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

2010-02-17 Thread jhell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:56, freebsd@ wrote: 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 type

Re: panic - sleeping thread on FreeBSD 8.0-stable / amd64

2010-02-17 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
Another crash last night. In /var/log/messages: Feb 16 23:13:22 kg-f2 ntpd[2826]: time reset +1.780863 s Feb 16 23:16:42 kg-f2 kernel: ata6: port is not ready (timeout 1ms) tfd = 007f Feb 16 23:16:42 kg-f2 kernel: ata6: hardware reset timeout Feb 16 23:20:39 kg-f2 kernel: ata6: port is no

Re: blank X screen with differnt cards

2010-02-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 16/02/2010 20:05, Christian Schramm wrote: > I press Xorg -configure and X -config /root/xorg.conf.new but my CRT > Screen is blank. I can switch in tty0 an kill Xorg with CTRL-C. This is actually perfectly normal nowadays. For reasons impenetrabl

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

2010-02-17 Thread Bartosz Stec
On 2010-02-17 08:58, jhell wrote: To all those involved in this. More up-to-date: arc_summary.pl r182 Best regards. And watching for replies, So here's my reply (last line seems most interesting ;) : # ./arc_summary.pl -

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

2010-02-17 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:19:49 +0100 Bartosz Stec wrote: > So here's my reply (last line seems most interesting ;) : [...snipped...] > Illegal division by zero at ./arc_summary.pl line 242. FWIW, I also got this line when I ran this script on my idle zfs server. -- Torfinn __

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

2010-02-17 Thread jhell
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:06, bp@ 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: http://jhell.googlecode.com/files/arc_summary.pl http:

Re: blank X screen with differnt cards

2010-02-17 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:05:13 +0100 Christian Schramm wrote: > Hi > at first this is my first message to a mailing list. Second sorry for my > bad english. > > On Saturday i have installed 8-0-Release, after I build 8-stable include > world an d kernel. After the build of stable I build some po

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

2010-02-17 Thread jhell
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:59, freebsd@ wrote: 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. He

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

2010-02-17 Thread Bartosz Stec
On 2010-02-17 09:32, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:19:49 +0100 Bartosz Stec wrote: So here's my reply (last line seems most interesting ;) : [...snipped...] Illegal division by zero at ./arc_summary.pl line 242. FWIW, I also got this line when I ran thi

devd hang after upgrade to 8.0-STABLE

2010-02-17 Thread Ruben de Groot
Just wondering if others have seen this too. Yesterday, after upgrading from 7.2-stable to 8.0-stable, my server would hang on startup on the "Starting devd" line. bootverbose did not get me any more information, and I had to manually hit ^C or ^\ to continue booting. Also, the reboot command w

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

2010-02-17 Thread Scot Hetzel
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Bartosz Stec wrote: > On 2010-02-17 09:32, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: >> >> On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:19:49 +0100 >> Bartosz Stec  wrote: >> >> >>> >>> So here's my reply (last line seems most interesting ;) : >>> >> >> [...snipped...] >> >>> >>> Illegal division by zer

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

2010-02-17 Thread jhell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 03:56, bartosz.stec@ wrote: On 2010-02-17 09:32, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:19:49 +0100 Bartosz Stec wrote: So here's my reply (last line seems most interesting ;) : [...snipped...] Illegal division

Re: openldap client GSSAPI authentication segfaults in fbsd8stable i386

2010-02-17 Thread George Mamalakis
On 13/02/2010 00:23, George Mamalakis wrote: On 12/2/2010 8:48 πμ, jhell wrote: This is a lot of information to consume. Lets start with this: All of the machines in question are of some form of FreeBSD 8. You enter gdb and very clearly it starts whining about a segfault & libc.so.7 Did

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

2010-02-17 Thread jhell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:53, jhell@ wrote: PGP Command Output gpg: Signature made Wed Feb 17 04:53:27 2010 EST using RSA key ID 89D8547E gpg: Good signature from "jhell " --- Begin PGP

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

2010-02-17 Thread jhell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Due to the nature of this thread and its current list involvement I am going to be starting a new thread in freebsd-filesystems@ just for arc_summary.pl tomorrow night with the subject below. [arc_summary.pl] Adjustments, PR & Requests I would

Re: 7.3-RC1 Available...

2010-02-17 Thread Herbert J. Skuhra
Hi! Today I tried to upgrade from 7.3-BETA2 to 7.3-RC1: # freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.3-RC1 # freebsd-update install # shutdown -r now # uname -a FreeBSD oslo.ath.cx 7.3-RC1 FreeBSD 7.3-RC1 #0: Wed Feb 10 07:47:42 UTC 2010 r...@driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 Loo

Re: 7.3-RC1 Available...

2010-02-17 Thread Herbert J. Skuhra
Hi, OK, I could resolve the problem by running "freebsd rollback" a few times until I was at FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE again and removing /var/db/freebsd-update afterwards. Sorry for the full quote. :-( -Herbert ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list h

best practice to watch TCP parms of established sockets

2010-02-17 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Hello, while doing some ZFS tests with RELENG_8 I recognized a mysterious performace drop after an hour uptime. Now my first idea is to compare MSS and windows sizes before and after the performance drop. How do I best capture them? tdpcump? It's GbE linkspeed... Or is netstat capable to show

Re: ntpd struggling to keep up - how to fix?

2010-02-17 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:44:52 +0100 Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:11:17 -0800 > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > Please try doing this: > > > > - stop ntpd > > - rm /var/db/ntpd.drift > > - sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware=ACPI-safe > > - start ntpd > > Thanks, I'm currently te

Re: best practice to watch TCP parms of established sockets

2010-02-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Feb 17, 2010, at 8:03 AM, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > while doing some ZFS tests with RELENG_8 I recognized a mysterious performace > drop after an hour uptime. > Now my first idea is to compare MSS and windows sizes before and after the > performance drop. > How do I best capture them?

Re: ntpd struggling to keep up - how to fix?

2010-02-17 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:49:27 +0100 Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > Unfortunately, it isn't enough to keep the machine in sync all the time. > But it is better than HPET so I'll keep it. This thread is interesting: http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0903.1/01356.html Is there a way in Fre

Re: best practice to watch TCP parms of established sockets

2010-02-17 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Am 17.02.2010 19:56, schrieb Chuck Swiger: > Hi-- > > On Feb 17, 2010, at 8:03 AM, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: >> while doing some ZFS tests with RELENG_8 I recognized a mysterious >> performace drop after an hour uptime. >> Now my first idea is to compare MSS and windows sizes before and after th

Re: netboot issues, 8.0, mfsroot mount failure

2010-02-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:43:30PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote: > >Footnote: This is why I tell folks to zero out the first 8192 bytes of > >any disk they've previously installed FreeBSD on (even if the disk has > >no filesystems/slices on it). The way FreeBSD determines the size of > >the disk

Re: ntpd struggling to keep up - how to fix?

2010-02-17 Thread John Hay
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 08:03:22PM +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:49:27 +0100 > Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > > > Unfortunately, it isn't enough to keep the machine in sync all the time. > > But it is better than HPET so I'll keep it. > > This thread is interesting: > http

Re: kernel compile failure

2010-02-17 Thread John Baldwin
On Monday 15 February 2010 8:55:13 am Larry Rosenman wrote: > For the record, it appears that cvsup17.us.freebsd.org is serving outdated > files. Try sending an e-mail to h...@. The last time cvsup17 had issues the owner fixed them after seeing an e-mail to h...@. -- John Baldwin

RE: kernel compile failure

2010-02-17 Thread Larry Rosenman
Already done on Monday at 08:12am US/Central (GMT-6). -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 512-248-2683E-Mail: l...@lerctr.org US Mail: 430 Valona Loop, Round Rock, TX 78681-3893 -Original Message- From: John Baldwin [mailto:j...@f

Re: netboot issues, 8.0, mfsroot mount failure

2010-02-17 Thread Antony Mawer
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 6:22 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:43:30PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote: >> >Footnote: This is why I tell folks to zero out the first 8192 bytes of >> >any disk they've previously installed FreeBSD on (even if the disk has >> >no filesystems/slic