From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 18 09:28:30 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C200C16A417 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:28:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from uspoerlein@gmail.com) Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com (fk-out-0910.google.com [209.85.128.184]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AC8F13C4CC for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:28:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from uspoerlein@gmail.com) Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b27so787295fka.11 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:28:29 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=3RY/nekXzhbNk+B0BvbYqGsoyeAl66yu8snxSuLpdVM=; b=PUVa/5XfbO46g0nWTkVIex9Zo1Dl5qRn1YTGmKtTvOCvHODb1zu2GDnorz03pFrDg67LDkDa5d/QHsmdVdDXUX6YX5Wb/0vrABybmZSfe4qZaD/NHGO/mcY+SF+JFuh/Cpvn6q8RmBXX5zlXZAjnfBDp/3BdLwdrC8LddU0cV2Y= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=bjTE4vB+QgwVfZTNxjjutHkI4tDxoBTH7ZXyg0vZzhLyPXKYgQ1hhmmmiWGVKZddH7TdbluUVOx5oAusZZnJbr1B9H68gOww7x/Mfht9FJfMJ2H9bUcxUpiovTEInlR187rh+T1VublLCLft49b+a9ZBHHJw7ubjGEkV2YSXfpQ= Received: by 10.78.123.4 with SMTP id v4mr4270521huc.18.1200648508535; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:28:28 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.168.5 with HTTP; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:28:28 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <7ad7ddd90801180128m114b0491p7d8f44ae7b1b4cb7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:28:28 +0000 From: "Ulrich Spoerlein" To: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Johan_Str=F6m?=" In-Reply-To: <73ED6B7D-49C5-4C69-8BE2-27F0BDAA246E@stromnet.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <39FB5CF3-F2F4-401B-9D6D-7796608152E5@ish.com.au> <4FF9842D-ADC9-4A99-9DC4-E0FE1CC9CDCF@stromnet.se> <20080116222729.GB1529@roadrunner.spoerlein.net> <134BD86C-19CF-42A7-9190-FAD3BB564A06@stromnet.se> <7ad7ddd90801170030l790810b5r5bb156e3cda286b1@mail.gmail.com> <73ED6B7D-49C5-4C69-8BE2-27F0BDAA246E@stromnet.se> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup solution suggestions [ggated] X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:28:30 -0000 On Jan 18, 2008 9:11 AM, Johan Str=F6m wrote: > Your no,barely, bad hell no seems to fit pretty good.. I did some > testing during the night with the above (non-production) setup. > What I did was doing some rsyncing over the night: > > while true ; do > echo "`date` Clearing vmail" >> logfile > rm -rf vmail > echo "`date` Starting rsync" >> logfile > rsync -vr /usr/var/vmail . |tee -a logfile > echo "`date` Rsync finished " >> logfile > done > > I started this at ~02.0. The results? A freshly rebooted 6.2 (6.2- > RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p6 #0: Fri Jul 27 15:47:50 UTC 2007) > box in the morning.. > [...] > What I dont have is a coredump, judging from dmesg -a savecore wasnt > even run.. running it now, 5 hours later, didnt find any cores. > > The other end (7.0 server) wasnt affected at all. > > Not realy sure what it had been doing, because looking at my > bandwidth graphs from the switch, nothing was done at all.. It didnt > even go through one iteration of rsync... ~7.5k files/directorys > seems to have been transfered, then the log doesnt say more. But > according to the BW graph, after ~03.00 no traffic was sent at all... > > Some known bug with 6.2? There was some ggatec problems with TCP and/or sockets, I think they have been mostly resolved post-6.2. If you want to pursue this further (it *would* be a cool setup, no doubt) I'd suggest three things: - Update to 6.3 - Leave GELI out of the loop for now (only do ggate, with random data perha= ps) - Build a kernel *without* options PREEMPTION hth, Uli