Re: Timing of 9.0-RC1?

2011-10-17 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Brett Glass (br...@lariat.net) wrote: Thank you! Did not know to look for this in the source tree; now I know. You can get an Atom feed to monitor it for you here: http://freshbsd.org/search?project=freebsdq=file.name%3Anewvers.shbranch=RELENG_9 /plug -- Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst

Re: em(4) interface hangs under 8.0-RELEASE

2010-03-07 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Jeremy Chadwick (free...@jdc.parodius.com) wrote: It's been mentioned in the past that for simple SATA expansion cards, a good/affordable choice at this point are cards using the Silicon Image 3124/3132/3531 chips (driven by the siis(4) driver). Avoid the 3112. The reason I say that

Re: em(4) interface hangs under 8.0-RELEASE

2010-03-06 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Jack Vogel (jfvo...@gmail.com) wrote: Its using MSI? Given that its PCI-X I have no idea how robust MSI is, how bout you compile it with that disabled, use legacy IRQ and see if that makes any diff. I'm seeing similar issues with a quad port 82546EB card, and they're not using MSI as far as

Re: em(4) interface hangs under 8.0-RELEASE

2010-03-06 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Steven Hartland (kill...@multiplay.co.uk) wrote: If that's a supermicro then em3 is usually the IPMI shared card so perhaps that's the cause? No, it's a Tyan K8WE: http://www.tyan.com/archive/products/html/thunderk8we.html With a quad port Intel NIC in one of the 133MHz PCI-X slots.

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Release process starting...

2009-03-21 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Robert Watson (rwat...@freebsd.org) wrote: It would probably be worth skimming svn logs for stable/7 to see what other testing focuses would be particularly useful. In case it's of use, I have full searchable SVN history here: http://beta.freshbsd.org/?q=branch:RELENG_7 -- Thomas

Re: visibility of release process

2008-12-10 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Patrick Lamaizière ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Ruben van Staveren [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Though experimental, I'm greatly enjoying http://www.secnetix.de/olli/FreeBSD/svnews/?p=/stable/7 Nice. There is also http://freshbsd.org/ (really cool IMHO). Thanks; I write/run that. I'm

Re: Request for testing - top 3.8b1 in the base system

2008-09-29 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Edwin Groothuis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have made an update for the top(1) utility in the FreeBSD base system to get it from the 3.5b12 version to the 3.8b1 version. Looks good, thanks! IO mode seems to have changed a bit, giving different values to 3.5, it seems while 3.5 gives you

Re: ICRC's

2008-09-02 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Jeremy Chadwick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 07:58:22AM +0100, Thomas Hurst wrote: * Larry Rosenman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: ad8: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=154593293 NAMESTATE READ WRITE CKSUM ad8

Re: ICRC's

2008-08-11 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Larry Rosenman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm getting the following on a zpool scrub: ad8: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=54817587 ad8: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=187521229 ad8: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request)

Re: Approaching the limit on PV entries, consider increasing either the vm.pmap.shpgperproc or the vm.pmap.pv_entry_max sysctl.

2008-05-16 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Evren Yurtesen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I guess one good question is, how can one see the number of PV entries used by a process? shouldnt these appear in the output of ipcs -a command? No, PV entries are a VM thing, not limited to SysV IPC. Another good question is, in many places

Re: Approaching the limit on PV entries, consider increasing either the vm.pmap.shpgperproc or the vm.pmap.pv_entry_max sysctl.

2008-05-16 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Evren Yurtesen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: How do I see what process is sharing memory and how much memory? Guessing is normally sufficient; typically it's processes with the same name and similar size/res. On 7-STABLE you can use procstat -v to look at the VM mappings for a process, but

Re: nfs-server silent data corruption

2008-04-24 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Jeremy Chadwick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I added it directly to the 2nd CPU (diagram on page 9 of http://www.tyan.com/manuals/m_s2895_101.pdf) and the problem seems to be the interaction between nfe0 and powerd : That board is the weirdest thing I've seen in years. K8WE's a

Re: Disk I/O Question 7.0-STABLE

2008-04-11 Thread Thomas Hurst
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Re: Disk I/O Question 7.0-STABLE

2008-04-11 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have disks on the internal ICH7 adapters (on the motherboard), SATA, and also a TWE controller with two disks. When hitting the TWE controller hard I can hose the I/O performance on the primary (onboard) adapter quite severely to the point that

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

2008-01-25 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Chuck Swiger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Jan 25, 2008, at 11:24 AM, Joe Peterson wrote: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 114 071 006Pre-fail Always - 82422948 [ ...

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

2008-01-19 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Thomas Hurst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: * Kris Kennaway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Excellent. I've been seeing this behavior for a long time, mostly on backup runs (RAID-1 amr SATA - 1 disk Marvell ata). It's pretty odd seeing a system with 8G of memory, 60% of which is just cache

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

2008-01-19 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Kris Kennaway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I don't understand your test procedure, can you elaborate? The spikes from last night are from: (/sbin/dump -$level -LuaC128 -f - $fs | /usr/bin/tee ${target} | /sbin/sha1 ${target}.sha1) Followed by: nice -n 19 /home/freaky/bin/par2 c -t+ -r5

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

2008-01-16 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Kris Kennaway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Excellent. I've been seeing this behavior for a long time, mostly on backup runs (RAID-1 amr SATA - 1 disk Marvell ata). It's pretty odd seeing a system with 8G of memory, 60% of which is just cache, swap out half a dozen things for no apparant

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

2008-01-14 Thread Thomas Hurst
* John Baldwin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: We have noticed an issue at work but only on faster controllers (e.g. certain mfi(4) drive configurations) when doing I/O to a single file like the dd command mentioned causes the buffer cache to fill up. The problem being that we can't lock the vm

Re: /usr/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8

2007-10-30 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Jeremy Chadwick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: There's a periodic script (/etc/periodic/weekly/330.catman) which rebuilds all the catman pages for you. However, it makes an immense mess of your weekly system mails due to all the manpage/nroff formatting mistakes. Have a look:

Re: amrd disk performance drop after running under high load

2007-10-16 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Alexey Popov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: So I can conclude that FreeBSD has a long standing bug in VM that could be triggered when serving large amount of static data (much bigger than memory size) on high rates. Possibly this only applies to large files like mp3 or video. I've seen highly

Dubious VM behavior scanning large files

2007-09-16 Thread Thomas Hurst
I'm currently verifying a 50GB filesystem dump with sha1 at about 40MB/s. This is resulting in a small but annoying amount of swapping, including my IRC client, text editors, even syslogd. Larger processes like my .5G-each mysqld and squid don't seem to be effected: Mem: 2045M Active, 5025M

Re: large RAID volume partition strategy

2007-08-18 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Vivek Khera ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'll investigate this option. Does anyone know the stability reliability of the mpt(4) driver on CURRENT? Is it out of GIANT lock yet? It was hard to tell from the TODO list if it is entirely free of GIANT or not. Yes, mpt(4) was made MPSAFE in

Re: IPMI SuperMicro

2007-08-06 Thread Thomas Hurst
* G?t Andr?s ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On these you've to forget the ipmi console, because once bge(4) loads it blocks the bridge that the ipmi uses for remote console. There was a patch for an older bge(4) driver, but on the 6.2 i couldn't patch the driver. (I looked the source, but the

Re: default dns config change causing major poolpah

2007-08-01 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Doug Barton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: If there is a consensus based on solid technical reasons (not emotion or FUD) to back the root zone slaving change out, I'll be glad to do so. I think it would be very useful at this point if those who _like_ the change would speak up publicly as well.

Re: problems with Hitachi 1TB SATA drives

2007-07-26 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Jeremy Chadwick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: * I'm left questioning why a disk manufacturer would process drives (by this I mean the manufacturing process) differently based on their transport type. It would cost a *huge* amount of money to have separate fabs for SCSI, SAS, and SATA/PATA.

Re: regular user can destroy disk label?!?

2007-07-04 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Julian H. Stacey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Either: - You made a typo with ar0s2 meant ad0s2, - Or you really mean ar - man 4 ar reports a comms card ! ataraid(4) exposes ATA RAID devices as ar%d: -% man 4 ataraid |grep /dev /dev/ar* ATA RAID device nodes -- Thomas 'Freaky'

Re: freebsd and securelevel question

2007-05-11 Thread Thomas Hurst
* G?t Andr?s ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: So. The simple question is: Why FreeBSD has securelevel 0 if init sets it to 1, if it sees at boot that the level is 0? :) So when you boot to single user mode you can turn off immutable/append only flags etc, without letting those capabilities propagate

Re: top shows 'swapped'

2007-05-09 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Bill LeFebvre ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: The are only used when the process flag PS_INMEM is clear, which is supposed to indicate that the process is or is not in memory. This flag is only ever cleared in swapout, called from swapout_procs. My bet is that the processes are being marked

Re: any success with new sun M2 product variant for X4100 and X2100

2007-03-09 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Vivek Khera ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Has anyone successfully booted FreeBSD 6 on the new M2 variants of sun's X2100 or X4100 boxes? I have three X4100 original versions that works stunningly well (but I don't use the internal disks) with FreeBSD 6.1. I was just curious how the new ones

Re: getting garbage faster using FreeBSD?

2007-02-20 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Bill Moran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Are you actually using /dev/random and not /dev/urandom? /dev/random is military grade random data. It will block if it feels that it hasn't gathered enough entropy to satisfy your request. It will never provide random data at any reasonable speed,

Re: Tyan K8WE BIOS v1.03 and -STABLE

2006-04-19 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Damian Gerow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I tried updating the BIOS on my K8WE (S2895) yesterday to 1.03, but after the update, FreeBSD (RELENG_6 dated March 26) would randomly freeze after booting. As I was updating from v1.01, I suspect it may be the updates to the nVidia SATA firmware

Re: Gmirror'd SWAP: no dump?

2006-01-19 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Christoph Schug ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: IIRC I had the problem that 'gmirror insert' without '-h' not always inserted the slice specified by the entire block device (e.g. /dev/ad4s1 vs. /dev/ad4). Apparently there is some auto detection code and/or gmirror cannot differ correctly, but

Re: Problems with PCI SATA controller (bug in ATA driver? both ATAng and ATAmkIII)

2005-10-24 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Brooks Davis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: The SII3112 is a piece of crap that won't work reliably. Order something better (Soren recommends Promise cards). Are all Promise cards currently supported? Even their 8/16+ port SATA-II RAID6 cards? PCI-Express? The list of supported controllers

Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

2005-06-17 Thread Thomas Hurst
* David Sze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: super-smack select-key 5.4-RELEASE ~20,000 queries/second 6.0-CURRENT ~24,000 queries/second CentOS w/async ~36,000 queries/second CentOS w/sync ~26,000 queries/second Uh, this should be an

Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

2005-06-10 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Steve Roome ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: We're trying to get FreeBSD to perform reasonably well, in comparison to Linux, or even what we should expect to see. We're getting about half the performance we get from gentoo on the same application (mysql). Fancy giving CURRENT a try? For the

Re: 5.4-RC2 freezing - ATA related?

2005-05-21 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Søren Schmidt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: No, my only advise is to use the ATA mkIII patches or better yet - current.. In a similar vein, I'm seeing the same WRITE_DMA timeouts and system lockups using ATA mkIII patches as I did using the standard RELENG_5 driver, on two seperate systems.

Re: interrupt routing

2005-02-09 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Doug White ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Ah, so they are all on the same bus. Yuck, performance is going to be sucky. Bad Tyan, no cookie. That'll also explain the limited number of interrupts available. I don't think there's anything we can do to help the situation, sadly. Buy a PCI-X

Re: HEADS UP: sendmail 8.12.2 MFC'ed

2002-03-27 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Helge Oldach ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Count this my strong vote against removal of packages that are traditionally part of the base system. I hate sendmail with a passion. I use exim; hence it's just added bloat sitting in my rather full /usr. The existance of more up-to-date ports for

Re: Proposed Solution To Recent firewall_enable Thread. [Please Read]

2002-01-28 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Andrew Cowan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: It is really to much work to change the script variable names in current, so that they relate exactly to what they do? eg. ipfw_load_firewall_rules={yes,no} ipfw_firewall_rules_file={open,simple,etc,/etc/myfirewall.rule} The -stable

Re: portupgrade: integration with the main FreeBSD tree?

2001-12-19 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Nuno Teixeira ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: - why not integrate portupgrade with the main FreeBSD tree? The main tree wants to be small; it's installed on all machines, from little gateways sitting in the corner and *just* fitting on the drive, to big-ass servers. Many of these machines