Re: twa: Passthru request timed out! Resetting controller...

2006-11-15 Thread Atanas
n this mailing list when somebody looks for good SATA cards (Re: 3ware, 3ware, ...), I replied myself too. So are there any success stories with 3ware 9550SX (SATA II) and dual AMD Opteron server boards, or it's time to go back with Intel? Regards, Atanas Atanas wrote: Has anyone exper

Re: twa: Passthru request timed out! Resetting controller...

2006-11-14 Thread Atanas
latest one released as 9.3.0.7 on the 3ware website. Yesterday flashed and rebooted them all, and this morning I got the next crash. Regards, Atanas On 11/14/06, Atanas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Has anyone experiencing this: twa0: ERROR: (0x05: 0x2018): Passthru request tim

twa: Passthru request timed out! Resetting controller...

2006-11-14 Thread Atanas
el > options BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER > options DDB > options KDB > options KDB_UNATTENDED > options IPFIREWALL > options DUMMYNET I'm attaching the dmesg.boot following the latest crash. Regards, Atanas Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1

Re: QUOTA+SNAPSHOT

2006-08-14 Thread Atanas
ng once a week or so with QUOTAS enabled and SNAPSHOTS disabled (i.e. background_fsck="NO" in rc.conf). Since upgrading to 6-STABLE I got 10 days of uptime and no crashes so far. Regards, Atanas ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing li

Re: portupgrade bug: -M no longer works after v2.1.0

2006-07-13 Thread Atanas
Sergey Matveychuk said the following on 7/12/06 10:57 PM: Atanas wrote: Please, don't get me wrong. I'm not asking for help or for a workaround. I'm actually trying to help identifying a problem or regression. If this is not a bug, but a feature change, please have it documen

Re: portupgrade bug: -M no longer works after v2.1.0

2006-07-12 Thread Atanas
Sergey Matveychuk said the following on 7/12/06 3:24 AM: Atanas wrote: Sergey Matveychuk said the following on 7/11/2006 10:08 PM: Atanas wrote: Recent portupgrade versions no longer obey the -M command line switch, i.e. any optional arguments to be prepended to each make command. How to

Re: portupgrade bug: -M no longer works after v2.1.0

2006-07-12 Thread Atanas
Sergey Matveychuk said the following on 7/11/2006 10:08 PM: Atanas wrote: Recent portupgrade versions no longer obey the -M command line switch, i.e. any optional arguments to be prepended to each make command. How to reproduce: # portinstall -M "APACHE_HARD_SERVER_LIMIT=1024" ww

Re: portupgrade bug: -M no longer works after v2.1.0

2006-07-11 Thread Atanas
Matthias Andree said the following on 7/11/06 1:48 PM: Atanas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Recent portupgrade versions no longer obey the -M command line switch, i.e. any optional arguments to be prepended to each make command. How to reproduce: # portinstall -M "APACHE_HARD_SERVER

portupgrade bug: -M no longer works after v2.1.0

2006-07-11 Thread Atanas
1-RELEASE (2.0.1_1) seems to work as expected. I tried all CVS versions after that (with portdowngrade) and found that the breakage has happened somewhere between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1 (2006/06/02 - 2006/06/04). Regards, Atanas ___ freebsd-sta

Re: em device hangs on ifconfig alias ...

2006-07-10 Thread Atanas
tched driver enough to see whether it performs as expected. But in overall it looks good. I guess some more testing might be needed in order to merge the patch into the source tree. Regards, Atanas Index: if_em.c ==

Re: em device hangs on ifconfig alias ...

2006-07-07 Thread Atanas
module I intentionally appended " (patched)" to its version string in if_em.c, and could see that in dmesg every time I loaded the module: em1: Regards, Atanas ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

Re: em device hangs on ifconfig alias ...

2006-07-06 Thread Atanas
;s put that aside for now. Regards, Atanas ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: em device hangs on ifconfig alias ...

2006-07-06 Thread Atanas
d systems could be a serious hurdle after a crash or reboot. Regards, Atanas --- if_em.c.origFri May 19 09:19:57 2006 +++ if_em.c Thu Jul 6 11:10:56 2006 @@ -657,8 +657,9 @@ mtx_assert(&a

Re: em device hangs on ifconfig alias ...

2006-07-05 Thread Atanas
Pyun YongHyeon said the following on 6/30/06 8:54 PM: On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 12:28:49PM -0700, Atanas wrote: > User Freebsd said the following on 6/29/06 9:29 PM: > > > >The other funny thing about the current em driver is that if you move an > >IP to it from a

Parallel fsck in non-preen/full mode?

2006-06-30 Thread Atanas
he fsck source and somehow change the default '-y' behavior. But I wouldn't like to carry such additional luggage of custom patches on all servers and also I don't think that I am the most qualified person to do so. So in case someone still reads this, please advice. Regards, At

Re: em device hangs on ifconfig alias ...

2006-06-30 Thread Atanas
long as fxp works, this is a non-issue for me. Regards, Atanas ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: em device hangs on ifconfig alias ...

2006-06-30 Thread Atanas
#x27;t working as expected, I don't remember the specifics), while the one coming with 4.x did, so we ended up installing 4.11 then. Regards, Atanas ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: em device hangs on ifconfig alias ...

2006-06-30 Thread Atanas
Michael Vince said the following on 6/29/06 8:53 PM: The thing that have to ask is if Atanas has 100's why can't he just boot Freebsd have have them all prebound to the interface at startup, why would you need to add and remove them constantly by the hundreds during normal server u

Re: em device hangs on ifconfig alias ...

2006-06-28 Thread Atanas
ave some newer machines with 2 Broadcom chips on-board. I plan to give them a try at some point in the future, but I'm not sure how stable the bge driver is when compared to fxp and em. Regards, Atanas ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http:/

Re: fsck_ufs locked in snaplk

2006-04-25 Thread Atanas
ded server running 6.1-PRERELEASE (BETA2 based on 6-STABLE) from Mar 1 with manually patched sys/ufs/ufs/ufs_quota.c (1.74.2.1 2006/01/14) with a similar diff generated from CURRENT between 1.77 and 1.80. 55 days uptime and no problems so far. Regards, Atanas P.S. Forgot to CC the list, sorry for the d

Re: FreeBSD/i386 6-stable + 4 GB RAM

2006-03-14 Thread Atanas
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Re: well-supported SATA RAID card?

2006-03-10 Thread Atanas
ities that let you manage while the OS is running that folks have had good luck with? I've been happy with the megaraid series on linux at my job, but I'm wondering if the management utilities are there on freebsd, etc. 3ware. Regards, Atanas __

hw.realmem on i386

2006-02-23 Thread Atanas
# Delay (in ms) before probing SCSI > options QUOTA > options SMP # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel PAE: > options IPFIREWALL > options DUMMYNET Regards, Atanas __

Re: AMD64 or I386

2006-02-22 Thread Atanas
If I tell the kernel I've 4 Go the system don't boot (kernel panic). What can I do. You might need to compile a PAE enabled kernel, see the pae(4) man page for more details. Regards, Atanas ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list ht

Re: SSH login takes very long time...sometimes

2006-02-17 Thread Atanas
Mike Tancsa said the following on 02/17/06 11:50: At 09:17 PM 16/02/2006, Atanas wrote: Does anybody know whether ipfw (or something else within FreeBSD-4) is capable of setting connection rate limits? Why not just launch sshd out of inetd ? Primarily because of the big scare sign in the

Re: SSH login takes very long time...sometimes

2006-02-17 Thread Atanas
Marian Hettwer said the following on 02/17/06 00:39: Atanas wrote: Last year I already had to decrease the LoginGraceTime from 120 to 30 seconds on my production boxes, but it didn't help much, so on top of that I got to implement (reinvent the wheel again) a script tailing the auth.lo

Re: SSH login takes very long time...sometimes

2006-02-17 Thread Atanas
Carl Makin said the following on 02/16/06 20:07: Atanas wrote: Does anybody know whether ipfw (or something else within FreeBSD-4) is capable of setting connection rate limits? I'm using SEC to monitor the auth.log file and block any IP addresses that fail a password 3 times with

Re: SSH login takes very long time...sometimes

2006-02-16 Thread Atanas
r key (takes seconds and CPU) on every incoming ssh connection, which would be kind of slow and wasteful. Regards, Atanas ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any ma

Re: SSH login takes very long time...sometimes

2006-02-16 Thread Atanas
unately it wasn't available in FreeBSD-4.x, and I still have plenty of such boxes. Does anybody know whether ipfw (or something else within FreeBSD-4) is capable of setting connection rate limits? Regards, Atanas ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org ma

Re: SSH login takes very long time...sometimes

2006-02-16 Thread Atanas
key length in FreeBSD-6 however just got doubled from 1024 to 2048-bit. I believe there's a reason for that and don't like the idea of going down. Regards, Atanas ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: SSH login takes very long time...sometimes

2006-02-16 Thread Atanas
e to have something like for instance the sendmail's client and rate connection limits, but I guess this is not the right place to ask. Regards, Atanas ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-s

Re: 6.0-RELEASE freeze repetitively

2006-01-30 Thread Atanas
ary/021693.html All of the possible workarounds I know are limited to the following: - disable SMP - disable QUOTA support - downgrade to 5.4(-STABLE) This should have been in errata since mid Nov 2005. Regards, Atanas I setup a serial console and go into ddb and get: KDB: enter: Line break

Re: diskio / filesystem related deadlock on SMP 6.0-STABLE machine.

2006-01-27 Thread Atanas
oxes running 6-STABLE (SMP with QUOTA enabled) and the only way I found to stop them crashing was switching back to 5.4. I hope this will get fixed in 6.1. Regards, Atanas ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/l

Re: 6.0-STABLE can't see floppy drive for KLD loading

2005-12-30 Thread Atanas
box from it, and install over the network. I haven't tried the latter myself, but already used a nanobsd based USB flash drive as emergency recovery media on a 9550SX based box, and it worked. Regards, Atanas ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mail

Re: 6.0 random freezes

2005-12-14 Thread Atanas
s thinking about trying the kernel stress suite first. Or just have something rsync-ing lots files back and forth (possibly over the network), run apache bench in a loop and point it to some database intensive page, etc. Regards, Atanas ___ freebsd-stabl

Re: 6.0 random freezes

2005-12-13 Thread Atanas
Atanas said the following on 12/12/05 18:57: Peter Jeremy said the following on 12/12/05 13:40: >> When it hangs, break into DDB (Ctrl-Alt-Esc on the console or BREAK on >> a serial console). >> > But if I have no keyboard response I won't be able to save it, ri

Re: 6.0 random freezes

2005-12-12 Thread Atanas
Atanas said the following on 12/12/05 15:43: Ronald Klop said the following on 12/12/05 13:27: What happens if you set one of these sysctl values to 0? (This disables SMP changes from 5.4 to 6.0.) debug.mpsafevfs: 1 debug.mpsafenet: 1 debug.mpsafevm: 1 Thanks for the suggestion! I just

Re: 6.0 random freezes

2005-12-12 Thread Atanas
on the downgrade, but most likely I will have at least one of these 2 machines still running 6.x during the next day or two. After the downgrade we could eventually set a test bed and start hammering it with requests. The problem would be how to trigger the crash and whether we would be able

Re: 6.0 random freezes

2005-12-12 Thread Atanas
e problem still persists. I hope I won't be forced to downgrade to 5.4, though I'm already working on that (just in case). Regards, Atanas ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: 6.0 random freezes

2005-12-12 Thread Atanas
nes I have problems with are way less loaded, and are supposedly faster ones. Thanks for your suggestions! Regards, Atanas ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any ma

6.0 random freezes

2005-12-12 Thread Atanas
w the only reasonable option for me (I mean for production and in relatively short term) seems going downward to 5.4 and wait until 6.x get more stable Two dmesg.boot files attached. Any comments, suggestions and questions are welcome. Regards, Atanas Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project. C