Re: rrdtool performance tuning (fwd)

2007-10-30 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Dmitry Morozovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071029 12:44] wrote: > > [hmm, after thinking a bit I decided it would be more appropriate here, in > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Dear colleagues, > > any hints to tune rrdtool with ~30k rrd files (approx 2k target devices)? > > machine is mostly IO-bound, sh

Re: interface speed support

2007-10-30 Thread Miguel Lopes Santos Ramos
> From: "David Yeske" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Is there a way to determine the supported interface speed of a > particular driver? If I have a gigabit ethernet device connected to a > 100baseTX switch, how can I determine the interface supports gigabit > ethernet? I have tried parsing the followin

Re: RFC: Evolution of the em driver

2007-10-30 Thread Kip Macy
Jack, you should know by now that we're not Linux. All we care about is that you not break the code that we rely on. I'm still slightly embarrassed when I explain to people that I build if_em as a module because em0 doesn't come up sometimes due to a race condition on initialization, so I need to b

Re: rrdtool performance tuning (fwd)

2007-10-30 Thread Steven Hartland
Have you tried the latest beta which has had quite a rework in terms of IO. Regards Steve - Original Message - From: "Dmitry Morozovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [hmm, after thinking a bit I decided it would be more appropriate here, in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear colleagues, any h

Re: rrdtool performance tuning (fwd)

2007-10-30 Thread Oleg Derevenetz
[hmm, after thinking a bit I decided it would be more appropriate here, in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear colleagues, any hints to tune rrdtool with ~30k rrd files (approx 2k target devices)? machine is mostly IO-bound, showing 100% disk load with 8 or sometimes even 3 mB/s, 300-400 tps (it's 2 SATA3

Re: Realtek Gigabit Network Card 0xd6088086

2007-10-30 Thread Pyun YongHyeon
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 06:40:59PM -0200, Daniel Dias Gon?alves wrote: > Pyun YongHyeon escreveu: > >On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 10:28:46PM -0200, Daniel Dias Gon?alves wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE can support this network card? > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class=0x020

Re: date manupulation strangeness

2007-10-30 Thread Miguel Lopes Santos Ramos
> From: Holger Kipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 01:35:08AM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 07:20:11PM +0100, Holger Kipp wrote: > > > > > > # unixtime=1193511599 > > > > # LC_ALL=C TZ=Asia/Krasnoyarsk date -jr $unixtime > > > > Sun Oct 28 02:59:59 KRAT

Re: /usr/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8

2007-10-30 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Jeremy Chadwick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > There's a periodic script (/etc/periodic/weekly/330.catman) which > rebuilds all the catman pages for you. However, it makes an immense > mess of your weekly system mails due to all the manpage/nroff > formatting mistakes. Have a look: > > http://l

Re: 7.0-BETA1 freeze using portmaster

2007-10-30 Thread Doug Barton
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Robert Marella wrote: Aloha [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~> uname -a FreeBSD p4.konav201.local 7.0-BETA1 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1 #2: Mon Oct 29 07:58:19 HST 2007 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 This was a fresh install of 7 from a couple of months ago when it was -current. I h

Re: RFC: Evolution of the em driver

2007-10-30 Thread Brian McGinty
I prefer (2) - non-intrusive on em, and the new one doesn't have to deal with legacy or backward compatibility with em. Any commonality with ixgbe? Later Brian. On 10/29/07, Jack Vogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have an important decision to make and I thought rather than just make > it

Re: Is anyone seeing BIND 9.3.4-P1 use all CPU time on 6.2-STABLE?

2007-10-30 Thread Doug Barton
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Scott Lambert wrote: I have a 6.2-STABLE snapshot box from August that where named(8) is going into what appears to be a tight loop calling gettimeofday(). It is using all CPU time on the box. It seems to be answering queries alright, just using a lot of CPU. I think you

Re: CMOS, daylight saving time and dual-boot

2007-10-30 Thread Doug Barton
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Eugene Grosbein wrote: Suppose, the machine does not have global connectivity at all (and it has no local source of exact time) or just at the boot time. It still needs to adjust local time, right? Your post posited a problem with ntpd not being able to synch the time bec

Re: /usr/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8

2007-10-30 Thread Doug Barton
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, Andrew Lankford wrote: Thbbt! I'm reading the catman version of MAKEDEV. I'll try posting this one more time. :) Before you installworld, just do 'rm -r /usr/share/man/' and you won't ever have that problem. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection

Re: CMOS, daylight saving time and dual-boot

2007-10-30 Thread Eugene Grosbein
Doug Barton wrote: > > Suppose, the machine does not have global connectivity at all > > (and it has no local source of exact time) or just at the boot time. > > It still needs to adjust local time, right? > > Your post posited a problem with ntpd not being able to synch the time > because it was

Re: HEADSUP: don't upgrade to RELENG_6 now [FIXED]

2007-10-30 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
Hello, On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 20:51 +0800, Rong-en Fan wrote: > The breakage introduced by MFC of ctype(3) after 2007/10/24 14:23 UTC > is now fixed. Make sure you have lib/Makefile rev 1.205.2.4 before upgrading > your world. If it breaks already, please follow the instructions in > src/UPDATING

Re: iwi0: could not load firmware

2007-10-30 Thread Scot Hetzel
On 10/29/07, Oliver Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > % uname -srm > FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1 i386 > > What did I do wrong? > > dmesg output: > iwi0: mem 0xa0202000-0xa0202fff irq 11 at > device 2.0 on pci4 > iwi0: Ethernet address: 00:16:6f:c3:e3:48 > iwi0: [ITHREAD] > iwi_bss: You need to read the LIC

Re: Realtek Gigabit Network Card 0xd6088086

2007-10-30 Thread Wilko Bulte
Quoting Daniel Dias Gonalves, who wrote on Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 06:40:59PM -0200 .. > Pyun YongHyeon escreveu: > >On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 10:28:46PM -0200, Daniel Dias Gon?alves wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE can support this network card? > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: clas

Re: iwi0: could not load firmware

2007-10-30 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
Oliver Peter wrote: > ... > And I have the following entry in /boot/loader.conf > > # intel/wireless > set legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1 > if_iwi_load="YES Why did you put set in front of your license agreement? ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing

Re: MFC requests for 6.3

2007-10-30 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Monday 29 October 2007 00:22:34 Brett Glass wrote: > I would like to request that some useful work on networking be MFCed > from -CURRENT to -STABLE in time for the release of FreeBSD 6.3. In > particular, I'd like to see some of the Netgraph nodes which are new or > which have seen extensive de

Re: any hope for nfe/msk?

2007-10-30 Thread Pyun YongHyeon
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 10:42:33AM +0200, Oleg Lomaka wrote: > Pyun YongHyeon wrote: > >On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 05:30:32PM +0900, To Oleg Lomaka wrote: > > > >[...] > > > > > > tdevil% grep -iE "msk|phy" /var/run/dmesg.boot > > > > pci0: domain=0, physical bus=0 > > > > pci2: domain=0, p

Re: iwi0: could not load firmware

2007-10-30 Thread Oliver Peter
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 11:41:56PM +0100, Oliver Peter wrote: > iwi_bss: If you agree with the license, set legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1 in > /boot/loader.conf. > > And I have the following entry in /boot/loader.conf > > # intel/wireless > set legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1 After removing the

Kernel panic with Bitorrent client

2007-10-30 Thread Jonathan Chen
Hi, I've just recently updated Deluge (a GNOME Bitorrent client), and I'm experiencing kernel panics when I run this on -STABLE as at 22-Oct-2007. The panic is reproducible on another machine running an older version of -STABLE as well. I managed to get a kernel dump while running it under single

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD Questions

2007-10-30 Thread David Syphers
On Monday 29 October 2007, Jason Slack wrote: > Hi All, > > I am new to FreeBSD, or want to be. > > I have an HP Media center PC that has the Viiv 920-D processor with 4GB of > RAM. I hate Windows, but had to sell my MacBook so my Fiance and I could > get into a new apartment together. > > I want t

Re: rrdtool performance tuning (fwd)

2007-10-30 Thread Dmitry Morozovsky
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Alfred Perlstein wrote: AP> * Dmitry Morozovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071029 12:44] wrote: AP> > AP> > [hmm, after thinking a bit I decided it would be more appropriate here, in AP> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] AP> > AP> > Dear colleagues, AP> > AP> > any hints to tune rrdtool with

Re: rrdtool performance tuning (fwd)

2007-10-30 Thread Dmitry Morozovsky
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Brooks Davis wrote: BD> On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 11:13:09AM +0300, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: BD> > BD> > [hmm, after thinking a bit I decided it would be more appropriate here, in BD> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] BD> > BD> > Dear colleagues, BD> > BD> > any hints to tune rrdtool wit

Re: Realtek Gigabit Network Card 0xd6088086

2007-10-30 Thread Tuomo Latto
Daniel Dias Gonçalves wrote: > What is WIP version ? http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?Acronym=WIP&Find=find&string=exact -- Tuomo ... Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://

Re: HEADSUP: don't upgrade to RELENG_6 now [FIXED]

2007-10-30 Thread Rong-en Fan
On 10/30/07, Byung-Hee HWANG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 20:51 +0800, Rong-en Fan wrote: > > The breakage introduced by MFC of ctype(3) after 2007/10/24 14:23 UTC > > is now fixed. Make sure you have lib/Makefile rev 1.205.2.4 before upgrading > > your world. If it

Re: HEADSUP: don't upgrade to RELENG_6 now [FIXED]

2007-10-30 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
Hi, On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:08:17 +0800, Rong-en Fan wrote: > On 10/30/07, Byung-Hee HWANG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 20:51 +0800, Rong-en Fan wrote: > > > The breakage introduced by MFC of ctype(3) after 2007/10/24 14:23 UTC > > > is now fixed. Make sure yo

Re: /usr/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8

2007-10-30 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-10-28 12:54, Andrew Lankford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thbbt! I'm reading the catman version of MAKEDEV. Wish I could disable that "feature". Oh well. I'll delete it all and rebuild it again if needed. Thanks! Ah, that's it then :) My usual `in

Re: /usr/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8

2007-10-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-29 12:18, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 03:24:47PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > On 2007-10-28 12:54, Andrew Lankford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thbbt! I'm reading the catman version of MAKEDEV. Wish I could > > > disable that "featur

Re: RFC: Evolution of the em driver

2007-10-30 Thread gnn
At Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:45:17 -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: > > I have an important decision to make and I thought rather than just make > it and spring it on you I'd present the issues and see what opinions were. > > Our newer hardware uses new features that, more and more, require > parallel code pat

Re: iwi0: could not load firmware

2007-10-30 Thread pluknet
On 30/10/2007, Oliver Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [..] > And I have the following entry in /boot/loader.conf > > # intel/wireless > set legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1 > if_iwi_load="YES > Just remove "set" from the line. > Oliver PETER, eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ# 113969174 > "Worker bee

Re: FYI: Promise TX4 silent corruption (RELENG_7)

2007-10-30 Thread Alexander Sabourenkov
Hello. I was experiencing the same problem with TX4 on both Linux and FreeBSD. It was determined that the root cause is a hardware bug in controller. Patch that implements a workaround inspired by vendor-supplied driver: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ide/msg15858.html I have not yet had

Re: /usr/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8

2007-10-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-30 13:32, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2007-May/040648.html > > Very interesting. Maybe we can tweak 330.catman to display the filename > of the manpage which causes each error. Then we could use the periodic > script

Re: MFC requests for 6.3

2007-10-30 Thread Alexander Motin
> Brett Glass wrote: >> I would like to request that some useful work on networking be MFCed from >> -CURRENT to -STABLE in time for the release of FreeBSD 6.3. In particular, >> I'd like to see some of the Netgraph nodes which are new or which have seen >> extensive development brought in -- ng_na

Re: rrdtool performance tuning (fwd)

2007-10-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 11:13:09AM +0300, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > any hints to tune rrdtool with ~30k rrd files (approx 2k target devices)? > > machine is mostly IO-bound, showing 100% disk load with 8 or sometimes even 3 > mB/s, 300-400 tps (it's 2 SATA300 disks in gmirror) Ideas: 1) Stop

Re: iwi0: could not load firmware

2007-10-30 Thread Guy Helmer
Oliver Peter wrote: % uname -srm FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1 i386 What did I do wrong? dmesg output: iwi0: mem 0xa0202000-0xa0202fff irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci4 iwi0: Ethernet address: 00:16:6f:c3:e3:48 iwi0: [ITHREAD] iwi_bss: You need to read the LICENSE file in /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_iwi/. iwi_

Re: any hope for nfe/msk?

2007-10-30 Thread Oleg Lomaka
Pyun YongHyeon wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 10:42:33AM +0200, Oleg Lomaka wrote: > Pyun YongHyeon wrote: > >On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 05:30:32PM +0900, To Oleg Lomaka wrote: > > > >[...] > > > > > > tdevil% grep -iE "msk|phy" /var/run/dmesg.boot > > > > pci0: domain=0, physical bus=0 >

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD Questions

2007-10-30 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
Hello Jason, - Original Message > From: Jason Slack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 2:25:18 AM > Subject: Upgrading FreeBSD Questions > > Hi All, > > I am new to FreeBSD, or want to be. > > I have an HP Media center PC that has the

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD Questions

2007-10-30 Thread Jason C. Wells
Jason Slack wrote: I want to try version 7 as it has items of interest to me, but I am not one to continually wipe and reload my machine, can you upgrade from the test releases of 7 available now to the final release when ready? Or do you have to wipe? You can easily upgrade from 7.0-BETA to 7

USB-4COMi-SI-M : Isolated 4 Port USB-RS422/RS485

2007-10-30 Thread Stefan Lambrev
Hi, I'm trying to get working this USB to serial adapter under freebsd 7. The driver uftdi, detects the adapter, but I'm unable to get any import from newly created /dev/cuaU0-3. Is this device supported from the uftdi driver? Should it work and am I hitting a bug? This is what I have from

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD Questions

2007-10-30 Thread Dan Rue
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 04:25:18PM -0700, Jason Slack wrote: > Hi All, > > I am new to FreeBSD, or want to be. > > I have an HP Media center PC that has the Viiv 920-D processor with 4GB of > RAM. I hate Windows, but had to sell my MacBook so my Fiance and I could get > into a new apartment toget

Re: 7.0 BETA1 and Thinkpad T61p : Wireless misadventure

2007-10-30 Thread Mike Pumford
Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: Previously I didn't mention that there are some functions missing from the FreeBSD's NDIS api. These are: With the help of NDIS reference and Linux ndiswrapper I have been able to implement all but KeBugCheckEx (they are all rather simple but I Can help y

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD Questions

2007-10-30 Thread Bruce Burden
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 04:25:18PM -0700, Jason Slack wrote: > > I want to try version 7 as it has items of interest to me, but I am not one > to continually wipe and reload my machine, can you upgrade from the test > releases of 7 available now to the final release when ready? Or do you have > to

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD Questions

2007-10-30 Thread Bartosz Fabianowski
can you upgrade from the test releases of 7 available now to the final release when ready? Or do you have to wipe? Some machines out there have been continuously upgraded since the FreeBSD 2.x days. So yes, by all means, FreeBSD can be upgraded without wiping.

Re: /usr/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8

2007-10-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-30 14:16, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Neat. The base-system manpages which have errors or warnings are just a > few of the hundreds we have. I just finished running a slightly > modified version of `/etc/periodic/weekly/330.catman', which uses > `catman -v' and the l

Re: any hope for nfe/msk?

2007-10-30 Thread Oleg Lomaka
Pyun YongHyeon wrote: On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 05:30:32PM +0900, To Oleg Lomaka wrote: [...] > > tdevil% grep -iE "msk|phy" /var/run/dmesg.boot > > pci0: domain=0, physical bus=0 > > pci2: domain=0, physical bus=2 > > mskc0: port 0x2000-0x20ff mem > > 0xd010-0xd0103fff irq 16 at

Re: RFC: Evolution of the em driver

2007-10-30 Thread Jack Vogel
On 10/30/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:45:17 -0700, > Jack Vogel wrote: > > > > I have an important decision to make and I thought rather than just make > > it and spring it on you I'd present the issues and see what opinions were. > > > > Our newer hardw

Re: rrdtool performance tuning (fwd)

2007-10-30 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 12:32:42PM +0300, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Brooks Davis wrote: > > BD> On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 11:13:09AM +0300, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > BD> > > BD> > [hmm, after thinking a bit I decided it would be more appropriate here, > in > BD> > [EMAIL PR

em watchdog problem

2007-10-30 Thread Jack Vogel
This morning I had an idea about what the source of the watchdog problem is. Also, we have repro'd at least one type of watchdog inhouse. One question, is this problem only happening for those running STABLE with the 6.6.6 merged driver? We found the problem does not seem to happen on 7.0. Right

Re: 7.0-BETA1 freeze using portmaster

2007-10-30 Thread Robert Marella
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:05:06 -0700 (PDT) Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Robert Marella wrote: > > > Aloha > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~> uname -a > > FreeBSD p4.konav201.local 7.0-BETA1 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1 #2: Mon Oct 29 > > 07:58:19 HST 2007 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD Questions

2007-10-30 Thread Philipp Ost
Jason Slack wrote: I want to try version 7 as it has items of interest to me, but I am not one to continually wipe and reload my machine, can you upgrade from the test releases of 7 available now to the final release when ready? Or do you have to wipe? Yes, you can upgrade your system without w

Re: 7.0-BETA1 freeze using portmaster

2007-10-30 Thread Doug Barton
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Robert Marella wrote: On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:05:06 -0700 (PDT) Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Robert Marella wrote: Aloha [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~> uname -a FreeBSD p4.konav201.local 7.0-BETA1 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1 #2: Mon Oct 29 07:58:19 HST 2007

Re: 7.0-BETA1 freeze using portmaster

2007-10-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
Robert Marella wrote: Aloha [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~> uname -a FreeBSD p4.konav201.local 7.0-BETA1 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1 #2: Mon Oct 29 07:58:19 HST 2007 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 This was a fresh install of 7 from a couple of months ago when it was -current. I have been updating at l

Re: kern/104406: [ufs] Processes get stuck in "ufs" stateunderpersistent CPU load

2007-10-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
Oleg Derevenetz wrote: > > After my break to debugger using Ctrl+Alt+Esc sequence and entering a > > "panic" command kernel does not wrote a kernel dump but seems to > > hang. Can > > anyone describe how to obtain a kernel dump in this situation, or at least > > say - which output of show comma

Re: kern/104406: [ufs] Processes get stuck in "ufs" state underpersistent CPU load

2007-10-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
Rainer Hurling wrote: Looking into PR kern/104406 it seems, that this describes exactly what I am experiencing on three of my systems over the last weeks. They are running FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT (known as 7.0-CURRENT not long ago ;-) ). Actually it sounds nothing like it at all ;) On these machi

Re: kern/104406: [ufs] Processes get stuck in "ufs" state under persistent CPU load

2007-10-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
Eugene Grosbein wrote: On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 03:05:01PM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Can anyone take a look on PR kern/104406 ? I got repeatable hang situation, but I can't obtain a kernel dump to get result of all show commands from here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books

Re: Reproducable, possibly NFS related, fatal double fault in 6.2-R-p7

2007-10-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
Chris H. wrote: Quoting Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Clifton Royston wrote: On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 01:01:46PM -0700, Chris H. wrote: excerpt from this list titled: NFS == lock && reboot, that I posted follows: --8<---SNIP---8<-SNIP-8<--- # uname -a FreeBSD host.domain

em watchdogs - OS involvement

2007-10-30 Thread Jack Vogel
Things just keep getting stranger... its no wonder I didn't see this... I had been trying to repro the watchdog on a machine in my cube at work without success, but in the test Lab they were successful. I scratched my head for a while wondering why... But then I realized I had the Sept snapshot i

Re: rrdtool performance tuning (fwd)

2007-10-30 Thread Michael Hall
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 05:58:00AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > 2) Consider alternative software such as: > > * http://torrus.org/ > * http://www.dynw.com/iog/ > * A suite/library on Sourceforge somewhere which I cannot remember the > name of, but acted as a data-over-time storage/graphing

Get packages from stabele tree via sysinstall

2007-10-30 Thread Михаил Кипа
I want to install precompiled packages via sysinstall. I have update my 6.2-RELEASE system with cvsup to 6.3-PRELEASE. Now I want to use sysinstall to install precompiled packages, but I get an error " Can`t find "6.3-PREREASE" on ..." (I use ftp!). So what release name I shoul use to get packag

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD Questions

2007-10-30 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello Jason, - Original Message From: Jason Slack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 2:25:18 AM Subject: Upgrading FreeBSD Questions Hi All, I am new to FreeBSD, or want to be.

Re: Reproducable, possibly NFS related, fatal double fault in 6.2-R-p7

2007-10-30 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Chris H. wrote: Quoting Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Clifton Royston wrote: On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 01:01:46PM -0700, Chris H. wrote: excerpt from this list titled: NFS == lock && reboot, that I posted follows: --8<---SNIP---8<-SNIP

Re: Reproducable, possibly NFS related, fatal double fault in 6.2-R-p7

2007-10-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
Chris H. wrote: I was recently able to find a small window in my workload. So I decided to use it to provide the "non-bogus" ;) information needed. After reading: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html and: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO885

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD Questions

2007-10-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 07:04:43AM -0700, Jason C. Wells wrote: > Jason Slack wrote: >> I want to try version 7 as it has items of interest to me, but I am not >> one >> to continually wipe and reload my machine, can you upgrade from the test >> releases of 7 available now to the final release whe

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD Questions

2007-10-30 Thread security
Bruce Burden wrote: On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 04:25:18PM -0700, Jason Slack wrote: I want to try version 7 as it has items of interest to me, but I am not one to continually wipe and reload my machine, can you upgrade from the test releases of 7 available now to the final release when ready?

Re: USB-4COMi-SI-M : Isolated 4 Port USB-RS422/RS485

2007-10-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Stefan Lambrev wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to get working this USB to serial adapter under freebsd 7. > The driver uftdi, detects the adapter, > but I'm unable to get any import from newly created /dev/cuaU0-3. > > Is this device supported from the uftdi driver? Should it work

Re: rrdtool performance tuning (fwd)

2007-10-30 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Dmitry Morozovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071030 02:30] wrote: > On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > AP> * Dmitry Morozovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071029 12:44] wrote: > AP> > > AP> > [hmm, after thinking a bit I decided it would be more appropriate here, > in > AP> > [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD Questions

2007-10-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 10:36:27AM -0500, Bruce Burden wrote: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 04:25:18PM -0700, Jason Slack wrote: > > > > I want to try version 7 as it has items of interest to me, but I am not one > > to continually wipe and reload my machine, can you upgrade from the test > > releases

Re: 7.0-BETA1 freeze using portmaster

2007-10-30 Thread Robert Marella
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:16:09 -0700 (PDT) Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Robert Marella wrote: > > > On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:05:06 -0700 (PDT) > > Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Robert Marella wrote: > >> > >>> Aloha > >>> > >>> [

Re: 7.0-BETA1 freeze using portmaster

2007-10-30 Thread Doug Barton
Robert Marella wrote: > It is looking like a hardware problem. I update portmaster to 1.24 and > it didn't help. When I tried with the -B option it froze in a different > place. I then csup the latest source rm'd /usr/obj and attempted a > buildworld. > > Lo and behold it froze up. It has been ve

Re: em watchdog problem

2007-10-30 Thread Sam Leffler
Jack Vogel wrote: This morning I had an idea about what the source of the watchdog problem is. Also, we have repro'd at least one type of watchdog inhouse. One question, is this problem only happening for those running STABLE with the 6.6.6 merged driver? We found the problem does not seem to h

Re: em watchdog problem

2007-10-30 Thread Philip Murray
On 31/10/2007, at 6:16 AM, Jack Vogel wrote: This morning I had an idea about what the source of the watchdog problem is. Also, we have repro'd at least one type of watchdog inhouse. One question, is this problem only happening for those running STABLE with the 6.6.6 merged driver? We found t

Re: MFC requests for 6.3

2007-10-30 Thread Brett Glass
At 02:36 AM 10/30/2007, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: >Hello Brett, > >ng_nat is part of 6-STABLE I've checked, and there is indeed a version there. But it's a much older version without many useful option flags. ng_car is not there at all. I'd also be interested in seeing the latest version of br