Re: Packet loss every 30.999 seconds

2007-12-20 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 12:06:59PM -0500, Mark Fullmer wrote: Thanks for the other info on timer resolution, I overlooked clock_gettime(). If you have a UP system with a usable TSC (or equivalent) then using rdtsc() (or equivalent) is a much cheaper way to measure short durations with high

Re: 7.0BETA4 ../cc_tools/insn-attrtab.c compiles forever

2007-12-20 Thread Ivan Voras
Julian Stacey wrote: Anyone else noticed on 7.0BETA4 ( hence Ive cc'd re@) I did see some weird behaviour while compiling gcc, though I don't remember if it's the same file (looks like it). They usually disappeared after removing CPUTYPE and -O2 from compiler flags. signature.asc Description:

Re: 7.0BETA4 ../cc_tools/insn-attrtab.c compiles forever

2007-12-20 Thread Nikos Ntarmos
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 09:36:32PM +0100, Julian Stacey wrote: Anyone else noticed on 7.0BETA4 ( hence Ive cc'd re@) This runs forever: === cc_int (all) Warning: Object directory not changed from original /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_int cc

Performance!

2007-12-20 Thread Krassimir Slavchev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I have read all related threads about performance problems with multi core systems but still have no idea what to do to make thinks better. Below are results of testing postgresql on HP DL380G5 using sysbench. The results are comparable to:

[7.0 beta4] iwi : firmware stuck in state 4, resetting

2007-12-20 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Hi, I've got many deconnections with iwi on 7.0 with WPA, far more than on 6.2. iwi0: firmware error iwi0: link state changed to DOWN iwi0: link state changed to UP iwi0: firmware stuck in state 4, resetting [...] Then I have to make an /etc/rc.d/netif restart iwi0 to reconnect. With debug

Re: FreeBSD on Dell T105? ($350 dual-core Opteron)

2007-12-20 Thread Chris Shenton
[I'm adding -current as there are other discussions of hardware compatibility there, trim if appropriate] Chris Shenton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/pe_T105_spec_sheet.pdf Processors Single AMD Opteron TM 1000 series at

Re: FreeBSD on Dell T105? ($350 dual-core Opteron)

2007-12-20 Thread Max Laier
On Thursday 20 December 2007, Chris Shenton wrote: [I'm adding -current as there are other discussions of hardware compatibility there, trim if appropriate] Chris Shenton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/pe_T105_spec_s heet.pdf

Re: FreeBSD on Dell T105? ($350 dual-core Opteron)

2007-12-20 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 07:50:35 -0500 Chris Shenton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any suggestions on how I can poke at it to find what kind of hardware it's using and what driver I need to use for it? 'pciconf -lv' is usually good for the poking part. -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen

mounted cd, tray locking, cdcontrol

2007-12-20 Thread Andriy Gapon
FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p6 amd64 This is what cdcontrol eject performs (incidentally, on a mounted acd device): 11991 cdcontrol CALL open(0x7fffe130,0,0x9) 11991 cdcontrol NAMI /dev/acd0 11991 cdcontrol RET open 3 11991 cdcontrol CALL ioctl(0x3,CDIOCALLOW,0) 11991 cdcontrol RET ioctl

Re: mounted cd, tray locking, cdcontrol

2007-12-20 Thread Eugene Grosbein
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 02:59:13PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: P.S. a PR with a terse description is already opened for the above behavior of acd: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/118779 This is a regression since RELENG_4 (RELENG_3 was OK), please take a look at (incorrectly

Re: Performance!

2007-12-20 Thread Claus Guttesen
I have read all related threads about performance problems with multi core systems but still have no idea what to do to make thinks better. Below are results of testing postgresql on HP DL380G5 using sysbench. The results are comparable to:

Re: FreeBSD 7 on old SMP server?

2007-12-20 Thread Oliver Fromme
Joshua Coombs wrote: MaXX wrote: I have an old netfinity 7000 (Quad PIII 500, 1Gb RAM) running 6.2 at the moment. I was wondering if it will take benefit of all the SMP improvement of 7 or is it too old? It runs a few postgresql databases, peak loads in the 2 to 4 range. It's not

Re: 7.0BETA4 /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_int Thrashes

2007-12-20 Thread Oliver Fromme
Julian Stacey wrote: Has 7.0-BETA4 perhaps wrongly got a -pipe in the .mk macros ? It was added 9 years 7 months ago my JKH (see the CVS repository, src/share/mk/sys.mk rev 1.31). He wrote: Add -pipe to default CFLAGS. The optimization it provides is cheap and does not require any special

Re: jlogin.sh - a small nice jails helper!

2007-12-20 Thread Oliver Fromme
Miroslav Lachman wrote: It is nice idea, but I think you should have a better scripting style ;) Yes, it almost looked like perl. :-) May I suggest a few further improvements? login_shell=/bin/tcsh I certainly wouldn't want tcsh. How about looking at $SHELL, and if it doesn't exist, then

Re: FreeBSD 7 on old SMP server?

2007-12-20 Thread Joshua Coombs
Oliver Fromme wrote: My hacked up 386 showed gains going from 6.2 to 7, the big win that I've noticed is scp throughput, I can sustain 40 to 45kbps where in the past the box walled at around 30kbps. Apache seems to have less latency responding to gets also. I'm just running a 7b3

Re: jlogin.sh - a small nice jails helper!

2007-12-20 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Oliver Fromme wrote: Miroslav Lachman wrote: It is nice idea, but I think you should have a better scripting style ;) Yes, it almost looked like perl. :-) May I suggest a few further improvements? login_shell=/bin/tcsh I certainly wouldn't want tcsh. How about looking at $SHELL, and if

Re: FreeBSD 7 on old SMP server?

2007-12-20 Thread Brian
Joshua Coombs wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: My hacked up 386 showed gains going from 6.2 to 7, the big win that I've noticed is scp throughput, I can sustain 40 to 45kbps where in the past the box walled at around 30kbps. Apache seems to have less latency responding to gets also.

Re: Packet loss every 30.999 seconds

2007-12-20 Thread Mark Fullmer
Thanks, I'll test this later on today. On Dec 19, 2007, at 1:11 PM, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 09:13:31AM -0800, David G Lawrence wrote: Try it with find / -type f /dev/null to duplicate the problem almost instantly. I was able to verify last night that (cd /; tar -cpf

Re: FreeBSD 7 on old SMP server?

2007-12-20 Thread Joshua Coombs
Brian wrote: Would that be a multiday buildworld? Brian 10 days on average. : ) I'm trying a 7 build without -pipe to see if I can squeak it through with 64MB RAM + 384MB swap, I'd much prefer not having to do a dump/restore to reallocate space for more swap. I'm almost thinking a non

more cpufreq woes

2007-12-20 Thread Arno J. Klaassen
Hi, I once again have a freeze with cpufreq, this time on a Tyan S3950 MB + X2 BE 2400 proc; dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 2277/10 2178/91708 1980/76426 1782/62805 990/30193 Same proc works OK with Asus M2N32 WS Pro ... Same Tyan MB works OK with X2 BE 2350 which shows dev.cpu.0.freq_levels:

ACPI STR (s3) makes machine behave very odd

2007-12-20 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Hello, with Beta4 I tried 'acpiconf -s3'. The machine shut down but I couldn't wake it up with the keyboard. Pressing the power button makes the drives start up but the machine switches off two seconds later. This is done in an endless loop. I tried a kernel without any driver, just the absolut

Re: ACPI STR (s3) makes machine behave very odd

2007-12-20 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Harald Schmalzbauer schrieb am 21.12.2007 00:55 (localtime): Hello, with Beta4 I tried 'acpiconf -s3'. The machine shut down but I couldn't wake it up with the keyboard. Pressing the power button makes the drives start up but the machine switches off two seconds later. This is done in an

Re: Performance!

2007-12-20 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:35:52 +0100 Claus Guttesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What postgres-version did you use for this benchmark? Eventhough this is a synthetic benchmark the difference in performance may indicate some penalties on 8-core servers on FreeBSD. According to