Re: well-supported SATA RAID card?

2006-03-10 Thread Kevin Oberman
. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Required audit group is missing...

2006-03-10 Thread Kevin Oberman
process is unaffected by the requirement for the audit group, there appeared no reason to note it in UPDATING. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone

Re: configure scripts ignores parameters

2006-03-03 Thread Kevin Oberman
has reported this error to the bash developers. If te latest bash version fixes the problem, it's a bit too late to report it. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: configure scripts ignores parameters

2006-03-03 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 12:39:25 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 09:33:55AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: I hope someone has reported this error to the bash developers. If te latest bash version fixes the problem, it's a bit too late to report

Re: HT1000 serial ATA support

2006-02-23 Thread Kevin Oberman
can do for making this device fully functional on full speed. You may have already tried, but can you set it to a higher speed with atacontrol? I have never tried this with a SATA drive, so I don't know if it will help. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest

Re: Need serious help with Dell D600 Latitude laptop and Power Management please :)

2006-02-19 Thread Kevin Oberman
, but that change has not gone into anything else. If you can run without USB, take it out of yo9ur kernel. It will keep your system way to busy, even if nothing is plugged into any USB port. There are probably things I have missed, but these are big ones. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy

Re: Odd performance problems after upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0-Stable

2006-02-12 Thread Kevin Oberman
Kevin Oberman wrote: I recently upgraded my last desktop system from 4.11-Stable to 6.0-Stable. I did an update to 5.3 then to RELENG_5, RELENG_6_0_0_RELEASE and on to RELENG6_0. This system has been updated regularly from the days of at least 4.1. The hardware is a 1GHz PIII with an ICH2

Re: freeBSD 5.5 Prerelease ( 5.4 stable )

2006-02-10 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 21:00:05 +0100 From: Bartosz Fabianowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] but i need a working OS, not a bata ! If you don't like using a beta (nothing wrong with that), you definitely should not be using -stable either. There are even less promises

Re: Trouble with mounting USB stick as user

2006-02-09 Thread Kevin Oberman
on devfs.conf. I want to create /dev/dvd and /dev/cdrom when my CD/DVD is plugged into my system. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-04 Thread Kevin Oberman
dhclient run per interface and, if it understood what the wi card was doing, it would be great. But that's not the way it is and, with the declining popularity of Prism2 based cards, it may never get updated unless someone gets sufficiently annoyed to do the work themselves. -- R. Kevin Oberman

Re: where is gnome-power-manager

2006-01-30 Thread Kevin Oberman
need some work to inter-operate correctly with the FreeBSD ACPI implementation. I believe the HAL port is in progress, although I don't know just how long it might be until it's ready. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National

Re: X.org 6.9 doesn't work with NVidia 7800 GTX (fwd)

2006-01-26 Thread Kevin Oberman
with this chipset. I installed nvidia-driver and nvidia-xconfig. It worked immediately. nvidia-xconfig modifies the existing xorg.conf (or XF85Config) to work with the nvidia driver. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Re: X.org 6.9 doesn't work with NVidia 7800 GTX (fwd)

2006-01-26 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:35:55 -0800 From: Mike O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kevin Oberman wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike O'Brien) Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 07:44:43 -0800 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If I run X -probeonly, I get a message that module fbdev cannot be found. I

Re: system laggy under load, SCHED_BSD

2006-01-22 Thread Kevin Oberman
4400+), and I doubt that the Dell will be around for more than a week or so. If there is something I can try to look at before then, I'd be happy to, but I am at a total loss as to what the problem might be. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence

Re: Where ahve all the sockets gone?

2006-01-03 Thread Kevin Oberman
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 17:55:02 +0100 Kevin Oberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have connections to several systems and a few daemons listening, both INET and INET6. Since my last upgrade, I can't see them with netstat

Re: Odd performance problems after upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0-Stable

2006-01-03 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 19:52:03 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] --45Z9DzgjV8m4Oswq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 04:45:47PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: Date: Wed

Where ahve all the sockets gone?

2006-01-02 Thread Kevin Oberman
specify -f.) -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

Re: HEADS UP: Release schedule for 2006

2005-12-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 20:46:49 +0100 From: martinko [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kevin Oberman wrote: Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 18:14:01 +0100 From: martinko [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kevin Oberman wrote: Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 14:29:39 -0600 From: Craig Boston [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL

Re: HEADS UP: Release schedule for 2006

2005-12-17 Thread Kevin Oberman
From: George Hartzell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 16:05:51 -0800 Kevin Oberman writes: [...] No. There is no conflict between Cx states and EST. Cx states specifies how deeply the CPU will sleep when idle. EST controls processor speed and voltage. In most cases, your

Re: HEADS UP: Release schedule for 2006

2005-12-17 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 18:14:01 +0100 From: martinko [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kevin Oberman wrote: Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 14:29:39 -0600 From: Craig Boston [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -cpu0: ACPI CPU (4 Cx states) on acpi0 +cpu0: ACPI CPU on acpi0 Q: Guessing that's

Re: HEADS UP: Release schedule for 2006

2005-12-16 Thread Kevin Oberman
speed and voltage. In most cases, your REALLY want to use both of these. They are very significant in saving power. (Of course, USB tends to limit the effectiveness of Cx states. I need to run without USB to get really good battery life and to make suspend (S3) really ut power drain. -- R. Kevin

Re: WPA Access Point

2005-12-15 Thread Kevin Oberman
built-in. I'm due for a new laptop in about a year and I imagine that I will never deal with anything using if_wi after that. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Odd performance problems after upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0-Stable

2005-12-14 Thread Kevin Oberman
to look? At this point I am baffled. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 ___ freebsd

Re: Odd performance problems after upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0-Stable

2005-12-14 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:17:38 -0700 From: Scott Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kevin Oberman wrote: I recently upgraded my last desktop system from 4.11-Stable to 6.0-Stable. I did an update to 5.3 then to RELENG_5, RELENG_6_0_0_RELEASE and on to RELENG6_0. This system has been updated

Re: Odd performance problems after upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0-Stable

2005-12-14 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 19:34:04 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 04:26:18PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: I am attaching a dmesg. I do have a few of drivers (uhci, pcm, psm, atkbd0 and ichsmb) that are still marked as GIANT-LOCKED, but I'm not using

Re: devfs doesn't set access rights

2005-12-13 Thread Kevin Oberman
the man page at all. Guess I'll try putting something together. Other than putting it in a PR, should I do anything else with it? -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: devfs doesn't set access rights

2005-12-13 Thread Kevin Oberman
as opposed to when a devfs entry is created on the fly does not work correctly (and, hence, the need for devfs.conf). -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: cpu-timer rate

2005-12-05 Thread Kevin Oberman
not answer why vmstat -i shows a rate of 2000 when I have set the hz to 1000. Because the rate is always twice hz. While I will concede that I have no explanation, but on all of my systems rate = HZ +/-1. I have never seen a case where rate/2 = HZ. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy

Re: cpu-timer rate

2005-12-05 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 13:47:56 -0600 From: Matthew D. Fuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 10:15:52AM -0800 I heard the voice of Kevin Oberman, and lo! it spake thus: From: Matthew D. Fuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because the rate is always twice hz. While I

Re: FreeBSD unstable on Dell 1750 using SMP?

2005-11-29 Thread Kevin Oberman
. (And this was with Windows.) -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

Re: snd_ich and syntax error

2005-11-29 Thread Kevin Oberman
, it just worked, but YMMV. (But another ICH system also incudes iicbus, iicbb, and intpm. Not sure why anymore. I suspect that these are not REALLY for sound.) -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail

Re: Unable to set device characteristics with devd

2005-11-29 Thread Kevin Oberman
From: Darren Pilgrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:04:05 -0800 From: Kevin Oberman I've been trying to use devd for a number of things, but have not gotten far. One issue is when I attach an ATAPI disk: attach 100 { device-name acd0; action

Unable to set device characteristics with devd

2005-11-28 Thread Kevin Oberman
see the device attach, but the chmod returns an error indicating that /dev/acd0 does not exist. I get similar results for other devices. Is there a delay between the attach event and the creation of the /dev entry? Am I missing something here? Maybe I should use devfs for this. -- R. Kevin Oberman

Re: xorg-clients conflicts with xterm (patch)

2005-11-15 Thread Kevin Oberman
, or something? Nope! It's that way in CVS. I got xterm-206_1 to install by deleting xorg-clients and then installing xterm-206_1 followed by xorg-clisents-6.8.2_1. It has worked fine on all 5 systems I have done it on to this point. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network

Re: IBM T42 freezes when going to sleep under X11

2005-11-14 Thread Kevin Oberman
acpi_video_load=YES and probably want to add vesa_load=YES and acpi_ibm_load=YES, although those are probably not related to your current problem. You may also need to add hw.acpi.reset_video=0 and hw.syscons.sc_no_suspend_vtswitch=1 to /etc/sysctl.conf. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences

Re: Re[2]: device polling and high load averages

2005-09-27 Thread Kevin Oberman
since the system is always polling when nothing else is going on. It does not matter what the speed of the system is as the polling loop runs continually when the CPU is idle. If you network is not very busy, you probably don't want polling. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences

Re: Advice sought on upgrading from 4.11-R to 5.4...

2005-09-21 Thread Kevin Oberman
UFS2 file systems on your partitions. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 ___ freebsd

Re: Sysinstall automatic filesystem size generation.

2005-08-31 Thread Kevin Oberman
be effected by the fsck. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

Re: USB camera

2005-08-23 Thread Kevin Oberman
are fairly inexpensive (at leat in the US) at about $25. Less on ebay. But you then need a camera offering composite video out and these can be a bit harder to come by. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail

Re: ata breakage from RELENG_5 to RELENG_6

2005-08-22 Thread Kevin Oberman
. The update to the man pages was committed to current in the past day or two. I'm not sure it it has made it to RELENG_6. You can't just specify the channel number any more. The channel is now the device name, e.g. ata0. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O

Re: update from 5.4RELESE to 5.4RELEASEP1 how

2005-08-19 Thread Kevin Oberman
that the new kernel is OK before installing the new system. If you have installed world and then cant boot the new kernel, you might being very bad shape, depending on what has changed between the new and old system. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence

Re: 5-STABLE cpufreq hotter than est from ports

2005-08-10 Thread Kevin Oberman
no negative issues. The temperature of my system is noticeably cooler when not running something that is compute intensive. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA2 Available

2005-08-05 Thread Kevin Oberman
to see problems reported there. You also might open a PR. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634

Re: dangerous situation with shutdown process

2005-07-15 Thread Kevin Oberman
that the Windows solution to this problem is to put a really, really long delay between when the system is finished syncing and when the power is turned off. This might be the best solution for FreeBSD, as well, but it will irritate people. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network

Re: dangerous situation with shutdown process

2005-07-14 Thread Kevin Oberman
actually written data. If the power goes off before the data is in cache, it's lost. I am not sure if write-cache can be turned off on SCSI, but SCSI drives seem less likely to lie about when the data is actually flushed to the drive. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network

Re: ATA HDD installer issue

2005-07-08 Thread Kevin Oberman
makes up the values reported (but not used, to the best of my knowledge) and those work fine in every case I have encountered. I'd just ignore the warning and proceed. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab

Re: FreeBSD 5.4: Is it generally unstable?GCC broken for amd64 ? (was Re: FreeBSD 5.4: Is it generally unstable?)

2005-06-09 Thread Kevin Oberman
far more frequently with Google (or Google Groups) than with the archive search tool. Note that not all FreeBSD mailing lists are present in Google Groups, but most message-ids can be found in either. Google gets around. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O

Re: Loss of serial ports after upgrade.

2005-06-09 Thread Kevin Oberman
disables the mouse, but you may want that. It looks like you managed to add these lines to your /boot/kernel.conf file. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: What to use to get remote display from a amd64 machine?

2005-06-06 Thread Kevin Oberman
. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: What to use to get remote display from a amd64 machine?

2005-06-06 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 23:20:41 +0100 From: Dick Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Kevin Oberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0616 23:16]: Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 00:11:14 +0200 From: Claus Guttesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What are people using for remote X displays on amd64

Re: Strange top(1) output

2005-05-12 Thread Kevin Oberman
) may be increased and the display re-written to take advantage of that, on the fly. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634

Re: Newbie Question About System Update

2005-04-19 Thread Kevin Oberman
then generate more poor or incomplete examples for people to trip over, the canonical answer should be to follow the instructions in UPDATING. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: UPDATE3: ATA mkIII official patches - please test!

2005-03-22 Thread Kevin Oberman
, especially if it happens in Stable. (I realize stable is not an issue at this time, but I hope it will be soon as ATA mkIII seems like a really big improvement.) -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E

Re: from 5.4-PRERELEASE - 5.3-RELEASE-p5 error?

2005-03-11 Thread Kevin Oberman
unavoidable), but you can make kernel (or make buildkernel make installkernel) which is the only officially supported way of building a kernel. The way you did it usually works, but is not officially supported and may fail in some cases. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet

Re: 4.11 to 5.3 Any issues I should know before making the change.

2005-03-10 Thread Kevin Oberman
of these upgrades and I missed one note. It was a serious mistake that took almost 3 hours to recover from. (This was a remote system. If it had been local the delay would have been about 45 minutes.) -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National

Re: 5.3 crash on boot

2005-03-10 Thread Kevin Oberman
. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: 2 ntpd (5.3-STABLE-SNAP001)

2005-03-02 Thread Kevin Oberman
are starting it twice. But this seems a bit unlikely as the second daemon should exit immediately because the network socket is already in use. But it's possible that they are stating so close together that a race condition is locking things up. (Just speculation.) -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network

Re: 2 ntpd (5.3-STABLE-SNAP001)

2005-03-02 Thread Kevin Oberman
for this reason and the fact that it there are multiple addresses only the first returned will be tried. It never fails over if that one is dead. (And, should an IPv6 address be available on a system that does not have IPv6 connectivity...). -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network

Re: Xorg 6.8.1 and SCHED_ULE vs. SCHED_4BSD

2005-03-01 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 15:24:58 +0100 From: Godwin Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 16:21:39 -0800, Kevin Oberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd say something is very wrong on your systems and I'd ALMOST bet it's ata related. Maybe ATA-MkIII would

Re: Xorg 6.8.1 and SCHED_ULE vs. SCHED_4BSD

2005-03-01 Thread Kevin Oberman
not getting properly delivered. Normally the disk IRQs are not shared, but it really looks like something was broken here for your BIOS. (And it appears to have been fixed!) -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Re: Xorg 6.8.1 and SCHED_ULE vs. SCHED_4BSD

2005-02-28 Thread Kevin Oberman
and I'd ALMOST bet it's ata related. Maybe ATA-MkIII would help things out. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634

Re: HZ in RELENG_5? tcp_subr.c related

2005-02-22 Thread Kevin Oberman
at 100 in the iX86 platforms. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 ___ freebsd-stable

Re: HZ in RELENG_5? tcp_subr.c related

2005-02-22 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 19:56:03 + (GMT) From: Robert Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Kevin Oberman wrote: In RELENG_5, the default HZ for amd64 is 1000, but for all other platforms it is 100. So amd64 users will see a ten-fold decrease in tcp_isn_tick() running

Re: HZ=1000 on slow CPUs considered harmful?

2005-02-22 Thread Kevin Oberman
. I'm sure that there are many 75 MHz Pentiums and 66 MHz 486s still running FreeBSD and even running V5. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510

Re: RELENG_4 tag in stable-supfile on 5.2.1 box - change it to RELENG_5?

2005-02-22 Thread Kevin Oberman
to RELENG_5, but be sure to read UPDATING, too. thanks, woody p.s. sorry if hotmail is sending HTML, I know, I know, all you pine users hate it. Nope. I don't see any sign of HTML. (Not that I use pine.) -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O

Re: [5-STABLE] : CDRW burning problem - acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG ILLEGAL REQUEST

2005-02-10 Thread Kevin Oberman
files, but I could not read the files. A problem I had was that the firmware updater is Windows-only, so I had to remove the drive and take it to a Windows system to do the update. After the update, I re-installed it and it ran perfectly again. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences

Re: ACPI Suspend/resume [was Re: ATA mkIII first official patches...]

2005-02-08 Thread Kevin Oberman
to resume. How do you trigger a resume?? A resume from hibernation is triggered by powering the unit on. It should see the valid hibernation file and load it into the system. (Don't hold the power switch as that will do a normal boot.) -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network

Re: ACPI Suspend/resume [was Re: ATA mkIII first official patches...]

2005-02-07 Thread Kevin Oberman
to your /boot/device.hints. Try 0x2000 first as it is less extreme. If that does not fix it, try 0x6000. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1

Re: Adjusting time on a secured FreeBSD machine.

2005-02-04 Thread Kevin Oberman
servers in /etc/ntp.conf. I find this works well, but some have complained that it takes too long. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486

Re: ATA mkIII first official patches - please test!

2005-02-04 Thread Kevin Oberman
. :-) Seriously, my T30 seems happier, too, although time will tell since it was not nearly as unhappy as yours was. (It only barked and locked up occasionally and never crashed on boot.) -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone

2005-01-30 Thread Kevin Oberman
around for longer than FreeBSD has existed. I think changing something like this would be REALLY astonishing to way too many users and developers who happen to write Perl and expect to find it where the Perl documentation say to. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet

Re: Disabling write-behind on IDE drives, and SMART

2005-01-21 Thread Kevin Oberman
when combined with softupdates. For servers that lack solid backup power (not a 10 minute UPS), I would probably turn it off. But for most systems it is probably worth the risks. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Re: Disabling write-behind on IDE drives, and SMART

2005-01-21 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 17:49:29 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 08:31:06AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 20:53:12 +1300 From: Mark Kirkwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jim C. Nasby wrote: Question one

Re: AAAA queries (was: Realtek 8139 (rl) very poor performance)

2005-01-21 Thread Kevin Oberman
, ssh, telnet, ...) have a -4 option to restrict the operation to INET. But you really need to either get the nameserver fixed or find another nameserver. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail

Re: User's cron job creates zombie process on 5.3

2005-01-20 Thread Kevin Oberman
or in the program executed, too. I trivial note: -f implies -n. There is no need to specify both, but no harm in doing so. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone

Re: Failure on today's CVS (stable, AMD)

2005-01-20 Thread Kevin Oberman
reinstallkernel can also be good friends. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 ___ freebsd

Re: backporting tail from HEAD to RELENG_5

2005-01-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
it and, even when I try to type more, my fingers insist on most at least once. Guess it's because I've been using most(1) for at least 15 years and probably closer to 20. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E

Fatal trap 12 on 5.3-Stable system

2005-01-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
(bfbf002f,2f,bfbf002f,bfbfe82c,8077800,) at syscall+0x27b Xint0x80_syscall() at Xint0x80_syscall+0x1f --- syscall (27, FreeBSD ELF32, recvmsg), eip = 0x280fb3d3, esp = 0xbfbfe76c,ebp = 0xbfbfecf4 --- Looks a lot like the large size might be over-writing something. Reproducable at will. -- R. Kevin

Re: /etc/rc: WARNING: /dev/apmctl not found

2005-01-03 Thread Kevin Oberman
, but, if your system does OK on APM, it may be a safer way to go for laptops in particular. (I run ACPI on my laptop, but I may just be a bit crazy.) -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: /etc/rc: WARNING: /dev/apmctl not found

2005-01-03 Thread Kevin Oberman
. (This will probably do nothing on a desktop.) -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634

Re: Large port updates

2004-12-07 Thread Kevin Oberman
and that one was done while I was on travel and couldn't really keep on top of the upgrade. I would STRONGLY urge that you do a portupgrade -aF to pre-fetch all source tarballs before you start. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley

Re: problems with loader

2004-12-02 Thread Kevin Oberman
it with: module_path=/boot/kernel tried. doesn' work. Anyone else see this? Still sounds like a broken module path to me. But the correct fix is in UPDATING. See the entry for 20040806. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

sys/i386/i386/busdma_machdep.c 1.59.2.2 breaks CardBus on RELENG_5

2004-12-01 Thread Kevin Oberman
is probed. I did a binary search of patches since a known good system on 11/19 and tracked it down to this update. Without it, the card works fine, With it, the system locks up. See bug i386/74601 for a few more details. Configs and logs available on request. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer

Re: ntpd v4.2 problem

2004-11-24 Thread Kevin Oberman
or you might get bored waiting for the time to sync. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634

Re: Odd error at end of make installworld

2004-11-09 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 11:15:15 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov [EMAIL PROTECTED] --a1QUDc0q7S3U7/Jg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 07:41:29AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: I think

Odd error at end of make installworld

2004-11-08 Thread Kevin Oberman
, and installworld. Since this message is the second invocation of world: in Makefile, I suspect it needs to be worked on a bit. FWIW, I was updating from 5.3-Stable of last Wednesday to -Stable of last evening (to get Nate's ACPI patches). -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet

Re: freebsd upgrade

2004-10-09 Thread Kevin Oberman
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Re: 5.3-BETA3: man pcm has wrong information

2004-09-14 Thread Kevin Oberman
can get the latest and greatest from CVS for HEAD. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/share/man/man4/ -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1

Re: Looking for ntp/PPS setup guide

2004-08-01 Thread Kevin Oberman
from the physical device (parallel or serial). ln -s /dev/ttyd0 /dev/pps0 (127.127.22.0 in ntp.conf) or ln -s /dev/ttyd1 /dev/pps0 (127.127.22.0 in ntp.conf) or ln -s /dev/ttyd1 /dev/pps1 (127.127.22.1 in ntp.conf) or ln -s /dev/ppc0 /dev/ppc2 (127.127.22.2 in ntp.conf) -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network

Re: upgrading form 4.2 to 5.x

2004-07-17 Thread Kevin Oberman
the transition from ufs to ufs2 and new threading libraries and LOTS more make it a rough way to go. I think the advise to do a fresh install is the best option if you go to 5, but I'd really recommend staying at 4.10 or STABLE for now. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet

Re: next release

2004-02-12 Thread Kevin Oberman
and occasionally goes BOOM! -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: 4.9-PRE - if_xe.ko failed to register

2003-10-20 Thread Kevin Oberman
effect of this is a 5 second delay when the card starts. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634

Re: ATA failure with 4.6.2 250GB drive?

2003-10-14 Thread Kevin Oberman
the data is restored to the original disk, the bad blocks will have been re-directed by the drive and will no longer trouble you. Modern disks are pretty smart at error recovery, but some failures are too sudden for the drive to be able to deal with them without losing data. -- R. Kevin Oberman

Re: panic after update

2003-10-09 Thread Kevin Oberman
get it fixed. (I am not one of those people.) -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634

Re: good address will not resolve in freebsd (_ in host names)

2003-10-07 Thread Kevin Oberman
. But they may well exist. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: Large memory issues on 4-STABLE

2003-09-26 Thread Kevin Oberman
in the SJ Mercury lists an AMD64 3200+ with mobo for about $650. (I don't recall the mobo.) -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634

Re: Working configuration for 5.1 and VMware 3 or 2?

2003-08-17 Thread Kevin Oberman
and stable) are searchable on Google Groups. They are in mailing.freebsd and you can do full Google searching on them. Has anyone considered adding information on this to the Handbook? It's a VERY useful resource that I suspect too many people are not even aware of. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network

Re: A-DATA flash drive: Attempt to query device size failed

2003-08-09 Thread Kevin Oberman
cvsweb i don't see difference in quirks (well, by my untrained eyes). Nate MFCed the latest USB stuff last night. Try updating your system and see if things are better. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley

Re: A-DATA flash drive: Attempt to query device size failed

2003-08-08 Thread Kevin Oberman
can point it out. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Resolver Issues (non valid hostname characters)

2003-03-25 Thread Kevin Oberman
to load, a primary zone containing labels that might be considered questionable, however this should not happen by default. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

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