On 15 Sep, Damian Gerow wrote:
Thus spake Kris Kennaway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [15/09/05 21:39]:
: Is this something known and being worked on, or should I try to gather
some
: debugging information?
:
: The latter..at least a DDB traceback to begin with so we can tell if
: it's a known
On 29 Aug, Matthias Buelow wrote:
Mark Kirkwood wrote:
FreeBSD's filesystems are very robust should you lose power.
This sentence is completely bogus (or at best: wishful thinking)
and should be deleted.
It's probably correct if you have hw.ata.wc=0 (and are using IDE drives
obviously).
I'd
On 29 Aug, Matthias Buelow wrote:
Don Lewis wrote:
I'd like to stress the probably. I've already seen unrepairable
filesystem corruption with softupdates enabled in the past with
good scsi disks at power loss.
Did you remember to disable write caching by setting the WCE mode page
bit
On 30 Aug, Matthias Buelow wrote:
Jon Dama wrote:
Ironically, phk backed out the underlying support for this safety fix
from the FreeBSD kernel b.c. it wasn't integrated into the softupdates
code
whereas in reality the proper course of action would have been to hook it
in. :-/
Can it be
On 29 Aug, Jon Dama wrote:
It seems you need to add a layer of indirection. (owing to biodone being
called merely when the drive has cached the request). What you know is
that those operations marked completed by biodone are in fact done only
after a (costly) flush cache operation is
On 18 Jul, Matthias Buelow wrote:
Paul Mather [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why would that necessarily be more successful? If the outstanding
buffers count is not reducing between time intervals, it is most likely
because there is some underlying hardware problem (e.g., a bad block).
If the count
On 16 Jul, David Taylor wrote:
On Sat, 16 Jul 2005, Matthias Buelow wrote:
David Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A corrupted journal can be detected. If it's corrupted, discard
the whole thing, or only the relevant entry. The filesystem will
remain consistent.
If track corruption
On 14 Jul, Matthias Buelow wrote:
Kevin Oberman wrote:
How can I fix it on my system?
SCSI or ATA? If it's ATA, turn off write cache with (atacontrol(8) or
the sysctl.
You do NOT want to do that. Not only will performance drop brutally
(example: drop to 1/5th of normal write speed for
On 14 Jul, Kevin Oberman wrote:
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:38:15 +0200
From: Anatoliy Dmytriyev [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, everybody!
I have found unusual and dangerous situation with shutdown process:
I did a copy of 200 GB data on the 870 GB partition
On 26 Jun, David Magda wrote:
On Jun 26, 2005, at 22:34, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
In fact, looking at the SATA 2.x specs, each chanell there is rated at
300MB/s, which, again, if I could 'max out evenly', could seriously
blow away the SCSI bus itself ...
*If* I'm reading this right ...
On 27 Jun, Artem Kuchin wrote:
For the last 6 month i really think that if you don't need something
high-end scsi then you should go for SATA. There are test on sites
such as Tom's hardware guide and ixbt.com. They show then on
sequrncial read there is no difference between scsi and sata.
On 17 Jun, David Sze wrote:
AFAIK, SCSI disks normally have write caching disabled.
All the ones that I've encountered in recent years have had write
caching enabled. I always have to remember to use camcontrol to disable
WCE when I install a new disk.
On 2 Jun, Charles Swiger wrote:
On Jun 2, 2005, at 4:56 PM, yuval levy wrote:
If it's a pain to remeber, maybe try sticking
something in rc.shutdown?
Thank you for trying to help, but I do not find this
reply helpful. That's a quick and dirty fix, not a
solution.
[ ...car analogy
On 3 Jun, Matthias Buelow wrote:
Don Lewis wrote:
Nope, the ext2fs problem is different. It is caused by ext2fs holding
persistent references to disk buffers that causes the kernel shutdown
code to to think that not all the dirty buffers have been written to
disk and skip unmounting all
On 26 May, Skylar Thompson wrote:
I'm having some problems with NFS serving on a FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE
machine. The FreeBSD machine is the NFS/NIS server for a group of four
Linux clusters. The network archictecture looks like this:
234/24
On 26 May, Skylar Thompson wrote:
I'm having some problems with NFS serving on a FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE
machine. The FreeBSD machine is the NFS/NIS server for a group of four
Linux clusters. The network archictecture looks like this:
234/24
On 18 May, Einstein Oliveira wrote:
Hi,
I'm using FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p1 and I found some messages about a
problem like this in freebsd-current a few months ago.
The fact is that this problem has just ocurred (on 5.4-RELEASE-p1),
probably because of a power outage (I didn't find
On 18 May, Scott Long wrote:
Einstein Oliveira wrote:
Hi,
I'm using FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p1 and I found some messages about a
problem like this in freebsd-current a few months ago.
The fact is that this problem has just ocurred (on 5.4-RELEASE-p1),
probably because of a power outage
On 12 Apr, Dan Nelson wrote:
In the last episode (Apr 12), Nick Barnes said:
This is the well-known problem with my fantasy world in which the OS
doesn't overcommit any resources. All those programs are broken, but
it's too costly to fix them. If overcommit had been resisted more
On 6 Mar, Don Lewis wrote:
Flash 6 sometimes works for me, but sometimes it segfaults.
[ snip ]
firefox-1.0.1_1,1
linux-flashplugin-6.0r79_2
linuxpluginwrapper-20050119_1
linux_base-8-8.0_6
Here's another stack trace:
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x29fa64d2
On 4 Mar, Bartosz Fabianowski wrote:
/usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper/pkg-message says:
Firefox has a double free problem wih Flash7. So I don't
support it. Please don't send me a report about firefox.
Of course, I always welcome to recieve fixed problems report.
That's kept me
On 26 Feb, Peter Jeremy wrote:
I am trying to do some video capture and have been losing occasional
fields. After adding some debugging code to the kernel, I've found
that the problem is excessive latency between the hardware interrupt
and the driver interrupt - the hardware can handle about
On 21 Jan, Erik Trulsson wrote:
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 08:31:06AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote:
For servers that lack solid backup power (not a 10 minute
UPS), I would probably turn it off. But for most systems it is probably
worth the risks.
A 10 minute UPS should be plenty for that
On 20 Jan, spam maps wrote:
Peter Jeremy wrote:
My guess is that your ssh process is holding open
file descriptors and the cron child process is
waiting for these descriptors to close before
wait()ing for the child. If this is true, then you
should avoid it with something like:
(
On 6 Nov, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
Well, finally had a reason to use it, and its running right now ... seems
a bit slower in phase 2 then before ... is to be expected? Looking
through the patch, it seems that all pass's were affected, so this might
be now the norm ... after ~39minutes
On 7 Nov, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Don Lewis wrote:
On 6 Nov, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
Well, finally had a reason to use it, and its running right now ... seems
a bit slower in phase 2 then before ... is to be expected? Looking
through the patch, it seems that all
On 27 Aug, Pavel Merdine wrote:
Hello,
I'd like to propose the following patch:
--
--- ffs_alloc.c.origFri May 14 19:03:50 2004
+++ ffs_alloc.c Sat Aug 7 03:36:32 2004
@@ -712,7 +712,7 @@
minbfree = 1;
On 30 Aug, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
I've done some more testing. It appears that when linked with lc_r,
VTIME is completely ignored.
As explained in termios(4), when VMIN0, the read call will wait
indefinitely for the first byte and then use VTIME as an interbyte
timer. When using lc_r
On 2 Feb, Kenneth W Cochran wrote:
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 12:36:27 -0800 (PST)
From: Don Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: DNS problem
On 1 Feb, Kovács Péter wrote:
Hello,
Which server in your organization is acting as a DNS
server?
The Windows
On 31 Jan, Richard Schilling wrote:
I've had similar issues connecting via SSH to a solaris box. I thought
it was related to the job I was running on the Solaris box, but never
did find the answer. In my case when I exit from the other box the
connection seems to hang. The only way to
On 23 Jan, pirat wrote:
hi sirs,
i hvae just noticed that if /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf/mailer/local.m4 has
a line that says
ifdef(`LOCAL_MAILER_PATH',, `define(`LOCAL_MAILER_PATH', /bin/mail)')
will result in error at boot time. i simply change that line to
On 23 Jan, pirat wrote:
On Friday, 23 January 2004 at 0:04:20 -0800, Don Lewis wrote:
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 00:04:20 -0800 (PST)
From: Don Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SYSERR(root) Can not exec /bin/mail: No such file or directory
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED
On 30 Oct, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
I'm pretty sure we have support for both types of bootable CD-ROMs in
the bootstraps and the release building code on both 4.X and 5.X. Anyone
who builds their own releases ought to be able to generate either type.
It's not a goal of the FreeBSD Project to
On 23 Jul, Brooks Davis wrote:
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 12:36:54AM +0200, Matthias Buelow wrote:
Barney Wolff writes:
One might argue that this is a config error, and ulimit should be used
to cut the address space to below actually available memory.
Wasn't there a sysctl flag to
On 4 Jun, Bosko Milekic wrote:
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 08:13:24PM +0200, Noor Dawod wrote:
Hello,
I'm having a problem in one of the FreeBSD boxes that I manage. All of a
sudden, and for no particular reason, the machine just reboots abruptly.
When it loads up again, I cannot see an
On Mar 3, 10:35pm, Mike Tancsa wrote:
} Subject: Re: more strange problem with broken pipes and ssh
} At 07:18 PM 3/3/2001 -0800, Don Lewis wrote:
} I believe the fix is to call "signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_DFL)" in do_exec_pty()
} in session.c.
}
} Well, I just popped this in th
On Oct 28, 10:49pm, Peter Radcliffe wrote:
} Subject: stable breakage ?
} cd /usr/src/lib/libncurses; make build-tools
} sh /usr/src/lib/libncurses/../../contrib/ncurses/include/MKhashsize.sh
/usr/src/lib/libncurses/../../contrib/ncurses/include/Caps hashsize.h
} sed
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