A friend of mine decided to take me up on my offer to help him set up
and run a freebsd-stable system (he's a photographer who's only ever
used shell accounts onto linux systems before).
We setup a gmirror using Approach 2 from
http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror.
It's been up and running for
Jonathan Stewart writes:
[...]
I set up a new server recently and transferred all the information from
my old server over. I tried to use unison to synchronize the backup of
pictures I have taken and noticed that a large number of pictures where
marked as changed on the server. After
Jacques Garrigue writes:
From: Jacques Garrigue [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've got a strange problem with my IBM T42 / Radeon M10 setup.
When using the 6.0-RELEASE kernel (including GENERIC), I cannot go to
sleep when X11 is running: the machine freezes, display still on. I
tried
Gleb Smirnoff writes:
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 12:52:58PM -0800, George Hartzell wrote:
G I finally found the cause of my problems: there has been changes in
G the em driver (Gb ethernet), such that the machine freezes when trying
G to switch automatically from the X11 VT
Gleb Smirnoff writes:
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 12:52:58PM -0800, George Hartzell wrote:
G I finally found the cause of my problems: there has been changes in
G the em driver (Gb ethernet), such that the machine freezes when trying
G to switch automatically from the X11 VT
Jacques Garrigue writes:
From: George Hartzell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jacques Garrigue writes:
From: Jacques Garrigue [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've got a strange problem with my IBM T42 / Radeon M10 setup.
When using the 6.0-RELEASE kernel (including GENERIC), I cannot go
Kevin Oberman writes:
[...]
No. There is no conflict between Cx states and EST. Cx states specifies
how deeply the CPU will sleep when idle. EST controls processor speed
and voltage. In most cases, your REALLY want to use both of these. They
are very significant in saving power. (Of
I installed 6.2-PRERELEASE on my trusty but slow Sony PCG-Z505JE and
things generally just worked (including an Atheros based pc-card).
Historically I've set the machine up to use APM, and suspend and
resume to either memory or a magically prepared disk partition worked
well.
With 6.2 I can't
I'm having a problem with a machine that I support and would like some
feedback.
The system was built up from a barebones Transport PX22, which uses a
Tyan S2865G2NR motherboard.
It has two drives:
ad4: 286188MB Maxtor 6V300F0 VA111680 at ata2-master SATA300
ad6: 286188MB Maxtor 6V300F0
Miroslav Lachman writes:
George Hartzell wrote:
I'm having a problem with a machine that I support and would like some
feedback.
The system was built up from a barebones Transport PX22, which uses a
Tyan S2865G2NR motherboard.
It has two drives:
ad4: 286188MB
I have a Dell PowerEdge 850 that hangs when I try to power it down
using shutdown -p now. Otherwise it seems to run splendidly.
I reaches the point where it says: Powering the system off using
acpi and then just sits there.
Powering it off by just pressing the power button works perfectly.
Kirk Davis writes:
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a Dell PowerEdge 850 that hangs when I try to power it down
using shutdown -p now. Otherwise it seems to run splendidly.
I reaches the point where it says: Powering the system off using
Doug Barton writes:
George Hartzell wrote:
Kirk Davis writes:
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a Dell PowerEdge 850 that hangs when I try to power it down
using shutdown -p now. Otherwise it seems to run splendidly
I'm setting up a Dell Poweredge 750 1U server. A friend is loaning me
space in his rack and since his rack usage is limited by power I'd
like to be as thrifty as possible.
I hooked my kill-a-watt meter up and ran the machine for a couple of
days and it uses 88 watts (3.90KWH/44.01H).
Then I
Peter Jeremy writes:
On Wed, 2007-Jan-10 09:34:21 -0800, George Hartzell wrote:
I hooked my kill-a-watt meter up and ran the machine for a couple of
days and it uses 88 watts (3.90KWH/44.01H).
What was it doing for those couple of days? [...]
It's a small time mail server and web host
Oliver Fromme writes:
George Hartzell wrote:
I'm setting up a Dell Poweredge 750 1U server. A friend is loaning me
space in his rack and since his rack usage is limited by power I'd
like to be as thrifty as possible.
I hooked my kill-a-watt meter up and ran the machine
Bruno Ducrot writes:
[...]
What specific driver(s) were loaded actually?
A devinfo might help.
It looks like:
p4tcc0
cpufreq0
Here's a devinfo and a dmesg:
http://shrimp.alerce.com/merlin/merlin.devinfo
http://shrimp.alerce.com/merlin/merlin.dmesg
I'm starting to
Willy Offermans writes:
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 11:06:15AM +, Vince wrote:
Willy Offermans wrote:
Dear FreeBSD friends,
Is it possible to add and configure a tap device at boot time of
FreeBSD? I mean the same as a normal NIC. In my rc.conf:
snip
...
On Mar 25, 2007, at 5:12 PM, Joe Kelsey wrote:
Ivan Voras wrote:
Joe Kelsey wrote:
So, after loading the mirror stuff, I regularly lock up the
system by
trying to perform simple activities on the mirror. What do I
need to do
differently?
Here are the relevant dmesg lines:
atapci0:
Pawel Jakub Dawidek writes:
[...]
It happens because ad0 and ad0s1 share the same last sector.
To fix this you should use '-h' option as you did or you should recreate
ad0s1 slice one sector smaller.
Thanks for the help!
That makes sense, which is always a nice feeling.
Does that mean
Søren Schmidt writes:
[...]
Find such a machine might be very hard, if not plain impossible :/
I already have 3 laptops here (of which none has worked for several
month regarding suspend/resume) so I have plenty. [...]
How bad is the acpi suspend/resume situation.
I have 5.3-BETA4 on an
I just skimmed through your comment about hardcoding the provider name
if ad0 and ad0s1 have the same length. I think that you need to
mention that you need to add the -h flag to both the gmirror label
command and the final gmirror insert command when you add in the
second disk.
g.
I'd like to set up a periodic-style script to check the status of my
gmirror RAID.
Before I reinvent the wheel, anyone have one that they'd care t
share?
I'm running Stable, FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #10: Sun Feb 6 17:25:02 PST 2005
Thanks,
g.
___
Eirik Øverby writes:
Hi!
I've been using gmirror for a while to safeguard my system disks. I have
taken the slice-based mirror approach, where I use, say, ad0s1 and ad2s1 as
providers.
On one of my servers, this seems to be impossible. I create the mirror using
ad2s1 first (to keep
Eirik Øverby writes:
[...]
What can I expect to see when trying nullfs and/or unionfs today? Has
anything changed? Do I have even a remote chance of making it work - and if
it doesn't work, what are my chances of anyone having time or energy to look
into it? I'm an admin only, no coder,
Eirik Øverby writes:
Hi,
I just started playing with mounting ports into jails using unionfs
(mount_unionfs -b /usr/ports_jail /usr/local/jails/jail-0/usr/ports), and
many things seem to work fine.
However, when trying to install either of mysql41-server or mysql41-client,
I see the
Marc G. Fournier writes:
On Sat, 7 May 2005, Eirik [ISO-8859-1] Øverby wrote:
On 07-05-05 03:19, George Hartzell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Here's one unionfs/jail gotcha that's bitten me a couple of times. If
you actually *use* (or, have used) the ports directory to build
Is it possible to save crashdumps onto a gmirror device?
I'm trying to understand why one of my systems (being upgraded from
5.3BETA4 to 5.3) is sponteously rebooting.
The first step seems to be to try to get a crash dump, but:
(merlin)[5:16pm]~sudo dumpon -v /dev/mirror/gm0s1b
Password:
I have a system that I set up to use a gmirror back in the 5.3beta
days. It's running fine but I don't remember exactly how I set it up.
It's a scsi system w/ two identical disks.
I'd like to migrate the installation to a new box that uses ide disks,
and am basing my attempts on the
GEOM
Kevin Oberman writes:
[discussion of USB/Cx level interactions clipped out...]
If you unload the drivers, you should be to lower levels. Take a look at
sysctl hw.acpi.cpu for detail and to see how much time is spent in each
sleep state.
I assume that you can unload the drivers, but
Patrick M. Hausen writes:
Hello!
Is it possible to boot off the install CD, setup a gmirror, and then
reboot and install on the mirror (and expect things to work ok)? Anyone
try this? It would be nice if the installer let you do this...
AFAIK, no.
Install a minimal system
Daniel O'Connor writes:
On Sunday 02 April 2006 17:48, Matthias Andree wrote:
You can't boot off a system with a dead primary disk with software RAID1.
(well you MIGHT but.. in any case RAID1 cards are quite cheap)
It's a matter of the BIOS:
will it complain, or will it proceed
Daniel O'Connor writes:
On Monday 03 April 2006 04:39, George Hartzell wrote:
With raid systems that use proprietary metadata I'd need to find a
similar controller to hook them up to.
Actually no..
If you are using a cheap RAID like Promise TX2 or just about any onboard
IDE/SATA
I have a new system which includes a Plextor PX-740a DVD+-R/RW CD-R/RW
drive attached to an Asus A8V-MX motherboard.
When I try to use burncd to burn a cd, it writes all of the data, says
fixating CD, please wait.. and then reports
burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCFIXATE): Input/output error
Oddly
Igor Robul writes:
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 06:49:02PM -0700, George Hartzell wrote:
When I try to use burncd to burn a cd, it writes all of the data, says
fixating CD, please wait.. and then reports
burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCFIXATE): Input/output error
Oddly enough, the CD seems
Vladimir Botka writes:
Hello,
for me Plextor-750 works well with cdrecord and SCSI emulation (ATAPI/CAM
module)
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html#ATAPICAM
Plextor is a good choice.
It works for me with cdrecord too.
I'm just trying to
George Hartzell writes:
I have an Asus A8V-MX motherboard with an AMD Athlong 64 X2 3800+ CPU
and I'm trying to run powerd to keep it cooler/quieter/greener.
[...]
[for the archives]
I now have powerd running w/out any complaints, although I still don't
understand what was causing
I have a new ASUS A8V-MX motherboard that's running 6.1-RC cvsuped
earlier this week. I'm running w/ ACPI enabled, I still see the
problem if I boot w/ ACPI disabled at the loader prompt.
I'm running a kernel based on the standard SMP config file with the
addition of an atapicam device.
I
[I've seen some comments here about people struggling w/ mga_hal, so I
thought I'd share this.]
I wanted to use features of the Matrox mga x11 driver (dual headed
digital video) that required the hal, but I wasn't able to get the
mga_hal port to work with Xorg 6.9.
I cobbled up an underhanded
I have -STABLE (amd64) running on an 8-way Mac Pro system. It's all
working great except I get the following message on the console every
couple of seconds.
acpi_smbus_read_2: AE_ERROR 0x10
I've (google...) found one comment about Freebsd and the Mac Pro that
includes this message in it's
Dmitry Morozovsky writes:
On Tue, 26 May 2009, Mickael MAILLOT wrote:
MM Hi,
MM
MM i prefere use zfsboot boot sector, an example is better than a long talk:
MM
MM $ zpool create tank mirror ad4 ad6
MM $ zpool export tank
MM $ dd if=/boot/zfsboot of=/dev/ad4 bs=512 count=1
MM
Artis Caune writes:
2009/5/26 Philipp Wuensche cryx-free...@h3q.com:
Hi,
I tried booting from a disk with GPT scheme, with a /boot/loader build
with LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT=yes in make.conf. I get the following error:
panic: free: guard1 fail @ 0x2fd4a6ac from
Andriy Gapon writes:
on 26/05/2009 19:21 George Hartzell said the following:
Dmitry Morozovsky writes:
On Tue, 26 May 2009, Mickael MAILLOT wrote:
MM Hi,
MM
MM i prefere use zfsboot boot sector, an example is better than a long
talk:
MM
MM $ zpool
Freddie Cash writes:
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Dan Naumov dan.nau...@gmail.com wrote:
I just wanted to have an extra pair (or a dozen) of eyes look this
configuration over before I commit to it (tested it in VMWare just in
case, it works, so I am considering doing this on real
I've been running many of my systems for some time now using gmirror
on a pair of identical disks, as described by Ralf at:
http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/
Each disk has single slice that covers almost all of the disk. These
slices are combined into the gmirror device (gm0), which is
Adam McDougall writes:
[...]
I believe gjournal uses 1G for journal (2x512) which seemed to be
sufficient on all of the systems where I have used the default, but I
quickly found that using a smaller journal is a bad idea and leads to
panics that I was unable to avoid with tuning.
Adam McDougall writes:
George Hartzell wrote:
[...]
- I've read in the gjournal man page that when it is ... configured
on top of gmirror(8) or graid3(8) providers, it also keeps them in
a consistent state... I've been trying to figure out if this
simply falls out
I have an HP DL360 with a pair of 1TB seagate disks that's been
running -STABLE with a ZFS root partition set up using the tools
available here:
http://yds.coolrat.org/zfsboot.shtml
It's been working great. As part of trying to understand what's going
on, I csup'ed to -RELENG earlier today
George Hartzell writes:
[...]
It's been working great. As part of trying to understand what's going
on, I csup'ed to -RELENG earlier today and rebuilt/installed the
kernel and world whilst running on the DL360, so everything should be
current.
[...]
Just to be clear, I mean that I
George Hartzell writes:
I have an HP DL360 with a pair of 1TB seagate disks that's been
running -STABLE with a ZFS root partition set up using the tools
available here:
http://yds.coolrat.org/zfsboot.shtml
It's been working great. As part of trying to understand what's going
I upgraded my early-2008 Mac Pro to 7.1-STABLE and Gnome 2.24.3 over
the weekend, it had been tracking -STABLE.
I'd imported the snd_hda driver and had it running with a few tweaks,
which I needed to adjust to get it running under this version of the
driver.
I'm only able to get the rear
I've set up a system as described here.
http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition
Using the 8.0 Release DVD and then csup'ing to RELENG_8 and
rebuilding.
I set it up with a single drive, the only change that I made was that
after creating ad10s1a I glabeled it as disk0, then added
Eric writes:
On 12/31/2009 1:48 PM, George Hartzell wrote:
I've set up a system as described here.
http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition
Using the 8.0 Release DVD and then csup'ing to RELENG_8 and
rebuilding.
I set it up with a single drive, the only
Roland Smith writes:
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 12:48:28PM -0800, George Hartzell wrote:
I've set up a system as described here.
http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition
Using the 8.0 Release DVD and then csup'ing to RELENG_8 and
rebuilding.
I set it up
Hi All,
I have what I think is a ZFS related bug. Unfortunately my simplest
test case is a bit cumbersome and I haven't definitively proven that
the problem is ZFS related.
I'm hoping for some feedback on how to move forward.
Quick background: I rip my CD's using grip and produce flac files.
Andriy Gapon writes:
on 17/07/2013 23:47 George Hartzell said the following:
How should I move forward with this?
Could you please try to reproduce this problem using a kernel built with
INVARIANTS options?
I added INVARIANT_SUPPORT and INVARIANTS options to the GENERIC
kernel
Richard Todd writes:
George Hartzell hartz...@alerce.com writes:
Hi All,
I have what I think is a ZFS related bug.
[...]
[summary: Picard seems to trigger an mmap consistency bug in ZFS].
[...]
Anyway, what I'd suggest is the following: see if my patch for py-mutagen
Richard Todd writes:
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 11:40:51AM -0700, George Hartzell wrote:
[...]
[...]
In my case I'd want to find a particular set of file size, offset, and
insertion size that triggers the problem and code up a c/c++ equiv. of
the mmap
George Hartzell writes:
[...]
So, it would seem that there's something about the filesystem in which
my home directory resides that contributes to the problem.
[...]
Another data point.
I just ran through my test case, saving the tagged and transcoded
files into /tmp, a zfs filesystem
George Hartzell writes:
George Hartzell writes:
[...]
So, it would seem that there's something about the filesystem in which
my home directory resides that contributes to the problem.
[...]
Another data point.
[...]
Yet another data point or three.
I took an unused
George Hartzell writes:
George Hartzell writes:
George Hartzell writes:
[...]
So, it would seem that there's something about the filesystem in which
my home directory resides that contributes to the problem.
[...]
Another data point
Andriy Gapon writes:
on 18/07/2013 20:44 George Hartzell said the following:
Andriy Gapon writes:
on 17/07/2013 23:47 George Hartzell said the following:
How should I move forward with this?
Could you please try to reproduce this problem using a kernel built
Andriy Gapon writes:
on 18/07/2013 20:44 George Hartzell said the following:
Andriy Gapon writes:
on 17/07/2013 23:47 George Hartzell said the following:
How should I move forward with this?
Could you please try to reproduce this problem using a kernel built
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