Re: Packet loss every 30.999 seconds

2007-12-19 Thread Stephan Uphoff
David G Lawrence wrote: Try it with find / -type f /dev/null to duplicate the problem almost instantly. FreeBSD used to have some code that would cause vnodes with no cached pages to be recycled quickly (which would have made a simple find ineffective without reading the files at least

Re: latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors are buggy as hell

2007-06-28 Thread Stephan Uphoff
Andrei Kolu wrote: According to Theo de Raadth http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-miscm=118296441702631 latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors are buggy as hell. What counter-measures are taken within FreeBSD community? The MMU specification updates described in the documented were easily handled

Re: thanks for commiting (MFC ffs_softdep.c 1.182, softdep.h 1.18) to RELENG_5 and 6. When in 4?

2005-08-31 Thread Stephan Uphoff
On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 03:51, Igor Sysoev wrote: On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Tomaz Borstnar wrote: Would some kind soul MFC ffs_softdep.c 1.182, softdep.h 1.18 into RELENG_4 as well? This bug is also present in FreeBSD 4.x. Found it ever since 4.7. I saw this annoying bug at least

Re: Status of kern/79700, nfs lockups

2005-05-19 Thread Stephan Uphoff
On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 18:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I notice that this pr hasn't gotten any attention. Suspending process that is actively writing to a file on an nfs mount causes future access to that file by other processes to hang until the first process is resumed. I didn't care much

Re: Diagnostic tools for external hard drives?

2005-03-13 Thread Stephan Uphoff
On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 15:54, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: Hello, Does FreeBSD (stable) have any tools that I can use to run diagnostics on an external hard drive? I have a Maxtor One Touch 250GB external hard drive (the one with both USB and Firewire connectors). This is connected to my

Re: SMP support problem - panic: APIC: Previous IPI is stuck

2004-11-29 Thread Stephan Uphoff
lists but I can not find a solution except disabling SMP support in kernel which can not handle the traffic. What can be done in this situation? I will be pleased for your advises... You sure you searched the mailing lists? ;-) Stephan Uphoff produced a patch that might fix

Re: propagate_priority KASSERT

2004-11-23 Thread Stephan Uphoff
On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 22:21, Mark Gooderum wrote: We're currently tripping accross the following KASSERT in subr_turnstile.c (in 5.3.0 RELEASE): /* * XXX: The owner of a turnstile can be stale if it is the * first thread to grab a slock of a sx lock. In that case

Re: panic: APIC: Previous IPI is stuck

2004-11-23 Thread Stephan Uphoff
three times in a couple of days with panic: APIC: Previous IPI is stuck, the most recent one dragging me out from home early in a Monday morning. Welcome to the club. This is a known problem with affects older, true 4 proc machines. Stephan Uphoff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has posted a patch