disappearing snapshots

2005-06-11 Thread Michael Grant
I've been playing with snapshots (mksnap_ffs) recently. I've got a script which does a daily snapshot and keeps 7 days of history. Last night, the machine crashed and when it came back up, all the snapshots referred to the current view of the disk, i.e. I lost the 7-day history. I'm running

Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

2005-06-11 Thread Billy Newsom
Steve Roome wrote: We're using mostly: 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Mon Jun 6 12:22:18 BST 2005 This is on a Dell PowerEdge 2850. (2 * 2.8 GHz Xeons, 4GB ram, disks), we've been keeping up with stable because supposedly all these new fixes to threading will help us out here. We're

Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

2005-06-11 Thread Robert Watson
On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Steve Roome wrote: We're using mostly: 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Mon Jun 6 12:22:18 BST 2005 In my experience, the following factors make a big performance difference: - Thread package. In 5.x, you get process scope threads by default, but it turns out

if_axe watchdog timeouts

2005-06-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
I have a crusty ancient laptop I am using to control my sprinkler system. I was going to use a PCMCIA ethernet controller but the slot is hosed, so I got a USB ethernet adapter (LinkSys USB200M) which is driven by if_axe. I works reasonably well, but fairly frequently I get.. axe0: watchdog

Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

2005-06-11 Thread Jiawei Ye
On 6/11/05, Robert Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think there's a compile-time option to make libpthread use system scope threads but the details ellude me. The Linuxthreads library may well provide a substantial improvement -- not as good for MySQL as the 6.x libthr, but perhaps

Adaptec 2120S delays boot

2005-06-11 Thread Andrey Lakhno
Hello, I have a problem with server with Adaptec SCSI RAID 2120S controller. 5.4-RELEASE was installed. GENERIC kernel boots with long delay (about 10 minutes), printing following messages: aac0: Error 5 sending GetDeviceProbeInfo command aac0: Error 5 sending GetDeviceProbeInfo command aac0:

weird df -k output

2005-06-11 Thread Bashar
FreeBSDers, got this weird df -k output on one of my 5.3 boxes which show either after long uptime or high load: # df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 507630 215166 25185446%/ devfs 110 100%

kvm not available

2005-06-11 Thread Bashar
any idea what this notice 'kvm not available' means ? i get it on multiple ocasions such as netstat , but it moves on and lsof but it gives this error and stops: lsof: kvm_open(execfile=/boot/kernel/kernel, corefile=/dev/mem): No such file or directory

Re: kvm not available

2005-06-11 Thread Max Laier
On Saturday 11 June 2005 10:42, Bashar wrote: any idea what this notice 'kvm not available' means ? i get it on multiple ocasions such as netstat , but it moves on and lsof but it gives this error and stops: lsof: kvm_open(execfile=/boot/kernel/kernel, corefile=/dev/mem): No such file or

Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

2005-06-11 Thread Vladimir Chukharev
I've been working with Steve on this project. We've been playing with various tuning factors, including kernel changes, different stripe sizes on the RAID, my.cnf tuning, libmap.conf, and although we can gain a bit here and there, we can't account for the doubling of performance with Gentoo.

Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

2005-06-11 Thread Vladimir Chukharev
One thing more... I've seen a message on a PostgreSQL list that MySQL can _silently_ change the type of the tables if it cannot find some library. Check that you have really same DBs in Gentoo and FreeBSD. -- V.Chukharev ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

general libthread questions [Was: Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux]

2005-06-11 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Samstag, 11. Juni 2005 10:00 schrieb Robert Watson: On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Steve Roome wrote: [...] - Thread package. In 5.x, you get process scope threads by default, but it turns out MySQL is tuned for system scope threads, and this is particularly visible in the supersmack

kernel panic

2005-06-11 Thread Alex Lyashkov
Hello Robert. Today i install new freebsd box with freebsd 5-stable, sources from are over Jun 6 09:28 EEST. when i tried to work I got are full repeatable panic. #2 0xc04aafb0 in panic (fmt=0xc0610e42 sbflush_locked: cc %u || mb %p || mbcnt %u) at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c:566

Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

2005-06-11 Thread Daniel Eischen
Robert Watson wrote: On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Steve Roome wrote: We're using mostly: 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Mon Jun 6 12:22:18 BST 2005 In my experience, the following factors make a big performance difference: - Thread package. In 5.x, you get process scope threads by default,

atacontrol raid1 vs. gmirror

2005-06-11 Thread Mike Jakubik
Can someone explain tome the difference between a RAID1 setup done via atacontrol and gmirror? I have a VIA 6420 SATA150 controller, which also has raid, but is not supported by -stable. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: atacontrol raid1 vs. gmirror

2005-06-11 Thread Paul Mather
On Sat, 2005-06-11 at 14:42 -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: Can someone explain tome the difference between a RAID1 setup done via atacontrol and gmirror? I have a VIA 6420 SATA150 controller, which also has raid, but is not supported by -stable. Here are the main differences, as I see them:

Re: Performance of 4.x vs 5.x (Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches)

2005-06-11 Thread Matthias Buelow
I wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: http://www.chesapeake.net/~jroberson/flushbuf.diff Does it work for you on 5.4? The patch seems to work. Cool, that makes a difference like between BTW., is that change being included in 5-STABLE or just for 6-CURRENT? mkb.

I need Help with the mozilla plugins, with acroread7

2005-06-11 Thread Maher Mohamed
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/compat/linux/usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so [/usr/compat/linux/usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so: Undefined symbol stderr] I get this message after i instled the linuxpluginwrapper what else do i

Re: Performance of 4.x vs 5.x (Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches)

2005-06-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 09:52:13PM +0200, Matthias Buelow wrote: I wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: http://www.chesapeake.net/~jroberson/flushbuf.diff Does it work for you on 5.4? The patch seems to work. Cool, that makes a difference like between BTW., is that change being included in

Re: Strange error

2005-06-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Fri, 2005-Jun-10 22:41:36 +0200, Jack Raats wrote: This day I've a very strange error when trying to connect to my FreeBSD machine (4.11-STABLE) I got the following error: ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host Can anyone give me any clue what's wrong? Try turning on

Re: Performance of 4.x vs 5.x (Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches)

2005-06-11 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jeff said he'll merge it in a week or two after it's been well-tested. Been running it here on our ftp which was getting major issues with disk access spiking system usage to 90+% making the server totally unresponsive for 5 -

Re: Performance of 4.x vs 5.x (Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches)

2005-06-11 Thread Matthias Buelow
Steven Hartland wrote: With the patch things are MUCH better. No problems to report and the server is under major load including some heavy disk access as Yeah, no problems here either, so far. mkb. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: ACL not supported on 5.4?

2005-06-11 Thread Brandon Fosdick
Björn König wrote: Hello Brandon, I get the same error messages if ACL are not enabled. I just want to make sure that you didn't overlook the part of the handbook where it says that you have to enable it. It seems that's exactly what happened. Thanks for pointing it out. By the way, the

panic: kmem_malloc(4096): kmem_map too small: 62877696 total allocated

2005-06-11 Thread Tom Jensen
Got the following panic on a 5.4 box(i386): panic: kmem_malloc(4096): kmem_map too small: 62877696 total allocated Uname: 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #4: Sun May 8 01:57:26 CEST 2005 Had two ntfs partitions mounted and was doing a find . -name *.pst on one of them. Following info

Re: I need Help with the mozilla plugins, with acroread7

2005-06-11 Thread Patrick Bowen
Maher Mohamed wrote: LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/compat/linux/usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so [/usr/compat/linux/usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so: Undefined symbol stderr] I get this message after i instled the

Re: Strange error

2005-06-11 Thread Tod McQuillin
On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Peter Jeremy wrote: On Fri, 2005-Jun-10 22:41:36 +0200, Jack Raats wrote: This day I've a very strange error when trying to connect to my FreeBSD machine (4.11-STABLE) I got the following error: ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host Can anyone

Re: weird df -k output

2005-06-11 Thread Dan Ponte
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 11:32:24AM +0300, Bashar [EMAIL PROTECTED] was witnessed plotting the following conspiracy: FreeBSDers, got this weird df -k output on one of my 5.3 boxes which show either after long uptime or high load: # df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity

Re: panic: kmem_malloc(4096): kmem_map too small: 62877696 total allocated

2005-06-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 01:11:13AM +0200, Tom Jensen wrote: Got the following panic on a 5.4 box(i386): panic: kmem_malloc(4096): kmem_map too small: 62877696 total allocated Uname: 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #4: Sun May 8 01:57:26 CEST 2005 Had two ntfs partitions mounted and was

Re: kernel panic

2005-06-11 Thread Damon Hopkins
Sorry I can't really help. I get the same thing after setting up my vonage VOIP adapter. I did a tcpdump on the interface and saw that I was getting a lot of UDP traffic. I updated my box as of last night and now I don't get a panic anymore but the box just locks up instead w/out panicing.