Re: portaudit

2007-08-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Aug 27, 2007, at 1:08 PM, gareth wrote: hey guys, for over a month i haven't been able to get a copy of the portaudit db. no-one else seems to be having this problem. this's what happens: # portaudit -F auditfile.tbz 100% of 43 kB 1045 kBps portaudit:

Re: pam_group vs. multiple group lines

2007-08-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Aug 21, 2007, at 12:50 PM, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: I found this while trying to migrate groups into LDAP, but you don't need LDAP to reproduce this, simply place the following in /etc/group wheel:*:0:root wheel:*:0:us That's a misconfiguration. From man 5 group: The group field is the

Re: pam_group vs. multiple group lines

2007-08-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Aug 21, 2007, at 2:02 PM, Richard Foulkes wrote: Ok, so how are you supposed to control membership of the wheel group via ldap? Ok, you COULD remove the local wheel entry in /etc/ group, but this would probably be a bad idea if the ldap server were unavailable. You've aptly summarized

Re: ntpd just sits there and does nothing

2007-07-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 23, 2007, at 7:10 AM, Oliver Fromme wrote: [LoN]Kamikaze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: server 0.de.pool.ntp.org minpoll 4 maxpoll 8 server 1.de.pool.ntp.org minpoll 4 maxpoll 8 server 2.de.pool.ntp.org minpoll 4 maxpoll 8 server ntp1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de minpoll 4 maxpoll 8 server

Re: ntpd just sits there and does nothing

2007-07-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 23, 2007, at 12:22 PM, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: I wish to second what Oliver has said, only more strongly: using minpoll 4 is considered abusive and a misuse of the NTP pool. From http://www.pool.ntp.org/use.html That was only for testing. Please use your own timeservers for testing, not

Re: pmtud + ipnat RELENG_6_2 appears to be broken

2007-07-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 12, 2007, at 12:34 PM, Stephen Clark wrote: Did something change in 6.2? If my mtu size on rl0 is 1280 it won't accept a larger incoming packet. Nothing changed; that is the expected behavior. (Modulo support for 4-byte VLAN tags.) kernel: rl0: discard oversize frame (ether type 800

Re: pmtud + ipnat RELENG_6_2 appears to be broken

2007-07-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 12, 2007, at 1:38 PM, Stephen Clark wrote: The MTU is actually defined in reference to a network segment such as an ethernet collision domain, and applies to all machines sending traffic to that segment. If the MTU is really 1280, nobody else should be sending larger packets, and

Re: DDoS in FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE And Problen With The Clock

2007-06-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 11, 2007, at 10:46 AM, Kevin K. wrote: There are some problems, first DDoS (hardware DDoS) in the system. I'd like to know what you mean by hardware DDoS I'm not sure what the OP meant, but I can provide examples of a hardware DDoS. Way back when, certain machines were equipped

Re: DDoS in FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE And Problen With The Clock

2007-06-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 11, 2007, at 1:57 PM, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 04:54 PM 6/11/2007, Chuck Swiger wrote: this unfortunate event by reordering instructions if needed, but if you wrote your own assembly, you could in fact do a hardware DDoS if you weren't careful. :-) Hi, I thought DDoS

Re: minimizing downtime on upgrades? (for example: mysql 4.1 - 5.0 or php)

2007-05-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 22, 2007, at 12:03 PM, Olivier Mueller wrote: So I can only do that after the installation of mysql50-client, which means all the services will have to be stopped during the compilation of mysql50-server, which usually takes some time. Isn't there a better way? How do you handle such

Re: What triggers No Buffer Space Available?

2007-05-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
Marc G. Fournier wrote: [ ... ] okay, next question ... under 'Active UNIX domain sockets, I see alot that have no Addr: Active UNIX domain sockets Address Type Recv-Q Send-QInode Conn Refs Nextref Addr d06b7480 stream 0 00 c969b24000

Re: gmirror Issues

2007-03-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 26, 2007, at 11:19 AM, Marten wrote: On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 13:53 -0700, Joe Kelsey wrote: I am having a real hard time with gmirror. I recently bought two new 400G SATA disks and I want to mirror them. I think I am following the directions, but I am not sure. I have seen lockups,

Re: another error with md malloc based fs

2007-03-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 22, 2007, at 4:17 PM, Michael Schuh wrote: i can't understand how malloc can eat all available memory, i have 2Gigs of it ;-) so it seems to me i know what i doing, if i have 1,6 Gigs free Memory, and i say ok get me 750Megs from my 1,6 Gigs of free Memory, what was faulty on that

Re: zfs on FreeBSD

2007-03-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 21, 2007, at 1:31 PM, Claus Guttesen wrote: Hi. Probably a bit premature but has anyone used zfs on FreeBSD without problems. The reason I ask is that I have installed Solaris 10 on an intel-box, but adding additional programs is *not* as easy as 'portinstall postfix' etc. on FreeBSD. So

Re: ntpd(8) exits quietly after fork()

2007-03-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi, Kevin-- On Mar 13, 2007, at 1:14 PM, Kevin Kinsey wrote: ntpd won't continue running on my stratum 2 server (making our other systems a tad untrustworthy as time goes by). $ uname -a FreeBSD ezekiel.daleco.biz 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #5: Sat Jan 20 16:41:42 CST 2007 [EMAIL

Re: ntpd(8) exits quietly after fork()

2007-03-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 13, 2007, at 3:46 PM, Kevin Kinsey wrote: The ktrace is on ntpd -C /etc/ntp.conf -l $HOME/ntp.log --- I'd seen nothing at all in /var/log/messages (was running tail on it while restarting it several times), so I pointed it there. The full ktrace is rather long, any point to posting

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: 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: jails and multple interfaces

2007-01-31 Thread Chuck Swiger
Jeffrey Williams wrote: [ ... ] My only concern, and what I was hoping to get more information on, is whether there are any potential problems with having two active ethernet interfaces on the same network segment, e.g. arp issues, etc. The problem you are going to run into is that the

Re: arp: unknown hardware address format

2007-01-24 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 24, 2007, at 4:32 AM, Ilia Gorstkin wrote: I'm having trouble with arp: arp: unknown hardware address format (0x4500) and arp: unknown hardware address format (0x4242) these messages fall on the console in a plenty. I do tcpdump -exn arp[0]=0x45 and arp[1]=0: tcpdump: verbose output

Re: documentation for make targets

2007-01-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 10, 2007, at 1:53 PM, Jeffrey Williams wrote: Can someone point to documentation for all the make targets in used in the /usr/src/Makefile. I am not looking for full documentation of each target, once I narrow down what targets I want I can get what need by walking the make files,

Re: saving power in a Dell Poweredge 750.

2007-01-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 10, 2007, at 9:34 AM, George Hartzell wrote: I'm setting up a Dell Poweredge 750 1U server. A friend is loaning me space in his rack and since his rack usage is limited by power I'd like to be as thrifty as possible. I hooked my kill-a-watt meter up and ran the machine for a couple of

Re: BIND-9.3.2 (from 5.5-STABLE) segfault under load...

2006-12-31 Thread Chuck Swiger
Doug Barton wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi-- I had named segfault a day or so ago under high load (adnslogres -c 200 against a webserver logfile) after logging the following: Hard to tell if your problem here is related to running on 5.5 or not, but of course recommendation number one

BIND-9.3.2 (from 5.5-STABLE) segfault under load...

2006-12-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- I had named segfault a day or so ago under high load (adnslogres -c 200 against a webserver logfile) after logging the following: [ ... ] Dec 28 03:38:56 daemon.notice pi named[1853]: enforced delegation-only for 'AR' (ctina.ar/A/IN) from 137.39.1.3#53 Dec 28 03:40:20 daemon.notice pi

Re: sshd. UseDNS no ignored?

2006-12-01 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 1, 2006, at 2:14 AM, Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote: Hello! Hi... On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Chuck Swiger wrote: http://www.ssh.com/support/downloads/secureshellserver/non- commercial.html contains both download URLs and Non-commercial license agreement for SSH Secure Shell for Servers link

Re: sshd. UseDNS no ignored?

2006-12-01 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 1, 2006, at 1:49 PM, Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote: On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Chuck Swiger wrote: And I didn't say that it's the OSI Open Source. I wrote (which is also open-source), not even Open Source. So I didn't mean that you can just copypaste their sources into OpenSSH. [ ... ] I'd

Re: sshd. UseDNS no ignored?

2006-11-30 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Nov 30, 2006, at 11:10 AM, Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote: Is it really open-source? I couldn't find any reference to source downloads or licensing terms on http://www.ssh.com/. It mentions OpenSSH as an open-source alternative. Well, security/ssh2 port builds all binaries from sources

Re: Problems unmounting/fssyncking extern UFS filesystem

2006-11-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Nov 27, 2006, at 8:41 AM, Kevin Oberman wrote: As far as I know, that's not different from calling sync just once. It might make more sense to put a little sleep between the sync calls, though. The traditional mantra was sync sync sync and not sync;sync;sync. The reason was timing. By

Re: nvidia0 em0 shared irq problem persists on dell precision 670

2006-11-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
Russell Jackson wrote: [ ... ] pnpbios: Bad PnP BIOS data checksum Did you notice this? Try reflashing your motherboard to the latest available BIOS revision, doing a load defaults, and then clearing and reseting the ESCD. -- -Chuck ___

Re: 6.x from i386 to amd64

2006-11-01 Thread Chuck Swiger
Greg Black wrote: [ ... ] Dunno about PAE on i386 (and don't much care). As it happens, my amd64 box is hardly higher end, but it has slots for 4GB and its doco claims that it can run with 4GB. However, to my great displeasure, I discovered after setting it up that both its BIOS and any OS I

Re: partioning failed

2006-10-25 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 25, 2006, at 3:39 PM, Freek Nossin wrote: Then I tried Carl's advice and bought a 80-connector cable. And amazingly enough... It worked! But I wonder, why is FreeBSD so picky about it? My previous Windows installation did not itch a bit. And should this not be documented anywhere

Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD

2006-10-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 23, 2006, at 4:01 PM, Mike Jakubik wrote: I am in the process of implementing a fairly large mysql server for an even larger company, and naturally i want to use FreeBSD. The hardware will be an HP DL385, 2 x dual-core Opterons, 16GB RAM, 7 x 15k rpm disks in a RAID5 setup. I'm not

Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD

2006-10-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 23, 2006, at 4:44 PM, Mike Jakubik wrote: Moderately...it kinda depends on the budget available. I regard Solaris + Oracle as one of the most reliable combinations for moderate to extreme load, for a system that might well be in operation for five to ten years. If I was going to do

Re: 5 to 6

2006-10-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 19, 2006, at 9:39 AM, Randy Bush wrote: do folk actually successfully upgrade # uname -a FreeBSD psg.com 5.5-STABLE FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE #15: Sun Oct 1 18:41:24 GMT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PSG i386 to RELENG_6 *safely* on a many-user production system using

Re: Runaway kernel? Or an attack?

2006-10-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 18, 2006, at 1:07 PM, Andresen, Jason R. wrote: Ok, I have a recurring problem with my webserver. Once a day or so it gets locked into a loop with some random server usually somewhere in my ISP. When it does this, it spends all of its time spitting out packets and getting FIN, ACKs

Re: Userland freezes during heavy packet forwarding workloads

2006-10-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 12, 2006, at 2:11 PM, Scott Ullrich wrote: We (pfSense developers) have noticed an interesting problem where userland stops functioning under high packet forwarding workloads. Userland applications such as sshd and lighttpd freeze but userland resumes after the network load eases. [

Re: Capture all incoming/outgoing email messages

2006-10-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 6, 2006, at 1:11 PM, Dominik Zalewski wrote: I just want to capture all smtp/pop3 traffic in packets level. OK: tcpdump -w /var/log/mailarchive.dump -s 0 port smtp or port pop3 But be aware that you should disclose the existence of this mail monitoring to all users, consult your

Re: optimization levels for 6-STABLE build{kernel,world}

2006-09-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Sep 13, 2006, at 9:42 PM, Gary Kline wrote: -funroll-loops is as likely to decrease performance for a particular program as it is to help. Isn't the compiler intelligent enough to have a reasonable limit, N, of the loops it will unroll to ensure a faster runtime?

Re: ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?!

2006-09-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Sep 13, 2006, at 11:15 AM, Gary Kline wrote: Well, after this lengthy discussion, I've switched to -RELEASE. -STABLE just ain't... We all realize that none of us would put out a buggy release--not even -CURRENT. But let me ask the next obvious question. How

Re: optimization levels for 6-STABLE build{kernel,world}

2006-09-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Sep 13, 2006, at 4:49 PM, Gary Kline wrote: A couple of things. Will having gcc unroll loops have any negative consequences? Yes, it certainly can have negative consequences. The primary intent of using that option is to change a loop from executing the test or control

Re: Junk Pointer Error

2006-08-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Aug 23, 2006, at 12:00 PM, Matthias Schuendehuette wrote: I compiled net/krb5 today on my 6.1-STABLE machine. As I tried to initialize Kerberos with '/usr/local/bin/kinit User@Domain I got the following error: kinit in free(): error: junk pointer, too high to make sense Abort trap: 6

Re: 5.5 to 6.1 upgrade

2006-08-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Aug 23, 2006, at 4:41 PM, Greg Byshenk wrote: As a possible point of clarification, my comments earlier (and, I suspect similar comments of others) were not meant to imply that one should not rebuild ports after a major upgrade, but only that one need not do so _before_ upgrading.

Re: 5.5 to 6.1 upgrade

2006-08-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Aug 22, 2006, at 11:56 AM, Todorov @ Paladin wrote: [ ... ] How to find which is dynamically using libs and which application is not? You can use ldd. In practice, however, pretty much all software nowadays depends on shared libraries, so it's reasonable to do a pkg_delete -a after

Re: Gateway [SOLVED]

2006-08-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Aug 19, 2006, at 10:58 PM, SigmaX asdf wrote: Found my problem. T[h]e firewall_type option is case sensitive -- and OPEN is supposed to be lowercase. The firewall_type option isn't case-sensitive, and hasn't been since early 4.x; see /etc/rc.firewall: case ${firewall_type} in

Re: TOP shows above 100% WCPU usage

2006-08-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Aug 16, 2006, at 10:28 PM, Bill LeFebvre wrote: You have multiple CPUs, so a threaded process can theoretically reach 100*ncpus cpu usage. Ahh, thats makes sense, thanks. Actually it doesn't. IMO, %CPU should be biased for all available cpu, not just a single cpu. In other words, a

Re: Please confirm: top(1) cpu time broken on FreeBSD 6.1 (RELEASE/STABLE) SMP ?

2006-07-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi, Martin-- Martin Blapp wrote: [ ...test program to create load... ] CPU states: 50.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 50.0% idle You've probably got HTT disabled by sysctl rather than in the BIOS. In that case, top sees that your system claims to have 4 CPUs, but you're

Re: MySQL and default memory limits (mysqld: Out of memory)

2006-07-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
Mike Jakubik wrote: [ ... ] Why are the limits so low by default? In any case, this is what i found in LINT. options MAXDSIZ=(1024UL*1024*1024) options MAXSSIZ=(128UL*1024*1024) options DFLDSIZ=(1024UL*1024*1024) I have no idea what those values mean, what should i set

Re: MySQL and default memory limits (mysqld: Out of memory)

2006-07-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
Mike Jakubik wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: 512MB is more than enough for almost all processes to run just fine, and is only really inappropriate for the case where you've got 1-plus GB of physical RAM and want to dedicate the system to a single large task, or perhaps a single-digit number

Re: conftest dies with signal 12

2006-07-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: I have seen messages like this on every FreeBSD machine that I have ever built. Can anybody indicate to me what this means? pid 60038 (conftest), uid 0: exited on signal 12 (core dumped) While building software which uses GNU autoconf, ./configure tries to build

Re: NFS Locking Issue

2006-07-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
Michel Talon wrote: [ ...a long email snipped... ] My only conclusion is that these NFS stories are very tricky. The only moment everything worked fine was when we were running Solaris on the server. I can't speak to the earlier part about NFS with Linux, but at least I very much agree with

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Tor issues (Once More, with Feeling)

2006-06-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
Peter Thoenen wrote: --- Fabian Keil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ ... ] Is anyone on this list running a Tor node on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE or later with similar or higher load? I am hitting the same issue still Fabian. I had that PR closed as works for me with insignificant testing. I am still

Re: leaking blocked processes in vmstat ... how to debug?

2006-06-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
Marc G. Fournier wrote: Up to 48 right now, and still nothing to show for it ... Perhaps it is not clear to you that under Unix is it normal for processes to block waiting on events like user input, a signal indicating a timer has fired or a pipe has more data, etc. The reason you are

Re: vmstat 'b' (disk busy?) field keeps climbing ...

2006-06-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
Marc G. Fournier wrote: [ ... ] 31750 vnode pager pageins 15954 vnode pager pageouts It's the vnode pager, not the swap pager. AIUI, that's mostly paging in and out pages of running binaries (from the image on disk), not moving stuff in and out of swapspace. ah, okay ... Yeah-- it's

Re: kern.ipc.maxpipekva ...

2006-06-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
Marc G. Fournier wrote: [ ... ] Figuring that the last time I checked, I was using something like 7000 pipes, @ 16k each, I should be setting it closer to 128M, and that is assuming no 64k pipes ... So, is there an 'upper max' that it won't allow me to set it past? Read man tuning about

Re: resolv.conf and dhclient

2006-06-05 Thread Chuck Swiger
Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: What is the best approach to keep dhclient from overwriting /etc/resolv.conf every time it gets a new lease on an IP address? Perhaps: chflags schg /etc/resolv.conf This has been a frustrating search as Google has turned up next to nothing on the issue other

Re: pagezero again

2006-05-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
Ivan Voras wrote: Some time ago I reported that pagezero kernel thread sometime takes (what seems to me) a too large chunk of available CPU (30%) on a very busy web server. There were no replies :( Since then, I've reconfigured apache to use PHP as a fastcgi module and the problem seems to

Re: Hyperthreading in 6.x ... still frowned upon?

2006-05-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
Marc G. Fournier wrote: In 4.x, it was a 'shut it off' sort of deal .. my new amd64 don't appear to have it enabled, but my older i386 server that I just upgraded to 6.x does: user pid %cpu %mem vsz rss tt state starttime command root 14 104.0 0.0 0 8 ?? RL

Re: resolver doesn't see resolv.conf changes

2006-04-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: The solution is to run a local caching nameserver instance. You should do this anyway, for performance reasons. Add 'named_enable=YES' to /etc/rc.conf, and modify your /etc/dhclient.conf as follows: Good idea, but this defeates the

Re: Needs suggestion for redundant Storage

2006-04-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
Michael Schuh wrote: Hi everyone, i need suggestions and hints about an redundant storage-system. My requirements are: a Storage that is available via Network, flexible in scalation, and must be redundant, and cheap if possible My Own suggestion was this scenario: 2 boxes very cheap for

Re: Disappointed

2006-04-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
Alexey Karagodov wrote: 2006/4/6, Chris H. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [ ... ] and again. if *NIX developers can't answer user's question, they say get out or it's your problem or try something else or For that matter; you're not required to use it at all. everytime one answer for multiple question WE

Re: Segfaults from gcc, awk and Zend; advice needed

2006-03-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
Alban wrote: For some reason I'm getting more or less random segfaults compiling kernels, world or PHP5 on BETA-3 (Python and perl went ok). So far I haven't succeeded building a fresh kernel or world. This system is an Athlon XP with 1MB RAM and 4GB swap, compiling is done in the usual

Re: SSH login takes very long time...sometimes

2006-02-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
Yar Tikhiy wrote: [ ... ] A similar effect was observed when a `domain' line was specified in resolv.conf in place of `search'. Is there a real reason to retry with a different domain when the nameserver doesn't respond at all? UDP is lossy, and it may take a nameserver longer to respond

Re: SSH login takes very long time...sometimes

2006-02-25 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote: [ ... ] For ftp.c.diff, how about considering adding new option for timeout? However, I'm still in doubt. I cannot think it is usual situation that there are unreachable IP addresses in /etc/resolv.conf. Certainly that situation is not usual, in the sense that

Re: 2 NICs, SMP, weird kernel ARP messages

2006-02-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
Thomas Franck wrote: [ ... ] It doesn't seem to affect the function of the server, but it's mighty irritating and blows up the logs a lot... plus, I don't think it's supposed to show this behaviour.. :) I've going through the archives web but the threads I found didn't fit my case.. :(

Re: 2 NICs, SMP, weird kernel ARP messages

2006-02-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
Thomas Franck wrote: On 17 Feb 2006 at 8:07, Chuck Swiger wrote: [ ... ] Isn't the request broadcast and the reply MAC addressed? ARPOP_REQUESTs are made to the all-ones broadcast MAC address, and ARPOP_REPLYs go back addressed to the sender's MAC. FreeBSD notes when ARP traffic is seen which

Re: clock reverts to epoch on boot?

2006-02-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
Vinny Abello wrote: [ ... ] I may try doing a cvsup of source and rebuilding again. My make.conf settings are pretty tame: CPUTYPE=pentium4 CFLAGS= -O2 -pipe COPTFLAGS= -O -pipe Remove the CPUTYPE declaration, or at least decrease it to just pentium. -- -Chuck

Re: clock reverts to epoch on boot?

2006-02-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
Vinny Abello wrote: [ ... ] Nevermind. I just answered my own question. I should have RTFM more carefully. :) :-) If CPUTYPE is defined in your /etc/make.conf, make sure to use the ?= instead of the = assignment operator, so that buildworld can override the CPUTYPE if it

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
David W. Hankins wrote: On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 01:37:33AM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: [ ...sorry for the minor delay, realjob sometimes interferes... ] OK, cool. Are you doing anything with regard to Zeroconf/Rendezvous? Not really, no, except when DHCP options appear to turn off IPv4LL

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
David W. Hankins wrote: Marcin Jessa wrote: Son't be silly. What if you dont know what IP you will get from the lease? That's what working implementation of DHCP is for... I thought that was why FreeBSD moved away from ISC DHCP to OpenBSD dhclient? Actually, I guess I never did

Re: ipfilter + bge strangeness

2006-01-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
Koen Martens wrote: [ ... ] With 5.4, there was only the rxcsum option for the bge card, not a txcsum. It worked fine with rxcsum enabled on 5.4.. What are the consequences of disabling {rx,tx}csum? What is wrong with enabling it on 6-STABLE? The consequence is your CPU has to spend the

Re: POKE

2006-01-24 Thread Chuck Swiger
Scott Markwell wrote: -- Scott Markwell Whoosh! If you poke me, I'll whoosh! you back... :-) -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: High interrupt on Dell PowerEdge 2400

2006-01-24 Thread Chuck Swiger
Eli K. Breen wrote: Does anyone have any explanation and resolution for the excessive interrupt%?: Does turning off USB and/or changing the BIOS option to assign an IRQ to the USB controller help? -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing

Re: SCSI RAID card recommendation (1/2 height PCI-X U320 SCSI dual channel)

2006-01-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
Vivek Khera wrote: On Jan 5, 2006, at 11:08 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: There's an interesting thread about the AMR RAID controller used in the newer 18x0/28x0 Dells with the PERC/4 controller, and I know of enough people using them that such improvements (by Doug Ambrisko?) will be welcomed

Re: SCSI RAID card recommendation (1/2 height PCI-X U320 SCSI dual channel)

2006-01-05 Thread Chuck Swiger
Vivek Khera wrote: [ ... ] The only other aac controller I have is a Dell PERC type which is god- awful slow, but I hear that's dell's fault not adaptec's. I don't know what to believe there. That card is quite stable however. Any experiences with this that anyone wishes to share?

Re: Fast releases demand binary updates.. (Was: Release schedule for 2006)

2005-12-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
Jo Rhett wrote: On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 06:55:03PM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: YMMV. I burned a 6.0 release from the ISO image, and did a binary upgrade on an IBM ThinkPad (T.34? maybe), which worked perfectly. All of the 5.x binaries, including X11, KDE, printing, Mozilla, etc worked just

Re: Update from 6.0-RELEASE fails

2005-12-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 04:58:01PM +0100, Frank Steinborn wrote: i'm trying to update to -STABLE from today from a 6.0-RELEASE and make installworld fails here: [ ... ] === libexec/bootpd (install) install -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 bootpd /usr/libexec strip:

Re: Fast releases demand binary updates.. (Was: Release schedule for 2006)

2005-12-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
Joe Rhett wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 12:04:05AM -0700, Scott Long wrote: There will be three FreeBSD 6 releases in 2006. While this is nice, may I suggest that it is time to put aside/delay one release cycle and come up with a binary update mechanism supported well by the OS? Increasing

Re: (no subject)

2005-11-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
Matthew Tomsa wrote: What is the difference between RELEASE versions, STABLE versions, and CURRENT versions? I've done some reading but I'm still a bit confused. Thanks. -CURRENT is alpha. -STABLE is supposed to be the leading edge of functionality yet be stable enough for production use;

Re: NFS network load on 5.4-STABLE

2005-11-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
Mike Eubanks wrote: As soon as I mount my NFS file systems, the network load increases to a constant 80%-90% of network bandwidth, even when the file systems are not in use. NFS stats on the client machine (nfsstat -c) produce the following: [ ... ] Fsstat and Requests are increasing very

Re: 5.x, 6.x and CPUTYPE

2005-11-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
Craig Boston wrote: On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 12:05:13PM +1000, Joel Hatton wrote: Thanks, Craig. I'm glad to hear that I'm not alone in pursuing this method. Do you know of any particular disadvantages of continuing with this less-than-optimised model - I guess I mean, is this something that is

Re: Disk 100% busy

2005-11-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
Francisco wrote: On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Brad Knowles wrote: Note that RAID-1 is the second worst-case for mail server performance -- it accelerates reads (if you have mirror load-balancing), but all writes are required to be held until complete on both disks. The only worse case would be

Re: make.conf for 6.0

2005-10-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
dick hoogendijk wrote: My make.conf contains (fbsd-5.4) CFLAGS= -O -pipe COPTFLAGS= -O -pipe Are these settings the same for the upcoming release6 or do I need to set -O2 in this new version? FreeBSD is moving towards -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing by default [1], but there is nothing wrong with

Re: setsockopt and SO_RCV/SNDTIMEO

2005-10-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
Gleb Smirnoff wrote: On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 05:04:40PM +0300, Lefteris Tsintjelis wrote: L You are expecting wrong from these socket options. They do not specify L time after which socket should be closed, if no IO is done. L L Is there any easy build in functionality for that? Pardon, but I

Re: burncd input output error

2005-09-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
Andreas Klemm wrote: [ ... ] - burncd leaves cdrom in a way that CD cannot be mounted after burning, one has to open and re-close CD tray manually before one is able to mount the frshly burned CD. This is an issue with the drive firmware more than anything to do with software. Most

Re: Oldie: underscores in 'names ... on -stable?

2005-09-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: [ ... ] If I try it with ping in a shell (on FreeBSD), it also fails. However both 'host' and 'nslookup' happily foes a lookup of that name. so it seems that our resolver (on FreeBSD) is to blame. I have seen a few old (ok, from 2003) mailing list posts, which seems to

Re: 6.0 and -O2 option

2005-08-31 Thread Chuck Swiger
Jim C. Nasby wrote: On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 10:57:53AM +1000, Robert Backhaus wrote: [ ... ] Simply because not every port works with -O2 optimisations. It caused bad code in some circumstances. Is there an automated way to identify those ports so they can be forced not to use -O higer than

Re: Sysinstall automatic filesystem size generation.

2005-08-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
Jon Dama wrote: yes, that's quite generous. why isn't /tmp just an mfs mount though? While I like that suggestion personally, some people get perturbed about files in /tmp going away if the power fails or you reboot. -- -Chuck ___

Re: Sysinstall automatic filesystem size generation.

2005-08-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
Matthias Buelow wrote: Don Lewis wrote: [ ... ] Did you remember to disable write caching by setting the WCE mode page bit to zero? At least with SCSI, it doesn't seem to affect performance under most workloads. No.. I thought that with SCSI it is ok to leave the cache enabled because SCSI

Re: Sysinstall automatic filesystem size generation.

2005-08-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
Matthias Buelow wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: PS: Haven't we had this conversation before? Yes, indeed, and I don't want to reopen that issue since that would lead to no new insights (and since I don't have the time atm. to contribute anything I couldn't provide any stuff myself). Yet you seem

Re: Sysinstall automatic filesystem size generation.

2005-08-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
J. T. Farmer wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: Matthias Buelow wrote: Yes, indeed, and I don't want to reopen that issue since that would lead to no new insights (and since I don't have the time atm. to contribute anything I couldn't provide any stuff myself). Yet you seem willing to spend time

Re: Sysinstall automatic filesystem size generation.

2005-08-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
Matthias Buelow wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: Yet you seem willing to spend time discussing the matter...? Because it's somewhat of my pet peeve and I always see the mantra-like repetition of the argument that you have to disable the write-back cache if you want any safety at all

Re: Difference btw installing 5.4 Release in Safe mode and Normal?

2005-08-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
Ivailo Bonev wrote: What is the difference between installing 5.4 Release in Safe mode and Normal installation? Tried installing Normal installation on laptop paniced, but with Safe mode is ok? Safe mode disables ACPI/APM, it disables APIC and SMP, it slows down the hard drives and so

Re: Create 2.5TB file system on 5.4S?

2005-08-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
Brandon Fosdick wrote: Erik Stian Tefre wrote: You can avoid the problem by splitting the array up in partitions smaller than 2TB each. (I know this does not answer your question, but it simplifies things, and it works for me(TM)... :-) :) Thanks, but I thought of that already. This is

Re: ad10: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=11441599

2005-08-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
Karl Denninger wrote: On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 12:46:04AM +0200, S?ren Schmidt wrote: [ ... ] I've already gone WAY out of my way to try to support the sii3112, and I'm not inclined to waste more of my precious spare time on it. However, if it really is that important to enough people to try

Re: ad10: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=11441599

2005-08-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
O. Hartmann wrote: [ ... ] One of my SATA disks, the SAMSUNG SP2004C seems to show errors during operation (and also showd under 5.4-RELEASE-p3). Sometimes I get this error: ad10: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=11441599 while the machine still keeps working. Other

Re: dhclient: send_packet: No buffer space available

2005-08-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
Pertti Kosunen wrote: Pertti Kosunen wrote: What could cause dhclient sometimes to fail renew the lease? I updated world and moved to pf from ipfw same time so i don't know which to blame. This happens from twice a day to every few days. Jul 21 03:44:55 myserver dhclient: send_packet: No

Odd I/O performance with 5-STABLE, interrupt storm against USB...?

2005-07-31 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi, all-- I am seeing lower-than-expected I/O performance on a Dell PowerEdge 2850, using two of these: da0: MAXTOR ATLAS10K5_73SCA JNZM Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da0: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz, offset 127, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled da0: 70007MB (143374650 512 byte

Re: dangerous situation with shutdown process

2005-07-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
Matthias Buelow wrote: John-Mark Gurney wrote: [ ... ] Why am I arguing in an uphill battle here? Is data safety no longer important to the FreeBSD community? Such issues should not even have to be discussed at all! You ask a good question: so, just why are *you* arguing? [1] If sysctl

Re: Routes not deleted after link down

2005-06-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
Michal Vanco wrote: i discovered that routes are not deleted from routing table after link on interface goes down. For example: [ ... ] Should't all routes via bge0 be deleted after link on bge0 goes down? Maybe. If the system was not going to be reconnected to that network anytime soon,

Re: Routes not deleted after link down

2005-06-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
Michal Vanco wrote: On Saturday 18 June 2005 20:48, Chuck Swiger wrote: [ ... ] Maybe. If the system was not going to be reconnected to that network anytime soon, it would be a good idea. On the other hand, if the link down was due to a transient failure of a wireless connection, which

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