Re: carp0 interface goes down on 6.2-PRERELEASE

2006-10-12 Thread Tom Judge
Ari Suutari wrote: Hi, I started experimenting with carp, in order to replace freevrrpd stuff we are currently using. I'm running quite recent version of RELENG_6 (compiled this week). I was able to configure carp ok, but for some odd reason the interface goes down by itself shortly after it

Re: bce issues still outstanding

2006-10-12 Thread Tom Judge
Scott Long wrote: Bill Moran wrote: I've copied many of the people who I've been working with directly on this issue. Can anyone provide a status update on these problems? Discussion seems to have stopped since Oct 5. Any new patches to test? I'm actively working on fixing the driver

Re: carp0 interface goes down on 6.2-PRERELEASE

2006-10-13 Thread Tom Judge
Ari Suutari wrote: Ari Suutari wrote: I have now tested with real hardware (ethernet is fxp0) and under VmWare (ethernet is lnc0). Same problem on both. I'll have to correct this. Carp works with fxp0. Problem is only under vmware, which makes me more and more suspect that

Re: When will the new BCE driver in HEAD be incorporated into RELENG_6?

2006-10-18 Thread Tom Judge
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 06:15:14PM +0100, Jason Thomson wrote: Using the driver from HEAD* in the latest RELENG_6 didn't fix our problems. We could still trigger the Watchdog timeout when copying a local file to an NFS mounted filesystem (UDP mount, GigE speeds). It

Re: Gmirror question

2006-10-25 Thread Tom Judge
Guido van Rooij wrote: Is it possible to use gmirror to mirror a single BSD partition? If not: is it possible with other tools? -Guido ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe,

Re: Gmirror question

2006-10-25 Thread Tom Judge
Guido van Rooij wrote: On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 11:07:14AM +0100, Tom Judge wrote: Guido van Rooij wrote: Is it possible to use gmirror to mirror a single BSD partition? If not: is it possible with other tools? Yes it is possible, I found this site had very good examples

Re: Gmirror question

2006-10-25 Thread Tom Judge
Guido van Rooij wrote: On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 11:34:25AM +0100, Tom Judge wrote: Guido van Rooij wrote: On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 11:07:14AM +0100, Tom Judge wrote: Guido van Rooij wrote: Is it possible to use gmirror to mirror a single BSD partition

Re: SAS Raid - mfi driver

2006-10-31 Thread Tom Judge
Fredrik Widlund wrote: Ivan Voras wrote: Several: - are there cache differences between the controllers (amount of memory, cache policy)? Default settings on both. - how does writing directly to the device (bypassing file system) compare? Drives are four seagate 7200.10

FreeBSD 6.1 IPsec Path MTU Discovery

2006-11-07 Thread Tom Judge
Hi, I am seeing some problems with some problems with IPsec encrypted gif tunnels and path mtu discovery. It seems that the router with the IPsec tunnel sends an ICMP need to frag packet with the next hop mtu set to 0. This causes ssh to retransmit a the same packet without reducing the

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 IPsec Path MTU Discovery

2006-11-09 Thread Tom Judge
Johann Hugo wrote: On Tuesday 07 November 2006 19:39, Tom Judge wrote: I'm seeing the same problem on my gif tunnel. For an interim work around you can reduce the MTU size between Box1 and Box2 e.g route change Box2 -mtu 1200. After it's starts working you can change it back to 1500 en

Re: adaptec utilities on amd64?

2006-11-17 Thread Tom Judge
Scott Long wrote: Vivek Khera wrote: Some time long ago, someone posted a very short C program that probes the LSI controller and spits out this kind of output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] amrstat Drive 0:34.18 GB, RAID1 writeback,no-read-ahead,no-adaptative-io optimal Drive 1: 102.54 GB, RAID1

Removing unused core components. (Disabled in make.conf)

2007-01-17 Thread Tom Judge
Hi, I have the following options in /etc/make.conf: NO_PROFILE=true NO_SENDMAIL=true NO_GAMES=true NO_I4B=true NO_ATM=true NO_INET6=true NO_BLUETOOTH=true NO_IPFILTER=true NO_RCMDS=true NO_KERBEROS=true However after a make buildworld installworld the utilities and libs associated with these

Re: Boot prompt for Intel AMT

2007-03-06 Thread Tom Judge
Artem Kuchin wrote: I hope some people will understand what i am talking about, because the technology, i think, is not very popular, but can come VERY handy. Intel AMT Serial over LAN (SOL, why is it called 'over LAN' if it is really 'OVER IP'?) allows to boot into BIOS of a remote machine

Re: Boot prompt for Intel AMT

2007-03-06 Thread Tom Judge
Artem Kuchin wrote: Artem Kuchin wrote: snip/ We have a number of Dell PowerEdge 2950's that we boot using the built in SOL, which does run over IP as we use it across a routed VPN backbone (server in the data center, console in the office). We have found that the IPMI serial port is

Re: Xen Dom0, are we making progress?

2007-03-13 Thread Tom Judge
Nikolas Britton wrote: On 3/12/07, Andras Gót [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: On 3/12/07, Ronald Klop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:16:32 +0100, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is FreeBSD making any progress in Xen Dom0 / Intel VT support? I'd

NFS Mount problems

2007-03-28 Thread Tom Judge
Hi, I have a HA NFS server setup, but I am having some problems with mounting the NFS shares. I have had to patch mountd to allow it to be configured with an IP to bind to, its a bit of quick hack (no docs, ipv6 etc...) but solves the problem for us where mountd sends the packets from

Re: [SOLVED] NFS Mount problems

2007-03-28 Thread Tom Judge
Tom Judge wrote: Hi, I have a HA NFS server setup, but I am having some problems with mounting the NFS shares. I have had to patch mountd to allow it to be configured with an IP to bind to, its a bit of quick hack (no docs, ipv6 etc...) but solves the problem for us where mountd sends

Re: ggate + gmirror write performance woes

2007-04-05 Thread Tom Judge
Dmitriy Kirhlarov wrote: On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 10:58:56AM -0400, Sven Willenberger wrote: I am trying to set up a HA type system involving two identical boxes and have gone through the following to set up the systems: Slave server: ggated -R 196608 -S 196608 (exporting /dev/amrd1 )

Repeatable crash with mkdir causing a divide by zero error

2007-04-06 Thread Tom Judge
Hi, I have seen some problems with a new file system that I created yesterday in that I could repeatedly get the system to crash in with a mkdir. Here is the disk information mfid1: MFI Logical Disk on mfi1 mfid1: 5716992MB (11708399616 sectors) RAID volume 'Images' is optimal I created a

Re: ggate + gmirror write performance woes

2007-04-06 Thread Tom Judge
Sven Willenberger wrote: On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 17:38 +0100, Tom Judge wrote: Dmitriy Kirhlarov wrote: On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 10:58:56AM -0400, Sven Willenberger wrote: I am trying to set up a HA type system involving two identical boxes and have gone through the following to set up

Re: Repeatable crash with mkdir causing a divide by zero error

2007-04-07 Thread Tom Judge
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 11:05:22AM +0100, Tom Judge wrote: Hi, I have seen some problems with a new file system that I created yesterday in that I could repeatedly get the system to crash in with a mkdir. Here is the disk information mfid1: MFI Logical Disk on mfi1

Possible mtu bug in vlan or bce

2007-04-16 Thread Tom Judge
Hi, I have seen some strange behaviour today with VLAN interfaces on bce interfaces. I am running 6.2 Release on i386. I have a bce interface setup on a gig-e network with an MTU of 8192 i attach a vlan interface to this and chnage the vlan if mtu to 1500 as it has 100Mbit devices on it.

Re: Dell SAS5 Performance Issue

2007-04-17 Thread Tom Judge
Richard Tector wrote: Ivan Voras wrote: Richard Tector wrote: I'm suffering from very slow write performance on a Dell PowerEdge 860 with the SAS5/IR controller (mpt driver) running either 6.2-RELEASE or 6.2-STABLE with sources from yesterday. The controller hosts 2 Western Digital 320GB

6.2-STABLE (i386) Repeating crash (supervisor read, page not present)

2007-04-23 Thread Tom Judge
Hi, Recently I have noticed that one of our Dell PE1950's has been crashing a lot with the following reason supervisor read, page not present. The system runs 6.2 Release under i386. I have attached 2 back traces, and I still have both cores if any more information is required. Any light

Re: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode

2007-04-23 Thread Tom Judge
Kai wrote: On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 04:14:23PM +0200, Christian Walther wrote: On 19/04/07, Kai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 12:53:32PM +0200, Kai wrote: Hello all, We're running into regular panics on our webserver after upgrading from 4.x to 6.2-stable:

Re: 6.2-STABLE (i386) Repeating crash (supervisor read, page not present)

2007-04-23 Thread Tom Judge
Michael Proto wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 01:24:52PM +0100, Tom Judge wrote: Hi, Recently I have noticed that one of our Dell PE1950's has been crashing a lot with the following reason supervisor read, page not present. The system runs 6.2 Release under i386. I

Re: Dell SAS5 Performance Issue

2007-04-25 Thread Tom Judge
Matthew Jacob wrote: I've been trying to get one in my lab. I also am completely saturated with two jobs and a new infant (which is why I'm responding to this at 0100) and was trying to get a box in my lab that evidenced te behaviour. If I get stuck when I actually get time to chase this, I'll

Re: EM and TSO

2007-05-16 Thread Tom Judge
Jack Vogel wrote: I introduced a change yesterday that limited TSO to PCI Express adapters, I did this more for avoidance rather than a bug fix, and I'm not 100% sure its the right thing, so I thought I would poll everyone, do you have a PCI-X adapter and are using TSO without problems and wish

Re: EM and TSO

2007-05-16 Thread Tom Judge
Sorry sent this to the wrong list, should have been [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry for the spam. Tom Judge wrote: Jack Vogel wrote: I introduced a change yesterday that limited TSO to PCI Express adapters, I did this more for avoidance rather than a bug fix, and I'm not 100% sure its the right

Re: make mplayer failed

2007-05-19 Thread Tom Judge
Sorry about the top post but this has nothing to do with your problem. Please stop hijacking threads. Both of you last 3 messages that should have been new threads (Install SCSI over ATAPI fro DVD, xfce4 broke after pkgdb -Ff and this thread) have hijacked totally unrelated threads. Can I

Re: mysql frequently crash on 6.2

2007-05-19 Thread Tom Judge
Albert Wong wrote: SNIP [Usually it only shows about three or four of these repeated errors.] I am using FreeBSD 6.2 and MySQL 4.1. I am trying to use the libthr threading mechanism through the libmap.conf setting, as to earlier in this thread post, as a possible fix. [Though, I don't know if

Re: minimizing downtime on upgrades? (for example: mysql 4.1 - 5.0 or php)

2007-05-22 Thread Tom Judge
Chuck Swiger wrote: On May 22, 2007, at 12:03 PM, Olivier Mueller wrote: So I can only do that after the installation of mysql50-client, which means all the services will have to be stopped during the compilation of mysql50-server, which usually takes some time. Isn't there a better way? How

Re: installworld breaks

2007-05-25 Thread Tom Judge
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cvsup and built around 20.30 BST cd /usr/src; make -f Makefile.inc1 install === share/info install === include install creating osreldate.h from newvers.sh touch: not found ***error code 127 Stop in /usr/src/include ***error code 1 I tried cd usr.bin/touch make make

Problems with BCE network adapter (Dell PE2950)

2007-06-07 Thread Tom Judge
Hi, I am seeing some problems with one of my Dell PowerEdge 2950's (running RELENG_6_2) on board bce NICs. The interface seems to crash with the following errors, to which the fix seems to be and ifconfig bce0 down; ifconfig bce0 up: Jun 7 12:20:29 gonzo kernel: bce0: discard frame w/o

Re: Strange problem with skype on RELENG_6 KERNEL since the end of may.

2007-06-19 Thread Tom Judge
Tom Evans wrote: On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 23:40 +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:29:09 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A RELENG_6 kernel from May 21 works fine with skype but boot a newer kernel and skype seems to be blocking port 80. Apache logs show

Re: Dell PERC5/i SAS5/5IR - RAID monitoring

2007-07-17 Thread Tom Judge
Michael Worobcuk wrote: Hi, I am trying to set up my first webserver. I bought a Dell Poweredge 860, provided with a SAS5/IR RAID-Controller. The problem is now, that I cannot find software, that monitors the state of my disks. I already tried megarc from the ports but all I get is a short

Re: Dell PERC5/i SAS5/5IR - RAID monitoring

2007-07-18 Thread Tom Judge
Michael Worobcuk wrote: Am 18.07.2007 um 01:27 schrieb Tom Judge: Michael Worobcuk wrote: Hi, I am trying to set up my first webserver. I bought a Dell Poweredge 860, provided with a SAS5/IR RAID-Controller. The problem is now, that I cannot find software, that monitors the state of my

Re: Dell PERC5/i SAS5/5IR - RAID monitoring

2007-07-20 Thread Tom Judge
Michael Worobcuk wrote: Tom Judge wrote: As for performance issues with the SAS5/i, there is a problem in the controller. A work arround was created by Scott Long which created a sysctl that could be set to cause the controller to turn on the on drive write cache's. These changes where

Re: Dell PERC5/i SAS5/5IR - RAID monitoring

2007-07-20 Thread Tom Judge
Michael Worobcuk wrote: Am 21.07.2007 um 00:18 schrieb Tom Judge: Michael Worobcuk wrote: Tom Judge wrote: As for performance issues with the SAS5/i, there is a problem in the controller. A work arround was created by Scott Long which created a sysctl that could be set to cause

Re: A little story of failed raid5 (3ware 8000 series)

2007-08-25 Thread Tom Judge
Tom Samplonius wrote: - Artem Kuchin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... But i don't understand how and why it happened. ONly 6 hours ago (a night before) all those files were backed up fine w/o any read error. And now, right after replacing the driver and starting rebuild it said that there are

Re: wpa_supplicant features and compile options

2007-09-06 Thread Tom Judge
Mark Andrews wrote: On 12/23/-58 20:59, Greg Rivers wrote: div class=moz-text-flowedI connect to certain wireless networks that require the EAP_GTC and EAP_OTP features in wpa_supplicant. These features are not compiled into wpa_supplicant by default. Using the patch below works great, but

Re: geli and SMP problems?

2007-10-25 Thread Tom Judge
Krassimir Slavchev wrote: SNIP Any ideas how to debug this? SNIP Have you looked at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html Tom ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: botched RELENG_6 buildworld (ncurses)

2007-10-25 Thread Tom Judge
Have you read the thread HEADSUP: don't upgrade to RELENG_6 now (7 is fine)? I would suggest you do as the fix has been posted by Rong-en Fan 8 hours ago. Tom Robin P. Blanchard wrote: Any suggestions how to get past this (now make itself it broken) ? Buildworld/installworld with this

Re: SAS5IR performance issue with Dell 860

2007-11-25 Thread Tom Judge
Espen Tagestad wrote: Hi, We recently bought 3 new Dell 860 servers with the onboard SAS5/IR SATA RAID-controller. They seem to be quite well spec'ed servers with management and everything - but I am experiencing av major performance issue with the disc i/o. On write I get at max 7-8MB/sec,

Re: SAS5IR performance issue with Dell 860

2007-11-25 Thread Tom Judge
Espen Tagestad wrote: Tom Judge wrote: Espen Tagestad wrote: We recently bought 3 new Dell 860 servers with the onboard SAS5/IR SATA RAID-controller. They seem to be quite well spec'ed servers with management and everything - but I am experiencing av major performance issue with the disc i/o

Re: bootless!

2009-10-17 Thread Tom Judge
Look at the footers of this email for how to remove yourself. Swearing will not get you any where, and is likely to result in people not helping you. Clifford, Ken wrote: Take me off this fucking list!@ From: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org

Re: Regression in dhclient?

2009-10-19 Thread Tom Judge
Kevin Oberman wrote: I just noticed that my dhclient.conf file seems to be ignored in 8.0. Worked fine in 7.2. interface ath0 { send host-name slan.XXX.YYY; prepend domain-name XXX.YYY ; append domain-name-servers 198.128.W.ZZ; } Your interface is wrong, it should be wlanX not athX

Re: Nagios + 6.3-RELEASE == Hung Process

2008-01-02 Thread Tom Judge
Michael Butler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc G. Fournier wrote: G'day ... Yesterday, I setup nagios to do some system monitoring ... installed the latest version from ports into a jail, so that I could easily move it around between machines as I upgrade, without

Re: Nagios + 6.3-RELEASE == Hung Process

2008-01-02 Thread Tom Judge
Jarrod Sayers wrote: On 03/01/2008, at 1:56 AM, Tom Judge wrote: I have also seen this issue, but have always put it down to the way that we manage our nagios deployments with cfengine. I will try to deploy this change and monitor for the problem to see if it persists. I hope I can confirm

Re: What current Dell Systems are supported/work

2008-01-08 Thread Tom Judge
Richard Bates wrote: Sorry for the repost... I don't think the first one posted.. posted to freebsd.stable, freebsd-current, Freebsd-hardware I checked the hardware in the online documentation manual/hardware It only lists the bits and peices of the machine say the hard drive controller and

Re: Dell PERC6?

2008-01-17 Thread Tom Judge
Ferdinand Goldmann wrote: Hi! I am in the process of buying new Dell hardware, mainly the 2950 III. According to various postings I found, the PERC6/i Controller _should_ work with FreeBSD 6.3. Does anyone successfully use a 2950 III with PERC6/i controller and can confirm this? Sorry if

Re: Backup solution suggestions [ggated]

2008-01-18 Thread Tom Judge
Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: On Jan 18, 2008 9:11 AM, Johan Ström [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your no,barely, bad hell no seems to fit pretty good.. I did some testing during the night with the above (non-production) setup. What I did was doing some rsyncing over the night: while true ; do

Re: Dell Perc 6 disk geometry problem with RAID5 (both 6.3 final and 7.0 RC1)

2008-01-20 Thread Tom Judge
Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 04:48:56PM +, David Wood wrote: [ambrisko@ and scottl@ added to CCs] Hi there, In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Aldas Nabazas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes We bought a new Dell PowerEdge 2950III with Perc 6/i and have the disk geometry problem using

Re: Latest Stable FreeBSD release and is it supported on dell 2950

2008-01-23 Thread Tom Judge
Vivek Khera wrote: On Jan 23, 2008, at 12:30 AM, navneet Upadhyay wrote: SNIP 6. Which platform/machine which BSD supports. Is Dell 2950 ok I've only ever had one compatibility issue with a Dell, and that was easily fixed by teaching the bge ethernet driver the name of the chipset used

Re: Well-supported SAS RAID card for 6.3?

2008-01-27 Thread Tom Judge
Josh Endries wrote: Hi Scott, Scott Long wrote: LSI, Highpoint, Areca, 3ware, and Adaptec are all well supported in FreeBSD. Are they? I don't see any reference to the LSI8708, LSI or LSI1068 in the man pages I can find...does anyone use these? Some people have problems with the PERC

Re: Crashing repeatedly: 6.2-RELEASE-p5 and MySQL 5.0.41

2008-02-04 Thread Tom Judge
Primeroz lists wrote: Hi all, we are experiencing repeated crash on a Dell PowerEdge 2950 (rev 1 or 2). FBSD release is 6.2-RELEASE-p5 , AMD64. 2xXeon QuadCore and 8G of Ram. SNIP $ sudo kgdb /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PE2950/kernel.debug vmcore.2 SNIP This back trace will be useless, I

RELENG_7_0 buildworld failure on read only source tree

2008-03-07 Thread Tom Judge
Hi, We have been building RELENG_6_x source trees from read only NFS file systems for well over a year now with out any problems. However I have just tried to do make buildworld on a RELENG_7_0 source tree from yesterday and it failed to build with the following error: ===

Re: RELENG_7_0 buildworld failure on read only source tree

2008-03-09 Thread Tom Judge
Xin LI wrote: Tom Judge wrote: Hi, We have been building RELENG_6_x source trees from read only NFS file systems for well over a year now with out any problems. However I have just tried to do make buildworld on a RELENG_7_0 source tree from yesterday and it failed to build

Using FreeBSD Update to deploy system updates from custom builds

2009-01-13 Thread Tom Judge
Hi, I was wondering if anyone was using freebsd-update to manage deployment of custom FreeBSD builds to there systems. Here is the scenario, I have 2 binary build servers at the moment (one for i386 and one for amd64) and currently we stage the deployments of updates on NFS servers at each

Re: Using FreeBSD Update to deploy system updates from custom builds

2009-01-15 Thread Tom Judge
-server/ reading through some of the scripts might give some clues. Regards, Daniel Bond. Thanks for the info, I will look into this over the next few weeks and see what I can come up with. Regards Tom Judge On Jan 14, 2009, at 6:05 AM, Tom Judge wrote: Hi, I was wondering if anyone

Re: Increasing number of requests for jumbo clusters denied in netstat -m

2009-11-03 Thread Tom Judge
Tim Chen wrote: My machine is an IBM HS21 blade server and the NIC is bce. bce1: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-SX (B2) mem 0xd800-0xd9ff irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci6 miibus1: MII bus on bce1 bce1: Ethernet address: 00:1a:64:34:f2:fa bce1: [ITHREAD] bce1: ASIC (0x57081021); Rev

UFS Panic on 7.1 - ffs_valloc: dup alloc

2009-11-30 Thread Tom Judge
Hi, I had a panic today when someone created a symlink over NFS to a UFS file system. There seem to be 2 open PRs on this already: kern/122380 kern/133980 Any ideas on a fix? I have not tried to repeat this crash but I have saved a snapshot of the file system so I can test if needed. I

Re: UFS Panic on 7.1 - ffs_valloc: dup alloc

2009-12-01 Thread Tom Judge
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jaakko Heinonen wrote: On 2009-11-30, Tom Judge wrote: kern/122380 kern/133980 Any ideas on a fix? panic: ffs_valloc: dup alloc You may be hitting UFS2 32-bit inode limit bug. See this analysis by Bruce Evans: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi