make buildworld is now 50% slower

2013-07-05 Thread Daniel Braniss
Hi, after today's update of 9.1-STABLE I noticed that make build[world|kernel] are taking conciderable more time, is it because the upgrade of clang? and if so, is the code produced any better? before: buildwordl: 26m4.52s real 2h28m32.12s user 36m6.27s sys buildkernel: 7m29.42s real

Re: hw.physmem/hw.realmem question

2013-07-03 Thread Daniel Braniss
Thanks Chris! It will take me some time do fully digets all this!, but at least the picture is less murky. danny for example, this host has has 32G of physical memory ... [snip - dmesg:] real memory = 34359738368 (32768 MB) avail memory = 32191340544 (30700 MB) [snip] and from

hw.physmem/hw.realmem question

2013-07-02 Thread Daniel Braniss
Hi, to run some tests, I reduced the physical memory by setting hw.physmem, which got me to do some comparisons, and the more I looked around the more confused I got. for example, this host has has 32G of physical memory from dmesg: Copyright (c) 1992-2013 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979,

Re: GSOC 2013 project Kernel Size Reduction for Embedded System

2013-04-10 Thread Daniel Braniss
happy that FreeBSD is among the selected organization. I am a third year student interested to work in the field of embedded system. I applied last year and the title of my project was Kernel Size why only in embedded system. smaller programs are always good :) And yes FreeBSD kernel

Re: solved: pmbr: Boot loader too large

2013-01-23 Thread Daniel Braniss
never underestimate the human stupidity (mine in this case) nor of the boot. pmbr will load the whole partition, which was 1M, instead of the size of gptboot :-( reducing the size of the slice/partition fixed the issue. pmbr doesn't have room to be but so smart. It can't parse a

pmbr: Boot loader too large

2013-01-22 Thread Daniel Braniss
hi, this is the output from gpart show: = 34 976773101 ada0 GPT (465G) 34 2048 1 freebsd-boot (1.0M) 20824194304 2 freebsd-ufs [bootme] (2.0G) 4196386 12582912 3 freebsd-swap (6.0G) 16779298 959993837 4 freebsd-zfs (457G) =

Re: solved: pmbr: Boot loader too large

2013-01-22 Thread Daniel Braniss
hi, this is the output from gpart show: = 34 976773101 ada0 GPT (465G) 34 2048 1 freebsd-boot (1.0M) 20824194304 2 freebsd-ufs [bootme] (2.0G) 4196386 12582912 3 freebsd-swap (6.0G) 16779298 959993837 4 freebsd-zfs

Re: pmbr: Boot loader too large

2013-01-22 Thread Daniel Braniss
...@mail.fig.ol.no Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by mail.fig.ol.no id r0MCNtes050242 On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:24+0100, Trond Endrest=F8l wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:21+0200, Daniel Braniss wrote: =20 hi, this is the output

Re: off topic but no idea where to ask

2013-01-17 Thread Daniel Braniss
from first local disk at 0x07c00 and booting as with normal hard drive. instead of pxeboot, try giving /boot/boot0 works, except of delay. fixed from sources for 1s delay :) may the source be with you :-) btw, the above works for MBR, if you use GPT then you should use pmbr. danny

Re: off topic but no idea where to ask

2013-01-16 Thread Daniel Braniss
does anyone know a PXE image (just like /boot/pxeboot) that can be placed on tftp server and the only thing it will do would be loading first sector from first local disk at 0x07c00 and booting as with normal hard drive. instead of pxeboot, try giving /boot/boot0 what i need is to be able

pxeboot slowness when run in vmware

2012-10-30 Thread Daniel Braniss
hi, as soon as I 'initialize' a virtual disk via gpart, even if nothing is mounted, the pxeboot adds around 60s delay to show the boot menu, - I don't know if the delay is in boot or pxeboot. if I destroy the geom, the the boot menu appears inmediately. any insight? danny

Re: problem cross-compiling 9.1

2012-10-09 Thread Daniel Braniss
[snip] any fix? You have found the fix. Remove the WITHOUT_ options from the build that keep it from completing. You'll be able to add them at installworld time w/o a hassle. nanobsd uses this to keep things down, while still being able to build the system. Warner where can

problem cross-compiling 9.1

2012-10-03 Thread Daniel Braniss
reposting to hackers, maybe better luck here? When using an amd64 host to 'make TARGET_ARCH=i386 buildworld' it seems that it's using the wrong cpp, at least when building ioctl.c via mkioctl in usr.bin/ktrace and having set WITHOUT_CPP(*). This used to work with previous releases. ... ===

Re: Question on io monitoring tools such as gstat and iostat

2012-08-29 Thread Daniel Braniss
This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --enigCDF012FCB4FC78B4732FDA45 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 8/28/12 3:14 PM, Andy Young wrote: I am relatively new to using IO monitoring tools and wanted

Re: GPT boot from 2nd. disk fails

2012-08-16 Thread Daniel Braniss
On Wednesday, August 15, 2012 4:46:28 am Garrett Cooper wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:27 AM, Daniel Braniss da...@cs.huji.ac.il wrote: hi, this host has to disks: sa0 gpart show = 34 976773101 ada0 GPT (465G) 34128 1 freebsd-boot (64k

GPT boot from 2nd. disk fails

2012-08-15 Thread Daniel Braniss
hi, this host has to disks: sa0 gpart show = 34 976773101 ada0 GPT (465G) 34128 1 freebsd-boot (64k) 1624194304 2 freebsd-ufs (2.0G) 4194466 33554432 3 freebsd-swap (16G) 37748898 939024237 4 freebsd-zfs (447G) = 34

9.1-PRERELEASE and entering kdb weirdness

2012-08-03 Thread Daniel Braniss
Hi, with 8,x an previous, I compile kernel with options KDB options DDB options ALT_BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER and so hitting control+alt+escape would enter the debugger on the console, or CR ~ ^b on the serial console. the same config on 9.1, only if

Re: pxe + nfs + microsoft dhcp

2012-05-29 Thread Daniel Braniss
pacija wrote: - Original Message - Dear list readers, I am having a problem with pxe loader on FreeBSD 9.0 i386 release. No matter what value I put for DHCP option 017 (Root Path) in Microsoft DHCP server, pxe always sets root path: pxe_open: server path: / I've read

Re: pxe + nfs + microsoft dhcp

2012-05-29 Thread Daniel Braniss
--=-etjkwQYOTmf8U9KY0eW8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit pacija wrote: - Original Message - Dear list readers, I am having a problem with pxe loader on FreeBSD 9.0 i386 release. No matter what value I put for DHCP

USB over IP

2012-05-21 Thread Daniel Braniss
I need to control some lab equipment with several usb based controllers (mostly serial) and was wondering if it can be done over IP, there is such a thing called usbip, but couldn't find what 'server' is needed. all the boxes I found are not cheep, but worse, only provide binaries for windows, or

Re: USB over IP

2012-05-21 Thread Daniel Braniss
Hi, On 2012-05-21 12:46, Daniel Braniss wrote: I need to control some lab equipment with several usb based controllers (mostly serial) and was wondering if it can be done over IP, there is such a thing called usbip, but couldn't find what 'server' is needed. all the boxes I found

Re: USB over IP

2012-05-21 Thread Daniel Braniss
--047d7b10ce794d5a1004c08b261e Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 something similar is being done in the latest versions of qemu. There is a usb redirection module which is in the form of a client/server architecture where USB packets are sent over IP. These two modules

portmaster and php 5.4/5.3 issues

2012-05-18 Thread Daniel Braniss
hi, doing portmaster -a today wants to upgrade php5.3 to php5.4 which I'm not ready yet, so I dis-installed php5 and installed php53, but now portmaster wants to upgrade the php extentiosn to 5.4 even though php is 5.3.13. what (if any :-), is the magic to convince portmaster to compile

Re: PCEngines alix.6 with dual SIM

2012-05-10 Thread Daniel Braniss
On 5/9/2012 10:46 AM, Daniel Braniss wrote: Hi, after a long time, I finaly got around trying to get the GSM/UMTS working, but so far it thinks it's a mass storage! ugen0.2: USB MMC Storage Sierra Wireless at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL (12Mbps) pwr=ON bLength = 0x0012

PCEngines alix.6 with dual SIM

2012-05-09 Thread Daniel Braniss
Hi, after a long time, I finaly got around trying to get the GSM/UMTS working, but so far it thinks it's a mass storage! ugen0.2: USB MMC Storage Sierra Wireless at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL (12Mbps) pwr=ON bLength = 0x0012 bDescriptorType = 0x0001 bcdUSB = 0x0110 bDeviceClass =

Re: time stops in vmware

2012-04-10 Thread Daniel Braniss
On Sun, 08 Apr 2012 02:11:25 -0500, Daniel Braniss da...@cs.huji.ac.il wrote: Hi All There was some mention before that time stops under vmware, and now it's happened to me :-) the clock stopped now, the system is responsive, but eg sleep 1 never finishes

time stops in vmware

2012-04-08 Thread Daniel Braniss
Hi All There was some mention before that time stops under vmware, and now it's happened to me :-) the clock stopped now, the system is responsive, but eg sleep 1 never finishes. Is there a solution? btw, I'm running 8.2-stable, i'll try 8.3 soon. danny

mini pci express - 3g modem

2011-09-02 Thread Daniel Braniss
Hi, Just saw that PCEngines has a new board, with SIM socket, but to get it working, it needs a mimi pci express modem, and from http://www.pcengines.ch/alix6e1.htm 'On Alix, only USB 2.0 connectivity is supported' ... does this means the modem appears as a usb device? cheers,

Re: root on zfs almost working for me but ...

2011-08-09 Thread Daniel Braniss
--20cf300fb4297a2a2904aa0f78ba Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On 8 August 2011 11:30, Daniel Braniss da...@cs.huji.ac.il wrote: On 8/8/11 5:33 AM, Daniel Braniss wrote: According to Daniel Braniss: Trying to mount root from zfs:z/root ROOT MOUNT ERROR

root on zfs almot working for me but ...

2011-08-08 Thread Daniel Braniss
Hi, I managed to get boot to load the kernel, but the kernel can't find the root: ... Trying to mount root from zfs:z/root ROOT MOUNT ERROR: If you have invalid mount options, reboot, and first try the following from the loader prompt: set vfs.root.mountfrom.options=rw and then

Re: root on zfs almost working for me but ...

2011-08-08 Thread Daniel Braniss
According to Daniel Braniss: Trying to mount root from zfs:z/root ROOT MOUNT ERROR: If you have invalid mount options, reboot, and first try the following from the loader prompt: Have you set the bootfs property (see http://www.keltia.net/howtos/zfsboot) on the pool? yes, in my

Re: root on zfs almost working for me but ...

2011-08-08 Thread Daniel Braniss
On 8/8/11 5:33 AM, Daniel Braniss wrote: According to Daniel Braniss: Trying to mount root from zfs:z/root ROOT MOUNT ERROR: If you have invalid mount options, reboot, and first try the following from the loader prompt: Have you set the bootfs property (see http

Re: root on zfs almot working for me but ...

2011-08-08 Thread Daniel Braniss
on 08/08/2011 09:56 Daniel Braniss said the following: Hi, I managed to get boot to load the kernel, but the kernel can't find the root: ... Trying to mount root from zfs:z/root ROOT MOUNT ERROR: If you have invalid mount options, reboot, and first try the following from

matlab on Linux, any success stories?

2011-08-03 Thread Daniel Braniss
Im trying to install matlab R2010B-Mac-Linux under freebsd-8.2-STABLE, having installed linux_base-f10-10_4 but keep getting: rnd# /compat/linux/bin/sh ./install Preparing installation files ... Exception in thread main java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError:

Re: broadcast oddity

2011-07-20 Thread Daniel Braniss
Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:40:11AM +0300, Daniel Braniss wrote: And that non-broadcast ethernet address is the MAC of your default router? yes. with dest_addr = INADDR_BROADCAST on the non diskless: 09:44:29.850576 00:0d:b9:00:72:a8 (oui Unknown) 00:04:38:a0:c6:07 (oui Unknown

Re: broadcast oddity

2011-07-19 Thread Daniel Braniss
Hi Eygene, Daniel, good day. Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 05:04:27PM +0300, Daniel Braniss wrote: this code behaves correctly when run from a diskless host which booted via PXE, but fails on a host that was booted from disk. hint: the non working sends a packet with a non ethernet broadcast

broadcast oddity

2011-07-18 Thread Daniel Braniss
this code behaves correctly when run from a diskless host which booted via PXE, but fails on a host that was booted from disk. hint: the non working sends a packet with a non ethernet broadcast address and an ip address of 255.255.255.255, the working version sets the ethernet address to

Re: Testing a change to printf(9)

2011-06-08 Thread Daniel Braniss
On 6/7/11 6:33 PM, Dieter BSD wrote: I've been working on fixing problems with printf(9), log(9) and related functions. Today I tried converting printf(9) to write to the log rather than directly to the console, unless the log is not open, in which case the message is also sent to the

Re: who is in swap?

2011-05-21 Thread Daniel Braniss
On 5/20/11 5:32 AM, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Daniel Branissda...@cs.huji.ac.il: no, Who's on 3rd what's on 2nd! btw, there was something similar using unix commands ... ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list

who is in swap?

2011-05-20 Thread Daniel Braniss
Hi, We have a host, providing mainly http/postgres service, and its swap usage is increasing. Is there any way to check which process is using swap space? some facts it's running 8.2-stable/amd64 has 24gb of memory zfs seems to be ok, arc size too. top says 32G in use, while vmstat avm

Re: Add SUM sysctl

2011-04-17 Thread Daniel Braniss
--Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 04:46:53PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 16 Apr 2011, dieter...@engineer.com wrote: Suggestion 2: The kernel may not have

mountd stuck in ZFS code. (fwd)

2011-03-31 Thread Daniel Braniss
re-posting here to see if I'm more successful: ---BeginMessage--- I have been running the experimental nfs/mount for some time now, and it mostly works, except with this particular case, where the mountd just gets stuck: mountd 11762 [dp-dp_config_rwlock] 8.93r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 1320k and stops

harmless zfs warnings?

2011-02-03 Thread Daniel Braniss
I asked this on stable, and since there were no takers, trying my luck here. I see these messages: ZFS WARNING: Unable to attach to gpt/r0/swap. ZFS WARNING: Unable to attach to mfid0p3. I have 2 'disks' /dev/label/r0 and /dev/label/r5, the r0 is gparted such: =34 1952448445 mfid0 GPT

gpart/gstripe problems?

2011-01-18 Thread Daniel Braniss
I have: sf-03 gpart show = 34 976773101 ada0 GPT (466G) 34128 1 freebsd-boot (64K) 1624194304 2 freebsd-ufs (2.0G) 4194466 100663296 3 freebsd-swap (48G) 104857762 871915373 4 freebsd (416G) = 34 976773101 ada1 GPT

Re: NFS: file too large

2011-01-18 Thread Daniel Braniss
:Well, since a server specifies the maximum file size it can :handle, it seems good form to check for that in the client. :(Although I'd agree that a server shouldn't crash if a read/write : that goes beyond that limit.) : :Also, as Matt notes, off_t is signed. As such, it looks to me like

Re: gpart/gstripe problems?

2011-01-18 Thread Daniel Braniss
On 18.1.2011 16:48, Daniel Braniss wrote: I have: sf-03 gpart show = 34 976773101 ada0 GPT (466G) 34128 1 freebsd-boot (64K) 1624194304 2 freebsd-ufs (2.0G) 4194466 100663296 3 freebsd-swap (48G) 104857762 871915373

Re: NFS: file too large

2011-01-14 Thread Daniel Braniss
:Try editting line #1226 of sys/nfsclient/nfs_vfsops.c, where :it sets nm_maxfilesize = (u_int64_t)0x8000 * DEV_BSIZE - 1; and make it :something larger. : :I have no idea why the limit is set that way? (I'm guessing it was the :limit for UFS.) Hopefully not some weird buffer cache

more gpart/glabel problems

2011-01-14 Thread Daniel Braniss
the provider in this case is mfid0 mfi0: Dell PERC H700 Integrated mfid0: MFI Logical Disk on mfi0 mfid0: 953344MB (1952448512 sectors) RAID volume 'r0' is optimal so I first use gpart: gpart create -s GPT mfid0 gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr mfid0

Re: more gpart/glabel problems

2011-01-14 Thread Daniel Braniss
On 14.01.2011 13:37, Daniel Braniss wrote: and on the console: GEOM: mfid0: the secondary GPT table is corrupt or invalid. GEOM: mfid0: using the primary only -- recovery suggested. GEOM: mfid0: the secondary GPT table is corrupt or invalid. GEOM: mfid0: using

Re: more gpart/glabel problems

2011-01-14 Thread Daniel Braniss
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Re: NFS: file too large

2011-01-13 Thread Daniel Braniss
I'm getting 'File too large' when copying via NFS(v3, tcp/udp) a file that is larger than 1T. The server is ZFS which has no problem with large files. Is this fixable? As I understand it, there is no FreeBSD VFSop that returns the maximum file size supported. As such, the NFS

NFS: file too large

2011-01-12 Thread Daniel Braniss
I'm getting 'File too large' when copying via NFS(v3, tcp/udp) a file that is larger than 1T. The server is ZFS which has no problem with large files. Is this fixable? Cheers, danny ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: sys/boot/boot0/boot0.S - r186598

2011-01-10 Thread Daniel Braniss
This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --enig0AE178BF2380C8CAA3249E0C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 09/01/2011 04:38, Daniel Braniss wrote: There was a post on the embedded list that suggested

Re: sys/boot/boot0/boot0.S - r186598

2011-01-09 Thread Daniel Braniss
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Re: sysrc -- a sysctl(8)-like utility for managing /etc/rc.conf et. al.

2010-10-10 Thread Daniel Braniss
On 10/9/10 7:30 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: [ ... ] is the same thing as [ -n ... ] or test -n ... [ ! ... ] is the same things as [ -z ... ] or test -z ... I'll never understand why people have to throw an extra letter in there and then compare it to that letter. I ran into issues

Re: /etc/rc.d/mountcritremote

2010-09-01 Thread Daniel Braniss
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 10:45 -0700, Dirk-WIllem van Gulik wrote: On 31 Aug 2010, at 17:16, Sean Bruno wrote: An issue in testing came up where we were trying to mount NFS directories from the same server, i.e. a machine trying to mount an NFS dir on itself. Because

hg convert stopped working

2010-06-25 Thread Daniel Braniss
Hi, probably wrong place to ask, but I great minds lurk here :-) I have been mirroing FreeBSD via svn since last summer, svnsync sync file:///cs/svn/freebsd/base then converting to mercurial hg convert ... file:///cs/svn/freebsd/base ${HG_HOME}/bsd/stable/8 ... since I can better

Re: FreeBSD kernel doesn't boot on FUJITSU PRIMERGY RX200 S5 server

2010-04-21 Thread Daniel Braniss
On 21.04.2010 10:01, pluknet wrote: Hmm.. That's strange to hear. We have in production a number of x3650m2: 7.2-R, 7.3-R (all amd64). All runs flawlessly. I'll try to boot it from head today if that matters. It was about 1.5 hour ago when i entered autoboot in loader prompt. It

NFS/UDP and vfs.nfs.nfs_ip_paranoia=0 does not help

2010-02-13 Thread Daniel Braniss
Hi, While trying to find out why our NSF/ZFS servers now hangs about once a week, I got hold of a similiar box, and got a bit more ambitious, I connected it via 2 NICs, to complicate things a bit, the server boots via pxeboot (ie, is datatless). After fiddling with the default gateway,

memory growth by reboot?

2009-12-24 Thread Daniel Braniss
hi, we are evaluating a Sun X2270, with 24 GB of memory. initial boot shows: Aug 19 09:07:51 x2270.cs.huji.ac.il kernel: real memory = 15032385536 (14336 MB) (the date is wrong, but it auto-fixed via ntpdate later) next reboots: Dec 23 20:24:33 x2270.cs.huji.ac.il kernel: real memory =