Re: Setting up ZFS - Filesystem Properties and Installing on Root

2011-11-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 22/11/2011 02:09, APseudoUtopia wrote: Another quick question about swap: If I have 4 drives, with 512MB swap, the system uses all 4 swap partitions, correct? So it's not like it'd be going to waste? I'd have a total of 2 GB swap? Well, yes. If you just declare those raw partitions to be

Re: bsdinstall distextract and manual installation

2011-11-22 Thread Michael
On 22/11/2011 08:38, Michael wrote: If yes then what is the proper way of using it? I'm setting these variables: $DISTRIBUTIONS=base I've found the problem. It works fine with base.txz so I believe the manpage should be corrected (it gives examples without file extensions). Michael

bsdinstall distextract and manual installation

2011-11-22 Thread Michael
Hello, I prefer manual installations so I was always going to fixit mode and doing something like: cd /dist/8.2-RELEASE/base install.sh Now there is no install.sh script in 9.0-RC2 anymore. Am I right thinking that bsdinstall distextract should do the same thing? If yes then what is the

Re: Setting up ZFS - Filesystem Properties and Installing on Root

2011-11-22 Thread krad
It seems to me that you would only need disk 1 to have boot, swap, and zfs, and the other 3 disks only have one partition (using the entire drive) for zfs's pool. As other have mentioned redundancy, but also you will nver see the befit as the zfs vdev (like any other raid system) size will

msk0 NIC getting stuck

2011-11-22 Thread Jukka A. Ukkonen
Greetings all, Has anyone seen similar problems as this... Nov 22 14:49:49 sleipnir kernel: msk0: watchdog timeout Nov 22 14:49:49 sleipnir kernel: msk0: prefetch unit stuck? Nov 22 14:49:49 sleipnir kernel: msk0: initialization failed: no memory for Rx b uffers The NIC freezes completely

9.0-PRERELEASE slow scp transfer

2011-11-22 Thread Bas Smeelen
Hi I have a stange thing. 1. 7.3-RELEASE-p2 on dell poweredge SC440 with bge nic 2. 9.0-PRERELEASE on another dell poweredge SC440 bge nic 3. 7.4-RELEASE-p4 in a vmware virtual machine with em nic When i copy a file with scp which is a few hundred megabytes on 1. from 2. or from 3. i get about

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Re: 9.0-PRERELEASE slow scp transfer

2011-11-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 22/11/2011 15:17, Bas Smeelen wrote: When i copy a file with scp which is a few hundred megabytes on2. from 1.i get about 130 KB/s I can find nothing in the logs or netstat errors on this 9.0-PRERELEASE box. I have switched network kabels and ports on the switch. How could i further

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

2011-11-22 Thread William Bulley
According to Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au on Sat, 11/19/11 at 13:29: Unfortunately that concentrates on creating a GPT layout, encouraging a Linux-like single (plus a boot) partition - forget using dump/restore - and says nothing much about installing over an existing setup with MBR

Installing ZFS on 9.0-RC2

2011-11-22 Thread Mike Clarke
I'm planning to upgrade to 9.0 soon and thought this might be a good opportunity to switch over to ZFS so I'm currently experimenting on a spare drive with the 9.0-RC2 DVD. I started off following the procedure in http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot but hit a problem in that the the

reexec socketpair: No buffer space available

2011-11-22 Thread Henry M
Hi all, Has anyone come across this error before: sshd[20861]: error: reexec socketpair: No buffer space available It stops remote users/services to connect to the machine remotely. I have 17 jails running on the machine. CPU load on the machine is low, and RAM usage is also low (16GB avail, 5GB

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

2011-11-22 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:40:45AM -0500, William Bulley wrote: According to Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au on Sat, 11/19/11 at 13:29: Unfortunately that concentrates on creating a GPT layout, encouraging a Linux-like single (plus a boot) partition - forget using dump/restore - and

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

2011-11-22 Thread William Bulley
According to Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk on Tue, 11/22/11 at 13:36: Can't help you with your bsdinstall woes but to upgrade from 8.2-STABLE to 9.0-RELEASE(currently RC2) branch you want to do a csup(1)/buildworld cycle.

Re: reexec socketpair: No buffer space available

2011-11-22 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Henry M henr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Has anyone come across this error before: sshd[20861]: error: reexec socketpair: No buffer space available It stops remote users/services to connect to the machine remotely. I have 17 jails running on the machine.

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

2011-11-22 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 01:56:23PM -0500, William Bulley wrote: According to Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk on Tue, 11/22/11 at 13:36: Can't help you with your bsdinstall woes but to upgrade from 8.2-STABLE to 9.0-RELEASE(currently RC2) branch you want to do a csup(1)/buildworld cycle.

Diagnosing packet loss

2011-11-22 Thread Kees Jan Koster
Dear All, I am stuck with a machine that shows serious packet loss (about 1% of all traffic is dropped). I tried the obvious (new network cable, different switch port, different ethernet interface on the machine), but the problems remain. Another machine that sits in the same rack and is

Consistent ATI lockups [mi] EQ overflowing.

2011-11-22 Thread Jimmie James
Symptoms: total lockup of X, Xorg pegged at 100% CPU time, LEDs don't work, keyboard is usless. SSH in allows a clean shutdown, about 50% of the time. FreeBSD jimmiejaz.org 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #0: Sun Jun 26 08:42:45 EDT 2011 jim...@jimmiejaz.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FORTYTWO

Re: Diagnosing packet loss

2011-11-22 Thread Gary Gatten
Well, 1% is not good but I've seen worse for sure! Sounds like you tried the obvious. I would recommend a different IP to rule out a dupe ip; else it must be NIC related - either hardware or driver. Also, perhaps swap cables and ports with a working machine and see if the problem follows or

Re: Installing ZFS on 9.0-RC2 - Solved

2011-11-22 Thread Mike Clarke
On Tuesday 22 November 2011, Mike Clarke wrote: I started off following the procedure in http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot but hit a problem in that the the new installer doesn't appear to provide a Fixit option. I've tried the shell and live cd options in the installer and also

Re: Consistent ATI lockups [mi] EQ overflowing.

2011-11-22 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:03 PM, Jimmie James jimmie...@gmail.com wrote: Symptoms: total lockup of X, Xorg pegged at 100% CPU time, LEDs don't work, keyboard is usless. SSH in allows a clean shutdown, about 50% of the time. FreeBSD jimmiejaz.org 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #0: Sun Jun 26

Re: Diagnosing packet loss

2011-11-22 Thread Kees Jan Koster
Dear Gary, Thank you for your reply. Your comment about dupe IP triggered something that I failed to mention: the interface is aliased. It has two IP addresses. IP address a and it has an alias IP address b. I just tested binding mtr to each of these interfaces separately to measure packet

Re: Diagnosing packet loss

2011-11-22 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Kees Jan Koster kjkos...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you for your reply. Your comment about dupe IP triggered something that I failed to mention: the interface is aliased. It has two IP addresses. IP address a and it has an alias IP address b. I just tested

Re: Diagnosing packet loss

2011-11-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 22/11/2011 20:33, Kees Jan Koster wrote: I am stuck with a machine that shows serious packet loss (about 1% of all traffic is dropped). I tried the obvious (new network cable, different switch port, different ethernet interface on the machine), but the problems remain. Another machine

Re: Diagnosing packet loss

2011-11-22 Thread J65nko
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Kees Jan Koster kjkos...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, I am stuck with a machine that shows serious packet loss (about 1% of all traffic is dropped). I tried the obvious (new network cable, different switch port, different ethernet interface on the machine),

Re: Diagnosing packet loss

2011-11-22 Thread Kees Jan Koster
Dear Michael, [kjkoster@saffron ~]$ ifconfig bge0 bge0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 options=8009bRXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,LINKSTATE ether 00:e0:81:32:ed:b4 inet 91.196.169.165 netmask 0xfff8 broadcast

Re: Diagnosing packet loss

2011-11-22 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Kees Jan Koster kjkos...@gmail.com wrote: [kjkoster@saffron ~]$ ifconfig bge0 bge0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 options=8009bRXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,LINKSTATE ether 00:e0:81:32:ed:b4

Re: Diagnosing packet loss

2011-11-22 Thread Michael Sierchio
Matthew suggests turning off hardware checksums - it won't hurt to give that a try: ifconfig bge0 media 100baseTX mediaopt -txcsum On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Kees Jan Koster kjkos...@gmail.com wrote:

RE: Diagnosing packet loss

2011-11-22 Thread Gary Gatten
I noticed the Ethernet flow control is enabled - or seems to be? Perhaps DISABLE Ethernet flow control (rxpause/txpause) in your box AND the switch. From: Adam Vande More [mailto:amvandem...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 4:26 PM To: Kees Jan Koster