Re: Scheduler question

2011-02-07 Thread Ivan Voras
On 07/02/2011 04:12, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 07/02/2011, at 13:02, Ivan Voras wrote: I'll be looking at it on Monday, I will let you know :) >>> >>> No luck with mlock() so it wouldn't appear to be paging is the issue :( >> >> I'm also interested in raw device vs file system access! > >

Re: Scheduler question

2011-02-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 07/02/2011, at 21:07, Ivan Voras wrote: >>> I'm also interested in raw device vs file system access! >> >> Oops, sorry.. I just tried that now but it doesn't improve things :( > > Meaning: you still get jitter? Yes, well I didn't measure the read frequency but it dropped out (stopped stream

Re: Scheduler question

2011-02-07 Thread Ivan Voras
On 7 February 2011 13:38, Daniel O'Connor wrote: >>> I am writing directly to /dev/ad10 but stressing /dev/ad14 (sudo tar -cf >>> /dev/null /local0) >> >> Can you do only one of those things? I.e. leave all the file systems >> alone and just do something like 'diskinfo -vt /dev/ad14'? > > OK, I

Re: Scheduler question

2011-02-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 07/02/2011, at 23:36, Ivan Voras wrote: >> OK, I wrote the data to /dev/null from USB and ran diskutil in a loop and it >> doesn't drop out. > > Maybe I misunderstood you and it's a different problem than what I was > experiencing; is this a better description of your problem: > > 1) you hav

Re: [rfc] allow to boot with >= 256GB physmem

2011-02-07 Thread Sergey Kandaurov
On 22 January 2011 00:43, Alan Cox wrote: > On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Alan Cox wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:44 AM, John Baldwin wrote: >>> >>> On Friday, January 21, 2011 11:09:10 am Sergey Kandaurov wrote: >>> > Hello. >>> > >>> > Some time ago I faced with a problem booting w

boot0sio waits a minute

2011-02-07 Thread Trever
Does anyone know why boot0sio would wait about 1 minute before proceeding? If this is a known issue I can't find anything about it. I know there is a bug with boot0cfg not changing the partition to boot to. Don't know if this is related. FreeBSD 8.2RC2 i386. Boot blocks were compiled with s

Re: What does the FreeBSD/i386 ABI say about stack alignment?

2011-02-07 Thread Warner Losh
On 01/14/2011 09:42, Warner Losh wrote: On 01/14/2011 01:28, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 04:34:22PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: On 01/13/2011 13:28, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 12:19:00PM -0500, Ryan Stone wrote: I've been trying to get an application compil

Re: Why does printf(9) hang network?

2011-02-07 Thread dieterbsd
Robert writes: Why would doing a printf(9) in a device driver (usb, firewire, probably others) cause an obscenely long lockout on /usr/src/sys/kern/uipc_sockbuf.c:148 (sx:so_rcv_sx) ? Printf(9) alone isn't the problem, adding printfs to chown(2) does not cause the problem, but printfs from

witness Re: Why does printf(9) hang network?

2011-02-07 Thread dieterbsd
I received a suggestion to try witness, so I build a kernel with WITNESS, WITNESS_KDB, KDB, DDB, KDB_TRACE, and DDB_NUMSYM. This is my first attempt to use witness, so if I got something wrong let me know. Didn't quite make it all the way up to a multiuser prompt: Starting syslogd. Starting rpcb