Re: fibre channel cards

2007-03-09 Thread Matthew Jacob
Generally speaking, the LSI-Logic cards are faster, at least for 2Gb, in terms of IOPS. However, the LSI-Logic firmware is less capable of coping with complicated topologies and the mpt(4) driver is less mature than isp(4). Another thing to keep in mind is that for new cards (as opposed to

Re: SMP doesn't work without ACPI?

2007-03-09 Thread Ivan Voras
Ivan Voras wrote: Since I need it in production, I'll try i386 6.2-release+PAE... Ok, PAE uniprocessor kernel boots fine, finds all the memory but I can't create (clone) a vlan device (ifconfig vlan0 create). It fails with an error in SIOCIFCREATE. Since creating vlan0 worked in amd64 mode

Re: SMP doesn't work without ACPI?

2007-03-09 Thread Ivan Voras
Ivan Voras wrote: Ivan Voras wrote: Since I need it in production, I'll try i386 6.2-release+PAE... Ok, PAE uniprocessor kernel boots fine, finds all the memory but I can't create (clone) a vlan device (ifconfig vlan0 create). It fails with an error in SIOCIFCREATE. Since creating

Re: any success with new sun M2 product variant for X4100 and X2100

2007-03-09 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Vivek Khera ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Has anyone successfully booted FreeBSD 6 on the new M2 variants of sun's X2100 or X4100 boxes? I have three X4100 original versions that works stunningly well (but I don't use the internal disks) with FreeBSD 6.1. I was just curious how the new ones

Migrating from x86 (32) to amd64

2007-03-09 Thread Artem Kuchin
Maybe someone could help me. I have a machine with 4GB of RAM 128MB of which is wasted and i really need 2 gigs more. This is a heavy duty production server with a lot of jails and custom scripts, etc.. and i am afraid i cannot reinstall all from scratch. Furthermore it is located in the

Re: any success with new sun M2 product variant for X4100 and X2100

2007-03-09 Thread Vivek Khera
On Mar 9, 2007, at 8:19 AM, Thomas Hurst wrote: Also, if anyone knows which ethernet ports they put in that'd be helpful. I'd avoid them if they had broadcom chips :-( 2 nVidia nForce nve(4)'s and 2 Intel Pro/1000 em(4)'s. Quite a step back from the quad em(4)'s in !M2's, but 2 usable

Weird NFS behaviour

2007-03-09 Thread Ulrich Spoerlein
Hi, we have performance problems with our FreeBSD 6.2 based NFS server. Picture the following setup: FreeBSD Client --- Samba-Server --- NFS-Server all three machines are running FreeBSD 6.2 (the same image). The NFS server is configured with 16 nfsd. sysctl.conf has

Re: Background process

2007-03-09 Thread Vivek Khera
On Mar 8, 2007, at 7:14 PM, Doug Barton wrote: Failing that, if you need to preserve anything that is emitted from the program, nohup is probably your best bet. If it isn't going to spit anything out on the terminal, take a look at daemon(8), which you probably will want to run with the

Re: Processes get stuck in ufs state

2007-03-09 Thread Oleg Derevenetz
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 05:22:38AM +0300, Oleg Derevenetz wrote: Sometimes (once a week approximately) I have a problem with the same symptoms described here on SMP FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE with dual AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 850: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=104406cat= Sometimes

Re: any success with new sun M2 product variant for X4100 and X2100

2007-03-09 Thread Vivek Khera
On Mar 8, 2007, at 4:45 PM, Jens Fallesen wrote: One issue I have is that the embedded management software can run on NIC 1 only. And once FreeBSD detects this, the embedded management software is disabled. Does anyone know of a way to make FreeBSD detect NIC 0 only? Did you spring for

Re: Processes get stuck in ufs state

2007-03-09 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 06:08:25PM +0300, Oleg Derevenetz wrote: On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 05:22:38AM +0300, Oleg Derevenetz wrote: Sometimes (once a week approximately) I have a problem with the same symptoms described here on SMP FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE with dual AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 850:

Re: Canonical 4.x to 6.x upgrade docs?

2007-03-09 Thread Michael Grant
Has anyone succeeded in doing a 4.x - 6.x upgrade from source without upgrading first to 5.x as an intermediate step? Michael Grant ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe,

Re: MFC request: QLogic 24xx FibreChannel controller

2007-03-09 Thread Ivan Voras
Alex Dupre wrote: Ivan Voras ha scritto: I'm interested in having support for QLogic 24xx cards in 6-stable It was backported 34 hours ago ;-) That was fast :) I've cvsupped before trying to get the blade to work (needed SerDes support for bce cards) but wow, it has been almost three days

Re: MFC request: QLogic 24xx FibreChannel controller

2007-03-09 Thread Alex Dupre
Ivan Voras ha scritto: I'm interested in having support for QLogic 24xx cards in 6-stable It was backported 34 hours ago ;-) My card identifies itself as 2462s, in an IBM blade. Nobody tested the new code with a 246x card, but probably is the same as 242x (tested). -- Alex Dupre

Re: kern/108150: [ste] [patch] ASUS NX1001 (if_ste) hardware support

2007-03-09 Thread Eugene Grosbein
Hi! I confirm that the problem exists and proposed solution works. I've just installed a router with ASUS NX1001 PCI card and have been forced to rebuild kernel with device id manually added to the driver. Only then the card was attached by the driver. Please commit this. Eugene Grosbein

Re: Canonical 4.x to 6.x upgrade docs?

2007-03-09 Thread Artem Kuchin
Has anyone succeeded in doing a 4.x - 6.x upgrade from source without upgrading first to 5.x as an intermediate step? tried twice - did not work, but going to 5 and then to 6 was not a problem. But i suspect than going from older 4.x to newer 5.x (like 5.4) might not work and it might need

Re: Canonical 4.x to 6.x upgrade docs?

2007-03-09 Thread Bruce A. Mah
If memory serves me right, Artem Kuchin wrote: Has anyone succeeded in doing a 4.x - 6.x upgrade from source without upgrading first to 5.x as an intermediate step? tried twice - did not work, but going to 5 and then to 6 was not a problem. But i suspect than going from older 4.x to

Re: Migrating from x86 (32) to amd64

2007-03-09 Thread Ivan Voras
Artem Kuchin wrote: Is there way to more or less sefely migrade to AMD64 arhitecture via csup and source build? AFAIK nobody has lived to tell the tale (or at least I didn't see any followups from people who claimed they'd try it). In any case it would be better to migrate it via binary

Re: Canonical 4.x to 6.x upgrade docs?

2007-03-09 Thread Artem Kuchin
What's the basis for your suspicion? My memory might play tricks on me, but i think I remember that i tried to upgrade from 4.1 to 5.3 longtime ago and it did not work. I had to up to 5.0 and the to 5.3. But that might be just some weird client install (i did not install freebsd on that box

Re: Migrating from x86 (32) to amd64

2007-03-09 Thread Artem Kuchin
Is there way to more or less sefely migrade to AMD64 arhitecture via csup and source build? AFAIK nobody has lived to tell the tale (or at least I didn't see any followups from people who claimed they'd try it). In any case it would be better to migrate it via binary reinstall (the same as

Progress installing on IBM LS21 Blade machine

2007-03-09 Thread Ivan Voras
As you may know, I've been sending all sorts of messages trying to get help running FreeBSD 6.x on this AMD Opteron-based blade (LS21). Now I've managed to get it to work mostly as I want it, so here's some maps for future explorers. First, things that don't work: * 64-bit kernels. With or

Re: Migrating from x86 (32) to amd64

2007-03-09 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2007-Mar-09 20:54:42 +0300, Artem Kuchin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there way to more or less sefely migrade to AMD64 arhitecture via csup and source build? ... Damn it. Then i guess i need to do some experimenting myself. Definitely. Theoretically, what would be the procedure? 1) Backup

Re: Migrating from x86 (32) to amd64

2007-03-09 Thread Artem Kuchin
Is there way to more or less sefely migrade to AMD64 arhitecture via csup and source build? ... Damn it. Then i guess i need to do some experimenting myself. Definitely. Theoretically, what would be the procedure? 1) Backup system. 2) Download amd64 install ISO and burn to CD 3) Boot

Re: Some Unix benchmarks for those who are interesed

2007-03-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 8, 2007, at 9:24 PM, Eric Anderson wrote: [ ... ] Dunno. I was merely trying to keep things honest, since what was communicated (whether intended or not) was that a C3 isn't modern, and is akin to a Pentium, which it isn't. I've got a VIA C3 Samuel myself, and it is fine for what it

Re: Canonical 4.x to 6.x upgrade docs?

2007-03-09 Thread Eugene Grosbein
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 09:30:01AM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote: If memory serves me right, Artem Kuchin wrote: Has anyone succeeded in doing a 4.x - 6.x upgrade from source without upgrading first to 5.x as an intermediate step? tried twice - did not work, but going to 5 and then

Re: Some Unix benchmarks for those who are interesed

2007-03-09 Thread Eric Anderson
On 03/09/07 12:55, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Mar 8, 2007, at 9:24 PM, Eric Anderson wrote: [ ... ] Dunno. I was merely trying to keep things honest, since what was communicated (whether intended or not) was that a C3 isn't modern, and is akin to a Pentium, which it isn't. I've got a VIA C3

Re: Canonical 4.x to 6.x upgrade docs?

2007-03-09 Thread Philipp Ost
Hi all, some time ago Yar Tikhiy posted a message to this list in which he described a way to directly update a 4.11 box to 6.2. The message can be found here: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=190896+0+archive/2007/freebsd-stable/20070225.freebsd-stable HTH, Philipp --

Re: Some Unix benchmarks for those who are interesed

2007-03-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 9, 2007, at 11:34 AM, Eric Anderson wrote: I've got a VIA C3 Samuel myself, and it is fine for what it is, which is a low-power clone of the Pentium-MMX in terms of capabilities; the newer C3 Nehemiah is roughly comparable to a P2, plus SSE and the extra AES/RNG crypto stuff. Look

Re: MFC request: QLogic 24xx FibreChannel controller

2007-03-09 Thread Ivan Voras
Joao Barros wrote: On 3/9/07, Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not familiar with this hardware, but I'm curious why I see the one test drive I assigned to it twice. I seem to recall reading somewhere a discussion for Linux in which it's been mentioned that one of these should be a

Re: Migrating from x86 (32) to amd64

2007-03-09 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2007-Mar-09 22:16:36 +0300, Artem Kuchin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there way to more or less sefely migrade to AMD64 arhitecture via csup and source build? ... Damn it. Then i guess i need to do some experimenting myself. Definitely. Theoretically, what would be the procedure? 1) Backup

Re: MFC request: QLogic 24xx FibreChannel controller

2007-03-09 Thread Joao Barros
On 3/9/07, Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not familiar with this hardware, but I'm curious why I see the one test drive I assigned to it twice. I seem to recall reading somewhere a discussion for Linux in which it's been mentioned that one of these should be a read-write and another

Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 Makefile watchdog.4 src/share/man/man9 watchdog.9 src/sys/arm/xscale/i80321 i80321_wdog.c src/sys/dev/ichwd ichwd.c src/sys/dev/ipmi ipmi.c src/sys/dev/mk48txx mk48t

2007-03-09 Thread Mike Tancsa
Hi, The commit below to ichwd.c, breaks the watchdog on a number of Intel boards I tried it against. (ICH5 and ICH7) The module loads, but the box never reboots after sending a sig 11 to watchdogd ichwd module loaded ichwd0: Intel 82801EB/ER watchdog timer on isa0 Reverting to the

Re: MFC request: QLogic 24xx FibreChannel controller

2007-03-09 Thread Joao Barros
On 3/9/07, Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joao Barros wrote: On 3/9/07, Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not familiar with this hardware, but I'm curious why I see the one test drive I assigned to it twice. I seem to recall reading somewhere a discussion for Linux in which it's

Re: MFC request: QLogic 24xx FibreChannel controller

2007-03-09 Thread mjacob
The GEOM multipath code hasn't been MFC'd yet. On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Ivan Voras wrote: Joao Barros wrote: On 3/9/07, Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not familiar with this hardware, but I'm curious why I see the one test drive I assigned to it twice. I seem to recall reading

Re: MFC request: QLogic 24xx FibreChannel controller

2007-03-09 Thread mjacob
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Joao Barros wrote: There are two FC switches, but AFAIK a multipath setup would have, for example one disk coming from isp0 and the other from isp1, as isp0 and isp1 are connected to two switches... It's entirely possible that something's ill defined in the FC management

Re: Panic: spin lock smp rendezvous ... held too long

2007-03-09 Thread Eirik Øverby
On Mar 9, 2007, at 03:41, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 12:44:03AM +0100, Eirik ?verby wrote: Hi all, I just installed 6.2-RELEASE on a Supermicro 6013P-8 server, a dual P4-Xeon 2.4ghz with 4GB ECC memory and an asr driven SCSI RAID controller. It has been working OK

Re: Panic: spin lock smp rendezvous ... held too long

2007-03-09 Thread Eirik Øverby
On Mar 9, 2007, at 03:41, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 12:44:03AM +0100, Eirik ?verby wrote: Hi all, I just installed 6.2-RELEASE on a Supermicro 6013P-8 server, a dual P4-Xeon 2.4ghz with 4GB ECC memory and an asr driven SCSI RAID controller. It has been working OK (although

Re: Migrating from x86 (32) to amd64

2007-03-09 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 08:54:42PM +0300 I heard the voice of Artem Kuchin, and lo! it spake thus: Theoretically, what would be the procedure? - Do a full cross-build of the amd64 world/kernel. - newfs your swap partition (or an extra partition/drive). - installworld/kernel the amd64 stuff onto