Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-16 Thread Dmitry Morozovsky
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, jfar...@goldsword.com wrote: Just out of curiousity, would not an older server like this: http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?InvtId=DL145-5R (~$75 + shipping) or http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=DL360-6Rcat=SYS (~$190 + shipping) be a reasonable option? Unless

RE: booting off a ZFS pool consisting of multiple striped mirror vdevs

2010-02-16 Thread Dan Naumov
I don't know, but I plan to test that scenario in a few days. Matt Please share the results when you're done, I am really curious :) It *should* work... I made changes a while back that allow for multiple vdevs to attach to the root. In this case you should have 3 mirror vdevs attached

Re: ACK and RST packets sent after successfully terminating TCP connection

2010-02-16 Thread n j
Packet #9:  client -- server: client requests TCP connection close (FIN+ACK) Packet #10: server -- client: server sends ACK approximately 0.6 seconds passes Packet #11: server -- client: server announces TCP window size of 0,            indicating TCP receive buffers are exhausted and that

Re: ZFS tuning [was: hardware for home use large storage]

2010-02-16 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting jhell jh...@dataix.net (from Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:49:38 -0500): On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:20, 000.fbsd@ wrote: I think you are referring to this script: http://cuddletech.com/arc_summary/ and its FreeBSD version http://bitbucket.org/koie/arc_summary/changeset/dbe14d2cf52b/ Another

kernel make error: scvidctl.c

2010-02-16 Thread Nikolay Tychina
Hi. I csupped RELENG_8, buildworld succeeded, but buildkernel fails. Any ideas what is going wrong here? MAKE=make sh /usr/home/nicholas/example/usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh LETTUCE cc -c -O -pipe -std=c99 -g -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes

Re: kernel make error: scvidctl.c

2010-02-16 Thread Nikolay Tychina
Oh, I'm sorry for bothering you all, guys. I commented out vga instead of agp. :) 2010/2/16 Nikolay Tychina niktych...@gmail.com Hi. I csupped RELENG_8, buildworld succeeded, but buildkernel fails. Any ideas what is going wrong here? MAKE=make sh

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-16 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Dan Langille wrote: Daniel O'Connor wrote: [...] Why even bother with the LSI card at all? That board already has 6 SATA slots - depends how many disks you want to use of course. (5 HDs + 1 DVD drive?) Plus two SATA drives in a gmirror for the base OS, and one optical. I want a minimum of

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Miroslav Lachman wrote: I have my backup storage machine booted from USB stick (as read-only UFS) with 4x 1TB HDDs in RAIDZ. It is running one and half year without problem. Yeah, I am booting off a 4Gb CF card with adapter (I didn't trust the BIOS enough for USB :) I

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-16 Thread Dan Langille
On 2/16/2010 6:28 AM, Miroslav Lachman wrote: Dan Langille wrote: Daniel O'Connor wrote: [...] Why even bother with the LSI card at all? That board already has 6 SATA slots - depends how many disks you want to use of course. (5 HDs + 1 DVD drive?) Plus two SATA drives in a gmirror for the

Re: Kernel probe order issues

2010-02-16 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 15/02/2010 00:24 Peter Jeremy said the following: On 2010-Feb-05 00:40:24 +0200, Andriy Gapon a...@icyb.net.ua wrote: I came up with some things with which you can try to experiment: 1. Boot with hw.pci.usb_early_takeover=0 in loader.conf. 2. Comment out the following line in

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-16 Thread Peter C. Lai
On 2010-02-15 02:25:57PM -0800, Artem Belevich wrote: How much ram are you running with? 8GB on amd64. kmem_size=16G, zfs.arc_max=6G In a latest test with 8.0-R on i386 with 2GB of ram, an install to a ZFS root *will* panic the kernel with kmem_size too small with default settings.

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-16 Thread Peter C. Lai
On 2010-02-15 10:29:22PM +0100, Gót András wrote: On Hét, Február 15, 2010 10:15 pm, Dan Naumov wrote: A C2Q CPU makes little sense right now from a performance POV. For the price of that C2Q CPU + LGA775 board you can get an i5 750 CPU and a 1156 socket motherboard that will run circles

Re: ZFS tuning [was: hardware for home use large storage]

2010-02-16 Thread Barry Pederson
On 2/15/10 7:49 PM, jhell wrote: As I make final modifications to the script I will keep the below URLs updated and welcome any bug reports or modification requests to me personally. Here is the URLs: http://jhell.googlecode.com/files/arc_summary.pl

Re: trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode on 8.0-RELEASE (possibly bge(4) related)

2010-02-16 Thread Pyun YongHyeon
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 10:04:58AM -0800, Nick Rogers wrote: I'm having repeated kernel panic issues on 8.0-RELEASE/amd64. Can anyone shed light on the below error? I unfortunately cannot provide a proper crash dump. The pointer addresses are always the same. The only other thing I've noticed

Re: ZFS tuning [was: hardware for home use large storage]

2010-02-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:06:43AM -0600, Barry Pederson wrote: On 2/15/10 7:49 PM, jhell wrote: As I make final modifications to the script I will keep the below URLs updated and welcome any bug reports or modification requests to me personally. Here is the URLs:

Re: ZFS tuning [was: hardware for home use large storage]

2010-02-16 Thread Matt Reimer
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 5:49 PM, jhell jh...@dataix.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It is funny that you guys are all of a sudden talking about this, as I was just working on some modifications to the arc_summary.pl script for some better formatting and inclusion of

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-16 Thread Dan Langille
On Tue, February 16, 2010 2:05 pm, Alexander Motin wrote: Dan Langille wrote: On Wed, February 10, 2010 10:00 pm, Bruce Simpson wrote: On 02/10/10 19:40, Steve Polyack wrote: I haven't had such bad experience as the above, but it is certainly a concern. Using ZFS we simply 'offline' the

Re: raidz/2 stripe widths

2010-02-16 Thread Joshua Boyd
http://blogs.sun.com/ahl/entry/double_parity_raid_z Looks like raidz2 is recommended for better protection against failures than 2 stripes. On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Peter C. Lai pe...@simons-rock.edu wrote: Which one might be better on pool that will consist of 6 disks: 6x raidz2

Re: raidz/2 stripe widths

2010-02-16 Thread Freddie Cash
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Peter C. Lai pe...@simons-rock.eduwrote: Which one might be better on pool that will consist of 6 disks: 6x raidz2 or 2 stripes of 3 disks in raidz? It should provide slightly less reliability (still allows for 2 disks to be off the array at a time) but

Re: ZFS tuning [was: hardware for home use large storage]

2010-02-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 07:05:11AM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: Overall, Barry's script makes an excellent proof-of-concept - which is what he was offering. You know, I had a verbose in-line response typed up, agreeing with some points of yours and disagreeing with others (with perlfaq and other

netboot issues, 8.0, mfsroot mount failure

2010-02-16 Thread Charles Sprickman
Howdy, I'm having some problems getting 8.0 to install over the network. I've got my dhcp, tftp and nfs server working well, and I've tested all three services from this host before attempting to boot over the network. pxeboot seems to work, and I see it get loaded via tftp. The kernel

Re: netboot issues, 8.0, mfsroot mount failure

2010-02-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 06:11:36PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: The NFS root mount you see happening later is a result of the root filesystem not being available. This is normal if mfsroot fails. A follow-up to my own post: The above paragraph is incorrect. The NFS root mount is proper,

Re: freebsd7 (and 8), radeon, xorg-server - deadlock or so

2010-02-16 Thread Oliver Pinter
Xorg.log after: #killall xdm #kldunload radeon #dmesg: info: [drm] Resetting GPU vgapci0: child drm0 requested pci_disable_busmaster info: [drm] MSI released drm0: detached Warning: memory type drm_bufs leaked memory on destroy (2 allocations, 64 bytes leaked). drm0: ATI Radeon HD 3450 on

Re: netboot issues, 8.0, mfsroot mount failure

2010-02-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Charles Sprickman sp...@bway.net wrote: Howdy, I'm having some problems getting 8.0 to install over the network.  I've got my dhcp, tftp and nfs server working well, and I've tested all three services from this host before attempting to boot over the network.

Re: ZFS tuning [was: hardware for home use large storage]

2010-02-16 Thread jhell
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:30, mattjreimer@ wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 5:49 PM, jhell jh...@dataix.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It is funny that you guys are all of a sudden talking about this, as I was just working on some modifications to the arc_summary.pl

Re: netboot issues, 8.0, mfsroot mount failure

2010-02-16 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 08:28:03PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote: Howdy, I'm having some problems getting 8.0 to install over the network. I've got my dhcp, tftp and nfs server working well, and I've tested all three services from this host before

Re: netboot issues, 8.0, mfsroot mount failure

2010-02-16 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Charles Sprickman sp...@bway.net wrote: Howdy, I'm having some problems getting 8.0 to install over the network.  I've got my dhcp, tftp and nfs server working well, and I've tested all three services from this host

Re: netboot issues, 8.0, mfsroot mount failure

2010-02-16 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Charles Sprickman sp...@bway.net wrote: Is this documented somewhere? Here: http://www.nber.org/sys-admin/FreeBSD-diskless.html Whoever wrote that, thank you. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org