Re: HP, IBM and Supermicro Servers Compatibility.

2010-04-17 Thread Steven Hartland
We use Supermicro here extensively and have never had a single problem with them. We tend to combine them with Areca RAID cards which also work well with FreeBSD. Regards Steve - Original Message - From: "Juanito Cassemiro" To: Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 6:10 PM Subject: HP,

Re: Official request: Please make GNU grep the default

2010-08-15 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "Steve Kargl" Whereas switching the default back to GNU grep *guarantees* neither unsophisticated nor sophosticated user will test BSD grep. It seems that you are letting a poor design decision with respect to portmaster impair others contribution to FreeBSD.

Re: Official request: Please make GNU grep the default

2010-08-15 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "Andrew Thompson" On 15 August 2010 13:55, Doug Barton wrote: Our default grep should be significantly slower than the old grep because: I think that new grep which is times slower than the old grep is still in the acceptable range. I think that new

Re: BSD grep performance

2010-08-19 Thread Steven Hartland
Out of interest I tried the first test here add ack into the mix we I've grown to like as a developer as it uses some nice sensible defaults for every day use avoiding svn etc. Its a pure perl app so wasn't expecting it to be particularly quick in the single file case, its much quicker in the mul

Re: why GNU grep is fast

2010-08-21 Thread Steven Hartland
That's a good read for other things as Mike, thanks for taking the time to pass on this knowledge :) - Original Message - From: "Mike Haertel" To: Anyway, just FYI, here's a quick summary of where GNU grep gets its speed. Hopefully you can carry these ideas over to BSD grep. #1 tr

Re: Next ZFSv28 patchset ready for testing.

2010-12-14 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "Olivier Smedts" I tried it on my 8-STABLE box (root zpool v15 on 2 mirrored vdevs with an usb l2 cache). I checked-out CURRENT sources with svn, applied the patch (it applied cleanly). Did not modify kernel config (no debugging) or make.conf. buildworld, bui

Re: Next ZFSv28 patchset ready for testing.

2010-12-14 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "Olivier Smedts" make installworld That's what I wanted to do, and why I rebooted single-user on the new kernel. But isn't the v13-v15 userland supposed to work with the v28 kernel ? Not if you have just upgrade from 8-STABLE to Current. Regards Ste

Re: Dell Perc 5/i Performance issues

2010-06-20 Thread Steven Hartland
Does anyone know of a nice how to guide for achieving this? - Original Message - From: "Scott Long" 2. Partition alignment. If you're using classic MBR slices, everything gets misaligned by 63 sectors, making it impossible for the controller to optimize both reads and writes. If the

Re: Watchdog resets on 82575

2010-08-10 Thread Steven Hartland
Is there an easy way to check which chip is present as the startup doesnt seem to mention it? igb0: port 0xec00-0xec1f mem 0xfade-0xfadf,0xfadc-0xfadd,0xfad9c000-0xfad9 irq 28 at device 0.0 on pci1 igb0: Using MSIX interrupts with 10 vectors igb0: [ITHREAD] igb0: [ITHREAD]

Re: Watchdog resets on 82575

2010-08-10 Thread Steven Hartland
ink x4(x4) I assume there is a way to convert from the hex values to the human value but not sure what it is? Regards Steve - Original Message - From: "Jeremy Chadwick" To: "Steven Hartland" Cc: "Jack Vogel" ; "FreeBSD Net" ; "FreeBSD stabl

SMP in 5.1 cant deactivate hyperthreading

2003-06-10 Thread Steven Hartland
sysctl machdep.hlt_logical_cpus: machdep.hlt_logical_cpus: 1 Relevant sections from dmesg: Programming 24 pins in IOAPIC #0 IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 -> irq 0 Programming 24 pins in IOAPIC #1 Programming 24 pins in IOAPIC #2 FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs cpu0 (BSP): apic id: 0, ve

Re: SMP in 5.1 cant deactivate hyperthreading

2003-06-12 Thread Steven Hartland
Original Message - From: "John-Mark Gurney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Yes 5.X is still new tech and may not run on all machines but on the ones > > which it does ( and it runs very well here ) basic tools are required. If > > it doesn't run on a machine your under know false impressions, if

Re: The future of ZFS in FreeBSD

2018-12-19 Thread Steven Hartland
Thanks for the write up most appreciated. One of the more meaty differences is that FreeBSD ZFS still has the only merged and production ready TRIM support so my question would be are their any plans to address this before creating the new port as going back to a world without TRIM support wouldn’t

Re: The future of ZFS in FreeBSD

2018-12-19 Thread Steven Hartland
this over the line, especially when people have competing priorities. On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 at 22:52, Matthew Macy wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 14:47 Steven Hartland > wrote: > >> Thanks for the write up most appreciated. One of the more meaty >> differences is

Re: The future of ZFS in FreeBSD

2018-12-20 Thread Steven Hartland
On 20/12/2018 11:03, Bob Bishop wrote: Hi, On 19 Dec 2018, at 23:16, Matthew Macy wrote: On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 15:11 Steven Hartland wrote: Sorry been off for a few weeks so must have missed that, please do prod me on again if you don’t see any response to anything not just this. Like

Re: zpool: multiple IDs, CURRENT drops all pools after reboot

2014-09-16 Thread Steven Hartland
On of my backup drives dedicated to a ZPOOL is faulting and showing up multiple ID. The only working ID is id: 257822624560506537. FreeBSD CURRENT with three ZFS disks and only 4GB of RAM is very "flaky" regarding this issue: today, tow times the whole poolset vanishes after a reboot. Giving th

Re: zpool frag

2014-09-21 Thread Steven Hartland
Backup the pool and restore it is the only way I'm aware of. - Original Message - From: "Beeblebrox" To: Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2014 9:57 AM Subject: zpool frag FRAG means fragmentation, right? Zpool fragmentation? That's news to me. If this is real how do I fix it? NAME

Re: zpool frag

2014-09-21 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "Peter Wemm" On Sunday, September 21, 2014 11:06:10 AM Allan Jude wrote: > On 2014-09-21 04:57, Beeblebrox wrote: > > FRAG means fragmentation, right? Zpool fragmentation? That's news to me. > > If > > this is real how do I fix it? > > > > NAME SIZE AL

Re: Looping during boot-up process in FreeBSD-11 current

2014-09-28 Thread Steven Hartland
The only recent ATAPI change I recall is 270327, does it still occur if you revert that? Regards Steve - Original Message - From: "Mike." I'm starting to look at FreeBSD 11-current to see what's coming soon. I have an older notebook that I use for test environments for purpose

Re: Looping during boot-up process in FreeBSD-11 current

2014-09-28 Thread Steven Hartland
n FreeBSD-11 current On 9/28/2014 at 5:01 PM Steven Hartland wrote: |The only recent ATAPI change I recall is 270327, does it still occur |if you revert that? | = OK, I'll download the 11-current source. Then revert 270327 https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/cam/ata

Re: What do you use for kernel debugging?

2014-09-28 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "Benjamin Kaduk" To: "José Pérez Arauzo" Cc: "FreeBSD Current" Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2014 8:54 PM Subject: Re: What do you use for kernel debugging? On Sun, 28 Sep 2014, José Pérez Arauzo wrote: Hello, I am trying to track down a (deadlock?) issue

Re: zfs hang

2014-10-09 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "Steve Wills" To: "Andriy Gapon" Cc: ; Sent: Friday, October 10, 2014 2:27 AM Subject: Re: zfs hang On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 08:55:26AM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: On 08/10/2014 03:40, Steve Wills wrote: > Hi, > > Not sure which thread this belongs to, b

Re: OOM killer and kernel cache reclamation rate limit in vm_pageout_scan()

2014-10-16 Thread Steven Hartland
Unfortunately ZFS doesn't prevent new inflight writes until it hits zfs_dirty_data_max, so while what your suggesting will help, if the writes come in quick enough I would expect it to still be able to out run the pageout. - Original Message - From: "Justin T. Gibbs" To: Cc: ; "Andriy

Re: HEADS UP: Standalone kernel debug files moving out of /boot/kernel/

2014-10-29 Thread Steven Hartland
Hmm not sure I like this idea as it would make it more difficult to make a copy / backup a kernel. ATM when I want to copy a kernel for debugging its a one liner, splitting debug symbols off to /usr/lib would prevent this. Is there not a way to allow separate install of the debug files but to

Re: HEADS UP: Standalone kernel debug files moving out of /boot/kernel/

2014-10-29 Thread Steven Hartland
On 30/10/2014 02:32, Steve Kargl wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 03:15:50PM -0400, Ed Maste wrote: On 29 October 2014 12:49, Steven Hartland wrote: Hmm not sure I like this idea as it would make it more difficult to make a copy / backup a kernel. ATM when I want to copy a kernel for

Re: HEADS UP: Standalone kernel debug files moving out of /boot/kernel/

2014-10-30 Thread Steven Hartland
On 30/10/2014 08:24, O'Connor, Daniel wrote: On 30 Oct 2014, at 13:23, Steven Hartland wrote: Making things harder to manage vs saving a little bit of space on the root partition really doesn't sound like a good idea; especially when with the ZFS install, which I would suggest is be

Re: HEADS UP: Standalone kernel debug files moving out of /boot/kernel/

2014-10-30 Thread Steven Hartland
On 30/10/2014 09:47, O'Connor, Daniel wrote: On 30 Oct 2014, at 19:44, Steven Hartland wrote: On 30/10/2014 08:24, O'Connor, Daniel wrote: On 30 Oct 2014, at 13:23, Steven Hartland wrote: Making things harder to manage vs saving a little bit of space on the root partition real

Re: HEADS UP: Standalone kernel debug files moving out of /boot/kernel/

2014-10-30 Thread Steven Hartland
On 30/10/2014 12:10, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: On 30 Oct 2014, at 09:47 , O'Connor, Daniel wrote: On 30 Oct 2014, at 19:44, Steven Hartland wrote: On 30/10/2014 08:24, O'Connor, Daniel wrote: On 30 Oct 2014, at 13:23, Steven Hartland wrote: Making things harder to manage vs savin

Re: HEADS UP: Standalone kernel debug files moving out of /boot/kernel/

2014-10-30 Thread Steven Hartland
On 30/10/2014 14:15, Ed Maste wrote: On 30 October 2014 09:21, Steven Hartland wrote: On 30/10/2014 12:10, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: (a) symbol files are for developers. Developers are clever people, often with custom systems, they know how to deal with them as they already do whatever they

Re: HEADS UP: Standalone kernel debug files moving out of /boot/kernel/

2014-10-30 Thread Steven Hartland
On 30/10/2014 14:40, Ed Maste wrote: On 30 October 2014 10:26, Steven Hartland wrote: Yer that's the process that was in my head, if debug symbols aren't available when savecore runs we're going to need a way to update / rerun when they are available, or even better give it th

Re: r273165. ZFS ARC: possible memory leak to Inact

2014-11-04 Thread Steven Hartland
This is likely spikes in uma zones used by ARC. The VM doesn't ever clean uma zones unless it hits a low memory condition, which explains why your little script helps. Check the output of vmstat -z to confirm. On 04/11/2014 11:47, Dmitriy Makarov wrote: Hi Current, It seems like there is co

Re: r273165. ZFS ARC: possible memory leak to Inact

2014-11-04 Thread Steven Hartland
On 04/11/2014 17:22, Allan Jude wrote: snip... Justin Gibbs and I were helping George from Voxer look at the same issue they are having. They had ~169GB in inact, and only ~60GB being used for ARC. Are there any further debugging steps we can recommend to him to help investigate this? The vario

Re: r273165. ZFS ARC: possible memory leak to Inact

2014-11-04 Thread Steven Hartland
On 04/11/2014 17:57, Ben Perrault wrote: snip... I would also be interested in any additional debugging steps and would be willing to help test in any way I can - as I've seen the behavior a few times as well. As recently a Sunday evening, I caught a system running with ~44GB ARC but ~117GB

Re: r273165. ZFS ARC: possible memory leak to Inact

2014-11-05 Thread Steven Hartland
On 05/11/2014 06:15, Marcus Reid wrote: On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 06:13:44PM +, Steven Hartland wrote: On 04/11/2014 17:22, Allan Jude wrote: snip... Justin Gibbs and I were helping George from Voxer look at the same issue they are having. They had ~169GB in inact, and only ~60GB being used

Re: r273165. ZFS ARC: possible memory leak to Inact

2014-11-05 Thread Steven Hartland
On 05/11/2014 09:52, Andriy Gapon wrote: On 04/11/2014 14:55, Steven Hartland wrote: This is likely spikes in uma zones used by ARC. The VM doesn't ever clean uma zones unless it hits a low memory condition, which explains why your little script helps. Check the output of vmstat

Re: init(8) diagnostics?

2014-11-16 Thread Steven Hartland
Its usually something like stalled IO On 16/11/2014 18:07, Steve Kargl wrote: In init(8), one finds under DIAGNOSISTICS "some processes would not die; ps axl advised." So, just how is one to actually run 'ps axl advised' as the message appears as init(8) is killing off the system? _

Re: Problem with r274819? asr_timeout() not found

2014-11-22 Thread Steven Hartland
Fixed, sorry forgot asr wasn't in GENERIC, so missed it in testing. On 22/11/2014 14:34, David Wolfskill wrote: Running: FreeBSD g1-253.catwhisker.org 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #1434 r274790M/274790:1100047: Fri Nov 21 06:07:24 PST 2014 r...@g1-253.catwhisker.org:/common/S4/obj/us

Re: Fix Emulex "oce" driver in CURRENT

2014-12-05 Thread Steven Hartland
On 04/09/2014 09:49, Borja Marcos wrote: On Jun 30, 2014, at 8:02 PM, John Baldwin wrote: I think these sound fine, but I've cc'd Xin Li (delphij@) who has worked with folks at Emulex to maintain this driver. He is probably the best person to review this. Hi, Seems 10.1 is on the pipeline n

Re: Fix Emulex "oce" driver in CURRENT

2014-12-05 Thread Steven Hartland
On 05/12/2014 13:07, Borja Marcos wrote: On Dec 5, 2014, at 2:00 PM, Steven Hartland wrote: On 04/09/2014 09:49, Borja Marcos wrote: On Jun 30, 2014, at 8:02 PM, John Baldwin wrote: I think these sound fine, but I've cc'd Xin Li (delphij@) who has worked with folks at Emulex t

Re: asr(4) error with new clang/llvm

2015-01-01 Thread Steven Hartland
On 02/01/2015 01:23, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: Hi, you need the next line of source to see that while the union only defines Simple[1], the comparison goes up to SG_LIST (or something) which is indeed defined as 58. Cn someone fix this? This makes i386 compiles failing currently. /scratch/t

Re: who broke dtrace and buildworld?

2015-01-17 Thread Steven Hartland
On 18/01/2015 00:22, Steve Kargl wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 03:54:47PM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote: % cd /usr/src % svn update Updating '.': At revision 277307. % make buildworld ===> cddl/usr.sbin/dtrace (all) cc -O2 -pipe -march=core2 -I/usr/src/cddl/usr.sbin/dtrace/../../../sys/cddl

Re: who broke dtrace and buildworld?

2015-01-17 Thread Steven Hartland
On 18/01/2015 01:44, Steve Kargl wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 01:40:09AM +, Steven Hartland wrote: % svn revert -r 377300:377299 . Just double checked and I can building r277307 without issue, build box is running 10.1-RELEASE. My head box is quite a bit slower and is still running

Re: who broke dtrace and buildworld?

2015-01-17 Thread Steven Hartland
On 18/01/2015 02:35, Steve Kargl wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 02:10:19AM +, Steven Hartland wrote: On 18/01/2015 01:44, Steve Kargl wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 01:40:09AM +, Steven Hartland wrote: % svn revert -r 377300:377299 . Just double checked and I can building r277307

Re: T40 bootloop on CAM status: Command timeout on both 10.1 and -CURRENT

2015-03-30 Thread Steven Hartland
Is there anything connected to the second channel, if so what. Was this working in a previous version and if so which one and what was the verbose boot log from it? On 30/03/2015 19:07, bsdml wrote: Hello Kevin, thanks for your clarification. Unfortunately I wasn't aware that the T40 and *4

Re: T40 bootloop on CAM status: Command timeout on both 10.1 and -CURRENT

2015-03-31 Thread Steven Hartland
Verbose boot of the working OS version was what I was after, which should provide details of what its detecting ;-) Also a camcontrol identify of the cdrom from the working version may also be useful On 31/03/2015 09:54, Pietro Sammarco wrote: Currently the cdrom drive and yes it works fine t

Re: Fix for r281680 -- broke i386 world

2015-04-18 Thread Steven Hartland
On 18/04/2015 17:30, David Wolfskill wrote: On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 06:34:59PM +0300, Konstantin Belousov wrote: ... - printf("LE_STATUS: %d %d %lx\n", e, rp.status, rp.le_status); + printf("LE_STATUS: %d %d %jx\n", e, rp.status, rp.le_status); return 0; } The j modifica

Re: Increase BUFSIZ to 8192

2015-05-12 Thread Steven Hartland
4k block size on the underlying device? On 12/05/2015 00:14, Adrian Chadd wrote: So I'm curious - why's it faster? -adrian ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any

Re: ZFSROOT UEFI boot

2015-12-10 Thread Steven Hartland
Ive literally just got this working on 10.2 after working on the code posted on the review which you can find here: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4104 If you're happy running current then the patch file I linked in my comment should apply cleanly and just work. If you want 10.x then there's quite

Re: FreeBsd MCA Panic Crash !!

2016-01-04 Thread Steven Hartland
Bank 5 seems to be common to all the crashes, which may suggest you have some dodgy ram or possibly the driving CPU's memory controller. As the error says this is a Hardware issue. One thing we've used in the past to narrow issues like this down is to remove as much RAM as possible and to disa

Re: r294248: boot stuck: EFI loader doesn't proceed

2016-01-18 Thread Steven Hartland
On 18/01/2016 19:08, Ed Maste wrote: On 18 January 2016 at 03:10, Dimitry Andric wrote: On 18 Jan 2016, at 07:20, O. Hartmann wrote: Building NanoBSD images booting off from USB Flash drives and having two GPT partitions, booting is stuck in the UEFI loader, presenting me with something lik

Re: r294248: boot stuck: EFI loader doesn't proceed

2016-01-18 Thread Steven Hartland
On 18/01/2016 21:57, Ed Maste wrote: On 18 January 2016 at 15:26, Andrew Turner wrote: the issue was we were caching reads from the first filesystem we looked at. I've committed the fix in r294291 to force the code to re-read on each filesystem it looks at. Thanks Andrew - my QEMU boot failure

Re: ZFSROOT UEFI boot

2016-01-24 Thread Steven Hartland
On 24/01/2016 12:53, Tomoaki AOKI wrote: Unfortunately, this (and its committed successor and original for UFS) fails to boot in some situation, like below. OTOH, gptzfsboot (and maybe gptboot for UFS, too) is OK. When I select Disk1 from UEFI firmware, bootx64.efi in Disk1 EFI partition is used

Re: ZFSROOT UEFI boot

2016-01-28 Thread Steven Hartland
On 28/01/2016 16:22, Doug Rabson wrote: On 28 January 2016 at 15:03, Tomoaki AOKI wrote: It's exactly the NO GOOD point. The disk where boot1 is read from should be where loader.efi and loader.conf are first read. I just wanted to note that gptzfsboot and zfsboot behaves this way. Boot1 look

Re: ZFSROOT UEFI boot

2016-01-30 Thread Steven Hartland
. I built ZFS-disabled boot1.efi > and it worked fine for USB memstick for me. > > *`make clean && make -DMK_ZFS=no` in sys/boot/efi/boot1 didn't disabled >ZFS module, so I must edit the definition of *boot_modules[] in >boot1.c. I'd have been missing somethi

Re: ZFSROOT UEFI boot

2016-01-30 Thread Steven Hartland
I just realised an important point, does your usb disk have a UFS root partition and your internal disk ZFS root partition? If so then I know what the issue is, I'll have quick look now, so wait for a diff5 to appear before testing. On Saturday, 30 January 2016, Steven Hartland wrote: &g

Re: ZFSROOT UEFI boot

2016-01-30 Thread Steven Hartland
ed ZFS module, so I must edit the definition of *boot_modules[] in boot1.c. I'd have been missing something. Regards. On Fri, 29 Jan 2016 02:58:26 + Steven Hartland wrote: On 28/01/2016 16:22, Doug Rabson wrote: On 28 January 2016 at 15:03, Tomoaki AOKI wrote: It's exa

Re: ZFSROOT UEFI boot

2016-01-30 Thread Steven Hartland
ed ZFS module, so I must edit the definition of *boot_modules[] in boot1.c. I'd have been missing something. Regards. On Fri, 29 Jan 2016 02:58:26 + Steven Hartland wrote: On 28/01/2016 16:22, Doug Rabson wrote: On 28 January 2016 at 15:03, Tomoaki AOKI wrote: It's exa

Re: ZFSROOT UEFI boot

2016-01-31 Thread Steven Hartland
be in conjunction with changes after r294265 in head, as currently Diff6 doesn't apply to stable/10. Regards. On Sat, 30 Jan 2016 19:12:34 + Steven Hartland wrote: I believe, based on testing, that the from Diff 5 onwards of https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5108 this should work as you

Re: ZFSROOT UEFI boot

2016-02-01 Thread Steven Hartland
drive] for Diff8 are done. Regards. On Sun, 31 Jan 2016 13:58:23 + Steven Hartland wrote: Thanks for doing that it was very helpful, and I know transcribing from video would have been quite a time consuming task. I noticed a few interesting facts: 1. It looks like when you boot fr

Re: ZFSROOT UEFI boot

2016-02-01 Thread Steven Hartland
), 5) [USB boot] for Diff7 and 1) [single drive] for Diff8 are done. Regards. On Sun, 31 Jan 2016 13:58:23 +0000 Steven Hartland wrote: Thanks for doing that it was very helpful, and I know transcribing from video would have been quite a time consuming task. I noticed a few interesting facts: 1

Re: ZFSROOT UEFI boot

2016-02-05 Thread Steven Hartland
Yep thanks, I committed this to head today, after Warner confirmed it was good in his env too. It will sit there for 1 week before I request permission to MFC to stable/10. On 05/02/2016 17:24, Tomoaki AOKI wrote: > I got a feedback from Yuichiro NAITO at freebsd-users-jp ML. > > Boots fine using

Re: sr-iov issues, reset_hw() failed with error -100

2016-02-22 Thread Steven Hartland
isn't that 48 cores (12 real 12 virtual) per CPU? On 22/02/2016 21:26, Ultima wrote: This system has 24 cores (e5-2670v3)x2 Ultima On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 3:53 PM, Pieper, Jeffrey E < jeffrey.e.pie...@intel.com> wrote: Just out of curiosity, how many cores does your system have? Jeff -

Re: loader and load: path?

2016-03-07 Thread Steven Hartland
So your saying "kldload zfs" fails because it can't find opensolaris or are you giving it absolute paths? If so try without absolute paths. Regards Steve On 07/03/2016 14:09, Larry Rosenman wrote: If I type load /boot/kernel/kernel, and then load /boot/kernel/zfs.ko, the loader (loade

Re: Crashes in libthr?

2016-03-14 Thread Steven Hartland
On 14/03/2016 22:28, Larry Rosenman wrote: On 2016-03-14 17:25, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message <2016031428.ga1...@borg.lerctr.org>, Larry Rosenman writes: And sshd is busted. FYI: I seeing no such issues on two systems running: 11.0-CURRENT #4 r296808: Sun Mar 13 2

Re: boot loaders got fatter in the last few days

2016-03-19 Thread Steven Hartland
On 18/03/2016 17:42, Nikolai Lifanov wrote: On 03/18/16 13:03, Allan Jude wrote: On 2016-03-18 12:33, Guido Falsi wrote: Hi, I have just update one of my machines and noticed the booloaders files got quite fat in the last few days, some by a big margin. on an updated machine(r296993): ls

Re: boot loaders got fatter in the last few days

2016-03-19 Thread Steven Hartland
On 18/03/2016 17:51, Guido Falsi wrote: On 03/18/16 17:54, José Pérez wrote: Hi Guido, maybe it's because of this: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=296963 I see. There is a problem with this though, we have howtos suggesting 64K for the size of the freebsd-boot gpt part

Re: Mixed ashift?

2016-03-31 Thread Steven Hartland
vfs.zfs.min_auto_ashift is only used when a device is added so you can set it add, then change. On 31/03/2016 07:15, Allan Jude wrote: On 2016-03-31 02:13, Dustin Marquess wrote: I have what I think is a pretty normal setup.. a bunch of HDDs plus 2 SSDs (one ZIL, one SLOG). The HDDs are stan

Re: Question about cam 4K quirks

2016-04-10 Thread Steven Hartland
On 10/04/2016 15:35, Tomoaki AOKI wrote: On Sun, 10 Apr 2016 06:59:04 -0600 Alan Somers wrote: On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 12:56 AM, Tomoaki AOKI wrote: Hi. Maybe freebsd-hardware list would be the right place, but it's not so active. :-( Is 4K quirks needed for every HDDs/SSDs having physic

Re: Question about cam 4K quirks

2016-04-11 Thread Steven Hartland
On 11/04/2016 15:24, Tomoaki AOKI wrote: Thanks for your answer! On Sun, 10 Apr 2016 16:15:56 +0100 Steven Hartland wrote: On 10/04/2016 15:35, Tomoaki AOKI wrote: On Sun, 10 Apr 2016 06:59:04 -0600 Alan Somers wrote: On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 12:56 AM, Tomoaki AOKI wrote: Hi. Maybe

Re: Samsung SSD TRIM [Was: Heads up]

2016-04-15 Thread Steven Hartland
On 15/04/2016 09:11, Kurt Jaeger wrote: Hi! avg wrote: For what it's worth, I have been using the following SSDs since September of 2015 : ada2: ACS-2 ATA SATA 3.x device ada3: ACS-2 ATA SATA 3.x device I have one in use with zfs and trim: ada1: ACS-2 ATA SATA 3.x device Works as my por

Re: ATA? related trouble with r300299

2016-05-24 Thread Steven Hartland
On 24/05/2016 21:56, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 23:54:09 +0300, Oleg V. Nauman wrote: On Tuesday 24 May 2016 16:17:33 you wrote: Okay, I've got a basic idea of what may be going on. The resets that are getting sent are triggering another probe, which then triggers a rese

Re: Setting sysctl vfs.zfs.arc_max failed: 22

2016-07-05 Thread Steven Hartland
What is it currently? Just had a quick play here: sysctl vfs.zfs.arc_max vfs.zfs.arc_max: 32283127808 sysctl vfs.zfs.arc_max=32283127807 vfs.zfs.arc_max: 32283127808 -> 32283127807 sysctl vfs.zfs.arc_max=32283127808 vfs.zfs.arc_max: 32283127807 -> 32283127808 Error 22 = EINVAL so I suspect you'r

Re: Setting sysctl vfs.zfs.arc_max failed: 22

2016-07-05 Thread Steven Hartland
sing 'sysct' or sysctl.conf for vfs.zfs.arc_max and vfs.zfs.arc_min works. I only have problems with setting them now in loader.conf. Like I said, I'll try to send output from my setup later. Thanks. On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 6:10 PM, Steven Hartland mailto:ste...@multiplay.co.uk>&g

Re: Setting sysctl vfs.zfs.arc_max failed: 22

2016-07-06 Thread Steven Hartland
On 06/07/2016 02:25, Allan Jude wrote: On 2016-07-05 20:27, Steven Hartland wrote: Ahh right, let me check that. On 06/07/2016 00:51, Nathan Bosley wrote: I actually have this same problem. I'll send more details when I get home later. I think the problem started for me after r302265. B

Re: Setting sysctl vfs.zfs.arc_max failed: 22

2016-07-06 Thread Steven Hartland
nk in about 4 - 5 hours I can show what values I'm using in loader.conf under, say, r302264 and r302265 for comparison. I'm not 100% sure that the problem arose for me in r302265; I merely suspect it. On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 9:25 PM, Allan Jude mailto:allanj...@freebsd.org>> wrote:

Re: Setting sysctl vfs.zfs.arc_max failed: 22

2016-07-06 Thread Steven Hartland
On 06/07/2016 21:39, Eric van Gyzen wrote: On 07/06/16 03:35 PM, Steven Hartland wrote: The ARC settings and kmem aren't initialised when tunables are loaded so the tests fail. I've fixed this locally by blindly setting if ARC is not configured. Request to commit the fix is with r

Re: Setting sysctl vfs.zfs.arc_max failed: 22

2016-07-08 Thread Steven Hartland
Just a heads-up. Thanks again. On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 7:51 PM, Steven Hartland mailto:kill...@multiplay.co.uk>> wrote: On 06/07/2016 21:39, Eric van Gyzen wrote: On 07/06/16 03:35 PM, Steven Hartland wrote: The ARC settings and kmem aren't initialised when

Re: FreeBSD-11.0-BETA1-amd64-disc1.iso is too big for my 700MB CD-r

2016-07-11 Thread Steven Hartland
On 11/07/2016 23:39, Allan Jude wrote: On 2016-07-11 18:33, Chris H wrote: On Tue, 12 Jul 2016 00:46:04 +0300 Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 09:41:44PM +, Glen Barber wrote: On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 03:32:34PM -0600, Alan Somers wrote: On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 2:01 P

Re: FreeBSD-11.0-BETA1-amd64-disc1.iso is too big for my 700MB CD-r

2016-07-12 Thread Steven Hartland
On 12/07/2016 20:52, Mark Linimon wrote: On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 04:09:10PM +0930, Shane Ambler wrote: +1 on dropping CD images. I have 24U of things that don't have DVD players, including some tier-2 machines for which no upgrade is available. Any no USB?

Re: FreeBSD-11.0-BETA1-amd64-disc1.iso is too big for my 700MB CD-r

2016-07-12 Thread Steven Hartland
On 12/07/2016 21:50, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote: On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 01:39:34PM -0700, Conrad Meyer wrote: Maybe Tier 2 can deal with just bootonly.iso. Or your machines should be dropped from Tier 2 if they don't support USB and we aren't okay with dropping disc1 support for all of Tier 2.

Re: FreeBSD-11.0-BETA1-amd64-disc1.iso is too big for my 700MB CD-r

2016-07-12 Thread Steven Hartland
On 12/07/2016 22:20, Ed Schouten wrote: 2016-07-11 23:01 GMT+02:00 Ronald Klop : Just downloaded the amd64 BETA1 ISO (873MB) and tried to burn a CD on Windows 10. It complained that the ISO is too big for my 700 MB CD-r. I remember back in the days we also had a 'miniinst' CD, which was identic

Re: 11.0-BETA1 make installworldworld fails

2016-07-18 Thread Steven Hartland
When ever I've seen installworld issues after a full buildworld its been clock related, so might want to check the clock on the machine is right. On 17/07/2016 20:58, Kim Culhan wrote: Seeing this on FreeBSD 11.0-BETA1 #0 r302963M After make buildworld completes with no problem, then rebooted

Re: commits between r305191 - r305211 broke zfs list

2016-09-03 Thread Steven Hartland
Out of sync kernel / world? Do you have a crash dump? On 03/09/2016 21:50, Subbsd wrote: Hi. Can anybody test of output for: zfs list command on FreeBSD current after r305211 ? On my hosts his leads to zfs segfault. ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org

Re: Destroy GPT partition scheme absolutely, how?

2016-10-04 Thread Steven Hartland
CAM already does this, doesn't really help with speed as much as you might think though. On 04/10/2016 19:53, Maxim Sobolev wrote: For the whole disk destruction, hopefully one day we'd have BIO_DELETE coalesce code, so that you can batch of lot of operations into handful SATA commands. I've he

Re: HEADS-UP: IFLIB implementations of sys/dev/e1000 em, lem, igb pending

2017-01-06 Thread Steven Hartland
Hmm I'm not sure about everyone else but I we treat emX as legacy devices (not used one in years) but igbX is very common here. The impact of changing a nic device name is quite a bit more involved than just rc.conf it effects other areas too, jails etc so given we can loose access to the mach

Re: recent change to vim defaults?

2017-01-15 Thread Steven Hartland
On 15/01/2017 17:45, Pete Wright wrote: On 1/15/17 8:22 AM, Kyle Evans wrote: On Jan 15, 2017 10:03, "Julian Elischer" wrote: I noticed that suddenly vim is grabbing mouse movements, which makes life really hard. Was there a specific revision that brought in this change, and can it be rem

Re: gptzfsboot trouble

2017-02-07 Thread Steven Hartland
On 07/02/2017 16:33, Toomas Soome wrote: On 7. veebr 2017, at 18:08, Thomas Sparrevohn wrote: Hi all Last week I decided to upgrade my FreeBSD installation - it's been a while (September 16 was last time). Unfortunately CURRENT does not boot and cash in a weird way. Both 11-RELEASE and 1

Re: Are textmode consoles/terminals still supported?

2017-03-20 Thread Steven Hartland
Add the following to /boot/loader.conf Its a tunable but not a sysctl so you can't query it, you just need to set it by adding it to /boot/loader.conf: hw.vga.textmode="1" On 20/03/2017 21:58, Chris H wrote: I'm attempting to get a video card that DTRT on FreeBSD. I started with the graphics

Re: r319971 -> r320351: Fatal error 'Cannot allocate red zone for initial thread'

2017-06-26 Thread Steven Hartland
Is this related to kib's additional fix over the weekend? https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/320344 Regards Steve On 26/06/2017 09:29, O. Hartmann wrote: Over the past week we did not update several 12-CURRENT running development hosts, so today is the first day of performing th

Re: Panics after AHCI timeouts

2011-10-18 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "Alexey Shuvaev" To: Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 2:13 PM Subject: Re: Panics after AHCI timeouts On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 06:19:19AM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: On 18 October 2011 03:00, Alexey Shuvaev wrote: > On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 10:14:56PM +0200

Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1Server

2011-12-15 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "Michael Larabel" I was the on that carried out the testing and know that it was on the same system. All of the testing, including the system tables, is fully automated. Under FreeBSD sometimes the parsing of some component strings isn't as nice as Linu

Re: LSI supported mps(4) driver available

2012-01-20 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "Kenneth D. Merry" To: ; Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 8:44 PM Subject: LSI supported mps(4) driver available The LSI-supported version of the mps(4) driver that supports their 6Gb SAS HBAs as well as WarpDrive controllers, is available here: http://peop

Re: mfi driver performance

2012-09-10 Thread Steven Hartland
How are you intending to use the controller? If you're looking to put a load of disk in for say ZFS have you tried flashing to a none RAID firmware so it uses mps instead of mfi? Regards Steve - Original Message - From: "Achim Patzner" To: Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 1:3

Re: mfi driver performance

2012-09-10 Thread Steven Hartland
Might be worth testing anyway, as that would help prove controller or driver issue. - Original Message - From: "Achim Patzner" To: "Steven Hartland" Cc: Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 2:19 PM Subject: Re: mfi driver performance Am 10.09.2012 um 14:57 sch

Re: ZFS TRIM support committed to HEAD.

2012-09-24 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "Charles Sprickman" Are you aware of anyone that will be trying this in production, and if so, will you be able to give us list denizens any feedback on it? Yes we've been using it in production for a few months now, but only on single disk pools so not RAI

Re: ZFS TRIM support committed to HEAD.

2012-09-24 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "Charles Sprickman" I have a patch against stable/8, but not stable/9: http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/zfstrim8.patch Are you aware of anyone that will be trying this in production, and if so, will you be able to give us list denizens any feedback

Re: ZFS TRIM support committed to HEAD.

2012-09-24 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "Ollivier Robert" According to Steven Hartland: We applied the patch to a 8.3-RELEASE based install with additional patches including patches to provide TRIM support for CAM da devices via SATA pass-through including full support for security an

Re: ZFS TRIM support committed to HEAD.

2012-09-24 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "Bob Bishop" To: "Pawel Jakub Dawidek" Cc: ; ; "Steven Hartland" Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 3:17 PM Subject: Re: ZFS TRIM support committed to HEAD. Hi, On 23 Sep 2012, at 23:25, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: I have

Re: ZFS TRIM support committed to HEAD.

2012-09-24 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "Pawel Jakub Dawidek" Although I'm surprised your seeing that many reported failures as it should have disabled it on a pool level after the first few failures. Is it still increasing? Note that 'failed' count is increasing, not the 'unsupported' count. We

Re: ZFS TRIM support committed to HEAD.

2012-09-24 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "Ryan Stone" Ahh yes looks like ATA supports BIO_DELETE via ATA_CFA_ERASE if the drive announces ATA_PROTO_CFA, so I can only assume this is failing when it shouldn't. Might be nice to investigate what's happening and fix, but as ATA is being replaced by CAM A

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