Re: kern/135412: [zfs] [nfs] zfs(v13)+nfs and open(..., O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, ...)

2009-07-01 Thread Danny Braniss
On 2009-06-30, Mike Andrews wrote: Jaakko Heinonen wrote: On 2009-06-30, Danny Braniss wrote: This pr is realy holding me back, I can't upgrade this server, and telling serveral tens of users to us cp, etc is not an option. The open works fine if not using O_EXCL. I guess

kern/135412: [zfs] [nfs] zfs(v13)+nfs and open(..., O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, ...)

2009-06-30 Thread Danny Braniss
hi, This pr is realy holding me back, I can't upgrade this server, and telling serveral tens of users to us cp, etc is not an option. The open works fine if not using O_EXCL. Thanks, danny ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: reecommendations for an 'appliance platform ?

2009-06-13 Thread Danny Braniss
I'm not 100% sure, but fairly sure that you'll have a hard time finding something that combines the low-power standalone type spec with a 64-bit capable processor. Once you get the higher-end processor, That was my experiense when shopping around yes - annoying as I don't need

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2009-06-12 Thread Danny Braniss
latest -stable (June 11) is causing problems: MB is intel SE7320VP21, msk0: Ethernet address: 00:0e:0c:6a:85:a8 miibus0: MII bus on msk0 e1000phy0: Marvell 88E Gigabit PHY PHY 0 on miibus0 e1000phy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-FDX, auto msk0:

Re: msk/stable

2009-06-12 Thread Danny Braniss
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 10:57:42AM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote: latest -stable (June 11) is causing problems: MB is intel SE7320VP21, msk0: Ethernet address: 00:0e:0c:6a:85:a8 miibus0: MII bus on msk0 e1000phy0: Marvell 88E Gigabit PHY PHY 0 on miibus0 e1000phy0: 10baseT

unionfs unlocking unheld lock

2009-06-10 Thread Danny Braniss
hi, sporadically, I see this: lockmgr: thread 0xff0004a8b390 unlocking unheld lock KDB: stack backtrace: db_trace_self_wrapper() at db_trace_self_wrapper+0x2a _lockmgr() at _lockmgr+0x6ae VOP_UNLOCK_APV() at VOP_UNLOCK_APV+0x46 unionfs_unlock() at unionfs_unlock+0x22f VOP_UNLOCK_APV()

Re: Stable from May 31 - zfs list locked

2009-06-06 Thread Danny Braniss
Hello, I encounter this problem for the second time. The system is working perfectly well but suddenly the command `zfs list' don't work and can't be killed. Here is a procstat of the culprit: [r...@morzine ~]# procstat -k 91766 PIDTID COMM TDNAME KSTACK

msk(4) and Yukon

2009-05-24 Thread Danny Braniss
hi, Since I saw some activity, I decided to try out my msks, so the Yukon 88E8050 on my Intel SE7320VP21 now works with hw.msk.legacy_intr=0 which didn't before (sorry, but the best I can say is 'long time ago' ;-) on an Asus P5K-VM with Yukon 88E8056, it panics when used to PXE

Re: ZFS MFC heads up

2009-05-21 Thread Danny Braniss
I will be MFC'ing the newer ZFS support some time this afternoon. Both world and kernel will need to be re-built. Existing pools will continue to work without upgrade. If you choose to upgrade a pool to take advantage of new features you will no longer be able to use it with sources prior

Re: FreeBSD and iSCSI for disks.

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

Re: FreeBSD and iSCSI for disks.

2009-04-09 Thread Danny Braniss
Danny Braniss wrote: This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --enig90DADA8437A99D893FB775F8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3DUTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Danny Braniss wrote: Garance A Drosihn wrote: Some friends of mine

Re: FreeBSD and iSCSI for disks.

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

Re: Intel Integrated Raid (iir) relevance

2009-04-01 Thread Danny Braniss
Hi Xin LI, (It would be probably good idea to redirect this discussion to -stable@, redirected) ok by me. Hi, Danny, Danny Braniss wrote: It's no longer working (for me) under 7.2, and so far I am not getting any feedback, so since it seems that this particular hardware has reached

Re: amr driver broken since March 12

2009-03-29 Thread Danny Braniss
Danny Braniss wrote: it seems March 12 was a bit off :-) it took some time, but I managed to close the gap: 189100 ok 189150 fails I will continue tomorrow, but this should be helpful. 189150 is in the middle of a big string of related commits. Try updating

Re: amr driver broken since March 12

2009-03-29 Thread Danny Braniss
Danny Braniss wrote: Danny Braniss wrote: it seems March 12 was a bit off :-) it took some time, but I managed to close the gap: 189100 ok 189150 fails I will continue tomorrow, but this should be helpful. 189150 is in the middle of a big string of related commits. Try

Re: amr driver broken since March 12

2009-03-29 Thread Danny Braniss
Danny Braniss danny at cs.huji.ac.il writes: at least for me :-) [and sorry for the cross posting] [...] amr0: LSILogic MegaRAID 1.53 mem 0xfbef-0xfbef,0xfe58-0xfe5f irq 27 at device 0.0 on pci4 amr0: [ITHREAD] amr0: delete logical drives supported

Re: ALT_BREAK_TO... + ILO ... missing something in config ...

2009-03-28 Thread Danny Braniss
Due to an issue I'm having with 7.x, and trying to track it down, I spent tonight getting my server setup to allow my to break into the debugger when it hangs, and hopefully dump core ... But, although I *think* I've got it all, I'm obviously missing something, as it isn't breaking ...

Re: amr driver broken since March 12

2009-03-28 Thread Danny Braniss
Danny Braniss wrote: Danny Braniss wrote: at least for me :-) [and sorry for the cross posting] old (March 12 , i know need the svn rev number but...) None of the commit activity on March 12 is jumping out at me as being suspicious. However, you are now the second person who has

amr driver broken since March 12

2009-03-27 Thread Danny Braniss
at least for me :-) [and sorry for the cross posting] old (March 12 , i know need the svn rev number but...) dmesg | grep amr amr0: LSILogic MegaRAID 1.53 mem 0xfbef-0xfbef,0xfe58-0xfe5f irq 27 at device 0.0 on pci4 amr0: [ITHREAD] amr0: delete logical drives supported by

Re: amr driver broken since March 12

2009-03-27 Thread Danny Braniss
Danny Braniss wrote: at least for me :-) [and sorry for the cross posting] old (March 12 , i know need the svn rev number but...) None of the commit activity on March 12 is jumping out at me as being suspicious. However, you are now the second person who has told me about AMR

Re: dump | restore fails: unknown tape header type 1853384566

2009-03-24 Thread Danny Braniss
Daniel O'Connor ÎÁÐÉÓÁ×(ÌÁ): On Tuesday 24 March 2009 11:55:07 Mikhail T. wrote: I'm trying to migrate a filesystem from one disk to another using: dump a0hCf 0 32 - /old | restore -rf - (/old is already mounted read-only). The process runs for a while and then stops

Intel Integrated RAID iir not working under 7.2

2009-03-24 Thread Danny Braniss
Hi, After turning debuging on, it seems that the iir driver is loosing an interrupt while probing: ... gdt_next(0xc7666000) gdt_mpr_test_busy(0xc7666000) gdt_intr(0xc7666000) gdt_mpr_get_status(0xc7666000) gdt_mpr_intr(0xc7666000) gdt_free_ccb(0xc7666000, 0xc767e444) gdt_sync_event(0xc7666000, 3,

7.2 and iir stuck on boot.

2009-03-23 Thread Danny Braniss
Hi, after upgrading to 7.2, booting the kernel gets stuck with: run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 300 seconds for xpt_config from a 7.1 dmesg, it seems that it's in the iir driver. danny ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

7.2-PRERELEASE/sunx2200/bge/msi broken

2009-03-22 Thread Danny Braniss
Hi, between March 16 and now, bge on a Sun X2200 stopped working, turning off msi (via hw..pci.enable_msi=0) got it working again. I tried first replacing bge with an older version but that did not help. please advice :-) Danny ___

Re: 7.2-PRERELEASE/sunx2200/bge/msi broken

2009-03-22 Thread Danny Braniss
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 03:10:07PM +0200, Mikolaj Golub wrote: On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 12:55:02 +0200 Danny Braniss wrote: DB Hi, DB between March 16 and now, bge on a Sun X2200 stopped working, DB turning off msi (via hw..pci.enable_msi=0) got it working again. DB I tried

Re: Tester wanted for multipath failover iSCSI target software

2009-03-11 Thread Danny Braniss
Now istgt is a part of ports. (net/istgt) FreeBSD issue is solved by danny's patch. After applying the patch, iscontrol can connect to istgt. I am interested in giving this a try, though not immediately as I am away from the office at the moment. Do I need to apply a patch to iscontrol

Re: FBSD 7.1 XEON Quad Core

2009-02-12 Thread Danny Braniss
On 12.02.2009 3:12 Uhr, SDH Support wrote: Yes, if you have (or plan to have) more than 3 GB of memory. FYI I have had a lot of problems with FBSD7.x and HP DL-series hardware + amd64. There is a bug IIRC in the loader. I had problems with DL3X0G5 when booting with PXE,

Re: impossible packet length ...

2009-02-08 Thread Danny Braniss
I'm reposting this to hackers, and there is some more info. Hi, on 2 different servers, running 7.1-stable + zfs, I get this error rather frequently: Feb 5 17:01:03 warhol-00 kernel: impossible packet length (543383918) from nfs server sunfire:/dist Feb 5 17:01:03 warhol-00 kernel:

Re: impossible packet length ...

2009-02-08 Thread Danny Braniss
On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2009-Feb-08 11:31:45 +0200, Danny Braniss da...@cs.huji.ac.il wrote: Q: with rxcsum on, and a bad checksum packet is received, is it dropped by the NIC? if not, then it somewhat explains the behaviour If checksum offloading is working

Re: impossible packet length ...

2009-02-08 Thread Danny Braniss
On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, Danny Braniss wrote: looking at the bce source, it's not clear (to me :-). If errors are detected in bce_rx_intr(), the packet gets dropped, which I would expect to be the treatment of an offloded chekcum error, but it seems that is not the case. I think

Re: impossible packet length ...

2009-02-08 Thread Danny Braniss
On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, Danny Braniss wrote: On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, Danny Braniss wrote: looking at the bce source, it's not clear (to me :-). If errors are detected in bce_rx_intr(), the packet gets dropped, which I would expect to be the treatment of an offloded chekcum error

impossible packet length ...

2009-02-05 Thread Danny Braniss
Hi, on 2 different servers, running 7.1-stable + zfs, I get this error rather frequently: Feb 5 17:01:03 warhol-00 kernel: impossible packet length (543383918) from nfs server sunfire:/dist Feb 5 17:01:03 warhol-00 kernel: impossible packet length (1936028704) from nfs server sunfire:/dist

Re: impossible packet length ...

2009-02-05 Thread Danny Braniss
On 2009-Feb-06 08:32:27 +0200, Danny Braniss da...@cs.huji.ac.il wrote: on 2 different servers, running 7.1-stable + zfs, I get this error rather frequently: Feb 5 17:01:03 warhol-00 kernel: impossible packet length (543383918) fro= m=20 nfs server sunfire:/dist So many quetsions

Re: Unhappy Xorg upgrade

2009-01-31 Thread Danny Braniss
As a general note, this is the second time in a row that an X.org upgrade broke X for a significant number of people. IMO, this suggests that our approach to X.org upgrades needs significant changes (see below). X11 is a critical component for anyone who is using FreeBSD as a desktop and

Re: more marvell marvels

2009-01-10 Thread Danny Braniss
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 01:48:24PM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote: hi, the mb is asus P5K-VM, the onboard nic is, acccording to pciconf: ms...@pci0:1:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x81f81043 chip=0x436411ab rev=0x12 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Marvell Semiconductor (Was: Galileo

more marvell marvels

2009-01-09 Thread Danny Braniss
hi, the mb is asus P5K-VM, the onboard nic is, acccording to pciconf: ms...@pci0:1:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x81f81043 chip=0x436411ab rev=0x12 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Marvell Semiconductor (Was: Galileo Technology Ltd)' device = '88E8056 Yukon PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller'

Re: more marvell marvels

2009-01-09 Thread Danny Braniss
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 01:48:24PM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote: hi, the mb is asus P5K-VM, the onboard nic is, acccording to pciconf: ms...@pci0:1:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x81f81043 chip=0x436411ab rev=0x12 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Marvell Semiconductor (Was: Galileo

Re: newfs(8) parameters from dumpfs -m have bad -s value?

2009-01-05 Thread Danny Braniss
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 08:23:53PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: This seems to be a bug in dumpfs(8). It simply prints the value of the fs_size field of the superblock, which is wrong. The -s option of newfs(8) expects the available size in sectors (i.e. 512 bytes), but the fs_size

Re: amd(8) cores dump when load high

2008-12-29 Thread Danny Braniss
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 01:03:54PM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote: well, I'm running 7.1-PRERELEASE, what does the amd logs show? .. Dec 27 10:37:01 sf-02 amd[856]: am-utils version 6.1.5 (build 1). Dec 27 10:37:01 sf-02 amd[856]: Report bugs to https://bugzilla.am-utils.org/ or am-ut

Re: amd(8) cores dump when load high

2008-12-27 Thread Danny Braniss
Yes, we found that it crashes when swap is used. on an amd64 architecture, amd could not plock it's pages in memory, and would, under memory preasure be swapped out, and break. I just run some tests under 7.1-PRERELEASE, and - it seems that plock is working. - amd is not being swapped out. are

Re: amd(8) cores dump when load high

2008-12-27 Thread Danny Braniss
is 127.0.0.1 Dec 27 10:37:01 sf-02 amd[857]: released controlling tty using setsid() Dec 27 10:37:01 sf-02 amd[857]: Locked process pages in memory ** On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Danny Braniss da...@cs.huji.ac.il wrote: Yes, we found

Re: amd(8) cores dump when load high

2008-12-27 Thread Danny Braniss
I got Couldn't lock process pages in memory using mlockall() too: [...] On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 9:07 PM, Rong-en Fan gra...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Danny Braniss da...@cs.huji.ac.il wrote: No, we do not running amd with -S. # ps auxww | grep amd root 706

Re: RELENG_7_1: bce driver change generating too much interrupts ?

2008-12-18 Thread Danny Braniss
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Nawfal, Nawfal bin Mohmad Rouyan wrote: I have been using a Dell machine with 2 bce interfaces as a bridge between my LAN and Firewall to shape the traffic. Since after the update, the machine can only run for a few minutes and after

more zfs/nfs panics

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

Re: bce reporting fantom input errors?

2008-12-16 Thread Danny Braniss
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --070205030901020808000803 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Danny Braniss wrote: Hi, After changing cables,switches,ports, I came

bce reporting fantom input errors?

2008-12-15 Thread Danny Braniss
Hi, After changing cables,switches,ports, I came to the conclusion that bce is reporting input errors that are not there, or creating them. I checked this with 3 different boxes, all Dell-2950/Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B2), and one of them, while running Solaris, reported 0

Re: zfs panics

2008-12-11 Thread Danny Braniss
Hi, On 2008-12-10, Danny Braniss wrote: from a solaris or linux client, doing a ls(1) of a nfs exported zfs file, for example: ls /net/zfs-server/h/.zfs/snapshot, panics the server. The server is running latest 7.1-prerelease. This has been reported as PR kern/125149. I have

Re: zfs panics

2008-12-11 Thread Danny Braniss
Hi, On 2008-12-10, Danny Braniss wrote: from a solaris or linux client, doing a ls(1) of a nfs exported zfs file, for example: ls /net/zfs-server/h/.zfs/snapshot, panics the server. The server is running latest 7.1-prerelease. This has been reported as PR kern/125149

zfs panics

2008-12-10 Thread Danny Braniss
hi, from a solaris or linux client, doing a ls(1) of a nfs exported zfs file, for example: ls /net/zfs-server/h/.zfs/snapshot, panics the server. The server is running latest 7.1-prerelease. when client is freebsd, it mostly works, but in a few cases the server just goes into

btx/pxeboot problem

2008-12-02 Thread Danny Braniss
latest pxeboot (7.1): mother-boardNIC/LOM CPU - --- --- Intel SWV25 em xeonworks fine SUN X2200bgeamd works fine DELL PE 2950 bcexeonfailes 95% of the times

Re: dhclient doing DISCOVER with bad IP checksum - bge (7.1 show stopper??)

2008-12-02 Thread Danny Braniss
Can someone please confirm or rule out my issue with dhclient sending bad IP checksum packets. It would really suck if 7.1 was released with a broken DHCP client. I've had many problems lately, but none involved checksum nor the dhcpd (btw, I assume that you are seeing bad checksum on the

Re: diskless+pxe notes

2008-11-15 Thread Danny Braniss
Hi, i finally decided to try and use pxeboot to replace the etherboot method I was using so far for diskless setups. The goal is to fully share the server's root and /usr directories, as documented in diskless(8). I'd like to share the following notes, hopefully to go in the manpage.

Re: bad NFS/UDP performance

2008-10-06 Thread Danny Braniss
On Sat, 4 Oct 2008, Danny Braniss wrote: at the moment, the best I can do is run it on a different hardware that has if_em, the results are in ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/users/danny/lock.prof/7.1-1000.em the benchmark ran better with the Intel NIC, averaged UDP 54MB/s, TCP 53MB/s

Re: bad NFS/UDP performance

2008-10-04 Thread Danny Braniss
On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Danny Braniss wrote: On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Danny Braniss wrote: gladly, but have no idea how to do LOCK_PROFILING, so some pointers would be helpfull. The LOCK_PROFILING(9) man page isn't a bad starting point -- I find that the defaults work fine most

Re: bad NFS/UDP performance

2008-10-03 Thread Danny Braniss
it more difficult than I expected. for one, the kernel date was missleading, the actual source update is the key, so the window of changes is now 28/July to 19/August. I have the diffs, but nothing yet seems relevant. on the other hand, I tried NFS/TCP, and there things seem ok,

Re: bad NFS/UDP performance

2008-10-03 Thread Danny Braniss
On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Danny Braniss wrote: it more difficult than I expected. for one, the kernel date was missleading, the actual source update is the key, so the window of changes is now 28/July to 19/August. I have the diffs, but nothing yet seems relevant. on the other

Re: bad NFS/UDP performance

2008-10-03 Thread Danny Braniss
forget it about LOCK_PROFILING, I'm RTFM now :-) though some hints on values might be helpful. have a nice weekend, danny ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send

Re: bad NFS/UDP performance

2008-10-03 Thread Danny Braniss
On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Danny Braniss wrote: OK, so it looks like this was almost certainly the rwlock change. What happens if you pretty much universally substitute the following in udp_usrreq.c: Currently Change to - - INP_RLOCK

Re: bad NFS/UDP performance

2008-10-03 Thread Danny Braniss
On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Danny Braniss wrote: gladly, but have no idea how to do LOCK_PROFILING, so some pointers would be helpfull. The LOCK_PROFILING(9) man page isn't a bad starting point -- I find that the defaults work fine most of the time, so just use them. Turn the enable

Re: bad NFS/UDP performance

2008-09-29 Thread Danny Braniss
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, Danny Braniss wrote: after more testing, it seems it's related to changes made between Aug 4 and Aug 29 ie, a kernel built on Aug 4 works fine, Aug 29 is slow. I'l now try and close the gap. I think this is the best way forward -- skimming August

Re: bad NFS/UDP performance

2008-09-29 Thread Danny Braniss
it more difficult than I expected. for one, the kernel date was missleading, the actual source update is the key, so the window of changes is now 28/July to 19/August. I have the diffs, but nothing yet seems relevant. on the other hand, I tried NFS/TCP, and there things seem ok,

Re: bad NFS/UDP performance

2008-09-27 Thread Danny Braniss
:-vfs.nfs.realign_test: 22141777 :+vfs.nfs.realign_test: 498351 : :-vfs.nfsrv.realign_test: 5005908 :+vfs.nfsrv.realign_test: 0 : :+vfs.nfsrv.commit_miss: 0 :+vfs.nfsrv.commit_blks: 0 : : changing them did nothing - or at least with respect to nfs throughput

Re: bad NFS/UDP performance

2008-09-27 Thread Danny Braniss
--==_Exmh_1222467420_5817P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline David, You beat me to it. Danny, read the iperf man page: -b, --bandwidth n[KM] set target bandwidth to n bits/sec (default 1 Mbit/sec). This

Re: bad NFS/UDP performance

2008-09-27 Thread Danny Braniss
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, Danny Braniss wrote: after more testing, it seems it's related to changes made between Aug 4 and Aug 29 ie, a kernel built on Aug 4 works fine, Aug 29 is slow. I'l now try and close the gap. I think this is the best way forward -- skimming August changes

bad NFS/UDP performance

2008-09-26 Thread Danny Braniss
Hi, There seems to be some serious degradation in performance. Under 7.0 I get about 90 MB/s (on write), while, on the same machine under 7.1 it drops to 20! Any ideas? thanks, danny ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: bad NFS/UDP performance

2008-09-26 Thread Danny Braniss
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 10:04:16AM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote: Hi, There seems to be some serious degradation in performance. Under 7.0 I get about 90 MB/s (on write), while, on the same machine under 7.1 it drops to 20! Any ideas? 1) Network card driver changes, could

Re: bad NFS/UDP performance

2008-09-26 Thread Danny Braniss
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:27:08PM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote: On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 10:04:16AM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote: Hi, There seems to be some serious degradation in performance. Under 7.0 I get about 90 MB/s (on write), while, on the same machine under 7.1

Re: bad NFS/UDP performance

2008-09-26 Thread Danny Braniss
On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 10:04 +0300, Danny Braniss wrote: Hi, There seems to be some serious degradation in performance. Under 7.0 I get about 90 MB/s (on write), while, on the same machine under 7.1 it drops to 20! Any ideas? The scheduler has been changed to ULE, and NFS has

Re: bad NFS/UDP performance

2008-09-26 Thread Danny Braniss
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:27:08PM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote: On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 10:04:16AM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote: Hi, There seems to be some serious degradation in performance. Under 7.0 I get about 90 MB/s (on write), while, on the same machine under 7.1

Re: RELENG_7 hangs on boot w/Gigabyte MA78GM-S2H MB

2008-09-20 Thread Danny Braniss
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 08:05:33AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 09:45:10AM -0500, Bob Willcox wrote: On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 07:04:56AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 08:24:29AM -0500, Bob Willcox wrote: 1) It would be helpful to know

Re: bin/121684: : dump(8) frequently hangs

2008-09-03 Thread Danny Braniss
Danny, Thanks for the suggestion, but my system is a P-III so there is only one CPU. At 1GHz, I think that this easily qualifies as an older, slower, non-smp host. I just tried it on a GEODE/7.0 stable - slower than a P-III :-), and dump went smoothly so, to help isolate the problem, if it

Re: bin/121684: : dump(8) frequently hangs

2008-09-02 Thread Danny Braniss
take a look at: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=117603 danny ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using iscsi with multiple targets

2008-07-14 Thread Danny Braniss
FreeBSD 7.0 I have 2 machines with identical configurations/hardware, let's call them A (master) and B (slave). I have installed iscsi-target from ports and have set up 3 targets representing the 3 drives I wish to be connected to from A. The Targets file: # extents file

Re: ata on alix/geode stopped being detcted.

2008-06-25 Thread Danny Braniss
hi, latest changes in dev/ata broke this, on older -stable ... ata0-master: pio=PIO4 wdma=UNSUPPORTED udma=UNSUPPORTED cable=40 =wire ad0: success setting PIO4 on National chip ad0: 977MB SanDisk SDCFB-1024 Rev 0.00 at ata0-master PIO4 on latest -stable: ata0-master: pio=PIO4

ata on alix/geode stopped being detcted.

2008-06-24 Thread Danny Braniss
hi, latest changes in dev/ata broke this, on older -stable ... ata0-master: pio=PIO4 wdma=UNSUPPORTED udma=UNSUPPORTED cable=40 wire ad0: success setting PIO4 on National chip ad0: 977MB SanDisk SDCFB-1024 Rev 0.00 at ata0-master PIO4 on latest -stable: ata0-master: pio=PIO4 wdma=WDMA2

Re: auto_nlist failed on cp_time at location 1

2008-04-24 Thread Danny Braniss
--dc+cDN39EJAMEtIO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In the last episode (Apr 23), Tim Stoddard said: I just upgraded from FreeBSD 6.2 - 6.3 (using source tree). I then recompiled my net-snmp port binaries (using portupgrade). I am now get error

Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Yukon EC Ultra

2008-03-27 Thread Danny Braniss
Hi, Under load, the msk has problems, with hw.msk.legacy_intr=1 and 0. with = 1, i get TCP segementation error watchdog timeout with = 0, Tx MAC parity error watchdog timeout the board is a Asus P5K-VM Cheers, danny

Re: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Yukon EC Ultra

2008-03-27 Thread Danny Braniss
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:57:31PM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote: Hi, Under load, the msk has problems, with hw.msk.legacy_intr=1 and 0. with = 1, i get TCP segementation error watchdog timeout with = 0, Tx MAC parity error watchdog timeout Would you

Re: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Yukon EC Ultra

2008-03-27 Thread Danny Braniss
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 01:32:46PM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:57:31PM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote: Hi, Under load, the msk has problems, with hw.msk.legacy_intr=1 and 0. with = 1, i get TCP segementation error

Re: BTX on USB pen drive

2008-03-13 Thread Danny Braniss
On Sunday 09 March 2008 09:07:03 am Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:44:50 -0800 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your boot0cfg line to reinstall the boot0 MBR looks fine, but I don't use boot0 myself (I prefer to go right into boot2/loader). I used 'fdisk

Promise driver/support

2008-02-14 Thread Danny Braniss
is there support for this Promise card? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:4:14:0: class=0x010400 card=0x0374105a chip=0x8350105a rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Promise Technology Inc' class = mass storage subclass = RAID thanks, danny

Re: Documentation: Installing FreeBSD 7.0 via serial console and PXE

2008-01-30 Thread Danny Braniss
Hi Jeremy, I'm very glad that you a) can write! b) that you are actually doing something with respect to the zillions of missguided how-to's :-) Having some experience with the subject, and please, don't read me wrong, I see some different approaches: - indeed this IS the 21'st

Re: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA type errors with 7.0-RC1

2008-01-27 Thread Danny Braniss
Henri Hennebert wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 06:17:24PM -0700, Joe Peterson wrote: Glad you got it back! Yes, when I was first playing with ZFS, I noti= ced that booting between single and multi user mode could make the pools invisible. Import seemed to

Re: strings /boot/kernel/kernel | grep ___

2008-01-05 Thread Danny Braniss
On 7-stable strings /boot/kernel/kernel | grep ___ fails to show kernel config, whereas on 6.2-REL before it worked. Also in 7 there's no START CONFIG FILE END CONFIG FILE Is this deliberate or a mistake ? strings are still there though, look for ^options

Re: 7.0-BETA4 and msk problems

2007-12-27 Thread Danny Braniss
On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 11:03:47AM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote: On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 02:41:28PM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote: with this onboard NIC (LOB?) mskc0: Marvell Yukon 88E8056 Gigabit Ethernet e1000phy0: Marvell 88E1149 Gigabit PHY PHY 0 on miibus0

zfs diskless boot problem

2007-12-25 Thread Danny Braniss
Zfs uses /boot/zfs to keep track of it's pools, but in a diskless environment, this is a read-only fs. This causes several inconveniences, - /etc/rc.d/zfs needs : zfs_start_main() { dlv=`/sbin/sysctl -n vfs.nfs.diskless_valid 2 /dev/null` if [ ${dlv:=0} -ne 0 ]; then zpool import

unionfs lock problems

2007-12-17 Thread Danny Braniss
with 7.0-Beta4, I'm getting quiet a few of these: lockmgr: thread 0xff00039269f0 unlocking unheld lock KDB: stack backtrace: db_trace_self_wrapper() at db_trace_self_wrapper+0x2a _lockmgr() at _lockmgr+0x6ae VOP_UNLOCK_APV() at VOP_UNLOCK_APV+0x46 unionfs_unlock() at unionfs_unlock+0x22f

ufs_rename: fvp == tvp (can't happen)

2007-12-17 Thread Danny Braniss
Hi, I'm also getting quiet a few of this can't happen. The system is running 7.0-beta4, and is doing 'portsupgrade -af' danny ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe,

Re: 7.0-BETA4 and msk problems

2007-12-10 Thread Danny Braniss
On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 02:41:28PM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote: with this onboard NIC (LOB?) mskc0: Marvell Yukon 88E8056 Gigabit Ethernet e1000phy0: Marvell 88E1149 Gigabit PHY PHY 0 on miibus0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x81f81043 chip=0x436411ab

7.0-BETA4 and msk problems

2007-12-09 Thread Danny Braniss
with this onboard NIC (LOB?) mskc0: Marvell Yukon 88E8056 Gigabit Ethernet e1000phy0: Marvell 88E1149 Gigabit PHY PHY 0 on miibus0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x81f81043 chip=0x436411ab rev=0x12 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Marvell Semiconductor (Was: Galileo Technology

Re: FreeBSD-6.2, 7.0-BETA1 on X60

2007-12-03 Thread Danny Braniss
try monitoring the traffic (tcpdump/wireshark), this should give you a good starting point. danny ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

bge/ilo blues on Sun X2200

2007-11-08 Thread Danny Braniss
newer kernels (after Oct. 20) are breacking bge. i've checked the cvsdiffs, but nothing seems relevant. the ilo (Integrated Lights Out) port, bge1, though not configured, gets configured to 10baseT/UTP full-duplex, and no magic will get it to 100/full-duplex, which is what the ilo is using. this

Re: /usr/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8

2007-10-28 Thread Danny Braniss
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 12:37:45PM -0400, Andrew Lankford wrote: Thanks for replying, but once again I've miscommunicated the issue. I meant that MAKEDEV.8 is in /usr/src/share/man/man8/, and the modification time is Oct 13th, recent, which suggests to me that it's still in the

any hope for nfe/msk?

2007-10-24 Thread Danny Braniss
Hi, these drivers don't work under 7.0 As soon as some mild preasure is applied, they start loosing interrupts, and in my case the hosts come to a total stand-still, since they are diskless and rely on the network. This happens at 1gb and at 100mg. Maybe the problem is with the shared

Re: PXE booting issues

2007-06-24 Thread Danny Braniss
I'm currently working on an embedded project which will be built around a BSD (I'm not sure which yet), currently I have an image up and running DragonFly and I'm currently attempting to do the same with FreeBSD for comparison. I'm more or less following the miniBSD tutorials (updating the

Re: iSCSI initiator tester wanted

2007-06-08 Thread Danny Braniss
This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --enig2465C3FB4D976B8B44FBA3F0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Danny Braniss wrote: Hi all, I'm in the last mile before crossing the beta-release line, so I'd

Re: iSCSI initiator tester wanted

2007-06-08 Thread Danny Braniss
... The message on the machine running scsi-target is: Unsupported INQUIRY VPD page 80 yes, I have tested it against ports/net/iscsi-target, I use it to try out errror recovery :-), and as far as I could tell it's harmelss. Anothere thing I can report is that running both

Re: iSCSI initiator tester wanted

2007-06-08 Thread Danny Braniss
A couple comments just from reading through this, see below. #!/bin/sh # PROVIDE: iscsi # REQUIRE: NETWORKING # BEFORE: DAEMON # KEYWORD: nojail shutdown # # Add the following lines to /etc/rc.conf to enable iscsi: # # iscsi_enable=YES # iscsi_fstab=/etc/fstab.iscsi

iSCSI initiator tester wanted

2007-06-06 Thread Danny Braniss
Hi all, I'm in the last mile before crossing the beta-release line, so I'd like to get some input, and update the list of targets it supports. you can obtain the driver from: ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/users/danny/freebsd/iscsi-2.0.92.tar.gz Cheers, danny

Re: iSCSI initiator tester wanted

2007-06-06 Thread Danny Braniss
Quoting Danny Braniss [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm in the last mile before crossing the beta-release line, so I'd like to get some input, and update the list of targets it supports. you can obtain the driver from: ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/users/danny/freebsd/iscsi-2.0.92.tar.gz Looks

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