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Today's Topics:
1. Re: CPU problems after 8.0-STABLE update (Attilio Rao)
2. Re: Results of BIND RFC (Peter Jeremy)
3. 8.1-RELEASE Preliminary Schedule (Ken Smith)
4. Re: CPU problems after 8.0-STABLE update (Akephalos Akephalos)
5. IPFW and NAT woes on 8-STABLE (Jonathan Chen)
6. Re: CPU problems after 8.0-STABLE update (Andriy Gapon)
7. Re: install touching mbr (S Roberts)
8. fault tolerant web servers on freebsd (Maciej Jan Broniarz)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 18:28:05 +0200
From: Attilio Rao <att...@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: CPU problems after 8.0-STABLE update
To: Akephalos Akephalos <akephalos...@gmail.com>
Cc: freebsd...@freebsd.org
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<v2m3bbf2fe11004040928y3...@mail.gmail.com>
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2010/4/4 Akephalos Akephalos <akephalos...@gmail.com>:
> Hey,
>
> I installed 8.0 release and used it very briefly until updating through
> cvsup to the latest stable source. I had no problems with the release (DVD)
> version, except that my wireless card wasn't detected, so updating was the
> natural thing to do. My hardware is an ASUS dual Turion laptop (K50AB), and
> my working setup was like this:
>
> - /boot/loader.conf:
> cpufreq_load="YES"
> hint.acpi_throttle.0.disabled="1"
> - /etc/rc.conf:
> powerd_enable="YES"
>
> It was working fine, the CPU frequency was scaling as expected, I checked it
> numerous times while working and idle with 'sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq'. Also,
> the load was displayed correctly in the taskmanager (I don't remember what
> was displayed in 'top', but I suppose it was ok).
>
> Now, after updating through buildworld, powerd doesn't scale the frequency
> anymore. My observations pointed out that the problem is that the CPU load
> is not detected correctly anymore:
> - I got three frequency steps: 575, 1150 and 2300 (correctly detected by
> dev.cpu.0.freq_levels while cpufreq module is loaded), but powerd scales
> down the frequency to the minimum, 575 then keeps it like that no matter of
> the load - dev.cpu.0.freq shows 575 and I got large build times because of
> it. To be able to use it fully, I have to kill powerd and set the frequency
> manually, or disable it at startup.
> - 'top -P' displays only one CPU and its load is 0% everything all the time,
> despite any load
> - I can't see anything in a taskmanager, the last time I tried with xfce and
> CURRENT (CURRENT had the same issue)
> - dev.cpu.0.cx_usage shows 100%.
> ---
>
> I'd like to find out the problem, why the CPU level is not detected
> correctly and how to fix this/report.
What architecture is it?
May you try setting machdep.lapic_allclocks to 1 in /boot/loader.conf?
May you report #dmesg | grep atrtc
Thanks,
Attilio
--
Peace can only be achieved by understanding - A. Einstein
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 07:15:22 +1000
From: Peter Jeremy <peter...@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Results of BIND RFC
To: per...@pluto.rain.com
Cc: mai...@bzerk.org, freebsd...@freebsd.org,
freebsd...@freebsd.org, freebs...@freebsd.org
Message-ID: <20100404211...@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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On 2010-Apr-03 19:01:52 -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
>Ruben de Groot <mai...@bzerk.org> wrote:
>> defer all questions about moving <X> out of the base system ...
>
>Last I knew, X was not _in_ the base system :)
Well, that's an excellent topic for another bikeshed - Should X be
made part of the base system? I know it is on OpenBSD.
:-) :-)
--
Peter Jeremy
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:26:56 -0400
From: Ken Smith <kens...@buffalo.edu>
Subject: 8.1-RELEASE Preliminary Schedule
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For those of you who are wondering when 8.1-RELEASE might arrive,
we have discussed it and come up with the initial target schedule.
The highlights are:
Freeze May 24th, 2010
BETA1 May 28th, 2010
RC1 June 11th, 2010
RC2 June 25th, 2010
RELEASE July 9th, 2010
As usual, that's subject to change but it's at least our current
target.
The schedule is posted to the Web:
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.1R/schedule.html
That page includes a link to the 8.1TODO wiki page:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/Releng/8.1TODO
Though we're just barely started so there really isn't anything
interesting there yet - so far it just has the schedule...
Thanks.
- --
Ken Smith
- - From there to here, from here to | kens...@buffalo.edu
there, funny things are everywhere. |
- Theodore Geisel |
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 05:57:30 +0300
From: Akephalos Akephalos <akephalos...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: CPU problems after 8.0-STABLE update
To: Attilio Rao <att...@freebsd.org>
Cc: freebsd...@freebsd.org, a...@icyb.net.ua
Message-ID:
<r2k1468a0871004041957pc...@mail.gmail.com>
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Thank you for your replies. Sadly, I must say that I currently don't have
the system installed at all so i won't be able to test the issue any more.
@Andriy: I checked dmesg for RTC (with grep -i) and is was not there. Among
the messages it seemed that the system detected my dual CPU type and stuff.
There was something containing 'rtc', possibly 'atrtc' what Attilio asked
for, but it's irrelevant as long as I don't remember the message - it didn't
seem to e an error.
@Attilio: my CPU is AMD Turion 64 X2. Because I don't have FreeBSD installed
any more, I can't tell you the report, I am very sorry, my computer was not
usable as a workstation (port-related) and I was forced to uninstall to try
something else.
I think the problem can be replicated on any computer with this processor,
it happened to me for two times, once updating to CURRENT and once to
STABLE, through buildkernel/world, hopefully someone else will be able to
provide the feedback.
Thank you!
Mihai
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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 21:18:44 +1200
From: Jonathan Chen <jo...@chen.org.nz>
Subject: IPFW and NAT woes on 8-STABLE
To: freebsd...@freebsd.org
Message-ID: <20100405091...@osiris.chen.org.nz>
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So,
I decided to csup my sources from Jan 18 2010 to something more recent
this weekend; but when I completed the upgrade, my IPFW and NAT
configuration didn't work anymore. I spent the better part of the day
making sure that:
1. the upgrade was correct
2. my hardware was good.
When I finally managed to revert the system source back to an earlier
snapshot (hard to do when I had no connectivity to the 'Net), my
configuration started working again. Has anyone else had the same
problem as I've been having, or did I just get the code at a bad time?
Cheers.
--
Jonathan Chen <jo...@chen.org.nz>
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"A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is
just as bad." - Bob Edwards
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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 12:45:34 +0300
From: Andriy Gapon <a...@icyb.net.ua>
Subject: Re: CPU problems after 8.0-STABLE update
To: Akephalos Akephalos <akephalos...@gmail.com>
Cc: Attilio Rao <att...@freebsd.org>, freebsd...@freebsd.org
Message-ID: <4BB9B13E...@icyb.net.ua>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
on 05/04/2010 05:57 Akephalos Akephalos said the following:
> Thank you for your replies. Sadly, I must say that I currently don't
> have the system installed at all so i won't be able to test the issue
> any more.
>
> @Andriy: I checked dmesg for RTC (with grep -i) and is was not there.
> Among the messages it seemed that the system detected my dual CPU type
> and stuff.
> There was something containing 'rtc', possibly 'atrtc' what Attilio
> asked for, but it's irrelevant as long as I don't remember the message -
> it didn't seem to e an error.
>
> @Attilio: my CPU is AMD Turion 64 X2. Because I don't have FreeBSD
> installed any more, I can't tell you the report, I am very sorry, my
> computer was not usable as a workstation (port-related) and I was forced
> to uninstall to try something else.
>
> I think the problem can be replicated on any computer with this
> processor, it happened to me for two times, once updating to CURRENT and
> once to STABLE, through buildkernel/world, hopefully someone else will
> be able to provide the feedback.
So we weren't fast enough and lost you :-(
Holidays, you know.
--
Andriy Gapon
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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 11:45:04 +0100
From: S Roberts <sta...@vickiandstacey.com>
Subject: Re: install touching mbr
To: Warren Block <wbl...@wonkity.com>, Jeremy Chadwick
<fre...@jdc.parodius.com>, freebsd...@freebsd.org
Message-ID: <20100405114504.00006188@unknown>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Hello,
On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 15:44:50 -0600 (MDT)
Warren Block <wbl...@wonkity.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Apr 2010, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 05:48:12PM -0300, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote:
> >> I just installed a 8.0R amd64 from memstick. when asked, I said to
> >> leave mbr untouched. when I rebooted, it was freebsd bootloader
> >> that was on control. this options is not what I think it should,
> >> or there is really a issue here ?
> >
> > I can confirm this behaviour. Someone may have broken something
> > when tinkering around in that part of sysinstall (since the
> > Standard vs. BootMgr options were moved around compared to previous
> > releases).
>
> Not sure how to repeat the bug, but it's been there at least a few
> months:
> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?alpine.BSF.2.00.0909262030060.13303
> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?58c737d70909262054k7c7b1402w4f9c902fdca2640c
>
Sooo.., which **IS** the correct option to leave the existing MBR
untouched???
Regards,
S Roberts
> -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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Message: 8
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 13:29:07 +0200 (CEST)
From: Maciej Jan Broniarz <gau...@gausus.net>
Subject: fault tolerant web servers on freebsd
To: freebsd-stable <freebsd...@freebsd.org>
Cc: freeb...@freebsd.org
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<1209800810.3386127046...@dagobah.intersec.pl>
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Hi All,
I am thinking about building a fault tolerant web servers running FreeBSD. The servers would be serving web sites using jails+apache+php+mysql.
Would anyone be so kind, as to give me some advice about building such a solution? I have read a lot about freebsd cluster, but it was focused on computing clusters, and not fault tolerant one.
If anyone has some experience with the issue, I'll be very grateful.
Best regards,
mjb
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