Re: How to find CPU microcode version ?

2018-02-20 Thread Kurt Jaeger
Hi! > > One situation that can cause out of swap errors is large amounts of > > wired ram. > > Indeed: Very large amounts of wired RAM. What happened ? This > did not happen before the last upgrade ? I'm at r328899. vfs.zfs.arc_max was at 32345493504 changed that to

Re: How to find CPU microcode version ?

2018-02-20 Thread Kurt Jaeger
Hi! > One situation that can cause out of swap errors is large amounts of > wired ram. Indeed: Very large amounts of wired RAM. What happened ? This did not happen before the last upgrade ? I'm at r328899. CPU: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.1% system, 0.0% interrupt, 99.9% idle Mem: 2472K Active,

Re: How to find CPU microcode version ?

2018-02-19 Thread Shane Ambler
On 18/02/2018 21:11, Kurt Jaeger wrote: > Hi! > Around the 14th, processes started to be killed for out of swapspace, > even if the box had almost no load at all. > > pid 1056 (mutt), uid 104, was killed: out of swap space > pid 536 (devd), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space > pid 15093

RE: How to find CPU microcode version ?

2018-02-18 Thread Cy Schubert
of the many outweighs the greed of the few. --- -Original Message- From: Kurt Jaeger Sent: 18/02/2018 10:50 To: Andrea Venturoli Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to find CPU microcode version ? Hi! > On 02/18/18 11:41, Kurt Jaeger wrote: > > > Reboot of t

Re: How to find CPU microcode version ?

2018-02-18 Thread Kurt Jaeger
Hi! > On 02/18/18 11:41, Kurt Jaeger wrote: > > > Reboot of the box and waiting a few hours and the problem re-occured. > > Doesn't the work of microcode_update vanish after a reboot? Thanks. I was not sure and tested this. Indeed, yes, the microcode update is reverted by rebooting. Then I

Re: How to find CPU microcode version ?

2018-02-18 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 02/18/18 11:41, Kurt Jaeger wrote: Reboot of the box and waiting a few hours and the problem re-occured. Doesn't the work of microcode_update vanish after a reboot? Unless of course you set up rc.conf to repeat it at every start... bye av.

Re: How to find CPU microcode version ?

2018-02-18 Thread Kurt Jaeger
Hi! > > How do I find the microcode version a Intel CPU is currently using ? > > I was pointed to > > https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/introducing-cpupdate-a-microcode-tool-for-freebsd.64588/ > > which points to: > > https://github.com/kernschmelze/cpupdate > > Works! So: On the box

Re: How to find CPU microcode version ?

2018-02-18 Thread Kurt Jaeger
Hi! > How do I find the microcode version a Intel CPU is currently using ? I was pointed to https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/introducing-cpupdate-a-microcode-tool-for-freebsd.64588/ which points to: https://github.com/kernschmelze/cpupdate Works! -- p...@opsec.eu+49 171

Re: How to find CPU microcode version ?

2018-02-18 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 18.02.2018 um 11:41 schrieb Kurt Jaeger : > > Hi! > > How do I find the microcode version a Intel CPU is currently using ? > AFAIK: All Linux-vendors have retracted their microcode-updates, for the time being. If your BIOS-vendor didn’t provide you an updated BIOS,