Subject: Re: Compile PF in kernel on Cobalt is no go on 3.0
To: Daniel Ouellet <daniel@presscom.net>
From: Alex Pelts <alexp@broadcom.com>
List: port-cobalt
Date: 01/10/2006 13:56:12
I have 128+16 memory in my Qube. 128 is in the first slot and 16 is in
the second. The memory is good as I had no problems with 1.6.2 at all. I
purchased this memory from a good source. I deal with them all the time
and they always sold me an excellent memory. I can give a reference if
someone is interested.
I hope this works out for you because for me it is hit and miss.
Regards,
Alex
Daniel Ouellet wrote:
> All servers are running one applications each, but in productions and
> have a good amount of load.
>
> Some run qmail, others djbdns, some ftp, some web service, some many
> perl scripts, some mrtg, one nagio, I even have one running MySQL, but
> that took for ever to compile it, two days!
>
> All of them are making it to 3.0, obviously, they are not all there yet
> for sure. Does take time to do so.
>
> Are you sure your memory is good? It will panic with bad one.
>
> But I will make sure to put some under a very good load and report back
> on the outcome.
>
> One thing to be said, all my Cobalt are RaQ 2, however. I had issue with
> one before that only had 16 Mb and crash, but putting only 32Mb took
> care of it and is not running for well over a year none stop.
>
>
>
> Alex Pelts wrote:
>
>> I do not have PF or SCSI or RIDFrame. This is the last panic I got:
>>
>> "panic: lockmgr: no context".
>>
>> I am not even sure what was going on as it happened at night. It is
>> kindof annoying for the box to panic out of the blue. Don't get me
>> wrong, I am not complaining but IMHO 3.0 is not ready to be a release
>> at least on the qube.
>>
>> What are you running on your qubes? I am running apache with php and
>> ssh . That is basically it. I also ftp sometimes in to the qube to
>> upload pictures and such and download backups. Under 2.1 ftp downloads
>> caused panic. Under 3.0 http server is causing panic. I am not so sure
>> what the "lockmgr" is.
>>
>> The load of my server is very light. I have maybe 200 hits on a good
>> day. Mostly it is idle.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Alex
>>
>>
>> Daniel Ouellet wrote:
>>
>>> So far I can't say I have any issues.
>>>
>>> But again, on all my boxes and for years, I never do any upgrades.
>>>
>>> I always do a clean install and it takes care of any problems I have
>>> seen otherwise.
>>>
>>> In a few weeks, I can report more success or failures and I will have
>>> more then about 30 boxes of various ages running 3.0 with PF enable
>>> in kernel and without the RAIDFrame and SCSI stuff. So far every time
>>> I took that out, it resulted in increase stability.
>>>
>>> YMMV, but that's from my side and not only one one box, but many of
>>> them!
>>>
>>> Daniel
>>>
>>> Alex Pelts wrote:
>>>
>>>> I installed 3.0 from the working qube by unpacking, not from restore
>>>> cd. I have random crashes when http server is accessed by more than
>>>> 1 client at the same time. Kernel is custom compiled to remove the
>>>> things that I don't use.
>>>>
>>>> I am thinking of going back to 1.6.2 which was a very stable version
>>>> at least for me. 2.1 was even less stable than 3.0 and I do not see
>>>> any benefits as far as performance goes. I will probably wait until
>>>> 3.0 matures to move my qube to it again.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Alex
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Claudio Leiva S wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi:
>>>>>
>>>>> Any issue installing 3.0 on a Qube 2, I have the process with the
>>>>> CD done but when it restart it get stuck on "Starting Up".
>>>>>
>>>>> Any ideas, the specs of my box are.
>>>>>
>>>>> 256 mb
>>>>> 120 Gb hard drive
>>>>>
>>>>> Unfortunatelly I dont have a serial connection with the box..
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Claudio Leiva S.
>>>>> Las Vegas, Nevada.
>>>>> USA
>>>>> http://cleiva.no-ip.org
>>>>> (Powered by NetBSD for Cobalt)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Ouellet"
>>>>> <daniel@presscom.net>
>>>>> To: <port-cobalt@netbsd.org>
>>>>> Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 12:06 AM
>>>>> Subject: Compile PF in kernel on Cobalt is no go on 3.0
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> I tried a few times to enable PF and so far, I can't even compile
>>>>>> the kernel with it enable.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As far as I can see, only these needs to be commented out:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> pseudo-device pf # PF packet filter
>>>>>> pseudo-device pflog # PF log if
>>>>>>
>>>>>> as by default it is not in the GENERIC kernel.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have no problem making any changes to the kernel and get it to
>>>>>> compile, but this two line to turn it up as far as I can see,
>>>>>> result in no go.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I wish I had the error to put here, but as it takes a long time to
>>>>>> compile, I did it in the background and sing off, so, I didn't see
>>>>>> the errors the last time, but no matter what variation I do, still
>>>>>> no go.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Anyone able to do so yet? Am I forgetting to do something else as
>>>>>> well.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Also, in default there isn't a PF device in the /dev, so I use
>>>>>> makedev to create it, not sure that it is the proper way for this
>>>>>> one however.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any clue to offer?
>>>>>>
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