Re: Kernel symbol file alternate location

2010-08-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 06/08/2010, at 2:38, Oliver Fromme wrote: >> I think this is the main reason / has had to grow - the actual kernel >> is relatively small so even a 256Mb / could hold several, but with >> the symbol files it is not possible. > > I think a very simple solution would be to install the symbol > f

FreeBSD 7.3p1 repeatable crash when running on ramdisk

2010-08-05 Thread Dave Hayes
I work with a small number of FreeBSD 7.3p1 amd64 systems which are running off of an MFS root partition loaded via a DVD, and there have been a couple of problems with the mfsroot. I'd like to focus on one in particular and see if the assembled minds here have any insight as to what this might be.

Please join us for Bugathon #7, this weekend (6th-9th August)

2010-08-05 Thread Gavin Atkinson
(bcc'd to freebsd-stable@, please reply to freebsd-current@) Hi all, Apologies for the late notice, but the bug team will be holding a bugathon this weekend. We'll be starting on Friday 6th, and continuing through Monday 9th, and the aim is to put a real effort into getting patches from PRs i

Re: 8.1 stable ar9285 ath0 problem

2010-08-05 Thread Kurt Jaeger
Hi! > Can you show me your config files: rc.conf, /boot/loader.conf, > wpa_supplicant.conf. I just want to see just to make sure I'm not doing it > wrong. I use the stuff in a different way (mostly manually). For example: Step 1) ifconfig wlan0 up Wait a little and check: ifconfig wlan0 list

Re: Kernel symbol file alternate location

2010-08-05 Thread Oliver Fromme
Daniel O'Connor wrote: > Is it possible to tell installkernel to put the symbol files elsewhere? I wondered the same. > IMO somewhere in /usr would be good - you don't need them to boot (or > crashdump, etc) and they increase the size of the kernel by a factor > of 5(!), eg.. > [cain 14:07]

Re: zpool - low speed write

2010-08-05 Thread Artem Belevich
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Alex V. Petrov wrote: ... >> > vfs.zfs.cache_flush_disable=1 >> > vfs.zfs.zil_disable=1 >> >> I question both of these settings, especially the latter.  Please remove >> them both and re-test your write performance. > > I removed all settings of zfs. > Now it defaul

Re: Kernel symbol file alternate location

2010-08-05 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Daniel O'Connor on Thursday, 05 August 2010: > Is it possible to tell installkernel to put the symbol files elsewhere? > > IMO somewhere in /usr would be good - you don't need them to boot (or > crashdump, etc) and they increase the size of the kernel by a factor of 5(!), > eg.. > [cain 14

Re: zpool - low speed write

2010-08-05 Thread Alex V. Petrov
> > Can you please remove use of the zpool entirely (e.g. zpool destroy > tank) and do a write test to each disk itself? E.g.: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad8 bs=64k count=100 > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad10 bs=64k count=100 > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad12 bs=64k count=100 I don't hav