Re: Is there any modern alternative to pstack?

2012-04-02 Thread John Baldwin
On Saturday, March 31, 2012 3:41:41 pm Yuri wrote: I look at seemingly abandoned sysutils/pstack, last modified upstream 2002-11-27. It doesn't really work on 9.0 i386, prints some errors. It's functions, though, is quite desirable if one wants to understand why some multithreaded program

Re: Approaching the limit on PV entries

2012-04-02 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday, March 22, 2012 1:48:29 pm Mark Saad wrote: On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 8:03 AM, John Baldwin j...@freebsd.org wrote: On Wednesday, March 21, 2012 4:20:17 pm Mark Saad wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Sergey Kandaurov pluk...@gmail.com wrote: On 21 March 2012 19:19, John

Re: Is there any modern alternative to pstack?

2012-04-02 Thread Yuri
On 04/02/2012 05:31, John Baldwin wrote: Hmm, I don't know if the port has it, but I did some work on pstack a while ago to make it work with libthread_db so it at least handles i386 ok. It needs to be modified to use something like libunwind though or some other unwinder. And possibly it

Upgrading FreeBSD

2012-04-02 Thread rank1seeker
Basically it consists of (re)compilation and installation of world + kernel However, 2 parts are always ommited: Stage 1 - mbr|boot0 Stage 2 - boot I won't also mention GPT part ... Stage 3 - loader (is covered by world install) Should it be expanded to world + kernel + bootcodes The old way,

Re: Is there any modern alternative to pstack?

2012-04-02 Thread John Baldwin
On Monday, April 02, 2012 12:39:26 pm Yuri wrote: On 04/02/2012 05:31, John Baldwin wrote: Hmm, I don't know if the port has it, but I did some work on pstack a while ago to make it work with libthread_db so it at least handles i386 ok. It needs to be modified to use something like

CAM disk I/O starvation

2012-04-02 Thread Jerry Toung
Hello list, I am convinced that there is a bug in the CAM code that leads to I/O starvation. I have already discussed this privately with some. I am now bringing this up to the general audience to get more feedback. My setup is that I have 1 RAID controller with 2 arrays connected to it, da0 and

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-04-02 Thread Doug Barton
On 03/30/2012 07:41, Joe Greco wrote: On 3/29/2012 7:01 AM, Joe Greco wrote: On 3/28/2012 1:59 PM, Mark Felder wrote: FreeBSD 8-STABLE, 8.3, and 9.0 are untested As much as I'm sensitive to your production requirements, realistically it's not likely that you'll get a helpful result without

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-04-02 Thread Joe Greco
On 03/30/2012 07:41, Joe Greco wrote: On 3/29/2012 7:01 AM, Joe Greco wrote: On 3/28/2012 1:59 PM, Mark Felder wrote: FreeBSD 8-STABLE, 8.3, and 9.0 are untested As much as I'm sensitive to your production requirements, realistically it's not likely that you'll get a helpful result

Re: __NR_mmap2 in FreeBSD

2012-04-02 Thread John Baldwin
On Saturday, March 31, 2012 5:40:50 pm Maninya M wrote: Thanks. I've tried this. Still getting some allocation problems. if (temp_regs.r_eax != addr) warn(Wanted space at address 0x%.8x, mmap2 system call returned 0x%.8x. This could be a problem.,addr,temp_regs.r_eax); What can I

GSoC: EFI on intel

2012-04-02 Thread Eric McCorkle
I'm assessing possible summer of code projects, and the EFI work caught my attention. I've been running FreeBSD on a macbook for a little under a year now, and booting on EFI is definitely an interest to me. Does anyone know if this is still a viable project proposal? I certainly have the

Re: Approaching the limit on PV entries

2012-04-02 Thread Mark Saad
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 11:23 AM, John Baldwin j...@freebsd.org wrote: On Thursday, March 22, 2012 1:48:29 pm Mark Saad wrote: On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 8:03 AM, John Baldwin j...@freebsd.org wrote: On Wednesday, March 21, 2012 4:20:17 pm Mark Saad wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:39 PM,

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-04-02 Thread Doug Barton
On 4/2/2012 11:43 AM, Joe Greco wrote: As a user, you can't win. If you don't report a problem, you get criticized. If you report a problem but can't figure out how to reproduce it, you get criticized. If you can reproduce it but you don't submit a workaround, you get criticized. If you

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-04-02 Thread Joe Greco
On 4/2/2012 11:43 AM, Joe Greco wrote: As a user, you can't win. If you don't report a problem, you get criticized. If you report a problem but can't figure out how to reproduce it, you get criticized. If you can reproduce it but you don't submit a workaround, you get criticized. If

Fwd: [gsoc2012] Port NetBSD's UDF implementation

2012-04-02 Thread Yongcong Du
cc hackers@ -- Forwarded message -- From: Yongcong Du ycdu.vmc...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 1:23 AM Subject: [gsoc2012] Port NetBSD's UDF implementation To: a...@freebsd.org, netch...@freebsd.org Hi Andriy and Alexander, Firstly, let me introduce myself;) I'm a