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risks of the update system being subverted.
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On Tue, 2006-May-23 19:23:20 +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
I would hope that 9600 baud wouldn't be *too* fast for a 2GHz CPU :(
That depends on what else is sharing the IRQ. PLIP can give you
10's of msec of latency. PIO disks can also destroy latency as
can NE2000-style NICs.
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commited.
There are also fairly regular postings pointing out that _all_
software has bugs. Some of these bugs will cause crashes.
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could support it -
though tar(5) states dates before the epoch are not handled
consistently.
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message but lsof needs to very closely match
your running kernel: You should have the kernel sources installed
when you build lsof.
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of the superblock and
is cleared when a filesystem is mounted. It will be set only if the
filesystem is cleanly unmounted.
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a single hang in the past four months.
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should look at increasing
net.inet.tcp.sendspace and maybe net.inet.tcp.recvspace, or using
an intervening program on hostA that does its own re-buffering.
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these counters onto ps output. State 'D' and
'W' should catch most of them. You might find it useful looking
through the MWCHAN column for anything looking suspicious.
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between the northbridge and
the CPU (including the cache). Some caches (eg Alpha) have parity to
help here. Mainframes typically have ECC or parity on _all_ datapaths
(including through the ALU) to catch those errors.
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models with 4.11 so I wasn't expecting
any problems.
Before I start re-writing boot0.S, does anyone have any suggestions on
how to debug this or what I've missed?
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On Sat, 2006-Jul-01 08:02:56 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
I've just acquired a couple of old Compaq Armada laptops. I can
successfully install 6.1-RELEASE but the system won't boot from
the HDD: The MBR menu displays but pressing F1 (the FreeBSD
partition) just beeps. Pressing F3 (the Compaq
of your key and FreeBSD SO key (0xCA6CDFB2) that are counter-signed
by each other?
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if you have 4GB RAM.
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. (My testing
also suggests that I don't really need to do any tweaking because
the limiting factor is the gigabit interfaces rather than the V20z).
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On Sat, 2006-Jul-22 06:56:44 -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote:
Does FreeBSD support Xen 3 dom0 yet???
It looks like work is in progress. See http://www.fsmware.com/
What's the current status of domU support?
See http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/OSCompatibility
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Do you have any tools to monitor memory usage of processes ?
ps(1)
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On Wed, 2006-Jul-26 13:07:19 -0400, Sven Willenberger wrote:
One of my machines that I recently upgraded to 6.1 (6.1-RELEASE-p3) is also
exhibiting df reporting wrong data usage numbers.
What did you upgrade from?
Is this UFS1 or UFS2?
Does a full fsck fix the problem?
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: ESS 18xx DSP on sbc0
I suspect the problem is that sbc0 is not triggering attachment of
pcm0 but I'm uncertain why. Does anyone have any suggestions?
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On Sun, 2006-Jul-30 12:10:54 +0800, Ariff Abdullah wrote:
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I've been trying to get sound working on a Compaq Armada 1580 with
a recent 6-STABLE. With devices 'sound' and 'snd_sbc' built into
the kernel and no hints, I get
are not the clearest here.
snd_ess(4) implies that all three drivers are needed but snd_sbc(4)
has no reference to it - which is what confused me.
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in the box? I'd check all the cables on the
off-chance that one is lose as well as re-seating the controller. If
none of this helps, I suspect you have a choice of restoring from
backups or using the services of one of the data recovery companies.
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on another box to see if anything is written to the console before
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great idea, I'll try it. Do I need a null-model cable to do it?
Assuming you are going to join two normal computer serial ports
together, yes.
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, I've had hardware fail _during_ an upgrade.
The first time it was obvious because the system crashed. The
second time, a PCMCIA modem just stopped working at exactly the
same time as I upgraded my kernel. That took a lot of head-
scratching before I twigged.
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situation is a flag to toggle between the two
approaches, together with two different titles to make it clear which
is being used.
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this error from an IDE disk when the CD-ROM slave on the same
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and need a minimum of 24MB last I checked.
Once you have FreeBSD installed, it will limp along in 16MB (though
not very happily). I strongly suggest you find a SODIMM to expand it.
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On Sun, 2006-Aug-27 11:00:30 +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
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The CD-ROMs create a RAMdisk and need a minimum of 24MB last I
checked.
And I guess that the floppies work in the same way?
Yes.
Once you have FreeBSD
On Sun, 2006-Aug-27 22:55:55 +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote:
On server,
tcpdump -p -s 1500 -w file -i iface host client host ip
Recent tcpdumps appear to want the ethernet frame size rather than
the MTU: Specifying 1500 appears to truncate full-size frames.
Try '-s 1516' instead.
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PCATCH isn't
specified on the sleep.
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the same
place, or does it move around? The latter is virtually certainly a
hardware problem.
Are you using non-standard make options?
Note that just because memtest didn't find a RAM problem doesn't
guarantee that your RAM is good. Pattern sensitive errors can
be very difficult to trigger.
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I see (which is possibly related) is that if ng_ubt
is not loaded, I get a single ugen1 attached message. If ng_ubt is
loaded, I get two identical messages:
ubt0: Broadcom HP integrated Bluetooth module, rev 1.10/0.17, addr 2
though the rest of the probe/attach looks sane.
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Though this still turns a single write into 2 reads and 2 writes.
Basically: Don't use RAID-5.
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unknown off secure
The only change you can validly make to this line is to change 'secure'
to 'insecure' but I suspect you've changed 'off' to 'on'.
Try turning the console back off and sending a SIGHUP to init.
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On Fri, 2005-Jul-01 20:17:47 +0300, Bashar wrote:
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You should have the following line in /etc/ttys:
console noneunknown off secure
True its set to on, but i believe this change was requested from the DC
to enable the remote
bears
any resemblance to the BIOS and ACPI in the supposedly identical
motherboard that I buy this week.
As far as the vendor is concerned, as long as it (sort of) works on
Windoze when you use the vendor-supplied driver then the vendor has
fulfilled their fit-for-use responsibility.
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always copy mtree (any any other over-written utilities) back where
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to 6.x will be far easier than moving
from 4.x to 6.x.
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/statistics clock then the statistics become unreliable (and
a process can cheat the scheduler by appearing to use no CPU time).
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(from memory) into the boot menu?
When you boot single user, what are console messages between Mounting
root... and the can't exec getty message?
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the interrupt request. I've also seen it when
a device configured for polling (and hence without an installed
interrupt handler) decides to raise an interrupt and gets upset at
the interrupt not being handled.
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Series Wireless LAN Adapter at port 0xc000-0xc03f irq
11 function 0 config 5 on pccard0
an0: got RSSI - dBM map
an0: supported rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
an0: Ethernet address: 00:07:0e:b9:2e:d5
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On Thu, 2005-Sep-22 07:13:29 -0400, Peter D. Quilty wrote:
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 18:01 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
Have you tried anything other that FreeBSD 5.4 on your Tecra?
No, I haven't. It is my primary laptop and I would prefer not to have
to load another OS merely for testing.
It would
printf messages won't be helping performance.
[1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ctm.html
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You shouldn't have two masters on ata0. I hope that's a typo.
How far through the boot process do you get? I gather the loader runs
successfully and loads the kernel but the kernel can't find ad0. Does
it find the controller (ata0 or whatever)?
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notice.
There's no reason why the handbook can't mention both (or, preferably,
all three) bridging devices - it just needs to mention that if_bridge
doesn't exist in 5.x
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to dlopen libm to complain about
an X library.
You might like to try asking the port maintainer (see the Makefile).
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it rebooted.
That sounds very much like hardware. I'd check the hardware before
anything else - faulty fans, loose cards/cables, give memtest86 a run.
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doesn't include accents.
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with the
CISCO approach is that the configuration is defined as a set of
differences from a default configuration but (AFAIK) the default
configuration isn't formally documented (ie in IOS config format).
FreeBSD does document the defaults.
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is this error occurring during the buildworld? (What are the
latest lines beginning '' and '===')
What non-standard bits do you have in your command line, /etc/make.conf
or MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX?
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googling turned up a site
with a tutorial (unfortunately, I didn't keep a record).
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However, exactly the same deadlock occurs:
Have you pre-allocated the swapfile or is it being allocated as necessary?
If the latter, try dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1m count=128
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If in doubt, post the output from the above commands here and someone
will hopefully provide further input.
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in 4.x). In my case, the trigger is OpenOffice.org - one
of the offending processes is almost always OOo/program/pagein.
Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get to the bottom of this (and
my son isn't happy that OOo keeps deadlocking on him).
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at a
high rate and uses two different divisors for the soft clocks (/2 for
tick, /3 for profhz and /15 for stathz). Larger divisors are better
for utilisation statistics but increase clock interrupt overheads.
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to VMware
clients. And as someone stated VMware plays fast and loose with
clocks.
I'm sure I'm not the only end-user who would appreciate it if the core team
This is nothing to do with the core team.
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minority of a minority,
I run FreeBSD in VMware at work. After installing vmware-tools and
telling VMware to use the host clock I haven't seen any clock problems
(definitely in 5.x and I don't recall seeing any in 4.x or 6.x).
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Are you volunteering?
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tee live traffic into both systems and just junk
the responses from your test bed, or record live traffic and
replay it into your test bed.
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file doesn't match your kernel.
Are you running kgdb with the same kernel as was running when the system
crashed? (If you don't have that kernel handy, you might as well delete
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# gdb kernel.debug /var/crash/vmcore.1
(kgdb) kldsyms
(kgdb) where
Hopefully this will decode #7 and you can provide a few more frames.
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code then generic_*() for Athlon
or P4 CPUs, we should implement it. If there isn't, we can get a
(slight) performance improvement by removing the indirection through
*_vector - I suspect that CPUs can't predict/pipeline an indirect
branch as well as a direct branch.
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that by looking at
the output of ``ipcs -p'': If the process IDs listed under
the CPID and LPID columns don't exist, chances are that the
memory segment isn't in use anymore.
Looking at NATTACH in ipcs -a is a better approach.
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mention actual times, is the difference statistically
significant? (see src/tools/tools/ministat)
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ATAPI devices so the decision was made to default to PIO4 in 5.x. You can
set hw.ata.atapi_dma to 1 in 5.x if you want to (see acd(4)).
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suspect retries are a problem, monitor the I/O rate with iostat or
systat and see if it suddenly drops.
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and can't explain exactly what they did -
without putting them off FreeBSD.
I think FreeBSD Update shows the way forward but IMHO there needs to
be an official binary update tool accessible from www.freebsd.org.
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Peter Jeremy wrote:
I think FreeBSD Update shows the way forward but IMHO there needs to
be an official binary update tool accessible from www.freebsd.org.
FreeBSD Update was written by, and is continuously maintained by the
actual FreeBSD
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which are split into 6 UDP packets.
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On Mon, 2005-Dec-19 01:37:44 -0800, Jon Dama wrote:
I haven't see any evidence that suggests using NFS with UDP is actually
useful. IMO, its a false economy.
On modern hardware anyway. Keep in mind that NFS was written to run
on a 25MHz (or so) 68020.
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This would be the best of both worlds. If I had any free time, I
would even work on this myself.
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harder
(bacause they need to understand they need to look in .../lib32
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that you've found such a big difference.
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As an experiment, I suggest creating or deleting a FS tree on an
otherwise idle system and looking at the 'dirtybuf' value reported by
'systat -v 1'. See how many sync's and how long it takes to get it to
blank (0).
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at the kern.iconv MIB tree which
confirms the above but doesn't get any me any closer to a solution.
This is the same on two 6.2-PRERELEASE systems and I get the same
behaviour on an oldish 7-current system. Does anyone have any
suggestions on what is going wrong?
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this and similar problems. I think the solution is to make
it (at least optionally) setuid on FreeBSD. I have this on my todo list
but haven't gotten around to it yet.
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) and find where the time is really spent.
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to provide whatever level of support you want.
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drives (or via atapicam) and uses an obscure device naming approach.
I am also more comfortable making /dev/acd0 mode 0666 than doing the
same to /dev/pass0
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