Re: about thumper aka sun fire x4500

2012-01-17 Thread Marcus Reid
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 03:12:19PM -0800, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 17, 2012, at 2:09 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: I do not have one of these boxes / am not familiar with them, but HyperTransport is an AMD thing. The concept is that it's a bus that interconnects different pieces of a system

Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default

2011-12-14 Thread Marcus Reid
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 05:54:15PM +, Tom Evans wrote: brought forward more complaints about interactivity in X (I've never noticed this, and use a FreeBSD desktop daily). .. that was me, but I forgot to add that it almost never happens, and it can only be triggered when there are processes

Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default

2011-12-13 Thread Marcus Reid
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 04:29:14PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: On 12/12/2011 05:47, O. Hartmann wrote: Do we have any proof at hand for such cases where SCHED_ULE performs much better than SCHED_4BSD? I complained about poor interactive performance of ULE in a desktop environment for years.

Re: New ZFSv28 patchset for 8-STABLE

2011-01-12 Thread Marcus Reid
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 06:30:39PM +0100, Attila Nagy wrote: why and we can't ask him now, I'm afraid. I just sent an e-mail to What happened to him? Oops, I was thinking of something else. http://valleywag.gawker.com/383763/freebsd-developer-kip-macy-arrested-for-tormenting-tenants Marcus

ZFS root pool backup and recovery

2010-10-06 Thread Marcus Reid
Hi, The process of creating a backup of the ZFS root pool on Solaris is simple and straightforward: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-5461/ghzwu?l=ena=view So is restoring it on bare metal: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-5461/ghzur?a=view Has anybody done something similar on

Re: dtrace problem?

2010-05-23 Thread Marcus Reid
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 08:08:54PM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: On Fri, 21 May 2010 20:31:17 -0700 Marcus Reid mar...@blazingdot.com wrote: On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 07:54:44PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: I believe WITH_CTF=1 would probably be placed in /etc/src.conf. Ah, right

dtrace problem?

2010-05-21 Thread Marcus Reid
Hi, Running a recent RELENG_8 (FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE #0: Tue May 18 23:37:37 PDT 2010), I'm having a problem using dtrace. For every .d file I attempt to compile, I get: dtrace: failed to compile script test.d: /usr/lib/dtrace/psinfo.d, line 37: syntax error near uid_t This is my first

Re: dtrace problem?

2010-05-21 Thread Marcus Reid
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 09:22:17AM +0300, Nikolay Denev wrote: On May 21, 2010, at 9:03 AM, Marcus Reid wrote: Hi, Running a recent RELENG_8 (FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE #0: Tue May 18 23:37:37 PDT 2010), I'm having a problem using dtrace. For every .d file I attempt to compile, I get

Re: dtrace problem?

2010-05-21 Thread Marcus Reid
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 07:54:44PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 18:48:17 -0700 From: Marcus Reid mar...@blazingdot.com Sender: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 09:22:17AM +0300, Nikolay Denev wrote: On May 21, 2010, at 9:03 AM, Marcus

New devices appear in all devfs mounts

2009-10-27 Thread Marcus Reid
Hi, I have devfs mounted in a chroot jail, with just the basic device nodes visible: fstab:/dev/null /usr/data/home/scp/dev devfs rw 0 0 rc.conf: devfs_set_rulesets=/usr/data/home/scp/dev=devfsrules_hide_all /usr/data/home/scp/dev=devfsrules_unhide_basic When a

msync() differences between Linux and FreeBSD

2008-07-02 Thread Marcus Reid
Hi, I recently had a patch accepted to the ports collection that took out an msync() call that seriously detrimented performance for rrdtool updates. It seems that in FreeBSD, msync() waits for bits to be committed to disk even when MS_ASYNC is specified. Under Linux, there is not such a wait

Performance of madvise / msync

2008-06-26 Thread Marcus Reid
Hi, I'm using py-rrdtool 0.2.1 with rrdtool 1.3.0 under 7.0-STABLE, and there's a couple of things about this new version of rrdtool that hurt performance under FreeBSD, but apparently help on whatever they tested on. For every update, the database file is opened, mapped into memory, madvise()

Re: Performance of madvise / msync

2008-06-26 Thread Marcus Reid
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 05:48:13PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: : 65074 python 0.06 CALL madvise(0x287c5000,0x70,_MADV_WILLNEED) : 65074 python 0.027455 RET madvise 0 : 65074 python 0.58 CALL madvise(0x287c5000,0x1c20,_MADV_WILLNEED) : 65074 python 0.016904 RET

Re: RELENG_7 jerky mouse and skipping sound (still a problem -BETA3)

2008-01-04 Thread Marcus Reid
On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 03:30:40PM -0800, David E. Thiel wrote: I've tried a lot of stuff in between, and all I've been able to narrow it down to is that it's not a display driver issue, and that none of my swap partition is getting used, so that's not the problem. During compiles, my UP

Re: strange NFS failure

2005-06-08 Thread Marcus Reid
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 09:00:38AM -0400, Robin P. Blanchard wrote: just upgraded two systems to RELENG_5 this evening and NFS client has collapsed. is this known issue? apologies -- i realise i should really be tracking stable list. the error is [udp]