Re: [ATH] 9.2-PRERELEASE and wlan0 device disconnection

2013-08-19 Thread Marko Cupać
I am struggling with my AR9285 for more than a year now. Sometimes it is better, sometimes worse, but never without disconnections. I have also noticed it dies more frequently on heavy usage. I read somewhere that raising value of kern.ipc.nmbclusters (in my case to 51200) could be of help, so I

Re: [ATH] 9.2-PRERELEASE and wlan0 device disconnection

2013-08-19 Thread Tj Hariharan
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 09:59:19AM +0200, Marko Cupać wrote: I am struggling with my AR9285 for more than a year now. Sometimes it is better, sometimes worse, but never without disconnections. I have also noticed it dies more frequently on heavy usage. I read somewhere that raising value of

Re: [ATH] 9.2-PRERELEASE and wlan0 device disconnection

2013-08-19 Thread Marko Cupać
On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 14:46:01 +0530 Tj Hariharan t...@archlinux.us wrote: Hmm, let me know how that goes, I'll probably try it too. How did you find the number '51200', and what does that value do? I searched error message I was getting and found this thread:

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-08-19 Thread Andre Oppermann
On 16.08.2013 10:29, Andre Oppermann wrote: On 16.08.2013 08:32, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Andre, I'm kind of bummed out this didn't make it into 9.2, I'm wondering can I commit this to 9-stable now? (or is it already in?) It didn't make it because there was only sparse feedback after the

Re: Change in loader or kernel: won't boot with kfreebsd in grub2

2013-08-19 Thread Andrey V. Elsukov
On 19.08.2013 05:40, Thomas Mueller wrote: cd devices: disk devices: disk0 BIOS drive A: disk0s1: Unknown disk1: BIOS drive C: disk2: BIOS drive D: disk2p1: FreeBSD boot disk2p2: FreeBSD UFS disk2p3: FreeBSD swap disk3: BIOS drive E:

Re: [ATH] 9.2-PRERELEASE and wlan0 device disconnection

2013-08-19 Thread Tj Hariharan
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 11:40:44AM +0200, Marko Cupać wrote: I am total layman, and am just sharing my experimentations. I am not sure if they will get us any improvements. What else can I do when there are 175 PRs currently open:

Re: [ATH] 9.2-PRERELEASE and wlan0 device disconnection

2013-08-19 Thread Tj Hariharan
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 11:15:32AM +0530, Tj Hariharan wrote: O never mind, it still happens, though obviously more intermittently, since I didn't notice anything odd for almost an entire day. A few more things this time though: a. It IS intermittent, there seems to be very little pattern to

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-08-19 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Aug 19, 2013, at 2:52 AM, Andre Oppermann an...@freebsd.org wrote: On 16.08.2013 10:29, Andre Oppermann wrote: On 16.08.2013 08:32, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Andre, I'm kind of bummed out this didn't make it into 9.2, I'm wondering can I commit this to 9-stable now? (or is it already

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-08-19 Thread Outback Dingo
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Alfred Perlstein alf...@ixsystems.comwrote: On Aug 19, 2013, at 2:52 AM, Andre Oppermann an...@freebsd.org wrote: On 16.08.2013 10:29, Andre Oppermann wrote: On 16.08.2013 08:32, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Andre, I'm kind of bummed out this didn't make it

Re: [ATH] 9.2-PRERELEASE and wlan0 device disconnection

2013-08-19 Thread Adrian Chadd
Are you running the AR9285 on -HEAD? If not, upgrade. It should behave much, much better. -adrian On 19 August 2013 00:59, Marko Cupać marko.cu...@mimar.rs wrote: I am struggling with my AR9285 for more than a year now. Sometimes it is better, sometimes worse, but never without

Re: [ATH] 9.2-PRERELEASE and wlan0 device disconnection

2013-08-19 Thread Adrian Chadd
A lot of the ath PRs filed by me can be closed. They're reminders that things needed fixing, which I've done. A lot of them are for older cards on older machines with odd behaviour due to PCI/cardbus issues, power save bugs, ACPI hilarity, etc. I've tried to port over some fixes to address these

Re: [ATH] 9.2-PRERELEASE and wlan0 device disconnection

2013-08-19 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, Please just do it manually for now. # ifconfig wlan0 # ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0 # wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf # dhclient wlan0 .. see what happens. -adrian On 19 August 2013 06:30, Tj Hariharan t...@archlinux.us wrote: On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at

Re: [ATH] 9.2-PRERELEASE and wlan0 device disconnection

2013-08-19 Thread Tj
Ok it's gotten worse now. I can no longer restart netif, it just hangs there in uninterruptible wait forever (trying to delete the wlan0 interface using ifconfig) On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 09:59:19AM +0200, Marko Cupać wrote: I am struggling with my AR9285 for more than a year now. Sometimes it is

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-08-19 Thread Alfred Perlstein
Performance is bad for large memory requirements period. Vnodes and mbufs on a machine with 24gb ram is limited to the same amount as a machine with less than 4GB ram. This was fixed in head but not merged back in time. This results in poor out of the box performance on 10gige and servers

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-08-19 Thread Outback Dingo
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Alfred Perlstein alf...@ixsystems.comwrote: Performance is bad for large memory requirements period. Vnodes and mbufs on a machine with 24gb ram is limited to the same amount as a machine with less than 4GB ram. This was fixed in head but not merged back in

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-08-19 Thread Andre Oppermann
On 19.08.2013 18:09, Outback Dingo wrote: On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Alfred Perlstein alf...@ixsystems.com mailto:alf...@ixsystems.com wrote: Performance is bad for large memory requirements period. Vnodes and mbufs on a machine with 24gb ram is limited to the same amount as

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-08-19 Thread Outback Dingo
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Andre Oppermann an...@freebsd.org wrote: On 19.08.2013 18:09, Outback Dingo wrote: On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Alfred Perlstein alf...@ixsystems.com mailto:alf...@ixsystems.com wrote: Performance is bad for large memory requirements period.

RE: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-08-19 Thread Dewayne Geraghty
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Alfred Perlstein Sent: Tuesday, 20 August 2013 2:05 AM To: Outback Dingo Cc: r...@freebsd.org; sta...@freebsd.org; Andre Oppermann; nones...@longcount.org Subject:

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-08-19 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 8/19/13 9:19 AM, Outback Dingo wrote: On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Andre Oppermann an...@freebsd.org mailto:an...@freebsd.org wrote: On 19.08.2013 18:09, Outback Dingo wrote: On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Alfred Perlstein alf...@ixsystems.com

Re: Change in loader or kernel: won't boot with kfreebsd in grub2

2013-08-19 Thread Thomas Mueller
I can repeat (again) what uname -a shows: FreeBSD amelia2 9.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 9.2-PRERELEASE #17 r254196: Sun Aug 11 00:36:49 UTC 2013 root@amelia2:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SANDY amd64 Hello, can you try to install this loader? http://people.freebsd.org/~ae/loader

Re: Change in loader or kernel: won't boot with kfreebsd in grub2

2013-08-19 Thread Juergen Lock
[sending this from hub since bellsouth.net doesn't seem to like my `normal' mailserver...] On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 07:30:16PM +, Thomas Mueller wrote: I can repeat (again) what uname -a shows: FreeBSD amelia2 9.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 9.2-PRERELEASE #17 r254196: Sun Aug 11 00:36:49 UTC

Re: Change in loader or kernel: won't boot with kfreebsd in grub2

2013-08-19 Thread Thomas Mueller
..so you probably never saw my post about the updated super grub disk iso: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2013-August/074711.html I.e. they fixed the kfreebsd misspelling and the grub 2.00 bug that prevented it from booting a 9.1+ kernel directly, so the

Re: Change in loader or kernel: won't boot with kfreebsd in grub2

2013-08-19 Thread Thomas Mueller
I can repeat (again) what uname -a shows: FreeBSD amelia2 9.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 9.2-PRERELEASE #17 r254196: Sun Aug 11 00:36:49 UTC 2013 root@amelia2:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SANDY amd64 Hello, can you try to install this loader? http://people.freebsd.org/~ae/loader

Re: Change in loader or kernel: won't boot with kfreebsd in grub2

2013-08-19 Thread Andrey V. Elsukov
On 20.08.2013 06:58, Thomas Mueller wrote: was taken to a loader prompt where I could not access any files on the hard disk. Was the output of lsdev command the same or something changed? So again I had to reboot, this time from the USB stick and at the loader prompt typed set boot_askname

Re: Change in loader or kernel: won't boot with kfreebsd in grub2

2013-08-19 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 20.08.2013 06:58, Thomas Mueller wrote: was taken to a loader prompt where I could not access any files on the hard disk. Was the output of lsdev command the same or something changed? So again I had to reboot, this time from the USB stick and at the loader prompt typed set

Re: Update to 9.2-PRERELEASE, what is this?

2013-08-19 Thread J David
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Sun, 18 Aug 2013, David Demelier wrote: http://files.malikania.fr/DSC_0223.jpg What's that? Is this a joke? Yes, sort of. This is fantastic. Kudos and thanks for the laugh to whoever snuck it in there. After

Re: NFS deadlock on 9.2-Beta1

2013-08-19 Thread J David
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Rick Macklem rmack...@uoguelph.ca wrote: Have you been able to pass the debugging info on to Kostik? It would be really nice to get this fixed for FreeBSD9.2. You're probably not talking to me, but headway here is slow. At our location, we have been continuing