Re: amrd disk performance drop after running under high load

2007-10-16 Thread Krassimir Slavchev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexey Popov wrote: Hi. Kris Kennaway wrote: After some time of running under high load disk performance become expremely poor. At that periods 'systat -vm 1' shows something like this: What does high load mean? You need to explain the

Re: amrd disk performance drop after running under high load

2007-10-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
Alexey Popov wrote: Hi. Kris Kennaway wrote: After some time of running under high load disk performance become expremely poor. At that periods 'systat -vm 1' shows something like this: What does high load mean? You need to explain the system workload more. This web service is similiar

Re: Question about 'top' values on memory usage

2007-10-16 Thread Peter Jeremy
In the last episode (Oct 14), Artem Kuchin said: Maybe someone with deeper knowledge of the internals of FreeBSD can clean up something for me (any for many others)^ Here are lines from my top: PID USERNAMETHR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 9258 hordelo_ru1

Re: amrd disk performance drop after running under high load

2007-10-16 Thread Alexey Popov
Hi. Krassimir Slavchev wrote: You run apache with mod_perl or php too. How many clients handle this apache server? Also in this light load you have locked files! Check script execution times (/server-status may be useful). When you have hight load check swap usage and haw many processes are in

Re: device_attach: smist0 attach returned 6

2007-10-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 10:00:24AM +0100, Rick wrote: Thanks for the reply. It's actually a remote machine sat in a colo, so it will require a visit and reboot to look at the BIOS settings, and it's a pretty minimal set of options IIRC, so there may not be anything there, but I'll arrange a

Re: Question about 'top' values on memory usage, now threads

2007-10-16 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2007-Oct-15 12:43:39 -0400, William LeFebvre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whether there is actual swapping going on or not, processes will still need swap space. There needs to be a backing store for every page that's in physical memory. This isn't true for FreeBSD. You can even totally

AW: Re: AW: g_vfs_done():da3s1a[READ(offset=81064794762854400, length=8192)]error = 5

2007-10-16 Thread d_elbracht
One basic question to ask: where does the value for offset= in g_vfs_done() come from ? From the time the error shows up in syslog I believe, the error only happens, when a file get's appended. I wonder if (wild guess follows) there's a 32/64 bit conversion problem somewhere, like a

Re: amrd disk performance drop after running under high load

2007-10-16 Thread Alexey Popov
Hi. Kris Kennaway wrote: After some time of running under high load disk performance become expremely poor. At that periods 'systat -vm 1' shows something like this: What does high load mean? You need to explain the system workload more. This web service is similiar to YouTube. This server

Re: AW: Re: AW: g_vfs_done():da3s1a[READ(offset=81064794762854400, length=8192)]error = 5

2007-10-16 Thread Andriy Gapon
Just a wild shot here: I have seen a similar message recently when I played with my disks. I re-arranged some partitions (and filesystems) within a slice and it so happened (and I almost know why) that there was some discrepancy between on-disk and in-memory label of that slice. I ran newfs on

Re: amrd disk performance drop after running under high load

2007-10-16 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Alexey Popov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: So I can conclude that FreeBSD has a long standing bug in VM that could be triggered when serving large amount of static data (much bigger than memory size) on high rates. Possibly this only applies to large files like mp3 or video. I've seen highly

Re: Reproducable, possibly NFS related, fatal double fault in 6.2-R-p7

2007-10-16 Thread Esa Karkkainen
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 02:33:49AM +0200, Kris Kennaway wrote: Esa Karkkainen wrote: This machine has two 512MB DDR333 DIMM's. I installed sysutils/memtest and ran three simultaneously, first two allocated 326 MB each and last one allocated 150 MB of memory, so I'd start to swap. No errors.

Re: amrd disk performance drop after running under high load

2007-10-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
Alexey Popov wrote: Hi. Kris Kennaway wrote: After some time of running under high load disk performance become expremely poor. At that periods 'systat -vm 1' shows something like this: What does high load mean? You need to explain the system workload more. This web service is similiar to

Re: Reproducable, possibly NFS related, fatal double fault in 6.2-R-p7

2007-10-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
Esa Karkkainen wrote: On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 02:33:49AM +0200, Kris Kennaway wrote: Esa Karkkainen wrote: This machine has two 512MB DDR333 DIMM's. I installed sysutils/memtest and ran three simultaneously, first two allocated 326 MB each and last one allocated 150 MB of memory, so I'd start

Re: Realtek eth isn't detected in Intel DG31PR mobo

2007-10-16 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
On 10/15/07, Pyun YongHyeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 03:24:33PM +0300, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: [...] Pyrun, I hope you are doing well. Thank you for the patch, and your good attempt to help with this issue. I spent 2 hours with the patch

Re: Reproducable, possibly NFS related, fatal double fault in 6.2-R-p7

2007-10-16 Thread Esa Karkkainen
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 09:46:37AM +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote: I remember that nve(4) is NOT stable under heavy network loads. Yup, that seems to correct. Usually this machine, ie. home my orkstation, does not have a load, network wise or in general. I'd like to say use nfe(4) which is

SCHED_4BSD in RELENG_7 disturbs workflow

2007-10-16 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
I know that RELENG_7 is not considered very near-release, but I thought I'd give my 2¢ in the hope that I might have a little influence on the scheduler development to my benefit. The switch from RELENG_6 to RELENG_7 went relatively smooth and apart from ipw causing panics. However there is one

Re: SCHED_4BSD in RELENG_7 disturbs workflow

2007-10-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
[LoN]Kamikaze wrote: I know that RELENG_7 is not considered very near-release, but I thought I'd give my 2¢ in the hope that I might have a little influence on the scheduler development to my benefit. The switch from RELENG_6 to RELENG_7 went relatively smooth and apart from ipw causing panics.

Re: 2G+ sysv shm segments

2007-10-16 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2007-Oct-15 18:17:14 +0400, Igor Sysoev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: more than 2G. The attached patches against 6.x and 7.x allow to create 2G+ segments. Useful, thanks. --- src/sys/sys/shm.h 2007-09-12 23:33:39.0 +0400 +++ src/sys/sys/shm.h 2007-10-15 17:42:38.0 +0400 @@ -77,7

Re: SCHED_4BSD in RELENG_7 disturbs workflow

2007-10-16 Thread Jeff Roberson
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: I know that RELENG_7 is not considered very near-release, but I thought I'd give my 2¢ in the hope that I might have a little influence on the scheduler development to my benefit. The switch from RELENG_6 to RELENG_7 went

Re: 2G+ sysv shm segments

2007-10-16 Thread Igor Sysoev
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 05:38:43AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2007-Oct-15 18:17:14 +0400, Igor Sysoev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: more than 2G. The attached patches against 6.x and 7.x allow to create 2G+ segments. Useful, thanks. --- src/sys/sys/shm.h2007-09-12

Re: SCHED_4BSD in RELENG_7 disturbs workflow

2007-10-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
Jeff Roberson wrote: On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: I know that RELENG_7 is not considered very near-release, but I thought I'd give my 2¢ in the hope that I might have a little influence on the scheduler development to my benefit. The switch from RELENG_6

Re: Reproducable, possibly NFS related, fatal double fault in 6.2-R-p7

2007-10-16 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Esa Karkkainen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 09:46:37AM +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote: I remember that nve(4) is NOT stable under heavy network loads. Yup, that seems to correct. Usually this machine, ie. home my orkstation, does not have a load, network wise or in

Re: SCHED_4BSD in RELENG_7 disturbs workflow

2007-10-16 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
Jeff Roberson wrote: On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: I know that RELENG_7 is not considered very near-release, but I thought I'd give my 2¢ in the hope that I might have a little influence on the scheduler development to my benefit. The switch from

Re: SCHED_4BSD in RELENG_7 disturbs workflow

2007-10-16 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
Josh Carroll wrote: Not to say that any problems that might have developed with SCHED_4BSD should not be fixed, but you should give SCHED_ULE a try since it brings benefits even for single CPU systems (e.g. better interactive response). For my particular work load, 4BSD is actually faster

Thanks, done. Re: can I do 6.1-RELEASE to 6.2 via cvsup

2007-10-16 Thread Robert Chalmers
Thanks guys, All done. Just wasn't sure if I could do the upgrade via cvsup. all done, all working. cool Thanks for everyone's help. rob - Original Message - From: CmdLnKid [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Robert Chalmers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, October

Re: Reproducable, possibly NFS related, fatal double fault in 6.2-R-p7

2007-10-16 Thread Clifton Royston
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 01:01:46PM -0700, Chris H. wrote: excerpt from this list titled: NFS == lock reboot, that I posted follows: --8---SNIP---8-SNIP-8--- # uname -a FreeBSD host.domain.tld 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 26 16:27:14 PST 2007 Greetings,

Re: SCHED_4BSD in RELENG_7 disturbs workflow

2007-10-16 Thread Jeff Roberson
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: Jeff Roberson wrote: On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: I know that RELENG_7 is not considered very near-release, but I thought I'd give my 2¢ in the hope that I might have a little influence on the scheduler development

Re: 2G+ sysv shm segments

2007-10-16 Thread Jung-uk Kim
On Monday 15 October 2007 10:17 am, Igor Sysoev wrote: Two years ago Christian S.J. Peron had increased total number of SysV shm pages on 64-bit platform, that allows to create many shm segments more than 2G in sum. However, the patch does not allow to create a single large segment more than

Re: Reproducable, possibly NFS related, fatal double fault in 6.2-R-p7

2007-10-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
Clifton Royston wrote: On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 01:01:46PM -0700, Chris H. wrote: excerpt from this list titled: NFS == lock reboot, that I posted follows: --8---SNIP---8-SNIP-8--- # uname -a FreeBSD host.domain.tld 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 26 16:27:14 PST

Re: SCHED_4BSD in RELENG_7 disturbs workflow

2007-10-16 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
Jeff Roberson wrote: On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: Jeff Roberson wrote: On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: I know that RELENG_7 is not considered very near-release, but I thought I'd give my 2¢ in the hope that I might have a little influence on

Re: SCHED_4BSD in RELENG_7 disturbs workflow

2007-10-16 Thread Josh Carroll
Not to say that any problems that might have developed with SCHED_4BSD should not be fixed, but you should give SCHED_ULE a try since it brings benefits even for single CPU systems (e.g. better interactive response). For my particular work load, 4BSD is actually faster than ULE in RELENG_7.

Re: SCHED_4BSD in RELENG_7 disturbs workflow

2007-10-16 Thread Jeff Roberson
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Josh Carroll wrote: Not to say that any problems that might have developed with SCHED_4BSD should not be fixed, but you should give SCHED_ULE a try since it brings benefits even for single CPU systems (e.g. better interactive response). For my particular work load, 4BSD

Re: SCHED_4BSD in RELENG_7 disturbs workflow

2007-10-16 Thread Josh Carroll
Hi Josh, thanks for the report. How many CPUs are in your system? Can you give me the output of 'vmstat 5' over the course of one run on 4BSD and ULE? Or just one of them if you can't spare the time. Hi Jeff, The system has a single quad-core chip, namely an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600. Below

Re: Disk Quota Support for FreeBSD Kernel

2007-10-16 Thread Miguel Lopes Santos Ramos
From: Chaminda Indrajith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Warning: Can't find the `6.2-RELEASE-p4' distribution on this FTP server. You may need to visit a different server for the release you are trying to fetch or go to the Options menu and to set the release name to explicitly match what's

Call for Testers: dialog 1.1-20070930 update

2007-10-16 Thread Jose Alonso Cardenas Marquez
Hi everyone :) Currently, we have an older version of libdialog/dialog (0.4) into freebsd base system. I made a patch that update libdialog/dialog to 1.1-20070930 (nowadays maintained by Thomas E. Dickey) You can see lot of changes on current version of libdialog/dialog at:

Re: can I do 6.1-RELEASE to 6.2 via cvsup

2007-10-16 Thread Miguel Lopes Santos Ramos
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Oct 16 22:01:02 2007 I should just be able to change the TAG in standard-supfile from 6_1 to 6_2, do a cvsup, and the builds etc to end up with 6.2-RELEASE right? yes? no? Right. And back, you can change the tag back to 6_1... Or just RELENG_6 for 6-STABLE.

Re: SCHED_4BSD in RELENG_7 disturbs workflow

2007-10-16 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: I know that RELENG_7 is not considered very near-release, but I thought I'd give my 2¢ in the hope that I might have a little influence on the scheduler development to my benefit. The switch from RELENG_6 to RELENG_7 went

Re: Reproducable, possibly NFS related, fatal double fault in 6.2-R-p7

2007-10-16 Thread Greg Black
On 2007-10-16, Clifton Royston wrote: Thanks for this very timely mention! The cluster of servers I am about to upgrade from 4.8 embarrassed cough to 6.2 relies heavily on NFS to an old Netapp. If I have got to disable rpc_lockd and rpc_statd, it's good to know that now! Can I ask,

Re: Reproducable, possibly NFS related, fatal double fault in 6.2-R-p7

2007-10-16 Thread Clifton Royston
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 12:24:29PM +1000, Greg Black wrote: On 2007-10-16, Clifton Royston wrote: Thanks for this very timely mention! The cluster of servers I am about to upgrade from 4.8 embarrassed cough to 6.2 relies heavily on NFS to an old Netapp. If I have got to disable