Re: SER Core Dumps

2006-08-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 10:37:43AM +0400, Jean-Michel Hiver wrote: Hi, FreeBSD's SER port core dumps when I start it with 'fork=yes' in the config file. The OS is freebsd 6.1, the platform is: Typically this is something to take up with the software authors. Kris

Re: Speaking of trivial tools

2006-08-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 09:01:13PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: I realized today that this one was possible. I suspect it would be useful to lots of people working on ports, as well as for the sysadmin stuff I do with it. I'm just not sure where it should goes. checkdeps.sh

Re: [ANN] unionfs patchset-16 release, it is ready for the merge

2006-09-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 03:56:54PM +0900, Daichi GOTO wrote: Daichi GOTO wrote: Patchset-16: For 7-current http://people.freebsd.org/~daichi/unionfs/unionfs-p16.diff For 6.x http://people.freebsd.org/~daichi/unionfs/unionfs6-p16.diff I'm sorry, how silly of me. I

Re: ldconfig skipping libraries (6.1-R)

2006-09-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 07:18:18PM +, Edward B. DREGER wrote: Greetings all, I'd been going nuts trying to determine why I couldn't link against libdb-4.4.so and a few other libraries. The ones in question didn't show up via ldconfig -r although their respective

Re: system randomly freezes

2006-11-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 06:27:31PM +0100, Gergely CZUCZY wrote: The config. We are running ftp, web, email, postgresql services mostly on this box. We have 6 jails on it with the pf packet filter. options ALTQ options ALTQ_CBQ options ALTQ_RED

Re: system randomly freezes

2006-11-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 07:57:47PM +0100, Gergely CZUCZY wrote: OK, seems weird to go through all the disruption of changing to a new OS instead of a few minutes work at a console to give us what we need to resolve the matter -- but whatever works for you. already done some stuff like

Re: system randomly freezes

2006-11-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 08:13:22PM +0100, Gergely CZUCZY wrote: On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 02:02:46PM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 07:57:47PM +0100, Gergely CZUCZY wrote: OK, seems weird to go through all the disruption of changing to a new OS instead of a few

Re: system randomly freezes

2006-11-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 08:24:06PM +0100, Gergely CZUCZY wrote: You can't even break to the debugger? well, no. currently the serial line is not configured nor connected, and the system console is not accessable. i'd like to solve this, but the technical opportunities are limited

Re: Ramdisk support

2006-11-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 12:35:06PM +0530, Aditya Godbole wrote: Hi, Is there any ramdisk support in freebsd, as there is in netbsd? If there is no such functionality right now, is anyone working on it? What are the alternatives if I want to mount a root filesytem from ram? man mdconfig Kris

Re: Ramdisk support

2006-11-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 01:35:14PM +0530, Aditya Godbole wrote: On 11/15/06, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are the alternatives if I want to mount a root filesytem from ram? man mdconfig I'm sorry, I couldn't quite get what I was looking for from the manpage. How do I

Re: KASSERT in kernel module outside src/sys

2006-12-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 02:30:41PM -0800, Kevin Sanders wrote: I'm trying to use KASSERT in my own kernel module and I can't get it to assert even with a KASSERT(0, test panic). Is there something else I need to do besides add options INVARIANTS to my kernel config file. Any clues would be

Re: 6.1-RELEASE / 6.2 Kernel Crash...

2006-12-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 08:24:12PM -0500, Jan Knepper wrote: Tried that and started dd if=/dev/ad4 if=/dev/ad6 bs=1m Kernel went in panic and automatic reboot in about an hour... sigh It gets worse... when it does reboot the disk drive will not show in the BIOS, nor does FreeBSD

Re: mounting uzip image: Invalid argument

2006-12-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 11:17:21PM +0200, Erik Udo wrote: I'm making a live cd and i just hit a wall with uzip. I started by creating a null 1GB file, which i filled with FreeBSD. After that i compressed the file with mkuzip. Any attempts to mount this compressed image has failed, here is

Re: ufs_rename: fvp == tvp (can't happen), but it did

2007-01-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 12:44:39PM +0100, Attila Nagy wrote: On 2007.01.07. 1:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It sounds as if the caller of ufs_rename() is confused. You could try setting a breakpoint on the printf(), or change it to a panic() to get a dump, and try to figure out who the caller

Re: re(4) incorrect checksum

2007-01-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 04:37:05PM +0100, Rene Ladan wrote: Pyun YongHyeon schreef: On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 12:14:34PM +0100, Rene Ladan wrote: Pietro Cerutti schreef: Hi lists, FreeBSD gahrtop.localhost 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #1: Tue Jan 9 19:34:13 CET

Re: unionfs 'locking against myself'

2007-01-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 07:28:12AM +0200, Erik Udo wrote: Hi, I just updated my livecd to 6.2-RELEASE. The kernel source is clean, i haven't patched it in any way. Then you're using the ancient useless unionfs and this panic isn't interesting, sorry. You already seem to know about the

Re: PING: Someone on the core team. (Modem Problem)

2007-02-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 10:27:07AM -0800, Daniel Rudy wrote: At about the time of 2/9/2007 3:05 AM, Peter Jeremy stated the following: I'm not on the core team but I'm not sure why you believe that this has anything to do with core. This very much does involve core because I plan on

Progress on scaling of FreeBSD on 8 CPU systems

2007-02-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
Now that the goals of the SMPng project are complete, for the past year or more several of us have been working hard on profiling FreeBSD in various multiprocessor workloads, and looking for performance bottlenecks to be optimized. We have recently made significant progress on optimizing for

Re: Progress on scaling of FreeBSD on 8 CPU systems

2007-02-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 10:00:35PM -0700, Coleman Kane wrote: What does the performance curve look like for the in-CVS 7-CURRENT tree with 4BSD or ULE ? How do those stand up against the Linux SMP scheduler for scalability. It would be nice to see the comparison displayed to see what the

Re: Progress on scaling of FreeBSD on 8 CPU systems

2007-02-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 05:47:55AM +, Coleman Kane wrote: On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 12:41:20AM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote, and it was proclaimed: On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 10:00:35PM -0700, Coleman Kane wrote: What does the performance curve look like for the in-CVS 7-CURRENT tree

Re: Progress on scaling of FreeBSD on 8 CPU systems

2007-02-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 01:05:53AM -0500, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote: On Feb 25, 2007, at 12:41 AM, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 10:00:35PM -0700, Coleman Kane wrote: What does the performance curve look like for the in-CVS 7-CURRENT tree with 4BSD or ULE ? How do

Re: Progress on scaling of FreeBSD on 8 CPU systems

2007-02-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 01:54:20PM +0100, Martin Blapp wrote: Hi, It would be really great if we could find workload owners who would maintain easy-to-run benchmark configurations and also run them regularly on a fixed hardware configuration over a long time publishing results and

Re: Progress on scaling of FreeBSD on 8 CPU systems

2007-02-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 12:27:01AM +0100, Martin Blapp wrote: Hi, If you can package up some kind of test or analogous workload that I can run, I'd be happy to take a look at profiling it on MP hardware. Should be possible. Btw. Has setting kern.threads.virtual_cpu to a different

Re: Progress on scaling of FreeBSD on 8 CPU systems

2007-02-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 07:08:37PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2007-Feb-24 16:31:11 -0500, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have recently made significant progress on optimizing for MySQL running on an 8-core amd64 system. The graph of results may be found here: http

Re: Progress on scaling of FreeBSD on 8 CPU systems

2007-02-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 11:15:27PM +0100, Divacky Roman wrote: I wonder if anyone measured what effect superpages has on mysql performance... this should not help scaling but I can imagine it has some effect. I have thought about trying this but have not found the time. I am currently very

Re: Progress on scaling of FreeBSD on 8 CPU systems

2007-02-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 12:25:11PM -0600, Jim C. Nasby wrote: On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 04:31:11PM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: Now that the goals of the SMPng project are complete, for the past year or more several of us have been working hard on profiling FreeBSD in various multiprocessor

Re: investigation of Giant usage in kernel

2007-03-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:15:56AM +, Robert Watson wrote: On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Divacky Roman wrote: I looked at where Giant is held in the kernel and I found these interesting things: 1) in fs/fifofs/fifo_vnops.c we lock Giant when calling sorecieve()/sosend() this is a bandaid for

Re: investigation of Giant usage in kernel

2007-03-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 03:11:36PM +0100, Divacky Roman wrote: hi I looked at where Giant is held in the kernel and I found these interesting things: 1) in fs/fifofs/fifo_vnops.c we lock Giant when calling sorecieve()/sosend() this is a bandaid for fixing a race that doesnt have to exist

Re: investigation of Giant usage in kernel

2007-03-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 06:55:50PM +0100, Ed Schouten wrote: Hello, I took a grep on the kernel source and took a look to Giant usage as well. I too have a question about locking in uipc_domain.c: The file has a mutex, dom_mtx, which protects the 'domain list lock', which could be

Re: diskless/rm causing deadlock?

2007-04-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 11:55:10AM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote: I stumbled on this in -current, but it's also true for 6.2. /(root) is mounted diskless, doing rm of a file in /, even as a lowly mortal will hang the network, and hence everything. on a 6.1 system, it works as expected. badwolf

Re: 'opaque' flag?

2007-04-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 08:38:22AM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote: Tim Kientzle wrote: Does anyone understand the semantics of the 'opaque' flag? I'm trying to understand an issue with packages built on union file systems. It appears the 'opaque' flag is set on some symlinks, which the package

Re: Ipv6 mbuf vulnerability

2007-04-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 12:17:19PM -0700, Subhash Gopinath wrote: Hello folks, Does anyone know if FreeBSD 4.x or 5.x is affected by the Ipv6 mbuf vulnerability just like OpenBSD? http://www.coresecurity.com/index.php5?module=ContentModaction=itemid=1703 As discussed on the security@

Re: New FreeBSD package system (a.k.a. Daemon Package System (dps))

2007-05-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:47:49PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I cannot currently actively participate in implementing proposed things, but I can give advice on sqlite, database and xml schemas if anyone wants to... One of the things

Re: New FreeBSD package system (a.k.a. Daemon Package System (dps))

2007-05-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 10:03:22PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:47:49PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I cannot currently actively participate

Re: New FreeBSD package system (a.k.a. Daemon Package System (dps))

2007-05-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 11:15:37PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 10:03:22PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:47:49PM -0400, Mike

Re: New FreeBSD package system (a.k.a. Daemon Package System (dps))

2007-05-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 10:19:46AM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote: Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:47:49PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: Personally, I'd still like LOCALBASE to move out of /usr/local. Maybe it's time to reconsider that. Not gonna happen

Re: New FreeBSD package system (a.k.a. Daemon Package System (dps))

2007-05-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 10:33:29AM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote: Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 10:19:46AM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote: Not if you want to use pre-built packages. You made sure of that when you decided (against my objections

Re: New FreeBSD package system (a.k.a. Daemon Package System (dps))

2007-05-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 10:35:41AM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: There are a few ways you can go. The simplest is to install a complete i386 world in e.g. /compat/ia32 and have i386 packages installed there, and change the kernel

Re: New FreeBSD package system (a.k.a. Daemon Package System (dps))

2007-05-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 03:07:27PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: The point is that the real problem is: how do you arrange the bits on disk, not how do you wrap that in a package system. Until you figure out a workable on-disk

Re: DPS Initial Ideas

2007-05-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 11:02:31PM +0200, David Naylor wrote: Hi, Thank you all for your responses, it has given me much to think about. I guess there is consenses that there is room for improvement in the current pkg system. Attached are some of my initial ideas about what is required

Re: DPS Initial Ideas

2007-05-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 11:29:24PM -0300, Duane Whitty wrote: Is it hoped / planned that storing the metadata in a berkeley DB database will help with the parallelization of package building? That's somewhat orthogonal: the problem there is mutual exclusion and job ordering. In your opinion

Re: New FreeBSD package system (a.k.a. Daemon Package System (dps))

2007-05-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 12:55:44AM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: There are clearly other workable ideas - as I said, the linux folks managed to make it work. But it's not an easy problem. I certainly wouldn't suggest rebuilding

Re: DPS Initial Ideas

2007-05-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 11:09:35AM +0200, Michel Talon wrote: Seriously, the FreeBSD package system is in great need of a profound overhaul, pretending it works well is complete denial of reality. I hope that young people working on summer code projects will infuse *new* ideas, and not spend

Re: DPS Initial Ideas

2007-05-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 11:25:58PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: First figure out what specific problems need to be solved, then figure out how to solve them, not the other way around. So far I have seen little discussion of how SQLite is necessary and sufficient

Re: DPS Initial Ideas

2007-05-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 11:44:22PM +0200, Michel Talon wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 03:33:02PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 11:09:35AM +0200, Michel Talon wrote: Seriously, the FreeBSD package system is in great need of a profound overhaul, pretending it works

Re: DPS Initial Ideas

2007-05-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 08:46:17AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: The problem is that maintaining the INDEX is expensive and/or tricky. p5-FreeBSD-Portindex comes close but seems to have some wrinkles. If you'ld just tell me what you perceive the wrinkles

Re: DPS Initial Ideas

2007-05-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 06:25:19PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: Extra whitespace I can fix for you -- it's just the COMMENT field which is affected IIRC. I just copy the string exactly as shown in the port's Makefile. make index collapses multiple whitespace to

Re: DPS Initial Ideas

2007-05-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 09:21:56PM +0100, Thomas Sparrevohn wrote: Well - Naturally if the only index format was based upon XML it would not be very practical - However XML currently seems to take the lead when the talk is on portability as a data format and it is very easy to convert to

Re: DPS Initial Ideas

2007-05-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 10:00:46PM +0100, Thomas Sparrevohn wrote: The answer is another INDEX/storage structure Great, I look forward to your detailed proposal. Kris pgpx7V5GHDm4B.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: DPS Initial Ideas

2007-05-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 10:39:46PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: I can certainly add a check for duplicate PKGNAME and emit warnings. In order to be sure of getting the canonical INDEX-N you'ld need a system with no ports installed. Well, other than

Re: DPS Initial Ideas

2007-05-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 04:52:47PM -0500, Rick C. Petty wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 10:25:12AM +0200, 'Michel Talon' wrote: niobe% sqlite3 index.db sqlite CREATE TABLE index6 ( pkgname varchar(1), path varchar(1), prefix varchar(1), comment varchar(1), descr varchar(1),

Re: DPS Initial Ideas

2007-05-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 05:26:45PM -0500, Rick C. Petty wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 06:06:37PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: Some of the fields can (and do) have unbounded length. Kris Where is that specified in the SQL spec? Or are you just saying that SQLite provides

Re: Xorg port problem?

2007-05-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 12:07:44AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: Alex Dupre wrote: Doug Barton wrote: (Over 2GBs of RAM + Swap being used). It does this consistently when it tries to compile xf86PciScan.c (hope thats the right file). May not be the answer you want to hear, but I built all the

Re: pkgdb -F calling portupgrade -a

2007-06-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 04:15:29PM -0700, Jeff Anton wrote: I'm very surprised and upset that running pkgdb -F has started a whole upgrade of my stable machine. Well, it didn't. I'm sure hacker's isn't the right list for this Correct. but it is so amazing that I don't know what the right

Re: pkgdb -F calling portupgrade -a

2007-06-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 07:59:14PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jeff Anton [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I'm very surprised and upset that running pkgdb -F has started a whole upgrade of my stable machine. I'm sure hacker's isn't the right list for this but it is so amazing

Re: pkgdb -F calling portupgrade -a

2007-06-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 08:15:33PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: --- Checking the package registry database Stale dependency: Xaw3d-1.5E_1 - xf86dgaproto-2.0.2 (x11/xf86dgaproto): Install stale dependency? ([y]es/[n]o/[a]ll) [yes

Re: i386 with PAE or AMD64 on PowerEdge with 4G RAM

2007-06-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 05:15:30PM -0400, Martin Turgeon wrote: 2007/6/18, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 01:03:44PM -0400, Martin Turgeon wrote: I just receive 2 PowerEdge servers (a 1950 and a 860) both with 4G of RAM. I installed FreeBSD 6.2 Release i386

Re: i386 with PAE or AMD64 on PowerEdge with 4G RAM

2007-06-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 03:10:22PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 05:15:30PM -0400, Martin Turgeon wrote: My setup is fairly standard (as I described), should I expect problem with 64 bit version of these programs? Like I said, I don't run 64-bit OSes because I

Re: [patch] enhance powerd(8) to handle max temperature

2007-07-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 11:28:59AM +0200, Pietro Cerutti wrote: Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote: Hi, On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:43:29 +0200 Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: gahr Hi list, gahr here is a patch to allow powerd(8) accept a -t tval option to set a gahr temperature limit above

Re: Australian cvs repository

2007-08-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 08:49:21AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert McKenzie wrote: Has anyone noted that the Australian cvs repository seems to be so hopelessly out of sink that you cannot do a clean build using a clean cvsup. Because we are so far away it is hard to keep things

Re: Kernel panic on PowerEdge 1950 under certain stress load

2007-09-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
Borja Marcos wrote: On 22 Sep 2007, at 00:26, Benjie Chen wrote: FreeBSD 6.2 on PowerEdge 1950, RAID1 setup with mfi driver (PERC5i). 4GB RAM. I am currently running i386, and not amd64, due to various reasons. Kernel panic is at 0xC066C731, which from nm shows it's in mtx_lock_spin

Re: Kernel panic on PowerEdge 1950 under certain stress load

2007-09-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
Benjie Chen wrote: Hi FreeBSD hackers and engineers, I am experiencing a kernel panic that comes on when my new PowerEdge 1950 FreeBSD 6.2 setup is under a certain stress load. I've emailed a few people on the list who have given me useful comments, some of which I am still following up. But I

Re: Kernel panic on PowerEdge 1950 under certain stress load

2007-09-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
Borja Marcos wrote: On 24 Sep 2007, at 11:33, Kris Kennaway wrote: Borja Marcos wrote: I don't have the exact IP address involved, but we experienced consistent panics in two heavily loaded mail servers (same hardware models, Dell Powereedge) runnning Postfix and FreeBSD 6.2. Suspecting

Re: Kernel panic on PowerEdge 1950 under certain stress load

2007-09-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
Ivan Voras wrote: Benjie Chen wrote: Kernel panic is at 0xC066C731, which from nm shows it's in mtx_lock_spin c066c7b4 T _mtx_lock_spin c066c85c T _mtx_unlock_sleep So this could mean that independent stress tests will not result in panic if there aren't enough concurrency to cause the

Re: Kernel panic on PowerEdge 1950 under certain stress load

2007-09-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
Benjie Chen wrote: Ivan and Kris, I will try to get a kernel trace -- it may not happen for awhile since I am not in the office and working remotely for awhile so it may not be easy to get a trace... but I will check. It looks like the problem reported by that link, and some of the links from

Re: Kernel panic on PowerEdge 1950 under certain stress load

2007-09-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
Benjie Chen wrote: You are right, they may not be the same. From first look it seems like they are similar based on the description of the problems -- system stable, then under load related to network, get panic after different time intervals. I just assumed that kernel is typically stable

Re: Kernel panic on PowerEdge 1950 under certain stress load

2007-09-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
Ivan Voras wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Does it really? i.e. did you compare the function names in detail and find that they match precisely, or do you just mean they are both panics of some description and I dunno what it all means? :) I ask because the linked trace does not involve

Re: Video memory as swap under FreeBSD

2007-10-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
Vladimir Terziev wrote: Hi Hackers, i have found the following very interesting link: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Use_memory_on_video_card_as_swap It's a howto for Video memory utilization as a swap. Could someone point me whether the same is possible

Re: amrd disk performance drop after running under high load

2007-10-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
Alexey Popov wrote: After some time of running under high load disk performance become expremely poor. At that periods 'systat -vm 1' shows something like this: What does high load mean? You need to explain the system workload more. Disks amrd0 KB/t 85.39 tps 5 MB/s 0.38 % busy

Re: amrd disk performance drop after running under high load

2007-10-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
Alexey Popov wrote: Hi. Kris Kennaway wrote: After some time of running under high load disk performance become expremely poor. At that periods 'systat -vm 1' shows something like this: What does high load mean? You need to explain the system workload more. This web service is similiar

Re: amrd disk performance drop after running under high load

2007-10-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
Alexey Popov wrote: Hi. Kris Kennaway wrote: After some time of running under high load disk performance become expremely poor. At that periods 'systat -vm 1' shows something like this: What does high load mean? You need to explain the system workload more. This web service is similiar

Re: amrd disk performance drop after running under high load

2007-10-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
Alexey Popov wrote: This is very unlikely, because I have 5 another video storage servers of the same hardware and software configurations and they feel good. Clearly something is different about them, though. If you can characterize exactly what that is then it will help. I can't see any

Re: amrd disk performance drop after running under high load

2007-10-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
Kris Kennaway wrote: What else can i try? Still waiting on the vmstat -z output. Also can you please obtain vmstat -i, netstat -m and 10 seconds of representative vmstat -w output when the problem is and is not occurring? Kris ___ freebsd

Re: amrd disk performance drop after running under high load

2007-10-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
Alexey Popov wrote: Hi Kris Kennaway wrote: So I can conclude that FreeBSD has a long standing bug in VM that could be triggered when serving large amount of static data (much bigger than memory size) on high rates. Possibly this only applies to large files like mp3 or video

Re: amrd disk performance drop after running under high load

2007-10-31 Thread Kris Kennaway
Alexey Popov wrote: Hi Kris Kennaway wrote: So I can conclude that FreeBSD has a long standing bug in VM that could be triggered when serving large amount of static data (much bigger than memory size) on high rates. Possibly this only applies to large files like mp3 or video

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Crash

2007-11-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
Atanas Gendov wrote: Hi all FreeBSD Hackers! :) My FreeBSD auto reboot itself and I got this report by kgdb, but actually I'm not a programmer. I don't know how to debug this error. Could someone helps with fixing? Thanx in advanced! FreeBSD .com 6.2-RELEASE-p8 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p8 #0:

Re: amrd disk performance drop after running under high load

2007-11-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
Alexey Popov wrote: Hi. Kris Kennaway wrote:te: In the good case you are getting a much higher interrupt rate but with the data you provided I can't tell where from. You need to run vmstat -i at regular intervals (e.g. every 10 seconds for a minute) during the good and bad times, since

Re: amrd disk performance drop after running under high load

2007-11-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
Alexey Popov wrote: Hi. Panagiotis Christias wrote: In the good case you are getting a much higher interrupt rate but with the data you provided I can't tell where from. You need to run vmstat -i at regular intervals (e.g. every 10 seconds for a minute) during the good and bad times, since it

Re: amrd disk performance drop after running under high load

2007-11-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
Kris Kennaway wrote: Alexey Popov wrote: Hi. Panagiotis Christias wrote: In the good case you are getting a much higher interrupt rate but with the data you provided I can't tell where from. You need to run vmstat -i at regular intervals (e.g. every 10 seconds for a minute) during the good

Re: amrd disk performance drop after running under high load

2007-11-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
Alexey Popov wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: what is your RAID controller configuration (read ahead/cache/write policy)? I have seen weird/bogus numbers (~100% busy) reported by systat -v when read ahead was enabled on LSI/amr controllers. I tried to run with disabled Read-ahead, but it didn't

Re: Before After Under The Giant Lock

2007-11-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Quoting Robert Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: No problem -- just to be clear: in 7, users can still choose between libpthread (m:n) and libthr (1:1), but the default is now libthr rather than libpthread, as libthr seemed to perform better in most if not all

Re: /lib/pthread.so.2 is sought during some port compilation

2007-11-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
Yuri wrote: I tried to compile firefox-2.0.0.10 on 7.0-BETA3. And one linking command failed seeking for malloc_lock symbol required by /lib/pthread.so.2. Obviously it tried to link obsolete /lib/pthread.so.2 with the new /lib/libc.so.7. By reading /usr/src/UPDATING I learn that the default

Re: /lib/pthread.so.2 is sought during some port compilation

2007-11-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
Yuri wrote: Sorry about that. Please find the logs below. My system is upgraded from 6.3. And /lib/libpthread.so.2 is not a symlink. But when I make it a symlink (ln -s /lib/libthr.so.3 /lib/libpthread.so.2) I get another error, see log below. Some requisite libs are compiled with

Re: /lib/pthread.so.2 is sought during some port compilation

2007-11-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
Yuri wrote: Quoting Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So do I have to rebuild all ports to be able to run on 7.0? Yes. You have to do this whenever you upgrade to a new branch of FreeBSD. The old ports will work until you start upgrading them to new versions, at which point you will end up

Re: A TMPFS Implementation for FreeBSD

2007-11-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi , freebsd-hackers. I found this reference http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=372365+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2006/freebsd-hackers/20060226.freebsd-hackers how is it correct to conduct this procedure ? beforehand thank you !! tmpfs is included in

Re: /lib/pthread.so.2 is sought during some port compilation

2007-11-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
Yuri wrote: Quoting Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yes, that's what I am doing. portupgrade -af That is what you are doing now, or what you were doing when you found the problem? It should not occur during a portupgrade -af unless there is a port that is missing registration on some

Re: panic: bwrite: buffer is not busy???

1999-06-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Mark wrote: For now, I'm looking for an explanation of what is error is and where it may be coming from. I found one question very similar to this in the archive, but alas, there was no reply. You didn't post any information which might help a developer track down your

Re: tcpdump(1) additions.

1999-06-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Pierre Beyssac wrote: Could you elaborate some more about the SMB patches? I've been to www.samba.org but it's not obvious to me what's in there for FreeBSD (except for samba itself). It makes tcpdump understand SMB packets (header structure, etc). See the tcpdump-smb

Re: tcpdump(1) additions.

1999-06-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: It would make sense except that the last time someone tried, some people complained that it made it too easy to sniff passwords etc. Thats such a bogus issue. The argument (to me) is not one of capability, but expediency. If you're running a

Re: Compromising a FreeBSD from inside (was: (forw))

1999-07-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: In fact, the most interesting thing about this (rather large) document is that it's the best documentation I've seen on klds. I don't know why anybody would want to use it for compromising security, since it's a *lot* of work, and to even get as far as

Re: Setting up a firewall with dynamic IPs

1999-07-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote: I was checking out the firewall setup in /etc/rc.firewall, and noticed that the simple example relied on a fixed IP address for the external interface. I don't know ahead of time what IP address is going to be

Re: PAM LDAP in FreeBSD

1999-07-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Wes Peters wrote: Given that this is a PAM module, wouldn't /etc/pam.conf be more appropriate? /etc/pam.conf would be appropriate for configuring the behavior of PAM modules. /etc/auth.conf would be appropriate for configuring WHICH authentication method to use.

Re: PAM LDAP in FreeBSD, and userfs too.

1999-07-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Dominic Mitchell wrote: PAM is also "using masses of weird shared objects" but nevertheless it's quite usable By statically linked binaries? This is also an issue for a modularized libcrypt(). Peter Wemm suggested having the library fork and exec a static helper

Re: PAM LDAP in FreeBSD

1999-07-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Oscar Bonilla wrote: Ok, here goes my understanding of how things should be, please correct me if i'm wrong. There are three parts to the problem: 1. Where do we get the databases from? I mean, where do we get passwd, group, hosts, ethers, etc from. This

Re: PAM LDAP in FreeBSD, and userfs too.

1999-07-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Dominic Mitchell wrote: This is starting to get icky. This is also where the earlier idea of a userspace filesystem would probably fare better, in terms of both performance and simplicity. Maybe I don't get how this userspace filesystem is going to be set out (for the

Re: Filesystem question...

1999-07-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: what if you're not root, and you want to add your own file system to your file system name space? It seems a lot of these systems assume root access, which seems unrealistic to me. Well, if you're running it as a kernel module then obviously you

Re: Filesystem question...

1999-07-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Tiny Non Cats wrote: On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 10:06:04AM -0400 David E. Cross said: Since I am planning on writing userfs in order to impliment 'nsd' (and This may be completely useless, because I've not been following what you want to do with 'nsd', but you may find

Re: Filesystem question...

1999-07-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Kris Kennaway wrote: Well, if you're running it as a kernel module then obviously you need root permissions to load it. If it's running as a userland process, then there's no reason why you can't run it as a user. mount

Re: rndcontrol and SMP

1999-07-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Mark Murray wrote: What is needed to make this support a more sensible number of IRQs? Mainly changing the ioctl and its clients (rndcontrol only?) to supply more bits. I am currently rewriting /dev/random (and rndcontrol). When you say rewriting, do you mean

Re: rndcontrol and SMP

1999-07-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Mark Murray wrote: When you say rewriting, do you mean syncing with the version of the code in Linux (1.04, instead of our 0.95) or actually rewriting? If the latter, I'm curious as to what your aims are. I want to implement Bruce Schneier's Yarrow. Ah - I had this

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