strsvis breakage when upgrading to from 9.1 to 9-STABLE

2013-09-25 Thread Ivan Voras
Hello, I've sent a similar query before, but didn't receive any answers. When upgrading from 9.1 to 9-STABLE, the buildworld fails with: === usr.bin/xinstall (all) cc -O2 -pipe -I/usr/src/usr.bin/xinstall/../../contrib/mtree -I/usr/src/usr.bin/xinstall/../../lib/libnetbsd

Re: Suggest changing dirhash defaults for FreeBSD 9.2.

2013-08-29 Thread Ivan Voras
On 29/08/2013 03:32, Dewayne Geraghty wrote: From the analysis perforned in 2009, and referenced earlier by Robert, this https://wiki.freebsd.org/DirhashDynamicMemory and other material at this site, indicates that the reclaimage interval is workload dependent and that 5 to 8 seconds seems,

Re: Suggest changing dirhash defaults for FreeBSD 9.2.

2013-08-28 Thread Ivan Voras
On 28/08/2013 05:58, Robert Burmeister wrote: On 8/27/2013 9:40 AM, Sergey Kandaurov wrote: On 27 August 2013 16:41, Robert Burmeister robert.burmeis...@utoledo.edu wrote: I have been experimenting with dirhash settings, and have scoured the internet for other peoples' experience with it.

Re: 9.2-RC3 Now Available

2013-08-26 Thread Ivan Voras
Updated via svnup from releng/9.0 to releng/9.2 (r254910) and I got this in buildworld: cc1: warnings being treated as errors /usr/src/usr.bin/xinstall/xinstall.c: In function 'metadata_log': /usr/src/usr.bin/xinstall/xinstall.c:1331: warning: implicit declaration of function 'strsvis'

Re: Installing FreeBSD 9.1 amd64 on IBM x3550 M3

2013-02-19 Thread Ivan Voras
On 11/02/2013 12:23, Panagiotis Christias wrote: Hello, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 9.1 amd64 on an IBM x3550 M3 server. Installation went smoothly, RAID controller and network cards were successfully recognised. How stable is it? I may have a problem manifesting in random reboots with a

Adding process title to SIGSEGV messages?

2013-01-18 Thread Ivan Voras
Hello, Is there a way to add a process title to SIGSEGV messages which are usually collected in /var/log/messages? Jan 18 15:08:06 www kernel: pid 95174 (process-name), uid 80: exited on signal 11 I'd like to inspect the process' titles alongside process-name. signature.asc Description:

Re: IPv4 vs. IPv6 Ethernet Performance

2012-08-29 Thread Ivan Voras
On 28/08/2012 17:38, Norbert Aschendorff wrote: Configuration v6 v4 === Linux - Linux925 935 # = This could be v6's 40B header # vs. v4's 20B Linux - FreeBSD 450 700 FreeBSD -

Re: Problems with crashing IBM X3630 M3/ZFS

2012-07-11 Thread Ivan Voras
On 06/07/2012 20:56, Bob Healey wrote: Hello. I've got a quartet of IBM x3630 M3 with one that is frequently hard locking under heavy NFS load. I am running 9.0-RELEASE with all the patches from freebsd-update. My problem machine has 8 16 core clients, each doing IO intensive tasks

apache hangs in wait4

2012-07-07 Thread Ivan Voras
Hello, I have a very embarrassing problem where apache22-worker, running mod_fcgid with php, perl and python fastcgi processes, hangs daliy in wait4: # procstat -k 54688 PIDTID COMM TDNAME KSTACK 54688 101355 httpd-mi_switch

Re: Recommendation for Hyervisor to host FreeBSD

2012-07-06 Thread Ivan Voras
On 05/07/2012 14:21, Mark Saad wrote: I am using VMware esxi v4.01 with no issues for 6, 7, 8 and 9 . Esxi will happily host amd64 installs and i386 provider the underlying hardware supports it. The older esx 3.5 works as well on 32bit hardware but I am no longer using it. Also I use

Re: ServeRAID BR10il (LSISAS1064E)

2012-05-17 Thread Ivan Voras
On 16/05/2012 11:45, Alexey V. Panfilov wrote: Hi! I try to boot from CDROM with FreeBSD on IBM xServer x3250 M4 (P/N 2583-72G), but it always crash with message: NMI ISA b8, EISA ff RAM parity error, likely hardware failure. Attempts to install 8.3, 9.0, 7.3 / i386, amd64 - result always

Re: Compatibility with the new XEON Processors

2012-04-05 Thread Ivan Voras
On 04/04/2012 18:03, Efraín Déctor wrote: Hello. Does anyone know if FreeBSD 8.2 and FreeBSD 9.1 are fully compatible with this processor: Intel XEON E3 1270 ?. Yes. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: 157k interrupts per second causing 60% CPU load on idle system

2012-03-20 Thread Ivan Voras
On 20/03/2012 06:26, Matt Thyer wrote: I've upgraded my FreeBSD-STABLE NAS from r225723 (22nd Sept 2011) to r232477 (4th Mar 2012) and am finding that a system process called intr is now constantly using about 60% of 1 CPU starting a short time after reboot (possibly triggered by use of the

Re: 157k interrupts per second causing 60% CPU load on idle system

2012-03-20 Thread Ivan Voras
On 20 March 2012 12:52, Matt Thyer matt.th...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 March 2012 21:12, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: On 20/03/2012 06:26, Matt Thyer wrote: I've upgraded my FreeBSD-STABLE NAS from r225723 (22nd Sept 2011) to r232477 (4th Mar 2012) and am finding that a system process

Re: Serverworks HT-1000 HPET event timer

2012-03-12 Thread Ivan Voras
On 09/03/2012 16:43, Alexander Motin wrote: Hi. Does anybody have success story of using HPET event timer (not time counter!) on Serverworks HT-1000 chipset under FreeBSD 9/10? I was reported about problems with it on HP BL465c G6 blade system and now thinking whether it is global problem

Re: nmbclusters: how do we want to fix this for 8.3 ?

2012-02-23 Thread Ivan Voras
On 23/02/2012 09:19, Fabien Thomas wrote: I think this is more reasonable to setup interface with one queue. Unfortunately, the moment you do that, two things will happen: 1) users will start complaining again how FreeBSD is slow 2) the setting will be come a sacred cow and nobody will change

Re: Tuning needed for slow RDP FreeBSD 9 - Win 2008 R2

2012-02-13 Thread Ivan Voras
On 13/02/2012 02:50, Peter Olsson wrote: Desktop: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE amd64, generic kernel, running Openbox. My WAN is about 1.2 Mbps, and I try to run RDP to windows servers beyond my WAN. RDP to a Windows Server 2003 SP2 is fast and works without problems. RDP to a Windows Server 2008

Re: FreeBSD 9 crash/deadlock when dump(8)ing file system with journaling enabled.

2012-01-30 Thread Ivan Voras
On 30/01/2012 13:06, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: For now I've turned off journaling (soft updates seem fine) and that works around the issue. Let me know if I can provide more details etc! I'm not sure, but this may be an after-effect of known problems right now with SU+J on 9.0. It would help

Unbalanced timer interrupts under VMWare?

2011-12-21 Thread Ivan Voras
I have a strange situation on a VMWare 5-hosted machine: # vmstat -i interrupt total rate irq1: atkbd0 74 0 irq6: fdc011 0 irq15: ata1 17 0 irq18: em0

Re: Unbalanced timer interrupts under VMWare?

2011-12-21 Thread Ivan Voras
On 21.12.2011. 14:48, Maxim Dounin wrote: Hello! On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 12:02:04PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: Unless the tickless kernel project has advanced more than I think, It is, actually. Many thanks to mav@ for his amazing work. $ sysctl kern.eventtimer.periodic

Re: TCP Reassembly Issues

2011-11-24 Thread Ivan Voras
On 24.11.2011. 8:02, Kris Bauer wrote: Hello, I am currently experiencing an issue with FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 r227852 where the net.inet.tcp.reass.curesegments value is constantly increasing (and not descreasing when there is nominal traffic with the box). It is causing tcp slowdowns as described

Re: ATA/Cdrom(?) panic

2011-11-16 Thread Ivan Voras
On 16/11/2011 07:43, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: Hey, we have seen this or a very similar panic for about 1 year now once in a while and I think I reported it before; this is FreeBSD as guest on Yes, IIRC I've also reported it before; it crashes randomly, when the machine is not doing anything

Re: ATA/Cdrom(?) panic

2011-11-16 Thread Ivan Voras
On 16/11/2011 15:45, Joel Dahl wrote: Hmm. We're running many FreeBSD 8.2 machines as guests in VMware but have never encountered the panic described above. Should I be worried? :-) I've encountered them often enough that I started removing cdrom devices from the VMs. signature.asc

Re: Questions about using gvirstor as a RAID0 solution

2011-10-24 Thread Ivan Voras
On 24/10/2011 11:21, carlopmart wrote: Hi all, I would like to use gvirstor as a thin provisioning solution for a mysql server, but I have some doubts about using it: Yes, it's kind of what it was created for... a) Do I need to put geom_virstor_load=YES on loader.conf or this kernel

Re: FreeBSD on IBM X3550 M3

2011-10-18 Thread Ivan Voras
On 18/10/2011 09:03, Gót András wrote: The M5014 RAID is also UEFI aware and of course I only made the initial disk group and volume group config on it. :) Yes, the moment of truth will come this evening. I hope I'll be able got FreeBSD working on the machine and I don't have to go on with

Setting coredumpsize on a running process?

2011-10-18 Thread Ivan Voras
I have PHP executing as fastcgi via the mod_fcgid module in Apache. I suspect there is a bug in PHP or one of its extensions which causes it to crash with sigsegv, but I cannot get any coredumps. I suspect something is setting coredumpsize to 0 - either Apache, mod_fcgid or PHP. So the question

Re: Setting coredumpsize on a running process?

2011-10-18 Thread Ivan Voras
On 18 October 2011 16:43, Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 04:32:11PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: I have PHP executing as fastcgi via the mod_fcgid module in Apache. I suspect there is a bug in PHP or one of its extensions which causes it to crash

Re: FreeBSD 8.2r amd 64 problem when compiling 32bit applications

2011-08-25 Thread Ivan Voras
On 25/08/2011 15:28, noel beck wrote: The following is the example of the error when compiling in 32-bit on a 64-bit machine: [gsaid@Bruno ~]$ gcc -m32 -o hello hello.c I don't think -m32 is supported at all. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

Re: WD Advanced Format: do I need to do something special?

2011-08-22 Thread Ivan Voras
On 18/08/2011 11:55, Yuri wrote: On 08/18/2011 02:17, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: The below advice still applies. Do not skim the page, read it. http://ivoras.net/blog/tree/2011-01-01.freebsd-on-4k-sector-drives.html You will therefore have to go through some manual rigmarole (preferably with

Re: WD Advanced Format: do I need to do something special?

2011-08-22 Thread Ivan Voras
On 19/08/2011 03:28, Yuri wrote: Following instructions here (http://ivoras.net/blog/tree/2011-01-01.freebsd-on-4k-sector-drives.html) I destroyed my previous ZFS pool with 512 byte sectors and did this: gnop create -S 4096 /dev/ad4 zpool create mypool /dev/ad4.nop zpol create mypool/mydir zpool

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

2011-07-22 Thread Ivan Voras
On 21/07/2011 23:56, Bakul Shah wrote: I got wondering if iSCSI on FreeBSD is stable enough for time machine use. How much duct tape and baling wire are needed to make it work?! iSCSI as in the target (server) function? net/istgt in ports seemed ok last time I tried it.

Re: disable 64-bit dma for one PCI slot only?

2011-07-19 Thread Ivan Voras
On 19/07/2011 07:56, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: On 19.07.2011 1:22, Scott Long wrote: Btw, I *HATE* the chip and card identifiers used in pciconf. Can we change it to emit the standard (sub)vendor/(sub)device terminology? Oh, yeah. I hate that too. Would you want them as 4 separate entities

Re: Status of support for 4KB disk sectors

2011-07-19 Thread Ivan Voras
On 19.7.2011. 19:54, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jul 18, 2011, at 11:04 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote: I just wish FreeBSD had some decent documentation on such a fundamental operation. Fortunately there are some pretty good articles folks have written, but they did leave me with several questions. Is

Re: UFS SU+J

2011-06-30 Thread Ivan Voras
On 29/06/2011 23:03, Mark Saad wrote: The svn sources are here http://svn.freebsd.org/base/projects/suj/8/ . Why would suj not make it into 8-STABLE ? It is a too large patch, and it changes a lot of important, known and working code (like softupdates). In other words, it's too risky.

csh Cannot open /etc/termcap after starting screen

2011-06-16 Thread Ivan Voras
Hello, This *looks* like it should be a trivial problem (or at least often-encountered one) but short of debugging both screen and tcsh, I have no ideas what to do next... On several machines (seemingly random, some are running 7-stable, others 8-stable), I get this message after starting

Re: [poll] hyperthreading_allowed, hlt_logical_cpus, mp_watchdog

2011-05-24 Thread Ivan Voras
On 24/05/2011 15:21, Andriy Gapon wrote: I am planning on some changes in head and would like to see if people use the following features: - machdep.hyperthreading_allowed tunable and sysctl - machdep.hlt_logical_cpus tunable and sysctl - mp_watchdog kernel option If you are using any of the

Re: Is machdep.cpu_idle_hlt deprecated?

2011-05-04 Thread Ivan Voras
On 02/05/2011 19:56, Jung-uk Kim wrote: On Monday 02 May 2011 10:48 am, Bruce Cran wrote: On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 21:20:28 -0700 Jeremy Chadwickfree...@jdc.parodius.com wrote: Anyone know if machdep.cpu_idle_hlt still exists? Taken from acpi(4) on RELENG_8: It looks like it might have been

Re: correct way to setup gmirror on 7.4?

2011-04-28 Thread Ivan Voras
On 28/04/2011 17:02, Edho P Arief wrote: On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Freddie Cashfjwc...@gmail.com wrote: Granted, there may be reasons why it wasn't done like this in the beginning, but my non-GEOM programmer's eyes can't see any. I believe one of the reason is it would prevent

Re: GELI speed

2011-03-30 Thread Ivan Voras
On 30/03/2011 02:48, Clayton Milos wrote: Now on 8.2-RELEASE when I run geli onetime -s 4096 gzero it crashes the box with a kernel fault. You need to obtain information about the crash. Add a line to /etc/rc.conf: dumpdev=AUTO (assuming you have decent swap space on an unencrypted drive),

Re: tmpfs is zero bytes (no free space), maybe a zfs bug?

2011-02-07 Thread Ivan Voras
On 7 February 2011 14:37, Gleb Kurtsou gleb.kurt...@gmail.com wrote: It's up to user to mount tmpfs filesystems of reasonable size to prevent resource exhaustion. Anyway, enormously large tmpfs killing all your process is not the way to go. Of course not, but as I see it (from admin

Re: Is /etc/rc.conf scriptable?

2011-02-01 Thread Ivan Voras
On 01/02/2011 13:35, Yue Wu wrote: Hi list, I'm trying to do something to make rc.conf can act conditionally Technically, yes it can be done, but you shouldn't. It is in essence a shell script as it is sourced by other shell scripts but that's only because that approach is easiest to

Re: TRIM support in UFS - any chance of it in ZFS ?

2011-01-31 Thread Ivan Voras
On 31/01/2011 14:41, Pete French wrote: Just saw that the TRIM support for UFS has been MFC'd. Excellent stuff. I was wondering if there were any plans to do similar for ZFS at all ? AFAIK it isn't yet supported in upstream ZFS. ___

Re: Gpart and gmirror 8.2 from 18 januari

2011-01-21 Thread Ivan Voras
On 19/01/2011 12:30, Johan Hendriks wrote: Hello all, i used to have disk configured with gpart and gmirror. But with the latest 8.2, my server will not boot anymore if i label the disk with gmirror. Gpart status Name Status Components ad4p1 OK ad4 Then i do a gmirror label

Re: Gpart and gmirror 8.2 from 18 januari

2011-01-21 Thread Ivan Voras
On 21/01/2011 13:56, Johan Hendriks wrote: Ok the funny thing is, i get the same error on 8.1 Release (the corrupt error), but it boots, and all seems to work. Maybe the boot process was made to be more standard-compliant :) ___

Re: Gpart and gmirror 8.2 from 18 januari

2011-01-21 Thread Ivan Voras
On 21/01/2011 14:22, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: On 21.01.2011 16:03, Ivan Voras wrote: On 21/01/2011 13:56, Johan Hendriks wrote: Ok the funny thing is, i get the same error on 8.1 Release (the corrupt error), but it boots, and all seems to work. Maybe the boot process was made to be more

Re: tmpfs is zero bytes (no free space), maybe a zfs bug?

2011-01-19 Thread Ivan Voras
On 19/01/2011 11:09, Attila Nagy wrote: On 01/19/11 09:46, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 09:37:35AM +0100, Attila Nagy wrote: I first noticed this problem on machines with more memory (32GB eg.), but now it happens on 4G machines too: tmpfs 0B 0B 0B 100% /tmp FreeBSD builder

Re: tmpfs is zero bytes (no free space), maybe a zfs bug?

2011-01-19 Thread Ivan Voras
On 19 January 2011 16:02, Kostik Belousov kostik...@gmail.com wrote: http://people.freebsd.org/~ivoras/diffs/tmpfs.h.patch I don't think this is a complete solution but it's a start. If you can, try it and see if it helps. This is not a start, and actually a step in the wrong direction.

Re: 8.2-PRERELEASE: live deadlock, almost all processes in pfault state

2011-01-10 Thread Ivan Voras
On 08/01/2011 23:06, Lev Serebryakov wrote: I need to look how raid3 and vinum/raid5 lives with that situation. One other standard solution is to spawn a thread and offload the job to that thread, instead of within GEOM start(). This is what most current complex GEOM classes to.

Re: 8.2-PRERELEASE: live deadlock, almost all processes in pfault state

2011-01-10 Thread Ivan Voras
On 08/01/2011 20:42, Lev Serebryakov wrote: Hello, Kostik. You wrote 8 января 2011 г., 22:02:32: If I am guessing right, this creature has a classic deadlock when bio processing requires memory allocation. It seems that tid 100079 is sleeping not even due to the free page shortage, but due to

Re: ZFS - moving from a zraid1 to zraid2 pool with 1.5tb disks

2011-01-03 Thread Ivan Voras
On 12/30/10 12:40, Damien Fleuriot wrote: I am concerned that in the event a drive fails, I won't be able to repair the disks in time before another actually fails. An old trick to avoid that is to buy drives from different series or manufacturers (the theory is that identical drives tend to

Re: tmpfs runs out of space on 8.2pre-release, zfs related?

2011-01-03 Thread Ivan Voras
On 01/02/11 09:41, miyamoto moesasji wrote: miyamoto moesasjimiyamoto.31bat gmail.com writes: In setting up tmpfs (so not tmpmfs) on a machine that is using zfs(v15, zfs v4) on 8.2prerelease I run out of space on the tmpfs when copying a file of ~4.6 GB file from the zfs-filesystem to the

Re: 8.1-STABLE Unexpected XML: what does it mean?

2010-12-14 Thread Ivan Voras
On 14/12/2010 15:27, Eugene Mitrofanov wrote: Hi I observe the very strange message while run a lot of commands: r...@beaver:eugene# glabel status Unexpected XML: name=stripesize data=18432 Unexpected XML: name=stripeoffset data=0 Maybe you have a label or some other custom device name with

Re: 8.1-STABLE Unexpected XML: what does it mean?

2010-12-14 Thread Ivan Voras
On 14/12/2010 16:19, Eugene Mitrofanov wrote: How can I locate this device? Also I dont understand why mdconfig complains? Try examining the output of # sysctl -b kern.geom.confxml ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: 8.1-STABLE Unexpected XML: what does it mean?

2010-12-14 Thread Ivan Voras
On 14/12/2010 16:29, Eugene Mitrofanov wrote: On Tuesday 14 December 2010, Ivan Voras wrote: On 14/12/2010 16:19, Eugene Mitrofanov wrote: How can I locate this device? Also I dont understand why mdconfig complains? Try examining the output of # sysctl -b kern.geom.confxml Here

Re: High cpu usage when using ZFS cache device

2010-11-16 Thread Ivan Voras
On 11/16/10 08:16, Christer Solskogen wrote: On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 1:30 AM, Brian Reichertreich...@numachi.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 09:50:50PM +0100, Christer Solskogen wrote: My load on my i7 920 is certainly higher when I add a 8GB usb stick as a ZFS cache device. USB 1.0?

Re: High cpu usage when using ZFS cache device

2010-11-16 Thread Ivan Voras
On 16 November 2010 13:15, Christer Solskogen christer.solsko...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: You can easily test it - use the stick as a simple disk device with UFS and see how much CPU does it take simply to talk to the device. See

rpcbind, rpc.statd memory footprint

2010-10-26 Thread Ivan Voras
I'm not sure what to expect from these (i.e. what is normal in this case?) but the VM sizes for the NFS-used rpc.statd and rpcbind here look a bit too big, compared to their resident sizes: 778 root 1 440 26420K 3256K select 1 0:01 0.00% rpcbind 891 root 1

Re: kpanic on install 32GB of RAM [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-10-22 Thread Ivan Voras
On 10/21/10 21:06, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 09:50:03AM -0700, Sean Bruno wrote: On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 05:48 -0700, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 20/10/2010 21:28 Sean Bruno said the following: I guess, I could replace the kernel on the CD and have them reburn it? That should

Re: repeating crashes with 8.1

2010-10-22 Thread Ivan Voras
On 10/21/10 21:08, Randy Bush wrote: FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE #2: Thu Oct 21 15:30:45 UTC 2010 r...@rip.psg.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/RIP amd64 console recording em0: discard frame w/o packet header em0: discard frame w/o packet header em0: discard frame w/o packet header em0: discard

Re: repeating crashes with 8.1

2010-10-22 Thread Ivan Voras
On 10/22/10 16:25, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 10:18 AM 10/22/2010, Randy Bush wrote: Do you know how this panic is triggered ? Are you able to create it on demand ? no i do not. bring server up and it'll happen in half an hour. and the server was happy for two months. so i am thinking

Re: Reproducible Kernel Panic on 8.1-STABLE [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-10-15 Thread Ivan Voras
On 10/15/10 03:43, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: 0n Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 04:51:10PM +0800, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: 0n Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 02:13:27PM +0600, Sergey Nikolenko wrote: On 14.10.2010 09:26, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: I have come across a bug that

Re: zfs hang in zio-io_cv) with dd read

2010-10-07 Thread Ivan Voras
On 10/07/10 14:15, John Hay wrote: Hi, I got hold of a SunFire X4500 with 48 X 500G disks and thought to try FreeBSD 8-stable with zfs on it. I have setup the two boot disks in a zfs mirror and then the rest in a pool of 6 X raidz2 of 7 disks each. I have created a 10G file with dd in the

Re: zfs hang in zio-io_cv) with dd read

2010-10-07 Thread Ivan Voras
On 10/07/10 20:25, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 07/10/2010 15:35 Ivan Voras said the following: /boot/loader.conf) and 2) disable superpages, they don't get along on a few models of Opterons (vm.pmap.pg_ps_enabled=0 in /boot/loader.conf). Those who follow know that the issue is supposed

Re: MySQL performance concern

2010-10-03 Thread Ivan Voras
On 10/02/10 22:18, Rumen Telbizov wrote: pool: tank config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM tank ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror ONLINE 0 0 0 gpt/tank0 ONLINE 0 0 0 gpt/tank1

Re: MFC of ZFSv15

2010-09-16 Thread Ivan Voras
On 09/16/10 12:42, Guido Falsi wrote: Related to this, I have a question. Is it convenient to put databases on a compresed filesystem? Apart from the space advantage, does it give any speed advantage/penalty? It depends on what you do. It will not save you memory usage either since data

Re: very stupid mistake: a part of /usr is deleted

2010-09-15 Thread Ivan Voras
On 09/15/10 15:36, Zara Kanaeva wrote: Hi all, vor 2 hours i made a very stupid mistake: i have deleted (as root naturally) a part of /usr-directory. I have definitely deleted .snap and presumably 100-150 files in /usr/bin. uname -a - FreeBSD (XX).uni-tuebingen.de 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD

Re: AoE driver for FBSD8 or later?

2010-09-14 Thread Ivan Voras
On 09/14/10 15:35, Max Khon wrote: On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 5:01 PM, George Mamalakismama...@eng.auth.grwrote: thank you very much for your help. The driver works fine; I am able to see all 13T. In case something goes wrong I will inform you. For the time being, everything is OK. I committed

Re: AoE driver for FBSD8 or later?

2010-09-14 Thread Ivan Voras
On 09/14/10 12:01, George Mamalakis wrote: thank you very much for your help. The driver works fine; I am able to see all 13T. In case something goes wrong I will inform you. For the time being, everything is OK. As it is a relatively uncommon protocol, can you run some tests and describe

Re: ipfw: Too many dynamic rules

2010-09-10 Thread Ivan Voras
On 09/09/10 17:39, Gareth de Vaux wrote: Hi again, I use some keep-state rules in ipfw, but get the following kernel message: kernel: ipfw: install_state: Too many dynamic rules when presumably my state table reaches its limit (and I effectively get DoS'd). netstat shows tons of connections

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

2010-09-02 Thread Ivan Voras
On 02/25/10 01:23, Ivan Voras wrote: Ivan Voras wrote: I have a fairly recent 8-stable machine running under VMWare ESXi 3.5 (amd64 guest), which apparently crashes every few days from the same causes: em0: discard frame w/o packet header em0: discard frame w/o packet header em0: discard frame

Re: Tuning the scheduler? Desktop with a CPU-intensive task becomes rapidly unusable.

2010-09-01 Thread Ivan Voras
On 09/01/10 15:08, jan.gr...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: I'm running -STABLE with a kde-derived desktop. This setup (which is pretty standard) is providing abysmal interactive performance on an eight-core machine whenever I try to do anything CPU-intensive (such as building a port). Basically, trying

NFS uid/gid mapping

2010-08-26 Thread Ivan Voras
hi, I can't seem to find how to manually remap uid gid information while using NFS, e.g. something similar to this: http://www.kernelcrash.com/blog/nfs-uidgid-mapping/2007/09/10/ Is such mapping really unimplemented? ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

Re: ZFS performance question

2010-08-23 Thread Ivan Voras
On 08/20/10 12:30, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: I am somewhat concerned about the numbers for per-char-output and per-char-input. In fact, i have never before seen that low numbers in a bonnie test. Using a single disk with UFS yields about 6 times as much. BTW: Running OpenSolaris on the same

Re: Inconsistent IO performance

2010-08-16 Thread Ivan Voras
On 13.8.2010 18:01, Kevin Oberman wrote: For some time I have seen very odd issues with IO performance on 8-Stable. Going back to November of last year when 8.0 was released, I see variations of up to 22% in identical operations. This is not a degradation as the performance moves up and down.

Re: 8-STABLE Slow Write Speeds on ESXI 4.0

2010-08-09 Thread Ivan Voras
On 9 August 2010 16:55, Joshua Boyd boy...@jbip.net wrote: On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: On 7 August 2010 19:03, Joshua Boyd boy...@jbip.net wrote: On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: It's unlikely they will help

Re: 8-STABLE Slow Write Speeds on ESXI 4.0

2010-08-09 Thread Ivan Voras
On 9.8.2010 17:12, Ivan Voras wrote: On 9 August 2010 16:55, Joshua Boyd boy...@jbip.net wrote: On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: I'm going to try 7.3-RELEASE today, just to make sure that this isn't a regression of some kind. It seems from reading other

Re: 8-STABLE Slow Write Speeds on ESXI 4.0

2010-08-09 Thread Ivan Voras
On 9 August 2010 18:11, Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote: I thought Intel VT-d was supposed to help address things like this? Probably - http://www.intel.com/technology/itj/2006/v10i3/2-io/7-conclusion.htm says it should help unmodified guests, but I don't know for sure. I do know

Re: zpool - low speed write

2010-08-07 Thread Ivan Voras
On 5.8.2010 6:47, Alex V. Petrov wrote: camcontrol identify ada2 pass2: WDC WD10EADS-00M2B0 01.00A01 ATA-8 SATA 2.x device Aren't those 4k sector drives? To verify this hypotesis though, you will have to destroy the zpool, use gnop to create a virtual 4k sector drive for each physical drive

Re: 8-STABLE Slow Write Speeds on ESXI 4.0

2010-08-07 Thread Ivan Voras
On 7.8.2010 3:21, Joshua Boyd wrote: Hello, I'm experiencing slow write speeds on 8-STABLE running on an ESXI 4.0 server, despite whatever tunables I've thrown at it. Read speeds are slower than they should be, but acceptable. Note, this is a thick provisioned disk, not thin. Speeds on

Re: the console bug still exists

2010-08-07 Thread Ivan Voras
On 4.8.2010 16:49, jhell wrote: On 08/04/2010 03:22, David Xu wrote: Sigh, pressing ScrollLock key several times can lock up the kernel when it is still booting before /sbin/init runs. David Xu Sorry David, No matter what I have tried I have not been able to reproduce this across 5

Re: 8-STABLE Slow Write Speeds on ESXI 4.0

2010-08-07 Thread Ivan Voras
On 7 August 2010 19:03, Joshua Boyd boy...@jbip.net wrote: On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: It's unlikely they will help, but try: vfs.read_max=32 for read speeds (but test using the UFS file system, not as a raw device like above

Re: gpart -b 34 versus gpart -b 1024

2010-07-26 Thread Ivan Voras
On 25.7.2010 5:58, Dan Langille wrote: ---Sequential Output ---Sequential Input-- --Random-- -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks--- GB M/sec %CPU M/sec %CPU M/sec %CPU M/sec %CPU M/sec %CPU /sec %CPU 5 110.6 80.5 115.3 15.1 60.9 8.5 68.8 46.2 326.7 15.3

Re: 8.1 AMD64 Beta1 cd panics on Proliant ML110 G6

2010-06-11 Thread Ivan Voras
On 06/11/10 10:48, Johan Hendriks wrote: Hello all. I try to install the Beta of 8.1 but it panics on my server HP Proliant ML110 with the following. Just as a data-point: I've tested 8.1 on HP DL380 G6 (i.e. same generation, different series) and there were no problems.

Re: panic: vm_fault_copy_wired: page missing

2010-04-15 Thread Ivan Voras
On 04/15/10 13:11, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 02:05:26PM +0300, Daniel Braniss wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 01:24:14PM +0300, Daniel Braniss wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Daniel Branissda...@cs.huji.ac.il wrote: Hi, I'm getting this with FreeBSD-8-stable, it

Re: random FreeBSD panics

2010-03-28 Thread Ivan Voras
On 28 March 2010 16:42, Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: lets assume if this is h/w problem, then how can other OSes overcome this ? is there a way to make FreeBSD ignore this as well, let it result in reasonable performance penalty. Very probably, if only we could detect where

Re: Multi node storage, ZFS

2010-03-25 Thread Ivan Voras
On 03/25/10 00:45, Michal wrote: backend storage for databases. It's all well and good having 1 ZFS server, but it's fragile in the the sense of no redundancy, then we have 1 ZFS server and a 2nd with DRBD, but that's a waste of money...think 12 TB, and you need to pay for another 12TB box for

Re: Multi node storage, ZFS

2010-03-24 Thread Ivan Voras
Freddie Cash wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Michal mic...@ionic.co.uk wrote: I wrote a really long e-mail but realised I could ask this question far far easier, if it doesn't make sense, the original e-mail is bellow Can I use ZFS to create a multinode storage area. Multiple HDD's in

Re: Many processes stuck in zfs

2010-03-11 Thread Ivan Voras
On 03/11/10 15:09, Alexander Leidinger wrote: Quoting Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org (from Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:59:01 +0100): On 03/11/10 09:54, Borja Marcos wrote: I don't know about the rest but this: CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5420 @ 2.50GHz (2496.25-MHz K8-class CPU) does not agree

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

2010-02-25 Thread Ivan Voras
, but this is the only 64-bit one. I don't know if this information helps. On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: Ivan Voras wrote: I have a fairly recent 8-stable machine running under VMWare ESXi 3.5 (amd64 guest), which apparently crashes every few days from the same causes

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

2010-02-24 Thread Ivan Voras
Ivan Voras wrote: I have a fairly recent 8-stable machine running under VMWare ESXi 3.5 (amd64 guest), which apparently crashes every few days from the same causes: em0: discard frame w/o packet header em0: discard frame w/o packet header em0: discard frame w/o packet header Panic string

Re: Incorrect super block

2010-02-18 Thread Ivan Voras
On 02/18/10 16:26, Harald Weis wrote: Has anybody encountered the following problem ? Mac OS X does recognize FreeBSD partitions on USB disks, but doesn't want to mount them because ``Incorrect super block''. This is extremely annoying for my ``client'' because he relies on dayly backups on USB

Re: Sudden mbuf demand increase and shortage under the load

2010-02-15 Thread Ivan Voras
On 02/15/10 13:25, Maxim Sobolev wrote: Hi, Our company have a FreeBSD based product that consists of the numerous interconnected processes and it does some high-PPS UDP processing (30-50K PPS is not uncommon). We are seeing some strange periodic I have nothing very useful to help you with

Strange problem with 8-stable, VMWare vSphere 4 AMD CPUs (unexpected shutdowns)

2010-02-10 Thread Ivan Voras
It looks like I've stumbled upon a bug in vSphere 4 (recent update) with FreeBSD/amd64 8.0/8-stable (but not 7.x) guests on Opteron(s). In this combination, everything works fine until a moderate load is started - a buildworld is enough. About five minutes after the load starts, the vSphere

Re: Strange problem with 8-stable, VMWare vSphere 4 AMD CPUs (unexpected shutdowns)

2010-02-10 Thread Ivan Voras
On 02/10/10 17:05, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 10/02/2010 17:36 Ivan Voras said the following: It looks like I've stumbled upon a bug in vSphere 4 (recent update) with FreeBSD/amd64 8.0/8-stable (but not 7.x) guests on Opteron(s). In this combination, everything works fine until a moderate load

Re: Strange problem with 8-stable, VMWare vSphere 4 AMD CPUs (unexpected shutdowns)

2010-02-10 Thread Ivan Voras
On 10 February 2010 18:13, Andriy Gapon a...@icyb.net.ua wrote: on 10/02/2010 19:05 Ivan Voras said the following: On 02/10/10 17:05, Andriy Gapon wrote: Wild guess - try disabling superpages in the guests. It looks like your guess is perfectly correct :) The guest has been doing

Re: Strange problem with 8-stable, VMWare vSphere 4 AMD CPUs (unexpected shutdowns)

2010-02-10 Thread Ivan Voras
On 10 February 2010 19:10, Andriy Gapon a...@icyb.net.ua wrote: on 10/02/2010 20:03 Ivan Voras said the following: When you say very unique is it in the it is not Linux or Windows sense or do we do something nonstandard? The former - neither Linux, Windows or OpenSolaris seem to have what we

Re: Strange problem with 8-stable, VMWare vSphere 4 AMD CPUs (unexpected shutdowns)

2010-02-10 Thread Ivan Voras
On 10 February 2010 19:26, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: On 10 February 2010 19:10, Andriy Gapon a...@icyb.net.ua wrote: on 10/02/2010 20:03 Ivan Voras said the following: When you say very unique is it in the it is not Linux or Windows sense or do we do something nonstandard

Re: Strange problem with 8-stable, VMWare vSphere 4 AMD CPUs (unexpected shutdowns)

2010-02-10 Thread Ivan Voras
On 10 February 2010 19:35, Andriy Gapon a...@icyb.net.ua wrote: on 10/02/2010 20:26 Ivan Voras said the following: On 10 February 2010 19:10, Andriy Gapon a...@icyb.net.ua wrote: on 10/02/2010 20:03 Ivan Voras said the following: When you say very unique is it in the it is not Linux or Windows

Re: ATA_CAM + ZFS gives short 1-2 seconds system freeze on disk load

2010-02-08 Thread Ivan Voras
On 02/08/10 15:33, Guido Falsi wrote: It looks like it freezes the system for the second or two it takes to flush buffers to disk when there are big outputs. This happens when decompressiong big distfiles, mainly. The openoffice port triggers this almost continuosly every few seconds during

terminfo missing?

2010-02-01 Thread Ivan Voras
Hi, This has bugged me on a couple of machines but I've always attributed it to some misconfiguration of mine: running curses-like programs under screen (i.e. in virtual screens) fails with messages like terminal entry not found. For example, less does this, and vim complains with this:

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