Re: accf_http and incqlen

2008-03-06 Thread Uwe Doering
far in this regard. Perhaps there is a similar compile time option. In any case, maybe this tweak helps in your case, too. Regards, Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net

Re: SMP on FreeBSD 6.x and 7.0: Worth doing?

2007-12-26 Thread Uwe Doering
of vm.kvm_size and continues to fall, and vfs.ufs.dirhash_mem still hasn't hit the vfs.ufs.dirhash_maxmem limit, it's time to get concerned. Of course, you can also use the vm.kvm_* values to dimension vfs.ufs.dirhash_maxmem properly in the first place. Regards, Uwe -- Uwe Doering

Re: Also seeing 2 x quad-core system slower that 2 x dual core

2007-12-08 Thread Uwe Doering
to do a verification/repair run over the original mirror (if your controller supports this) to make sure that both disks are in sync and there are no defective sectors on the disk you are subsequently copying the data from. Otherwise there could be some rude awakening ... Regards, Uwe -- Uwe

Re: 4.x Collecting pv entries Suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC,

2007-12-07 Thread Uwe Doering
kern.vm.pmap.shpgperproc available on 4.x? This can be configured in /boot/loader.conf. It does not appear to be available via a sysctl in 4.x. But you can put that option into the kernel config file: options PMAP_SHPGPERPROC=... and build a new kernel with it. Regards, Uwe -- Uwe

Re: 4.x Collecting pv entries Suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC,

2007-12-07 Thread Uwe Doering
Hi Steve, Stephen Clark wrote: Uwe Doering wrote: [...] But you can put that option into the kernel config file: options PMAP_SHPGPERPROC=... and build a new kernel with it. You are correct. My question is more how much should I increase it. The current default in the 4.x LINT file

Re: buildworld fails after patch (FreeBSD-SA-06:23.openssl)

2006-09-30 Thread Uwe Doering
Ruslan Ermilov wrote: On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 09:21:56PM +0200, Uwe Doering wrote: Ruslan Ermilov wrote: It doesn't matter. What you suggest is not the correct way. Perhaps the buildworld is broken, but that's a separate issue. My understanding so far is that the files under '/usr/include

Re: buildworld fails after patch (FreeBSD-SA-06:23.openssl)

2006-09-29 Thread Uwe Doering
' options. This apparently hasn't been done so far. At least not completely. Regards, Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: buildworld fails after patch (FreeBSD-SA-06:23.openssl)

2006-09-29 Thread Uwe Doering
Ruslan Ermilov wrote: On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 05:40:36PM +0200, Uwe Doering wrote: [...] The same happened on my workstation, which runs 4.11. The cause of this problem is that the openssl sources under '/usr/src' apparently use some include files installed under '/usr/include/openssl

Re: buildworld fails after patch (FreeBSD-SA-06:23.openssl)

2006-09-29 Thread Uwe Doering
Ruslan Ermilov wrote: On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 08:34:29PM +0200, Uwe Doering wrote: Ruslan Ermilov wrote: On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 05:40:36PM +0200, Uwe Doering wrote: [...] The same happened on my workstation, which runs 4.11. The cause of this problem is that the openssl sources under '/usr

Re: panic: ffs_valloc: dup alloc

2006-03-14 Thread Uwe Doering
situation. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send

Re: OpenVPN within a Jail under 6.x ...

2006-02-10 Thread Uwe Doering
Oliver Fromme wrote: Uwe Doering [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Now, since routes are a global resource in FreeBSD, is there a way to prevent users from other jails on that machine from accessing that VPN, too? If it weren't possible to restrict access to a VPN to the jail

Re: OpenVPN within a Jail under 6.x ...

2006-02-09 Thread Uwe Doering
other jails on that machine from accessing that VPN, too? If it weren't possible to restrict access to a VPN to the jail it is associated with the VPN would no longer be private I'd think. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http

Re: 4.8 alternate system clock has died error

2005-11-18 Thread Uwe Doering
the soldering and the problem was gone. Now, there are of course plenty of other hardware reasons why the RTC can fail, even temporarily like in your case. Perhaps it is really time for a new mainboard. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: 4.8 alternate system clock has died error

2005-11-18 Thread Uwe Doering
Charles Sprickman wrote: On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Uwe Doering wrote: Charles Sprickman wrote: I've been digging through Google for more information on this. I have a 4.8 box that's been up for about 430 days. In the last week or so, top and ps have started reporting all CPU usage numbers

Re: Jail to jail network performance?

2005-09-15 Thread Uwe Doering
. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Jail to jail network performance?

2005-09-14 Thread Uwe Doering
. This socket type typically consumes more CPU because of TCP's protocol overhead. However, whether you would actually notice any difference in speed basically depends on how much excess CPU power there is available on that server. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed

Re: Jail to jail network performance?

2005-09-14 Thread Uwe Doering
Robert Watson wrote: On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: On Sep 13, 2005, at 11:59 PM, Uwe Doering wrote: Now, for security reasons jails normally are confined in separate filesystems, or at least in separate parts of a common one. So in case of MySQL you would have to use TCP

Re: kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer - on 5.3-RELEASE-p5

2005-05-03 Thread Uwe Doering
Oliver Fromme wrote: Uwe Doering [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: If they're really identical (i.e. the same size and same geometry), then you can use dd(1) for duplication, like this: # dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/ad1 bs=64k conv=noerror,sync The noerror,sync part

Re: kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer - on 5.3-RELEASE-p5

2005-04-30 Thread Uwe Doering
i/o errors in this situation you _do_ run a very real risk of losing data! Unfortunately you can't do much about it but you should at least be aware of it. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net

Re: Adaptec 3210S, 4.9-STABLE, corruption when disk fails

2005-04-01 Thread Uwe Doering
Don Bowman wrote: From: Uwe Doering [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... As far as I understand this family of controllers the OS drivers aren't involved at all in case of a disk drive failure. It's strictly the controller's business to deal with it internally. The OS just sits there and waits

Re: Adaptec 3210S, 4.9-STABLE, corruption when disk fails

2005-03-31 Thread Uwe Doering
Don Bowman wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Uwe Doering [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Did you merge 1.3.2.3 as well? This actually should have been one MFC Yes, merged from RELENG_4. I will post later if this happens again, but it will be quite a long time. The machine has 7 drives

Re: Adaptec 3210S, 4.9-STABLE, corruption when disk fails

2005-03-31 Thread Uwe Doering
Don Bowman wrote: From: Uwe Doering [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Don Bowman wrote: [...] Another drive failed and the same thing happened. After the failure, the raid worked in degrade mode just fine, but many files had been corrupted during the failure. So I would suggest that this merge did

Re: Adaptec 3210S, 4.9-STABLE, corruption when disk fails

2005-03-01 Thread Uwe Doering
Don Bowman wrote: From: Uwe Doering [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Don Bowman wrote: I have a machine running: $ uname -a FreeBSD machine.phaedrus.sandvine.com 4.9-STABLE FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #0: Fri Mar 19 10:39:07 EST 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/LABDB i386 ... I have merged asr.c

Re: Adaptec 3210S, 4.9-STABLE, corruption when disk fails

2005-03-01 Thread Uwe Doering
Uwe Doering wrote: Don Bowman wrote: I have merged asr.c from RELENG_4 to get this fix: Fix a mis-merge in the MFC of rev. 1.64 in rev. 1.3.2.3; the following change wasn't included: - Set the CAM status to CAM_SCSI_STATUS_ERROR rather than CAM_REQ_CMP in case of a CHECK CONDITION. since I guess

Re: Adaptec 3210S, 4.9-STABLE, corruption when disk fails

2005-02-28 Thread Uwe Doering
to tell for sure who the culprit is. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: swapfile being eaten by unknown process

2005-02-16 Thread Uwe Doering
, yes. Or the whole disk drive is about to die. That's the situation where I've seen this message most of the time. An indicator of this would be block numbers that appear to be at random. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http

Re: vnode_pager_putpages errors and DOS? [5-STABLE, too]

2004-11-22 Thread Uwe Doering
Oliver Brandmueller wrote: On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 10:08:18PM +0100, Uwe Doering wrote: I've attached an updated version of the patch for 'vnode_pager.c'. On my test system it resolved the issue. Please let us know whether it works for you as well. Is there any known way to trigger the problem

Re: vnode_pager_putpages errors and DOS?

2004-11-11 Thread Uwe Doering
for now. Wasted time, unfortunately. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: vnode_pager_putpages errors and DOS?

2004-11-05 Thread Uwe Doering
. Please let us know whether it works for you as well. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net --- src/sys/vm/vnode_pager.c.orig Tue Dec 31 10:34:51 2002 +++ src/sys/vm/vnode_pager.cFri Nov 5 20:41:15 2004

Re: vnode_pager_putpages errors and DOS?

2004-11-03 Thread Uwe Doering
Igor Sysoev wrote: On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, Uwe Doering wrote: [...] I wonder whether the unresponsiveness is actually just the result of the kernel spending most of the time in printf(), generating warning messages. vnode_pager_generic_putpages() doesn't return any error in case of a write failure

Re: vnode_pager_putpages errors and DOS?

2004-11-03 Thread Uwe Doering
Uwe Doering wrote: [...] What we need here is an additional test that makes sure that in case of a character device bwillwrite() gets called only if the device is in fact a disk. Please consider trying out the attached patch. It will not reduce the heavy disk activity (which is, after all

Re: panic caused by EVFILT_SIGNAL detaching in rfork()ed thread

2004-10-23 Thread Uwe Doering
need this kind of safeguard. Also, it would probably be a good idea to fix RELENG_4 swiftly (and possibly release a security advisory) because this flaw is certainly a great DoS opportunity for maliciously minded shell users ... Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX

Re: panic caused by EVFILT_SIGNAL detaching in rfork()ed thread

2004-10-23 Thread Uwe Doering
Uwe Doering wrote: Igor Sysoev wrote: Here is more correct patch to fix the panic in 4.x reported in http://freebsd.rambler.ru/bsdmail/freebsd-hackers_2004/msg02732.html - --- src/sys/kern/kern_event.c Sun Oct 10 12:17:55 2004 +++ src/sys/kern/kern_event.c Sun Oct 10 12

Re: vnode_pager_putpages errors and DOS?

2004-10-09 Thread Uwe Doering
. It won't make the actual application causing these errors any happier, but it may eliminate the DoS aspect of the issue. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net --- src/sys/vm/vnode_pager.c.orig Fri Oct 31 11

Re: Werid message in /var/log/messages

2003-12-13 Thread Uwe Doering
the situation by re-reading the directory, which it succeeded in if there are no further related messages in the log. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: kern/59719 Re: 4.9 Stable Crashes on SuperMicro with SMP

2003-11-29 Thread Uwe Doering
manufacturer. I can tell you from my own experience that it is really hard to find reliable PC hardware these days, in light of ever shorter and faster product release cycles. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net

Re: FreeBSD Virtual Server

2003-07-06 Thread Uwe Doering
for personal use, jail(8) and FreeBSD 5.x should be okay. My two cents. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http