Re: safe mode

2010-11-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
me software image as you currently deploy. Your new hardware would therefore seem to provide an ideal opportunity for you to also move to a newer OS (and still supported) version of FreeBSD. You could then choose whether to maintain the older software on the existing deployed base or validate the newer software on the older hardware and older units as required. -- Peter Jeremy pgpxRiAnUDqbI.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: SuperMicro i7 (UP) - very slow performance

2010-09-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Sep-22 01:43:10 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >To the OP: ... 4) Check the CPU core temperature (via coretemp(4) or similar) and make sure the heatsink is correctly attached. -- Peter Jeremy pgp049hzGw1N5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: SuperMicro i7 (UP) - very slow performance

2010-09-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Sep-21 20:02:09 -0700, Bryce wrote: >On Sep 20, 6:17 am, peterjer...@acm.org (Peter Jeremy) wrote: >> On 2010-Sep-18 08:32:32 -0500, Bryce Edwards wrote: >> >> >I have a Supermicro with the C7X58 motherboard and an i7 930 cpu, and >> >it is nowhere near

Re: SuperMicro i7 (UP) - very slow performance

2010-09-20 Thread Peter Jeremy
e. How did you test them and what were the results? Do you know what revision your /usr/src/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/arc.c is? (Or when/how did you last upgrade your source tree). -- Peter Jeremy pgpAFG55c53N0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang

2010-09-18 Thread Peter Jeremy
nless it's explicitly specified. Also, specifying EXA acceleration is fairly mandatory: The default XAA acceleration is broken. -- Peter Jeremy pgpuqhaZGDnMJ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 8.1R ZFS almost locking up system

2010-08-23 Thread Peter Jeremy
599 which fixes a mismerge) should help. Your very high kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.memory_throttle_count suggests this is your problem. I have a more extensive patch in http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=146410 -- Peter Jeremy pgpVn6Q2Ml3YY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: zfs destroy snapshot doesn't free space

2010-08-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
the problem? -- Peter Jeremy pgpbzS5ldbnfc.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 8.x grudges

2010-07-30 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Jul-29 16:50:24 +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: >Install ports/sysutils/dmidecode and type (as root): > ># dmidecode -t system -t baseboard > >It will tell you the vendor and product name, among >other things. kenv(1) (in the base) should as well. -- Peter Jeremy

Re: Serious zfs slowdown when mixed with another file system (ufs/msdosfs/etc.).

2010-07-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Jul-12 19:38:18 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: >I have been using the attached arc.patch1 based on a patch written by >Artem Belevich (see http://pastebin.com/ZCkzkWcs ) >for about a month. I have had reasonable success with it (and junked >my cronjob) but have managed to wedge

Re: Serious zfs slowdown when mixed with another file system (ufs/msdosfs/etc.).

2010-07-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
inactive" or "cache", some quick checks suggest it also helps (though I need to do further checks). See http://people.freebsd.org/~mm/patches/zfs/head-12636.patch -- Peter Jeremy pgpqfU3ecAmS4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 8.x grudges

2010-07-09 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Jul-08 18:10:48 -0400, "Mikhail T." wrote: >08.07.2010 17:06, Peter Jeremy написав(ла): >> On 2010-Jul-07 14:22:22 -0400, "Mikhail T." >> wrote>>>1. A picture, that one of the systems was displaying at boot (and >>> then us

Re: 8.x grudges

2010-07-08 Thread Peter Jeremy
keyboard... I have had similar problems on one of my USB-only desktops. In my case, moving the keyboard to a different USB port solved the problem. All I can suggest is to work your way through all the USB ports you have available and see if they all behavee the same. -- Peter Jeremy pgpHkZwBBtkAL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Stable 7] CPIO breakage/

2010-06-17 Thread Peter Jeremy
solute-filenames disables this behavior. This definitely reduces security and would seem to be far more dangerous than being able to create symlinks to absolute pathnames. -- Peter Jeremy pgpiAgVPvZVj0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Strange Swapping Issues(?)

2010-04-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
-swap hander will kill the largest process so one of your problems is probably "throwto003". I can't offer any suggestion as to why the swap_pager_getswapspace() errors continued afterwards. -- Peter Jeremy pgp0nNZofvEHu.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD 7.3/i386 libalias related panic

2010-04-06 Thread Peter Jeremy
e a lot more work. If this is repeatable, I'd suggest adding WITNESS, WITNESS_SKIPSPIN and INVARIANTS and see if you can get the problem to show up closer to its cause. -- Peter Jeremy pgpeAbDMaK4BN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Results of BIND RFC

2010-04-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
the base system? I know it is on OpenBSD. :-) :-) -- Peter Jeremy pgpSkvuvsDEnm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Results of BIND RFC

2010-04-02 Thread Peter Jeremy
the ports system. Without the integration testing, you wind up in the situation where port A and port B work in isolation but don't work together - the port A maintainer says that the problem is port B and the port B maintainer says that port A is relying on an optional part of port B that they don't have the time/interest/expertise to maintain. -- Peter Jeremy pgpAipJBtdd3d.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 SCSI Boot

2010-03-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
do a full install of FreeBSD 8.0, including partitioning and creating disk slices or did you re-use the existing slices? Are you using a "dangerously dedicated" disk? Were any disk geometry errors reported? -- Peter Jeremy pgpYhBSyFZcjh.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 8-STABLE/amd64: kernel panic after a minute of mounting xfs

2010-03-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
a backtrace. Ideally, you need a core-dump to investigate the cause. See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html -- Peter Jeremy pgpK8aaGkqFn1.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Many processes stuck in zfs

2010-03-09 Thread Peter Jeremy
am that allocates and dirties ~100MB and then exits and run it from cron. -- Peter Jeremy pgpj4AtT47MPd.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: sleep(3) sometimes too sleepy on FreeBSD 8.0?

2010-02-23 Thread Peter Jeremy
ere any reason why HAVE_NANOSLEEP is not defined for FreeBSD? Looking back through the commit logs, nanosleep(2) was implemented in sys/kern/kern_time.c v1.23 on Thu May 8 14:16:25 1997 UTC - that's just before RELENG_2_2. -- Peter Jeremy pgpqviZLgiMfU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ntpd struggling to keep up - how to fix?

2010-02-23 Thread Peter Jeremy
e it does so, it stores the calculated drift in ntp.drift and updates it every hour or so. This means that when ntpd is restarted, it can immediately set its PLL to a reasonably close value, rather than starting from scratch. -- Peter Jeremy pgpojg0gBGkf4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ntpd struggling to keep up - how to fix?

2010-02-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
d pulling the system clock by its maximum of 500ppm. Adding these gives a total clock error of 1733ppm. The nominal clock frequency used by the timecounter is 3577045Hz. In order to calculate the actual clock frequency, we need to subtract the clock error (1733ppm) from this frequency: 3577045

Re: ntpd struggling to keep up - how to fix?

2010-02-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Feb-22 01:02:54 -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: >Peter Jeremy wrote: > >> ... Once ntpd decides to continuously step, something is broken. > >Is there some reason why, as long as it is not yet synced, ntpd >should not do this sort of calculation and rate correctio

Re: ntpd struggling to keep up - how to fix?

2010-02-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
cate that your system clock stability isn't very good or you have excessive jitter in your reference. -- Peter Jeremy pgpzEr0C192AE.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ntpd struggling to keep up - how to fix?

2010-02-20 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Feb-20 22:32:01 +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: >On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:53:51 +1100 >Peter Jeremy wrote: > >> Looks reasonable. Let us know the results. I'd be interested in >> the output from "ntpdc -c loopi -c sysi". > >Ok, here we go (the s

Re: ntpd struggling to keep up - how to fix?

2010-02-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Feb-19 00:38:44 +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: >r...@kg-f2# sysctl machdep.acpi_timer_freq=3577045 >machdep.acpi_timer_freq: 3579545 -> 3577045 Looks reasonable. Let us know the results. I'd be interested in the output from "ntpdc -c loopi -c sysi&

Re: ntpd struggling to keep up - how to fix?

2010-02-18 Thread Peter Jeremy
pd. [I think I've got the adjustment direction correct in the above, if I've stuffed up, you need to adjust in the other direction] -- Peter Jeremy pgpcm7bDQJdjP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ZFS tuning [was: hardware for home use large storage]

2010-02-16 Thread Peter Jeremy
ard matches in the regexps - "grep" misused as "map" - "die" is probably not appropriate for embedding into another script - No useful error message if /boot/loader.conf can't be opened. - Doesn't correctly handle optional whitespace around "=" - No heading to explain what is being reported. - Doesn't allow for "zfs" as a top-level identifier Overall, Barry's script makes an excellent proof-of-concept - which is what he was offering. -- Peter Jeremy pgpI6dXwSO06C.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Kernel probe order issues

2010-02-14 Thread Peter Jeremy
rite_config(self, PCI_LEGSUP, PCI_LEGSUP_USBPIRQDEN, 2); Sorry for the delay in responding. Neither of these made any difference. I have also tried asking in FreeBSD-usb and hps@ suggested trying ukbd.c Rev 43 from p4 - which also didn't help. -- Peter Jeremy pgpWTVHac3Cua.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Hello and a small problem with 8.0-RELEASE (amd64)

2010-02-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
ot disk is (PATA/SATA) and what the physical disk address is (which controller/channel). -- Peter Jeremy pgpPemVrezk0a.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: freebsd7 (and 8), radeon, xorg-server -> deadlock or so

2010-02-10 Thread Peter Jeremy
ibthr >dependency only as an accident. Try Ports/139011 - this adds an option to enable GLX TLS - which appears to be the underlying problem. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=139011 -- Peter Jeremy pgpQUbC0jKHAF.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Kernel probe order issues

2010-02-08 Thread Peter Jeremy
er.conf. > >2. Comment out the following line in sys/dev/usb/controller/uhci_pci.c: >pci_write_config(self, PCI_LEGSUP, PCI_LEGSUP_USBPIRQDEN, 2); hps@ suggested a ukbd patch as well. Unfortunately, something has come up and I won't be able to check either suggestion until late March. --

Re: Inmutable bit in some binaries

2010-02-07 Thread Peter Jeremy
that runs it and however the results are reported. -- Peter Jeremy pgpNTKkUgGATK.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Kernel probe order issues

2010-02-02 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Feb-02 08:39:34 +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: >on 02/02/2010 08:36 Peter Jeremy said the following: >> On 2010-Feb-01 11:37:33 +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: >>>> This strikes me as undesirable. Is there some way to bump up the >>>> probe/attach priority of con

Re: Kernel probe order issues

2010-02-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
r keyboard if I can find one. It _does_ work as expected on 7.x so this is a regression. -- Peter Jeremy pgpniZsRcRtHw.pgp Description: PGP signature

Kernel probe order issues

2010-02-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
ries to read input? -- Peter Jeremy pgpije7UV1cSy.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: uma_zalloc_arg complaining about non-sleepable locks

2010-01-30 Thread Peter Jeremy
e unaligned accesses (but also completely wedged the VBox host). I also tried copying a pile of files off my NFS client (FreeBSD-8.x/i386) and that also triggered some unaligned accesses without any errors being reported. Currently, I have: vfs.nfs.realign_count: 12 vfs.nfs.realign

Re: uma_zalloc_arg complaining about non-sleepable locks

2010-01-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Jan-26 15:10:59 -0500, John Baldwin wrote: >On Tuesday 26 January 2010 1:37:56 pm Marius Strobl wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 09:46:44AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: >> > On Tuesday 26 January 2010 2:33:37 am Peter Jeremy wrote: >> > > I have just upgrade

uma_zalloc_arg complaining about non-sleepable locks

2010-01-25 Thread Peter Jeremy
k/unlock pairs. Has anyone else seen this? And does anyone have a fix? -- Peter Jeremy pgpG6eQRJNanL.pgp Description: PGP signature

New zfs/bufwait LOR

2010-01-25 Thread Peter Jeremy
, rsp = 0x7ffeb718, rbp = 0x805b41d18 --- -- Peter Jeremy pgplTEgQ6sgMF.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Drive light on all the time on 8-STABLE.

2010-01-17 Thread Peter Jeremy
n my Gigabyte GA-MA770-DS3 with 3 Samsung HD103UJ HDDs and a Pioneer DVR-215 DVD-RW. I'm running 8.0-STABLE/amd64 from the end of November. It looks like it might be a bug in the IXP600 SATA driver. -- Peter Jeremy pgpDcthDHgy03.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Multiple serial consoles via null modem cable

2010-01-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
ccess at a time). Note that it's embedded in the LOM processor on (eg) Sun v20Z. -- Peter Jeremy pgpQuOWSWr7aw.pgp Description: PGP signature

New LOR: allproc/zfs

2010-01-08 Thread Peter Jeremy
userland_sysctl+0x158 __sysctl() at __sysctl+0xaa syscall() at syscall+0x1ac Xfast_syscall() at Xfast_syscall+0xe1 --- syscall (202, FreeBSD ELF64, __sysctl), rip = 0x800bc5a9c, rsp = 0x7fffdaf8, rbp = 0x7fffdb08 --- -- Peter Jeremy pgpLY23ALYtRM.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Non-responsive 8.0-RC1 (now 8.0-STABLE)

2009-12-05 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2009-Nov-30 19:13:30 +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: >On 2009-Nov-29 08:56:55 +0100, Thomas Backman wrote: >> >>On Nov 28, 2009, at 10:22 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote: >> >>> My main server is running 8.0/amd64 from between RC1 and RC2 and I've >>> recent

Re: 7.2 dies in zfs

2009-11-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
s needed to stabilise ZFS on either 7.x or 8.x. My understanding is that the problem is more that the FreeBSD VM system doesn't gracefully handle running low or out of memory. -- Peter Jeremy pgpK1zEro2kG1.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2009-11-18 Thread Peter Jeremy
> >Why isn't LinkedIn in FreeBSD.org's spam blocker? I have raised this with postmaster@ and he is investigating how to block this spam. -- Peter Jeremy pgpnlACiig4DT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: problem with link aggregation failover

2009-09-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
ld do? Yes. I use LACP at $work. See lagg(4) for other options. -- Peter Jeremy pgpuoDPA53s7j.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: GCC -m32 option on FreeBSD/AMD64 7.2

2009-09-09 Thread Peter Jeremy
the case of amd64, longs and pointers are 64-bits. Whilst it's not immediately obvious what happened here, I am confident this is the underlying cause. -- Peter Jeremy pgpSzNWqmq3FZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: USB mouse not detected on boot of 7-STABLE

2009-08-14 Thread Peter Jeremy
AFAIK, it does. It definitely works for my E169. -- Peter Jeremy pgpySqwg2cZPO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Panic due to junk pointer in pf(4)

2009-08-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
0x0, rbe_color = 0}, entry_list = {tqe_next = 0xc41f9e6c, tqe_prev = 0x0}, kif = 0xc442c58c}, ifname = "\002\006\001\000\000\000\005\000à¨\nÄ\000ÀBÄ"} Does anyone have any suggestions on where to look next? -- Peter Jeremy pgpOHBWJIZphM.pgp Description: PGP signature

Stray RST packets on 7.2-RELEASE

2009-07-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
x10; syncache_expand: Segment failed SYNCOOKIE authentication, segment rejected (probably spoofed) Note that the syslog message implies there is an incoming packet but tcpdump doesn't show one. Does anyone have any suggestions? -- Peter Jeremy pgpbPsWWrnYyj.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ZFS - thanks

2009-07-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
for this statement. AFAIK, the only reason for the upper recommended limit of 9 disks is performance. -- Peter Jeremy pgp7mXrbtpSu6.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: bug in ufs?

2009-07-07 Thread Peter Jeremy
ot;fragments". Whilst this paper talks about the original UFS and a 4K/1K configuration, the principles remain the same in UFS2. -- Peter Jeremy smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: Does this disk/filesystem layout look sane to you?

2009-06-16 Thread Peter Jeremy
different sizes: two are 1953523055 and the third is 1953525168 sectors -- Peter Jeremy pgpEXyphtqLR5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Let's back out LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT from STABLE

2009-06-13 Thread Peter Jeremy
allows this? See boot(8): There should be a -\|/ spinner for a second at the start of the boot. Hit the "Any" key and you will get a prompt that lets you specify a loader(8) replacement. Assuming you are booting off ad0s1, the magic incantation is 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader

Re: cvsup.de.FreeBSD.org out of sync? (was: "make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC fails")

2009-05-29 Thread Peter Jeremy
ago. >with cvsup5.de.freebsd.org as well... This is a not-uncommon problem with lots of CVSup servers. edwin@ maintains a statistics page at http://www.mavetju.org/unix/freebsd-mirrors/ that is worth studying - it shows that cvsup.de.freebsd.org is badly out of sync, though cvsup5 should be OK. -- Peter Jeremy pgpDV4gNwo2i2.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: installing crossbuilds

2009-04-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
nstall infrastucture to suit the build machine architecture. >The alternative to mount the whole fstab structure of the >target machine into the build server and installing with DESTDIR >works, but feels pretty clumsy in comparison. This is the supported way to install onto a differe

Re: support quality (Re: dump | restore fails: unknown tape headertype 1853384566)

2009-03-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
s in 7.x and/or moving to an SMP host would seem to increase the probability of hitting the problem fixed in the patch mentioned later (kern/121684). -- Peter Jeremy pgpASB6IFkuVK.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: support quality (Re: dump | restore fails: unknown tape header type 1853384566)

2009-03-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
very recent dump on a very old restore if you've used filesystem features that didn't exist when that restore was built. -- Peter Jeremy pgpYbMnzATlVE.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: support quality (Re: dump | restore fails: unknown tape header type 1853384566)

2009-03-25 Thread Peter Jeremy
t is fairly obvious by now, that no real help will be forthcoming, >for whatever reason. Throwing a hissy-fit won't help. -- Peter Jeremy pgpTXzsSOmpBH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 7.1 panic "vm_page_startup: inconsistent page counts"

2009-03-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2009-Mar-12 08:46:50 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: >On Thursday 12 March 2009 12:36:46 am Peter Jeremy wrote: >> I'm trying to upgrade an 11 month old FreeBSD 7 image in a VMware >> 4.5.2 guest to an up-to-date -stable and it panics as above. I've >> added a prin

7.1 panic "vm_page_startup: inconsistent page counts"

2009-03-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
-to-date 6-stable or -current using the same VMware version. A screendump for a verbose boot can be found at http://imagebin.ca/img/wahNNw.gif Can I safely delete the assert? -- Peter Jeremy pgpsKEYksTjHZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Pendrive 8G+CAM_REQ_CMP_ERR

2009-02-18 Thread Peter Jeremy
/messages)? What are the exact error messages (or a sample thereof)? What does 'usbdevs -v' report about the pendrive? -- Peter Jeremy pgpk3xDlL4o7j.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: impossible packet length ...

2009-02-08 Thread Peter Jeremy
sum off-loading? This should make the kernel drop the corrupt packets instead of trying to process them. If practical, you could also try (temporarily) plugging in a different NIC. -- Peter Jeremy pgpuJJeSAGTcl.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: impossible packet length ...

2009-02-08 Thread Peter Jeremy
t least until you find a real fix) then there's no need to change NICs. -- Peter Jeremy pgpvjmeZt076h.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: impossible packet length ...

2009-02-05 Thread Peter Jeremy
hat NIC are you using and are you seeing any network errors? Are you able to capture a protocol trace showing the transaction including erroneous packet? -- Peter Jeremy pgpu4kjVvzpv2.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Unhappy Xorg upgrade

2009-01-30 Thread Peter Jeremy
de. > This update also brings in support for a >lot of people who are running newer hardware. And breaks support for lots of people who used to have functional X servers. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either

Re: System borked: loader stack overflow.

2009-01-18 Thread Peter Jeremy
kernel/kernel) See the following for a more complete description: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=boot&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+7.1-RELEASE&format=html Alternatively, you could boot off a "live filesystem" CD. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays

Re: interrupt storm

2009-01-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2009-Jan-14 22:57:46 -0500, Dan Langille wrote: >Opening the case, reading the m/b: > > K9A2 Platinum MSI Tangentially related: For any decent M/B, kenv(8) should tell you this without needing to open the box. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP'

Re: "vr0: rx packet lost"

2009-01-10 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2009-Jan-10 19:15:22 -0800, David Ehrmann wrote: >Wow. That really is a lot, but I might just wait for the final release, >though with this command, it might not be such a big deal: > >freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.1-RC1 FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE has been available for nearly a week

Interval timers firing early

2008-12-31 Thread Peter Jeremy
19.979058 0.010942 10942 1230777119.991065 59.998935 59998935 1230777179.978597 0.011403 11403 1230777179.991610 59.998390 59998390 1230777239.979139 0.010861 10861 1230777239.991142 59.998858 59998858 -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to impleme

Re: rdump stuck in sbwait state (RELENG_7)

2008-12-30 Thread Peter Jeremy
ta out of OpenVMS). The '-C' and '-W' options to tcpdump will help. > Shouldn't this get torn down by a keepalive at some point? It has been >sitting for 9 hours or so at this point... On FreeBSD, keepalives are off by default. You change change the default with sysctl net

Re: rdump stuck in sbwait state (RELENG_7)

2008-12-30 Thread Peter Jeremy
n or so packets in each direction. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpL79vKz7BI4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 7.0

2008-12-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2008-Dec-24 17:29:05 +0100, Jack Raats wrote: >Main problem is: >ad0: FreeBSD check1 failed This is produced when the ATA subsystem is trying to read RAID metadata off the disk and just means it failed to find any. It's not an error. Can you post more context please. -- P

Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 7.0

2008-12-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
owhere else). If scroll lock still works, you can take pictures of earlier output (and if caps/scroll/num lock don't work, that is a useful piece of information). -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-

Re: [ATA] and re(4) stability issues

2008-12-10 Thread Peter Jeremy
www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg06694.html that claims the AMD/ATI SB600 lies about supporting 64-bit DMA in AHCI mode. I have a SB600 but it doesn't have >4GB to test on. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is ei

Re: lagg(4) and failover

2008-12-09 Thread Peter Jeremy
nd that you'll still need multiple FreeBSD boxes to prevent them being a single point of failure. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpRg83tFxR9k.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: visibility of release process

2008-12-08 Thread Peter Jeremy
ical with gnats. >[3] I've also made an attempt to have Atlassian use Fisheye to >produce an friendly overview of the repository, I've had a look at several of the fisheye sites and am not sure what it would buy the Project, other than some pretty graphs. I don't see how t

Re: lagg(4) and failover

2008-12-06 Thread Peter Jeremy
th a load balancer >is almost always less expensive then excessive component-level >redundancy/ha (RAID Disk, RAID RAM, Dual Power Supplies, Dual >Backplanes...) That's a different topic, but yes, you should evaluate your requirements at a system level, rather than just making every componen

Re: sysinstall automatic partition labelling/sizing problem

2008-12-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
maybe use growfs and eat into your swap) 2) Avoid building unwanted modules via MODULES_OVERRIDE. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpDpdRtIhm2G.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RELENG_7_1: Laptop mouse (psm0) disappeared??!?

2008-11-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2008-Nov-27 00:09:39 -0200, "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 6:50 AM, Peter Jeremy ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> My son's HP v6107 running 6.4-PRERELEASE/amd64 does this occasionally >> as well. I

Re: RELENG_7_1: Laptop mouse (psm0) disappeared??!?

2008-11-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
set the aux device. > psm0: the aux device has gone! (reinitialize). My son's HP v6107 running 6.4-PRERELEASE/amd64 does this occasionally as well. I haven't found any solution other than reboot either. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inabilit

Re: Integrated RTL8168/8111 NIC not assigned interface

2008-11-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
revision, so you can't tell from the pciconf output whether it's supported or not. Can you report the output of 'pciconf -r pci0:1:0:0 0x40' (which should report the hw revision) and 'pciconf -r pci0:2:4:0 0x40' (which gives me a double-check). You could try booting

Re: Possible regression in ifconfig under7.0 - removes validdefault route

2008-11-18 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2008-Nov-17 23:36:19 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Oh yeah, since we're in wishful thinking mode, I want interface >descriptions too... Have you looked at the 'name' and 'group' keywords in ifconfig(8)? If this isn't what you want, please expand on your w

Re: _nyssin undefined

2008-11-17 Thread Peter Jeremy
"enter shell pathname" prompt? If so, does specifying "/rescue/sh" give you a shell? -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpmSqvmvDY6d.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: _nyssin undefined

2008-11-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
you will need to recover it from backups or a live filesystem CD. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpEiIzafN6xO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: System deadlock when using mksnap_ffs

2008-11-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
ld be made >a little more dynamic but I wonder if it would show any real performance >difference and might risk more bugs. FWIW, I've been running the patch since I first saw Doug post it in Feb 2006 and don't recall ever having problems with mksnap_ffs since applying it (I did bef

Re: System hanging during dump

2008-11-02 Thread Peter Jeremy
clean up after itself (my hacking included hard-wiring the options so I'm not sure my cleanup code is complete in the general case). As a low priority, I'll create a PR covering the strdup's. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to im

Re: System hanging during dump

2008-10-18 Thread Peter Jeremy
, though that's not a problem until you wrap it in a loop). -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpvU81MKcZ1y.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: System hanging during dump

2008-10-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2008-Oct-15 02:08:48 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 07:58:43PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: >> On 2008-Oct-15 01:35:38 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 07:24:28PM +1100, Peter

Re: System hanging during dump

2008-10-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2008-Oct-15 01:35:38 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 07:24:28PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: >> Last night, I attempted a full, compressed backup of my 181GB /home >> (on a PATA disk) to a remote system. The backup started at 2

System hanging during dump

2008-10-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
he snapshot meta and rollback data would have occupied the 20GB free (and no 'out-of-space' messages were generated). Is there some limit on the number of inodes that can be updated whilst a snapshot exists? Has anyone else seen anything similar? -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays

Re: cvsup 7.0 STABLE checkout failure

2008-10-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
ndows side if the Unix side has files differing only in case. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgprbYRrbivYj.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Help me to develop a FreeBSD patch for gcc-4.2.1

2008-10-08 Thread Peter Jeremy
e FreeBSD gcc is not built using the gcc configure script. Instead, all the target-specific configuration is under /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claim

Re: Help me to develop a FreeBSD patch for gcc-4.2.1

2008-10-06 Thread Peter Jeremy
ayout to make a patch. The original sources for gcc can be found in /usr/src/contrib/gcc - note that this is not a complete gcc 4.2.1 distribution as parts of gcc that are not relevant for FreeBSD have been deleted. Refer to the FREEBSD-* files for details. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse an

Re: sysctl maxfiles

2008-09-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
;Files'. You can check with 'vmstat -z|grep Files' -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgp96NLXV1r3U.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: sysctl maxfiles

2008-09-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
c values (possibly with a '*' appended) in the FD column. Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be any easy way to detect shared file structures (for inode-based files) using either fstat or lsof. In the case of apache, there are at least 6 file structures shared by each httpd pro

Re: UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY

2008-09-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
itten to non-volatile storage - which tagged queuing provides. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgp72bNCQab19.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: HELP DEBUG: FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p3 TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA + other strange behaviour!

2008-09-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
port, as could overheating. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpwR8dFmRPsS.pgp Description: PGP signature

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