Re: Packet loss every 30.999 seconds

2007-12-22 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* David G Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071221 23:31] wrote: > > > > Can you use a placeholder vnode as a place to restart the scan? > > > > you might have to mark it special so that other threads/things > > > > (getnewvnode()?) don't molest it, but it can provide for a convenient > > > > restart p

Re: Packet loss every 30.999 seconds

2007-12-22 Thread Bruce Evans
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 04:08:09AM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Kostik Belousov wrote: Yes, rewriting the syncer is the right solution. It probably cannot be done quickly enough. If the yield workaround provide mitigation for now, i

amsn-0.96_1 does not build

2007-12-22 Thread Harald Weis
amsn-0.96_1 does not build because of the following error: ===> Building for amsn-0.96_1 CXX utils/TkCximage/src/TkCximage.cpp.o In file included from utils/TkCximage/src/TkCximage.cpp:11: utils/TkCximage/src/TkCximage.h:23:25: tkPlatDecls.h: No such file or directory gmake: *** [utils/TkCx

Re: Packet loss every 30.999 seconds

2007-12-22 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 04:08:09AM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: > On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Kostik Belousov wrote: > >Yes, rewriting the syncer is the right solution. It probably cannot be done > >quickly enough. If the yield workaround provide mitigation for now, it > >shall go in. > > I don't think rewr

Re: FreeBSD 7 on old SMP server?

2007-12-22 Thread Joshua Coombs
Dominic Fandrey wrote: Why don't you just do the buildworld on another machine? As I don't use the machine as a primary workstation at the moment, it doesn't really matter to me if it takes 1 hour or 3 months, I start the buildworld in a screen'd shell and check on it periodically. When it

Re: SMP on FreeBSD 6.x and 7.0: Worth doing? [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-12-22 Thread User Ota
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 01:40:00PM +0100, Claus Guttesen wrote: > > > > It appears, though I'd need to instrument the code more to be sure, > > > > that the slowdown is coming from file I/O. Could it be that there > > > > less concurrency or more overhead in FreeBSD file operations than > > > > the

Trying to initialize padlock support on Via C7 Eden CPU

2007-12-22 Thread Michael Proto
Hello, I purchased a Jetway J7F4K1G2E w/VIA Eden 1.2GHz cpu/motherboard combo (http://e-itx.com/jetway-j7f4k1g2e-mini-itx-motherboard.html) that I'm trying to get working with the FreeBSD padlock driver. Based on what I see from the manufacturer's CPU support list , http://www.jetwaycomputer.com/

Re: Packet loss every 30.999 seconds

2007-12-22 Thread Mark Fullmer
This appears to work. No packet loss with vfs.numvnodes at 32132, 16K PPS test with 1 million packets. I'll run some additional tests bringing vfs.numvnodes closer to kern.maxvnodes. On Dec 22, 2007, at 2:03 AM, Kostik Belousov wrote: As Bruce Evans noted, there is a vfs_msync() that do almo

7.0-BETA4: freeze caused by hostapd / ath0

2007-12-22 Thread Thierry Thomas
Hello, I have migrated a machine from 6.2-STABLE to 7.0-BETA4; this machine is configured as an access point, with the following PCI card: ath0: mem 0xfbed-0xfbed irq 18 at device 2.0 on pci2 With the same configuration, which used to work without any problem on 6.2-STABLE, the machine

Re: Packet loss every 30.999 seconds

2007-12-22 Thread Mark Fullmer
On Dec 22, 2007, at 12:08 PM, Bruce Evans wrote: I still don't understand the original problem, that the kernel is not even preemptible enough for network interrupts to work (except in 5.2 where Giant breaks things). Perhaps I misread the problem, and it is actually that networking works but u

Re: Packet loss every 30.999 seconds

2007-12-22 Thread Bruce Evans
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 05:43:09PM -0800, David Schwartz wrote: I'm just an observer, and I may be confused, but it seems to me that this is motion in the wrong direction (at least, it's not going to fix the actual problem). As I understand the probl

Re: SMP on FreeBSD 6.x and 7.0: Worth doing?

2007-12-22 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 22/12/2007, Ulrich Spoerlein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Apples and Oranges, I know, but if you're building a "simple" reverse > cacheing proxy, have you considered Varnish? Would be very interessting > how it would compare to a) FreeBSD+Squid b) Linux+Squid and c) > Linux+Varnish. Personally

Re: SMP on FreeBSD 6.x and 7.0: Worth doing? [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-12-22 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Claus Guttesen wrote: > > > I have noticed an entry in GENERIC called > > > > > > device cpufreq > > > > > > Could this have any influence on the performance (on FreeBSD)? > > > > > > I saw this device late in the 7.0 release-process and I since I'm > > > accustomed to

HEADS-UP: RELENG_7_0 created...

2007-12-22 Thread Ken Smith
In preparation for 7.0-RC1 the release branch, RELENG_7_0, has been created. I'll send another message when the 7.0-RC1 builds are done, this is just to let people who use cvsup updates know about the new branch. -- Ken Smith - From there to here,

Re: usb/umass, devfs: this sucks

2007-12-22 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 11:41 PM 12/21/2007, Mikhail Teterin wrote: Another attempt to use USB-storage with FreeBSD, another moment of hair-pulling frustration. I attach the card-reader with the media card already inserted (detection of card-insertion has not worked in a long time, if ever). Perhaps its the one ca

Re: SMP on FreeBSD 6.x and 7.0: Worth doing?

2007-12-22 Thread Brett Glass
At 05:21 AM 12/22/2007, Pieter de Goeje wrote: >Since you're using the fs as a cache, I presume it wouldn't be a big problem >if the data was lost by a power outage (or crash). If so, you can try the >async mount option to seriously increase fs performance. Linux also speeds up if you try mount

Re: SMP on FreeBSD 6.x and 7.0: Worth doing? [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-12-22 Thread Claus Guttesen
> > > It appears, though I'd need to instrument the code more to be sure, > > > that the slowdown is coming from file I/O. Could it be that there > > > less concurrency or more overhead in FreeBSD file operations than > > > there is in Linux? Even with SoftUpdates turned on, the cache > > > volume

Re: SMP on FreeBSD 6.x and 7.0: Worth doing?

2007-12-22 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Saturday 22 December 2007, Brett Glass wrote: > I will need to build several Web caches over the next few months, > and just took advantage of the Christmas lull (and a snowy day, > when I couldn't work outside) to test FreeBSD 7.0 BETA 4 to see how > it will perform at this task. I built up a 4

Re: FreeBSD 7 on old SMP server?

2007-12-22 Thread Dominic Fandrey
Joshua Coombs wrote: > Brian wrote: > >> Would that be a multiday buildworld? >> >> Brian > > 10 days on average. : ) I'm trying a 7 build without -pipe to see if I > can squeak it through with 64MB RAM + 384MB swap, I'd much prefer not > having to do a dump/restore to reallocate space for more

Re: jlogin.sh - a small nice jails helper!

2007-12-22 Thread Anton - Valqk
Hi there, your script didn't had what I wanted for the ps, that's why I wrote simpler one for myself, that's do the job for me - finds a string from ps axu from any jail :) here it is, hopes it's useful (quick 15mins hack script). #!/bin/sh #list all jails processes #$1 - jid - jail pattern || AL

Re: SMP on FreeBSD 6.x and 7.0: Worth doing?

2007-12-22 Thread Ulrich Spoerlein
On Fri, 21.12.2007 at 22:31:24 -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > As has been reported in some other messages on this list, Linux is currently > blowing FreeBSD away. It's taking as much as 20% less time to get through > the benchmark, depending on exactly how the random shuffle came out. This is > wit

Re: SMP on FreeBSD 6.x and 7.0: Worth doing? [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-12-22 Thread User Ota
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 09:08:02AM +0100, Claus Guttesen wrote: > > I will need to build several Web caches over the next few months, > > and just took advantage of the Christmas lull (and a snowy day, > > when I couldn't work outside) to test FreeBSD 7.0 BETA 4 to see how > > it will perform at th

Re: SMP on FreeBSD 6.x and 7.0: Worth doing?

2007-12-22 Thread Claus Guttesen
> I will need to build several Web caches over the next few months, > and just took advantage of the Christmas lull (and a snowy day, > when I couldn't work outside) to test FreeBSD 7.0 BETA 4 to see how > it will perform at this task. I built up a 4 core FreeBSD box, and > asked a friend who's a L