Re: ZFS on Root

2011-07-06 Thread Todor Dragnev
On 23.06.2011, at 16:08, Chris Brennan wrote: * Peter Toth free...@snap.net.nz [2011-06-23 22:54:59 +1200]: Did you set the mount point properly for your ZFS root? My previous post was intended as an example only, you need to tailor it to your setup. Also, you can use mfsbsd for

Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread O. Hartmann
When performing an update on the ports tree via portsnap fetch update or when checking out (or) large Subversion repositories or when copying large data files (~ 50 to 250 GB in size, results from numerical modelings) or when compiling world, FreeBD 9.0 and FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE tend to freeze

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Christer Solskogen
2011/7/6 O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de: having performance issues Could you post /etc/sysctl.conf and /boot/loader.conf? Also, the output of uname -a on all machines would be nice. And since you don't use GENERIC, could you also tell us what difference your setup is from a GENERIC

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread arrowdodger
2011/7/6 O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de When performing an update on the ports tree via portsnap fetch update or when checking out (or) large Subversion repositories or when copying large data files (~ 50 to 250 GB in size, results from numerical modelings) or when compiling world,

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Alexander Best
On Wed Jul 6 11, arrowdodger wrote: 2011/7/6 O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de When performing an update on the ports tree via portsnap fetch update or when checking out (or) large Subversion repositories or when copying large data files (~ 50 to 250 GB in size, results from

Re: Tool to show the recent disk space consumers?

2011-07-06 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Kurt Buff wrote: On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 12:37, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: Hi, I hit this problem periodically when a lot of disk space is gone and it's hard to tell where did it go. Once it was thunderbird writing huge index file as a consequence of some bug, on another occasion it was

Re: ipfw: getsockopt(IP_FW_ADD): Invalid argument

2011-07-06 Thread Unga
--- On Tue, 7/5/11, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: Does anybody successfully use the ipfw fwd? If so in which FreeBSD version? Not I, but many do.  On the face of it the rule looks correct.  Do you have a TCP service running on localhost:1234 ?  Does wlan0 exist?  You may do

Re: ipfw: getsockopt(IP_FW_ADD): Invalid argument

2011-07-06 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 6 Jul 2011, Unga wrote: On Tue, 7/5/11, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: Does anybody successfully use the ipfw fwd? If so in which FreeBSD version? Not I, but many do.  On the face of it the rule looks correct.  Do you have a TCP service running on

Perl Problem After Upgrade to 5.12.4

2011-07-06 Thread Tim Daneliuk
Ideas anyone? I am trying to rebuild SpamAssassin after a perl upgrade to 5.12.4 and get this (I DID run perl-after-upgrade prior to this): === p5-Encode-Detect-1.01 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.4/Module/Build.pm - not found ===Verifying install for

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread O. Hartmann
On 07/06/11 12:37, arrowdodger wrote: 2011/7/6 O. Hartmannohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de When performing an update on the ports tree via portsnap fetch update or when checking out (or) large Subversion repositories or when copying large data files (~ 50 to 250 GB in size, results from numerical

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Steve Kargl
On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 05:29:24PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: I use SCHED_ULE on all machines, since it is supposed to be performing better on multicore boxes, but there are lots of suggestions switching back to the old SCHED_4BSD scheduler. If you are using MPI in numerical codes, then

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Hartmann, O.
On 07/06/11 18:28, Steve Kargl wrote: On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 05:29:24PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: I use SCHED_ULE on all machines, since it is supposed to be performing better on multicore boxes, but there are lots of suggestions switching back to the old SCHED_4BSD scheduler. If you are

p5-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.56_1 and p5-ExtUtils-Install-1.54_1 conflict

2011-07-06 Thread n dhert
Hi, p5-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.56_1 and p5-ExtUtils-Install-1.54_1 conflict both telling that the other one should be deleted. So which one of the two to keep so far, I opted for keeping p5-ExtUtils-Install-1.54_1, deleting p5-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.56_1, is this wise or should it be the other way

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Adrian Chadd
Has anyone re-run those IO benchmarks? Something smells fishy there.. (with the benchmarking.) adrian 2011/7/6 O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de: On 07/06/11 12:37, arrowdodger wrote: 2011/7/6 O. Hartmannohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de When performing an update on the ports tree via

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Steve Kargl
On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 06:38:23PM +0200, Hartmann, O. wrote: On 07/06/11 18:28, Steve Kargl wrote: On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 05:29:24PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: I use SCHED_ULE on all machines, since it is supposed to be performing better on multicore boxes, but there are lots of suggestions

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 20110706170132.ga68...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu, Steve Kargl w rites: I periodically ran the same type test in the 2008 post over the last three years. Nothing has changed. I even set up an account on one node in my cluster for jeffr to use. He was too busy to investigate at

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Steve Kargl
On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 05:05:41PM +, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message 20110706170132.ga68...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu, Steve Kargl w rites: I periodically ran the same type test in the 2008 post over the last three years. Nothing has changed. I even set up an account on one

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Steve Kargl
On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 03:18:35PM -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: Hi, On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Steve Kargl s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu wrote: On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 05:29:24PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: I use SCHED_ULE on all machines, since it is supposed to be performing

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Arnaud Lacombe
Hi, On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Steve Kargl s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu wrote: On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 05:29:24PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: I use SCHED_ULE on all machines, since it is supposed to be performing better on multicore boxes, but there are lots of suggestions switching

Re: p5-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.56_1 and p5-ExtUtils-Install-1.54_1 conflict

2011-07-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 06/07/2011 17:40, n dhert wrote: p5-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.56_1 and p5-ExtUtils-Install-1.54_1 conflict both telling that the other one should be deleted. So which one of the two to keep so far, I opted for keeping p5-ExtUtils-Install-1.54_1, deleting p5-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.56_1, is this

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Hartmann, O.
On 07/06/11 21:36, Steve Kargl wrote: On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 03:18:35PM -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: Hi, On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Steve Kargl s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu wrote: On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 05:29:24PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: I use SCHED_ULE on all machines, since

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 07/06/11 13:00, Steve Kargl wrote: On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 05:05:41PM +, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message20110706170132.ga68...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu, Steve Kargl w rites: I periodically ran the same type test in the 2008 post over the last three years. Nothing has changed.

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Oliver Pinter
On 7/6/11, Hartmann, O. ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: On 07/06/11 21:36, Steve Kargl wrote: On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 03:18:35PM -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: Hi, On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Steve Kargl s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu wrote: On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 05:29:24PM

Re: ZFS on Root

2011-07-06 Thread Chris Brennan
* Todor Dragnev todor.drag...@gmail.com [2011-07-06 10:43:17 +0300]: Inline reply: Hi Chris I just installed ZFS on ROOT on two 1TB SATA disks: First you need to download freebsd 8.2 memstick release http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.2R/announce.html I did this via VirtualBox first,

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Adrian Chadd
Offer a bounty for getting it fixed? thanks, Adrian On 7 July 2011 05:00, Hartmann, O. ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: On 07/06/11 21:36, Steve Kargl wrote: On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 03:18:35PM -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: Hi, On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Steve Kargl

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Steve Kargl
On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 09:17:51AM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: Offer a bounty for getting it fixed? steve == ENOMONEY jeffr == ENOTIME And, 4BSD works. -- Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 7 July 2011 09:51, Steve Kargl s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu wrote: On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 09:17:51AM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: Offer a bounty for getting it fixed? steve == ENOMONEY jeffr == ENOTIME And, 4BSD works. I meant it as a more general observation. If something doesn't

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Steve Kargl
On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 10:39:00AM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: On 7 July 2011 09:51, Steve Kargl s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu wrote: On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 09:17:51AM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: Offer a bounty for getting it fixed? steve == ENOMONEY jeffr == ENOTIME And, 4BSD

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Arnaud Lacombe
Hi, On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote: On 7 July 2011 09:51, Steve Kargl s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu wrote: On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 09:17:51AM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: Offer a bounty for getting it fixed? steve == ENOMONEY jeffr == ENOTIME