Call for testing VMware open-vm-tools update

as a port at https://people.freebsd.org/~jpaetzel/open-vm-tools.tar.gz . Feel free to give it a spin and please report any issues by filing a bug at https://bugs.freebsd.org/ If you tag the bug you create as ports emulators/open-vm-tools it will get auto-assigned to me. -- Thanks, Jo

Re: Apparent fxp regression in FreeBSD 8.4-RC3

for common shipping hardware for example). Factors like these as well as the age of fxp hardware drive my decision to complete 8.4 and push this fix in to EN territory. Thanks, Josh Paetzel FreeBSD - The Power to Serve On May 23, 2013, at 10:11 PM, Jeremy Chadwick j...@koitsu.org wrote

Re: LSI 9240-4i 4K alignment

On 08/20/2012 00:19, Don Lewis wrote: On 19 Aug, Josh Paetzel wrote: On 08/19/2012 14:04, Steven Hartland wrote: HBA's are the way to go if your using ZFS to manage the disks, you only need RAID if your using a FS which doesn't manage the disk side well such as UFS. Its often quite common

Re: LSI 9240-4i 4K alignment

or the card may not play nicely. FreeBSD 8.3 and 9.0 have v13 of the driver, the upcoming 9.1 will have v14. Note that v14 fixes a *ton* of stability bugs, including issues where bad drives would hang the controller or prevent systems from booting. Thanks, Josh Paetzel

Re: nmbclusters: how do we want to fix this for 8.3 ?

minimum threshold of system ram to come up with a higher default for nmbclusters. You don't see too many 10gbe NICs in systems with 2GB of RAM - -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel FreeBSD -- The power to serve -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla

Re: known problems with 8.x and HP DL16 G5 server?

it and dies. Josh Paetzel may remember the exact type.. I forget.. I have some memory of HP DL160 servers with an embedded ciss(4) controller taking a long time to boot. I recall a delay of multiple minutes. I don't remember what I did to work around it. Does it really stop

NFS regression on recent STABLE

client I have on my network is a FreeBSD 8.1 box, and that has no issues All of this is with the standard NFS server, I haven't yet tested with the experimental server. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: NFS regression on recent STABLE

On Tuesday, November 23, 2010 08:33:52 am Josh Paetzel wrote: I've been involved with a project at work doing some fun things with NFS. Recently due to changes in a available hardware we did a complete refresh of the system. New HBAs, new storage boxes, and due to some internal software

Re: Recent MFC to 7 causes crash on VMware ESXi

have two machines running ESXi 4.0 and haven't encountered this problem. It's possible this issue affects 3.5 only. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel FreeBSD -- The power to serve ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: em(4) on FreeBSD is sometimes annoying

it with the NIC unplugged, plug in a cable, I get a link light and ifconfig em0 goes to active, dhclient em0 gets an IP successfully. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel PGP: 8A48 EF36 5E9F 4EDA 5A8C 11B4 26F9 01F1 27AF AECB signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Lenovo Thinkpad t61p and FreeBSD?

On Sunday 08 June 2008 02:03:33 pm Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko wrote: On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 07:45 -0500, Josh Paetzel wrote: On Wednesday 04 June 2008 07:25:13 am Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 11:13:27AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Lenovo Thinkpad t61p and FreeBSD?

... -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel PGP: 8A48 EF36 5E9F 4EDA 5A8C 11B4 26F9 01F1 27AF AECB signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Source upgrade from 5.5 to 6.X not safe?

not. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel PGP: 8A48 EF36 5E9F 4EDA 5A8C 11B4 26F9 01F1 27AF AECB signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: problems with Hitachi 1TB SATA drives

they are new. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel pgpqtvh04aNlq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: problems with Hitachi 1TB SATA drives

. reliability under 100% duty cycle seek times As far as that article goes, I wonder if they are including SAS in the SATA catagory or the SCSI catagory. It's perfectly reasonable to phase out U320 SCSII can't see SAS going away any time soon. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel pgpEiD1JSN0K4.pgp

Re: removing external usb hdd without unmounting causes reboot?

to affect all filesystems regardless of storage device implimentation then I'm sort of interested. eg: I wouldn't be happy trading filesystem performance for avoiding a panic that is trivial to avoid in the first place. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel pgpmLTsui8umW.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: removing external usb hdd without unmounting causes reboot?

. Is this expected behaviour? And is there some way to avoid the freeze and reboot? Thanks. Yes, it's expected behavior. The workaround is to not unplug mounted devices. (There's nothing special about USB here, if you unplugged an IDE drive you'd get the same behavior) -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel

Re: removing external usb hdd without unmounting causes reboot?

just not remove devices with mounted filesystems from your computer. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel pgpBhbiMYM6HX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: is read-write nullfs safe?

for ages without issue...sure you're not confusing nullfs with unionfs? -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel pgpy8sRjFZ1KN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: updating xorg-libraries 7.2 to 7.2.1

mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For right now if you want portupgrade to do anything with xorg you need to export XORG_UPGRADE -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE source update fails during compilation

hardware. :) Thanks, Josh Paetzel ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

processor on a RAID card running at a few hundred mhz. Sure, once you start talking about CPUs at full load there are advantages to off-loading stuff to a dedicated processor. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: 6.2 Release

, but it's still somewhat amusing since it's the 12th here. ;) -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dell PE 1950 bce NICs revisited

On Wednesday 29 November 2006 11:33, Josh Paetzel wrote: On Wednesday 29 November 2006 10:43, Scott Long wrote: Josh Paetzel wrote: I've been using 6.1-R on a PE1950 for some time now. The stock bce driver doesn't work at all. I dug up a driver off the web (0.9.6) that worked fine

Dell PE 1950 bce NICs revisited

been some further work on the driver, so I think I'll upgrade it and see what happens. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Dell PE 1950 bce NICs revisited

On Wednesday 29 November 2006 10:43, Scott Long wrote: Josh Paetzel wrote: I've been using 6.1-R on a PE1950 for some time now. The stock bce driver doesn't work at all. I dug up a driver off the web (0.9.6) that worked fine with my workload (basically all TCP) but in talking to Scott I

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

of the driver and I've at least mentioned it to Scott once but I really can't understand why we don't just import this driver into the tree. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

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

On Tuesday 07 November 2006 10:10, Scott Long wrote: Josh Paetzel wrote: On Tuesday 07 November 2006 03:30, Fredrik Widlund wrote: Hi, Will a fix/this fix be part of the 6.2 Release? We will be relying heavily on fbsd6.2 and pe1950 and are worried about the BCE stability? Kind

Re: When will the new BCE driver in HEAD be incorporated into RELENG_6?

and that has been working just fine for me under pretty heavy loads. Is this new driver you're talking about different than the newer version I found on the web? -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: partioning failed

information: Athlon XP 1700+ / 786 MB Asus A7V266 (bios v1.11) Maxtor 60 GB Has anyone any suggestions? Thanks, Freek I'd try a different cable for the drive. If that doesn't fix it the controller on the motherboard is probably bad. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel

Re: Dell 1950 does not properly respond to reboot and shutdown -p

be able to set it while the system is running. Do you get an ACPI reset failed message on the console? Guy For what it's worth I have 6.1-R on a 1950 and reboot works just fine. Haven't tried the shutdown -p command. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel

Re: snd_emu10k1 driver

run artsd or esound but when I start krec the record button is greyed out! Using ffmpeg and the /dev/dsp device I was able to record just fine from the mic port on the card. I'm running 6.1-R-p6 -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

Re: [AMD64-SMP] I can't get my cpus working at 100%

at a time. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NVIDIA 6600GT Freeze

. If anyone has any ideas about this problem I'd be very grateful. This probably isn't very helpful but I have nearly the exact same setup and it works fine. The only differences I see is that I'm running 6.1-RELEASE and my motherboard is an asus based on the K8T800 chipset. -- Thanks, Josh

Re: FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE makes terrible router/gateway?

is sufficient to do the job. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Multiple Network Cards

NICs on the same subnet with FreeBSD. Please correct me if I'm wrong, especially if you can post a inconfig backing you up. ::D -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: buildworld problem woithout the -j4

On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 05:45:48PM -0400, Gene Bomgardner wrote: OK. The problem becomes clearer without the threads. I see what caused buildworld to terminate but I'm not sure what to do about it. Make stops on an error when it tries to delete a directory using rm. Output (last several

Re: Chipset SiS735 / NIC SiS 900 - PR kern/30836

On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:47:28PM -0500, Dan Langille wrote: Hi folks, It appears I am not the first to buy a K7S5A motherboard (an SiS 735 chipset) with integrated NIC. I can't get my NIC to work either. Bill: I'm ready to help with this. If you so wish, I can give you a login on

Re: Reproducable system hangs in -STABLE

On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:58:58PM -0800, Doug White wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Josh Paetzel wrote: While running two copies of dnetc, running xmms will hang my system with a hard lock up. I think I've seen this appear before for non-priority problems too though ... hm

My first 4.5-PRERELEASE Issue

I cvsupped last night to 4.5-PRERELEASE uname -a FreeBSD twincat.vladsempire.net 4.5-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.5-PRERELEASE #1: Thu Dec 20 22:44:31 GMT 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TWINCAT i386 I'm running a dual p3-600b/133 on a Tyan Tiger 133 with a half a gig of

Re: X and non-X graphics in 4.4-STABLE: system hangs.

On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 12:28:16AM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote: On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 11:30:21PM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote: I have found a method to hang recent 4.4-STABLE and this is 100% reproducable with my hardware. There is also much simplier way to demonstrate this: 1.

Re: decl.c error in stable buildworld

On Thursday 19 July 2001 00:09, Armando Cerna wrote: Hello, I am sending you this email to report an error I got when doing a make buildworld after a cvsup 2 hours ago from cvsup9.freebsd.org. The error is as follows /usr/src/usr.bin/xlint/lint1/decl.c:1784: union has no member named

Re: decl.c error in stable buildworld

On Thursday 19 July 2001 02:07, Josh Paetzel wrote: On Thursday 19 July 2001 00:09, Armando Cerna wrote: Hello, I am sending you this email to report an error I got when doing a make buildworld after a cvsup 2 hours ago from cvsup9.freebsd.org. The error is as follows /usr/src/usr.bin

Re: Regarding New FreeBSD BenchMark From Sysadmin Mag (left out a fiew tuning options)

On Friday 13 July 2001 21:26, Juha Saarinen wrote: ::camcontrol modepage da0 -m 0x08 -e -P 3 su-2.05# camcontrol modepage da0 -m 0x08 -e -P 3 camcontrol: cam_lookup_pass: CAMGETPASSTHRU ioctl failed cam_lookup_pass: No such file or directory cam_lookup_pass: either the pass driver isn't