Re: slow ZFS on FreeBSD 8.1

2010-12-30 Thread Adam Stylinski
I can tell you what the problem is right now, actually. ZFS performs very poorly on low performance CPUs (i.e. your Atom N330). Try the same system with a different CPU and you'll get a different result. It's not a lack of bandwidth on your bus, memory, or disks, and it's not exactly the

Re: slow ZFS on FreeBSD 8.1

2010-12-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 30/12/2010 00:56, Dan Langille wrote: them. You'll need to run both 'zpool update -a' and 'zfs update -a' -- As Jean-Yves pointed out: upgrade not update. Some word beginning with 'up' anyhow. # gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ad0 This part applies only if

ZFS - moving from a zraid1 to zraid2 pool with 1.5tb disks

2010-12-30 Thread Damien Fleuriot
Hello list, I currently have a ZFS zraid1 with 4x 1.5TB drives. The system is a zfs-only FreeBSD 8.1 with zfs version 14. I am concerned that in the event a drive fails, I won't be able to repair the disks in time before another actually fails. I wish to reinstall the OS on a dedicated

Re: slow ZFS on FreeBSD 8.1

2010-12-30 Thread Dan Langille
On 12/30/2010 4:00 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 30/12/2010 00:56, Dan Langille wrote: them. You'll need to run both 'zpool update -a' and 'zfs update -a' -- As Jean-Yves pointed out: upgrade not update. Some word beginning with 'up' anyhow. # gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p

Re: ZFS - moving from a zraid1 to zraid2 pool with 1.5tb disks

2010-12-30 Thread Gót András
Hi, I think it's enough to have 2 parity drives with raidz2. If a drive fails another two has to fail for data loss. However, keep in mind that raid (in any form) is not instead of backups. I have a setup where a 8TB RAID5 is the main backup and serves as file server for not important things AND

Re: slow ZFS on FreeBSD 8.1

2010-12-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 30/12/2010 12:20, Dan Langille wrote: On 12/30/2010 4:00 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 30/12/2010 00:56, Dan Langille wrote: Yes, if you're booting from ZFS and you're using gpt to partition the disks, as described at http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/ et seq. That's probably

Virtio drivers for FreeBSD on KVM

2010-12-30 Thread Luke Marsden
Hi everyone, With more cloud infrastructure providers using KVM than ever before, the importance of having FreeBSD performant as a guest on these infrastructures [1], [2], [3] is increasing. It seems that using Virtio drivers give a pretty significant performance boost [4], [5]. There was a

Re: ZFS - moving from a zraid1 to zraid2 pool with 1.5tb disks

2010-12-30 Thread Ronald Klop
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 12:40:00 +0100, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: Hello list, I currently have a ZFS zraid1 with 4x 1.5TB drives. The system is a zfs-only FreeBSD 8.1 with zfs version 14. I am concerned that in the event a drive fails, I won't be able to repair the disks in time before

Re: happy hacker lite 2 keyboard

2010-12-30 Thread Philipp Ost
Zoran wrote: Thaks for reply. I have one in use since ~5 years. The typing feel is a lot better compared to the Logitech keyboard I had before. The only problem I have with mine is that it's not usable with the boot loader menu. It seems to be hardware related as it works fine with other

Re: root mount error

2010-12-30 Thread Michael BlackHeart
You were right about SATA mode, I should miss something when I try switch it first time or may be there're some other reasons, like previously I tried i386. Anyway there's HDD. But it's all doesn't find HDD with SATA native disabled, but I'd like to have this working old way for some reasons. I've

bge driver regression in 7.4-PRERELEASE, Tyan S4881

2010-12-30 Thread Michael L. Squires
I'm having watchdod timeout problems with the bge driver in 7.4-PRERELEASE on a Tyan S4881 motherboard (the S4881 has 4 Opteron sockets, 2 PCI-E slots, and 3 PCI-X slots, plus VGA and dual Broadcom bge GigE ports.) I don't know if this problem also affects the similar Tyan S4882 motherboard,

Re: bge driver regression in 7.4-PRERELEASE, Tyan S4881

2010-12-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 06:28:47PM -0500, Michael L. Squires wrote: I'm having watchdod timeout problems with the bge driver in 7.4-PRERELEASE on a Tyan S4881 motherboard (the S4881 has 4 Opteron sockets, 2 PCI-E slots, and 3 PCI-X slots, plus VGA and dual Broadcom bge GigE ports.) I don't

installworld: check your date/time - Installworld NOT possible...

2010-12-30 Thread Chris H
Greetings, I've spent the morning grooming a fresh kernel on a freshly installed 8.1 amd64, from the DVD. I cvsup'd src ports last night. Build world kernel installkernel went as anticipated. HOWEVER, a reboot to single user, followed by a mergemaster -p, followed by cd /usr/src make

Re: installworld: check your date/time - Installworld NOT possible...

2010-12-30 Thread Rob Farmer
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 16:06, Chris H chr...@1command.com wrote: Greetings,  I've spent the morning grooming a fresh kernel on a freshly installed 8.1 amd64, from the DVD. I cvsup'd src ports last night. Build world kernel installkernel went as anticipated. HOWEVER, a reboot to single

Re: happy hacker lite 2 keyboard

2010-12-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 31/12/2010, at 5:44, Philipp Ost wrote: I still have something to ponder. To have more than one screen in fvwm, actually four of them, I ought to turn off numpad first. Then I use com- bination of Alt-Fx to jump here and there. In bios I removed numpad and it is not working on the kb, to

Re: installworld: check your date/time - Installworld NOT possible...

2010-12-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 04:06:42PM -0800, Chris H wrote: Greetings, I've spent the morning grooming a fresh kernel on a freshly installed 8.1 amd64, from the DVD. I cvsup'd src ports last night. Build world kernel installkernel went as anticipated. HOWEVER, a reboot to single user,

Re: happy hacker lite 2 keyboard

2010-12-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 06:17:08AM +0100, Zoran wrote: Thaks for reply. I have one in use since ~5 years. The typing feel is a lot better compared to the Logitech keyboard I had before. The only problem I have with mine is that it's not usable with the boot loader menu. It seems to be

Re: installworld: check your date/time - Installworld NOT possible...

2010-12-30 Thread Chris H
Greetings, and thank you for your reply. On Thu, December 30, 2010 4:38 pm, Rob Farmer wrote: On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 16:06, Chris H chr...@1command.com wrote: Greetings,  I've spent the morning grooming a fresh kernel on a freshly installed 8.1 amd64, from the DVD. I cvsup'd src ports last