Re: Detecting CPU throttling on over temperature

2009-09-08 Thread Alexander Motin
Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Alexander Motin wrote: >> Daniel O'Connor wrote: >>> I recently discovered a system where the floppy drive cable was >>> intermittently fouling the CPU fan - I believe this caused the CPU >>> to overheat and then get throttled by the BIOS. >>> >>> Does a

Re: Detecting CPU throttling on over temperature

2009-09-08 Thread Robert Noland
On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 10:20 +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Ian Smith wrote: > > > > Does anyone know if it is possible to determine if this is the > > > > case? ie is there a way to be informed if throttling has > > > > occurred? > > > > Might be easier to hack powerd.c as a

Re: Detecting CPU throttling on over temperature

2009-09-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Ian Smith wrote: > > > Does anyone know if it is possible to determine if this is the > > > case? ie is there a way to be informed if throttling has > > > occurred? > > Might be easier to hack powerd.c as an existing pretty lightweight > way of monitoring CPU freq (to log or

Re: Detecting CPU throttling on over temperature

2009-09-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Alexander Motin wrote: > Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > I recently discovered a system where the floppy drive cable was > > intermittently fouling the CPU fan - I believe this caused the CPU > > to overheat and then get throttled by the BIOS. > > > > Does anyone know if it is possib

Re: Not getting an IPv6 in a jail

2009-09-08 Thread Doug Barton
Scott Lambert wrote: > Some of us are just using a jail per service to make the service more > portable between these massively overpowered machines these days. Yes, that makes total sense. I'm not saying that running it in a jail is a _bad_ thing, just that perhaps it is overkill. Doug --

Re: Not getting an IPv6 in a jail

2009-09-08 Thread Scott Lambert
On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 11:27:55AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: > > On Wednesday 02 September 2009 12:09:17 pm Doug Barton wrote: > >> FLEURIOT Damien wrote: > >> > >>> BIND's now happily running in its jail and responding to public > >>> queries. > >> > >> It's up to you if you

Re: incorrect usleep/select delays with HZ > 2500

2009-09-08 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 01:08:23PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > On Sunday 06 September 2009 11:51:54 am Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > [Note 3] the TSC frequency is computed reading the tsc around a > > call to DELAY(100) and assuming that the i8254 runs > > at the nominal rate, 1.19318

Re: Not getting an IPv6 in a jail

2009-09-08 Thread Doug Barton
John Baldwin wrote: > On Wednesday 02 September 2009 12:09:17 pm Doug Barton wrote: >> FLEURIOT Damien wrote: >> >>> BIND's now happily running in its jail and responding to public >>> queries. >> It's up to you if you choose to do it, but there is no reason to run >> BIND in a jail. The chroot fea

Re: Detecting CPU throttling on over temperature

2009-09-08 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Henrik Friedrichsen wrote: > I don't know whether there is a more convenient way, but you could > definitely check the current CPU frequency to detect whether it > changed from the previous one or not. There are several ways to this, > depends on the CPU. You can try messing

Re: incorrect usleep/select delays with HZ > 2500

2009-09-08 Thread John Baldwin
On Sunday 06 September 2009 11:51:54 am Luigi Rizzo wrote: > [Note 3] the TSC frequency is computed reading the tsc around a > call to DELAY(100) and assuming that the i8254 runs > at the nominal rate, 1.193182 MHz. > From tests I have made, the measurement in init_TSC()

Re: Detecting CPU throttling on over temperature

2009-09-08 Thread Alexander Motin
Daniel O'Connor wrote: > I recently discovered a system where the floppy drive cable was > intermittently fouling the CPU fan - I believe this caused the CPU to > overheat and then get throttled by the BIOS. > > Does anyone know if it is possible to determine if this is the case? ie > is there

Re: zfs kernel panic

2009-09-08 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 05:23:32PM +0200, Gerrit Kühn wrote: > Hi folks, > > I just upgraded a zfs server from 7.0-something to 7.2-stable and hoped to > get rid of some minor instabilities I experienced every 6 months or so. > Unfortunately, the new system crashed for the first time after only a

Re: zfs kernel panic

2009-09-08 Thread Thomas Backman
On Sep 8, 2009, at 5:23 PM, Gerrit Kühn wrote: Hi folks, I just upgraded a zfs server from 7.0-something to 7.2-stable and hoped to get rid of some minor instabilities I experienced every 6 months or so. Unfortunately, the new system crashed for the first time after only a few hours when

zfs kernel panic

2009-09-08 Thread Gerrit Kühn
Hi folks, I just upgraded a zfs server from 7.0-something to 7.2-stable and hoped to get rid of some minor instabilities I experienced every 6 months or so. Unfortunately, the new system crashed for the first time after only a few hours when copying some files via scp onto it. I got a kernel panic

Re: Detecting CPU throttling on over temperature

2009-09-08 Thread Henrik Friedrichsen
I don't know whether there is a more convenient way, but you could definitely check the current CPU frequency to detect whether it changed from the previous one or not. There are several ways to this, depends on the CPU. You can try messing with cpufreq(4). On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Daniel O

Detecting CPU throttling on over temperature

2009-09-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Hi, I recently discovered a system where the floppy drive cable was intermittently fouling the CPU fan - I believe this caused the CPU to overheat and then get throttled by the BIOS. Does anyone know if it is possible to determine if this is the case? ie is there a way to be informed if throttl

Re: Blocked process

2009-09-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > Unfortunately the system is in Finland and I'm in Australia so I > can't sit at the console :( Someone visited the site and determined that the floppy drive cable was intermittently fouling the CPU fan. I believe this was causing the CPU to overheat

System crawls after Upgrade 7.0->7.2

2009-09-08 Thread Tobias Lott
Hey Everyone, I upgraded a Dual Core Machine to 7.2-Stable (2 Days ago), all OS related Stuff is located on an UFS Slice, Application is on a ZFS Volume. After the Upgrade everything seemed fine, but a User noticed one PHP Script which is basically loading a plain Textfile into Mysql times out. P