Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered "highly experimental"

2011-08-06 Thread b. f.
Peter Holm wrote: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:57:16PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 06:20:03PM +0200, Peter Holm wrote: > > > Got a "panic: Not a vnode object" quite fast: > > > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~pho/stress/log/kostik441.txt > > > > Ah, yes, this is an as

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered "highly experimental"

2011-07-01 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Fri, 01.07.2011 at 11:33:42 -0400, Sean M. Collins wrote: > On 7/1/11 2:42 AM, Stefan Bethke wrote: > > The box shouldn't wedge in this situation. If tmpfs can create > > a memory starvation situation on the kernel level, it is not > production ready. > > The full message was "swap zone exhau

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered "highly experimental"

2011-07-01 Thread Sean M. Collins
On 7/1/11 2:42 AM, Stefan Bethke wrote: > The box shouldn't wedge in this situation. If tmpfs can create > a memory starvation situation on the kernel level, it is not production ready. The full message was "swap zone exhausted, increase kern.maxswzone" - I guess that actual swap wasn't exhauste

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered "highly experimental"

2011-06-30 Thread Stefan Bethke
Am 01.07.2011 um 07:01 schrieb Sean M. Collins: > Ugh - bonnie++ creates a file that is twice the size of available > memory, and I have 16G of swap available. While ZFS already had most of > the memory wired for ARC. I shouldn't be surprised that the box was > printing "swap zone exhausted" The

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered "highly experimental"

2011-06-30 Thread Sean M. Collins
Ugh - bonnie++ creates a file that is twice the size of available memory, and I have 16G of swap available. While ZFS already had most of the memory wired for ARC. I shouldn't be surprised that the box was printing "swap zone exhausted" I'm an idiot. Can we replace the warning message with one abo

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered "highly experimental"

2011-06-30 Thread Sean M. Collins
> Maybe i'm missing something but creating/removing large number of files > in one directory on tmpfs was very slow for me. That was long ago and > ZFS was in so i'll try to retest... I decided to torture test tmpfs with bonnie++ on one of my machines and the machine wedged. I can ping it but that

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered "highly experimental"

2011-06-29 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
23.06.2011 19:31, David O'Brien wrote: Does anyone object to this patch? David Wolfskill and I have run TMPFS on a number of machines for two years with no problems. I may have missed something, but I'm not aware of any serious PRs on TMPFS either. Maybe i'm missing something but creating/re

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered "highly experimental"

2011-06-28 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 10:42:07AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > Hi KIB, > Thanks for the list of issues you know about -- I don't believe we have > PRs covering those. > > > On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:21:53PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: > > - I believe Peter Holm has more test cases that fails

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered "highly experimental"

2011-06-27 Thread Eir Nym
On 27 June 2011 17:42, David O'Brien wrote: > Hi KIB, > Thanks for the list of issues you know about -- I don't believe we have > PRs covering those. > > > On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:21:53PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: >> - I believe Peter Holm has more test cases that fails with tmpfs. He >> wo

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered "highly experimental"

2011-06-27 Thread David O'Brien
Hi KIB, Thanks for the list of issues you know about -- I don't believe we have PRs covering those. On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:21:53PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: > - I believe Peter Holm has more test cases that fails with tmpfs. He > would have more details. I somewhat remember some panic on

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered "highly experimental"

2011-06-25 Thread Peter Holm
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:57:16PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 06:20:03PM +0200, Peter Holm wrote: > > Got a "panic: Not a vnode object" quite fast: > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~pho/stress/log/kostik441.txt > > Ah, yes, this is an assertion that was added in the

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered "highly experimental"

2011-06-24 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 06:20:03PM +0200, Peter Holm wrote: > Got a "panic: Not a vnode object" quite fast: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~pho/stress/log/kostik441.txt Ah, yes, this is an assertion that was added in the r209702. http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/misc/tmpfs.7.patch pgpfCkfwvYyso.pg

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered "highly experimental"

2011-06-24 Thread Peter Holm
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 05:50:43PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 03:21:05PM +0200, Peter Holm wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 02:06:27PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:30:16PM +0200, Peter Holm wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:21

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered "highly experimental"

2011-06-24 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 03:21:05PM +0200, Peter Holm wrote: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 02:06:27PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:30:16PM +0200, Peter Holm wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:21:53PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 09:31

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered "highly experimental"

2011-06-24 Thread Peter Holm
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 02:06:27PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:30:16PM +0200, Peter Holm wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:21:53PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 09:31:09AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > > > > Does anyone object to this

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered "highly experimental"

2011-06-24 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:30:16PM +0200, Peter Holm wrote: > On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:21:53PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 09:31:09AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > > > Does anyone object to this patch? > > > > > > David Wolfskill and I have run TMPFS on a number of

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered "highly experimental"

2011-06-24 Thread Peter Holm
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:21:53PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: > On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 09:31:09AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > > Does anyone object to this patch? > > > > David Wolfskill and I have run TMPFS on a number of machines for two > > years with no problems. > > > > I may have misse

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered "highly experimental"

2011-06-23 Thread Gleb Kurtsou
On (23/06/2011 20:44), Olivier Smedts wrote: > 2011/6/23 Alexander V. Chernikov : > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Matthew Jacob wrote: > >> > >> I gave up on using it after a brief try earlier this year. I can't > >> remember the details, but it did lock up my amd64 sy

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered "highly experimental"

2011-06-23 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 09:31:09AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > Does anyone object to this patch? > > David Wolfskill and I have run TMPFS on a number of machines for two > years with no problems. > > I may have missed something, but I'm not aware of any serious PRs on > TMPFS either. > > > In

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered "highly experimental"

2011-06-23 Thread Matthew Jacob
I may have missed something, but I'm not aware of any serious PRs on TMPFS either. There was some issues with sendfile(2) and mmap(2) causing kernel hangs in some cases. vim triggers such hangs for me. However, those problems were fixed and MFCed (afair). Can you sway when? __

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered "highly experimental"

2011-06-23 Thread Olivier Smedts
2011/6/23 Alexander V. Chernikov : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Matthew Jacob wrote: >> >> I gave up on using it after a brief try earlier this year. I can't >> remember the details, but it did lock up my amd64 system. >> >> On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, David O'Brien wrote: >> >>>

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered "highly experimental"

2011-06-23 Thread Chris Rees
On 23 June 2011 17:31, David O'Brien wrote: > Does anyone object to this patch? > > David Wolfskill and I have run TMPFS on a number of machines for two > years with no problems. > > I may have missed something, but I'm not aware of any serious PRs on > TMPFS either. > > > Index: tmpfs_vfsops.c >

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered "highly experimental"

2011-06-23 Thread Craig Rodrigues
Hi, Sounds good to me. The tmpfs(5) man page should be patched also. -- Craig Rodrigues rodr...@crodrigues.org On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 9:31 AM, David O'Brien wrote: > Does anyone object to this patch? > > David Wolfskill and I have run TMPFS on a number of machines for two > years with no pro

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered "highly experimental"

2011-06-23 Thread Alexander V. Chernikov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Jacob wrote: > > I gave up on using it after a brief try earlier this year. I can't > remember the details, but it did lock up my amd64 system. > > On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, David O'Brien wrote: > >> Does anyone object to this patch? >> >> David

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered "highly experimental"

2011-06-23 Thread Alexander Best
On Thu Jun 23 11, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > I gave up on using it after a brief try earlier this year. I can't > remember the details, but it did lock up my amd64 system. > > On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, David O'Brien wrote: > > >Does anyone object to this patch? > > > >David Wolfskill and I have run TM

Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered "highly experimental"

2011-06-23 Thread Matthew Jacob
I gave up on using it after a brief try earlier this year. I can't remember the details, but it did lock up my amd64 system. On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, David O'Brien wrote: Does anyone object to this patch? David Wolfskill and I have run TMPFS on a number of machines for two years with no problem

Re: Thoughts about ports freeze

2002-12-19 Thread parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Sid Carter thusly... > > > On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 07:51:48 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dirk Meyer) >said: > > Dirk> I have 29 updates/committs in the queue, waiting for the freeze is over. > Dirk> No offense, I know the problems, but I think the freeze

Re: Thoughts about ports freeze

2002-12-19 Thread Sid Carter
> On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 07:51:48 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dirk Meyer) said: Dirk> Maxim Sobolev wrote, >> Perhaps we could just branch out current state of the tree and unlock >> it for normal use, while allow to commit onto the RE branch only after Dirk> Moving the tags can giv

Re: (thoughts on) the mktemp() patch.

2000-06-13 Thread David Gilbert
> "Dan" == Dan Moschuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dan> I've avoided this conversation, but what would everyone think of Dan> a tmpfs type of solution with a security minded design? I took a Dan> brief look at phk's md driver, and it could be quite easily Dan> molded to do what I want to do.

Re: (thoughts on) the mktemp() patch.

2000-06-13 Thread Dan Moschuk
| > | > Maybe the soltion is to think out of the box. Maybe temporary | > filestore should be a more official OS service. Race conditions would | > be far less common if the OS itself was managing the namespace. | > | > You might even expand the capability somewhat. Provide process local, |

Re: (thoughts on) the mktemp() patch.

2000-06-12 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
David Gilbert wrote: > > Maybe the soltion is to think out of the box. Maybe temporary > filestore should be a more official OS service. Race conditions would > be far less common if the OS itself was managing the namespace. > > You might even expand the capability somewhat. Provide process l

Re: Thoughts...

2000-01-16 Thread Sascha Schumann
On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 09:26:08PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :> > :> There are lots of ways of syncing up that do not require sending the > :> entire image over the network every time. Syncing is something you could > :> do with an NFS mount quite easily, combined with somet

Re: Thoughts...

2000-01-15 Thread Matthew Dillon
:> :> There are lots of ways of syncing up that do not require sending the :> entire image over the network every time. Syncing is something you could :> do with an NFS mount quite easily, combined with something like cpdup :> (see /usr/ports/sysutils/cpdup). : :we use rdist on