Re: shutdown -r / shutdown -h / reboot all hang and don't cleanly dismount

2013-06-20 Thread Richard Tector
On 19/06/2013 12:35, Adam Strohl wrote: Hello -STABLE@, So I've seen this situation seemingly randomly on a number of both physical 9.1 boxes as well as VMs for I would say 6-9 months at least. I finally have a physical box here that reproduces it consistently that I can reboot easily (ie;

Re: Areca Disk Adapter Question

2009-12-06 Thread Richard Tector
On 06/12/2009 02:26, Karl Denninger wrote: BUT BUT BUT - there is no way to clear the devices nodes from FreeBSD! If I attempt a camcontrol rescan all after pulling a set the machine instantly panics with uncompleted I/Os to the disks I did not tamper with - whether I tell the adapter I did it

Re: FreeBSD 7.x hang-on-boot on Dell 1950

2009-11-13 Thread Richard Tector
Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: I have a dell 1950 here on the floor. Since 1950 seems to refer to a lot of things with a lot of configurations, I'm going to attempt to narrow that down a bit. It's got 2x 2.33Ghz dual core pentiums (stepping 06-0F-6 according to the bios) in it and it has an SAS RAID

sade(8) on a gmirror device

2009-06-24 Thread Richard Tector
A little background - the system in question , running 7.2-RELEASE has 2 1TB disks in a gmirror, ez0. ad4 and ad6 are the two providers for the gmirror device. It was created after a 30GB slice had been created on ad4 for the various system partitions required. This system is running fine, with

Re: (probe23:arcmsr0:0:16:0): inquiry data fails comparison at DV1 step

2009-06-10 Thread Richard Tector
Mike Tancsa wrote: At 08:19 AM 6/10/2009, Andre Oppermann wrote: Today I upgraded an AMD64 server from FreeBSD 6.4 to 7-STABLE and got a big nasty surprise with the Areca RAID controller: arcmsr0: Areca SATA Host Adapter RAID Controller (RAID6 capable) mem 0xfdbff000-0xfdb40 irq16 at

Re: buildworld fails with WITHOUT_CDDL=yes in src.conf

2009-06-08 Thread Richard Tector
Kip Macy wrote: The second bug is the use of LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT without any consideration of WITHOUT_CDDL and/or WITHOUT_ZFS (or MK_ZFS) I'll try get it fixed by Wednesday. Kip, I noticed a fix went in with revision 193494 but was then backed out straight away with no reason. Will this

Re: Problem with SATA/SAS 5iR

2009-02-12 Thread Richard Tector
Kevin Smith wrote: Hi, I have a problem with a Dell Poweredge SC440 computer. It's equipped with a Dell SATA/SAS 5iR controller, it's from LSI actually (maybe megaraid). I'm using FreeBSD 7.1 Release I have 2x 500 GB SATA in a synchronised(status optimal) RAID-1 logical volume. The machine

Re: Problem with SATA/SAS 5iR

2009-02-12 Thread Richard Tector
Kevin Smith wrote: Thanks for your advice, this was unusual for me, because even on a 4iR I couldnt see this space reservation. What about sysinstalls write error when extracting the ports collection? Bad install media perhaps? Have you encountered any other issues? Richard

Re: Problem with SATA/SAS 5iR

2009-02-12 Thread Richard Tector
Kevin Smith wrote: Just another thing, can you change or monitor the behaviour of this spare space reservation? Looking into man mpt gave nothing useful regarding this issue. The tunefs manpage has a little about the space reservation. You can set it with -m IIRC when doing the newfs, but I

Re: 7.1, mpt and slow writes

2009-01-29 Thread Richard Tector
Charles Sprickman wrote: Hello, I think this needs a few more eyes: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2009-January/003782.html In short, writes are slow, likely do to the write-cache being enabled on the controller. The sysctl used in 6.x to turn the cache off don't seem to

Re: 7.1, mpt and slow writes

2009-01-29 Thread Richard Tector
Peter C. Lai wrote: I am guessing this is only related to SATA drives on SAS controllers? The only mpt hardware I have is LSILogic 1030 Ultra4 and it writes sustained 40MB/s to my LTO-2 drives out of the box without any tweaking. Correct. When SATA drives are used instead of SAS drives on this

Re: NIC for VLAN

2009-01-07 Thread Richard Tector
. Intel Pro/100 (fxp driver) or Pro/1000 (em/igb driver) are probably the best supported and best performing on FreeBSD, and the Pro/1000 at least has excellent VLAN support. Regards, Richard Tector smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: 7.1-PRERELEASE: arcmsr write performance problem

2008-12-03 Thread Richard Tector
David Kelly wrote: On Dec 1, 2008, at 11:45 PM, Jan Mikkelsen wrote: Replying to my own post ... I have done a test on the same machine comparing 6.3-p1 to 7.1-PRE. The performance is the expected ~6MB/s (because of the lack of cache) on 6.3-p1, so the BIOS change doesn't seem to be at

Random hangs with 7.1-PRE

2008-11-26 Thread Richard Tector
it doesn't appear the system has completely hung. The system is in a cool room and under little load running basic services: samba, postgres, dhcp, etc. Never seen problems with the machine previously. Does anyone have any thoughts or suggestions on narrowing down the cause? Regards, Richard Tector

Re: Any working ichsmb(4) platforms out there?

2008-09-11 Thread Richard Tector
Bruce M Simpson wrote: Does anyone have ichsmb(4) actually seeing SMBus devices? e.g. you run smbmsg -p on your FreeBSD-STABLE system and see something. I just tried it again on my IBM ThinkPad T43 and saw nothing, all I get is: ichsmb0: device timeout, status=0x41 ...in dmesg. I have an

Re: Any working ichsmb(4) platforms out there?

2008-09-11 Thread Richard Tector
Bruce M Simpson wrote: Richard, Thanks for this. Richard Tector wrote: I have an ICH9 machine, Tyan motherboard: FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #0: Fri Aug 1 14:57:33 BST 2008 ichsmb0: SMBus controller port 0x18e0-0x18ff mem 0xf4a03000-0xf4a030ff irq 17 at device 31.3 on pci0 ichsmb0: [GIANT-LOCKED

Re: Any working ichsmb(4) platforms out there?

2008-09-11 Thread Richard Tector
Richard Tector wrote: Interestingly, I just tried on a couple of our webservers. Dell PowerEdge 860's with ICH7 running 7.0-STABLE, amd64. Loading the ichsmb module gives: ichsmb0: Intel 82801GB (ICH7) SMBus controller port 0x8c0-0x8df at device 31.3 on pci0 pcib0: no PRT entry for 0.31

Problem with mod_fcgid on AMD64

2008-09-06 Thread Richard Tector
Earlier today I reinstalled one of our web servers (Dell PowerEdge 860 running dual or quad core Xeons) with amd64 RELENG_7 as of today, replacing i386 RELENG_7 from about a month back (clean install). After installing Apache 2.2.9 and mod_fcgid 2.2 from ports exactly as on the other i386

Re: ad0 READ_DMA TIMEOUT errors on install of 7.0-RELEASE

2008-03-02 Thread Richard Tector
. Neither of the systems are required for use just at the moment, so I'm quite happy to test patches once they're available, or provide further details as required. Regards, Richard Tector smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: ad0 READ_DMA TIMEOUT errors on install of 7.0-RELEASE

2008-03-02 Thread Richard Tector
Quoting Richard Tector [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This is just a 'me too'. I've experienced the following on 2 seperate and very different i386 systems: An upgrade to RELENG_7 solved this problem. Whether there has actually been a change in the code that has done it, or perhaps I had a faulty

Re: BPF question

2007-07-15 Thread Richard Tector
Bill Vermillion wrote: I have been setting the bpf parameter in the kernel configuration file to 10 [I forget which program needed that]. Prior to that I had usually run with about 4. I also saw that on a 4.11 installation I had it set at 40 for 'nessus'. My config file had this line.

Re: 6.2 newfs/tunefs minfree

2007-05-07 Thread Richard Tector
Oleg Gritsak wrote: You should find a message written by Oliver Fromme at 26-th of April 2007, subject Re: UFS: optimization changed. That's an answer to your question... :) (here's the link http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/archive/freebsd-stable.html) Whoops, must have missed that one. Thanks,

6.2 newfs/tunefs minfree

2007-05-06 Thread Richard Tector
On 6.2-STABLE, newfs(8) manpage reports: -o optimization [..snip..] If the value of min-free (see above) is less than 8%, the default is to optimize for space; if the value of minfree is greater than or equal to 8%, the default is to optimize for time. However, tunefs(8) manpage

Re: Python 2.5 (and mod_python)

2007-05-01 Thread Richard Tector
Daniel Mouritsen wrote: Hi :) First off, I am still new to the ports package management system, so be gentle if the following text contains dumb questions yeah? Okies, here goes. I installed python 2.5 from the lang/python25 port. And then installed mod_python from www/mod_python3 during

Re: Top not showing 4 cpus on 2 xeons with HT

2007-04-25 Thread Richard Tector
Artem Kuchin wrote: I am just wondering if it is normal. I have two xeon processors with HT on each of them. When loading kernel says that 4 cpu's are found, but when i do top i can see only 0 or 2 in the C column. never 1 or 3. Is it normal? FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE (cvsed 1 day ago) If I remember

Re: Dell SAS5 Performance Issue

2007-04-01 Thread Richard Tector
Matthew Jacob wrote: On 3/27/07, Richard Tector [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Jacob wrote: It's been seen before but the fix isn't know yet. On 3/27/07, Richard Tector [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm suffering from very slow write performance on a Dell PowerEdge 860 with the SAS5/IR

Re: Dell SAS5 Performance Issue

2007-04-01 Thread Richard Tector
Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: On Sun, 1 Apr 2007, Richard Tector wrote: A perhaps unrealted issue: I've noticed a large number of messages being produced by the mpt driver after boot occuring approximately every 90 seconds. Apr 1 15:51:43 moses kernel: mpt0: mpt_cam_event: 0x14 Apr 1 15:51:43

Dell SAS5 Performance Issue

2007-03-27 Thread Richard Tector
configuration to view/adjust *any* caching options. Has anyone else experienced this issue? If so how did they resolve it? Also, is there any way to toggle the caching settings from FreeBSD? Regards, Richard Tector ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Dell SAS5 Performance Issue

2007-03-27 Thread Richard Tector
Ivan Voras wrote: Richard Tector wrote: I'm suffering from very slow write performance on a Dell PowerEdge 860 with the SAS5/IR controller (mpt driver) running either 6.2-RELEASE or 6.2-STABLE with sources from yesterday. The controller hosts 2 Western Digital 320GB SATA disks in a RAID1

Re: Dell SAS5 Performance Issue

2007-03-27 Thread Richard Tector
Matthew Jacob wrote: It's been seen before but the fix isn't know yet. On 3/27/07, Richard Tector [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm suffering from very slow write performance on a Dell PowerEdge 860 with the SAS5/IR controller (mpt driver) running either 6.2-RELEASE or 6.2-STABLE with sources from

Re: mpd sometimes hangs the whole system?

2007-02-20 Thread Richard Tector
Sten Daniel Soersdal wrote: Richard Tector wrote: Alex Povolotsky wrote: Richard Tector wrote: Alex Povolotsky wrote: mpd (fresh) on FreeBSD 6.1p12 sometimes hangs system, totally, to reset. Tried two completely different boxes, so it cannot be a hardware problem. Which version of mpd

Re: mpd sometimes hangs the whole system?

2007-02-19 Thread Richard Tector
Alex Povolotsky wrote: Hello! mpd (fresh) on FreeBSD 6.1p12 sometimes hangs system, totally, to reset. Tried two completely different boxes, so it cannot be a hardware problem. I'm updating to 6.2 now, but have little hope. What can I turn on in kernel to fix it or at least to make computer

Re: mpd sometimes hangs the whole system?

2007-02-19 Thread Richard Tector
Alex Povolotsky wrote: Richard Tector wrote: Alex Povolotsky wrote: mpd (fresh) on FreeBSD 6.1p12 sometimes hangs system, totally, to reset. Tried two completely different boxes, so it cannot be a hardware problem. Which version of mpd are you using? Have you tried the latest version from

Re: mpd sometimes hangs the whole system?

2007-02-19 Thread Richard Tector
Alex Povolotsky wrote: Richard Tector wrote: Alex Povolotsky wrote: Richard Tector wrote: Alex Povolotsky wrote: mpd (fresh) on FreeBSD 6.1p12 sometimes hangs system, totally, to reset. Tried two completely different boxes, so it cannot be a hardware problem. Which version of mpd are you