Re: 10.2-Beta i386..what's wrong..?

2015-07-24 Thread Holm Tiffe
Glen Barber wrote: On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 07:44:43PM -0500, Mark Linimon wrote: On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 12:43:43AM +, Glen Barber wrote: Even on amd64, you need to tune the system with less than 4GB RAM. The only correct answer to how much RAM do you need to run ZFS is always

Re: 10.2-Beta i386..what's wrong..?

2015-07-24 Thread Holm Tiffe
Glen Barber wrote: On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 08:42:44PM -0400, Brandon Allbery wrote: On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 8:40 PM, Mark Linimon lini...@lonesome.com wrote: zfs is a resource hog. i386 is not able to handle the demand as well as amd64. Even amd64 is no guarantee. I installed

Re: 10.2-Beta i386..what's wrong..?

2015-07-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 07/24/15 07:58, Holm Tiffe wrote: ..interrestingly people here seem to focus my problem to ZFS.. but my problem was to build an raid over 4 disks on my old i386 machine and that failed with 2 different approaches. I'm accepting that ZFS is a too big thing for the i386 architecture and I

Re: 10.2-Beta i386..what's wrong..?

2015-07-24 Thread Holm Tiffe
Matthew Seaman wrote: On 07/24/15 07:58, Holm Tiffe wrote: ..interrestingly people here seem to focus my problem to ZFS.. but my problem was to build an raid over 4 disks on my old i386 machine and that failed with 2 different approaches. I'm accepting that ZFS is a too big thing for

Re: 10.2-Beta i386..what's wrong..?

2015-07-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 07/24/15 07:58, Holm Tiffe wrote: ..interrestingly people here seem to focus my problem to ZFS.. but my problem was to build an raid over 4 disks on my old i386 machine and that failed with 2 different approaches. I'm accepting that ZFS is a too big thing for the i386 architecture and I

Re: 10.2-Beta i386..what's wrong..?

2015-07-24 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 3:02 AM, Holm Tiffe h...@freibergnet.de wrote: ...more RAM? Always more RAM? For ZFS, yes. Stick to UFS otherwise. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com

Re: 10.2-Beta i386..what's wrong..?

2015-07-24 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Glen Barber wrote: On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 02:54:00AM +0200, Michelle Sullivan wrote: Actually I'm quite sucessfully running zfs on i386 (in a VM) ... here's the trick (which leads me to suspect ARC handling as the problem) - when I get to 512M of kernel space or less than 1G of RAM

Re: 10.2-Beta i386..what's wrong..?

2015-07-24 Thread Michael B. Eichorn
snip ...more RAM? Always more RAM? Reality check please, this is an i386 Machine with 2 Gbytes. It has two of 3 sockets polluted with RAM Modules (1G), there is not that much Space to give it more RAM. i386 is a supported architecture as far as I know, ok it where nice to have in

Re: 10.2-Beta i386..what's wrong..?

2015-07-24 Thread Chris H
On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 09:50:52 +0100 Matthew Seaman matt...@freebsd.org wrote On 07/24/15 07:58, Holm Tiffe wrote: ..interrestingly people here seem to focus my problem to ZFS.. but my problem was to build an raid over 4 disks on my old i386 machine and that failed with 2 different

Re: 10.2-Beta i386..what's wrong..?

2015-07-23 Thread Chris H
On Thu, 23 Jul 2015 23:48:06 + Glen Barber g...@freebsd.org wrote On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 07:40:42PM -0400, Jason Unovitch wrote: ..uh top quoting.. Trying to mount root from zfs:zroot/ROOT/default []. Fatal double fault: eip = 0xc0b416f5 esp = 0xe2673000 ebp =

Re: 10.2-Beta i386..what's wrong..?

2015-07-23 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Glen Barber wrote: ZFS on i386 requires KSTACK_PAGES=4 in the kernel configuration to work properly, as noted in the 10.1-RELEASE errata (and release notes, if I remember correctly). We cannot set KSTACK_PAGES=4 in GENERIC by default, as it is too disruptive. Why? If you are using ZFS

Re: 10.2-Beta i386..what's wrong..?

2015-07-23 Thread Glen Barber
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 07:40:42PM -0400, Jason Unovitch wrote: ..uh top quoting.. Trying to mount root from zfs:zroot/ROOT/default []. Fatal double fault: eip = 0xc0b416f5 esp = 0xe2673000 ebp = 0xe2673008 cpuid =0; apic id = 00 panic: double fault cpuid = 0 KDB stack

Re: 10.2-Beta i386..what's wrong..?

2015-07-23 Thread Glen Barber
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 02:19:20AM +0200, Michelle Sullivan wrote: Glen Barber wrote: ZFS on i386 requires KSTACK_PAGES=4 in the kernel configuration to work properly, as noted in the 10.1-RELEASE errata (and release notes, if I remember correctly). We cannot set KSTACK_PAGES=4 in

Re: 10.2-Beta i386..what's wrong..?

2015-07-23 Thread Jason Unovitch
..uh top quoting.. Trying to mount root from zfs:zroot/ROOT/default []. Fatal double fault: eip = 0xc0b416f5 esp = 0xe2673000 ebp = 0xe2673008 cpuid =0; apic id = 00 panic: double fault cpuid = 0 KDB stack backtrace: #0 0xc0b72832 at kdb_backtrace+0x52 #1 0xc0b339cb at vpanic+0x11b

Re: 10.2-Beta i386..what's wrong..?

2015-07-23 Thread Mark Linimon
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 12:43:43AM +, Glen Barber wrote: Even on amd64, you need to tune the system with less than 4GB RAM. The only correct answer to how much RAM do you need to run ZFS is always more AFAICT. mcl ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

Re: 10.2-Beta i386..what's wrong..?

2015-07-23 Thread Glen Barber
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 08:42:44PM -0400, Brandon Allbery wrote: On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 8:40 PM, Mark Linimon lini...@lonesome.com wrote: zfs is a resource hog. i386 is not able to handle the demand as well as amd64. Even amd64 is no guarantee. I installed one of the Illumos spinoffs

Re: 10.2-Beta i386..what's wrong..?

2015-07-23 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 8:40 PM, Mark Linimon lini...@lonesome.com wrote: zfs is a resource hog. i386 is not able to handle the demand as well as amd64. Even amd64 is no guarantee. I installed one of the Illumos spinoffs on a 2GB amd64 netbook (they mostly force zfs). I think it lasted 2

Re: 10.2-Beta i386..what's wrong..?

2015-07-23 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Glen Barber wrote: On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 07:44:43PM -0500, Mark Linimon wrote: On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 12:43:43AM +, Glen Barber wrote: Even on amd64, you need to tune the system with less than 4GB RAM. The only correct answer to how much RAM do you need to run ZFS is

Re: 10.2-Beta i386..what's wrong..?

2015-07-23 Thread Glen Barber
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 02:54:00AM +0200, Michelle Sullivan wrote: Glen Barber wrote: On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 07:44:43PM -0500, Mark Linimon wrote: On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 12:43:43AM +, Glen Barber wrote: Even on amd64, you need to tune the system with less than 4GB RAM.

Re: 10.2-Beta i386..what's wrong..?

2015-07-23 Thread Glen Barber
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 07:44:43PM -0500, Mark Linimon wrote: On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 12:43:43AM +, Glen Barber wrote: Even on amd64, you need to tune the system with less than 4GB RAM. The only correct answer to how much RAM do you need to run ZFS is always more AFAICT. There's a

Re: 10.2-Beta i386..what's wrong..?

2015-07-23 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 8:43 PM, Glen Barber g...@freebsd.org wrote: Even amd64 is no guarantee. I installed one of the Illumos spinoffs on a 2GB amd64 netbook (they mostly force zfs). I think it lasted 2 days before the kernel panics started. Even on amd64, you need to tune the system

Re: 10.2-Beta i386..what's wrong..?

2015-07-23 Thread Chris H
On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 01:00:03 + Glen Barber g...@freebsd.org wrote .. FreeBSD kernel grew since 10.1-RELEASE, so this is not unexpected. Not trying to hijack the thread, or anything. But on that note; does FreeBSD keep a graph, or anything that indicates kernel [size] over major versions? I'm

Re: 10.2-Beta i386..what's wrong..?

2015-07-23 Thread Mark Linimon
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 02:19:20AM +0200, Michelle Sullivan wrote: Why is zfs on i386 so hard? zfs is a resource hog. i386 is not able to handle the demand as well as amd64. I have never, ever, heard of anyone who has a deep understanding of zfs on FreeBSD recommend anything other than amd64.

Re: 10.2-Beta i386..what's wrong..?

2015-07-22 Thread Steven Hartland
What's the panic? As your using ZFS I'd lay money on the fact your blowing the stack, which would require kernel built with: options KSTACK_PAGES=4 Regards Steve On 22/07/2015 08:10, Holm Tiffe wrote: Hi, yesterday I've decided to to put my old Workstation in my shack and to

Re: 10.2-Beta i386..what's wrong..?

2015-07-22 Thread Holm Tiffe
..uh top quoting.. Trying to mount root from zfs:zroot/ROOT/default []. Fatal double fault: eip = 0xc0b416f5 esp = 0xe2673000 ebp = 0xe2673008 cpuid =0; apic id = 00 panic: double fault cpuid = 0 KDB stack backtrace: #0 0xc0b72832 at kdb_backtrace+0x52 #1 0xc0b339cb at vpanic+0x11b #2 0xc0b338ab

Re: 10.2-Beta i386..what's wrong..?

2015-07-22 Thread Herbert J. Skuhra
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 01:57:26PM +0200, Holm Tiffe wrote: ..uh top quoting.. Trying to mount root from zfs:zroot/ROOT/default []. Fatal double fault: eip = 0xc0b416f5 esp = 0xe2673000 ebp = 0xe2673008 cpuid =0; apic id = 00 panic: double fault cpuid = 0 KDB stack backtrace: #0