Re: ips.ko load sequence for IBM ServerRaid 5i

2003-09-05 Thread Geoff Buckingham
I know this is the already the second place you have been directed to, but you may have more luck in freebsd-scsi. (cc'd there) On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 02:42:30PM -1000, Richard Puga wrote: > I do have the ips driver working with the IBM ServerRaid 5i. However it > only works if I boot > of an I

IBM HS20 blade and 5.1 release problems (USB)

2003-08-28 Thread Geoff Buckingham
I have come across the following issues with 5.1 and the IBM blades. They are likely to apply to 4.x too. The HS20 has a serial port, but it is only available as a header on board. The HS20 also has an AT keyboard controller but that seems not to be physically available anywhere. IBMs BladeCen

Installing on IBM BladeCenter HS20 (usb keyboard)

2003-07-17 Thread Geoff Buckingham
HS 20 is IBMs Serverwork GC-LE dual Xeon blade, it managment chassis contains usb floppy, cdrom, and usb to PS2 adapter for keyboard and mouse, these are only ever avilable to one blade at a time. I had a quick try to install from 5.1 iso this fails as the BTX loader can not see the CD once loade

Vpd device

2003-06-10 Thread Geoff Buckingham
Can anyone tell me if the vpd driver functions for IBM x Series servers as well as thinkpads? -- -- Visit our Internet site at http://www.reuters.com Get closer to the financial markets with Reuters Messaging - for more informa

Re: Threads and my new job.

1999-11-24 Thread Geoff Buckingham
On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 01:31:44PM +, Nick Hilliard wrote: > > Why do we need to smite the Linux database servers? With threads in their > > current state they already outperform Linux's native threads by ~50x for > > things like sending mail. I would assume that the differences in database

Re: AMRD (MegaRAID) BIOS rev another other questions

1999-10-26 Thread Geoff Buckingham
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 11:06:15AM -0400, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 26 October 1999 at 11:26:47 +0100, Geoff Buckingham wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 09:58:11AM -0600, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> > >> Indeed. It's quite easy to put all cylinder groups on

Re: AMRD (MegaRAID) BIOS rev another other questions

1999-10-26 Thread Geoff Buckingham
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 09:58:11AM -0600, Greg Lehey wrote: > > Indeed. It's quite easy to put all cylinder groups on a single > spindle; I've seen reports of up to 80% degradation under these > circumstances. > > > Where sequential read/write performance is not critical you can stripe at > > c

Re: AMRD (MegaRAID) BIOS rev another other questions

1999-10-22 Thread Geoff Buckingham
> MachineMB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec > %CPU >40 16341 99.1 20746 38.3 20307 52.7 14187 100.0 94033 98.2 > 9744.2 99.8 > > v.s. > > Seeker 1...Seeker 2...Seeker 3...start 'em...done...done...done... > ---Sequential Output--

Re: Q3 test

1999-05-04 Thread Geoff Buckingham
In article , Kenneth Wayne Culver writes: > As we probably all know, Q3 test is out for Linux. I tested it on FreeBSD, > with great results. I just downloaded the correct glide libraries from the > site suggested by Carmac (Q3 programmer) and installed those, and then I > added the appropr

Re: solid NFS patch #6 avail for -current - need testers files)

1999-04-22 Thread Geoff Buckingham
Previously on Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 12:31:03PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: : : I think the existing release schedule is pretty good. Any faster and : we might as well not have two branches at all. We really need a : -current branch in order to make and test radical changes, and the :

Re: panics & deciphering VMSTAT output

1999-02-15 Thread Geoff Buckingham
Previously on Sun, Feb 14, 1999 at 09:37:01PM -0500, tc...@staff.circle.net wrote: : I've been trying to track down a regular, but not : manually reproducible crash in 3.0-BETA (19990205). : : I can't get a crashdump due to a DSCHECK negative : number bug. I think my swap space of 3+GB is : too

Re: Scsi chatty'ness can be good..

1999-02-02 Thread Geoff Buckingham
Hopefully this isn't becoming a democracy, but just in case, the verbose reporting is a valued feature here. -- Geoff Buckingham Demon Internet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: "JAIL" code headed for -current.

1999-01-27 Thread Geoff Buckingham
Previously on Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 11:48:16AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: : : : If there is interest, this code will be merged to 3.1 as well. : I would like to express interest at this point. -- Geoff Buckingham Demon Internet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with

Re: KVA/KVM shortages

1999-01-25 Thread Geoff Buckingham
Previously on Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 06:09:41PM +, Geoff Buckingham wrote: : On tuesday I crashed a machine after it ran out of kvm. (dual PII 400 with : 768MB RAM) poking about in the code adding: : : options "VM_KMEM_SIZE=(24*1024*1024)"

Re: KVA/KVM shortages

1999-01-22 Thread Geoff Buckingham
Previously on Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 01:53:44PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: : > On tuesday I crashed a machine after it ran out of kvm. (dual PII 400 with : > 768MB RAM) poking about in the code adding: : > : > options "VM_KMEM_SIZE=(24*1024*1024)" : > options "VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX

KVA/KVM shortages

1999-01-21 Thread Geoff Buckingham
On tuesday I crashed a machine after it ran out of kvm. (dual PII 400 with 768MB RAM) poking about in the code adding: options "VM_KMEM_SIZE=(24*1024*1024)" options "VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX=(128*1024*1024)" seems like a good way foward. Is it? -- GeoffB To Unsubscribe: send mail to m