Re: Reducing the need to compile a custom kernel

2012-02-12 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:12:00 +, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: On 10. Feb 2012, at 15:56 , Panagiotis Christias wrote: On 10/2/2012 15:56, Alexander Leidinger wrote: Hi, during some big discussions in the last monts on various lists, one of the problems was that some people would

Re: Disable DMA.

2012-02-12 Thread Peter Ankerstål
On Feb 11, 2012, at 9:34 PM, Alexander Motin wrote: On 02/11/12 20:15, Peter Ankerstål wrote: In FreeBSD 8 i used the loader-variable hw.ata.ata_dma=0 to get my computer boot on a CF card. But in FreeBSD 9.0 it doesn't seem to work. Could it be another variable or is it something else

Re: Reducing the need to compile a custom kernel

2012-02-12 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:05:02 -0800 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Alexander Leidinger alexan...@leidinger.net wrote: On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:40:41 +0100 Thierry Thomas thie...@freebsd.org wrote: is there another place to put options to atkbd and sc, like these ones: options

Re: Reducing the need to compile a custom kernel

2012-02-12 Thread Thierry Thomas
Le dim 12 fév 12 à 12:06:33 +0100, Alexander Leidinger alexan...@leidinger.net écrivait : There is already a way to configure this as soon as you have a working userland. What this setting is doing is to replace the compiled-in default keymap with a different one, so that you have the one

Re: Swap on zvol - recommendable?

2012-02-12 Thread Luke Marsden
On Feb 6, 2012, at 11:57 AM, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: Hi, all, is it possible to make a definite statement about swap on zvols? I found some older discussions about a resource starvation scenario when ZFS arc would be the cause of the system running out of memory, trying to

Re: Reducing the need to compile a custom kernel

2012-02-12 Thread Grégoire Leroy
The question is, is this enough? Or asked differently, why are you compiling a custom kernel in a production environment (so I rule out debug options which are not enabled in GENERIC)? Are there options which you add which you can not add as a module (SW_WATCHDOG comes to my

Re: New BSD Installer

2012-02-12 Thread Bruce Cran
On 2/10/2012 7:47 PM, Alex Samorukov wrote: I am highly against reverting. Old installer is not GPT aware and in fact is unmaintained for a very long time. That's not really correct: quite a lot of work was done on it last year. -- Bruce ___

Re: disk devices speed is ugly

2012-02-12 Thread Alex Samorukov
On 02/12/2012 01:54 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote: Hi, What about the disk access is unaligned? Do you mean not sector aligned? or? Hi. Sector aligned. This is a common problem people face doing disk IO analysis. The whole point about not allowing unaligned access is to make the disk IO path

Re: 9-stable from i386 to amd64

2012-02-12 Thread Ronald Klop
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:58:30 +0100, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: These statements are false, esp. worrying is that they are interwinned with some facts that get tilted to support false presumption. Kernel do not care about which interpreter is /libexec/ld-elf.so. The path to the

Re: Disable DMA.

2012-02-12 Thread Ian Lepore
On Sun, 2012-02-12 at 10:29 +0100, Peter Ankerstål wrote: On Feb 11, 2012, at 9:34 PM, Alexander Motin wrote: On 02/11/12 20:15, Peter Ankerstål wrote: In FreeBSD 8 i used the loader-variable hw.ata.ata_dma=0 to get my computer boot on a CF card. But in FreeBSD 9.0 it doesn't seem to

Tuning needed for slow RDP FreeBSD 9 - Win 2008 R2

2012-02-12 Thread Peter Olsson
Desktop: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE amd64, generic kernel, running Openbox. My WAN is about 1.2 Mbps, and I try to run RDP to windows servers beyond my WAN. RDP to a Windows Server 2003 SP2 is fast and works without problems. RDP to a Windows Server 2008 R2 is very slow, and sometimes just disconnects.

Re: Reducing the need to compile a custom kernel

2012-02-12 Thread perryh
Alexander Leidinger alexan...@leidinger.net wrote: On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:05:02 -0800 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Alexander Leidinger alexan...@leidinger.net wrote: On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:40:41 +0100 Thierry Thomas thie...@freebsd.org wrote: is there another place to put options to

Re: disk devices speed is ugly

2012-02-12 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 12 February 2012 09:34, Alex Samorukov m...@os2.kiev.ua wrote: Yes. But it will nit fix non-cached access to the disk (raw) devices. And this is the main reason why ntfs-3g and exfat are much slower then working on Linux. But _that_ can be fixed with the appropriate application of a

Re: disk devices speed is ugly

2012-02-12 Thread Alex Samorukov
On 02/13/2012 06:27 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote: On 12 February 2012 09:34, Alex Samorukovm...@os2.kiev.ua wrote: Yes. But it will nit fix non-cached access to the disk (raw) devices. And this is the main reason why ntfs-3g and exfat are much slower then working on Linux. But _that_ can be fixed