Re: [Solved] [UART] GPS 18-5Hz LVC and COM1 silence, OK on Linux though...

2013-04-29 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 29 April 2013 11:00, Fabian Wenk fab...@wenks.ch wrote: Is there anything I can do to debug? I don't know. Unfortunately there's no active uart maintainer. That's why I was wondering if someone already knew about whether uart kept underflow/overflow statistics. Adrian

Re: ada(4) and ahci(4) quirk printing

2013-04-24 Thread Adrian Chadd
I think this just outlines the problem - bootverbose is too verbose. eg, what the audio code outputs. And yes, net80211 when you're doing 11n. Adrian On 23 April 2013 23:15, Matthias Andree mand...@freebsd.org wrote: Am 23.04.2013 09:44, schrieb Alexander Motin: Let me disagree.

Re: ada(4) and ahci(4) quirk printing

2013-04-23 Thread Adrian Chadd
.. are we really debating this? Stop calling them quirks. That sounds like something that won't mess up your actual runtime. It's not giving them enough weight. They're more device behaviours or device flags or something. Print them out like that. I think that _not_ printing them out at boot time

Re: Possible DoS in mpd 5.6 pppoe server

2013-04-20 Thread Adrian Chadd
Can you provide more information about the configuration of mpd and ppp? the panic is in the dummynet code; can you provide information about your ipfw/dummynet setup? Thanks, adrian On 20 April 2013 06:21, Marcelo Gondim gon...@bsdinfo.com.br wrote: Hi all, I'm doing tests with mpdas

Re: [patch] IPMI KCS can drop the lock while servicing a request

2013-04-02 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 23 March 2013 20:11, Eric van Gyzen e...@vangyzen.net wrote: At work, we discovered that our application's IPMI thread would often use a lot of CPU time. The KCS thread uses DELAY to wait for the BMC, so it can run without sleeping for a long time with a slow BMC. It also holds the

Re: Any objections/comments on axing out old ATA stack?

2013-03-28 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 28 March 2013 09:05, Lev Serebryakov l...@freebsd.org wrote: Yes: USB UMASS. It uses CAM too, and useful for very small systems, like 4MiB FLASH and 16MiB RAM (yes, whole system image, kernel and all, should be packed to 4MiB). Please note, Adrian speaks about CAM, not only CAM +

Re: Any objections/comments on axing out old ATA stack?

2013-03-28 Thread Adrian Chadd
.. and before you ask - yes, there are embedded boards with limited RAM that also have ATA ports. :-) Adrian ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Any objections/comments on axing out old ATA stack?

2013-03-28 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 28 March 2013 10:26, Poul-Henning Kamp p...@phk.freebsd.dk wrote: Isn't there some kernel compile-time option to eliminate the huge tables used for errormessages etc ? Yup. It doesn't save all that much in the grand scheme of things. Doubly so since my secondary size constraint is an 896k

Re: Any objections/comments on axing out old ATA stack?

2013-03-27 Thread Adrian Chadd
My main concern with the new stuff is that it requires CAM and that's reasonably big compared to the standalone ATA code. It'd be nice if we could slim down the CAM stack a bit first; it makes embedding it on the smaller devices really freaking painful. Thanks, adrian

Re: invalid statistics for 80211node malloc type

2013-03-25 Thread Adrian Chadd
... ? Never noticed this before. Is something double-freeing? Adrian On 25 March 2013 00:44, Sergey Kandaurov pluk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, After upgrading from 8-stable to 9-stable I noticed the error in malloc(9) type 80211node counter. From vmstat -m: Type InUse MemUse HighUse

Re: invalid statistics for 80211node malloc type

2013-03-25 Thread Adrian Chadd
.. please file a PR! Adrian On 25 March 2013 02:02, Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote: ... ? Never noticed this before. Is something double-freeing? Adrian On 25 March 2013 00:44, Sergey Kandaurov pluk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, After upgrading from 8-stable to 9-stable I noticed

Re: invalid statistics for 80211node malloc type

2013-03-25 Thread Adrian Chadd
Can you please find out _where_ that's being called when mts_numallocs is zero? Thanks, Adrian On 25 March 2013 02:33, Sergey Kandaurov pluk...@gmail.com wrote: On 25 March 2013 13:02, Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote: .. please file a PR! kern/177366 Adrian On 25 March 2013

Re: Building RELENG_9 (or RELENG_9_*) on a small machine?

2013-02-27 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hm, have you disabled that CAM target layer stuff at boot? It's likely tying up some RAM. Adrian ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: 9.1 minimal ram requirements

2013-02-27 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi Ken, I'd like to fix this for 9.2 and -HEAD. Would you mind if I disabled CTL in GENERIC (but still build it as a module) until you've fixed the initial RAM reservation that it requires? Thanks, Adrian On 22 December 2012 22:32, Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote: Ken, Does CAM

Re: Why can't gcc-4.2.1 build usable libreoffice?

2013-02-20 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 20 February 2013 13:53, Mikhail T. mi+t...@aldan.algebra.com wrote: As others have indicated, the toolchain provided in the base system is intended only for building the base system. This was never true before and it is rather sad, if it were really becoming the truth now. More than

Re: Why can't gcc-4.2.1 build usable libreoffice?

2013-02-19 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, The base compiler is supposed to compile base and bootstrap whatever else you need to compile other software. It's not supposed to be continuously updated to new, major versions. :-) I bet *office just uses a bunch of either horrible syntax that breaks things, or newer C/C++ features that

Re: Why can't gcc-4.2.1 build usable libreoffice?

2013-02-19 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 19 February 2013 09:35, Ian Lepore i...@freebsd.org wrote: It has been. The OP stated the he disabled that and forced use of gcc 4.2.1, and is now complaining that it doesn't work after specifically taking steps to make it not-work. Hence my reply. :-) OP - don't do that. The base

Re: Why can't gcc-4.2.1 build usable libreoffice?

2013-02-19 Thread Adrian Chadd
.. I think the compiler people just use the port as compiled with the compiler that is known to work with it, and move on. :-) I re-read your original post. It's likely some queer corner case C++ or C++ library bug as shipped with the base system. Adrian

Re: i386: vm.pmap kernel local race condition

2013-02-16 Thread Adrian Chadd
.. as a side note, you should use the concurrency extension for helpers; it won't need 500 helpers.. Adrian On 14 February 2013 05:55, Eugene Grosbein eu...@grosbein.pp.ru wrote: Hi! I've got FreeBSD 8.3-STABLE/i386 server that can be reliably panicked using just 'squid -k rotatelog'

Re: ath patch from the head

2013-02-10 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, I have a HAL in progress for the AR9380 and later chips. I've implemented the basic driver and framework changes needed to support the AR9380 HAL (specifically the newer TX/RX DMA handling). However I'm still going through the process at ${WORK} (1) to get this HAL open sourced so I can push

Re: time issues and ZFS

2013-01-27 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 26 January 2013 02:15, Andriy Gapon a...@freebsd.org wrote: on 23/01/2013 18:20 Adrian Chadd said the following: It may be a quirk of an older 9.x, which is fixed in -HEAD. It may be a quirk of the older generation celeron hardware - in which case, we need to tell the user somehow

Re: bge bad performance

2013-01-25 Thread Adrian Chadd
Disable the offload options (rx checksum, tx checksum, tcp segment offload) and retry with each option disabled, one at a time. Hopefully you'll find that one or a combination of options is causing your issue. Thanks, adrian On 25 January 2013 02:45, Daniel Braniss da...@cs.huji.ac.il wrote:

Re: time issues and ZFS

2013-01-23 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 23 January 2013 06:58, Andriy Gapon a...@freebsd.org wrote: I don't think that this is true of x86 hardware in general. You might have hit some limitation or a quirk or a bug or an erratum for some particular hardware. E.g. a chipset on this machine has a bit described as such: Set to 1

Re: time issues and ZFS

2013-01-22 Thread Adrian Chadd
Daniel, Have you run tests with the machdep.idle value changed, and fiddling kern.eventtimer.periodic / kern.eventtimer.idletick ? adrian ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To

Re: time issues and ZFS

2013-01-22 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi! As I said before, the problem with non-HLT loops with event-timer in -9 and -head is that it calls the idle function inside a critical section (critical_enter and critical_exit) which blocks interrupts from occuring. The EI;HLT instruction pair on i386/amd64 atomically and correctly handles

Re: time issues and ZFS

2013-01-21 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, Try experimenting with kern.eventtimer.periodic and kern.eventtimer.idletick. If this fixes it for you, please file a PR with all the relevant details. Thanks! Adrian On 21 January 2013 03:33, Daniel Braniss da...@cs.huji.ac.il wrote: After many trials (and errors), here are some

Re: time issues and ZFS

2013-01-21 Thread Adrian Chadd
I still firmly believe the ACPI event timer code is racy, and what we may be seeing here is the fallout from that. It's very possible that we're missing interrupts here - the new eventtimer code that made it into 9.x puts the halt behind a critical section, with interrupts disabled. The only

Re: load average 0.60 at 100% idle

2013-01-05 Thread Adrian Chadd
Cc'ing the committer / ACPI owner! jkim - any comments? Adrian On 5 January 2013 12:38, Johan Broman je.bro...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! Bare with me here as I'm totally new to FreeBSD (like 2 weeks). From what I understand, there is a change in FreeBSD 9.1 ACPI code that makes detection of

Re: 9.1-RC3: xorg-input-mouse, xfce4-panel

2012-12-28 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 28 December 2012 04:02, Kimmo Paasiala kpaas...@gmail.com wrote: It doesn't look like the FreeBSD ports SVN repository is used to its full potential. SVN allows branching and creation of experimental versions of the tree very easily and cheaply, yet all the experimental repositories

Re: Kernel panic when playing games/iourbanterror

2012-12-24 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, Please file a PR? We can bump it to the ACPI person who has been busily making this stuff updated and stable. Thanks! Adrian On 24 December 2012 05:52, David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, When playing a lot Urban Terror, the system panic with ACPI related issues :

Re: 9.1 minimal ram requirements

2012-12-23 Thread Adrian Chadd
Ok, I'll see about disabling it in GENERIC and STABLE/9 for now, at least until Ken has some idea of what's going on. Thanks, Adrian ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe,

Re: 9.1 minimal ram requirements

2012-12-23 Thread Adrian Chadd
.. has someone filed a PR for it? Adrian ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: xz(1) keeps SEGFAULT-ing

2012-12-22 Thread Adrian Chadd
Is it dumping core? Adrian On 22 December 2012 07:07, Mikhail T. mi+t...@aldan.algebra.com wrote: Hello! I've set up several nightly backups all using the pipe-chain of dump | xz -9 | ccrypt /remote/backups/fs.xz.cpt On one system these just work every night without a problem. On

Re: 9.1 minimal ram requirements

2012-12-22 Thread Adrian Chadd
Ken, Does CAM CTL really need to pre-allocate 35MB of RAM at startup? Adrian On 22 December 2012 16:45, Sergey Kandaurov pluk...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 December 2012 03:40, Marten Vijn i...@martenvijn.nl wrote: On 12/23/2012 12:27 AM, Jakub Lach wrote: Guys, I've heard about some absurd

Re: 9.1 minimal ram requirements

2012-12-22 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi guys, Would someone please file a PR for this? This is a huge unused allocation of memory for something that honestly likely shouldn't have been included by default in GENERIC. I've cc'ed ken on a reply to this. Hopefully after the holidays he can chime in and figure out what's going on.

Re: Will we get a RELEASE-9.1 for Christmas?

2012-12-11 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 11 December 2012 08:44, Ronald Klop ronald-freeb...@klop.yi.org wrote: I suggest to make a timeline AND communicate what is happening _now_. Some small official statement from the release team now and then would make a large difference. The release team (and developer team in general) know

Re: 8.3 - 9.1 results in often crashes.

2012-12-10 Thread Adrian Chadd
You can also list the offending IP: list *0x80956c73 adrian On 10 December 2012 06:22, Pawel Tyll pt...@nitronet.pl wrote: Hi, The gdb block at the top as that will help identify where in the code your panic is occurring. The kdb block you posted only lists offsets where as gdb

Re: WiFi / Hot-Spot Open Source World

2012-12-10 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, If your product uses FreeBSD wireless code, please ask your vendor to liaise with the FreeBSD wireless community and work with us to improve things. I have no idea who the vendor is though, so this is all total conjecture. Adrian On 10 December 2012 04:51, Shiv. Nath

Re: 8.3 - 9.1 results in often crashes.

2012-12-10 Thread Adrian Chadd
Instruction Pointer. :-) adrian On 10 December 2012 07:06, Pawel Tyll pt...@nitronet.pl wrote: Witam, You can also list the offending IP: list *0x80956c73 Excuse my ignorance, but how does that list an IP address? (gdb) list *0x80956c73 0x80956c73 is in

Re: Will we get a RELEASE-9.1 for Christmas?

2012-12-10 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 10 December 2012 09:34, Brett Glass br...@lariat.net wrote: I've thought about donating manpower; tried to many years ago, in fact. But I was deterred by the egos, the politics, and the territoriality and hotheadedness of some of the developers. So, most of my contributions of code (and I

Re: Will we get a RELEASE-9.1 for Christmas?

2012-12-09 Thread Adrian Chadd
.. if people would like to see more resources thrown at getting things like timely releases done, please consider donating to the FreeBSD foundation and write to them about what you'd like to see. I think people are really quite used to getting something for nothing. This isn't an attack at you

Re: Will we get a RELEASE-9.1 for Christmas?

2012-12-09 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, It's definitely not targeted at you. The 9.1 stuff is an intersection of: * personal issues with some of the people involved (ie, real life got to them and that took precedence); * the security incident; * the freebsd cluster shuffling and reshuffling that was going on at the same time From

Re: Will we get a RELEASE-9.1 for Christmas?

2012-12-08 Thread Adrian Chadd
It's still progressing, albeit slowly. There's been a lot of security checking going on in the background as part of this task and that takes time. Adrian ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: What's the most effective way to restart net children?

2012-12-03 Thread Adrian Chadd
.. use avahi or some other multicast DNS setup; have boxes announce their current host that way? Adrian On 3 December 2012 08:05, Chris H chris#@1command.com wrote: Greetings, I've always maintained at least a /24 since the early 80's. I'm now evaluating a new ISP, and am not ready to

Re: Increasing the DMESG buffer....

2012-11-24 Thread Adrian Chadd
I'm surprised it's not tunable via a kenv variable at boottime.. Adrian ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Increasing the DMESG buffer....

2012-11-22 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 22 November 2012 06:30, Alexander Motin m...@freebsd.org wrote: Neither ICH, nor any other driver I know have amount of information comparable to what HDA hardware provides. So the analogy is not good. Respecting that most CODECs have no published datasheets, that information is the only

Re: Increasing the DMESG buffer....

2012-11-21 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 21 November 2012 09:25, Willem Jan Withagen w...@digiware.nl wrote: Why bother... Memory is so cheap these days. We're talking about 64Kb being wasted. On average I would assume that there is more than this wasted in odd bits and pieces in the kernel. .. and some of us are actively trying

Re: Increasing the DMESG buffer....

2012-11-21 Thread Adrian Chadd
.. because some of us like kernel behaviour to be predictable and controllable, rather than 'just be dynamic here, what could possibly go wrong.' Just bump the default kernel buffer size up to 64k and leave it hard-coded like that. Us embedded people can drop that down to something smaller.

Re: Increasing the DMESG buffer....

2012-11-21 Thread Adrian Chadd
that want to run FreeBSD on their desktop or high end servers. Adrian On 21 November 2012 16:59, Willem Jan Withagen w...@digiware.nl wrote: On 2012-11-21 21:08, Adrian Chadd wrote: .. because some of us like kernel behaviour to be predictable and controllable, rather than 'just be dynamic

Re: Increasing the DMESG buffer....

2012-11-21 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 21 November 2012 20:16, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 12:08:42 -0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: .. because some of us like kernel behaviour to be predictable and controllable, rather than 'just be dynamic here, what could possibly go wrong.' Just bump

Re: thread taskq / unp_gc() using 100% cpu and stalling unix socket IPC

2012-11-14 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 14 November 2012 02:39, Markus Gebert markus.geb...@hostpoint.ch wrote: On 14.11.2012, at 02:12, Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote: Oh lordie, just hack the kernel to make IP_BINDANY usable by any uid, not just root. I was hoping that capabilitiies would actually be useful these days

Re: thread taskq / unp_gc() using 100% cpu and stalling unix socket IPC

2012-11-13 Thread Adrian Chadd
Oh lordie, just hack the kernel to make IP_BINDANY usable by any uid, not just root. I was hoping that capabilitiies would actually be useful these days, but apparently not. :( Then you can stop this FD exchange nonsense and this problem should go away. :) Adrian On 13 November 2012 16:41,

Re: No buffer space available / tcp_inpcb value

2012-10-30 Thread Adrian Chadd
Check the output of 'netstat -mb', maybe you're also running out of mbufs? Adrian On 30 October 2012 06:21, Adam Strohl adams-free...@ateamsystems.com wrote: Hey -STABLE, I've got a client who we've setup a FreeBSD cluster for with about a dozens servers, all behind two front end

Re: every 2nd echo-request malformed when ping -s 4067

2012-10-24 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 24 October 2012 05:31, Harald Schmalzbauer h.schmalzba...@omnilan.de wrote: Hello, while checking new mtu9k-setup, I discovered that ping has some odd behaviour. If I use payloadsize 4067, every 2nd icmp-echo-request seems to be malformed: Is this on -HEAD? ping -s 4068 -D 10.5.49.65

Re: every 2nd echo-request malformed when ping -s 4067

2012-10-24 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 24 October 2012 07:00, Harald Schmalzbauer h.schmalzba...@omnilan.de wrote: Sorry, forgot to mention that it's with 9.1-RC2. But I've seen this also with 8.x long time ago. That time I had some nics not j9k-frame capable, so I never had a look at the wire what's really going on... Ah,

Re: every 2nd echo-request malformed when ping -s 4067

2012-10-24 Thread Adrian Chadd
oh lord, please disable zero_copy_sockets. :-) Adrian ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: cvsup + PAC proxy?

2012-10-24 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 24 October 2012 10:40, Ismael Farfán sulfur...@gmail.com wrote: Hello list Is it possible to use a proxy auto-config stript with cvsup? That would save me testing one by one which is the one used to access the cvsup servers. Does any of the CLI tools supports PAC? A proxy-pac library

Re: FreeBSD in Google Code-In 2012? You can help too!

2012-10-23 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 23 October 2012 07:39, Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: The subject is Google Code-In and all the posted tasks are directed at creating documentation. Not one deals with coding any programs. If I was 15-17 years old I sure would not be interested in writing documentation. I would want to

Re: FreeBSD in Google Code-In 2012? You can help too!

2012-10-23 Thread Adrian Chadd
Right, lots of PHP coding. Attractive to a student. Adrian ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD in Google Code-In 2012? You can help too!

2012-10-22 Thread Adrian Chadd
That wiki site has a distinct lack of help about: * what is required from us; * what the target is (kids, right?) * some examples of good and bad projects. Right now I have absolutely no idea what would constitute a good or bad coding project. :/ adrian

Re: 9.1-RC2 - could it be that the installer does not write the MBR?

2012-10-19 Thread Adrian Chadd
Guys/girls/etc, I do suggest that someone actually spends some time coming up with a table of what the current state is, what we could do, what would happen if we did that. Right now there's a lot of possibilities (new drive, drive with windows, drive with linux, drive with linux/windows, drive

Re: new DragonFly-3.2 scheduler and PostgreSQL comparision with FreeBSD 9.1-RC1

2012-10-12 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 12 October 2012 11:10, Miroslav Lachman 000.f...@quip.cz wrote: I don't like comparing Release Candidates without any details about config, but the fact that DF 3.2 is much better than DF 3.0 is interesting. And they are very close to performance of Scientific Linux 6.2. Hey cool! And

Re: STABLE/9 SMP ACPI suspend/resume - video mode not being restored

2012-07-21 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi! On 25 June 2012 06:54, Mitsuru IWASAKI iwas...@jp.freebsd.org wrote: Ah, then i915.ko should restore the graphic state on resuming. If your problem still remains, please try the patches: Nope, it doesn't. :( http://people.freebsd.org/~iwasaki/acpi/syscons-vesa-resume-20120529.diff I'll

Re: STABLE/9 SMP ACPI suspend/resume - video mode not being restored

2012-07-21 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi! I just tried it. It worked: * resume occured and the video mode was corrupt; * then shortly after it went through all the reattaching, and the video mode was fixed. Why's the video mode starting off corrupted? Adrian ___

Re: mfi(4) IO performance regression, post 8.1

2012-07-20 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi Alexander, I'm worried that this won't be the only source of freebsd is slower than linux issues. What can we add to the timer path to make identifying and root causing this issue easy? I'd just like to be absolutely sure that we're not only doing the best job possible, but we can provide

Re: mfi(4) IO performance regression, post 8.1

2012-07-19 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hm! A timer related bug? I'll CC mav@ on this, as it was his commit (and work in his general area.) I wonder what's going on - is it something to do with the two ACPI calls inserted there, or is it something to do with the change in event timer values? mav? Any ideas? Adrian On 17 July 2012

Re: mfi(4) IO performance regression, post 8.1

2012-07-19 Thread Adrian Chadd
Oh, and would you please file a PR for this? I've been looking into ACPI related slowdowns for a while and I'm glad you found a culprit. Adrian ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To

Re: [RFC] Flags to dmesg(1) to toggle kern.msgbuf_clear ?

2012-07-01 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 1 July 2012 11:05, Jason Hellenthal jhellent...@dataix.net wrote: Would anyone be interested in adding a flag argument to dmesg to toggle kern.msgbuf_clear ? or systematicly to do the same thing ? Sure, adding -c to dmesg would be nice. Any objections? Adrian

Re: STABLE/9 SMP ACPI suspend/resume - video mode not being restored

2012-06-25 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 23 June 2012 10:24, Mitsuru IWASAKI iwas...@jp.freebsd.org wrote: Your T60 has a Radeon graphic adapter, right? Could you try the radeon suspend/resume patch and kldload radeon.ko before suspending? It looks like it has Intel graphics: vgapci0@pci0:0:2:0: class=0x03

Re: [wifi] wifimgr for freebsd

2012-06-22 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi! On 18 June 2012 03:43, freegih free...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I made a wifi script based on  the wlanconfig in bsdinstaller. here is the code: https://github.com/gihnius/freebsd-wifi I think we can make it more suitable for many devices and normal use. Any idea to write a normal feature

Re: mfi(4) IO performance regression, post 8.1

2012-06-14 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hm, can you try different subversion checkouts of the kernel tree between 8.1 and 8.3, to pinpoint which commit(s) broke things? ADrian ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To

Re: ULE Scheduler

2012-06-08 Thread Adrian Chadd
Did anyone ever file a PR for this kind of thing? Adrian On 8 June 2012 10:07, Martin Sugioarto mar...@sugioarto.com wrote: Am Fri, 8 Jun 2012 08:04:12 +0200 schrieb Andreas Nilsson andrn...@gmail.com: My t61p also had overheating problems with fbsd, but never in linux. For me the fan

Re: IPv6 and CARP crashes boxes

2012-05-31 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 31 May 2012 06:42, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: Hey list, The thread about Why Are You Using FreeBSD, listing the pros and cons of FBSD, has brought back a topic to mind. Recently (read, 3 months ago) I was experimenting with IPv6 and CARP on 8.x boxes and that crashed them both.

Re: STABLE/9 SMP ACPI suspend/resume - video mode not being restored

2012-05-27 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, Loading vesa didn't help. I think 80x25 and 80x30 were fine when resuming, but 80x50/80x60 weren't. I'll try your patch today. Adrian ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To

Re: STABLE/9 SMP ACPI suspend/resume - video mode not being restored

2012-05-25 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, No, I didn't have vesa loaded. I'll load that now and try tomorrow after a reboot. Yes, I tried switching VTYs, each VTY had the same issue. I guess the driver isn't doing a VGA mode change when I switch VTYs unless the screens are in different modes? FWIW, Xorg suspend/resume via the

STABLE/9 SMP ACPI suspend/resume - video mode not being restored

2012-05-24 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, I'm toying with the SMP/i386 ACPI suspend/resume patches in -9. Thanks so much for this! I've noticed though that the video backlight stays off after resume. A common problem on -9, so I set hw.acpi.reset_video=1. That restores the backlight. However, the video mode isn't restored. I have

Re: VirtualBox, AIO and zvol's - a cautionary tale

2012-05-23 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, Can you please file a PR? Having broken AIO and ZFS would be .. bad. adrian On 23 May 2012 06:11, Pete French petefre...@ingresso.co.uk wrote: Am posting this to stable not really as a question, but more in case anyone else hits the same problem. Last patch tuesday one of my virtual

Re: Floppy disks don't work with FreeBSD 9.0

2012-03-27 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, can you please try 8-stable and 9-stable, and if it's still failing, file a PR? I don't know who looks after the floppy subsystem but it shouldn't exactly be difficult to fix.. Adrian ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: ACPI Issues in 8-STABLE and on

2012-03-26 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, Have you filed PRs for this? It seems like something you could easily(!) find the offending commit(s) by doing kernel builds of -HEAD around the time that 8 was branched off. If 8.0-RELEASE fails but 7-STABLE does, that's a good starting point to determine the lower/upper bounds for the

Re: [PATCHES] make buildworld -DWITHOUT_OPENSSL

2012-03-17 Thread Adrian Chadd
Is the libarchive maintainer about, or is he very busy hiding away in Antarctica again? :) Adrian ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Heavy fs corruption with 9.0-RELEASE

2012-03-09 Thread Adrian Chadd
PR ? Adrian On 8 March 2012 11:07, David Thiel l...@freebsd.org wrote: On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 05:12:16PM -0500, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: I've been running a couple of system with 9.0-RELEASE since it is out. All the system were installed through the standard installation procedure. After

Re: Heavy fs corruption with 9.0-RELEASE

2012-03-09 Thread Adrian Chadd
You didn't answer my question - is there a PR opened for this? Adrian On 9 March 2012 12:02, David Thiel l...@freebsd.org wrote: On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 01:53:59AM -0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: PR ? The original thread was here: http://marc.info/?t=13250246001r=1w=2 Ignore the part

Re: add k3772z 3g modem support for FreeBSD-9

2012-03-07 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi! Would you please submit this as a PR? That way it Doesn't get (as) lost. Thanks! adrian On 6 March 2012 16:53, Oliver Pinter pin...@tresorium.hu wrote: Hi all! I wrote a patch, to add support for Vodafone K3772-Z 3g modem. -- Oliver Pinter (Tresorium)

Re: flowtable usable or not

2012-03-06 Thread Adrian Chadd
You haven't been bitten by the storage layer or filesystem hackery bits which has caused filesystem corruption. :) That said, FFS+SUJ has made recover-from-kernel-panic so much less painful. Thankyou Jeffr and others! What I tend to do is either run current on a VM or organise some dedicated

Re: flowtable usable or not

2012-03-04 Thread Adrian Chadd
2012/3/3 Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org: On 03/02/2012 16:05, Adrian Chadd wrote: Try breaking that cycle. ... one of the things I've been asking for years. :) Julian's right though, I think PC-BSD will help, but I still think that committers should run -current. I've asked privately for our

Re: flowtable usable or not

2012-03-02 Thread Adrian Chadd
I've had the same problem with wireless. For some users, wireless works flawlessly. For other users, it's completely unusable. Trying to get any kind of useful feedback from people has been impossible at best. I've even had FreeBSD developers, sitting in the developers IRC channel, say wifi is

Re: Regression between 9-RELEASE and 9-STABLE [PCIB ?]

2012-03-02 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi! You now officially have enough information to fill out a PR! Thankyou so very much for finding out which particular commit/commits caused this regression for you! http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html Would you mind doing this? :) Thanks! Adrian On 2 March 2012 18:50, Harry Newton

Re: [CFT] modular kernel config

2012-03-01 Thread Adrian Chadd
SunOS 4.x users will love you. :-) Adrian On 1 March 2012 02:27, Nikolay Denev nde...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 21, 2012, at 3:35 PM, Alexander Leidinger wrote: Hi, I created a kernel config for i386/amd64 (should work on -current and 9.x) and a suitable loader.conf which: - tries to

Re: Regression between 9-RELEASE and 9-STABLE [PCIB ?]

2012-02-28 Thread Adrian Chadd
A lot of the PCI bus enumeration and configuration code has changed. John's likely the best person to bring into this. He's been doing a lot of the PCI bus hacking and has found/fixed quite a few regressions. Good luck! Adrian On 28 February 2012 14:26, Harry Newton h...@yewbarrow.net

Re: disk devices speed is ugly

2012-02-13 Thread Adrian Chadd
I tend to say the right solution to a problem is to not do it wrong. But.. given that Linux is fine with all the unaligned accesses, is the major sticking point here the fact that Linux's block dev layer is doing all the caching that FreeBSD's direct device layer isn't, and all of those (cached)

Re: disk devices speed is ugly

2012-02-12 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 12 February 2012 09:34, Alex Samorukov m...@os2.kiev.ua wrote: Yes. But it will nit fix non-cached access to the disk (raw) devices. And this is the main reason why ntfs-3g and exfat are much slower then working on Linux. But _that_ can be fixed with the appropriate application of a

Re: disk devices speed is ugly

2012-02-11 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, What about the disk access is unaligned? Do you mean not sector aligned? or? This is a common problem people face doing disk IO analysis. The whole point about not allowing unaligned access is to make the disk IO path cleaner. It does mean that the filesystem code (and GEOM modules

Re: Reducing the need to compile a custom kernel

2012-02-10 Thread Adrian Chadd
I've done this a few times. The /boot/loader takes a _long_ time to suck in the 25 odd modules my eeepc requires to load a completely modular kernel. It takes a _very long_ time to suck these in over USB. It's a great idea and I think we should start down this path in the 10-CURRENT trajectory

Re: ath0: device timeout on 9.0-STABLE

2012-01-24 Thread Adrian Chadd
Sure, can you please: * compile with the following options: options ATH_DEBUG options AH_DEBUG options ATH_DIAGAPI * compile /usr/src/sys/tools/tools/ath/athstats/ * run athstats -i ath0 and email them to me + freebsd-wirel...@freebsd.org Thanks! Adrian On 24 January 2012 04:01, Michal

Re: ath0: device timeout on 9.0-STABLE

2012-01-24 Thread Adrian Chadd
. Is there any way to fix this? I see these sysctls: dev.ath.0.softled: 0 dev.ath.0.ledpin: 0 dev.ath.0.ledon: 0 dev.ath.0.ledidle: 2700 but I'm lost with them :) regards michal On 25.1.2012, at 4:46, Adrian Chadd wrote: Sure, can you please: * compile with the following options

Re: Timekeeping in stable/9

2012-01-19 Thread Adrian Chadd
.. if you have a _reproducable_ case for this, mav@ needs to see it ASAP. The trouble is that mav@ isn't handed reproducable cases and thus can't debug it. If you can supply some kind of box that provides this as a reproducable issue, we can get it fixed ASAP. Otherwise it's a case of can't

Re: ACPI broke going from 8 to 9

2011-12-31 Thread Adrian Chadd
Well, the problem is that the people working on this code don't have a variety of older hardware to test things on. Developers of free software rely on users to do testing of releases on the hardware they care about. It may not sound very good but it's the best that can be done with the given

Re: ACPI broke going from 8 to 9

2011-12-31 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 31 December 2011 11:41, Dan Allen danalle...@airwired.net wrote: My Toshiba Satellite U205 used to work great with RELENG_7, but the boot code of RELENG_8 will not recognize the 2nd core of my Core Duo (not Core 2 Duo) processor.  Nobody seems to care as few machines have Core Duo, or few

Re: ACPI broke going from 8 to 9

2011-12-31 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 31 December 2011 16:08, Dan Allen danalle...@airwired.net wrote: Almost every day I csup from RELENG_x and build.  The traces of RELENG_8 are gone, so no, unfortunately I cannot give you a uname -a from those days. Would you consider having a small partition to do the same for HEAD? :P

Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default

2011-12-24 Thread Adrian Chadd
My rule is break it any way you can and see if you can figure out why. Don't be discouraged. You may find some of the folk at yahoo are interested. Adrian On 24 December 2011 03:00, Daniel Kalchev dan...@digsys.bg wrote: On Dec 24, 2011, at 12:49 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote: Do you not have

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