Telus EV-DO success how-to.

and the serial number can be found in the windows client and/or the telus agents can see them if you're talking to a tech support agent. Dave. -- |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can be | |Mail

Re: ggate still broken on 6.2-RC1 for amd64.

Craig == Craig Boston [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Craig On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 02:47:41AM -0500, David Gilbert wrote: That doesn't square with my experience. Although bigger buffers could be involved in a performance problem, what we're dealing with here is a _zero_ traffic situation

Re: ggate still broken on 6.2-RC1 for amd64.

Craig == Craig Boston [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Craig On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 06:12:21PM +0100, Ulrich Spoerlein Craig wrote: David Gilbert wrote: But the ggated/ggatec in 6.2-RC1 connects now (and is happy about that). In fact, the tasting on the ggatec side that happens due to new disks

ggate still broken on 6.2-RC1 for amd64.

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ggated still non-functional on amd64 in 6.2-PRERELEASE

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ggate fails on 6.2-RC.

looking for people who also have been testing this with 6.2-RC. Dave. -- |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can be | |Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| equal if and only

/sys/dev/ata/ata-chipset.c 1.168 MFC?

. (this also requires 1.65 to 1.68 of ata-pci.h). Any takers? Dave. -- |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can be | |Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| equal if and only

why the swapping

that is blocked to a large degree on paging --- but that's not likely happening. Dave. -- |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can be | |Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Frustrating inability to boot amd64

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Re: Frustrating inability to boot amd64

Jack == Jack Vogel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jack On 4/5/06, David Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At this point, I've been through 4 AMD64 motherboards. Commonly, AE_BAD_CHARACTER stops ACPI (or apic?) from figuring out the system --- this has happened on 3 out of four boards

ggate failure in 5.4-STABLE

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Bonnie++ finds nfs failure.

is AMD64 5.3-RELEASE-p5. The filesystem is a 1.0T RAID10 (geom) with softupdates enabled. Dave. -- |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only be | |Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

netstat -m broken.

that. this machine was just booted. Dave. -- |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only be | |Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca

Re: NFS failure for bonnie++

Dan == Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dan In the last episode (Mar 16), David Gilbert said: I have two machines running 5.3-PRERELEASE (cvsup'd yesterday). They're dual opterons running amd64 code. One of them has 1.0T of disk mounted with gmirror, gconcat and ggate... and it exports

Re: Geom RAID root report.

Doug == Doug White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Doug On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, David Gilbert wrote: Gmirror on the fix-it CD appears to be impotent. It appears to have only 'help', 'list', 'load' and 'unload' as commands. Not useful. Doug If you manually load the geom_mirror.ko kernel module

Re: Geom RAID root report.

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Geom RAID root report.

/rc.conf But otherwise, this all seems to work ... even without the nasty recalculation of the fake 'a' partition required by vinum. Dave. -- |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only be | |Mail

Re: crashdumps not working

getting dumping working on Robert the box. If I had an address and a debug kernel, how is this done? Dave. -- |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only be | |Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: graid3 - requirements or manpage wrong?

vinum or gvinum. Vinum appears to have the functionality (and bugs) that it had back in 5.1. The only missing function seems to be the ability to swap to a vinum volume. Dave. -- |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor

isp driver crashes on amd64

of the OS. I'll be back at this Monday. It would help if I found a) a patch for dumping 8gig, or b) a suspect 64 bit problem in the isp driver. Dave. -- |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only

Re: Snapshot corruption.

uses some form of berkley db, too. I don't know what the corruption looked like other than the db library would no longer accept it. Dave. -- |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only

Snapshot corruption.

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Re: Snapshot corruption.

Julian == Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Julian David Gilbert wrote: I've got a medium busy server (few thousand mail messages a day, web, webmail, imap, etc) that I can fairly reliably reproduce filesystem corruption by creating multiple snapshots and deleting them. I don't

Different snapshot sizes.

crash with some regularity ... which it does. In fact, the /var partition gets the widest variety of snapshot sizes ... so I've disabled snapshots there alltogether. Dave. -- |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor

VIA 83C572 USB controller not recognised as EHCI?

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new threads problem? pthread_cond_timedwait ?

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uaudio two-state volume?

Is there a reason uaudio presents only a single volume knob ... and that volume knob only has two states ... 0 and 1? Luckily, it also doesn't seem to do anything. Or is my hardware faulty? Dave. -- |David Gilbert

Packet passing performance study on exotic hardware.

sizes). I will add to this report then. If anyone has tuning advice for FreeBSD 5.3, I'd like to hear it. Dave. -- |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only be | |Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Packet passing performance study on exotic hardware.

-run your tests. Sorry. I should have made it clear that I applied the patches to the em from the tree by hand. Dave. -- |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only be | |Mail: [EMAIL

Re: Packet passing performance study on exotic hardware.

by the thread that picks them up. Dave. -- |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only be | |Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca

Re: Packet passing performance study on exotic hardware.

Mike == Mike Tancsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mike At 10:08 AM 08/10/2004, David Gilbert wrote: Right out of the box, FreeBSD 5.3 (with polling) passed about 200 kpps. net.isr.enable=1 increased that without polling to about 220 Mike Did you have kern.polling.idle_poll at 0 or 1 ? In my

RE: Packet passing performance study on exotic hardware.

Daniel == Daniel Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel David Gilbert wrote: Right out of the box, FreeBSD 5.3 (with polling) passed about 200 kpps. Daniel Was this with debug.mpsafenet enabled and all debugging Daniel (WITNESS and such) turned off? mpsafenet on and all witness and other

Re: Packet passing performance study on exotic hardware.

Julian == Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Julian David Gilbert wrote: Julian there are also changes in B4-B7 that ar related to scheduling Julian the packet delivery mechanisms.. They may not make much of a Julian difference but... I will endevour to do cvsup and retest, then. BTW

Re: Packet passing performance study on exotic hardware.

Mike == Mike Tancsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mike At 12:18 PM 08/10/2004, David Gilbert wrote: Idle_poll is default 1, I'm not positive we tested 0. I don't think there is much idle time here. Mike Actually, on RELENG_5, I think the default is now zero. checked, tho. We did set it to 1

agp driver locks up on resume.

irq 9 at device 0.0 on pci1 info: [drm] AGP at 0xf400 64MB info: [drm] Initialized r128 2.2.0 20010405 on minor 0 info: [drm] 8192 13 12 This laptop otherwise suspend/resumes fine (ie: without agp). Dave. -- |David

Re:agp driver locks up on resume

) when you Sean do a suspend resume -- it gets stuck trying to flush a buffer... So ... this means that there's no hope ... just disable agp ... ? Dave. -- |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only

4.4-RC1 kernel crashes on fujitsu laptop, 4.3-RELEASE does not.

. I have used 4.3-STABLE kernels on the machine with no ill effects. In recent testing, 4.3-RELEASE kernels definately don't crash. Dave. -- |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only

[stable] Re: Freebsd vs. UPS

firing up the linux version on a linux box (or inside VMWare) and watching the output, but again... i've been busy. Dave. -- ==== |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: [EMAIL

Re: NFS issues in 4.1-RELEASE?

you could be running into the last problem mentioned in Gregory the PR (that INVARIANTS in the zone allocator is just plain Gregory busted.) Hmm... this sounds exactly like the issue. Dave. -- ======== |David Gilbert, Velocet Communi

Flash disk support over USB?

, but how do I get a umass0 or somesuch entry out of it. Dave. -- |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | equal if and only

Re: Flash disk support over USB?

these working? Alan *WARNING* DO NOT USE IBM MICRODRIVE DEVICES IN THIS UNIT! Alan *WARNING* DO NOT USE IBM MICRODRIVE DEVICES IN THIS UNIT! I have here a Canon CompactFlash(tm) FC-8M Dave. -- ======== |David Gilbert, Velocet Communi

Advansys SCSI controllers.

his. Dave. -- ==== |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | equal if and only if they | |http://www.velocet.net/~dgilbert | are precisel

Re: Ethernet MTUs 1500?

ful L word) forwards 1500 byte packets into the VLANs. I just want my FreeBSD router to do the same. Dave. -- ==== |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Ethernet MTUs 1500?

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Re: Ethernet MTUs 1500?

"Joerg" == Joerg Micheel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joerg On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 11:23:13PM -0400, David Gilbert wrote: But a number of devices seem to allow for MTUs 1500 on 100Mb ethernet... and several people have told me that the standard allows for packets bigger than

Re: Ethernet MTUs 1500?

lds) since the higher level protocol packet size is Louis unchanged. Why, then, are the vlan MTUs hardwired at 1496? Dave. -- ==== |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: [EMAIL

1 world broken and one request.

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Re: curious about memory report usingfreebsd v3.3-release

there who are saying that the 4.0R is definately better than 3.4R. Dave. -- ======== |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | equal if and

Re: curious about memory report usingfreebsd v3.3-release

... but we have NFS performance problems with machines we've built with them. Dave. -- ======== |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How good is AMI MegaRAID support?

che rather than 64) Dave. -- ==== |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | equal if and only if they | |http://www.velocet.net

kernel not patching?

one module... and this global variable is referenced. When I then search for this string (by lessing the kernel and searching for dgilbert), I can't find it in the kernel's image. What's up? Dave. -- ==== |David Gilbert, Velocet Comm

Re: kernel not patching?

s -ansi -g -nostdinc -I- -I. -I../.. -I../../../include -DKERNEL -DVM_STACK -include opt_global.h -elf vers.c loading kernel Dave. -- ==== |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail:

Re: kernel not patching?

ith gcc, it will autosize foo[] and copy "foostring" into it. The cool thing is that sizeof(foo) == strlen(foo)+1. Dave. -- ======== |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |

wierd SCSI error prevents dump?

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Re: ahc problems (with vinum?)

"Kenneth" == Kenneth D Merry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kenneth David Gilbert wrote... "Kenneth" == Kenneth D Merry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kenneth It does, generally, but if you've got flaky cabling, it's Kenneth hard to guarantee that the bus reset will fix all of y

Multiple crashes.

The crashes alternate between the previous message's backtrace and this one. panic: rlist_free: free start overlaps already freed area (kgdb) bt #0 boot (howto=256) at ../../kern/kern_shutdown.c:285 #1 0xc014c469 in panic ( fmt=0xc01f0a34 "rlist_free: free start overlaps already freed

More on the crashes already mentioned.

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Re: vinum experiences (not as documented, at least).

ays. Dave. -- ==== |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | equal if and only if they | |http://www.velocet.net/~dgilbert | are precisely opposite. | ==

mSQL getting stuck in objtrm state

witnessed this 'objtrm' state locking up netscape this weekend. I cvsup'd Saturday morning. Dave. -- ==== |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

buildworld choking on ipfw...

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