Intel(R) PRO/1000 PT Dual Port Server Adapter not working properly

2012-03-03 Thread Irjohn Junus
Hello, This was originally posted here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=168854&posted=1#post168854 I'm building a new PF firewall box based on FreeBSD 9 Release. Motherboard is Foxconn H61S Mini-ITX with Intel PRO/1000 PT dual port server adapter. The adapter is recognized as em0 and

Re: ports usable or not [was: flowtable usable or not]

2012-03-03 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 09:08:28PM +0100, Nomen Nescio wrote: > Thanks mcl. I am off on other things for now but I will file PRs next time > I come across something. In the past I have emailed the port maintainer and > the answer is usually "yeah I know". After a few of those I thought filing > PRs

Re: flowtable usable or not

2012-03-03 Thread perryh
Ian Lepore wrote: > On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 09:09 -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > H wrote: > > > ... Forever installing FreeBSD Desktop, either KDE or Gnome, > > > was a nightmare process, or better, to make it appear on screen > > > was a nightmare. > > > > I have never understood the po

Re: missing disk device under 9-STABLE

2012-03-03 Thread Jeff Blank
On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 11:18:55PM +0200, Alexander Motin wrote: > MSI interrupts could give a bit better performance. But with regular > HDDs I think it is unlikely that you notice any difference. What's about > about old driver, it never used MSI by default, while new one does. I see, thanks.

Re: missing disk device under 9-STABLE

2012-03-03 Thread Alexander Motin
On 03.03.2012 22:21, Jeff Blank wrote: On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 09:51:53PM +0200, Alexander Motin wrote: This looks like cause of the missing disk: ahcich1: Timeout on slot 0 port 0 ahcich1: is 0002 cs ss rs 0001 tfd 50 serr cmd 6017 ahcich1: Timeout on slo

Re: flowtable usable or not

2012-03-03 Thread K. Macy
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 10:09 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > On 03/03/2012 13:03, K. Macy wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Doug Barton wrote: >>> On 03/03/2012 08:53, K. Macy wrote: a) We as a members of the community are collectively responsible for the state of FreeBSD. Simply disab

Re: flowtable usable or not

2012-03-03 Thread Doug Barton
On 03/03/2012 13:03, K. Macy wrote: > On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Doug Barton wrote: >> On 03/03/2012 08:53, K. Macy wrote: >>> a) We as a members of the community are collectively responsible for >>> the state of FreeBSD. Simply disabling features or removing >>> functionality that doesn't wo

Re: flowtable usable or not

2012-03-03 Thread K. Macy
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > On 03/03/2012 08:53, K. Macy wrote: >> a) We as a members of the community are collectively responsible for >> the state of FreeBSD. Simply disabling features or removing >> functionality that doesn't work or doesn't work optimally and / or >> f

Re: flowtable usable or not

2012-03-03 Thread Doug Barton
On 03/02/2012 16:05, Adrian Chadd wrote: > Try breaking that cycle. ... one of the things I've been asking for years. :) Julian's right though, I think PC-BSD will help, but I still think that committers should run -current. I've asked privately for our committers to go back to -current and then

Re: flowtable usable or not

2012-03-03 Thread Doug Barton
On 03/03/2012 08:53, K. Macy wrote: > a) We as a members of the community are collectively responsible for > the state of FreeBSD. Simply disabling features or removing > functionality that doesn't work or doesn't work optimally and / or > filing bug reports but not being able or willing to respond

Re: flowtable usable or not

2012-03-03 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 03:44:42AM -0300, H wrote: > nobody want to read, they want a desktop nothing else, something silly > and easy to read email and write docs and surf on the net, listen to a > CD, they need to put a cd into the drive, running install process, > reboot, using, nothing else and

Re: missing disk device under 9-STABLE

2012-03-03 Thread Jeff Blank
On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 09:51:53PM +0200, Alexander Motin wrote: > This looks like cause of the missing disk: > > ahcich1: Timeout on slot 0 port 0 > ahcich1: is 0002 cs ss rs 0001 tfd 50 serr > cmd 6017 > ahcich1: Timeout on slot 0 port 0 > ahcich1: is

Re: ports usable or not [was: flowtable usable or not]

2012-03-03 Thread Nomen Nescio
Thanks mcl. I am off on other things for now but I will file PRs next time I come across something. In the past I have emailed the port maintainer and the answer is usually "yeah I know". After a few of those I thought filing PRs is a waste of time considering the maintainer doesn't seem to care.

Re: flowtable usable or not

2012-03-03 Thread Nomen Nescio
> ... and here is the crux of the problem. The vast majority of our > developers don't use FreeBSD as their regular workstation !! Something is wrong with this picture! If not, why not?! ___ freeb

Re: missing disk device under 9-STABLE

2012-03-03 Thread Alexander Motin
Hi. On 03.03.2012 21:08, Jeff Blank wrote: I attempted an upgrade last night from an old 8-STABLE (25 Apr 2011) to 9-STABLE and ran into a problem where a disk apparently wasn't detected. I'm of course aware of the ATA/CAM changes, but I haven't found anything that quite explains what's happeni

missing disk device under 9-STABLE

2012-03-03 Thread Jeff Blank
Hi, I attempted an upgrade last night from an old 8-STABLE (25 Apr 2011) to 9-STABLE and ran into a problem where a disk apparently wasn't detected. I'm of course aware of the ATA/CAM changes, but I haven't found anything that quite explains what's happening here. I've attached dmesg output from

Re: msk0: interrupt storm

2012-03-03 Thread Pavel Gorshkov
On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 10:05:54AM -0800, YongHyeon PYUN wrote: > Still have no idea. Would you post dmesg output? Sure, just let me know if you need anything else. Now running with hw.msk.msi_disable=1 hw.msk.jumbo_disable=1 still getting the storms, the above settings just seem to mak

Re: flowtable usable or not

2012-03-03 Thread K. Macy
> Less effort is required to get greater profit without having to mess > around with things because they fit the generic case as opposed to a > number of niche cases or provide OS features that a user may or may > not use. My initial venting of my frustrations at Doug appears to have turned an ope

Request for flowtable testers and actionable feedback RE: flowtable usable or not

2012-03-03 Thread K. Macy
I'm re-sending this portion of another mail as it will inevitably not be read by most readers by virtue of having been part of a long and digressive thread. subject line: "flowtable usable or not" It is possible to re-structure the routing code to have a smaller cache footprint / shorter lookup t

Re: flowtable usable or not

2012-03-03 Thread Ian Lepore
On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 09:09 -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > H wrote: > > > ... Forever installing FreeBSD Desktop, either KDE or Gnome, > > was a nightmare process, or better, to make it appear on screen > > was a nightmare. > > I have never understood the point of KDE or Gnome, other than

Re: flowtable usable or not

2012-03-03 Thread H
O. Hartmann wrote: > Maybe the logic behind the dependency system need a refurbish? I feel > lost when trying to look into the vast number of of *.mk files and > having to figure out myself how they get involved when building some > essential ports. Each "tweak" seems to go into those files undocum

Re: A problem with MAXPATHLEN on a back

2012-03-03 Thread Jilles Tjoelker
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 02:40:09PM +0100, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > I'm running into this on a backup-backupserver. > (8.2-STABLE #134: Wed Feb 1 15:05:59 CET 2012 amd64) > Haven't checked which paths are too long. > But is there any "easy" way out? Like making MAXPATHLEN 2048 and > rebuilding

Re: flowtable usable or not

2012-03-03 Thread Ian Lepore
On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 03:44 -0300, H wrote: > Doug Barton wrote: > > Just looking at the committers, of which we have over 300, only a > > couple dozen at most have ever identified as actually using FreeBSD as > > a desktop at my count. Taking the larger development community into > > account I thi

Re: flowtable usable or not

2012-03-03 Thread Garrett Cooper
2012/3/2 Julian Elischer : > On 3/2/12 10:21 AM, Doug Barton wrote: >> >> On 03/02/2012 03:44, K. Macy wrote: > > not sure who wrote: >>> >>> Correct. However, I'm not sure the analogy is flawed. I am, to some >>> degree, guilty of the same sin. I now run Ubuntu and have never had a >>> single prob

Re: flowtable usable or not

2012-03-03 Thread Adam Strohl
On 3/3/2012 22:32, H wrote: then you tell us today that ports is the best ever happened to you It definitely is for me, and is a major reason why I love FreeBSD. Yum/RPM/etc are not without their own issues, and definitely is not fool proof nor 100% reliable in my experience.

Re: flowtable usable or not

2012-03-03 Thread H
Bas Smeelen wrote: > />/ away. Binary packages are a big time saver and are more efficient. It > />/ should be easy for FreeBSD to make it easy to install the most recent > />/ versions of all binary packages, its beyond belief they cannot pull > />/ off such a simple ans straight forward, and basi

Re: flowtable usable or not

2012-03-03 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 03/03/2012 10:18 AM, H wrote: Bas Smeelen wrote: On 03/02/2012 07:42 PM, H wrote: Doug Barton wrote: ... and here is the crux of the problem. The vast majority of our developers don't use FreeBSD as their regular workstation. So it has increasingly become an OS where changes are being lobbe

Re: flowtable usable or not

2012-03-03 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 03/03/2012 10:18 AM, H wrote: you talk like the wind blows my friend ... remembering your own most recent words in another occasion what certainly do not match your last sentence ... What you 'mis'quote further down was not my writing. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/

Fwd: Re: flowtable usable or not

2012-03-03 Thread O. Hartmann
on 03/03/2012 13:44 O. Hartmann said the following: > Back to the topic of the initial posting: > > Where can I find documentation for the "idiot" about flowtable? I can > switch this to "ON" in the kernel config on FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE as well as > in FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT. But I can not find any

Re: flowtable usable or not

2012-03-03 Thread O. Hartmann
Back to the topic of the initial posting: Where can I find documentation for the "idiot" about flowtable? I can switch this to "ON" in the kernel config on FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE as well as in FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT. But I can not find any hint what it is supposed to do, what benefit it could provide or

Re: flowtable usable or not

2012-03-03 Thread O. Hartmann
On 03/03/12 07:44, H wrote: > Doug Barton wrote: >> [...] Sure, >> our strength is servers, and that is not going to change. I agree and disagree. Based upon the struggle with desktop usage and focus on development, FreeBSD is de facto more server oriented. But in comparison to several other non-

Re: flowtable usable or not

2012-03-03 Thread Bruce Cran
On 03/03/2012 17:09, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: I have never understood the point of KDE or Gnome, other than (perhaps) as eye candy for the uninitiated. If I wanted a Windows desktop, I would install Windows. If I wanted a Mac desktop, I would use a Mac. And if you want a FreeBSD desktop w

Re: flowtable usable or not

2012-03-03 Thread perryh
H wrote: > ... Forever installing FreeBSD Desktop, either KDE or Gnome, > was a nightmare process, or better, to make it appear on screen > was a nightmare. I have never understood the point of KDE or Gnome, other than (perhaps) as eye candy for the uninitiated. If I wanted a Windows desktop, I

Re: flowtable usable or not

2012-03-03 Thread H
Bas Smeelen wrote: > On 03/02/2012 07:42 PM, H wrote: >> Doug Barton wrote: >>> ... and here is the crux of the problem. The vast majority of our >>> developers don't use FreeBSD as their regular workstation. So it has >>> increasingly become an OS where changes are being lobbed over the wall >>> b

Re: flowtable usable or not

2012-03-03 Thread H
Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 03/03/2012 08:44 H said the following: >> let's face some reality. > Let's do that. > >> Forever installing FreeBSD Desktop, either KDE or Gnome, was a nightmare >> process, or better, to make it appear on screen was a nightmare. > This has not been my experience (reality).

Re: flowtable usable or not

2012-03-03 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 03/03/2012 08:44 H said the following: > let's face some reality. Let's do that. > Forever installing FreeBSD Desktop, either KDE or Gnome, was a nightmare > process, or better, to make it appear on screen was a nightmare. This has not been my experience (reality). -- Andriy Gapon _

Re: Resume broken in 8.3-PRERELEASE

2012-03-03 Thread Hans Petter Selasky
On Friday 02 March 2012 20:25:32 Jung-uk Kim wrote: > On Friday 02 March 2012 03:50 am, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 04:55:03PM -0500, Jung-uk Kim wrote: > > > It does not make a difference for me (i.e., usb suspend/resume > > > still broken) but I think I found a typo: > > >