Re: ZFS on Root

2011-07-06 Thread Todor Dragnev
On 23.06.2011, at 16:08, Chris Brennan wrote: > * Peter Toth [2011-06-23 22:54:59 +1200]: > >> Did you set the mount point properly for your ZFS root? My previous post >> was intended as an example only, you need to tailor it to your setup. >> Also, you can use mfsbsd for installation very easy

Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread O. Hartmann
When performing an update on the ports tree via "portsnap fetch update" or when checking out (or) large Subversion repositories or when copying large data files (~ 50 to 250 GB in size, results from numerical modelings) or when compiling world, FreeBD 9.0 and FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE tend to "freeze"

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Christer Solskogen
2011/7/6 O. Hartmann : Could you post /etc/sysctl.conf and /boot/loader.conf? Also, the output of uname -a on all machines would be nice. And since you don't use GENERIC, could you also tell us what difference your setup is from a GENERIC kernel? -- chs,

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread arrowdodger
2011/7/6 O. Hartmann > When performing an update on the ports tree via "portsnap fetch update" or > when checking out (or) large Subversion repositories or when copying large > data files (~ 50 to 250 GB in size, results from numerical modelings) or > when compiling world, FreeBD 9.0 and FreeBSD

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Alexander Best
On Wed Jul 6 11, arrowdodger wrote: > 2011/7/6 O. Hartmann > > > When performing an update on the ports tree via "portsnap fetch update" or > > when checking out (or) large Subversion repositories or when copying large > > data files (~ 50 to 250 GB in size, results from numerical modelings) or

Re: Tool to show the recent disk space consumers?

2011-07-06 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Kurt Buff wrote: > On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 12:37, Yuri wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I hit this problem periodically when a lot of disk space is gone and it's > > hard to tell where did it go. Once it was thunderbird writing huge index > > file as a consequence of some bug, on another occasion it was the

Re: ipfw: getsockopt(IP_FW_ADD): Invalid argument

2011-07-06 Thread Unga
--- On Tue, 7/5/11, Ian Smith wrote: > > Does anybody successfully use the "ipfw fwd"? If so > in which FreeBSD version? > > Not I, but many do.  On the face of it the rule looks > correct.  Do you > have a TCP service running on localhost:1234 ?  Does > wlan0 exist?  You > may do better po

Re: ipfw: getsockopt(IP_FW_ADD): Invalid argument

2011-07-06 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 6 Jul 2011, Unga wrote: > On Tue, 7/5/11, Ian Smith wrote: > > > Does anybody successfully use the "ipfw fwd"? If so > > > in which FreeBSD version? > > > Not I, but many do.  On the face of it the rule looks > > correct.  Do you > > have a TCP service running on localhost:1234 ? 

Perl Problem After Upgrade to 5.12.4

2011-07-06 Thread Tim Daneliuk
Ideas anyone? I am trying to rebuild SpamAssassin after a perl upgrade to 5.12.4 and get this (I DID run perl-after-upgrade prior to this): ===> p5-Encode-Detect-1.01 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.4/Module/Build.pm - not found ===>Verifying install for /usr/local/l

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread O. Hartmann
On 07/06/11 12:37, arrowdodger wrote: 2011/7/6 O. Hartmann When performing an update on the ports tree via "portsnap fetch update" or when checking out (or) large Subversion repositories or when copying large data files (~ 50 to 250 GB in size, results from numerical modelings) or when compilin

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Steve Kargl
On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 05:29:24PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: > > I use SCHED_ULE on all machines, since it is supposed to be performing > better on multicore boxes, but there are lots of suggestions switching > back to the old SCHED_4BSD scheduler. > If you are using MPI in numerical codes, th

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Hartmann, O.
On 07/06/11 18:28, Steve Kargl wrote: On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 05:29:24PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: I use SCHED_ULE on all machines, since it is supposed to be performing better on multicore boxes, but there are lots of suggestions switching back to the old SCHED_4BSD scheduler. If you are usin

p5-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.56_1 and p5-ExtUtils-Install-1.54_1 conflict

2011-07-06 Thread n dhert
Hi, p5-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.56_1 and p5-ExtUtils-Install-1.54_1 conflict both telling that the other one should be deleted. So which one of the two to keep so far, I opted for keeping p5-ExtUtils-Install-1.54_1, deleting p5-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.56_1, is this wise or should it be the other way round

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Adrian Chadd
Has anyone re-run those IO benchmarks? Something smells fishy there.. (with the benchmarking.) adrian 2011/7/6 O. Hartmann : > On 07/06/11 12:37, arrowdodger wrote: >> >> 2011/7/6 O. Hartmann >> >>> When performing an update on the ports tree via "portsnap fetch update" >>> or >>> when checking

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Steve Kargl
On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 06:38:23PM +0200, Hartmann, O. wrote: > On 07/06/11 18:28, Steve Kargl wrote: > >On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 05:29:24PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: > >>I use SCHED_ULE on all machines, since it is supposed to be performing > >>better on multicore boxes, but there are lots of sugge

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <20110706170132.ga68...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, Steve Kargl w rites: >I periodically ran the same type test in the 2008 post over the >last three years. Nothing has changed. I even set up an account >on one node in my cluster for jeffr to use. He was too busy to >investigate a

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Steve Kargl
On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 05:05:41PM +, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20110706170132.ga68...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, Steve Kargl > w > rites: > > >I periodically ran the same type test in the 2008 post over the > >last three years. Nothing has changed. I even set up an account

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Steve Kargl
On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 03:18:35PM -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Steve Kargl > wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 05:29:24PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: > >> > >> I use SCHED_ULE on all machines, since it is supposed to be performing > >> better on multicor

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Arnaud Lacombe
Hi, On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Steve Kargl wrote: > On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 05:29:24PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: >> >> I use SCHED_ULE on all machines, since it is supposed to be performing >> better on multicore boxes, but there are lots of suggestions switching >> back to the old SCHED_4B

Re: p5-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.56_1 and p5-ExtUtils-Install-1.54_1 conflict

2011-07-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 06/07/2011 17:40, n dhert wrote: > p5-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.56_1 and p5-ExtUtils-Install-1.54_1 conflict > both telling that the other one should be deleted. > So which one of the two to keep > so far, I opted for keeping p5-ExtUtils-Install-1.54_1, deleting > p5-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.56_1, is thi

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Hartmann, O.
On 07/06/11 21:36, Steve Kargl wrote: On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 03:18:35PM -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: Hi, On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Steve Kargl wrote: On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 05:29:24PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: I use SCHED_ULE on all machines, since it is supposed to be performing b

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 07/06/11 13:00, Steve Kargl wrote: On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 05:05:41PM +, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message<20110706170132.ga68...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, Steve Kargl w rites: I periodically ran the same type test in the 2008 post over the last three years. Nothing has changed.

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Oliver Pinter
On 7/6/11, Hartmann, O. wrote: > On 07/06/11 21:36, Steve Kargl wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 03:18:35PM -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Steve Kargl >>> wrote: On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 05:29:24PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: > I use SCHED_UL

Re: ZFS on Root

2011-07-06 Thread Chris Brennan
* Todor Dragnev [2011-07-06 10:43:17 +0300]: Inline reply: > > Hi Chris > > I just installed ZFS on ROOT on two 1TB SATA disks: > > First you need to download freebsd 8.2 memstick release > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.2R/announce.html I did this via VirtualBox first, so the livefs i

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Adrian Chadd
Offer a bounty for getting it fixed? thanks, Adrian On 7 July 2011 05:00, Hartmann, O. wrote: > On 07/06/11 21:36, Steve Kargl wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 03:18:35PM -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Steve Kargl >>>  wrote: O

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Steve Kargl
On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 09:17:51AM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: > Offer a bounty for getting it fixed? > steve == ENOMONEY && jeffr == ENOTIME And, 4BSD works. -- Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/lis

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 7 July 2011 09:51, Steve Kargl wrote: > On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 09:17:51AM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: >> Offer a bounty for getting it fixed? >> > > steve == ENOMONEY && jeffr == ENOTIME > > And, 4BSD works. I meant it as a more general observation. If something doesn't work as needed, consid

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Steve Kargl
On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 10:39:00AM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On 7 July 2011 09:51, Steve Kargl wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 09:17:51AM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: > >> Offer a bounty for getting it fixed? > >> > > > > steve == ENOMONEY && jeffr == ENOTIME > > > > And, 4BSD works. > > I me

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Arnaud Lacombe
Hi, On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On 7 July 2011 09:51, Steve Kargl wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 09:17:51AM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: >>> Offer a bounty for getting it fixed? >>> >> >> steve == ENOMONEY && jeffr == ENOTIME >> >> And, 4BSD works. > > I meant it as a