Re: UPDATE: ATA mkIII first official patches - please test!

2005-02-10 Thread Søren Schmidt
Emanuel Strobl wrote: Am Mittwoch, 9. Februar 2005 15:00 schrieb Søren Schmidt: [...] As always, enjoy and let me know how it goes... It's running here on several RELENG_5 machines. Like with j I also can't find any problems with k :) But the strange 16MB/s limit on my ICH2 (i815 B-step

Re: UPDATE: ATA mkIII first official patches - please test!

2005-02-10 Thread Søren Schmidt
Tim Welch wrote: A problem still exists with 48-bit addressing. This url details a fix I've been using for the last 4 months or so with no issues yet. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2004-October/008821.html Are you stil experiencing problems with atamkIII ? In that case its a

Re: UPDATE: ATA mkIII first official patches - please test!

2005-02-10 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Søren Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: New version that fixes known problems so far etc now available: ah, just commit it already. it works for me, so it must be good enough ;) DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re[2]: interrupt routing

2005-02-10 Thread dima
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 SCSI/GigE card, and use that instead of

Re: compile kernel problem

2005-02-10 Thread Ivan Roth
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 02:39:38AM +0100, Ivan Roth wrote: no, I don't think so. I read carefully the handbook's section and I quote it: I said to read the comments in the GENERIC kernel, not the handbook. e.g. if you commented out SCSI support, you probably left in

5.3-Stable network issue

2005-02-10 Thread Martin Minkus
I seem to have been having a rather strange networking issue in FreeBSD 5.3-Stable (it started happening immediately after 5.2.1 and has persisted since.. I keep ³hoping² that next time I cvsup it will be fixed, but no). I downgraded back to 5.2.1-p13 and it is perfectly fine once again. ***

Re: ULE status

2005-02-10 Thread Simon Barner
Frode Nordahl wrote: I was surprised by the actual difference in system performance and usability between 4BSD and ULE under such loads! If you haven't tried it on your heavy trafic server yet, go and do it right now! :-) Just a short me too. In my case it isn't a heavy traffic server but

Re: Save the Demon!

2005-02-10 Thread Godwin Stewart
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 16:21:32 -0800, Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On February 9, 2005 04:13 pm, Ivan Roth wrote: sorry to ask that but which software could I use to produce vectorial graphics? Quite newbie to freebsd, don't know such free software. Inkscape is supposed to be a very

Re: Save the Demon!

2005-02-10 Thread Bob Bishop
At 06:32 10/02/2005, Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2005-Feb-10 04:39:13 +0100, Bj?rn K?nig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Magda wrote: It's daemon, not demon. Or even dæmon It's a question whether you are British or American or understand it as a proper name. ;-) My dictionary has both as headwords with

Re: 5.3-Stable network issue

2005-02-10 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Donnerstag, 10. Februar 2005 11:00 schrieb Martin Minkus: I seem to have been having a rather strange networking issue in FreeBSD 5.3-Stable (it started happening immediately after 5.2.1 and has persisted since.. I keep ³hoping² that next time I cvsup it will be fixed, but no). I

login delay

2005-02-10 Thread Willem Jan Withagen
Hi, Running 5.3-Stable from december, this server has a login delay which I can not really explain. Both ssh and ftp react almost direct, only after entering the passwd the connections sits idle for 15 secs. So something is is taking a while, and since it is both with ssh and ftp, I would

Re: login delay

2005-02-10 Thread Andrey V. Elsukov
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Thursday, February 10, 2005, 4:14:18 PM: WJW Both ssh and ftp react almost direct, only after entering the passwd the WJW connections sits idle for 15 secs. WJW So something is is taking a while, and since it is both with ssh and WJW ftp, I would assume it is the actual

Re: 5.3-Stable network issue

2005-02-10 Thread Martin Minkus
On 10/2/2005 23:55, Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I seem to have been having a rather strange networking issue in FreeBSD 5.3-Stable (it started happening immediately after 5.2.1 and has persisted since.. I keep ³hoping² that next time I cvsup it will be fixed, but no). I

Re: UPDATE: ATA mkIII first official patches - please test!

2005-02-10 Thread Freddie Cash
New version that fixes known problems so far etc now available: Just curious if this includes support for new chipsets or not. Not a big deal if it doesn't, just curious. I've got a Toshiba laptop that, unfortunately, uses the ATI IGP/IXP chipset, which only gets detected as UDMA33 (which is

Re[4]: interrupt routing

2005-02-10 Thread dima
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. I cannot affect the company equipment purchase policy

Re: 5.x concerns

2005-02-10 Thread Chris
If this helps, I noticed this recently on the machine that has had tcp lockups. rl0: discard oversize frame (ether type c49b flags 3 len 47956 max 1514) rl0: discard oversize frame (ether type 98b4 flags 3 len 17725 max 1514) rl0: discard oversize frame (ether type 8be6 flags 3 len 38514 max

Re[5]: interrupt routing -- moving to acpi@

2005-02-10 Thread dima
Thanks to all who tried to help. I decided to move the discussion to acpi@ 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

Re: ULE status

2005-02-10 Thread Frode Nordahl
On Feb 10, 2005, at 16:30, Randy Bush wrote: how about stability? last time i tried ule, the system died in a few days. Don't know yet. I will keep trashing the server and post here if it crashes. Regards, Frode Nordahl randy ___

[5-STABLE] : CDRW burning problem - acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG ILLEGAL REQUEST

2005-02-10 Thread Marwan Burelle
Hi, I have a CDRW burner that use to work (with 5.2.1 the last time.) But since one of my last RELENG_5_2 update I encounter errors when burning CDRW (I don't have CDR to test, but I rember having strange behaviour with CDR also.) Switching to RELENG-5 (re-install 5.3 and cvsup after) a week ago

Re: [5-STABLE] : CDRW burning problem - acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG ILLEGAL REQUEST

2005-02-10 Thread Scott Robbins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 05:23:46PM +0100, Marwan Burelle wrote: Hi, I have a CDRW burner that use to work (with 5.2.1 the last time.) But since one of my last RELENG_5_2 update I encounter errors when burning CDRW (I don't have CDR to test,

Re: ULE status

2005-02-10 Thread Julio Capote
I upgraded to 5-STABLE + ULE + PREEMPT last night, been using my desktop system heavily for about 6 hours, and no crashing, AWESOME performance under heavy load. Im curious to see some 1(O) vs ULE benches.. On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 17:00 +0100, Frode Nordahl wrote: On Feb 10, 2005, at 16:30,

Re: [5-STABLE] : CDRW burning problem - acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG ILLEGAL REQUEST

2005-02-10 Thread Marwan Burelle
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 11:29:55AM -0500, Scott Robbins wrote: I get the same error on two machines, did some googling and found no answers that helped. (I fear I don't remember the details now.) As I don't have the error on another machine (all running 5.3 STABLE) I figured it was something

Server reboots when silo overflows - FreeBSD 4.11

2005-02-10 Thread Lefteris Tsintjelis
Hi, There seems to be a serious problem with the puc device driver. When the driver expiriences overflows the server simply reboots! device puc options PUC_FASTINTR I have tried to rebuild a new kernel without the PUC_FASTINTR option but without much luck. It still keeps on

Does this mean trouble?

2005-02-10 Thread Mipam
Hi, I am noticing many warnings: calcru: negative runtime of -891485461 usec for pid 45 (swi5: clock sio) in ps waux: root45 0.0 0.0 08 ?? WL Tue03PM -2341058:-22.07 [swi5: clock sio] I am seeing lots more of these messages. Also from other processes i see the same

Re: [5-STABLE] : CDRW burning problem - acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG ILLEGAL REQUEST

2005-02-10 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 17:41:21 +0100 From: Marwan Burelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --neYutvxvOLaeuPCA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 11:29:55AM -0500, Scott

Re: UPDATE: ATA mkIII first official patches - please test!

2005-02-10 Thread Nick Gustas
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Søren Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: New version that fixes known problems so far etc now available: ah, just commit it already. it works for me, so it must be good enough ;) DES heh :) Works for me, but one problem, slaves attached to a Seagate master,

Re: Server reboots when silo overflows - FreeBSD 4.11

2005-02-10 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 11:42 AM 10/02/2005, Lefteris Tsintjelis wrote: Hi, There seems to be a serious problem with the puc device driver. When the driver expiriences overflows the server simply reboots! device puc options PUC_FASTINTR I have tried to rebuild a new kernel without the PUC_FASTINTR

Re: ULE status

2005-02-10 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, February 10, 2005 10:39 am, Julio Capote said: I upgraded to 5-STABLE + ULE + PREEMPT last night, been using my desktop system heavily for about 6 hours, and no crashing, AWESOME performance under heavy load. Im curious to see some 1(O) vs ULE benches.. Precisely how does one upgrade

Re: ULE status

2005-02-10 Thread Julio Capote
Cvsup to RELENG_5, and change your kernel config ot include ULE and PREMPTION support; I suggest reading the keeping up to date and kernel compiling chapters on the handbook, if you haven't done so already. -Julio On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 11:32 -0600, Doug Poland wrote: On Thu, February 10, 2005

Re: ULE status

2005-02-10 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, February 10, 2005 11:43 am, Kevin Oberman said: Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 11:32:34 -0600 (CST) From: Doug Poland Precisely how does one upgrade 5-STABLE to include ULE + PREMPT? Obviously I'll cvsup RELENG_5, but don't know how to set ULE + PREMPT. Put them in your configuration.

Re: Server reboots when silo overflows - FreeBSD 4.11

2005-02-10 Thread Dmitry Liakh
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 06:42:01PM +0200, Lefteris Tsintjelis wrote: Hi, There seems to be a serious problem with the puc device driver. When the driver expiriences overflows the server simply reboots! device puc options PUC_FASTINTR I have tried to rebuild a new

Re: ULE status

2005-02-10 Thread Frode Nordahl
On Feb 10, 2005, at 18:22, Mipam wrote: I noticed this: You're running RELENG_5 on a dual Xeon 3.06GHz box You enabled DEVICE_POLLING and ULE as well. But normally compiling the kernel with SMP and polling won't work. Don't you use a SMP kernel or? I saw several pages stating that DEVICE_POLLING

Re: ULE status

2005-02-10 Thread Frode Nordahl
On Feb 10, 2005, at 18:32, Doug Poland wrote: On Thu, February 10, 2005 10:39 am, Julio Capote said: I upgraded to 5-STABLE + ULE + PREEMPT last night, been using my desktop system heavily for about 6 hours, and no crashing, AWESOME performance under heavy load. Im curious to see some 1(O) vs ULE

Adding an usb harddisk

2005-02-10 Thread Jack Raats
I want to add an usb harddisk. Acoording to fdisk it's formatted as a NTFS/HPFS/QNX disk Can I add this disk and still using this file system? What kind of dev/fstab do I need to add? Do I need an extra swap slice? How to make one? I'm using FreeBSD 4.11. Thank you Jack Raats

Re: Adding an usb harddisk

2005-02-10 Thread Doug White
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Jack Raats wrote: I want to add an usb harddisk. Acoording to fdisk it's formatted as a NTFS/HPFS/QNX disk Can I add this disk and still using this file system? NTFS is a Windows filesystem. You can't install FreeBSD to it but you can mount and use the volume. See the

Re: Adding an usb harddisk

2005-02-10 Thread Ivan Roth
Doug White a écrit : On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Jack Raats wrote: I want to add an usb harddisk. Acoording to fdisk it's formatted as a NTFS/HPFS/QNX disk Can I add this disk and still using this file system? NTFS is a Windows filesystem. You can't install FreeBSD to it but you can mount and use

Re: Adding an usb harddisk

2005-02-10 Thread John Pettitt
Ivan Roth wrote: just note that it could not be /dev/da but /dev/ad, e.g, da is only for SCSI disks and ad is for IDE ones. Actually no - usb disks look like scsi disks - so my 250GB usb drive is /dev/da0 John ___

ULE issue on i386 5.3-STABLE

2005-02-10 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, After following the ULE status thread with some interest, I decided to enable on my i386, hyperthread-enabled, UNP machine. Perhaps not the best test bed, but a test none the less. I'm running a series of make -jX buildworld to put load on the system and running X with XFCE4 to get an

Re: Adding an usb harddisk

2005-02-10 Thread Godwin Stewart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 00:03:33 +0100, Ivan Roth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just note that it could not be /dev/da but /dev/ad, e.g, da is only for SCSI disks and ad is for IDE ones. Only for *internal* IDE drives. USB drives use umass which

5.2.1 - Freenet6 TSPC Client dumps core

2005-02-10 Thread Karl M. Joch
Hello, i had the verion 1 of the freenet6 client running for a long time. now, after upgrading to 2.1.1 on a 5.2.1 box the tspc client dumps core. it sometime sets the tunnel up and the the tunnel works fine and it is possible to ping6 www.kame.net and also access it via the http proxy. but tspc

Re: ULE issue on i386 5.3-STABLE

2005-02-10 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 05:10:22PM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: The issue I'm seeing, seconds after launching gnome-terminal, gnome-terminal terminal completely froze. I can move and resize the window, but cannot kill or close it. A quick look at top shows: 38043 djp 200 21040K

atapci VIA 82C596B UDMA66 controller: problem for 5.X ?

2005-02-10 Thread Rob
Hi, I have two PCs, with apparently a somewhat old motherboard, since there's a maximum support for UDMA66 by the harddisk controller. The attached harddisks are newer and allow a higher speed of UDMA100. This combination of older motherboard and newer harddisk causes great problems with 5.X

WAP gateway config

2005-02-10 Thread Matt Herzog
Hello. I have an Atheros PCI card in my firewall/gateway machine. It seems fully configured because the clients see a good strong signal but I can't get a dhcp lease from it. I'm not bothering with WEP just yet. I followed the instructions found here:

Re: WAP gateway config

2005-02-10 Thread Mark Andrews
Hello. I have an Atheros PCI card in my firewall/gateway machine. It seems fully configured because the clients see a good strong signal but I can't get a dhcp lease from it. I'm not bothering with WEP just yet. I followed the instructions found here:

Re: Server reboots when silo overflows - FreeBSD 4.11

2005-02-10 Thread Lefteris Tsintjelis
sio5: 1 more silo overflow (total 7) puc0: VScom PCI-200L port 0xb000-0xb007,0xb400-0xb407,0xb800-0xb807,0xd000-0xd007 mem 0xea80-0xea80003f irq 14 at device 12.0 on pci2 sio4: configured irq 14 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0x8000 sio4: type 16550A sio5: configured irq 14 not in bitmap

Re: atapci VIA 82C596B UDMA66 controller: problem for 5.X ?

2005-02-10 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Rob, I am currently running 5.3 Release on a Tyan Trinity 400 (VIA 82C596B UDMA66) with 2 x Seagate Barracude IV (UDMA100) and have no stability issues. e.g from dmesg: atapci0: VIA 82C596B UDMA66 controller port 0xe000-0xe00f,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 7.1 on pci0 ata0:

5.3-stable doesn't ifconfig at startup

2005-02-10 Thread Kenneth W Cochran
Hello -stable: Any idea(s) why (my) 5.3-stable (as of 9 February) isn't configuring the network interface or setting up the default route? I installed 5.3-release from CD and things worked fine. Then I updated the system sources (via cvsup) to RELENG_5 and went through

Re: 5.3-stable doesn't ifconfig at startup

2005-02-10 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 02:00:39 -0500 (EST) Kenneth W Cochran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello -stable: Any idea(s) why (my) 5.3-stable (as of 9 February) isn't configuring the network interface or setting up the default route? I installed 5.3-release from CD and things worked fine. Then I