Frozen Processes

2006-07-20 Thread Holtor
Hello, Since upgrading some of our 5.4 servers to the latest 6.1-STABLE we've had some processes stuck in the *inp state as listed in 'top'. Those processes can't be killed and any resources they use up in terms of bound IP addresses or ports can't be freed. Does anyone know what this *inp state

Serial ATA Errors

2006-04-11 Thread Holtor
Hello Everyone, I started seeing some ata errors on a server running FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE that I've never seen before. This probably has something to do with it but we just upgraded the RAM on the server from 1 GB to 2 GB (DDR 400), perhaps a cable got slightly loose. I'm pretty certain the hard dri

6.0-STABLE buildworld error

2006-01-31 Thread Holtor
Just cvsup'd from cvsup18.freebsd.org seconds ago and: ===> usr.bin/gencat (obj,depend,all,install) /usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/usr/src/usr.bin/gencat created for /usr/src/usr.bin/gencat rm -f .depend mkdep -f .depend -a-I/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/legacy/usr/include /usr/src/usr.bin/gencat/gencat.c echo g

Network Connection Freezing

2006-01-31 Thread Holtor
Hello, We have a fairly busy web server runnning 5.4-STABLE and the ethernet connection seems to drop offline during the peak times daily. We have seen errors such as this: Jan 29 17:06:00 web kernel: sis0: initialization failed: no memory for rx buffers Jan 29 17:13:01 web kernel: sis0: initiali

Working Keyboard in 5.x

2005-05-16 Thread Holtor
Hello, Does anyone know how to make a PS/2 keyboard work when plugged into a system booted without a keyboard on FreeBSD 5.x? It doesn't seem to work. For example in 4.x the default GENERIC kernel line is: device atkbd0 at atkbdc? irq 1 flags 0x1 If you leave that line alone, the ps/2

SATA RAID Support

2005-02-24 Thread Holtor
Hello, Does the latest 5.x-STABLE support the Pacific Digital Talon ZL4-150 SATA RAID Card (U-30245)? After checking the hardware release notes I'm not sure. Any ideas? Thank You, Holt G. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care abou

4.4-RELEASE

2001-09-08 Thread Holtor
Does anyone know when 4.4 will be released? I have seen discussion that it would be pushed back to the 14th of this month but I do not recall seeing any official statement to that effect. AFAIK it should be released today.. right? Personally it makes not much different but ive alerted clients of

4.2-stable

2000-09-23 Thread Holtor
I see that 4.1.1 is being released. Does this mean we'll have to wait about 3 months or so from now for 4.2 or is 4.2 comming up very soon? If i am not mistaking 4.1 was released about 2 months ago. That would make 4.2's date sometime at the end of next month.. Has the 4.1.1 release changed this p

Write Cache & Softupdates

2000-08-29 Thread Holtor
I am thinking of enabling softupdates but have read in the questions/stable mail listing archives that enabling softupdates when the hard drive has write cache enabled could cause trouble that would not normally be experienced. Does anyone know if there is any truth to that? Is disabling write ca