Rebooting from loader causes a fault in VMware Workstation

2013-04-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/arch-handbook/book.html Eek. x86 architecture is a lot different than I remember it being in my 386 days, so this is all a bit over my head. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@koitsu.org | | UNIX Systems Administratorhttp

Re: Rebooting from loader causes a fault in VMware Workstation

2013-04-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
and cpu_reset_real to see how FreeBSD handles it. VMWare at least says that it would have caused the physical machine to restart. Blame VMWare. On 4/19/2013 11:28 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: (Please keep me CC'd as I'm not subscribed to -hackers) When running FreeBSD under VMware

Re: retry mounting with ro when rw fails

2011-04-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
is whether or not this mechanism change could caused some sort of infinite loop within devd(8)/devctl(4) where the daemon gets very confused as to what's going on or some automated commands get run when they shouldn't. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com

Re: quotas an essential feature? (was: svn commit: r218953 - stable/8/usr.sbin/sysinstall)

2011-02-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
will be doing extra work and hence a drop in performance... Does anyone have benchmark results to measure the performance hit? I imagine there wouldn't be any (or extremely negligible) unless you used quotaon(8). -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius

Re: random FreeBSD panics

2010-03-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
incentives would help get this issue well-needed attention? This problem makes kernel debugging, panic analysis, and other console-oriented viewing basically impossible. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http

Re: random FreeBSD panics

2010-03-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 02:27:34PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: On Monday 29 March 2010 1:30:38 pm Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 05:01:02PM +, Masoom Shaikh wrote: On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: On 28 March 2010 16:42, Masoom

Re: [Testers wanted] /dev/console cleanups

2008-11-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:48:36PM -0800, Nate Eldredge wrote: On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 05:39:36PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: I hope that never gets committed - it will make debugging kernel problems much harder. There is already

Re: [Testers wanted] /dev/console cleanups

2008-11-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:53:07AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is deliberate. If the system panics, stuff that was in the message buffer (and might not be on disk) can be read when the system

Re: Core i7 anyone else?

2008-11-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
article should note that the problem was not hardware-related) -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard

Re: [Testers wanted] /dev/console cleanups

2008-11-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
) by now. :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB

Re: Reccomendation for tools to use on FreeBSD for a wiki ?

2008-11-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
to list hoping someone will answer him. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977

Re: [Testers wanted] /dev/console cleanups

2008-11-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 05:39:36PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2008-Nov-19 02:47:31 -0800, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's a known issue with the kernel message buffer though: it's not NULL'd out upon reboot. This is deliberate. If the system panics, stuff

Re: NET.ISR and CPU utilization performance w/ HP DL 585 using FreeBSD 7.1 Beta2

2008-11-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
: 25.35 Mb/s 15.17 Mb/s 40.52 Mb/s Thanks, Won And does this behaviour change if you use some other brand of NIC? -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX

Re: assigning interrupts

2008-11-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
an APIC (this is not a typo) increasing the IRQ count to 256. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard

Re: assigning interrupts

2008-11-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 04:40:03PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 02:40:54AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Otherwise, consider purchasing a motherboard that has an APIC (this is not a typo) increasing the IRQ count to 256. This is wrong. The first IO-APIC gives

Re: ukbd attachment and root mount

2008-11-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 02:49:15PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 12/11/2008 14:33 Jeremy Chadwick said the following: On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 02:20:41PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 12/11/2008 14:14 Jeremy Chadwick said the following: On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 01:58:58PM +0200, Andriy Gapon

Re: ukbd attachment and root mount

2008-11-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
as a PS/2 keyboard, for typing in boot0/boot2/loader to work. Device hints are for kernel drivers, once the kernel is loaded. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator

Re: ukbd attachment and root mount

2008-11-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 02:20:41PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 12/11/2008 14:14 Jeremy Chadwick said the following: On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 01:58:58PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: [snip] 2. if ukbd driver is not attached then I don't see any way USB keyboard would work in non-legacy way

Re: strange behaviour with /sbin/init and serial console

2008-10-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
and device settings you use: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain

Re: strange behaviour with /sbin/init and serial console

2008-10-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
disabling atkbd/atkbdc entirely, or disabling kbdmux entirely. In my case, I found the latter to be preferable). :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator

open(2) and O_NOATIME

2008-10-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
. I realise mount's noatime trumps this, but there are lots of scenarios where atime is desired as a default, but disabled in specific cases. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX

Re: open(2) and O_NOATIME

2008-10-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 07:16:42PM -0700, Xin LI wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: I've recently been reading about Linux's O_NOATIME flag to open(2), and I'm curious why we haven't implemented this. There seem to be a lot of good reasons

Re: neophyte: tcsetattr() gives 22 error in i386, not in amd64?

2008-10-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
/include/errno.h isn't documentation of error numbers? -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others

Re: zfs waiting on zio-io_cv

2008-10-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
guess this beast needs some tunning, are there any tools out there to monitor/tune ZFS? Monitor ZFS: sysctl Tune ZFS: vi /boot/loader.conf or sysctl I'm not sure what you're looking for. :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: neophyte: tcsetattr() gives 22 error in i386, not in amd64?

2008-10-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 06:29:54PM +1030, en0f wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 06:06:38PM +1030, en0f wrote: Nate Eldredge wrote: On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Steve Franks wrote: Hi, I'm getting a 22 errno from tcsetattr() on 7-STABLE i386 in code which was working

Re: Laptop suggestions?

2008-10-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
that comes forth from my mouth when intending to hit Control. http://www.notebookreview.com/assets/9328.jpg ;-) -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator

Re: ZFS boot

2008-10-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
. CURRENT can address up to 512GB. I've fully documented this on my Wiki, see section Kernel. http://wiki.freebsd.org/JeremyChadwick/Commonly_reported_issues -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 01:07:44PM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:35:16PM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:42:49 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:29:52AM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: On Fri, 10

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:35:16PM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:42:49 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:29:52AM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:41:11 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
who thinks otherwise. Is it do-able though? Yes. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:29:52AM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:41:11 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 03:53:38PM +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote: Mike Meyer wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:34:28 +0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: SSH Brute Force attempts

2008-09-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
in this day and age. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP

Re: How do I unchown a directory after I: chown -R /etc ???

2008-09-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 02:25:54AM -0700, Mike Price wrote: How do I unchown a directory after I: chown -R /etc You can't. Restore /etc from backups. And ***please*** stop posting this stuff to -hackers. It is not the appropriate list for it. Start using -questions. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: atacontrol broken in 7.1-PR

2008-09-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 04:19:43PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I see the system has an Intel AHCI-based controller (probably an ICH10 chip, since the ICH10 is the first to support 6 SATA channels). No. I have an ICH8 with six channels

Re: ATA Security patch to atacontrol

2008-09-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
Daniel, Can you provide me datasheet and technical reference material to what ATA Security is? Which ATA specification is this documented in? I'd like to read it. Thanks! -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http

Re: SSH Brute Force attempts

2008-09-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
. You can use pfsync(4) to accomplish this task (I think), or you can do it the obvious way (make a central distribution box that scp/rsync's the files out and runs /etc/rc.d/pf reload). -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: atacontrol broken in 7.1-PR

2008-09-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
the: atapci0: SiI SiI 3132 SATA300 controller atapci1: JMicron JMB363 SATA300 controller atapci is just the PCI portion, and doesn't show any sign of the ATA driver being attached. Do you have ataX (e.g. ata0) devices showing up in dmesg? -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc

Re: atacontrol broken in 7.1-PR

2008-09-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 10:32:48PM +0100, Pegasus Mc Cleaft wrote: On Sunday 28 September 2008 21:42:41 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 10:43:58AM +, Pegasus McCleaft wrote: I was wondering if anyone else is experiencing this problem. I have recently reloaded my

Re: atacontrol broken in 7.1-PR

2008-09-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:21:42AM +0100, Pegasus Mc Cleaft wrote: On Sunday 28 September 2008 23:37:09 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: snip Yea.. The machine is otherwise running fine, and also loaded the driver for the ata raid controller (I made the machine boot off a raid-1 pack and made

Re: atacontrol broken in 7.1-PR

2008-09-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
) ioctl(3,IOCATADEVICES,0xe590) ERR#6 'Device not configured' I've snipped the truss output to the relevant piece. fd 3 points to /dev/ata, and there are no man pages which document the IOCATADEVICES ioctl. I'll have to look at the source. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: atacontrol broken in 7.1-PR

2008-09-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 05:02:26PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 11:24:38PM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:43:58 + (UTC) Pegasus McCleaft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone. I was wondering if anyone else is experiencing

Re: atacontrol broken in 7.1-PR

2008-09-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 03:07:48AM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:36:03 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bruce and Pegasus, Can you please apply the below patch to src/sbin/atacontrol.c and let me know what the output is when doing atacontrol list

Re: atacontrol broken in 7.1-PR

2008-09-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 08:07:44PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 03:07:48AM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:36:03 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bruce and Pegasus, Can you please apply the below patch to src/sbin/atacontrol.c

Re: atacontrol broken in 7.1-PR

2008-09-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
person, who commited this fix. Hi, Poul-Henning, I think it should be MFCed before release. I agree, it should be MFC'd. Cute bug too; never would've guessed it. Saves me from the effort of trying to get kgdb over serial working and all that jazz. :-) Thanks, Andrey! -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: freebsd-update missed?

2008-09-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
* files would indicate absolutely nothing, other than when you last ran csup to update your /usr/src tree. I do not know of a way to verify if your libpthread library actually contains the fix. We will have to wait for Colin's answer. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc

Re: Increasing partition size by removing partitions

2008-09-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
of the partition is at the end of the partition you wish to grow. How do I go about this? There isn't a way to do this, as far as I know. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems

Re: bad NFS/UDP performance

2008-09-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
be relevant, but rwatson@ will need to help determine that. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-September/045109.html -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems

Re: bad NFS/UDP performance

2008-09-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
Do you have any NFS-related tunings in /etc/rc.conf or /etc/sysctl.conf? -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making

Re: Rare problems in upgrade process (corrupted FS?)

2008-09-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
several errors. Epecially, one error claims my attention: SUPERBLOCK. Superblock problems wouldn't explain this; there are hundreds of superblocks available (you wouldn't be able to use your machine if they were all horked). -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc

Re: bad NFS/UDP performance

2008-09-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
throughput :-) I'm not sure what any of these do, as NFS is a bit out of my league. :-) I'll be following this thread though! -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator

Re: Major SMP problems with lstat/namei

2008-09-24 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
these features in PHP deserves the pain -- they're worthless and provide no security what-so-ever. Consider using suPHP or an MPM like mpm-itk. Also, PHP and performance shouldn't be put in the same sentence. /rant -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius

Re: proper types for printf()-ing pointers on amd64 that won't break i386?

2008-09-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
a patch... Yes, use %p! It works fine on all platforms. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard

Re: Error: Can't find libjava.so

2008-09-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
provide the output of ldconfig -r from that box? I have a feeling the ld.so pathing hints might lack a directory or two. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator

Re: Error: Can't find libjava.so

2008-09-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
) is installed is the proper method. Cross-posting to multiple lists is generally shunned upon, so answers to the above questions will help determine if the discussion should be moved to freebsd-ports@ or not. I've a feeling it should be. Thanks! -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc

Re: ZFS w/failing drives - any equivalent of Solaris FMA?

2008-09-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 05:02:39PM +0200, Fabian Keil wrote: Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 10:37:18AM +0800, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: 0n Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 09:32:07AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: About the only real improvement I'd like

Re: Error: Can't find libjava.so

2008-09-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
, and it's not recommended you use it. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977

Re: ZFS w/failing drives - any equivalent of Solaris FMA?

2008-09-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 01:23:39PM +0800, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: 0n Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 09:28:28PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 10:37:18AM +0800, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: 0n Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 09:32:07AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote

Re: loading multi threaded library into executable enabled for single thread

2008-09-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
. This must be an older version of FreeBSD. I think you must link your application (tclsh or whatever) against libpthread in order for this to work. The libc functions won't get properly overloaded by their equivalents in libpthread unless you do this. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: ZFS w/failing drives - any equivalent of Solaris FMA?

2008-09-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
, minus the 'failed' drive, so enough of the 'detach' must have completed. The newly attached drive completed the re-silver in half an hour (as opposed to an estimated 755 hours and climbing with the other drive still in the pool, limping along). -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: loading multi threaded library into executable enabled for single thread

2008-09-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
it but you must ensure during linktime that you explicitly link to -lpthread. On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 07:41:14AM -0400, Barry Andrews wrote: Do you know if this is documented in Release Notes or Known Issues or somewhere

Re: loading multi threaded library into executable enabled for single thread

2008-09-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
result in X being increased. I'm getting the impression that the tclsh binary you have was not built on the same machine / from the same source as what your library (the one linked with libpthread) was. Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 09:26:37AM -0400, Barry Andrews wrote: I don't

Re: ZFS w/failing drives - any equivalent of Solaris FMA?

2008-09-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 03:34:30PM +0100, Karl Pielorz wrote: --On 12 September 2008 06:21 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I know, there is no such standard mechanism in FreeBSD. If the drive falls off the bus entirely (e.g. detached), I would hope ZFS would

Re: loading multi threaded library into executable enabled for single thread

2008-09-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
LD_PRELOAD, which is ugly, agreed. I think those are pretty much the only options you have at this point. Not a great set, I know, but it's reality. On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 11:00:18AM -0400, Barry Andrews wrote

Re: ZFS w/failing drives - any equivalent of Solaris FMA?

2008-09-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 09:04:22AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: What this does to other parts of the kernel and userland applications is something I haven't tested. I *can* tell you that there are major, major problems with detach/reattach/reinit on ata(4) causing kernel panics and other

Re: ZFS w/failing drives - any equivalent of Solaris FMA?

2008-09-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
. That would be an ideal setup for the home RAID array. There is a FreeBSD port which handles this, although such a feature should ideally be part of the ata(4) system (as should TCQ/NCQ and a slew of other things -- some of those are being worked on). -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: ZFS w/failing drives - any equivalent of Solaris FMA?

2008-09-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 10:12:09AM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote: On September 12, 2008 09:32 am Jeremy Chadwick wrote: For home use, sure. Since most home/consumer systems do not include hot-swappable drive bays, rebooting is required. Although more and more consumer motherboards

Re: Increasing KVM on amd64

2008-09-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
let ZFS ARC use most of it which would require pretty large vm.kmem_max to fit it in. I was told fairly recently (a few days ago) that the 6GB limit was increased to 512GB on HEAD/CURRENT. The 6GB limit was during a transitional phase of addressing the problem. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: IPFW uid logging...

2008-09-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
:58117 209.85.133.114:25 out via em0, UID 6592 -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since

Re: Temp files in /etc

2008-09-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 08:31:35PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: ... If they still attempt to use /tmp, said programs could probably be modified to support TMPDIR. This should have read /etc, not /tmp. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius

Re: Temp files in /etc

2008-09-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
you'd be using an alternative /etc directory. I'm pretty sure we have some ports which use rmuser/adduser (meaning the software itself, not necessarily the port installation part). Hope this sheds some light on things. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com

Extending find(1) to support -printf

2008-09-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
. I can accomplish (just about) the same using `echo $HOME/Maildir/*`, but if I want to exclude an entry, I can't use | grep -v, because mutt doesn't support pipes within backticks. :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: Extending find(1) to support -printf

2008-09-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 03:12:53AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Also, some folks on #bsdports asked why I was bothering with this in the first place: mutt supports backticks to run shell commands inside of a muttrc file. See Building a list of mailboxes on the fly below: http

Re: Temp files in /etc

2008-09-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB

Re: lighttpd failing to accept new connections ( connection reset )

2008-08-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
change the polling method in lighttpd to use poll or select instead of kqueue? This would help in determining if the problem is with the daemon itself or the kevent system. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http

Re: netstat: kvm_read: Bad address

2008-08-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
upgrades the kernel to newer sources (e.g. csup/cvsup), and rebuilds/reinstalls the kernel, but **does not** rebuild/reinstall userland program (e.g. world). -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com

Re: netstat: kvm_read: Bad address

2008-08-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 07:22:19PM +0530, vasanth raonaik wrote: Both kernel and utility are in sync. Any more ideas? On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 05:39:52PM +0530, vasanth raonaik wrote: Hello Hackers, I am

Re: local network throughput issues

2008-08-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
to your ifconfig_nfe0 line in /etc/rc.conf? If you're using DHCP on that interface, that may pose somewhat of a problem. 3) Can you disable the firewall (disable ipfw entirely) and see if the problem continues? -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius

Re: local network throughput issues

2008-08-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
my problems. Thank you for the suggestion! No problem. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard

Re: kern/98388: [ata] FreeBSD 6.1 - WDC WD1200JS SATA II disks are seen as older SATA

2008-08-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
have **removed** the OPT1 jumper, and left any other jumpers alone. If you're absolutely sure the jumper is removed, I'll purchase one of these drives and test it on an ICH7 (Supermicro PDSMi+) to confirm your findings. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com

Re: kern/98388: [ata] FreeBSD 6.1 - WDC WD1200JS SATA II disks are seen as older SATA

2008-08-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:16:16AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:57:53AM +0400, sam wrote: Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: sam wrote: FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #5: Tue Aug 12 13:54:27 MSD 2008root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386

Re: kern/98388: [ata] FreeBSD 6.1 - WDC WD1200JS SATA II disks are seen as older SATA

2008-08-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:02:50PM +0400, sam wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:16:16AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:57:53AM +0400, sam wrote: Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: sam wrote: FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0

Re: kern/98388: [ata] FreeBSD 6.1 - WDC WD1200JS SATA II disks are seen as older SATA

2008-08-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 01:01:44PM +0400, sam wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:02:50PM +0400, sam wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:16:16AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:57:53AM +0400, sam wrote

Re: kern/98388: [ata] FreeBSD 6.1 - WDC WD1200JS SATA II disks are seen as older SATA

2008-08-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
for the user that zeros out bit 30 of SIR, then check the xBAR and LBAR values; zeroing bit 30 might get him SATA300 support (I haven't looked at the rest of the FreeBSD ATA code yet). -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: Debugging reboot with Linux emulation

2008-08-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
this also only works if you run the program as root. So... There is indeed a reboot syscall, #55: /usr/include/sys/sycall.h: #define SYS_reboot 55 -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX

Re: Idea for FreeBSD

2008-08-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
and anyone advocating the use of XML for such things read the following whitepaper/study, in full: http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/2004/2102/content.pdf -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX

Re: USB key kernel: da0: Attempt to query device size failed: UNIT ?ATTENTION, Medium not present

2008-08-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
to be broken/buggy firmware code inside of the USB stick itself. Replacing it with a different version (same size/model though) fixed the issue. Just something to be aware of... -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http

Re: USB key kernel: da0: ...

2008-08-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
of this USB stick/drive. I'll give it a try on my FreeBSD RELENG_7 box when I get home in about an hour. If I can reproduce the issue, I will be more than happy to send it to someone who wants to debug it (and they can keep it as my way of saying thanks). -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: USB key kernel: da0: ...

2008-08-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 05:50:45AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 02:01:22PM +0200, Michel Talon wrote: Matthias Apitz wrote: Aug 6 10:06:12 rebelion kernel: umass0: Verbatim Store'n'go, class 0/0, rev 2.00/2.00, addr 2 on uhub4 Aug 6 10:06:12 rebelion root

Re: strange issue reading /dev/null

2008-08-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
is wrong -- you're not calling feof(). Please read the RETURN VALUES section of fgetc(3) in full, and slowly. :-) And your if() statement serves no purpose there. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http

Re: strange issue reading /dev/null

2008-08-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
crazy. :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB

Re: Q: case studies about scalable, enterprise-class firewall w/ IPFilter

2008-08-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
redundancy, SCSI disks, or SSDs. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977

Re: em0: The EEPROM Checksum Is Not Valid

2008-08-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
solution? Intel probably has a utility to reset the EEPROM settings on the NIC. Jack Vogel may know where to get such a utility. I do not believe this problem is FreeBSD-related. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: IPv6 CVS

2008-08-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
) | grep -i ipv6; done -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP

Re: Laptop suggestions?

2008-07-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
comfortable supporting long term. Most likely, available to the general public in September. Does it have web cam btw ? I do not saw in spec, but on the picture looks like it have. FreeBSD has support for webcams? News to me. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc

Re: Laptop suggestions?

2008-07-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
propaganda, or if you're trolling with pro-FreeBSD propaganda. Congratulations, you've confused at least one reader. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator

Re: Laptop suggestions?

2008-07-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
by an oddly-skewed server-to-desktop comparison, something about computer cosmetics, then a strange comment about the beastie/Chuck which seems to be negative but could be positive depending on how you look at it. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius

Re: forcefsck on booting stage

2008-07-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 04:11:49PM +0400, sam wrote: Hello, How to make 'fsck -f' on booting stage of remote system? I believe by setting background_fsck=no in /etc/rc.conf? That's the only way I know of, besides booting single user and doing it manually. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: Laptop suggestions?

2008-07-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
to worry about hardware compatibility with an OS; the OS should work with what you have, not the other way around. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator

Re: Laptop suggestions?

2008-07-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 01:36:37PM +0300, Aggelidis Nikos wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm buying a new computer, what should I buy? Buy whatever suits your needs, and feels comfortable for you. With regards to OS compatibility

Re: Laptop suggestions?

2008-07-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
around show that wireless, video and audio are supported. A co-worker of mine has a Dell (I forget which model; I'll ask him this coming week), running Kubuntu. The overall compatibility is quite good, and I haven't heard any complaints from him. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

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