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

2011-12-19 Thread Lev Serebryakov
Hello, Samuel. You wrote 15 декабря 2011 г., 16:32:47: Other benchmarks in the Phoronix suite and their representations are similarly flawed, _ALL_ of these results should be ignored and no time should be wasted by any FreeBSD committer further evaluating this garbage. (Yes, I have been down

Re: VM images for FreeBSD

2011-12-19 Thread Alexander Yerenkow
If anyone interested, I got here [1] VirtualBox Image: FreeBSD-10-amd64-r228694-2011-12-19.vdi.xz Anyone who's looking to test 10 can get to test it :) It contains package-installed partial system with openbox; Image configured to run DHCP on em0, you can change this in /etc/rc.conf, as

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

2011-12-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 19/12/2011 08:27, Lev Serebryakov wrote: Here is one problem: we have choice from three items: (1) Make FreeBSD looks good on benchmarks by fixing FreeBSD (2) Make FreeBSD looks good on benchmarks by fixing Phoronix (communication with them, convincing, that they benchamrks are unfare

r228700 can't dhclient em0

2011-12-19 Thread Doug Barton
I updated to r228700 from 228122 and dhclient exits immediately saying that em0 doesn't exist. However ifconfig seems to disagree: em0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 options=4219bRXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,WOL_MAGIC,VLAN_HWTSO

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

2011-12-19 Thread Lev Serebryakov
Hello, Adrian. You wrote 16 декабря 2011 г., 20:43:27: Guys/girls/fuzzy things - this is 2011; people look at shiny blog sites with graphs rather than mailing lists. Sorry, we lost that battle. :) My thoughts exactly. -- // Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov l...@freebsd.org

Re: svn commit: r228576 - in head: . sys/boot/forth sys/modules sys/modules/carp sys/modules/if_carp

2011-12-19 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Hi, we support the official ways to update FreeBSD with delete-old. This means installkernel resp. install in the kernel config directory, and freebsd-update. I hope freebsd-update does the right thing and moves the old kernel directory out of the way. We do not support weird cases with

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

2011-12-19 Thread Lev Serebryakov
Hello, Matthew. You wrote 19 декабря 2011 г., 13:13:09: (1) Make FreeBSD looks good on benchmarks by fixing FreeBSD (2) Make FreeBSD looks good on benchmarks by fixing Phoronix (communication with them, convincing, that they benchamrks are unfare / meaningless, ets) (2a) Ignore Phoronix,

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

2011-12-19 Thread Lars Engels
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 09:13:09AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 19/12/2011 08:27, Lev Serebryakov wrote: Here is one problem: we have choice from three items: (1) Make FreeBSD looks good on benchmarks by fixing FreeBSD (2) Make FreeBSD looks good on benchmarks by fixing Phoronix

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

2011-12-19 Thread O. Hartmann
On 12/19/11 09:27, Lev Serebryakov wrote: Hello, Samuel. You wrote 15 декабря 2011 г., 16:32:47: Other benchmarks in the Phoronix suite and their representations are similarly flawed, _ALL_ of these results should be ignored and no time should be wasted by any FreeBSD committer further

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

2011-12-19 Thread Samuel J. Greear
2011/12/19 Lev Serebryakov l...@freebsd.org: Hello, Samuel. You wrote 15 декабря 2011 г., 16:32:47: Other benchmarks in the Phoronix suite and their representations are similarly flawed, _ALL_ of these results should be ignored and no time should be wasted by any FreeBSD committer further

a few usb issues related to edge cases

2011-12-19 Thread Andriy Gapon
Hans Petter, I think that I see some issues in the USB code that could cause problems in some edge cases. From easiest to hardest: 1. I think that currently there is a LOR in usb_bus_shutdown. I think that the following patch should fix it:

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

2011-12-19 Thread Edho Arief
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Samuel J. Greear s...@evilcode.net wrote: FreeBSD actually does _BETTER_ (subjectively) in this test than the Linux system when you look at what is really going on. FreeBSD is favoring writes, which is _GOOD_. FreeBSD does not need to be fixed, the benchmarks

Re: svn commit: r228576 - in head: . sys/boot/forth sys/modules sys/modules/carp sys/modules/if_carp

2011-12-19 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
On 19. Dec 2011, at 09:18 , Alexander Leidinger wrote: I think in general Alexander is right here. We usually do not allow for atomic replacements of individual modules in /boot/kernel/ unless you know what you are doing, in which case the ObsoleteFiles.inc doesn't seem to be what you are

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

2011-12-19 Thread Alexander Yerenkow
IMHO, no offence, as always. As were told, Phoronix used default setup, not tuned. So? Is average user will tune it after setup? No, he'll get same defaults, and would expect same performance as in tests, and he probably get it. The problem of FreeBSD is not it's default settings, some kind of

Re: r228700 can't dhclient em0

2011-12-19 Thread Dimitry Andric
On 2011-12-19 10:17, Doug Barton wrote: I updated to r228700 from 228122 and dhclient exits immediately saying that em0 doesn't exist. However ifconfig seems to disagree: em0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500

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

2011-12-19 Thread Andreas Nilsson
On 19 dec 2011, at 12:50, Samuel J. Greear s...@evilcode.net wrote: 2011/12/19 Lev Serebryakov l...@freebsd.org: Hello, Samuel. You wrote 15 декабря 2011 г., 16:32:47: Other benchmarks in the Phoronix suite and their representations are similarly flawed, _ALL_ of these results should be

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

2011-12-19 Thread O. Hartmann
On 12/19/11 13:21, Andreas Nilsson wrote: On 19 dec 2011, at 12:50, Samuel J. Greear s...@evilcode.net wrote: 2011/12/19 Lev Serebryakov l...@freebsd.org: Hello, Samuel. You wrote 15 декабря 2011 г., 16:32:47: Other benchmarks in the Phoronix suite and their representations are similarly

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

2011-12-19 Thread Daniel Kalchev
I have already canceled few replies to this thread, but... On 19.12.11 15:16, Alexander Yerenkow wrote: IMHO, no offence, as always. I feel obliged to include the same disclaimer :-) As were told, Phoronix used default setup, not tuned. Not really. They created some weird test

Uneven load on drives in ZFS RAIDZ1

2011-12-19 Thread Stefan Esser
Hi ZFS users, for quite some time I have observed an uneven distribution of load between drives in a 4 * 2TB RAIDZ1 pool. The following is an excerpt of a longer log of 10 second averages logged with gstat: dT: 10.001s w: 10.000s filter: ^a?da?.$ L(q) ops/sr/s kBps ms/rw/s kBps

Re: a few usb issues related to edge cases

2011-12-19 Thread Hans Petter Selasky
On Monday 19 December 2011 13:16:17 Andriy Gapon wrote: Hans Petter, I think that I see some issues in the USB code that could cause problems in some edge cases. From easiest to hardest: Hi, 1. I think that currently there is a LOR in usb_bus_shutdown. I think that the following

USB testers wanted for system suspend and resume

2011-12-19 Thread Hans Petter Selasky
Hi, Can someone which have access to computer hardware which support system suspend and resume please test FreeBSD-10-current after this commit: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/228709 Part of the test: Remove any custom rc.d scripts which load/unload ehci/ohci/uhci/xhci during suspend

Re: Uneven load on drives in ZFS RAIDZ1

2011-12-19 Thread Olivier Smedts
2011/12/19 Stefan Esser s...@freebsd.org: Hi ZFS users, for quite some time I have observed an uneven distribution of load between drives in a 4 * 2TB RAIDZ1 pool. The following is an excerpt of a longer log of 10 second averages logged with gstat: dT: 10.001s  w: 10.000s  filter: ^a?da?.$

Re: a few usb issues related to edge cases

2011-12-19 Thread Andriy Gapon
First replying just to couple of points where there seems to be a misunderstanding. on 19/12/2011 16:30 Hans Petter Selasky said the following: 2. Somewhat related to the above. I think that because the USB subsystem implements the shutdown method and detaches all its drivers, then the ukbd

Re: a few usb issues related to edge cases

2011-12-19 Thread Hans Petter Selasky
On Monday 19 December 2011 16:06:13 Andriy Gapon wrote: First replying just to couple of points where there seems to be a misunderstanding. on 19/12/2011 16:30 Hans Petter Selasky said the following: 2. Somewhat related to the above. I think that because the USB subsystem implements the

Re: Uneven load on drives in ZFS RAIDZ1

2011-12-19 Thread Peter Maloney
On 12/19/2011 03:22 PM, Stefan Esser wrote: Hi ZFS users, for quite some time I have observed an uneven distribution of load between drives in a 4 * 2TB RAIDZ1 pool. The following is an excerpt of a longer log of 10 second averages logged with gstat: dT: 10.001s w: 10.000s filter:

Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default

2011-12-19 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 12/18/11 04:34, Adrian Chadd wrote: The trouble is that there's lots of anecdotal evidence, but noone's really gone digging deep into _their_ example of why it's broken. The developers who know this stuff don't see anything wrong. That hints to me it may be something a little more creepy - as

Re: r228700 can't dhclient em0

2011-12-19 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Dec 19, 2011, at 5:24 AM, Dimitry Andric d...@freebsd.org wrote: On 2011-12-19 10:17, Doug Barton wrote: I updated to r228700 from 228122 and dhclient exits immediately saying that em0 doesn't exist. However ifconfig seems to disagree: em0:

Re: Uneven load on drives in ZFS RAIDZ1

2011-12-19 Thread Michael Reifenberger
Hi, a quick test using `dd if=/dev/zero of=/test ...` shows: dT: 10.004s w: 10.000s filter: ^a?da?.$ L(q) ops/sr/s kBps ms/rw/s kBps ms/w %busy Name 0378 0 0 12.5376 36414 11.9 60.6| ada0 0380 0 0 12.2378 36501 11.8

Re: Uneven load on drives in ZFS RAIDZ1

2011-12-19 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 19), Stefan Esser said: for quite some time I have observed an uneven distribution of load between drives in a 4 * 2TB RAIDZ1 pool. The following is an excerpt of a longer log of 10 second averages logged with gstat: dT: 10.001s w: 10.000s filter: ^a?da?.$ L(q)

Re: Uneven load on drives in ZFS RAIDZ1

2011-12-19 Thread Michael Reifenberger
On Mon, 19 Dec 2011, Peter Maloney wrote: Swapping disks (or even removing one depending on controller, etc. when it fails) without labels can be bad. eg. Since ZFS uses (and searches for) its own UUID partition signatures s disk wapping shouldn't matter as long enough disks are found. Set

Re: Uneven load on drives in ZFS RAIDZ1

2011-12-19 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 6:22 AM, Stefan Esser s...@freebsd.org wrote: Hi ZFS users, for quite some time I have observed an uneven distribution of load between drives in a 4 * 2TB RAIDZ1 pool. The following is an excerpt of a longer log of 10 second averages logged with gstat: dT: 10.001s  

Re: a few usb issues related to edge cases

2011-12-19 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 19/12/2011 17:11 Hans Petter Selasky said the following: I will fix that. I see a missing wait there. Can I assume that we are allowed to sleep from device_shutdown() and that system timers still work? I don't see any reason why either of these should be not true. Oh, and I see that you've

Re: Uneven load on drives in ZFS RAIDZ1

2011-12-19 Thread Daniel Kalchev
I have observed similar behavior, even more extreme on a spool with dedup enabled. Is dedup enabled on this spool? Might be that the DDT tables somehow end up unevenly distributed to disks. My observation was on a 6 disk raidz2. Daniel___

Re: Uneven load on drives in ZFS RAIDZ1

2011-12-19 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 19.12.2011 15:36, schrieb Olivier Smedts: 2011/12/19 Stefan Esser s...@freebsd.org: So: Can anybody reproduce this distribution requests? Hello, Stupid question, but are your drives all exactly the same ? I noticed ashift: 12 so I think you should have at least one 4k-sector drive,

Re: Uneven load on drives in ZFS RAIDZ1

2011-12-19 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 19.12.2011 16:42, schrieb Peter Maloney: On 12/19/2011 03:22 PM, Stefan Esser wrote: So: Can anybody reproduce this distribution requests? I don't have a raidz1 machine, and no time to make you a special raidz1 pool out of spare disks, but on my raidz2 I can only ever see unevenness when a

Re: WITHOUT_PROFILE=yes by default

2011-12-19 Thread Warner Losh
On Dec 2, 2011, at 9:52 AM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: Using profiled libs and gprof to profile your code has been obsolete in FreeBSD on i386 and amd64 for over six years now. Funny, it still seems to work on my systems. Worked for me last time I tried as well. Was able to find the problems

Re: WITHOUT_PROFILE=yes by default

2011-12-19 Thread Warner Losh
On Dec 2, 2011, at 3:37 PM, Steve Kargl wrote: On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 04:21:14PM +0700, Max Khon wrote: The most important thing is to have reasonable defaults. Having WITH_PROFILE by default does not seem to be a reasonable default to me. Now all users that want to profile anything

Re: VM images for FreeBSD

2011-12-19 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, Hm, so this lets us create a virtualbox image from what, a set of install tarballs? Or /usr/src build? Adrian ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: VM images for FreeBSD

2011-12-19 Thread Alexander Yerenkow
2011/12/19 Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org Hi, Hm, so this lets us create a virtualbox image from what, a set of install tarballs? Or /usr/src build? I'm using cross-build and installation from sources dir (which is after that got svn-up'ed and all goes again). It shouldn't be complex to

Re: Uneven load on drives in ZFS RAIDZ1

2011-12-19 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 19.12.2011 17:22, schrieb Dan Nelson: In the last episode (Dec 19), Stefan Esser said: for quite some time I have observed an uneven distribution of load between drives in a 4 * 2TB RAIDZ1 pool. The following is an excerpt of a longer log of 10 second averages logged with gstat: dT:

Re: Uneven load on drives in ZFS RAIDZ1

2011-12-19 Thread Peter Maloney
Am 19.12.2011 17:48, schrieb Michael Reifenberger: On Mon, 19 Dec 2011, Peter Maloney wrote: Swapping disks (or even removing one depending on controller, etc. when it fails) without labels can be bad. eg. Since ZFS uses (and searches for) its own UUID partition signatures s disk wapping

Re: Uneven load on drives in ZFS RAIDZ1

2011-12-19 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 19.12.2011 17:36, schrieb Michael Reifenberger: Hi, a quick test using `dd if=/dev/zero of=/test ...` shows: dT: 10.004s w: 10.000s filter: ^a?da?.$ L(q) ops/sr/s kBps ms/rw/s kBps ms/w %busy Name 0378 0 0 12.5376 36414 11.9 60.6| ada0

Re: Uneven load on drives in ZFS RAIDZ1

2011-12-19 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 19.12.2011 18:05, schrieb Garrett Cooper: On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 6:22 AM, Stefan Esser s...@freebsd.org wrote: Hi ZFS users, for quite some time I have observed an uneven distribution of load between drives in a 4 * 2TB RAIDZ1 pool. The following is an excerpt of a longer log of 10

Re: r228700 can't dhclient em0

2011-12-19 Thread Dimitry Andric
On 2011-12-19 17:36, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Dec 19, 2011, at 5:24 AM, Dimitry Andricd...@freebsd.org wrote: On 2011-12-19 10:17, Doug Barton wrote: I updated to r228700 from 228122 and dhclient exits immediately saying that em0 doesn't exist. However ifconfig seems to disagree: ... I saw

Re: Uneven load on drives in ZFS RAIDZ1

2011-12-19 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Dec 19, 2011, at 12:54 PM, Stefan Esser wrote: Am 19.12.2011 18:05, schrieb Garrett Cooper: On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 6:22 AM, Stefan Esser s...@freebsd.org wrote: Hi ZFS users, for quite some time I have observed an uneven distribution of load between drives in a 4 * 2TB RAIDZ1 pool. The

Re: Uneven load on drives in ZFS RAIDZ1

2011-12-19 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 19.12.2011 19:03, schrieb Daniel Kalchev: I have observed similar behavior, even more extreme on a spool with dedup enabled. Is dedup enabled on this spool? Thank you for the report! Well, I had dedup enabled for a few short tests. But since I have got only 8GB of RAM and dedup seems to

Re: Uneven load on drives in ZFS RAIDZ1

2011-12-19 Thread Daniel Kalchev
On Dec 19, 2011, at 11:00 PM, Stefan Esser wrote: Am 19.12.2011 19:03, schrieb Daniel Kalchev: I have observed similar behavior, even more extreme on a spool with dedup enabled. Is dedup enabled on this spool? Thank you for the report! Well, I had dedup enabled for a few short tests.

Re: Uneven load on drives in ZFS RAIDZ1

2011-12-19 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Daniel Kalchev dan...@digsys.bg wrote: On Dec 19, 2011, at 11:00 PM, Stefan Esser wrote: Am 19.12.2011 19:03, schrieb Daniel Kalchev: I have observed similar behavior, even more extreme on a spool with dedup enabled. Is dedup enabled on this spool? Thank

Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default

2011-12-19 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 19/12/2011 17:50 Nathan Whitehorn said the following: The thing I've seen is that ULE is substantially more enthusiastic about migrating processes between cores than 4BSD. Hmm, this seems to be contrary to my theoretical expectations. I thought that with 4BSD all threads that were not in

Re: Uneven load on drives in ZFS RAIDZ1

2011-12-19 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 19.12.2011 22:00, schrieb Garrett Cooper: On Dec 19, 2011, at 12:54 PM, Stefan Esser wrote: But it seems that others do not observe the asymmetric distribution of requests, which makes me wonder whether I happen to have meta data arranged in such a way that it is always read from ada0 or

Re: Uneven load on drives in ZFS RAIDZ1

2011-12-19 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 19.12.2011 22:07, schrieb Daniel Kalchev: On Dec 19, 2011, at 11:00 PM, Stefan Esser wrote: Well, I had dedup enabled for a few short tests. But since I have got only 8GB of RAM and dedup seems to require an order of magnitude more to be working well, I switched dedup off again after a few

Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default

2011-12-19 Thread Alexander Best
On Mon Dec 19 11, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: On 12/18/11 04:34, Adrian Chadd wrote: The trouble is that there's lots of anecdotal evidence, but noone's really gone digging deep into _their_ example of why it's broken. The developers who know this stuff don't see anything wrong. That hints to me

Re: Uneven load on drives in ZFS RAIDZ1

2011-12-19 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 19), Stefan Esser said: Am 19.12.2011 17:22, schrieb Dan Nelson: In the last episode (Dec 19), Stefan Esser said: for quite some time I have observed an uneven distribution of load between drives in a 4 * 2TB RAIDZ1 pool. The following is an excerpt of a longer

can a wrong alignment cause a decrease in a hdd's life expectancy?

2011-12-19 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, i'm using a usb hdd with the following specs: otaku% sudo smartctl -i /dev/da0 smartctl 5.42 2011-10-20 r3458 [FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family:

Failure to compile world

2011-12-19 Thread Alex Kuster
Hi people! I'm writing here because I'm having issues with compiling world from a Symphony# uname -a FreeBSD Symphony 9.0-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-PRERELEASE #2: Fri Dec 16 18:52:44 ART 2011 vertex@Symphony:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Machine with latest source from that date. I'm using

Re: can a wrong alignment cause a decrease in a hdd's life expectancy?

2011-12-19 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 20111219221617.ga70...@freebsd.org, Alexander Best writes: ps: the hdd only gets mounted read-only! There is no known wear-effects in flash storage as long as you only read. You may need to do refresh-writes every 5-10 years to avoid tunnel-leakage bit errors, but most flash

cross-arch building picobsd/nanobsd images ?

2011-12-19 Thread Luigi Rizzo
Hi, recently I have tried to build picobsd image for a different architecture than the current one, with only partial success. In particular, three weeks ago i committed some changes to the picobsd script so now i can build working amd64 images on amd64. However when i try a cross build (e.g.

Re: Uneven load on drives in ZFS RAIDZ1

2011-12-19 Thread Daniel Kalchev
On Dec 19, 2011, at 11:53 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: Since it looks like the algorithm ends up creating two half-cold parity disks instead of one cold disk, I bet a 3-disk RAIDZ would exhibit even worse balancing, and a 5-disk set would be more even. There were some experiments a year or two

Re: can a wrong alignment cause a decrease in a hdd's life expectancy?

2011-12-19 Thread Matthew Jacob
Putting it better: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory#Read_disturb ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: can a wrong alignment cause a decrease in a hdd's life expectancy?

2011-12-19 Thread Alexander Best
On Mon Dec 19 11, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message 20111219221617.ga70...@freebsd.org, Alexander Best writes: ps: the hdd only gets mounted read-only! There is no known wear-effects in flash storage as long as you only read. You may need to do refresh-writes every 5-10 years to avoid

Re: can a wrong alignment cause a decrease in a hdd's life expectancy?

2011-12-19 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 20111219224700.ga75...@freebsd.org, Alexander Best writes: On Mon Dec 19 11, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message 20111219221617.ga70...@freebsd.org, Alexander Best writes: ps: the hdd only gets mounted read-only! There is no known wear-effects in flash storage as long as you

Re: can a wrong alignment cause a decrease in a hdd's life expectancy?

2011-12-19 Thread Alexander Best
On Mon Dec 19 11, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message 20111219224700.ga75...@freebsd.org, Alexander Best writes: On Mon Dec 19 11, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message 20111219221617.ga70...@freebsd.org, Alexander Best writes: ps: the hdd only gets mounted read-only! There is no known

Re: can a wrong alignment cause a decrease in a hdd's life expectancy?

2011-12-19 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 20111219225633.ga77...@freebsd.org, Alexander Best writes: no problem. so will the improper alignment also not cause a life expectancy shortage in case of a hdd (non-flash-based)? Well, theoretically you will have more track-to-track seeks, as some blocks will span cylinders, but I

Re: can a wrong alignment cause a decrease in a hdd's life expectancy?

2011-12-19 Thread Matthew Jacob
On 12/19/2011 2:22 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message20111219221617.ga70...@freebsd.org, Alexander Best writes: ps: the hdd only gets mounted read-only! There is no known wear-effects in flash storage as long as you only read. No, sorry, that's not really true.

Re: can a wrong alignment cause a decrease in a hdd's life expectancy?

2011-12-19 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 4eefb9f3.80...@feral.com, Matthew Jacob writes: On 12/19/2011 2:22 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message20111219221617.ga70...@freebsd.org, Alexander Best writes: ps: the hdd only gets mounted read-only! There is no known wear-effects in flash storage as long as you only read.

Re: can a wrong alignment cause a decrease in a hdd's life expectancy?

2011-12-19 Thread Alexander Best
On Mon Dec 19 11, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:56:33PM +, Alexander Best wrote: On Mon Dec 19 11, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message 20111219224700.ga75...@freebsd.org, Alexander Best writes: On Mon Dec 19 11, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message

Re: can a wrong alignment cause a decrease in a hdd's life expectancy?

2011-12-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 03:20:10PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:56:33PM +, Alexander Best wrote: On Mon Dec 19 11, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message 20111219224700.ga75...@freebsd.org, Alexander Best writes: On Mon Dec 19 11, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

Re: can a wrong alignment cause a decrease in a hdd's life expectancy?

2011-12-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:56:33PM +, Alexander Best wrote: On Mon Dec 19 11, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message 20111219224700.ga75...@freebsd.org, Alexander Best writes: On Mon Dec 19 11, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message 20111219221617.ga70...@freebsd.org, Alexander Best writes:

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

2011-12-19 Thread Petro Rossini
Hi all, just a thought here: On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Daniel Kalchev dan...@digsys.bg wrote: As were told, Phoronix used default setup, not tuned. Not really. They created some weird test environment, at least for FreeBSD -- who knows, possibly for Linux as well. For example, ZFS

making crdup()/crcopy() safe??

2011-12-19 Thread Rick Macklem
Hi, A recent NFS client crash: http://glebius.int.ru/tmp/nfs_panic.jpg appears to have happened because some field is bogus when crfree() is called. I've asked Gleb to disassemble crfree() for me, so I can try and see exactly which field causes the crash, however... Basically, the code:

Re: Failure to compile world

2011-12-19 Thread Alex Kuster
http://clang.llvm.org/docs/LanguageExtensions.html#__builtin_unreachable http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1453.htm Apparently this is the problem: _Noreturn void abort(void); // [...] more declarations _Noreturn void exit(int); Those noreturns are supposed to be

Re: Failure to compile world

2011-12-19 Thread Alex Kuster
A follow-up on this is libc not building because of missing SCTP_REMOTE_UDP_ENCAPS_PORT apparently the Makefile doesn't include /sys/ into the includes of the libc. My current version (/usr/include/netinet/sctp.h) lacks that definition, it should look in the headers of the source, not the

Re: can a wrong alignment cause a decrease in a hdd's life expectancy?

2011-12-19 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 19 Dec 2011, Alexander Best wrote: no problem. so will the improper alignment also not cause a life expectancy shortage in case of a hdd (non-flash-based)? and one other question: the hdd also supports usb 3. will the improper alignment have any effect (speed wise) when connected via

Re: Failure to compile world

2011-12-19 Thread Alex Kuster
On 12/20/2011 01:52, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Alex Kustervertexsymph...@zoho.com wrote: A follow-up on this is libc not building because of missing SCTP_REMOTE_UDP_ENCAPS_PORT apparently the Makefile doesn't include /sys/ into the includes of the libc. My current