Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Adrian Chadd
Me Too(tm). FreeBSD jacinta.home.cacheboy.net 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #0: Mon Sep 18 07:59:50 UTC 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Lots of this in dmesg: em0: watchdog timeout -- resetting em0: link state changed to DOWN em0: link state changed to UP

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Adrian Chadd
s/is on the bus/is alone on the irq/. (And it shows up when I'm running polygraph and apachebench tests.) On 9/27/06, Adrian Chadd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Me Too(tm). FreeBSD jacinta.home.cacheboy.net 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE#0: Mon Sep 18 07:59:50 UTC 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [fbsd] HEADS UP: FreeBSD 5.3, 5.4, 6.0 EoLs coming soon

2006-10-12 Thread Adrian Chadd
down TCP sockets for some reason. No, I haven't yet done any kernel profiling, this is just from measured transaction rates from userland. Adrian -- Adrian Chadd - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

kernel profiling?

2006-10-15 Thread Adrian Chadd
1800XP, so its uniprocessor and (relatively) slow. I'm hitting the server rather hard with a few thousand TCP connections a second; I'm trying to figure out where my ~60% of kernel time and ~35% of interrupt time is going. Thanks, Adrian -- Adrian Chadd - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: kernel profiling?

2006-10-15 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 10/16/06, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pmc can be extremely useful although it doesn't do call graphs. Someone pointed it out to me on IRC and I'm playing with it now. Thanks. Adrian -- Adrian Chadd - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd

FreeBSD 6.x + SATA NCQ?

2006-10-23 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hiya, Is there support for SATA tagged queueing in FreeBSD-6? Any ideas on which chipsets would support it or how to determine whether FreeBSD is using it? Thanks, Adrian -- Adrian Chadd - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing

Re: FreeBSD 6.x + SATA NCQ?

2006-10-23 Thread Adrian Chadd
patching) got what he saw as stable NCQ support for his servers: http://blog.kovyrin.net/2006/08/11/turn-on-ncq-on-ich-linux/ It'd be nifty to see something like this pop up in FreeBSD 6.x for the Intel ICH7 boards. Thanks, Adrian -- Adrian Chadd - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: em driver testing

2006-11-06 Thread Adrian Chadd
Just out of curiousity - why wasn't the offending MPSAFE related changes to em just reverted after discovering the em instability? The driver -was- stable a couple of months ago, no? Adrian -- Adrian Chadd - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable

Re: Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-12 Thread Adrian Chadd
Should fiddling with the interrupt-coalescing stuff in the em driver via sysctl be tried? None of the recent tests in reply to your email indicate any particular tx/rx threshold settings. adrian -- Adrian Chadd - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable

Re: Possibility for FreeBSD 4.11 Extended Support

2006-12-22 Thread Adrian Chadd
You know, if people really do run FreeBSD-4.11 servers which are mission critical (and, hopefully, making money in the process) then please consider donating money to the project to get FreeBSD-6 sorted out. You could perhaps sponsor a FreeBSD developer for a few months to run through the bugs

Re: Communicating with the public (was Re: Possibility for FreeBSD 4.11 Extended Support)

2006-12-22 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 22/12/06, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I could be wrong, but I get the impression that this whole EOL issue with 4.x is partly a result of not reminding people when the EOL date for 4.x is every 5 minutes. The result is that it's just hitting home for a lot of people now that it's

Re: gmirror disks vs partitions

2007-01-17 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 17/01/07, Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...after reading the slashdotter's piece of wisdom...] Yes, but that's the kind of functionality I have always expected to be present in software raid solutions. I hope I'll live to see this implemented in geom. That made my eyes

Re: arp: unknown hardware address format

2007-01-28 Thread Adrian Chadd
is this? Is it a Linux server? I get the 0x4500 packets all the time from my Linux servers. Adrian -- Adrian Chadd - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: time goes slow in VmWare

2007-03-19 Thread Adrian Chadd
skew issues (and if you've noticed, things like sleep acting oddly.) 2c, Adrian -- Adrian Chadd - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: time goes slow in VmWare

2007-03-27 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 20/03/07, Sergey Matveychuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adrian Chadd wrote: The solution is to install the VMware or VirtualPC supplied drivers for your environment. They'll include, amongst other things, fixes for the RTC and timer drivers which will fix your clock skew issues

Re: uid/gid lookups slower on 6.2 than 4.x?

2007-04-12 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 11/04/07, Scott Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aha! PEBKAC error! Changing group and passwd from compat to files has fixed the problem. 2c, Is that documented anywhere? I'm sure you're not the only person that'll hit that kind of perceived speed decrease. Perhaps a comment in the

Re: tproxy on freebsd

2007-04-17 Thread Adrian Chadd
comment on how difficult it'd be to add in functionality to FreeBSD to spoof the local IP of a connected socket for outbound connections. This of course assumes symmetric traffic flows but thats already a given in a setup like this. Adrian -- Adrian Chadd - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Re: tproxy on freebsd

2007-04-18 Thread Adrian Chadd
addresses to any outside webserver, this is a squid issue and there should (?) be configuration options for squid. He means fully transparent - ie, client thinks its talking to the server; server thinks its talking to the client; proxy server IP isn't visible to either. Adrian -- Adrian Chadd

Re: tproxy on freebsd

2007-04-18 Thread Adrian Chadd
looks doable without having to keep NAT state like TPROXY does.. Adrian -- Adrian Chadd - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Top not showing 4 cpus on 2 xeons with HT

2007-04-26 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 25/04/07, Tom Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, quite easily. anyone have any recent information about this? some people say HT sucks for almost all workloads, others say recent scheduler improvements make HT more useful.. is there anything reasonably authoritative? adrian

Re: What triggers No Buffer Space Available?

2007-05-01 Thread Adrian Chadd
restored network connectivity.) Adrian -- Adrian Chadd - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What triggers No Buffer Space Available?

2007-05-03 Thread Adrian Chadd
v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGOlh34QvfyHIvDvMRApSUAJ9jPszXBw83hXPRLbczimNWFtn6WwCgpijT nDWi/kW4Gt8/J2a4U3n2prk= =IQCW -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Adrian Chadd - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: BIND 9.3.1 - How to get rid of AAAA querys?

2007-09-17 Thread Adrian Chadd
going to piss you off more than the IP/port NAT/PAT ever did. Adrian -- Adrian Chadd - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: FYI: Promise TX4 silent corruption (RELENG_7)

2007-10-21 Thread Adrian Chadd
(the one that was not connected to the TX4 was fine). Write a 2-3 gig file of zeroes - handful of checksum mismatches on subsequent scrub. Is there some nice utility floating about to do this in userspace on uninitialised/raw devices? Thanks, Adrian -- Adrian Chadd - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: em watchdog problem

2007-10-31 Thread Adrian Chadd
forwarding enabled, default to accept, logging disabled acd0: CDRW MATSHITA CD-RW CW-7586/1A17 at ata1-master PIO4 ad4: 76319MB WDC WD800JD-00MSA1 10.01E01 at ata2-master SATA150 hwpmc: TSC/1/0x20REA K8/4/0x1ffINT,USR,SYS,EDG,THR,REA,WRI,INV,QUA Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad4s1a HTH, -- Adrian

Re: Source upgrade from 5.5 to 6.X not safe?

2007-11-12 Thread Adrian Chadd
and the currently open reference would still be valid. (Admittedly I looked at this last in 4.x VFS.) Doing a rename-replace-unlink shouldn't clobber existing binaries that are using the library. Doing an -overwrite- of the existing file will cause exciting results. man install. :) Adrian -- Adrian Chadd

Re: connect() returns EADDRINUSE during massive host-host conn rate

2007-11-30 Thread Adrian Chadd
socket and the oinp value returned from in_pcbconnect_setup() (if this is the place where the error occured.) Finding out more about the socket thats been created and what its clashing with might help. I'd do it myself but I'm not sure how to duplicate the issue. Adrian -- Adrian Chadd - [EMAIL

Re: 6.2 sporadically locks up

2009-06-18 Thread Adrian Chadd
Just modify the driver slightly to hijack a different device prefix :) Adrian 2009/6/17 pluknet pluk...@gmail.com: 2009/6/17 Ed Maste ema...@freebsd.org: On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 07:03:34PM +0400, pluknet wrote: As for allpcpu, I often see the picture, when one CPU runs the irq17: bce1

Re: SMP on FreeBSD 6.x and 7.0: Worth doing?

2007-12-22 Thread Adrian Chadd
, and helps me know when my work is on the right track. :) -- Adrian Chadd - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SMP on FreeBSD 6.x and 7.0: Worth doing?

2007-12-24 Thread Adrian Chadd
. (No idea on the directory sizes these days - perhaps larger files with dir hashing would help; but I certainly haven't benchmarked it. I just use COSS for small objects. :) Adrian -- Adrian Chadd - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing

Re: SMP on FreeBSD 6.x and 7.0: Worth doing?

2007-12-26 Thread Adrian Chadd
is going to have to wait a while. Adrian -- Adrian Chadd - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SMP on FreeBSD 6.x and 7.0: Worth doing?

2007-12-26 Thread Adrian Chadd
at madvise() to pull these tricks with mmap()'ed backing files but, again, I've not hit the point where I'm looking to optimise Squid's disk storage. There's just too much catching up to do to varnish's memory-only workload performance. Damn you phk. :) -- Adrian Chadd - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: portaudit and portsnap acting silly.

2007-12-29 Thread Adrian Chadd
a cache server for speed Grab a wireshark snapshot showing the HTTP request/reply, both from the client - squid and squid - server and I'll tell you whats busted. Adrian (Squid committer) -- Adrian Chadd - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable

Re: ab2 (apache benchmark) problem

2008-04-23 Thread Adrian Chadd
call returns. I've got a locally modified apachebench1 which uses libevent and has some tidyups applied - it isn't multithreaded, but it can do ~ gigabit of testing traffic on a single CPU.. adrian -- Adrian Chadd - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable

Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-04 Thread Adrian Chadd
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Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-05 Thread Adrian Chadd
there aren't enough people volunteering / being paid to work on back-porting security fixes. 2c, Adrian -- Adrian Chadd - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe

Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-05 Thread Adrian Chadd
are contributing. If you'd like a distribution supported for longer then offer to help maintain it. You may be surprised how helpful people get when you offer to help. :0 Adrian -- Adrian Chadd - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Still inactive...) ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-05 Thread Adrian Chadd
to trial it. :) Adrian -- Adrian Chadd - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-05 Thread Adrian Chadd
together a group, generate some patches and submit them. At some point the poor sod who is committing your work will say screw this, he's getting a commit bit.. Adrian -- Adrian Chadd - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-07 Thread Adrian Chadd
be beneficial for a certain subset of the userbase, its a losing situation to cater to them unless they somehow contribute back to the community. adrian -- Adrian Chadd - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-07 Thread Adrian Chadd
, I think we as a project would be stupid to say no. You just have to be prepared to do the work and be honest enough to say when you're unable to do it anymore. Anyway, this thread is making people upset. :) Adrian -- Adrian Chadd - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-07 Thread Adrian Chadd
2008/6/8 Jo Rhett [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Jun 5, 2008, at 8:39 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote: The OP stated argh argh sky is falling with 6.3! but hasn't yet listed PRs which indicate this to be happening. He's offered hardware in a week or two - which is great! - but what irks the developers

6.2; 6.3; EOL; combustible discussions

2008-06-07 Thread Adrian Chadd
stability in their specific environments. Yes, developers are mere mortals, and users should be happy that there's even a project here they can get access to without some kind of warez-like upload/download ratio. further discussion is just going to upset people even further. :) Adrian -- Adrian

Re: Areca Raid 6 ARC-1231 Raid 6 Slow LS Listing Performance on large directory

2008-06-11 Thread Adrian Chadd
of the output (say, a few hundred lines) ? Something like: truss ls flags foo 21 Thanks, Adrian -- Adrian Chadd - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any

Re: busybox and small scripting languages on FreeBSD ? (was Re: 80 Mb / enough for 7.x? OK to delete /stand/ and /modules/ ?)

2008-08-06 Thread Adrian Chadd
2008/8/3 Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Tcl? Are those sizes stripped? Stripped: * lua-5.1 is 134k * liblua.so.1 is 148k * haserl (using liblua) is 79k * lua cgi, lua socket, sqlite3 (dynlinked to libsqlite3.so.8), ltn12, md5, mime - all up, 450k I'm pretty impressed with lua

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 Content

2008-09-11 Thread Adrian Chadd
Under linux: install pci-tools or something, then lspci. Adrian 2008/9/4 Dan Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 3 Sep 2008, at 1:58 PM, Wesley Shields wrote: I installed the June snapshot of -current on my laptop and it supports my Intel 4965 just fine. Support for this card is out there and

Re: MFC ZFS: when?

2008-11-28 Thread Adrian Chadd
2008/11/21 Zaphod Beeblebrox [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Once no new bugs appear any more, and old one are fixed. That's a pretty cop-out answer. Considering the the version of ZFS in 7.x has significant issues and the ZFS patches havn't shown any propensity to affect non-ZFS systems when ZFS is

Re: Only 70% of theoretical peak performance on FreeBSD 8/amd64, Corei7 920

2010-04-12 Thread Adrian Chadd
Of course, what would be helpful is actually figuring out what is going on rather than some conjecture. :) With what he said, tweaking memory allocation under FreeBSD and/or linux would change the performance characteristics and either validate or disprove his assumptions? Adrian On 12 April

Re: HyperThreading makes worse to me (was Re: How to reproduce: Re: Only 70% of theoretical peak performance on FreeBSD 8/amd64, Corei7 920)

2010-04-15 Thread Adrian Chadd
May I make a suggestion? Would you mind creating a shared google spreadsheet with your testing results and a shared google document with the test setup? I think having the data in an easily represented, easily shared medium would be beneficial to everyone. Adrian On 15 April 2010 08:46, Maho

Re: *BSD meetup, London May 27th

2010-05-20 Thread Adrian Chadd
Is there a single place where all these various BSD user groups are listed? If not, how about a wiki page? adrian On 19 May 2010 00:11, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: Hi, Reference: From:         Michal mic...@ionic.co.uk Date:         Tue, 18 May 2010 10:50:01 +0100

Re: 8.1 stable ar9285 ath0 problem

2010-08-08 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 28 July 2010 05:06, Troye Johnson drsweetl...@gmail.com wrote: ar9285 driver gives exception message in /var/log/messages: kernel ath0 bb hang detected, resetting. I dont know what it means. The driver compiles good and I just got sources from cvs server branch RELENG_8_1. What is the

Re: Atheros AR2427 in FreeBSD 8.1

2010-08-08 Thread Adrian Chadd
There's a lot of fixes that need to be brought over for the more recent atheros chips. They can come from Linux ath9k, or by porting the code from openbsd (which is based on the linux ath9k code, from what I can tell.) So someone needs to do some legwork and help Rui (and I, I guess) merge in

[CFT] if_ath updates - ar5416 (macbook pro, etc)

2010-08-10 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi everyone, I'm committing some updates to the if_ath and ath_hal code. I've just committed updates to the AR5416 register setup values. I'd appreciate some testing by AR5416 users - eg macbook pro users - to ensure this hasn't broken functionality. Thanks, Adrian

Re: 8.1 stable ar9285 ath0 problem

2010-08-10 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 9 August 2010 13:09, Kurt Jaeger p...@opsec.eu wrote: There is http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=148112 Ok. I've taken ownership of that PR. I can't guarantee I'll get to it any time soon (I have other ath related work to get into -HEAD and tested before I look at the AR928x

Re: [CFT] if_ath updates - ar5416 (macbook pro, etc)

2010-08-10 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 10 August 2010 15:51, Adrian Chadd adrian.ch...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I'm committing some updates to the if_ath and ath_hal code. I've just committed updates to the AR5416 register setup values. I'd appreciate some testing by AR5416 users - eg macbook pro users - to ensure

Re: [CFT] if_ath updates - ar5416 (macbook pro, etc)

2010-08-10 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 11 August 2010 07:48, jhell jh...@dataix.net wrote: I have applied the following (r211136) to my local stable/8 branch and has proven to be an improvement with no drawbacks. Ah, the calibration scheduling change. Cool! As for the rest I can not vouch for unless you give me a specific

Re: 8.1 stable ar9285 ath0 problem

2010-08-10 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 10 August 2010 15:59, Kurt Jaeger p...@opsec.eu wrote: Cool. I can provide you with remote access to the EeePC in question, and some experimental WLAN AP where he can auth against (would be an WRT610N). Thanks, but I took the PR because I actually have a similar EEEPC with an AR9285 in it.

Re: [CFT] if_ath updates - ar5416 (macbook pro, etc)

2010-08-10 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 11 August 2010 11:48, jhell jh...@dataix.net wrote: I have attached a dump_all_config_desc for this device in case anyone can identify it. Linksys WUSB54G Check out this: http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/search_res.php?pattern=802.11 ugen3.3: product 0x2234 vendor 0x1915 at usbus3, cfg=0

Re: Re : ath(4) hostap with fake MAC/BSSID results in station dropping packets when associated

2010-08-11 Thread Adrian Chadd
To both of you - create PRs. Thanks, Adrian On 29 July 2010 17:54, Alexandre L. axel...@ymail.com wrote: Hi Martin, I got similar problem from my PC using a Netgear WG311T PCI wireless card. ath0: Atheros 5212 mem 0x4010-0x4010 irq 11 at device 8.0 on pci1 ath0: AR2413 mac 7.9

Re: [CFT] if_ath updates - ar5416 (macbook pro, etc)

2010-08-12 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi everyone, I've just merged in some changes to the noise floor (NF) internal calibration and NF CCA (clear channel assessment) programming. This may (slightly) improve AR5416/AR9160 behaviour in both AP and station mode in noisy/busy conditions. I've only really tested this in AP mode as I

Re: Kernel symbol file alternate location

2010-08-12 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 5 August 2010 12:41, Daniel O'Connor docon...@gsoft.com.au wrote: Is it possible to tell installkernel to put the symbol files elsewhere? IMO somewhere in /usr would be good - you don't need them to boot (or crashdump, etc) and they increase the size of the kernel by a factor of 5(!),

Re: [CFT] if_ath updates - ar5416 (macbook pro, etc)

2010-08-14 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, I've committed a couple more small AR9160 related fixes. Please test if_ath if you're using AR9160 in any mode (hostap, adhoc, station) and provide some feedback. Thanks, Adrian ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Can't compile ath(4) into kernel

2010-08-30 Thread Adrian Chadd
Please just create a PR for it. I haven't tried compiling ath without AR5416 support so I have no idea whether it'll work. adrian On 25 August 2010 22:03, Mikhail T. mi+th...@aldan.algebra.com wrote:  On 8/25/2010 8:27 AM, John Baldwin wrote: You are missing: options        

Re: Atheros AR2427 in FreeBSD 8.1

2010-09-17 Thread Adrian Chadd
development HAL. I'll let you guys know when that's done. Adrian 2010/8/8 Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org: There's a lot of fixes that need to be brought over for the more recent atheros chips. They can come from Linux ath9k, or by porting the code from openbsd (which is based on the linux

Re: Atheros AR2427 in FreeBSD 8.1

2010-09-25 Thread Adrian Chadd
2010/9/18 Makaruk Roman Valerevich n_diablo_...@pochta.ru:    Oh! Thank you! I already lost hope that I can properly run its Wi-Fi card.    Regards, Roman. Don't lose hope. :) It's going to take me a bit of time (I have a lot going on at the moment) but I will do it. :) Adrian

Re: ath0: lot of bad series hwrate and AH_SUPPORT_AR5416

2010-11-29 Thread Adrian Chadd
(I should get me an AR9285 to test with at some point.) On 29 November 2010 18:52, David DEMELIER demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: ath0: bad series3 hwrate 0x1b, tries 2 ts_status 0x0 ath0: bad series3 hwrate 0x1b, tries 2 ts_status 0x0 ath0: bad series3 hwrate 0x1b, tries 2 ts_status 0x0

Re: ath0: lot of bad series hwrate and AH_SUPPORT_AR5416

2010-12-01 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 1 December 2010 18:11, David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: Or is this somehow running in 11A mode? Would you please paste 'ifconfig wlan0' here? mark...@melon ~ $ ifconfig wlan0 wlan0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500    ether

Re: ath0: lot of bad series hwrate and AH_SUPPORT_AR5416

2010-12-01 Thread Adrian Chadd
demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/12/1 David DEMELIER demelier.da...@gmail.com: 2010/12/1 Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org: On 1 December 2010 18:11, David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: Or is this somehow running in 11A mode? Would you please paste 'ifconfig wlan0' here? mark...@melon

Re: atheros broadcast/multicast corruption with multiple hostap's

2010-12-04 Thread Adrian Chadd
Just FYI, (and sorry for resurrecting such an old thread!) The mcast keysearch changes you've suggested have broken CCMP handling on at least the AR9160 in -HEAD. kern/150148 also notes that between 8.0-REL and 8.1-REL CCMP WPA for the poster also broke. The main change here related to

Re: atheros broadcast/multicast corruption with multiple hostap's

2010-12-13 Thread Adrian Chadd
(I'm removing Sam from the CC: ; it seems he's not interested in this stuff any longer.) On 8 December 2010 09:54, Russell Yount russell.yo...@gmail.com wrote: Adrian, Yes, I can help track down this. I have only 11agb radios though:    NL-5354MP + Aries2   5004 MP Atheros 4G / CM9 Which

Re: ath(4) panic + stuck beacon issue

2011-03-05 Thread Adrian Chadd
I'm the ath maintainer now it seems. stuck beacon means a lot of things. Debugging it is going to mean better understanding what is going on in your environment that's being handled incorrectly. A lot of the reasons I've seen stuck beacons creep up is because the radio environment gets

Re: wi0 and adhoc

2011-05-11 Thread Adrian Chadd
2011/5/11 Lystopad Olexandr l...@laa.zp.ua: Hi! I have two freebsd boxes with 4.11 (yes, really!). They both serve wifi adhoc link (wi0 + pcic0: Vadem 469) during many years with no problems. One box has died, and I change it to new one with 8.0-rel. New box have cbb0 and same wi0 card. So,

Re: problem with urtw

2011-06-10 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 11 June 2011 03:48, Jim Bryant kc5vdj.free...@gmail.com wrote: this is with if_urtw.c patched to change L to B as you supplied. I'm here for testing..  any more ideas?  If anyone wants to play themselves, look on ebay for WiFiSky 1500mW B/G with 6dBi antenna.  It seems that half of Hong

Re: problem with urtw

2011-06-13 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 14 June 2011 02:24, Jim Bryant kc5vdj.free...@gmail.com wrote: would manufacturer-supplied linux driver source code suffice?  i can't buy you one, but i can send you the linux driver sources. If you have a link to the manufacturer linux driver source then that'll be a good start. But

Re: scp: Write Failed: Cannot allocate memory

2011-07-24 Thread Adrian Chadd
Has someone asked for the output of netstat -mb? That error message is mbuf related, so I bet it's something to do with mbuf allocation. Is it possible that the system is incorrectly tuned when virtualbox is enabled? Adrian On 11 July 2011 09:59, Peter Ross peter.r...@bogen.in-berlin.de wrote:

Re: recommendations for laptop and desktop

2011-07-31 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, If you'd like space on the freebsd wiki site, please create an account and then email me (or grab me on IRC) to sort out access. Non-developers can have access to the Wiki. I don't know why people think it's developers only. :) Adrian On 14 July 2011 17:22, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au

Re: Patch to puc(4) to support Moxa CP-112UL board

2011-08-10 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 11 August 2011 07:55, Jan Mikkelsen j...@transactionware.com wrote: Hi, I have added these device IDs to pucdata.c to support the Moxa CP-112UL board family. Should I submit a problem report, or is there an easier way to get the patch merged? The right way is to get a PR submitted,

Re: Unable to shutdown

2011-08-27 Thread Adrian Chadd
This sounds like a create PR and make noise until it's fixed issue. :-) green drives are only going to get more prevalent.. Adrian On 27 August 2011 12:51, Kevin Oberman kob6...@gmail.com wrote: I've run into an odd problem with dismounting file systems on a Seagate Expansion portable USB

Re: UFS_DIRHASH panics on a dozen server within 30 hours

2011-09-11 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 12 September 2011 06:23, Andreas Longwitz longw...@incore.de wrote: Yes. I found that megarc often wants a buffer of 12868 bytes, but the controller sends always 25412 bytes back. Because this seems to be an error in megarc I have submitted a patch for the existing PR ports/137938.

Re: System freeze: Adaptec (aac) timeouts (releng 8)

2011-09-14 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 15 September 2011 00:38, Elliot Finley efinley.li...@gmail.com wrote: I was having the exact same problem using an Adaptec 52445.  After downloading and using the latest driver from the adaptec website, the problems stopped.  I haven't had a single freeze since using the new code.  The

Re: csup crash

2011-09-15 Thread Adrian Chadd
Does this fix it ? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/154954 Adrian ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Panic during kernel booting on HP Proliant DL180G6 and latest STABLE

2011-09-21 Thread Adrian Chadd
Out of curiousity, I decided to have a little glance. That field is set up in igb_init_locked(). Is it possible that igb_msix_que() is being called before the NIC has completed setup? The poll and and handle_que routines check for IFF_DRV_RUNNING; but igb_msix_que() isn't. Adrian

Re: Realtek integrated nic problem

2011-09-24 Thread Adrian Chadd
Surely this is something to take up with the pfsense team? Adrian ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Realtek integrated nic problem

2011-09-25 Thread Adrian Chadd
Oh, please don't think it was off-topic. I'm sure it's useful information for more than just you. Now you know that nic likely works in 8.2, so you can bug the pfsense guys to push out an updated pfsense image with the driver source updated appropriately :) Adrian

Re: FreeBSD 9-Beta3 on X300 2 problems

2011-09-26 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, Please try to do this without wlan loaded at all (not just down, but build your wifi support as a module.) Then try without X, see whether it's related to that or not. (And you haven't told us what your hardware is.) Adrian ___

Re: luit -encoding gbk causes Segmentation fault (core dumped) in 9-stable

2011-09-27 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 28 September 2011 09:08, Yue Wu vano...@gmail.com wrote: Hello list, As the title said. When on 8-stable, luit -encdoding gbk works fine, anyone can figure it out what's wrong? I'm sure it's not a luit's bug because luit works fine and no any version updating happened before and after

Re: luit -encoding gbk causes Segmentation fault (core dumped) in 9-stable

2011-09-28 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hm, it's not all that useful. But it first calls dlopen(). Does it have shared modules? Do you have old copies of those somewhere lying around? Adrian ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: 7.3 + kqueue + apache/php + DNS lookup problem

2011-10-02 Thread Adrian Chadd
Something stupid and ridiculous, like the socket watermark points are set incorrectly? It'd also be helpful to see exactly what the knotes were. Adrian ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: BETA3 not buildable

2011-10-07 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 8 October 2011 02:34, Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: I have a local cvs repo and after checking src into a completely fresh /usr/src I get: Please re-run csup a couple times and see if it picks up missing files. Adrian ___

Re: 8.1 xl + dual-speed Netgear hub = yoyo

2011-10-22 Thread Adrian Chadd
Can you boot releng_4 or releng_6 on this hardware? ie, does xl do the same thing on the same hardware with older OS code? Adrian ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send

Re: 8.1 xl + dual-speed Netgear hub = yoyo

2011-10-23 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 23 October 2011 20:14, Peter Maxwell pe...@allicient.co.uk wrote: ...snip... Auto-negotiation is a nightmare, and *will* cause you problems.  The best you can do is try to try to set every device using the switch to 100Mbps full, if that doesn't work buy a proper switch. .. you mean

Re: SOLVED: 8.1 xl + dual-speed Netgear hub = yoyo

2011-10-24 Thread Adrian Chadd
Out of pure interest, I'd love to see whether xl on an earlier kernel (say 4.x, if the hardware can even run it) or even 6.x would work. Adrian ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To

Re: TCP Reassembly Issues

2011-11-24 Thread Adrian Chadd
Have you tried disabling the tcp offload features of your NIC? Adrian ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default

2011-12-13 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 13 December 2011 01:00, Andrey Chernov a...@freebsd.org wrote: If the algorithm ULE does not contain problems - it means the problem has Core2Duo, or in a piece of code that uses the ULE scheduler. I observe ULE interactivity slowness even on single core machine (Pentium 4) in very

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

2011-12-14 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 14 December 2011 23:32, O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: Just saw this shot benchmark on Phoronix dot com today: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=MTAyNzA It may be worth to discuss the sad performance of FBSD in some parts of the benchmark. A difference of a

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

2011-12-16 Thread Adrian Chadd
Can someone please write up a nice, concise blog post somewhere outlining all of this? Extra bonus points if it's a blog that is picked up by blogs.freebsdish.org and/or some of the other BSD sites. Guys/girls/fuzzy things - this is 2011; people look at shiny blog sites with graphs rather than

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

2011-12-16 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi all, Can someone load a kernel module dynamically at boot-time? Ie, instead of compiling it in, can 4bsd/ule be loaded as a KLD at boot-time, so the user can just change by rebooting? That may be an acceptable solution for now. Adrian ___

Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default

2011-12-17 Thread Adrian Chadd
Erm, just as a random question - since device drivers (and GEOM) run as separate threads, has anyone looked into what kind of effects the scheduler has on these? I definitely have measurable throughput/responsiveness differences between ULE and 4BSD (and preempt/non-preempt on 4BSD) on my MIPS

Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default

2011-12-17 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 17 December 2011 14:00, Andriy Gapon a...@freebsd.org wrote: on 17/12/2011 23:20 Adrian Chadd said the following: This may -not- be a userland specific problem.. That's an interesting idea.  From the recent discussion about USB I can conclude that USB threads run at higher priority than

Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default

2011-12-18 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, What Attilllo and others need are KTR traces in the most stripped down example of interactive-busting workload you can find. Eg: if you're doing 32 concurrent buildworlds and trying to test interactivity - fine, but that's going to result in a lot of KTR stuff. If you can reproduce it using

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