Re: Good, stable gigabit nic?

2005-10-08 Thread Garrett Wollman
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My gigabit nic has gone bad (after months of working just fine it's saying sk0 watchdog timeout after a day or so of operation - temp fix is to reboot) - I'm looking for pointers for a low cos but functional gigabit PCI 32 card that runs

Brief Report: Acer AS5002LMi notebook with FreeBSD

2005-12-03 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Sat, 3 Dec 2005 11:36:28 + (GMT), Robert Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Last week, I ordered byself a new notebook -- for reasons of price, stock, features, etc, I went with the Lenovo z60t 2511. Hmmm. Last week, I ordered myself a new laptop -- for reasons of price, availability,

Re: Possibility for FreeBSD 4.11 Extended Support

2006-12-21 Thread Garrett Wollman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -5.x was never really for production use, in the same way 3.x never was. Why do people continue to say this? Many sites have used, are still using, and plan to continue to use, 5.x in production. ftp5/cvsup3 ran 5.x until a few months ago, and I have a netnews

Re: send() returns error even though data is sent, TCP connection still alive

2007-01-31 Thread Garrett Wollman
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jeff Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should see something like write failed: host is down and the session will terminate. Of course, when ssh exits, the TCP connection closes. The only way to see that it's still open and active is by writing (or using) an

Re: is localtime file binary compatible with older releases?

2007-02-27 Thread Garrett Wollman
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: Is the compiled time zone info file binary compatible across FreeBSD versions? It is backwards-compatible across all versions of the Olson timezone library going back to before there was a FreeBSD, on all platforms, regardless of architecture (modulo bugs

Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-03:04.sendmail

2003-03-03 Thread Garrett Wollman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barney Wolff writes: As of 13:06 EST, the commits had made it to head but were NOT tagged with RELENG_4 or RELENG_5_0 from cvsup3. cvsup3 updates every hour at 15 after. I'm afraid you were just unlucky. - -GAWollman

Re: POSIX_C_SOURCE

2003-08-30 Thread Garrett Wollman
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: Any chance that someone will finally commit the fixes to prevent the POSIX_C_SOURCE warnings from showing up? I saw a number of posts on this topic, but it still seems like it's not officially committed /usr/include/sys/cdefs.h:273: warning:

Re: 5-STABLE softupdates issue?

2004-11-24 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 20:36:09 +0100, Matthias Andree [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I posted about softupdate problems on a SCSI system with DISABLED WRITE CACHE, on a somewhat flakey Micropolis drive that froze and caused If the hardware is broken, all bets are off, soft updates or no. -GAWollman

Re: new zoneinfo for 5.5-R?

2006-03-23 Thread Garrett Wollman
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve Ames writes: For us poor saps in Indiana... could we get a new zoneinfo port prior to 5.5-R? Sorry, I've been unable to devote any attention at all to FreeBSD in the past three months or so. I'm hoping to clear the backlog soon, but I don't think that I'll be able to

Re: sendmail traffic analysis

2001-05-11 Thread Garrett Wollman
In article 20010511172756$[EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: I'm not sure how to monitor sendmail with SNMP, and would be interested in hearing from others what tools they use to monitor SMTP traffic on their FreeBSD systems. Depends on what and how you want to monitor. For BIND, I wrote a little

Re: Problems with mergemaster

2001-06-13 Thread Garrett Wollman
In article mit.lcs.mail.freebsd-stable/045401c0f426$4a45d900$[EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: *** Problem installing ./foo , it will remain to merge by hand That's because someone(tm) removed the `-c' options to `install' from the -stable version of mergemaster, even though the -stable version

Re: FreeBSD 4.4 upcoming release/timetabling/mirroring

2001-09-10 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 12:47:32 -0700, Jordan Hubbard [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: No, I didn't miss it. You and Jason are simply asking for information I don't have to give you and you're not going to get. You are trying to tell me you are incapable of running `du -s | mail freebsd-hubs' before

Re: cvsup Problem?

2002-08-15 Thread Garrett Wollman
In article mit.lcs.mail.freebsd-stable/[EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: /usr/local/etc/cvsup/prefixes/FreeBSD.cvs/src/contrib/sendmail/BuildTools/OS/A-UX,v: randy Is anyone else getting this message, and is it being fixed? I've been told it's only on cvsup3. Try changing servers until it is

Re: Upgrading to 7.0 - stupid requirements

2008-03-22 Thread Garrett Wollman
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Freddie Cash writes: Oh, gods, please, no! That is one of the things I absolutely hate about Debian (and its derivatives). There are some packages on Debian where they use separate text files for each configuration option (ProFTPd, for examples). It is a huge mess

Re: umass causes panic on 7 amd64

2008-04-17 Thread Garrett Wollman
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eh I think I saw something like this myself. Do you by a chance have that new device sg in your kernel? I assume you do (GENERIC) - try to drop it. I am not sure if this is some brokenness of that driver or fighting of several USB drivers

Re: /sbin/reboot

2010-12-09 Thread Garrett Wollman
In article aanlktikggsyrlnds6oihw2u3syjezrrqwdsa9z4t7...@mail.gmail.com, amvandem...@gmail.com writes: For the correct order, shutdown -r calls reboot which calls init which calls rc.shutdown. No. shutdown(8) sends a SIGINT to init(8), which runs rc.shutdown and then calls reboot(2) as its

Re: RFC: Upgrade BIND version in RELENG_7 to BIND 9.6.x

2010-12-18 Thread Garrett Wollman
In article 4d0c49a2.4000...@freebsd.org, do...@freebsd.org writes: In order to avoid repeating the scenario where we have a version of BIND in the base that is not supported by the vendor I am proposing that we upgrade to BIND 9.6-ESV in FreeBSD RELENG_7. +1 All users are going to want working

Re: unable to pwd in ZFS snapshot

2010-12-26 Thread Garrett Wollman
In article alpine.osx.2.00.1012261912460.43...@hotlap.local, sp...@bway.net writes: Other gotchas would be some of the periodic scripts - you don't want locate.updatedb traversing all that, or the setuid checks. locate.updatedb in 9-current doesn't do that, by default. Arguably you want the

Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default

2011-12-12 Thread Garrett Wollman
In article 4ee6295b.3020...@cran.org.uk, brucecran.org.uk writes: This isn't something that can be fixed by tuning ULE? For example for desktop applications kern.sched.preempt_thresh should be set to 224 from its default. Where do you get that idea? I've never seen any evidence for this

Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default

2011-12-12 Thread Garrett Wollman
In article 4ee6595c.3080...@cran.org.uk, br...@cran.org.uk writes: On 12/12/2011 19:23, Garrett Wollman wrote: Where do you get that idea? I've never seen any evidence for this proposition (although the claim is repeated often enough). What are the specific circumstances that make this useful

Re: New BSD Installer

2012-02-16 Thread Garrett Wollman
In article 20120217021019.ga61...@icarus.home.lan, Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote: So for version 0.90 of their metadata format, you lose drive capacity by about 64-128KBytes, given that the space is needed for metadata. Which is exactly what geom_mirror does, amazingly enough.

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 release - memstick installation fails

2012-03-02 Thread Garrett Wollman
In article 719f8e0e-f88d-48e7-b2b7-aba44b4f4...@free.de, galla...@free.de wrote: Trying to install 9.0 release with a USB stick. I use FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img At first the bootup looks promising, but in the end it stops with Root mount waiting for: usbus2 usbus1 usbus The 9.0

Deadlock (?) with ZFS, NFS

2012-03-07 Thread Garrett Wollman
This is unfortunately a very difficult issue to report (particularly because I don't have console access to the machine until I get into the office to reboot it). My server was happily serving NFS on top of a huge ZFS pool when it ground to a halt -- but only partially. All of the nfsd threads

Re: FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 Available...

2012-08-24 Thread Garrett Wollman
In article 20120825041357.gd1...@glenbarber.us, g...@freebsd.org writes: On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 04:55:48AM +0100, Ben Morrow wrote: 1. Is is sensible|supported to use freebsd-update to update just the src component, followed by a normal buildworld/buildkernel to update the rest of the system?

Re: Kernel panic with geom_multipath + ZFS

2012-09-11 Thread Garrett Wollman
In article 504f4049.9080...@dest-unreach.be, nio...@dest-unreach.be writes: I'm under the illusion that I've found a bug in the FreeBSD kernel, but since I'm new to FreeBSD, a quiet voice tells me it's probably a case of you're doing it wrong. Nope. It's a known bug in the version of

Re: 9.1-RC2 ixgbe lagg problems

2012-10-17 Thread Garrett Wollman
In article cakvzwmwu2mouq7h5xa1aqxdomtmlj6fg98trsd5xmlfpcp5...@mail.gmail.com, wynnwil...@gmail.com writes: I've tried the 2.4.4 driver from Intel's site, but it still has the same problems. Is a lagg using lacp with the ix interfaces working for anyone else? You bet. lagg0:

Re: Anothe pkgng question: signing a repository

2012-12-27 Thread Garrett Wollman
In article 20121227162311$6...@grapevine.csail.mit.edu, rai...@ultra-secure.de writes: I'm creating my own repository and have created a key for it. [...] What does pkg expect to be in this file? A public key. It does not use X.509 (nor is there any reason why it should, although I suppose it

Re: RFC: Suggesting ZFS best practices in FreeBSD

2013-01-25 Thread Garrett Wollman
In article alpine.bsf.2.00.1301252014160.37...@wonkity.com, wbl...@wonkity.com writes: As far as best practices, situations vary so much that I don't know if any drive ID method can be recommended. For a FreeBSD ZFS document, a useful sample configuration is going to be small enough that

ZFS deadlock on rrl-rr_ -- look familiar to anyone?

2013-01-28 Thread Garrett Wollman
I just had a big fileserver deadlock in an odd way. I was investigating a user's problem, and decided for various reasons to restart mountd. It had been complaining like this: Jan 28 21:06:43 nfs-prod-1 mountd[1108]: can't delete exports for /usr/local/.zfs/snapshot/monthly-2013-01: Invalid

More on odd ZFS not-quite-deadlock

2013-01-30 Thread Garrett Wollman
I posted a few days ago about what I thought was a ZFS-related almost-deadlock. I have a bit more information now, but I'm still puzzled. Hopefully someone else has seen this before. While things are in the hung state, a zfs recv is running. It's receiving an empty snapshot to one of the many

Interpreting vmstat -z output

2013-02-09 Thread Garrett Wollman
On a server that's been experiencing some issues, I note the following in vmstat -z: ITEM SIZE LIMIT USED FREE REQ FAIL SLEEP UMA Kegs: 208, 0, 188, 16, 188, 0, 0 UMA Zones: 3456, 0, 188, 0, 188,

Re: IPMI serial console

2013-02-21 Thread Garrett Wollman
In article 20130221233838.gb92...@icarus.home.lan, j...@koitsu.org writes: Wow, that's disappointing. I wonder if the underlying IPMI firmware has a bug relating to using serial port speeds other than 115200. The bug may be in the BIOS where it claims you can select some other speed. Certainly

A useful munin plugin for monitoring memory usage

2013-02-22 Thread Garrett Wollman
We were having some memory starvation issues (which it turned out were caused by our backup system), and I found it useful to create a munin plugin to monitor UMA statistics (as displayed by 'vmstat -z'). As I'm not interested in dealing with github.com, I thought I would share it with the people

Re: ZFS stalls -- and maybe we should be talking about defaults?

2013-03-04 Thread Garrett Wollman
In article 8c68812328e3483ba9786ef155911...@multiplay.co.uk, kill...@multiplay.co.uk writes: Now interesting you should say that I've seen a stall recently on ZFS only box running on 6 x SSD RAIDZ2. The stall was caused by fairly large mysql import, with nothing else running. Then it happened I

Re: Reinstalling boot blocks on a ZFS-only system

2013-05-12 Thread Garrett Wollman
In article 20130512205837.ga69...@icarus.home.lan, j...@koitsu.org writes: You may also need to set kern.geom.debugflags=0x10 to inhibit GEOM's safety measure / to permit writing to LBA 0; see GEOM(4) and search for the word foot. If you have set up your partitioning properly (read: following

Re: Reinstalling boot blocks on a ZFS-only system

2013-05-12 Thread Garrett Wollman
In article 20130513032838.ga76...@icarus.home.lan, j...@koitsu.org write: https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot 5. Install the Protected MBR (pmbr) and gptzfsboot loader Bug #1: Protective, not Protected. Fixit# gpart bootcode -b /mnt2/boot/pmbr -p /mnt2/boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ad0

Re: portupgrade(1) | portmaster(8) -- which is more effective for large upgrade?

2013-06-26 Thread Garrett Wollman
In article 5e20544e3580a75759c3858f31894dc9.authentica...@ultimatedns.net, bsd-li...@lcommand.com writes: I haven't upgraded my tree(s) for awhile. My last attempt to rebuild after an updating src ports, resulted in nearly installing the entire ports tree, which is why I've waited so long. Try

Re: portupgrade(1) | portmaster(8) -- which is more effective for large upgrade?

2013-06-27 Thread Garrett Wollman
In article alpine.bsf.2.00.1306270602300.99...@wonkity.com, wbl...@wonkity.com writes: On Thu, 27 Jun 2013, Garrett Wollman wrote: Having just gone through this in two different environments, I can very very strongly recommend doing the following. It's not the easy button of the TV

Re: perl upgrade woes -- how to best reconcile?

2013-07-09 Thread Garrett Wollman
In article op.wzyd6vkx34t...@markf.office.supranet.net, f...@feld.me writes: I've had zero problems with upgrades to Perl, etc after I stopped compiling my packages in the host OS and started building the packages via poudriere and using pkgng (sysutils/pkg). pkg can detect when a perl

Re: Bind in FreeBSD, security advisories

2013-07-30 Thread Garrett Wollman
In article 1375186900.23467.3223791.24cb3...@webmail.messagingengine.com, f...@freebsd.org writes: just import Unbound. However, if you can't reach any DNS servers I assume you can't reach the roots either, so I don't understand what a local recursor will gain you. There are plenty of situations

How to unstick ZFS resilver?

2013-10-14 Thread Garrett Wollman
I have a large (88-drive) zpool in which a drive was recently replaced. (The pool has a bunch of duff Toshiba MK2001TRKB drives -- never ever pay money for these! -- and I'm trying to replace them one by one before they fail completely.) The resilver on the first drive replacement has been

auditd zombies in 10.1?

2015-04-16 Thread Garrett Wollman
I notice that systems of ours which were recently upgraded to 10.1 are accumulating zombies at an alarming rate. (Well, alarming enough to cause me to be paged at 4 in the morning, at any rate!) These zombies are all children of auditd. Has anyone else seen or debugged this? -GAWollman

Re: Have I got this VIMAGE setup correct?

2016-01-03 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: >> 2) Stopping jails with virtual network stacks generates warnings from >> UMA about memory being leaked. > I'm given to understand that's Known, and presumably Not Quite Trivial > To Fix. Since I'm not starting/stopping jails repeatedly as a normal > runtime thing, I'm ignoring it.

Have I got this VIMAGE setup correct?

2015-12-22 Thread Garrett Wollman
The consensus when I asked seemed to be that VIMAGE+jail was the right combination to give every container its own private loopback interface, so I tried to build that. I noticed a few things: 1) The kernel prints out a warning message at boot time that VIMAGE is "highly experimental". Should I

Hangs with mrsas?

2016-03-07 Thread Garrett Wollman
I have a new Dell server with a typical Dell hardware RAID. pciconf identifies it as "MegaRAID SAS-3 3008 [Fury]"; mfiutil reports: mfi0 Adapter: Product Name: PERC H330 Adapter Serial Number: 5AT00PI Firmware: 25.3.0.0016 RAID Levels: Battery Backup: not present

procstat -kk: Cannot allocate memory

2016-03-08 Thread Garrett Wollman
Sometimes when running "procstat -kk", I get the following error: procstat: sysctl: kern.proc.pid: 1044: Cannot allocate memory What is the condition that causes this? Is there a static limit in procstat, or in the kernel, that needs to be increased? -GAWollman

Re: HOST_NAME_MAX not defined in unistd.h

2016-10-03 Thread Garrett Wollman
In article <20161002111719.6e22f...@x220.alogt.com>, erichsfreebsdl...@alogt.com writes: >'Host names are limited to {HOST_NAME_MAX} characters, not including >the trailing null, currently 255.' > >which makes people assume that HOST_NAME_MAX is defined in unistd.h. It should not make them

NFS server hang with backing store on ZFS and quota nearly exhausted

2016-12-20 Thread Garrett Wollman
I've opened a bug about this before, which I can't cite by number because bugzilla appears to be down at the moment. But I had this problem recur tonight under otherwise idle conditions, so I was able to get a set of kernel stacks without any confounding RPC activity going on. This is on 10.2;

Re: Trap 12 in vm_page_alloc_after()

2018-11-28 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > If you're using a Skylake, I suspect that you can set the > hw.skz63_enable tunable to 0 as a workaround, assuming you're not using > any code that relies on Intel TSX. (I don't think there's anything in > the base system that does.) There are some details in >

Re: Trap 12 in vm_page_alloc_after()

2018-11-25 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 08:24:38PM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote: >> Has anyone seen this before? It's on a busy NFS server, but hasn't >> been observed on any of our other NFS servers. >> >> ---

Trap 12 in vm_page_alloc_after()

2018-11-18 Thread Garrett Wollman
Has anyone seen this before? It's on a busy NFS server, but hasn't been observed on any of our other NFS servers. Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode cpuid = 35; apic id = 35 fault virtual address = 0x5a fault

Re: 11.2-STABLE kernel wired memory leak

2019-02-12 Thread Garrett Wollman
In article eu...@grosbein.net writes: >Long story short: 11.2-STABLE/amd64 r335757 leaked over 4600MB kernel >wired memory over 81 days uptime >out of 8GB total RAM. Not a whole lot of evidence yet, but anecdotally I'm seeing the same thing on some huge-memory NFS servers running releng/11.2.

Re: ZFS root mount regression

2019-07-22 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > Both 11.3-RELEASE announcement and Release Notes mention this: >> The ZFS filesystem has been updated to implement parallel mounting. > I strongly suggest reading Release documentation in case of troubles > after upgrade, at least. Or better, read *before* updating. Two servers

Re: ZFS root mount regression

2019-07-22 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > I am not sure how the original description leads to conclusion that > problem is related to parallel mounting. From my point of view it > sounds like a problem that root pool mounting happens based on name, not > pool GUID that needs to be passed from the loader. We have seen problem

ZFS root mount regression

2019-07-19 Thread Garrett Wollman
I recently upgraded several file servers from 11.2 to 11.3. All of them boot from a ZFS pool called "tank" (the data is in a different pool). In a couple of instances (which caused me to have to take a late-evening 140-mile drive to the remote data center where they are located), the servers