Re: FreeBSD eats 169.254.x.x addressed packets

2010-06-12 Thread Bruce Simpson
Guy Helmer wrote: My previous understanding was that RFC 3927 did not allow transmitting datagrams involving the 169.254.0.0/16 link-local prefix; now that I've looked over the RFC more closely, I'm not sure that is the case. I have cc'ed Bruce Simpson on this message in hopes that he can

Re: Only 70% of theoretical peak performance on FreeBSD 8/amd64, Corei7 920

2010-04-12 Thread Bruce Simpson
On 04/12/10 05:12, Maho NAKATA wrote: *Abstract* I compared the peak performance of FreeBSD 8.0/amd64 and Ubuntu 9.10 amd64 using dgemm (a linear algebra routine, matrix-matrix multiplication). I obtained only 70% of theoretical peak performance on FreeBSD 8/amd64 and almost 95% on Ubuntu 9.10

Re: Only 70% of theoretical peak performance on FreeBSD 8/amd64, Corei7 920

2010-04-12 Thread Bruce Simpson
Hi all, There's a port archivers/pbzip2, and I am inclined to believe this is a good benchmark for multi-core performance in real-world usage (with an appropriate input data set). BZIP2 is a compression algorithm which is readily applicable to multicore, because of the nature in which its

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-10 Thread Bruce Simpson
On 02/10/10 19:40, Steve Polyack wrote: I haven't had such bad experience as the above, but it is certainly a concern. Using ZFS we simply 'offline' the device, pull, replace with a new one, glabel, and zfs replace. It seems to work fine as long as nothing is accessing the device you are

Re: ionice in FreeBSD?

2010-02-04 Thread Bruce Simpson
On 02/03/10 11:52, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: So I guess my question is, 'why do you need I/O scheduling, and what aspect of system performance are you trying to solve with it' ? Some shell-scripts based on dd or rsync, for example. Even a daily antivirus (ClamAV) scanner means an

Re: ionice in FreeBSD?

2010-02-03 Thread Bruce Simpson
On 02/02/2010 17:19, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: In FreeBSD we've nice(1), renice(8) and even rtprio, idprio(1) but if I'm understanding correctly, they're related to CPU priorty only, not to I/O. That's not entirely true. A thread's CPU priority is still going to affect its ability to be

Re: freebsd 8.0 stable amd64/x86 needs ~9min to bootup

2010-01-27 Thread Bruce Simpson
Try GRUB4DOS. I use this so on boxes where I have Windows installed, I can keep GRUB in the NTFS partition. I haven't seen this issue and am tracking -STABLE on an ASUS V-series machine. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: mounting ext3 for rw

2010-01-04 Thread Bruce Simpson
You could try this, but it needs patching for FreeBSD: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fuse/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: HP LJ 1020: ulpt0: offline

2009-12-15 Thread Bruce Simpson
Graham Menhennitt wrote: Foo2zjs doesn't seem to have changed recently. CUPS has changed but I doubt that's the problem. Maybe something to do with USB drivers? In 8.x, CUPS 1.4.x wants libusb support and the ugen driver, rather than ulpt. Once I changed over to that, all was fine. It's

Re: bootless!

2009-10-21 Thread Bruce Simpson
Randy Bush wrote: is there a recipe for making a 7.2 usb? Tried the UsbDevice command in NanoBSD? This won't give you a full FreeBSD installer, but you can build a 7.2 system with it just fine. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: 8.0-BETA3/i386: make WITHOUT_TOOLCHAIN=yes buildworld broken

2009-08-31 Thread Bruce Simpson
Simon L. Nielsen wrote: I'm pretty sure WITHOUT_TOOLCHAIN=yes hasn't worked with buildworld since 7.x, so this is nothing new. You need to specify it with installworld, not buildworld. At least I ran into that with NanoBSD some time ago. Any chance we could get the C++ runtime coaxed away

Re: ataraid's revenge! (Was: Re: A nasty ataraid experience.)

2009-07-27 Thread Bruce Simpson
Gavin Atkinson wrote: On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 19:57 +0100, Bruce Simpson wrote: 6 months on, ataraid(4) did it again. Which ataraid(4) controller is this? Seeing a verbose dmesg would help. There are several patches in the PR database for ataraid problems, it would be worth having

Re: status of flash9/flash10 support in RELENG_7 ?

2009-07-27 Thread Bruce Simpson
Luigi Rizzo wrote: Is there a recipe for a working flas9 or flash10 operation ? Allegedly PC-BSD ship a working Flash install, I have not tried it. I have had similar problems and tried similar recipes. The Flash player(s) thus embedded are not very stable, and can crash or hang with

ataraid's revenge! (Was: Re: A nasty ataraid experience.)

2009-07-23 Thread Bruce Simpson
6 months on, ataraid(4) did it again. This time, I was lucky -- I caught in in time, but the damage to the filesystem meant having to use fsdb to NULL out the affected inodes; mounting read-only, tarring, and untarring across the network, after a newfs, let me save the affected partition.

Re: SCSI device not created upon a CF card plug in

2009-07-23 Thread Bruce Simpson
Eugene Grosbein wrote: On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:14:18AM +0800, Sagara Wijetunga wrote If you conversant in this area, could you help us to identify what is/are the exact function/s in which program/s to look into identify the media insertion activity, so that we can generate relevant devd

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 USB stack info needed

2009-07-16 Thread Bruce Simpson
Sagara Wijetunga wrote: 1. Could I know which exact program print above line on /dev/devctl ? The kernel... 2. I want to print another line with daN as the device-name, where N is 0 to 9, with minimum vendor and product ids once the allocated device-name is known for USB Mass Storage

Merging a GCC bug fix to RELENG_7 - how?

2009-07-06 Thread Bruce Simpson
Hi all, This GCC bug bites us in the Boost regression tests in a number of places. Uh oh, I've stepped on the one-line fix bomb: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31899 http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs?view=revrevision=129199 What's funny is that COPYING in the root of that branch is

USB critically broken under RELENG_7 on amd64

2009-06-25 Thread Bruce Simpson
Hi, Since jhb@ committed the fixes for ULi SATA, I updated my kernel+world on my amd64 desktop machine. So far so good. I updated again Tuesday. Unfortunately I am now seeing USB warnings during boot: uhub1: device problem (TIMEOUT), disabling port 1 I get messages like this for any and

Re: USB critically broken under RELENG_7 on amd64

2009-06-25 Thread Bruce Simpson
Bruce Simpson wrote: Hi, Since jhb@ committed the fixes for ULi SATA, I updated my kernel+world on my amd64 desktop machine. So far so good. I updated again Tuesday. If I revert to the kernel I built from RELENG_7 on June 10th, all is fine. I saw no changes in SVN to the stable/7/sys/dev

Re: Unnamed POSIX shared semaphores

2009-06-16 Thread Bruce Simpson
Vlad Galu wrote: ... Thanks, Ivan. I'll take a better look at this after our first release, which is due in a couple of weeks. Right now the team efforts aren't focused on portability, so it's a low priority issue, but something we'd definitely like to have in the future. I've just run head

Re: reecommendations for an 'appliance platform ?

2009-06-14 Thread Bruce Simpson
Pete French wrote: Any suggestions, or words of wisdom from anyone who has done someething similar themselevs in the past ? The ASUS EeePC 701 is cheap as chips and can easily be mass-flashed with NanoBSD images from a USB dongle. I wrote a reflash script but didn't release it -- it just

Re: Unnamed POSIX shared semaphores

2009-06-09 Thread Bruce Simpson
Vlad Galu wrote: ... Thanks, Ivan. I'll take a better look at this after our first release, which is due in a couple of weeks. Right now the team efforts aren't focused on portability, so it's a low priority issue, but something we'd definitely like to have in the future. I stand corrected.

Re: Unnamed POSIX shared semaphores

2009-06-01 Thread Bruce Simpson
Jilles Tjoelker wrote: If process-shared semaphores really work, then the above structure is not a pathological case. Effectively, sem_t is carved in stone. So process-private semaphores should continue to have most of their stuff in a separately allocated structure, to preserve flexibility.

Re: Boot panic w/7.2-STABLE on amd64: resource_list_alloc

2009-05-16 Thread Bruce Simpson
John Baldwin wrote: ... Sounds like the ATA driver is allocating the same BAR twice. Hmm, yes, it allocates the resources once for each channel it seems in the ata_ali_sata attachment. Looking in ata-chipset.c, all the other chipsets are good about allocating these resources in their

Boot panic w/7.2-STABLE on amd64: resource_list_alloc

2009-05-14 Thread Bruce Simpson
Hi, Since upgrading sources on RELENG_7 yesterday, my amd64 system panics right after this line in dmesg: ata4: ATA channel 2 on atapci1 panic: resource_list_alloc: resource entry is busy This machine uses an ALi SATA controller. I haven't had any problems with this controller's support for

Re: Boot panic w/7.2-STABLE on amd64: resource_list_alloc

2009-05-14 Thread Bruce Simpson
Bruce Simpson wrote: Since upgrading sources on RELENG_7 yesterday, my amd64 system panics right after this line in dmesg: ata4: ATA channel 2 on atapci1 panic: resource_list_alloc: resource entry is busy ... I see there have recently been commits in this area which may have broken ATA driver

Re: Help! regarding libpcap.

2009-05-04 Thread Bruce Simpson
Leo wrote: Hi Burce, At first, I'm sorry replay late. I've test build libpcap without ports and using same tar ball. The error message still output. SLT2# make gcc -O2 -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -D_U_=__attribute__((unused)) -c ./pcap-null.c ./pcap-null.c:43: error: conflicting types for

Re: bluetooth troubleshooting

2009-05-04 Thread Bruce Simpson
Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Sat, 2 May 2009, Dominic Fandrey wrote: # hccontrol -n ubt0hci inquiry Inquiry complete. Status: No error [00] is pretty lame compared to what should appear according to the handbook: % hccontrol -n ubt0hci inquiry Inquiry result, num_responses=1 Inquiry result #0

Re: Help! regarding libpcap.

2009-05-04 Thread Bruce Simpson
Leo wrote: I don't have other pcap lib installed on this box. Previously installed a libpcap 0.9 on this box , But I've deleted this version. On my box, not enable BPF. Let me try if enable the feature. That's probably what it is. Can you try the following: * give pcap configure

Re: Help ! Regarding libpcap issue.

2009-05-01 Thread Bruce Simpson
Hi, I recently updated the port, but didn't see this condition in testing. Are you able to build libpcap *without* using the port from the same tarball? do-patch in the port doesn't touch those files. Leo wrote: Hi All, I want to install libpcap from ports. But when I make install clean,

Re: kernel compile fails without AH_SUPPORT_AR5416

2009-05-01 Thread Bruce Simpson
Hi, Can you please try this patch? I can't commit it until STABLE is unfrozen after 7.2-RELEASE is cut. Sam Leffler wrote: Bruce Simpson wrote: Hi, Looks like I'm late to the party. I was responsible for committing these ath(4) changes to RELENG_7. I can't remember if I tested the kernel

Re: kernel compile fails without AH_SUPPORT_AR5416

2009-05-01 Thread Bruce Simpson
Sam Leffler wrote: ... the ath_hal device. Do not modify ah_desc.h like you've done. Add this to conf/options ATH_HAL opt_ah.h and use that to enable AH_SUPPORT_AR5416. To clarify the first comment: you've made it impossible to build code w/o the extended format descriptor; this is what

Re: kernel compile fails without AH_SUPPORT_AR5416

2009-04-21 Thread Bruce Simpson
Hi, Looks like I'm late to the party. I was responsible for committing these ath(4) changes to RELENG_7. I can't remember if I tested the kernel compile without the AH_SUPPORT_AR5416 option or not, I have been so incredibly busy. Dennis Melentyev wrote: 2009/4/16 Maxim Sobolev

Anyone using func or certserver?

2009-04-21 Thread Bruce Simpson
Is anyone out there using Fedora's Unified Network Controller (func) or certserver on FreeBSD? If so, I would really like to hear from you about your experience with it. thanks, BMS ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

HEADS UP: Atheros HAL merged to RELENG_7

2009-03-12 Thread Bruce Simpson
Hello all, This is just a note to let you all know that the open source Atheros HAL has been merged from HEAD to -STABLE. I tested it out OK on an IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad T43 with an AR5212 in HostAP and STA mode, and on an ASUS EeePC 701 with AH5424 (PCI-express) in STA mode. The ath_rate*

Re: fxp unusable after make world

2009-03-09 Thread Bruce Simpson
Pyun YongHyeon wrote: Your controller looks like i82550. 82550/82551 has nice hardware cryptographic capability for IPSec acceleration but it's not used at all under FreeBSD. Intel's open source developer manual didn't even mention the existence of cryptographic capability. I had a crack at

Re: 7.1-STABLE does not boot after recent superpage support MFC

2009-02-27 Thread Bruce Simpson
Igor Sysoev wrote: Is anyone able to boot kernel with recently merged superpage support ? I have csup'd world to *default date=2009.02.26.23.59.59 then rebuild world and kernel does not boot: FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE #4: Fri Feb 27 11:59:13 MSK 2009 X kernel trap 12 with

Re: Unhappy Xorg upgrade

2009-02-27 Thread Bruce Simpson
I can confirm that with 7-STABLE as of this writing, the USB problems with amd64 and Xorg appear to be fixed. The key requirements are a 7-STABLE tree from *now*, a fresh buildworld+buildkernel, and a forced rebuild of libpciaccess to pick up PCIOCGETBAR. I can now run both scanpci and Xorg

Cleaning unused libraries and rebuilding dependent ones?

2009-02-24 Thread Bruce Simpson
Hi all, I'm sure that these questions have been asked before, however, a quick search of forums on the Web didn't turn up any obvious answers. I currently use portupgrade on all my FreeBSD installations, however, I have noticed over time that a fair amount of detritus can build up in

Re: buildworld broken

2009-02-23 Thread Bruce Simpson
Already dealt with, I was merging a change by hand whilst hungover after a good party. ;^) Sorry for the churn. A lot of this stuff gets utterly demolished and rebuilt in the IGMPv3 snap. I don't plan to backport the multicast work ongoing in p4 to 7-STABLE without testers, and air-out in

Q: eSATA Hot Swap supported?

2008-12-18 Thread Bruce Simpson
Hi, Does FreeBSD 7.1 support eSATA hot swappable disks? cheers BMS ___ 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: ext2fuse: user-space ext2 implementation

2008-12-18 Thread Bruce Simpson
Paul B. Mahol wrote: Project itself doesnt look very active, but I may be wrong. It is in alpha state as reported on SF. IMHO it is better to maintain our own because it is in better shape, but I'm not intersted in ext* as developer. Shelved due to lack of interest, then... others can feel

Re: ext2fuse: user-space ext2 implementation

2008-12-13 Thread Bruce Simpson
Paul B. Mahol wrote: On 12/8/08, Bruce M. Simpson b...@freebsd.org wrote: I have rolled a port for ext2fuse: http://people.freebsd.org/~bms/dump/fusefs-ext2fs.tar Ignoring fact that is buggy, slooow and port doesnt have any cache implemented and port leaves files behind in

Re: FreeBSD 7.1-RC1 Available...

2008-12-13 Thread Bruce Simpson
I've been tracking 7.1 on 3 separate machines since around September without any issues (1 server, 1 desktop, 1 laptop). Thank you for all your hard work on this. cheers BMS ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Regression in vr - not receiveing multicast

2008-12-13 Thread Bruce Simpson
Goran Lowkrantz wrote: Can you see ALLMULTI flag from the output of ifconfig vr0? No - # ifconfig vr0 vr0: flags=8943UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 options=284bRXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,POLLING,WOL_UCAST,WOL_MAGIC ether 00:00:24:c8:e0:9c inet

kern.ipc.maxpipekva exceeded; see tuning(7)

2008-11-13 Thread Bruce Simpson
I just got lots and lots of this: kern.ipc.maxpipekva exceeded; see tuning(7) However, tuning(7) on my system has no information about this tunable whatsoever. anglepoise:~ % uname -a FreeBSD anglepoise.lon.incunabulum.net 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #3: Tue Nov 4 15:40:44 GMT

Re: MFC Request

2008-11-13 Thread Bruce Simpson
Patrick Tracanelli wrote: Is it possible to have traceroute MFC'd for 7.1? I would like to have -a and -A switchs (ASN Path mapping) available. Thank you :) There's an AS lookup capable traceroute in ports: /usr/ports/net/ntraceroute is this insufficient for your needs? thanks BMS