Re: MFC: Distributed audit daemon committed (was: svn commit: r243752 - in head: etc etc/defaults etc/mail etc/mtree etc/rc.d share/man/man4 usr.sbin usr.sbin/auditdistd (fwd)) (fwd)

2012-12-19 Thread Robert N. M. Watson
On 18 Dec 2012, at 18:38, Bryan Drewery wrote: Just an FYI that the new distributed audit daemon has been MFC'd to 9-STABLE. As noted in UPDATING, you will need to run mergemaster -p before using installkernel or installworld targets in order to add the new auditdistd system user. This

Re: [poll / rfc] kdb_stop_cpus

2011-06-04 Thread Robert N. M. Watson
On 4 Jun 2011, at 09:22, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 03/06/2011 20:57 Robert N. M. Watson said the following: On 3 Jun 2011, at 16:13, Andriy Gapon wrote: I wonder if anybody uses kdb_stop_cpus with non-default value. If, yes, I am very interested to learn about your usecase

Re: [poll / rfc] kdb_stop_cpus

2011-06-03 Thread Robert N. M. Watson
On 3 Jun 2011, at 16:13, Andriy Gapon wrote: I wonder if anybody uses kdb_stop_cpus with non-default value. If, yes, I am very interested to learn about your usecase for it. The issue that prompted the sysctl was non-NMI IPIs being used to enter the debugger or reboot following a core

Re: is dtrace usable?

2010-03-09 Thread Robert N. M. Watson
On Mar 9, 2010, at 2:16 PM, Alexander Leidinger wrote: From this you can see that sys.mk is included and parsed before 'Makefile', so the WITH_CTF=yes is not set until after sys.mk has been parsed. I think we need to find a different solution for this. The need to specify WITH_CTF at the

Re: net.inet.tcp.timer_race: does anyone have a non-zero value?

2010-03-07 Thread Robert N. M. Watson
On Mar 7, 2010, at 12:33 PM, Mikolaj Golub wrote: On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 11:59:35 + (GMT) Robert Watson wrote: Please check the results of the following command: % sysctl net.inet.tcp.timer_race net.inet.tcp.timer_race: 0 Are the results for FreeBSD7 look interesting for you?

Re: mbuf leakage with nfs/zfs?

2010-02-28 Thread Robert N. M. Watson
On Feb 28, 2010, at 12:11 PM, Daniel Braniss wrote: I'm pulling in Robert Watson, who has some familiarity with the UDP stack/code in FreeBSD. I'm not sure he'll be a sufficient source of knowledge for this specific issue since it appears (?) to be specific to NFS; Rick Macklem would be a

Re: mbuf leakage with nfs/udp (was: mbuf leakage with nfs/zfs)

2010-02-28 Thread Robert N. M. Watson
On Feb 28, 2010, at 2:52 PM, Daniel Braniss wrote: well, I have further reduced the problem, it happens with NFS/UDP writes. i'll try the wireshark road, but i'm very rusty with RPC, the other road is to check the changes, my oldest is from late october (RC2) where it's happening, while

Re: em interface slow down on 8.0R

2009-12-02 Thread Robert N. M. Watson
On 1 Dec 2009, at 12:05, Elliot Finley wrote: On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Hiroki Sato h...@freebsd.org wrote: Jack Vogel jfvo...@gmail.com wrote in 2a41acea0911301119j1449be58y183f2fe1d1112...@mail.gmail.com: jf I will look into this Hiroki, as time goes the older hardware does not

Re: Extreme console latency during disk IO (8.0-RC1, previous releases also affected according to others)

2009-10-13 Thread Robert N. M. Watson
On 13 Oct 2009, at 14:33, Ivan Voras wrote: If (1) is highly variable during I/O, it's almost certainly a property of the VM technology you're using, and there's nought to be done about it in the guest OS. Here's an example of a ping session with 0.1s resolution during a few

Re: smbfs panic when lost connection or unmount --force

2009-07-12 Thread Robert N. M. Watson
us track it down. Thanks! Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge -- Thes OS is: kern.ostype: FreeBSD kern.osrelease: 7.2-STABLE kern.osrevision: 199506 kern.version: FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #4: Sat Jun 27 21:44:32 CEST 2009 r...@oliverp:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/stable