timeout/untimeout race conditions/crash [patch]

2008-03-14 Thread Alfred Perlstein
We think we tracked down a defect in timeout/untimeout in FreeBSD. We have reduced the problem to the following scenario: 2+ cpu system, one cpu is running softclock at the same time another thread is running on another cpu which makes use of timeout/untimeout. CPU 0 is running "softclock" CPU 1

Re: SchedULE vs BSD scheduler - Was: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-14 Thread Jeff Roberson
On Sat, 15 Mar 2008, Rong-en Fan wrote: On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Christopher Sean Hilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mar 12, 2008, at 12:05 PM, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Those machines work very well with both FreeBSD 6 and 7. > If you install FreeBSD 7, remember to enable ULE inst

Re: Re[2]: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

2008-03-14 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Daniel Gerzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080314 16:58] wrote: > Hello mv, > > Friday, March 14, 2008, 6:59:39 PM, you wrote: > > > Hello Marc, > > > Does "yes it is" mean the book is > > > - still relevant; or > > > - a second edition is coming soon. > > > As a newbie I'm also interested in th

Re[2]: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

2008-03-14 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello mv, Friday, March 14, 2008, 6:59:39 PM, you wrote: > Hello Marc, > Does "yes it is" mean the book is > - still relevant; or > - a second edition is coming soon. > As a newbie I'm also interested in this book. Assuming the second > edition covers FreeBSD 7 or 8, I would rather wait

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-14 Thread Johan Ström
On Mar 13, 2008, at 4:57 PM, David Schutt wrote: Johan Ström wrote: On Mar 13, 2008, at 1:01 AM, Sean Winn wrote: For using HP blades and standard iLO (no licensed advance features), it works perfectly well, installing both FreeBSD 5 and 6 on the blades I've tried, using a remote install CD

Re: Could Not open some sites from Windows Vista and Server 2008 when using FreeBSD as gw

2008-03-14 Thread Владислав Недосекин
Hi, I have found what lines in pf.conf are bloking acess. When I disable this lines pass out on $int_if tagged Q1 keep state queue q1_in pass out on $int_if tagged Q2 keep state queue q2_in pass out on $int_if tagged Q3 keep state queue q3_in pass out on $int_if tagged Q4 keep state queue q4_in It

Re: interrupt storms with AR5414 on 6.3 RELEASE

2008-03-14 Thread Huub Schuurmans
>> I have a problem running the Atheros AR5414 wireless mini-pci-card >> (Compex model WLM54AGP23) with FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE (GENERIC i 386) on a >> Soekris 4521. > Problem with the ath driver appears to have been solved after I > installed a custom kernel replacing the GENERIC kernel. Updat

Re: bin/121684: dump frequently hangs

2008-03-14 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday 14 March 2008 12:53:22 am Greg Rivers wrote: > I'm seeing dump hang frequently on RELENG_7 i386. Details and a ktrace in > PR bin/121684. Is anyone else experiencing this? jeff@ just fixed this in HEAD with the latest patch to sys/kern/subr_sleepqueue.c. The patch should apply direc

Lock Order Reversal on 7.0-STABLE with pf and ipfw / dummynet

2008-03-14 Thread Alex Popa
World was cvsupped on March 6th, around 18:00 GMT. Built and installed kernel + world, with options WITNESS and WITNESS_SKIPSPIN. Short background: 7.0-RELEASE had excellent performance on the machine, but it would randomly lock up after some hours (usually over 10 hours). The lockups were hard,

Re: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

2008-03-14 Thread mv
Hello Marc, Does "yes it is" mean the book is - still relevant; or - a second edition is coming soon. As a newbie I'm also interested in this book. Assuming the second edition covers FreeBSD 7 or 8, I would rather wait for it rather than purchase the first edition. Thanks, Mark On Fri

Re: SchedULE vs BSD scheduler - Was: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-14 Thread Rong-en Fan
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Christopher Sean Hilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mar 12, 2008, at 12:05 PM, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > > > Those machines work very well with both FreeBSD 6 and 7. > > If you install FreeBSD 7, remember to enable ULE instead > > of the default BSD sch

Re: SchedULE vs BSD scheduler

2008-03-14 Thread Oliver Fromme
Christopher Sean Hilton wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Those machines work very well with both FreeBSD 6 and 7. > > If you install FreeBSD 7, remember to enable ULE instead > > of the default BSD scheduler. > > What's the advantage of ULE / disadvantage of the default? > Is it specific

Re: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

2008-03-14 Thread Marc spitzer
On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:41:30 -0700 (PDT) Unga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > Is the following book still relevant to FreeBSD 7.X > and upcoming FreeBSD 8.X? Is there a 2nd edition > coming soon? > > The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating > System > By Marshall Kirk McKu

SchedULE vs BSD scheduler - Was: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-14 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
On Mar 12, 2008, at 12:05 PM, Oliver Fromme wrote: Those machines work very well with both FreeBSD 6 and 7. If you install FreeBSD 7, remember to enable ULE instead of the default BSD scheduler. What's the advantage of ULE / disadvantage of the default? Is it specific to this hardware? _

Re: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

2008-03-14 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 07:41 -0700, Unga wrote: > Hi all > > Is the following book still relevant to FreeBSD 7.X > and upcoming FreeBSD 8.X? Is there a 2nd edition > coming soon? > > The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating > System > By Marshall Kirk McKusick, George V. Neville-Nei

The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

2008-03-14 Thread Unga
Hi all Is the following book still relevant to FreeBSD 7.X and upcoming FreeBSD 8.X? Is there a 2nd edition coming soon? The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System By Marshall Kirk McKusick, George V. Neville-Neil Published Aug 2, 2004 by Addison Wesley Professional. 1st. Edi

Re: broken MBR

2008-03-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:03:01PM +0100, Marko Lerota wrote: > Torfinn Ingolfsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > But unless the OP wants the specific boot loader from and MS-DOS disk, > > he can get the same effect _without_ usinf non-FreeBSD tools by using > > fdisk -B > > I used the FreeBS

Re: broken MBR

2008-03-14 Thread Marko Lerota
Torfinn Ingolfsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But unless the OP wants the specific boot loader from and MS-DOS disk, > he can get the same effect _without_ usinf non-FreeBSD tools by using > fdisk -B I used the FreeBSD livefs fixit mode and executed this fdisk -B /dev/ad4 it complained tha