Re: Some questions about jails on FreeBSD9.0-RC1

2011-10-26 Thread Peter
able via public IP. All the IPs are defined in rc.conf the normal _alias way. FIB support as I remember needs a custom kernel - not sure about 9, this is in 8.2. I even run openbsd spamd on the host and using FIBs to start the spamd daemon via a 'setfib 1' wrapper script: %cat /usr/loc

Re: why is pkg_add on 9.0 stable still using packages from packages-9-current?

2012-01-05 Thread Peter
sdpkg:#grep -R packages-9 * add/main.c: { 90, 900499, "/packages-9.0-release" }, add/main.c: { 90, 999000, "/packages-9-current" }, They haven't updated main.c for -stable yet and -stable is at 900500 per sys/sys/param.h [or URL]. I'm

Re: Script-friendly (parseble) ps(1) output?

2008-10-31 Thread Peter
md child (perl5.8.8) the read ignores all white space...the last variable in that 'while read' will hold everything beyond it... ie; poshta:$ps axuww| while read USER PID CPU MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME; do echo $PID $CPU $USER $TIME;done |head -3 PID %CPU USER TIME COMMAND 11 77.9 ro

stable/8/UPDATING - no mention of 8.0 release

2009-11-27 Thread Peter
ATING?view=markup It just confused me for awhile after I did a 'svn up' and did not see the release notes... [for the 7.X series, both stable/ and release/ mention the release in UPDATING] ]Peter[ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.o

panic: spin lock held too long 8.0-STABLE r207638

2010-05-06 Thread Peter
as I try to get a Windows VM running on there, and it starts using some swap, anywhere from 20MB to 150MB it eventually panics [usually within an hour or so]. Any ideas ? hardware issues? Anyone successfull in running several VMs on FreeBSD -> VirtualBox ? [overlo

kernel crash from adjacent partitions (gpart, zfs)

2019-05-14 Thread Peter
Hi, when creating partitions directly adjacent without a safety free space between them, the kernel may crash. Does anybody know how big that free space needs to be? How I found out (and how to reproduce the crash): https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/create-degraded-raid-5-with-2-disks-on-fr

Rel. 11.3: Kernel doesn't compile anymore :(

2019-07-24 Thread Peter
Trying to compile my custom kernel in Rel. 11.3 results in this: [code]--- kernel.full --- linking kernel.full atomic.o: In function `atomic_add_64': /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/E1R11V1/./machine/atomic.h:629: multiple definition of `atomic_add_64' opensolaris_atomic.o:/usr/src/sys/cddl/contrib/opensola

Re: Rel. 11.3: Kernel doesn't compile anymore (SVN-334762, please fix!)

2019-07-24 Thread Peter
> Trying to compile my custom kernel in Rel. 11.3 results in this: > > -- kernel.full --- > linking kernel.full > atomic.o: In function `atomic_add_64': > /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/E1R11V1/./machine/atomic.h:629: multiple definition of > `atomic_add_64' > opensolaris_atomic.o:/usr/src/sys/cddl/contrib

Re: Rel. 11.3: Kernel doesn't compile anymore (SVN-334762, please fix!)

2019-07-25 Thread Peter
Hi Hans Petter, glad to read You! :) On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 09:39:26AM +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: ! On 2019-07-25 01:00, Peter wrote: ! >> The offending feature is either ! >> options ZFS ! >> or ! >> device dtrace ! >> (Adding any of these to the

wrong value from DTRACE (uint32 for int64)

2019-12-02 Thread Peter
Hi @all, I felt the need to look into my ZFS ARC, but DTRACE provided misleading (i.e., wrong) output (on i386, 11.3-RELEASE): # dtrace -Sn 'arc-available_memory { printf("%x %x", arg0, arg1); }' DIFO 0x286450a0 returns D type (integer) (size 8) OFF OPCODE INSTRUCTION 00: 29010601ldg

Re: wrong value from DTRACE (uint32 for int64)

2019-12-02 Thread Peter
On Mon, 02 Dec 2019 21:58:36 +0100, Mark Johnston wrote: The DTRACE_PROBE* macros cast their parameters to uintptr_t, which will be 32 bits wide on i386. You might be able to work around the problem by casting arg0 to uint32_t in the script. Thanks for the info - good that it has a logical e

Re: Disabling speculative execution mitigations

2019-12-06 Thread Peter
On Fri, 06 Dec 2019 06:21:04 +0100, O'Connor, Daniel wrote: vm.pmap.pti="0"# Disable page table isolation hw.ibrs_disable="1"# Disable Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation hw.mds_disable="0" # Disable Microarchitectural Data Sampling flush hw.vmm.vmx="1" # Don't flus

session mgmt: does POSIX indeed prohibit NOOP execution?

2020-01-05 Thread Peter
pgrp = getpid(); if(setpgid(0, pgrp) < 0) err(1, "setpgid"); This appears to me a program trying to deemonize itself (in the old style when there was only job control but no session management). In the case this program is already properly daemonized, e.g. by starting it from

Re: ZFS and power management

2020-01-05 Thread Peter
On Wed, 18 Dec 2019 17:22:16 +0100, Karl Denninger wrote: I'm curious if anyone has come up with a way to do this... I have a system here that has two pools -- one comprised of SSD disks that are the "most commonly used" things including user home directories and mailboxes, and another that

Re: session mgmt: does POSIX indeed prohibit NOOP execution?

2020-01-06 Thread Peter
On Mon, 06 Jan 2020 01:10:57 +0100, Christoph Moench-Tegeder wrote: When a program is invoked via /usr/sbin/daemon, it should already be session leader AND group leader, and then the above code WOULD be a NOOP, unless POSIX would require the setpgid() to fail and thereby the program to abort

Fwd: Re: session mgmt: does POSIX indeed prohibit NOOP execution?

2020-01-06 Thread Peter
> Not much room to argue? Why that? This is not about laws you have to follow blindly whether you understand them or not, this is all about an Outcome - a working machine that should properly function. "Not much to argue about what behaviour is required by the standard". The standard could have

jedec_dimm fails to boot

2020-03-04 Thread Peter
I met an Issue: When I kldload jedec_dimm durig runtime, it works just as expected, and the DIMM data appears in sysctl. But when I do * load the jedec_dimm at the loader prompt, or * add it to loader.conf, or * compile it into a custom kernel, it does not boot anymore. My custom kernel doe

panic: too many modules

2020-03-04 Thread Peter
Front up: I do not like loadable modules. They are nice to try something out, but when you start to depend on some dozen loaded modules, debugging becomes a living hell: say you hunt some spurious misbehaviour and compare logfiles with those from four weeks ago, you will not know exactly which modu

Re: jedec_dimm fails to boot

2020-03-04 Thread Peter
On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 11:41:22PM +0300, Yuri Pankov wrote: ! On 04.03.2020 19:09, Peter wrote: ! > When I kldload jedec_dimm durig runtime, it works just as expected, ! > and the DIMM data appears in sysctl. ! > ! > But when I do ! > * load the jedec_dimm at the loader prompt,

How to free used Swap-Space?

2020-09-22 Thread Peter
Hi all, my machine should use about 3-4, maybe 5 GB swapspace. Today I found it suddenly uses 8 GB (which is worryingly near the configured 10G). I stopped all the big suckers - nothing found. I stopped all the jails - no success. I brought it down to singleuser: it tried to swapoff, but failed.

Re: How to free used Swap-Space?

2020-09-22 Thread Peter
On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 12:33:19PM -0400, Mark Johnston wrote: ! On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 06:08:01PM +0200, Peter wrote: ! > my machine should use about 3-4, maybe 5 GB swapspace. Today I found ! > it suddenly uses 8 GB (which is worryingly near the configured 10G). ! > ! > I sto

Re: How to free used Swap-Space? (from errno=8)

2020-09-22 Thread Peter
I think I can reproduce the problem now. See below. On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 02:09:01PM -0400, Mark Johnston wrote: ! On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 07:31:07PM +0200, Peter wrote: ! > There is something, and I don't know who owns that: ! > $ vmstat -m | grep shmfd ! > shmf

Re: How to free used Swap-Space? (from errno=8)

2020-09-22 Thread Peter
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 12:03:32AM +0300, Konstantin Belousov wrote: ! On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 09:11:49PM +0200, Peter wrote: ! > So what happens then is this: ! > ! > $ file scc.e ! > scc.e: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 ! > (FreeBSD), dynamically linked, inter

12.2 Firefox immediate crash "exiting due to channel error"

2020-10-15 Thread Peter
Hi all, I was forced to upgrade 11.4 -> 12.2, as QT5 reqires openssl 1.1.1. I did a full rebuild from source as of this: 12.2-RC2 FreeBSD 12.2-RC2 #11 r366648M#N1055:1078 (local patches applied - some published via sendbug 10 or 12 years ago) I did a full rebuild of ALL ports from source, a

12.2 cpuset behaves unexpected

2020-10-15 Thread Peter
After upgrading 11.4 -> 12.2, cpuset now behaves rather different: # cpuset -C -p NNN 11.4: a new set is created with all cpu enabled, and the process is moved into that set, with the thread mask unchanged. 12.2: nothing is done, but an error raises if threadmask == setmask. # cpuset -l

Help! 12.2 mem ctrl knob missing, might need 3 times more memory

2020-12-06 Thread Peter
Hiya, after upgrading 11.4 -> 12.2, I get this error: > sysctl: unknown oid 'vm.pageout_wakeup_thresh' at line 105 How do I adjust the paging now? The ARC is much too small: Mem: 1929M Active, 109M Inact, 178M Laundry, 1538M Wired, 37M Buf, 88M Free ARC: 729M Total, 428M MFU, 154M MRU, 196K An

Panic: 12.2 fails to use VIMAGE jails

2020-12-07 Thread Peter
After clean upgrade (from source) from 11.4 to 12.2-p1 my jails do no longer work correctly. Old-fashioned jails seem to work, but most are VIMAGE+NETGRAPH style, and do not work properly. All did work flawlessly for nearly a year with Rel.11. If I start 2-3 jails, and then stop them again, the

Analyzing kernel panic from VIMAGE/Netgraph takedown

2020-12-07 Thread Peter
Stopping a VIMAGE+Netgraph jail in 12.2 in the same way as it did work with Rel. 11.4, crashes the kernel after 2 or 3 start/stop iterations. Specifically. this does not work: exec.poststop = "/usr/sbin/ngctl shutdown ${ifname1l}:"; Also this new option from Rel.12 does not work either, it j

Re: Panic: 12.2 fails to use VIMAGE jails

2020-12-07 Thread Peter
Hi Kristof, it's great to read You! On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 09:11:32PM +0100, Kristof Provost wrote: ! That smells a lot like the epair/vnet issues in bugs 238870, 234985, 244703, ! 250870. epair? No. It is purely Netgraph here. ! I pushed a fix for that in CURRENT in r368237. It’s schedul

Re: Panic: 12.2 fails to use VIMAGE jails

2020-12-08 Thread Peter
On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 04:50:00PM +0100, Kristof Provost wrote: ! Yeah, the bug is not exclusive to epair but that’s where it’s most easily ! seen. Ack. ! Try http://people.freebsd.org/~kp/0001-if-Fix-panic-when-destroying-vnet-and-epair-simultan.patch Great, thanks a lot. Now I have bad news

Re: Panic: 12.2 fails to use VIMAGE jails

2020-12-08 Thread Peter
Here is the next funny crashdump - I obtained this one twice and also the sysctl_rtsock() again. I can reproduce this by just starting and stopping a most simple jail that does only exec.start = "/bin/sleep 4 &"; (And as usual, when I let it time out, nothing bad happens.) Fatal trap 9:

Re: Panic: 12.2 fails to use VIMAGE jails

2020-12-08 Thread Peter
On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 08:02:47PM +0100, Kristof Provost wrote: ! > Sorry for the bad news. ! > ! You appear to be triggering two or three different bugs there. That is possible. Then there are two or three different bugs in the production code. In any case, my current workaround, i.e. delayi

Re: Panic: 12.2 fails to use VIMAGE jails

2020-12-09 Thread Peter
On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 07:51:07PM -0600, Kyle Evans wrote: ! You seem to have misinterpreted this; he doesn't want to narrow it ! down to one bug, he wants simple steps that he can follow to reproduce Maybe I did misinterpret, but then I don't really understand it. I would suppose, when testing

Re: Panic: 12.2 fails to use VIMAGE jails

2020-12-09 Thread Peter
On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 02:00:37PM +1100, Dewayne Geraghty wrote: ! On a jail with config: ! exec.start = "/bin/sh -x /etc/rc"; ! exec.stop = "/bin/sh /etc/rc.shutdown"; ! exec.clean; ! ! test_prod { jid=7; persist; ip4.addr = ! "10.0.7.96,10.0.5.96,127.0.5.96"; devfs_ruleset = "6"; ! host.hostu

ZFS l2arc broken in 10.3

2016-10-12 Thread Peter
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Re: ZFS l2arc broken in 10.3

2016-10-12 Thread Peter
Details: After upgrading 2 machines from 9.3 to 10.3-STABLE, on one of them the l2arc stays empty (capacity alloc = 0), although it is online and gets accessed. It did work well on 9.3. I did the following tests: * Create a zpool on a stick, with two volumes: one filesystem and one cache. The

[fixed] ZFS l2arc broken in 10.3

2016-10-12 Thread Peter
sendbug seems not to work anymore, I end up on websites with marketing- babble and finally get asked to provide some login and passwd. :( But the former mail looks like having come back to me, so it seems I'm still allowed to post here... *** sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/arc.c

Re: ZFS l2arc broken in 10.3

2016-10-13 Thread Peter
Pete French wrote: Ok, thats a bit worry if true - but I can confirm that l2arc works fine under 10.3 on amd64, so what you say about cross-compling might be true. Am taking an inetrest in this as I have just dpeloyed a lot of machines which are going to be relying on l2arc working to get reasob

Re: Nightly disk-related panic since upgrade to 10.3

2016-10-20 Thread Peter
Andrea Venturoli wrote: Hello. Last week I upgraded a 9.3/amd64 box to 10.3: since then, it crashed and rebooted at least once every night. Hi, I have quite similar issue, crash dumps every night, but then my stacktrace is different (crashing mostly in cam/scsi/scsi.c), and my env is also q

Re: zfs, a directory that used to hold lot of files and listing pause

2016-10-20 Thread Peter
Eugene M. Zheganin wrote: Hi. I have FreeBSD 10.2-STABLE r289293 (but I have observed this situation on different releases) and a zfs. I also have one directory that used to have a lot of (tens of thousands) files. I surely takes a lot of time to get a listing of it. But now I have 2 files and a

Re: Dying jail

2016-10-28 Thread Peter
Eugene Grosbein wrote: Hi! Recently I've upgraded one of my server running 9.3-STABLE with jail containing 4.11-STABLE system. The host was source-upgraded upto 10.3-STABLE first and next to 11.0-STABLE and jail configuration migrated to /etc/jail.conf. The jail kept intact. "service jail star

10-STABLE zfs: strange memory stats

2016-11-24 Thread Peter
I observe a strange reading of the ZFS memory stats: Mem: 298M Active, 207M Inact, 446M Wired, 10M Cache, 91M Buf, 29M Free ARC: 339M Total, 8758K MFU, 43M MRU, 52K Anon, 35M Header, 40M Other Swap: 2441M Total, 402M Used, 2040M Free, 16% Inuse Usually I perceived the "Total" value being approx.

Rel.10.3 zfs GEOM removal and memory leak

2016-12-02 Thread Peter
Question: how to get ZFS l2arc working on FBSD 10.3 (RELENG or STABLE)? Problem using 10.3 RELENG: When ZFS is called the first time after boot, it will delete all device nodes of the drive carrying l2arc. ZFS itself will access it's slices by a "diskid/" string, but all other access is impossib

11.1-BETA1: lsof build failure

2017-06-14 Thread Peter
FYI, please check if reproducible and/or issue: Installed this from SVN & local build: 11.1-BETA1 FreeBSD 11.1-BETA1 #0 r319858:319867M ... amd64 Then tried to update lsof-4.90.f,8 and got this error: cc -pipe -DNEEDS_BOOL_TYPEDEF -DHASTASKS -DHAS_PAUSE_SBT -DHASEFFNLINK=i_effnlink -DHASF_V

Re: 11.1-BETA1: lsof build failure

2017-06-14 Thread Peter
Larry Rosenman wrote: Current lsof is 4.90M. Ack, that does. Larry Sysutils/lsof maintainer On 6/14/17, 8:13 AM, "Peter" wrote: FYI, please check if reproducible and/or issue: Installed this from SVN & local build: 11.1-BETA1 FreeBSD 11.1-BETA1 #0 r

11.1-RELEASE: new line containing garbage added to "top"

2017-07-28 Thread Peter
After upgrading to 11.1-RELEASE, a new line appears in the output of "top" which contains rubbish: > last pid: 10789; load averages: 5.75, 5.19, 3.89up 0+00:34:46 03:23:51 > 1030 processes:9 running, 1004 sleeping, 17 waiting > CPU 0: 16.0% user, 0.0% nice, 78.7% system, 4.9% interru

11.1-RELEASE: huge amount of l2_cksum_bad

2017-07-28 Thread Peter
After upgrading 11.0-RELEASE-p10 to 11.1-RELEASE I suddenly see a huge amount of kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.l2_cksum_bad (nearly 2% of kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.l2_hits). I have set > vfs.zfs.compressed_arc_enabled="0" in loader.conf. When removing this, the errors are gone. It seems that option is

Re: 11.1-RELEASE: new line containing garbage added to "top"

2017-07-28 Thread Peter
Glen Barber wrote: On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 03:24:50PM +0200, Peter wrote: After upgrading to 11.1-RELEASE, a new line appears in the output of "top" which contains rubbish: last pid: 10789; load averages: 5.75, 5.19, 3.89up 0+00:34:46 03:23:51 1030 processes:9 running, 100

Re: 11.1-RELEASE: new line containing garbage added to "top"

2017-07-28 Thread Peter
Glen Barber wrote: On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 03:24:50PM +0200, Peter wrote: After upgrading to 11.1-RELEASE, a new line appears in the output of "top" which contains rubbish: last pid: 10789; load averages: 5.75, 5.19, 3.89up 0+00:34:46 03:23:51 1030 processes:9 running, 100

Re: 11.1-RELEASE: new line containing garbage added to "top"

2017-07-28 Thread Peter
Glen Barber wrote: On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 07:04:51PM +0200, Peter wrote: Glen Barber wrote: On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 03:24:50PM +0200, Peter wrote: After upgrading to 11.1-RELEASE, a new line appears in the output of "top" which contains rubbish: last pid: 10789; load avera

11.1-RELEASE: panic! acl_from_aces: a_type is 0x4000

2017-08-01 Thread Peter
This is mostly for the search engines, so others running into it may find it easier to solve. While updating some ports via "portupgrade", I got this panic: Panic String: acl_from_aces: a_type is 0x4000 The phenomen was reproducible; it appeared while creating a backup package from the "gl

Re: a strange and terrible saga of the cursed iSCSI ZFS SAN

2017-08-05 Thread Peter
Eugene M. Zheganin wrote: Hi, On 05.08.2017 22:08, Eugene M. Zheganin wrote: pool: userdata state: ONLINE status: One or more devices has experienced an error resulting in data corruption. Applications may be affected. action: Restore the file in question if possible. Otherwise re

11.1-RELEASE: magic hosed, file recognition fails

2017-08-07 Thread Peter
Just found that my scripts that would detect image types by means of the "file" command do not work anymore in RELEASE-11. :( Whats happening in R11.1 is this: $ scanimage > /tmp/SCAN $ file /tmp/SCAN /tmp/SCAN: data While on R10 in looked this way, which appears slightly more useful: $ scani

errors from port make (analyzed: bug in pkg)

2017-08-12 Thread Peter
For a long time already, I get these strange messages whenever building a port: pkg: Bad argument on pkg_set 2143284626 Today I looked into it, and found it is easily reproducible: # pkg audit whatever pkg: Bad argument on pkg_set 2143284618 0 problem(s) in the installed packages found. # Loo

kern.sched.quantum: Creepy, sadistic scheduler

2018-04-03 Thread Peter
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 the scheduler, and decided it hates me. A closer look shows the behaviour as follows (single CPU): Lets run an I/O-active task, e.

Re: kern.sched.quantum: Creepy, sadistic scheduler

2018-04-04 Thread Peter
George Mitchell wrote: On 04/04/18 06:39, Alban Hertroys wrote: [...] That said, SCHED_ULE (the default scheduler for quite a while now) was designed with multi-CPU configurations in mind and there are claims that SCHED_4BSD works better for single-CPU configurations. You may give that a try,

Re: Try setting kern.sched.preempt_thresh != 0

2018-04-04 Thread Peter
Stefan Esser wrote: I'm guessing that the problem is caused by kern.sched.preempt_thresh=0, which prevents preemption of low priority processes by interactive or I/O bound processes. For a quick test try: # sysctl kern.sched.preempt_thresh=1 Hi Stefan, thank You, thats an interesting knob!

Re: kern.sched.quantum: Creepy, sadistic scheduler

2018-04-04 Thread Peter
Hi Alban! Alban Hertroys 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 the scheduler, and decided it hates me. If it hated you, it would behave much worse. Thats enco

Re: kern.sched.quantum: Creepy, sadistic scheduler

2018-04-04 Thread Peter
Andriy Gapon wrote: On 04/04/2018 03:52, Peter wrote: Lets run an I/O-active task, e.g, postgres VACUUM that would continuousely read from big files (while doing compute as well [1]): Not everyone has a postgres server and a suitable database. Could you please devise a test scenario that

Re: kern.sched.quantum: Creepy, sadistic scheduler

2018-04-04 Thread Peter
Andriy Gapon wrote: Not everyone has a postgres server and a suitable database. Could you please devise a test scenario that demonstrates the problem and that anyone could run? Alright, simple things first: I can reproduce the effect without postgres, with regular commands. I run this on my d

Re: kern.sched.quantum: Creepy, sadistic scheduler

2018-04-06 Thread Peter
Eugene Grosbein wrote: I see no reasons to use SHED_ULE for such single core systems and use SCHED_BSD. Nitpicking: it is not a single core system, it's a dual that for now is equipped with only one chip, the other is in the shelf. But seriously, I am currently working myself through the de

Re: kern.sched.quantum: Creepy, sadistic scheduler

2018-04-07 Thread Peter
Julian Elischer wrote: for a single CPU you really should compile a kernel with SMP turned off and 4BSD scheduler. ULE is just trying too hard to do stuff you don't need. Julian, if we agree on this, I am fine. (This implies that SCHED_4BSD will *not* be retired for an indefinite time!) I te

more data: SCHED_ULE+PREEMPTION is the problem (was: kern.sched.quantum: Creepy, sadistic scheduler

2018-04-07 Thread Peter
Hi all, in the meantime I did some tests and found the following: A. The Problem: --- On a single CPU, there are -exactly- two processes runnable: One is doing mostly compute without I/O - this can be a compressing job or similar; in the tests I used simply an endless-loop. Lets ca

Appendices - more data: SCHED_ULE+PREEMPTION is the problem

2018-04-10 Thread Peter
I forgot to attach the commands used to create the logs - they are ugly anyway: [1] dtrace -q -n '::sched_choose:return { @[((struct thread *)arg1)->td_proc->p_pid, stringof(((struct thread *)arg1)->td_proc->p_comm), timestamp] = count(); } tick-1s { exit(0); }' | sort -nk 3 | awk '$1 > 27 {$

Re: more data: SCHED_ULE+PREEMPTION is the problem

2018-04-10 Thread Peter
Hi Stefan, I'm glad to see You're thinking along similar paths as I did. But let me fist answer Your question straight away, and sort out the remainder afterwards. > I'd be interested in your results with preempt_thresh set to a value > of e.g.190. There is no difference. Any value above 7

Found the issue! - SCHED_ULE+PREEMPTION is the problem

2018-04-10 Thread Peter
Results: 1. The tdq_ridx pointer The perceived slow advance (of the tdq_ridx pointer into the circular array) is correct behaviour. McKusick writes: The pointer is advanced once per system tick, although it may not advance on a tick until the currently selected queue is empty. Since each th

Re: kern.sched.quantum: Creepy, sadistic scheduler

2018-04-18 Thread Peter
EBFE via freebsd-stable wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 09:05:48 -0700 Freddie Cash wrote: # Tune for desktop usage kern.sched.preempt_thresh=224 ​Works quite nicely on a 4-core AMD Phenom-II X4 960T Processor (3010.09-MHz K8-class CPU) running KDE4 using an Nvidia 210 GPU. For interactive tasks

Re: kern.sched.quantum: Creepy, sadistic scheduler

2018-04-18 Thread Peter
Hi all of You, thank You very much for Your commenting and reports! From what I see, we have (at least) two rather different demands here: while George looks at the over-all speed of compute throughput, others are concerned about interactive response. My own issue is again a little bit dif

Security patch SA-18:03 removed from 11.2 - why?

2018-07-08 Thread Peter
Release/update 11.1-p8 introduced so-called "mitigation for speculative execution vulnerabilities". In RElease 11.2 these "mitigation" have been removed. What is the reason for the removal, and specifically why is Security advisory 18:03 still mentioned in the release notes? Behaviour with 1

Re: Problems with pf + ftp-proxy on gateway

2006-03-28 Thread Peter
--- Renato Botelho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to use pf + ftp-proxy n a 6.1-PRERELEASE machine. > > I have this line on inetd.conf: > > ftp-proxy stream tcp nowait root/usr/libexec/ftp-proxy > > ftp-proxy -n > > And this lines on pf.conf: > > rdr on $int_if proto

Problems with make world on latest cvsup RELENG_4

2001-07-11 Thread peter
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Re: classes and kernel_cookie was Re: Specifying root mount options on diskless boot.

2011-01-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
ll about. I'm also happy to patch the code but feel that both PXE and BOOTP should be consistent and I'm not sure which is the correct approach. >BTW, it would be kind if the line in the pxeboot(8): > As PXE is still in its infancy ... >can be changed :-) Well, there ar

Re: sed is broken under freebsd?

2011-01-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
; and/or setting POSIXLY_CORRECT. This is part of the GNU/FSF "lockin" policy that encourages people to use their non-standard extensions to ensure that you don't have any choice other than to use their software. -- Peter Jeremy pgpd7zj0Dn2kG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: system crash during make installworld

2011-02-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
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Linker set issues with ath(4) HALs

2011-03-05 Thread Peter Jeremy
_hal", rather than the hardware-specific HAL fix the problem? -- Peter Jeremy pgpL0aiDu3NMN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Linker set issues with ath(4) HALs

2011-03-05 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2011-Mar-05 11:48:54 +0200, Kostik Belousov wrote: >On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 07:50:05PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: >> I have a Atheros AR5424 and so, based on the 8.2-STABLE i386 NOTES >> and some rummaging in the sources, I tried to build a kernel with: >> >&g

t_delta too short while trying to enable C3/TurboBoost

2011-04-19 Thread Peter Lai
Hello I'm trying to enable C3 states to allow TurboBoost on RELENG_8_2 and dmesg is throwing a lot of t_delta too short messages while using boot -v. This platform is 2x Xeon E5620 Gulftown quad core 2.4ghz CPUs on whatever boards Dell ships them on these days (probably Intel X58 derivative.) Kern

Re: Automatic reboot doesn't reboot

2011-05-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
ng http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2011-March/010862.html (note that mailman has split it into at least 3 threads). -- Peter Jeremy pgpQGveibDZlq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: current status of digi driver

2011-06-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
e have about 55 modem ports over ten 8-port Xr cards (PCI) that connect >remote sites via dial-up. I've only got access to PCI Xem cards that are used for serial console concentration so it would be useful for you to test both the Xr cards and dial-in support. -- Peter Jeremy pgpjTK58Q

Re: scp: Write Failed: Cannot allocate memory

2011-07-03 Thread Peter Ross
if nothing happens for hours the buffer isn't released.. My machine was still running 8.2-PRERELEASE so I am upgrading. I am happy to give information gathered on old/new kernel if it helps. Regards Peter Quoting "Scott Sipe" : On Jul 2, 2011, at 12:54 AM, jhell wrote:

Re: scp: Write Failed: Cannot allocate memory

2011-07-05 Thread Peter Ross
Hi all, just as an addition: an upgrade to last Friday's FreeBSD-Stable and to VirtualBox 4.0.8 does not fix the problem. I will experiment a bit more tomorrow after hours and grab some statistics. Regards Peter Quoting "Peter Ross" : Hi all, I noticed a similar problem l

Re: scp: Write Failed: Cannot allocate memory

2011-07-05 Thread Peter Ross
Scott On Jul 5, 2011, at 3:00 AM, Peter Ross wrote: Hi all, just as an addition: an upgrade to last Friday's FreeBSD-Stable and to VirtualBox 4.0.8 does not fix the problem. I will experiment a bit more tomorrow after hours and grab some statistics. Regards Peter Quoting "Pete

Re: scp: Write Failed: Cannot allocate memory

2011-07-05 Thread Peter Ross
Quoting "Jeremy Chadwick" : On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 12:23:39PM +1000, Peter Ross wrote: Quoting "Jeremy Chadwick" : >On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 01:03:20PM -0400, Scott Sipe wrote: >>I'm running virtualbox 3.2.12_1 if that has anything to do with it. >&

Re: scp: Write Failed: Cannot allocate memory

2011-07-05 Thread Peter Ross
Quoting "Jeremy Chadwick" : On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 01:07:53PM +1000, Peter Ross wrote: Quoting "Jeremy Chadwick" : >On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 12:23:39PM +1000, Peter Ross wrote: >>Quoting "Jeremy Chadwick" : >> >>>On Tue, Jul 05, 2011

Re: scp: Write Failed: Cannot allocate memory

2011-07-05 Thread Peter Ross
Quoting "Jeremy Chadwick" : On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 01:54:12PM +1000, Peter Ross wrote: Quoting "Jeremy Chadwick" : >On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 01:07:53PM +1000, Peter Ross wrote: >>Quoting "Jeremy Chadwick" : >> >>>On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 1

Re: scp: Write Failed: Cannot allocate memory

2011-07-06 Thread Peter Ross
Quoting "Peter Ross" : Quoting "Jeremy Chadwick" : On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 01:54:12PM +1000, Peter Ross wrote: Quoting "Jeremy Chadwick" : On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 01:07:53PM +1000, Peter Ross wrote: Quoting "Jeremy Chadwick" : On Wed, Jul 06, 20

Re: scp: Write Failed: Cannot allocate memory

2011-07-06 Thread Peter Ross
Quoting "Peter Ross" : Quoting "Peter Ross" : Quoting "Jeremy Chadwick" : On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 01:54:12PM +1000, Peter Ross wrote: Quoting "Jeremy Chadwick" : On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 01:07:53PM +1000, Peter Ross wrote: Quoting "Jeremy Cha

Re: scp: Write Failed: Cannot allocate memory

2011-07-10 Thread Peter Ross
Quoting "Scott Sipe" : On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 4:21 AM, Peter Ross wrote: Quoting "Peter Ross" : Quoting "Peter Ross" : Quoting "Jeremy Chadwick" : On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 01:54:12PM +1000, Peter Ross wrote: Quoting "Jeremy Chadwick&

Re: Status of support for 4KB disk sectors

2011-07-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
by the local OS rep (this was a Motorola SVR2). -- Peter Jeremy pgp9GiYFCh7fP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: scp: Write Failed: Cannot allocate memory - Problem found and solved (for me)

2011-07-19 Thread Peter Ross
Quoting "Peter Ross" : Quoting "Scott Sipe" : On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 4:21 AM, Peter Ross wrote: Quoting "Peter Ross" : Quoting "Peter Ross" : Quoting "Jeremy Chadwick" : On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 01:54:12PM +1000, Peter Ross wrote:

Re: SATA 6g 4-port non-RAID controller ?

2011-07-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
understand; I think I can recall reading about issues >with the 915 chipset. I agree a "check, don't assume" warning is >reasonable. I have also run into problems (wouldn't POST from memory) trying to use a NIC in the x16 slot of Dell GX620 boxes, which use an i945 chipset. -- Peter Jeremy pgpxVKRjcgfQY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ZFS directory with a large number of files

2011-08-02 Thread Peter Jeremy
(including Solaris) behave badly in this scenario but 4.4BSD derivatives will release unused space at the end of a directory and have smarts to more efficiently skip unused entries at the start of a directory. -- Peter Jeremy pgpmdeH6w8Ny5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Upgrade to 7.4

2011-08-16 Thread Peter Fraser
Hi All I just ran freebsd-update to upgrade from 7.0 to 7.4 I figured everything went ok. This is what I did. 1. freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.4-RELEASE 2. freebsd-update install 3. shutdown -r now 4. freebsd-update install 5. shutdown -r now The system came back up ok but now if I run another

Re: bad sector in gmirror HDD

2011-08-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
t for visible bad sectors (and Solaris UFS still reserves space for this, though I don't know if it still works) but the code was removed from FreeBSD long ago. AFAIR, wd(4) supported bad sectors but it was removed long ago. -- Peter Jeremy pgpzqxeB9mDZP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 32GB limit per swap device?

2011-08-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
pseudo-random pattern and then verify). -- Peter Jeremy pgpo8PkzVBfqo.pgp Description: PGP signature

How disable ntpd on IPv6 adresses?

2011-10-04 Thread Peter Olsson
udp6 0 0 *.123 *.* Thanks! -- Peter Olssonp...@leissner.se ___ 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: zfs parition probing causing long delay at BTX loader

2011-10-21 Thread Peter Maloney
> 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" -- Pete

Re: zfs parition probing causing long delay at BTX loader

2011-10-21 Thread Peter Maloney
First post failed, because the attachment was too big. (Or maybe you got a copy anyway since you are also in the To) Here it is again: On 10/21/2011 01:32 PM, Peter Maloney wrote: > On 10/21/2011 01:04 PM, Steven Hartland wrote: >> - Original Message - From: "Peter Malo

Re: zfs parition probing causing long delay at BTX loader

2011-10-21 Thread Peter Maloney
run script #!/usr/local/bin/bash # # Author: Peter Maloney # Purpose: try to crash ZFS by doing IO and renaming snapshots # # Result: it crashes every system I put it on, as long as there is a zvol in the pool dataset=tank count=0 nextprint=$(date +%s) while true; do echo Snapshot zfs

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

2011-10-23 Thread Peter Maxwell
On 21 October 2011 16:00, wrote: > > ...snip... > > Both connections were using the same (short) Cat5 cable, I tried two > different ports on the 10/100 hub, and other systems work OK on that > 10/100 hub. > > How do I get this interface to operate properly at 100MB? > > ...snip... "Auto-negotia

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