SOLVED (was: re0 died last night; here's how I half-revived it)

2011-06-21 Thread Kirk Strauser
, 2011, at 9:37 AM, Kirk Strauser wrote: I have a FreeBSD 8-STABLE system that's been running stably since I last upgraded and rebooted on May 8. Yesterday, I updated /usr/src to get ZFS v28 and also seem to have gotten rid of my nice, solid re0 network interface: re0: RealTek 8168/8111 B/C

re0 died last night; here's how I half-revived it

2011-06-09 Thread Kirk Strauser
I have a FreeBSD 8-STABLE system that's been running stably since I last upgraded and rebooted on May 8. Yesterday, I updated /usr/src to get ZFS v28 and also seem to have gotten rid of my nice, solid re0 network interface: re0: RealTek 8168/8111 B/C/CP/D/DP/E PCIe Gigabit Ethernet port

Re: Make ZFS auto-destroy snapshots when the out of space?

2010-06-01 Thread Kirk Strauser
alternative. Again, I could see that being used for a lot of things. It would be a nice general solution that wouldn't touch any (or very little) non-FreeBSD code. -- Kirk Strauser ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Make ZFS auto-destroy snapshots when the out of space?

2010-05-30 Thread Kirk Strauser
an option, and easy to implement in a shell script. It just wouldn't work in the case where a bunch of data comes in between runs of that script, and that's why I wanted something lower- level. -- Kirk Strauser ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

Re: Make ZFS auto-destroy snapshots when the out of space?

2010-05-30 Thread Kirk Strauser
deleted /etc/passwd? Retrieve the version from /.zfs/snapshot/weekly-2010-21/etc/passwd . Just realized that you deleted an important file 3 months ago and only keep 2 weeks worth of backups? No problem, as long as you haven't filled up your hard drive since then. -- Kirk Strauser

Re: Make ZFS auto-destroy snapshots when the out of space?

2010-05-30 Thread Kirk Strauser
was to keep as much as possible out of the kernel so that it wouldn't add additional complexity for people who don't use it (but it certainly wouldn't offend me any to find it in there :-) ). -- Kirk Strauser ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Make ZFS auto-destroy snapshots when the out of space?

2010-05-30 Thread Kirk Strauser
would handle it in a vacuum if I didn't know or care how anyone else wanted to use it. Still, I think those might be reasonable assumptions. -- Kirk Strauser ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Make ZFS auto-destroy snapshots when the out of space?

2010-05-30 Thread Kirk Strauser
it that I don't care about anymore. :-) -- Kirk Strauser ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Make ZFS auto-destroy snapshots when the out of space?

2010-05-30 Thread Kirk Strauser
. exit 2 fi for filesystem in $filesystems ; do zfs list -H -o name -t snapshot | grep -E ^ $filesystem@(hourly|daily|weekly|monthly) | xargs -n1 zfs destroy done ;; *) ;; esac -- Kirk Strauser

Re: Make ZFS auto-destroy snapshots when the out of space?

2010-05-30 Thread Kirk Strauser
to a philosophical difference, but I dislike the idea of every subsystem implementing similar logic instead of having it done once (and well) as a system-wide feature. -- Kirk Strauser ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Make ZFS auto-destroy snapshots when the out of space?

2010-05-30 Thread Kirk Strauser
, I have that running in production on my system today. There's also an auto-scrub script: http://blogs.sun.com/constantin/entry/new_opensolaris_zfs_auto_scrub That just scrubs the pools, ie verifies checksums and data consistency. -- Kirk Strauser

Make ZFS auto-destroy snapshots when the out of space?

2010-05-29 Thread Kirk Strauser
I found some nice scripts to regularly snapshot all the filesystems in my ZFS pool at http://www.neces.com/blog/technology/integrating-freebsd-zfs-and-periodic-snapshots-and-scrubs . One thing bothers me, though: I have to intentionally set how many months' worth of snapshots I want to keep.

Re: ZFS isntall requirements

2009-06-05 Thread Kirk Strauser
) make: don't know how to make /usr/obj/mnt4/usr/src7/src/tmp/usr/lib/libzfs.a. Stop ISTR that the build was temporarily broken several days ago. Have you csup'ed your src very recently? -- Kirk Strauser ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: ZFS MFC heads down

2009-05-21 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Wednesday 20 May 2009 06:43:13 pm Kip Macy wrote: The MFC went in r192498. Please let me know if you have any problems. So far so good here (amd64, Core2 Duo, ICH9 SATA) but I'm too chicken to upgrade the on-disk format yet. -- Kirk Strauser

Re: ZFS MFC heads up

2009-05-21 Thread Kirk Strauser
exactly do the same thing.. FWIW, I love sysutils/ezjail. It uses nullfs to mount many jails on top of the same read-only base system, and provides a way (ezjail-admin update -i) to upgrade that base system with installworld. -- Kirk Strauser

Re: maximum mmap()

2009-05-19 Thread Kirk Strauser
with it? :-) -- Kirk Strauser ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: [FreeBSD] Fix for ServerWorks HT1000 in upcoming 7.1?

2008-10-27 Thread Kirk Strauser
with moderately heavy load. -- Kirk Strauser ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: share/dict/freebsd - installathon

2007-01-18 Thread Kirk Strauser
it, then I'm not sure why you were asking. -- Kirk Strauser pgpsRZ31wl7PY.pgp Description: PGP signature

nvidia-driver-1.0.8776 was giving me READ_DMA timeouts

2006-11-11 Thread Kirk Strauser
as Windows ME on an overclocked Cyrix. I'm posting this here mainly for the benefit of anyone else who might be having similar problems. -- Kirk Strauser pgpXUC6NzDlPr.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: nvidia-driver-1.0.8776 was giving me READ_DMA timeouts

2006-11-11 Thread Kirk Strauser
in the drivers (i.e. nvidia is aware of the problem)? Not a clue. I just figured it out and have been stress testing since then. -- Kirk Strauser pgpcNfvf15HHI.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD

2006-10-25 Thread Kirk Strauser
PostgreSQL. It's hardly any faster, and you have to do a *lot* of client-side work to emulate PostgreSQL's built-in functions. Unless you use the much slower InnoDB that's now owned by Oracle, in which case MySQL gets most of those features (but is no faster than PostgreSQL would be). -- Kirk

Re: The need for initialising disks before use?

2006-08-18 Thread Kirk Strauser
a pretty large number internally, but once that pool is exhausted (and the number of errors is still growing exponentially), there's not a lot of life left. -- Kirk Strauser The Day Companies ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Ports via CVS?

2006-07-28 Thread Kirk Strauser
your ports tree with FreeBSD's copy, and if so, why not cvsup or portsnap instead? I also use rsync to lock multiple machines on my LAN to a master ports and src server - something you might consider if you're using CVS to manage local synchronization. -- Kirk Strauser

Re: Please confirm: top(1) cpu time broken on FreeBSD 6.1 (RELEASE/STABLE) SMP ?

2006-07-28 Thread Kirk Strauser
present. -- Kirk Strauser pgpyrRAkt67B2.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: PostgreSQL uses more memory on 6.1?

2006-05-24 Thread Kirk Strauser
it was so low in the first place. For that matter, why does this stuff have to be manually configured? Couldn't the kernel automatically expand a lot of these numbers as needed? -- Kirk Strauser ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

PostgreSQL uses more memory on 6.1?

2006-05-23 Thread Kirk Strauser
from 6.0 to 6.1? Any ideas for a fix? I apologize for not having a logfiles, but I was pretty much in a panic to get it back up and running ASAP and didn't think about it until it was too late. -- Kirk Strauser ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing

Re: PostgreSQL uses more memory on 6.1?

2006-05-23 Thread Kirk Strauser
the previous reboot and the one that installed 6.1. At any rate, the kern.ipc.shmmax is much, much greater than the 64MB that I'd been using before for shared_buffers (8192 buffers * 8 KB/buffer). -- Kirk Strauser ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: PostgreSQL uses more memory on 6.1?

2006-05-23 Thread Kirk Strauser
those numbers. I'm using a single Xeon with 3GB of RAM and have no idea how high to set those, or whether a particular value is too high. Then again, once I figure it out I guess I should have a fair amount of job security. :-) -- Kirk Strauser

Re: PostgreSQL uses more memory on 6.1?

2006-05-23 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Tuesday 23 May 2006 16:19, Jung-uk Kim wrote: I meant 'kern.ipc.shmall', which used to be 'kern.ipc.shmmaxpgs'. :-( That did it! Bumping kern.ipc.shmall to 65536 got me back up and running with enough shared_memory to get my jobs done. -- Kirk Strauser

Re: make.conf for 6.0

2005-10-22 Thread Kirk Strauser
to hand-update the old copy. -- Kirk Strauser pgpKEpteMnBLy.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RSS feeds for UPDATINGs

2005-06-23 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Thursday 23 June 2005 04:57, Alex Kapranoff wrote: If anyone is interested, he(she) can now use my home-grown rss 2.0 feeds. They are synced to CVS once a day. Thank you, thank you, thank you! That's an excellent idea, and pretty obvious in retrospect. -- Kirk Strauser

Re: New Server - To 5.x or Not To 5.x

2005-06-14 Thread Kirk Strauser
-only from another server via smbfs. Then, I use unionfs to mount /usr/ports/localdistfiles above /usr/ports/distfiles. This is hardly in the same league as running a database or mailserver through unionfs, but it certainly seems stable enough for my limited needs. -- Kirk Strauser

Re: wi0 is always status: no carrier

2005-06-01 Thread Kirk Strauser
if that works. THAT DID IT! John, Warner, I can't thank you enough for taking the time to help me get my little laptop working. I know you're both busy, and my hardware was *far* from mainstream, yet you both took my cry for help seriously and walked me through the hard parts. Thanks again, -- Kirk

OT: Postmaster

2005-05-28 Thread Kirk Strauser
Please don't send mailing list messages to postmaster. Many of us filter that as a magic address and therefore find spurious messages outside of where they're supposed to be. Thanks! pgpaIASkkjKSU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: wi0 is always status: no carrier

2005-05-28 Thread Kirk Strauser
10.000 msec lo0: bpf attached ata0-master: pio=0x0c wdma=0x22 udma=0x44 cable=80pin Any other ideas of what I might try? The draw of the Gentoo is strengthening, but I really don't want to go that route. -- Kirk Strauser Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980

Re: cron stops silently

2005-05-27 Thread Kirk Strauser
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Re: wi0 is always status: no carrier

2005-05-22 Thread Kirk Strauser
, but should I be somehow requesting that my cbb device get bound to IRQ 11 instead of 10? There's no line containing cbb in /boot/device.hints; should I add one? -- Kirk Strauser pgpvNLWdUrcKr.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: wi0 is always status: no carrier

2005-05-13 Thread Kirk Strauser
0 irq8: rtc 96004127 irq13: npx01 0 irq14: ata0 2777 3 irq15: ata1 50 0 Total 175014233 -- Kirk Strauser

wi0 is always status: no carrier

2005-05-12 Thread Kirk Strauser
machines, but absolutely nothing from the laptop. My /boot/loader.conf looks like: hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 hint.apic.0.disabled=1 hw.cbb.start_memory=0xd800 Is there something else I'm blatantly missing? -- Kirk Strauser pgp9kYEVrUpMN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Use PCMCIA instead of CardBus?

2005-05-11 Thread Kirk Strauser
). In fact, I get no debugging information at all, whether from /var/log/messages or via dmesg. Any ideas where I could go from here? -- Kirk Strauser pgpzjrRmiDCkK.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Use PCMCIA instead of CardBus?

2005-05-11 Thread Kirk Strauser
This does not work at all at the moment. I'll give it a shot anyway, though, and pray for out-of-date man pages. :-) -- Kirk Strauser pgphrMwiFdebe.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Use PCMCIA instead of CardBus?

2005-05-10 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Monday 09 May 2005 09:42, Kirk Strauser wrote: The same setup can boot NetBSD and Linux to get full use of the card by disabling the Cardbus drivers in favor of the PCMCIA ones (ie, by running config on NetBSD and typing disable cbb, or by building a custom Linux kernel

Re: Use PCMCIA instead of CardBus?

2005-05-10 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Tuesday 10 May 2005 04:15 pm, Warner Losh wrote: On Monday 09 May 2005 09:42, Kirk Strauser wrote: Anyone? I've just re-installed NetBSD 2.0.2 for the sake of having a BSD on it until I can possibly make FreeBSD to work, but that's certainly not my ideal solution. I have no idea what

Use PCMCIA instead of CardBus?

2005-05-09 Thread Kirk Strauser
seem to get the same results from FreeBSD, though. Any suggestions? -- Kirk Strauser pgpIP7IKFd6uL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: CFLAGS=-O2 -pipe problems in RELENG_5 ?

2005-01-25 Thread Kirk Strauser
optimizations on it that depend on adherence to those rules. -- Kirk Strauser pgpvgmP4PacCR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: CFLAGS=-O2 -pipe problems in RELENG_5 ?

2005-01-18 Thread Kirk Strauser
. -- Kirk Strauser pgpZr2iHTkB9h.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 4.x can't read 5.x dump?

2004-12-02 Thread Kirk Strauser
be intact - at least not without *lots* of warnings. -- Kirk Strauser pgpPgmSMhN3Us.pgp Description: PGP signature

Sieve script to filter today's MS annoyances

2003-09-18 Thread Kirk Strauser
Subject [ *upgrade, *update, *pack, *patch ] ) ) { fileinto INBOX.virus.2003-09-18; } -- Kirk Strauser The Strauser Group Open. Solutions. Simple. http

Re: v6 in tonight's cvsup

2003-09-02 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-09-02T03:04:16Z, Randy Bush [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hosts with v6 enabled get lock-ups. Oh dear. My car and my wife's minivan both have v-6es. Should I be worried? but two of them got very very net soggy. That's a new one. -- Kirk Strauser pgp0.pgp Description: PGP

Re: /var error

2003-07-09 Thread Kirk Strauser
is problematic when it doesn't have a name OK, I can live with that. -- Kirk Strauser pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Problem with telnet

2003-02-28 Thread Kirk Strauser
should permanently lose telnet. Seriously. SSH does everything telnet will and doesn't have the gaping security hole of transferring plaintext data across a network. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: If you shop on the internet, please read this,,, then forward.

2002-12-07 Thread Kirk Strauser
? Happy Holidays! I have mixed feelings about that one. First, I hate spam as much as (or more than) the next guy. Still, at least this guy wasn't trying to sell anything, and he seemed to be honest about the whole deal. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. To Unsubscribe: send

Re: Do VIA 83C572 USB controllers suck or is it just me?

2002-07-10 Thread Kirk Strauser
, but that wouldn't fit with my other life experiences. :) -- Kirk Strauser The Strauser Group - http://www.strausergroup.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message