Re: Max NFSD processes

2004-05-21 Thread Steve Shorter
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 10:44:14AM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: That's good to hear. Did you do any other tweaks? sysctl settings? mbufs? net.inet.udp.recvspace=524288 kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=1048576 net.inet.icmp.drop_redirect=1 net.inet.icmp.log_redirect=1 Telus-nfs1:# w 12:41PM up 212

Re: Max NFSD processes

2004-05-21 Thread Steve Shorter
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 01:06:41PM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: Disk design issues matter cause it is the ultimate bottleneck. RAID is you friend. Just curious - what RAID level/configuration do you use? I've typically used RAID5, but RAID0+1 might be acceptable.

Re: NFS Performance woes

2002-11-05 Thread Steve Shorter
Howdy! I have done some simulations with NFS servers - Intel SCB2 (4G RAM) serving files from 500G RAID devices. I created a treed directory structure with 300G of 32k files that approximates our homedirectory structure. I had about 6 diskless front ends (tyan 2518 with

Re: cannot boot from SCSI disk

2003-02-12 Thread Steve Shorter
Howdy! Some hardware will not boot FreeBSD from SCSI disks unless the disk is formated and labled in dedicated mode. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/formating-media/x65.html In general SCSI disk that only contain FreeBSD should be formated/labled in

Re: cannot boot from SCSI disk

2003-02-13 Thread Steve Shorter
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 03:28:58PM +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: interesting. all I see is backpedalling from dangerously dedicated disks in /stand/sysinstall and elsewhere Many IDE drives will not boot if setup in dangerously dedicated mode. So, for normal people who are

serious vinum bug in 4-10 RELEASE?

2004-07-11 Thread Steve Shorter
Howdy! I have 4 identical disks, labels etc are also identical. It looks like vinum after reboot does not recognize drives properly, as it did immedialtely after initial configuration. One drive/subdisk in each plex isn't recognized, and the other one is duplicated, which

Re: serious vinum bug in 4-10 RELEASE?

2004-07-12 Thread Steve Shorter
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 06:40:01AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I get the following incorrect configuration. Notice that drives data0 and data1 are missing and drives data2 and data3 are duplicated where data0 and data1 should be. I see no drives. Not sure what you

Re: serious vinum bug in 4-10 RELEASE?-solved?

2004-07-13 Thread Steve Shorter
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 06:40:01AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I see no drives. Ideas? I have concluded that this is the result of somekind of vinum/hardware incompatibility. The problem in question occured during the upgrade to faster disks, specifically, Seagate Cheetah