Re: Does FreeBSD 13 disable the VEV cache in ZFS ?

2021-05-14 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 14.05.21 um 10:34 schrieb Pete French: > > Am just upgrading my machiens, and have noticed an oddity. > This is on a machine runnign 12.2 > > # zfs-stats -D > > > ZFS Subsystem Report Fri May 14

Re: freebsd-update and speed

2021-04-16 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 16.04.21 um 10:17 schrieb Ferdinand Goldmann: On Thu, 15 Apr 2021, Rainer Duffner wrote: It’s OK-ish most of the time here (CH). It does *NOT* work through a proxy, due to the use of pipelined http-requests. What’s your internet-connection? The 10Gbit uplink of my university, directly

Re: FreeBSD 13/stable and zpool upgrade

2021-02-19 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 19.02.21 um 22:07 schrieb Warner Losh: To avoid confusion and errors, I think a proper boot1.efifat should be put back into the base system so that people don't have to track the above recipe (which is likely to change). There's no safe way to do this. The old process has been deprecated

Re: calendar (1) - patch to correct error description

2020-10-31 Thread Stefan Esser
JFYI: port version 0.7 or the latest sources in CURRENT include a number of further enhancements (and an important fix to allow the calendar to be build on 11.x/12.x which do not have _PATH_LOCALBASE in paths.h). I have added an #undef command (since it was supported by the calendar program that

Re: calendar (1) - patch to correct error description

2020-10-30 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 30.10.20 um 00:48 schrieb Julian H. Stacey: Here's another 2 calendar errors, presumably cpp, that manifest in 12.2-STABLE, that 9.2-RELEASE gets right. Man calendar: Empty lines and lines protected by the C commenting syntax (/* ... */) are ignored. --- Input

Re: calendar (1) - patch to correct error description

2020-10-29 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 29.10.20 um 13:07 schrieb Diane Bruce: On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 01:29:39AM +0100, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Hi Stefan Am 28.10.20 um 13:02 schrieb Julian H. Stacey: man calendar states: "The calendar internal cpp does not correctly do #ifndef and will discard the rest of the file if a

Re: calendar (1) - patch to correct error description

2020-10-28 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 28.10.20 um 13:02 schrieb Julian H. Stacey: man calendar states: "The calendar internal cpp does not correctly do #ifndef and will discard the rest of the file if a #ifndef is triggered." That is wrong, as proved by test file: --- // Test data for ~/.calendar/calendar * bla0

New bc and dc implementation merged to 12-STABLE (off by default)

2020-08-08 Thread Stefan Esser
The new bc and dc implementation that has become the default version in FreeBSD-CURRENT has been merged to 12-STABLE and will be included in the upcoming release 12.2. It has a number of advantages (standards compliance, speed, NLS support) over the one in previous FreeBSD releases, but in

Re: 11.2-STABLE kernel wired memory leak

2019-02-14 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 13.02.19 um 10:59 schrieb Andriy Gapon: > On 12/02/2019 20:17, Eugene Grosbein wrote: >> 13.02.2019 1:14, Eugene Grosbein wrote: >> >>> Use following command to see how much memory is wasted in your case: >>> >>> vmstat -z | awk -F, '{printf "%10s %s\n", $2*$5/1024/1024, $1}' | sort >>> -k1,1

Re: lightly loaded system eats swap space

2018-06-19 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 19.06.18 um 03:48 schrieb Erich Dollansky: > A very long time ago - and not on FreeBSD but maybe on a real BSD - I > worked with a system that swapped pages out just to bring it back as > one contiguous block. This made a difference those days. I do not know > if the code made it out of the

Re: more data: SCHED_ULE+PREEMPTION is the problem

2018-04-09 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 07.04.18 um 16:18 schrieb Peter: > 3. kern.sched.preempt_thresh > > I could make the problem disappear by changing kern.sched.preempt_thresh  from > the default 80 to either 11 (i5-3570T) or 7 (p3) or smaller. This seems to > correspond to the disk interrupt threads, which run at intr:12

Try setting kern.sched.preempt_thresh != 0 (was: Re: kern.sched.quantum: Creepy, sadistic scheduler)

2018-04-04 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 04.04.18 um 12:39 schrieb Alban Hertroys: > >> On 4 Apr 2018, at 2:52, Peter wrote: >> >> Occasionally I noticed that the system would not quickly process the >> tasks i need done, but instead prefer other, longrunning tasks. I >> figured it must be related to

Re: KBI unexpexted change in stable/11 ?

2018-03-28 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 28.03.18 um 17:30 schrieb John: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2018, at 15:20, Greg Byshenk wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 03:11:50PM +0100, tech-lists wrote: >>> On 28/03/2018 14:39, Gregory Byshenk wrote: You can do this manually, or by adding a PORTS_MODULES line to /etc/make.conf. This will

Re: programm to edit rc.conf key/values ?

2017-10-18 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 18.10.17 um 14:32 schrieb Kurt Jaeger: > Hi! > >> sysrc nrpe2_enable="YES" >> >> for instance > > Yes, that's it! Thanks! > > man rc.conf and man rc need a pointer to this! Yes, I also once searched for sysrc and had appreciated references in some other man pages ... Therefore, I've just

GELI: Regression between STABLE-10 and STABLE-11?

2017-06-16 Thread Stefan Esser
Hi all, I'm administrating an SVN server for a small company, which is used to archive work results, but also customer contracts and information received under NDA. The system uses pure ZFS (root on ZFS) and part of the "data" pool is a ZVOL that is used as a GELI provider to hold the

Re: passwd and pw speed regression?

2016-02-11 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 11.02.2016 um 16:02 schrieb Mike Tancsa: > I noticed that on a new RELENG_10 box we are building, password updates > are taking a very long time to build. On the old RELENG_8 box, doing > something simple like adding a user > > # time pw useradd test12345 > 0.062u 0.063s 0:00.14 85.7%

Re: CPU frequency doesn't drop below 1200MHz (like it used to)

2015-05-22 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 22.05.2015 um 09:33 schrieb Nikos Vassiliadis: Hi, I just noticed that my CPU's frequency doesn't support dropping below 1200MHz. It used to be able to go down to 150MHz, if I am not mistaken. I'd like it to go down to 600MHz via powerd, like it used to go. This is a month's old

Re: if_em, legacy nic and GbE saturation

2013-08-26 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 26.08.2013 11:28, schrieb Harald Schmalzbauer: Bezüglich Adrian Chadd's Nachricht vom 26.08.2013 10:34 (localtime): Hi, There's bus limits on how much data you can push over a PCI bus. You can look around online to see what 32/64 bit, 33/66MHz PCI throughput estimates are. It changes

Re: zpool on a zvol inside zpool

2013-07-22 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 22.07.2013 10:04, schrieb Eugene M. Zheganin: Hi. I'm moving some of my geli installation to a new machine. On an old machine it was running UFS. I use ZFS on a new machine, but I don't have an encrypted main pool (and I don't want to), so I'm kinda considering a way where I will make a

Re: Flow monitoring with PF

2013-06-12 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 12.06.2013 02:17, schrieb Scott, Brian: I was looking at trying out flow monitoring and I found pfflowd, but unfortunately it does not work with FreeBSD 9.0. I thought about ng_netflow but that doesn't see my tun interface which may be related to.. WARNING: attempt to domain_add(netgraph)

Re: Any objections/comments on axing out old ATA stack?

2013-04-01 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 01.04.2013 15:14, schrieb Victor Balada Diaz: Being able to configure quirks from loader.conf for disks AND controllers would be great and is not hard to do. If you want i can do a patch in two weeks and send it to you. That way it's easy to test disabling NCQ and/or other things in case

Re: FB9-stable: bridge0 doesn't come up via rc

2012-01-17 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 17.01.2012 12:57, schrieb Denny Schierz: hi, I have problems starting the bridge via rc.d: rc.conf: cloned_interfaces=bridge0 ifconfig_bge0=up ifconfig_bridge0=addm bge0 up ifconfig_bridge0=inet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 up You forgot that rc.conf does not contain

Re: ZFS / zpool size

2012-01-17 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 17.01.2012 16:47, schrieb Christer Solskogen: Hi! I have a zpool called data, and I have some inconsistencies with sizes. $ zpool iostat capacity operationsbandwidth poolalloc free read write read write -- - - - -

Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default

2011-12-24 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 24.12.2011 00:02, schrieb Andriy Gapon: on 24/12/2011 00:49 Adrian Chadd said the following: Does ULE care (much) if the nodes are hyperthreading or real cores? Would that play a part in what it tries to schedule/spread? An answer to this part from the theory. ULE does care about

Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

2011-12-20 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 21.12.2011 06:22, schrieb Ian Smith: I find the results on this page very strange, but perhaps indicative: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=debian_kfreebsd_h210num=1 Here we see scant difference in results between Debian running FreeBSD 7.3 or 8.0 or Linux 2.6.32

Re: switching schedulers (Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default)

2011-12-16 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 16.12.2011 09:11, schrieb Luigi Rizzo: The interesting part is probably the definition of the methods that schedulers should implement (see struct _sched_interface ). The switch from one scheduler to another was implemented with a sysctl. This calls the sched_move() method of the current

Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

2011-12-16 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 16.12.2011 08:06, schrieb O. Hartmann: For the underlying OS, as far as I know, the compiler hasn't as much impact as on userland software since autovectorization and other neat things are not used during system build. From my experience using gcc 4.2 or 4.4/4.5 does not have an impact

Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

2011-12-15 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 15.12.2011 11:10, schrieb Michael Larabel: No, the same hardware was used for each OS. In terms of the software, the stock software stack for each OS was used. Just curious: Why did you choose ZFS on FreeBSD, while UFS2 (with journaling enabled) should be an obvious choice since it is more

Re: Sandy Bridge and MCA UNCOR PCC (problem + solution)

2011-11-30 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 25.11.2011 21:13, schrieb Thomas Zander: List, here's a rant about a recent problem I had and the surprising solution. I recently had to investigate weird unexpected issues on a workstation. Relevant hardware: Asus P8B-WS, Xeon E3-1260L (Sandy Bride, Intel HD-2000 graphics) Since

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

2011-07-20 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 19.07.2011 20:17, schrieb Artem Belevich: On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 6:31 AM, John Baldwin j...@freebsd.org wrote: The only reason it might be nice to stick with two fields is due to the line length (though the first line is over 80 cols even in the current format). Here are two possible

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

2011-07-20 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 20.07.2011 18:11, schrieb Scott Long: On Jul 20, 2011, at 3:54 AM, Stefan Esser wrote: This is a very good idea, IMHO. When I committed pciconf back in 1996 (it had been contributed by gwollman) for PCI 1.0 (at a time when their was no standard for PCI to PCI brigdes, yet

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

2011-07-20 Thread Stefan Esser
On 20.07.2011 18:25, YongHyeon PYUN wrote: The Rev column is required for of devices that are not uniquely identified by their Vnd/Dev-IDs. (These used to exist, e.g. the Symbios SCSI controllers, though I'm not aware of any device that needed a different driver depending on the PCI revision

Re: PCIe SATA HBA for ZFS on -STABLE

2011-06-01 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 01.06.2011 10:07, schrieb Jeremy Chadwick: Sadly I don't have a recommendation for you, since you effectively want a 6-port SATA300 controller that's reliable, you're almost certainly going to be paying Big Bucks(tm) given the number of ports and your requirement that it be PCIe-based. You

Re: gpart -b 34 versus gpart -b 1024

2010-07-26 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 26.07.2010 03:07, schrieb per...@pluto.rain.com: Dmitry Morozovsky ma...@rinet.ru wrote: ... sector numbers (in CHS address method) [start] at 1 (which always suprized me ;) This goes back at least as far as soft-sectored 8 diskettes in the CP/M era. IIRC, physical sector 0 of each

Re: net/mpd5, ppp, proxy-arp issues

2010-05-03 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 26.04.2010 18:02, schrieb Julian Elischer: On 4/26/10 1:11 AM, Stefan Esser wrote: I debugged this problem and prepared a patch for discussion, which later was committed by Max Laier (if memory serves me right). The message was added in order to identify further situations, where network

Re: net/mpd5, ppp, proxy-arp issues

2010-04-26 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 22.04.2010 20:43, schrieb Marin Atanasov: Hello, Thanks a lot for the patch, Qing! It works fine. However I've noticed one thing, after I start mpd5 and connect to my home network: kernel: WARNING: attempt to domain_add(netgraph) after domainfinalize() Not very sure if this is

Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

2010-01-29 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 26.01.2010 00:15, schrieb Daniel O'Connor: On Tue, 26 Jan 2010, Dan Naumov wrote: CPU-performance-wise, I am not really worried. The current system is an Atom 330 and even that is a bit overkill for what I do with it and from what I am seeing, the new Atom D510 used on those boards is a

Re: 8.0-RC USB/FS problem

2009-12-02 Thread Stefan Esser
On 22.11.2009 10:47 Hans Petter Selasky wrote: Other operating systems do a port bus reset when the device has a problem. On FreeBSD we just try a software reset via the control endpoint. I guess that it is a device problem you are seeing. The USB stack in FreeBSD is faster than the old

Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0?

2009-11-30 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 30.11.2009 15:46, schrieb Ivan Voras: Robert Huff wrote: Bill Moran writes: It's common knowledge that the default value for vfs.read_max is non- optimal for most hardware and that significant performance improvements can be made in most cases by raising it.

Re: 7.2 dies in midnight run again

2009-11-20 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 20.11.2009 01:45, schrieb Randy Bush: i think the issue is how to tune for zfs i386 with 4G of RAM RELENG_7 cvsupped Nov 18 02:42 GMT panic: kmem_malloc(65536): kmem_map too small: 535019520 total allocated cpuid = 0 Uptime: 13h15m1s Physical memory: 3958 MB

Re: Various Issues with 7.0-BETA4

2007-12-13 Thread Stefan Esser
Ivan Voras schrieb: Peter Thoenen wrote: Issue #1: For some reason zfs_enable=YES in rc.conf doesn't work. It doesn't seem to auto mount my zfs mounts which is a PITA. Currently I am forces (each time I reboot) to boot into single user mode, mount all my drives, then exit, continuing

Re: removing external usb hdd without unmounting causes reboot?

2007-07-21 Thread Stefan Esser
Norberto Meijome schrieb: On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:38:14 +0200 [LoN]Kamikaze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I mentioned earlier I remember it working during the 5.3 era on Stable, at some point it worked. I even remember removing my CD-Rom drive from my Thinkpad without running atacontrol

Re: removing external usb hdd without unmounting causes reboot?

2007-07-18 Thread Stefan Esser
Oliver Fromme wrote: Momchil Ivanov wrote: On Wednesday 18 July 2007 15:52:42 [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: Josh Paetzel wrote: Yes, it's expected behavior. The workaround is to not unplug mounted devices. (There's nothing special about USB here, if you unplugged an IDE drive you'd

Re: Patch: sym(4) VTOBUS FAILED panics on amd64, amd64/89550

2006-09-22 Thread Stefan Esser
Scott Long schrieb: Jan Mikkelsen wrote: Hi, Doug White wrote: On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Jan Mikkelsen wrote: Quick summary: sym(4) assumes on amd64 that virtual addresses provided by bus_dmamem_alloc() have the same alignment as the physical addresses (in this case, 2*PAGE_SIZE).

Re: top doesn't show any Process in idle-Mode

2006-01-30 Thread Stefan Esser
On 2006-01-30 13:49 +0100, Michael Schuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, i use top mostly in idle-mode. # top return i or # top -I Under releng_6 (stable p4) and the older versions, i think down to releng_5, doesn't show a running process. I have tryed to dig in the source but my

Re: Interscan Viruswall for Linux.... on FreeBSD-4.x

2001-01-27 Thread Stefan Esser
On 2001-01-24 22:59 -0500, Forrest Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to hear from anyone who is successfully using Interscan Viruswall for Linux on FreeBSD, under Linux emulation (via the linux_base port). I ordered the Solaris version and received a single CD-ROM that installs

Re: Re: PCIOCGETCONF/PCIOCREAD requires write permission?

2000-12-08 Thread Stefan Esser
On 2000-12-08 10:02 -0600, Mike Silbersack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seriously, though. There must be some way to abuse such direct access to the pci configuration registers. Just because nobody has figured it out how yet doesn't mean that enabling the feature is a good idea. Well, what

Re: how to stop route redirects

1999-08-17 Thread Stefan Esser
On 1999-08-16 15:15 -0700, Ed Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Route redirect is based on ICMP. See "man ipfw" (or "man ipf") and referred man-pages for the packet filter extensions that allow blocking of all or specific ICMP redirect messages. If you are running a recent -current (After August