From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 16 17:33:18 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D29D16A4CE for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 17:33:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp3.server.rpi.edu (smtp3.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 495D643D1F for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 17:33:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp3.server.rpi.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i1H1XHm1032678; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 20:33:17 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20040215165913.M30161@grogged.dyndns.org> References: <20040215060047.GA62840@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <20040215165913.M30161@grogged.dyndns.org> Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 20:33:16 -0500 To: matt , sparc64@freebsd.org From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) Subject: Problem with DHCLIENT vs 64-bit time_t X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 01:33:18 -0000 At 5:13 PM -0600 2/15/04, matt wrote: > > Anyhow, here is the strangeness. After compiling/installing > the 64 bit time_t world/kernel, I'm getting some serious lag > on this machine. When logged in via ssh, the shell freezes > every few seconds for a brief period of time. ... And in a later message, he wrote: > Killing dhclient brought things back to normal - and yes, I > did remove /var/db/dhcp.leases (had to, dhclient wouldn't > work until I did). My kernel was just a run of the mill > GENERIC, no changes. Well, there does seem to be some kind of problem here, but I don't know what to do about it just yet. In my earlier testing, I did do some testing with a dhcp-configured machine, but not a lot of it. After reading the above report, I took my system which was already upgraded to 64-bTT, and which also already has all of it's ports recompiled for 64-bTT. I cvsup'ed the base system, and did a complete new buildworld/installworld cycle with 64-bTT. So, it is a system which has successfully gone through two consecutive 64-bTT builds without error. I have not run into any other problems with this upgraded system. I tried configuring it for DHCP, rebooted it, and the startup hung at the point of starting dhclient. I ctrl-c'ed out of the hang. Once the system was up, I tried running dhclient again. Again it hung. In my case it's hanging before it gets any information (hme0 is not configured at all). I assume that in Matt's case, it did get some dhcp address, because he said he was ssh'ed into it. This testing reminded me that dhclient did sometimes hang on me in my earlier testing, but I forgot about that when I had some reboots where it worked. That's about as much as I know about the problem so far. Does anyone have some time to look into this? -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu