Re: default dns config change causing major poolpah

2007-08-01 Thread Peter Losher
nked and yanked now until at least there has been some discussion with the root server operators. (and discussing it on the dns-operations@ list does not cut it) -Peter (with his root-ops hat on his desk) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ISC | OpenPGP 0xE8048D08 | "The bits must flow" signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: powerd freeze with amd 5000 X2 but not with lower cpus

2007-07-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
stated, reporting problems in 6.x when you are running ULE is just wasting developer resources. Please stop implying that people should be using ULE in 6.x unless you are willing to personally provide support for them. -- Peter Jeremy pgpnFB7jwXUpV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: removing external usb hdd without unmounting causes reboot?

2007-07-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
3) Approach corporations that are FreeBSD-friendly. Yahoo! and Apple are the first ones that come to mind. -- Peter Jeremy pgpH7uZiEFGpr.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ntpd on a NAT gateway seems to do nothing

2007-07-25 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2007-Jul-25 10:30:25 +1000, Andrew Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 05:24:25AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: >> On 2007-Jul-24 16:00:08 +0100, Pete French <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Yes it does. The major difference is that ntpd will use a s

Re: ntpd on a NAT gateway seems to do nothing

2007-07-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
oming packets are actually arriving there. If your NAT box is not busy, you might be able to enable logging on som relevant rules and see what your firewall is actually doing with the packets. -- Peter Jeremy pgpWL1Q4KzH8e.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: removing external usb hdd without unmounting causes reboot?

2007-07-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2007-Jul-23 16:15:56 +0200, Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >So, currently the best work-around is to use amd with a >very short timeout. Or simply remember to umount your >removable media manually. Or ports/emulators/mtools -- Peter Jeremy pgpDLc0Ghx67i.pgp D

Re: ntpd just sits there and does nothing

2007-07-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
d in the base system. It seems to be very simple. And it works. So does ntpd. -- Peter Jeremy pgpfaPadVFfmf.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: removing external usb hdd without unmounting causes reboot?

2007-07-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
the past. Did you or the syncer thread try to write to the stick whilst it was absent? If not then the OS would have been unaware of its absence. -- Peter Jeremy pgpvTXMlOHCAu.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: removing external usb hdd without unmounting causes reboot?

2007-07-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
Ensuring that a file system is >in a consistent state after drive disconnect is something completely >different Note that UFS+softupdates already implements this. -- Peter Jeremy pgp3niumMyzcX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Problems with named default configuration in 6-STABLE

2007-07-17 Thread Peter Jeremy
FRs will be significantly higher than just caching lookup results. -- Peter Jeremy pgpE9sNNRvg52.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FREEBSD_4_EOL tag, last known index file?

2007-07-16 Thread Peter Jeremy
-party software using the ports system. You are free to maintain third-party software using its native configuration mechanisms. If you feel that the FreeBSD project is being unreasonable, please try (eg) asking Sun for support for SunOS 4.1.3. -- Peter Jeremy pgphvckyT7k8X.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: UFS2 optimization for many small files

2007-06-30 Thread Peter Jeremy
the fragment size, as well as the inode size (256 bytes). If you have 1TB of data, it's likely that you will have another 0.5-1TB of overheads. Overall, I suggest you look at an alternative way to store the data. -- Peter Jeremy pgpIAT77fjtea.pgp Description: PGP signature

rc.d scripts not honoring rc_conf_files setting in /etc/rc.conf?

2007-06-26 Thread Peter Losher
t's supposed to work? (I suspect not if I have to hack /etc/default/rc.conf) If not, can it be fixed? (or if I am assuming incorrectly, can someone enlighten me on how it should work?) :) Thanks - Peter -- [ http://www.plosh.net/ ] - "Eart

Re: is read-write nullfs safe?

2007-06-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
ince this issue pops up fairly regularly, would it be possible to correct, tone down or remove this warning before 6.3/7.0? -- Peter Jeremy pgp25Awt854IA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: why FreeBSD swap they?

2007-06-02 Thread Peter Jeremy
e on memory, FreeBSD will swap unused processes. It's impossible to comment further without more information about your servers - what processes are running on them, what sort of workloads are placed on them and are the workloads the same on all. -- Peter Jeremy pgpdgaTX4Ddeb.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: release cycle

2007-05-29 Thread Peter Jeremy
the X.org upgrade has settled down - it has not done that quite yet >as far as I can tell. Given the size of the upgrade, I think it has gone very smoothly, though there _are_ a few rough edges. A few weeks to a month should shake things out. -- Peter Jeremy pgpXGVNSIVsI5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Change in memory tracking in recent 6-STABLE?

2007-05-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
) vm.stats.vm.v_wire_count (pages) vm.stats.vm.v_cache_count (pages) vm.stats.vm.v_free_count (pages) -- Peter Jeremy pgpk2DiaJSXDl.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Corrupt fonts-alias (Re: xorg 7.2 start problem)

2007-05-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2007-May-24 16:19:07 -0400, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 03:00:11PM +0200, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote: >> * Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-05-24 21:40 +1000]: >> > I've found this problem on one system (the one where

Re: OT: In defense of a GUI (was: atapicam, blah, blah)

2007-05-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
al and file format) to retain access to the information. -- Peter Jeremy pgpU5quC6PbBR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: xorg 7.2 start problem

2007-05-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
lved the fixed font problem. I've found this problem on one system (the one where I thought the upgrade had gone the most cleanly). font-alias _is_ installed but most of my pcf.gz files are corrupt (20 bytes long). 'portupgrade -f' on my fonts is fixing this but I'm not e

Re: RTC clock doesn't generate interrupts

2007-05-20 Thread Peter Jeremy
other workaround/patch that i can try? Setting the time/date will have the same effect. -- Peter Jeremy pgpASPfJ8ofXo.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RTC clock doesn't generate interrupts

2007-05-20 Thread Peter Jeremy
jkerntz (you can leave the value the same, it's the assignment that's important). Enabling powerd will reduce the CPU clock and so exacerbate any problem you have with excessive interrupt latency. I can't suggest what might be the underlying cause of that latency. -- Peter Jeremy pgp7zJhUvUNgt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: clock problem

2007-05-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
that differ by 1 second). -- Peter Jeremy pgpNDrmLVcVm1.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [kde-freebsd] problem hal - k3b ?

2007-05-09 Thread Oliver Peter
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 07:50:45PM +0200, Thomas Quinot wrote: > * Oliver Peter, 2007-04-26 : > > > > My problem is the same as Beni's. Splash screen appears and hangs. > > > I have to press power button to turn off and on my laptop. > > > Didn't try ct

Re: Incorrect df -k output??

2007-05-08 Thread Peter Jeremy
t Mounted on /var You left out the line above this but I suspect it mentions (NO WRITE) because you are running fsck on a mounted filesystem. The FS needs to be unmounted before running fsck. -- Peter Jeremy pgpjpkZKiS0WF.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: clock problem

2007-05-08 Thread Peter Jeremy
ter due to the additional processing). -- Peter Jeremy pgpJEPlEZfjXb.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Incorrect df -k output??

2007-05-08 Thread Peter Jeremy
nced the server, it is unlikely to be option a (unless the same process has just grabbed the space again). -- Peter Jeremy pgpzsqRdDBwNE.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: (no subject)

2007-05-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
roblem you are having on the dv6308ca, it's difficult to answer this. Note that, based on my experiences trying to resolve a faulty-on- delivery laptop with HP Support , I would not recommend buying HP at all. -- Peter Jeremy pgpUmDHcj3Xmp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Can't make buildworld in 6-STABLE

2007-05-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
de 1 ... Out of interest, is this when it's building the amd64 or i386 libkvm? >CPUTYPE=nocona >CFLAGS= -O2 -pipe >CC=/usr/bin/cc >CXX=/usr/bin/g++ I'd remove all 4 of these flags. 'CC' and 'CXX' in particular are wrong for buildworld because most of buildworld uses a temporary cross-compiler. -- Peter Jeremy pgpDG2sUuKPe0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: acd and iostat [was Re: FreeBSD vs Region Code DVDs]

2007-05-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
m not sure how to work out that cd0, acd0 and pass0 reference the same device). -- Peter Jeremy pgprOTHzHAuRY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Limiting the number of probed interfaces?

2007-05-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
n to make * sure that we have the right description. */ - DEVICE_PROBE(child); + if (!resource_disabled(dl->driver->name, child->unit)) + DEVICE_PROBE(child); #if 0 child->flags |= DF_REBID; #endif -- Peter Jeremy pgphv475G7lpX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [cups.bugs] tcgetattr() causes lockup in USB backend on FreeBSD6-STABLE

2007-05-03 Thread Peter van Heusden
sts). This causes the usb backend hang. So indeed, setting use_bc = 0 solves the problem. I'm not sure why select() / read() interact like this. Peter Michael Sweet wrote: > Peter van Heusden wrote: > >> I recently upgrade CUPS on my FreeBSD 6-STABLE server to version 1.2

cups + usb + FreeBSD 6-STABLE + tcgetattr() lockup

2007-05-02 Thread Peter van Heusden
t;right" way to do this on FreeBSD is, though. (The workaround, by the way, is to set the permissions on /dev/ulpt0 so that it is write-only for user cups - then CUPS opens the device write-only and the block doesn't happen). Peter _

Re: [kde-freebsd] problem hal - k3b ?

2007-04-26 Thread Oliver Peter
off and on my laptop. > Didn't try ctrl+alt+del though. I have the same problem with my 7.0-CURRENT (yesterday). If I can assist you testing or debugging drivers please drop me an e-mail. FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT i386 with k3b-1.0_1 / hal-0.5.8.20070403_1 Bye Ollie -- Oliver PETER, email: [E

Re: question: +swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed

2007-04-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
touched (and therefore doesn't exist anywhere) as well as swap space. Offhand, I don't know of any tool to report the swap utilisation by process on FreeBSD. (Though I have written such a tool for Tru64). -- Peter Jeremy pgpWLbTKgGRf1.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: tproxy on freebsd

2007-04-17 Thread Peter Jeremy
rewall. The only problems I've run into are bugs in the IPfilter window handling code. -- Peter Jeremy pgpY0XtCZ7DMQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Changing Console Resolution - Vidcontrol

2007-04-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
g the boot messages is professional. If you really need eye-candy to make your FreeBSD box look like it's running MS Windows, see splash(4) -- Peter Jeremy pgpdDT36PjJg7.pgp Description: PGP signature

IPv6+dummynet causing panic on 6.2-RELEASE

2007-03-30 Thread Peter Losher
) at dummynet_send+0x17e dummynet() at dummynet+0x21a softclock() at softclock+0x19a ithread_loop() at ithread_loop+0x132 fork_exit() at fork_exit+0x87 fork_trampoline() at fork_trampoline+0xe --- trap 0, rip = 0, rsp = 0xbdf0dd00, rbp = 0 --- -=- Any ideas how to proceed? B

Re: Migrating from x86 (32) to amd64

2007-03-09 Thread Peter Jeremy
ot into it whilst running my amd64 kernel and execute commands. # make delete-old # mergemaster These steps should be OK Note that I wouldn't attempt to try going from 5.4/i386 to 6.2/amd64 in one step. You want to minimise the things that can go wrong... -- Peter Jeremy pgp02GwLpUBHf.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Migrating from x86 (32) to amd64

2007-03-09 Thread Peter Jeremy
e by doing steps 4 thru 5 on the second system and either swapping the disk(s) or the entire system. -- Peter Jeremy pgpcE3zNJGkFJ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: fork wedging (I think)

2007-03-08 Thread Peter Jeremy
ess to the system. -- Peter Jeremy pgpELwKI4AEpf.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: fork wedging (I think)

2007-03-05 Thread Peter Jeremy
d on is not easy). "allproc" refers to allproc_lock. The output from "vmstat -i" would be interesting, though it may not respond... How difficult would it be to build a test system somewhere where the console was accessible? I don't think you are going to make progress without console access. -- Peter Jeremy pgpDLePiwDGc9.pgp Description: PGP signature

Sata controller Sil 3512 - Kernel Panic.

2007-03-05 Thread Peter Ankerstål
Hi, I've recently installed a new sata-controller on a fresh installed FreeBSD 6.2. I gave the manual ata(4) a quick look before I bought the controller and it tells me this chip should be supported. But the machine panics every few minutes when I have a disk connected to it. Is there a way t

'panic: bad pte' error on 6.2-RELEASE (amd64)

2007-03-05 Thread Peter Losher
available if need be. Has anyone encountered this recently and can shed any light on what might be causing this? Best Wishes - Peter signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Problem with portupgrade

2007-03-02 Thread Peter Jeremy
ve? Have you compared your /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf with the sample version? -- Peter Jeremy pgp2ln9OhAsFT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: fork wedging (I think)

2007-02-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
ke it easy. My suggestion is to keep a shell open in /rescue and use './sysctl' (and other commands in rescue). I think you will still be able to execute static executables in the current directory vis a relative path even if the FS is deadlocked. (As long as your shell isn

Re: What is a good choice of sata-ii raid controller for freebsd?

2007-02-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
age boot loader, ficl or the kernel is definitely the worst case - I agree that this is very difficult for software raid to recover from. Note that even with hardware raid, there are still lots of failure points. The least reliable parts of a current computer are the CPU and PSU fans, not the disks.

Random "Network is unreachable" on 6.2-RELEASE

2007-02-10 Thread Peter Jeremy
n log quick all group 10 block in quick on fxp0 all head 11 ... block in log quick all group 11 block in log all fwall# -- Peter Jeremy pgpnmXT5jXzeM.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: pppd crashes, was: kde-freebsd

2007-02-09 Thread Peter Jeremy
s that both ppp(4) and ppp(8) arrived fairly close together. It appears that ppp(4) was a port of the portable ppp-2.2 code - the same code as used in SunOS AFAIR. -- Peter Jeremy pgpOiEn9LMnNN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 6.2 bge regression

2007-01-29 Thread Peter Jeremy
ng rc.d processing) normally reports "no carrier" but it recovers in a second or so (it's OK by the time ntpdate wants the network). I presume you find that ifconfig is still reporting no carrier once it's in multi-user mode. -- Peter Jeremy pgpLuJzvo8Qa5.pgp Description: PGP signature

New IPv6 LOR in 6.2-RELEASE

2007-01-28 Thread Peter Losher
poline() at 0x805f82ee = fork_trampoline+0xe > --- trap 0, rip = 0, rsp = 0xb3a43d00, rbp = 0 --- > Mounting NFS file systems:. > Limiting icmp unreach response from 262 to 200 packets/sec > Expensive timeout(9) function: 0x80ba8da0(0) 0.069698243 s -Peter --

Re: Loosing spam fight

2007-01-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
TA that correctly implements SMTP. According to the SMTP specs, I am perfectly at liberty to tell you that I can't accept your mail right now, please try again later. -- Peter Jeremy pgpvKL9pCcmYU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bridging problems on IP address conflict

2007-01-25 Thread Peter Jeremy
etween 6.1 and 6.2) or what ifconfig shows for the bridge members. This may be indicative of a loop in your switch network - is there any way that packets leaving fxp0 can re-appear on em0, xl0 or xl1? Based on a previous thread, you probably should put the IP address on the bridge device, tho

Re: Loosing spam fight

2007-01-25 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
g spamd in pure greylisting mode, possibly supplemented with aggressively maintained blacklists such as Bob Beck's traplist and potentially with local greytrapping. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no

Re: Loosing spam fight

2007-01-24 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
hich MTA(s) you use. [1] http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/01/18/greylisting-with-pf.html [2] http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/en/, with the specifics of spamd and greylisting starting at http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/en/spamd.html -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 impl

Re: Dummynet and simulating random delay

2007-01-23 Thread Peter Jeremy
ing to provide anything better than very coarse delay variation. -- Peter Jeremy pgpzPF9H6j7Au.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: tcpdump, rl, sis, fxp and multicast problems

2007-01-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
update on all supported architectures, this may even be faster. Feel free to come up with a patch. -- Peter Jeremy pgpsNM4cAl6HT.pgp Description: PGP signature

BTX issues when booting from a USB CD-ROM

2007-01-20 Thread Peter Losher
;s causing the BTX loader some pain with a USB device. Anyone encounter similar issues recently? Best Wishes - Peter -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ISC | OpenPGP 0xE8048D08 | "The bits must flow" signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: 6.2 RELEASE - READ_DMA timed out

2007-01-14 Thread Peter Ankerstål
The reason it works in safe mode is that DMA is not used there. Are you sure it worked with DMA before ? I cant be sure, I never looked it up. But it worked just fine before. The _only_ difference is the soruce-code i compiled NanoBSD from. I was RELENG_6_1 before and now it is RELENG_6_2 I'm

Re: 6.2 RELEASE - READ_DMA timed out

2007-01-14 Thread Peter Ankerstål
Pietro Cerutti wrote: On 1/14/07, Peter Ankerstål <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out LBA=1000941 This kind of errors usually denote a hardware problem, either at the disk or at the controller level. Check sysutils/smartmontools in the ports. But there

6.2 RELEASE - READ_DMA timed out

2007-01-14 Thread Peter Ankerstål
I have a router running NanoBSD on a CF-card, 512MB SanDisk and yesterday when installed 6.2-RELEASE I encountered some problems. The systems seems to boot properly but when it tries to mount the filesystem I get errors like this: ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out LBA=1000941 When I try to boo

Re: Source MAC addresses when bridge(4) used

2007-01-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Sun, 2007-Jan-07 18:58:18 -0500, Sten Daniel Srsdal wrote: >Peter Jeremy wrote: >> I've just noticed an number of unpexected "IP address changed MAC" >> messages on one of the hosts in my network. It is connected via a >> FreeBSD bridge to the rest of m

Re: saving power in a Dell Poweredge 750.

2007-01-10 Thread Peter Jeremy
ridge, video, RAM, disk, ... it all adds up. I can't specifically help with the Dell. -- Peter Jeremy pgpbxuESZuYiO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: make buildworld is always braking at various points

2007-01-07 Thread Peter Jeremy
"/" differ by 1 bit; 3) The cc line shows "-I/usr/src/lib/libpthread/arch/i386/include"; 4) Compiling thr_condattr_init.c uses the same #include sequence to successfully load "pthread_md.h"; 5) None of the test build boxes are reporting any problems. Please try running a memory test, or swapping your RAM. -- Peter Jeremy pgpFKiYH7vLfm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Source MAC addresses when bridge(4) used

2007-01-06 Thread Peter Jeremy
ted that the desktop would always originate packets from the interface with the IP address ("netstat -r" on it shows laptop1 associated with rl0). Secondly, why is laptop1 reporting a list of "address moved" messages from tl0 to rl0 without matching movements from rl0 to tl0? -- Peter Jeremy pgpOFFOFSZqhY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 6.1-RELEASE / 6.2 Kernel Crash...

2006-12-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
e often have problems at work with antique AlphaServers that get very temperamental if they are rebooted or power-cycled after being on and running for several years. -- Peter Jeremy pgpD7ZzupDycZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: burncd 'blank' not terminating ?

2006-12-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
works on SCSI drives (or via atapicam) and uses an obscure device naming approach. I am also more comfortable making /dev/acd0 mode 0666 than doing the same to /dev/pass0 -- Peter Jeremy pgpWc5G1GzHIB.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Possibility for FreeBSD 4.11 Extended Support

2006-12-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
ough the list at http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/consult_bycat.html and find someone to provide whatever level of support you want. -- Peter Jeremy pgp7DHGh8ozjT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Acer Aspire WLMi 5102 with AMD Turion 64 X2 system hanging with powerd on 6.2-RC1 and 6.2-PRERELEASE

2006-12-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
The actual clock speed is irrelevant. I believe it's a race condition or a timing bug. -- Peter Jeremy pgpLYEeqY23X0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Cached file read performance with 6.2-PRERELEASE

2006-12-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
em call overhead. Before claiming that they are the culprits, someone needs to get some more detailed performance figures (via hwpmc or kernel profiling) and find where the time is really spent. -- Peter Jeremy pgpwMiCYrtVYB.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Mounting smbfs as non-root

2006-12-20 Thread Peter Jeremy
. mount_smbfs is setuid root on Apple (presumably OS-X) and juggles euid to avoid this and similar problems. I think the solution is to make it (at least optionally) setuid on FreeBSD. I have this on my todo list but haven't gotten around to it yet. -- Peter Jeremy pgpYpqqilDYW5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: OpenBSD's spamd.

2006-12-16 Thread Peter Matulis
--- Christopher Hilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone gotten a newer version of OpenBSD's spamd than the one in > ports going? I'm cvsupping my ports tree now but since I didn't see > an > update on the cvs server I'm assuming 3.7 is the latest version. > > Between OpenBSD 3.7 and 3.8

Mounting smbfs as non-root

2006-12-13 Thread Peter Jeremy
en written some code to let me look at the kern.iconv MIB tree which confirms the above but doesn't get any me any closer to a solution. This is the same on two 6.2-PRERELEASE systems and I get the same behaviour on an oldish 7-current system. Does anyone have any suggestions o

Re: Problems unmounting/fssyncking extern UFS filesystem

2006-11-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
r may not be adequate, depending on the amount of dirty cached data. As an experiment, I suggest creating or deleting a FS tree on an otherwise idle system and looking at the 'dirtybuf' value reported by 'systat -v 1'. See how many sync's and how long it takes to get it to blank (0). -- Peter Jeremy pgpxS6pQQXEBP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Missing parameter validation for syscall(57)

2006-11-07 Thread Peter Holm
While stress testing GENERIC RELENG_6 from Nov 2 18:46 UTC on a NFS loopback mounted filesystem I came across this problem: http://people.freebsd.org/~pho/stress/log/cons220.html -- Peter Holm ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: 6.x from i386 to amd64

2006-11-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
an i386 executable. I'm surprised that you've found such a big difference. -- Peter Jeremy pgpXS8PUKwh0c.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 6.x from i386 to amd64

2006-11-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
6 applications much harder (bacause they need to understand they need to look in .../lib32 ISO .../lib). -- Peter Jeremy pgp6zCSH8jPxZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 6.x from i386 to amd64

2006-11-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
ssible to build/run the i386 versions of ports on an amd64 system. This would be the best of both worlds. If I had any free time, I would even work on this myself. -- Peter Jeremy pgpmuXQVJO6OO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD

2006-10-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
ew_parity = old_parity XOR old_data XOR new_data Though this still turns a single write into 2 reads and 2 writes. Basically: Don't use RAID-5. -- Peter Jeremy pgpWeb9QHY05E.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Nit in 6-stable

2006-10-16 Thread Peter Carah
Ariff Abdullah wrote: > On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:27:32 -0400 > Peter Carah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> More nit - the problem with the misidentification of PCI bus 5 >> subordinate bus is still present. Prevents use of PCcard slot until >> a pci write

Nit in 6-stable

2006-10-15 Thread Peter Carah
I saw this come up a couple of weeks ago. Don't know if it is a 6.2 showstopper or not (probably not?). I see the following message come up during boot. Both pcm and cd0 appear to work so I don't know if the message matters or not. Message highlighted by *** below. A truly minor nit: the messa

Re: Ethernet Switch and MIPS

2006-10-12 Thread Peter Ross
ss independant from the FreeBSD "distribution" you use. Imagine of one of the ARM hardware box dies.. Until you get a new one you set up the same on a Intel box as a temporary workaround:-) Regards Peter ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: [fbsd] HEADS UP: FreeBSD 5.3, 5.4, 6.0 EoLs coming soon

2006-10-11 Thread Peter Thoenen
urces. Thats just how life is for legacy systems, we are all mature enough here in the tech world to know this. No reason you can't sell your CIO's on this when I am guessing they are shelling out millions on other vendors. -Peter ___

Re: ath based card

2006-10-07 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Zoran Kolic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > d-link dwl-ag650 I've got one of these. Works well. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the spamme

Re: ffs snapshot lockup

2006-10-04 Thread Peter Holm
locked the kernel and we broke to debugger from the watchdog timeout > > (I enable software watchdog). > > Hmm, be careful with that - if you set the timeout too low (and note > that for some workloads O(minutes) may even be too low) then you'll > get a lot of false posi

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
there's no INTR_FAST handler then the interrupt thread is always triggered. -- Peter Jeremy pgpXrDVFGe4sP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: panic unloading bluetooth module

2006-09-23 Thread Peter Jeremy
oaded, I get two identical messages: ubt0: Broadcom HP integrated Bluetooth module, rev 1.10/0.17, addr 2 though the rest of the probe/attach looks sane. -- Peter Jeremy pgpY8sl0Nrt6a.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RELENG_6 does not compile

2006-09-23 Thread Peter Jeremy
Are you using non-standard make options? Note that just because memtest didn't find a RAM problem doesn't guarantee that your RAM is good. Pattern sensitive errors can be very difficult to trigger. -- Peter Jeremy pgpgfbKJNw8HS.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Minidumps in -STABLE and "smaller than physical memory"

2006-09-21 Thread Peter Holm
t; > > > Yes. > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sbin/dumpon/dumpon.c.diff?r1=1.22&r2=1.23 > > needs to be MFC'd. > > > I sent an MFC request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >From time to time I've had problems with minidumps on

Re: NFS locking: lockf freezes (rpc.lockd problem?)

2006-08-29 Thread Peter Jeremy
cular point so PCATCH isn't specified on the sleep. -- Peter Jeremy pgpWFCSDFpOmv.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: NFS locking: lockf freezes (rpc.lockd problem?)

2006-08-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Sun, 2006-Aug-27 22:55:55 +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: >On server, >tcpdump -p -s 1500 -w file -i host Recent tcpdumps appear to want the ethernet frame size rather than the MTU: Specifying 1500 appears to truncate full-size frames. Try '-s 1516' instead. -- Peter Jeremy

Re: 16M RAM enough for FreeBSD 6.1?

2006-08-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Sun, 2006-Aug-27 11:00:30 +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: >On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 17:13:29 +1000 >Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The CD-ROMs create a RAMdisk and need a minimum of 24MB last I >> checked. > >And I guess that the floppies work in the

Re: 16M RAM enough for FreeBSD 6.1?

2006-08-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
a RAMdisk and need a minimum of 24MB last I checked. Once you have FreeBSD installed, it will limp along in 16MB (though not very happily). I strongly suggest you find a SODIMM to expand it. -- Peter Jeremy pgp8Sla873Ncg.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Unexplained kernel panic on 5-STABLE (now in 6-STABLE)

2006-08-18 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Thu, 2006-Aug-17 15:18:21 -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: >On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 01:24:48PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: >> On Thursday 17 August 2006 04:20, Peter van Heusden wrote: >> > kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 151698, >> > size:

Re: TOP shows above 100% WCPU usage

2006-08-18 Thread Peter Jeremy
. I think there are probably equally good rationales for each approach. Probably the best situation is a flag to toggle between the two approaches, together with two different titles to make it clear which is being used. -- Peter Jeremy pgpi7kgmNNaFt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Unexplained kernel panic on 5-STABLE (now in 6-STABLE)

2006-08-17 Thread Peter van Heusden
Thanks, Kris. I guess its time for me to go shopping for some new hardware. Peter Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 01:24:48PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > >> On Thursday 17 August 2006 04:20, Peter van Heusden wrote: >> >>> Thanks for the advice J

Re: Unexplained kernel panic on 5-STABLE (now in 6-STABLE)

2006-08-17 Thread Peter van Heusden
) at /usr/freebsd6/src/sys/vm/vm_pageout.c:1401 #9 0xc0816192 in vm_pageout () at /usr/freebsd6/src/sys/vm/vm_pageout.c:1546 #10 0xc0687434 in fork_exit (callout=0xc0815ef8 , arg=0x0, frame=0xcbdd4d38) at /usr/freebsd6/src/sys/kern/kern_fork.c:805 #11 0xc089a85c in fork_trampoline () at /usr/fre

Re: FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE: Unexplained power off

2006-08-16 Thread Peter Jeremy
months! On two occasions, I've had hardware fail _during_ an upgrade. The first time it was obvious because the system crashed. The second time, a PCMCIA modem just stopped working at exactly the same time as I upgraded my kernel. That took a lot of head- scratching before I twigge

Re: FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE: Unexplained power off

2006-08-16 Thread Peter Jeremy
ole before >>it dies. > >It's great idea, I'll try it. Do I need a null-model cable to do it? Assuming you are going to join two normal computer serial ports together, yes. -- Peter Jeremy pgpBkquO0QkGW.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE: Unexplained power off

2006-08-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
lem eventuates (and CPU fans do fail), you will destroy the CPU and maybe mobo. It might be worthwhile setting up a serial console and logging it on another box to see if anything is written to the console before it dies. -- Peter Jeremy pgpuBZZd1VJU8.pgp Description: PGP signature

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