Re: FreeBSD 8.2 - active plus inactive memory leak!?

2012-03-07 Thread Luke Marsden
On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 10:23 +0200, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 12:36:21AM +0000, Luke Marsden wrote: > > I'm trying to confirm that, on a system with no pages swapped out, that > > the following is a true statement: > > > > a

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 - active plus inactive memory leak!?

2012-03-07 Thread Luke Marsden
On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 10:23 +0200, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 12:36:21AM +0000, Luke Marsden wrote: > > I'm trying to confirm that, on a system with no pages swapped out, that > > the following is a true statement: > > > > a

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 - active plus inactive memory leak!?

2012-03-06 Thread Luke Marsden
of VM is correct, I don't see how this can happen. But it's happening, and it's causing real trouble here because our free memory keeps hitting zero and then we swap-spiral. What can I do to investigate this discrepancy? Are there some tools that I can use to debug the memory all

FreeBSD 8.2 - active plus inactive memory leak!?

2012-03-06 Thread Luke Marsden
hich case please educate me ;-) or is there a real problem here? If so how can I dig deeper to help uncover/fix it? Best Regards, Luke Marsden [1] lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2012-February/013775.html [2] https://gist.github.com/1988153 -- CTO, Hybrid Logic +447791750420 | +1-415-449-

Re: Another ZFS ARC memory question

2012-03-02 Thread Luke Marsden
Page: 7 hybrid@node5:~$ uname -a FreeBSD node5.hybridlogiclabs.com 8.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #0: Thu Feb 17 02:41:51 UTC 2011 r...@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/

Another ZFS ARC memory question

2012-02-24 Thread Luke Marsden
making FreeBSD awesome :-) Best Regards, Luke Marsden -- CTO, Hybrid Logic +447791750420 | +1-415-449-1165 | www.hybrid-cluster.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, s

Re: Swap on zvol - recommendable?

2012-02-12 Thread Luke Marsden
> On Feb 6, 2012, at 11:57 AM, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > > > Hi, all, > > > > is it possible to make a definite statement about swap on zvols? > > > > I found some older discussions about a resource starvation > > scenario when ZFS arc would be the cause of the system > > running out of memory,

Re: 8.1R possible zfs snapshot livelock?

2011-05-20 Thread Luke Marsden
; intervals, and keep several scripts (or rsync) reading the target > dataset files and just copying them to another place in the usual, > "classic" way. (example: tar cf - . | ( cd /destination && tar xf -) > Is there a PR for this? I'd like to see it address

Re: 8.1R possible zfs snapshot livelock?

2011-05-18 Thread Luke Marsden
he links to the backports for 8.2, Jeremy, I'll include those in our next system image. -- Best Regards, Luke Marsden CTO, Hybrid Logic Ltd. Web: http://www.hybrid-cluster.com/ Hybrid Web Cluster - cloud web hosting Phone: +447791750420 ___ free

Guaranteed kernel panic with ZFS + nullfs

2011-03-16 Thread Luke Marsden
lem, Hybrid Logic Ltd might be able to fund a small bounty for a fix. Contact me off-list if you can help in this way. -- Best Regards, Luke Marsden CTO, Hybrid Logic Ltd. Web: http://www.hybrid-cluster.com/ Hybrid Web Cluster - cloud web hosting Phone: +441172232002 / +16179496062 __

ZFS hanging with simultaneous "zfs recv" and "zfs umount -f"

2011-02-01 Thread Luke Marsden
and submitting a bug report will help... I will do this in due course, but don't have time right now -- just wanted to get this bug report out there first in case there's an obvious fix. Thank you for supporting ZFS on FreeBSD!! -- Best Regards, Luke Marsden CTO, Hybrid Logic Ltd. Web:

ZFS hanging with simultaneous "zfs recv" and "zfs umount -f"

2011-02-01 Thread Luke Marsden
and submitting a bug report will help... I will do this in due course, but don't have time right now -- just wanted to get this bug report out there first in case there's an obvious fix. Thank you for supporting ZFS on FreeBSD!! -- Best Regards, Luke Marsden CTO, Hybrid Logic Ltd. Web:

Virtio drivers for FreeBSD on KVM

2010-12-30 Thread Luke Marsden
ivers, combined with the NetBSD code, as starting point for an implementation? My company might soon be in a position to sponsor the work to get this completed and available at some point in FreeBSD 8. I'd be very interested to hear from anyone who's involved, or who might like to be. -- Bes

Re: Problem running 8.1R on KVM with AMD hosts

2010-09-30 Thread Luke Marsden
r prompt. If it works, add hw.mca.enabled="0" > in /boot/loader.conf to make it permanent. MCA does not make any > sense in emulation any way. Awesome, this allows us to boot 8.1R on Linux KVM with AMD hardware! Thank you very much. This has just doubled our number of avail

Re: Problem running 8.1R on KVM with AMD hosts

2010-09-30 Thread Luke Marsden
he VM and send you the VNC credentials. My email address is: luke [at] hybrid-logic.co.uk Or you can catch me on Skype at luke.marsden. I'm in GMT+1. I look forward to hearing from you ;-) -- Best Regards, Luke Marsden Hybrid Logic Ltd. Web: http://www.hybrid-cluster.com/ Hybrid Web

Re: Problem running 8.1R on KVM with AMD hosts

2010-09-27 Thread Luke Marsden
debug this as necessary. As a reference point, 8.0R runs fine on this particular infrastructure: Linux KVM on AMD hardware. More detail to follow. Thank you. -- Best Regards, Luke Marsden Hybrid Logic Ltd. Web: http://www.hybrid-cluster.com/ Hybrid Web Cluster - cloud web hosting based on FreeB

Re: Problem running 8.1R on KVM with AMD hosts

2010-09-27 Thread Luke Marsden
On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 15:24 +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 27/09/2010 14:45 Luke Marsden said the following: > > Hi FreeBSD-stable, > > > > I'm having problems booting 8.1R on a KVM virtualised host backed on AMD > > hardware. It works flawlessly on Intel

Problem running 8.1R on KVM with AMD hosts

2010-09-27 Thread Luke Marsden
py to give developers access to some paid instances on ElasticHosts where this problem occurs, if it helps debugging it. (It works fine in ElasticHosts' lon-p and sat-p data centres, but not in lon-b, and Intel vs. AMD is apparently the difference). -- Best Regards, Luke Marsden Hybrid

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

2009-08-20 Thread Luke Dean
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Luke Dean wrote: On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Luke Dean wrote: I'm tracking 7-STABLE. Recently.. within the last month or so.. my simple USB mouse stopped being detected at boot time. The /dev/ums0 device simply does not a

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

2009-08-13 Thread Luke Dean
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Luke Dean wrote: I'm tracking 7-STABLE. Recently.. within the last month or so.. my simple USB mouse stopped being detected at boot time. The /dev/ums0 device simply does not appear unless I unplug the mouse and plug it ba

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

2009-08-13 Thread Luke Dean
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Marat N.Afanasyev wrote: Ronny Mandal wrote: I'm tracking 7-STABLE. Recently.. within the last month or so.. my simple USB mouse stopped being detected at boot time. The /dev/ums0 device simply does not appear unless I unplug the mouse and plug it back in again. Then it

USB mouse not detected on boot of 7-STABLE

2009-08-13 Thread Luke Dean
I'm tracking 7-STABLE. Recently.. within the last month or so.. my simple USB mouse stopped being detected at boot time. The /dev/ums0 device simply does not appear unless I unplug the mouse and plug it back in again. Then it is detected. I don't even know where to begin looking for answers to

Re: Radeon r6/7xx support merged to -STABLE

2009-04-03 Thread Luke Dean
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, Robert Noland wrote: I went ahead and merged the Radeon R6/7xx code to -STABLE a while ago. The current xorg drivers will not enable it by default on R600+ chips. You will need to be using xf86-video-ati-6.12.0, xf86-video-radeonhd-devel or possibly even better git master

kvm_open: kvm_nlist: No such file or directory

2008-04-20 Thread Luke Dean
A few weeks ago I did a source upgrade from 6.2 to 7-STABLE. I didn't "make delete-old" so a bunch of old libraries and such were left lying around causing problems when I rebuilt all my ports. I'd read about some recent improvements to DDB and SCHED_ULE in 7-STABLE, and it's a miserable sn

Re: pf killing NFS

2006-12-12 Thread Luke Dean
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Charles Sprickman wrote: Hi all, I'm running a 6.2-RC1 box (cvsup'd today) that has two broadcom nics. One is an internal network (nfs) and the other is external. PF has this rule for all traffic on the private net: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/jails]# pfctl -sr|grep bge1

Re: 6.0 random freezes

2005-12-13 Thread Luke Dean
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Atanas wrote: Atanas said the following on 12/12/05 18:57: Peter Jeremy said the following on 12/12/05 13:40: When it hangs, break into DDB (Ctrl-Alt-Esc on the console or BREAK on a serial console). But if I have no keyboard response I won't be able to save it, right

Re: Restarting ntpd on address change

2005-11-30 Thread Luke Dean
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Ian D. Leroux wrote: Greetings, My machine's ip address is assigned by DHCP, and whenever it changes ntpd stops functioning and must be restarted. I gather this behavior will be changed in some future ntpd version, but in the meantime I had added a line to my /etc/dhclie

Re: Rotating web server logs without restarting Apache

2005-11-25 Thread Luke Hollins
Ladislav Bodnar wrote: Hi, Every time my httpd-access.log file is rotated I need to restart Apache, otherwise it won't write into the new httpd-access.log file. Is there a way for Apache (version 2.0.55 on FreeBSD 6.0) to write to the new log file without the need to restart it? I restart i

Re: background fsck can be dangerous!

2005-06-30 Thread Luke Crawford
This is not a problem with background fsck... this is the way soft updates is supposed to handle a power failure. Soft updates is designed to allow safe write caching. It orders writes such that the filesystem is always consistent. The worst that can happen in the case of power loss is that

Re: FreeBSD 4.10 + PAE + SunFire v40z (Newisys 4100)

2004-10-22 Thread luke
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Doug White wrote: On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have this SunFire v40z (as far as I can tell, it is a rebadged Newisys 4100. Sopposedly, sun manufactured it, but I can't find any ... Why are you running this in i386 mode? Running an opteron in i386 mode + PAE

FreeBSD 4.10 + PAE + SunFire v40z (Newisys 4100)

2004-10-20 Thread luke
3 irq 19 at device 4.0 on pci2 mpt0: error 16 creating per-cmd DMA maps mpt0: Could not allocate DMA memory %uname -a FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE #0: Wed Oct 20 12:11:08 PDT 2004 luke@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP_PAE i386 full dmesg from the successful netboot follows: Copyrigh

Re: Large hard disk support in FreeBSD

2003-07-29 Thread Chris Luke
Chris Howells wrote (on Jul 29): > > (3) The ATA controller built into your motherboard may not support larger > > disk addressing, although I think that shouldn't be a problem with > > 60GB. If you try to use a drive larger than addressable using the ATA > > controller, you may want t

Re: Has anybody built MySQL lately?

2000-07-25 Thread Luke Hollins
I dont know at which version they added it , but in 3.23.21 it warns you about compiling sql_yacc.cc , if you run configure with --with-low-memory I think it leaves it at -O6 but changes a -f option that makes a big difference to the memory use while compiling. Luke To Unsubscribe: send