Re: Sanity check: FreeBSD 9.3 binaries on FreeBSD 9.1?

2016-02-02 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 2/2/16 2:09 PM, Alan Amesbury wrote: First off Yes, I know 9.1-RELEASE is deprecated. I want to run something newer, but circumstances require I can't for now. Traditionally in FreeBSD -STABLE (as in 9-STABLE) referred to the APIs as being stable, i.e., stuff compiled within the sam

Re: 9.2-PRE: switch off that stupid "Nakatomi Socrates"

2013-09-27 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 9/27/13 7:14 PM, Freddie Cash wrote: On Sep 27, 2013 5:05 PM, "grenville armitage" wrote: On 09/28/2013 08:06, David Demelier wrote: [..] Also in the future you can just forgot that crappy ideas as you can see, nobody liked it. I beg to differ. I know it's not a poll, but mys

Re: Looking for driver help

2013-09-10 Thread Alfred Perlstein
1:/root # I'll upgrade to whatever if there's a chance of a driver already existing but so far I've found nothing. Thanks and sorry for the delay. Ryan On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 9/8/13 3:01 AM, Ryan McIntosh wrote: I sent an email out to free

Re: Looking for driver help

2013-09-08 Thread Alfred Perlstein
any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" What version of FreeBSD are you using? FreeBSD 10 has drivers for several qlogic 10gb cards. It would help to see output of "pciconf -l" on this machine as well knowing what versio

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-08-19 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 8/19/13 9:19 AM, Outback Dingo wrote: On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Andre Oppermann <mailto:an...@freebsd.org>> wrote: On 19.08.2013 18:09, Outback Dingo wrote: On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Alfred Perlstein mailto:alf...@ixsystems.com>

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-08-19 Thread Alfred Perlstein
with high vnode requirements. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 19, 2013, at 7:30 AM, Outback Dingo wrote: > > > > On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Alfred Perlstein > wrote: >> >> >> On Aug 19, 2013, at 2:52 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote: >> >>

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-08-19 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Aug 19, 2013, at 2:52 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote: > On 16.08.2013 10:29, Andre Oppermann wrote: >> On 16.08.2013 08:32, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >>> Andre, I'm kind of bummed out this didn't make it into 9.2, I'm wondering >>> can I commit this

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-08-15 Thread Alfred Perlstein
Andre, I'm kind of bummed out this didn't make it into 9.2, I'm wondering can I commit this to 9-stable now? (or is it already in?) Would you do the honors? -Alfred On 7/8/13 7:37 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote: On 07.07.2013 20:24, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 7/7/13 1:34 AM,

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-15 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 7/15/13 7:13 AM, Glen Barber wrote: On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 05:48:40AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 7/15/13 5:44 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote: On 15.07.2013 08:38, Andre Oppermann wrote: On 13.07.2013 09:47, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Andre, we have a number of people running this patch in

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-15 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 7/15/13 5:44 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote: On 15.07.2013 08:38, Andre Oppermann wrote: On 13.07.2013 09:47, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Andre, we have a number of people running this patch in the following configurations: 6-8GB ram + 10gigE ethernet using iozone over NFS. As you haven't

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-13 Thread Alfred Perlstein
calability. -Alfred On 7/7/13 1:34 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote: On 07.07.2013 08:32, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Andre, Are you going to have time to MFC things from -current for auto-tuning -stable before 9.2? I simply ran out of time on Friday and MFCing such a big change requires more testing. I f

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
ann wrote: > On 11.07.2013 11:08, Steven Hartland wrote: >> - Original Message - From: "Andre Oppermann" >> >>> On 08.07.2013 16:37, Andre Oppermann wrote: >>>> On 07.07.2013 20:24, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >>>>> On 7/7/13 1

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 7/11/13 12:44 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote: On 08.07.2013 16:37, Andre Oppermann wrote: On 07.07.2013 20:24, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 7/7/13 1:34 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote: Can you help me with with testing? Yes. Please give me your proposed changes and I'll stand up a machine and

Re: status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-07 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 7/7/13 1:34 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote: On 07.07.2013 08:32, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Andre, Are you going to have time to MFC things from -current for auto-tuning -stable before 9.2? I simply ran out of time on Friday and MFCing such a big change requires more testing. I fear (maybe

status of autotuning freebsd for 9.2

2013-07-06 Thread Alfred Perlstein
x27;ll see what I can do. -- Alfred Perlstein VP Software Engineering, iXsystems ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: watchdogs

2013-02-25 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 2/22/13 8:47 AM, Mark Atkinson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/20/2013 11:36, Eugene M. Zheganin wrote: Hi. I have a bunch of FreeBSDs that hangs (and I really want to do something to fight this). May be it's the zfs or may be it's the pf (I also have a bunch of r

Re: watchdogs

2013-02-20 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 2/20/13 11:36 AM, Eugene M. Zheganin wrote: Hi. I have a bunch of FreeBSDs that hangs (and I really want to do something to fight this). May be it's the zfs or may be it's the pf (I also have a bunch of really stable ones, so it's hard to isolate and tell). Since 9.x hang more often I supp

Re: Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?

2013-01-02 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 1/2/13 8:05 AM, Derek Kulinski wrote: Eitan Adler wrote: On 2 January 2013 06:26, Chris Rees wrote: To clarify, no-one wants to remove CVS completely, the suggestion was to move it out of the base system. As the developer responsible for this: CVS will be removed from base. It alread

Re: Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?

2013-01-01 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 1/1/13 9:30 PM, Doug Hardie wrote: On 1 January 2013, at 21:16, Chris H wrote: On 1 January 2013 15:17, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 1/1/13 6:55 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: On 1 January 2013 02:54, Derek Kulinski wrote: That said I would totally understand you being upset if FreeBSD would

Re: Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?

2013-01-01 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 1/1/13 12:51 PM, Derek Kulinski wrote: Hello Alfred, Tuesday, January 1, 2013, 12:17:17 PM, you wrote: Just In Case: FreeBSD has no plans to switch to get in either the short or long term. We will however offer git repositories and first-class cousins via git.freebsd.org and github. Are

Re: Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?

2013-01-01 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 1/1/13 12:19 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: On 1 January 2013 15:17, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 1/1/13 6:55 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: On 1 January 2013 02:54, Derek Kulinski wrote: That said I would totally understand you being upset if FreeBSD would decide to switch to git, since despite its

Re: Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?

2013-01-01 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 1/1/13 6:55 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: On 1 January 2013 02:54, Derek Kulinski wrote: That said I would totally understand you being upset if FreeBSD would decide to switch to git, since despite its benefits that is a huge change, and would definitely be hard for people to adjust. Just In Case:

Re: Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?

2012-12-31 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 12/31/12 7:32 PM, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 3:21 AM, Alfred Perlstein wrote: There are arguments on both sides; some (perhaps you) feel SVN has/ provides more options, others (maybe myself) feel the same can be accomplished with CVS, and that migration only causes more

Re: Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?

2012-12-31 Thread Alfred Perlstein
There are arguments on both sides; some (perhaps you) feel SVN has/ provides more options, others (maybe myself) feel the same can be accomplished with CVS, and that migration only causes more initial (and unnecessary) overhead. I'll leave it at that. :) Chris, I think you've gotten to your NYE

Re: Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?

2012-12-31 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 12/31/12 12:40 PM, Chris H wrote: | I'm sorry, but the exporter scripts were always a stopgap. That's what I was afraid I would hear. Recently, I was informed by SF.NET, that my account would be upgraded, and all the projects I have, which all use CVS, would be "upgraded" to SVN (which renders

Re: Will we get a RELEASE-9.1 for Christmas?

2012-12-09 Thread Alfred Perlstein
My prediction is 9.1 will be released the last day of Hanukkah and I will tell you why: When I was a kid sometimes I would ask my patients to give me one big gift for Hanukkah instead of a small present each day. This would mean I would have to wait until the final day though. My assumption i

Re: nullfs changes MFC

2012-12-08 Thread Alfred Perlstein
By combining vop_settext/unset/get into a single call with parameters "op" and &out (for gettext) you can reduce 3 new vops into a single vop. The same can be done for write count vops. This will allow you to preserve kbi by reducing the vop additions to 2. Sent from my iPhone On Dec 7, 20

Re: Where do I purchace an unlock code to build a custom kernel?

2012-11-23 Thread Alfred Perlstein
hrm.. Isn't k7 i386? -alfred On 11/23/12 11:23 PM, Chris H wrote: Sorry, that _should_ have read: RELENG_8 Greetings, I've been running a RELENG_* box for some time now. I recently slipped the same CD into an older AMD k7 box, and performed an install && cvsup. I then promptly cd /usr/src

Re: bge on the new Mac Mini

2012-11-16 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 11/16/12 8:27 AM, Richard Kuhns wrote: On 11/16/12 11:20, Gary Palmer wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 10:54:00AM -0500, Richard Kuhns wrote: On 11/16/12 10:41, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Often that is all that is needed. It's worth a shot and reporting back. Do you know how to updat

Re: bge on the new Mac Mini

2012-11-16 Thread Alfred Perlstein
Often that is all that is needed. It's worth a shot and reporting back. Do you know how to update the table in the driver, rebuild/install kernel and check? -Alfred On 11/16/12 7:30 AM, Richard Kuhns wrote: Hi all, Over the last month or so I've installed FreeBSD 9 (-stable) on several Mac

Re: thread taskq / unp_gc() using 100% cpu and stalling unix socket IPC

2012-11-14 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Nov 14, 2012, at 2:42 AM, Markus Gebert wrote: > > On 14.11.2012, at 04:30, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > >> A couple of ideas: > > Thanks. > >> 1) convert the taskqueue to a callout, but only allow one to be queued at a >> time. set the granularity

Re: thread taskq / unp_gc() using 100% cpu and stalling unix socket IPC

2012-11-13 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 11/13/12 4:41 PM, Markus Gebert wrote: On 13.11.2012, at 19:30, Markus Gebert wrote: To me it looks like the unix socket GC is triggered way too often and/or running too long, which uses cpu and worse, causes a lot of contention around the unp_list_lock which in turn causes delays for all

Re: No buffer space available / tcp_inpcb value

2012-10-30 Thread Alfred Perlstein
How much memory is in this machine? maxsockets is in turn clipped by "nmbclusters" which is in turn clipped by "maxusers" which is limited to 384 MAXIMUM unless you're running -CURRENT. On 10/30/12 10:05 AM, Navdeep Parhar wrote: On 10/30/12 06:21, Adam Strohl wrote: Hey -STABLE, I've

Re: tmpfs nfs exports?

2012-10-30 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 10/30/12 8:31 AM, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Oct 30), jb said: Alfred Perlstein mu.org> writes: Hey folks, any reason why not to include the following patch in 9.1? It would be nice to have tmpfs be exportable. I'm good to commit it, I can also wait until post 9.1. ...

Re: tmpfs nfs exports?

2012-10-30 Thread Alfred Perlstein
Thanks all. I will fix up the merge step and commit. Sent from my iPhone On Oct 30, 2012, at 5:00 AM, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 02:38:16AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >> Hey folks, any reason why not to include the following patch in 9.1? It >> w

tmpfs nfs exports?

2012-10-30 Thread Alfred Perlstein
Hey folks, any reason why not to include the following patch in 9.1? It would be nice to have tmpfs be exportable. I'm good to commit it, I can also wait until post 9.1. $ svn diff Index: . === --- .(revision 242331) +++ .(

Re: My kernel panics suck

2010-09-08 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* William D. Colburn (Schlake) [100702 12:19] wrote: > I got my new 8-stable system up, and now I just have recurrent disk > controller failures. The machine can't stay more than about ten > minutes before it panics into a hung kernel, or simple reboots. > Unfortunately, I know the root cause of

Re: Sudden mbuf demand increase and shortage under the load

2010-02-15 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Maxim Sobolev [100215 04:49] wrote: > Hi, > > Our company have a FreeBSD based product that consists of the numerous > interconnected processes and it does some high-PPS UDP processing > (30-50K PPS is not uncommon). We are seeing some strange periodic > failures under the load in several such

Re: A very big Thank You for the inclusion of ZFS

2009-05-28 Thread Alfred Perlstein
-r 4k -s 40g -i 0 -i 1 -i 2 > -i 8 -+p 70 -C (350 MBytes/sec writes) > iozone -M -e -+u -T -t 128 -r 128k -s 4g -i 0 -i 1 -i 2 -i 8 -+p 70 > -C (400 MBytes/sec write) > > -- > Freddie Cash > fjwc...@gmail.com > ______

Re: NFS writes calling FSYNC and ASYNC not consistent

2009-01-29 Thread Alfred Perlstein
with an OpenSolaris 2008.11 client will issue ASYNC writes for > any file type, if mounted with NFSv3 of NFSv4 (TCP). > > Any ideas? > > Thanks in advance! > > -- > Brent Jones > br...@servuhome.net > ___ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -- - Alfred Perlstein ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: mydns-mysql starts before mysql has finished starting

2009-01-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
ak > Budapest, Hungary > ___ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -- - Alfred Perlstein ___

Re: Process stuck in STOP state

2008-12-25 Thread Alfred Perlstein
ddb command to do this. -Alfred > > On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > * Lin Jui-Nan Eric [081223 09:17] wrote: > >> > Dear listers, > >> > > >> > Our FreeBSD Server uses NFS to access PHP files on NetApp, then

Re: Process stuck in STOP state

2008-12-23 Thread Alfred Perlstein
ubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" It'd be good if you could get to ddb and do a "show all" or "threads" and get all threads backtrace to see what's happening. thank you, -- - Alfred Perlstein _

Re: confirming bugs is bad behavior, etc.

2008-12-09 Thread Alfred Perlstein
> Jo Rhett > Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source > and other randomness > > > ___ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- - Alfred Perlstein ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: System hanging during dump

2008-10-15 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [081015 12:00] wrote: > > Perhaps a 'show locks' with an 8-CURRENT kernel with WITNESS enabled > will shed light on the problem? As most of the filesystem locking > doesn't use lockmgr in 7-STABLE, it would be silent with that kernel. I might be wrong here,

Re: fxp performance with POLLING

2008-10-05 Thread Alfred Perlstein
g, but not "sucks". Where do you see faster performance? Between windows machines on the same hardware or linux server? -- - Alfred Perlstein ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: trying to track down UFS "dup alloc" message on iSCSI

2008-10-05 Thread Alfred Perlstein
7-STABLE box. > > ___ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- - Alfred Perlstein ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Request for testing - top 3.8b1 in the base system

2008-09-28 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Edwin Groothuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080927 23:04] wrote: > I have made an update for the top(1) utility in the FreeBSD base > system to get it from the 3.5b12 version to the 3.8b1 version. Hey Edwin, any chance you have the time to add to top(1) a flag that will restrict top(1) to only view a c

Re: ssh to FreeBSD 4 systems: xmalloc: zero size

2008-09-24 Thread Alfred Perlstein
this fix into FreeBSD before the 7.1 RELEASE? > > > > Thanks. > > -- > > Craig Rodrigues > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ___ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to &quo

Re: Apache-worker stuck at 100% CPU

2008-09-16 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080916 02:12] wrote: > 2008/9/16 Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > * Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080915 16:05] wrote: > > >> >> How do I pick what thread to backtrace in gdb? > >> > > >&g

Re: Apache-worker stuck at 100% CPU

2008-09-15 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080915 16:05] wrote: > 2008/9/13 Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >> Yes, it's multithreaded apache. This did help somewhat - when I show > >> threads in top > >> I see that it's not actually stu

Re: HEADS UP: inpcb/inpcbinfo rwlocking: coming to a 7-STABLE branch near you

2008-08-09 Thread Alfred Perlstein
e removed, I think the purpose of it is to to restart blocking in the "generic sorecv" case, in your code you only set it, you never reference it. -Alfred * Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080806 23:37] wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > &g

Re: HEADS UP: inpcb/inpcbinfo rwlocking: coming to a 7-STABLE branch near you

2008-08-06 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* David G Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080805 11:37] wrote: > > The thrust of this change is to replace the mutexes protecting the inpcb > > and inpcbinfo data structures with read-write locks (rwlocks). These > >That's really cool and directly affects my current work project. I'm > develo

Re: Upcoming ABI Breakage in RELENG_7

2008-08-01 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Ken Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080729 08:47] wrote: > > Normally the FreeBSD Project tries very hard to avoid ABI breakage in > "Stable Branches". However occasionally the fix for a bug can not be > implemented without ABI breakage, and it is decided that the fix > warrants the impact of the AB

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 and BIND exploit

2008-07-22 Thread Alfred Perlstein
sec_howto/#x1-240002.4 > > > But until root is signed, it's not worth it for those of us who don't > > have dedicated staff doing dns only. > > Bingo. > > -- > | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | > | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | > | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | > | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | > > ___ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- - Alfred Perlstein ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-08 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Jo Rhett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080607 14:37] wrote: > > Mike, could you do me a favor and provide me with a set of words that > will make what I am trying to say on this topic clear? I keep saying > the same thing over and over again and nobody is hearing me, so could > you perhaps help me

Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-08 Thread Alfred Perlstein
gt; > --Mike > > _______ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- - Alfred Perlstein ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Interrupt storm with shared interrupt on digi(4)

2008-06-05 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080605 07:58] wrote: > On Thursday 05 June 2008 02:19:31 am Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > * John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080604 11:12] wrote: > > > On Tuesday 03 June 2008 03:04:18 pm Peter Jeremy wrote: > > > > BTW,

Re: Interrupt storm with shared interrupt on digi(4)

2008-06-04 Thread Alfred Perlstein
o@ is an alias for [EMAIL PROTECTED] I > just > wish I could turn off the List-Id crap and use plain old reply-to-all, but > that is where the kmail developers disagree. wtf.why not just have a checkbox to toggle the behavior? -- - Alfred Perlstein ___

Re: Some odd behaviour of vmstat and vmtotal...

2008-04-30 Thread Alfred Perlstein
Can you _really_ remove the locking? I don't think that would be safe if the list is being manipulated, but I haven't checked. Typically one uses a sentinal to get around such problems. Basically insert a dummy object that no one should touch other than

Re: NFS and /etc/exports

2008-04-14 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080414 20:24] wrote: > In the last episode (Apr 14), Alfred Perlstein said: > > * Robert Blayzor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080414 06:07] wrote: > > > On Apr 14, 2008, at 7:02 AM, Nawfal bin Mohmad Rouyan wrote: > > > >I'

Re: NFS and /etc/exports

2008-04-14 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Robert Blayzor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080414 17:04] wrote: > On Apr 14, 2008, at 7:28 PM, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > >>Are -r and -w really needed/useful for TCP mounts? > > > >yes. > > > Really? Please explain then, because the mount_nfs man pa

Re: NFS and /etc/exports

2008-04-14 Thread Alfred Perlstein
; > > > > ___ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- - Alfred Perlstein

Re: gjournal....

2008-03-30 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Karl Denninger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080330 09:17] wrote: > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 02:06:17AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > > If you're using a database then it shouldn't matter what meta data > > provider you use "all that much&q

Re: gjournal....

2008-03-30 Thread Alfred Perlstein
anks! > If you're using a database then it shouldn't matter what meta data provider you use "all that much" with the exception of temporary tables. Basically, SU and gjournal both provide for meta data consistency, something that a database rarely needs as it rarely create

Re: Question about file system checks

2008-03-28 Thread Alfred Perlstein
s (which are smarter and probably use > fsync a lot), it managed to create 32000 files and have only 121 "bad" > in some way. > I know this sounds pretty awful, but honestly any file modified within an hour and not fsync'd being "lost" is not really a bad thing. It

Re: Question about file system checks

2008-03-27 Thread Alfred Perlstein
ck that often at > >> all. > > > > You are thinking of the Linux ext2/ext3 filesystem. > > > Although this is OT, does anybody have a clue why ext2/ext3 filesystems > behave like that? > I wouldn't like to trust a filesystem

Re: timeout/untimeout race conditions/crash [patch]

2008-03-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080317 09:43] wrote: > > This is not a bug. Don't use untimeout(9) as it is not guaranteed to be > reliable. Instead, use callout_*(). Your patch doesn't solve any races as > the driver detach routine needs to use callout_drain() and not just > callout_sto

timeout/untimeout race conditions/crash [patch]

2008-03-14 Thread Alfred Perlstein
We are doing some testing in-house to also make sure this works. Please provide feedback. See attached delta. -- - Alfred Perlstein Index: kern_timeout.c === RCS file: /cvs/ncvs/src/sys/kern/kern_timeout.c,v retrieving revision 1

Re: Re[2]: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

2008-03-14 Thread Alfred Perlstein
__ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- - Alfred Perlstein ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Approaching the limit on PV entries

2008-03-12 Thread Alfred Perlstein
t > 6 GB), amd64, running postgresql, php and apache. > try setting: sysctl kern.ipc.shm_use_phys=1 -- - Alfred Perlstein ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: FreeBSD 7 buildworld error

2008-02-29 Thread Alfred Perlstein
size (kbytes, -s) 65536 > cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited > max user processes (-u) 5547 > virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited > > Any ideas? I can provide more information at request. Object directory clean?

Re: fsck_ufs: cannot alloc 94208 bytes for inoinfo

2008-02-26 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Olivier Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080226 14:32] wrote: > Hello, > > "fsck_ufs: cannot alloc 94208 bytes for inoinfo" > > This is what I get after about one hour while trying a fsck on a large > (1.4TB) partition "broken" since a power outage. > > HW: HP DL380G5, under freebsd 6.1/i386, wi

Re: Dual Core Xeon / i386 install w/ more than 4gb of RAM

2008-02-20 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Tom Samplonius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080219 23:00] wrote: > > ----- "Alfred Perlstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Does anyone have any alternative solutions that would provide a > > more > > > reliable environment

Re: Dual Core Xeon / i386 install w/ more than 4gb of RAM

2008-02-19 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Kevin K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080219 14:40] wrote: > I have a box that we recently installed 16GB of RAM on. The box is i386 > FreeBSD 6.2. It only recognizes 4gb. > > > > I am currently recompiling the kernel to support options PAE (KERNCONF=PAE) > in order to see this. I understand this is s

Re: Analysis of disk file block with ZFS checksum error

2008-02-08 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Joe Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080208 14:58] wrote: > Mark Day wrote: > > Based on the subset of data you posted, the bad data looks like ASCII > > text. > > The bad data from offset a to a000f is: > > > > ${138AFE{@ > > @$$}1 > > > > The bad data from offset af6c1 to af6c8 is: > > > > 392

Re: Highpoint drivers on 7.0

2008-01-25 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Eirik ?verby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080125 12:53] wrote: > Hi all, > > did anyone try the Highpoint RocetRaid drivers (hptmv6.ko) on 7-RC1 or > later? I'm considering upgrading one of my servers here, but I need to > know if my RAID-controller will work after reinstall.. > > A shame HPT doesn

Re: Packet loss every 30.999 seconds

2007-12-22 Thread Alfred Perlstein
o it should be safe from vnode reclaimation/free problems. That level of obscuring is a bit worrysome. Yes, I did mean placeholder vnode. Even so, is it of utility or not? Or is it already being used and I'm missing something and should just "utsl" at this point? -- - Alfr

Re: Packet loss every 30.999 seconds

2007-12-21 Thread Alfred Perlstein
nd to try it out on some servers RSN. Out of curiosity's sake, why would it make the loop slower? one would only add the placeholder when yielding, not for every iteration. -- - Alfred Perlstein ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Packet loss every 30.999 seconds

2007-12-21 Thread Alfred Perlstein
not reading the code as I am swamped, but a technique that Matt Dillon used for bufs might work here. Can you use a placeholder vnode as a place to restart the scan? you might have to mark it special so that other threads/things (getnewvnode()?) don't molest it, but it can provide for

Re: USB memory stick as dump device

2007-11-28 Thread Alfred Perlstein
o...is it possible to use > USB stick as a dump device or should I not even try that? > > -- > VH > I don't think that will work currently. -- - Alfred Perlstein ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.

Re: msdosfs performance unbearable

2007-11-28 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Dominic Fandrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071128 01:04] wrote: > Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > * Dominic Fandrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071127 00:47] wrote: > >> ufs: > >> $ time -h tar -xf php_manual_en.tar.gz > >>3.31s real 0.43s us

Re: msdosfs performance unbearable

2007-11-27 Thread Alfred Perlstein
arely responsive. The mouse moves extremely sloppy > and a key-press often causes 2 characters to be printed. Mouse-clicks are > either lost or take more than 10 seconds to be recognized. Which version of FreeBSD? can you get more information about t

Re: Some processes stay active after killing its PID

2007-11-27 Thread Alfred Perlstein
the built in csh kill -9 wouldn't? > > According to the manual page for the built-in kill command, it > recognizes 'kill -s 9', but not 'kill -9'. Is it too late to remove csh from the base system? :D -- - Alfred Perlstein _

Re: impressive buildworld time

2007-11-14 Thread Alfred Perlstein
that would be able to sort of glue together all the makefiles under directories and teach make how to build a dep graph such that for example all of usr.bin could be built in parallel. We'd need some syntactic sugar to explicitly state which recurive makes could be run in parallel and hopefully

Re: FreeBSD based bandwidth manager, traffic shaper

2007-11-07 Thread Alfred Perlstein
gt; >> -- > >> No virus found in this incoming message. > >> Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: > >> 269.15.23/1114 - Release Date: 11/6/2007 8:05 PM > >> > > > > ___

Re: rrdtool performance tuning (fwd)

2007-10-30 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Dmitry Morozovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071030 02:30] wrote: > On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > AP> * Dmitry Morozovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071029 12:44] wrote: > AP> > > AP> > [hmm, after thinking a bit I decided it would be mo

Re: rrdtool performance tuning (fwd)

2007-10-30 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Dmitry Morozovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071029 12:44] wrote: > > [hmm, after thinking a bit I decided it would be more appropriate here, in > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Dear colleagues, > > any hints to tune rrdtool with ~30k rrd files (approx 2k target devices)? > > machine is mostly IO-bound, sh

Re: LOCK_PROFILING in -stable

2007-10-24 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Skip Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071024 10:47] wrote: > Robert Watson wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Oct 2007, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > > >>This is my feeling also -- I would consider ABI breakage a show stopper > > >>for 6.x, but feel otherw

Re: LOCK_PROFILING in -stable

2007-10-21 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071021 01:56] wrote: > Alfred Perlstein wrote: > >* Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071020 10:21] wrote: > >>On Sat, 20 Oct 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >> > >>>Alfred Perlstein wrote: > >>>>H

Re: LOCK_PROFILING in -stable

2007-10-20 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071020 10:21] wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Oct 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >Alfred Perlstein wrote: > >>Hey guys, I have LOCK_PROFILING done for a product based on FreeBSD-6, > >>this means I can relatively easily backpor

Re: kern/104406: [ufs] Processes get stuck in "ufs" state underpersistent CPU load

2007-10-20 Thread Alfred Perlstein
ddb command "dump" > > but whatever... :) > > Unfortunately, this doesn't work too. I called duty personnel in this > datacenter and asked them to do this, and person on duty tells me that after > he enters this command something like that arrives on monitor: >

LOCK_PROFILING in -stable

2007-10-19 Thread Alfred Perlstein
Hey guys, I have LOCK_PROFILING done for a product based on FreeBSD-6, this means I can relatively easily backport LOCK_PROFILING from FreeBSD-7 to FreeBSD-6. Do we want this? I'd like to do it if people want it. -- - Alfred Perlstein ___ fr

Re: kern/104406: [ufs] Processes get stuck in "ufs" state under persistent CPU load

2007-10-19 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Oleg Derevenetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071019 08:17] wrote: > Hi all, > > Can anyone take a look on PR kern/104406 ? I got repeatable hang situation, > but I can't obtain a kernel dump to get result of all show commands from > here: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developer

Re: Question about 'top' values on memory usage

2007-10-15 Thread Alfred Perlstein
ot;something happens" or you reach enough httpd to service your load, at that point if "something happens" (ie the box tanks) you add more ram. -- - Alfred Perlstein ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Unix domain socket leak in 6-STABLE

2007-06-13 Thread Alfred Perlstein
> This machine is our Samba PDC, running 6.2-STABLE compile in Apr 5 13:33:50 > using samba-3.0.24,1, nss_ldap-1.255, openldap-server-2.3.34_1 > > I can provide more information if need. > > Any Advises/Patches ? I would advise running "truss" or ktrace against

Re: DDoS in FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE And Problen With The Clock

2007-06-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
ul. :-) > > Hi, > I thought DDoS = _Distributed_ Denial of Service where > multiple attacking devices gang up to attack a host. Is your example > not just a plain old Denial of Service (DoS) ? Well it takes 3 execution pipelines... -- - Alfred Perlstein __

audit note for UPDATING.

2006-03-10 Thread Alfred Perlstein
a separate module named 3dfx_linux now. The -- - Alfred Perlstein - CTO Okcupid.com / FreeBSD Hacker / All that jazz - ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail

Required audit group is missing...

2006-03-10 Thread Alfred Perlstein
... stable... :D /usr/src # make installworld ERROR: Required audit group is missing, see /usr/src/UPDATING. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. /usr/src # grep audit /usr/src/UPDATING /usr/src # ??? -- - Alfred

Re: libstdc++ version bump.

2005-06-29 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050628 21:57] wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 09:47:03AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > No, it's not that. It's just that when we decided to upgrade gcc/g++ > > in the 5.2.1 era someone didn't bump the library version

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