Re: swap space issues

2020-06-25 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 25 June 2020 at 19:31:34 -0700, Donald Wilde wrote: > On 6/25/20, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Wednesday, 24 June 2020 at 23:27:27 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote, >> without trimming: >> >>> On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 10:30 PM Greg 'groggy' Lehey >>

Re: swap space issues

2020-06-25 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 24 June 2020 at 23:27:27 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote, without trimming: > On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 10:30 PM Greg 'groggy' Lehey > wrote: > >> On Wednesday, 24 June 2020 at 20:34:24 -0700, Donald Wilde wrote: >>> On 6/24/20, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>

Re: swap space issues

2020-06-25 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 1:55:29 +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > 26.06.2020 1:30, Donald Wilde wrote: > >> Here's 'pstat -s' on the i3 (which registers as cpu HAMMER): >> >> Device 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity >> /dev/ada0s1b 335544320 33554432 0% >>

Re: swap space issues

2020-06-24 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 24 June 2020 at 20:34:24 -0700, Donald Wilde wrote: > On 6/24/20, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Wednesday, 24 June 2020 at 18:51:04 -0700, Donald Wilde wrote: >>> On 6/24/20, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>>> On Wednesday, 24 June 2020 at 9:3

Re: swap space issues

2020-06-24 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 24 June 2020 at 18:51:04 -0700, Donald Wilde wrote: > On 6/24/20, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Wednesday, 24 June 2020 at 9:36:23 -0700, Donald Wilde wrote: >>> All, >>> >>> I recently upgraded my 12-STABLE system to the latest, and now my &

Re: swap space issues

2020-06-24 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 24 June 2020 at 9:36:23 -0700, Donald Wilde wrote: > All, > > I recently upgraded my 12-STABLE system to the latest, and now my > swap subsystems aren't working. I deliberately set up a 40GB > partition for swap, and when I do 'top -t' I am only seeing 7906M > total. That looks

Re: New Xorg - different key-codes

2020-03-10 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 11 March 2020 at 0:20:03 +, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: [originally sent to current@] > I just updated my laptop from source, and somewhere along the way > the key-codes Xorg sees changed. Indeed. This doesn't just affect -CURRENT: it happened to me on -STABLE last week, so I'm

Re: FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report - First Quarter 2016 (fwd)

2016-05-02 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[line lengths recovered] On Sunday, 1 May 2016 at 20:16:38 -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > >> On May 1, 2016, at 5:49 PM, Warren Block wrote: >> >> The first quarter of 2016 showed that FreeBSD retains a strong sense of >> ipseity. Improvements were pervasive, lending

Re: can we resurrect linux-firefox-1.5 ?

2007-01-16 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 17 January 2007 at 9:56:51 +1000, Greg Black wrote: On 2007-01-16, Luigi Rizzo wrote: The 1.5.x version _is_ working for me. It is 2.0.x that exhibits severe problems. I was surprised and annoyed when I found that the reasonably reliable 1.5.x version had been replaced by

Re: can we resurrect linux-firefox-1.5 ?

2007-01-16 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 17 January 2007 at 3:16:44 +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 11:37:53AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I can't agree. It has hijacked some keys used by Wikipedia (alt-S, alt-P), and so far I've found it impossible to disable tabs, something that was barely

Re: vinum to gvinum help

2006-06-26 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 26 June 2006 at 19:15:36 +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 12:22:07PM -0400, Sven Willenberger wrote: I have an i386 system currently running 5.2.1-RELEASE with a vinum mirror array (2 drives comprising /usr ). I want to upgrade this to 5.5-RELEASE which, if I

Re: cpu-timer rate

2005-12-06 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 2 December 2005 at 14:32:58 +0100, kama wrote: Hi, I am just wondering why the cpu-timer is doubled from what I set in kern.hz? # vmstat -i ... cpu0: timer 14314031 1999 # sysctl -a | grep hz kern.clockrate: { hz = 1000, tick = 1000, profhz = 666,

Re: Laptop choices

2005-11-29 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 24 November 2005 at 11:17:41 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the [Dell] warrenty... I'm hard on equipment and I depend on my equipment. I've been impressed that if I put my foot down and say that I believe something needs replacing, then without much fuss, they do it. The

Re: ACPI problems with Dell laptops

2005-11-28 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 27 November 2005 at 23:10:01 +, Chris Howells wrote: On Sunday 27 November 2005 11:50, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: Since then I've also discovered that the builtin wireless card doesn't work either.  It's:   iwi0: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2915ABG mem 0xdfcfd000-0xdfcfdfff irq 10

Re: ACPI problems with Dell laptops

2005-11-27 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 26 November 2005 at 20:25:58 -0600, Eric Anderson wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I've had both Dell and ThinkPad (no longer IBM). I prefer Dell, despite their attempts to convince me otherwise. However, we currently seem to have significant ACPI problems with Dell laptops

ACPI problems with Dell laptops (was: Laptop choices)

2005-11-23 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 22 November 2005 at 17:12:46 -0800, Graham North wrote: Am currently trying to choose between a couple of laptops, the luck winner of which will have Freebsd loaded alongside WinXP. Dell Latitude d600 with Radeon 9000? video, intel pro wireless or IBM R51 - Intel Extreme2, intel

Re: Laptop choices

2005-11-23 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 23 November 2005 at 11:42:17 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 08:19:07PM +0100, Bartosz Fabianowski wrote: Or, can the touch pads be disabled in the bios? I have a Dell Inspiron 8600C, which only has a touch pad. ... Of course, this is not a Thinkpad clone, but

Re: ACPI problems with Dell laptops? (was: Jerky keyboard and mouse)

2005-11-22 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 20 November 2005 at 23:01:41 -0600, Doug Poland wrote: On Sun, November 20, 2005 01:59, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Saturday, 19 November 2005 at 21:37:03 -0600, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: I recently upgraded from stable-6 of Nov 4 to stable-6 of today on my Dell Latitude

ACPI problems with Dell laptops? (was: Jerky keyboard and mouse)

2005-11-20 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 19 November 2005 at 21:37:03 -0600, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: I recently upgraded from stable-6 of Nov 4 to stable-6 of today on my Dell Latitude D800 Laptop, and suddenly the response of the touchpad mouse and keyboard was bery bad. Heh. I saw the subject line and thought

Re: MySQL 4.1, GCC 3.x, FreeBSD 4.x

2005-09-21 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 21 September 2005 at 14:39:55 -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 02:31:18PM -0400, John Nielsen wrote: Should it be possible to compile and run MySQL 4.1 with GCC 3.4 on a FreeBSD 4.11 machine? I have a server which, for the time being at least, cannot be

Re: Vinum volume manager

2005-09-07 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 6 September 2005 at 14:05:03 +0100, Tomas Palfi wrote: To all, i've got a server with two identical disks which I would like to set up as a one way mirror with Vinum volume manager. How do I go about configuring the entire disk making it bootable mirror of the first one? This

Re: Panic: don't do that ... while unloading snd_ich.ko

2005-07-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 6 July 2005 at 2:31:37 +0200, Michael Nottebrock wrote: Readily reproducable, 5.4-STABLE as of last week. Kernel messages prior to panic (from memory): pcm0: unregister: mixer busy WARNING: Driver mistake: destroy_dev on 30/3 This is a phkism. It's supposed to tell the

Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

2005-06-10 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 10 June 2005 at 18:05:37 +0100, Steve Roome wrote: We're using mostly: 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Mon Jun 6 12:22:18 BST 2005 This is on a Dell PowerEdge 2850. (2 * 2.8 GHz Xeons, 4GB ram, disks), we've been keeping up with stable because supposedly all these new fixes

Re: State of gvinum RELENG_5 or RELENG_5_4 ?!

2005-05-12 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 12 May 2005 at 17:16:59 +0200, Matthias Buelow wrote: Peter Orlowski wrote: At this point, I'm thinking that as far as S/W RAID goes in FreeBSD, the R is pretty meaningless Well, R does not mean redundant but realtime backup ;-(. BTW., what is the status of RaidFrame on

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM? (solved)

2005-04-10 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 8 April 2005 at 13:04:18 -0700, David O'Brien wrote: On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:09:11AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: The moral of the story is, I suppose, don't buy the MSI K8T Master2-FAR. I was warned about the motherboard before I bought it, WHY?? There is nothing wrong

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM? (solved)

2005-04-04 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 31 March 2005 at 10:59:02 -0800, David O'Brien wrote: On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 11:24:29AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Thursday, 31 March 2005 at 10:32:33 +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:14, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: Have you run sysutils/memtest86

Re: 5.4-prerelease - hanging under load

2005-04-03 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 3 April 2005 at 14:45:40 -0700, Nate Lawson wrote: Christian Brueffer wrote: On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 12:07:14PM -0400, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Christian Brueffer wrote: On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 09:16:48PM -0500, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Since I upgraded from 5.3-stable to

Re: 5.4-prerelease - hanging under load

2005-04-03 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 3 April 2005 at 21:43:57 -0700, Nate Lawson wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I'm experiencing similar issues. How can I confirm that this is the case without rebooting the machine (which would be inconvenient)? Is there some sysctl that tells me? I've taken a look, but I don't

Re: 5.4-prerelease - hanging under load

2005-04-03 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 3 April 2005 at 21:59:45 -0700, Nate Lawson wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Sunday, 3 April 2005 at 21:43:57 -0700, Nate Lawson wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I'm experiencing similar issues. How can I confirm that this is the case without rebooting the machine (which

Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
I've recently acquired an AMD64 box (dual Opteron 242, SiS [EMAIL PROTECTED] motherboard (http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/server/svr/pro_svr_detail.php?UID=484). See below for more details). I find it very unstable running with 8 GB memory, though 4 GB are not a problem. At first I

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 15:30:37 -0700, Scott Long wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I've recently acquired an AMD64 box ... What's unstable? ... The amd64 5.4-PRERELEASE kernel just hangs/freezes. 5.3-RELEASE has a lot of problems with 4GB due to busdma issues. Those should

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 14:35:46 -0800, Steve Kargl wrote: On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 07:54:39AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: None of these problems occur when I use 4 GB memory. About the only strangeness, which seems to come from the BIOS, is that it recognizes only 3.5 GB. If I

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 31 March 2005 at 10:32:33 +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:14, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: Have you run sysutils/memtest86 with the 8 GB? Heh. Difficult when the system doesn't run. You could try http://www.memtest86.com although that doesn't do 4Gb :( I'm

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 31 March 2005 at 5:54:17 +0200, Matthias Buelow wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I'm pretty sure it's not the memory. I've tried each pair individually, and it's only when they're both in there together that it's a problem. And yes, I've tried them in each pair of slots

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 23:01:03 -0500, John Baldwin wrote: On Mar 30, 2005, at 8:54 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: lapic0: LINT1 trigger: edge lapic0: LINT1 polarity: high lapic1: Routing NMI - LINT1 lapic1: LINT1 trigger: edge lapic1: LINT1 polarity: high -ioapic0 Version 0.3 irqs

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[gratuitous empty lines removed] On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 21:28:36 -0700, Scott Long wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 23:01:03 -0500, John Baldwin wrote: On Mar 30, 2005, at 8:54 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: lapic0: LINT1 trigger: edge lapic0: LINT1

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 22:27:43 -0700, Scott Long wrote: Jon Noack wrote: On 03/30/05 23:14, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 21:28:36 -0700, Scott Long wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 23:01:03 -0500, John Baldwin wrote

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 31 March 2005 at 0:00:22 -0600, Jon Noack wrote: On 03/30/05 23:49, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: Here's the complete output of acpidump -t, anyway: snip acpidump output Since I don't know anything about ACPI, this doesn't say too much to me. Suggestions welcome. If the APIC

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 16:04:44 -0700, Scott Long wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 15:30:37 -0700, Scott Long wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I've recently acquired an AMD64 box ... What's unstable? ... The amd64 5.4-PRERELEASE kernel just hangs

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 16:01:14 -0700, Scott Long wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 14:35:46 -0800, Steve Kargl wrote: On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 07:54:39AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: None of these problems occur when I use 4 GB memory. About

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 14:57:15 -0800, Steve Kargl wrote: On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 08:14:45AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 14:35:46 -0800, Steve Kargl wrote: On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 07:54:39AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: None of these problems

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] [gratuitous empty lines removed] On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 16:23:34 -0700, Scott Long wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 16:04:44 -0700, Scott Long wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 15:25:37 -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: On Wednesday 30 March 2005 03:09 pm, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 30 March 2005 at 16:04:44 -0700, Scott Long wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: As I described, it doesn't appear to be the drivers. I don't see how

Re: Creating a striped set of mirrors using gvinum

2005-03-19 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 19 March 2005 at 17:58:06 -0500, Sven Willenberger wrote: I am hoping someone has found a way to create this type of raid set using [g]vinum. I see that it is a trivial matter to create a mirror of 2 striped sets but I have not seen a way to create a stripe set out of multiple

Re: vinum.autostart problem

2005-02-01 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 1 February 2005 at 16:36:26 +0900, FUJITA Kazutoshi wrote: Hi, I'm using recent 5-STABLE, and try to mirror root partition with vinum. my /boot/loader.conf is below vinum_load=YES vinum.autostart=YES But I got following message when boot ... vinum: loaded vinum: no

Re: Vinum causes server to crash/reboot ...

2005-01-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 30 January 2005 at 14:28:47 -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Just got burnt on one of my machines, where I was looking to reconfigure my RAID drive ... right now, its down :( I cleared everything off the drive, unmount'd it and then did a 'vinum resetconfig' ... that all worked

Re: Vinum Raid5 Init question

2005-01-18 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 18 January 2005 at 8:33:03 -0600, Craig Boston wrote: On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 12:21:59PM +0100, David Elsing wrote: Quote from the manual of the 4th example of the chapter HOW TO SET UP VINUM: In addition, the volume specification includes the keyword setupstate, which ensures

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and vinum upgrade #2

2004-12-21 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 21 December 2004 at 13:42:40 -0500, Paul Mather wrote: On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 19:00 +0100, Nikolaj Hansen wrote: I also do not think it belongs in the stable branch just yet :-D Any hope of you fixing the old vinum in the 5.3 branch or is it a wait for the 5.4? AFAIK, the old

Re: SOLVVED vinum crashes the Box... WRONG POSTING

2004-12-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 9 December 2004 at 14:52:14 +0100, Michael Schuh wrote: Hello, sorry for my wrong posting, it was late at night and i have *not* doublechecked my configuration. If you get a panic, it's not your fault. You shouldn't be able to panic the machine with an invalid configuration.

Re: crashdumps not working

2004-12-08 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 8 December 2004 at 11:20:34 +, Robert Watson wrote: On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Michael Nottebrock wrote: I recently enabled SW_WATCHDOG in my kernel, but when watchdog triggers a panic, no crashdump is taken although dumps are enabled. What could be causing this? If you drop to

Re: vinum / 5.3

2004-11-16 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 16 November 2004 at 12:50:33 -0500, Sam wrote: Hello all, I'm trying to create a stripe over 10 disks and am hitting a 32-bit wall in the volume size. The plex properly sees the full 3726 GB, but the volume shaves off the 32nd bit and only sees 1678 GB. Usual for vinum? No.

Re: freebsd 5.3 have any problem with vinum ?

2004-11-06 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 1 November 2004 at 10:05:16 +1100, Carl Makin wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Monday, 25 October 2004 at 14:21:33 -0600, secmgr wrote: It's beginning to look like that's a bad idea. Lukas is (understandably) working only on gvinum, and since I know it's nearly there, I'm

Re: freebsd 5.3 have any problem with vinum ?

2004-10-31 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 29 October 2004 at 14:20:40 -0600, secmgr wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: A bit of background: we know that 'gvinum' will replace Vinum; the original intention had been to do it seamlessly, but for various reasons that did happen. Then we decided that we should leave them both

Re: freebsd 5.3 have any problem with vinum ?

2004-10-29 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 25 October 2004 at 14:21:33 -0600, secmgr wrote: Andrew Konstantinov wrote: On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 05:55, Oliver Torres Delgado wrote: I have freebsd 5.3 rc1 installed perfectly, i configure vinum with the handbook and all work perfect but when try run vinum with rc.conf there

Re: Serious bug in vinum?

2004-03-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
if somebody tries to access the inaccessible part of the volume. That should happen, and I'm confused that it doesn't appear to be doing so in this case. On Tuesday, 30 March 2004 at 11:07:55 -0300, Joo Carlos Mendes Lus wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 30 March 2004 at 0:32:38 -0300

Re: mismatching vinum configurations

2003-07-20 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 20 July 2003 at 20:27:00 +0200, Joan Picanyol i Puig wrote: Hi, I had a power failure, and the on-disk configuration for vinum went bizarre. The logs read from disks are at http://biaix.org/pk/debug/ (log.$DEVICE files). They're not much help, and a lot of the files are

Re: vinum performance

2003-03-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 30 March 2003 at 14:08:24 +0200, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote: Lukas Ertl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone has an idea what's going wrong here? (Apart from me doing bullsh*t benchmarking :-) .) Just out of curiosity, try again with prime stripe sizes (31, 61, 127, 257, 509) or at

Re: vinum performance

2003-03-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 30 March 2003 at 16:30:17 +0200, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote: Anti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: try benchmarking ccd as well to see how it compares? and try some big stripe sizes (4093, 8191, 12281)? I believe Greg showed in his USENIX paper on Vinum that large stripe sizes aren't

Re: vinum performance

2003-03-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 30 March 2003 at 18:10:07 +0200, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote: Lukas Ertl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm currently testing with prime stripe sizes, but it doesn't seem to help. I additionally added options AHC_ALLOW_MEMIO to the kernel, and it has raised write performance in the

Re: Sony Cybershot should be in hardware notes (supported by umass)

2003-03-10 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 11 March 2003 at 0:36:58 +0100, Joan Picanyol i Puig wrote: * Doug Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20030311 00:14]: I think it's already covered by the statement Owing to the generic nature of most USB devices, with some exceptions any device of a given class will be supported, even if

Re: bootvinum and multiple pc-partitions

2002-12-19 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 19 December 2002 at 21:33:50 -0600, Hari Bhaskaran wrote: Hi, I am having a problem using the bootvinum script. It seems to consider only the first slice (PC-partition) of the root spindle. I have put all vinum related files here http://65.189.239.65/vinum_files/ I have two (1

Re: bootvinum and multiple pc-partitions

2002-12-19 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 19 December 2002 at 22:34:57 -0600, Hari Bhaskaran wrote: On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 02:26:34PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I must confess to being a bit baffled. You seem to be confused on a number of points. Certainly there's never any reason to put more than one Vinum

Re: Recreating vinum device ...

2002-11-28 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 28 November 2002 at 16:26:09 -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Okay, I need to confirm this before I run it, cause if it doesn't work, I'm royally screwed ... The old server, the drives on the controller I couldn't bring up had a vinum

Re: vinum + 4.7 release = page fault

2002-10-24 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 24 October 2002 at 11:12:11 +0400, Eugene Mitrofanov wrote: On 23-Oct-2002 Coleman Kane wrote: I recently installed 4.7-R on a machine that runs vinum and have had no trouble with my system. I also have run vinum start multiple times and all it seems to do is creade another md

Re: Brazil time zone file sets DST incorrectly

2002-10-16 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 17 October 2002 at 9:35:40 +1000, Christopher Vance wrote: On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 04:31:57PM -0300, Vitor de Matos Carvalho wrote: Detected the DST problem, because the Security Team did not notify? It will be that this error for being of did not enteresse of administrators of

Re: Compiling a New Kernel

2002-10-11 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 12 October 2002 at 10:32:09 +0930, Phil Kernick wrote: Aragon Gouveia wrote: Ideally you should build, install, and boot your new kernel before installing your new world. If your new kernel fails to boot for whatever reason, you can easily boot the old kernel and have a fully

Re: SMP Problems

2002-08-18 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 18 August 2002 at 13:51:54 -0700, Chern Lee wrote: I'm not sure where along the line I lost my second CPU, but I'm sure I had it 4.5. Now, the second CPU is never detected. Dual Pentium III 600 Intel L440GX motherboard w/ 440GX+ chipset This is a VA Linux machine. Any ideas

Re: Hardware RAID vs vinum

2002-05-29 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 29 May 2002 at 8:11:41 -0600, Scott Long wrote: On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 01:42:11PM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I'm sure that there are good reasons for small stripe sizes. I don't believe that efficiency is one of them. I think your problem is that you're looking

Re: Hardware RAID vs vinum

2002-05-29 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 29 May 2002 at 17:16:36 -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: I am not going to take a stand on performance other then to say to both parties: prove your points. Well, I thought I had done just that. If you have any issues with my claims, you're welcome to raise them. I

Re: gdb doesn't work over NFS ?

2002-04-25 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 25 April 2002 at 23:18:34 +1000, Darren Reed wrote: Can someone explain why when I use gdb under FreeBSD 4.5, I cannot open files on an NFS partition that I can outside of gdb ? ie. i can do: $ wc Makefile but I cannot do: $ gdb `which wc` (gdb) run Makefile and if I

Re: vinum raid0 == system crash

2002-04-11 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 11 April 2002 at 10:43:46 +0400, Eugene Mitrofanov wrote: Hi I have 2 raid0 volumes on my server. Some time ago one hard disk died and I removed it from the server. Now the system reboots suddenly every 1..5 days. I recompiled kernel with debuging info and located the place of

Re: attempted exploits

2002-03-24 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Log output wrapped. On Sunday, 24 March 2002 at 21:52:40 -0800, Jesse Geddis wrote: wow, this person is quite effective. they've been trying this since this morning 4mins after i got my web server up. been doing it every