Re: HELP DEBUG: FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p3 TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA + other strange behaviour!

2008-09-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
are plugged into the correct device. If you want to slow down the ATA bus, I suggest you do it in software. 4. ? anything else? Try disconnecting some of the disks and see if the problem goes away - this would help rule out PSU problems. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my

Re: HELP DEBUG: FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p3 TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA + other strange behaviour!

2008-09-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
, as could overheating. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpwR8dFmRPsS.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: crossbuilding of RELENG_7 broken?

2008-09-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2008-Sep-15 18:18:28 +0200, Dominic Fandrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2008-Sep-14 18:21:45 +0200, Dominic Fandrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Building them works fine, but when I nfs-mount /usr/obj and /usr/src on the target system, install does not work. Neiter

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 Content

2008-09-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
. Including the full list of runtime dependencies, FF3 needs 120 packages, totalling 89MB (already bzip'd) on i386. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpBlyRMOzsYq.pgp

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 Content

2008-09-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
have. I would like to see FreeBSD 7.1 add to its disc1: 1) X.org 2) icewm 3) firefox-3.0 4) support for Intel 4965 wireless drivers 5) support for Marvell 88E8040 ethernet driver Disc1 is full. What do you suggest should be removed from disk1 to make space for the above? -- Peter Jeremy

Re: Is it safe to delete /bin/[ /usr/bin/false?

2008-09-02 Thread Peter Jeremy
over. I'm not sure how this will help. This issue is not new to me - see thread:[: -le: argument expected for details. You haven't mentioned where this thread exists - definitely not here. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA

Re: sun4v arch

2008-08-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
, It seems that the latest OpenBSD runs on sun4v. I haven't investigated how well supported it is. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpP83c1ntCdU.pgp Description

Re: sun4v arch

2008-08-23 Thread Peter Jeremy
at stuff from NetBSD to see whether or not they've solved some already critical porting pieces that FreeBSD lacks in this architecture? I can't find anything that suggests NetBSD runs on sun4v. Their sparc64 port only covers the US-I/II families and there's no mention of sun4v. -- Peter Jeremy

Re: the future of sun4v

2008-08-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
running there presents somewhat of a challenge. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpYZcaPY2ZT8.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: sun4v arch

2008-08-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
port support. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpBk7ynbGdXo.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: lagg(4) and failover

2008-08-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
be connected to a single switch. With failover, the physical interfaces will normally be connected to different switches (so a failure in one switch will not cause the loss of all connectivity. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA

Re: lagg(4) and failover

2008-08-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
this and solaris too. It shouldn't be too difficult to create something that behaves functionally similarly to Slowaris ipmpd (and with marginally more effort, you could create something that could be configured to behave sensibly). -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's

Re: i386 vs amd64?

2008-08-08 Thread Peter Jeremy
/i386 executables (though there's no easy way to build FreeBSD/i386 executables on FreeBSD/amd64). This does not extend to KLDs so 3rd-party 32-bit KLDs (eg the nVIDIA graphics driver). -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either

Re: DigiBoard Xem with 2 extenal modules

2008-08-05 Thread Peter Jeremy
with the FreeBSD one (and maybe someone needs to confirm if it works in Linux). I couldn't find a difference but maybe someone will see something I missed. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed

Re: Pseudoterminals increase: compilation error

2008-07-20 Thread Peter Jeremy
compiled from sources. So, it looks like some sort of a misconfiguration. Still investigating. Have you built the FreeBSD port or used your own build configuration? If the latter, I suggest you build the port - it works for me. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's

Re: Pseudoterminals increase: compilation error

2008-07-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
of requested pseudoterminals. That has been obsolete for a while. Do you actually have a problem with insufficient PTYs? -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour

Re: FreeBSD-6.3 (amd64) mergemaster problem

2008-07-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
an installworld before you run 'mergemaster -i' - refer to /usr/src/UPDATING -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpyOyx7VmzH6.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: BIND update?

2008-07-10 Thread Peter Jeremy
to include the relevant patches - The security team is aware of the issue and is working on a fix. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpy72N3Uj0PF.pgp Description: PGP

Re: msync() differences between Linux and FreeBSD

2008-07-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
you have and what tuning have you done). You might like to write a tool to simulate the rrdtool behaviour with varying DB sizes and identify exactly what you are hitting. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821

Re: DigiBoard Xem with 2 extenal modules

2008-07-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpAgv2nrKbnm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: DigiBoard Xem with 2 extenal modules

2008-07-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
what it does that our driver isn't doing. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgplQdQP8SkKx.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: jdk16 web plugin on FreeBSD 7 AMD64 Issues

2008-06-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2008-Jun-26 16:23:23 -0400, Sabeeh Baig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that the plugins from jdk16 and jdk15 on AMD64 worked. I can't comment on jdk16 but the jdk15 plugin does not work on amd64. There is a patch for jdk15 at ports/122904 that works for me. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays

GEOM gotcha upgrading from 6.x to 7.x

2008-06-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
with an older kernel. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpo7UvOGlDVy.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Unusually large directory - 2.0 peta bytes

2008-06-14 Thread Peter Jeremy
need to use fsdb(8) - just be careful with the latter - you can do major damage with it. Your second issue is how you got a random bit-flip - you might like to check your hardware. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either

Re: CLARITY re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-08 Thread Peter Jeremy
4.x releases was that there were major differences between the 4.x and later kernels and this made it increasingly difficult to backport bugfixes. This is less of an issue with now 4.x is out of the way. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement

Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-05 Thread Peter Jeremy
that statement, you have refused. Since you are the one claiming that 6.3 isn't ready yet, the onus is on you to put up or shut up. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour

Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-05 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2008-Jun-05 10:33:18 -0500, Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On Thursday, June 05, 2008 18:39:07 +1000 Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-Jun-04 22:22:33 -0700, Jo Rhett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And please stop with the loaded language. I'm not asking anyone to work

Interrupt storm with shared interrupt on digi(4)

2008-06-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
a patch that will generate an appropriate EOI to a DigiBoard? Alternatively, can anyone suggest how I can disable or mask a specified PCI interrupt? -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches

Re: Interrupt storm with shared interrupt on digi(4)

2008-06-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
interrupts and likely stop working. I agree that this approach is a hack - but it will let me work around the problem on the problematic system. BTW, your MUA's list-reply configuration don't recognize that freebsd-stable@ and stable@ are aliases. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays

Re: Sockets stuck in FIN_WAIT_1

2008-05-30 Thread Peter Jeremy
. I'm not sure if one of the existing TCP timers could be (ab)used to achieve this. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpIn1EcTIGau.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Sockets stuck in FIN_WAIT_1

2008-05-30 Thread Peter Jeremy
not in a position to write a suitable patch at present. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpqENqAjJglF.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Buildworld Fails RELENG_7

2008-05-20 Thread Peter Jeremy
. Note that the FreeBSD build toolset is designed to work with sh - if you've managed to convince make to use bash, you may have run into an incompatibility that is causing your buildworld failures. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA

Re: Buildworld Fails RELENG_7

2008-05-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
clean'. My guess is that you have some cruft in your /usr/src. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpU4xKEcmIrh.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Changing an installed system from i386 to amd64

2008-05-13 Thread Peter Jeremy
this: When compiling a new port with dependencies, the internal foo_DEPENDS logic will detect the i386 .so but the port's own configuration tools or build process will normally die in interesting ways when they can't actually use that .so. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my

Re: umass causes panic on 7 amd64

2008-04-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpqlYtd7DHID.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: nfs-server silent data corruption

2008-04-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
the image, burn it to a CD and boot the CD. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpqzyXS7Xktp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: umass causes panic on 7 amd64

2008-04-18 Thread Peter Jeremy
timeouts and disables that USB port. [See my recent posting to -amd64]. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpwvI0ALZw9N.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Hardware - Sun workstation Ultra 20 and others

2008-04-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
is UltraSPARC IIIi based. This CPU is not supported by FreeBSD as Sun will not release necessary documentation. 2) Sun states they support both RHEL and SuSE ES on both the U20 and U40 so I would expect they are stable and all hardware supported, at least on those Linuxes. -- Peter Jeremy

Re: NTP on amd74 + powernow issues

2008-04-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
/etc/rc.d/ntpdate start - run /etc/rc.d/ntpd start This will force ntpd to re-calibrate and, hopefully, it will stabilise, though this can take a day or so. You can monitor the NTP PLL behaviour via the loopstats file. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability

Re: Upgrading to 7.0 - stupid requirements

2008-03-20 Thread Peter Jeremy
single port without re-building everything - for reasons that have been spelled out elsewhere in this thread. FWIW, the move to versioned symbols should (in theory) remove the need to need to do a future complete recompile once you've rebuilt all your ports against 7.x. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse

Re: INET6 -- and why I don't use it

2008-03-06 Thread Peter Jeremy
sort of tunnel. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpy4B0Xu1cau.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Odd file in /lost+found after softupdate inconsistency in fsck

2008-03-06 Thread Peter Jeremy
a dump -L. dump -L will create a snapshot and, if aborted, may leave it behind. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpZUX82XwK8o.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Odd file in /lost+found after softupdate inconsistency in fsck

2008-03-05 Thread Peter Jeremy
filesystem by losing its inode #5 containing snapshot data? No and no. You can have multiple snapshots in a filesystem. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour

Re: linked ssl libraries to binary

2008-03-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
cannot stress this enough. Agreed. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpRYRCkVfqCt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Usb problems on 7.0 RELEASE

2008-03-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
still occurs. I have bumped into problems with umass on my son's SMP laptop which don't show up on my UP laptop. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpvGrn1lIHR3.pgp

Re: 7.0-STABLE amd64 kernel trap during boot-time device probe

2008-03-02 Thread Peter Jeremy
a serial console to continue. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpk8sZBj4PaO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 7.0-STABLE amd64 kernel trap during boot-time device probe

2008-03-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
to talk to a remote GDB session, not a serial console. You probably want: - 'hint.sio.0.flags=0x10' [no 'set'] in /boot/device.hints - '-Dh' in /boot.config Doing a verbose boot would probably also help. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement

Re: ntpd fails to synchronize on FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE

2008-02-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
a NOINET6 hasn't snuck in somewhere? -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpiNSfeBdIvV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: fsck_ufs: cannot alloc 94208 bytes for inoinfo

2008-02-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
performance but not reduce the memory required. Note that this advice is relevant for UFS1 only. In UFS2, '-c' specifies the cylinder group size in _BLOCKS_ not cylinders and defaults to the maximum size for the given blocksize and IPG etc. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my

Re: more than 4gb of RAM (configurations)

2008-02-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
found a 6.x/i386 version of a dependency - which causes the port build to fail at some later point. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgp5ks1coiSb8.pgp Description

Re: How to take down a system to the point of requiring a newfs with one line of C (userland)

2008-02-18 Thread Peter Jeremy
ยค and rebooting to no avail. That said, I did run into a bug where, for some time after deleting the files from a soft-updates partition, 'df' would report that the inodes were freed but attempting to create a new file would fail with ENOSPC. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my

Re: Formatting bug in C++ iostreams when running i386 binary on amd64

2008-02-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
in question both run 6.2-RELEASE, at various kernel release patchsets: ... With an i386 binary running on an amd64 host, when we write a small double, with value close to 0.1, to a C++ iostream, it is formatted incorrectly. See kern/102424 and amd64/11. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays

Re: RELENG_7: interrupt eating whole cpu core

2008-02-08 Thread Peter Jeremy
or deliberate. I do recall that there have been problems in the past with ATAPI drives that would advertise DMA capabilities but would misbehave if you used DMA (atapi_dma was disabled by default in 5.x for this reason). I'm not sure if the current code is at effort to avoid this. -- Peter Jeremy

Re: Crashing repeatedly: 6.2-RELEASE-p5 and MySQL 5.0.41

2008-02-08 Thread Peter Jeremy
, can you please display the backtrace in ddb and then use addr2line or similar to convert the addresses into line numbers. This will allow us to determine the correct backtrace. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821

Re: Crashing repeatedly: 6.2-RELEASE-p5 and MySQL 5.0.41

2008-02-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/vm/vm_map.c?annotate=1.366.2.3 both of which show a call to vm_map_lock_read() at line 3074. I can't find anywhere that vm_map_lookup() calls vm_map_unlock() - it always calls vm_map_unlock_read(). -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my

Re: Crashing repeatedly: 6.2-RELEASE-p5 and MySQL 5.0.41

2008-02-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
and so are unlikely to be causing problems. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpmNLKxxDg9t.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: /usr/bin/objformat is missing

2008-01-30 Thread Peter Jeremy
to the linker step. back burner. Which is to create a port of Apache that will run 2 versions of PHP consecutively. Sounds interesting. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour

Re: /usr/bin/objformat is missing

2008-01-29 Thread Peter Jeremy
as soon as possible. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgp5TNEY54C5g.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA type errors with 7.0-RC1

2008-01-25 Thread Peter Jeremy
in a healthy drive. I see similarly wierd values from a basically new drive. I'm not sure that there's a requirement that the raw values start from 0 and increment on each detected event. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA

Re: Strange top output

2008-01-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
the reported VSZ but the additional address space is never accessed so the overal impact is negligible. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpwZHS2VPGnr.pgp Description

Re: firefox-2.0.0.11_1, 1 refuses to build because PORT_REPLACES_BASE_BIND

2008-01-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
and has been the case for over two years. (The relevant test is at the end of the gecko-post-patch target in www/mozilla/Makefile.common). -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed

Re: FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE Available

2008-01-18 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 02:18:40PM -0500, Ken Smith wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.3R/announce.html Thank you. One question: What has happened to iA64? I notice it has been removed from the release notes. Is it running late or dead? -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays

Re: kldstat causes kernel to print odd message

2008-01-17 Thread Peter Jeremy
the error message in link_elf.c. If there's a possibility that multiple ELF linkers could be required in the future, a cleaner option might be to make link_elf_error() just cache the error message and only report it after all possible linkers have refused to load the file. -- Peter Jeremy Please

Re: Swapping caused by very large (regular) file size

2008-01-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
in 0 vnode pager pageouts 0 vnode pager pages paged out -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgphFm24TLtfp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Packet loss every 30.999 seconds

2007-12-20 Thread Peter Jeremy
resolution. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpCXh5EuAxtY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: More issues with 7.0-BETA4

2007-12-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
' is using the wrong include files: All the machine-dependent types are defined in terms of I32LP64 primitives whilst 'cc -m32' uses ILP32 primitives. The current suggestion is to perform i386 compiles in a FreeBSD/i386 chroot environment. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my

Re: Buildworld failures -6.3-PRE

2007-11-23 Thread Peter Jeremy
delete the kernel build count (the #nn in uname -a). Note that the second 'make cleandir' is still necessary in case any cruft has been created inside /usr/src. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches

Re: 2 x quad-core system is slower that 2 x dual core on FreeBSD

2007-11-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
Watson (if I recall correctly) has done some work on building a framework to allow a choice between slow-and-accurate and fast-and-less-precise timestamps. I don't have the reference to hand but a check of the archives should turn it up. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my

Re: Float problen running i386 inary on amd64

2007-11-16 Thread Peter Jeremy
I'm not sure how difficult this is in reality. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgps0pNqgm4ZO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Float problen running i386 inary on amd64

2007-11-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
by subsequent processes as they are fork()d. The fix is probably to explicitly initialise the FPU for legacy mode processes on the amd64. A work-around would be to call fpsetprec(FP_PD) (see machine/ieeefp.h) at the start of main(). -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's

Re: Float problen running i386 inary on amd64

2007-11-14 Thread Peter Jeremy
to an amd64 in i386 mode. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgp9NYp3Hzs1H.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Filesystems in 7.0 reliability

2007-11-08 Thread Peter Jeremy
invoke the drive's internal self-tests. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an RFC2821-compliant MTA. pgpwBTlncTJ8j.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFC: Evolution of the em driver

2007-10-31 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 01:16:39AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: For what it's worth, I agree with Scott. I'd rather see a new and separate driver (presumably igb(4)) than a hacked up em(4) driver trying to handle tons of IC revisions. A good example of the insanity the latter causes is nve(4)

Re: CMOS, daylight saving time and dual-boot

2007-10-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 06:08:26PM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote: It would be possible to utilize a bit in the CMOS at boot time to decide if BIOS time set to Summer time and clear it appropriately, in theory :-) As long as every OS that you are going to run agrees on the bit and its meaning

Re: CMOS, daylight saving time and dual-boot

2007-10-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 03:39:55PM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote: It was tuned off yesterday evening and turned back on today, loading FreeBSD. Meantime the switch from Summer Time to Standard Time has ocurred. And we've just switched to Summer time. Based on a quick check, it doesn't look like

kdump(1) differences between 6.x and 7.x

2007-10-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
this change be eligible for an MFC to 6.x? It makes reading kdump output much easier. The only downside is that it might break scripts that people might use to postprocess kdump output. -- Peter Jeremy pgpwSLgLnvhiG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 2G+ sysv shm segments

2007-10-17 Thread Peter Jeremy
compatibility for shmctl(IPC_STAT). It seems that should be new shmctl syscall. I don't believe there is a requirement that IPC_STAT be 2 so an alternative approach would be to change the value of IPC_STAT to support the changed shmid_ds size (though this would also affect semctl() and msgctl(). -- Peter

Re: Question about 'top' values on memory usage

2007-10-16 Thread Peter Jeremy
as well as whether it's file or swap backed. -- Peter Jeremy pgpTgKJQKBT1Q.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Question about 'top' values on memory usage, now threads

2007-10-16 Thread Peter Jeremy
is that a process may be killed without notice when it writes to some previously allocated but unused part of its address space. See the archives for the full bikeshed. -- Peter Jeremy pgpC1oPyT0BbR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 2G+ sysv shm segments

2007-10-16 Thread Peter Jeremy
long)kshmptr-u.shm_segsz); or similar. -- Peter Jeremy pgpBidj3poDj6.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 interrupt storm with irq0: clk

2007-10-14 Thread Peter Jeremy
it in your kernel config, you should have 1000 clock interrupts/sec. -- Peter Jeremy pgpinGFhpu8Dx.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: File system is Full

2007-10-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
the underlying problem. -- Peter Jeremy pgp6R2uYZaWqf.pgp Description: PGP signature

crash in acd_geom_detach() whilst reading vcd

2007-09-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
}, sysctl_tree = 0xffb30600 } (kgdb) Is this behaviour expected? -- Peter Jeremy pgpIYSxHJT549.pgp Description: PGP signature

Page fault panic due to corrupt callwheel entries

2007-08-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
callwheel[0x5ebf] $7 = { tqh_first = 0x400, tqh_last = 0x98d6ac90 } (kgdb) p callwheel[0x5ec0] $8 = { tqh_first = 0x400, tqh_last = 0x98d6aca0 } (kgdb) p callwheel[0x5ec1] $9 = { tqh_first = 0xff00287cdb20, tqh_last = 0xff00287cdb20 } (kgdb) -- Peter Jeremy

Re: powerd freeze with amd 5000 X2 but not with lower cpus

2007-07-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
problems in 6.x when you are running ULE is just wasting developer resources. Please stop implying that people should be using ULE in 6.x unless you are willing to personally provide support for them. -- Peter Jeremy pgpnFB7jwXUpV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: removing external usb hdd without unmounting causes reboot?

2007-07-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
ones that come to mind. -- Peter Jeremy pgpH7uZiEFGpr.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ntpd on a NAT gateway seems to do nothing

2007-07-25 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2007-Jul-25 10:30:25 +1000, Andrew Reilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 05:24:25AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2007-Jul-24 16:00:08 +0100, Pete French [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes it does. The major difference is that ntpd will use a source port of 123 whilst ntpdate

Re: removing external usb hdd without unmounting causes reboot?

2007-07-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2007-Jul-23 16:15:56 +0200, Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, currently the best work-around is to use amd with a very short timeout. Or simply remember to umount your removable media manually. Or ports/emulators/mtools -- Peter Jeremy pgpDLc0Ghx67i.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ntpd on a NAT gateway seems to do nothing

2007-07-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
arriving there. If your NAT box is not busy, you might be able to enable logging on som relevant rules and see what your firewall is actually doing with the packets. -- Peter Jeremy pgpWL1Q4KzH8e.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: removing external usb hdd without unmounting causes reboot?

2007-07-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
after drive disconnect is something completely different Note that UFS+softupdates already implements this. -- Peter Jeremy pgp3niumMyzcX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: removing external usb hdd without unmounting causes reboot?

2007-07-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
thread try to write to the stick whilst it was absent? If not then the OS would have been unaware of its absence. -- Peter Jeremy pgpvTXMlOHCAu.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ntpd just sits there and does nothing

2007-07-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
. So does ntpd. -- Peter Jeremy pgpfaPadVFfmf.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Problems with named default configuration in 6-STABLE

2007-07-17 Thread Peter Jeremy
. -- Peter Jeremy pgpE9sNNRvg52.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FREEBSD_4_EOL tag, last known index file?

2007-07-16 Thread Peter Jeremy
to maintain third-party software using its native configuration mechanisms. If you feel that the FreeBSD project is being unreasonable, please try (eg) asking Sun for support for SunOS 4.1.3. -- Peter Jeremy pgphvckyT7k8X.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: UFS2 optimization for many small files

2007-06-30 Thread Peter Jeremy
). If you have 1TB of data, it's likely that you will have another 0.5-1TB of overheads. Overall, I suggest you look at an alternative way to store the data. -- Peter Jeremy pgpIAT77fjtea.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: is read-write nullfs safe?

2007-06-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
down or remove this warning before 6.3/7.0? -- Peter Jeremy pgp25Awt854IA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: why FreeBSD swap they?

2007-06-02 Thread Peter Jeremy
will swap unused processes. It's impossible to comment further without more information about your servers - what processes are running on them, what sort of workloads are placed on them and are the workloads the same on all. -- Peter Jeremy pgpdgaTX4Ddeb.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: release cycle

2007-05-29 Thread Peter Jeremy
down - it has not done that quite yet as far as I can tell. Given the size of the upgrade, I think it has gone very smoothly, though there _are_ a few rough edges. A few weeks to a month should shake things out. -- Peter Jeremy pgpXGVNSIVsI5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Corrupt fonts-alias (Re: xorg 7.2 start problem)

2007-05-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2007-May-24 16:19:07 -0400, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 03:00:11PM +0200, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote: * Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-05-24 21:40 +1000]: I've found this problem on one system (the one where I thought the upgrade had gone the most

Re: Change in memory tracking in recent 6-STABLE?

2007-05-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
as active, inactive and free, there is cache, wired and buffers. Check the following sysctls: vfs.bufspace (bytes) vm.stats.vm.v_active_count (pages) vm.stats.vm.v_inactive_count (pages) vm.stats.vm.v_wire_count (pages) vm.stats.vm.v_cache_count (pages) vm.stats.vm.v_free_count (pages) -- Peter

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