Current DRM for 6-STABLE

2005-11-28 Thread Eric Anholt
I've put a patch at http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/dri/drm-sys-stable-20051128.diff for a merge of the DRM in -current to 6-STABLE. I don't intend to merge it soon, but it may be of use to people who are enjoying life on 6-STABLE otherwise, and expand the testing before I do commi

Re: Unable to set device characteristics with devd

2005-11-28 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 10:04:05PM -0800, Darren Pilgrim wrote: > From: Kevin Oberman > > > > I've been trying to use devd for a number of things, but have > > not gotten > > far. > > > > One issue is when I attach an ATAPI disk: > > attach 100 { > > device-name "acd0"; > > actio

RE: Unable to set device characteristics with devd

2005-11-28 Thread Darren Pilgrim
From: Kevin Oberman > > I've been trying to use devd for a number of things, but have > not gotten > far. > > One issue is when I attach an ATAPI disk: > attach 100 { > device-name "acd0"; > action "/bin/chmod 666 /dev/$device-name"; > } > > I have similar statements for my seco

Unable to set device characteristics with devd

2005-11-28 Thread Kevin Oberman
I've been trying to use devd for a number of things, but have not gotten far. One issue is when I attach an ATAPI disk: attach 100 { device-name "acd0"; action "/bin/chmod 666 /dev/$device-name"; } I have similar statements for my second hard drive (ad2s2). By using the -D option

Re: ata (raid) patches

2005-11-28 Thread Michael Butler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I wrote: | For those game enough to try the results of my handiwork ;-), enclosed | is a patch against the files in /usr/src/sys/dev/ata for RELENG_6 (and | possibly others) with the following objectives: | | 1) the ata-raid driver currently leaks ata

Re: Difference between RELEASE, STABLE, CURRENT (was (no subject) )

2005-11-28 Thread Jim Van Fleet
Along the same lines: Do drivers trickle down from CURRENT into STABLE? For example, I have an Intel ICH7 sound card. I've noticed that support is available for these cards in CURRENT, but I am currently running STABLE (even though phoenix says not to-- whoops!) I understand that different

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2005-11-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
Matthew Tomsa wrote: What is the difference between RELEASE versions, STABLE versions, and CURRENT versions? I've done some reading but I'm still a bit confused. Thanks. -CURRENT is alpha. -STABLE is supposed to be the leading edge of functionality yet be stable enough for production use; it

Difference between RELEASE, STABLE, CURRENT (was (no subject) )

2005-11-28 Thread Scott Robbins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 10:40:55PM -0500, Matthew Tomsa wrote: > What is the difference between RELEASE versions, STABLE versions, and > CURRENT versions? I've done some reading but I'm still a bit confused. > Thanks. > One of the best explanations

Re: (no subject)

2005-11-28 Thread Mark Linimon
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 10:40:55PM -0500, Matthew Tomsa wrote: > What is the difference between RELEASE versions, STABLE versions, and > CURRENT versions? Please see the following: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/introduction.html http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/ar

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2005-11-28 Thread Matthew Tomsa
What is the difference between RELEASE versions, STABLE versions, and CURRENT versions? I've done some reading but I'm still a bit confused. Thanks. -Matt ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-

Re: NFS network load on 5.4-STABLE

2005-11-28 Thread Mike Eubanks
On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 10:19 -0800, Mike Eubanks wrote: > On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 03:10 -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 09:24:15PM -0800, Mike Eubanks wrote: > > > > > I made the sysctl modification. Still no luck though. The only process > > > that had any activity using th

device em0 not showing up at boot

2005-11-28 Thread Forrest Aldrich
I have an older PC (Compaq AP200) that I'm running FreeBSD-6.0 on. I have an Intel Gigabit interface installed in one of the PCI slots, along with another dual 10/100 Intel in another. The "em0" device does not show up at boot time, and therefore the firewall rules fail. However, if I go in

Re: Reduced java/tomcat performance 6-beta3 -> 6-stable ?

2005-11-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 10:53:00PM +0100, Eirik ?verby wrote: > Firmware versions are equal. BIOS settings are equal. > However, a diff of the dmesgs show (apart from MAC address differences): > > 30c30 > < Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 > --- > > Timecounter "ACPI-fast"

Re: Reduced java/tomcat performance 6-beta3 -> 6-stable ?

2005-11-28 Thread Scot Hetzel
On 11/28/05, Eirik Øverby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Update: The diff below was made after making sure both systems are > running the exact same kernel. Behavior is the same. Building new > kernels (6-STABLE) now to get out of the BETA stage. > > /Eirik > > On Nov 28, 2005, at 22:53 , Eirik Øverb

Re: Reduced java/tomcat performance 6-beta3 -> 6-stable ?

2005-11-28 Thread Eirik Øverby
Update: The diff below was made after making sure both systems are running the exact same kernel. Behavior is the same. Building new kernels (6-STABLE) now to get out of the BETA stage. /Eirik On Nov 28, 2005, at 22:53 , Eirik Øverby wrote: Firmware versions are equal. BIOS settings are eq

Re: Reduced java/tomcat performance 6-beta3 -> 6-stable ?

2005-11-28 Thread Eirik Øverby
Firmware versions are equal. BIOS settings are equal. However, a diff of the dmesgs show (apart from MAC address differences): 30c30 < Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 --- > Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 What on earth is that all about? The "s

Re: Reduced java/tomcat performance 6-beta3 -> 6-stable ?

2005-11-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 09:54:30PM +0100, Eirik ?verby wrote: > Hi, > > I think I have found the culprit. There must be some sort of > difference between the machines after all (BIOS revision?), because > while on one machine the interrupt rate for the bge card stays very > low (2 to be exac

Re: Reduced java/tomcat performance 6-beta3 -> 6-stable ?

2005-11-28 Thread Eirik Øverby
Hi, I think I have found the culprit. There must be some sort of difference between the machines after all (BIOS revision?), because while on one machine the interrupt rate for the bge card stays very low (2 to be exact) during maximum load, the other machine goes beyond 1000 and keeps ri

Re: Freebsd 5.3 screw up.... deleted /lib/libc.so.5

2005-11-28 Thread ebm
Cool, I'll try it later on today. I was able to copy the file to my server from a via a nfs connection that was established before my blunder. I kept running into the problem of not having the ability to cp anything since cp used that library file. If the /rescue works then I'll be backup up and

Suitable HBA for STABLE

2005-11-28 Thread Brad Miele
Hi, I have just been given a HP MSA1500 SAN, and the card that our IT department ordered is an Emulex 9802, as far as i can tell, there is no freebsd driver for this card, is this correct? If it is correct, what card is the best supported? It looks like isp supports the qlogic cards through 2

Re: Suitable HBA for STABLE

2005-11-28 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 01:29:31PM -0500, Brad Miele wrote.. > Hi, > > I have just been given a HP MSA1500 SAN, and the card that our IT > department ordered is an Emulex 9802, as far as i can tell, there is no > freebsd driver for this card, is this correct? If it is correct, what card Correc

Re: NFS network load on 5.4-STABLE

2005-11-28 Thread Mike Eubanks
On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 03:10 -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 09:24:15PM -0800, Mike Eubanks wrote: > > > I made the sysctl modification. Still no luck though. The only process > > that had any activity using the top with the -S option, or after sorting > > by total, was the

Re: ACPI problems with Dell laptops

2005-11-28 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 27 November 2005 at 23:10:01 +, Chris Howells wrote: > On Sunday 27 November 2005 11:50, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> Since then I've also discovered that the builtin wireless card doesn't >> work either.  It's: >> >>   iwi0: mem 0xdfcfd000-0xdfcfdfff irq 10 at >> device 3.0 on pci

Re: Reduced java/tomcat performance 6-beta3 -> 6-stable ?

2005-11-28 Thread Eirik Øverby
Follow-up: I've now ran vmstat during load, which confirms the findings of vmstat during idle time. Slow system - one sample before and after load start included: procs memory pagedisks faults cpu r b w avmfre flt re pi po fr sr da0 pa0 in

what about highpoint 1640 SATA RAID controller ?

2005-11-28 Thread Alessandro de Manzano
Hello, well, subj already says ;), however I'm planning to buy a good, supported and possibly not very expensive SATA RAID PCI controller for my FreeBSD server (an IBM x206). I'll install FreeBSD 6.0-R from scratch. Googling around I found the Highpoint RocketRAID 1640 PCI 32bit SATA RAID 0,1 (5

Re: Reduced java/tomcat performance 6-beta3 -> 6-stable ?

2005-11-28 Thread Eirik Øverby
On Nov 28, 2005, at 15:54 , Joseph Koshy wrote: EØ> *loads* more context switches than on the BETA-3 system. EØ> I have not yet tried this during load - Which scheduler have you configured (BSD or ULE)? Running GENERIC/SMP kernels, with BSD scheduler. Speaking of which; is there a way to ex

Re: recomendations please for new freebsd development system

2005-11-28 Thread Vivek Khera
On Nov 28, 2005, at 12:58 AM, vizion wrote: Would anyone be so bold as to make some recommendations for a reliable motherboard/processor combination on the assumption that this is to be a dual processor system running freebsd 6.0 You definitely want something Opteron based for this kind of

Re: Reduced java/tomcat performance 6-beta3 -> 6-stable ?

2005-11-28 Thread Eirik Øverby
On Nov 28, 2005, at 14:45 , Joseph Koshy wrote: On 11/26/05, Eirik Øverby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: EØ> [Cross-posting after lack of response on -stable] The first step would be do some performance debugging. Yep. - What do top/vmstat/systat say about what the OS and apps are doing? I

Re: Reduced java/tomcat performance 6-beta3 -> 6-stable ?

2005-11-28 Thread Joseph Koshy
On 11/26/05, Eirik Øverby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: EØ> [Cross-posting after lack of response on -stable] The first step would be do some performance debugging. - What do top/vmstat/systat say about what the OS and apps are doing? Is the CPU pegged at 100%? What's the load seen by the d

Re: 6.0 kernel will not boot past atkbd0

2005-11-28 Thread Pete French
> Is there any chance that the very mouse > is not working correctly? What if you change > the device and try again? very unlikely I would think - the mouse works correclt if thr machine run FreeBSD 5 or FreeBSD 5, and also under Windows2000 (it is connected via a KVM). Also someone else reported

Re: Upgrading Question

2005-11-28 Thread Laurent C
2005/11/26, Yousef Raffah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hello Everyone, Hello, I just thought of upgrading from FreeBSD 6 BETA5 to 6-STABLE so I > followed the http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/makeworld.html manual > page. > I reached to a point where I had to reboot into single user mode to > co

Re: power outage

2005-11-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 12:05:18AM -0800, Mike Spooner wrote: > I didn't know if I should post this to questions or stable but here it > is... > > We had a power outage and now /home won't mount. Before the power outage > all was fine. Looks like the drive became damaged. Maybe the power spiked

Re: NFS network load on 5.4-STABLE

2005-11-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 09:24:15PM -0800, Mike Eubanks wrote: > I made the sysctl modification. Still no luck though. The only process > that had any activity using the top with the -S option, or after sorting > by total, was the swapper/syncer. Even then, it was hardly active. The > network t

power outage

2005-11-28 Thread Mike Spooner
I didn't know if I should post this to questions or stable but here it is... We had a power outage and now /home won't mount. Before the power outage all was fine. On boot I get the following... . . . Starting file system checks: /dev/da0s1a: FILE SYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CHECKS /dev/da0s1a: clean,