Re: em watchdog problem

2007-10-31 Thread Sam Leffler
Jack Vogel wrote: This morning I had an idea about what the source of the watchdog problem is. Also, we have repro'd at least one type of watchdog inhouse. One question, is this problem only happening for those running STABLE with the 6.6.6 merged driver? We found the problem does not seem to

Re: em watchdog problem

2007-10-31 Thread Philip Murray
On 31/10/2007, at 6:16 AM, Jack Vogel wrote: This morning I had an idea about what the source of the watchdog problem is. Also, we have repro'd at least one type of watchdog inhouse. One question, is this problem only happening for those running STABLE with the 6.6.6 merged driver? We found

Re: MFC requests for 6.3

2007-10-31 Thread Brett Glass
At 02:36 AM 10/30/2007, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: Hello Brett, ng_nat is part of 6-STABLE I've checked, and there is indeed a version there. But it's a much older version without many useful option flags. ng_car is not there at all. I'd also be interested in seeing the latest version of

Re: rrdtool performance tuning (fwd)

2007-10-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 01:32:41PM -0700, Michael Hall wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 05:58:00AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: * A suite/library on Sourceforge somewhere which I cannot remember the name of, but acted as a data-over-time storage/graphing/plotting alternative to RRDtool.

Re: any hope for nfe/msk?

2007-10-31 Thread Pyun YongHyeon
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 04:01:04PM +0200, Oleg Lomaka wrote: [...] I had RxFIFO overrun again :( from dmest: msk0: Rx FIFO overrun! [...] Please try attached patch again. Sorry for the trouble. After applying the patch show me verbosed dmesg output related with msk(4)/PHY driver. Thanks

Re: RFC: Evolution of the em driver

2007-10-31 Thread Scott Long
Jack Vogel wrote: On 10/30/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:45:17 -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: I have an important decision to make and I thought rather than just make it and spring it on you I'd present the issues and see what opinions were. Our newer

Re: 7.0 BETA1 and Thinkpad T61p : Wireless misadventure

2007-10-31 Thread Scot Hetzel
On 10/30/07, Mike Pumford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: Previously I didn't mention that there are some functions missing from the FreeBSD's NDIS api. These are: With the help of NDIS reference and Linux ndiswrapper I have been able to implement all

Re: em watchdog problem

2007-10-31 Thread Goran Lowkrantz
Hi Jack, In my case, yes but only under higher loads, specifically when Amanda started receive the backup data. At lower loads, like the check or sizing, no problems. Best regards, Göran L --On Tuesday, October 30, 2007 10:16 -0700 Jack Vogel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This

Re: em watchdog problem

2007-10-31 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 31/10/2007, Jack Vogel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This morning I had an idea about what the source of the watchdog problem is. Also, we have repro'd at least one type of watchdog inhouse. One question, is this problem only happening for those running STABLE with the 6.6.6 merged driver?

Re: RFC: Evolution of the em driver

2007-10-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 09:06:39PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: There are too many examples to name in every OS of drivers that have tried in vain to support diverging hardware evolutionary paths. if_dc and if_bge are great (or horrible, depending on your perspective) examples of this in FreeBSD.

Re: USB-4COMi-SI-M : Isolated 4 Port USB-RS422/RS485

2007-10-31 Thread Stefan Lambrev
Hi, Thanks for the answer, but please ignore my question. I made cabling mistake, so this thread is invalid. Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Stefan Lambrev wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get working this USB to serial adapter under freebsd 7. The driver uftdi, detects the adapter,

single user mode broken on RELENG_7

2007-10-31 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
Since I switched to RELENG_7 I cannot use /rescue/vi in single user mode any more. It will just print everything in the bottom line of the screen, so it's impossible to navigate in a document or see what you're doing. Mounting /usr and starting vim displays everything properly, but none of the

Re: 7.0 BETA1 and Thinkpad T61p : Wireless misadventure

2007-10-31 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
- Original Message From: Scot Hetzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mike Pumford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 6:56:58 AM Subject: Re: 7.0 BETA1 and Thinkpad T61p :

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD Questions

2007-10-31 Thread Christian Neugum
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: Hello Jason, - Original Message From: Jason Slack [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 2:25:18 AM Subject: Upgrading FreeBSD Questions Hi All, I am new

Re: single user mode broken on RELENG_7

2007-10-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 09:22:03AM +0100, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: Since I switched to RELENG_7 I cannot use /rescue/vi in single user mode any more. It will just print everything in the bottom line of the screen, so it's impossible to navigate in a document or see what you're doing. Are you on

Re: em watchdogs - OS involvement

2007-10-31 Thread Vladimir Ivanov
Jack Vogel wrote: Things just keep getting stranger... its no wonder I didn't see this... I had been trying to repro the watchdog on a machine in my cube at work without success, but in the test Lab they were successful. I scratched my head for a while wondering why... But then I realized I

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD Questions

2007-10-31 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Roland Smith wrote: Remember to remove old files and libraries with `make delete-old' and `make delete-old-libs' as explained in /usr/src/Makefile. It is advisable to remove and install your ports from scratch when upgrading to a new major version, because the automatic port updating tools

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Re: kern/104406: [ufs] Processes get stuck in ufs state under persistent CPU load

2007-10-31 Thread Rainer Hurling
Thanks for your answer. Kris Kennaway schrieb: Rainer Hurling wrote: Looking into PR kern/104406 it seems, that this describes exactly what I am experiencing on three of my systems over the last weeks. They are running FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT (known as 7.0-CURRENT not long ago ;-) ). Actually

Re: amrd disk performance drop after running under high load

2007-10-31 Thread Alexey Popov
Hi Kris Kennaway wrote: So I can conclude that FreeBSD has a long standing bug in VM that could be triggered when serving large amount of static data (much bigger than memory size) on high rates. Possibly this only applies to large files like mp3 or video. It is possible, we have further

Re: MFC requests for 6.3

2007-10-31 Thread Brett Glass
At 08:40 AM 10/31/2007, Alexander Motin wrote: Brett Glass wrote: ng_nat is part of 6-STABLE I've checked, and there is indeed a version there. But it's a much older version without many useful option flags. ng_car is not there at all. It IS there:

Re: /usr/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8

2007-10-31 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 10:23:58AM + I heard the voice of Alex Zbyslaw, and lo! it spake thus: Of course, with modern systems where nroff-ing a man page takes negligible time and system resources, it could also be argued that cat-ed man pages should be a thing of the past :-) Quite. The

Re: em watchdogs - OS involvement

2007-10-31 Thread Bruce Evans
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Jack Vogel wrote: Another bit of data, if I define DEVICE_POLLING on the Oct. snap it also will work. Defining DEVICE_POLLING (globally) breaks configuration of fast interrupt handlers in em. I have to #undef it to test fast interrupt handlers in em without losing

RE: rrdtool performance tuning (fwd)

2007-10-31 Thread Helge.Oldach
Dmitry Morozovsky wrote on Monday, October 29, 2007 9:13 AM: any hints to tune rrdtool with ~30k rrd files (approx 2k target devices)? machine is mostly IO-bound, showing 100% disk load with 8 or sometimes even 3 mB/s, 300-400 tps (it's 2 SATA300 disks in gmirror) This is how rrdtool

Re: MFC requests for 6.3

2007-10-31 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Wednesday 31 October 2007 16:56:00 Brett Glass wrote: At 08:40 AM 10/31/2007, Alexander Motin wrote: Brett Glass wrote: ng_nat is part of 6-STABLE I've checked, and there is indeed a version there. But it's a much older version without many useful option flags. ng_car is not there

CVS tag for 7.0 - standard

2007-10-31 Thread JD Bronson
Can someone kindly tell me the CVS tag to follow the 7.0 patch branch (only)? I am running 7.0Beta1 and want to stay with that only. Nothing newer like the 'stable' branch. It seems that the tag I am using is 7.0-stable? *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_7 -JD

Re: CVS tag for 7.0 - standard

2007-10-31 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 10:18:26AM -0600, JD Bronson wrote: Can someone kindly tell me the CVS tag to follow the 7.0 patch branch (only)? I am running 7.0Beta1 and want to stay with that only. Nothing newer like the 'stable' branch. It seems that the tag I am using is 7.0-stable?

Re: RFC: Evolution of the em driver

2007-10-31 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 01:16:39AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: For what it's worth, I agree with Scott. I'd rather see a new and separate driver (presumably igb(4)) than a hacked up em(4) driver trying to handle tons of IC revisions. A good example of the insanity the latter causes is nve(4)

Re: RFC: Evolution of the em driver

2007-10-31 Thread Jack Vogel
On 10/31/07, Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 01:16:39AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: For what it's worth, I agree with Scott. I'd rather see a new and separate driver (presumably igb(4)) than a hacked up em(4) driver trying to handle tons of IC revisions. A

Re: Proposed #ifdef change to em

2007-10-31 Thread Scott Long
Jack Vogel wrote: I have found that the FAST interrupt handling is implicated in the watchdog resets that I have seen. What I plan to do is revert to the way 6.2 had things, meaning that FAST interrupts will be available but defined off by default. I wanted to know if anyone has an issue with

Proposed #ifdef change to em

2007-10-31 Thread Jack Vogel
I have found that the FAST interrupt handling is implicated in the watchdog resets that I have seen. What I plan to do is revert to the way 6.2 had things, meaning that FAST interrupts will be available but defined off by default. I wanted to know if anyone has an issue with this. And more

Re: /usr/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8

2007-10-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-30 18:26, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are also a couple of manpages with references to very long URIs, which cannot be wrapped by nroff in a reasonable line-length: ng_netflow.4 bluetooth.device.conf.5 I don't think we can easily fix these, without

Re: MFC requests for 6.3

2007-10-31 Thread Alexander Motin
Brett Glass wrote: ng_nat is part of 6-STABLE I've checked, and there is indeed a version there. But it's a much older version without many useful option flags. ng_car is not there at all. It IS there: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/netgraph/ng_nat.c

Memory issues (was 7.0-BETA1 freeze using portmaster)

2007-10-31 Thread Robert Marella
Robert Marella wrote: It is looking like a hardware problem. I update portmaster to 1.24 and it didn't help. When I tried with the -B option it froze in a different place. I then csup the latest source rm'd /usr/obj and attempted a buildworld. Lo and behold it froze up. It has

Re: kern/104406: [ufs] Processes get stuck in ufs state under persistent CPU load

2007-10-31 Thread Rainer Hurling
It looks like that Marek Blaszkowski in his new thread on freebsd-amd64@ http://www.nabble.com/forum/ViewPost.jtp?post=13513077 is describing the same system hangings. He founds some strange behaviour with 'sync' of harddiscs. Perhaps this is a step towards the cause of hangings? Regards,

Re: /usr/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8

2007-10-31 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 08:08:31PM +0100 I heard the voice of Bernd Walter, and lo! it spake thus: I don't completly agree. Many people forget that FreeBSD is used on slow embedded systems as well and I prefer having manpoages there as well. Oh, I don't argue that there are cases where

Re: MFC requests for 6.3

2007-10-31 Thread Andrew Thompson
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 06:51:17PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: At 02:36 AM 10/30/2007, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: Hello Brett, ng_nat is part of 6-STABLE I'd also be interested in seeing the latest version of bridge(4) brought in. Its fully up to date in RELENG_6 except for the vlan

Re: MFC requests for 6.3

2007-10-31 Thread Brett Glass
At 01:43 PM 10/31/2007, Andrew Thompson wrote: I'd also be interested in seeing the latest version of bridge(4) brought in. Its fully up to date in RELENG_6 except for the vlan trunking support which I dont plan to merge. Was there something in particular or was it just the vlan code?

Re: MFC requests for 6.3

2007-10-31 Thread Andrew Thompson
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 02:14:47PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: At 01:43 PM 10/31/2007, Andrew Thompson wrote: I'd also be interested in seeing the latest version of bridge(4) brought in. Its fully up to date in RELENG_6 except for the vlan trunking support which I dont plan to merge.

Re: MFC requests for 6.3

2007-10-31 Thread Brett Glass
At 02:24 PM 10/31/2007, Andrew Thompson wrote: See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/net/if_bridge.c?only_with_tag=RELENG_6 Thank you for pointing this out Yes, I do see code that discards packets when a flag called IFBIF_PRIVATE is set. This is primarily what we need. As you

Re: amrd disk performance drop after running under high load

2007-10-31 Thread Kris Kennaway
Alexey Popov wrote: Hi Kris Kennaway wrote: So I can conclude that FreeBSD has a long standing bug in VM that could be triggered when serving large amount of static data (much bigger than memory size) on high rates. Possibly this only applies to large files like mp3 or video. It is

Re: kern/104406: [ufs] Processes get stuck in ufs state under persistent CPU load

2007-10-31 Thread Kris Kennaway
Rainer Hurling wrote: Thanks for your answer. Kris Kennaway schrieb: Rainer Hurling wrote: Looking into PR kern/104406 it seems, that this describes exactly what I am experiencing on three of my systems over the last weeks. They are running FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT (known as 7.0-CURRENT not long

usb keyboard FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1

2007-10-31 Thread Eric Millbrandt
Hello all, I has been a while since a FreeBSD release so I decided to help by running 7.0-BETA1 to speed things along. One small thing that I noticed off the bat is that the 'Num Lock', 'CAPS Lock', and 'Scroll Lock' leds on my usb keyboard do not function. The actual keys still do their

Re: Memory issues (was 7.0-BETA1 freeze using portmaster)

2007-10-31 Thread Kris Kennaway
Robert Marella wrote: Robert Marella wrote: It is looking like a hardware problem. I update portmaster to 1.24 and it didn't help. When I tried with the -B option it froze in a different place. I then csup the latest source rm'd /usr/obj and attempted a buildworld. Lo and behold it froze

Re: date manupulation strangeness

2007-10-31 Thread Miguel Lopes Santos Ramos
From: Mike Pritchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] DST/CST time changes when setting the time backwards has been at your own risk for a long time. Yes, but there's really not much reason for it to be so much of a black art. Actually, I think the old behaviour, prior to rev 1.36, although not ideal

freebsd-7.0b1 xorg-7.3_1 runs only once

2007-10-31 Thread J.R. Oldroyd
Just upgraded a desktop machine from 6.2-stable to 7.0beta1. Csup'd the kernel source and portsnap'd the latest ports on Oct 29th. Compiled everything locally. Removed all old files, libs, etc. Everything looks good, except... xorg-7.3_1 runs fine, but just once. Subsequent attempts to

Re: Memory issues (was 7.0-BETA1 freeze using portmaster)

2007-10-31 Thread Clifton Royston
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 08:50:44AM -1000, Robert Marella wrote: Robert Marella wrote: It is looking like a hardware problem. I update portmaster to 1.24 and it didn't help. When I tried with the -B option it froze in a different place. I then csup the latest source rm'd /usr/obj and

Re: /usr/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8

2007-10-31 Thread Bernd Walter
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 09:39:23AM -0500, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 10:23:58AM + I heard the voice of Alex Zbyslaw, and lo! it spake thus: Of course, with modern systems where nroff-ing a man page takes negligible time and system resources, it could also be

Re: Proposed #ifdef change to em

2007-10-31 Thread Vladimir Ivanov
Scott Long wrote: Jack Vogel wrote: I have found that the FAST interrupt handling is implicated in the watchdog resets that I have seen. It's not true. I have seen watchdogs much earlier then FASTINTR. Also, please note: older driver had a bug preventing watchdog to be reported (see

Re: /usr/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8

2007-10-31 Thread jonathan michaels
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 02:30:45PM -0500, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 08:08:31PM +0100 I heard the voice of Bernd Walter, and lo! it spake thus: I don't completly agree. Many people forget that FreeBSD is used on slow embedded systems as well and I prefer having

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD Questions

2007-10-31 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Oct 29, 2007, at 6:25 PM, Jason Slack wrote: but had to sell my MacBook so my Fiance and I could get into a new apartment together. I've seen plenty of apartment buildings with a no dogs policy, but this seems to be going too far. I want to try version 7 as it has items of interest to

Re: CVS tag for 7.0 - standard

2007-10-31 Thread Alexander Motin
JD Bronson wrote: Can someone kindly tell me the CVS tag to follow the 7.0 patch branch (only)? I am running 7.0Beta1 and want to stay with that only. Nothing newer like the 'stable' branch. As 7.0 is not yet released, you can use only RELENG_7 - 7-STABLE tag. When 7.0 will be released,

Re: Proposed #ifdef change to em

2007-10-31 Thread Jack Vogel
Vladimir, Your one phrase more or less patched invalidated the whole data point. We are talking about code thats checked in and bound for 6.3 :) I have hundreds of machines here at Intel that DON'T have the problem, that's why in early 20th century philosophy they realized that verification

System hangs up every day

2007-10-31 Thread Дмитрий Комалеев
Hello everybody I have a big problem There is one FreeBSD server in our company. The server platform is: Supermicro SuperServer 6014V-T2B (2x Intel Xeon 2.8, 1Gb RAM, 3WARE 3W-8006-2LP RAID-Controller). The server works as: - a gateway between LAN and Internet - an Intranet web- and database

Re: System hangs up every day

2007-10-31 Thread Max Laier
On Wednesday 31 October 2007, Дмитрий Комалеев wrote: Hello everybody I have a big problem There is one FreeBSD server in our company. The server platform is: Supermicro SuperServer 6014V-T2B (2x Intel Xeon 2.8, 1Gb RAM, 3WARE 3W-8006-2LP RAID-Controller). The server works as: - a gateway

Re: System hangs up every day

2007-10-31 Thread Clayton Milos
A system failure of this sort (one which leaves no log entries of any kind) is generally a hardware fault; memory stick failures tend to cause kernel panics and easy repeatability. I would suggest examining the hardware components, the motherboard could have some faulty capacitors (burst,