussion polling is useless in this situation). What parts of kernel does this option affect? What depends on it? -- Regards, Artem

Re: device polling and weird timer interrupt count from vmstat

2007-09-25 Thread Artem Kuchin
Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: On Monday 24 September 2007 20:58, Artem Kuchin wrote: What i don't understand is why timer rate on each cpu is 1995? I have set it to 1000, not 1995 or 2000. I have seen it showing 2000 on another box. So 1) why not 1000? DOUBLING I can only make assumptions about

Re: device polling and weird timer interrupt count from vmstat

2007-09-25 Thread Artem Kuchin
Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: On Tuesday 25 September 2007 12:13, Artem Kuchin wrote: I have dual CPU with HT. If i turn on HT (and it does help in my case) it shoud 2000 int x4 = 8000 ints per second. SO, i have saved 200 int/second from NIC and got myself 8000 ints/second from timer. This kind

Re: device polling and weird timer interrupt count from vmstat

2007-09-25 Thread Artem Kuchin
3) Is timer int really generated on each cpu? Am i really wasting cpu time on ~4000 ints per second? 4000 ints per second is rather nothing on any modern CPU. Have a look at the top(1) display of an otherwise idle system. The %interrupt column should be zero, even if it's processing 4000 timer

Re: device polling and weird timer interrupt count from vmstat

2007-09-25 Thread Artem Kuchin
Oliver Fromme wrote: Artem Kuchin wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: Artem Kuchin wrote: 3) Is timer int really generated on each cpu? Am i really wasting cpu time on ~4000 ints per second? 4000 ints per second is rather nothing on any modern CPU. Have a look at the top(1) display of an otherwise

device polling and weird timer interrupt count from vmstat

2007-09-24 Thread Artem Kuchin
Anyone any clue on this issue: Artem Kuchin wrote: I enabled device polling in the kernel, in nics and set HZ=1000. How, when i do omni2# vmstat -i i see interrupt total rate irq14: ata0 47 0 irq15: ata1

device polling and weird timer interrupt count from vmstat

2007-09-22 Thread Artem Kuchin
I enabled device polling in the kernel, in nics and set HZ=1000. How, when i do omni2# vmstat -i i see interrupt total rate irq14: ata0 47 0 irq15: ata1 41 0 irq28: em0

Re: A little story of failed raid5 (3ware 8000 series)

2007-08-21 Thread Artem Kuchin
Martin Nilsson wrote: Artem Kuchin wrote: But i don't understand how and why it happened. ONly 6 hours ago (a night before) all those files were backed up fine w/o any read error. And now, right after replacing the driver and starting rebuild it said that there are bad sectors all over those

Re: A little story of failed raid5 (3ware 8000 series)

2007-08-21 Thread Artem Kuchin
Darren Pilgrim wrote: Artem Kuchin wrote: That exactly was i was talking about. I don't acess to individual disks behind raid unit, so, i cannot doit. I don't know it controller VERIFY command does it right. If it doesm then i shoudl put it into a cron job and do it on weekly basis. Also

Re: A little story of failed raid5 (3ware 8000 series)

2007-08-21 Thread Artem Kuchin
You can run smartmontools on disks behind 3ware controllers, eg /dev/twe0 -d 3ware,0 -a -o on -S on -m [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/twe0 -d 3ware,1 -a -o on -S on -m [EMAIL PROTECTED] did this: smartctl /dev/twe0 -d 3ware,1 -a for each driver on another server. Two driver are pretty old, the driver

A little story of failed raid5 (3ware 8000 series)

2007-08-20 Thread Artem Kuchin
Hello! Here is the newest story of mine about how one should never use raid5. Controller is 8xxx-4LP. I have a simple 360GB raid5 with 4 drives since 2004. Only about a year ago i realized how much speed i have wasted be saving lousy 120GB. I should have choosen bigger driver and setup two

Re: A little story of failed raid5 (3ware 8000 series)

2007-08-20 Thread Artem Kuchin
David Schwartz wrote: A day ago at 11 am i have turn off the server, pull out the old driver, installed a new one, turned of the server and started rebuild in an hour from remote location via web interface. After about 5 minuted the machine became unresponsive. Tried rebooting - nothing. I went

panic after removing usb flash disk

2007-08-16 Thread Artem Kuchin
Hello! I don't know if it really belongs to this list, since i have only tested on 7-CURRENT, but on the other hand 7-CURRENT is soon going to be stable. So here it goes: 1) insert usb flash disk 2) usbd detected it 3) mount it (mount -t msdosfs /dev/da1s1 /mnt) 4) simply pull the pen drive

How stable is 7 now? How to cvs it?

2007-08-15 Thread Artem Kuchin
Hello! I have heard that 7 is very stable since november and much better (perfomance wise since GIANT lock have been deleted completely) since that time. Is it true? Also, how to cvsup the sources? I tried RELENG_7 and HEAD tags and no sources and docs fetched at all. Which is the correct tag?

twa is giant locked in 7-Current or everywhere?

2007-08-15 Thread Artem Kuchin
Hi! When i installed twas driver on 6.2-STABLE it said [FAST] i presumed that it measn that twa is giant-lock free. Now, after installing 7-CURRENT i see Aug 15 17:00:02 omni3 kernel: 3ware device driver for 9000 series storage controllers, version: 3.70.03.007 Aug 15 17:00:02 omni3 kernel:

Re: When inode change time changes?

2007-06-20 Thread Artem Kuchin
Oliver Fromme wrote: Artem Kuchin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use gtar (gtar because it has incremental backups, and tar does not) You _can_ use BSD tar for incremental backups. I do that every day. Yes, but that's not real incremental backup because if you restore data you'll get a bunch

When inode change time changes?

2007-06-16 Thread Artem Kuchin
I am having tough time with backup system. I use gtar (gtar because it has incremental backups, and tar does not) I use inode change time in order to backup all changed files. I have notices that some files are always backed up even if they did not change. For example all mysql database. I

question about gtar and --newer

2007-06-15 Thread Artem Kuchin
man gtar states: --newer dateOnly store files with creation time newer than date. Is it totally wrong and gtar really uses inode change time (like tar) or gtar does no take inode change time into account at all? -- Regards, Artem

Re: Broken locale after upgrade to 6-STABEL from 5-STABLE

2007-05-24 Thread Artem Kuchin
Stanislaw Halik wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2007, Artem Kuchin wrote: What i don't understand, is how the appropriate 'so' is selected? How freebsd known which so to load this libc.so.5 or this libc.so.6 ? Did you recompile Perl after the last installworld? If not, do so. No i did not do

Re: Broken locale after upgrade to 6-STABEL from 5-STABLE

2007-05-24 Thread Artem Kuchin
KAYVEN RIESE wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2007, Artem Kuchin wrote: /lib/libc.so.5 I chflaged it, deleted it and made a link to libc.so.6 this guy sounds familiar. i am really hosed right now, i can't run a browser simultaneously, maybe i am being really stupid, but what do you mean when you say

Re: Broken locale after upgrade to 6-STABEL from 5-STABLE

2007-05-24 Thread Artem Kuchin
Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Artem Kuchin wrote: Stanislaw Halik wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2007, Artem Kuchin wrote: What i don't understand, is how the appropriate 'so' is selected? How freebsd known which so to load this libc.so.5 or this libc.so.6

Re: Broken locale after upgrade to 6-STABEL from 5-STABLE

2007-05-24 Thread Artem Kuchin
Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Artem Kuchin wrote: Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Artem Kuchin wrote: Stanislaw Halik wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2007, Artem Kuchin wrote: What i don't understand, is how

How to test locale in C? All my tests fail.

2007-05-24 Thread Artem Kuchin
Maybe it is the wrong list, but maybe someone can quickly help me out. I have a very stupid problem. I cannot convert to upper or lower case using manually set locale (setlocale(..)). A very simple program: #include locale.h #include errno.h #include ctype.h main(){ char

Re: How to test locale in C? All my tests fail.

2007-05-24 Thread Artem Kuchin
is currently set. I tried without call setlocale(LC_CTYPE,NULL); - no difference. -- Regards, Artem -- -max 2007/5/24, Artem Kuchin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Maybe it is the wrong list, but maybe someone can quickly help me out. I have a very stupid problem. I cannot convert to upper or lower case using

Re: How to test locale in C? All my tests fail.

2007-05-24 Thread Artem Kuchin
Oliver Fromme wrote: Artem Kuchin wrote: I have a very stupid problem. I cannot convert to upper or lower case using manually set locale (setlocale(..)). A very simple program: [...] printf(IS UPPER ?: %d\n,isupper('?')); printf(IS UPPER ?: %d\n,isupper('?')); printf

Broken locale after upgrade to 6-STABEL from 5-STABLE

2007-05-23 Thread Artem Kuchin
Recently i figured out that all locales stopped working properly on some of my 6-STABLE servers and in all jails on them. These server diffeer from others (on which locale work) in that they were upgraded to 6-STABLE directly from 5.3-STABLE. Test was easy: #!/usr/bin/perl use POSIX

Top not showing 4 cpus on 2 xeons with HT

2007-04-25 Thread Artem Kuchin
I am just wondering if it is normal. I have two xeon processors with HT on each of them. When loading kernel says that 4 cpu's are found, but when i do top i can see only 0 or 2 in the C column. never 1 or 3. Is it normal? FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE (cvsed 1 day ago) -- Regards. Artem

GIANT LOCKED raid driver

2007-04-25 Thread Artem Kuchin
We use 3ware cards (twe driver) on most of our server. While it is a very good raid controller it's driver is still GIANT LOCKED and i think this reduces perfomance of the server (they do a lot of disk io). Does anyone know a good raid controller (raid-5 not really needed, mirror is enough)

Re: Top not showing 4 cpus on 2 xeons with HT

2007-04-25 Thread Artem Kuchin
Richard Tector wrote: Artem Kuchin wrote: I am just wondering if it is normal. I have two xeon processors with HT on each of them. When loading kernel says that 4 cpu's are found, but when i do top i can see only 0 or 2 in the C column. never 1 or 3. Is it normal? FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE (cvsed 1

Re: 6.2-RELEASE does not use second CPU on pentium D

2007-04-25 Thread Artem Kuchin
John Baldwin wrote: On Wednesday 25 April 2007 04:47:48 am Alex Povolotsky wrote: Hello! I have a Pentium D box, running 6.2-RELEASE. In dmesg, I see CPU#1 launched, but I never see any process running on it, and mptable shows Hmm. I am running PentiumD 3.0 Ghz on Asus p5p800-vm

Re: PAE does not give any ram increase, why?

2007-04-22 Thread Artem Kuchin
the number do not change with or without PAE Maybe i look in the wrong place? I'm not going to waste my time explaining for the hundredth time how the x86 memory layout works. If you want to recover the missing 256MB, go look in your BIOS for an option about memory hole remapping. No

PAE does not give any ram increase, why?

2007-04-21 Thread Artem Kuchin
Hello! I've upgraded one of my servers today. Now it is Asus P5p800-VM Pentium D 3.0Ghz 4GB RAM (4x1 GB) 3WARE raid5 FreebSD 6.2 cvsed today compiled from sources. after that i decided to try PAE. It runs just fine but when i compare available memory with and without pae i do not see any

Re: PAE does not give any ram increase, why?

2007-04-21 Thread Artem Kuchin
Martin Nilsson wrote: Artem Kuchin wrote: Apr 21 18:01:30 osiris kernel: CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.00GHz (3000.33-MHz 686-class CPU) Why bother with PAE on a CPU that is 64-bit capable and can run the amd64 version of FreeBSD 6.2? Do you know a RELIABLE way to migrade a production

Re: PAE does not give any ram increase, why?

2007-04-21 Thread Artem Kuchin
Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On 4/21/07, Artem Kuchin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I've upgraded one of my servers today. Now it is Asus P5p800-VM Pentium D 3.0Ghz 4GB RAM (4x1 GB) 3WARE raid5 FreebSD 6.2 cvsed today compiled from sources. after that i decided to try PAE. It runs just fine

Re: Migrating from x86 (32) to amd64

2007-03-10 Thread Artem Kuchin
About one year ago, I was able to do the regular procedure after enabling i386 compat. It was just another make world for me. options COMPAT_IA32 This is interesting. I have setup and amd64 box with this option enabled. And i am sure i have to leave foreve, since some client have

Migrating from x86 (32) to amd64

2007-03-09 Thread Artem Kuchin
Maybe someone could help me. I have a machine with 4GB of RAM 128MB of which is wasted and i really need 2 gigs more. This is a heavy duty production server with a lot of jails and custom scripts, etc.. and i am afraid i cannot reinstall all from scratch. Furthermore it is located in the

Re: Canonical 4.x to 6.x upgrade docs?

2007-03-09 Thread Artem Kuchin
Has anyone succeeded in doing a 4.x - 6.x upgrade from source without upgrading first to 5.x as an intermediate step? tried twice - did not work, but going to 5 and then to 6 was not a problem. But i suspect than going from older 4.x to newer 5.x (like 5.4) might not work and it might need

Re: Canonical 4.x to 6.x upgrade docs?

2007-03-09 Thread Artem Kuchin
What's the basis for your suspicion? My memory might play tricks on me, but i think I remember that i tried to upgrade from 4.1 to 5.3 longtime ago and it did not work. I had to up to 5.0 and the to 5.3. But that might be just some weird client install (i did not install freebsd on that box

Re: Migrating from x86 (32) to amd64

2007-03-09 Thread Artem Kuchin
Is there way to more or less sefely migrade to AMD64 arhitecture via csup and source build? AFAIK nobody has lived to tell the tale (or at least I didn't see any followups from people who claimed they'd try it). In any case it would be better to migrate it via binary reinstall (the same as

Re: Migrating from x86 (32) to amd64

2007-03-09 Thread Artem Kuchin
Is there way to more or less sefely migrade to AMD64 arhitecture via csup and source build? ... Damn it. Then i guess i need to do some experimenting myself. Definitely. Theoretically, what would be the procedure? 1) Backup system. 2) Download amd64 install ISO and burn to CD 3) Boot

Re: Some Unix benchmarks for those who are interesed

2007-03-07 Thread Artem Kuchin
Yep. It should look something like this output, from my dual-core Opteron running Linux 2.6.19-ck2: BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 4.1-wht.1) System -- Linux daydream 2.6.19-ck2 #5 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jan 20 12:23:54 EST 2007 i686 athlon-4 i386 GNU/Linux /dev/mapper/vg-u2 10321208 6610764

Re: Some Unix benchmarks for those who are interesed

2007-03-07 Thread Artem Kuchin
Hmm. what kind of HDD, RAID or whatever are you using? My raid pretty much sucks. It is build it on the intel motherboard LSI Megaraid. But i still get 81Mb/sec when doing dd if=/dev/ar0 of=/dev/null bs=1M How much do you get on this? -- Regards Artem

Re: Some Unix benchmarks for those who are interesed

2007-03-07 Thread Artem Kuchin
Artem Kuchin wrote: Hmm. what kind of HDD, RAID or whatever are you using? My raid pretty much sucks. It is build it on the intel motherboard LSI Megaraid. But i still get 81Mb/sec when doing dd if=/dev/ar0 of=/dev/null bs=1M How much do you get on this? geom_mirror on 2 desktop SATA drives

Re: Some Unix benchmarks for those who are interesed

2007-03-07 Thread Artem Kuchin
- Original Message - From: Charles Shannon Hendrix [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 9:49 PM Subject: Re: Some Unix benchmarks for those who are interesed On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:30:12 +0100 Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles

Re: Some Unix benchmarks for those who are interesed

2007-03-07 Thread Artem Kuchin
- Original Message - From: Torfinn Ingolfsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 10:57 PM Subject: Re: Some Unix benchmarks for those who are interesed On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 22:32:36 +0300 Artem Kuchin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm

Re: Some Unix benchmarks for those who are interesed

2007-03-07 Thread Artem Kuchin
- Original Message - From: Fluffles [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Artem Kuchin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 11:35 PM Subject: Re: Some Unix benchmarks for those who are interesed Artem Kuchin wrote: Artem Kuchin wrote: Hmm. what kind of HDD, RAID or whatever are you

Some Unix benchmarks for those who are interesed

2007-03-06 Thread Artem Kuchin
I used unixbenchmark for measure overall perfomance of three machines of different generations and with different OS versions. See for your self and compare results with machine cost. Hope this will be usefull for someone. BENCHMARKS: OMNI3 (current cost 2400$): Intel entry server mainboard,

Re: Boot prompt for Intel AMT

2007-03-06 Thread Artem Kuchin
I hope some people will understand what i am talking about, because the technology, i think, is not very popular, but can come VERY handy. Intel AMT Serial over LAN (SOL, why is it called 'over LAN' if it is really 'OVER IP'?) allows to boot into BIOS of a remote machine and even, as seen in

Re: Boot prompt for Intel AMT

2007-03-06 Thread Artem Kuchin
Artem Kuchin wrote: I hope some people will understand what i am talking about, because the technology, i think, is not very popular, but can come VERY handy. Intel AMT Serial over LAN (SOL, why is it called 'over LAN' if it is really 'OVER IP'?) allows to boot into BIOS of a remote machine

Is SATA II supported in 6.2-stable?

2007-03-06 Thread Artem Kuchin
Hi! I just setup a new machine and while it is supposed to be full SATA II i still see these lines in at kernel init: Mar 6 14:00:09 aaa kernel: ad8: 305245MB Seagate ST3320620AS 3.AAE at ata4-master SATA150 Mar 6 14:00:09 aaa kernel: ad10: 305245MB Seagate ST3320620AS 3.AAE at ata5-master

Re: Boot prompt for Intel AMT (serial port redirection on Intel AMT)

2007-03-06 Thread Artem Kuchin
- Original Message - From: Tom Judge [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Artem Kuchin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Jack Vogel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 2:04 PM Subject: Re: Boot prompt for Intel AMT Artem Kuchin wrote: Artem Kuchin wrote: snip/ We have a number

Re: Some Unix benchmarks for those who are interesed

2007-03-06 Thread Artem Kuchin
Artem Kuchin wrote: I used unixbenchmark for measure overall perfomance of three machines of different generations and with different OS versions. See for your self and compare results with machine cost. Hope this will be usefull for someone. Several things: a) It looks like your message

Re: Some Unix benchmarks for those who are interesed

2007-03-06 Thread Artem Kuchin
See here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-March/033494.html Yes, that what i've got in the list and this how it was in the putty terminal originally. Nothing is missing. I don't know why open left parentesis are there. -- Artem

Boot prompt for Intel AMT

2007-03-05 Thread Artem Kuchin
Hello! I hope some people will understand what i am talking about, because the technology, i think, is not very popular, but can come VERY handy. Intel AMT Serial over LAN (SOL, why is it called 'over LAN' if it is really 'OVER IP'?) allows to boot into BIOS of a remote machine and even, as

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

2007-02-12 Thread Artem Kuchin
On 2007-Feb-12 16:07:03 +1030, Daniel O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I regularly ship systems overseas where the power fails frequently. The inability to boot because one disk got hosed is Bad News (tm). A decent UPS can help here. No, i can't. I have seen UPS (even APC) fail in some

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.

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

2007-02-08 Thread Artem Kuchin
Hello! I need a raid controller for FBSD 6.2 which has the following options 1) Full SATA-II support 2) Good rperfomance (over 50MB read, over 30 write) in mirror mode 3) No weird problems with freebSD (like with SRCS16) 4) Utility to monitor status of raids (command line or web) 5) Utility to

Re: Filesystem corruption and bad perfomance with SRCS16 and PAE (raid 5 2TB)

2007-02-07 Thread Artem Kuchin
Boris Samorodov wrote: On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 03:04:05 +0300 Artem Kuchin wrote: Andras Gót wrote: Can you try the AMD64 version on that server? Um.. i have never tried anything AMD in my life. I thought AMD64 is only for AMD CPUs and this is Intel Xeon. Are you really suggesting installing

Filesystem corruption and bad perfomance with SRCS16 and PAE (raid 5 2TB)

2007-02-06 Thread Artem Kuchin
is so slow? -- Regards, Artem Kuchin ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Filesystem corruption and bad perfomance with SRCS16 and PAE (raid 5 2TB)

2007-02-06 Thread Artem Kuchin
Artem Kuchin wrote: Hello! I've got an Intel 2400A server to install FBSD. It has 4GB RAM, SRCS16 raid controller, configured 2TB (actually a little less, about 1.9TB) RAID-5 array, Xeon 3.2Ghz Recently i have installed 6.2-R, cvsupped it to 6.2-STABLE (today, thanks to included csup utility, very

Re: Cannot start install cd of 6.2-R at all

2007-01-21 Thread Artem Kuchin
Mark Kirkwood wrote: Artem Kuchin wrote: Hello! I am having a VERY weird problem. The pc config is: 1) Celeron 1+ GHZ 2) Intel PCI ethernet nic 3) Fasttrak TX2000 raid + 2 mirrored disks (seagate 80gb) 4) teac dvd driver 5) 512 MB ram 6) Chaintech montherboard (old one) also tried

Cannot start install cd of 6.2-R at all

2007-01-17 Thread Artem Kuchin
Hello! I am having a VERY weird problem. The pc config is: 1) Celeron 1+ GHZ 2) Intel PCI ethernet nic 3) Fasttrak TX2000 raid + 2 mirrored disks (seagate 80gb) 4) teac dvd driver 5) 512 MB ram 6) Chaintech montherboard (old one) also tried on gigabyte motherboard I insert boot cd and when

Quotas inside jails

2006-05-24 Thread Artem Kuchin
Sometime ago and have setup 5.3-STABLE box with quotas for jailed users. At that time quotas did not work inside jails, so i just created some group on host machine and group with the same ID inside jail and then put a quota upon that group on the host box. That was quotas are observed.

What's done and what's not done in 6.1?

2006-05-10 Thread Artem Kuchin
see: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/todo.html Is it the final status of things when went into 6.1R? I am particulary interested in status of the following problems: devfs locking problem unmount pending error swap_pager warnings pty leak calcru: runtime went backwards problem for

Re: Disappointed

2006-04-06 Thread Artem Kuchin
Alexey Karagodov wrote: needs, make a mirror, make a test server/workstation/notebook/PDA etc. i'm not an freebsd developer. i'm just admin and a user. your system is most greatest i ever seen. another wonderful system is SOLARIS. but your's is so unstable ... I never could really undertand

Re: Strange number of mbufs

2006-02-03 Thread Artem Kuchin
Gleb Smirnoff wrote: On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 12:52:09AM +0300, Artem Kuchin wrote: Running 5.4-CURRENT. Web server. About 150 virtual servers. %netstat -m 4294481198 mbufs in use What does this mean? Do i really have 4294481198 mbufs in use? How is this possible? This is fixed in 6.0

Does fxp works with PAE in 6-STABLE? Is TWE stable in PAE?

2006-02-03 Thread Artem Kuchin
I have read that in 5.x fxp driver did not work with PAE, but, as i see, fxp is not in 'nodevice' section of PAE kernel config anymore. Is it okay now to use fpx in PAE kernel? Also, is twe driver very stable in PAE? I have a web server with 6 gigs of RAM and would like to use them all.

Strange number of mbufs

2006-02-02 Thread Artem Kuchin
Running 5.4-CURRENT. Web server. About 150 virtual servers. %netstat -m 4294481198 mbufs in use 4294662679/25600 mbuf clusters in use (current/max) 0/694/6656 sfbufs in use (current/peak/max) 3463545 KBytes allocated to network 0 requests for sfbufs denied 0 requests for sfbufs delayed 1681997

Re: SATA vs SCSI ...

2005-06-27 Thread Artem Kuchin
get you. -- Regards, Artem Kuchin IT Legion Ltd. Moscow, Russia www.itlegion.ru [EMAIL PROTECTED] +7 095 232-0338 ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail

man 4 ar on 5.4

2005-06-10 Thread Artem Kuchin
See man 4 ar I think it is fully outdated, bease ar is an RAID storage device, as i see when i use Promise TX2000 Artem ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Current status of nullfs and/or unionfs?

2005-05-05 Thread Artem Kuchin
of test systems. Hi. I am running on 5.3-STABLE since december 2004. We run 14 jails and use nullfs for some shared parts. Everything is just fine. I tryed unionfs, it worked stable but i didn't do what i wanted it to do or probably i didn't get its usage right :) -- Regards, Artem Kuchin IT Legion Ltd

Re: Need really cheap IDE mirroring PCI controlled for FreebBSD 4.10

2005-03-03 Thread Artem Kuchin
pete wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 17:27:07 +0300, Artem Kuchin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anybody recommend cheap IDE mirroring PCI (2.0, not 2.1 or 2.2) controller with just 2 IDE ports which works fine with FreeBSD 4.10 ? It is to be installed on a very old motherboard

Re: Need really cheap IDE mirroring PCI controlled for FreebBSD 4.10

2005-03-03 Thread Artem Kuchin
Gerald de la Pascua [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: we have had very good experiences with the basic 3ware cards, I would recommend them, easy to install, reliable, and good perfomance, in the uk they cost just over 100 pounds, so a similar price to two disks to plug into them. When a disk fails

Need really cheap IDE mirroring PCI controlled for FreebBSD 4.10

2005-03-02 Thread Artem Kuchin
Can anybody recommend cheap IDE mirroring PCI (2.0, not 2.1 or 2.2) controller with just 2 IDE ports which works fine with FreeBSD 4.10 ? It is to be installed on a very old motherboard (1998) and two 40GB IDE driver (more or less modern ones, at least not used ones for sure). -- Regards, Artem

Re: How to make ipfw consider MAC-IP match?

2005-02-15 Thread Artem Kuchin
Scot Hetzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 23:58:03 +0300, Artem Kuchin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I have a table with ethernet (MAC) addresses matching IPs. It is used to build dhcp config file. But regardless of that any user can assign his neighbour ips while that pc is turned

How to make ipfw consider MAC-IP match?

2005-02-14 Thread Artem Kuchin
and have heard that ipfw2 can in someway use MAC addresses, but how do I setup ipfw in such a way that it allows certain IP only from one and only one MAC address? I hope you are getting my idea. -- Regards, Artem Kuchin ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing

Re: How to make ipfw consider MAC-IP match?

2005-02-14 Thread Artem Kuchin
Chris Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Artem Kuchin wrote: I have a table with ethernet (MAC) addresses matching IPs. It is used to build dhcp config file. But regardless of that any user can assign his neighbour ips while that pc is turned off and use it to access internet

Re: Lock up problems with 5.3-STABLE (was: Cannot build kernel withoptions WITNESS)

2005-01-26 Thread Artem Kuchin
for last 3 days. You dont' have HT cpus, so you have only 2 logical, but i HAD 4. Now i have 2 logical cpus, which are real cpus. Let's see what happens in the next 4 days. Regards, Artem Kuchin IT Legion Ltd. Moscow, Russia www.itlegion.ru [EMAIL PROTECTED] +7 095 232-0338

Lock up problems with 5.3-STABLE (was: Cannot build kernel with options WITNESS)

2005-01-24 Thread Artem Kuchin
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Artem Kuchin wrote: On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Artem Kuchin wrote: I cvssed just an hour ago. 5.3-STABLE and cannot build kernel with WITNES. It complains: This occurs when building WITNESS without DDB in the kernel, which was not a tested build case when I added show

Cannot build kernel with options WITNESS

2005-01-22 Thread Artem Kuchin
options INVARIANTS options WITNESS options WITNESS_KDB options WITNESS_SKIPSPIN #options ADAPTIVE_GIANT # Giant mutex is adaptive. Regards, Artem Kuchin IT Legion Ltd. Russia, Moscow www.itlegion.ru [EMAIL PROTECTED] +7 095 232-0338 ___ freebsd

Re: Cannot build kernel with options WITNESS

2005-01-22 Thread Artem Kuchin
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Artem Kuchin wrote: I cvssed just an hour ago. 5.3-STABLE and cannot build kernel with WITNES. It complains: This occurs when building WITNESS without DDB in the kernel, which was not a tested build case when I added show alllocks, and apparently is a relatively uncommon

Server locks up if more than one jail in running

2005-01-11 Thread Artem Kuchin
I have a very bad problem. I need to seetup large number of jails (about 100) to do virtual hosting and i am doing it on 5.3-STABLE (not 5.3-RELEASE, i mean -STABLE which is cvsupped). So, when i setup one jail - everything runs fine for many days. If i setup one more jail or 3 or more - server