Re: Extreme console latency during disk IO (8.0-RC1, previous releases also affected according to others)

2009-10-14 Thread Ivan Voras
Larry Rosenman wrote: On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Ivan Voras wrote: As for what data is needed, it depends on what you can get - from this discussion thread it looks like it would be enough to verify that disk IO doesn't leave VM processes waiting (i.e. that disk IO doesn't interfere with CPU-bound

Re: Extreme console latency during disk IO (8.0-RC1, previous releases also affected according to others)

2009-10-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
Ivan Voras wrote: 2009/10/13 Larry Rosenman l...@lerctr.org: note huge packet loss. It looks like it's VM fault or something like it. It sounds like the VM is failing to execute the guest during certain types of I/O. A bit of scheduler tracing in the host OS probably wouldn't go amiss to

Re: Extreme console latency during disk IO (8.0-RC1, previous releases also affected according to others)

2009-10-14 Thread Ivan Voras
Kris Kennaway wrote: Ivan Voras wrote: I recall others having various weird problems in 3.5 that went away when they upgraded to 4.0. It would be a good idea except that apparently my installation is unupgradeable because of unsupported boot disk (a SCSI RAID volume).

Re: Extreme console latency during disk IO (8.0-RC1, previous releases also affected according to others)

2009-10-14 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 09:58:09AM +0200, Thomas Backman wrote: On Oct 13, 2009, at 12:35 AM, Luigi Rizzo wrote: ... hi, this issue (not specific to FreeBSD, and not new -- it has been like this forever) is discussed in some detail here

RE: Kernel Build Issues with latest cvsup of both a 7.2 system, and a 6.4 system..

2009-10-14 Thread Howard Leadmon
As a follow-up to my original message, and I thank the couple people that did respond with suggestions. I seem to have found the issue, which is apparently cvsup17.FreeBSD.org and some file inconsistency. I was using cvsup17 as it was a very close site hop/ping wise on my various servers, in

UVNC Repeater

2009-10-14 Thread Michal
Good afternoon, I am having a few niggly problems setting up a VNC repeater on my FreeBSD box and I am finding it very hard to find any information anywhere. I freshly installed FreeBSD on the box today and updated ports and system. I then make make build make install

ZFS repeatable reboot 8.0-RC1

2009-10-14 Thread grarpamp
Hi. I'm running i386 on i386, single P4 cpu, 1GiB RAM. SiI 3114 - SATA [single disk] - GELI [AES-128] - ZFS [sha256] Straight RELENG_8 as of cvsup Oct 12 14:49:00 aka 8.0-RC1 plus. ZFS pool is at v13, ZFS fs is at v3. Hardware seems stable. The only modification to config defaults is:

re: ZFS repeatable reboot 8.0-RC1

2009-10-14 Thread grarpamp
Happened again :) So some more notes... Watched it this time, it jumped from about 29xMiB straight to 366MiB, then hung and rebooted itself. The first zpool import after reboot takes about a minute more than the usual ten seconds to import. And uses up to maybe 125MiB instead of maybe 40MiB.

re: ZFS repeatable reboot 8.0-RC1

2009-10-14 Thread jhell
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:55, grarpamp@ wrote: Happened again :) So some more notes... Watched it this time, it jumped from about 29xMiB straight to 366MiB, then hung and rebooted itself. The first zpool import after reboot takes about a minute more than the usual ten seconds to import. And uses