Re: traffic shaping on RELENG_10 ?

2015-12-17 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 14:36:22 -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote: > On 12/17/2015 2:24 PM, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > It took me a while to get ALTQ working. More below.. > > Thank you very much for the detail! Are you running any patches ? I > seem to recall over the years

Re: traffic shaping on RELENG_10 ?

2015-12-17 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 15:20:26 -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote: > I need to do some simple traffic shaping, but whenever I try and use > altq, I dont seem to have any luck-- I mean zero. It took me a while to get ALTQ working. More below.. > I like the management of pf via pf.conf, but miss the

Re: Lost CAM Access to DVD Writer

2013-08-30 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 15:36:23 -0400, Thomas Laus wrote: I guess this one did not make it back from USENET to gateway I just tried to write to a DVD using both a PC running 9.2-RC3-p0 and 9.2-STABLE r255036 on different computers and get the following error on both computers when a blank

Re: 9.1 minimal ram requirements

2013-03-04 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
I just checked in a change to HEAD (247814) that compiles CTL in GENERIC but disables it by default. (i.e. it uses no memory) You can re-enable it with the existing loader tunable. i.e. set kern.cam.ctl.disable=0 in /boot/loader.conf and it will be enabled. Ken On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at

Re: 9.1 minimal ram requirements

2012-12-23 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
The reason it grabs RAM up front is that it was written for an embedded platform where memory allocations might fail later on after things had been running and memory got fragmented. At this point, no, it doesn't need to allocate all of its memory up front. I actually need to put some effort

Re: NFS/ZFS hangs after upgrading from 9.0-RELEASE to -STABLE

2012-12-14 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
This doesn't quite make sense. In your original email, you said that you're using a mpt-based Fibre Channel card and have a ZFS filesystem on top of that. If that's the case, why would going back to an older version of the mps(4) driver change things at all? It has no support for that

Re: usb port issue in 9.1-Prerelease (Possibly Cam related)

2012-10-08 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 23:09:04 +0930, Benjamin Close wrote: Hi Folks, I've facing an intermittent hang with a USB port which seems cam related: Event's that happen are: o USB modem (HUAWEI E220) plugged into PC ugen3.2: HUA WEI at usbus3 u3g0: 3G Modem on usbus3 u3g0:

Re: mps in GENERIC, only in amd64? (RELENG_9_1)

2012-10-01 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 08:49:36 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: On Saturday, September 29, 2012 5:58:42 am Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: Hello, accidentally I saw that mps is included in sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC, but not in sys/i386/conf/GENERIC. Is this intended? Have you tested it on

Re: mps in GENERIC, only in amd64? (RELENG_9_1)

2012-10-01 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 23:38:33 +0530, Desai, Kashyap wrote: -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- sta...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Kenneth D. Merry Sent: Monday, October 01, 2012 8:58 PM To: John Baldwin Cc: Harald Schmalzbauer

Re: mps in GENERIC, only in amd64? (RELENG_9_1)

2012-10-01 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 16:59:58 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: On Monday, October 01, 2012 3:54:50 pm Kenneth D. Merry wrote: On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 23:38:33 +0530, Desai, Kashyap wrote: -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd

Re: r232411 breaks onboard 1068 detection

2012-04-03 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 10:29:27 +0200, Marius Strobl wrote: On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 05:55:19AM +0400, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: Hello, r232411 broke onboard 1068 detection on all boxes with SuperMicro X8ST3 motherboards for us. All of them are also equipped with two extra 1068

CAM Target Layer now in stable/9

2012-02-15 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
The CAM Target Layer (CTL) is now in stable/9. I am not currently planning to merge it into stable/8, because CTL is now dependent on the sense routines introduced in the CAM descriptor sense changes. The descriptor sense changes required a CAM CCB ABI change, and thus can't be merged back into

Re: LSI supported mps(4) driver in stable/9 and stable/8

2012-02-14 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 15:08:45 +0100, Ollivier Robert wrote: According to Kenneth D. Merry: The LSI-supported version of the mps(4) driver that supports their 6Gb SAS HBAs as well as WarpDrive controllers, is now in stable/9 and stable/8. Thanks. Note that the CAM infrastructure

HEADS UP: Xen merge coming to stable/8

2012-02-14 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Hi folks, I'm planning to merge almost all of the Xen changes from FreeBSD/head into stable/8 soon. This should bring more features, stability, etc. I've attached what will be the commit message. If there are any objections, speak now. Ken -- Kenneth Merry k...@freebsd.org MFC r215818,

LSI supported mps(4) driver in stable/9 and stable/8

2012-02-02 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Hi folks, The LSI-supported version of the mps(4) driver that supports their 6Gb SAS HBAs as well as WarpDrive controllers, is now in stable/9 and stable/8. Please test it out and let me and Kashyap (CCed) know if you run into any problems. In addition to supporting WarpDrive, the driver also

Re: LSI supported mps(4) driver in stable/9 and stable/8

2012-02-02 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 20:13:55 -0700, Eric wrote: Kenneth D. Merry wrote: Hi folks, The LSI-supported version of the mps(4) driver that supports their 6Gb SAS HBAs as well as WarpDrive controllers, is now in stable/9 and stable/8. Please test it out and let me and Kashyap (CCed) know

[k...@freebsd.org: svn commit: r226067 - in stable/9: sbin/camcontrol share/examples/scsi_target share/misc sys/cam sys/cam/scsi sys/dev/ciss sys/dev/firewire sys/dev/iir sys/dev/iscsi/initiator sys/d

2011-10-06 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Kenneth D. Merry k...@freebsd.org - From: Kenneth D. Merry k...@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 19:15:51 + (UTC) To: src-committ...@freebsd.org, svn-src-...@freebsd.org, svn-src-sta...@freebsd.org, svn-src-stabl...@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r226067 - in stable/9: sbin

Re: SATA 6g 4-port non-RAID controller ?

2011-07-25 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 23:28:08 +0200, Leon Me?ner wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 01:42:07PM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 2:34 AM, Kurt Jaeger li...@c0mplx.org wrote: What kind of SATA 6g 4-port non-RAID controller is currently suggested for use in 8/9 setups

Re: mps driver instability under stable/8

2011-05-03 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 21:28:27 +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: On Tue, 3 May 2011, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: DM DM Well, I tried, and unfortunately I can not say that I'm happy after the DM DM upgrade. :( DM DM DM DM Particularly, adapter now takes *VERY* long time (10 minutes) to

Re: mps driver instability under stable/8

2011-05-02 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 14:42:21 +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: On Sat, 30 Apr 2011, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: KDM On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 11:51:21 +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: KDM Dear Ken, KDM KDM I have SuperMicro Server with mps driver you managed, with 24 SATA disks under KDM

Re: mps driver instability under stable/8

2011-04-30 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 11:51:21 +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: Dear Ken, I have SuperMicro Server with mps driver you managed, with 24 SATA disks under SAS x36 expander with large ZFS Sometimes, under random disk load such as daily find, it lost all its devices: [-- MARK -- Fri Apr

Re: mps(4) driver (LSI 6Gb SAS) commited to stable/8

2011-03-15 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 09:17:46 -0800, Hubert Tournier wrote: Yes, thank you Ken (and everybody involved) for this driver! Ken, i think you left out the mps.4 man page from CURRENT in the 8-STABLE backporting. Whoops, you're right. I just merged it to stable/8. Ken -- Kenneth Merry

Re: mps(4) driver (LSI 6Gb SAS) commited to stable/8

2011-02-21 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 00:20:57 +0100, Ollivier Robert wrote: According to Kenneth D. Merry: I just merged the mps(4) driver to stable/8, for those of you with LSI 6Gb SAS hardware. Thanks a lot Ken! You'll make people very happy (incl. me!) in France :) You're welcome

Re: LSI SAS 2008 (mfi) on SuperMicro X8SI6-F

2011-02-18 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 13:11:33 +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 2/17/11 12:10 PM, Oliver Brandmueller wrote: Hi, On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:07:17PM +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote: It looks rather unhappy: mybsd root /usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools

Re: LSI SAS 2008 (mfi) on SuperMicro X8SI6-F

2011-02-18 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 15:21:48 +0100, Ollivier Robert wrote: According to Damien Fleuriot: I destroyed the logical volume and built mps copied from -current (I opened a thread on stable@ a few weeks ago about this) but my patch was *nowhere* as big as this. Here Ken's patch:

Re: LSI SAS 2008 (mfi) on SuperMicro X8SI6-F

2011-02-18 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:07:21 -0800, Rumen Telbizov wrote: Hello Damien, list: I've been following this discussion with great interest and I hope the result of it will be the merge of a stable driver in STABLE branch soon. I brought this not a long ago (

Re: LSI SAS 2008 (mfi) on SuperMicro X8SI6-F

2011-02-18 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 17:53:11 +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 2/18/11 5:49 PM, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:07:21 -0800, Rumen Telbizov wrote: Hello Damien, list: Anyway this was just my humble attempt to encourage the MFC of this driver. I think the card

mps(4) driver (LSI 6Gb SAS) commited to stable/8

2011-02-18 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
I just merged the mps(4) driver to stable/8, for those of you with LSI 6Gb SAS hardware. It is only included in GENERIC on amd64, since that is the only architecture that I know of that it has been tested on. It may work on i386, if anyone would like to try it out. There are known endian

Re: mps(4) driver (LSI 6Gb SAS) commited to stable/8

2011-02-18 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 01:08:41 +0300, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: On Fri, 18 Feb 2011, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: KDM I just merged the mps(4) driver to stable/8, for those of you with LSI 6Gb KDM SAS hardware. [snip] Again, thank you very much Ken. I'm planning to stress test

Re: mps(4) driver (LSI 6Gb SAS) commited to stable/8

2011-02-18 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 19:46:54 -0500, Bill Desjardins wrote: On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Kenneth D. Merry k...@freebsd.org wrote: I just merged the mps(4) driver to stable/8, for those of you with LSI 6Gb SAS hardware. Thank you Ken for getting this done. Any plan to support

Re: error messages from easyraid ex array

2005-03-10 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 13:32:52 +0100, Fritz Heinrichmeyer wrote: Hello, sometimes i see following messages with FreeBSD-5.3, ahc driver and an easyraid ex system. We have two identical boxes one connected to another system has no problem. The problematic error messages occur when

Re: testers needed for CAM INVARIANTS fix

2003-09-02 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:46:16 +0400, Maxim Konovalov wrote: Hi Ken, On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, 16:13-0600, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: I've got a fix for the panic from the cd(4)/da(4) drivers when INVARIANTS is turned on in -stable. The fix is to create a task queue that runs in a thread

Re: Is there something sppecial about pass4 ?

2003-06-26 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 15:59:33 +0100, Pete French wrote: Machine is 4.8-STABLE smaug# camcontrol devlist COMPAQ BD009122BA 3B07 at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (pass0,da0) COMPAQ BD009122C6 B016 at scbus0 target 1 lun 0 (pass1,da1) COMPAQ BD009122BA 3B07 at scbus0

Re: Adaptec 39160 Controller in IBM xSeries 360 Server

2002-07-18 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 13:09:25 -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: I have an xSeries 360 + EXP300 that I'm trying to get up with FreeBSD ... we picked up a 39160 Controller, which the server itself picks up nicely, and reports all 14 drives in

Re: CDROM sector size on 4.5

2002-03-15 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 13:11:43 -0500, Normand Leclerc wrote: This is a SCSI drive. I am wondering, why would SCSI be different from IDE in that matter? The drivers are different, and the SCSI driver uses the disk layer. The ATAPI cd driver does not. Please send full dmesg information,

Re: Which Ultra160/Ultra360 controller?

2001-10-24 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 13:57:57 -0400, Jason Andresen wrote: Kenneth D. Merry wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 10:13:25 -0600, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 16:56:17 +0200, Sven Hazejager wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for a new SCSI host adapter for my PC. I'm

Re: Failure to attach SCSI CD burner

2001-08-31 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 22:22:24 +0200, Gérard Roudier wrote: On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 20:30:27 +0200, Gérard Roudier wrote: [...] BUSY is a transient condition and a CD/ROM or a CD/R device is slow as a 25 years old dog when it happens

Re: PCIOCGETCONF/PCIOCREAD requires write permission?

2000-12-01 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 13:56:13 -0700, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: [Observed on 4.2-STABLE, but I've redirected replies to the hackers list.] 'pciconf -l' is documented to work for non-priv users, however the first thing the underlying ioctl code (pci_ioctl) does is bail with EPERM if the

Re: SCSI retries without errors in /var/log/messages?

2000-09-15 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 06:32:45 -0700, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Kenneth D. Merry" writes: In any case, if you want to see error messages, even for retried commands, boot with -v and comment out the following print_

Re: disk repair on SunOS

2000-02-26 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 22:30:01 -0700, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Kenneth D. Merry" writes: : First, make sure that read and write reallocation are turned on in mode : page 1. Then you can issue a write(6) or write(10) command using : 'camcontrol cmd' with

small PCI change, need review

1999-12-05 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Since I don't have a -stable test box, I'd appreciate it if someone could try this patch. (I've been running it on a number of older stable systems for a few months.) This should prevent the "garbage" output from 'pciconf -l' that some folks may see if you've got PCI cards with no driver

Re: ahc problems (with vinum?)

1999-11-28 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
David Gilbert wrote... "Joe" == Joe Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Copyright (c) 1992-1999 FreeBSD Inc. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE #0: Mon Nov 22 13:38:07 CST 1999

Re: ahc problems (with vinum?)

1999-11-28 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
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 your Kenneth problems. But since removing the terminator seems to unwe

Re: ahc problems (with vinum?)

1999-11-28 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
David Gilbert wrote... "Kenneth" == Kenneth D Merry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kenneth I haven't heard of any problems with the Atlas IV that would Kenneth cause anything other than Quantum's usual bogus queue full Kenneth behavior, but of course that doesn't mean that there aren'

Re: Will Dump, backup to a file?

1999-11-07 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Carroll Kong wrote... Hi. I am using FreeBSD 3.3-Release, and I wanted to know if I can do this dump -0 /opt/tmp/varback.dmp /var (where /opt/tmp is some other free slice) The situation is, I have an old celeron machine, and we are getting a new server. However, we want