Re: FreeBSD NFS client/Linux NFS server issue

2010-01-19 Thread Mikolaj Golub
Hi, In this thread I have posted to freebsd-fs@ several messages describing our problem with freebsd7.1 nfs clients. As with the time new info has appeared and having this all spread in several messages might be a bit confusing, I want to summarise here what we see and know. Also I cc to

Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-19 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:41:53 -0500 Garrett Moore garrettmo...@gmail.com wrote about Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues: GM The drives being discussed in my related thread (regarding poor GM performance) are all WD Green drives. I have used wdidle3 to set

Re: FreeBSD NFS client/Linux NFS server issue

2010-01-19 Thread Mikolaj Golub
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:02:57 +0200 Mikolaj Golub wrote: I have found in the Internet that other people have been observed the similar problem with FreeBSD6.2 client: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=1697 Reading this through carefully it looks like the guy did not experience the

Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-19 Thread Morgan Wesström
Garrett Moore wrote: The drives being discussed in my related thread (regarding poor performance) are all WD Green drives. I have used wdidle3 to set all of my drive timeouts to 5 minutes. I'll see what sort of difference this makes for performance. Even if it makes no difference to

Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-19 Thread krad
2010/1/18 Morgan Wesström freebsd-questi...@pp.dyndns.biz O. Hartmann wrote: I realise a strange behaviour of several FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE/amd64 boxes. All boxes have the most recent STABLE. One box is a UP system, two others SMP boxes, one with a Q6600 4-core, another XEON with 2x 4-cores

Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-19 Thread Morgan Wesström
Gerrit Kühn wrote: Thanks for bringing up this topic here. I have drives showing up close to 80 load cycle counts here. Guess it's time for that fix... :-| Just note that the utility is officially for WD's Raid Edition GP drives and not for the regular consumer models although some users

Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:28:58AM +0100, Morgan Wesström wrote: Garrett Moore wrote: The drives being discussed in my related thread (regarding poor performance) are all WD Green drives. I have used wdidle3 to set all of my drive timeouts to 5 minutes. I'll see what sort of difference this

Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-19 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:57:36 -0800 Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote about Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues: JC If you want a consumer-edition drive that's better tuned for server JC work, you should really be looking at the WD Caviar Black

Re: [PATCH] Lockmgr deadlock on STABLE_8

2010-01-19 Thread Pete French
May you post your kernel config? sure... include GENERIC ident DEBUG options KDB options DDB options WITNESS options INVARIANT_SUPPORT options INVARIANTS That one doesnt lockup, or

Re: [PATCH] Lockmgr deadlock on STABLE_8

2010-01-19 Thread Attilio Rao
2010/1/19 Pete French petefre...@ticketswitch.com: May you post your kernel config? sure...        include         GENERIC        ident           DEBUG        options         KDB        options         DDB        options         WITNESS        options         INVARIANT_SUPPORT        

Re: [PATCH] Lockmgr deadlock on STABLE_8

2010-01-19 Thread Pete French
Ok then, remove the debugging (WITNESS, INVARIANT*), leave in place KDB and DDB, add GDB and try at least to get a coredump when it deadlocks. OK, will do. Am building a KDB/GDB/DDB kenel now. -pete. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-19 Thread Morgan Wesström
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: No offence intended by this statement, but: the Green drives are specifically intended for workstations. I don't believe in the whole segregation of drive model thing, but the fact of the matter is, the Green drives are variable-RPM and have numerous firmware-level

Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:07:24AM +0100, Gerrit Kühn wrote: On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:57:36 -0800 Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote about Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues: JC If you want a consumer-edition drive that's better tuned for

Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-19 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:24:49 -0800 Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote about Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues: JC JC If you want a consumer-edition drive that's better tuned for JC JC server work, you should really be looking at the WD

Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-19 Thread Emil Mikulic
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 09:16:41AM +0100, Gerrit K?hn wrote: Thanks for bringing up this topic here. I have drives showing up close to 80 load cycle counts here. Guess it's time for that fix... :-| Device Model: WDC WD10EACS-00ZJB0 Firmware Version: 01.01B01 Serial Number:

Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-19 Thread Morgan Wesström
Emil Mikulic wrote: On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 09:16:41AM +0100, Gerrit K?hn wrote: Thanks for bringing up this topic here. I have drives showing up close to 80 load cycle counts here. Guess it's time for that fix... :-| Device Model: WDC WD10EACS-00ZJB0 Firmware Version: 01.01B01

Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-19 Thread Gary Palmer
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 03:24:49AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: WD2001FAAS - WD Caviar Black, 2TB, 64MB, 7200rpm Do you mean WD2001FASS? I can't find a WD2001FAAS. Thanks, Gary ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

8.0 stable if_bwi kmod not exist?

2010-01-19 Thread wsk
folks, There is not exist if_bwi.ko module in /boot/kernel under 8.0 Stable why? ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to

scp from livecd (fixit option) cd can not find /usr/bin/ssh

2010-01-19 Thread Johan Hendriks
Hello i use the livecd to save an old pc. But when i try to use scp to copy some data to our network i get the message that /usr/bin/ssh could not be found. This is on 8.0 i386 livecd Regards, Johan Hendriks ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:44:59AM -0500, Gary Palmer wrote: On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 03:24:49AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: WD2001FAAS - WD Caviar Black, 2TB, 64MB, 7200rpm Do you mean WD2001FASS? I can't find a WD2001FAAS. Yup, typo -- bound to be at least one given the amount of data

Pack of CAM improvements

2010-01-19 Thread Alexander Motin
://people.freebsd.org/~mav/cam-ata.20100119.patch Feedback as always welcome. -- Alexander Motin ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr

Re: ZFS performance degradation over time

2010-01-19 Thread Garrett Moore
I've been watching my memory usage and I have no idea what is consuming memory as 'Active'. Last night I had around 6500MB 'Active' again, 1500MB Wired, no inact, ~30MB buf, no free, and ~100MB swap used. My performance copying ZFS-ZFS was again slow (1MB/s). I tried killing rTorrent and no

Re: ZFS performance degradation over time

2010-01-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:40:50AM -0500, Garrett Moore wrote: I've been watching my memory usage and I have no idea what is consuming memory as 'Active'. Last night I had around 6500MB 'Active' again, 1500MB Wired, no inact, ~30MB buf, no free, and ~100MB swap used. My performance copying

8.0-RELEASE / gpart / GPT / marking a partition as active

2010-01-19 Thread Dan Naumov
It seems that quite a few BIOSes have serious issues booting off disks using GPT partitioning when no partition present is marked as active. See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=115406cat=bin for a prime example. In 8.0-RELEASE, using gpart, setting a slice as active in MBR partitioning

Re: About nice(1), renice(8) and ULE scheduler

2010-01-19 Thread Oliver Fromme
Jordi Espasa Clofent jespa...@minibofh.org wrote: I've realized that the nice(1) code hasn't been modified for a long time (last code change seems from 4 years ago according the sources). ¿Is the nice(1) behaviour the expected? I mean, ¿Has been the ULE scheduler adapted to nice(1)

Re: scp from livecd (fixit option) cd can not find /usr/bin/ssh

2010-01-19 Thread jhell
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:57, Johan@ wrote: Hello i use the livecd to save an old pc. But when i try to use scp to copy some data to our network i get the message that /usr/bin/ssh could not be found. This is on 8.0 i386 livecd This is the same for snapshots of stable/7 livecd too. --

Re: scp from livecd (fixit option) cd can not find /usr/bin/ssh

2010-01-19 Thread Jeff Blank
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:36:12PM -0500, jhell wrote: On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:57, Johan@ wrote: Hello i use the livecd to save an old pc. But when i try to use scp to copy some data to our network i get the message that /usr/bin/ssh could not be found. This is the same for snapshots of

Re: 8.0-RELEASE / gpart / GPT / marking a partition as active

2010-01-19 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 19/01/2010 19:11 Dan Naumov said the following: I have found this discussion from about a month ago: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-stable@freebsd.org/msg106918.html where Robert mentions that gpart set -a active -i 1 is no longer needed in 8-STABLE, because the pmbr will be marked as

Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-19 Thread Oliver Lehmann
Hi, it seems that I'm not experiencing this at all... Jeremy Chadwick wrote: WD10EACS - WD Caviar Green, 1TB, 16MB, variable rpm have one (external HDD, always powered on) Model = WDC WD10EAVS-00D7B1 Firmware Version = 01.01A01 Power_On_Hours 5757 Power_Cycle_Count 75

Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-19 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Gerrit Kühn wrote: On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:24:49 -0800 Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote about Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues: JC JC If you want a consumer-edition drive that's better tuned for JC JC server work,

Re: 8.0 stable if_bwi kmod not exist?

2010-01-19 Thread Steven Friedrich
On Tuesday 19 January 2010 12:44:16 am wsk wrote: folks, There is not exist if_bwi.ko module in /boot/kernel under 8.0 Stable why? ___ freebsd-...@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe,

Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-19 Thread Erik Stian Tefre
Morgan Wesström wrote: Garrett Moore wrote: The drives being discussed in my related thread (regarding poor performance) are all WD Green drives. I have used wdidle3 to set all of my drive timeouts to 5 minutes. I'll see what sort of difference this makes for performance. Even if it makes no

Re: 8.0-RELEASE / gpart / GPT / marking a partition as active

2010-01-19 Thread Mike Andrews
On 1/19/2010 12:11 PM, Dan Naumov wrote: It seems that quite a few BIOSes have serious issues booting off disks using GPT partitioning when no partition present is marked as active. See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=115406cat=bin for a prime example. In 8.0-RELEASE, using gpart,

Re: 8.0-RELEASE / gpart / GPT / marking a partition as active

2010-01-19 Thread Dan Naumov
On 1/19/2010 12:11 PM, Dan Naumov wrote: It seems that quite a few BIOSes have serious issues booting off disks using GPT partitioning when no partition present is marked as active. See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=115406cat=bin for a prime example. In 8.0-RELEASE, using gpart,

Re: 8.0-RELEASE / gpart / GPT / marking a partition as active

2010-01-19 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 19/01/2010 23:09 Dan Naumov said the following: After using gpart to create the GPT (and thus the PMBR and its bootcode), why not simply use fdisk -a -1 DISKNAME to set the PMBR partition active? According to the fdisk output, the partition flag did change from 0 to 80. Can the fdisk:

Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-19 Thread BSD Life
2010/1/19 Daniel O'Connor docon...@gsoft.com.au On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Morgan Wesström wrote: The disks involved don't happen to be Western Digital Green Power disks, do they? The Intelli-Park function in these disks are wrecking havoc with I/O in Linux-land at least, causing massive stalls

Re: Pack of CAM improvements

2010-01-19 Thread Scott Long
On Jan 19, 2010, at 9:12 AM, Alexander Motin wrote: Hi. I've made a patch, that should solve set of problems of CAM ATA and CAM generally. I would like to ask for testing and feedback. What patch does: - It unifies bus reset/probe sequence. Whenever bus attached at boot or later, CAM

Re: An old gripe: Reading via mmap stinks

2010-01-19 Thread Mikhail T.
01/14/10 21:56, Matthew Dillon написав(ла): This would explain why the performance is not as bad as linux but is not as good as a properly pipelined case. For what it may be worth, here are the stats for Solaris as well: * Solaris 8, native, 32-bit binary (using -lcrypto instead

Re: thunderbird3: dies with socket(): Protocol not supported Illegal instruction (core dumped)

2010-01-19 Thread O. Hartmann
On 01/12/10 15:31, Guido Falsi wrote: On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 02:30:56PM +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote: On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:54:48 +0100 ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de said: ohartman Since friday after the last FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE/amd64 update, thunderbird3 ohartman crashes immmediately or

Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-19 Thread O. Hartmann
On 01/18/10 21:34, � wrote: O. Hartmann wrote: I realise a strange behaviour of several FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE/amd64 boxes. All boxes have the most recent STABLE. One box is a UP system, two others SMP boxes, one with a Q6600 4-core, another XEON with 2x 4-cores (Dell Poweredge III). Symptome: All

Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-19 Thread O. Hartmann
On 01/19/10 10:09, krad wrote: 2010/1/18 Morgan Wesstr�mfreebsd-questi...@pp.dyndns.biz O. Hartmann wrote: I realise a strange behaviour of several FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE/amd64 boxes. All boxes have the most recent STABLE. One box is a UP system, two others SMP boxes, one with a Q6600 4-core,

Re: 8.0 stable if_bwi kmod not exist?

2010-01-19 Thread wsk
于 2010/01/20 02:57, Steven Friedrich 写道: On Tuesday 19 January 2010 12:44:16 am wsk wrote: folks, There is not exist if_bwi.ko module in /boot/kernel under 8.0 Stable why? ___ freebsd-...@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: 8.0 stable if_bwi kmod not exist?

2010-01-19 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 01:44:16PM +0800, wsk wrote: folks, There is not exist if_bwi.ko module in /boot/kernel under 8.0 Stable why? Looks like it wasn't hooked up to the build for some reason, no bwi here:

Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-19 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Wednesday, January 20, 2010 1:16 AM +0100 O. Hartmann ohart...@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: This could end in a bad situation, where one process writes a files, say with some arbitrary stuff and another successing process is intended to read this file. even if the processes are run

Re: 8.0-RELEASE / gpart / GPT / marking a partition as active

2010-01-19 Thread Mike Andrews
On 1/19/10 4:09 PM, Dan Naumov wrote: On 1/19/2010 12:11 PM, Dan Naumov wrote: It seems that quite a few BIOSes have serious issues booting off disks using GPT partitioning when no partition present is marked as active. See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=115406cat=bin for a prime

Re: Multiple serial consoles via null modem cable

2010-01-19 Thread Marin Atanasov
Hello, Using `cu' only works with COM1 for me. Currently I have two serial ports on the system, and only the first is able to make the connection - the serial consoles are enabled in /etc/tty, but as I said only COM1 is able to make the connection. Regards, Marin On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 3:32

top Segmentation faulting on 8.0p2 amd64

2010-01-19 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Dear all, I have no idea why top crashes with segmentation fault on my amd64 machine running FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2. If someone wants to have a loot at the core dump: http://www.schmalzbauer.de/downloads/top.core But I think I should recompile it with DEBUG=-g first, right? World and kernel

Re: Pack of CAM improvements

2010-01-19 Thread Alexander Motin
Scott Long wrote: On Jan 19, 2010, at 9:12 AM, Alexander Motin wrote: I've made a patch, that should solve set of problems of CAM ATA and CAM generally. I would like to ask for testing and feedback. What patch does: - It unifies bus reset/probe sequence. Whenever bus attached at boot or

Re: Multiple serial consoles via null modem cable

2010-01-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 08:46:48AM +0200, Marin Atanasov wrote: Hello, Using `cu' only works with COM1 for me. Currently I have two serial ports on the system, and only the first is able to make the connection - the serial consoles are enabled in /etc/tty, but as I said only COM1 is able