Re: ZFS tuning [was: hardware for home use large storage]

2010-02-17 Thread jhell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:56, freebsd@ wrote: On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 07:05:11AM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: Overall, Barry's script makes an excellent proof-of-concept - which is what he was offering. You know, I had a verbose in-line response

Re: panic - sleeping thread on FreeBSD 8.0-stable / amd64

2010-02-17 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
Another crash last night. In /var/log/messages: Feb 16 23:13:22 kg-f2 ntpd[2826]: time reset +1.780863 s Feb 16 23:16:42 kg-f2 kernel: ata6: port is not ready (timeout 1ms) tfd = 007f Feb 16 23:16:42 kg-f2 kernel: ata6: hardware reset timeout Feb 16 23:20:39 kg-f2 kernel: ata6: port is

Re: blank X screen with differnt cards

2010-02-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 16/02/2010 20:05, Christian Schramm wrote: I press Xorg -configure and X -config /root/xorg.conf.new but my CRT Screen is blank. I can switch in tty0 an kill Xorg with CTRL-C. This is actually perfectly normal nowadays. For reasons impenetrable

Re: ZFS tuning [was: hardware for home use large storage]

2010-02-17 Thread Bartosz Stec
On 2010-02-17 08:58, jhell wrote: To all those involved in this. More up-to-date: arc_summary.pl r182 Best regards. And watching for replies, So here's my reply (last line seems most interesting ;) : # ./arc_summary.pl -

Re: ZFS tuning [was: hardware for home use large storage]

2010-02-17 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:19:49 +0100 Bartosz Stec bartosz.s...@it4pro.pl wrote: So here's my reply (last line seems most interesting ;) : [...snipped...] Illegal division by zero at ./arc_summary.pl line 242. FWIW, I also got this line when I ran this script on my idle zfs server. -- Torfinn

Re: ZFS tuning [was: hardware for home use large storage]

2010-02-17 Thread jhell
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:06, bp@ wrote: On 2/15/10 7:49 PM, jhell wrote: As I make final modifications to the script I will keep the below URLs updated and welcome any bug reports or modification requests to me personally. Here is the URLs: http://jhell.googlecode.com/files/arc_summary.pl

Re: blank X screen with differnt cards

2010-02-17 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:05:13 +0100 Christian Schramm christian.schr...@parative.org wrote: Hi at first this is my first message to a mailing list. Second sorry for my bad english. On Saturday i have installed 8-0-Release, after I build 8-stable include world an d kernel. After the build

Re: ZFS tuning [was: hardware for home use large storage]

2010-02-17 Thread jhell
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:59, freebsd@ wrote: On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:06:43AM -0600, Barry Pederson wrote: On 2/15/10 7:49 PM, jhell wrote: As I make final modifications to the script I will keep the below URLs updated and welcome any bug reports or modification requests to me personally.

Re: ZFS tuning [was: hardware for home use large storage]

2010-02-17 Thread Bartosz Stec
On 2010-02-17 09:32, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:19:49 +0100 Bartosz Stecbartosz.s...@it4pro.pl wrote: So here's my reply (last line seems most interesting ;) : [...snipped...] Illegal division by zero at ./arc_summary.pl line 242. FWIW, I also got

devd hang after upgrade to 8.0-STABLE

2010-02-17 Thread Ruben de Groot
Just wondering if others have seen this too. Yesterday, after upgrading from 7.2-stable to 8.0-stable, my server would hang on startup on the Starting devd line. bootverbose did not get me any more information, and I had to manually hit ^C or ^\ to continue booting. Also, the reboot command

Re: ZFS tuning [was: hardware for home use large storage]

2010-02-17 Thread Scot Hetzel
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Bartosz Stec bartosz.s...@it4pro.pl wrote: On 2010-02-17 09:32, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:19:49 +0100 Bartosz Stecbartosz.s...@it4pro.pl  wrote: So here's my reply (last line seems most interesting ;) : [...snipped...] Illegal

Re: openldap client GSSAPI authentication segfaults in fbsd8stable i386

2010-02-17 Thread George Mamalakis
On 13/02/2010 00:23, George Mamalakis wrote: On 12/2/2010 8:48 πμ, jhell wrote: This is a lot of information to consume. Lets start with this: All of the machines in question are of some form of FreeBSD 8. You enter gdb and very clearly it starts whining about a segfault libc.so.7 Did

Re: ZFS tuning [was: hardware for home use large storage]

2010-02-17 Thread jhell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:53, jhell@ wrote: PGP Command Output gpg: Signature made Wed Feb 17 04:53:27 2010 EST using RSA key ID 89D8547E gpg: Good signature from jhell jh...@dataix.net

Re: ZFS tuning [was: hardware for home use large storage]

2010-02-17 Thread jhell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Due to the nature of this thread and its current list involvement I am going to be starting a new thread in freebsd-filesystems@ just for arc_summary.pl tomorrow night with the subject below. [arc_summary.pl] Adjustments, PR Requests I would

Re: ntpd struggling to keep up - how to fix?

2010-02-17 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:44:52 +0100 Torfinn Ingolfsen torfinn.ingolf...@broadpark.no wrote: On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:11:17 -0800 Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote: Please try doing this: - stop ntpd - rm /var/db/ntpd.drift - sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware=ACPI-safe -

Re: best practice to watch TCP parms of established sockets

2010-02-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Feb 17, 2010, at 8:03 AM, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: while doing some ZFS tests with RELENG_8 I recognized a mysterious performace drop after an hour uptime. Now my first idea is to compare MSS and windows sizes before and after the performance drop. How do I best capture them?

Re: ntpd struggling to keep up - how to fix?

2010-02-17 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:49:27 +0100 Torfinn Ingolfsen torfinn.ingolf...@broadpark.no wrote: Unfortunately, it isn't enough to keep the machine in sync all the time. But it is better than HPET so I'll keep it. This thread is interesting:

Re: best practice to watch TCP parms of established sockets

2010-02-17 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Am 17.02.2010 19:56, schrieb Chuck Swiger: Hi-- On Feb 17, 2010, at 8:03 AM, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: while doing some ZFS tests with RELENG_8 I recognized a mysterious performace drop after an hour uptime. Now my first idea is to compare MSS and windows sizes before and after the

Re: netboot issues, 8.0, mfsroot mount failure

2010-02-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:43:30PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote: Footnote: This is why I tell folks to zero out the first 8192 bytes of any disk they've previously installed FreeBSD on (even if the disk has no filesystems/slices on it). The way FreeBSD determines the size of the disk

Re: ntpd struggling to keep up - how to fix?

2010-02-17 Thread John Hay
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 08:03:22PM +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:49:27 +0100 Torfinn Ingolfsen torfinn.ingolf...@broadpark.no wrote: Unfortunately, it isn't enough to keep the machine in sync all the time. But it is better than HPET so I'll keep it. This thread

Re: kernel compile failure

2010-02-17 Thread John Baldwin
On Monday 15 February 2010 8:55:13 am Larry Rosenman wrote: For the record, it appears that cvsup17.us.freebsd.org is serving outdated files. Try sending an e-mail to h...@. The last time cvsup17 had issues the owner fixed them after seeing an e-mail to h...@. -- John Baldwin

RE: kernel compile failure

2010-02-17 Thread Larry Rosenman
Already done on Monday at 08:12am US/Central (GMT-6). -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 512-248-2683E-Mail: l...@lerctr.org US Mail: 430 Valona Loop, Round Rock, TX 78681-3893 -Original Message- From: John Baldwin

Re: netboot issues, 8.0, mfsroot mount failure

2010-02-17 Thread Antony Mawer
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 6:22 AM, Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:43:30PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote: Footnote: This is why I tell folks to zero out the first 8192 bytes of any disk they've previously installed FreeBSD on (even if the disk has no