Re: 8.1 amd64 lockup (maybe zfs or disk related)

2011-02-08 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > Hello, Jeremy, > > Am 07.02.2011 um 09:55 schrieb Jeremy Chadwick: >> The Wiki is outdated, I'm sorry to say.  Given that you have 8GB RAM, I >> would recommend these settings. >> ... > > Thank you very much for the insight. A current summ

Re: ATI Radeon LW RV200 Mobility 7500 M7 locks up on X exit

2011-02-16 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Chris H wrote: > Well, the box I'm writing this message from is running a > G98 [GeForce 8400 GS] + 3Gb videoram, while not the "latest and greatest", it > isn't really "legacy" either. I was /sure/ it'd be a "snap" to setup, but > while "functional", it isn't the

Re: LSI SAS 2008 (mfi) on SuperMicro X8SI6-F

2011-02-17 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > What is sad is that these controllers are becoming very mainstream now, > we're getting them more and more on Dell servers , and the fbsd project > still struggles with them (for reasons I don't know, might be LSI's > fault, might be a lac

Re: Disable probing of bge1?

2011-03-07 Thread Tom Evans
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > Hi, all, > > I just discovered a minor problem when updating some rather dated > systems from FreeBSD 6.x to 7.x or 8.x. > > The servers are Fujitsu Technology Solutions (former Fujitsu-Siemens) > RX100 S4. The current generation of the s

Re: ZFS performance as the FS fills up?

2011-03-09 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > Otherwise, I can imagine that prefetching could cause what you describe, > which is enabled by default in 8.0 and 8.1 and auto-disables in 8.2 if > the amount of available memory is less than 4GB. > I don't think this is accurate. Prefet

Re: genassym.c:1: error: CPU you selected does not support x86-64 instruction set

2011-03-18 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Randy Bush wrote: > FreeBSD rip0.psg.com 8.2-RC3 FreeBSD 8.2-RC3 #0: Sun Jan 30 06:28:31 UTC 2011 >     r...@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64 > > CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5405  @ 2.00GHz (1999.78-MHz K8-class > CPU) >  Origin

Re: correct way to setup gmirror on 7.4?

2011-04-28 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Pete French wrote: > Is not the problem here that you are trying to GPT label a gmirrored disc ? > If you instead gmirror two GPT partitions then the problem goes away > doesnt it ? Thats how I set things up - use parititoning on the ohysical > drives, and then put

Re: Crashes with Promise controller

2011-07-01 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Christian Baer wrote: > A serial console is easy enough to set up on a Sun for example, but in > this case, I am running a simple AthlonXP, which has nothing for that > sort of help. I would need a special card for that and those cose quite > a bit. :-( > Not that

Re: watchdog timeout for pwait/rc.shutdown

2011-07-14 Thread Tom Evans
2011/7/14 Subbsd : > Hi > > Tell me please, is it possible to change the behavior of shutdown > sequence to avoid work of kill process (or increase timeout). > > Тot always process can not react to signals and stop - for example, > heavy MySQL server databases or databases/redis - can not keep up w

Re: recommendations for laptop and desktop

2011-07-18 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Jim Bryant wrote: > stay away from newer hp laptops. > HP also like to lock-down which wifi cards you can use from BIOS - the machines won't complete POST with a 'bad' wifi card, so that's another strike as far as I am concerned. I've never had problems from mode

Re: SATA 6g 4-port non-RAID controller ?

2011-07-27 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > And before someone asks: in most cases you *cannot* use this card in a > PCIe x16 connector on a motherboard.  Most generic motherboard > manufacturers at this point have special one-offs that assume their PCIe > x16 slots are for video

Re: -m32 on freeBSD 8.2r amd64

2011-08-24 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Michael Hoffmann wrote: > Maybe off topic? > > 1: echo "int main(void) { return 0; }" > t.c > > 2: setenv LDEMULATION elf_i386_fbsd > > 3: gcc -c -m32 -o t.o t.c > > 4: gcc -nostartfiles -o a.out > t.o -L/usr/lib32 /usr/lib32/crt1.o /usr/lib32/crti.o > > 5: file a

Re: FreeBSD 8.2r amd 64 problem when compiling 32bit applications

2011-08-25 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:28 PM, noel beck wrote: > I installed FreeBSD 8.2 release on a 64-bit machine (amd64) and it has gcc > 4.2.1 built in.  The library directories are lib, lib32 and lib64.  When I > compiled for 64-bit the compilation was successful. > > However, the problem is when I am co

Re: R: make installworld fails (touch not found)

2011-09-16 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Jason Hellenthal wrote: > > Don't get why all these references for time are popping up here and why > everyone seems to think that would make the PATH variable get cut short > from the environment that newvers.sh is running in, but see the post I > made to the real

Re: 8.2 + apache == a LOT of sigprocmask

2011-11-17 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > I don't use worker MPM on any of our boxes, we actually use ITK MPM > solely because of the hosting nature of what we do.  I've actually never > seen worker MPM in use on any *IX machine I've been on or administrated, > only prefork.  The

Re: www/Apache22 fails to build when configured for LDAP and AUTHNZ_LDAP

2011-11-30 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Shaun Meyer wrote: > Hello, > > I have already built apache22 successfully on FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p3 > amd64. I realized that I wanted authnz_ldap which wasn't turned on by > default so I went into www/apache22 and did the following: > > # make clean > # make confi

Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default

2011-12-14 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:06 AM, George Mitchell wrote: > > Dear Secret Masters of FreeBSD: Can we have a decision on whether to > change back to SCHED_4BSD while SCHED_ULE gets properly fixed? > Please do not do this. This thread has shown that ULE performs poorly in very specific scenarios whe

Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default

2011-12-15 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 12:42 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 12:39:50AM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: >> On 12/14/11 18:54, Tom Evans wrote: >> > I believe the correct thing to do is to put some extra documentation >> > into the handbook about s

Re: SVN checkout

2012-01-13 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Julian Kennedy wrote: > Hi All > > Im just joined the list. Im not sure if this is the right place to ask > svn questions. I want to checkout the freebsd code to play with it a > bit. What should I do and which part of the repo should I checkout? I > want the 9.0 c

Re: ZFS / zpool size

2012-01-17 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Christer Solskogen wrote: > A overhead of almost 300GB? That seems a bit to much, don't you think? > The pool consist of one vdev with two 1,5TB disks and one 3TB in raidz1. > Confused about your disks - can you show the output of zpool status. If you have a raid

Re: Strange 'hangs' with RELENG_9

2012-01-19 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:00 PM, László KÁROLYI wrote: > Moreover, I couldn't set SCHED_BSD in the kernel config, it said that > it's an illegal option. Maybe it does not exist in RELENG_9. > options SCHED_4BSD Cheers Tom ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.or

Re: problems with AHCI on FreeBSD 8.2

2012-02-15 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 08:31:23PM +0100, Oscar Prieto wrote: >> I used to had tons of ahci errors in my 4 disk raidz1 worth of >> HD154UIs when the rig was built a year ago or so (with 8.0 Release), >> but they dissapeared after tuning ZFS

Re: problems with AHCI on FreeBSD 8.2

2012-02-15 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > Sorry, I missed the in-line part of your post at the top where you said: > >> > Interesting. I have 9 SAMSUNG HD154UI 1AG01118 in my raidz setup, >> > haven't had a problem with any of them yet (touch wood). > > So that would be you using

Re: FreeBSD9 and the sheer number of problem reports

2012-02-24 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 9:21 PM, Peter Maloney wrote: > I suggest these concepts should be tested: > > Perhaps the testers tested beta1 and beta2, but there were so many > changes after beta2, that bugs appeared in release that did not exist in > beta2. Test this by reproducing things reported in

Re: Request for flowtable testers and actionable feedback RE: flowtable usable or not

2012-03-05 Thread Tom Evans
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 4:37 PM, H wrote: > If you are curious about something, ask, right away ... clear and straight I'm curious about when you will stop trolling one of the last few fora on the internet where the SNR is actually high. This topic is discussing how users can help Kip can make flo

Re: About kern.ipc.semmap on FreeBSD 9

2012-03-22 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Efraín Déctor wrote: > Hello. I’m currently testing FreeBSD 9.0, I want to use it as a OS for > a PostgreSQL Server. However, it is recommended to modified > some paramerts such as semaphores > (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/kernel-resources.html ): > >

Re: About kern.ipc.semmap on FreeBSD 9

2012-03-22 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Efraín Déctor wrote: > Sorry about posting to @current. > > Yep, kern.ipc.semmap does exists on FreeBSD 8.2 (I have configured it on > sysctl.conf) but on FreeBSD 9.0 its gone, Volodymyr Kostyrko pointed out > that this options need to be configured now on /boot/lo

Re: Text relocations in kernel modules

2012-04-02 Thread Tom Evans
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 3:42 AM, Richard Yao wrote: >> There are no security implications, no system resources to be wasted. >> >> And if you think there are security implications, then lets see a >> proof-of-concept. > > If I find time to write a proof-of-concept, I promise to publish it > public

Re: Text relocations in kernel modules

2012-04-02 Thread Tom Evans
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Richard Yao wrote: > On 04/02/12 05:56, Tom Evans wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 3:42 AM, Richard Yao wrote: >>>> There are no security implications, no system resources to be wasted. >>>> >>>> And if you think the

Re: /var getting full

2012-04-27 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > Type: > sync > > > Then: > df -h > > Then: > cd /var && du -hd 1 > > > Post results. > As well as this, any unlinked files that have file handles open by running processes will not be accounted for in du, but will be counted in df. You cou

Re: [stable-9] Touchpad mouse stopped working

2012-05-17 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:01 PM, A.J. "Fonz" van Werven wrote: > After moving from 9.0-RELEASE to 9-STABLE yesterday, the touchpad mouse on > my netbook stopped working. When I do > # /etc/rc.d/moused onestart > the pointer appears and can be moved for a second or two, then it stops > responding.

Re: [stable-9] Touchpad mouse stopped working

2012-05-17 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Warren Block wrote: > On Thu, 17 May 2012, Tom Evans wrote: >> This doesn't work for me, I need working hald as I plug and unplug >> keyboards and mice each time I take my laptop out of its dock, > > > There might be some hardware thin

Re: kernel issues with 8 STABLE

2010-07-01 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Free BSD wrote: > Dear List Members > Also, even though I have custom keyboard in my kernel configuration, > whenever I boot into single user mode I get US layout (it works fine when in > multi-user mode). Does it work correctly if you run kbdmap and choose the co

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-23 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Pawel Tyll wrote: >> I do not think I can adjust the existing zpool on the fly.  I think I >> need to copy everything elsewhere (i.e the 2 empty drives).  Then start >> the new zpool from scratch. > You can, and you should (for educational purposes if not for fun :

Re: kernel MCA messages

2010-08-25 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:06 PM, John Baldwin wrote: > On Monday, August 23, 2010 5:35:40 pm Matthew D. Fuller wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 08:20:35AM -0400 I heard the voice of >> John Baldwin, and lo! it spake thus: >> > >> > It is not private, it is in //depot/projects/mcelog/... in p4. >>

Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon

2010-09-21 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Vadim Goncharov wrote: > I give up. > Thank $DEITY. Cheers Tom ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsub

Re: SuperMicro i7 (UP) - very slow performance

2010-09-22 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Ian Smith wrote: > It seems far more than just CPU performance is awry.  Adam's data from > his i7 shows 2.7 times Bryce's speed for the md5 -t, maybe a lower EST > rate? - but that could no way account for buildworld taking 22.5 hours. > > Recent buildworld (albei

Re: ISDN4BSD removal (was: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon)

2010-10-07 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Peter Much wrote: > aka Vadim Goncharov schrieb > mit Datum Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:31:46 +0700 in m2n.fbsd.stable: > > |You do not understand the problem. It is not in notices & volunteers, but > |rather in the Project's policy - delete something which could still wor

www/chromium ignores proxy settings

2010-11-22 Thread Tom Evans
Hi all I have installed chromium from ports: > # pkg_info | grep chrom chromium-6.0.472.63 A mostly BSD-licensed web browser based on WebKit and Gtk+ and I have proxy settings configured in my environment, up to my eyeballs: > $ env | grep -i oxy NO_PROXY=localhost,127.0.0.0/8,10.0.0.0/8 http_p

Re: www/chromium ignores proxy settings

2010-11-22 Thread Tom Evans
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Alexander Logvinov wrote: > Hello! > >  Use  chrome --proxy-server="http://proxy:3128/"; :) > Hi Alexander That didn't work either, it would not even make any connections then. With '--proxy-server=proxy:3128' though, it works correctly! It would still be nice t

Re: www/chromium ignores proxy settings [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-11-24 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > Correct.  You need to reference a PAC file for the browser to > read/parse: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_auto-config > > I can show you an example .pac file if you want; I use one to define > what domain names my browser visits shoul

Re: umtxn and Apache 2.2

2008-08-13 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 16:56 +0200, Borja Marcos wrote: > > Doesn't seem stripped to me... > > %file /usr/local/sbin/httpd > /usr/local/sbin/httpd: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version > 1 (FreeBSD), for FreeBSD 7.0 (700110), dynamically linked (uses shared > libs), FreeBSD-style, n

Re: Intel G33 & FreeBSD 7.x

2008-08-18 Thread Tom Evans
On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 09:06 +0100, Oliver Peter wrote: > On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:16:36 +0930 > "Daniel O'Connor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does anyone have a G33 chipset system working in 7.x? > ... > Unfortunately, the drm module does not recognize my chipset > (so I don't have DRI suppor

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 Content

2008-09-05 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 08:45 -0600, Dan Allen wrote: > On 4 Sep 2008, at 12:20 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: ... > It was using Ubuntu that caused me to realize how far behind FreeBSD > is on the desktop side, and how, with a SMALL AMOUNT of work and > changes, it could make a big jump forward by t

Re: proposed change to support policy for FreeBSD Releases

2008-09-25 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 13:37 -0700, Jo Rhett wrote: > Some quite lively offline discussion has come to conclusion with the > following suggestions to change the support policy. Obviously, this > is what we feel would be a good idea, but it's obviously open to > discussion and there's nobody d

Re: am2 MBs - 4g + SCSI wipes out root partition

2008-10-13 Thread Tom Evans
On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 09:37 -0200, JoaoBR wrote: > On Saturday 11 October 2008 13:26:29 Adam McDougall wrote: > > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 04:45:29PM +0200, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > > >> On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:13:16 -0700 > > >> > > >> Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Correct downgrade procedure

2008-10-17 Thread Tom Evans
Hi all I've been having increasingly annoying Xorg crashes with 7.1, on a previously very reliable laptop[1], and am now trying to go back to how it used to work, starting off by downgrading kernel + world to 7.0-RELEASE, which used to work quite nicely. If that fails to make any huge strides, I g

RE: DL360 G3 w/ AMD64 Cant boot from CD

2008-11-04 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 11:18 -0500, Kevin wrote: > > > I tried 7.1-BETA2 , but unfortunately the same problem happened. I > > tried > > > (for the sake of argument) Debian debian-40r5-amd64 , and it wouldn't > > boot > > > either -- it said "Your CPU does not support long mode, please use a > > 32bi

Re: Free memory after upgrade to 7.1

2009-02-04 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 17:08 +0100, Tomas Randa wrote: > Hello, > > I have i386/PAE system (php, apache22, mysql) running on 7-STABLE and I > can see strange behavior after upgrade from 7.0: Apache does not free > memory, for example: > > CPU: 31.2% user, 0.0% nice, 12.8% system, 0.7% interrupt,

Re: Free memory after upgrade to 7.1

2009-02-05 Thread Tom Evans
apache reload, my yes > > Any other suggestions ? > > Thanks TR > > > > Tom Evans napsal(a): > > On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 17:08 +0100, Tomas Randa wrote: > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> I have i386/PAE system (php, apache22, mysql) running

Page fault while in kernel mode

2009-02-11 Thread Tom Evans
Hi all. I got this panic when our SMB server moved hostname. I still had the drives mounted, so I wondered what would happen if I ls'ed the mount point ('Doctor it hurts when I do this' 'Dont do that then..'). I'm running i386 RELENG_7 from mid October, so it is more than possible that this has a

Re: HEADS UP: Major CAM performance regression

2009-02-13 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 03:55 -0700, Scott Long wrote: > All, > > A major performance regression was introduced to the CAM subsystem in > FreeBSD 7.1. The following configurations are known to be affected: > > VMWare ESX > VMWare Fusion > (using bt or lsilogic controller options) > HP CISS RA

Re: whats best pracfive for ZFS on a whole disc these days ?

2009-11-19 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Marius Nünnerich wrote: > > > operator0, 164 Oct 21 15:34 > > > /dev/gptid/6866d8b0-a8ac-11de-8e07-00241dd192cc > > > > Have you tried naming the GPT partitions and using /dev/gpt/* ? > > Nope, how would I do that

Re: pthread.h: typo in #define pthread_cleanup_push/pthread_cleanup_pop

2009-11-24 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Mikolaj Golub wrote: > > So, I don't know what these macros actually were supposed to be. They were > introduced in r179662: > > Revision 1.43: download - view: text, markup, annotated - select for diffs > Mon Jun 9 01:14:10 2008 UTC (17 months, 2 weeks ago) by da

Re: Can't use gpt labels re-importing pool

2009-11-26 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > I'm a bit curious about something, so maybe someone can help me > understand: > > Why are people bothering with GPT labels (or in some cases, glabels) > when AHCI (whether it be ataahci.ko or ahci.ko) is in use? Under what > circumstance w

Re: FreeBSD 8 GPT install, how?

2009-12-03 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Ollivier Robert wrote: > According to Steven Hartland: >> >> I've found a number things articles on how to achieve this on previous >> versions, but they are all quite complex and was hoping there was a nice >> easy way on 8.0 given the improvements listed in the re

Re: Error upgrading 7.0 to 7.2 (buildword in gnu/usr.bin/binutils/libopcodes setp)

2009-12-16 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Jordi Espasa Clofent writes: >> Lowell Gilbert escribió: >> Wonderful. I've used times the same command (1) without -j flag >> and... it works perfectly! >> It's curious, because of I always use the -j flag in buildworld with >> successs. I

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 6:15 AM, Charles Sprickman wrote: > > Here's the list: > > http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=8441629 > > Just over $1K, and I've got 4 nice drives, ECC memory, and a server board. > Going with the celeron saved a ton of cash with no

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Dan Langille wrote: > > On Tue, February 9, 2010 7:51 am, Tom Evans wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 6:15 AM, Charles Sprickman wrote: >>> >>> Here's the list: >>> >>> http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/Publ

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Dan Langille wrote: > > On Tue, February 9, 2010 9:09 am, Tom Evans wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Dan Langille wrote: >> One thing to point out about using a PM like this: you won't get >> fantastic bandwidth out of i

Re: stable-8 regression: time stands still

2010-03-03 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 09:09:56AM +0100, Ruben de Groot wrote: >> > > I'm going to get this kern.timecounter sysctl from the system booted >> > > with a 7.x livecd >> > > this evening. But really, I think this is a regression. Even if thi

Re: 7.2-p7 -> 8-STABLE mergemaster core dump

2010-03-17 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Cristiano Deana wrote: > Hi, > > anyone else tried to update (todas's cvsup) 7.3-p7 to 8-STABLE? > > make update > make buildworld && make kernel && make installworld > mergemaster > and i got a "bad system call (core dumped)". > > reboot, mergemaster again and it

Re: 7.2-p7 -> 8-STABLE mergemaster core dump

2010-03-17 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Cristiano Deana wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Tom Evans wrote: > >>> make update >>> make buildworld && make kernel && make installworld >>> mergemaster >>> and i got a "bad system call (

Re: 7.2-p7 -> 8-STABLE mergemaster core dump

2010-03-18 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Jorge Biquez wrote: > Hello all. > With all respect Doug, users that have remote machines and do not have > access to it to boot single user like the manual says.. what can we do? I > understand that step is to be sure that no user will modify something while > we

Different sizes between zfs list and zpool list

2010-05-05 Thread Tom Evans
Hi all When looking at the size of a pool, this information can be got from both zpool list and zfs list: > $ zfs list NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT tank 5.69T 982G 36.5K /tank > $ zpool list NAME SIZE USED AVAILCAP HEALTH ALTROOT t

Re: Different sizes between zfs list and zpool list

2010-05-05 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Freddie Cash wrote: > On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Tom Evans wrote: > >> When looking at the size of a pool, this information can be got from >> both zpool list and zfs list: >> >> > $ zfs list >> NAME              

Re: Enabling watchdog

2010-05-14 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > I'm a bit confused at this point, Doug.  At what point did the OP state > he has IPMI support or IPMI cards in his system? > He said he had a Dell PowerEdge 2950 - iirc these all have IPMI. Cheers Tom __

Re: if_wpi is all kinds of broken

2010-05-17 Thread Tom Evans
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: > On 01/-10/63 19:59, Dominic Fandrey wrote: >> >> The if_wpi driver is all kinds of broken. The reported problems > > I have had trouble with all Intel drivers, ipw, iwi, wpi, and iwn. (As an > exception, recently, iwn was very stable o

Re: [: -le: argument expected

2008-02-01 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 18:41 -0800, Chris H. wrote: > > The cause is in the file: lang/php5/files/patch-Zend_zend_list.c > > It accounts for all /3/ errors emitted during the initial portion > of the make process. The lines are as follows: > > --- Zend/zend_list.c.orig 2007-01-01 10:35:46.000

Re: [: -le: argument expected

2008-02-01 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 07:42 -0800, Chris H. wrote: > Hello Tom, and thank you for your thoughtful reply. > > I would have to assert that in my case, your assertions are also a bit > moot. Would make deinstall apache2.0 && make install apache2.2 && > make install php5 -DWITH_CGI=TRUE -DWITH_CLI=tru

Re: RELENG_7: interrupt eating whole cpu core

2008-02-08 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 11:43 -0200, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: > > Yes, it happens in my notebook (HP NX6320). Sorry to jump into this thread, as it is slightly off-topic - I have a HP NC6320 (so not quite exact same model, but specs seem extremely close - mine is a core duo, not core 2 duo, b

Re: RELENG_7: interrupt eating whole cpu core

2008-02-08 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 17:14 +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > Tom Evans wrote: > > If I try to turn on DMA, I just get WDMA2, which just doesn't cut it: > > I think any DMA mode is fast enough to handle a DVD drive. There's just no > necessity for more. > WDMA is n

Re: RELENG_7: interrupt eating whole cpu core

2008-02-12 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 19:35 +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > Tom Evans wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 17:14 +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > >> Tom Evans wrote: > >>> If I try to turn on DMA, I just get WDMA2, which just doesn't cut it: > >> I think

Formatting bug in C++ iostreams when running i386 binary on amd64

2008-02-12 Thread Tom Evans
Hi list. I've encountered a strange bug deploying one of our C++ applications on amd64. We tend to build most of our applications on i386, even if the deployment box is amd64, as we aren't 100% sure that our code is 64 bit clean yet. The boxes in question both run 6.2-RELEASE, at various kernel re

Re: Formatting bug in C++ iostreams when running i386 binary on amd64

2008-02-13 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 05:54 +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 06:23:18PM +0000, Tom Evans wrote: > >I've encountered a strange bug deploying one of our C++ applications on > >amd64. We tend to build most of our applications on i386, even if the > >depl

Re: RELENG_7: interrupt eating whole cpu core

2008-02-15 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 15:53 +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Tom Evans wrote: > > The chipset supports UDMA6, the drive supports UDMA6, > > Are you sure about that? What brand/model is that? > I don't think I've ever seen an atapi CD/DVD drive > that supported mor

Re: Re:more than 4gb of RAM (configurations)

2008-02-26 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 13:41 -0500, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > On Feb 19, 2008 5:10 PM, Kevin K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have a box that we recently installed 16GB of RAM on. The box is i386 > > FreeBSD 6.2. It only recognizes 4gb. > > > Siding with most of the group (go amd64), I'll ad

Re: I tried to install 7.0 today and had problems.

2008-02-29 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 07:43 -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:06:28AM -0700, geek wrote: > > I tried to install 7.0 on a computer with an ABIT AV8 motherboard. This > > board > > has an integrated NIC and the installer didn't find it. > > The board uses a native VIA NIC

Re: What's new on the 127.0.0/24 block in 7?

2008-03-04 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 00:03 -0800, Chris H. wrote: > Hello Mark. Thank you for your thoughtful reply. > FWIW I'm hosting my own zone, out of my domain's address using a > different host name. I'm simply forwarding the requests to a different > port, so as to prevent port collision with the BIND. Th

Re: musicpd segfaults on run - was advised that it's an issue with the system

2008-03-10 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 23:07 -0700, Ross Penner wrote: > Hi, > > I've recently run the upgrade gamut and moved from 6.3 to 7.0. I've > had a few hick ups but this one I can't resolve. I used musicpd > (http://www.freshports.org/audio/musicpd/) on 6.3 to stream to a > shoutcast server. When I start

Re: musicpd segfaults on run - was advised that it's an issue with the system

2008-03-11 Thread Tom Evans
On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 11:06 -0600, Ross Penner wrote: > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 4:40 AM, Tom Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > musicpd doesn't really like playing with libthr. I find remapping libthr > > using /etc/libmap.conf is an adequate workaround on 7

Re: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

2008-03-14 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 07:41 -0700, Unga wrote: > Hi all > > Is the following book still relevant to FreeBSD 7.X > and upcoming FreeBSD 8.X? Is there a 2nd edition > coming soon? > > The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating > System > By Marshall Kirk McKusick, George V. Neville-Nei

Re: sched_ule performance on single CPU

2008-04-16 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 00:20 -0700, Unga wrote: > > Sorry for my late reply. > > What I mentioned is a fact, that I always do. Yep, the > music listening is not affected at all when building > world on both 4BSD and ULE. > > Please note my processor is 3Ghz, may be it can take > such a load. >

Re: INET6 required for SCTP in 7.0?

2008-04-17 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 15:46 +0100, Ruben van Staveren wrote: > On 5 Mar 2008, at 15:32, Mark Andrews wrote: > > >> - IPv6 provides almost no technological upgrades beyond additional > >> address > >> space. DHCP addressed the auto configuration feature, VPNs addressed > >> IPsec. > > > > Th

Re: umass causes panic on 7 amd64

2008-04-21 Thread Tom Evans
On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 08:46 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 07:13:17PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: > >In my experience, umass over EHCI has never worked on any machine > >ever, going back to 5.x and over multiple kinds of umass devices. (I > >never saw panics, only triple-f

Re: panics on 6.3-RELEASE in IP stack

2008-04-21 Thread Tom Evans
On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 11:27 -0400, Michael Proto wrote: > Robert Watson wrote: > > > > On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Bruce M. Simpson wrote: > > > >>> I concur, this fix should really be MFCed. The problem went away in > >>> 7.x due to a total rewrite. I am distracted by other stuff at the > >>> moment,

Re: Release Schedule 7.1

2008-05-09 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 20:07 -0700, Jason C. Wells wrote: > What are the hoped for release dates for 7.1? (plus or minus a month) > I'm debating on running 7.0 vs 7.1 and timing is a consideration. > > Regards, > Jason Scheduled releases are listed on the release engineering page. http://www.fr

Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-05 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 11:14 -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On Thursday, June 05, 2008 10:23:55 -0400 John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > FWIW, at Y! 6.3 is more stable than 6.2 (I had a list of about 10 patches > > for > > known deadlocks and kernel panics that were errata candidat

Re: Node conflicts in SVN

2012-11-21 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Frank Seltzer wrote: > Following that with 'grep -A1 C\ stat' shows 217 lines similar to these: > > D C accessibility > > local unversioned, incoming add upon update This says that svn has an entry for a file/directory named 'accessibility', but that a

Re: simple patch for portsnap to use wget

2012-11-27 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Luca Ferrari wrote: > I did a little review and now it is possible to specify to use wget or > not using the portsnap.conf file, as well as the option to ingore > certificate checking even if I don't believe this is correct. > Therefore portsnap with this patch co

Using dhclient on WAN if on a box serving DHCP to LAN if

2012-12-07 Thread Tom Evans
Hi all Using 9.0-STABLE #1 r230946 - I found it out as I rebooted to prepare for 9.1, but I think it should be largely irrelevant of version. I have a freebsd router that provides all the things a soho router should on its LAN iface - DNS, DHCP, NAT (via pf). The WAN iface connects to a ADSL mode

Re: Using dhclient on WAN if on a box serving DHCP to LAN if

2012-12-07 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Ronald Klop wrote: > On Fri, 07 Dec 2012 12:38:45 +0100, Tom Evans > > What is in dhcpd.conf? > > Ronald. > dhcpd.conf is straightforward: option domain-name "x.com"; option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0; default-lease-time 3600

Re: RFC: Suggesting ZFS "best practices" in FreeBSD

2013-02-25 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >>> #1. Map the physical drive slots to how they show up in FBSD so if a >>> disk is removed and the machine is rebooted all the disks after that >>> removed one do not have an 'off by one error'. i.e. if you have >>> ada0-ada14 and remove

Re: Ghosted logins in w/who

2013-04-10 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 3:09 PM, wrote: > If I wipe the utmp file all the w/who content goes away, resets if you > will. But in a matter of moments the problem reappears.. is this > something that needs to be submitted as a bug report do you think? > Thanks! > Damon > Hi Damon Fabian was explai

auditdistd user preventing installkernel

2013-04-13 Thread Tom Evans
Hi all I was updating a newly installed FreeBSD 9.1 RELEASE box to 9-STABLE, and was preparing to install the kernel in order to reboot to test it. However I was immediately hit with this: > # make installkernel DESTDIR=/ROOT/9-STABLE-2013-04-13 ERROR: Required auditdistd user is missing, see /u

Re: ada(4) and ahci(4) quirk printing

2013-04-23 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 01:20:31PM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: >> >4) camcontrol wouldn't address the need/interest for ahci(4) quirks to >> >be made available. >> >> Why? > > Because camcontrol is for CAM. ahci(4) is not part of CAM. T

Re: buildworld fails for stable/9

2013-04-26 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Rick Miller wrote: > Hi all, > > I checked out stable/9 this morning to generate a release. buildworld > fails with the following: > > /usr/src/lib/libc/gen/stringlist.c:108: error: conflicting types for > 'sl_find' > /usr/src/lib/libc/../../include/stringlist.h:

Re: recommended memory for zfs

2013-05-09 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Benjamin Adams wrote: > Hello zfs question about memory. > I heard zfs is very ram hungry. > Service looking to run: > - nginx > - postgres > - php-fpm > - python > > I have a machine with two quad core cpus but only 4 G Memory > > I'm looking to buy more ram now. >

Re: How to get pkgng work through a proxy?

2013-05-14 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Lars Engels wrote: > On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 12:36:44PM +0200, Rainer Duffner wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have this host (a cloned VM, FreeBSD 9.1 AMD64) behind an Astaro >> Web-Proxy: >> >> >> (blahost ) 70 # pkg >> update >> [12:00] Updating repository catalogue >> rep

Re: zpool labelclear destroys GPT data

2013-06-14 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 4:49 PM, John Baldwin wrote: > Well, you could have zpool check if there is a valid ZFS label and prompt/warn > if it doesn't find one on whatever device it's about to wipe. That doesn't > fix the gmirror/gpt case, but it might make zpool more intuitive to use. One of the

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