Re: 4.11 snapshots?

2006-05-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
better. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD Security Survey

2006-05-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
boxes against the risks of the update system being subverted. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Odd RS232 problem

2006-05-23 Thread Peter Jeremy
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. -- Peter Jeremy

Re: 6.1-stable crash

2006-05-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
tested in -current is supposed to be commited. There are also fairly regular postings pointing out that _all_ software has bugs. Some of these bugs will cause crashes. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: (bsd)tar is broken on 6.1

2006-05-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
could support it - though tar(5) states dates before the epoch are not handled consistently. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: How can I know which files a proccess is accessing?

2006-06-07 Thread Peter Jeremy
message but lsof needs to very closely match your running kernel: You should have the kernel sources installed when you build lsof. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: Error while 'make buildworld' in terminal.o

2006-06-07 Thread Peter Jeremy
and then running make clean. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: unmounting a filesystem safely that doesn't exist anymore

2006-06-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
of the superblock and is cleared when a filesystem is mounted. It will be set only if the filesystem is cleanly unmounted. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe

Re: Powerd: Adaptive mode causing a hard hang

2006-06-17 Thread Peter Jeremy
and have only had a single hang in the past four months. -- Peter Jeremy pgpHl4a1DWqvN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Effects of changing tar's -b option.

2006-06-25 Thread Peter Jeremy
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. -- Peter Jeremy pgpG7EqbGqXO2.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RELENG_6_1 unstable also ...

2006-06-25 Thread Peter Jeremy
a marginal DRAM cell. -- Peter Jeremy pgpQweltzDuE4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: What denotes a 'blocked' process?

2006-06-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
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. -- Peter Jeremy pgpMYVQSfkNHN.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2006-06-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
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. -- Peter Jeremy pgpDBoWJivs0T.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: em device hangs on ifconfig alias ...

2006-06-29 Thread Peter Jeremy
) is currently unsuitable for them. -- Peter Jeremy pgpCzMs0W9tP4.pgp Description: PGP signature

6.1-RELEASE won't boot on Compaq 1580

2006-06-30 Thread Peter Jeremy
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? -- Peter Jeremy pgpPxRvWikbIW.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 6.1-RELEASE won't boot on Compaq 1580

2006-07-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
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

Re: FreeBSD 6.0-6.1 binary upgrade script

2006-07-09 Thread Peter Jeremy
of your key and FreeBSD SO key (0xCA6CDFB2) that are counter-signed by each other? -- Peter Jeremy pgpi5U6qviUzV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: MySQL and default memory limits (mysqld: Out of memory)

2006-07-10 Thread Peter Jeremy
to it. This isn't quite enough if you have 4GB RAM. -- Peter Jeremy pgpPna19fy7xV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How to setup polling on 'bge' interface

2006-07-20 Thread Peter Jeremy
. (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). -- Peter Jeremy pgpMPGKdXFs4w.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Xen dom0 support?

2006-07-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
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 -- Peter Jeremy

Re: Memory management

2006-07-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
? Do you have any tools to monitor memory usage of processes ? ps(1) -- Peter Jeremy pgpYlM6L9c5ab.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: filesystem full error with inumber

2006-07-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
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? -- Peter Jeremy

Sound device reported but no devices created

2006-07-29 Thread Peter Jeremy
: 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? -- Peter Jeremy pgpjNBhOfnkYL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Sound device reported but no devices created

2006-07-29 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Sun, 2006-Jul-30 12:10:54 +0800, Ariff Abdullah wrote: On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 13:43:52 +1000 Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: Sound device reported but no devices created

2006-07-30 Thread Peter Jeremy
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. -- Peter Jeremy pgpmNw0jBuEPT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Help my Harddrive stopped working!

2006-08-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
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. -- Peter Jeremy pgpyWSowBGs8m.pgp Description

Re: FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE: Unexplained power off

2006-08-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
a serial console and logging it on another box to see if anything is written to the console before it dies. -- Peter Jeremy pgpuBZZd1VJU8.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE: Unexplained power off

2006-08-16 Thread Peter Jeremy
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. -- Peter Jeremy pgpBkquO0QkGW.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE: Unexplained power off

2006-08-16 Thread Peter Jeremy
, 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. -- Peter Jeremy pgpokDio7rvl9.pgp

Re: TOP shows above 100% WCPU usage

2006-08-18 Thread Peter Jeremy
situation is a flag to toggle between the two approaches, together with two different titles to make it clear which is being used. -- Peter Jeremy pgpi7kgmNNaFt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Unexplained kernel panic on 5-STABLE (now in 6-STABLE)

2006-08-18 Thread Peter Jeremy
this error from an IDE disk when the CD-ROM slave on the same bus was flaky. -- Peter Jeremy pgph8WO3y2Wlu.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 16M RAM enough for FreeBSD 6.1?

2006-08-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
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. -- Peter Jeremy pgp8Sla873Ncg.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 16M RAM enough for FreeBSD 6.1?

2006-08-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Sun, 2006-Aug-27 11:00:30 +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 17:13:29 +1000 Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: NFS locking: lockf freezes (rpc.lockd problem?)

2006-08-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
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. -- Peter Jeremy

Re: NFS locking: lockf freezes (rpc.lockd problem?)

2006-08-29 Thread Peter Jeremy
PCATCH isn't specified on the sleep. -- Peter Jeremy pgpWFCSDFpOmv.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RELENG_6 does not compile

2006-09-23 Thread Peter Jeremy
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. -- Peter

Re: panic unloading bluetooth module

2006-09-23 Thread Peter Jeremy
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. -- Peter Jeremy

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
is always triggered. -- Peter Jeremy pgpXrDVFGe4sP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD

2006-10-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
Though this still turns a single write into 2 reads and 2 writes. Basically: Don't use RAID-5. -- Peter Jeremy pgpWeb9QHY05E.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Problems with 5.x

2005-07-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
) of the errors you are getting. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: init: can't exec getty 'none' for port /dev/console: No such file or directory

2005-07-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
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. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable

Re: init: can't exec getty 'none' for port /dev/console: No such file or directory

2005-07-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
Please don't top-post. On Fri, 2005-Jul-01 20:17:47 +0300, Bashar wrote: Peter Jeremy wrote: 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

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
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. -- Peter

Re: 4-5 libmilter.a install failure

2005-08-09 Thread Peter Jeremy
the directory from the first installworld, you can always copy mtree (any any other over-written utilities) back where they started. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: Memory requirements between releases

2005-08-13 Thread Peter Jeremy
one or two gettys. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 6.0-BETA2 as reliable webserver?

2005-08-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
to 6.x will be far easier than moving from 4.x to 6.x. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HZ option [Was: Re: custom kernel + if_xl + error]

2005-09-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
/statistics clock then the statistics become unreliable (and a process can cheat the scheduler by appearing to use no CPU time). -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe

Re: Can't reboot into single mode

2005-09-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
(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? -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: NFS directory copies cause crash

2005-09-16 Thread Peter Jeremy
line within ffs_dirpref() to locate which divide is failing. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ep0 Interrupt Storm, 3Com EtherLink III (PnP)

2005-09-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
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. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing

Re: High interrupts w/ Cisco 350 card

2005-09-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
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 -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing

Re: High interrupts w/ Cisco 350 card

2005-09-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
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

Re: 6-Release Beta 5: extremely slow installation in VMWare 4.52

2005-09-23 Thread Peter Jeremy
printf messages won't be helping performance. [1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ctm.html -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe

Re: 5.3 - 5.4 breaks ATA (Intel ICH2)

2005-09-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
). 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)? -- Peter Jeremy

Re: HEADSUP: bridge(4) removed from HEAD

2005-09-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
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 -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: new FreeBSD-webpage

2005-10-06 Thread Peter Jeremy
browser. On the downside, I notice it now uses cookies. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: new FreeBSD-webpage

2005-10-07 Thread Peter Jeremy
of an exaggeration. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: math/grace port: libXcursor.so.1.0 not found ??

2005-10-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
to dlopen libm to complain about an X library. You might like to try asking the port maintainer (see the Makefile). -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any

Re: compile error - bus error

2005-11-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
you have problems compiling anything else (buildworld in particular). -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: compile error - bus error

2005-11-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
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. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 Released

2005-11-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
to use 7-bit ASCII which doesn't include accents. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Nogobble, nogobble

2005-11-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
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. -- Peter Jeremy

Re: 5.4 - 6.0 buildworld failure

2005-11-05 Thread Peter Jeremy
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? -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: USB Card Reader Permissions

2005-11-08 Thread Peter Jeremy
googling turned up a site with a tutorial (unfortunately, I didn't keep a record). -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Swapfile problem in 6? (was: 6.0: during kernel compilation, 'kernel linking' freezes PC)

2005-11-14 Thread Peter Jeremy
on /var. 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 -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Swapfile problem in 6?

2005-11-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
/kerneldebug-gdb.html If in doubt, post the output from the above commands here and someone will hopefully provide further input. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe

Re: Swapfile problem in 6?

2005-11-16 Thread Peter Jeremy
options BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Swapfile problem in 6?

2005-11-17 Thread Peter Jeremy
} depend in ${MAKE} buildkernel -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Recurring problem: processes block accessing UFS file system

2005-11-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
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). -- Peter Jeremy

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 cron is running on GMT

2005-11-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
? -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 cron is running on GMT

2005-11-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
machdep.wall_cmos_clock. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cpu-timer rate

2005-12-02 Thread Peter Jeremy
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. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable

Re: cpu-timer rate

2005-12-06 Thread Peter Jeremy
LAPIC at hz*3 but this was later changed to hz*2 to reduce overheads. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cpu-timer rate

2005-12-07 Thread Peter Jeremy
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. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing

Re: cpu-timer rate

2005-12-07 Thread Peter Jeremy
in VMWare are a 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). -- Peter Jeremy

Re: Upgrading 5.3 6.0 buildworld failure now in libmagic

2005-12-08 Thread Peter Jeremy
of end user documentation. Are you volunteering? -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 6.0 random freezes

2005-12-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
problem will help make 6.x more stable. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 6.0 random freezes

2005-12-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
/developers-handbook/kerneldebg-gdb.html -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 6.0 random freezes

2005-12-13 Thread Peter Jeremy
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. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: 6.0 random freezes

2005-12-13 Thread Peter Jeremy
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 vmcore.0). -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: 6.0 random freezes

2005-12-14 Thread Peter Jeremy
] # gdb kernel.debug /var/crash/vmcore.1 (kgdb) kldsyms (kgdb) where Hopefully this will decode #7 and you can provide a few more frames. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Odd performance problems after upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0-Stable

2005-12-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
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. -- Peter Jeremy

Re: shmget errors

2005-12-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
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. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd

Re: kernel cpu entries

2005-12-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
mention actual times, is the difference statistically significant? (see src/tools/tools/ministat) -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: HEADS UP: Release schedule for 2006

2005-12-16 Thread Peter Jeremy
to 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)). -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: indefinite wait buffer: Does this indicate hardware issue?

2005-12-16 Thread Peter Jeremy
user after boot). If you suspect retries are a problem, monitor the I/O rate with iostat or systat and see if it suddenly drops. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: HEADS UP: Release schedule for 2006

2005-12-17 Thread Peter Jeremy
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. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable

Re: FreeBSD Update is the binary update solution [Re: HEADS UP: Release schedule for 2006]

2005-12-17 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Sat, 2005-Dec-17 18:19:25 -0700, Scott Long wrote: 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

Re: NFS UDP mounts on RELENG_6?

2005-12-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
/fragmented UDP packets? NFS typically sends 8K packets which are split into 6 UDP packets. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SOLVED] Re: NFS UDP mounts on RELENG_6?

2005-12-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
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. -- Peter Jeremy

Re: 6.x from i386 to amd64

2006-11-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
. This would be the best of both worlds. If I had any free time, I would even work on this myself. -- Peter Jeremy pgpmuXQVJO6OO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 6.x from i386 to amd64

2006-11-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
harder (bacause they need to understand they need to look in .../lib32 ISO .../lib). -- Peter Jeremy pgp6zCSH8jPxZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 6.x from i386 to amd64

2006-11-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
that you've found such a big difference. -- Peter Jeremy pgpXS8PUKwh0c.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Problems unmounting/fssyncking extern UFS filesystem

2006-11-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
data. 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). -- Peter Jeremy pgpxS6pQQXEBP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Mounting smbfs as non-root

2006-12-13 Thread Peter Jeremy
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? -- Peter Jeremy

Re: Mounting smbfs as non-root

2006-12-20 Thread Peter Jeremy
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. -- Peter Jeremy pgpYpqqilDYW5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Cached file read performance with 6.2-PRERELEASE

2006-12-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
) and find where the time is really spent. -- Peter Jeremy pgpwMiCYrtVYB.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Acer Aspire WLMi 5102 with AMD Turion 64 X2 system hanging with powerd on 6.2-RC1 and 6.2-PRERELEASE

2006-12-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
. -- Peter Jeremy pgpLYEeqY23X0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Possibility for FreeBSD 4.11 Extended Support

2006-12-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
/commercial/consult_bycat.html and find someone to provide whatever level of support you want. -- Peter Jeremy pgp7DHGh8ozjT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: burncd 'blank' not terminating ?

2006-12-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
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 -- Peter Jeremy pgpWc5G1GzHIB.pgp Description: PGP signature

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