Re: NFS network load on 5.4-STABLE

2005-11-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 09:24:15PM -0800, Mike Eubanks wrote: I made the sysctl modification. Still no luck though. The only process that had any activity using the top with the -S option, or after sorting by total, was the swapper/syncer. Even then, it was hardly active. The network

Re: power outage

2005-11-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 12:05:18AM -0800, Mike Spooner wrote: I didn't know if I should post this to questions or stable but here it is... We had a power outage and now /home won't mount. Before the power outage all was fine. Looks like the drive became damaged. Maybe the power spiked

Re: Reduced java/tomcat performance 6-beta3 - 6-stable ?

2005-11-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 09:54:30PM +0100, Eirik ?verby wrote: Hi, I think I have found the culprit. There must be some sort of difference between the machines after all (BIOS revision?), because while on one machine the interrupt rate for the bge card stays very low (2 to be exact)

Re: Reduced java/tomcat performance 6-beta3 - 6-stable ?

2005-11-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 10:53:00PM +0100, Eirik ?verby wrote: Firmware versions are equal. BIOS settings are equal. However, a diff of the dmesgs show (apart from MAC address differences): 30c30 Timecounter ACPI-safe frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 --- Timecounter ACPI-fast frequency

Re: interesting nit

2005-11-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 01:39:42PM -0500, Michael Butler wrote: Just a generic 'heads-up', since this is an unsupported optimisation, and a question; compiling a kernel with '-march=pentium2' mostly works with the only observed problem being that something is amiss with the kernel PLL for

Re: NFS network load on 5.4-STABLE

2005-11-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 01:27:38AM -0800, Mike Eubanks wrote: On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 21:49 -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: 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

Re: FreeBSD unstable on Dell 1750 using SMP?

2005-11-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 01:22:01PM +0100, Rutger Bevaart wrote: Hello Kris ( list), Thanks for helping the 1750 and 2850 owners on this list. Unfortunately I cannot find any references to the leak or the fix you are referring to in the Release errata

Re: FreeBSD unstable on Dell 1750 using SMP?

2005-11-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 09:45:08AM +0100, Rutger Bevaart wrote: Hi Kris, I cannot find anything about that in the /usr/src/UPDATING for the 5.4 branch. I didn't say anything about UPDATING, I said the release errata. We're running FreeBSD xyz 5.4-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p5 and p6

Re: FreeBSD unstable on Dell 1750 using SMP?

2005-11-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 02:36:01PM -0700, Dan Charrois wrote: But here's about where any troubleshooting on my own reaches its limit. I noticed that Kris mentioned it was a known problem in the stats counting for SMP machines and had been fixed, but haven't been able to find a

Re: FreeBSD unstable on Dell 1750 using SMP?

2005-11-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 02:49:10PM -0700, Dan Charrois wrote: I just thought of one other bit of info that may be relevant to the auto-rebooting problem I've experienced with our PowerEdge 2850. Since the problem may be related to memory allocation, I thought I should mention that we

Re: FreeBSD unstable on Dell 1750 using SMP?

2005-11-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 07:24:25PM +0100, Rutger Bevaart wrote: Strange indeed. On a 1750 with bge's: 475 mbufs in use 501/25600 mbuf clusters in use (current/max) 0/3/6656 sfbufs in use (current/peak/max) 1120 KBytes allocated to network 0 requests for sfbufs denied 0 requests for

Re: 6.0 Release - Pentium install panic and some questions

2005-11-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 03:20:25PM +1000, Paul Koch wrote: Hi, we are having a number of issues with 6.0-Release. Our setup: We have ~40 machines in a development test environment, ranging from P5/150Mhz/32M ram/IDE, PII Celerons, P3, P4, single and dual processor setups. Issue 1:

Re: 6.0 Release - Pentium install panic and some questions

2005-11-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 09:28:27PM +1000, Paul Koch wrote: On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 07:24 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: Issue 1: Can't install on a Pentium P5 class machine: The install panics when installing the base stuff. No useful messages are displayed accept the panic: page fault

Re: Update from 5.4 to 6.0

2005-11-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 10:20:54AM -0500, Vivek Khera wrote: On Nov 21, 2005, at 5:11 AM, Xin LI wrote: Would you please remove the -j option from build? It is not guaranteed to be usable across upgrade. I have not been able to get make -j2 buildworld to work for 6.0 at all. Last I

Re: Update from 5.4 to 6.0

2005-11-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 12:38:34PM -0500, Vivek Khera wrote: On Nov 21, 2005, at 10:26 AM, David Wolfskill wrote: g1-18(6.0-S)[1] uname -a FreeBSD g1-18.catwhisker.org. 6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #24: Sun Nov 20 11:16:34 PST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/common/

Re: Recurring problem: processes block accessing UFS file system

2005-11-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 05:54:09PM -0600, Greg Rivers wrote: I've recently put up three busy email relay hosts running 6.0-STABLE. Performance is excellent except for a nagging critical issue that keeps cropping up. /var/spool is its own file system mounted on a geom stripe of four BSD

Re: /create/symlink failed: no inodes free

2005-11-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 06:32:59PM -0800, MS-KILA wrote: still present trying to install 6.0 on a 600Mhz celery, 384 ram, 8g hdd; ftp install. will attempt the explicit ip idea. does every first attempt at ftp choke like this? No..are you sure you're not making a partition too small? Your

Re: /create/symlink failed: no inodes free

2005-11-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 06:43:51PM -0800, MS-KILA wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 06:32:59PM -0800, MS-KILA wrote: still present trying to install 6.0 on a 600Mhz celery, 384 ram, 8g hdd; ftp install. will attempt the explicit ip idea. does every first attempt at ftp

Re: Recurring problem: processes block accessing UFS file system

2005-11-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 09:23:10PM -0600, Greg Rivers wrote: On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Kris Kennaway wrote: Looks like a UFS snapshot deadlock. Are you running something like dump -L on this filesystem, or making other use of snapshots? Indeed I am (dump -L), but as I said (not very clearly

Re: 6-BETA4 - 6.0-RELEASE = sudden reboots

2005-11-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 03:54:07PM +0300, Stepan Rakhimov wrote: I've just upgraded my home server from 6-BETA4 (that was stable and worked without reboots for months) to 6.0-release. And now my server suddenly reboots under any load, i'm even unable to rebuild my system to beta4 again. All

Re: [FreeBSD6] kinfo_size mismatch

2005-11-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 06:38:29PM +0100, Laurent wrote: Hello all, I've recently upgraded my AMD64 FreeBSD station from 5.4 to 6.0 using the handbook method. Everything seems to work OK but I have the message after repeating every second on tty1 after I log on X : kvm_open :

Re: upgrade from 5.4-STABLE - 6 questions

2005-11-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 12:43:06AM +, Danny Pansters wrote: On Saturday 19 November 2005 23:37, Jason wrote: 1. after my upgrade, my serial ports are not accessible monsterjam# ls -al /dev/cuaa* ls: No match. I got surprised by this too, when trying to use my camera through serial

Re: [FreeBSD6] kinfo_size mismatch

2005-11-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 10:09:09PM +0100, Laurent wrote: Hello all, I've recently upgraded my AMD64 FreeBSD station from 5.4 to 6.0 using the handbook method. Everything seems to work OK but I have the message after repeating every second on tty1 after I log on X : kvm_open :

Re: Swapfile problem in 6?

2005-11-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 02:52:12PM -0800, Rob wrote: --- Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically, wait until your system deadlocks. BREAK into DDB. As a start, run 'show lockedvnods', 'ps'. My guess is that you'll see a lock that has a number of waiters which is probably

Re: Swapfile problem in 6?

2005-11-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 04:33:50PM -0800, Rob wrote: --- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I commented on it elsewhere in this thread. Do you mean your comment on the swap_pager error: Quote: AFAICT that is just a trigger-happy timer..it's supposed to detect when a swap

Re: Swapfile problem in 6?

2005-11-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 09:44:12PM +0100, Lars Kristiansen wrote: A couple of the times but not everytime the following message was repeatedly displayed at the console before freezing: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 273427, size: 4096 AFAICT that is just a

Re: Swapfile problem in 6?

2005-11-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 09:26:43AM +1100, Johny Mattsson wrote: On 11/16/05 07:49, Lars Kristiansen wrote: I had an infinite while loop running during the kernel compilation, printing out 'swapinfo' every 15 seconds. The last output before the machine goes dead is this: /dev/ad0s1b

Re: Swapfile problem in 6?

2005-11-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 07:18:35PM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote: On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 06:09:33PM -0800, Rob wrote: ... Yes. See above URL. The advantage is that you can (hopefully) capture a log of your debug session. Send a serial BREAK and you should get a DDB prompt.

Re: Strange boot messages under 6.0-STABLE

2005-11-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 06:45:15PM +0100, Ales wrote: During boot process under 6.0-STABLE I spoted some strange messages. ... ... Nov 14 18:18:45 romcek kernel: cd0 at ata1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 Nov 14 18:18:45 romcek kernel: cd0: SONY DVD RW DW-Q28A KYS1 Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device

Re: Performance problem since updating from 6.0-RELEASE to 6.0-STABLE last friday

2005-11-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 12:40:36PM -0500, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Yep, smart battery is definately the problem. The performance of my laptop is back to normal when I remove the xfce4-battery-plugin. acpiconf -i loop reproduces the problem for me too. So it looks like there is something

Re: Swapfile problem in 6? (was: 6.0: during kernel compilation, 'kernel linking' freezes PC)

2005-11-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 05:52:42PM -0800, Rob wrote: --- Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have upgraded a Pentium-1 PC from 5 to 6-Stable, which went smoothly. Now I'm running 6 with GENERIC kernel, and I want to compile a new kernel. When I start a new kernel compilation,

Re: Swapfile problem in 6? (was: 6.0: during kernel compilation, 'kernel linking' freezes PC)

2005-11-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 06:08:27PM -0800, Rob wrote: I left it overnight twice for performing this 'kernel linking' stage. In both cases the machine remained dead. Without the swapfile, this 'kernel linking' stage completes in just about less than a minute. So I think it's not my

Re: Performance problem since updating from 6.0-RELEASE to 6.0-STABLE last friday

2005-11-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 02:35:23PM -0500, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Oliver Brandmueller wrote: Hi. On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:40:53PM -0500, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: I wanted also to add that my mouse pointer hangs on X since the upgrade. So the computer behaves as if it was under

Re: a few problems with 6.0-RELEASE on IBM T41p

2005-11-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 05:39:52AM +0100, Petr Holub wrote: Hi, since I've upgraded from 6.0-BETA4 to 6.0-RELEASE (using binary upgrade on contrary to 6.0-BETA4, which was binary from BETA2, which was clean install ;-) ), I'm experiencing multiple problems which were not present on BETA4:

Re: a few problems with 6.0-RELEASE on IBM T41p

2005-11-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 06:02:35AM +0100, Petr Holub wrote: Did you remember to rebuild any modules you are using when you upgraded? cd /sys/i386/conf/ config KLOBOUCEK cd ../compile/KLOBOUCEK make cleandepend; make depend make make install as usual. I assume that's sufficient. Not

Re: Reduced hard disk perfomance on 5.4 with SMP

2005-11-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 10:50:03PM +0300, Tarasov Alexey wrote: Hello! I have a server Double Xeon 2.4 GHz with Hyperthreading on. Operations with hard disk (e.g. unpacking huge .tgz archive with a lot of files) are very slow. Why it can be? VFS was Giant-locked on 5.4, and there is

Re: kernel build fails at 6.0-release!

2005-11-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 11:41:36PM +0200, Giorgos Kapetanakis wrote: Hi! I just can't build my kernel. I tried several changes at the config file, but I always get the same message. Go back to GENERIC then, or add back the differences until you find the one you incorrectly removed. Kris

Re: OT: Failure notices from blogger.com

2005-11-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 05:48:42PM +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote: I recently started to get failure notices from [EMAIL PROTECTED] when I post on the freebsd-stable mailing list. What is that all about? Is somebody redirecting all mail on the list to a blog via post-by-mail? If so,

Re: FreeBSD6 /bin/tcsh ls-F : Floating exception (core dumped)

2005-11-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 02:46:28PM +0900, TOMITA Yoshinori wrote: tcsh 6.14.00 of FreeBSD 6-STABLE will crash by ls-F built-in command. Here is a tiny patch. Thanks, but tcsh is a third-party utility that isn't separately maintained in FreeBSD; you should submit your patch to the tcsh authors

Re: Can not upgrade to 6.0R from 5.4-STABLE

2005-11-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 09:05:52AM +0500, Boris Kovalenko wrote: Hello! I try to do src upgrade from 5.4S to 6.0R. After the make clean; make into /usr/src I getting next error: 'make clean; make' is not part of the documented upgrade process. Kris pgpq8nzNMa4xQ.pgp

Re: Well done with FreeBSD 6.0

2005-11-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 08:07:09PM -0600, ?? ?? wrote: Hi, All! I agree, I'd like to point out the sufficiently improved stability of ath network interfaces. It is like a rock now. However, the necessity to recompile the packages in order to accomodate for locale

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 Released

2005-11-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 02:41:30PM -0500, Scott Robbins wrote: On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 04:33:10PM -0200, Renato Botelho wrote: On 11/4/05, Scott Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the

Re: Nogobble, nogobble

2005-11-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 09:42:45PM -0700, Brett Glass wrote: At 07:34 PM 11/3/2005, Kris Kennaway wrote: Thanks for your $0.02, but that doesn't work in reality, as discussed previously. It has always worked perfectly in my reality. That's just wonderful, Brett! Kris pgpzNQzosXQSm.pgp

Re: GENERIC and DEFAULTS

2005-11-02 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 11:43:29PM -0800, Rob wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: You've clearly never spent much time on the FreeBSD support forums, where every few days someone posts for help 1) with an error caused by removing one of those Do not remove this! lines, and 2) for help

Re: GENERIC and DEFAULTS

2005-10-31 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:12:01AM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote: i agree 100%, i hate wizardy/black-magic, and this 'fix' falls in that class. Why was a 5ton hammer used to fix non existing problem? a small comment like 'you better keep these lines to make X happy' would have sufficed. You've

Re: GENERIC and DEFAULTS

2005-10-31 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:46:37AM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote: You've clearly never spent much time on the FreeBSD support forums, where every few days someone posts for help 1) with an error caused by removing one of those Do not remove this! lines, and 2) for help on getting X

Re: GENERIC and DEFAULTS

2005-10-31 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 03:46:56PM -0800, Pete Slagle wrote: i agree 100%, i hate wizardy/black-magic, and this 'fix' falls in that class. Why was a 5ton hammer used to fix non existing problem? a small comment like 'you better keep these lines to make X happy' would have sufficed. You've

Re: GENERIC and DEFAULTS

2005-10-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 11:36:46AM +0100, Cristiano Deana wrote: Hi, I've seen that 'GENERIC' file has been modified, moving some lines to 'DEFAULTS': device isa device mem # Memory and kernel memory devices device io # I/O device

Re: Error in make buildworld 5.4 stable

2005-10-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 04:36:31PM -0700, Tom Shafron wrote: Hi, I just cvsuped the entire source for 5.4 stable earlier today. I'm running AMD64. When I make buildworld I get: cc -m32 -march=athlon-xp -msse2 -mfancy-math-387 -DCOMPAT_32BIT -I/usr/obj/usr/src/lib32/usr/include

Re: HEADS UP! 6.0-RELEASE coming

2005-10-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 10:43:35PM +0300, Vladimir Sharun wrote: What about Gleb Smirnoff NFS locking leak patch ? I put it on production, everything works just fine. The question is: this patch will be merged to main source tree for 6.0-RELEASE ? It already was. Kris pgpDf8ksiSV4z.pgp

Re: math/grace port: libXcursor.so.1.0 not found ??

2005-10-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 08:41:33PM -0700, Rob wrote: Hi, I'm running FreeBSD 5-Stable. I only seem to encounter this problem with the math/graphical port 'grace', and the dlopen() call inthere. I answered this question the last time you posted it. Kris pgpQ418EGqdDv.pgp Description:

Re: math/grace port: libXcursor.so.1.0 not found ??

2005-10-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 01:16:46AM -0700, Rob wrote: --- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 08:41:33PM -0700, Rob wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 5-Stable. I only seem to encounter this problem with the math/graphical port 'grace', and the dlopen

Re: make.conf for 6.0

2005-10-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 08:57:27PM +0100, Chris wrote: On 22/10/05, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: kmem_malloc(4096): kmem_map too small: 536870912 total allocated

2005-10-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 08:07:09PM +0300, Vladimir Sharun wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: We have 2xOpteron/2Gb RAM server with extrensive disk load. Every week or two it suddenly hangs with kmem_malloc(4096): kmem_map too small 335bla-bla allocated. I look onto handbook and put

Re: kmem_malloc(4096): kmem_map too small: 536870912 total allocated

2005-10-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 10:43:42AM +0300, Vladimir Sharun wrote: We have 2xOpteron/2Gb RAM server with extrensive disk load. Every week or two it suddenly hangs with kmem_malloc(4096): kmem_map too small 335bla-bla allocated. I look onto handbook and put vm.kmem_size_max=536870912 onto

Re: kmem_malloc(4096): kmem_map too small: 536870912 total allocated

2005-10-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 11:21:10AM +0300, Vladimir Sharun wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: KK On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 10:43:42AM +0300, Vladimir Sharun wrote: We have 2xOpteron/2Gb RAM server with extrensive disk load. Every week or two it suddenly hangs with kmem_malloc(4096): kmem_map too

Re: kmem_malloc(4096): kmem_map too small: 536870912 total allocated

2005-10-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 12:05:26PM +0300, Vladimir Sharun wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: We have 2xOpteron/2Gb RAM server with extrensive disk load. Every week or two it suddenly hangs with kmem_malloc(4096): kmem_map too small 335bla-bla allocated. I look onto handbook and put

Re: 6.0 release date and stability

2005-10-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 03:41:33PM +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote: On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:30:52 -0400 Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But he old libraries are still on the system than, aren't they? Or will they not be used and if not, why? Use libchk and pkg_which..see

Re: 6.0 release date and stability

2005-10-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 07:24:35PM -0700, Brandon Fosdick wrote: Dick Hoogendijk wrote: Oops, it seems this feature is in 7-CURRENT only. If the appropiate person is reading this, why isnt something like that available in 6? I think it would be a very useful feature. What a shame. You

Re: 6.0 release date and stability

2005-10-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 08:21:27PM +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote: On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 18:53:51 -0400 Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 11:36:35PM +0200, Ronald Klop wrote: COMPAT_FREEBSD5 is meant for running FreeBSD-5 binary applications. If you have them

Re: 6.0 release date and stability

2005-10-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 03:20:52PM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote: On Oct 19, 2005, at 5:10 PM, dick hoogendijk wrote: Wat is the best way to get the cleanest FreeBSD-6.x system without installing from scratch? Recompile each port? Or use the COMPAT_FREEBSD5 layer? this is a different

Re: 6.0 release date and stability

2005-10-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 11:36:35PM +0200, Ronald Klop wrote: On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 23:10:46 +0200, dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:52:00 -0400 Vivek Khera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 16, 2005, at 7:57 AM, dick hoogendijk wrote: The *ONLY* question is:

Re: 6.0 release date and stability

2005-10-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 05:05:34PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: Brett Glass [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The release schedule for FreeBSD 6.0, on the FreeBSD Web site, doesn't show a projected date for the finished product. How close is it? I can't speak for the RE team, but from watching

Re: Error in kernel source, possibly GCC related

2005-10-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 07:15:08PM +0200, Owe J?rgensen wrote: I have a FreeBSD 5.3 system which I am upgrading to 5.4 STABLE. I am at this moment compiling the kernel, and I get this error when make buildkernel goes for compilation of ispfw: === ispfw cc -O -pipe -D_KERNEL -DKLD_MODULE

Re: new FreeBSD-webpage

2005-10-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 05:37:01PM -0400, Ben Kelly wrote: On Thursday 06 October 2005 5:25 am, Claus Guttesen wrote: Hey. Just pointed firefox to freebsd.org and I was greeted with a new look! Nice work. While I like the new design, I think the mailing list page is a little

Re: new FreeBSD-webpage

2005-10-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 05:37:40PM -0400, Dan Ponte wrote: On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 05:33:26PM -0400, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] was witnessed plotting the following conspiracy: On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 04:43:36PM -0400, Dan Ponte wrote: I second that all the way. Personally, I feel

Re: new FreeBSD-webpage

2005-10-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 04:49:31PM -0500, Greg Barniskis wrote: Now, if only the site Search worked better... ah well, there's always http://www.google.com/bsd Yeah..it would be great if someone could come up with a better search system. Kris pgpwwkqqMUFC3.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: new FreeBSD-webpage

2005-10-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 06:15:41PM -0400, Dan Ponte wrote: I second that all the way. Personally, I feel that the FreeBSD project is doing too much in the way of appearing trendy to attract new users, and it's at the expense of its existing userbase. Not to mention that

Re: Stability problems vith FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p14

2005-10-02 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 07:54:25PM +0200, Jurij Kovacic wrote: Hello! We are running FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p14 with SMP kernell on one of our servers and are experiencing stability problems; the server has the tendency to reboot itself for no apparent reason at least once per month. As

Re: 6.0-BETA5 from yesterday panics on kldload nfsserver.ko

2005-09-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 04:20:17PM +0300, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: This is completely reproducible, unfortunately the core file is corrupted. warning: /usr/crash/vmcore.1: no core file handler recognizes format, using default Can't fetch registers from this type of core file Can't fetch

Re: 6-Release Beta 5: extremely slow installation in VMWare 4.52

2005-09-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 05:27:23AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: On Fri, 2005-Sep-23 09:14:17 +, Christoph Sold wrote: Unfortunately, our corporate firewall blocks anything but http/port80, https/port443. Thus, neither CVS nor CVSup are an option. in addition, the install is still running

Re: MySQL 4.1, GCC 3.x, FreeBSD 4.x

2005-09-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 02:31:18PM -0400, John Nielsen wrote: Should it be possible to compile and run MySQL 4.1 with GCC 3.4 on a FreeBSD 4.11 machine? I have a server which, for the time being at least, cannot be updated to FreeBSD 5. I'm currently running the stock MySQL 4.1.14

Re: any ideas when 5.5 will be out

2005-09-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 12:21:31PM -0500, Eriq wrote: I haven't noticed any word on this release, just 6.0 A few months after 6.0 is released. Kris pgpEpLEt0UP6H.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: any ideas when 5.5 will be out

2005-09-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 02:36:10PM -0500, Paul T. Root wrote: In the past, x.0 releases are meant for the adventurous not the production oriented. I never go before x.1. And I skipped 3.x completely. I just got my final server from 4.11 to 5.4 in July. 6.x is probably still 9-12 months

Re: thx all for your responses

2005-09-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 09:18:48PM -0500, Eriq wrote: though after looking at 6.0 beta I couldn't help but think why not just call it 5.5? Because it's not a release from the 5.x branch. Read the handbook for detailed explanation of how FreeBSD releases work. Kris pgpqnjzjPR0ja.pgp

Re: RELENG_6 compilation issues

2005-09-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 11:07:05PM +0300, Vlad GALU wrote: On 9/18/05, Xin LI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Heh, sorry for failing to provide the actual error message. It appears also with -O: -- cut here -- cc -c -O -pipe -ffast-math -march=pentium4 -Wall -Wredundant-decls

Re: RELENG_6 compilation issues

2005-09-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 11:13:59PM +0300, Vlad GALU wrote: On 9/18/05, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 11:07:05PM +0300, Vlad GALU wrote: [snip] I think you're right. I have this bad habit of tracking changes to src/sys and recompiling just the kernel

Re: vmcore.4

2005-09-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 09:10:15AM -0600, Elliot Finley wrote: my system panicked and I got a /var/crash/vmcore.4 file. The corresponding info.4 file is: postmaster root:/var/crash#less info.4 Dump header from device /dev/ar0s1b Architecture: i386 Architecture Version: 16777216

Re: Panic for 6.0-BETA4 on AMD64

2005-09-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 05:14:49PM +0200, Slawek Zak wrote: Hi, A panic occured on tmpfs overfill. /tmp with tmpmfs was configured for 100MB size. Backtrace from debugger: db where Tracing pid 60288 tid 100299 td 0xff02c3cba980 putc() at putc+0xa9 ttyoutput() at ttyoutput+0x2d

Re: Rebuilding world without physical access

2005-09-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 11:53:05PM +0200, ?ystein Holmen wrote: I have usually followed the canonical way to update my system, as described in the handbook. But now I need to update a system that I cannot reach physically for a long time. Is there any way to do this? The system runs

Re: NFS directory copies cause crash

2005-09-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 09:24:32PM -0400, Damian Gerow wrote: I've just updated a low-volume fileserver to 5.4-stable (as of Sep 13), and ever since, whenever I try to move or copy a directory onto one of its NFS shares, it causes a crash. I do not have a crash dump (no dumpdev enabled,

Re: High load averages on a 5.3-RELEASE

2005-09-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 10:11:47PM +0200, Mariano Benedettini wrote: Hi people, I've also posted this message to freebsd-performance, with no answer. I have a mail server running FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE. It's a dual Xeon with 4gb of ram. The server is running Apache (serving Horde) , Postfix,

Re: High load averages on a 5.3-RELEASE

2005-09-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 07:59:13PM -0300, Mariano Benedettini wrote: Kris: Thanks for your answer. What is the best way to measure the NFS performance ? You are running some application that uses NFS. If you think your application is performing too badly (bearing in mind that you'll never

Re: Long Format Directory Listing 15x Slower in FreeBSD 5.x

2005-09-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 11:55:55AM +1200, Nikolai Schupbach wrote: Hello, We have been trying to migrate to FreeBSD 5.4 from an older 4.x release for one of our busy mail servers. But we have encountered problems with directory listings on 5.4. Our /var/mail directory contains

Re: Long Format Directory Listing 15x Slower in FreeBSD 5.x

2005-09-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 06:33:53PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 08:51:44PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 11:55:55AM +1200, Nikolai Schupbach wrote: Hello, We have been trying to migrate to FreeBSD 5.4 from an older 4.x release for one

Re: beta4 does not display some images

2005-09-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 12:38:27PM +0200, Claus Guttesen wrote: Hi. Have a FreeBSD 6.0 beta2 webserver that displays thumbnails. Beta2 from the 12'th of August works fine. Last night I upgraded the webserver to beta4 as of Sept. 4'th. Some of the thumbnails were not displayed. Simply

Re: custom kernel + if_xl + error

2005-09-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 09:34:42PM +0100, L.Edgeworth wrote: --- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like you're running make -j. Don't do this when you encounter errors, because they're probably hidden far back in the output. actually, it was the -j option causing problems

Re: custom kernel + if_xl + error

2005-09-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 02:15:56AM +0100, L.Edgeworth wrote: Hello! Not sure what I am missing but for some perculiar reason my kernel config doesn't compile, it bails out with: === xl (depend) ln -s /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/VORPOL/opt_bdg.h opt_bdg.h @ - /usr/src/sys machine -

Re: 5.4-dropping to debugger

2005-08-31 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 12:51:00PM +0200, Eirik ?verby wrote: Hi, every once in a while (about once a week lately), one of my servers has been known to stop responding. Upon connecting the serial console, I find myself at a debugger prompt. This is the output I've gotten this time. I

5.x packages temporarily broken (Re: Circles with libcrypt.so.3)

2005-08-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 04:21:07PM -0500, Scot Hetzel wrote: On 8/26/05, fbsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am trying to install Apache+Mod_ssl via the package apache+mod_ssl-1.3.33+2.8.22_1.tbz on a base 5.4 install, I installed in the following order: libtool-1.5.18.tbz

Re: portsdb (Warning: Duplicate INDEX)

2005-08-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 09:04:38AM -0400, bob self wrote: My system: --- FreeBSD ..org 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Mon Aug 15 19:06:46 EDT 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 The problem: I ran cvsup with no problems. But

Re: 6.0, installworld: libcom_err_p.a: No such file or directory

2005-08-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 12:32:02AM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote: Hi! Just a couple of hours cvsupped 6.0-CURRENT (from end of july 2005) to RELENG_6. Makeworld, kernel was fine, but at the beginning of installworld i've got: - === lib/csu/i386-elf (install) install -C -o root -g

Re: Memory requirements between releases

2005-08-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 09:38:43PM +0100, Chris wrote: Hi The installation notes for 4.11 say, referring to i386 platform ...after installation, FreeBSD itself can be run in 4-8MB of RAM with a pared-down kernel The installation notes for 5.4 and 6 (the floppies README.TXT) say FreeBSD

Re: kernel panic on 5.4-RELEASE-p6

2005-08-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 06:51:09PM +0200, Petr Holub wrote: Hi all, I've encoutnered the follwing kernel panic on 5.4-RELEASE-p6. However, as the machine is production and not development one, I don't have debugger analysis. The panic might *theoretically* be due to problems accessing

Re: Panic on FreeBSD 6.0BETA1

2005-08-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 08:47:43AM -0400, Derrick Edwards wrote: ???Hi all, I decided to try and help with testing 6-BETA1, after updating sources and recompiling i get the following during boot up. I am tried booting without hyperthreading enabled in the bios and I still get the same panic.

Re: kernel panic on 5.4-RELEASE-p6

2005-08-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 07:22:39PM +0200, Petr Holub wrote: You need to follow the instructions in the chapter on kernel debugging in the developers handbook in order for anyone to be able to begin investigating this. I though that - alas at the time of the panic, that machine didn't have

Re: RELENG_6 kernel panic

2005-08-08 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 12:06:39PM -0700, Jason C. Wells wrote: While compiling bash for my new 6.0-BETA2 system, I received this error: ad4: detached panic: vm_fault I don't have a dump for you and I really must be going to work now. More later if I can get myself trained up on crash

Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA2 Available

2005-08-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 08:40:32AM -0400, J. T. Farmer wrote: Kevin Oberman wrote: I would suggest that it would have been better to post to current as 6.0 is not yet stable and most of the people who deal with problems are much more likely to see problems reported there. Ok, so I'm

Re: 6.0-BETA1 LOR vm_fault: fault on nofault entry

2005-08-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 05:51:49AM +0200, Evgueni V. Gavrilov wrote: kgdb -c /usr/crash/vmcore.25 kernel.debug [GDB will not be able to debug user-mode threads: /usr/lib/libthread_db.so: Undefined symbol ps_pglobal_lookup] GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD] Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Re: Serious issue with serial console in 5.4

2005-07-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 10:56:54AM +0200, Eirik ?verby wrote: You might have to wait until 6.0-R since fixing it seems to require infrastructure changes that cannot easily be backported to 5.x. With all due respect - if this is (and I'm assuming it is, because it happens on all the

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