cardbus0: Resource not specified in CIS: id=14, size=400?????

2006-09-03 Thread Paul Mather
I have a Netgear FA511 Cardbus NIC that I am trying to use in a Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop running 6.1-STABLE, but with limited success. When I insert it, I get the message cardbus0: Resource not specified in CIS: id=14, size=400 appear as part of the cardbus probe. The card superficially works,

Re: bge watchdog timeouts still happening

2006-09-15 Thread Paul Mather
On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 12:33 -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: On Friday 15 September 2006 09:28, Herve Boulouis wrote: Le 15/09/2006 18:05, Gleb Smirnoff a écrit: H bge0: Broadcom BCM5700 B2, ASIC rev. 0x7102 mem 0xfeb0-0xfeb0 irq 17 at device 8.0 on pci1 H miibus0: MII bus on bge0

Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

2005-06-28 Thread Paul Mather
On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 11:21 +0200, Roman Neuhauser wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-06-21 16:51:10 +0200: For accurate measurements and comparisons, you have to make sure to use _exactly_ the same physical location on the disk. No you don't. You want to make a side-by-side

Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

2005-06-28 Thread Paul Mather
On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 18:39 +0200, Roman Neuhauser wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-06-28 11:38:44 -0400: Note how the transfer rate for the outside is almost twice that of the inside. Suppose I run tests on two different operating systems, one of which resides in a partition on the

Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

2005-06-28 Thread Paul Mather
On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 19:17 +0200, Roman Neuhauser wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-06-28 13:03:04 -0400: What you see as being defensive I see as being rigorous. If someone is making a claim based upon a performance benchmark, people will quiz the person conducting the benchmark to

Re: dangerous situation with shutdown process

2005-07-16 Thread Paul Mather
On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 16:16 +0200, Matthias Buelow wrote: David Taylor wrote: No. I'm just asking if you know of ANY ata drives that will wait for the cache to be flushed before claiming the disable cache command has succeeded. I don't, but I haven't looked. I don't know either. I

Re: dangerous situation with shutdown process

2005-07-18 Thread Paul Mather
On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 16:35 +0200, Matthias Buelow wrote: Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: buffers to disk. While it is doing that, it displays the number of remaining buffers, with increasing time intervals between them. If there are still buffers left after a certain number of

Re: dangerous situation with shutdown process

2005-07-18 Thread Paul Mather
On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 17:14 +0200, Matthias Buelow wrote: Paul Mather [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why would that necessarily be more successful? If the outstanding buffers count is not reducing between time intervals, it is most likely because there is some underlying hardware problem (e.g

Re: READ_DMA, WRITE_DMA errors

2005-07-21 Thread Paul Mather
On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 23:54 -0500, Steve wrote: I've found tons of emails, news messages, listserv messages, and even some bug reports of this seemingly common error. So, I had been running 5.2 on a server, and, updated to 5.3. Got the READ_DMA and WRITE_DMA error and retries. So, figuring

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Paul Mather
On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 14:26 -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: Ok, Robert, but then here's the question How come the ATA code which was very stable in 4.x was screwed with in a production release, breaking it, with no path backwards to the working code? Not to mention that this happened

Re: Create 2.5TB file system on 5.4S?

2005-08-16 Thread Paul Mather
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 16:21 -0700, Brandon Fosdick wrote: David Magda wrote: There's the Bonnie and Bonnie++ file system testing programs. I believe one or both are in the Ports. Thanks. I'll take a look. There's also raidtest in benchmarks/raidtest in the ports tree that can be used to

Re: Sysinstall automatic filesystem size generation.

2005-08-29 Thread Paul Mather
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 03:11 +0200, Matthias Buelow wrote: BTW., when have you last seen a broken NTFS? While I don't do Windows much, I have had quite a few crashes on Windows (2000, XP) over the years on various machines, and I always asked myself how it could be that the system is up almost

Re: tx underrun ? (add entry into xl manpage)

2005-11-30 Thread Paul Mather
On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 04:37 -0800, Rob wrote: Vincent Blondel wrote: Hello all, When having a look at log files on my web servers, I regulary see next output on the 3COM ethernet interfaces : xl1: transmission error: 90 xl1: tx underrun, increasing tx start threshold

Re: RELENG_5, snapshots and disk lock time

2005-03-07 Thread Paul Mather
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 15:21 +0300, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: Dear colleagues, dumping the snapshot of 140G ufs2 fyle system under contemporary RELENG_5 I found that during mksnap_ffs file system is unresponsible even for reading for more than 3 minutes (it's on modern SATA disk with 50+

Re: DANGER WILL ROBINSON! SERIOUS problem with current 5.4-PRERELEASE

2005-03-31 Thread Paul Mather
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 23:30 -0600, Karl Denninger wrote: BTW its NOT your hardware at fault here - the same hardware that returns these complaints for me on 5.x works perfectly with 4.11. There have been changes made to the ATA code that apparently interact VERY badly with some

Re: vinum or gvinum on FreeBSD 5.4

2005-04-21 Thread Paul Mather
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 10:39 +0200, Claus Guttesen wrote: Hi. I may implement (g)vinum to stripe two 2 TB raid 5 volumes into a single 4 TB vinum-volume. The volumes reside on a atabeast doing the raid 5. The server is a 5.4 RC2 doing nfs on i386. According to some threads gvinum may not

Re: vinum or gvinum on FreeBSD 5.4

2005-04-21 Thread Paul Mather
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 10:39 +0200, Claus Guttesen wrote: Hi. I may implement (g)vinum to stripe two 2 TB raid 5 volumes into a single 4 TB vinum-volume. The volumes reside on a atabeast doing the raid 5. The server is a 5.4 RC2 doing nfs on i386. According to some threads gvinum

Re: vinum or gvinum on FreeBSD 5.4

2005-04-21 Thread Paul Mather
On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 04:48 +0200, Vladimir Botka wrote: Hi, vinum is not stable under 5.4. After some research I found gmirror (RAID1) is ok. There are some notes on: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/errata.html Cheers, Vladimir. On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Paul Mather wrote

Re: gmirror

2005-05-14 Thread Paul Mather
On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 11:30 +0100, Dominic Marks wrote: The seek times are way down, which is great, and makes sense using a round-robin strategy on the mirror, but my peak transfer rate has been almost halved too. I don't mind this too much as in my application low seek times are worth

Re: gmirror

2005-05-14 Thread Paul Mather
On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 18:00 +0400, Vladimir Dzhivsanoff wrote: three parallel tasks of dd is not good model for random reads ? Probably not, especially if you start the parallel tasks going at the same time. That way, the second and third tasks are almost certainly hitting data in the

Re: atacontrol raid1 vs. gmirror

2005-06-11 Thread Paul Mather
On Sat, 2005-06-11 at 14:42 -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: Can someone explain tome the difference between a RAID1 setup done via atacontrol and gmirror? I have a VIA 6420 SATA150 controller, which also has raid, but is not supported by -stable. Here are the main differences, as I see them:

Re: atacontrol Raid, cannot re-add member to array

2004-07-04 Thread Paul Mather
On Sun, 2004-07-04 at 18:10, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: On 2004.07.04 23:33:28 +0200, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: I've never tried ataraid with non-raid controllers but I doubt that detach/attach would work. It does work, you just have to hotswap the disk [1]. I tried it some time ago,

Re: Vinum problems in 5.3-BETA7?

2004-10-08 Thread Paul Mather
On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 07:52, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: We have a production system that runs on a vinum system drive configured like this: [[Configuration omitted.]] It's currently running fine with FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p10. After upgrading to 5.3-BETA7, buildworld, buildkernel,

Re: gvinum again?

2004-11-14 Thread Paul Mather
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 00:36 -0500, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: I'm looking at gstat while fsck'ing a gvinum partition. The trouble I'm seeing is that I don't see activity on the second disk. Now... I'm using fsck -n ... just checking things ... so there's no writes, but does gvinum not (yet)

Re: gvinum again?

2004-11-15 Thread Paul Mather
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 02:31 -0500, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 01:26:54 -0500, Paul Mather [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your observation is correct: it doesn't (yet) load balance across plexes of mirrored volumes; geom_mirror (gmirror) does, though (and offers various load

Re: gvinum again?

2004-11-15 Thread Paul Mather
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 19:33 +0100, Matthias Schuendehuette wrote: Hi, Am Montag, 15. November 2004 18:25 schrieb Paul Mather: [...] I don't know if growfs is 100% robust enough yet to provide the other important ingredient to a true LVM storage management system a la the logical volume

Re: vmstat regression (RELENG_4 - RELENG_5)

2004-11-17 Thread Paul Mather
On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 09:51 +0200, Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote: Hello! While playing with fresh installation of 5.3-RELEASE (GENERIC kernel) I've noticed that I can only see my HDD in the left lower corner of the systat's vmstat screen. I also have working floppy and CD-RW drives, both are

Mount pending error?

2004-11-23 Thread Paul Mather
Last night, this appeared in my logs (and on my console): Nov 23 03:05:36 zappa kernel: /data: mount pending error: blocks -1696 files 0 What is a mount pending error? I have heard this in conjunction with unclean shutdowns and fsck, but my system was not shut down recently, nor has /data (on

Re: graid3 - requirements or manpage wrong?

2004-11-26 Thread Paul Mather
Brian Szymanski wrote: As for the swap: why would you want to do that? It was my understanding that the kernel load balanced swap requests across drives? You'd want to do it not for load-balancing but for fault tolerance. With a RAID 1/3/5 setup you could have a drive fail and still have

Re: bios disk numbers and device names

2004-11-29 Thread Paul Mather
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 15:06 +0100, Andrea Campi wrote: The manpage explains it all, and that's all I know as well. glabel specifies a transient label, i.e. it's not saved on the disk, so you loose it on reboot or if the disk goes away. Glabel can create both transient and permanent labels:

Re: drive failure during rebuild causes page fault

2004-12-13 Thread Paul Mather
On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 10:28 -0800, Doug White wrote: On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Joe Rhett wrote: On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 09:59:16PM -0800, Doug White wrote: Thats a nice shotgun you have there. Yessir. And that's what testing is designed to uncover. The question is why this works, and

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and vinum upgrade #2

2004-12-18 Thread Paul Mather
On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 20:52 +0100, Nikolaj Hansen wrote: While some uncommon configurations, such as multiple vinum drives on a disk, are not supported, it is generally backward compatible. Note that for the geom(4)-aware vinum, its new userland control program, gvinum, should be used, and

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and vinum upgrade #2

2004-12-18 Thread Paul Mather
On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 00:15 +0100, Matthias Schuendehuette wrote: Am Samstag, 18. Dezember 2004 23:35 schrieb Paul Mather: The biggest problem you'll have is if your system suffers the ATA TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA woe that bedevils some of us under 5.3. When that happens, your mirror

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and vinum upgrade #2

2004-12-21 Thread Paul Mather
On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 19:00 +0100, Nikolaj Hansen wrote: I also do not think it belongs in the stable branch just yet :-D Any hope of you fixing the old vinum in the 5.3 branch or is it a wait for the 5.4? AFAIK, the old vinum will *never* be fixed in the 5.3 branch or any subsequent branch,

Re: how to remote update 4.10 - 5.3?

2004-12-29 Thread Paul Mather
Palle Girgensohn wrote: I've tried the UPDATING instructions, both locally and remotely (the latter failed ;-). But really, everything has to be reinstalled, ports and the lot, so a new install is probably the best way... That's not so bad. A reinstall means you can newfs your partitions as

Re: how to remote update 4.10 - 5.3?

2004-12-30 Thread Paul Mather
Igor Pokrovsky wrote: Are there any other advantages of UFS2 over UFS except maximum disk size? There's FFS snapshots capability in UFS2, for starters... Cheers, Paul. -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by

Re: CFLAGS=-O2 -pipe problems in RELENG_5 ?

2005-01-20 Thread Paul Mather
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 19:17 +, Chris wrote: what does -fno-strict-alias do? I cannot find it in man gcc It is a truncation of -fno-strict-aliasing. The flag does not appear to be described in the gcc man page, but is documented in the gcc info page (search for -fstrict-aliasing). To quote

Re: CFLAGS=-O2 -pipe problems in RELENG_5 ?

2005-01-20 Thread Paul Mather
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 16:44 -0500, Mike Jakubik wrote: Paul Mather said: On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 19:17 +, Chris wrote: what does -fno-strict-alias do? I cannot find it in man gcc It is a truncation of -fno-strict-aliasing. The flag does not appear to be described in the gcc man

Re: Starting gvinum/vinum with RAID 5 and Compaq 39160 - 5.3-STABLE

2005-01-24 Thread Paul Mather
On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 14:29 -0500, Michael L. Squires wrote: I've been playing with vinum and gvinum with a RAID-1 boot setup (now abandoned, hardware RAID was $29 - SM P4DC6+ with Adaptec 2005S) and with a RAID5 array using a Compaq version of the Adaptec 39160 card. I've found that only

Re: opinion on which software RAID to use

2006-03-02 Thread Paul Mather
On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 14:11 -0500, Vivek Khera wrote: Anyhow, I see at least three ways to set up a mirror of these drives and/or partitions: gvinum gmirror atacontrol Any opinions on which has both qualities: easy to configure/manage (ie, recover after failure) and

Re: portsnap mirror servers

2006-04-21 Thread Paul Mather
On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 14:40 +0200, Benjamin Lutz wrote: On Wednesday 19 April 2006 00:44, Colin Percival wrote: I have a list of people who have offered mirrors, but so far I haven't seen any need for additional mirrors -- the two which already exist are showing no signs of slowing down.

Re: dumping large partition to USB drive fails

2007-06-28 Thread Paul Mather
On 28 Jun 2007, at 9:06 PM, Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 12:24:15PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 08:55:46PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: A tip from Paul Mather pointed to problems with USB/firewire chipset, the PL-3507, which was what I found in my

ZFS pool upgrade to v14 broke ZFS booting

2010-01-27 Thread Paul Mather
I have a FreeBSD guest running under VirtualBox 3.1.2 on Mac OS X. It's running a recent 8-STABLE and is a ZFS-only install booting via gptzfsboot. I use this VirtualBox guest as a test install. A day or so ago I noticed zpool status report that my pool could be upgraded from v13 to v14. I

Re: make world fails in usr.sbin/config?

2010-05-24 Thread Paul Mather
On May 24, 2010, at 8:29 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: For added posterity, it looks like usr.sbin/config has been mostly untouched for quite some time, sans mkoptions.c and mkmakefile.c: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.sbin/config/ Having said that, there is this entry in

Re: make world fails in usr.sbin/config?

2010-05-24 Thread Paul Mather
On May 24, 2010, at 9:27 AM, Stefan Bethke wrote: I've just moved from a root on UFS plus data on ZFS setup, to root on ZFS; that's the only real difference I can think of. Although I don't see how that would affect building world, especially since I've had src and obj on ZFS before.

Re: Make ZFS auto-destroy snapshots when the out of space?

2010-05-31 Thread Paul Mather
On May 30, 2010, at 10:35 PM, David Magda wrote: An event framework would certainly be helpful in a general sense (Linux has event(3) AFAIK), and that could certainly be useful for purging snapshots during resource constrained situations. But even if we don't have it, I doubt a fork(2)

Problems with ATA_CAM support in RELENG_8

2010-06-30 Thread Paul Mather
I am running FreeBSD/amd64 RELENG_8 on a Dell Optiplex 745. The hard drive in the system is SATA and I have Normal, not Legacy SATA support enabled in the BIOS. (BIOS is V2.6.4.) I am assuming this will enable native AHCI mode for the drive. I built a kernel with ATA_CAM support, but for

Re: Problems with ATA_CAM support in RELENG_8

2010-06-30 Thread Paul Mather
On Jun 30, 2010, at 1:38 PM, Alexander Motin wrote: To enable ATA_CAM AHCI support, I included this in my kernel config file: # ATA and ATAPI devices options ATA_CAM device ahci device atacore device atapci options ATA_STATIC_ID # Static

Re: Problems with ATA_CAM support in RELENG_8

2010-07-01 Thread Paul Mather
On Jun 30, 2010, at 5:18 PM, Alexander Motin wrote: Paul Mather wrote: PS: ATA_STATIC_ID is useless when ATA_CAM option enabled. Thank you (and Jeremy Chadwick) for the help and information. The kernel configuration options I used above were taken from a VirtualBox FreeBSD/amd64 install

Re: 8.x grudges

2010-07-08 Thread Paul Mather
On Jul 7, 2010, at 5:39 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Mikhail T. mi+t...@aldan.algebra.com wrote: 07.07.2010 14:59, Jeremy Chadwick ???(??): FREEBSD_COMPAT7 kernel option is, apparently, a requirement (and thus not an option) -- the kernel-config

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-22 Thread Paul Mather
On Jul 21, 2010, at 11:05 PM, Dan Langille wrote: I hope my terminology is correct I have a ZFS array which uses raw devices. I'd rather it use glabel and supply the GEOM devices to ZFS instead. In addition, I'll also partition the HDD to avoid using the entire HDD: leave a little

Re: MFC of ZFSv15

2010-09-17 Thread Paul Mather
On Sep 16, 2010, at 1:44 AM, Martin Matuska wrote: I have fixed the missing bits in r212688. Thanks for the notice. Dňa 15. 9. 2010 21:12, Xin LI wrote / napísal(a): On 2010/09/15 11:30, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 02:07 PM 9/15/2010, Pascal Stumpf wrote: First of all, a great thanks to mm@

Re: MFC of ZFSv15

2010-09-18 Thread Paul Mather
On Sep 17, 2010, at 8:37 AM, Paul Mather wrote: On Sep 16, 2010, at 1:44 AM, Martin Matuska wrote: I have fixed the missing bits in r212688. Thanks for the notice. Dňa 15. 9. 2010 21:12, Xin LI wrote / napísal(a): On 2010/09/15 11:30, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 02:07 PM 9/15/2010, Pascal

Re: mysqld_safe holding open a pty/tty on FreeBSD (7.x and 8.x)

2010-09-30 Thread Paul Mather
On Sep 30, 2010, at 3:56 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: The diff is pretty obvious/simple (2 line change), so the other databases/mysqlXX-server ports can be upgraded in the same manner. --- files/mysql-server.sh.in.orig 2010-03-27 03:24:53.0 -0700 +++ files/mysql-server.sh.in

Support for Areca ARC-1300-4X on 8-STABLE?

2010-11-23 Thread Paul Mather
Does anyone know whether the Areca ARC-1300-4X external SAS HBA is currently supported under FreeBSD/amd64 8-STABLE? I just fired up a system that has one of these cards that is running 8.0-RELEASE and the HBA is not being detected properly by FreeBSD. (It is being misidentified by the arcmsr

Re: Support for Areca ARC-1300-4X on 8-STABLE?

2010-11-24 Thread Paul Mather
On Nov 24, 2010, at 12:32 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 09:41:43PM -0500, Paul Mather wrote: Does anyone know whether the Areca ARC-1300-4X external SAS HBA is currently supported under FreeBSD/amd64 8-STABLE? I just fired up a system that has one of these cards

Re: Support for Areca ARC-1300-4X on 8-STABLE?

2010-11-24 Thread Paul Mather
On Nov 24, 2010, at 7:06 PM, Xin LI wrote: On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Paul Mather p...@gromit.dlib.vt.edu wrote: Thanks for the link! I'm not sure whether Fixed arcmsr driver prevent arcsas support for Areca SAS HBA ARC13x0 in the Bug fixes list is good news or bad news for me

Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-10:10.openssl

2010-12-03 Thread Paul Mather
On Dec 2, 2010, at 4:54 AM, Gareth de Vaux wrote: On Thu 2010-12-02 (00:05), jhell wrote: Try that with a ( make includes ) in that same directory and if it works then the advisory will have to be revised. Ah awesome, that works thanx. (I don't see why though, since it was only half

Re: Supported SAS controllers (single port)

2010-12-08 Thread Paul Mather
On Dec 7, 2010, at 8:36 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On 08/12/2010, at 3:51, Mike Andrews wrote: On 12/7/2010 8:00 AM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Does anyone have a recommendation for one? I am looking to connect a LTO tape drive to a FreeBSD 7 or 8 box and I've only ever used Adaptec 19160

Re: umass: AutoSense failed

2010-12-10 Thread Paul Mather
On Dec 9, 2010, at 5:11 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 10:35:56PM +0100, Harald Weis wrote: What could be the reason for the following failure? ugen2.2: Sony at usbus2 umass0: Sony Sony DSC, class 0/0, rev 1.10/4.50, addr 2 on usbus2 umass0: RBC over CBI; quirks =

Re: OS X Lion time machine = (afpd|iSCSI) = ZFS question

2011-07-25 Thread Paul Mather
On Jul 25, 2011, at 2:51 PM, Bakul Shah wrote: On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:15:06 EDT Gary Palmer gpal...@freebsd.org wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 02:56:17PM -0700, Bakul Shah wrote: I am in no hurry to upgrade my MBP to OS X Lion but given Lion time machine and netatalk issues, I got wondering

Re: usbus is seen as network interface - Fwd: sjakie.klop.ws daily run output

2011-09-20 Thread Paul Mather
On Sep 20, 2011, at 6:11 AM, Ronald Klop wrote: Hello, Why is usbus seen as a network interface since some time? I'm running 9-CURRENT on amd64. I've been wondering this, too. It also started happening sometime in the lifetime of 8-STABLE some months ago, with netstat -i showing usbus

Re: fsck_ufs out of swapspace

2011-12-17 Thread Paul Mather
On Dec 17, 2011, at 3:36 PM, Michiel Boland wrote: FreeBSD 9.0-PRERELEASE locked up while into some heavy I/O and failed to shut down properly, so I had to power-cycle. After it came back up it said Starting file system checks: ** SU+J Recovering /dev/ada0a ** Reading 33554432 byte

ZFS + nullfs + Linuxulator = panic?

2012-02-14 Thread Paul Mather
I have a problem with RELENG_8 (FreeBSD/amd64 running a GENERIC kernel, last built 2012-02-08). It will panic during the daily periodic scripts that run at 3am. Here is the most recent panic message: Fatal trap 9: general protection fault while in kernel mode cpuid = 0; apic id = 00

Re: ZFS + nullfs + Linuxulator = panic?

2012-02-15 Thread Paul Mather
On Feb 14, 2012, at 7:23 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 09:38:18AM -0500, Paul Mather wrote: I have a problem with RELENG_8 (FreeBSD/amd64 running a GENERIC kernel, last built 2012-02-08). It will panic during the daily periodic scripts that run at 3am. Here

Re: ZFS + nullfs + Linuxulator = panic?

2012-02-16 Thread Paul Mather
On Feb 14, 2012, at 7:47 PM, Konstantin Belousov wrote: On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 09:38:18AM -0500, Paul Mather wrote: I have a problem with RELENG_8 (FreeBSD/amd64 running a GENERIC kernel, last built 2012-02-08). It will panic during the daily periodic scripts that run at 3am. Here

Re: ZFS + nullfs + Linuxulator = panic?

2012-02-16 Thread Paul Mather
On Feb 16, 2012, at 10:49 AM, Konstantin Belousov wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:09:27AM -0500, Paul Mather wrote: On Feb 14, 2012, at 7:47 PM, Konstantin Belousov wrote: On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 09:38:18AM -0500, Paul Mather wrote: I have a problem with RELENG_8 (FreeBSD/amd64 running

Re: ZFS + nullfs + Linuxulator = panic?

2012-02-20 Thread Paul Mather
On Feb 17, 2012, at 8:27 PM, Konstantin Belousov wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:07:46PM -0500, Paul Mather wrote: On Feb 16, 2012, at 10:49 AM, Konstantin Belousov wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:09:27AM -0500, Paul Mather wrote: On Feb 14, 2012, at 7:47 PM, Konstantin Belousov wrote

Re: ZFS + nullfs + Linuxulator = panic?

2012-02-21 Thread Paul Mather
On Feb 17, 2012, at 8:27 PM, Konstantin Belousov wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:07:46PM -0500, Paul Mather wrote: On Feb 16, 2012, at 10:49 AM, Konstantin Belousov wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:09:27AM -0500, Paul Mather wrote: On Feb 14, 2012, at 7:47 PM, Konstantin Belousov wrote

Re: ZFS + nullfs + Linuxulator = panic?

2012-02-22 Thread Paul Mather
On Feb 17, 2012, at 8:27 PM, Konstantin Belousov wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:07:46PM -0500, Paul Mather wrote: On Feb 16, 2012, at 10:49 AM, Konstantin Belousov wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:09:27AM -0500, Paul Mather wrote: On Feb 14, 2012, at 7:47 PM, Konstantin Belousov wrote

Re: zfs, 1 gig of RAM and periodic weekly

2012-02-28 Thread Paul Mather
On Feb 27, 2012, at 11:10 PM, Eugene M. Zheganin wrote: Hi. On 28.02.2012 01:02, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote: regardless of the pool size ? I was planning on making an atom board a file server for my home, and I have two options: soekris net6501 2GB RAM and intel board powered by the 330 atom

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-02 Thread Paul Mather
On Jun 2, 2012, at 1:31 PM, Chris Rees wrote: On Jun 2, 2012 3:19 PM, O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: On 06/02/12 14:47, Daniel Kalchev wrote: On 02.06.12 15:32, Erich wrote: I know that the ports tree is a moving target. But it stops moving during the release period.

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-03 Thread Paul Mather
On Jun 2, 2012, at 2:56 PM, Chris Nehren wrote: On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 14:11:06 -0400 , Paul Mather wrote: I'm not sure what the solution is for the end user. I know I get somewhat leery of updating my ports if I see a large number of changes coming via portsnap (like the 4000

Re: PF to Preventing SMTP Brute Force Attacks

2012-06-15 Thread Paul Mather
On Jun 15, 2012, at 12:55 PM, Shiv. Nath wrote: # START table bruteforce persist block in log quick from bruteforce pass in on $ext_if proto tcp \ from any to $ext_if port $trusted_tcp_ports \ flags S/SA keep state \ (max-src-conn-rate 3/300, overload bruteforce flush global) # END

uhci0 excessive interrupts---how can I disable or reset specific USB port?

2012-08-15 Thread Paul Mather
I am running FreeBSD/amd64 9-STABLE (built Mon Jul 23 10:45:51 EDT 2012) on a Dell Optiplex 760 and, today, noticed I had almost 30% system CPU load in top even when the system was idle. A perusal of vmstat revealed the cause to be excessive interrupts on uhci0, even though nothing was plugged

Re: virtio for 9.1-R

2012-11-27 Thread Paul Mather
On Nov 27, 2012, at 3:49 PM, Joe Holden li...@rewt.org.uk wrote: On 27/11/2012 19:25, Sergey Kandaurov wrote: On 27 November 2012 22:12, Joe Holden li...@rewt.org.uk wrote: Hi guys, I can't see virtio in releng/9.1, is there any particular reason why it isn't going to be included given

Upgrade of RELENG_8 ZFS boot pool leads to unbootable system

2013-01-02 Thread Paul Mather
Yesterday, I updated my RELENG_8 ZFS-only system that has worked like a champ for ages. After a successful install{kernel,world} and reboot, I noticed the 20121130 entry in /usr/src/UPDATING and upgraded my ZFS pool via zfs upgrade -a. I also upgraded my boot blocks as requested, and as per

Re: Upgrade of RELENG_8 ZFS boot pool leads to unbootable system

2013-01-02 Thread Paul Mather
On Jan 2, 2013, at 2:10 PM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 02/01/2013 17:49, Paul Mather wrote: Yesterday, I updated my RELENG_8 ZFS-only system that has worked like a champ for ages. After a successful install{kernel,world} and reboot, I noticed the 20121130

Solved?: Re: Upgrade of RELENG_8 ZFS boot pool leads to unbootable system

2013-01-03 Thread Paul Mather
On Jan 2, 2013, at 2:10 PM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 02/01/2013 17:49, Paul Mather wrote: Yesterday, I updated my RELENG_8 ZFS-only system that has worked like a champ for ages. After a successful install{kernel,world} and reboot, I noticed the 20121130

Re: Solved?: Re: Upgrade of RELENG_8 ZFS boot pool leads to unbootable system

2013-01-04 Thread Paul Mather
On Jan 4, 2013, at 5:39 AM, Vincent Hoffman vi...@unsane.co.uk wrote: On 03/01/2013 21:18, Paul Mather wrote: It turns out it was my /boot.config that was preventing booting. The system is usually always headless, so I have -S115200 -Dh as the sole line in /boot.config to enable

Re: pkgng and updated packages

2013-01-28 Thread Paul Mather
On Jan 28, 2013, at 1:59 PM, Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote: Am 28.01.2013 um 18:31 schrieb Glen Barber g...@freebsd.org: On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 06:28:02PM +0100, Rainer Duffner wrote: I go from PERL 5.10 to PERL 5.16, for example and it complains that perl5.16

Re: some issues with /usr/sbin/service

2013-02-16 Thread Paul Mather
On Feb 16, 2013, at 4:21 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 12:23:33PM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote: 16.02.2013 01:32, Jeremy Chadwick ??: Follow up -- I read Alfred's most recent mail. Lo and behold, I find this in /var/log/messages (but such did not come to my

Re: ask about stable

2013-02-20 Thread Paul Mather
On Feb 20, 2013, at 4:29 AM, Fleuriot Damien m...@my.gd wrote: Here, I think this is what you're looking for: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html You should be able to move from 9.1-RELEASE to 9-STABLE with freebsd-update :) Except that the

Re: IPMI serial console

2013-02-22 Thread Paul Mather
On Feb 21, 2013, at 11:29 PM, Jeremy Chadwick j...@koitsu.org wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 02:22:52PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On 22/02/2013, at 12:02, Jeremy Chadwick j...@koitsu.org wrote: Hmm I tried putting '-S 115200' in /boot.config and it broke - the boot process didn't run the

Re: IPMI serial console

2013-02-22 Thread Paul Mather
On Feb 21, 2013, at 7:14 PM, Daniel O'Connor docon...@gsoft.com.au wrote: On 22/02/2013, at 10:40, Jeremy Chadwick j...@koitsu.org wrote: X9SIL-F BIOS version 1.1 (05/27/10) IPMI firmware is 2.01. I can't find this motherboard listed on Supermicro's site. kenv | grep smbios output

Virtio and GEOM labels

2013-03-22 Thread Paul Mather
I'm running FreeBSD 9-STABLE as a guest under RHEL 6.4 KVM virtualisation. I have networking and storage in the FreeBSD guest using the Virtio drivers (with the virtual disk set to Virtio in the definition on the host). Everything is working nicely: I have a vtnet network adapter and see vtbd

Re: Virtio and GEOM labels

2013-03-25 Thread Paul Mather
On Mar 25, 2013, at 1:46 PM, John Nielsen li...@jnielsen.net wrote: On Mar 22, 2013, at 8:14 AM, Paul Mather p...@gromit.dlib.vt.edu wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 9-STABLE as a guest under RHEL 6.4 KVM virtualisation. I have networking and storage in the FreeBSD guest using the Virtio drivers

Re: ZFS Panic after freebsd-update

2013-07-01 Thread Paul Mather
On Jul 1, 2013, at 11:49 AM, Jeremy Chadwick j...@koitsu.org wrote: On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 11:35:30AM -0400, Scott Sipe wrote: *** Sorry for partial first message! (gmail sent after multiple returns apparently?) *** Hello, I have not had much time to research this problem yet, so please

Enabling pf in 9-STABLE guest on KVM triggers abrt crash report

2013-08-07 Thread Paul Mather
I have been using 9-STABLE as a guest under KVM on RHEL 6 for several months now without incident. I am using the virtio drivers and using bridged networking on the host to attach my guests. Recently, I enabled pf in one of my 9-STABLE (r253579) guests and subsequently started to receive

Re: protecting some processes from out-of-swap killer

2015-04-28 Thread Paul Mather
On Apr 28, 2015, at 5:51 AM, Ronald Klop ronald-li...@klop.ws wrote: On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 13:15:32 +0200, Dmitry Morozovsky ma...@rinet.ru wrote: On Sat, 25 Apr 2015, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: However, sometimes postgres processes got killed by 'out of swap space'. I suppose the source

Re: zfs, cam sticking on failed disk

2015-05-07 Thread Paul Mather
On May 7, 2015, at 8:00 AM, Steven Hartland kill...@multiplay.co.uk wrote: On 07/05/2015 11:46, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote: On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 11:38:46AM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: How I can cancel this 24 requst? Why this requests don't timeout (3 hours already)? How I can forced

Re: 4TB Western Digital My Book 1230 USB hard drive not working on 10.2

2015-08-03 Thread Paul Mather
On Aug 3, 2015, at 11:09 AM, Alban Hertroys haram...@gmail.com wrote: On 3 August 2015 at 15:01, Paul Mather freebsd-li...@gromit.dlib.vt.edu wrote: On Aug 2, 2015, at 9:34 PM, Adam McDougall mcdou...@egr.msu.edu wrote: On 08/02/2015 21:22, Paul Mather wrote: I have a 4TB external USB

Re: pkg clean question

2015-08-03 Thread Paul Mather
On Aug 3, 2015, at 11:39 AM, Zoran Kolic zko...@sbb.rs wrote: Amd64, 9.3. Updated few times, packages also. At first I found on laptop that /var directory was at 102%. Using pkg clean i removed about 400mb of cache packages from /var/cache/pkg. Tried to clean desktop cache and the out- put

Re: 4TB Western Digital My Book 1230 USB hard drive not working on 10.2

2015-08-03 Thread Paul Mather
such a commonplace drive, I'd hoped someone might pipe up and say something along the lines of, oh, you have to add USB quirk XYZ to get that model working under FreeBSD. No such luck, it seems. Cheers, Paul. Jack On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Paul Mather freebsd-li

Re: 4TB Western Digital My Book 1230 USB hard drive not working on 10.2

2015-08-03 Thread Paul Mather
On Aug 2, 2015, at 9:34 PM, Adam McDougall mcdou...@egr.msu.edu wrote: On 08/02/2015 21:22, Paul Mather wrote: I have a 4TB external USB drive (Western Digital My Book 1230) that I am trying to use under FreeBSD/amd64 10.2 (10.2-PRERELEASE #0 r286052: Wed Jul 29 20:59:39 EDT 2015

4TB Western Digital My Book 1230 USB hard drive not working on 10.2

2015-08-02 Thread Paul Mather
I have a 4TB external USB drive (Western Digital My Book 1230) that I am trying to use under FreeBSD/amd64 10.2 (10.2-PRERELEASE #0 r286052: Wed Jul 29 20:59:39 EDT 2015). This system has a MSI 760GMA-P34 (FX) motherboard. The drive probes unreliably when plugged in to a USB 3 port. It

Re: 4TB Western Digital My Book 1230 USB hard drive not working on 10.2

2015-08-08 Thread Paul Mather
On Aug 3, 2015, at 2:15 PM, Paul Mather freebsd-li...@gromit.dlib.vt.edu wrote: On Aug 3, 2015, at 12:17 PM, Jack Vogel jfvo...@gmail.com wrote: Have you tried it on HEAD, and have you tried it on the same system with some recent flavor of Linux? No, and no. It's a good idea, though. I

10.2-RC1/STABLE VIMAGE memory leak progress?

2015-07-27 Thread Paul Mather
I'm running 10-STABLE (which currently identifies itself as 10.2-PRERELEASE) and lately I've started experimenting with using iocage for Jail management. (I really like it so far.) In particular, I've been trying out iocage's support for VNET networking that relies on VIMAGE and uses bridge

Re: Circular dependency between local_unbound and ntpd?

2015-07-14 Thread Paul Mather
resolution will require an accurate clock and, I assume, mean that ntpdate will require IP addresses, too? So, it still comes down to this: do I need to know the IP address of an NTP server to be able to use local_unbound safely with NTP? Cheers, Paul. On 14 July 2015 at 14:43, Paul Mather p

Circular dependency between local_unbound and ntpd?

2015-07-14 Thread Paul Mather
I believe I ran afoul of a circular dependency between local_unbound and ntpd on my 10.2-PRERELEASE system. I use a stock /etc/ntp.conf and use ntpd_sync_on_start=YES. Last night, a BIOS settings reset cause my CMOS clock to go WAY out of synch for the first time. No problem, I thought: NTP

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