Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-10-01 Thread Mark Felder
On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:00:40 -0500, wrote: Sep 21 02:14:55 backups kernel: (da1:mpt0:0:1:0): WRITE(10). CDB: 2a 0 5 ee 60 16 0 1 0 0 Sep 21 02:14:55 backups kernel: (da1:mpt0:0:1:0): CAM status: SCSI Status Error Sep 21 02:14:55 backups kernel: (da1:mpt0:0:1:0): SCSI status: Busy Sep 21 0

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-10-01 Thread guy . helmer
On Wednesday, June 6, 2012 8:36:04 PM UTC-5, Mark Felder wrote: > Hi guys I'm excitedly posting this from my phone. Good news for you guys, bad > news for us -- we were building HA storage on vmware for a client and can now > replicate the crash on demand. I'll be posting details when I get home

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-06-06 Thread Mark Felder
Hi guys I'm excitedly posting this from my phone. Good news for you guys, bad news for us -- we were building HA storage on vmware for a client and can now replicate the crash on demand. I'll be posting details when I get home to my PC tonight, but this hopefully is enough to replicate the crash

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-31 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday, May 31, 2012 11:11:11 am Mark Felder wrote: > So when this hang happens, there never is a real panic. It just sits in a > state which I describe as like being in a deadlock. How would I go about > getting a crashdump if it never panics? Is it possible to do the dump over > a netw

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-31 Thread Mark Felder
So when this hang happens, there never is a real panic. It just sits in a state which I describe as like being in a deadlock. How would I go about getting a crashdump if it never panics? Is it possible to do the dump over a network or something because I don't believe it can write through the

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-31 Thread John Baldwin
On Wednesday, May 30, 2012 3:56:02 pm Mark Felder wrote: > On Wed, 30 May 2012 12:17:07 -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > > > > Humm, can you test it with 2 CPUs? > > > > We primarily only run with 1 CPU. We have seen it crash on multiple CPU > VMs. Also, Dane Foster appeared to have been using m

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-30 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 30 May 2012 12:17:07 -0500, John Baldwin wrote: Humm, can you test it with 2 CPUs? We primarily only run with 1 CPU. We have seen it crash on multiple CPU VMs. Also, Dane Foster appeared to have been using multiple CPUs in his video transcoding VMs. Unfortunately I can't give

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-30 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 30 May 2012 10:06:13 -0500, John Baldwin wrote: Do you only have one CPU in this VM? If not, do you know which threads the other CPUs were running (e.g. do you have ps7.png, etc.)? correct, only one CPU in the VM ___ freebsd-questions@free

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-30 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday, May 24, 2012 9:47:46 am Mark Felder wrote: > On Wed, 23 May 2012 17:30:40 -0500, Adrian Chadd > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > can you please, -please- file a PR? And place all of the above > > information in it so we don't lose it? > > > > I'd be glad to post a PR and assist in helping

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-24 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, You guys now absolutely, positively have enough information for a PR. It's still not clear whether it's a device/interrupt layer issue in FreeBSD, or whether vmware is doing something wrong with how it implements shared interrupts, or a bit of both.. Adrian On 24 May 2012 13:54, dane foster

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-24 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
On 24. May 2012, at 13:47 , Mark Felder wrote: > On Wed, 23 May 2012 17:30:40 -0500, Adrian Chadd wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> can you please, -please- file a PR? And place all of the above >> information in it so we don't lose it? >> > > I'd be glad to post a PR and assist in helping to get it per

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-24 Thread dane foster
Hey all, On 25/05/2012, at 1:47 AM, Mark Felder wrote: > On Wed, 23 May 2012 17:30:40 -0500, Adrian Chadd wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> can you please, -please- file a PR? And place all of the above >> information in it so we don't lose it? >> > > I'd be glad to post a PR and assist in helping to ge

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-24 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 23 May 2012 17:30:40 -0500, Adrian Chadd wrote: Hi, can you please, -please- file a PR? And place all of the above information in it so we don't lose it? I'd be glad to post a PR and assist in helping to get it permanently fixed. I certainly don't want this data to get lost and

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-23 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, can you please, -please- file a PR? And place all of the above information in it so we don't lose it? If this is indeed the problem then I really think we should root cause why the driver and/or interrupt handling code is getting angry with the shared interrupt. I'd also appreciate it if you

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-21 Thread Mark Felder
On Mon, 21 May 2012 13:47:45 -0500, Michael Powell wrote: Very curious how 'irq 22 at device 22.0' and 'dev.mpt.0.%location: slot=22' all match with a '22'. Strangely here in ESXi that doesn't work the same. Emulated BIOS must be considerably different... :/ $ vmstat -i interrupt

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-21 Thread Michael Powell
Mark Felder wrote: > OK guys I've been talking with another user who can recreate this crash > and the last bit of information we've learned seems to be leaning towards > interrupts/IRQ issues like someone (bz@ perhaps?) suggested. > > I'm still trying to test this myself, but the other user was

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-21 Thread Mark Felder
On Mon, 21 May 2012 12:01:19 -0500, Andrew Boyer wrote: You could try switching mpt to MSI. MSI interrupts are never shared. Add this to /boot/device.hints: hint.mpt.0.msi_enable="1" Currently implementing this on the known crashy servers. I've been looking around and all of our VM

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-21 Thread Andrew Boyer
On May 21, 2012, at 12:41 PM, Mark Felder wrote: > OK guys I've been talking with another user who can recreate this crash and > the last bit of information we've learned seems to be leaning towards > interrupts/IRQ issues like someone (bz@ perhaps?) suggested. > > I'm still trying to test thi

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-21 Thread Mark Felder
OK guys I've been talking with another user who can recreate this crash and the last bit of information we've learned seems to be leaning towards interrupts/IRQ issues like someone (bz@ perhaps?) suggested. I'm still trying to test this myself, but the other user was able to recreate my cra

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-10 Thread Mark Felder
Quick update: I have received word last night that this crash has been consistently happening to someone on FreeBSD 9 and they're looking for more ideas. I changed the following 41 days ago: - Video memory to "auto" if it wasn't already - SCSI controller changed from LSI Logic Parallel to L

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-04-03 Thread Doug Barton
On 4/2/2012 3:59 PM, Joe Greco wrote: >> On 4/2/2012 11:43 AM, Joe Greco wrote: >>> As a user, you can't win. If you don't report >>> a problem, you get criticized. If you report a problem but can't figure >>> out how to reproduce it, you get criticized. If you can reproduce it >>> but you don't

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-04-03 Thread Mark Felder
Guys, The crash on my machine with debugging has evaded me for a few days. I'm still looking for further suggestions of things I should grab from the DDB when it happens again. Thanks for the help everyone! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailin

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-04-02 Thread Joe Greco
> On 4/2/2012 11:43 AM, Joe Greco wrote: > > As a user, you can't win. If you don't report > > a problem, you get criticized. If you report a problem but can't figure > > out how to reproduce it, you get criticized. If you can reproduce it > > but you don't submit a workaround, you get criticize

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-04-02 Thread Doug Barton
On 4/2/2012 11:43 AM, Joe Greco wrote: > As a user, you can't win. If you don't report > a problem, you get criticized. If you report a problem but can't figure > out how to reproduce it, you get criticized. If you can reproduce it > but you don't submit a workaround, you get criticized. If you

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-04-02 Thread Joe Greco
> On 03/30/2012 07:41, Joe Greco wrote: > >> On 3/29/2012 7:01 AM, Joe Greco wrote: > On 3/28/2012 1:59 PM, Mark Felder wrote: > > FreeBSD 8-STABLE, 8.3, and 9.0 are untested > > As much as I'm sensitive to your production requirements, realistically > it's not likely that y

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-04-02 Thread Doug Barton
On 03/30/2012 07:41, Joe Greco wrote: >> On 3/29/2012 7:01 AM, Joe Greco wrote: On 3/28/2012 1:59 PM, Mark Felder wrote: > FreeBSD 8-STABLE, 8.3, and 9.0 are untested As much as I'm sensitive to your production requirements, realistically it's not likely that you'll get a he

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-30 Thread Jim Bryant
Mark Felder wrote: On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:24:30 -0500, wrote: I just started reading this tread, but I am wondering if I missed something here. What does this have to do with "Windows 7"? I emailed him off-list but I'm guessing he thought this was on VMWare Workstation or another product t

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-30 Thread Mark Felder
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:53:10 -0500, Joe Greco wrote: On the same vmdk files? "Deleting the VM" makes it sound like not. Fresh new VMDK files every time, and always thick provisioned. None of the other VM's, even the VM's that had been abused in this horribly insensitive manner of being pla

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-30 Thread Joe Greco
> On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:44:47 -0500, Joe Greco wrote: > > Have you migrated these hosts, or were they installed in-place and > > never moved? > > fwiw the apparent integrity of things on the VM is consistent with > > our experience too. > > VMMotion and StorageVMMotion does not seem to affect th

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-30 Thread Mark Felder
We don't have any indications that before the crash processes will take unusual amounts of CPU. The only time there is high CPU usage is at the point where it does enter the crashed state and no longer seems to be able to communicate with the disk. I'm not sure this is the same bug but we'l

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-30 Thread Mark Felder
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:44:47 -0500, Joe Greco wrote: Have you migrated these hosts, or were they installed in-place and never moved? fwiw the apparent integrity of things on the VM is consistent with our experience too. VMMotion and StorageVMMotion does not seem to affect the stability. Even

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-30 Thread Joe Greco
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:27:31 -0500, Joe Greco wrote: > > > It also doesn't explain the experience here, where one VM basically > > crapped out but only after a migration - and then stayed crapped out. > > It would be interesting to hear about your datastore, how busy it is, > > what technology,

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-30 Thread Joe Greco
> On 3/29/2012 7:01 AM, Joe Greco wrote: > >> On 3/28/2012 1:59 PM, Mark Felder wrote: > >>> FreeBSD 8-STABLE, 8.3, and 9.0 are untested > >> > >> As much as I'm sensitive to your production requirements, realistically > >> it's not likely that you'll get a helpful result without testing a newer >

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Adrian Chadd
Again, it's starting to sound like an interrupt handling issue which may or may not be limited to the storage device. You'll have to engage someone who knows those device drivers and likely have them add some debugging to the driver which can be easily flipped on (via binaries in a ramdisk - very

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Jerome Herman
On 28/03/2012 22:59, Mark Felder wrote: Alright guys, I'm at the end of my rope here. For those that haven't seen my previous emails here's the (not so) quick breakdown: Overview: FreeBSD ?? - 7.4 never crash FreeBSD 8.0 - 8.2 crashes FreeBSD 8-STABLE, 8.3, and 9.0 are untested (Sorry, not pos

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:27:31 -0500, Joe Greco wrote: It also doesn't explain the experience here, where one VM basically crapped out but only after a migration - and then stayed crapped out. It would be interesting to hear about your datastore, how busy it is, what technology, whether you're us

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Joe Greco
> > And then there is this one with similar symptoms and a workaround: > > > > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=3D27899 > > I'm now investigating those loader.conf options. I have my crashy machine > set to use them on next boot so we'll see if it crashes now that I'm using > LSI SAS emu

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Doug Barton
On 3/29/2012 7:01 AM, Joe Greco wrote: >> On 3/28/2012 1:59 PM, Mark Felder wrote: >>> FreeBSD 8-STABLE, 8.3, and 9.0 are untested >> >> As much as I'm sensitive to your production requirements, realistically >> it's not likely that you'll get a helpful result without testing a newer >> version. 8.

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:53:52 -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: Doesn't VMWare offer different types of emulated disk controllers? If so, that might be the easiest way to narrow the field. Another thing maybe to try would be to backport the mpt Yes, they offer Paravirtual (not applicable

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Mark Felder wrote: > > If we assume mpt is the culprit > Doesn't VMWare offer different types of emulated disk controllers? If so, that might be the easiest way to narrow the field. Another thing maybe to try would be to backport the mpt Also, it's not VMWare'

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Joe Greco
> On Thursday 29 March 2012 17:49:30 Joe Greco wrote: > > > On Thursday 29 March 2012 15:42:42 Joe Greco wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Do both 32- and 64-bit versions of FreeBSD crash? > > > > We've only seen it happen on one virtual machine. That was a 32-bit > > version. And it's not so mu

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:53:02 -0500, Alan Cox wrote: Not so long ago, VMware implemented a clever scheme for reducing the overhead of virtualized interrupts that must be delivered by at least some (if not all) of their emulated storage controllers: http://static.usenix.org/events/atc11/tech

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:24:30 -0500, wrote: I just started reading this tread, but I am wondering if I missed something here. What does this have to do with "Windows 7"? I emailed him off-list but I'm guessing he thought this was on VMWare Workstation or another product that would virtualiz

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:05:30 -0500, Mark Atkinson wrote: If this is an interrupt problem with disk i/o, then you might want to look into (DDB(4)) show intr show intrcount maybe show allrman Thank you! I really don't know what things we should be running in DDB to diagnose this and we wi

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:43:45 -0500 Jim Bryant articulated: > Mark Felder wrote: > > Alright guys, I'm at the end of my rope here. For those that > > haven't seen my previous emails here's the (not so) quick breakdown: > > > > Overview: > > > > FreeBSD ?? - 7.4 never crash > > FreeBSD 8.0 - 8.2 cra

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Atkinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/29/2012 07:03, Mark Felder wrote: > Alright, new data. It happened to crash about 10 minutes after I > came in this morning and I ran some stuff in the DDB. I have no > idea what information is useful, but perhaps someone will see > something out

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Alan Cox
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Mark Felder wrote: > On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:55:36 -0500, Hans Petter Selasky > wrote: > >> >> It almost sounds like the lost interrupt issue I've seen with USB EHCI >> devices, though disk I/O should have a retry timeout? >> >> What does "wmstat -i" output? >> >

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Jim Bryant
This sounds just like a race condition that happens under Windows 7 on this laptop. The race condition, as far as I can tell involves heavy disk access and heavy network access, and usually leaves the drive light on, while all activity monitors (alldisk, allcpu, allnetwork) are still active, a

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:49:30 -0500, Joe Greco wrote: I explained it at the time to one of my VMware friends: This is 100% identical to what we see, Joe! And we're so unlucky that we have this happen on probably a dozen servers, but a handful are the really bad ones. We've rebuilt them fr

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:55:36 -0500, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: It almost sounds like the lost interrupt issue I've seen with USB EHCI devices, though disk I/O should have a retry timeout? What does "wmstat -i" output? --HPS Here's a server that has a week uptime and is due for a crash any

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:31:24 -0500, Eduardo Morras wrote: Don't know about ESXi but on others VM Managers i can change the chipset emulation from ICH10 to ICH4. Can you change it to an older chipset too? Unfortunately there's no setting in the GUI for that but I'll keep looking to see

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Hans Petter Selasky
On Thursday 29 March 2012 17:49:30 Joe Greco wrote: > > On Thursday 29 March 2012 15:42:42 Joe Greco wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Do both 32- and 64-bit versions of FreeBSD crash? > > We've only seen it happen on one virtual machine. That was a 32-bit > version. And it's not so much a crash as it

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Joe Greco
> On Thursday 29 March 2012 15:42:42 Joe Greco wrote: > > > Hi, > > Do both 32- and 64-bit versions of FreeBSD crash? We've only seen it happen on one virtual machine. That was a 32-bit version. And it's not so much a crash as it is a "disk I/O hang". The fact that it was happening regularly t

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Eduardo Morras
At 16:03 29/03/2012, you wrote: Alright, new data. It happened to crash about 10 minutes after I came in this morning and I ran some stuff in the DDB. I have no idea what information is useful, but perhaps someone will see something out of the ordinary? http://feld.me/freebsd/esx_crash/ Don't

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:58:16 -0500, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: Do both 32- and 64-bit versions of FreeBSD crash? Correct, we see both i386 and amd64 flavors crash in the same way. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Joe Greco
> On 3/28/2012 1:59 PM, Mark Felder wrote: > > FreeBSD 8-STABLE, 8.3, and 9.0 are untested > > As much as I'm sensitive to your production requirements, realistically > it's not likely that you'll get a helpful result without testing a newer > version. 8.2 came out over a year ago, many many thing

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Hans Petter Selasky
On Thursday 29 March 2012 15:42:42 Joe Greco wrote: > > Hi, Do both 32- and 64-bit versions of FreeBSD crash? --HPS ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Joe Greco
> Hi, > > * have you filed a PR? > * is the crash easily reproducable? > * are you able to boot some ramdisk-only FreeBSD-8.2 images (eg create > a ramdisk image using nanobsd?) and do some stress testing inside > that? > > It sounds like you've established it's a storage issue, or at least > int

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
Alright, new data. It happened to crash about 10 minutes after I came in this morning and I ran some stuff in the DDB. I have no idea what information is useful, but perhaps someone will see something out of the ordinary? http://feld.me/freebsd/esx_crash/ Thanks... __

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
Thank you for the suggestion. We'll put it in our toolbox and see if it helps! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@fr

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 02:36:49 -0500, Doug Barton wrote: As much as I'm sensitive to your production requirements, realistically it's not likely that you'll get a helpful result without testing a newer version. 8.2 came out over a year ago, many many things have changed since then. The sad part

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:31:38 -0500, Adrian Chadd wrote: * have you filed a PR? No * is the crash easily reproducable? Unfortunately not. It's totally random. Some servers will "get the bug" and crash daily, some will crash weekly, some might seem to be fine but 3 months later hit th

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Michael Powell
Mark Felder wrote: > Alright guys, I'm at the end of my rope here. For those that haven't seen > my previous emails here's the (not so) quick breakdown: > > Overview: > > FreeBSD ?? - 7.4 never crash > FreeBSD 8.0 - 8.2 crashes > FreeBSD 8-STABLE, 8.3, and 9.0 are untested (Sorry, not possible i

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Doug Barton
On 3/28/2012 1:59 PM, Mark Felder wrote: > FreeBSD 8-STABLE, 8.3, and 9.0 are untested As much as I'm sensitive to your production requirements, realistically it's not likely that you'll get a helpful result without testing a newer version. 8.2 came out over a year ago, many many things have chang

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-28 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, * have you filed a PR? * is the crash easily reproducable? * are you able to boot some ramdisk-only FreeBSD-8.2 images (eg create a ramdisk image using nanobsd?) and do some stress testing inside that? It sounds like you've established it's a storage issue, or at least interrupt handling for

Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-28 Thread Mark Felder
Alright guys, I'm at the end of my rope here. For those that haven't seen my previous emails here's the (not so) quick breakdown: Overview: FreeBSD ?? - 7.4 never crash FreeBSD 8.0 - 8.2 crashes FreeBSD 8-STABLE, 8.3, and 9.0 are untested (Sorry, not possible in our production at this time,

Re: Can someone please help me set up my tata-photon (huawei) modem ?

2011-06-28 Thread Manish Jain
uto pmdemand' followed by 'ping [1]www.google.com' (or yahoo or any other site, for that matter), I always get "Hostname lookup failure". BTW, I don't have an /etc/resolv.conf. I only configured ppp.conf (please see below for details). Can someone please he

Re: Can someone please help me set up my tata-photon (huawei) modem ?

2011-06-28 Thread Manish Jain
followed by 'ping [1]www.google.com' (or yahoo or any other site, for that matter), I always get "Hostname lookup failure". BTW, I don't have an /etc/resolv.conf. I only configured ppp.conf (please see below for details). Can someone please help me set up the mode

Re: Can someone please help me set up my tata-photon (huawei) modem ?

2011-06-28 Thread Matthias Apitz
0 (stable), and run 'ppp -auto >pmdemand' followed by 'ping [1]www.google.com' (or yahoo or any other >site, for that matter), I always get "Hostname lookup failure". BTW, I >don't have an /etc/resolv.conf. I only configured ppp.conf (please see

Can someone please help me set up my tata-photon (huawei) modem ?

2011-06-28 Thread Manish Jain
r yahoo or any other site, for that matter), I always get "Hostname lookup failure". BTW, I don't have an /etc/resolv.conf. I only configured ppp.conf (please see below for details). Can someone please help me set up the modem so that I can dial out and connect

Re: Please help me

2010-01-20 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 01:10:48PM +0630, komyo gyi wrote: > hi, > > > yesterday i have modify squid.conf file.i have use vi editior.but i > > cannot delete in text message. following error ^? appear.How to do it?. > > please help me. Looks like you're hitting

Please help me

2010-01-20 Thread komyo gyi
hi, > yesterday i have modify squid.conf file.i have use vi editior.but i > cannot delete in text message. following error ^? appear.How to do it?. > please help me. > ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd

Re: please help me make sense of top's CPU output

2009-11-03 Thread Chris Rees
2009/11/3 Chris Stankevitz : > Dan Nelson wrote: >> >> Junior Hacker Project: add an instantaneous-CPU value (calculated by >> subtracting successive ki_runtime values) to the list of things top >> calculates and toggle it and weighted-CPU when pressing C.  The toggling >> code is already there; it

Re: please help me make sense of top's CPU output

2009-11-03 Thread Chris Stankevitz
Dan Nelson wrote: Junior Hacker Project: add an instantaneous-CPU value (calculated by subtracting successive ki_runtime values) to the list of things top calculates and toggle it and weighted-CPU when pressing C. The toggling code is already there; it just toggles between two different weighted

Re: please help me make sense of top's CPU output

2009-11-02 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 02), Chris Stankevitz said: > I recently performed a CPU intensive task with Xorg. When I completed the > task and Xorg no longer was using the CPU, I got this result from top: > > === > > last pid: 1201; load averages: 0.24, 0.10, 0.09up 0+00:29:42 > 63 process

please help me make sense of top's CPU output

2009-11-02 Thread Chris Stankevitz
Hello, I recently performed a CPU intensive task with Xorg. When I completed the task and Xorg no longer was using the CPU, I got this result from top: === last pid: 1201; load averages: 0.24, 0.10, 0.09up 0+00:29:42 63 processes: 1 running, 62 sleeping CPU: 1.0% user, 0.0% nice,

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Some Questions About Freebsd Please Help Me !!

2009-10-02 Thread xn.bravo
how to do that in freebsd , i will show you 1 screenshot as well , here is screenshot ( http://i36.tinypic.com/wuoro6.png ) , you can have a look on that as well , please help me if you can , like this i am going to buy may be 20 freebsd for that , i want to know how can i set all this in that

Re: Please Help Me ...

2009-02-16 Thread cpghost
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Re: Please help me with my PF config

2008-03-08 Thread Alaor Barroso de Carvalho Neto
2008/3/7, Preston Hagar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > It looks like you already have your problem solved. One utility you > might want to look at is pftop. With it, you can see pretty much in > real time what is going through pf and what is being blocked. This > has helped me a lot to find out which

Re: Please help me with my PF config

2008-03-07 Thread Preston Hagar
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Alaor Barroso de Carvalho Neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/3/6, Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I know my config is far away from a good config but it's the first time I > configure an firewall, and I have only basic english knowledge, I'm not > totally

Re: Please help me with my PF config

2008-03-06 Thread Alaor Barroso de Carvalho Neto
2008/3/6, Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > You can add log statements to your nat rules to see which is applied. > > > pass quick proto icmp from any to any keep state > > pass quick from $adm_net to $cefet_servers keep state > > pass quick from $cefet_servers to $adm_net keep state > > It appe

Re: Please help me with my PF config

2008-03-06 Thread Erik Norgaard
Alaor Barroso de Carvalho Neto wrote: > nat on $ext_if from $internal_nets to any -> ($ext_if) > nat on $cefet_if from $adm_net to any -> ($cefet_if) > rdr on $all_if proto tcp from any to any port $proxy_ports \ > -> 127.0.0.1 port 3128 OK, so do these nat rules actually take effect? Which o

Please help me with my PF config

2008-03-06 Thread Alaor Barroso de Carvalho Neto
Hi guyz, let me explain what I have. I work in a school, we have access to the internet, two internal networks (academic and administrative) and we have to connect to some servers in another school because we share databases and to video-conference. I have a FreeBSD box with PF and squid, i want al

Re: Can someone please help me get gdmchooser running, again?

2007-11-09 Thread Lane Holcombe
On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 08:28 +0300, Yuri Pankov wrote: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 11:12:20PM -0600, Lane Holcombe wrote: > > I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #1, compiled locally on Tue May 8 > > 16:39:25 CDT 2007 > > > > > > gdm was compiled WITHOUT IPv6 support, and I've got > > > > ipv6_enable

Re: Can someone please help me get gdmchooser running, again?

2007-11-09 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 11:12:20PM -0600, Lane Holcombe wrote: > I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #1, compiled locally on Tue May 8 > 16:39:25 CDT 2007 > > I was able to use gdmchooser on X.org 7.2, but after upgrade to 7.3 (and > GDM 2.20.1) she says "no serving hosts were found" after scanning t

Can someone please help me get gdmchooser running, again?

2007-11-09 Thread Lane Holcombe
I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #1, compiled locally on Tue May 8 16:39:25 CDT 2007 I was able to use gdmchooser on X.org 7.2, but after upgrade to 7.3 (and GDM 2.20.1) she says "no serving hosts were found" after scanning the local network When I first started this email, I got this from sock

Problem fetching iso vi ftp (was Re: Please Help me...)

2007-09-14 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "I am ws:ion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I want to download Free BSD This Link http://www.freebsd.org/where.html > > > i386 [Distribution] [ISO] > > but I can't download because I don't know User and Password >

RE: Please Help me...

2007-09-13 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost
Of I am ws:ion > Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 7:19 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Please Help me... > > I want to download Free BSD This Link http://www.freebsd.org/where.html > > > i386 [Distribution] [ISO] > > but I can't download

Please Help me...

2007-09-13 Thread I am ws:ion
I want to download Free BSD This Link http://www.freebsd.org/where.html i386 [Distribution] [ISO] but I can't download because I don't know User and Password please help me Thank you. <<<KaeW r. 34>>> --

Re: please Help ME!

2007-04-09 Thread youshi10
On Sun, 8 Apr 2007, Noname Noname wrote: Hi! I'm meisam . i want Book or PDF about kernel freebsd Data Structures, Algorithms please fast Reply tanks for you'r HELP. bye It's called go to Amazon.com and search for "FreeBSD operating system design". And please use a better subject line th

Re: please Help ME!

2007-04-09 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Noname Noname <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi! I'm meisam . > i want Book or PDF about kernel freebsd Data Structures, Algorithms I recommend _The_Design_and_Implementation_of_FreeBSD_ by Dr. McKusick and others. > please fast Reply I hope that was fast enough for you. -- Bill M

Re: please Help ME!

2007-04-09 Thread Christian Walther
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RE: Please help me !

2005-10-19 Thread simon butsana
ajorlou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : Dear sir I'm Mohammad Ajorlou I have MCP,MCSA,MCSE 2000 & 2003 certification , but very like learn FreeBSD Operating System i know FreeBSD very very stable , reliable and secure but unfortunately i don't know where must learn it Please hel

Re: Please help me !

2005-10-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
BSD very very stable , reliable and secure but >unfortunately i don't know where must learn it > >Please help me that which resource and document must use for > learning FreeBSD > >Thank you You can find links to several online documents, including the FreeBSD Handbo

Re: Please help me !

2005-10-19 Thread Andrew P.
ecure but >unfortunately i don't know where must learn it > >Please help me that which resource and document must use for learning >FreeBSD > >Thank you > _ > >[1]Find just what

Please help me !

2005-10-19 Thread mohammad ajorlou
Dear sir I'm Mohammad Ajorlou I have MCP,MCSA,MCSE 2000 & 2003 certification , but very like learn FreeBSD Operating System i know FreeBSD very very stable , reliable and secure but unfortunately i don't know where must learn it Please help me that which resourc

Re: Please help me booooot!

2005-05-23 Thread Tony Shadwick
I'd just boot off of disc 1 of the install set. That way you have a known (Bgood boot environment. Then you can back things up as per normal. You (Bcan also get a little bit of a sense of what is where. (B (B (BOn Mon, 23 May 2005, Joel wrote: (B (B> [...] (B>> when i boot either ad6

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