Re: Rebooting from loader causes a "fault" in VMware Workstation

2013-04-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
; safe. Read sys/i386/i386/vm_machdep.c and cpu_reset_real to see how > FreeBSD handles it. VMWare at least says that "it would have caused > the physical machine to restart." Blame VMWare. > > On 4/19/2013 11:28 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >(Please keep me CC'd as I

Rebooting from loader causes a "fault" in VMware Workstation

2013-04-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
hich zeros eax then issues INT 0x30 (syscall interrupt). That lead me to this: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/arch-handbook/book.html Eek. x86 architecture is a lot different than I remember it being in my 386 days, so this is all a bit over my head. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: retry mounting with ro when rw fails

2011-04-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
aybe even the user yanking the drive right in the middle) -- could this ever return ENODEV? 4. Kernel attempts re-mount, which also fails, or possibly panics due to some underlying condition which nobody predicted 5. User mails mailing list If I'm worrying over nothing, then perfect. :-) M

Re: quotas an essential feature? (was: svn commit: r218953 - stable/8/usr.sbin/sysinstall)

2011-02-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
> > Given adding it means the kernel will be doing extra work and hence a > > drop in performance... > > Does anyone have benchmark results to measure the performance hit? I imagine there wouldn't be any (or extremely negligible) unless you used quotaon(8). -- |

Re: random FreeBSD panics

2010-03-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 02:27:34PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > On Monday 29 March 2010 1:30:38 pm Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 05:01:02PM +, Masoom Shaikh wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Ivan Voras wrote: > > > > On 28 M

Re: random FreeBSD panics

2010-03-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ut I've been told numerous times that isn't the case. To developers: what incentives would help get this issue well-needed attention? This problem makes kernel debugging, panic analysis, and other console-oriented viewing basically impossible. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: [Testers wanted] /dev/console cleanups

2008-11-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:53:07AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This is deliberate. If the system panics, stuff that was in the > > > message buffer (and

Re: [Testers wanted] /dev/console cleanups

2008-11-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:48:36PM -0800, Nate Eldredge wrote: > On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 05:39:36PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > >>> I hope that never gets committed - it will make debugging kernel >>> problems

Re: [Testers wanted] /dev/console cleanups

2008-11-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 05:39:36PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2008-Nov-19 02:47:31 -0800, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >There's a known "issue" with the kernel message buffer though: it's not > >NULL'd out upon reboot. > > T

Re: Reccomendation for tools to use on FreeBSD for a wiki ?

2008-11-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
pose if > > some > > software does & does not support web forums, it'd be good to know. > > > > Suggestions welcome please ! Thanks in advance. > > > > Cheers, > > Julian > > Julian, > FWIW, ports@ or questions@ would be bette

Re: Core i7 anyone else?

2008-11-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
try 4BSD. I documented my experience. http://wiki.freebsd.org/JeremyChadwick/Bizarre_CURRENT_experience I have no idea if your problem is the same as mine. This is purely speculative on my part. (And readers of that Wiki article should note that the problem was not hardware-related) -- |

Re: [Testers wanted] /dev/console cleanups

2008-11-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
to 0644 in newsyslog.conf. If people want to debate that, be my guest. I'm not sure what "security hole" we'd be plugging if it was set to 0600, especially given that many userland programs use the LOG_NOTICE facility in syslog. If people want to debate those default perms, be

Re: NET.ISR and CPU utilization performance w/ HP DL 585 using FreeBSD 7.1 Beta2

2008-11-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
bce0: 4.69 Mb/s 10.49 Mb/s 15.18 > Mb/s > bce1: 20.66 Mb/s4.68 Mb/s 25.34 > Mb/s > lo0: 0.00 b/s0.00 b/s0.00 > b/s > > ----

Re: assigning interrupts

2008-11-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 04:40:03PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 02:40:54AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > Otherwise, consider purchasing a motherboard that has an APIC (this is > > not a typo) increasing the IRQ count to 256. > > This is wro

Re: assigning interrupts

2008-11-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
cards around. Otherwise, consider purchasing a motherboard that has an APIC (this is not a typo) increasing the IRQ count to 256. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administra

Re: ukbd attachment and root mount

2008-11-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 02:49:15PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 12/11/2008 14:33 Jeremy Chadwick said the following: > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 02:20:41PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: > >> on 12/11/2008 14:14 Jeremy Chadwick said the following: > >>> On Wed, No

Re: ukbd attachment and root mount

2008-11-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 02:20:41PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 12/11/2008 14:14 Jeremy Chadwick said the following: > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 01:58:58PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: > [snip] > >> 2. if ukbd driver is not attached then I don't see any way USB keybo

Re: ukbd attachment and root mount

2008-11-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
in this situation. > I can try this, but I think this wouldn't help for two reasons: > 1. I already tried kernel without atkb at all > 2. if ukbd driver is not attached then I don't see any way USB keyboard > would work in non-legacy way Regarding #2: at

Re: strange behaviour with /sbin/init and serial console

2008-10-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
you think it would be possible to layer a multiplexer on top of it, > similar to how the kbdmux driver works? Let's make sure that we don't implement it identically though, as there are many of us who have major problems with kbdmux (reports of LORs, and even more reports of incredibly

Re: strange behaviour with /sbin/init and serial console

2008-10-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
at stage, depending upon which boot flags and device settings you use: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.

Re: open(2) and O_NOATIME

2008-10-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 07:16:42PM -0700, Xin LI wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > I've recently been reading about Linux's O_NOATIME flag to open(2), and > > I'm curious why we haven't implement

open(2) and O_NOATIME

2008-10-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
there were other reasons. I realise mount's noatime trumps this, but there are lots of scenarios where atime is desired as a default, but disabled in specific cases. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking htt

Re: neophyte: tcsetattr() gives 22 error in i386, not in amd64?

2008-10-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 06:29:54PM +1030, en0f wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 06:06:38PM +1030, en0f wrote: > >> Nate Eldredge wrote: > >>> On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Steve Franks wrote: > >>> > >>>> Hi, > >>

Re: zfs & waiting on zio->io_cv

2008-10-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
the 'delays' are seen when the machine is totaly idle. (it's not production > yet) > and been up for some time. btw, I can't reproduce the 'delay', so I think > it has to do with caching. > > I guess this beast needs some tunning, are there any tools out the

Re: neophyte: tcsetattr() gives 22 error in i386, not in amd64?

2008-10-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
() is your > > friend. > > Strange freebsd doesnt document error numbers. On POSIX, errno 22 is > EINVAL as well (documented in errno(3)). Is this applicable to freebsd? /usr/include/errno.h isn't documentation of error numbers? -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: Laptop suggestions?

2008-10-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
aptop > pictured, holding Fn and pressing F6 would increase the screen > brightness, probably without sending a keycode. A desktop machine would > probably have a button on the monitor itself to do this. I always figured "Fn" was a good name for the key, given that it resemb

Re: ZFS boot

2008-10-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
US$40-50. Secondly, with regards to amd64: RELENG_6 and RELENG_7 amd64 cannot handle more than 2GB of kmem. Yes, you read that correct; it's not a typo. It's an implementation issue which cannot be easily solved on those releases. CURRENT can address up to 512GB. I've fully

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 01:07:44PM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:35:16PM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote: > > > > On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:42:49 -0700 > > > > Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > >

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:35:16PM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:42:49 -0700 > > Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:29:52AM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: > > > > On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 0

Re: HPC with ULE vs 4BSD

2008-10-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
0 scatter 190.035610.12847099 > 8 64025000 100 all_to_all2661.369630.00917350 > 8 64025000 100 gather 183.082500.13335006 > > Noting that all communication is over the memory bus, a comparison of > the Bandwidth col

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:29:52AM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: > On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:41:11 -0700 > Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 03:53:38PM +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > > > Mike Meyer wrote: > > >> On Fri

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
r says "this is easy" is kidding themselves; it's a pain. You get to make a new filesystem called /boot, and have all sorts of fun. It's really not a snap-fingers-voila thing, and I will gladly argue with anyone who thinks otherwise. Is it do-able though? Yes. -- | Jeremy Ch

Re: How do I unchown a directory after I: chown -R /etc ???

2008-09-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 02:25:54AM -0700, Mike Price wrote: > How do I unchown a directory after I: chown -R /etc You can't. Restore /etc from backups. And ***please*** stop posting this stuff to -hackers. It is not the appropriate list for it. Start using -questions. -- | Jeremy

Re: SSH Brute Force attempts

2008-09-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ppers are absolutely 100% worthless in this day and age. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others sinc

Re: SSH Brute Force attempts

2008-09-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ve to keep pf.conf.ssh-* in sync if you have multiple machines. You can use pfsync(4) to accomplish this task (I think), or you can do it the obvious way (make a central distribution box that scp/rsync's the files out and runs "/etc/rc.d/pf reload"). -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: ATA Security patch to atacontrol

2008-09-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
iel.roe.ch/code/ata/atasecurity-20080930-complete.diff Daniel, Can you provide me datasheet and technical reference material to what "ATA Security" is? Which ATA specification is this documented in? I'd like to read it. Thanks! -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: atacontrol broken in 7.1-PR

2008-09-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 04:19:43PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I see the system has an Intel AHCI-based controller (probably an ICH10 > > chip, since the ICH10 is the first to support 6 SATA channels). > > N

Re: atacontrol broken in 7.1-PR

2008-09-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
//www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sbin/atacontrol/atacontrol.c.diff?r1=1.47;r2=1.48 > > I cc'ed person, who commited this fix. > Hi, Poul-Henning, I think it should be MFCed before release. I agree, it should be MFC'd. Cute bug too; never would've guessed it. Saves me

Re: atacontrol broken in 7.1-PR

2008-09-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 08:07:44PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 03:07:48AM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: > > On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:36:03 -0700 > > Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Bruce and Pegasus, > > > > >

Re: atacontrol broken in 7.1-PR

2008-09-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 03:07:48AM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:36:03 -0700 > Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bruce and Pegasus, > > > > Can you please apply the below patch to src/sbin/atacontrol.c and let > > me know what

Re: atacontrol broken in 7.1-PR

2008-09-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 05:02:26PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 11:24:38PM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: > > On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:43:58 + (UTC) > > Pegasus McCleaft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hello everyone. > > &g

Re: atacontrol broken in 7.1-PR

2008-09-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
fd790,0x,0x0,0x80ac1c40,0x7fffd768) > = 0 (0x0) > break(0x60)= 0 (0x0) > break(0x70)= 0 (0x0) > ioctl(3,IOCATADEVICES,0xe590) ERR#6 'Device no

Re: atacontrol broken in 7.1-PR

2008-09-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:21:42AM +0100, Pegasus Mc Cleaft wrote: > On Sunday 28 September 2008 23:37:09 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > > > Yea.. The machine is otherwise running fine, and also loaded the driver > > > for the ata raid controller (I made the mac

Re: atacontrol broken in 7.1-PR

2008-09-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 10:32:48PM +0100, Pegasus Mc Cleaft wrote: > On Sunday 28 September 2008 21:42:41 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 10:43:58AM +, Pegasus McCleaft wrote: > > > I was wondering if anyone else is experiencing this problem. I have >

Re: atacontrol broken in 7.1-PR

2008-09-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
w dosent. The machine is > using both the: > > atapci0: > atapci1: atapci is just the PCI portion, and doesn't show any sign of the ATA driver being attached. Do you have ataX (e.g. ata0) devices showing up in dmesg? -- | Jeremy Chadwickjd

Re: Increasing partition size by removing partitions

2008-09-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
> part of the partition is at the end of the partition you wish to grow. > How do I go about this? There isn't a way to do this, as far as I know. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.pa

Re: freebsd-update missed?

2008-09-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
n page for it states that it's a binary updater for pieces in the base system, so you looking at your *source* files would indicate absolutely nothing, other than when you last ran csup to update your /usr/src tree. I do not know of a way to verify if your libpthread library a

Re: bad NFS/UDP performance

2008-09-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ign_test: 498351 > > -vfs.nfsrv.realign_test: 5005908 > +vfs.nfsrv.realign_test: 0 > > +vfs.nfsrv.commit_miss: 0 > +vfs.nfsrv.commit_blks: 0 > > changing them did nothing - or at least with respect to nfs throughput :-) I'm

Re: Rare problems in upgrade process (corrupted FS?)

2008-09-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
oot the machine (because of I suspect a very weird FS problem), > boot in single user mode and do a 'fsck -fy'. Effectively, the fsck(8) > found and repair several errors. Epecially, one error claims my > attention: SUPERBLOCK. Superblock problems w

Re: bad NFS/UDP performance

2008-09-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
.69MB/s 0.96s 16.64MB/s > > Average: 75.8633.00 > > the nfs filer is a NetWork Appliance, and is in use, so i get fluctuations in > the > measurements, but the relation are similar, good on 7.0, bad on 7.1 Do you have any NFS-related tunings in /etc/rc.

Re: bad NFS/UDP performance

2008-09-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
) This could be relevant, but rwatson@ will need to help determine that. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-September/045109.html -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodiu

Re: Major SMP problems with lstat/namei

2008-09-24 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
which are features which will, thankfully, be removed in PHP 6. Whoever uses these features in PHP deserves the pain -- they're worthless and provide no security what-so-ever. Consider using suPHP or an MPM like mpm-itk. Also, PHP and performance shouldn't be put in the same sentence.

Re: proper types for printf()-ing pointers on amd64 that won't break i386?

2008-09-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ditch the cast+%x and use %p? I don't have an i386 system > to test on, and I don't want to break anything if I submit a patch... Yes, use %p! It works fine on all platforms. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: Error: Can't find libjava.so

2008-09-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
proper method. > > Could you advise me how to do this? Hope you don't mind! Set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to the search paths you desire. Colon-delimited, and it overrides the defaults. E.g. export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/lib/compat:/usr/local/lib:/

Re: ZFS w/failing drives - any equivalent of Solaris FMA?

2008-09-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 05:02:39PM +0200, Fabian Keil wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 10:37:18AM +0800, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: > > > 0n Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 09:32:07AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > &g

Re: Error: Can't find libjava.so

2008-09-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ng the problem itself: there are ways to work around this by using the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH. I do not recommend this, though -- properly configuring the ld.so search path when a program (or port) is installed is the proper method. Cross-posting to multiple lists is generally shunn

Re: Error: Can't find libjava.so

2008-09-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
is on system in folder "/usr/local/Diablo-jre1.6.0/lib/amd64/libjava.so Can you provide the output of "ldconfig -r" from that box? I have a feeling the ld.so pathing hints might lack a directory or two. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | |

Re: ZFS w/failing drives - any equivalent of Solaris FMA?

2008-09-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 01:23:39PM +0800, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: > 0n Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 09:28:28PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > >On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 10:37:18AM +0800, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: > >> 0n Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 09:32:07AM -0700,

Re: ZFS w/failing drives - any equivalent of Solaris FMA?

2008-09-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 10:12:09AM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote: > On September 12, 2008 09:32 am Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > For home use, sure. Since most home/consumer systems do not include > > hot-swappable drive bays, rebooting is required. Although more and > > more cons

Re: ZFS w/failing drives - any equivalent of Solaris FMA?

2008-09-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
There is a FreeBSD port which handles this, although such a feature should ideally be part of the ata(4) system (as should TCQ/NCQ and a slew of other things -- some of those are being worked on). -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Netwo

Re: ZFS w/failing drives - any equivalent of Solaris FMA?

2008-09-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 09:04:22AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > What this does to other parts of the kernel and userland applications is > something I haven't tested. I *can* tell you that there are major, > major problems with detach/reattach/reinit on ata(4) causing kernel >

Re: loading multi threaded library into executable enabled for single thread

2008-09-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
is may be impractical for performance reasons, 3) Require LD_PRELOAD, which is ugly, agreed. I think those are pretty much the only options you have at this point. Not a great set, I know, but it's reality. > On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

Re: ZFS w/failing drives - any equivalent of Solaris FMA?

2008-09-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 03:34:30PM +0100, Karl Pielorz wrote: > --On 12 September 2008 06:21 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> As far as I know, there is no such "standard" mechanism in FreeBSD. If >> the drive falls off the bus entir

Re: loading multi threaded library into executable enabled for single thread

2008-09-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
code) if possible; the simple ".so.X" versioning method works great for major changes, but there are often minor changes that don't result in "X" being increased. I'm getting the impression that the tclsh binary you have was not built on the same machine / from th

Re: loading multi threaded library into executable enabled for single thread

2008-09-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
choose not to use it but you must ensure during linktime that you explicitly link to -lpthread. > On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 07:41:14AM -0400, Barry Andrews wrote: > > > Do you know if this i

Re: ZFS w/failing drives - any equivalent of Solaris FMA?

2008-09-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
tach' must have completed. > > The newly attached drive completed the re-silver in half an hour (as > opposed to an estimated 755 hours and climbing with the other drive still > in the pool, limping along). -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at p

Re: loading multi threaded library into executable enabled for single thread

2008-09-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ication (tclsh or whatever) against libpthread >> in order for this to work. The libc functions won't get properly >> overloaded by their equivalents in libpthread unless you do >> this. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius N

Re: Increasing KVM on amd64

2008-09-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
bump up KVM size even further - beyond 6GB? I've got > a box with 8GB or RAM and would like let ZFS ARC use most of it which > would require pretty large vm.kmem_max to fit it in. I was told fairly recently (a few days ago) that the 6GB limit was increased to 512GB on HEAD/CURRENT. The

Re: IPFW uid logging...

2008-09-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
s also a good idea. The output formatting of the log line might need to be adjusted "carefully" though, since any programs which grep on a very strict regex will start failing. I'm inclined to recommend the string ", UID xxx" be appended to the existing string, e.g. Sep 8

Re: Temp files in /etc

2008-09-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
e which reads /etc/passwd or related files will fail since you'd be using an alternative /etc directory. I'm pretty sure we have some ports which use rmuser/adduser (meaning the software itself, not necessarily the port installation part). Hope this sheds some light on thin

Re: Temp files in /etc

2008-09-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 08:31:35PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > ... > If they still attempt to use /tmp, said programs could probably be > modified to support TMPDIR. This should have read /etc, not /tmp. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | |

Re: Temp files in /etc

2008-09-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
could probably be modified to support TMPDIR. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for o

Re: Extending find(1) to support -printf

2008-09-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 03:12:53AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > Also, some folks on #bsdports asked why I was bothering with this in the > first place: mutt supports backticks to run shell commands inside of > a muttrc file. See "Building a list of mailboxes on the fly&quo

Extending find(1) to support -printf

2008-09-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
nfigTricks Note the find ... -printf '%h ' method. I can accomplish (just about) the same using `echo $HOME/Maildir/*`, but if I want to exclude an entry, I can't use | grep -v, because mutt doesn't support pipes within backticks. :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: lighttpd failing to accept new connections ( connection reset )

2008-08-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
532577(0) win 0 > > This may have been raised before back 2003 as bug kern/57380 > but it was closed after no response from the reporter. > > Another possible issues related to this is:- > http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/ticket/1734 > > > I've currently got

Re: netstat: kvm_read: Bad address

2008-08-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 07:22:19PM +0530, vasanth raonaik wrote: > Both kernel and utility are in sync. Any more ideas? > > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 05:39:52PM +0530, vasanth raonaik wr

Re: netstat: kvm_read: Bad address

2008-08-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
message when a user upgrades the kernel to newer sources (e.g. csup/cvsup), and rebuilds/reinstalls the kernel, but **does not** rebuild/reinstall userland program (e.g. world). -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: local network throughput issues

2008-08-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
rc.conf. > > 3) Can you disable the firewall (disable ipfw entirely) and see if the > > problem continues? > > Well the firewall is primarily for NAT and port forwarding. There's > nothing special about it. It looks like the TSO disabling fixed my >

Re: local network throughput issues

2008-08-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ease provide netstat -in output. 2) NFS (unless you're explicitly disabling it) is UDP-based, while SSH and Samba are TCP-based. Your nfe0 device has TSO4 enabled on it, so I'm left wondering if the TCP offloading support for your nfe(4) device is broken. Can you try disabling it by

Re: kern/98388: [ata] FreeBSD 6.1 - WDC WD1200JS SATA II disks are seen as older SATA

2008-08-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
A quick glance seems to indicate we're not initialising some of the SATA registers at all, case in point. Someone should make a patch for the user that zeros out bit 30 of SIR, then check the xBAR and LBAR values; zeroing bit 30 might get him SATA300 support (I haven't looked at t

Re: kern/98388: [ata] FreeBSD 6.1 - WDC WD1200JS SATA II disks are seen as older SATA

2008-08-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 01:01:44PM +0400, sam wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:02:50PM +0400, sam wrote: >> >>> Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >>> >>>> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:16:16AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >

Re: kern/98388: [ata] FreeBSD 6.1 - WDC WD1200JS SATA II disks are seen as older SATA

2008-08-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:02:50PM +0400, sam wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:16:16AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:57:53AM +0400, sam wrote: >>> >>>> Andrey

Re: kern/98388: [ata] FreeBSD 6.1 - WDC WD1200JS SATA II disks are seen as older SATA

2008-08-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:16:16AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:57:53AM +0400, sam wrote: > > Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: > >> sam wrote: > >>> FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #5: Tue Aug 12 13:54:27 MSD > >>> 2008

Re: kern/98388: [ata] FreeBSD 6.1 - WDC WD1200JS SATA II disks are seen as older SATA

2008-08-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
out results FWIW, the only time I've seen this happen is when there's a jumper limiting the capability. You should have **removed** the OPT1 jumper, and left any other jumpers alone. If you're absolutely sure the jumper is removed, I'll purchase one

Re: Debugging reboot with Linux emulation

2008-08-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ry >> may cause system crash. I actually doubt that non-branded elf binary >> ever start, due to unsatisfied dynamic dependencies. > > You see this behavior only for static binaries. In the non-branded case > the image activator takes the FreeBSD image and unfortunately there&

Re: strange issue reading /dev/null

2008-08-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
unction 'main': x.c:14: warning: control reaches end of non-void function x.c:12: warning: 'c' is used uninitialized in this function gcc -- finding new ways every day to drive programmers crazy. :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com

Re: strange issue reading /dev/null

2008-08-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
e code, thus I was expecting it just returned EOF, > but in reality this is not the case. How such cases should be handled? Your code is wrong -- you're not calling feof(). Please read the RETURN VALUES section of fgetc(3) in full, and slowly. :-) And your if() statemen

Re: USB key && kernel: da0: ...

2008-08-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 05:50:45AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 02:01:22PM +0200, Michel Talon wrote: > > > Matthias Apitz wrote: > > > Aug 6 10:06:12 rebelion kernel: umass0: > > rev 2.00/2.00, addr 2> on uhub4 > > > Aug 6 10:

Re: USB key && kernel: da0: ...

2008-08-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
t; > Needless to say, this stick works perfectly OK under Windows and Linux. I have the 4GB model of this USB stick/drive. I'll give it a try on my FreeBSD RELENG_7 box when I get home in about an hour. If I can reproduce the issue, I will be more than happy to send it to

Re: USB key && kernel: da0: Attempt to query device size failed: UNIT ?ATTENTION, Medium not present

2008-08-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
e them), there are versions with buggy USB code on them. I spent quite some time with Supermicro trying to find out why a SanDisk USB stick would not boot on some of their servers -- it turned out to be broken/buggy firmware code inside of the USB stick itself. Replacing it with a different

Re: Idea for FreeBSD

2008-08-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
age everything. I highly recommend you and anyone advocating the use of XML for such things read the following whitepaper/study, in full: http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/2004/2102/content.pdf -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: em0: The EEPROM Checksum Is Not Valid

2008-08-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
-- > > please, any solution? Intel probably has a utility to reset the EEPROM settings on the NIC. Jack Vogel may know where to get such a utility. I do not believe this problem is FreeBSD-related. -- | Jeremy

Re: Q: case studies about scalable, enterprise-class firewall w/ IPFilter

2008-08-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
separate routers on three separate occasions at my workplace. For something that costs so much money, you'd have expected them to go with some form of disk redundancy, SCSI disks, or SSDs. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: IPv6 CVS

2008-08-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
sup utility reports a fail (Connection Refused) as it > tries to connect to the V6 address. It will quite happily connect to the > same machine V4. csup is written in C; it does not use Modula3/ezm3. cvsup uses Modula3/ezm3. cvsup4, despite having a public IPv6 address, does not have

Re: Laptop suggestions?

2008-07-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
nitely lacking at > bending > over... You just did it again -- anti-FreeBSD propaganda and pro-FreeBSD propaganda in a single paragraph, followed by an oddly-skewed server-to-desktop comparison, something about computer cosmetics, then a strange comment about the beastie/Chuck which se

Re: Laptop suggestions?

2008-07-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
se two paragraphs is amazing; I literally cannot tell if you're trolling with anti-FreeBSD propaganda, or if you're trolling with pro-FreeBSD propaganda. Congratulations, you've confused at least one reader. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | |

Re: Laptop suggestions?

2008-07-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
;re still tweaking some >> things for ACPI. >> >> I'll have one at the FreeBSD booth at LinuxWorld in San Francisco next >> week, August 5-7. We'll announce as soon as this thing is 100% and >> we're comfortable bringing the product line up as

Re: forcefsck on booting stage

2008-07-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 04:11:49PM +0400, sam wrote: > Hello, > > How to make 'fsck -f' on booting stage of remote system? I believe by setting background_fsck="no" in /etc/rc.conf? That's the only way I know of, besides booting single user and doing i

Re: Laptop suggestions?

2008-07-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
E > and some googling around show that wireless, video and audio are > supported. A co-worker of mine has a Dell (I forget which model; I'll ask him this coming week), running Kubuntu. The overall compatibility is quite good, and I haven't heard any complaints fr

Re: Laptop suggestions?

2008-07-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 01:36:37PM +0300, Aggelidis Nikos wrote: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > "I'm buying a new computer, what should I buy?" > > > > Buy whatever suits your needs, and feels co

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