Re: Specify swap device priority in fstab?

rry about the markup too much, I'll clean it up if necessary. > > -uwe While it may not be the most obvious, the required information is already in swapctl(8) (at least in -current) as far as I can tell. -- Brad Spencer - b...@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org

Re: Specify swap device priority in fstab?

ile as swap): /swap/swap.1noneswapsw,priority=2 0 0 -- Brad Spencer - b...@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org

Re: Minor sysupgrade issue

specially with pkgsrc. -- Brad Spencer - b...@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org

Re: Upgrading a 90s laptop from 5.1 to 10 -- no FD or CDROM

hard drive in it that could not be upgraded as its physical size was not standard. It used a cardbus card for networking. There was just enough room for the newer kernel and modules in / but nothing else and no other room for the sets anywhere. I used a thumb drive to transport the sets into the system. Updated in one leap more or less... -- Brad Spencer - b...@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org

Re: What to do about "WARNING: negative runtime; monotonic clock has gone backwards"

other stuff. I don't know if the patch caused the trouble, or if 10.99.6 has trouble for me in a general sense (or if I am not allowed any more to make IFQ_MAXLEN larger than the default). I won't have time to mess with this again for a while, but the results were not encouraging. --

Re: What to do about "WARNING: negative runtime; monotonic clock has gone backwards"

Taylor R Campbell writes: > [1:text/plain Hide] > >> Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2023 16:02:17 -0400 >> From: Brad Spencer >> >> Taylor R Campbell writes: >> >> > So I just added a printf to the kernel in case this jump happens. Can >> > you upda

Re: What to do about "WARNING: negative runtime; monotonic clock has gone backwards"

stile was shown). I also probably should have mentioned that the DOM0 (NOT the DOMU) that the target system is running under has HZ set to 1000. This is mostly to help keep the ntpd and chronyd happy on the Xen guests. If the DOM0 is left at 100 the drift can be too much on the DOMU systems. Been running like this for a long time... -- Brad Spencer - b...@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org

Re: What to do about "WARNING: negative runtime; monotonic clock has gone backwards"

Taylor R Campbell writes: >> Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2023 14:56:53 -0400 >> From: Brad Spencer >> >> Taylor R Campbell writes: >> >> > Can you please try running with the attached patch and share the >> > warnings it produces? Should give slightly

Re: What to do about "WARNING: negative runtime; monotonic clock has gone backwards"

nt and NetBSD 10.x and/or perhaps rebuilding cscope indexes. I am getting the general sense that some of the trigger for this problem may be disk activity, but I can't really prove it. -- Brad Spencer - b...@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org

Re: What to do about "WARNING: negative runtime; monotonic clock has gone backwards"

Taylor R Campbell writes: >> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2023 07:42:04 -0400 >> From: Brad Spencer >> >> dtrace: invalid probe specifier sdt:xen:hardclock:jump { @ = quantize(arg1 - >> arg0) } tick-10s { printa(@) }: probe description :::tick-10s does not match >> a

Re: What to do about "WARNING: negative runtime; monotonic clock has gone backwards"

Taylor R Campbell writes: >> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2023 07:42:04 -0400 >> From: Brad Spencer >> >> dtrace: invalid probe specifier sdt:xen:hardclock:jump { @ = quantize(arg1 - >> arg0) } tick-10s { printa(@) }: probe description :::tick-10s does not match >> a

Re: What to do about "WARNING: negative runtime; monotonic clock has gone backwards"

Taylor R Campbell writes: >> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2023 11:17:30 -0400 >> From: Brad Spencer >> >> On the system that I have that exhibits the negative runtime problem, it >> may very well be the case that hardclocks are missed for 4.3sec. The >> system has to

Re: What to do about "WARNING: negative runtime; monotonic clock has gone backwards"

in this case, is a rate.. that is, there are continuous missed hardclocks even while idle. If the system is freshly rebooted, the vmstat will not show anything until after the system has been busy for a while and likewise the dtrace is nearly free of events. -- Brad Spencer - b...@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org

Re: What to do about "WARNING: negative runtime; monotonic clock has gone backwards"

if any). -- Brad Spencer - b...@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org

Re: What to do about "WARNING: negative runtime; monotonic clock has gone backwards"

Taylor R Campbell writes: >> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2023 21:50:26 -0400 >> From: Brad Spencer >> >> With a DOMU kernel compiled with KDTRACE_HOOKS I get the following with >> either of those dtrace probes on the DOMU: >> >> dtrace -n 'sdt:xen:

Re: What to do about "WARNING: negative runtime; monotonic clock has gone backwards"

Taylor R Campbell writes: >> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2023 21:50:26 -0400 >> From: Brad Spencer >> >> With a DOMU kernel compiled with KDTRACE_HOOKS I get the following with >> either of those dtrace probes on the DOMU: >> >> dtrace -n 'sdt:xen:

Re: What to do about "WARNING: negative runtime; monotonic clock has gone backwards"

Taylor R Campbell writes: >> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2023 21:50:26 -0400 >> From: Brad Spencer >> >> With a DOMU kernel compiled with KDTRACE_HOOKS I get the following with >> either of those dtrace probes on the DOMU: >> >> dtrace -n 'sdt:xen:

Re: What to do about "WARNING: negative runtime; monotonic clock has gone backwards"

Taylor R Campbell writes: >> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2023 21:50:26 -0400 >> From: Brad Spencer >> >> With a DOMU kernel compiled with KDTRACE_HOOKS I get the following with >> either of those dtrace probes on the DOMU: >> >> dtrace -n 'sdt:xen:

Re: What to do about "WARNING: negative runtime; monotonic clock has gone backwards"

Taylor R Campbell writes: >> Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2023 14:34:56 -0400 >> From: Brad Spencer >> >> Taylor R Campbell writes: >> >> > Can you either: >> >> Yes, I can perform as much of this as needed after I get some other >> stuff in lif

Re: What to do about "WARNING: negative runtime; monotonic clock has gone backwards"

Taylor R Campbell writes: >> Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2023 14:43:25 -0500 >> From: Brad Spencer >> >> So... I have a PV+PVSHIM DOMU running a pretty recent 9.x on a DOM0 >> running a 9.99.xx kernel. The DOM0 is not large, a 4 processor E-2224 >> with 32GB of memo

Re: /usr/bin/ftp crash on -current (10.00.4) aarch64

> advance; that usually is enough. Snapshot the zfs fileset when it is empty and rollback when you want to make it empty again. Very quick works best when obj is its own fileset. >> >> Do a clean build and everything should work. > > That's next. -- Brad Spencer - b...@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org

Re: ipmi0: incorrect critical max

ort one of the sensors correctly and/or the APMI driver doesn't pull it correctly. It is a fixed values that never changes for nothing... -- Brad Spencer - b...@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org

Re: About kern/57136, panic assertion, probably a diagnotic panic

en at pretty much the same rate. I can't discount memory fragmentation, but I can't really say that is much of a factor either. The system really should not need anything like 12GB, and in fact top says that almost 9GB is free at this point. -- Brad Spencer - b...@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org

About kern/57136, panic assertion, probably a diagnotic panic

pening about every 30 hours. Any help or hints would be greatly appreciated. With some planning I can perform tests. -- Brad Spencer - b...@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org

What to do about "WARNING: negative runtime; monotonic clock has gone backwards"

oes a 'cvs update' sort of thing from time to time, but than that is it right now. Any thoughts?? -- Brad Spencer - b...@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org

Two small problems noticed with 10.0_BETA and probably -current

oes not work at least from 9.99.104. -- Brad Spencer - b...@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org

Re: npf table loads slow??

addresses one at a time to see if that actually works. Clearly large full table loads will not work right now. -- Brad Spencer - b...@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org

npf table loads slow??

o 100%, probably loading the large table... -- Brad Spencer - b...@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org

Re: Any TCP VTW users?

n one system, but it is not likely to be critical to anything. The system in question creates a whole ton of short lived connections and I think I was trying to get them to expire quicker then normal. -- Brad Spencer - b...@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org

Re: How to BIOS-boot from NVMe device?

x from their package manager won't work on a -current NetBSD kernel, which panics somehere in the ACPI code. -current, after removing PVH and PVHVM, worked fine on the version I built on 9.x. -- Brad Spencer - b...@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org

Re: How to BIOS-boot from NVMe device?

bios and get a more or less working UEFI setup without physical hardware (you will have to compile a custom kernel without PVM or PVHVM support). I posted a note on port-xen a bit ago about what works and what had trouble. You can probably do the same thing with qemu and/or nvmm but I have not messed

Re: raspberry pi zero W serial port overlay fun

ng... can't explain that as they claim to all be the same version on the board and using the same SDCARD. Literally using the same SDCARD on some has this problem and others do not. -- Brad Spencer - b...@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org

Re: "zfs send" freezes system (was: Re: pgdaemon high CPU consumption)

at one case a little strange. On a -currentish test system with zfs filesets for object artifacts and build artifacts if I didn't revert the mentioned patch to arc.c the system could not make it though a build of qemu from pkgsrc and maybe not even though unpacking the source for building (sorr

Re: iscsi target on a zfs zvol?

ementation. This makes me sad because zvols are > such a tidy way to > manage so many different kinds of things. > > -thanks > -Brian I freely admit that I don't use zvols very much in NetBSD, but did you mess with the volblocksize any on the volume?? -- Brad Spencer - b...@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org

Re: pgdaemon high CPU consumption

Matthias Petermann writes: > Hello, > > On 01.07.22 12:48, Brad Spencer wrote: >> "J. Hannken-Illjes" writes: >> >>>> On 1. Jul 2022, at 07:55, Matthias Petermann wrote: >>>> >>>> Good day, >>>> >>>>

Re: pgdaemon high CPU consumption

rly all available "something" (pools, RAM, etc..) without limit but have no specific proof (or there is a leak somewhere). I mostly run 9.x ZFS right now (which may have other problems), and have been setting maxvnodes way down for some time. If I don't do that the Xen PV will hang itself up after a couple of 'build.sh release' runs when the source and build artifacts are on ZFS filesets. -- Brad Spencer - b...@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org

Re: XEN devices included in kernel even if not XEN

CHINE, I don't think > it means that the driver is actually loaded. ... and a PVHVM guest can use the GENERIC kernel, but will want the Xen devices too. -- Brad Spencer - b...@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org

Re: backward compatibility: how far can it reasonably go?

caused any problems at all. Even a 7.x kernel, as an initial test, booted with a 4.x userland didn't really have any real trouble in that it ran all of the /etc/rc stuff mostly just fine and I could log in. I would suspect that going from 5.x forward would not be just too much of a problem. -- Brad Spencer - b...@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org

Re: backward compatibility: how far can it reasonably go?

Brad Spencer writes: > You can also shut the DOMU down and present the disks to another DOMU in > real time using "xl block-attach " just use the "r" device if you > use devices or the file otherwise. I have done this for many years with > PV DOMUs on many d

Re: backward compatibility: how far can it reasonably go?

sually from the Xen console in single user mode. This has also generally worked out just fine and I use that in the case where I have made /usr a LVM disk inside of the DOMU and it is a pain to present that to another DOMU. -- Brad Spencer - b...@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org

Re: backward compatibility: how far can it reasonably go?

4.0 to 7.x some time ago, the only thing that I had problems with was anything that used scheduler activations since that had been removed. For me this only effected stuff from pkgsrc, as I also rolled in new userland at the same time. -- Brad Spencer - b...@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org

Re: -current panic on boot on RPI3

r more of them.. I can also build a newer tree from -current. I was working on device drivers in -current when I noted the mentioned panic. > On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 3:42 AM Brad Spencer wrote: > >> Kimmo Suominen writes: >> >> > On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 05:03:01PM -0400,

Re: -current panic on boot on RPI3

Kimmo Suominen writes: > On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 05:03:01PM -0400, Brad Spencer wrote: >> >> I did a build of -current from source taken on 2021-09-30 and had it >> panic on my RPI 3. >> >> Just wondering if this a known problem. The panic is as foll

-current panic on boot on RPI3

aef94: netbsd:cpu_hatch+0x1bc [ 1.4478405] cpu1: End traceback... Stopped in pid 0.16 (system) at netbsd:cpu_Debugger+0x4:bx r14 db{1}> -- Brad Spencer - b...@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org

SPI on RPI?

. It seems like the dts files that are in the tree would contain a description for the SPI bus and the driver appears to have been modified for FDT support. Running ofctl appears to show a number of /spi@ lines but I don't know exactly what they indicate. -- Brad Spencer - b...@anduin.elda

Re: ZFS quota performance issues?

se a number of filesystems that have the quota attribute (zfs get quota / zfs set quota=something ) set and do not observe this. However, there are user quotas too and I don't use them. I also am using ZFS with 9.x mostly and not -current. The latest build I have is 9.99.74 and also does not appe

Re: running xen on current

if it would boot a NetBSD DOM0 kernel. I am in no position to try any tests with this right now personally, but it is tempting as I have a EFI only laptop that I could probably replace the hard drive temporarily. -- Brad Spencer - b...@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org

Re: how to get nodev for zfs?

ry brief look and did not see anything that would exclude the devices property, but did not have a great deal of time to sift though the code. There may be a translation missing somewhere too. -- Brad Spencer - b...@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org

Re: zfs howto

ee that it isn't totally broken. I am by no means an expert in the ZFS code, and I am not in a position to take a lot of time looking at it right now, but if the trace back in the PR is correct, it makes it almost totally though the mkdir call and crashes in the log create step after th

Re: zfs howto

stalled_src/PKGSRC_2018Q4 NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT tank/installed_src/PKGSRC_2018Q4 414M 250G 414M /usr/installed_src/PKGSRC_2018Q4 These are DOMUs running NetBSD 9.0_STABLE from around September. I have not tried this with -current, but there are n

Re: Using wg(4) with a commerical VPN provider

oking at this. It is all over the place, however, and currently if_wg does not build as a module anyway. I think a lot more work will need to be done to get it there. I did not look to see how any of the other if_xxx drivers deal with the lack of INET or INET6 when modularized. -- Brad Spencer - b...@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org

Re: Using wg(4) with a commerical VPN provider

Roy Marples writes: > On 11/11/2020 01:49, Brad Spencer wrote: >> @@ -2352,6 +2361,7 @@ >> if (*af == AF_INET) { >> packet_len = ntohs(ip->ip_len); >> } else { >> +#ifdef INET6 >> const struct ip6_hdr *ip6;

Using wg(4) with a commerical VPN provider

dr *)packet; packet_len = sizeof(struct ip6_hdr) + ntohs(ip6->ip6_plen); +#else + packet_len = decrypted_len + 1; +#endif } WG_DLOG("packet_len=%u\n", packet_len); -- Brad Spencer - b...@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org

Re: Is anyone using the wg(4) driver with a commerical VPN service??

Tom Ivar Helbekkmo writes: > Brad Spencer writes: > >> Just wondering if anyone has succeeded in getting the wg(4) network >> driver working with one of the commercial VPN providers? I attempted it >> with one in particular, with an admitted slightly older -current a

Is anyone using the wg(4) driver with a commerical VPN service??

Just wondering if anyone has succeeded in getting the wg(4) network driver working with one of the commercial VPN providers? I attempted it with one in particular, with an admitted slightly older -current and did not succeed in getting it working. -- Brad Spencer - b...@anduin.eldar.org

Re: gpt type for zfs?

ant to try disabling dk support and retrying but haven't gotten around > to it yet). > > > Sevan I am a little suprised that the import didn't work. "zpool import" didn't find anything to import?? I currently use a gpt presented disk between NetBSD and FreeBSD

Re: gpt type for zfs?

Thomas For gpt, I think anything will work, but I use fbsd-zfs especially if I think I might share the pool with FreeBSD. I have also put pools on raw devices and DOMU xbd* back stored by a LVM lvs. A lot of different combinations seem to work fine. -- Brad Spencer - b...@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org

Re: xen & uefi

0ec]... > Trampoline space cannot be allocated; will try fallback. > > > > Cheers, > > Patrick I didn't think that a DOM0 + UEFI worked anywhere very well at this point or at least was not a default... See https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_EFI for example... or ...

Re: ZFS on root - almost there

on shutdown there too. I also had lvm involved so I was never very sure what the problem was. This would have been in the late 6.x and early 7.x days. -- Brad Spencer - b...@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org

Re: [Small Heads up] USE_SHLIBDIR=yes added some some library Makefiles

Andreas Gustafsson writes: > Brad Spencer wrote: >> I committed a change today to add USE_SHLIBDIR=yes to the libraries used >> by /sbin/{zfs,mount_zfs,zpool}. The general effect will be to move the >> libraries from /usr/lib to /lib and put compatibility links in place s

[Small Heads up] USE_SHLIBDIR=yes added some some library Makefiles

there may be problems, but hopefully that is very uncommon. -- Brad Spencer - b...@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org

Re: Automated report: NetBSD-current/i386 build failure

with a 32bit > kernel. > > Martin Interesting... it appears we may still be building the solaris module. Is that for dtrace?? -- Brad Spencer - b...@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org

Re: etc/rc.d/zfs not installed

quot;no" > -CONFIGFILES+= zfs > -.endif > - > .SUFFIXES: .in > .in: > ${_MKTARGET_CREATE} > ${TOOL_SED} -e 's,@X11ROOTDIR@,${X11ROOTDIR},g' < ${.IMPSRC} > > ${.TARGET} > .endif > > +.if ${MKZFS} != "no" > +CON

Re: Automated report: NetBSD-current/i386 build failure

e wasn't installed ? > -- > ./usr/share/man/html8/mount_zfs.html > ./usr/share/man/man8/mount_zfs.8 > end of 2 missing files == I will look at that, but won't be for a bit... apparently a "./build.sh .. release" does not show off that sort of

Re: Legacy ZFS mounts

usual. Add zfs=YES to your rc.conf. It works like LVM and raidframe now... This get the module started early and allows you to disable the support later (as opposed to by accident which is how it mostly worked before). It was in the commit message, but should have been mentioned more broadly.

Re: Legacy ZFS mounts

y) but did not use a ZFS filesystem/dataset for anything in the DOM0. To cover the various cases, I don't see how one gets all the bits and pieces in place in really any other manor. As I said, this is all done more or less in this way for raidframe and LVM. -- Brad Spencer - b...@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org

Re: Legacy ZFS mounts

may end up doing more in the future, like zpool import and the like. Make sense?? -- Brad Spencer - b...@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org

Legacy ZFS mounts

nt problems. It will also apply cleanly to 9.0. I won't get to committing this for a few days. -- Brad Spencer - b...@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org

Re: Recent XEN3_DOM0 begaviour

fferent once PVHVM is available, but for now, a DOM0 can not use more than one CPU: menu=Xen:load /netbsd-XEN3_DOM0.gz console=pc root=wd0a;multiboot /xen.gz dom0_mem=2048M dom0_max_vcpus=1 -- Brad Spencer - b...@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org

Re: Panic with recent -current with interrupt setup

Masanobu SAITOH writes: > On 2018/10/03 5:47, Brad Spencer wrote: >> m...@netbsd.org writes: >> >>> On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 06:55:48AM -0400, Brad Spencer wrote: >>>> [snip] >> Here is more information: >> >> Screen shot of the pan

Re: Panic with recent -current with interrupt setup

m...@netbsd.org writes: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 06:55:48AM -0400, Brad Spencer wrote: >> >> Just wondering if anyone else has seen this, but I am getting panics on >> boot during probe with sources after 2018-09-23 [at some point, at least >> 2018-09-29 and 2018-

Panic with recent -current with interrupt setup

The panics seem related to setting up interrupts or printing interrupt information in the intel wm(4) driver. The system in question does not have a serial port on it in any form, but I can probably capture a screen shot of the panic. The keyboard works and ddb seems usable. -- Brad Spence

Re: Is NetBSD ReFUSE layer capable to do MTP?

erations, but it probably is the simplest. The 4.2 Android tablet also worked and I moved files from it without any real problems. I didn't fiddle much with the Cyanogenmod 13 based phone much as it way too long for it to actually complete any operations. It was much simpler to just sftp fil

Re: (almost) full disk encryption, cgdroot and firmware

ed from and not the one that is chrooted to from init. It sound like in your case that would have been the ramdrive, in my version of this it was an external flash disk. I basically put a copy of /libdata on the boot media. Without doing this, the firmware wouldn't be found even if it was presen

Re: 5 GHz band support for Intel WiFi chips?

es to pass packets. I have not tried 802.11b, but 802.11g is fairly stable and works with wpa_supplicant. -- Brad Spencer - b...@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS http://anduin.eldar.org - & - http://anduin.ipv6.eldar.org [IPv6 only]