Re: Extending your zfs pool with multiple devices

2010-09-03 Thread Don Lewis
On 2 Sep, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 04:56:04PM -0400, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: [regarding getting more disks in a machine] An inexpensive option are SATA port replicators. Think SATA switch or hub. 1:4 is common and cheap. I have a motherboard with intel ICH10

Re: Extending your zfs pool with multiple devices

2010-09-03 Thread Michal
What is really odd is I see your replies but not my original post, how very strange?? Thank you for all of your assistance. I would like to move to being able to build a cheap san-like storage area for a DB, I don't know how well it would work but I'd like to try it anyway since things like

Re: Extending your zfs pool with multiple devices

2010-09-03 Thread jhell
On 09/03/2010 04:25, Michal wrote: What is really odd is I see your replies but not my original post, how very strange?? Thank you for all of your assistance. I would like to move to being able to build a cheap san-like storage area for a DB, I don't know how well it would work but I'd like

Re: Tuning the scheduler? Desktop with a CPU-intensive task becomes rapidly unusable.

2010-09-03 Thread Jim Bryant
i just noticed this too... had a build going of qt-creator, and then started a /usr/src make clean, and had to abort the qt-creator build to get the make clean to finish. it was taking forever to even paint the xterm in the make clean window. -stable built as of last week, amd64 kernel,

what's up with cvsup?

2010-09-03 Thread Jim Bryant
is it just me, or are all the cvsup servers down? i've tried this on several machines, i can ping some of them (not all), and the ones that can be pinged all timeout when doing a make update in /usr/src. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: what's up with cvsup?

2010-09-03 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 03:00:04PM -0500, Jim Bryant wrote: is it just me, or are all the cvsup servers down? i've tried this on several machines, i can ping some of them (not all), and the ones that can be pinged all timeout when doing a make update in /usr/src. It's just you. Timestamp

Re: Tuning the scheduler? Desktop with a CPU-intensive task becomes rapidly unusable.

2010-09-03 Thread Michal Varga
On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 14:03 -0500, Jim Bryant wrote: i just noticed this too... had a build going of qt-creator, and then started a /usr/src make clean, and had to abort the qt-creator build to get the make clean to finish. it was taking forever to even paint the xterm in the make clean

Re: Tuning the scheduler? Desktop with a CPU-intensive task becomes rapidly unusable.

2010-09-03 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 10:08:38PM +0200, Michal Varga wrote: On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 14:03 -0500, Jim Bryant wrote: i just noticed this too... had a build going of qt-creator, and then started a /usr/src make clean, and had to abort the qt-creator build to get the make clean to finish.

Re: what's up with cvsup?

2010-09-03 Thread Jim Bryant
my bad. it was a router firewall setting. Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 03:00:04PM -0500, Jim Bryant wrote: is it just me, or are all the cvsup servers down? i've tried this on several machines, i can ping some of them (not all), and the ones that can be pinged all

apcupsd, USB and FreeBSD 8.1 aren't getting along

2010-09-03 Thread Ben Schumacher
All- It seems that something about the combination of FreeBSD 8.1 and apcupsd connecting to an APC Back-UPS RS 1500. Here's what I've got: 1. FreeBSD 8.1 (source compiled up to RELENG_8_1 for security fixes) 2. apcupsd 3.14.8 compiled from FreeBSD Ports 3. APC Back-UPS RS 1500 This was working

Re: Tuning the scheduler? Desktop with a CPU-intensive task becomes rapidly unusable.

2010-09-03 Thread Bruce Cran
On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 13:50:10 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote: Just be aware of this problem[1] when using it. (I've been working on a proper fix -- not a hack -- for the problem for about a week now. Stress level is very high given the ambiguous nature of many aspects of

Re: Tuning the scheduler? Desktop with a CPU-intensive task becomes rapidly unusable.

2010-09-03 Thread David Xu
jan.gr...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: On Thu, 2 Sep 2010, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 02/09/2010 12:08 jan.gr...@bristol.ac.uk said the following: On Wed, 1 Sep 2010, Ivan Voras wrote: On 09/01/10 15:08, jan.gr...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: I'm running -STABLE with a kde-derived

Re: Why is NFSv4 so slow?

2010-09-03 Thread Rick C. Petty
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 09:59:38PM -0400, Rick Macklem wrote: I don't tune anything with sysctl, I just use what I get from an install from CD onto i386 hardware. (I don't even bother to increase kern.ipc.maxsockbuf although I suggest that in the mount message.) Sure. But maybe you don't

Re: Why is NFSv4 so slow?

2010-09-03 Thread Rick C. Petty
On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 11:46:30AM -0400, Rick Macklem wrote: I am experiencing similar issues with newnfs: 1) I have two clients that each get around 0.5MiB/s to 2.6MiB/s reading from the NFS4-share on Gbit-Lan 2) Mounting with -t newnfs -o nfsv3 results in no performance gain