Re: FreeBSD on the ASUS P8H67-M LGA1155 H67 motherboard

2012-06-01 Thread Victor Sudakov
I have installed 9.0-RELEASE on this motherboard with the following brief results: $ cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2009061500/amd64) Installed devices: pcm0: (play/rec) default pcm1: (play/rec) pcm2: (play) pcm3: (play) pcm4: (play) $ The devices /dev/dsp0, /dev/dsp1 e

Re: 9.0 on SSD

2012-06-01 Thread Victor Sudakov
Warren Block wrote: [dd] > >>> I have not done any tricky partition alignment, do I really need to? Is > >>> anything else advisable? > >> > >> If it's not aligned, there can be a pretty significant performance > >> drop. Please show the output of 'gpart show' on that drive if it's GPT > >> (gpa

Re: MK_CLANG_IS_CC mis-formed when compiling ports

2012-06-01 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 06/01/12 00:00, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 07:13:11PM -0700, Thomas D. Dean wrote: I built FrfeeBSD 9 with WITHOUT_CLANG="Yes" When I try to build the net/bwn-firmware-kmod/ I get an error that MK_CLANG_IS_CC is mis-formed. If I define this in make.conf, I get an err

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2012-06-01 Thread Mario Lobo
On Friday 01 June 2012 03:29:40 Thomas Mueller wrote: > > I ddon't see any advantage in FreeBSD 8.x or earlier. Well, I still see complains about a few quirks in 9 here in the list, specially after certain src updates. Re:Use of C99 extra long double math functions after r236148 Re: kern/168190

Re: FreeBSD ports patch count

2012-06-01 Thread ajtiM
On Friday 01 June 2012 04:25:12 Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 01/06/2012 09:34, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > > On 6/1/12 9:49 AM, Brent Clark wrote: > >> Hiya > >> > >> I would just like to ask / know. Did anything weird or wonderful happen > >> on the FreeBSD ports. > >> > >> To show you what I mean. >

Re: Audio CD issue -- most everything but noise ASUS M4A89TD mobo

2012-06-01 Thread Gary Aitken
On 05/31/12 16:16, Polytropon wrote: > Impedance and level mismatch would be the typical reason > for this. But basically, it's not _much_ worse than using > an internal analog connection. Probably ok if you soldered it up so you didn't have the mismatch from crappy high impedance plug-in connec

Re: How to crontab screen with script inside and a "don't run it if it's already running" check?

2012-06-01 Thread Jens Jahnke
Hi, On Fri, 1 Jun 2012 20:55:00 +0200 Dwayne Henderson wrote: DH> I run this Ruby script 24/7 (records data from this live stream). DH> It runs inside a screen though, so it's easy to check in on it DH> every once in a while. DH> DH> But how do I crontab the screen with the script inside it? It

How to crontab screen with script inside and a "don't run it if it's already running" check?

2012-06-01 Thread Dwayne Henderson
I run this Ruby script 24/7 (records data from this live stream). It runs inside a screen though, so it's easy to check in on it every once in a while. But how do I crontab the screen with the script inside it? It has to be with a "don't run it if it's already running" check. So far I have this (

Re: Support for Intel 82599ES?

2012-06-01 Thread Sean Bruno
On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 10:45 -0700, Rick Miller wrote: > BCM5720 I haven't gotten this working on my Dell R620 via bge(4), but we are actively working on it. Sean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/f

Re: Support for Intel 82599ES?

2012-06-01 Thread Rick Miller
Thanks, Michael! I took a look at the manpage and it does appear that it is supported by the bge driver. It also states that the 572x controller is also supported, but I heard a rumor stating that the BCM5720 in particular did not work even though the manpage indicates it is supported. I was una

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-06-01 Thread Anonymous
> Certainly with computers that never have hardware faults and assuming ZFS > doesn't have any software bugs you may be right. That was part of their assumption. It's based on server grade hardware and ECC RAM, and lots of redundancy. They missed the part about their code not being perfect. >

Re: How to use an external USB3.0 drive with 4k sectors?

2012-06-01 Thread Gary Aitken
On 06/01/12 04:01, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: > My goal is to get it recognized on one of the two USB3 ports I have. > All I get there is > Jun 1 11:43:45 hal9000 kernel: ugen4.2: at usbus4 > Jun 1 11:43:45 hal9000 kernel: umass0: 0/0, rev 3.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus4 > and after 100 seconds: >

Re: HP networked printer -- hp-setup won't use, hp-probe finds

2012-06-01 Thread Gary Aitken
On 06/01/12 10:51, Gary Aitken wrote: > On 05/31/12 17:59, Thomas Mueller wrote: >>>From Gary Aitken : >> >>> I've got an HP printer directly connected to the local network. >> >>> hp-probe finds it: >> >>> #hp-probe -bnet >> >>> HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.12.2) >>> Printer

Re: Support for Intel 82599ES?

2012-06-01 Thread Michael Butler
On 06/01/12 13:06, Rick Miller wrote: > Thanks, Jack! > > Also another support question for the listsIs the Broadcom BCM5719 > supported? I can find neither in the hardware notes for 8.3 nor 9.0. man bge ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: HP networked printer -- hp-setup won't use, hp-probe finds

2012-06-01 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > I have an HP LaserJet M1212nf MFP, and hplip/hp-setup in FreeBSD finds the > printer all right when connected by Ethernet, but then fails on installing > the required binary plugin. Printer is not detected at all when connected > by USB. >

Re: Support for Intel 82599ES?

2012-06-01 Thread Rick Miller
Thanks, Jack! Also another support question for the listsIs the Broadcom BCM5719 supported? I can find neither in the hardware notes for 8.3 nor 9.0. On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Jack Vogel wrote: > Yes, it is supported in the ixgbe driver. > > Jack > > > On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:36 AM,

Re: HP networked printer -- hp-setup won't use, hp-probe finds

2012-06-01 Thread Gary Aitken
On 05/31/12 17:59, Thomas Mueller wrote: >> From Gary Aitken : > >> I've got an HP printer directly connected to the local network. > >> hp-probe finds it: > >> #hp-probe -bnet > >> HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.12.2) >> Printer Discovery Utility ver. 4.1 >> ... >>Device UR

Re: Support for Intel 82599ES?

2012-06-01 Thread Jack Vogel
Yes, it is supported in the ixgbe driver. Jack On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Rick Miller wrote: > Hi All, > > I did not see the Intel 82599ES chipset in the hardware release notes > for 8.3 or 9.0. Are these controllers supported at this time? > > -- > Take care > Rick Miller > _

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-06-01 Thread Albert Shih
Le 01/06/2012 ? 18:17:38+0200, Wojciech Puchar a écrit > > i dare not to agree about "very fast". very fast is relative term. how did > you configured your storage? > > trivial test: > > make 10 100GB files (so none fits in RAM) by > > for x in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9;do ( dd if=/dev/zero of=test

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-06-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Albert Shih wrote: I've Dell R610 + 48 Go Ram, 2x 6 core + 4 * MD1200 (36*3T + 12*2T) [root@filer ~]# zpool list NAME     SIZE  ALLOC   FREE    CAP  DEDUP  HEALTH  ALTROOT filer    119T  35,4T  83,9T    29%  1.00x  ONLINE  - [root@filer ~]# Work very fine (I can

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-06-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Better=random read performance of single drive. What an entirely useless performance measure! if random read performance is a useless measure for you then i really cannot help you. sorry. __

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-06-01 Thread Oscar Hodgson
Are you running FreeBSD 9? Most of the LSI drivers officially support 8.2, but I don't see any indication of later updates. I presume all work OK with 9.0 ... yes? ... oscar. On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Albert Shih wrote: >  Le 01/06/2012 ? 11:36:02-0400, Oscar Hodgson a écrit > Hi, > > I

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-06-01 Thread Oscar Hodgson
Thank you for bringing up this topic. We've got significant experience with both UFS and ZFS (as delivered by Solaris). Our internal testing has shown that UFS provides significantly better throughput, roughly 20% to 30% higher in general, and 50% higher in some specific use cases. My internal c

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-06-01 Thread Albert Shih
Le 01/06/2012 ? 11:36:02-0400, Oscar Hodgson a écrit Hi, I use a LSI SAS 9200-8e 8 port Low Profile It's working well, I got crw-r- 1 root operator0, 122 9 avr 10:30 /dev/da0 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 176 9 avr 10:30 /dev/da1 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 192 9 avr

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-06-01 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 01), Wojciech Puchar said: > > and unbelievable narrow cases, when you don't have or can't access a > > backup (which you should have even when using ZFS), and you _need_ to do > > some forensic analysis on disks, ZFS seems to be a worse solution than > > UFS. On ZFS, you

Support for Intel 82599ES?

2012-06-01 Thread Rick Miller
Hi All, I did not see the Intel 82599ES chipset in the hardware release notes for 8.3 or 9.0. Are these controllers supported at this time? -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-06-01 Thread Oscar Hodgson
Albert, What are you using for an HBA in the Dell? On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Albert Shih wrote: > I've Dell R610 + 48 Go Ram, 2x 6 core + 4 * MD1200 (36*3T + 12*2T) > > [root@filer ~]# zpool list > NAME     SIZE  ALLOC   FREE    CAP  DEDUP  HEALTH  ALTROOT > filer    119T  35,4T  83,9T    

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-06-01 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > ZFS is somehow in that part similar to Amiga "Fast" File System. when you > overwrite a directory block (by hardware fault for example), everything > below that directory will disappear. You may not be even aware of it until > you need that

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-06-01 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > Better=random read performance of single drive. What an entirely useless performance measure! Maybe you should restrict yourself to using SSDs, which have rather unbeatable random read performance - the spindle speed is really high. ;-) _

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-06-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
As for ZFS being dangerous, we have a score of drive-years with no loss of data. The lack of fsck is considered in this intelligently written piece you are just lucky. before i would start using anything new in such important part as filesystem, i do extreme test, ssimulate hardware faults, ra

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-06-01 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:35 AM, Polytropon wrote: > I do _not_ want to try to claim a "ZFS inferiority due to > missing backups", but there may be occassions where (except > performance), low-level file system aspects of UFS might be > superior to using ZFS. If you have an operational need for o

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-06-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
and unbelievable narrow cases, when you don't have or can't access a backup (which you should have even when using ZFS), and you _need_ to do some forensic analysis on disks, ZFS seems to be a worse solution than UFS. On ZFS, you never can predict where the data will go. Add several disks to tru

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-06-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
level? It was my impression that ZFS doesn't actually format the disk as does any filesystem "format" a disk? disks are nowadays factory formatted. filesystem only write data and it's metadata on it. I really recommend you to get basic knowledge of how (any) filesystem works. THEN pleas

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-06-01 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 1 Jun 2012 14:05:57 +0100, Kaya Saman wrote: > It was my impression that ZFS doesn't actually format the disk as > stores data as raw information on the hard disk directly rather then > using an actual "file system" structure as such. In worst... in ultra-worst abysmal inexpected exception

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-06-01 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Fri, 1 Jun 2012, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Assuming that filesystem doesn't need offline filesystem check utility because it "never crash" is funny. zfs scrub...??? when starting means crash quickly? Well.. no. Certainly with computers that never have hardware faults and assuming ZFS d

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-06-01 Thread Kaya Saman
> >> Additionally ZFS works directly at the block level of the HD meaning >> that it is slightly different to the 'normal' file systems in storing >> information and is also "self healing".. > > > doesn't other filesystem work on block level too? if no - then at what > level? > > It was my imp

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-06-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Assuming that filesystem doesn't need offline filesystem check utility because it "never crash" is funny. zfs scrub...??? when starting means crash quickly? Well.. no. Certainly with computers that never have hardware faults and assuming ZFS doesn't have any software bugs you may be right.

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-06-01 Thread Kaya Saman
> > and definitely do not use it if you will not have regular backups of all > data, as in case of failures (yes they do happen) you will just have no > chance to repair it. > > There is NO fsck_zfs! And ZFS is promoted as it "doesn't need" it. > > Assuming that filesystem doesn't need offline file

Re: How to indicate source directory in other than /usr/src?

2012-06-01 Thread Peter Vereshagin
Hello. 2012/05/30 17:04:42 +0400 Peter Vereshagin => To freebsd-questions@freebsd.org : PV> xterm works for me in my mutt under tmux, ask me if you need to tweak locale ( I see his L char with the '/' over it in place, and the cyrilic letters in my other mail, too ) PV> PV> mlterm is better f

Re: netstat: kvm_read: Bad address

2012-06-01 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 01:30:37PM +0300, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: > Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > >On ia64 r231193 I get: > > > ># netstat -r > >netstat: kvm_read: Bad address > > > >What's the problem? > > > >Thanks > > > > For jail environment this means that /dev is not mounted. I'm sure I've

Re: netstat: kvm_read: Bad address

2012-06-01 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On ia64 r231193 I get: # netstat -r netstat: kvm_read: Bad address What's the problem? Thanks For jail environment this means that /dev is not mounted. -- Sphinx of black quartz judge my vow. ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

netstat: kvm_read: Bad address

2012-06-01 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On ia64 r231193 I get: # netstat -r netstat: kvm_read: Bad address What's the problem? Thanks -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 __

Re: How to use an external USB3.0 drive with 4k sectors?

2012-06-01 Thread Jens Schweikhardt
Hi Wojciech et al, On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 10:42:53AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: # > # mount -t ntfs -o ro /dev/da5s1 /mnt # > mount_ntfs: /dev/da5s1: Invalid argument # > ) # your dmesg shows drive is properly detected. Yes, but this was only on a USB2 (two) port, and just an auxiliary infor

Re: How to use an external USB3.0 drive with 4k sectors?

2012-06-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have recompiled the kernel with "device ada" and put ahci_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf. you don't need ada driver for USB disk. anyway you need it for your SATA disk to make things fast. and mounting it works. Obviously, for the disk the device nodes aren't created... Is there somethin

Re: vpn speed loss

2012-06-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
vpn connexion. I have tried Openvpn and mpd5 (with a pptp and l2pt connexion) and the max speed (according to various speedtests) is 5 to 6MB. 5-6MB = megabytes per second? megabytes per hour? per year? be more precise. Without the vpn I'm having 45-50 MB... My vpn service has servers in do

vpn speed loss

2012-06-01 Thread Beni Brinckman
Hi, I'm running FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE (pc-bsd 9.0 actuallly) on amd64 and I'm using a vpn connexion. My problem is the enormous speed loss i'm having when I'm using the vpn connexion. I have tried Openvpn and mpd5 (with a pptp and l2pt connexion) and the max speed (according to various speedtests) i

Re: How to use an external USB3.0 drive with 4k sectors?

2012-06-01 Thread Jens Schweikhardt
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 06:14:08PM -0400, Thomas Mueller wrote: ... # I think you also need xhci driver in kernel config. xhci is for USB 3.0. It's there. As I said, using a USB 3 *Stick* works fine. It is recogized as 3.0 and the speed is as expected. It's the *Disk* that is not recognized. They

Re: FreeBSD ports patch count

2012-06-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 01/06/2012 09:34, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > On 6/1/12 9:49 AM, Brent Clark wrote: >> Hiya >> >> I would just like to ask / know. Did anything weird or wonderful happen >> on the FreeBSD ports. >> >> To show you what I mean. >> >> [root@torry /usr/home/bclark]# portaudit -F -a; portsnap fetch upda

Re: Address to reach human operator regarding problems with list?

2012-06-01 Thread Mike Clarke
On Thursday 31 May 2012 11:06:24 Thomas Mueller wrote: > I contacted my Internet service provider, Insight Cable, about the problem, > and they need a copy of any message that bounces, so they can see what went > awry. I had the same problem a while ago with my ISP (Plusnet). Standard response fr

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-06-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I'm not using as huge a dataset, but I was seeing this behavior as well when I first set my box up. What was happening was that ZFS was caching *lots* of writes, and then would dump them all to disk at once, during which time the computer was completely occupied with the disk I/O. The solutio

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-06-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I am also in charge of redesigning one of our virtual SAN's to a FreeBSD ZFS storage system which will run well how many JBOD's can you fit on the system?? Probably round ~100TB or so. quite a bit more without buying overpriced things ___ free

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-06-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
48TB each, roughly. There would be a couple of units. The pizza boxes would be used for computational tasks, and nominally would have 8 cores and 96G+ RAM. Obvious questions are hardware compatibility and stability. I've set up small FreeBSD 9 machines with ZFS roots and simple mirrors for oth

Re: How to use an external USB3.0 drive with 4k sectors?

2012-06-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
# mount -t ntfs -o ro /dev/da5s1 /mnt mount_ntfs: /dev/da5s1: Invalid argument ) your dmesg shows drive is properly detected. seems like ntfs driver doesn't work OR MBR is't properly handled. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lis

Re: FreeBSD ports patch count

2012-06-01 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 6/1/12 9:49 AM, Brent Clark wrote: > Hiya > > I would just like to ask / know. Did anything weird or wonderful happen > on the FreeBSD ports. > > To show you what I mean. > > [root@torry /usr/home/bclark]# portaudit -F -a; portsnap fetch update; > pkg_version -vIL=; freebsd-update fetch inst

FreeBSD ports patch count

2012-06-01 Thread Brent Clark
Hiya I would just like to ask / know. Did anything weird or wonderful happen on the FreeBSD ports. To show you what I mean. [root@torry /usr/home/bclark]# portaudit -F -a; portsnap fetch update; pkg_version -vIL=; freebsd-update fetch install auditfile.tbz 100

Re: MK_CLANG_IS_CC mis-formed when compiling ports

2012-06-01 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 07:13:11PM -0700, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > I built FrfeeBSD 9 with > WITHOUT_CLANG="Yes" > > When I try to build the net/bwn-firmware-kmod/ > > I get an error that MK_CLANG_IS_CC is mis-formed. > > If I define this in make.conf, I get an error that the user may not set >

Re: Corrections to: unable to upgrade to mysql55-server

2012-06-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 01/06/2012 00:32, Gene wrote: > Actually, I did just as above except using portmanager.. Tried deleting the > two packages & tried again with portmaster. Still no luck. So I deleted them > again and installed from packages. mysql-client-5.4.. installed lib/mysql/ > libmysqlclient.so.18, but my

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2012-06-01 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 29 May 2012 20:06, wrote: >    Hello, >   I am moving away from MS products due to security a nd stability >   concerns.  Below are the machines I use and would like to know which >   version of FreeBSD will work best with each.  The computer s are used >   at home and away, for e-mail, prepa