Re: vmstat 'b' (disk busy?) field keeps climbing ...

2006-06-24 Thread Dmitry Morozovsky
On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Marc G. Fournier wrote: MGF 'b' stands for blocked, not busy. Judging by your page fault rate MGF and the high number of frees and pages being scanned, you're probably MGF swapping tasks in and out and are waiting on disk. Take a look at MGF vmstat -s, and consider

Re: kernel can't find root filesystem

2006-06-24 Thread M.Hirsch
I had the same problem with 6.1. But only on some occasions, not always (iirc). The installations I made over the last weeks had all very different environments and deployment methods. I can't tell anymore when it happens and when not because I simply added the below loader.conf setting to my

Re: vmstat 'b' (disk busy?) field keeps climbing ...

2006-06-24 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 11:55:26AM +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Marc G. Fournier wrote: MGF 'b' stands for blocked, not busy. Judging by your page fault rate MGF and the high number of frees and pages being scanned, you're probably MGF swapping tasks in and out

Re: vmstat 'b' (disk busy?) field keeps climbing ...

2006-06-24 Thread Dmitry Morozovsky
On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Kostik Belousov wrote: KB MGF 'b' stands for blocked, not busy. Judging by your page fault rate KB MGF and the high number of frees and pages being scanned, you're probably KB MGF swapping tasks in and out and are waiting on disk. Take a look at KB MGF vmstat -s,

Re: kernel can't find root filesystem

2006-06-24 Thread Robert Ames
From: M.Hirsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] I had the same problem with 6.1. But only on some occasions, not always (iirc). The installations I made over the last weeks had all very different environments and deployment methods. I can't tell anymore when it happens and when not because I simply added

Re: vmstat 'b' (disk busy?) field keeps climbing ...

2006-06-24 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 11:38:44PM -0400 I heard the voice of Chuck Swiger, and lo! it spake thus: Yeah-- it's more common for a system to need more RAM for dynamicly allocated content which would be placed into the swapfile then it uses binary executable pages, it's possible to go the other

Re: vmstat 'b' (disk busy?) field keeps climbing ...

2006-06-24 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 08:33:05PM -0500 I heard the voice of Matthew D. Fuller, and lo! it spake thus: It's the vnode pager, not the swap pager. AIUI, that's mostly paging in and out pages of running binaries (from the image on disk), not moving stuff in and out of swapspace. Actually, as

Re: vmstat 'b' (disk busy?) field keeps climbing ...

2006-06-24 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 11:38:44PM -0400 I heard the voice of Chuck Swiger, and lo! it spake thus: Yeah-- it's more common for a system to need more RAM for dynamicly allocated content which would be placed into the swapfile then it uses binary

Re: vmstat 'b' (disk busy?) field keeps climbing ...

2006-06-24 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 11:55:26AM +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Marc G. Fournier wrote: MGF 'b' stands for blocked, not busy. Judging by your page fault rate MGF and the high number of frees and pages being scanned, you're

Re: vmstat 'b' (disk busy?) field keeps climbing ...

2006-06-24 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Kostik Belousov wrote: KB MGF 'b' stands for blocked, not busy. Judging by your page fault rate KB MGF and the high number of frees and pages being scanned, you're probably KB MGF swapping tasks in and out and are

Re: vmstat 'b' (disk busy?) field keeps climbing ...

2006-06-24 Thread Dmitry Morozovsky
On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Marc G. Fournier wrote: MGF MGF is there a way of finding out what processes are blocked? MGF MGF Aren't they in 'D' status by ps? MGF Use ps axlww. In this way, at least actual blocking points are shown. MGF MGF 'k, stupid question then ... what am I searching for?

Re: vmstat 'b' (disk busy?) field keeps climbing ...

2006-06-24 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Marc G. Fournier wrote: MGF MGF is there a way of finding out what processes are blocked? MGF MGF Aren't they in 'D' status by ps? MGF Use ps axlww. In this way, at least actual blocking points are shown. MGF MGF 'k,

Re: vmstat 'b' (disk busy?) field keeps climbing ...

2006-06-24 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 02:57:27PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 11:55:26AM +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Marc G. Fournier wrote: MGF 'b' stands for blocked, not busy. Judging by your page fault

Re: vmstat 'b' (disk busy?) field keeps climbing ...

2006-06-24 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 09:52:03PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 02:57:27PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 11:55:26AM +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

Re: vmstat 'b' (disk busy?) field keeps climbing ...

2006-06-24 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Kostik Belousov wrote: 2. 2 Giant holders/lockers. Is it constant ? Are the processes holding/waiting for Giant are the same ? Mostly appears to be 'clock' ... pluto# ps axlww | grep Giant | grep -v grep 012 0 0 -32 0 0 8 Giant LL??3:07.03

Re: vmstat 'b' (disk busy?) field keeps climbing ...

2006-06-24 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 09:52:03PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 02:57:27PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 11:55:26AM +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: On

Re: vmstat 'b' (disk busy?) field keeps climbing ...

2006-06-24 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 04:45:49PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 09:52:03PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 02:57:27PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Kostik Belousov wrote: On

Re: bug in systat: ifstat?

2006-06-24 Thread Nikolas Britton
Now it shows: 13228401022664.000 b (12TB)... Which means I transferred 3.226TB in 330 minutes... or 170.84MB/s, which is not possible using a gigabit Ethernet link to say the least. On 6/24/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Look at the Totals column (gmail may wrap it):

RE: Please watch for bus_dmamem_alloc fail to align memory properly

2006-06-24 Thread Tak Pui Lou
Hi, I have a PIONEER DVDRW DVR-K15 1.11 on my HP Special Edition L2000 which won't operate with WDMA2 mode even if I set the hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 in my /boot/loader.conf. I can change it to WDMA2 mode with atacontrol. I updated the src tree to 6-stable last night and recompiled. I found this

Re: if_ndis for Marvell

2006-06-24 Thread Patrick Bowen
Patrick Bowen wrote: Scot Hetzel wrote: On 6/20/06, Patrick Bowen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pyun YongHyeon wrote: On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 04:04:52PM -0500, Patrick Bowen wrote: Hello: I have two questions. The first regards support for the Broadcom BCM94318 wireless LAN

FreeBSD 6.x CVSUP today crashes with zero load ...

2006-06-24 Thread Marc G. Fournier
'k, looks like I'm going to have to back this out ... just upgraded another server to 6.x, CVSup latest -STABLE, built, installed, rebooted ... up fine ... Running a single 'rsync' to copy files from another server over, it has crashed twice in a row so far ... I'm enabling dumpdev right

Re: FreeBSD 6.x CVSUP today crashes with zero load ...

2006-06-24 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Marc G. Fournier wrote: 'k, looks like I'm going to have to back this out ... just upgraded another server to 6.x, CVSup latest -STABLE, built, installed, rebooted ... up fine ... Running a single 'rsync' to copy files from another server over, it has crashed twice in

Re: FreeBSD 6.x CVSUP today crashes with zero load ...

2006-06-24 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Marc G. Fournier wrote: 'k, looks like I'm going to have to back this out ... just upgraded another server to 6.x, CVSup latest -STABLE, built, installed, rebooted ... up fine ... Running a single 'rsync' to copy files

Re: FreeBSD 6.x CVSUP today crashes with zero load ...

2006-06-24 Thread Nate Lawson
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Marc G. Fournier wrote: 'k, looks like I'm going to have to back this out ... just upgraded another server to 6.x, CVSup latest -STABLE, built, installed, rebooted ... up fine ... Running a single 'rsync' to copy files from another server over,

Re: FreeBSD 6.x CVSUP today crashes with zero load ...

2006-06-24 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Nate Lawson wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Marc G. Fournier wrote: 'k, looks like I'm going to have to back this out ... just upgraded another server to 6.x, CVSup latest -STABLE, built, installed, rebooted ... up fine ... Running a single

Effects of changing tar's -b option.

2006-06-24 Thread Nikolas Britton
Test Setup: 250 50MB files (13068252KB) dd if=/dev/random of=testfile bs=1m count=50 Ethernet mtu=6500 Transferred files were wiped after every test with 'rm -r *'. Test: hostB: nc -4l port | tar xpbf n - hostA: date; tar cbf n - . | nc hostB port; date Test Results: seconds = n 645sec. = 1024

RELENG_6_1 unstable also ...

2006-06-24 Thread Marc G. Fournier
'k, here's what I have so far: cvsup'd both RELENG_6 and RELENG_6_1 ... both cause the server to crash ... in fact, barely get into a buildworld with RELENG_6_1 and get: internal:0: internal compiler error: Abort trap: 6 Please submit a full bug report, with preprocessed source if

Re: RELENG_6_1 unstable also ...

2006-06-24 Thread Marc G. Fournier
As an appendum, the kernel that so far *appears* to work properly (about to re-start yet another buildworld on it) is from an April CD I burnt: FreeBSD jupiter.hub.org 6.1-RC1 FreeBSD 6.1-RC1 #0: Mon Apr 10 17:03:22 UTC 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 My kernel

Pentax optio a10

2006-06-24 Thread Mark Andrews
Anyone have experience getting a Pentax optio a10 mounted? Mark umass0: PENTAX PENTAX OPTIO A10, rev 2.00/0.00, addr 2 drugs# usbdevs -v Controller /dev/usb0: addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x), Intel(0x) , rev 1.00 port 1 powered

Re: RELENG_6_1 unstable also ...

2006-06-24 Thread Marc G. Fournier
make -j3 buildworld just completed on the April 10th kernel, something that I could not get to complete on either the RELENG_6_1 or RELENG_6 kernels ... Am running it a second time right now ... On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, Marc G. Fournier wrote: As an appendum, the kernel that so far *appears*

Re: vmstat 'b' (disk busy?) field keeps climbing ...

2006-06-24 Thread Marc G. Fournier
'k, this has gotta be a leak somewhere ... I'm now up to 6 blocked: 0 8 0 7449224 236552 213 2 1 0 109 0 101 0 475 2890 2143 2 6 92 0 6 0 7481104 247704 578 0 0 0 1196 0 262 0 808 8901 3049 5 16 79 0 6 0 7450820 253576 1385 3 2 3 1379 0 13 0 303 4742

panic: vm_page_insert: page already inserted (Was: Re: RELENG_6_1 unstable also ... )

2006-06-24 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Attached is a simple trace using kgdb on the dump created by the crash ... let me know if there is more that I can provide ... y On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, Marc G. Fournier wrote: 'k, here's what I have so far: cvsup'd both RELENG_6 and RELENG_6_1 ... both cause the server to crash ... in fact,