Re: Progress on scaling of FreeBSD on 8 CPU systems

2007-03-01 Thread Craig Boston
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 04:12:52PM -0600, Jim C. Nasby wrote: > On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 03:59:52PM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > I've mentioned this a couple of times, but postgresql didn't scale > > well [on freebsd at least] when I tried it last year. I hope to > > revisit when I get time

sysinstall creates corrupt filesystems after repartitioning

2007-03-01 Thread Steven Hartland
I've been repartitioning some of our machines here and found that using the following method sysinstall creates corrupt filesystems. 1. Boot a machine using an nfs mounted /usr 2. Run: sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 to enable writing to the disk mbr 3. run sysinstall, Customise -> Label 4. Delete

Re: freebsd-update ignores /boot/kernel/kernel sometimes!?

2007-03-01 Thread Colin Percival
Andy Hilker wrote: >> Somehow freebsd-update find /boot/kernel/kernel on some servers and >> patches it and on others not. > > Additional info: > it seems that all machines where it does not work, have an SMP-GENERIC > (i386) installed. There's a bug in how FreeBSD Update handles /boot/kernel. B

RE: Instruction fault panic while installing 6.2 on VMware Server

2007-03-01 Thread Greg Larkin
> > > On 02/24/07 05:44, ghozzy wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On 2/23/07, Greg Larkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi everyone, > >> > >> I'm creating a standard FreeBSD 6.2 ISO image that I can use to > >> perform unattended installations into VMware Server > virtual machines. > >> I'm using VMSer

Re: portupgrade O(n^m)?

2007-03-01 Thread Coleman Kane
On 2/28/07, Sean Bryant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Michel Talon wrote: > >>> Give me a few weeks, and if I can band together with a few people I >>> wanted to try and port sections of portupgrade and its related tools to >>> C++ (and maybe do some

Re: Progress on scaling of FreeBSD on 8 CPU systems

2007-03-01 Thread Coleman Kane
On 2/28/07, Sten Daniel Soersdal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jim C. Nasby wrote: > On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 03:59:52PM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 12:25:11PM -0600, Jim C. Nasby wrote: >>> On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 04:31:11PM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: Now that the g

Re: [ANN] unionfs patchset-18 release, improvements are going step by step

2007-03-01 Thread Ed Schouten
* Daichi GOTO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is my pleasure and honor to announce the availability of the > unionfs patchset-18. p18 is first patchset after its merged of > FreeBSD. Our improvements works of unionfs are going step by step. Are there still plans to add my whiteout policy patch?

Re: [ANN] unionfs patchset-18 release, improvements are going step by step

2007-03-01 Thread Daichi GOTO
Ed Schouten wrote: > * Daichi GOTO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It is my pleasure and honor to announce the availability of the >> unionfs patchset-18. p18 is first patchset after its merged of >> FreeBSD. Our improvements works of unionfs are going step by step. > > Are there still plans to add

[Request for Test] unionfs procfs/vfs_cache support tester we need

2007-03-01 Thread Daichi GOTO
Hi Guys! We have patch of unionfs that supports procfs/vfs_cache. With this patch, you can use application that use procfs on unionfs. unionfs patch for procfs/vfs_cache support: document http://people.freebsd.org/~daichi/unionfs/request-for-test.html For 7-current http://people

[ANN] unionfs patchset-18 release, improvements are going step by step

2007-03-01 Thread Daichi GOTO
Hi Guys! It is my pleasure and honor to announce the availability of the unionfs patchset-18. p18 is first patchset after its merged of FreeBSD. Our improvements works of unionfs are going step by step. Patchset-18: For 7-current http://people.freebsd.org/~daichi/unionfs/unionfs-p18.diff

Re: Instruction fault panic while installing 6.2 on VMware Server

2007-03-01 Thread Eric Anderson
On 02/24/07 05:44, ghozzy wrote: Hi, On 2/23/07, Greg Larkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi everyone, I'm creating a standard FreeBSD 6.2 ISO image that I can use to perform unattended installations into VMware Server virtual machines. I'm using VMServer 1.0.1, and I've hit a roadblock when sys

Re: freebsd-update ignores /boot/kernel/kernel sometimes!?

2007-03-01 Thread Andy Hilker
You (Andy Hilker) wrote: > Hi, > > i have a strange thing here, maybe someone can give me a hint. > > Somehow freebsd-update find /boot/kernel/kernel on some servers and > patches it and on others not. Both kernels are installed from CD > (GENERIC). > > On those servers where it does not displa

Re: 6.1 & SMP & PERC 3 on PE 2650

2007-03-01 Thread Doug Barton
[ For future reference, please don't cross post to -questions and any other list. Thanks. ] Konrad Heuer wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > after upgrading from 4.11 to 6.1 Step one would be to upgrade again to either 6.2-RELEASE or -stable. Lots of good stuff happened between releases. hth, Dou