Re: buildkernel with INVARIANTS, WITNESS, DEBUG_LOCKS, etc. fails

2007-12-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
Brian O'Shea wrote: Hello FreeBSD developers, Building a FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE kernel on an Intel Pentium 4 with the following config options causes buildkernel to fail with undefined references to stack_save, stack_zero, and stack_print functions: makeoptions DEBUG=-g options INVARIANTS

Re: Problem in /usr/local/etc/rc.d

2007-12-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
Mario Lobo wrote: Hello; here is a snip of dmesg: - Starting sshd. Starting cron. Local package initialization: Starting Init Starting Samba Removing stale Samba tdb files: . . . . . . . done Starting Init Starting Samba Removing

Re: buildkernel with INVARIANTS, WITNESS, DEBUG_LOCKS, etc. fails

2007-12-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
Brian O'Shea wrote: Thank you for your reply, Kris. --- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian O'Shea wrote: Hello FreeBSD developers, Building a FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE kernel on an Intel Pentium 4 with the following config options causes buildkernel to fail with undefined references

Re: Kernel crashed due to pagefault while running net/avahi

2007-12-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
? Ashish Shukla wrote: Hi I'm running FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 (AMD64) on Intel Pentium 4 630 (EM64T/HT) on Intel D945GNTL motheboard. I'd this crash when I was running in GNOME, playing with Avahi and nss_mdns to get mDNS over IPv6 working. 88 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/crashes]$ kgdb

Re: About Freebsd 7.0 versus 6.3

2007-12-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
Jim Pazarena wrote: Aryeh Friedman wrote: On Nov 8, 2007 11:55 AM, Expresso Digital ISP [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, my name is Cesar. I'd like to know what is the diference between 7.0 and 6.3 and why create a newest version and after old version. 6.X is the last of versions meant

Re: stability of FreeBSD 7 Beta 3?

2007-11-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
Chris wrote: On 26/11/2007, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course not :P What are the PR references? Try this. Login to twice on ssh. If not root su both to root. using the 2nd tty do a watch -W on the first tty. on the first tty type 'killall watch' you have now crashed freebsd

Re: Upper limit on make -j ?

2007-11-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
Brian wrote: There's a thread on the -stable list about 8 cores being an issue in a very specific case. I couldn't imagine setting j to something more than 2x or 3x at the most of your available cores. So it's okay by you that freebsd utilities crash when you overload them? Not to me ;-)

Re: ataidle - causing apache cvs timeouts

2007-11-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
Steve Franks wrote: I'm running ataidle on my personal server to save electricity. However, every time it has to spin up a drive whatever I'm accessing (apache, cvs, etc) gives an error instead of waiting for the disk. If I then access it again after a couple seconds once the disk is active it

Re: stability of FreeBSD 7 Beta 3?

2007-11-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
Kris Kennaway wrote: Chris wrote: On 26/11/2007, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tore Lund wrote: Ivan Voras wrote: Dave wrote: Hello, How stable is FreeBSD 7 Beta 3? Is it near production are their any outstanding issues? Probably no major bugs will be fixed between now and 7.0

Re: Upper limit on make -j ?

2007-11-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
Frank Shute wrote: On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 03:25:52AM -0500, Aryeh Friedman wrote: Before I file a PR I just want to know if it is worth it to file a PR for: make -j1000 buildworld buildkernel installkernel seg faulting No. Where in the handbook or UPDATING does it tell you to build your

Re: Upper limit on make -j ?

2007-11-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
Andy Greenwood wrote: Aryeh Friedman wrote: Before I file a PR I just want to know if it is worth it to file a PR for: make -j1000 buildworld buildkernel installkernel seg faulting I thought that the kernel builds couldn't be built using parallel jobs, that it might break something. Is

Re: Major filesystem problems after crash on 7.0-BETA3

2007-11-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
Doug Poland wrote: On Mon, November 26, 2007 15:03, Doug Poland wrote: On Mon, November 26, 2007 14:26, Doug Poland wrote: Hello, This morning my 7.0-BETA3 i386 system (Compaq nx7400) reset shortly after starting X11. I didn't think much of it and went to get a cup of coffee while the

Re: Upper limit on make -j ?

2007-11-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
Frank Shute wrote: On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 08:02:44PM +0100, Kris Kennaway wrote: Andy Greenwood wrote: Aryeh Friedman wrote: Before I file a PR I just want to know if it is worth it to file a PR for: make -j1000 buildworld buildkernel installkernel seg faulting I thought that the kernel

Re: ls -l takes a forever to finish.

2007-11-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
Mark Evans wrote: I'm using FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE. When I run ls -l it takes forever for the it to complete. top shows that the ls -l command uses about 98% of the CPU doing the time. If I run ls I do not experience any problem. anyone have any ideas? Are you using NIS for user/group

Re: stability of FreeBSD 7 Beta 3?

2007-11-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
Tore Lund wrote: Ivan Voras wrote: Dave wrote: Hello, How stable is FreeBSD 7 Beta 3? Is it near production are their any outstanding issues? Probably no major bugs will be fixed between now and 7.0 so you might as well start using it now. It's stable enough like all .0 releases, meaning

Re: stability of FreeBSD 7 Beta 3?

2007-11-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
Chris wrote: On 26/11/2007, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tore Lund wrote: Ivan Voras wrote: Dave wrote: Hello, How stable is FreeBSD 7 Beta 3? Is it near production are their any outstanding issues? Probably no major bugs will be fixed between now and 7.0 so you might as well

Re: Dreaded '__mb_sb_limit' Error And What To Do About It

2007-11-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
Tim Daneliuk wrote: On one of my FBSD 6-STABLE machines, I have the system cvsup the latest sources nightly and rebuild (but not install) the system and all relevant kernels. Every week or so, I go to single user and install what was last built (assuming the build worked OK). My last such

Re: binary compatibility 6.2 - 6.3

2007-11-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
RW wrote: On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 06:21:17 -0500 (EST) Michael S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good day all, I am running 6.2 with patches, however my package_site points to 6-stable. Upgrading binary packages gives this message: Undefined symbol __sbmaskrune. From the few results Google returned, I

Re: FreeBSD 7.0

2007-11-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
kasthurirangan balaji wrote: Hi, I am using FreeBSD 6.1 on my laptop. I understand that FreeBSD 7.0 will have ZFS file system. I did go through the sun website to understand the advantages of ZFS. Given that, will FreeBSD have a BTree/B+Tree(replicating c++ multimaps, but file based) by default

Re: Does 7.0-BETA2 still have debug options like 6.0-BETA did?

2007-11-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
Yuri wrote: When 6.0 was in BETA kernel had many options like WITNESS/INVARIANTS. User-land also has some special options. Those options made FreeBSD-BETA much slower. Are any similar options on now in 7.0-BETA2? What is the complete list? I can only find an option makeoptions DEBUG=-g in

Re: very poor NFS performance from a beta3

2007-11-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
Jonathan Horne wrote: i updated my workstatino to beta3, and then got on a 6.2-p8 machine and mounted /usr/src and /usr/obj from the beta3. tried to installkernel, but it moved as painful pace. would get to the point where it moves kernel to kernel.old, and would just pause for a long time.

Re: FreeBSD-7.0-Beta2 (i386) on Opteron?

2007-11-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
Mark Staudinger wrote: On 11/14/07, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Staudinger wrote: I wasn't sure if -questions or -current was the right group, but I searched both before posting. I'm trying to begin testing FreeBSD-7.0-Beta2, and I have a mixture of Intel and AMD-based

Re: jails in 6.3 and 7.0

2007-11-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
Jonathan Horne wrote: I was reading a while back that the jails tcp system was getting an overhaul, possibly in the 7.0 release. I don't remember all the particulars, but things along the lines to make jails function even more like a real (independant) system. I believe one of the

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 Beta-2 can't find INDEX

2007-11-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
Friedrich, Steven wrote: I tried to install FreeBSD 7.0 Beta-2 from the bootonly iso and from CD1 iso. The bootonly iso installs over the net and failed to fetch the INDEX when trying to install ports, i.e., xorg, etc. CD1 did the same thing. Is this a known problem? Yes, packages are only

Re: cups builds on one, but rejected by another?

2007-11-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
Jonathan Horne wrote: On Wednesday 14 November 2007 03:39:47 pm Jonathan Horne wrote: my jails server (6.2-p8) just ran portupgrade fine, and cups was one of its items it updated: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# pkg_info | grep cups- cups-base-1.3.3_2 Common UNIX Printing System but my 7.0-b2

Re: FreeBSD-7.0-Beta2 (i386) on Opteron?

2007-11-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sounds like you might have a corrupted installation. Did you verify the MD5 checksum on the ISO images? This is completely off topic but MD5 is not secure: http://www.infosec.sdu.edu.cn/paper/md5-attack.pdf Similar

Re: FreeBSD-7.0-Beta2 (i386) on Opteron?

2007-11-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
Mark Staudinger wrote: I wasn't sure if -questions or -current was the right group, but I searched both before posting. I'm trying to begin testing FreeBSD-7.0-Beta2, and I have a mixture of Intel and AMD-based machines that I work with. I'm using the i386 release. I've previously used

Re: 6.3-PRERELEASE

2007-11-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hey All, I recently CVSUPPED to what I thought would be 6.2-STABLE but instead got 6.3-PRERELEASE. However, I look at www.freebsd.org/releng and I see no reference to the release cycle of 6.3. Was this a mistake of some sort? Only in your expectations :)

Re: 6.3-PRERELEASE

2007-11-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Tino Engel wrote: No, I wanted to track the 6-release chain, but was just a little surprised...I thought this kind of CVS naming scheme didn't take place till much later in the release engineering process. Relax...it's just a name :)

Re: www.freebsd.org

2007-11-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. We are developers. If you want , we can help to you for Turkish language support.You can rely on us. We worked some projects. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: www.freebsd.org

2007-11-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 16:59 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. We are developers. If you want , we can help to you for Turkish language support.You can rely on us. We worked some projects. That's not true, you cannot help us. That is quite a rude thing to say, and

Re: recurring kernel panic

2007-11-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
Kelly Martin wrote: I'm getting daily kernel panics. The server was running fine for about a month, the only changes I've made recently have been to update all my ports. It's running on older i386 hardware, no special devices attached. Here's the console message I'm getting (copied by hand):

Re: recurring kernel panic

2007-11-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
Kelly Martin wrote: On Nov 9, 2007 10:41 AM, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This looks pretty suspicious to me, I'd guess your hardware has failed. This same hardware has run OpenBSD for years. Not really relevant. When something makes the transition from working to broken

Re: Max file size in 6.1?

2007-11-08 Thread Kris Kennaway
Jeff Mohler wrote: Whats the max file size you can create under 6.1? Please see the FAQ. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: About Freebsd 7.0 versus 6.3

2007-11-08 Thread Kris Kennaway
Mario Lobo wrote: On Thursday 08 November 2007, Aryeh Friedman wrote: On Nov 8, 2007 11:55 AM, Expresso Digital ISP [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, my name is Cesar. I'd like to know what is the diference between 7.0 and 6.3 and why create a newest version and after old version. 6.X is the last

Re: About Freebsd 7.0 versus 6.3

2007-11-08 Thread Kris Kennaway
Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 07:27:58PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: a. Make backups b. Read /usr/src/UPDATING 1. `cd /usr/src' (or to the directory containing your source tree). 2. `make buildworld' 3. `make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE' (default is

Re: About Freebsd 7.0 versus 6.3

2007-11-08 Thread Kris Kennaway
Ivan Georgiev wrote: On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:27:58 + Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 02:48:47PM -0300, Mario Lobo wrote: Concerning this, I've cvsuping to 6-CURRENT on a dual-core desktop.

Re: About Freebsd 7.0 versus 6.3

2007-11-08 Thread Kris Kennaway
Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 09:32:22PM +0100, Kris Kennaway wrote: You don't need to delete all the ports in one go and then reinstall them in another: running 'portupgrade -fa' will do the job. Port upgrade tools are not guaranteed to work perfectly in this situation. I tried

Re: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libm.so.6 not found, required by libstdc++.so.5

2007-11-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
Noah wrote: HI there, I am not quite sure what library I need to cure this issue up. $ nmap -sP -v 192.168.1.1-255 /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libm.so.6 not found, required by libstdc++.so.5 That doesn't make much sense because no version of FreeBSD yet has a libm.so.6. How did

Re: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libm.so.6 not found, required by libstdc++.so.5

2007-11-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
Noah wrote: thanks Kris, something must be wrong then. I am running into problems rebuilding apache now and see undefined references from /usr/local/lib/libstdc++.so.5 during the build: It looks like you have added a Linux libstdc++ library which is why it is failing to resolve other Linux

Re: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libm.so.6 not found, required by libstdc++.so.5

2007-11-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
Noah wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Noah wrote: thanks Kris, something must be wrong then. I am running into problems rebuilding apache now and see undefined references from /usr/local/lib/libstdc++.so.5 during the build: It looks like you have added a Linux libstdc++ library which is why

Re: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libm.so.6 not found, required by libstdc++.so.5

2007-11-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
Noah wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Noah wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Noah wrote: thanks Kris, something must be wrong then. I am running into problems rebuilding apache now and see undefined references from /usr/local/lib/libstdc++.so.5 during the build: It looks like you have added

Re: CPU usage 100% but no process hogging CPU

2007-10-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
Gunther Mayer wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Gunther Mayer wrote: I don't see why my javavm, apache, postgres and/or radiusd would spawn such short lived processes. Come to think of it, I know radius might be doing just that, but how the heck would I go about finding out? top -H brings me

Re: CPU usage 100% but no process hogging CPU

2007-10-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
Mario Lobo wrote: On Sunday 28 October 2007 10:38:36 Kris Kennaway wrote: Oh, you were going by the load average? That is not a measure of system performance, it only shows how many processes are running. Anyway, glad you resolved it to your satisfaction. Kris What would be the proper way

Re: CPU usage 100% but no process hogging CPU

2007-10-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
Gunther Mayer wrote: Hi there, I'm having some capacity issues on the FreeBSD 6.2/Core 2 Duo/2GB RAM server that I manage. For quite a few days now it constantly shows load averages of around 1 and a CPU usage of around 100%. Yet summing up the CPU usage of the individual processes running I

Re: 7.0 and 6.3

2007-10-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
Jay Chandler wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: David J Brooks wrote: Bill Moran wrote: Note also that a ports freeze is starting soon for 7.0 and 6.3 release. What are the differences between 6.3 and 7.0? Which should be considered the standard upgrade path from 6.2 release

Re: 7.0 and 6.3

2007-10-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
David J Brooks wrote: Bill Moran wrote: Note also that a ports freeze is starting soon for 7.0 and 6.3 release. What are the differences between 6.3 and 7.0? Which should be considered the standard upgrade path from 6.2 release? Is there a compelling reason to upgrade to one over the other?

Re: 7.0 and 6.3

2007-10-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
Vince wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: David J Brooks wrote: Bill Moran wrote: Note also that a ports freeze is starting soon for 7.0 and 6.3 release. What are the differences between 6.3 and 7.0? Which should be considered the standard upgrade path from 6.2 release? Is there a compelling reason

Re: First panic in 7.0-BETA1 on i386

2007-10-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
Doug Poland wrote: I'd like to report the details but I'm unfamiliar with the process. Should I post here on -questions or on -current mailing list? -stable. Looks like the issue is: kernel: current process = 46 (ath0 taskq) Well, unfortunately that doesn't really say anything. Read the

Re: do I *really* need xorg 7.x?

2007-10-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
Steve Franks wrote: Seems every time I try to install a pkg or make a port lately, I get this: ===Verifying install for /usr/local/libdata/xorg/libraries in /usr/ports/x1 1/xorg-libraries /usr/X11R6 exists, but it is not a symlink. Installation cannot proceed. This looks like an

Re: Ports and updating 6.2-STABLE to 7.0-PRERELEASE

2007-10-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I've just updated my system to 7.0-PRERELEASE from 6.2-STABLE on i386 and I was wondering what the recommendation is for ports. Specifically, is it necessary to rebuild all ports? So far, I haven't rebuilt any ports and haven't had any problems... Yes, it is

Re: Is the bison port moving in reverse?

2007-10-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
Chad Perrin wrote: I get this: # portversion -v | grep -v = bison-1.75_2,1succeeds port (port has 2.3_3) Any idea why? Judging by the numbers, I'd think that should be instead. Nothing in /usr/ports/UPDATING seems to apply here. Looks like PORTEPOCH was incorrectly

Re: Inner workings of turnstiles and sleepqueues

2007-10-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
Ed Schouten wrote: Hello, For some reason, I want to understand how the queueing of blocked threads in the kernel works when waiting for a lock, which is if I understand correctly done by the turnstiles and sleepqueues. I'm the proud owner of The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD

Re: Recent branching of CURRENT

2007-10-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Hi, Just out of curiosity, why did I fail to notice the branching of RELENG_7 and 8-CURRENT? I'm subscribed to -stable, -current and -announce. Because it's an administrative change that is just a normal part of the release engineering process. i.e. 7.0 is not

Re: Recent branching of CURRENT

2007-10-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
Mel wrote: On Friday 12 October 2007 23:15:32 Kris Kennaway wrote: Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Hi, Just out of curiosity, why did I fail to notice the branching of RELENG_7 and 8-CURRENT? I'm subscribed to -stable, -current and -announce. Because it's an administrative change that is just

Re: rebranding a i386 binary to be a amd64 binary

2007-10-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
Aryeh Friedman wrote: Even though I know this is asking for it I want to test the new nVidia driver on amd64 and the only issue with a hand compile (from nVidia's tar not the ports one) is src/nv-kernel.o is branded elf-i386-32 and amd64 wants it branded elf-amd64-64. This file comes from them

Re: rebranding a i386 binary to be a amd64 binary

2007-10-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
Aryeh Friedman wrote: On 10/11/07, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aryeh Friedman wrote: Even though I know this is asking for it I want to test the new nVidia driver on amd64 and the only issue with a hand compile (from nVidia's tar not the ports one) is src/nv-kernel.o is branded elf

Re: freezing, hard locking, and debug.mpsafenet=0

2007-10-08 Thread Kris Kennaway
Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Elvar wrote: Hi there, snip http://www.freebsdforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38765page=1pp=1 http://www.freebsdforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38765page=1pp=1 which seemed to describe the same freezing I was having. One person mentioned setting

Re: freezing, hard locking, and debug.mpsafenet=0

2007-10-08 Thread Kris Kennaway
Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Elvar wrote: Hi there, snip snip Could someone familiar with -CURRENT perhaps explain why this option (debug.mpsafenet=0) is gone? Because it was an obsolete option that was complicating the code and holding back

Re: freezing, hard locking, and debug.mpsafenet=0

2007-10-08 Thread Kris Kennaway
Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Elvar wrote: Hi there, snip snip Could someone familiar with -CURRENT perhaps explain why this option (debug.mpsafenet=0) is gone? Because it was an obsolete option

Re: panic: sleeping thread wile using USB hard drive

2007-10-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
Richard Puga wrote: I have been installing FreeBSD 6.2 on IBM XSeries servers some of which I need to run external USB drives. While backing up to a USB hard drive at random times the computer locks up or reboots with some, but not all of the systems. The XP3100's work fine and dmesg shows a

Re: Questions on the scheduler

2007-09-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
RW wrote: The FreeBSD response was to make the kernel more SMP friendly with finer-grained locking, and to bring-in the ULE scheduler. Dragonfly BSD was a fork off 4.x by people who thought a more radical kernel rewrite was needed. Their kernel avoids a lot of the locking problems by using

Re: Questions on the scheduler

2007-09-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
Oliver Herold wrote: Are there any numbers or technical papers? Just out of curiosity. I ran a mysql benchmark against Dragonfly-current and FreeBSD 7 on an 8-core machine (one of the workloads that FreeBSD now performs very well at) and found 0 scaling on dragonfly. Their developers

Re: Questions on the scheduler

2007-09-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: On 9/29/07, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oliver Herold wrote: Are there any numbers or technical papers? Just out of curiosity. I ran a mysql benchmark against Dragonfly-current and FreeBSD 7 on an 8-core machine (one of the workloads that FreeBSD

Re: Questions on the scheduler

2007-09-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
Oliver Herold wrote: OpenBSD isn't about performance, so it will be most of the time inferior. http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2007/09/28/0014.html Maybe this is of some help. But if compare it to Jeffs FreeBSD/Linux benches it looks rather strange to me. Yeah, that's the one I am

Re: 7.0-CURRENT Ports Collection?

2007-09-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
James Jeffery wrote: Does 7.0 come with a disk for the Ports Collection or would they have to be downloaded from the internet? When it is released you will be able to buy a CD set containing some of the packages, but if you are downloading then you will have to use the usual methods for

Re: 7.0-CURRENT Ports Collection?

2007-09-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
Aryeh Friedman wrote: Are you attempting to download ports on 6.2 before you move to 7 or on 7? If the and your on a SMP (dual core don't know about physically seperate) there are some known issues in the protocol stack Er, what issues, pray tell? :) Kris

Re: 7.0-CURRENT Ports Collection?

2007-09-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
Aryeh Friedman wrote: On 9/29/07, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aryeh Friedman wrote: Are you attempting to download ports on 6.2 before you move to 7 or on 7? If the and your on a SMP (dual core don't know about physically seperate) there are some known issues in the protocol stack

Re: http://dev.mysql.com/qualitycontribution.html

2007-09-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Hi All, I noticed that 'Debian user community' was listed here. Maybe we should start funneling all the mysql related stuff to a single FreeBSD managed user? ale@ maintains the ports, so he's the obvious one. Kris ___

Re: Help I borke my 7.0 AMD64

2007-09-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: Hello, I used potsclean, and it broke my GCC enviroment. What is potsclean? I can't make buildworld anymore. stage 2.3: build tools -- cd /usr/src; MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj INSTALL=sh

Re: Help I borke my 7.0 AMD64

2007-09-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: On 9/24/07, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: Hello, I used potsclean, and it broke my GCC enviroment. What is potsclean? I can't make buildworld anymore. stage 2.3: build tools

Re: packages compiled from source

2007-09-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
Gabriel Dragffy wrote: Hi, trying to find out where the complete packge files are for the packges that I compiled from ports. I wanted to save these somewhere so I wouldn't have to recompile them in the future. The handbook doesn't shed any light on this:( They are not saved separately but

Re: Kernel Panics in 6.1 and 6.2 always Exim 4

2007-09-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
Wil Hatfield wrote: -Original Message- From: Kris Kennaway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 5:20 PM To: Wil Hatfield Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel Panics in 6.1 and 6.2 always Exim 4 Wil Hatfield wrote: Well after a year we still

Re: End-of-life for my amd64 ?

2007-09-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
Ivan Voras wrote: NetOpsCenter wrote: I have been using FreeBSD 7.0 since Jan 8 2007 CURRENT on this box which is a desktop for browsing and email with a Dual core AMD CPU setup. It rocks. I use FreeBSD 7.0 Current on 2 small mailservers using 3 year old hardware and it is rock solid.

Re: End-of-life for my amd64 ?

2007-09-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
Ivan Voras wrote: On 21/09/2007, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use 7.0 on about 70 machines that are extremely heavily loaded, all running ULE, ranging from single through to 8 CPUs, some using ZFS, etc. I don't see these problems you are claiming, so you'll have to do some more

Re: Kernel Panics in 6.1 and 6.2 always Exim 4

2007-09-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
Wil Hatfield wrote: Well after a year we still haven't tracked down the kernel panic problems that are occuring on both our 6.1 and 6.2 machines for those we have had time to upgrade. It occurs on 6.1-RC, 6.1-RELEASE 6.1-STABLE, 6.2, you name it. We are noticing that all of the dumps are

Re: End-of-life for my amd64 ?

2007-09-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
P.U.Kruppa wrote: On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Charles Bacon wrote: I installed FreeBSD-RELEASE6.2 last January, and wonder if there will be a 6.3. Just discovered freebsd-update(8), tried it out, and saw: WARNING: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date. It is strongly

Re: End-of-life for my amd64 ?

2007-09-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
NetOpsCenter wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: P.U.Kruppa wrote: On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Charles Bacon wrote: I installed FreeBSD-RELEASE6.2 last January, and wonder if there will be a 6.3. Just discovered freebsd-update(8), tried it out, and saw: WARNING: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE is approaching

Re: FreeBSD constantly hanging

2007-09-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
Deceased wrote: Hi, I have a serious problem, that I cannot solve my self :( I have freebsd 6.2 router that has 3 NICs (lan, wan, dmz), suddenly (about two weeks ago) it started to hang without leaving anything in logs. I thought that it was hardware problem. So at first I changed

Re: End-of-life for my amd64 ?

2007-09-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
Josh Carroll wrote: Thanks for the feedback. It's always good to hear it works fine anti-bug-reports :) Kris This is getting a bit off topic, so pardon me. :) I picked a bad time to try to move to 7-CURRENT, just after the gcc 4.2.1 integration. Many ports would not compile properly, etc. I

Re: End-of-life for my amd64 ?

2007-09-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
Matthijs Breemans wrote: Kris, Is that url correct? Website doesn't show up here. And a traceroute dies somewhere @ yahoo (From the Netherlands) Regards, Matthijs -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens Kris Kennaway Verzonden: woensdag 19

Re: MySQL config [WAS: ]uilding a new workstation - dual or quad-core CPU for FreeBSD 7?

2007-09-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Philip M. Gollucci wrote: my.cnf innodb_thread_concurrency = 8 You want '0' or performance will suck. There's a basic architectural flaw in how mysql handles non-zero concurrency values here (innodb accesses are serialized by a global mutex that protects a counter to

Re: MySQL config [WAS: ]uilding a new workstation - dual or quad-core CPU for FreeBSD 7?

2007-09-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Is it worth having the port remove that recommendation from the /usr/local/share/mysql/*.cnf files ? It probably is worth it, yeah. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Do you need to rebuild ports after 7-Current upgrade?

2007-09-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
Brent Jones wrote: Good morning - After a 6.2 to 7-Current FreeBSD upgrade, do you need to rebuild your ports? Yes (as with any major release upgrade). Old binaries will continue to work, but if you ever plan to compile a new port you will have to rebuild your existing ports first, because

Re: 6.2 AMD64 Ports Problem

2007-09-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thats weird. When I updated using cvsup it updated all of the ports in my /usr/ports directory. I then ran make install on /usr/ports/x11/xorg, it then looks for dri-7.0.1,2.tbz, but that file isn't in amd64/packages-6.2-release/latest or

Re: Building a new workstation - dual or quad-core CPU for FreeBSD 7?

2007-09-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Josh Carroll wrote: That's good to know. You should be using libthr for threaded performance though :) That benchmark is probably almost all userland though, so performance may not suffer much from libpthread. Oh I wasn't sure if libthr

Re: Building a new workstation - dual or quad-core CPU for FreeBSD 7?

2007-09-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: Yes, 4BSD is still the default, although you definitely want to use ULE for performance reasons (NB: only on 7, dont use ULE on 6). I don't know whether the release engineers plan to change that default, but I will check. could you point to some

Re: Building a new workstation - dual or quad-core CPU for FreeBSD 7?

2007-09-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
Maxim Khitrov wrote: On 9/14/07, Aryeh Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/14/07, Maxim Khitrov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm about to purchase a new system for myself. It will dual-boot Windows XP, which will be primarily used for gaming, and FreeBSD 7.0 for everything else. I

Re: Building a new workstation - dual or quad-core CPU for FreeBSD 7?

2007-09-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
Josh Carroll wrote: In general, if you are running a multi-process or multi-threaded workload, FreeBSD 7 will be able to make good use of 8 CPU cores. Over the past 2 years we have done extensive benchmarking and optimizations that have resulted in *huge* performance improvements on many common

Re: Building a new workstation - dual or quad-core CPU for FreeBSD 7?

2007-09-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
Josh Carroll wrote: Yes, 4BSD is still the default, although you definitely want to use ULE for performance reasons (NB: only on 7, dont use ULE on 6). I don't know whether the release engineers plan to change that default, but I will check. Great, thanks for the info. Good to know, I'll be

Re: Building a new workstation - dual or quad-core CPU for FreeBSD 7?

2007-09-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
Josh Carroll wrote: That's good to know. You should be using libthr for threaded performance though :) That benchmark is probably almost all userland though, so performance may not suffer much from libpthread. Oh I wasn't sure if libthr was the preferred thread library for 6.2 also (I'd

Re: Hunks failed, is this bad?

2007-09-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
RW wrote: On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 02:23:52 +0200 cpghost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IIRC, it's portmanager that patches bsd.port.mk on the fly (and backs the change out when it is done). Or it did so a while ago; I don't know if it still does today. Try to update portmanager, or use something else

Re: Hunks failed, is this bad?

2007-09-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
Gabriel Dragffy wrote: Hi all I hope you can help me. I have a clean install of freebsd. I changed to /usr and made ports directory. Then I ran portsnap fetch and then extract. Then I changed to ports-mngmt/portmanager and did make install clean. When I try to install any port using

Re: buggy ACPI on board versus HW failure Re: no SMP without ACPI? (amd64)

2007-09-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Sep 7, 2007, at 3:14 AM, Kris Kennaway wrote: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Sep 5, 2007, at 3:07 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kris Kennaway Sent: Wednesday

Re: no SMP without ACPI? (amd64)

2007-09-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Sep 5, 2007, at 3:07 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kris Kennaway Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 1:57 AM To: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Cc: User Questions Subject

Re: no SMP without ACPI? (amd64)

2007-09-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: Hi I have a 6.2R system (amd64) with the latest patch level. The motherboard is a Tyan S5197 i3110 based board with a Core 2 Quad 2.4 ghz processor. There is 4GB of memory and an Areca ARC-1231ML raid card. The problem is that I have to boot without ACPI

Re: gmail fs

2007-09-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
Danielisz Laszlo wrote: Does anyone know how to usw gmail fs in FreeBSD? If there is a FUSE module that does it, you might get it to work. It's always going to be a big hack though. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Philosophy of default pkg_add -r PACKAGESITE?

2007-09-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
Gary Affonso wrote: If I do, it seems to me that the absolute first thing I should do after installing a release version would be to change where pkg_add -r is sourcing packages from. Either to current if I like to live on the edge or stable if I want to be a more conservative. No, stable

Re: problem with running mdconfig from shell script

2007-09-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
Maikel Lambregts wrote: Hi, I want to make automatic backup of my MySQL by using FreeBSD snapshots. All works fine when I run the commands from my Putty, but when I run them from a shell script the 2th command (mdconfig) gives an error. These are the comments to make the backup, that work

Re: Philosophy of default pkg_add -r PACKAGESITE?

2007-09-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
Gueven Bay wrote: I'm curious, why does pkg_add -r point to the release snapshot of ports by default? Is the idea that a release is well-tested and that any deviation from that (even security or bug-fix changes) is an unknown that new users need to be shielded against when grabbing packages

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