Re: panic: pmap_enter: invalid page directory pdir=0xc1e063, va=0xffc00000

2005-12-14 Thread Frode Nordahl
On 4. des. 2005, at 23.44, Frode Nordahl wrote: Hello, After almost 6 months of problem-free operation one of my NFS servers has suddenly started to panic and do a automatic reboot regularly, about every 24 hours. This is a dual Xeon (with UP kernel for the time being) SE7501HG2 with 4

Re: mountd fails intermittently

2005-12-14 Thread Michael Sperber
Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That looks like your rpcbind(8) process died. Can you > check that with ps? Also, are there any warnings or > errors reported in /var/log/messages? No, it's still running. It shows up in rpcinfo (as does nfsd), and rpcbind itself also replies to pin

Re: kernel cpu entries

2005-12-14 Thread sthaug
> Is a minor update to the handbook needed in order avoid confusion then? > e.g. I have been commenting out CPU_I586 on all my PIII systems in the > (mistaken it would seem) belief that having CPU_I686 only was better. I've been doing the same thing myself - removing the CPU_I586 on PIII and new

Re: kernel cpu entries

2005-12-14 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 12:17:21AM -0500, Mike Jakubik wrote: > Mark Kirkwood wrote: > >Is a minor update to the handbook needed in order avoid confusion > >then? e.g. I have been commenting out CPU_I586 on all my PIII systems > >in the (mistaken it would seem) belief that having CPU_I686 only wa

Re: kernel cpu entries

2005-12-14 Thread Anish Mistry
On Wednesday 14 December 2005 10:55 pm, Scott Long wrote: > Jonathan Noack wrote: > > Kevin Oberman wrote: > >> Scott Long wrote: > >>> Also, taking out CPU_I586 is usually a bad idea. It offers no > >>> performance penalties (unlike CPU_I386 and maybe CPU_I486), but > >>> enables things like opti

Re: kernel cpu entries

2005-12-14 Thread Jonathan Noack
Mike Jakubik wrote: Mark Kirkwood wrote: Is a minor update to the handbook needed in order avoid confusion then? e.g. I have been commenting out CPU_I586 on all my PIII systems in the (mistaken it would seem) belief that having CPU_I686 only was better. Agreed, i have always just used I686,

Re: kernel cpu entries

2005-12-14 Thread Mike Jakubik
Mark Kirkwood wrote: Is a minor update to the handbook needed in order avoid confusion then? e.g. I have been commenting out CPU_I586 on all my PIII systems in the (mistaken it would seem) belief that having CPU_I686 only was better. Agreed, i have always just used I686, assuming it inherited

Re: kernel cpu entries

2005-12-14 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Scott Long wrote: Jonathan Noack wrote: Kevin Oberman wrote: Scott Long wrote: Also, taking out CPU_I586 is usually a bad idea. It offers no performance penalties (unlike CPU_I386 and maybe CPU_I486), but enables things like optimized bcopy. Ahh, This is the sort of thing I never real

Re: kernel cpu entries

2005-12-14 Thread Jonathan Noack
Scott Long wrote: Jonathan Noack wrote: Kevin Oberman wrote: Scott Long wrote: Also, taking out CPU_I586 is usually a bad idea. It offers no performance penalties (unlike CPU_I386 and maybe CPU_I486), but enables things like optimized bcopy. Ahh, This is the sort of thing I never realized

Re: kernel cpu entries

2005-12-14 Thread Scott Long
Jonathan Noack wrote: Kevin Oberman wrote: Scott Long wrote: Also, taking out CPU_I586 is usually a bad idea. It offers no performance penalties (unlike CPU_I386 and maybe CPU_I486), but enables things like optimized bcopy. Ahh, This is the sort of thing I never realized. Is there anythi

kernel cpu entries (was: Odd performance problems after upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0-Stable)

2005-12-14 Thread Jonathan Noack
Kevin Oberman wrote: Scott Long wrote: Also, taking out CPU_I586 is usually a bad idea. It offers no performance penalties (unlike CPU_I386 and maybe CPU_I486), but enables things like optimized bcopy. Ahh, This is the sort of thing I never realized. Is there anything in the handbook that co

Re: Odd performance problems after upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0-Stable

2005-12-14 Thread Jonathan Noack
Scott Long wrote: Also, taking out CPU_I586 is usually a bad idea. It offers no performance penalties (unlike CPU_I386 and maybe CPU_I486), but enables things like optimized bcopy. Is that documented? In /sys/i386/conf/NOTES I see: # You must specify at least one CPU (the one you intend to

Re: 6.0 random freezes

2005-12-14 Thread Atanas
Peter Jeremy said the following on 12/13/05 02:00: Note that PS/2 keyboards aren't hot-pluggable and attempts to do so can have deleterious effects on your keyboard and/or motherboard. In any case, the probe/attach sequence relies on the kernel being in a reasonably sane state (and I'm not sure

Re: Odd performance problems after upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0-Stable

2005-12-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 04:45:47PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 19:34:04 -0500 > > From: Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 04:26:18PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > > > I am attaching a dmesg. I do have a few of drivers (uhci, pcm, psm,

Re: Odd performance problems after upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0-Stable

2005-12-14 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 19:34:04 -0500 > From: Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 04:26:18PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > I am attaching a dmesg. I do have a few of drivers (uhci, pcm, psm, > > atkbd0 and ichsmb) that are still marked as GIANT-LOCKED, but I'm not

Re: Odd performance problems after upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0-Stable

2005-12-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 04:26:18PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > I am attaching a dmesg. I do have a few of drivers (uhci, pcm, psm, > atkbd0 and ichsmb) that are still marked as GIANT-LOCKED, but I'm not > using the USB very often. And I'm not using pcm or ichsmb during the > dump, either. I thin

Re: Odd performance problems after upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0-Stable

2005-12-14 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:17:38 -0700 > From: Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > I recently upgraded my last desktop system from 4.11-Stable to > > 6.0-Stable. I did an update to 5.3 then to RELENG_5, > > RELENG_6_0_0_RELEASE and on to RELENG6_0. > > > > This system

Re: Odd performance problems after upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0-Stable

2005-12-14 Thread Scott Long
Kevin Oberman wrote: I recently upgraded my last desktop system from 4.11-Stable to 6.0-Stable. I did an update to 5.3 then to RELENG_5, RELENG_6_0_0_RELEASE and on to RELENG6_0. This system has been updated regularly from the days of at least 4.1. The hardware is a 1GHz PIII with an ICH2 chips

Odd performance problems after upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0-Stable

2005-12-14 Thread Kevin Oberman
I recently upgraded my last desktop system from 4.11-Stable to 6.0-Stable. I did an update to 5.3 then to RELENG_5, RELENG_6_0_0_RELEASE and on to RELENG6_0. This system has been updated regularly from the days of at least 4.1. The hardware is a 1GHz PIII with an ICH2 chipset. 256 MB of memory.

Re: free space reported incorrectly

2005-12-14 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 14), Colin Farley said: > Thanks for the reply. I have found as suspected that apache is > responsible. Since these servers are redundant using UCARP I am > planning to shut down the services, unmount /var and run fsck, one at > a time. I'm just not sure why I cannot see

Re: free space reported incorrectly

2005-12-14 Thread Colin Farley
Thanks for the reply. I have found as suspected that apache is responsible. Since these servers are redundant using UCARP I am planning to shut down the services, unmount /var and run fsck, one at a time. I'm just not sure why I cannot see these files but hopefully fsck will make them visable or

Re: 6 Stable freezes upon bootup, but Release 6.0 works

2005-12-14 Thread Claus Guttesen
> Have a machine that once we upgraded to 6 Stable the machine would freeze at > the bootup menu. > > Strangely enough we have a second machine with the same motherboard, same > amount of memory, same 3Ware controller, but with different drives. the > machine that is Freezing has 10K RPM SATA rapto

6 Stable freezes upon bootup, but Release 6.0 works

2005-12-14 Thread Francisco Reyes
Have a machine that once we upgraded to 6 Stable the machine would freeze at the bootup menu. We tried disabling ACPI and AIPC and it did not help. Usually the freezing occurs after 2 or 3 seconds out of the 10 second countdown. To make it more interesting... if we press enter right after the

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 panic: kmem_malloc(16384): kmem_map too small: 172728320 total allocated [solved]

2005-12-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 05:32:34PM +0100, Fabian Keil wrote: > I guess you're right. I can fill a 256MB swap-backed disk without panic > and without swapping. FYI, this is documented in the manpage. Kris pgpJ4IsKT7ayY.pgp Description: PGP signature

nfs server timeout

2005-12-14 Thread Paul T. Root
I have a HP Vectra running FreeBSD acesfbsd 6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #0: Fri Dec 9 14:44:30 CST 2005 that has trouble with nfs mounts (amd home directory) from a Solaris 8 box. It started life as 4.x went through a lot of 5.x all with no problems. However, since upgrading to 6.0, occasio

Re: WPA Access Point

2005-12-14 Thread Sam Leffler
Neal Nelson wrote: Has anyone got FreeBSD 6.0 to work as a wireless access point using WPA? I'm running a Prism 2.5 based wireless card and have been using it as an access point for years. It stills works OK but I installed the hostapd port in order to add WPA authentication. Unfortunately thi

WPA Access Point

2005-12-14 Thread Neal Nelson
Has anyone got FreeBSD 6.0 to work as a wireless access point using WPA? I'm running a Prism 2.5 based wireless card and have been using it as an access point for years. It stills works OK but I installed the hostapd port in order to add WPA authentication. Unfortunately this doesn't seem to w

Re: 6.0 random freezes

2005-12-14 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Wed, 2005-Dec-14 08:28:26 -0400, fredthetree wrote: >i've only used the generic 6.0 kernel > ># kgdb kernel.debug /var/crash/vmcore.1 ... >#6 0xc07f6dca in calltrap () at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/exception.s:139 >#7 0xc0a7cf08 in ?? () Unfortunately, it's frame 7 and below that is crucial. Was

Re: free space reported incorrectly

2005-12-14 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 14), Colin Farley said: > I'm running FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p16 on a couple of production mail > relays/web servers. Today I noticed that one had a lot more space in > /var used. I figured that a log was growing and started to > investigate. After running du -h /var and s

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 panic: kmem_malloc(16384): kmem_map too small: 172728320 total allocated [solved]

2005-12-14 Thread Fabian Keil
Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gleb Smirnoff wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 01:25:30PM +0100, Fabian Keil wrote: > > F> I triggered a few reproducible panics on FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE. > > F> > > F> I created a ramdisk with: > > F> > > F> /sbin/mdconfig -a -t malloc -s 256M

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 panic: kmem_malloc(16384): kmem_map too small: 172728320 total allocated

2005-12-14 Thread Scott Long
Gleb Smirnoff wrote: On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 01:25:30PM +0100, Fabian Keil wrote: F> I triggered a few reproducible panics on FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE. F> F> I created a ramdisk with: F> F> /sbin/mdconfig -a -t malloc -s 256M -u 10 F> /sbin/newfs -U /dev/md10 F> /sbin/mount

free space reported incorrectly

2005-12-14 Thread Colin Farley
I'm running FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p16 on a couple of production mail relays/web servers. Today I noticed that one had a lot more space in /var used. I figured that a log was growing and started to investigate. After running du -h /var and seeing it come up with a total usage much less than what

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 panic: kmem_malloc(16384): kmem_map too small: 172728320 total allocated

2005-12-14 Thread Fabian Keil
Gleb Smirnoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 01:25:30PM +0100, Fabian Keil wrote: > F> I triggered a few reproducible panics on FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE. > F> > F> I created a ramdisk with: > F> > F> /sbin/mdconfig -a -t malloc -s 256M -u 10 > F> /sbin/newfs -U /

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 panic: kmem_malloc(16384): kmem_map too small: 172728320 total allocated

2005-12-14 Thread Gleb Smirnoff
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 01:25:30PM +0100, Fabian Keil wrote: F> I triggered a few reproducible panics on FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE. F> F> I created a ramdisk with: F> F> /sbin/mdconfig -a -t malloc -s 256M -u 10 F> /sbin/newfs -U /dev/md10 F> /sbin/mount /dev/md10 /mnt/ramdisk F

Re: ZERO_COPY_SOCKETS

2005-12-14 Thread Eirik Øverby
On Dec 6, 2005, at 03:20 , Joshua Coombs wrote: #optionsZERO_COPY_SOCKETS What's the status of this in 6.0-R and 6-stable? The idea of avoiding memory copies when possible seems really appealing for my 386, on which any little boost is significant. : ) Hoi, let me know h

Re: 6.0 random freezes

2005-12-14 Thread fredthetree
i've only used the generic 6.0 kernel # kgdb kernel.debug /var/crash/vmcore.1 [GDB will not be able to debug user-mode threads: /usr/lib/libthread_db.so: Undefined symbol "ps_pglobal_lookup"] GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD] Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the

FreeBSD 6.0 panic: kmem_malloc(16384): kmem_map too small: 172728320 total allocated

2005-12-14 Thread Fabian Keil
I triggered a few reproducible panics on FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE. I created a ramdisk with: /sbin/mdconfig -a -t malloc -s 256M -u 10 /sbin/newfs -U /dev/md10 /sbin/mount /dev/md10 /mnt/ramdisk The system has "avail memory = 515932160 (492 MB)" and 1GB swap space. While copy

Re: Problems with ata RAID?

2005-12-14 Thread Steven Hartland
Opps forgot to say running 6.0-RELEASE. Steve - Original Message - From: "Steven Hartland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Just spotted the following in the logs of one of our machines There seems to errors across too many disks for it to be disk issues. Any one seen this before / got any adv

Problems with ata RAID?

2005-12-14 Thread Steven Hartland
Just spotted the following in the logs of one of our machines There seems to errors across too many disks for it to be disk issues. Any one seen this before / got any advice? ad4: timeout waiting to issue command ad4: error issueing WRITE_DMA command ar0: WARNING - mirror protection lost. RAID0+1

Re: how to reach a developer

2005-12-14 Thread Simon Barner
[LoN]Kamikaze wrote: > Because of the devfs discussion I had a look into > sys/fs/devfs/devfs_rules.c . ^ without 's' > > Somewhere in the sourcecode he/she's asking a question and I would like > to answer it. There just is no email address provided. [...] You can use th

NFS locking problem with RELENG_6 client on RELENG_5 server

2005-12-14 Thread Oliver Brandmueller
Hi, I have a setup with an 5.4-STABLE (July, 10th 2005) NFS server and about 10 FreeBSD clients. Most of the clients are still running on RELENG_5, but I recently started updating to RELENG_6. Shortly after updating the first client I ran into a problem with a spinning rpc.lockd on the NFS ser

Re: 6.0-STABLE setkey panic

2005-12-14 Thread Paul Herman
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Paul Herman wrote: Just installed 6.0-STABLE/amd64 (cvsup from within the last day) onto a K8 Sempron with IPSEC compiled in and I get a kernel panic when I try to run racoon. Anyone else seen this? (Replying to myself...) Just saw this is PR 89261. Sorry for the redun

how to reach a developer

2005-12-14 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
Because of the devfs discussion I had a look into sys/fs/devfs/devfs_rules.c . Somewhere in the sourcecode he/she's asking a question and I would like to answer it. There just is no email address provided. The question is as follows: /* * XXX: Does it matter whether we do

Re: mountd fails intermittently

2005-12-14 Thread Oliver Fromme
Michael Sperber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running 5.4-STABLE (about two weeks old), and have just set up an > NFS server for the first time. Remote mounts sometimes work fine, and > sometimes fail. > > The symptoms are that "showmount -e" sez > > showmount: can't do exports rpc >