Re: 6.1-R ? 6-Stable ? 5.5-R ?

2006-06-28 Thread Francisco Reyes
Albert Shih writes: I've nfs server running 6-Stable (5 April 2006) with some trouble but ... well approx stable. But today he crash again (after ~1.5 mounth). Now I'm like have some advise : 1/ I can upgrade to 6.1-Release, but I've see many problem with nfsd heavy load.

Re: 6.1-R ? 6-Stable ? 5.5-R ?

2006-06-28 Thread Rink Springer
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 04:09:14AM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote: So far 6.X has been for the most part stable as NFS sever for us.. but one of our servers has been hanging crashing and NFSD was showing as status GIANT... and locking.. It had 6.0 stable and upgrading it to 6.1 stable (6-26)

NFS clients freeze and can not disconnect

2006-06-28 Thread Francisco Reyes
I have a series of machines 6.0 stable (various dates), 6.1 stable (various dates) that freeze if the NFS sever they are connected to becomes unresponsive or crashes. Was able to confirm this behavior for both i386 and AMD64. A 5.3 machine connected to the same nfs server was able to umount

Re: 6.1-R ? 6-Stable ? 5.5-R ?

2006-06-28 Thread Francisco Reyes
Rink Springer writes: On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 04:09:14AM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote: So far 6.X has been for the most part stable as NFS sever for us.. but one of our servers has been hanging crashing and NFSD was showing as status GIANT You'll want to upgrade to the latest 6-STABLE,

Re: trap 12: supervisor write, page not present on 6.1-STABLE Tue May 16 2006

2006-06-28 Thread Robert Watson
to reduce the symptoms of this problem until the proper fix can be merged. http://www.watson.org/~robert/freebsd/netperf/20060628-ip_ctloutput.diff Thanks, Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge Index: ip_output.c

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Tor issues (Once More, with Feeling)

2006-06-28 Thread Robert Watson
On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Fabian Keil wrote: There was a request for Tor related problem reports a while ago, I couldn't find the message again, but I believe it was posted here. I'm very interested in tracking down this problem, but have had a lot of trouble getting reliable reports of problems

Re: 6.1-R ? 6-Stable ? 5.5-R ?

2006-06-28 Thread Rink Springer
Was it fixed after Jun 25? This comment fixed it for me: --- Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 10:50:29 + (UTC) From: Konstantin Belousov [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: cvs commit: src/sys/nfsserver nfs_serv.c nfs_srvsubs.c kib

Re: 6.1-R ? 6-Stable ? 5.5-R ?

2006-06-28 Thread Francisco Reyes
Rink Springer writes: FreeBSD src repository Modified files:(Branch: RELENG_6) sys/nfsservernfs_serv.c nfs_srvsubs.c Log: MFC of the temporary fix for nfsd leaking GIANT. src/sys/nfsserver/nfs_serv.c rev. 1.165 src/sys/nfsserver/nfs_srvsubs.c rev. 1.141 Both

Re: 6.1-R ? 6-Stable ? 5.5-R ?

2006-06-28 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 06:23:15AM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote: Rink Springer writes: FreeBSD src repository Modified files:(Branch: RELENG_6) sys/nfsservernfs_serv.c nfs_srvsubs.c Log: MFC of the temporary fix for nfsd leaking GIANT.

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Tor issues (Once More, with Feeling)

2006-06-28 Thread Peter Thoenen
--- Fabian Keil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There was a request for Tor related problem reports a while ago, I couldn't find the message again, but I believe it was posted here. Is anyone on this list running a Tor node on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE or later with similar or higher load? I am hitting

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Tor issues (Once More, with Feeling)

2006-06-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
Peter Thoenen wrote: --- Fabian Keil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ ... ] Is anyone on this list running a Tor node on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE or later with similar or higher load? I am hitting the same issue still Fabian. I had that PR closed as works for me with insignificant testing. I am still

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Tor issues (Once More, with Feeling)

2006-06-28 Thread Robert Watson
On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Peter Thoenen wrote: --- Fabian Keil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There was a request for Tor related problem reports a while ago, I couldn't find the message again, but I believe it was posted here. Is anyone on this list running a Tor node on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE or later

Re: Vanderpool on FreeBSD

2006-06-28 Thread Mohacsi Janos
Sorry! Here is the attachment Janos Mohacsi Network Engineer, Research Associate, Head of Network Planning NIIF/HUNGARNET, HUNGARY Key 00F9AF98: 8645 1312 D249 471B DBAE 21A2 9F52 0D1F 00F9 AF98 On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Mohacsi Janos wrote: Dear All, Does anybody succeed to boot

Vanderpool on FreeBSD

2006-06-28 Thread Mohacsi Janos
Dear All, Does anybody succeed to boot FreeBSD on an Intel Vanderpool capable machine? My colleague tried it and the result is a BTX halt as can be seen on the screenshot attached. He succesfully run unmodified Linux, Windows 2003 under Xen virtual machines, but FreeBSD failed in the boot

Re: FreeBSD 6.x CVSUP today crashes with zero load ...

2006-06-28 Thread Robert Watson
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Marc G. Fournier wrote: I think this is a useful activity, especially if you've already run extensive memory testing on the box. If you haven't yet done that, I encourage you to take a break from buildworld's and make sure the memory tests pass. I spent several months

Re: trap 12: supervisor write, page not present on 6.1-STABLE Tue May 16 2006

2006-06-28 Thread Stanislaw Halik
of this problem until the proper fix can be merged. http://www.watson.org/~robert/freebsd/netperf/20060628-ip_ctloutput.diff Thank you for the patch. I'll let you know in few days if the crash occurs again. It's quite reproducible (crashed yesterday in the same code path). pgpeerBZV3ylV.pgp Description

Re: FreeBSD 6.x CVSUP today crashes with zero load ...

2006-06-28 Thread John Baldwin
On Tuesday 27 June 2006 22:15, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 01:16:11PM + I heard the voice of Eprha Carvajal, and lo! it spake thus: I see no ACPI capability in the processor features ACPI is not a CPU feature. There is an 'ACPI' feature bit, but I think it has

Re: Vanderpool on FreeBSD

2006-06-28 Thread Mohacsi Janos
Here is a link where you can find screenshot. http://skye.ki.iif.hu/~mohacsi/freebsd/xen-vt-freebsd.png I try to find a way to boot with serial console in order to capture the first error message. Regards, Janos Mohacsi Network Engineer, Research Associate, Head of Network Planning

bad pte panic, no dump :(

2006-06-28 Thread Larry Rosenman
Greetings, FreeBSD/amd64 6.1-STABLE (June 18, 18:44 US/Central), running on Intel EM64T Xeons. got a one-off bad pte panic, and when it tried to dump to a gmirror slice, it hung. Box had been rock stable. Had an issue with a neighbor (NFS server to this box) box yesterday, and had to force

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2006-06-28 Thread User Freebsd
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atheros card connectivity diminishes

2006-06-28 Thread david coder
i'm using an atheros 5212 on 6.x release w/ the ath driver finding that i need to bounce the card fairly often to keep the pipe from diminishing to 1Mps. is there a fix for this? -- David Coder Network Engineer Emeritus, Verio/NTT Telluride, CO Washington, DC

ufs_dirbad: bad dir

2006-06-28 Thread Marc G. Fournier
haven't seen one of these in awhile ... June 15th kernel ... Script started on Wed Jun 28 13:59:08 2006 You have mail. pluto# kgdb kernel.0 vmcore.1 [GDB will not be able to debug user-mode threads: /usr/lib/libthread_db.so: Undefined symbol ps_pglobal_lookup] GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD]

Re: FreeBSD 6.x CVSUP today crashes with zero load ...

2006-06-28 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 3:34 PM +0100 6/28/06, Robert Watson wrote: On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Marc G. Fournier wrote: I wish I'd run the memory test earlier, but the lesson is clear! Is there something that I can run *from* FreeBSD, remotely, to do this? Not that I know of. In the past, the discussion has been

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Tor issues (Once More, with Feeling)

2006-06-28 Thread Fabian Keil
Robert Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Fabian Keil wrote: There was a request for Tor related problem reports a while ago, I couldn't find the message again, but I believe it was posted here. I'm very interested in tracking down this problem, but have had a lot of

How to enter DDB through a terminal server / remote console ... ?

2006-06-28 Thread User Freebsd
'k, now that I'm up to 3 6-STABLE servers that are deadlocking, I'm spending time with the remote tech today to get a serial console put online ... how do I drop into DDB remotely, where the serial console is going through a Portmaster Terminal server? issuing CTL-ALT-ESC, I doubt, will

Re: FreeBSD 6.x CVSUP today crashes with zero load ...

2006-06-28 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 10:29:04AM -0400 I heard the voice of John Baldwin, and lo! it spake thus: There is an 'ACPI' feature bit, but I think it has to do with preserving the TSC rate while the CPU is throttled. It's not required for core ACPI operation. Ah, well, I stand corrected. I

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Tor issues (Once More, with Feeling)

2006-06-28 Thread Fabian Keil
Robert Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Are there any warnings on the console from WITNESS or other debugging options? I just got: Jun 28 23:01:19 tor kernel: lock order reversal: Jun 28 23:01:19 tor kernel: 1st 0xc3795000 kqueue (kqueue) @ /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_event.c:1053 Jun 28

em device hangs on ifconfig alias ...

2006-06-28 Thread User Freebsd
has anyone figured out why the em device 'hangs' for about 30-45 seconds whenever you ifconfig alias a new IP on to the device? Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo

Deadlocks (Was: Re: vmstat 'b' (disk busy?) field keeps climbing ...)

2006-06-28 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Kostik Belousov wrote: Core dumps are somewhat unconvenient in this situation. Better, sending report to me, follow my advise in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug-deadlocks.html 'k, I'm working on getting a serial console

configuring sio1 for serial console ...

2006-06-28 Thread User Freebsd
Following hte instructions in the Handbook, I've added the following line to my kernel config: device sio1 at isa? port IO_COM2 flags 0x10 irq 3 but, when I try to build it: config: /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/kernel:71: syntax error *** Error code 1 so, obviously that is wrong for

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Tor issues (Once More, with Feeling)

2006-06-28 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Fabian Keil wrote: Robert Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Are there any warnings on the console from WITNESS or other debugging options? I just got: Jun 28 23:01:19 tor kernel: lock order reversal: Jun 28 23:01:19 tor kernel: 1st 0xc3795000 kqueue (kqueue) @

Where to start from

2006-06-28 Thread Mihir Sanghavi
Hi, I have installed FreeBSD 5.5 . My computer is still not hooked to the network. I would like to start working on it. what should I start with as I have never worked with BSD before. are there any good tutorials to start with? Thanks -- What we see depends mainly on what we look for. -MIHIR

Re: Where to start from

2006-06-28 Thread Scott Ullrich
On 6/28/06, Mihir Sanghavi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have installed FreeBSD 5.5 . My computer is still not hooked to the network. I would like to start working on it. what should I start with as I have never worked with BSD before. are there any good tutorials to start with? FreeBSD has

Re: Where to start from

2006-06-28 Thread Mike Jakubik
Mihir Sanghavi wrote: Hi, I have installed FreeBSD 5.5 . My computer is still not hooked to the network. I would like to start working on it. what should I start with as I have never worked with BSD before. are there any good tutorials to start with? Thanks Start again, this time install

Re: How to enter DDB through a terminal server / remote console ... ?

2006-06-28 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, User Freebsd wrote: 'k, now that I'm up to 3 6-STABLE servers that are deadlocking, I'm spending time with the remote tech today to get a serial console put online ... how do I drop into DDB remotely, where the serial console is going through a Portmaster Terminal

Re: configuring sio1 for serial console ...

2006-06-28 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, User Freebsd wrote: Following hte instructions in the Handbook, I've added the following line to my kernel config: device sio1 at isa? port IO_COM2 flags 0x10 irq 3 but, when I try to build it: config: /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/kernel:71: syntax error *** Error code 1 so,

Re: How to enter DDB through a terminal server / remote console ... ?

2006-06-28 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Robert Watson wrote: On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, User Freebsd wrote: 'k, now that I'm up to 3 6-STABLE servers that are deadlocking, I'm spending time with the remote tech today to get a serial console put online ... how do I drop into DDB remotely, where the serial console is

Re: configuring sio1 for serial console ...

2006-06-28 Thread Freddie Cash
On Wed, June 28, 2006 2:58 pm, User Freebsd wrote: Following hte instructions in the Handbook, I've added the following line to my kernel config: device sio1 at isa? port IO_COM2 flags 0x10 irq 3 but, when I try to build it: config: /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/kernel:71: syntax error

Re: configuring sio1 for serial console ...

2006-06-28 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Robert Watson wrote: On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, User Freebsd wrote: Following hte instructions in the Handbook, I've added the following line to my kernel config: device sio1 at isa? port IO_COM2 flags 0x10 irq 3 but, when I try to build it: config:

Re: How to enter DDB through a terminal server / remote console ... ?

2006-06-28 Thread Andrew Thompson
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 07:34:43PM -0300, User Freebsd wrote: On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Robert Watson wrote: On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, User Freebsd wrote: 'k, now that I'm up to 3 6-STABLE servers that are deadlocking, I'm spending time with the remote tech today to get a serial console put online

Re: How to enter DDB through a terminal server / remote console ... ?

2006-06-28 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, User Freebsd wrote: On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Robert Watson wrote: On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, User Freebsd wrote: 'k, now that I'm up to 3 6-STABLE servers that are deadlocking, I'm spending time with the remote tech today to get a serial console put online ... how do I drop

Re: configuring sio1 for serial console ...

2006-06-28 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, User Freebsd wrote: Instead of changing your kernel config, edit the sio1 entries in /boot/device.hints. (This assumes you left device sio in your kernel -- if not, you need to re-add it). 'k, re-adding ... and I take it there is no more 'DDB_UNATTENDED' option?

Re: em device hangs on ifconfig alias ...

2006-06-28 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 28), User Freebsd said: has anyone figured out why the em device 'hangs' for about 30-45 seconds whenever you ifconfig alias a new IP on to the device? The em driver resets the card when you add an IP to it, and unless you've configured your switch not to autodetect

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Tor issues (Once More, with Feeling)

2006-06-28 Thread Fabian Keil
Robert Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Fabian Keil wrote: Robert Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Are there any warnings on the console from WITNESS or other debugging options? I just got: Jun 28 23:01:19 tor kernel: lock order reversal: Jun 28 23:01:19

Expensive timeout?

2006-06-28 Thread User Freebsd
Just got this on the console of one of hte servers that has been causing problems ... Expensive timeout(9) function: 0xc0520e18(0xc8b223a0) 0.296959250 s not a very informative error, and that is all that was there, nothing before, nothing after ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org

Re: Expensive timeout?

2006-06-28 Thread User Freebsd
Oh, wait, does this have something to do with the Deadlock options I just added to the kernel? On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, User Freebsd wrote: Just got this on the console of one of hte servers that has been causing problems ... Expensive timeout(9) function: 0xc0520e18(0xc8b223a0) 0.296959250

Re: How to enter DDB through a terminal server / remote console ... ?

2006-06-28 Thread Diane Bruce
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 11:57:58PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: ... Yes. It's unusual, but once in a while I get a nervous serial port. If you experience this, type Cont to continue, and then recompile your kernel with ALT_BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER but without BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER. Here's the notes

Re: configuring sio1 for serial console ...

2006-06-28 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Robert Watson wrote: On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, User Freebsd wrote: Instead of changing your kernel config, edit the sio1 entries in /boot/device.hints. (This assumes you left device sio in your kernel -- if not, you need to re-add it). 'k, re-adding ... and I take it

Re: Expensive timeout?

2006-06-28 Thread Jonathan Noack
Please don't top-post... User Freebsd wrote: On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, User Freebsd wrote: Just got this on the console of one of hte servers that has been causing problems ... Expensive timeout(9) function: 0xc0520e18(0xc8b223a0) 0.296959250 s not a very informative error, and that is all that

Re: em device hangs on ifconfig alias ...

2006-06-28 Thread Atanas
Dan Nelson said the following on 6/28/06 3:52 PM: In the last episode (Jun 28), User Freebsd said: has anyone figured out why the em device 'hangs' for about 30-45 seconds whenever you ifconfig alias a new IP on to the device? The em driver resets the card when you add an IP to it, and unless

Re: Expensive timeout?

2006-06-28 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Jonathan Noack wrote: Please don't top-post... User Freebsd wrote: On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, User Freebsd wrote: Just got this on the console of one of hte servers that has been causing problems ... Expensive timeout(9) function: 0xc0520e18(0xc8b223a0) 0.296959250 s not a

Re: em device hangs on ifconfig alias ...

2006-06-28 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Atanas wrote: I have some newer machines with 2 Broadcom chips on-board. I plan to give them a try at some point in the future, but I'm not sure how stable the bge driver is when compared to fxp and em. I'm using the bge driver on our new HP servers, and haven't noticed