Re: Panic Kernel Dump to umass device?

2006-02-11 Thread Ian Dowse
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott Long writes: You're correct that dumping is meant to be done with interrupts and task switching disabled. The first thing that the umass driver is missing is a working CAM poll handler. Without this, there is no way for command completions to be seen when

RAID5 on athlon64 machines

2006-02-11 Thread Bakul Shah
I built an Asus A8N SLI Deluxe based system and installed FreeBSD-6.1-BETA1 on it. This works well enough. Now I am looking for a decent RAID5 solution. This motherboard has two SATA RAID controllers. But one does only RAID1. The other supports RAID5 but seems to require s/w assistance from

Re: RAID5 on athlon64 machines

2006-02-11 Thread soralx
Theoretically the sequential write rate should be same or higher than the sequential read rate. Given an N+1 disk Seq write rate for the whole RAID5 array will always be lower than the write rate for it's single disk. See 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID#RAID_5' Traditional RAID5 A1

Re: RAID5 on athlon64 machines

2006-02-11 Thread Bakul Shah
Theoretically the sequential write rate should be same or higher than the sequential read rate. Given an N+1 disk Seq write rate for the whole RAID5 array will always be lower than the write rate for it's single disk. You compute max data rates by considering the most optimistic

kern/60163

2006-02-11 Thread Norikatsu Shigemura
I heard from Chiharu Shibata [EMAIL PROTECTED] about kern/60163. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/60163 (He knew that this pr was closed, recently) I cannot believe sos's close reason.

Re: Panic Kernel Dump to umass device?

2006-02-11 Thread Nate Nielsen
Ian Dowse wrote: The USB stack supports polled operations, so it's actually not to hard to make this work. Below is a patch I had in one of my local trees that adds a CAM poll handler to the umass driver. I've just tested this and it does seem to make kernel dumping work, but I guess it

Re: Pre-loaded mfsroot size and FreeBSD 4.9 with 4G RAM

2006-02-11 Thread Sergey Babkin
Jacques Fourie wrote: I have installed 6.0-RELEASE and the behaviour is still the same. If I try to pre-load an md_image of 64M with 4G of RAM installed, the kernel panics early in the boot cycle. Here is the panic on 6.0-RELEASE: 131072K of memory above 4GB ignored This is a kind of