lockups/freezes/pauses - 8.1-release/amd64 + XEN

2010-12-20 Thread Alex
- The XENHVM options commented out causes the VM not to boot (seems to hang after saying it's found a generic block device attached to the xenpci bus (virtual hard disk) and that it's adding it as ad0. The calcru: runtime messages are rather puzzling, perhaps this is related t

Re: lockups/freezes/pauses - 8.1-release/amd64 + XEN

2010-12-20 Thread Alex
Found something interesting from an email sent by the daily cron: Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Idrop Opkts Oerrs Coll re0 1500 00:16:3e:f0:8b:6c 160763 0 0 12053 0 12024 Uptime is about a day, 12024 collisions. That couldnt be good! Houston we have a problem. Now whether this is a bug

Help! Network issue with freebsd + Xen

2011-01-25 Thread Alex
Hi guys, I am having an issue with high network interface collisions when running freebsd under XEN (I am using freebsd as my OS for a VPS). I have filed a PR at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=154236 and have had some discussion with the driver maintainer, we're both at a loss as

Re: Help! Network issue with freebsd + Xen

2011-01-26 Thread Alex
is 154236. Would Greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance. On 26/01/11 17:59, Janne Snabb wrote: On Wed, 26 Jan 2011, Alex wrote: I am having an issue with high network interface collisions when running freebsd under XEN (I am using freebsd as my OS for a VPS). [..] whether they have seen

Re: Help! Network issue with freebsd + Xen

2011-01-26 Thread Alex
It's would be a logical conclusion that it's an issue with the "re" driver then. I cant get my 8.2-RC1 XENHVM kernel to boot so had to resort to GENERIC, the HVM kernel just panics and I remember seeing something along the lines of "do something smart?" does this patch you mention fix that? O

Re: xn0: Error 2 parsing device/vif/0/mac [PATCH]

2011-01-27 Thread Alex
I've applied this patch, I now get past the ethernet issue, and have run into another problem, see screenshot: http://ahhyes.net/xen1.jpg any ideas? ___ freebsd-xen@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-xen To uns

Re: xenbusb_nop_confighook_cb timeout

2011-01-27 Thread Alex
partitioning, I am not sure what you mean. I have this configured as a VPS so I want to avoid doing anything that may destroy data on the disk. On 28/01/11 06:29, Nick Sayer wrote: On Jan 27, 2011, at 1:43 AM, Alex wrote: I've applied this patch, I now get past the ethernet issue,

Re: xenbusb_nop_confighook_cb timeout

2011-01-27 Thread Alex
Hi Nick, Would you mind showing me a copy of your dmesg for the XENHVM kernel? I just want to make a comparison with mine. Perhaps this subject may get someone else's attention, otherwise I'll file a PR. :) On 28/01/2011 9:40 AM, Nick Sayer wrote: On Jan 27, 2011, at 1:29 PM,

Re: xenbusb_nop_confighook_cb timeout

2011-01-30 Thread Alex
Hi Justin, I am using FreeBSD as the OS on a VPS (Xen HVM). Do you think the VPS provider will provide that information without too much drama? On 29/01/11 10:26, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: On 1/27/2011 2:29 PM, Alex wrote: I've had that geom warning before on real hardware and it&#x

Re: xenbusb_nop_confighook_cb timeout

2011-01-30 Thread Alex
This problem seems to have disappeared, the only thing i have done in the config at my VPS provider was mount a cdrom image.. On 28/01/11 08:29, Alex wrote: I've had that geom warning before on real hardware and it's never stopped it from working. In my screenshot, it appears th

terrible performance with xn0 interface and PF

2011-01-30 Thread Alex
Hi guys, I managed to get the XENHVM kernel working, obviously I had to adjust my pf.conf as the network interface is now xn0 instead of re0. All i did was edit the config, and replace all instances of re0 with xn0. The performance seems to be aweful. I was wondering why network connectivity

Re: kern/154428: xn0 network interface and PF - Massive performance drop

2011-01-31 Thread Alex
The following reply was made to PR kern/154428; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Alex To: bug-follo...@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: Re: kern/154428: xn0 network interface and PF - Massive performance drop Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 14:29:58 +1100 Confirmed problem still evident in 8.2 RC3 (did a

Re: kern/154428: [xen] xn0 network interface and PF - Massive performance drop

2011-02-12 Thread alex
The following reply was made to PR kern/154428; it has been noted by GNATS. From: alex To: Cc: Subject: Re: kern/154428: [xen] xn0 network interface and PF - Massive performance drop Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 14:01:51 +1100 Hi, Any update on this? I've had to disable external connec

Re: kern/154428: [xen] xn0 network interface and PF - Massive performance drop

2011-02-12 Thread alex
The following reply was made to PR kern/154428; it has been noted by GNATS. From: alex To: Cc: Subject: Re: kern/154428: [xen] xn0 network interface and PF - Massive performance drop Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 15:21:20 +1100 Fixed by net.inet.tcp.tso: 1 -> 0 but why?? found this by tr

Re: kern/154428: xn0 network interface and PF - Massive performance drop

2011-02-12 Thread alex
The following reply was made to PR kern/154428; it has been noted by GNATS. From: alex To: Cc: bug-follo...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/154428: xn0 network interface and PF - Massive performance drop Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 15:45:28 +1100 Beats me. Perhaps someone can look into it as i am

Re: kern/154428: xn0 network interface and PF - Massive performance drop

2011-02-12 Thread Alex
On 02/01/11 16:40, Alex wrote: The following reply was made to PR kern/154428; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Alex To: bug-follo...@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: Re: kern/154428: xn0 network interface and PF - Massive performance drop Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 14:29:58 +1100 Confirmed problem

Re: kern/154302: [xen] [panic] [patch] xn0: Error 2 parsing device/vif/0/mac

2011-02-13 Thread Alex
On 02/13/11 19:40, Nick Sayer wrote: The following reply was made to PR kern/154302; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Nick Sayer To: bug-follo...@freebsd.org, sn...@epipe.com Cc: Subject: Re: kern/154302: [xen] [panic] [patch] xn0: Error 2 parsing device/vif/0/mac Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 00:36:

Re: kern/154428: xn0 network interface and PF - Massive performance drop

2011-02-14 Thread Alex
I stumbled across PR 135178, perhaps there is some relationship with these PR's, though the reporter of that PR has not responded in some time. On 02/13/11 15:31, Colin Percival wrote: On 02/12/11 20:18, Alex wrote: Fixed by net.inet.tcp.tso: 1 -> 0 but why?? found this by trial

Re: kern/154428: xn0 network interface and PF - Massive performance drop

2011-02-14 Thread Alex
The following reply was made to PR kern/154428; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Alex To: Cc: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org, bug-follo...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/154428: xn0 network interface and PF - Massive performance drop Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 23:07:29 +1100 I stumbled across PR 135178

Re: kern/154302: [xen] [panic] [patch] xn0: Error 2 parsing device/vif/0/mac

2011-02-14 Thread Alex
The following reply was made to PR kern/154302; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Alex To: bug-follo...@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: Re: kern/154302: [xen] [panic] [patch] xn0: Error 2 parsing device/vif/0/mac Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 23:15:25 +1100 Thirded. My Xen VPS is unusable without this

Re: XenServer?

2011-02-19 Thread Alex
I mentioned it and found TSO to be the cause. if someone else has seen this issue too, would you mind getting them to comment on PR 154428? Thanks! On 02/19/11 02:10, Ivan Voras wrote: On 18 February 2011 15:06, Hugo Silva wrote: Performance seems to be acceptable. There's a gotcha with PF,

xennet_get_responses: too many frags

2011-02-20 Thread Alex
Hi, Just started seeing this: xennet_get_responses: too many frags 7 > max 5 xennet_get_responses: too many frags 6 > max 5 xennet_get_responses: too many frags 6 > max 5 xennet_get_responses: too many frags 6 > max 5 xennet_get_responses: too many frags 6 > max 5 xennet_get_responses: too many

Clock drift issues

2011-05-29 Thread Alex
/rc.d/ntpdate start Setting date via ntp. 30 May 14:37:41 ntpdate[8207]: step time server 203.171.85.237 offset 958.736122 sec srv# date Mon May 30 14:37:43 EST 2011 - Is there any fix for this? Thanks, Alex. ___ freebs

Re: Clock drift issues

2011-05-30 Thread Alex
Hi, The clock is Sync'd though, it should *stay* correct, right? So there is a bug? On Mon, 30 May 2011 09:39:06 +0100, Vincent Hoffman wrote: Try running ntpd rather than one off ntpdate? I have plenty of physical machines that need this anyway. Vince On 30/05/2011 05:41, Alex wrote

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Re: kern/154428: [xen] xn0 network interface and PF - Massive performance drop

2013-07-15 Thread alex
able to replicate this on an 8.4 XENHVM kernel -- perhaps > this has now been fixed? > > When 9.2-RELEASE drops we should test there as well before closing > this out. Hi Mark, You're certain TSO is enabled for the NIC? ie: Not disabled via ifconfig or

FreeBSD on domU, now

2009-04-22 Thread Alex Urbanowicz
from grounds up without having to keep a separate FreeBSD box for building bootstrap? TIA Alex ___ freebsd-xen@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-xen To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-xe

my experience with FreeBSD Xen guest

2009-06-17 Thread Alex Urbanowicz
n /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. Also, during the mentioned buildworld the following syscall error happened: lock order reversal: 1st 0xc393b81c snaplk (snaplk) @ /usr/home/alex/bsd/sys/kern/vfs_vnops.c:295 2nd 0xc441037c ufs (ufs) @ /usr/home/alex/bsd/

Re: my experience with FreeBSD Xen guest

2009-06-17 Thread Alex Urbanowicz
On śro, 2009-06-17 at 14:27 +0200, Kai Mosebach wrote: > Hi Alex, > > do you run 32bit on a 32 or 64bit dom0? Maybe you should try a more recent > version of Xen (RHEL has 3.1) > This repo might help you : The host is x86_64. > http://www.gitco.de/linux/x86_64/centos/5/rpm

xen and zfs: no boot because of changed device

2013-02-11 Thread Alex Povolotsky
ve. Am I bound to UFS on xen? And is it possible to use DVD-ROM in xen with XENHVM kernel? Alex ___ freebsd-xen@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-xen To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-xen-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"