Odd 'hang' trying to ls a directory ...

2003-05-27 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Running -STABLE from May 15th, if I do an 'ls /usr', it works ... if I do an 'ls /vm', it hangs .. the machine doesn't hang, as far as I can tell, all the web sites are accessible, and there are no errors in /var/log/messages .. I have soft-updates disabled on that file system, and iostat is

Re: system slowdown - vnode related

2003-05-27 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Mon, 25 May 2003, Mike Harding wrote: I'm running a very recent RELENG-4 - but I had a suspicion that this was unionfs related, so I unmounted the /usr/ports union mounts under a jail in case this was causing the problem, and haven't seen the problem since. It's possible I accidently

Re: system slowdown - vnode related

2003-05-27 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Mon, 26 May 2003, Mike Harding wrote: Er - are any changes made to RELENG_4_8 that aren't made to RELENG_4? I thought it was the other way around - that 4_8 only got _some_ of the changes to RELENG_4... Ack, my fault ... sorry, wasn't thinking :( RELENG_4 is correct ... I should have

Re: system slowdown - vnode related

2003-05-27 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Ack, only 512Meg of memory? :( k, now you are beyond me on this one ... I'm running 4Gig on our server, with 2Gig allocated to kernel memory ... only thing I can suggest is try slowly incrementing up your maxvnodes and see if that helps, but, I'm not sure where your upper threshhold is with

Re: portupgrade issue 4.8-STABLE

2003-05-27 Thread Kent Stewart
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 06:22 am, Rob B wrote: Hi all, Having a bit of a problem with portupgrade on a -STABLE machine: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/root: portupgrade -aRn --- Session started at: Tue, 27 May 2003 22:54:00 +1000 closed stream --- Session ended at: Tue, 27 May 2003 22:54:01 +1000

Re: Problem with bind8 and ports

2003-05-27 Thread Hannes Adollarson
- Original Message - From: Doug Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Hannes Adollarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 12:37 AM Subject: Re: Problem with bind8 and ports On Mon, 26 May 2003, Hannes Adollarson wrote: Hi When I install bind8 through ports

Re: system slowdown - vnode related

2003-05-27 Thread Matthew Dillon
I'm a little confused. What state is the vnlru kernel thread in? It sounds like vnlru must be stuck. Note that you can gdb the live kernel and get a stack backtrace of any stuck process. gdb -k /kernel.debug /dev/mem (or whatever) proc N

Re: system slowdown - vnode related

2003-05-27 Thread Mike Harding
I'll try this if I can tickle the bug again. I may have just run out of freevnodes - I only have about 1-2000 free right now. I was just surprised because I have never seen a reference to tuning this sysctl. - Mike H. On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 11:09, Matthew Dillon wrote: I'm a little

Re: UDF filesystem on 4-STABLE?

2003-05-27 Thread Wes Peters
On Sunday 25 May 2003 17:20, Warren Toomey wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to find out if UDF support can be added to 4-STABLE. The web page http://people.freebsd.org/~scottl/udf/ says that such a thing can be found at http://www.softweyr.com/asmodai/projects/udf, but the latter URL is

Re: USB patch. Scanner Epson.

2003-05-27 Thread Wes Peters
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 03:05, Cristiano Deana wrote: Hi, i wrote this very simple patch to let USB Epson Scanner 1250 te be recognize by freebsd. Tested on -stable and -current Is there some [EMAIL PROTECTED] who i should send the patch to MFC? Sure, send it here and I'll take a look at

Re: system slowdown - vnode related

2003-05-27 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I'll try this if I can tickle the bug again. : :I may have just run out of freevnodes - I only have about 1-2000 free :right now. I was just surprised because I have never seen a reference :to tuning this sysctl. : :- Mike H. The vnode subsystem is *VERY* sensitive to running out of KVM,