Re: 8-STABLE/amd64: kernel panic after a minute of mounting xfs

2010-03-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Mar-25 21:32:10 +0200, Nezmer b...@nezmer.info wrote: This is the 1st time FreeBSD panics on me. It happened after a minute of mounting an XFS partition. I'm not sure It's XFS but It's the only part of the OS I try for the 1st time. kernel: vn_iowait doing nothing on FreeBSD? This is

Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-26 Thread John Long
At 09:24 PM 3/25/2010, Ian Smith wrote: On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, John Long wrote: At 11:27 PM 3/22/2010, Alexander Motin wrote: John Long wrote: Hello, I am putting together a couple update servers. Went with c2d E7500 on gigabyte G41M-ES2L boards. fbsd 8.0 release generic (so far)

Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-26 Thread Alexander Motin
John Long wrote: Have you tried C2? Are you running the latest BIOS? And perhaps your ACPI ASL may be amenable to repair, if Gigabyte ACPI is broken here? As I can see, your ACPI reports C3 state support. You may try it also. Here is my notes about power and C3 also:

Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 01:20:19AM -0700, John Long wrote: Yes you're only getting p4tcc throttling as Alexander points out. You'll need to get est working to get power reduction from lower frequencies, which likely won't correspond to these f/8 step throttling frequencies. As Jeremy

NFS lockd problem

2010-03-26 Thread Giulio Ferro
Outset: 1 NFS server (with lockd) 2 NFS client (with lockd) The clients serve several jails with apache, whose data (www) resides on the server From time to time everything seem to freeze. Then, after one minute or so, the system works again as nothing had happened. In these occasions I

7.3-RELEASE make release requires wrong version of perl

2010-03-26 Thread David Boyd
Attempting make release results in error complaining that perl-5.8.9 installs into the same locations as perl-5.10.1. This seems similar to the problem I encountered with make release when NODOC was not set. The complaint then was that ghostscript8-nox11 installs into the same locations as

Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-26 Thread John Long
At 01:31 AM 3/26/2010, Alexander Motin wrote: John Long wrote: Have you tried C2? Are you running the latest BIOS? And perhaps your ACPI ASL may be amenable to repair, if Gigabyte ACPI is broken here? As I can see, your ACPI reports C3 state support. You may try it also. Here is my notes about

FreeBSD 8.0 SCSI Boot

2010-03-26 Thread Doug Hardie
I tried to upgrade a 7.2 system to 8.0. It uses a SCSI drive. It works fine on 7.2. However, it would appear that during the upgrade process when running make delete-old (?) there is a note about make delete-old-libs (?). Don't do that at that point. End of system. Make installworld fails

Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-26 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: [ leaving the MB monitoring stuff alone for your expert attention :-] It jumped up in vcore a little there with powerd. C1E and C2E which include P-states are what I am really after and I think that the bios by itself provides those changes