Using underlying adX devices as well as ar0?

2011-09-01 Thread Karl Pielorz
Hi, I posted this question in -Questions about a week ago, and didn't get any replies :( I'm just trying to check - we have a number of 8.2-STABLE amd64 systems where the onboard RAID shows up as '/dev/ar0' (which we use for filesystems, i.e. /dev/ar0s1d et'al), and the underlying devices

Re: Using underlying adX devices as well as ar0?

2011-09-01 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 07:28:37 -0500, Karl Pielorz kpielorz_...@tdx.co.uk wrote: Is it OK to run smartmontools / smartd / smartctl against the underlying adX devices, whilst ar0 is in use? Yes. :-) ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list

8.2R i386 bassed md root, doesn't like all machines

2011-09-01 Thread rank1seeker
Works excellent! I boot it from USB stick. Now I added ~150 MB of ports to it. From that point on, it doesn't boot on all machines. Booting 2 times in a row on laptop with 4 gb ram: http://www.starforce.biz/md_root_1.jpg http://www.starforce.biz/md_root_2.jpg Without ports, it did booted fine!

Re: Large machine test ideas

2011-09-01 Thread Attilio Rao
2011/8/31 Sean Bruno sean...@yahoo-inc.com: On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 17:11 -0700, Ivan Voras wrote: On 29.8.2011. 20:15, John Baldwin wrote: However, the SRAT code just ignores the table when it encounters an issue like this, it doesn't hang.  Something else later in the boot must have

Re: 8.2R i386 bassed md root, doesn't like all machines

2011-09-01 Thread Mark Tinguely
On 9/1/2011 8:17 AM, rank1see...@gmail.com wrote: Works excellent! I boot it from USB stick. Now I added ~150 MB of ports to it. From that point on, it doesn't boot on all machines. Booting 2 times in a row on laptop with 4 gb ram: http://www.starforce.biz/md_root_1.jpg

Re: Using underlying adX devices as well as ar0?

2011-09-01 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 01 September 2011 07:45 -0500 Mark Felder f...@feld.me wrote: Is it OK to run smartmontools / smartd / smartctl against the underlying adX devices, whilst ar0 is in use? Yes. :-) Thanks :-) I'll look for other reasons why one of the machines mysteriously locked up with everything

Re: Large machine test ideas

2011-09-01 Thread Ivan Voras
On 1 September 2011 16:11, Attilio Rao atti...@freebsd.org wrote: I mean, if we have 2 cpus in a machine, but MAXCPU is set to 256, there is a bunch of lost memory and higher levels of lock contention? I thought that attilio was taking a stab at enhancing this, but at the current time

Re: BUG: Entries in fstab with 'late' option, require order, with ntfs and ufs

2011-09-01 Thread rank1seeker
- Original Message - From: John Baldwin j...@freebsd.org To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: rank1see...@gmail.com, Craig Rodrigues rodr...@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 08:24:01 -0400 Subject: Re: BUG: Entries in fstab with 'late' option, require order, with ntfs and ufs On

kldload dtraceall exec format error

2011-09-01 Thread Charlie Martin
Okay, I'll grant this is probably a horrid noob question, but then on the Free kernel I'm a horrid noob so I guess it makes sense. This is for FreeBSD FreeBSD psmdev1 8.1-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p2 per uname -a. We have a FreeBSD based product on the AMD64 architecture; I'm trying to

Re: Large machine test ideas

2011-09-01 Thread Attilio Rao
2011/9/1 Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org: On 1 September 2011 16:11, Attilio Rao atti...@freebsd.org wrote: I mean, if we have 2 cpus in a machine, but MAXCPU is set to 256, there is a bunch of lost memory and higher levels of lock contention? I thought that attilio was taking a stab at

Re: kldload dtraceall exec format error

2011-09-01 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Charlie Martin crmar...@sgi.com wrote: Okay, I'll grant this is probably a horrid noob question, but then on the Free kernel I'm a horrid noob so I guess it makes sense.  This is for FreeBSD FreeBSD psmdev1 8.1-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p2 per uname -a.

Re: kldload dtraceall exec format error

2011-09-01 Thread Charlie Martin
On 2011-09-01 11:23, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Charlie Martincrmar...@sgi.com wrote: Okay, I'll grant this is probably a horrid noob question, but then on the Free kernel I'm a horrid noob so I guess it makes sense. This is for FreeBSD FreeBSD psmdev1

Re: kldload dtraceall exec format error

2011-09-01 Thread Charlie Martin
okay, dmesg begins to give a clue. Here's a question: if this FreeBSD 8 is being built on a FreeBSD 7 machine, would that account for it? On 2011-09-01 11:23, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Charlie Martincrmar...@sgi.com wrote: Okay, I'll grant this is probably a

Re: kldload dtraceall exec format error

2011-09-01 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Charlie Martin crmar...@sgi.com wrote: okay, dmesg begins to give a clue.  Here's a question: if this FreeBSD 8 is being built on a FreeBSD 7 machine, would that account for it? The problem is that you only have built some -- not all -- of the modules

Re: kldload dtraceall exec format error

2011-09-01 Thread Brandon Gooch
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Charlie Martin crmar...@sgi.com wrote: On 2011-09-01 11:23, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Charlie Martincrmar...@sgi.com  wrote: Okay, I'll grant this is probably a horrid noob question, but then on the Free kernel I'm a horrid noob