Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

2010-01-26 Thread Ivan Voras
On 01/25/10 19:53, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: That's just the thing -- I/O transactions, not to mention ZFS itself, are CPU-bound. If you start seeing slow I/O as a result of the Atom's limitations, I don't think there's anything that can be done about it. Choose wisely. :-) It's not *that*

8-stable crashes in vmware (possible em driver issue?)

2010-01-23 Thread Ivan Voras
I have a fairly recent 8-stable machine running under VMWare ESXi 3.5 (amd64 guest), which apparently crashes every few days from the same causes: em0: discard frame w/o packet header em0: discard frame w/o packet header em0: discard frame w/o packet header Panic string: sbsndptr: sockbuf

Re: posting coding bounties, appropriate money amounts?

2010-01-22 Thread Ivan Voras
Dan Naumov wrote: Hello I am curious about posting some coding bounties, my current interest revolves around improving the ZVOL functionality in FreeBSD: fixing the known ZVOL SWAP reliability/stability problems as well as making ZVOLs work as a dumpon device (as is already the case in

Re: An old gripe: Reading via mmap stinks

2010-01-15 Thread Ivan Voras
Andrew Snow wrote: Hi Mikhail, I assume these tests were done on UFS. Have you tried ZFS? I'm curious to see the results. I suspect it would be noticably worse :) AFAIK ZFS integration with mmap does at least one extra in-memory data copy. ___

Re: Please explain FreeBSD 8.0/ZFS memory usage patterns

2010-01-12 Thread Ivan Voras
Benjamin Lutz wrote: Hello, I've set up a FreeBSD-8.0/amd64 system with ZFS as a home server, and I'm a bit puzzled by it's memory usage pattern; I'm seeing total memory usage oscillate between roughly 50% and 90% of my RAM. So I've tracked memory usage over the course of about 12 hours and

Re: ZFS performance degradation over time

2010-01-09 Thread Ivan Voras
Andrew Snow wrote: Ivan Voras wrote: It is true that ZFS in theory doesn't do very well with random writes of any kind - the kind that torrent clients do should actually be the worst case for ZFS, *but*, this very much depends on the actual workload. ZFS has aggressive read-ahead

Re: ZFS performance degradation over time

2010-01-06 Thread Ivan Voras
On 3.1.2010 17:42, Garrett Moore wrote: I'm having problems with ZFS performance. When my system comes up, read/write speeds are excellent (testing with dd if=/dev/zero of=/tank/bigfile and dd if=/tank/bigfile of=/dev/null); I get at least 100MB/s on both reads and writes, and I'm happy with

Re: Disc lock up on 8.0-STABLE

2009-12-27 Thread Ivan Voras
Pete French wrote: Interesting... I just got another hard lock on the system, not at 3am this time. The only other common factor in this is that the lockup is always preceeded by a flood of failed ssh logins. I;m sure we've all seen these - I get them on every BSD system I have - they look like

Re: 8-STABLE: support for this SMB controller?

2009-12-27 Thread Ivan Voras
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 07:19:24AM +0100, Oliver Lehmann wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: If all you're looking for is CPU temperature, try looking at ACPI thermal zones. Some BIOSes/mainboard manufacturers implement this on workstations. Otherwise, if you have a Intel

Re: iSCSI initiator and Dell PowerVault MD3000i

2009-12-17 Thread Ivan Voras
2009/12/17 Miroslav Lachman 000.f...@quip.cz: please Cc: me, I am not subscribed to freebsd-scsi Sossi Andrej wrote: On 16. 12. 2009 15:57, Miroslav Lachman wrote: [...] I use MD300i with FreeBSD 7.0 and 7.1 with iscsi-2.2.2. It work fine. But be careful to configure MD3000i. MD3000i assign

Re: Passenger hangs on live and SEGV on tests possible threading / kernel bug?

2009-12-17 Thread Ivan Voras
Steven Hartland wrote: I will look to do the same on for the hang issue but that's on a live site so will need to schedule some downtime before I can get those rebuilt and then wait for it to hang again, which could be quite some time :( Actually, you can rebuild it *and* reinstall libc

Re: Stability problems with 7-stable (after 7.1 - 7.2 - 7-stable)

2009-12-15 Thread Ivan Voras
Alexander Leidinger wrote: Hi, please CC me on replies. I have a system which was at 7.1-pX. After the update to 7.2-p5 it started to exhibit deadlocks after some minutes of uptime. With 7.1 (generic kernel) it was running fine, with 7.2 generic the problems started directly. The system

Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0?

2009-12-01 Thread Ivan Voras
Michal wrote: O. Hartmann wrote: I'm just wondering what's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0/amd64 when I read the Benchmarks on Phoronix.org's website. Especially FreeBSD's threaded I/O shows in contrast to all claims that have been to be improoved the opposite. oh This all reminds me of a few

Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0?

2009-11-30 Thread Ivan Voras
Adam Vande More wrote: I think it's fairly well known disk io isn't FreeBSD's strong suit, but it's not quite as bad as it looks. There is some low-hanging fruit here. If you where to actually tune ZFS as recommended you'd see stronger results and hopefully ahci will be enabled by default

Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0?

2009-11-30 Thread Ivan Voras
Bill Moran wrote: In response to Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org: Thomas Backman wrote: On Nov 30, 2009, at 9:47 AM, O. Hartmann wrote: I'm just wondering what's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0/amd64 when I read the Benchmarks on Phoronix.org's website. Especially FreeBSD's threaded I/O shows

Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0?

2009-11-30 Thread Ivan Voras
Robert Huff wrote: Bill Moran writes: It's common knowledge that the default value for vfs.read_max is non- optimal for most hardware and that significant performance improvements can be made in most cases by raising it. Documentation/discussion where? There is no documentation

Re: Can't use gpt labels re-importing pool

2009-11-26 Thread Ivan Voras
Edho P Arief wrote: for some reasons it sounds to me like 'avoiding problem' since device name shouldn't matter in zfs (or so I read) Theoretically, you should be right, but the details are still fuzzy. At the very least, the sequence zpool export - shuffle drives around - zpool import

Re: Can't use gpt labels re-importing pool

2009-11-26 Thread Ivan Voras
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Why are people bothering with GPT labels (or in some cases, glabels) when AHCI (whether it be ataahci.ko or ahci.ko) is in use? Under what circumstance would the device name change dynamically in this situation? I've never witnessed this happening with AHCI, at least on

Curiously unable to access network - bce, 7.2-RELEASE on a HP blade server

2009-11-14 Thread Ivan Voras
The symptoms are: * The device (bce0, bce1) comes up, is visible in ifconfig, can be configured, is UP and RUNNING, everything looks fine * Apparently, it simply doesn't work - no ping responses, TCP, nothing * But tcpdump shows that the NIC apparently does receive multicast router

Re: Curiously unable to access network - bce, 7.2-RELEASE on a HP blade server

2009-11-14 Thread Ivan Voras
I forgot to attach hardware details: bce0: HP NC373i Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter (B2) ASIC 0x57081021 Rev B2 B/C 0x04040105 Flags 2.5G Additional data point: I cannot reconfigure the card to 100 Mbit operation (currently in 1000baseSX autoselect, full-duplex). Ivan Voras wrote

Re: Curiously unable to access network - bce, 7.2-RELEASE on a HP blade server

2009-11-14 Thread Ivan Voras
2009/11/14 Miroslav Lachman 000.f...@quip.cz: Ivan Voras wrote: I forgot to attach hardware details: bce0: HP NC373i Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter (B2) ASIC 0x57081021 Rev B2 B/C 0x04040105 Flags 2.5G Additional data point: I cannot reconfigure the card to 100 Mbit operation

Re: /bin/sh core dumps on FreeBSD 7.2

2009-11-12 Thread Ivan Voras
Hans F. Nordhaug wrote: Hi! Suddenly /bin/sh started to crash all the time with core dumps. I'm running FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p4 (i386) and I have not updated anything lately. The /bin/sh binary seems to be untouched. It might be some hardware trouble, but the machine seems to run OK now. (I had

SMART

2009-11-12 Thread Ivan Voras
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: I can teach you how to decode/read SMART statistics correctly. Actually, it would be good if you taught more than him :) I've always wondered how important are each of the dozen or so statistics and what indicates what... Here is for example my desktop drive:

Re: SMART

2009-11-12 Thread Ivan Voras
Thomas Backman wrote: On Nov 12, 2009, at 1:25 PM, Ivan Voras wrote: Actually, it would be good if you taught more than him :) I've always wondered how important are each of the dozen or so statistics and what indicates what... Here is for example my desktop drive: SMART Attributes Data

Re: SMART

2009-11-12 Thread Ivan Voras
Bruce Cran wrote: On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:56:16 +0100 Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: Yes, it's Seagate. Statistically I have the least problems with their drives. But I imagine that lack of standardization about these statistics very much limits the usability of SMART, right? The main

Re: SMART

2009-11-12 Thread Ivan Voras
Dimitry Andric wrote: On 2009-11-12 14:35, Ivan Voras wrote: I've seen it. But I don't remember if they addressed the problem of nonstandard interpretations of statistics? Note the statistics you quoted are Vendor Specific SMART Attributes, so it is quite logical for different vendors to have

Re: 8.0-rc2 dropped hardsupport

2009-11-12 Thread Ivan Voras
John Baldwin wrote: On Thursday 12 November 2009 9:26:38 am Marten Vijn wrote: Support for the following devices seems not to be continued in 8.0 (and 7.2 and higher): - WRAP 1C - WRAP 2E (EOL) - ALIX 1C Both devices stopped booting as described in several postings and pr's. What are these

Re: 8.0-rc2 dropped hardsupport

2009-11-12 Thread Ivan Voras
Marten Vijn wrote: Support for the following devices seems not to be continued in 8.0 (and 7.2 and higher): - ALIX 1C For what it's worth, I've run the entire 7-STABLE and 8-CURRENT/STABLE development cycle kernels on a similarily equipped fit-pc with AMD Geode (I think it is LX800)

8.0RC2 top statistics seem broken

2009-11-10 Thread Ivan Voras
Here is what I'm seeing now: last pid: 70893; load averages: 1.70, 1.10, 0.58 up 27+02:59:26 16:23:59 134 processes: 3 running, 131 sleeping CPU: 94.8% user, 0.0% nice, 4.6% system, 0.6% interrupt, 0.0% idle Mem: 309M

Re: 8.0RC2 top statistics seem broken

2009-11-10 Thread Ivan Voras
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 04:29:37PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: Here is what I'm seeing now: last pid: 70893; load averages: 1.70, 1.10, 0.58 up 27+02:59:26 16:23:59 134 processes: 3 running, 131 sleeping CPU: 94.8% user, 0.0% nice, 4.6% system, 0.6% interrupt

Re: Performance issues with 8.0 ZFS and sendfile/lighttpd

2009-11-07 Thread Ivan Voras
2009/11/7 Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com: Yes, loader values are one year old when I installed this machine. But I think auto tuning was commited after 7.2-RELEASE by Kip Macy, so some of them are still needed or am I wrong? (this is 7.2-RELEASE). ... We don't know, because none

Re: Performance issues with 8.0 ZFS and sendfile/lighttpd

2009-11-07 Thread Ivan Voras
2009/11/7 Miroslav Lachman 000.f...@quip.cz: And as you noted, read, write, fault, total and percent are not updated on machine with ZFS, so I can't compare it with UFS2 based machine. Is this bug in top fixed in 8.x? Will you file a PR? (you know more about FS related things than me :])

Re: Performance issues with 8.0 ZFS and sendfile/lighttpd

2009-11-02 Thread Ivan Voras
gnu...@alltel.blackberry.com wrote: I can send in more documentation later but I am seeing severe zfs performance issues with lighttpd. Same machine using UFS will push 1gbit or more but same content and traffic load can not hit 200mbit. Ufs does around 3 megabytes/sec IO at 800mbit network but

Re: Performance issues with 8.0 ZFS and sendfile/lighttpd

2009-11-02 Thread Ivan Voras
Miroslav Lachman wrote: Ivan Voras wrote: gnu...@alltel.blackberry.com wrote: I can send in more documentation later but I am seeing severe zfs performance issues with lighttpd. Same machine using UFS will push 1gbit or more but same content and traffic load can not hit 200mbit. Ufs does

Re: Performance issues with 8.0 ZFS and sendfile/lighttpd

2009-11-02 Thread Ivan Voras
Miroslav Lachman wrote: Ivan Voras wrote: Miroslav Lachman wrote: [..] I have more strange issue with Lighttpd in jail on top of ZFS. Lighttpd is serving static content (mp3 downloads thru flash player). Is runs fine for relatively small number of parallel clients with bandwidth about 30

Re: hostapd deauthenticated due to local deauth request - possibly a rum(4) problem?

2009-11-01 Thread Ivan Voras
Paul B Mahol wrote: On 10/31/09, Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/31/09, Ivan Voras ivo...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to setup an AP with a run0 interface on latest 8-STABLE but apparently 802.11 association fails: Oct 31 16:21:30 ursaminor hostapd: wlan0: STA 00:22:69:07:30:9e

hostapd deauthenticated due to local deauth request

2009-10-31 Thread Ivan Voras
I'm trying to setup an AP with a run0 interface on latest 8-STABLE but apparently 802.11 association fails: Oct 31 16:21:30 ursaminor hostapd: wlan0: STA 00:22:69:07:30:9e IEEE 802.11: associated Oct 31 16:21:33 ursaminor hostapd: wlan0: STA 00:22:69:07:30:9e IEEE 802.11: deauthenticated due to

Interesting problem updating samba after 7-8 transition

2009-10-20 Thread Ivan Voras
I upgraded (via source) a system from 7-stable to 8-stable and Samba now fails in a strange way. Starting the executable results in an immediate ABORT: ursaminor:/usr/local/sbin# ./smbd Abort And running ktrace on it results in an extremely short ktrace.out: ursaminor:/usr/local/sbin# ktrace

Re: Interesting problem updating samba after 7-8 transition

2009-10-20 Thread Ivan Voras
Ronald Klop wrote: Read about the latest ERRATA NOTICES's. There is something with PIE-library's (which are used by Samba) which defaults to doesn't-work in 8 and still works in 7. People are working on a real fix for 8. In the ERRATA NOTICES is a setting which you can set to does-work.

Re: Extreme console latency during disk IO (8.0-RC1, previous releases also affected according to others)

2009-10-19 Thread Ivan Voras
Ivan Voras wrote: Another data point - the OS in the VM in question hanged today sometime after 5 AM in the following way: * console nonresponsive (also to ctrl-alt-del) * ssh login nonresponsive (timeout) * ping works (!) Judging by the last seen timestamp, the machine should

Re: Extreme console latency during disk IO (8.0-RC1, previous releases also affected according to others)

2009-10-15 Thread Ivan Voras
Ivan Voras wrote: 2009/10/13 Larry Rosenman l...@lerctr.org: note huge packet loss. It looks like it's VM fault or something like it. It sounds like the VM is failing to execute the guest during certain types of I/O. A bit of scheduler tracing in the host OS probably wouldn't go amiss

Re: Extreme console latency during disk IO (8.0-RC1, previous releases also affected according to others)

2009-10-14 Thread Ivan Voras
Larry Rosenman wrote: On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Ivan Voras wrote: As for what data is needed, it depends on what you can get - from this discussion thread it looks like it would be enough to verify that disk IO doesn't leave VM processes waiting (i.e. that disk IO doesn't interfere with CPU-bound

Re: Extreme console latency during disk IO (8.0-RC1, previous releases also affected according to others)

2009-10-14 Thread Ivan Voras
Kris Kennaway wrote: Ivan Voras wrote: I recall others having various weird problems in 3.5 that went away when they upgraded to 4.0. It would be a good idea except that apparently my installation is unupgradeable because of unsupported boot disk (a SCSI RAID volume

Re: Extreme console latency during disk IO (8.0-RC1, previous releases also affected according to others)

2009-10-13 Thread Ivan Voras
Thomas Backman wrote: I'm copying this over from the freebsd-performance list, as I'm looking for a few more opinions - not on the problems *I* am having, but rather to check whether the problem is universal or not, and if not, find a possible common factor. In other words: I want to hear

Re: Extreme console latency during disk IO (8.0-RC1, previous releases also affected according to others)

2009-10-13 Thread Ivan Voras
2009/10/13 Robert Watson rwat...@freebsd.org: On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Ivan Voras wrote: Thomas Backman wrote: I'm copying this over from the freebsd-performance list, as I'm looking for a few more opinions - not on the problems *I* am having, but rather to check whether the problem

Re: Extreme console latency during disk IO (8.0-RC1, previous releases also affected according to others)

2009-10-13 Thread Ivan Voras
Robert N. M. Watson wrote: On 13 Oct 2009, at 14:33, Ivan Voras wrote: If (1) is highly variable during I/O, it's almost certainly a property of the VM technology you're using, and there's nought to be done about it in the guest OS. Here's an example of a ping session with 0.1s resolution

Re: Extreme console latency during disk IO (8.0-RC1, previous releases also affected according to others)

2009-10-13 Thread Ivan Voras
Robert N. M. Watson wrote: On 13 Oct 2009, at 14:33, Ivan Voras wrote: If (1) is highly variable during I/O, it's almost certainly a property of the VM technology you're using, and there's nought to be done about it in the guest OS. Here's an example of a ping session with 0.1s resolution

Re: Extreme console latency during disk IO (8.0-RC1, previous releases also affected according to others)

2009-10-13 Thread Ivan Voras
2009/10/13 Larry Rosenman l...@lerctr.org: note huge packet loss. It looks like it's VM fault or something like it. It sounds like the VM is failing to execute the guest during certain types of I/O. A bit of scheduler tracing in the host OS probably wouldn't go amiss to confirm that the VM

Re: FreeBSD 8.0-BETA4 IBM ServerRaid 8k issues

2009-09-14 Thread Ivan Voras
George Mamalakis wrote: Artis, and the rest of the guys, thank you all for your answers. Ivan, I was thinking of using one of the techniques you mention (create two volumes, install fbsd on one of them, and use GTP on the second drive), but I was wondering if there would be any

Re: 8.0-B4 gstripe / GEOM_PART_* upgrade woes

2009-09-11 Thread Ivan Voras
Stephen Hurd wrote: I've upgraded from 7.2-RELEASE_p2 to 8.0-BETA4 and using GEOM_PART_* with my sliced gstripe array causes the /dev/stripe/raid0a to disappear and the reset of the /dev/stripe/raid0[a-z] file systems to be unmountable. My gvinum array is still working fine and, after chasing

Re: FreeBSD 8.0-BETA4 IBM ServerRaid 8k issues

2009-09-10 Thread Ivan Voras
George Mamalakis wrote: Hello everybody, Yesterday I installed FreeBSD 8.0-BETA4 on an IBM 3650, having a 3650 M1 or M2? ServerRaid 8k adapter, and 6 sata disks on raid-6. The raid-6 volume was synchronizing for a day, so this syncing process was happening while I was installing fbsd on

Re: svn commit: r197065 - in stable/8: etc/defaults lib/libc/stdlib sys/amd64/conf sys/i386/conf sys/ia64/conf sys/pc98/conf sys/powerpc/conf sys/sparc64/conf

2009-09-10 Thread Ivan Voras
2009/9/10 Ken Smith kensm...@cse.buffalo.edu: On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 15:29 +0100, Gavin Atkinson wrote: This seems like a step backwards to me: crash dumps have been left enabled in 7.x and have proved very useful from the point of view of improved quality of received PRs.  I'm not aware of

Re: FreeBSD 8.0-BETA4 IBM ServerRaid 8k issues

2009-09-10 Thread Ivan Voras
2009/9/10 George Mamalakis mama...@eng.auth.gr: Thank you for your answer again, and (now that you mentioned it:) ) in case anyone knows whether we'll be able to see partitions 2T in the future (or now?!), please say how :). Actually, FreeBSD can use arbitrary sized drives and partitions

Re: zfs on gmirror slice

2009-09-01 Thread Ivan Voras
Maciej Jan Broniarz wrote: Hi, Is is a bad ida to create a zfs pool from a gmirrored slice? zpool create tank /dev/mirror/gm0s1g works fine, but after the reboot the filesystem failes consistency check. It *should* work. What error(s) do you get? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: SCSI device not created upon a CF card plug in

2009-07-22 Thread Ivan Voras
Milan Obuch wrote: On Wednesday 22 July 2009 04:20:27 Sagara Wijetunga wrote: Hi FreeBSD community The SCSI device (eg. da1s1) is not created automatically upon a CF card plug in on an USB multi-card reader on FreeBSD 7.2 (i386) but the SCSI device (eg. da1s1) is created automatically if I

Re: SCSI device not created upon a CF card plug in

2009-07-22 Thread Ivan Voras
Milan Obuch wrote: On Wednesday 22 July 2009 09:38:50 Ivan Voras wrote: [ snip ] After the CF card is plugged in: $ ls -l /dev/ | grep da crw-r- 1 rootoperator0, 105 Jul 22 13:18 da0 crw-r- 1 rootoperator0, 106 Jul 22 13:18 da1 crw-r- 1 rootoperator0

Re: ZFS RAIDZ and atacontrol spindown settings

2009-07-20 Thread Ivan Voras
Mark Stapper wrote: Good day, I am the proud user of a FreeBSD 7.2 AMD64 system housing, amongst other things, a data server. My server(It's called Yoshi) runs FreeBSD from a mirrored system disc, and has a zfs RAIDZ array with 4 discs for bulky data. As it is a home server, and I work during

Re: gstripe problem

2009-07-17 Thread Ivan Voras
Nenhum_de_Nos wrote: hail, I have a problem with gstripe on today stable. I created this stripe using a bit more old stable (two weeks tops) and it can't be read on old stable (from 30/12/2008). So I recreated in 8-BETA1 and I could mount and see files. When I tried again on 30/12/2008

Re: ZFS, unionfs - Operation not supported

2009-07-14 Thread Ivan Voras
Oliver Pinter wrote: Hi all! It is the problematic FS: zpower on /mnt/zpower (zfs, local) /usr/src on /mnt/zpower/jail/default/ports (nullfs, local) and the failed command: mount_unionfs -o below /mnt/zpower/jail/default/ports/ /mnt/zpower/jail/www/usr/ports/ (truss mount_unionfs -o below

Re: hw.realmem in stable.

2009-07-07 Thread Ivan Voras
Amza Marian wrote: Thank you sir. Is there any solution for this issue ? (because applications does not work correctly. - like mysql.) Why wouldn't MySQL work correctly? Does it inspect FreeBSD sysctls? (why would it, since you can configure its memory usage through its configuration

Re: Open Vs Free BSD

2009-06-19 Thread Ivan Voras
Kim Attree wrote: NetBSD runs on just about anything. That's it's primary goal. Since I don't have any weird hardware, I've never had a use for NetBSD. I don't use NetBSD either but some recent development that come from that camp are very interesting: * Journalling UFS (smart journalling,

Re: Unnamed POSIX shared semaphores

2009-06-08 Thread Ivan Voras
John Baldwin wrote: On Monday 01 June 2009 5:17:48 pm Bruce Simpson wrote: Jilles Tjoelker wrote: If process-shared semaphores really work, then the above structure is not a pathological case. Effectively, sem_t is carved in stone. So process-private semaphores should continue to have most of

Re: ZFS on top of GELI / Intel Atom 330 system

2009-05-29 Thread Ivan Voras
Emil Mikulic wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 12:47:38PM +0200, Morgan Wesstr?m wrote: You can benchmark the encryption subsytem only, like this: # kldload geom_zero # geli onetime -s 4096 -l 256 gzero # sysctl kern.geom.zero.clear=0 # dd if=/dev/gzero.eli of=/dev/null bs=1M count=512 I

Re: gjournal locks up

2009-05-25 Thread Ivan Voras
David N wrote: The first time it locked up was when i was copying cp -va from one disk (degraded mirrror) to the other disk (degraded mirror + gjournal). Copied around 40GB until it locked up. It did it 3 times before i manage to copy everything over. Re-syncing of the mirror works fine.

Re: gjournal locks up

2009-05-25 Thread Ivan Voras
David N wrote: 2009/5/25 Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org: David N wrote: The first time it locked up was when i was copying cp -va from one disk (degraded mirrror) to the other disk (degraded mirror + gjournal). Copied around 40GB until it locked up. It did it 3 times before i manage to copy

Re: gjournal locks up

2009-05-25 Thread Ivan Voras
Marat N.Afanasyev wrote: usually when disc subsystem locks no program can be launched neither top, nor ps ;) i'd rather use ^T while cp hang Depending on where it's stuck. You can start top before it locks up and leave it running. If it's only the low levels that are stuck, precaching ps will

Re: File system corruption

2009-05-13 Thread Ivan Voras
Maciej Milewski wrote: Tuesday 12 May 2009 20:10:57 Pat Wendorf napisał(a): I have a co-lo server I've been maintaining for a few years now running IDE drives on a mostly terrible UPS. A few months ago, when it returned from a power outage (running 6.2-R) I started noticing the following in

Re: Looking for FreeBSD Update mirrors for 7.2-RELEASE

2009-04-24 Thread Ivan Voras
Colin Percival wrote: Hi all, When 7.1-RELEASE came out, FreeBSD Update was overwhelmed by the burst of traffic as thousands of people tried to upgrade at once. I'd like to make sure this doesn't happen again, so I'm looking for some extra temporary mirror capacity. How are the servers

Re: Evaluating the performance of a single FreeBSD server

2009-04-24 Thread Ivan Voras
Michel Di Croci wrote: colocation environment) and use it as a starting server and runs an Apache + PHP + PostgreSQL (for a long run stable and expandable DB). If it starts to Even if we forget everything else you said, Apache + PHP + PostgreSQL means you have at least ... BOTE calculation ...

Re: RELENG_7: chatty geom

2009-04-13 Thread Ivan Voras
Mike Jakubik wrote: Just an FYI, i am also seeing this on a recent cvsup. Apr 8 14:27:15 iwinbackdb kernel: GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider mfid0s1a is ufsid/49c7c009b41af703. Glabel is telling you you can abandon mounting device nodes and can use labels for it. Apr 8 14:27:15 iwinbackdb

Re: FreeBSD and iSCSI for disks.

2009-04-09 Thread Ivan Voras
Robert Blayzor wrote: On Apr 7, 2009, at 5:43 PM, Garance A Drosihn wrote: Some friends of mine are looking at the new DroboPro, which makes a lot of disk space available via iSCSI (in addition to firewire 800), and they were wondering how well iSCSI works with FreeBSD. I haven't paid

Re: FreeBSD and iSCSI for disks.

2009-04-09 Thread Ivan Voras
Danny Braniss wrote: This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --enig90DADA8437A99D893FB775F8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Danny Braniss wrote: Garance A Drosihn wrote: Some friends of mine are looking at

Re: FreeBSD and iSCSI for disks.

2009-04-09 Thread Ivan Voras
2009/4/9 Danny Braniss da...@cs.huji.ac.il: The configuration is: target0 {         targetaddress =3D 161.53.72.65         targetname =3D iqn.2007-09.jp.ne.peach:disk1         tags =3D 16 } Q: what kernel? Q: what target? 7-STABLE AMD64. btw, without the camcontrol tags, is it

Re: FreeBSD and iSCSI for disks.

2009-04-09 Thread Ivan Voras
2009/4/9 John Nielsen li...@jnielsen.net: Q: what kernel? From his previous message it looks like 7-STABLE amd64 Q: what target? From the targetname it looks like the recently committed net/istgt running on another FreeBSD machine. Correct on both :)

Re: FreeBSD and iSCSI for disks.

2009-04-08 Thread Ivan Voras
Garance A Drosihn wrote: Some friends of mine are looking at the new DroboPro, which makes a lot of disk space available via iSCSI (in addition to firewire 800), and they were wondering how well iSCSI works with FreeBSD. I haven't paid attention to iSCSI support. Is there anyone using it

ZFSKnownProblems - needs revision?

2009-04-08 Thread Ivan Voras
Hi, I've been pinged by two people already that it's possible that the problems listed at: http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSKnownProblems have been fixed in 7-STABLE, and that the page needs to be significantly revised to sound less scary. Since I unfortunately don't have any ZFS systems in

Re: ZFSKnownProblems - needs revision?

2009-04-08 Thread Ivan Voras
Ivan Voras wrote: * Are the issues on the list still there? * Are there any new issues? * Is somebody running ZFS in production (non-trivial loads) with success? What architecture / RAM / load / applications used? * How is your memory load? (does it leave enough memory for other services

Re: FreeBSD and iSCSI for disks.

2009-04-08 Thread Ivan Voras
Danny Braniss wrote: Garance A Drosihn wrote: Some friends of mine are looking at the new DroboPro, which makes a lot of disk space available via iSCSI (in addition to firewire 800), and they were wondering how well iSCSI works with FreeBSD. I haven't paid attention to iSCSI support. Is

Re: ZFSKnownProblems - needs revision?

2009-04-08 Thread Ivan Voras
2009/4/8 Miroslav Lachman 000.f...@quip.cz: (Lighttpd problem may be related to jail instead of ZFS - I did not test it yet) Completely unrelated to ZFS, but wasn't there some issue with lighttpd and sendfile() relatively recently (sendfile is the default)? Have you tried

Re: FreeBSD 7.2-BETA1 crash

2009-04-04 Thread Ivan Voras
Mike Tancsa wrote: At 12:43 AM 4/3/2009, Ken Smith wrote: The first of the test builds for the FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE cycle is now available. Testing of two recent changes to the system would be particularly valuable. The bce(4) network driver was updated a few days ago. And some

Re: 32bit filesystem limitations

2009-03-31 Thread Ivan Voras
Andrei Kolu wrote: Ivan Voras wrote: 2009/3/25 Barry Pederson b...@barryp.org: Is there any reason not to skip labeling/partitioning and use da1 directly? Just newfs it and mount it. I've done this with a couple large Areca arrays with no ill effect so far. Nope, no practical

Re: 32bit filesystem limitations

2009-03-25 Thread Ivan Voras
Andrei Kolu wrote: Hi, I have trouble to create FreeBSD 7.1 i386 partition/slice to 3Ware 8port raid kontroller with 8x500GB drives attached to it. Raid 5 massive is 3,1TB in size and during sysinstall installation I select whole available space but after restart I can access only 1,2TB

Re: 32bit filesystem limitations

2009-03-25 Thread Ivan Voras
Andrei Kolu wrote: Ivan Voras wrote: Andrei Kolu wrote: Hi, I have trouble to create FreeBSD 7.1 i386 partition/slice to 3Ware 8port raid kontroller with 8x500GB drives attached to it. Raid 5 massive is 3,1TB in size and during sysinstall installation I select whole available space

Re: 32bit filesystem limitations

2009-03-25 Thread Ivan Voras
2009/3/25 Barry Pederson b...@barryp.org: Is there any reason not to skip labeling/partitioning and use da1 directly?  Just newfs it and mount it.  I've done this with a couple large Areca arrays with no ill effect so far. Nope, no practical reason. Skip the partitioning if you don't need it.

Re: Performance with hundreds of nullfs mounts?

2009-03-12 Thread Ivan Voras
Russell Jackson wrote: Ivan Voras wrote: hi, I seem to remember hearing an anecdote somewhere that using hundreds (or thousands?) nullfs mounts for jails results in unreasonably bad file system access performance. Does somebody have this kind of setup / is it true? I was doing

Performance with hundreds of nullfs mounts?

2009-03-10 Thread Ivan Voras
hi, I seem to remember hearing an anecdote somewhere that using hundreds (or thousands?) nullfs mounts for jails results in unreasonably bad file system access performance. Does somebody have this kind of setup / is it true? ___

Re: updated geom_sched code

2009-03-08 Thread Ivan Voras
Luigi Rizzo wrote: Hi all, this is an update on the work that Fabio Checconi and I are doing on disk scheduling, which was first announced here a couple of months ago: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2009-January/047597.html Since the previous version, we have done

Re: IPC Sys5 for amd64?

2009-03-03 Thread Ivan Voras
nico...@boiteameuh.org wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to install a PostgreSQL db on FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE amd64. It's seems I can't allocate a shared memory segment more than 2GB. I tune sysctl ipc.shm* values but without effects. IPC Sys5 isn't 64bit-aware or the problem is elsewhere? Yes,

Re: HEADS UP: Major CAM performance regression

2009-02-14 Thread Ivan Voras
2009/2/14 Scott Long sco...@samsco.org: I'll try your suggestion if you have one. I don't have a magic universal testing suite in my back pocket, sorry. You need to look at your expected workload and develop tests to simulate it. When I do testing during driver development, I try a lot of

Re: HEADS UP: Major CAM performance regression

2009-02-13 Thread Ivan Voras
2009/2/13 Scott Long sco...@samsco.org: Ivan Voras wrote: Scott Long wrote: I have committed a fix for this problem for FreeBSD 8-CURRENT as of SVN revision 188570. FreeBSD 7-STABLE will be updated with the fix in a few days once I've gotten confirmation that the fix works and doesn't cause

Re: FBSD 7.1 XEON Quad Core

2009-02-07 Thread Ivan Voras
Todorov wrote: Hi list, what are the good make.conf options for the Xeon Quad core. CPUTYPE=core2 ?? It's probably better to use CFLAGS+=-O2 -mtune=native Also is there any benefit to use AMD64 platform for this CPU? (Java Diablo + PGSQL 8.1 + Apache + Apache Tomcat) Yes, if you have

Re: Free memory after upgrade to 7.1

2009-02-04 Thread Ivan Voras
Tomas Randa wrote: Hello, I have i386/PAE system (php, apache22, mysql) running on 7-STABLE and I can see strange behavior after upgrade from 7.0: Apache does not free memory, for example: CPU: 31.2% user, 0.0% nice, 12.8% system, 0.7% interrupt, 55.3% idle Mem: 3520M Active, 3705M

Re: iscsi unsupported INQUIRY

2009-01-23 Thread Ivan Voras
Andrei Kolu wrote: I configured iscsi-target on FreeBSD 7.1 and after I mounted target from VMware ESXi I got this following error message: --- Jan 23 14:26:35 srv6 iscsi-target:

Re: ZFSv13 in RELENG7

2009-01-12 Thread Ivan Voras
Andrew Snow wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: On the other hand, 8-current seems to run quite stable at the moment; I have it running on a workstation for several weeks without problems. What date of CURRENT are you running? I tracked down crashes related to changes in SMBFS, but I am still

Re: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

2008-12-18 Thread Ivan Voras
Paul MacKenzie wrote: last pid: 46013; load averages: 105.30, 67.67, 34.45 up 4+23:59:42 19:08:40 629 processes: 89 running, 540 sleeping CPU: 21.9% user, 0.0% nice, 74.5% system, 3.1% interrupt, 0.4% idle Mem: 1538M Active, 11G Inact, 898M

Re: more zfs/nfs panics

2008-12-16 Thread Ivan Voras
Danny Braniss wrote: Hi, I'm trying to tar a rather big directory via nfs (some 800gb), it has many subdirectories, some of them with many files (close to 10^6 :-) just before the server panics, the tar (on the client) starts complaining about lost files, or permition denied, but not in

Re: rc.firewall: default loopback rules are set up even for custom file

2008-12-08 Thread Ivan Voras
Andriy Gapon wrote: on 04/12/2008 12:31 Andriy Gapon said the following: I've just realized that I see in releng/7 something that I did not see in releng/6 - even if I use a file with custom rules in firewall_type I still get default loopback rules installed. I think that this is not correct,

Re: visibility of release process

2008-12-08 Thread Ivan Voras
Ken Smith wrote: On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 20:57 +1100, Aristedes Maniatis wrote: I've resisted sending this email for a while since I really don't want to start a bikeshed nor a flame. However there comes a time to express my thoughts over the lack of visibility of the release process for

Re: php-cgi frozen with sbwait when SMP enable

2008-11-25 Thread Ivan Voras
Ken Chen wrote: Change to configuration to solve this problem: #server.network-backend = freebsd-sendfile server.network-backend = writev http://redmine.lighttpd.net/boards/2/topics/show/141 Good to know. Please consider posting a PR. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: High system in %system load .

2008-11-19 Thread Ivan Voras
Igor Lyapin wrote: I already sent # top head in my first mail that's all non idle top process last pid: 56920; load averages: 2.90, 2.25, 1.72 up 0+22:10:12 20:04:05 210 processes: 2 running, 207 sleeping, 1 zombie CPU states: 8.3% user, 0.0% nice, 32.5% system,

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