6.1 responsiveness under heavy (cpu?) load + thread monitoring

2006-04-01 Thread Mathieu Prevot
Hello, I have a RELENG_6/AMD64 with an AMD64X2 cpu, 1GB of memory, 512MB swap. I remarked that when I run 2 simulation program [1], sometimes, one of them run one or several of its threads [2] very slowly, but sometimes, it doesn't occur. I remarked that is doesn't depend on SMP/UP, ULE/4BSD,

smp/up sysinstall OK

2006-04-01 Thread Mathieu Prevot
Hello, sysinstall installed successfully a smp generic kernel (3800+).. Mathieu ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

no more processes

2006-04-01 Thread Martin Dorschler
Just had a box go unresponsive on all services (still pingable) had a session still open to it but any command would result in the error no more processes Checks clean for a rootkit and nothing amiss in the logs (that I can find). I have never heard of a bsd box giving this error before, I can't

Re: no more processes

2006-04-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 11:00:36AM -0600, Martin Dorschler wrote: Just had a box go unresponsive on all services (still pingable) had a session still open to it but any command would result in the error no more processes Checks clean for a rootkit and nothing amiss in the logs (that I can

Re: new sk driver [was: nve timeout (and down) regression?]

2006-04-01 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Tuesday 28 March 2006 20:37, you wrote: On Tuesday 28 March 2006 11:38, Pieter de Goeje wrote: I can't really tell if the performance is impaired by mpsafenet=0, because the box is mostly busy doing userland stuff. Typical traffic looks like this: I'm going to test the new driver

Rel 6.1 what is happening

2006-04-01 Thread Graham North
Can anyone here comment on what is happening with 6.1. Judging from the extra Beta releases and delay on RC1 presumably there are some unforeseen problems with this release. No doubt the developers are workig hard to resolve those problems - can someone share? Were there some deep

Re: Rel 6.1 what is happening

2006-04-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 11:22:17AM -0800, Graham North wrote: Can anyone here comment on what is happening with 6.1. Judging from the extra Beta releases and delay on RC1 presumably there are some unforeseen problems with this release. No doubt the developers are workig hard to resolve

SATA RAID: Adaptec 1420SA, Promise TX4300?

2006-04-01 Thread Tenebrae
Hello out there in FreeBSD land (and I hope Søren peeks in, too). I've been rather behind the times here and am finally getting around to building a replacement server for my absolutely ancient FreeBSD 4.7 system. It's starting to experience problems (like a couple random lock-ups/reboots) and

[Fwd: Re: Rel 6.1 what is happening]

2006-04-01 Thread Graham North
Oops - forgot to send all. G/ Original Message Subject:Re: Rel 6.1 what is happening Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 11:45:44 -0800 From: Graham North [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kris - thank

Re: SATA RAID: Adaptec 1420SA, Promise TX4300?

2006-04-01 Thread Lars Cleary
Tenebrae wrote: The server will be primarily an e-mail and web server for private use with some rather large files. There are only a handful of users, but it gets a bit busy at times when the DJs do an update. I hope to get this up and running in the next month. If I've missed something

Re: SATA RAID: Adaptec 1420SA, Promise TX4300?

2006-04-01 Thread Tenebrae
On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Lars Cleary wrote: Why don't you just use gmirror(8) and do software RAID 1? IMHO a controller just for RAID 1 is unnecessary, as the OS together with a reasonable motherboards disk controller is just as fast as any RAID controller. Ah, I knew I should have mentioned

FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released

2006-04-01 Thread Scott Long
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the availability of FreeBSD 2.2.9-RELEASE. This release is the culmination of SEVENTY-SEVEN months of tireless work by the FreeBSD developers, users, their children, and their pets. Significant

6.1 and full i915 support?

2006-04-01 Thread László Károly
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Initial support for i915 based graphics cards were introduced last April and enabled in the Makefile in November resulting an i915-ready agp driver, but the drm subsystem was not working. Thanks to A. Popov the problem of drm was solved and the

Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released

2006-04-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Sat, 2006-Apr-01 13:25:59 -0700, Scott Long wrote: It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the availability of FreeBSD 2.2.9-RELEASE. This release is the culmination of SEVENTY-SEVEN months of tireless work by the FreeBSD developers, users, their children, and their pets.

Re: 6.1 responsiveness under heavy (cpu?) load + thread monitoring

2006-04-01 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 16:34:25 +0200 From: Mathieu Prevot [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, I have a RELENG_6/AMD64 with an AMD64X2 cpu, 1GB of memory, 512MB swap. I remarked that when I run 2 simulation program [1], sometimes, one of them run one or several of its

Re: new sk driver [was: nve timeout (and down) regression?]

2006-04-01 Thread JoaoBR
On Saturday 01 April 2006 16:15, Pieter de Goeje wrote: may be you consider to try Pyun's driver   http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/sk/sk_test/if_sk.c   http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/sk/sk_test/if_skreg.h and run yours without mpsafenet ? I have no clue what a game

Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released

2006-04-01 Thread Silves
Peter Jeremy wrote: On Sat, 2006-Apr-01 13:25:59 -0700, Scott Long wrote: It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the availability of FreeBSD 2.2.9-RELEASE. This release is the culmination of SEVENTY-SEVEN months of tireless work by the FreeBSD developers, users, their children,

Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released

2006-04-01 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Silves wrote: Peter Jeremy wrote: On Sat, 2006-Apr-01 13:25:59 -0700, Scott Long wrote: It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the availability of FreeBSD 2.2.9-RELEASE. This release is the culmination of SEVENTY-SEVEN months of tireless work by the FreeBSD

Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released

2006-04-01 Thread Colin Percival
Silves wrote: On Sat, 2006-Apr-01 13:25:59 -0700, Scott Long wrote: ^^^ It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the availability of FreeBSD 2.2.9-RELEASE. I have just one curious question, why is FreeBSD 2.2.x still being developed ? This is maybe a stupid

Re: SATA RAID: Adaptec 1420SA, Promise TX4300?

2006-04-01 Thread Dominic Marks
Tenebrae wrote: On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Lars Cleary wrote: Why don't you just use gmirror(8) and do software RAID 1? IMHO a controller just for RAID 1 is unnecessary, as the OS together with a reasonable motherboards disk controller is just as fast as any RAID controller. Ah, I knew I should

Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released

2006-04-01 Thread Scott Ullrich
On 4/1/06, Silves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just one curious question, why is FreeBSD 2.2.x still being developed ? The same reason Slashdot is now in purple with the OMG Ponies!!! theme. This is maybe a stupid question, but i am only curious to know why ? Is there any special reason

Re: [6.1-PRERELEASE/amd64] Kernel panic during heavy UFS traffic

2006-04-01 Thread Jason Harmening
On Saturday 18 March 2006 19:39, you wrote: On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 07:29:25PM -0600, Jason Harmening wrote: I finally managed to reproduce the mount panic on the console: CORONA% mount /dev/acd0 /home/jason/dvdram g_vfs_done():acd0[READ(offset=114688, length=16384)]error = 5 panic:

Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released

2006-04-01 Thread Silves
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Silves wrote: Peter Jeremy wrote: On Sat, 2006-Apr-01 13:25:59 -0700, Scott Long wrote: It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the availability of FreeBSD 2.2.9-RELEASE. This release is the culmination of SEVENTY-SEVEN months of

Re: SATA RAID: Adaptec 1420SA, Promise TX4300?

2006-04-01 Thread Matthias Andree
Tenebrae [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm interested in this newfangled serial ATA stuff I've been hearing about (heh) and thought I might try my hand at getting a RAID1 mirror going on for my home dirs. Sadly, I have no experience with RAID. I had initially planned on just setting up two

Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released

2006-04-01 Thread NAKAMURA Takeshi
On Sun, 2 Apr 2006 06:58:50 +1000, Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for this. I was beginning to think the 2.2 branch had been abandoned - the mailing lists seem full of references to 5.5 and 6.1 these days. Can you please advise what CVSup tag I should use to upgrade to

Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released

2006-04-01 Thread jdow
From: Scott Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the availability of FreeBSD 2.2.9-RELEASE. This release is the culmination of SEVENTY-SEVEN months of tireless work by the FreeBSD developers, users, their

Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released

2006-04-01 Thread jdow
From: Scott Ullrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 4/1/06, Silves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just one curious question, why is FreeBSD 2.2.x still being developed ? The same reason Slashdot is now in purple with the OMG Ponies!!! theme. This is maybe a stupid question, but i am only curious to

Re: buildworld error (texinfo)

2006-04-01 Thread Fernan Aguero
+[ To Kent Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] (31.Mar.2006 21:42): | | | This looks like you were running with a -j? set and you aren't seeing | | the real error. It was hidden somewhere. | | Yes I was running with -j | | | I have only found setting -j to be of value on smp systems. You may have |

USB Mosue Driver Problems

2006-04-01 Thread Joe Kelsey
I have a Logitech MX700 USB Wireless mouse. A few days ago I posted about changing the usbd.conf entry to swap buttons 4 and 6 and buttons 5 and 7 to get the wheel scrolling to work correctly. Last night, I rebooted my system and the moused was started from rc.conf instead of usbd.conf! Since

Crash dump help

2006-04-01 Thread DJ Valentine
Good day everyone and sorry for disturbing you but I need some help 3 days ago it hapened to me after I portupgrade my curl-7* Non-interactive tool to its latest version I realy cannot say what the source of this unpleasant event taking place it was. It could have been the fact im holding IRC

Re: SATA RAID: Adaptec 1420SA, Promise TX4300?

2006-04-01 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Sunday 02 April 2006 05:20, Lars Cleary wrote: Why don't you just use gmirror(8) and do software RAID 1? IMHO a controller just for RAID 1 is unnecessary, as the OS together with a reasonable motherboards disk controller is just as fast as any RAID controller. You can't boot off a system

Re: SATA RAID: Adaptec 1420SA, Promise TX4300?

2006-04-01 Thread Tenebrae
On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Matthias Andree wrote: RAID1 is _not_ a backup, but an availability aid. If going for RAID1, be sure to add a backup solution. More to think about...thank you. I am trying to get some peace of mind on a budget, though. I suppose I need to give more consideration to what my

Re: USB Mosue Driver Problems

2006-04-01 Thread Anish Mistry
On Saturday 01 April 2006 18:31, Joe Kelsey wrote: I have a Logitech MX700 USB Wireless mouse. A few days ago I posted about changing the usbd.conf entry to swap buttons 4 and 6 and buttons 5 and 7 to get the wheel scrolling to work correctly. Last night, I rebooted my system and the moused

Freebsd 6-RELEASE and the iwi-firmware

2006-04-01 Thread Yousef Raffah
Sorry if this is not the right ML and please let me know if I need to post it on another ML but it is related to FreeBSD 6-RELEASE and the iwi-firmware The moment I re-installed FreeBSD 6-RELEASE on my Toshiba Tecra A4 Laptop, I grabbed the iwi-firmware from the internet using a nearby machine