Re: ENOTCAPABLE returned without Capsicum

2021-05-15 Thread Peter Jeremy via freebsd-stable
On 2021-May-16 11:48:24 +1000, Peter Jeremy via freebsd-stable wrote: >I am running 13-stable from a couple of weeks ago, without Capsicum >(neither CAPABILITY_MODE nor CAPABILITIES are specified in my kernel). >Despite this, I am getting Capsicum-related errors. As an example: &g

ENOTCAPABLE returned without Capsicum

2021-05-15 Thread Peter Jeremy via freebsd-stable
psicum, there's no way to change the processes capabilities. -- Peter Jeremy signature.asc Description: PGP signature

fileargs_init(3) doesn't work without CAPABILITIES (was: Re: tail(1) broken in 13-stable)

2021-05-06 Thread Peter Jeremy via freebsd-stable
On 2021-May-06 19:07:23 -0400, monochrome wrote: ... >On 5/6/21 7:49 AM, Peter Jeremy via freebsd-stable wrote: ... >> server% tail /COPYRIGHT <&- >> Assertion failed: (procfd > STDERR_FILENO), function service_clean, file >> /usr/src/lib/libcasper/libcasper/servi

Re: tail(1) broken in 13-stable

2021-05-06 Thread Peter Jeremy via freebsd-stable
On 2021-May-06 12:59:54 +0200, Mariusz Zaborski wrote: >Could you provide details how to reproduce this? > >On Thu, 6 May 2021 at 12:13, Peter Jeremy via freebsd-stable > wrote: >> >> Since updating from 12-stable to 13-stable, I've found that tail(1) >> cras

tail(1) broken in 13-stable

2021-05-06 Thread Peter Jeremy via freebsd-stable
of stdin, stdout and stderr are open. Whilst it probably doesn't make sense to call tail without stdout open. there's no obvious reason to require that stdin or stderr must be open. -- Peter Jeremy signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: geli broken in 13.0-BETA4 and later on armv8

2021-03-06 Thread Peter Jeremy via freebsd-stable
On 2021-Mar-06 10:39:02 -0800, Oleksandr Tymoshenko wrote: >Peter Jeremy via freebsd-current (freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org) wrote: >> [Adding arm@ and making it clearer that this is armv8-only] >> >> On 2021-Mar-06 20:26:19 +1100, Peter Jeremy >> wrote: >> >

Re: geli broken in 13.0-BETA4 and later on armv8

2021-03-06 Thread Peter Jeremy via freebsd-stable
[Adding arm@ and making it clearer that this is armv8-only] On 2021-Mar-06 20:26:19 +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: >On 2021-Mar-06 19:18:37 +1100, Peter Jeremy via freebsd-stable > wrote: >>Somewhere between 13.0-ALPHA2 (c256201-g02611ef8ee9) and 13.0-BETA4 >>(releng/13.0-n244592-

Re: geli broken in 13.0-BETA4 and later

2021-03-06 Thread Peter Jeremy via freebsd-stable
On 2021-Mar-06 19:18:37 +1100, Peter Jeremy via freebsd-stable wrote: >Somewhere between 13.0-ALPHA2 (c256201-g02611ef8ee9) and 13.0-BETA4 >(releng/13.0-n244592-e32bc253629), geli (at least on my RockPro64 - >RK3399, arm64) has changed so that a geli-encrypted partition (using >AES-X

geli broken in 13.0-BETA4 and later

2021-03-06 Thread Peter Jeremy via freebsd-stable
that just talks about AES-GCM, it does a reasonable job of roto-tilling the entire armv8crypto stack. I notice that there are a fixes to f76393a6305b that don't seem to have made it into releng/13.0 and I will continue to investigate. -- Peter Jeremy signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: lots of "no such file or directory" errors in zfs filesystem

2021-02-23 Thread Peter Jeremy via freebsd-stable
y. I have a FreeBSD test system that's running ZFS in <1GB RAM and rebuilding itself daily for multiple years and haven't run into any ZFS corruption issues. -- Peter Jeremy signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: svn commit: r362848 - in stable/12/sys: net netinet sys

2020-08-24 Thread Peter Jeremy via freebsd-stable
TL;DR: Ensure you explicitly destroy all ZFS labels on disused root pools. On 2020-Jul-19 21:21:02 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: >I'm sending this to -stable, rather than the src groups because I >don't believe the problem is the commit itself, rather the commit >has uncover

Re: svn commit: r362848 - in stable/12/sys: net netinet sys

2020-07-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2020-Jul-21 00:47:23 +0300, Konstantin Belousov wrote: >On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 07:20:44AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: >> On 2020-Jul-19 14:48:28 +0300, Konstantin Belousov >> wrote: >> >On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 09:21:02PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: >>

Re: svn commit: r362848 - in stable/12/sys: net netinet sys

2020-07-20 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2020-Jul-19 14:48:28 +0300, Konstantin Belousov wrote: >On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 09:21:02PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: >> I'm sending this to -stable, rather than the src groups because I >> don't believe the problem is the commit itself, rather the commit >>

Re: svn commit: r362848 - in stable/12/sys: net netinet sys

2020-07-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
ut haven't dug into it). Does anyone have any ideas? -- Peter Jeremy signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: swap space issues

2020-06-30 Thread Peter Jeremy
4GB RAM without problems. That said, I notice that the first log file suggests you were building 3 ports in parallel, and each port build was running 3 jobs - that's 9 jobs in parallel on a low-spec CPU with 4 threads. You should limit the number of CPU-bound processes to the number of

Re: swap space issues

2020-06-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
"out of swap space" messages generally mean that this number is too low, rather than there being a shortage of swap - particularly if your swap device is rather slow. -- Peter Jeremy signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: New Xorg - different key-codes

2020-03-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
ING entry says that it's switched from devd to udev. There's no mention of evdev or that the keycodes have been roto-tilled. It's basically a vanilla "things have been changed, see the documentation" entry. Given that entry, it's hardly surprising that people are

Re: ntp problems stratum 2 to 14?

2020-03-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
blem is that if ntpd decides to switch away from the clock for any reason (eg a burst of jitter), it may get stuck on the local clock as it drifts further from "real" time. -- Peter Jeremy signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: ntp problems stratum 2 to 14?

2020-02-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
t's probably not relevant but it would be useful for you to say up front which ntpd you are having problems with and which version of the port you have installed. -- Peter Jeremy signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: linker.hints not being update for ARMs

2019-11-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
rerunning kldxref (with the clock set correctly). -- Peter Jeremy signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: `uname -a' can't display revision

2019-08-20 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2019-Aug-20 14:36:14 +0200, Trond Endrestøl wrote: >Maybe NFS is to blame, particularly if file locks cannot be obtained. Yes, it is. SVN tries to obtain locks, even for read-only commands like "svn info". My solution is to mount /usr/src with the option "nolockd&q

Re: Issues starting unbound on boot

2019-04-30 Thread Peter Jeremy
>root: /etc/rc: WARNING: failed to start unbound I have seen unbound fail to start for a variety of reasons but in all cases, it has written a useful hint to the console. Can you confirm that it's not writing anything to your console. Are you able to share your configuration? -- Peter Je

Re: about zfs and ashift and changing ashift on existing zpool

2019-04-08 Thread Peter Jeremy
s built explicitly with ashift=9 * The initial disks reported 512B native (I think this is most likely) * That version of ZFS was using logical, rather than native blocksize. My guess (given that only ada1 is reporting a blocksize mismatch) is that your disks reported a 512B native blocksize. In the abs

Re: dmesg submission service -- please submit today

2018-10-07 Thread Peter Jeremy
kg database, and could also include hardware information. There's ports/sysutils/bsdstats but I'm not sure how popular that is. -- Peter Jeremy signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: FCP-0101: Deprecating most 10/100 Ethernet drivers

2018-10-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
ends to cover nearly all 100 cards, yet no >one (pardon me if I missed those) asks for 10. So how about making this >proposal cover only 10 cards, What is the purpose in keeping unused FastEthernet cards in the tree? >if you can't resist the itch to remove >something from th

ZFS+find(1) wiring all RAM

2018-06-06 Thread Peter Jeremy
red memory are in use but I can't find anything in "vmstat -mz" that would explain where it's going. Does anyone have any suggestions for digging into this? [1] I get the same behaviour using a VBox instance with similar dimensioning and the same tuning) -- Peter Jeremy signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Problems building 11-stable/i386 with readonly /usr/src

2018-02-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2018-Feb-18 09:06:38 -0600, Kyle Evans wrote: >On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 3:12 AM, Peter Jeremy wrote: >> Sometime between r329122 and r329157, my 11-stable i386 box stopped >> being able to buildworld with a readonly /usr/src. I've been updating >> regularly but th

Problems building 11-stable/i386 with readonly /usr/src

2018-02-18 Thread Peter Jeremy
e /usr/src/share/mk/bsd.init.mk /usr/src/share/mk/bsd.opts.mk /usr/src/share/mk/bsd.cpu.mk /usr/src/share/mk/local.init.mk /usr/src/share/mk/src.init.mk /usr/src/stand/efi/../Makefile.inc /usr/src/stand/efi/../defs.mk /usr/src/share/mk/src.opts.mk /usr/src/share/mk/bsd.own.mk /usr/src/share/mk/bsd.compiler.mk /usr/src/share/mk/bsd.compiler.mk /usr/src/share/mk/bsd.subdir.mk' .PATH='. /usr/src/stand/efi' *** Error code 1 -- Peter Jeremy signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Unkillable process in "vm map (user)"

2017-12-10 Thread Peter Jeremy
chan right = leftmost; for (i = 0; i < n; i++) { left = right; right = chmake(int, 0); go(f(left, right)); } chs(right, int, 0); i = chr(leftmost, int); printf("result = %d\n", i); return 0; } server% -- Peter Jeremy signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Unable to boot 11.0-release on Unisurf Notebook

2017-03-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
ons" returns policy was one of the things that swayed me to try it. It was AUD249 but I've found something by "Pendo" for AUD229 that looks like it came off the same production line. I hadn't realised just how weird the insides of some "PC compatible" computers had become. -- Peter Jeremy signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Unable to boot 11.0-release on Unisurf Notebook

2017-03-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2017-Mar-25 10:19:57 +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: >I've just bought a Unisurf Notebook[1] and am trying to boot it from a >FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img. The boot starts OK but hangs >whilst probing devices. With safe and verbose enabled, it hangs after >complainin

Unable to boot 11.0-release on Unisurf Notebook

2017-03-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
point neither Ctrl-Alt-Del nor Ctrl-Alt-Esc have any effect and the only option is to hold the power button down until it powers off. Does anyone have any suggestions on troubleshooting? [1] http://unisurf.com.au/unisurf-14-Notebook.html -- Peter Jeremy signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: removing SVR4 binary compatibilty layer

2017-02-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
There is no intention of merge of the removal. >The stable@ mailing list added for wider audience. Can I suggest that we put some warnings into the SVr4 image activation code and MFC that to at least 11 to try and smoke out anyone who might actually be using it. -- Peter Jeremy signature.asc D

Re: Help! two machines ran out of swap and corrupted their zpools!

2016-11-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2016-Nov-22 10:07:49 +, Pete French wrote: >to another machine and trying to import the pools causes an instant panic. Can you provide details of the panic, please. -- Peter Jeremy signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: zfs, a directory that used to hold lot of files and listing pause

2016-10-20 Thread Peter Jeremy
Have you done any ZFS tuning? Could you try installing ports/sysutils/zfs-stats and posting the output from "zfs-stats -a". That might point to a bottleneck or poor cache tuning. -- Peter Jeremy signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Reproducible panic - Going nowhere without my init!

2016-10-06 Thread Peter Jeremy
thout my init! Uptime: 55s Changing serial settings was 0/0 now 3/0 Start bios (version 1.7.2-20150226_170051-google) gce1$ uname -a FreeBSD gce1.rulingia.com 11.0-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 11.0-PRERELEASE #83 r306704M: Thu Oct 6 13:22:27 AEDT 2016 r...@gce1.rulingia.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GCE amd64 I haven't investigated the cause yet. -- Peter Jeremy signature.asc Description: PGP signature

FreeBSD 11.0-BETA2 won't boot on an Acer Aspire 5560

2016-07-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
ly to date) without problem. -- Peter Jeremy signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: HAST, zfs and local mirroring

2016-06-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2016-Jun-03 22:12:55 +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote: >> all your media content is valid. I've also had bad experiences with >> gmirror volumes silently getting out of sync on a crash. > > >gmirror or (gmirror+gjournal) ones? Plain gmirror. -- Peter Jeremy sign

Re: HAST, zfs and local mirroring

2016-06-02 Thread Peter Jeremy
ng RAID of any sort under ZFS defeats a lot of the smarts in ZFS. In particular, you can no longer rely on scrub verifying that all your media content is valid. I've also had bad experiences with gmirror volumes silently getting out of sync on a crash. -- Peter Jeremy signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: 10-STABLE hangups frequently

2016-02-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
mstat -mz" when the system is running normally and as the non-ARC wired memory increases to identify where the RAM is going. -- Peter Jeremy signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: 10-STABLE hangups frequently

2016-02-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
ole so I can't do anything other than reboot at this point. (This is 10-stable/amd64 r295088). If I have some spare time, I'll try reproducing this in a local VBox over the next few days. -- Peter Jeremy signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: 10-STABLE hangups frequently

2016-02-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
sounds like you may need to explicitly reduce vfs.zfs.arc_max (note that this is a soft limit). You might like to install sysutils/zfs-stats and do some ZFS tunung. -- Peter Jeremy signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: 10-STABLE hangups frequently

2016-02-02 Thread Peter Jeremy
my initial suspicion is ZFS, though I haven't identified any smoking gun. Unfortunately, GCE only offers read access to the console, so I can't use DDB to poke around after it wedges. -- Peter Jeremy signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: dev/random warning on 10-STABLE after r292122 up till r292855

2016-01-05 Thread Peter Jeremy
better. IMHO, this sort of alamist message should only be output if there is no decent entropy source available when the random device is unblocked. -- Peter Jeremy signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Swap Usage

2015-07-29 Thread Peter Jeremy
being used for? I don't think this can be trivially done. "procstat -v" will show the number of resident pages within each swap-backed region, any pages in that region that have been touched but are not resident are on the swap device but any pages that have never been touched aren

Re: Will 10.2 also ship with a very stale NTP?

2015-07-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2015-Jul-13 04:31:40 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: >>The import of 4.2.8p2 several months ago resulted in complete failure of >>timekeeping on all my arm systems. Just last week I tracked it down to >>a kernel bug (which I haven't committed the fix for yet). While th

Re: Will 10.2 also ship with a very stale NTP?

2015-07-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
ions that trigger the bug or the kernel bug itself? A quick search failed to find anything. -- Peter Jeremy pgpN60GLK7zew.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Will 10.2 also ship with a very stale NTP?

2015-07-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
is still "install $bar from ports". That's a non-answer. It just changes the question to "why bother to include $bar in base when I need to install the port anyway". -- Peter Jeremy pgpKqgl4dmmHG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: dev.cpu.0.freq disapeared

2015-03-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
x27; in /boot/loader.conf and post (or make available) the dmesg from a verbose boot. -- Peter Jeremy pgp18RHROUkCO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ZFS "stalls" -- and maybe we should be talking about defaults?

2013-03-06 Thread Peter Jeremy
n: UFS for a root filesystem is guaranteed to work >without any fiddling about and, barring drive failures or controller >issues, is (again, my opinion) a lot more risk-free than ZFS-on-root. AFAIK, you can't boot from anything other than a single disk (ie no graid). -- Peter Jeremy pgp7H3m449swl.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Musings on ZFS Backup strategies

2013-03-02 Thread Peter Jeremy
fs send is a stream of bytes that you can treat as you would any other stream of bytes. But this approach isn't recommended. -- Peter Jeremy pgp61ijyBCuu8.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Why can't gcc-4.2.1 build usable libreoffice?

2013-02-20 Thread Peter Jeremy
lieve it has bugs, feel free to submit PRs. If the bugs don't affect the base system, they are unlikely -- Peter Jeremy pgpzlf8YtE7jb.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: svn - but smaller?

2013-01-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
ch the head of pre-configured branches. The only way to get an older tree is to not apply deltas (ZFS snapshots are the best work-around here). -- Peter Jeremy pgpbZzqAVCO6F.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Svnsup architecture [was: Re: svn - but smaller?]

2013-01-25 Thread Peter Jeremy
etches new deltas and runs >svnsup-apply. New trees are "bootstrapped" from other sources, >e.g. weekly tarballs (still to be developed). I think you've just re-invented CTM. Before spending too much more time on svnsup, I suggest you read ctm(1). -- Peter Jeremy pgpfk7Isksqu6.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: svn - but smaller?

2013-01-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
t that most people who currently use c[v]sup could readily migrate to using ctm. See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ctm.html for details. Note that mirroring the actual SVN repo via ctm requires some patches. There is a README and patches in ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CTM/svn-

Re: Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?

2013-01-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
nches in any case). CVS is (and will remain) available in ports (devel/cvs). -- Peter Jeremy pgp0orRYshWTs.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Increasing the DMESG buffer....

2012-11-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
ssage buffer. Should be N * pagesize. options MSGBUF_SIZE=40960 -- Peter Jeremy pgpwUscTboaAO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Node conflicts in SVN

2012-11-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
> >No, svn created the directory. I moved /usr/ports out of the way and ran >'svn co'. Can you give the exact steps (including commands) you performed? -- Peter Jeremy pgpkZK9jxVe7D.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ZFS corruption due to lack of space?

2012-11-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2012-Nov-02 09:30:04 -, Steven Hartland wrote: >From: "Peter Jeremy" >> Many years ago, I wrote a simple utility that fills a raw disk with >> a pseudo-random sequence and then verifies it. This sort of tool > >Sounds useful, got a link? Sorry, no. I

Re: ZFS corruption due to lack of space?

2012-11-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
mfi on tbolt 2208 based cards before). There has been a recent thread about various strange behaviours from LSI controllers and it has been stated that (at least for the 2008) the card firmware _must_ match the FreeBSD driver version. See http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2012-August

Re: ZFS corruption due to lack of space?

2012-10-31 Thread Peter Jeremy
adata updates (stop scrubs, delete files, etc) even when it is "full" but I have seen reports of this not working correctly in the past. A truncate-in-place may work. You could also try asking on zfs-disc...@opensolaris.org -- Peter Jeremy pgptbOF1VVAh4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: time keeps on slipping... slipping...

2012-10-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
. >Since I switch to HPET, it hasn't happened at all in the last 3 days.. That suggests that there's something peculiar about your TSC. There are a variety of possibilities... Does your CPU support multiple Cx states and are you using them ("sysctl dev.cpu | grep cx_")? -- Peter Jeremy pgpeGw8Kk7Rhc.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Problem adding more than 8 network adapters

2012-08-29 Thread Peter Jeremy
[Moving to -stable and adding jhb@ for his input] On 2012-Aug-29 11:32:44 +0200, Gustau Pérez i Querol wrote: >Al 29/08/2012 11:02, En/na Peter Jeremy ha escrit: >> On 2012-Aug-28 11:44:44 +0200, Gustau Pérez i Querol >> wrote: >>>I'm running FreeBSD 9.1 R

Re: Removing CVS from base

2012-08-23 Thread Peter Jeremy
ee (without needing to install subversion). Failing that, csup should probably also go. -- Peter Jeremy pgpNb5AENPidH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: sh(1) exiting on SIGWINCH

2012-07-05 Thread Peter Jeremy
stigating fixes to libedit but do not have a solution yet. There is a possibility that sh(1) is relying on bugs in the old libedit. At this stage, it seems likely that the libedit update (r237738) will be reverted for 9.1-RELEASE. -- Peter Jeremy pgpUCwQdtnSJm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: sh(1) exiting on SIGWINCH

2012-07-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2012-Jul-04 20:03:32 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: >I've recently updated a box from 8-stable to 9-stable/amd64 (r237995), >compiled with gcc, and now sh(1) exits if I change the window size >(ssh'ing to the target system within an xterm). I don't recall ever >se

sh(1) exiting on SIGWINCH

2012-07-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
66 sh RET close 0 1766 sh CALL exit(0) Does this ring any bells with anyone? -- Peter Jeremy pgp5N9G6c8SWr.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Xorg in swwrt

2012-06-23 Thread Peter Jeremy
en logging out of X. This is with X.Org X Server 1.10.6 and a "ATI Radeon HD 2400 Pro" on 8-STABLE r235229. The problem seems to go away after a couple of hours. -- Peter Jeremy pgpiZRKfLAQrH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Seeking 6.4 make source for ports

2012-06-20 Thread Peter Jeremy
ake (and any other build infrastructure it needs) for RELENG_6_4 or later and run "make" in that directory. You could even grab the files from the 6.4-RELEASE src install bundle on an FTP site. -- Peter Jeremy pgpF0FRK4GTke.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: zfs, 1 gig of RAM and periodic weekly

2012-02-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
r auto-tuning. I'd strongly recommend against running ZFS on i386 as anything other than an experiment. -- Peter Jeremy pgpsJbLUQk3mc.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Another ZFS ARC memory question

2012-02-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
re absorbed by vm.v_cache_min and vm.v_free_reserved in the first instance. The current vfs.zfs.arc_max default may be a bit high for some workloads but at this point in time, you will need to tune it manually. -- Peter Jeremy pgpb0kzq1SDsY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: disk devices speed is ugly

2012-02-14 Thread Peter Jeremy
side of the "each FS does its own caching" in that the caches are all separate and need careful integration into the VM subsystem to prevent starvation (eg past problems with UFS starving ZFS L2ARC). -- Peter Jeremy pgpa3o0LQ2kfG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Can't boot 9.0-RELEASE on sparc64

2012-01-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
like the RAM layout when a SB1500 has 2GB RAM. There's no problem with 1GB or 4GB RAM. The OP has created sparc64/164227 -- Peter Jeremy pgpg7mKRrjkxp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Booting problem for FreeBSD SPARC64

2012-01-20 Thread Peter Jeremy
are not listed in http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/sparc.html and it's likely that they aren't supported. >Is there any work around/solution for this issue ? If you wanted to assist with support for the M3000, I suggest you start a thread on freebsd-sparc64. -- Peter Jeremy pgpsIPp38DaXh.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FLAME - security advisories on the 23rd ? uncool idea is uncool

2011-12-23 Thread Peter Jeremy
in posted, the SO had to decide between two unpalatable options and, IMHO, he made the correct decision. The details and fixes are now available - it's up to you to weigh up the risks of patching vs the risks of not patching. -- Peter Jeremy pgpwPaYsswqdf.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FLAME - security advisories on the 23rd ? uncool idea is uncool

2011-12-23 Thread Peter Jeremy
ng holiday period) but I think the SO made the right call. Hopefully, this was all that was holding up 9.0-RELEASE and RE will be giving us a more welcome Xmas present. -- Peter Jeremy pgpJ5YZU425S5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: fsck_ufs out of swapspace

2011-12-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
inal result. >A PR has been submitted. sparc64/163460 for the record. Thank you for tracking that down. -- Peter Jeremy pgp7m3HL1diGx.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 32GB limit per swap device?

2011-08-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
pseudo-random pattern and then verify). -- Peter Jeremy pgpo8PkzVBfqo.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: bad sector in gmirror HDD

2011-08-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
t for visible bad sectors (and Solaris UFS still reserves space for this, though I don't know if it still works) but the code was removed from FreeBSD long ago. AFAIR, wd(4) supported bad sectors but it was removed long ago. -- Peter Jeremy pgpzqxeB9mDZP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ZFS directory with a large number of files

2011-08-02 Thread Peter Jeremy
(including Solaris) behave badly in this scenario but 4.4BSD derivatives will release unused space at the end of a directory and have smarts to more efficiently skip unused entries at the start of a directory. -- Peter Jeremy pgpmdeH6w8Ny5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: SATA 6g 4-port non-RAID controller ?

2011-07-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
understand; I think I can recall reading about issues >with the 915 chipset. I agree a "check, don't assume" warning is >reasonable. I have also run into problems (wouldn't POST from memory) trying to use a NIC in the x16 slot of Dell GX620 boxes, which use an i945 chipset. -- Peter Jeremy pgpxVKRjcgfQY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Status of support for 4KB disk sectors

2011-07-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
by the local OS rep (this was a Motorola SVR2). -- Peter Jeremy pgp9GiYFCh7fP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: current status of digi driver

2011-06-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
e have about 55 modem ports over ten 8-port Xr cards (PCI) that connect >remote sites via dial-up. I've only got access to PCI Xem cards that are used for serial console concentration so it would be useful for you to test both the Xr cards and dial-in support. -- Peter Jeremy pgpjTK58Q

Re: Automatic reboot doesn't reboot

2011-05-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
ng http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2011-March/010862.html (note that mailman has split it into at least 3 threads). -- Peter Jeremy pgpQGveibDZlq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Linker set issues with ath(4) HALs

2011-03-05 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2011-Mar-05 11:48:54 +0200, Kostik Belousov wrote: >On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 07:50:05PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: >> I have a Atheros AR5424 and so, based on the 8.2-STABLE i386 NOTES >> and some rummaging in the sources, I tried to build a kernel with: >> >&g

Linker set issues with ath(4) HALs

2011-03-05 Thread Peter Jeremy
_hal", rather than the hardware-specific HAL fix the problem? -- Peter Jeremy pgpL0aiDu3NMN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: system crash during make installworld

2011-02-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
picture of the screen showing the issue). -- Peter Jeremy pgptX1VTtosbn.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: sed is broken under freebsd?

2011-01-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
; and/or setting POSIXLY_CORRECT. This is part of the GNU/FSF "lockin" policy that encourages people to use their non-standard extensions to ensure that you don't have any choice other than to use their software. -- Peter Jeremy pgpd7zj0Dn2kG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: classes and kernel_cookie was Re: Specifying root mount options on diskless boot.

2011-01-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
ll about. I'm also happy to patch the code but feel that both PXE and BOOTP should be consistent and I'm not sure which is the correct approach. >BTW, it would be kind if the line in the pxeboot(8): > As PXE is still in its infancy ... >can be changed :-) Well, there ar

Re: ZFS - moving from a zraid1 to zraid2 pool with 1.5tb disks

2011-01-02 Thread Peter Jeremy
rg/dokuwiki/doku.php/zfsraid Note that, even for a home system, backups are worthwhile. In my case, I backup onto a 2TB disk in an eSATA enclosure. That's currently (just) adequate but I'll soon need to identify data that I can leave off that backup. -- Peter Jeremy pgpOSt5NCO7Do.pgp Description: PGP signature

Specifying root mount options on diskless boot.

2011-01-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
everal incompatible ways) but none actually work. A quick look at -current suggests that the situation there remains equally broken. Has anyone else tried to use any of this? And would anyone be interested in trying to make it actually work? -- Peter Jeremy pgpVVITD1dFyb.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: slow ZFS on FreeBSD 8.1

2010-12-31 Thread Peter Jeremy
bout ½day tracking that down - not helped by the lack of any documentation or a useful error message (though there is a comment in the code when you eventually track it down). -- Peter Jeremy pgpObQwMbJjKU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: slow ZFS on FreeBSD 8.1

2010-12-31 Thread Peter Jeremy
intensive than UFS and a more powerful CPU may help - especially if you want gzip compression and/or sha256 checksumming. -- Peter Jeremy pgpRE0BXxVZbL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: slow ZFS on FreeBSD 8.1

2010-12-31 Thread Peter Jeremy
which is a known issue with ZFS. -- Peter Jeremy pgp9CvWOJe1I9.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: root mount error

2010-12-29 Thread Peter Jeremy
aditional info I'll give it all, just ask. What is the SVN revision of a kernel that works? What is the SVN revision of a kernel that fails? Can you please post a verbose dmesg of a successful boot. Can you please post a dmesg of an unsuccessful boot (see above). -- Peter Jeremy pgpHUhVzb3Hvu.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 8.1 livelock/hangup: possible actions

2010-12-13 Thread Peter Jeremy
_free_count); at the top of the function. This fixes the worst bug but there are lots of other fixes if you upgrade. -- Peter Jeremy pgpMi5QjNUH8u.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: idprio processes slowing down system

2010-12-06 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Nov-28 02:24:21 -0600, Adam Vande More wrote: >On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 1:26 AM, Peter Jeremy wrote: >> Since all the boinc processes are running at i31, why are they impacting >> a buildkernel that runs with 0 nicety? > >With the setup you presented you're goin

idprio processes slowing down system

2010-11-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
TNESS and WITNESS_SKIPSPIN, 8GB RAM, src and obj are both on ZFS. -- Peter Jeremy pgpTYgNUsxZxp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ZFS backups: retrieving a few files?

2010-11-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Nov-24 11:07:23 +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: >Quoting Peter Jeremy (from Wed, 24 Nov 2010 >06:32:07 +1100): > >> BTW, the entire export is performed at the current compression level - >> recompressing existing data. > >Are you sure the compression is do

Re: ZFS backups: retrieving a few files?

2010-11-23 Thread Peter Jeremy
on import. BTW, the entire export is performed at the current compression level - recompressing existing data. -- Peter Jeremy pgpJ45k6nVaUR.pgp Description: PGP signature

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