Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

2011-12-20 Thread Ian Smith
[performance@ & current@ ccs trimmed, I'm not subscribed. Feel free ..] On Mon, 19 Dec 2011, Samuel J. Greear wrote: > 2011/12/19 Lev Serebryakov : > > Hello, Samuel. > > You wrote 15 ÿÿ 2011 ÿÿ., 16:32:47: > > > >> Other benchmarks in the Phoronix suite and their representations

Re: battery display broken

2011-12-20 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:10:34 +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > On 16/12/2011 16:28, Ian Smith wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Dec 2011, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > > > It seems something broke with the battery display. Last night it > > > showed 94% remaining cap

Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default

2011-12-17 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 18 Dec 2011 02:37:52 +, Bruce Cran wrote: > On 13/12/2011 09:00, Andrey Chernov wrote: > > I observe ULE interactivity slowness even on single core machine (Pentium > > 4) in very visible places, like 'ps ax' output stucks in the middle by ~1 > > second. When I switch back to SHED_4

Re: battery display broken

2011-12-16 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 16 Dec 2011, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > It seems something broke with the battery display. Last night it > showed 94% remaining capacity for more than 2 hours. > > Afterwards I docked the machine (HP6510b) and rebooted it. Since then > more than 8 hours have passed, but it still shows 16

Re: Making world but no kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Jul 26, 2011, at 8:19 AM, Michal Varga wrote: > > Well, that depends. Probably every single time I've seen someone > > touching sysinstal in a post-install environment, that OS was instantly > > rendered as much as good for a complete reinstall. It'

Re: recommendations for laptop and desktop

2011-07-14 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, Rick Macklem wrote: > Kevin Oberman wrote: > > On Jul 13, 2011 7:31 AM, "Zoran Kolic" wrote: > > > > > > > There is this list for laptops: > > > > http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/ > > > > > > Been there. Seen that. Obsolete. > > > My very idea would be to have recent

[workaround] Re: resume slow on Thinkpad T42 FreeBSD 8-STABLE

2011-07-10 Thread Ian Smith
Ian On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Ian Smith wrote: > On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:35:51 -0800, Ted Faber wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 05:18:22PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: > > > On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Ted Faber wrote: > > > > > > > I'm running a recent (

Re: MFC: graid(8) (RAID GEOM) support

2011-06-22 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011, Alexander Motin wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: [..] > >> Look graid(8) manual page for additional details. > >> > >> Co-authored by: imp > >> Sponsored by: Cisco Systems, Inc. and iXsystems, Inc. > >>

Re: can't update libzip-0.9.3 to libzip-0.10

2011-05-12 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 11 May 2011, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 08:45:03AM +0200, joerg_surmann wrote: > > Hey Jeremy, > > > > Ok i'll put the files in a attachment > > on the end from this email. > > [...snip...] > [attachment: zipconf.h] > > Oh dear. I'm not sure what to make o

Re: /etc/rc.d/ipfw can't deal with firewall_type?

2011-05-03 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 4 May 2011, KIRIYAMA Kazuhiko wrote: > At Wed, 4 May 2011 03:47:02 +1000 (EST), > Ian Smith wrote: > > > > On Wed, 4 May 2011, KIRIYAMA Kazuhiko wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > Recently I upgraded to 8.2-STABLE and reconfigured natd + jailed box, &

Re: /etc/rc.d/ipfw can't deal with firewall_type?

2011-05-03 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 4 May 2011, KIRIYAMA Kazuhiko wrote: > At Wed, 4 May 2011 03:47:02 +1000 (EST), > Ian Smith wrote: > > > > On Wed, 4 May 2011, KIRIYAMA Kazuhiko wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > Recently I upgraded to 8.2-STABLE and reconfigured natd + jailed box, &

Re: /etc/rc.d/ipfw can't deal with firewall_type?

2011-05-03 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 4 May 2011, KIRIYAMA Kazuhiko wrote: > Hi all, > Recently I upgraded to 8.2-STABLE and reconfigured natd + jailed box, but > all packets could not over nat box. I've researched and found > /etc/rc.firewall does not recieve argument of firewall_type. So ipfw does > not divert and natd c

Re: System extremely slow under light load

2011-04-25 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 25 Apr 2011, Bartosz Fabianowski wrote: [..] > See above: Unfortunately, the machine did nor respond well at all. Instead, > it is overheating even worse. Sorry to hear none of that helped. It seems a very serious problem, and it would be useful to know if it behaves any better under l

Re: System extremely slow under light load

2011-04-25 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 25 Apr 2011, Bartosz Fabianowski wrote: [Jeremy wrote:] > > As the processor gets hotter, internal clocks and so on are throttled > > within the hardware to try and stabilise the temperature (to keep the > > thermal trip point being reached, re: "emergency shutdown"), which > > greatly

Re: kern.smp.maxid error on i386 UP [was: powerd / cpufreq question]

2011-04-21 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Sergey Kandaurov wrote: > On 20 April 2011 22:29, Sergey Kandaurov wrote: > > On 20 April 2011 21:02, Ian Smith wrote: [..] > >> Very happy to test any patches etc. > >> > > > > Ouch. > > Looks like that affects a system

kern.smp.maxid error on i386 UP [was: powerd / cpufreq question]

2011-04-20 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011, Ian Smith wrote: > On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Daniel Gerzo wrote: > > On 11.4.2011 6:08, Ian Smith wrote: [..] > > > Are those kern.cp_times values as they came, or did you remove trailing > > > zeroes? Reason I ask is that on my Thinkpa

Re: powerd / cpufreq question

2011-04-12 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Daniel Gerzo wrote: > On 11.4.2011 6:08, Ian Smith wrote: > > > > As you see, total of differences for each cpu is here 89 ticks, but I've > > no idea of the interval between your two readings, or your value of HZ? > > the interval

Re: powerd / cpufreq question

2011-04-10 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 8 Apr 2011, Daniel Ger?o wrote: > Hello guys, > > I have a new machine with Xeon(R) CPU X5650 2666.77-MHz and I would like to > utilize powerd(8) on it however, when I run `powerd -v -r90' I see something > like this: > > load 64%, current freq 2668 MHz ( 0), wanted freq 5336 MHz

Re: problems booting 8.x kernel

2011-03-15 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 15 Mar 2011, Mike Scott wrote: > I think I'll have to give up because I'm out of ideas, settle for a linux > kernel on this particular target h/w, and just hope this issue doesn't > affect another machine I have which is due for imminent upgrade from 6.2 to > 8.x. Does it boot ok on

Re: Kernel Update / IPFW not working

2011-03-07 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 7 Mar 2011, Thomas Sandford wrote: > On 06/03/2011 14:23, Dave Johnson wrote: > > An IPFW problem when going from release to stable on 8.2 > > > > An help gladly accepted > > > > LOG ON > > > > Flushed all rules. > > 00010 allow ip from 127.0.0.1 to 127.0.0.1 via lo0 > > 00030

Re: An IPFW problem when going from release to stable on 8.2/ Maybe bge0 network card? (fwd)

2011-03-06 Thread Ian Smith
Oh, I see this one was to net@, whereas your earlier message was to ipfw@ and stable@ with different subject, a bit confusing .. Ian -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 13:49:20 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Smith To: Dave Johnson Cc: freebsd-...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: An

Re: 8.2-BETA1 sysinstall: No USB devices found

2010-12-12 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 12 Dec 2010, Michael Voorhis wrote: > On 12/12/2010 11:28 AM, Brandon Gooch wrote: > > How difficult would it be for the installer to automatically re-scan > > for devices when USB is selected as install or Fix-it media? > > Ditto this. I do all my OS installs via a USB CD reader and

Re: Efficacy of PR's [was Re: FreeBSD 7 installs where FreeBSD 8 wont due to CD]

2010-12-06 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 7 Dec 2010, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 07/12/2010 01:44 Pete French said the following: > >> Apparently you've been born with a silver spoon or something :-) > > > > ...more likely an ability to irritate people until it gets fixed ;-) > > That's exactly the reason why I said "unless t

60 second stall resuming Thinkpad T23 on 8.x - regression

2010-12-04 Thread Ian Smith
Hi, With 6.x and 7.0-R through 7.2-STABLE of about 11 months ago, my T23 always suspended and resumed reliably every time; I chose it for that. I'm now running another one of these since then; both behave the same. Since 8.0-RELEASE it stalls for 60 seconds on resuming from S3 suspend, every ti

Re: memory leak and swapfile

2010-11-29 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 27 Nov 2010, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 04:17:43 -0800 > > From: Jeremy Chadwick > > > > On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 07:12:59PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > > From: "Jack Raats" > > > > Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 19:17:05 +0100 > > > > Sender: owner-freebsd-sta..

Re: memory leak and swapfile

2010-11-27 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 27 Nov 2010, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 07:12:59PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > From: "Jack Raats" > > > Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 19:17:05 +0100 > > > Sender: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org > > > > > > It looks like that there may be a memory leak of my sw

Re: Console options for legacy-free mini-itx server?

2010-11-21 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010, John Baldwin wrote: > On Thursday, November 18, 2010 10:14:44 pm Ian Smith wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Nov 2010, John Baldwin wrote: > > > On Thursday, November 18, 2010 4:07:27 pm Andrew Reilly wrote: > > > > Hi John, > > > >

Re: Console options for legacy-free mini-itx server?

2010-11-18 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010, John Baldwin wrote: > On Thursday, November 18, 2010 4:07:27 pm Andrew Reilly wrote: > > Hi John, > > > > On 18/11/2010, at 23:59 , John Baldwin wrote: > > > > > You used devinfo -v, so it shows the devices that exist even if they > > > failed > > > to attach. Try j

Re: Console options for legacy-free mini-itx server?

2010-11-17 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko wrote: > On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 11:13 +1100, Andrew Reilly wrote: > > Hi Alexandre, > > > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 06:56:53PM -0500, Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko wrote: > > > On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 10:40 +1100, Andrew Reilly wrote: > > > > dev.cpu

Re: 8.1-RELEASE: snd_hda works as module only, suspend/resume leaves display off

2010-11-16 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 16 Nov 2010, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 21:46:44 +0100 > Lars Engels wrote: > > > Download && compile the code (gcc -o chvt chvt.c). > > Add "$path/$to/chvt 1" to /etc/rc.suspend and "$path/$to/chvt 9" to > > /etc/rc.resume, so that your machine automatically changes to

Re: Console options for legacy-free mini-itx server?

2010-11-16 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 15 Nov 2010, Andrew Reilly wrote: > Hi there, [..] > Oh: the other thing about this system: I can't warm-start > it, have to power down and then manually hit the power-on > button. Attempting to reboot leaves the console sitting at > something like "Stopping other CPUs" forever. I as

Re: beastiality

2010-10-29 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 29 Oct 2010, Hugo Silva wrote: > Randy Bush wrote: > > > This is often caused by a combination of two things being enabled > > > simultaneously: BIOS-level serial console redirection after POST, and > > > FreeBSD's serial console support. > > > > bingo! > > > > thanks > > > > r

Re: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Announcement - Typo

2010-10-07 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 07:59:21PM +, 1 0 wrote: > > There is a typo in FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Announcement: > > > > # dd if=8.1-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/da0 bs=10240 conv=sync > > > > should be > > > > # dd if=8.1-RELEASE-amd64-mem

Re: resume slow on Thinkpad T42 FreeBSD 8-STABLE

2010-09-27 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010, Ian Smith wrote: > In this way I discovered that 'date' commands reported the time some > seconds after the resume (perhaps hours ago, or yesterday) until the Sorry, that should say 'seconds after the _suspend_', not the resume. > stall

Re: resume slow on Thinkpad T42 FreeBSD 8-STABLE

2010-09-27 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 25 Sep 2010, Vitaly Magerya wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Ted Faber wrote: > > > > > Sorry, Ian, I don't have anything new, wrt the ATA. > > > > Thanks Ted. Interesting that nobody else seems to have run into this

Re: resume slow on Thinkpad T42 FreeBSD 8-STABLE

2010-09-25 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Ted Faber wrote: > Sorry, Ian, I don't have anything new, wrt the ATA. Thanks Ted. Interesting that nobody else seems to have run into this issue, must be a (some?) Thinkpads thing .. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org m

Re: FreeBSD 8.1 Stable Unreasanoble Rebooting

2010-09-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, jhell wrote: > On 09/16/2010 15:33, Michael BlackHeart wrote: > > 2010/9/16 Jeremy Chadwick : > >> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 08:37:29PM +0400, Michael BlackHeart wrote: > >>> Today I've got a pretty strange event. It looks like a reboot but > >>> unreasonable as far as I see

Re: SuperMicro i7 (UP) - very slow performance

2010-09-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, Alexander Motin wrote: > Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 19:42:29 +0300 > From: Alexander Motin > To: Ian Smith > Cc: Bryce , FreeBSD Stable > Subject: Re: SuperMicro i7 (UP) - very slow performance > > Ian Smith wrote: > > So not looking much l

Re: SuperMicro i7 (UP) - very slow performance

2010-09-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, Alexander Motin wrote: > Bryce wrote: > > I don't think it is temperature, I have never seen temps above the low > > 60's C and the speed never goes down from 2.8 Ghz. This is what I see > > when running your dd for a while: > > > > br...@tahiti[~]>sysctl -a | grep temp

Re: SuperMicro i7 (UP) - very slow performance

2010-09-22 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Tom Evans wrote: > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Ian Smith wrote: > > It seems far more than just CPU performance is awry.  Adam's data from > > his i7 shows 2.7 times Bryce's speed for the md5 -t, maybe a lower EST > > rate? - bu

Re: SuperMicro i7 (UP) - very slow performance

2010-09-22 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:12:30 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2010-Sep-21 20:02:09 -0700, Bryce wrote: > >On Sep 20, 6:17 am, peterjer...@acm.org (Peter Jeremy) wrote: > >> On 2010-Sep-18 08:32:32 -0500, Bryce Edwards wrote: > >> > >> >I have a Supermicro with the C7X58 motherboard and an i7

Re: resume slow on Thinkpad T42 FreeBSD 8-STABLE

2010-09-22 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:35:51 -0800, Ted Faber wrote: > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 05:18:22PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: > > On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Ted Faber wrote: > > > > > I'm running a recent (yesterday) FreeBSD 8-STABLE on my T42. When I > > > resume from

Re: very stupid mistake: a part of /usr is deleted

2010-09-16 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 15 Sep 2010, Ivan Voras wrote: [..] > That is actually an easy situation to recover, you can do it in at least > these ways: > > 1) if you build/upgrade from source, you can either reinstall if you have > working /usr/obj or try and rebuild them if you have working /usr/src > > 2)

Re: ipfw: Too many dynamic rules

2010-09-11 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010, Marat N.Afanasyev wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > On Thu, 9 Sep 2010, Vlad Galu wrote: > > > 2010/9/9 Marat N.Afanasyev: > > > > I wonder, are these dynamic rules really necessary? let's see, a > > client > > >

Re: ipfw: Too many dynamic rules

2010-09-09 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 9 Sep 2010, Vlad Galu wrote: > 2010/9/9 Marat N.Afanasyev : > > I wonder, are these dynamic rules really necessary? let's see, a client > > connects to your web-server and you immediately should create a new dynamic > > rule, therefore you participate in this DoS attack as well as attac

Re: ipfw: Too many dynamic rules

2010-09-09 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 9 Sep 2010, Gareth de Vaux wrote: > Hi again, I use some keep-state rules in ipfw, but get the following > kernel message: > > kernel: ipfw: install_state: Too many dynamic rules > > when presumably my state table reaches its limit (and I effectively > get DoS'd). > > netstat sh

Re: Inconsistent IO performance

2010-08-14 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 11:06:58 +0800 > > From: TJ Varghese [..] > > You're using a laptop with 2 HDDs, so does that mean you're using the > > Ultrabay for the 2nd HDD? > > Perhaps anything connected to that drops down to ATA33 (pure speculation o

Re: Changes to ipfw in 8.1

2010-07-22 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010, Spil Oss wrote: > Hi Sergey, > > I'm dumbstruck! > > Switching 'ip' to 'ip4' in both the divert rules fixed my problem. > Personally I think that should go into the UPDATING file as well. I > wouldn't have found it if you hadn't told me! > > Many thanks, > > Spil

Re: net-booting the install disks (Re: 8.x grudges)

2010-07-08 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 7 Jul 2010, Mikhail T. wrote: > 07.07.2010 16:00, Randi Harper ???(??): > > So you're complaining that you have to modify the loader.conf? I > > fail to see the problem. This is by design, and isn't a lack of > > progress. > > > Yes, I complain, that I have to modify a loa

Re: Why is NFSv4 so slow? (root/toor)

2010-06-29 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jun 29), Rick C. Petty said: > > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:20:57AM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Rick Macklem > > > wrote: > > > > > > > I suppose if the FreeBSD world feels that "root" an

Re: Why is NFSv4 so slow? (root/toor)

2010-06-28 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, Rick Macklem wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, Rick C. Petty wrote: > > > > > > Make sure you don't have multiple entries for the same uid, such as > > > "root" > > > and "toor" both for uid 0 in your /etc/passwd. (ie. get rid of one of > > > them, if you have both) > >

Re: HyperThreading makes worse to me (was Re: How to reproduce: Re: Only 70% of theoretical peak performance on FreeBSD 8/amd64, Corei7 920)

2010-04-14 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Maho NAKATA wrote: > >> Hi Andry and Adam > >> > >> My test again. No desktop, etc. I just run dgemm. > >> Contrary to Adam's result, Hyper Threading make

Re: Results of BIND RFC

2010-04-02 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 2 Apr 2010, Doug Barton wrote: > So first of all, yes Virginia, this was an April Fool's Day joke. To > both those for whom this post created a false sense of despair, and > (perhaps more importantly) to those for whom it created a false sense of > joy, my apologies. :) And for the rec

Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-26 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: [ leaving the MB monitoring stuff alone for your expert attention :-] > > It jumped up in vcore a little there with powerd. C1E and C2E which > > include P-states are what I am really after and I think that the > > bios by itself provides those chang

Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-25 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, John Long wrote: > At 11:27 PM 3/22/2010, Alexander Motin wrote: > >John Long wrote: > >>Hello, I am putting together a couple update servers. Went with c2d > >>E7500 on gigabyte G41M-ES2L boards. fbsd 8.0 release generic (so far) > >>amd64, 1g mem, 1tb wd cavi

Re: DPMS broken on ThinkPad T43 since update for amd64 support

2010-03-18 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Kevin Oberman wrote: > Since the update of DPMS to support amd64 on March 2, it has broken > rather badly on my ThinkPad T43 laptop. The problem showed up on > 8-stable built on March 3 and is still present after an update to stable > of March 17. > > When in vty text mo

Re: ntpd does not re-query servers, when a new interface appears

2010-03-09 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 09:27:35PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: [..] > > Yes, but it looks more like name service that's not operating, ntpd > > seems to be doing its best but can't resolve the hostnames? Right smell, wrong

Re: ntpd does not re-query servers, when a new interface appears

2010-03-09 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > ntpd tracks interface updates, however it does not requery > servers, when they occur. This was less than an hour ago, > at my university, the notebook boots and is not connected > to anything: > > 9 Mar 08:07:17 ntpd[1510]: logging to file /var/

Re: resume slow on Thinkpad T42 FreeBSD 8-STABLE

2010-02-24 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Ted Faber wrote: > I'm running a recent (yesterday) FreeBSD 8-STABLE on my T42. When I > resume from suspend the fan starts screen returns immediately (to text > mode) and then the system idles for about a minute until it shakes > itself awake. The keyboard LEDs cycle, t

Re: 7.3-BETA1 Available... [memstick.img?]

2010-01-31 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Ken Smith wrote: > > No, no plans afoot for memsticks for the balance of the 7.X releases. > > The sysinstall support for installing from a USB based disk didn't > > get MFCed to stable/7.  Even if it was we're already something

Re: 7.3-BETA1 Available... [memstick.img?]

2010-01-31 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010, Ken Smith wrote: > On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 17:17 +1100, Ian Smith wrote: > > > are there any plans afoot to release memstick.img/s for 7.3-R? > > > > If so, where should I look for information on how it may be done? > > > > If no

Re: 7.3-BETA1 Available... [memstick.img?]

2010-01-29 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010, Ken Smith wrote: > 7.3-BETA1, the first test build of the 7.3-RELEASE cycle, is now > available for amd64, i386, pc98, and sparc64 architectures. The target > schedule along with the current status of the release is available here: > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/Releng/7

Re: [Bulk] Re: USB problems on 8.0-STABLE

2010-01-12 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, Frank wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, Warren Block wrote: > > > Do you have DEVICE /dev/ugen0.2 in apcupsd.conf? > > No, just DEVICE > > > From the online manual: > > If you have a USB UPS, the essential elements of your apcupsd.conf file > should look like the follow

Re: How to make release for *memstick.img

2010-01-06 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Daniel O'Connor wrote: [..] > > > An attachment named makeusb.sh was removed from this document as it > > > constituted a security hazard. If you require this document, > > > please

How to make release for *memstick.img

2010-01-06 Thread Ian Smith
Hi, trying to figure out how 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img was made, with a view to, well, knowing how it's done, so perhaps I could do some more. I've been studying release(7) and src/release/* for a while now, over a few releases. I've learned a lot, and while there's plenty I've skimmed ov

Re: Hacked - FreeBSD 7.1-Release

2010-01-02 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 31 Dec 2009, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 04:16:07AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, David Wolfskill wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 03:20:37AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > > ... > > > > I&

Re: cvsweb: src/UPDATING on RELENG_7

2010-01-01 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 1 Jan 2010, N.J. Mann wrote: > In message <20100102001608.x50...@sola.nimnet.asn.au>, > Ian Smith (smi...@nimnet.asn.au) wrote: > > > > Thought I had a clue on using cvsweb, but seem to have mislaid it .. > > I think cvsweb is a great tool.

cvsweb: src/UPDATING on RELENG_7

2010-01-01 Thread Ian Smith
Hi, Thought I had a clue on using cvsweb, but seem to have mislaid it .. After updating 7.0-RELEASE to RELENG_7 sources on Dec 28, checking UPDATING before and during buildworld, went hunting on cvsweb for the very version of UPDATING I was reading, 1.507.2.34 of 2009/11/29. I can't find it, a

Re: Why does FreeBSD 8.-0 think that my Dell SX260 have "non-unform processors"?

2009-12-30 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 30 Dec 2009, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:08:58 +1100 (EST) > Ian Smith wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Dec 2009, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > > > > > > I don't know. Since last time, I've upgraded the bios to the > > &

Re: Hacked - FreeBSD 7.1-Release

2009-12-30 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, David Wolfskill wrote: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 03:20:37AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > ... > > I've written my own script to do all of this. It parses periodic > > security mails (on a daily basis), and does WHOIS lookups + parses the > > results to tell me what ne

Re: Why does FreeBSD 8.-0 think that my Dell SX260 have "non-unform processors"?

2009-12-22 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 23 Dec 2009, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:29:54 +1100 (EST) > Ian Smith wrote: > > > Why is it booting up at half speed? Same in your 7.2-STABLE dmesg. > > I don't know. Since last time, I've upgraded the bios to the latest &g

Re: Why does FreeBSD 8.-0 think that my Dell SX260 have "non-unform processors"?

2009-12-20 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 20 Dec 2009, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > Hi, > I just booted my Dell OptiPlex SX260[1] from a usb memory stick with > FreeBSD 8.0-release on it. Part of the dmesg output is: > Copyright (c) 1992-2009 The FreeBSD Project. > Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 19

Re: root partition too small

2009-12-07 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, Denise H. G. wrote: > al...@ulgsm.ru writes: > > > Label from freebsd sysinstall in auto mode, make root partition 500mb > > For update OS (kernel + kernel.old) need about 700mb > > > > Howto rebild kernel with litsted in kldstat modules? > > Remove all the symbol fil

Re: SMART

2009-11-12 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Ivan Voras wrote: > Dimitry Andric wrote: > > On 2009-11-12 14:35, Ivan Voras wrote: > > > I've seen it. But I don't remember if they addressed the problem of > > > nonstandard interpretations of statistics? > > > > Note the statistics you quoted are "Vendor Specific SMA

Re: 8.0 rc.d scripts less verbose?

2009-09-17 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Doug Barton wrote: > Cezary Morga wrote: > > Dimitry Andric pisze: > >> Index: etc/rc.subr > >> === > >> --- etc/rc.subr(revision 196888) > >> +++ etc/rc.subr(working copy) > >> @@ -680,7 +680,7 @@ r

Re: Detecting CPU throttling on over temperature

2009-09-08 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Henrik Friedrichsen wrote: > I don't know whether there is a more convenient way, but you could > definitely check the current CPU frequency to detect whether it > changed from the previous one or not. There are several ways to this, > depends on the CPU. You can try messing

Re: Shell execution ( [was] Re: Value of $? lost in the beginning of a function.)

2009-07-19 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 20 Jul 2009, Mark Andrews wrote: > In message <4ad871310907191717g1ed90be7y92250f2addc38...@mail.gmail.com>, > Glen > Barber writes: > > Possibly off-topic... [..] > > > My understanding was this: > > > > > > If you specify 'sh foo.sh' at the shell, the script will be run in a > >

Re: FreeBSD 7.2-RC2 Available

2009-04-26 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 25 Apr 2009, Ken Smith wrote: > On Sat, 2009-04-25 at 15:21 +1000, Ian Smith wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Ken Smith wrote: > > > There is one known issue with 7.2-RC2. We switched from KDE3 to KDE4 > > > > Oh, I'd been kinda hoping that wou

Re: FreeBSD 7.2-RC2 Available

2009-04-24 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Ken Smith wrote: > There is one known issue with 7.2-RC2. We switched from KDE3 to KDE4 Oh, I'd been kinda hoping that wouldn't happen till after release. I guess our KDE folks must reckon it's shaken out enough already now .. Will kde3 still be able to be installed from

Re: 6.x acpi powerbutton

2009-04-18 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Apr 17, 2009, at 12:27 PM, Nate Lawson wrote: > > > Perhaps a silly question, but is it too late at this stage of the game > > > to try logging S5 events to syslog before dying? I agree with Stephen, > > > logging 'shutdown by powerbutton' surely b

Re: 6.x acpi powerbutton

2009-04-17 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, Nate Lawson wrote: > Andriy Gapon wrote: > > on 09/04/2009 23:24 Stephen Clark said the following: > >> Is there a reason it doesn't send and event like Linux that can be acted > >> upon by user space other > >> than signaling init? I like to have a message written in > >

Re: more automated fetch of ISO-IMAGES & ports

2009-04-07 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Julian Stacey wrote: > Hi stable@ people, > Ref my: > > Found manually on > >ftp://ftp.uk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.2 > >but slow at 60 KB/s > > Faster @ 100K from USA > >ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.2

Re: 7.1 reports serial ports disabled (but they work OK)

2009-02-25 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > I have an amd64 7.1 install on a SuperMicro C2SBA+ and I see the following > in > dmesg.. > > sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 > sio0: port may not be enabled > sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 > sio0

Re: BIND 9.4.3-P1: internal_send: 199.7.83.42#53: Device not configured, where 199.7.83.42 is RANDOM IP address

2009-01-25 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Sunday 25 January 2009 11:43:48 Mark Andrews wrote: Doug Barton wrote: > > > I've never used mpd myself, but you might want to try adding the > > > following line to /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mpd and see if it helps: > > > > > > # BEFORE: named

Re: Very serious cooling issues CURRENT/STABLE

2008-12-21 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 21 Dec 2008, Martin wrote: > Am Sun, 21 Dec 2008 00:54:35 -0500 > schrieb Nathan Lay : > > > Hi list(s) > > Early in the year I noticed CURRENT failed to cool my frankenstein > > Thinkpad T40 (built from T40/40p parts) under load. The system would > > shut down from critically hi

Re: constant zfs data corruption

2008-10-20 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Fabian Keil wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 03:07:30PM -0200, JoaoBR wrote: > > > On Monday 20 October 2008 11:22:08 you wrote: > > > > > Also, do you not think it's a little odd that the only data > > > > corruption oc

Re: sidetrack [was Re: 'at now' not working as expected]

2008-10-12 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, Michael Butler wrote: > I wrote: > > The attached program (not mine - credits in the header) does this > > effectively given your current position as input, > > Inserted as text since it got stripped last time .. I dunno, you guys .. a bloke asks, way off-topic, for a gla

Re: Recent Problems with RELENG_7 i386

2008-10-10 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 03:51:02AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: [..] > > | CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor (906.35-MHz 686-class CPU) > > | Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 850 > > | inittimecounte

Re: Recent Problems with RELENG_7 i386

2008-10-09 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 8 Oct 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 10:00:32PM -0700, bf wrote: > > --- On Wed, 10/8/08, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [..] > > > > Oct 8 11:00:40 myhost kernel: t_delta > > > 15.fd80bdcb75b60200 too short > > > > > > This comes from src/sys/ker

Re: sidetrack [was Re: 'at now' not working as expected]

2008-10-09 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, Andrew D wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Oct 2008, Peter Wemm wrote: > > [..] > > > My tolerance for hacking at(1) code was exceeded when I added hacks > > > for 'at sunrise' and 'at sunset' support to a loca

sidetrack [was Re: 'at now' not working as expected]

2008-10-08 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 8 Oct 2008, Peter Wemm wrote: [..] > My tolerance for hacking at(1) code was exceeded when I added hacks > for 'at sunrise' and 'at sunset' support to a local version. It > wasn't pretty, especially when handling things like '30 minutes before > sunrise' etc. (I use this for home auto

Re: zfs quota question

2008-10-08 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 8 Oct 2008, lhmwzy wrote: > OK.It's my mistake. > Improve it again: > > #!/bin/sh > find $1 -type f -ls | awk '{j += $7} END {printf("%.2fM\n",j/1024/1024)}' Sure. Here it runs about 7% faster precalculating one division: $ time find . -type f -ls | awk '{j += $7} END {printf("%.

Re: zfs quota question

2008-10-07 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 8 Oct 2008, lhmwzy wrote: > The fllow is better? > #!/bin/sh > find $1 -type f -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{j += $5} END {print j"M"}' Review your 'ls -lh' output; what's 100Bananas + 10Kiwifruit + 1Melon? $ find . -type f -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{j += $5} END {print j"M"}' 1.15975e+06

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Jo Rhett wrote: > On Sep 21, 2008, at 1:57 AM, Robert Watson wrote: > > This is precisely what we already do -- we guarantee we will support the > > last release on a branch for 24 months after the release. The point of > > concern being discussed is that we can't tell you

Re: sio => uart: one port is gone

2008-09-15 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 15 Sep 2008, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 15/09/2008 17:36 Ian Smith said the following: > > On Mon, 15 Sep 2008, Andriy Gapon wrote: > > > This is a fairly standard and old machine with 2 COM ports. > > > Recently (last Friday) I decided to update my RELENG_7

Re: sio => uart: one port is gone

2008-09-15 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 15 Sep 2008, Andriy Gapon wrote: > This is a fairly standard and old machine with 2 COM ports. > Recently (last Friday) I decided to update my RELENG_7 system and also > to transition from sio to uart. > > This what I had before the upgrade: > kernel: sio0: <16550A-compatible COM por

Re: Fwd: FreeBSD 7.1 Content

2008-09-11 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Vincent Hoffman wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > > > The wrappers around fdisk and bsdlabel alone are worth a lot, despite a > > notion that 'real men' figure out cylinder and slice offsets themselves. > > If even those sections w

Re: Fwd: FreeBSD 7.1 Content

2008-09-11 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 7 Sep 2008, Ken Smith wrote: > On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 14:51 +1000, Ian Smith wrote: > > I just booted off the 7.0 disc1 to check, and /usr/local/bin/links is > > still the default browser in Options, available during installation from > > another vty. So I wa

Re: Fwd: FreeBSD 7.1 Content

2008-09-05 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > -- Forwarded message -- > > From: Kai Otto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: 2008/9/5 > > Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.1 Content > > To: Tom Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > Hello > > > > I think someone mentioned it earlier, but

Re: named.conf: query-source address

2008-07-17 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Mark Andrews wrote: > To: Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > query-source is only ever used by recursive or stub resolvers -- > > instances of named that will go out and make queries on the net on your=20 > > behalf. Authoritative servers really don't need it. > >

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