freebsd upgrade

2004-10-08 Thread Smux
hi there, i've got my system reinstalled today with freebsd 4.9-release. i installed cvsup-without-gui by ports, typed cvsup stable.sup, waited for that finish, cd /usr/src and make buildworld. and then BOOM! it drop. whats the big deal? i'm tired doing this on MANY others servers, at home, on ot

Re: cp -Rp broken in RELENG_4? 'Operation not permitted' while copying directory permissions

2004-10-08 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 09:49:45PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 12:38:42PM -0400, Vlad wrote: > > FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE #3: Thu Sep 30 > > > > $ id > > uid=65534(nobody) gid=65534(nobody) groups=65534(nobody) > > > > $ mkdir test > > > > $ chmod 770 test > > > > $ cp -R

Re: Promise TX2 SATA controllers

2004-10-08 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Jean-Francois Dockes writes: | Just in case it may help someone (this information is not very easily | accessible in the archives): | | - I have a Promise TX2 controller with a PCI ID of 0x3375105a . It works |for me in 4.10 by adding the new PCI ID everywhere that you'll find the |other/

Re: vnode_pager_putpages errors and DOS?

2004-10-08 Thread Steve Shorter
On Thu, Jan 01, 1970 at 12:00:00AM +, Steve Shorter wrote: > Howdy! > > FreeBSD 4-10 > > I have some machines that run customers cgi stuff. > These machines have started to hang and become unresponsive. > At first I thought it was a hardware issue, but I discovered in > a cyclade

Re: 5.3-BETA7 ata problem with VIA 8235

2004-10-08 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
[ current@ cc'ed, as is still the best place for 5.x ] On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 14:17:13 +0200 (CEST) "Patrick M. Hausen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > Next test with the current beta: > > We have a system with a VIA chipset based mainboard, the ATA > controller is reported to be a VIA 8235.

Re: Packet passing performance study on exotic hardware.

2004-10-08 Thread David Gilbert
> "Mike" == Mike Tancsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mike> At 12:18 PM 08/10/2004, David Gilbert wrote: >> Idle_poll is default 1, I'm not positive we tested 0. I don't >> think there is much idle time here. Mike> Actually, on RELENG_5, I think the default is now zero. checked, tho. We did

Re: Packet passing performance study on exotic hardware.

2004-10-08 Thread David Gilbert
> "Julian" == Julian Elischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Julian> David Gilbert wrote: Julian> there are also changes in B4->B7 that ar related to scheduling Julian> the packet delivery mechanisms.. They may not make much of a Julian> difference but... I will endevour to do cvsup and retest

Re: Packet passing performance study on exotic hardware.

2004-10-08 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 12:18 PM 08/10/2004, David Gilbert wrote: Idle_poll is default 1, I'm not positive we tested 0. I don't think there is much idle time here. Actually, on RELENG_5, I think the default is now zero. With a releng_5 BETA7 box in between 2 other hosts, with idle_poll set to the default on zero, usi

Re: Packet passing performance study on exotic hardware.

2004-10-08 Thread Julian Elischer
David Gilbert wrote: "Scott" == Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Scott> Interesting results. One thing to note is that a severe bug in Scott> the if_em driver was fixed for BETA7. The symptoms of this bug Scott> include apparent livelock of the machine during heavy xmit Scott>

vnode_pager_putpages errors and DOS?

2004-10-08 Thread Steve Shorter
Howdy! FreeBSD 4-10 I have some machines that run customers cgi stuff. These machines have started to hang and become unresponsive. At first I thought it was a hardware issue, but I discovered in a cyclades log the following stuff that got logged to the console which explains the

RE: Packet passing performance study on exotic hardware.

2004-10-08 Thread David Gilbert
> "Daniel" == Daniel Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Daniel> David Gilbert wrote: >> Right out of the box, FreeBSD 5.3 (with polling) passed about 200 >> kpps. Daniel> Was this with debug.mpsafenet enabled and all debugging Daniel> (WITNESS and such) turned off? mpsafenet on and all wit

Re: Packet passing performance study on exotic hardware.

2004-10-08 Thread David Gilbert
> "Mike" == Mike Tancsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mike> At 10:08 AM 08/10/2004, David Gilbert wrote: >> Right out of the box, FreeBSD 5.3 (with polling) passed about 200 >> kpps. net.isr.enable=1 increased that without polling to about 220 Mike> Did you have kern.polling.idle_poll at 0 or

Re: Packet passing performance study on exotic hardware.

2004-10-08 Thread David Gilbert
> "Guy" == Guy Helmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Guy> The fixed bug in the em driver for BETA7 may significantly help Guy> (see Scott Long's response prior to mine). As I replied, I hand-applied these patches. They reduced live lock (or what my tech calls "chunkyness" --- almost live lock),

RE: Packet passing performance study on exotic hardware.

2004-10-08 Thread Daniel Eriksson
David Gilbert wrote: > Right out of the box, FreeBSD 5.3 (with polling) passed about 200 > kpps. Was this with debug.mpsafenet enabled and all debugging (WITNESS and such) turned off? /Daniel Eriksson ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.f

Re: Vinum problems in 5.3-BETA7?

2004-10-08 Thread Frank Mayhar
Paul Mather wrote: > Vinum is known broken in 5.3. :-) You should be using geom_vinum > instead. It will largely be a drop-in replacement for your above Vinum > configuration. (I am using it on a similar root-on-vinum setup.) The > main changes are these: What I need to know is whether the rai

Re: Packet passing performance study on exotic hardware.

2004-10-08 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 10:08 AM 08/10/2004, David Gilbert wrote: Right out of the box, FreeBSD 5.3 (with polling) passed about 200 kpps. net.isr.enable=1 increased that without polling to about 220 Did you have kern.polling.idle_poll at 0 or 1 ? In my tests a few weeks ago this seemed to make a difference, but the l

Re: Vinum problems in 5.3-BETA7?

2004-10-08 Thread Paul Mather
On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 07:52, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > We have a production system that runs on a vinum system drive > configured like this: [[Configuration omitted.]] > It's currently running fine with FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p10. > > After upgrading to 5.3-BETA7, buildworld, buildkernel, insta

Re: Packet passing performance study on exotic hardware.

2004-10-08 Thread Andre Oppermann
David Gilbert wrote: During the next week, I will continue testing with full simulated routing tables, random packets and packets between 350 and 550 bytes (average ISP out/in packet sizes). I will add to this report then. If anyone has tuning advice for FreeBSD 5.3, I'd like to hear it. Three thi

Re: Packet passing performance study on exotic hardware.

2004-10-08 Thread Guy Helmer
David Gilbert wrote: The opportunity presented itelf for me to test packet passing ability on some fairly exotic hardware. The motherboard I really wanted to test not only had separate memory busses for each cpu, but also had two separate PCI-X busses (one slot each). To this, I added two intel p

Re: Packet passing performance study on exotic hardware.

2004-10-08 Thread David Gilbert
> "Scott" == Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Scott> Interesting results. One thing to note is that a severe bug in Scott> the if_em driver was fixed for BETA7. The symptoms of this bug Scott> include apparent livelock of the machine during heavy xmit Scott> load. You might want to up

Re: Packet passing performance study on exotic hardware.

2004-10-08 Thread Scott Long
David Gilbert wrote: The opportunity presented itelf for me to test packet passing ability on some fairly exotic hardware. The motherboard I really wanted to test not only had separate memory busses for each cpu, but also had two separate PCI-X busses (one slot each). To this, I added two intel p

Packet passing performance study on exotic hardware.

2004-10-08 Thread David Gilbert
The opportunity presented itelf for me to test packet passing ability on some fairly exotic hardware. The motherboard I really wanted to test not only had separate memory busses for each cpu, but also had two separate PCI-X busses (one slot each). To this, I added two intel pro/1000 gigabit ether

5.3-BETA7 ata problem with VIA 8235

2004-10-08 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hi! Next test with the current beta: We have a system with a VIA chipset based mainboard, the ATA controller is reported to be a VIA 8235. This system has worked just fine with 5.1 then stopped working when the atang changes were commited. It wasn't that important to us (it's really cheap [tm] ha

Vinum problems in 5.3-BETA7?

2004-10-08 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hi all! We have a production system that runs on a vinum system drive configured like this: cab# vinum l 2 drives: D b State: up /dev/ad1s1h A: 0/114494 MB (0%) D a State: up /dev/ad0s1h A: 0/114494 MB (0%) 4 volumes: V root