fxp(4) and Intel 82801GB NIC

2006-11-09 Thread Sergey Solyanik
Hello! I have a problem with my -STABLE, fxp(4) doesn't detect available media in the Intel 82801GB onboard NIC. It shows that: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ifconfig fxp1 fxp1: flags=9943UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,LINK0,MULTICAST mtu 1500 options=8VLAN_MTU inet 192.168.250.1

Downgrade to 5.5

2006-11-09 Thread Albert Shih
Hi all I'm running 6-stable on my FreeBSD nfs server, and I've lots of lots of trouble. 1/ Sometime the server juste hang-on without any message (console or syslog) 2/ Sometime I've em* or bge* watchdog on the console, and when this append the server loose this

[OT] Re: nvidia0 em0 shared irq problem persists on dell precision 670

2006-11-09 Thread O. Hartmann
Russell Jackson wrote: On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 09:23:45PM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: Russell Jackson wrote: [ ... ] pnpbios: Bad PnP BIOS data checksum Did you notice this? Try reflashing your motherboard to the latest available BIOS revision, doing a load defaults, and then clearing and

Re: Dissapointing performance of ciss RAID 0+1 ?

2006-11-09 Thread Ivan Voras
Pete French wrote: I've tried all the possible stripe sizes (128k gives the best performance) but still I only get the above speeds. Just one of the 15k drives on it's own performs better than this! I would expect the RAID-0 to give me at least some speedup, or in the worst case be the same,

Re: Downgrade to 5.5

2006-11-09 Thread Marko Lerota
Albert Shih [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well after this thing I want to downgrade to 5.x. Can I use this process: I make buildworld buildkernel on a FreeBSD 5.x server. I make a tar.gz of /usr/obj and /usr/src I tranfert this two tar.gz on my 6-stable server. Untar

Re: Dissapointing performance of ciss RAID 0+1 ?

2006-11-09 Thread Pete French
- Is the controller cache enabled? Yes - split 50% read, 50% write. - Do you have the battery for it and is write cache enabled? (You won't make full use of the cache without the battery) yes - battery is attached and fully charged - How does your performance compare when using dd on the

Re: geli password prompt does not work

2006-11-09 Thread Jost Menke
On Sat Apr 29 18:42:32 UTC 2006, Martin wrote: Hmm. It does not help. But the behavior seems to be different. I noticed, now it's possible to enter a password. The problem is that it's not possible to enter it correctly. Something is still broken after applying the patch. Is there any

Re: Downgrade to 5.5

2006-11-09 Thread Albert Shih
Le 09/11/2006 à 11:28:02+0100, Marko Lerota a écrit Albert Shih [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well after this thing I want to downgrade to 5.x. Can I use this process: I make buildworld buildkernel on a FreeBSD 5.x server. I make a tar.gz of /usr/obj and /usr/src I tranfert

Re: Downgrade to 5.5

2006-11-09 Thread Marko Lerota
Albert Shih [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried regularly like it was upgrade but it was downgrade from 6-STABLE to 5.4-RELEASE and it didn't worked. Event you build on a different server (a server running 5.x) ? No, on the same. It was disaster. It was in pre production :) Easier and quicker

Re: Dissapointing performance of ciss RAID 0+1 ?

2006-11-09 Thread Pete French
You might be able to speed up the read by playing with the vfs.read_max sysctl (try 16 or 32). Wow! That makes a huge difference, thanks. Should this not be in 'man tuning' ? -pete. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Dissapointing performance of ciss RAID 0+1 ?

2006-11-09 Thread Ivan Voras
Pete French wrote: - How does your performance compare when using dd on the raw devices (in order: da0, da0s1, da0s1a...) vs when using it on the file system? (Poor performance might indicate FS vs stripe alignment issues) Raw dd gives 50 meg/second On /dev/da1, with a reasonable block

Re: Dissapointing performance of ciss RAID 0+1 ?

2006-11-09 Thread Pete French
Raw dd gives 50 meg/second On /dev/da1, with a reasonable block size (1m)? Block size is 2meg. I was using da1s1 and da1s2 which were giving me 50 and 47 meg/second resepctively - if I switch to da1 on it's own I get 59 meg/second. reading from the filesystem with the vfs.read_max set to 64 I

Re: Dissapointing performance of ciss RAID 0+1 ?

2006-11-09 Thread Ivan Voras
Pete French wrote: reading from the filesystem with the vfs.read_max set to 64 I now get 112 meg/second though ?!!! how can the filesystem give me better performance than the raw device ? I do not think this is a caching issue as I am using a test file nearly twice the size of the RAM in the

Re: Dissapointing performance of ciss RAID 0+1 ?

2006-11-09 Thread Pete French
It would be interesting for you to track iostat (i.e. run iostat 1) with and without modified vfs.read_max and see if there's a difference. On the file: KB/t is about 127.5 with both sizes. Rate is 39 on with the read_max set to 8, but 115 with read_max set to 64. On the raw device: KB/t is

Re: Dissapointing performance of ciss RAID 0+1 ?

2006-11-09 Thread Ivan Voras
Pete French wrote: It would be interesting for you to track iostat (i.e. run iostat 1) with and without modified vfs.read_max and see if there's a difference. On the file: KB/t is about 127.5 with both sizes. Rate is 39 on with the read_max set to 8, but 115 with read_max set to 64. Ok, this

Re: Dissapointing performance of ciss RAID 0+1 ?

2006-11-09 Thread Ivan Voras
Pete French wrote: You might be able to speed up the read by playing with the vfs.read_max sysctl (try 16 or 32). Wow! That makes a huge difference, thanks. Should this not be in 'man tuning' ? AFAIK vfs.read_max will only influence sequential reading - it's the readahead size. Also, it's

Re: Downgrade to 5.5

2006-11-09 Thread Albert Shih
Le 09/11/2006 à 12:29:38+0100, Marko Lerota a écrit Albert Shih [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried regularly like it was upgrade but it was downgrade from 6-STABLE to 5.4-RELEASE and it didn't worked. Event you build on a different server (a server running 5.x) ? No, on the same. It

Re: Downgrade to 5.5

2006-11-09 Thread Marko Lerota
Albert Shih [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: WellI known but I can do that now. Because I can reboot the server, but I can re-install (I don't have access to the console). Good luck to you. It's very possible that after reboot you don't get ssh prompt :) Most servers have console and remote

LOR with today's RELENG_6

2006-11-09 Thread Vlad Galu
-- cut here -- lock order reversal: 1st 0x80501ba0 cdev (cdev) @ kern/kern_conf.c:61 2nd 0x858d20f8 sleep mtxpool (sleep mtxpool) @ kern/kern_prot.c:1877 KDB: stack backtrace: witness_checkorder() at witness_checkorder+0x4d2 _mtx_lock_flags() at _mtx_lock_flags+0x5c crhold() at

Re: LOR with today's RELENG_6

2006-11-09 Thread Vlad Galu
On 11/9/06, Vlad Galu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- cut here -- lock order reversal: 1st 0x80501ba0 cdev (cdev) @ kern/kern_conf.c:61 2nd 0x858d20f8 sleep mtxpool (sleep mtxpool) @ kern/kern_prot.c:1877 KDB: stack backtrace: witness_checkorder() at witness_checkorder+0x4d2

Re: LOR with today's RELENG_6

2006-11-09 Thread Vlad Galu
On 11/9/06, Vlad Galu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/9/06, Vlad Galu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- cut here -- lock order reversal: 1st 0x80501ba0 cdev (cdev) @ kern/kern_conf.c:61 2nd 0x858d20f8 sleep mtxpool (sleep mtxpool) @ kern/kern_prot.c:1877 KDB: stack backtrace:

Re: Downgrade to 5.5

2006-11-09 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 09:56:03AM +0100 I heard the voice of Albert Shih, and lo! it spake thus: make installkernel on /usr/src from 5.x reboot make installworld. This is highly likely (one might almost say assured) to not work, since the 5.x kernel isn't going to be able

Re: LOR with today's RELENG_6

2006-11-09 Thread Matthew Herzog
I have never been able to make buildworld on sparc64 STABLE. It always dies in gbde. mkdep -f .depend -a-I/usr/src/sbin/gbde/../../sys -DRESCUE /usr/src/sbin/gbde/gbde.c template.c /usr/src/sbin/gbde/../../sys/crypto/rijndael/rijndael-alg-fst.c

Re: Downgrade to 5.5

2006-11-09 Thread Fredrik Widlund
Marko Lerota wrote: Someone said on this list, that priority now are new features, so developers have no time to fix bugs. I prefer stability over the new features also, and most of the people on this list I think. That's one of the reasons that I escaped from Penguins. I agree to the

Re: Downgrade to 5.5

2006-11-09 Thread Scot Hetzel
On 11/9/06, Albert Shih [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I make buildworld buildkernel on a FreeBSD 5.x server. I make a tar.gz of /usr/obj and /usr/src I tranfert this two tar.gz on my 6-stable server. Untar on right place make installkernel on /usr/src from 5.x

Re: Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-09 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 08:19 PM 11/8/2006, Jack Vogel wrote: BUT, I've added the FAST_INTR changes back into the code, so if you go into your Makefile and add -DEM_FAST_INTR you will then get the taskqueue stuff. It certainly does make a difference performance wise. I did some quick testing with netperf and

Re: Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-09 Thread Scott Long
Mike Tancsa wrote: At 08:19 PM 11/8/2006, Jack Vogel wrote: BUT, I've added the FAST_INTR changes back into the code, so if you go into your Makefile and add -DEM_FAST_INTR you will then get the taskqueue stuff. It certainly does make a difference performance wise. I did some quick testing

Trouble: NFS via TCP

2006-11-09 Thread Oliver Fromme
Hi, I've got a very weird problem with NFS mounts on a RELENG_6 machine (a.k.a 6.2-PRERELEASE, sources synced yesterday, November 8th). It's an HP Proliant DL360 G4 (G4p to be exact), but that shouldn't matter. I've been banging my head on the table for several hours, but I can't find the

Re: usb to serial

2006-11-09 Thread Maxim Konovalov
[ iedowse CC'ed ] Hello, On Fri, 5 May 2006, 11:04-0400, David Coder wrote: thx for the suggestions, guys. with device uftdi device uplcom in the kernel config the adapter shows up as ugen0: ArkMicroChips USB-UART Controller, rev 1.10/0.01, addr 2 no specific com

Re: Trouble: NFS via TCP

2006-11-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 06:17:06PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: I've got a very weird problem with NFS mounts on a RELENG_6 machine (a.k.a 6.2-PRERELEASE, sources synced yesterday, November 8th). It's an HP Proliant DL360 G4 (G4p to be exact), but that shouldn't matter. I've been banging my

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 IPsec Path MTU Discovery

2006-11-09 Thread Johann Hugo
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 19:39, Tom Judge wrote: Hi, I am seeing some problems with some problems with IPsec encrypted gif tunnels and path mtu discovery. It seems that the router with the IPsec tunnel sends an ICMP need to frag packet with the next hop mtu set to 0. This causes ssh to

Re: sparc64 buildworld failure (NOT: LOR with today's RELENG_6)

2006-11-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 09:33:45AM -0500, Matthew Herzog wrote: I have never been able to make buildworld on sparc64 STABLE. It always dies in gbde. Don't hijack threads for unrelated topics, please. /usr/src/sbin/gbde/gbde.c:801: warning: implicit declaration of function `getopt'

Re: Trouble: NFS via TCP

2006-11-09 Thread Oliver Fromme
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: I've got a very weird problem with NFS mounts on a RELENG_6 machine (a.k.a 6.2-PRERELEASE, sources synced yesterday, November 8th). It's an HP Proliant DL360 G4 (G4p to be exact), but that shouldn't matter. I've been banging my head on

Re: Trouble: NFS via TCP

2006-11-09 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi Oliver, Now I'm running out of ideas Well done on that big list of things already tried :-) Using a normal UDP mount I had eratic come go problems with amd until I added to rc.conf nfs_server_flags=-u -t -n 10 Turns out I had too few. 10 fixed it. man nfsd: A server should

Re: FreeBSD doesn't boot at Supermicro H8SSL-i2

2006-11-09 Thread Thomas Krause
Mike Voorhis schrieb: Wouldn't disabling USB in BIOS work? This appears to be possible from most of the PC's I see in my travels. My problem: I cannot find an option in the BIOS for disabling USB. Regards, Thomas. Ivan Voras wrote: Thomas Krause wrote: BTW: There is no way to disable

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 IPsec Path MTU Discovery

2006-11-09 Thread Tom Judge
Johann Hugo wrote: On Tuesday 07 November 2006 19:39, Tom Judge wrote: I'm seeing the same problem on my gif tunnel. For an interim work around you can reduce the MTU size between Box1 and Box2 e.g route change Box2 -mtu 1200. After it's starts working you can change it back to 1500 en it

pls.which.way.to.go?

2006-11-09 Thread Wlodek Kraterski
I'm running now 4.11 and I'm quite happy. However, I did get my hands on new box: IBM x230 with 2X1gig intel 6x.X.SCSI.X.33.6 and 3 gig of ram. My old server is basicaly a web server with cgi and php, hosting my own web sites. I would like to upgrade the whole

Re: pls.which.way.to.go?

2006-11-09 Thread Kay Abendroth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I would upgrade to 5.5 first. Then it's up to you, but waiting for 6.3 is probably not a bad idea, before going further up the hill to 6.x. Wlodek Kraterski wrote: I'm running now 4.11 and I'm quite happy. However, I

Re: pls.which.way.to.go?

2006-11-09 Thread Gábor Kövesdán
Kay Abendroth wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I would upgrade to 5.5 first. Then it's up to you, but waiting for 6.3 is probably not a bad idea, before going further up the hill to 6.x. Wlodek Kraterski wrote: I'm running now 4.11 and I'm quite happy.

Re: nvidia0 em0 shared irq problem persists on dell precision 670

2006-11-09 Thread Russell Jackson
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 07:39:52PM -0700, Scott Long wrote: Is the firewire controller something that you can disable? Can you selectively disable some of the USB controllers? Scott I've tried disabling every combination of devices possible. The only change that fixed the problem

Re: nvidia0 em0 shared irq problem persists on dell precision 670

2006-11-09 Thread Russell Jackson
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 09:23:45PM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: Russell Jackson wrote: [ ... ] pnpbios: Bad PnP BIOS data checksum Did you notice this? Try reflashing your motherboard to the latest available BIOS revision, doing a load defaults, and then clearing and reseting the ESCD.

Re: Dissapointing performance of ciss RAID 0+1 ?

2006-11-09 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Pete French wrote: You might be able to speed up the read by playing with the vfs.read_max sysctl (try 16 or 32). Wow! That makes a huge difference, thanks. Should this not be in 'man tuning' ? Yeah, I believe I've seen it mentioned *somewhere* with respect to working with RAID (of course,

Re: adding an extra hard disk and adding space to /usr

2006-11-09 Thread martinko
Aaron Burke wrote: Hello all, Hello Matt, I have a machine that just had a new HD added to it as ad1 and I want to ADD this new disk onto the already existing /usr partition. What's the best and safest way to do it? Well, I know of two options. One which sounds really cool, is

Re: Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-09 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 08:19 PM 11/8/2006, Jack Vogel wrote: BUT, I've added the FAST_INTR changes back into the code, so if you go into your Makefile and add -DEM_FAST_INTR you will then get the taskqueue stuff. Not sure why you would want FAST_INTR and polling in at the same time, but I found that the two are

Re: Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-09 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 10:51 AM 11/9/2006, Scott Long wrote: Mike Tancsa wrote: At 08:19 PM 11/8/2006, Jack Vogel wrote: BUT, I've added the FAST_INTR changes back into the code, so if you go into your Makefile and add -DEM_FAST_INTR you will then get the taskqueue stuff. It certainly does make a difference

Re: Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-09 Thread Jack Vogel
Yes, they are incompatible, I suppose there should be something that makes it impossible to do, but not building should be a clue :) Jack On 11/9/06, Mike Tancsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 08:19 PM 11/8/2006, Jack Vogel wrote: BUT, I've added the FAST_INTR changes back into the code, so if

Re: pls.which.way.to.go?

2006-11-09 Thread Frank Mayhar
On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 22:20 +0100, Kay Abendroth wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I would upgrade to 5.5 first. Then it's up to you, but waiting for 6.3 is probably not a bad idea, before going further up the hill to 6.x. Please don't top-post. And I disagree. He

Re: pls.which.way.to.go?

2006-11-09 Thread Tom Samplonius
I would upgrade to 5.5 first. Then it's up to you, but waiting for 6.3 is probably not a bad idea, before going further up the hill to 6.x. Please don't top-post. And I disagree. He should go straight to 6.2. If he's going to go to the trouble of upgrading, he should go straight

Debugging a dump - need alternative?

2006-11-09 Thread Robert Marella
Aloha All One of my computers has an Asus A8N-VM motherboard. I have been running i386 on it for nearly a year. I played around with AMD64 earlier stuck with the i386. Last week I set up a dual boot with i386 and AMD64. The i386 is on a SATA drive and I installed 6.2 Beta 3 on and IDE Drive. All

Linux-firefox

2006-11-09 Thread Minette Pamela
hi, i got this problem with linux-firefox. I Installed it before in my KDE in FreeBSD with no problems and been able to use flash plugins. Then, I changed to Gnome recently and installed linux-firefox. Now, when I tried to install plugins by clicking on a site with a plugin requirement, I was

Debugging a dump - need alternative?

2006-11-09 Thread Robert Marella
I am sorry if this is a repost but I never saw it hit the list. Aloha All One of my computers has an Asus A8N-VM motherboard. I have been running i386 on it for nearly a year. I played around with AMD64 earlier stuck with the i386. Last week I set up a dual boot with i386 and AMD64. The i386

Re: Debugging a dump - need alternative?

2006-11-09 Thread Scott Robbins
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 06:12:04PM -1000, Robert Marella wrote: I am sorry if this is a repost but I never saw it hit the list. That's because you use gmail. They consider it a feature though many consider it a bug--if you post to a mailing list, to, as they say, avoid clutter in your inbox

Re: usb to serial

2006-11-09 Thread Hans Petter Selasky
On Thursday 09 November 2006 18:29, Maxim Konovalov wrote: [ iedowse CC'ed ] Hello, On Fri, 5 May 2006, 11:04-0400, David Coder wrote: thx for the suggestions, guys. with device uftdi device uplcom in the kernel config the adapter shows up as ugen0: ArkMicroChips USB-UART