Cristian Bradiceanu

fpu – Onboard FPU
vme – Virtual Mode Extensions
de – Debugging Extensions
pse – Page Size Extensions
tsc – Time Stamp Counter
msr – Model-Specific Registers
pae – Physical Address Extensions
mce – Machine Check Architecture
cx8 – CMPXCHG8 instruction
apic – Onboard APIC
sep – SYSENTER/SYSEXIT
mtrr – Memory Type Range Registers
pge – Page Global Enable
mca – Machine Check Architecture
cmov – CMOV instructions (plus FCMOVcc, FCOMI with FPU)
pat – Page Attribute Table
pse36 – 36-bit PSEs
pn – Processor serial number
clflush – CLFLUSH instruction
dts – Debug Store
acpi – ACPI via MSR
mmx – Multimedia Extensions
fxsr – FXSAVE/FXRSTOR, CR4.OSFXSR
sse – SSE
sse2 – SSE2
ss – CPU self snoop
ht – Hyper-Threading
tm – Automatic clock control
ia64 – IA-64 processor
pbe – Pending Break Enable

syscall – SYSCALL/SYSRET
mp – MP Capable
nx – Execute Disable
mmxext – AMD MMX extensions
fxsr_opt – FXSAVE/FXRSTOR optimizations
pdpe1gb – GB pages
rdtscp – RDTSCP
lm – Long Mode (x86-64)
3dnowext – AMD 3DNow! extensions
3dnow – 3DNow!
k8 – Opteron, Athlon64
k7 – Athlon
constant_tsc – TSC ticks at a constant rate
up – smp kernel running on up
pebs – Precise-Event Based Sampling
bts – Branch Trace Store
nonstop_tsc – TSC does not stop in C states
pni – SSE-3
pclmulqdq – PCLMULQDQ instruction
dtes64 – 64-bit Debug Store
monitor – Monitor/Mwait support
ds_cpl – CPL Qual. Debug Store
vmx – Hardware virtualization
smx – Safer mode
est – Enhanced SpeedStep
tm2 – Thermal Monitor 2
ssse3 – Supplemental SSE-3
cid – Context ID
fma – Fused multiply-add
cx16 – CMPXCHG16B
xptr – Send Task Priority Messages
pdcm – Performance Capabilities
dca – Direct Cache Access
sse4_1 – SSE-4.1
sse4_2 – SSE-4.2
x2apic – x2APIC
aes – AES instructions
xsave – XSAVE/XRSTOR/XSETBV/XGETBV
avx – Advanced Vector Extensions
hypervisor – Running on a hypervisor
lahf_lm – LAHF/SAHF in long mode
cmp_legacy – If yes HyperThreading not valid
svm – Secure virtual machine
extapic – Extended APIC space
cr8legacy – CR8 in 32-bit mode
abm – Advanced bit manipulation
sse4a – SSE-4A
ibs – Instruction Based Sampling
sse5 – SSE-5
skinit – SKINIT/STGI instructions
wdt – Watchdog timer

I am still searching a reasonable-priced Linux Xen VPS located in EU (256 MB RAM, few GB storage).

I signed up with rsync.net for an off-site filesystem. Opted for geo-redundant version (automated nightly replication to other site) located in Zurich, Switzerland. Very fast speed from Europe and Qatar, good speed with US hosts. Very easy to use from Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Linux and Windows (rsync, ftp, scp, sftp, ssh, WebDAV). Direct integration in Finder, just use “Connect to Server” and enter the hostname address with https. On Linux and FreeBSD 6.x sshfs works like a charm. Easy to install on FreeBSD using ports, just cd /usr/ports/sysutils/fusefs-sshfs and run make install clean.

2.6.16.16 with CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIIMAGE=y and CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_SIL=y

ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00
ata2: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
ata2: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
ata2: no sense translation for status: 0x51
ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0x3/11/04
ata2: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
ata2: no sense translation for status: 0x51
ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0x3/11/04
ata2: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
ata2: no sense translation for status: 0x51
ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0x3/11/04
ata2: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
ata2: no sense translation for status: 0x51
ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0x3/11/04
ata2: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
ata2: no sense translation for status: 0x51
ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0x3/11/04
ata2: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
ata2: no sense translation for status: 0x51
ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0x3/11/04
ata2: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }

dmesg:

libata version 1.20 loaded.
sata_sil 0000:00:0c.0: version 0.9
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0c.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ
 11
ata1: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xD0802080 ctl 0xD080208A bmdma 0xD0802000 irq 11
ata2: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xD08020C0 ctl 0xD08020CA bmdma 0xD0802008 irq 11
ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113)
ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:746b 83:7f01 84:4023 85:7469 86:3c01 87:4023 88:407f
ata1: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 488397168 sectors: LBA48
ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100
scsi0 : sata_sil
ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113)
ata2: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:746b 83:7f01 84:4023 85:7469 86:3e01 87:4023 88:407f
ata2: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 488397168 sectors: LBA48
ata2: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100
scsi1 : sata_sil
  Vendor: ATA       Model: WDC WD2500KS-00M  Rev: 02.0
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
  Vendor: ATA       Model: WDC WD2500JS-55N  Rev: 10.0
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
SCSI device sda: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sda: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
 sda: sda1
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
SCSI device sdb: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sdb: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
 sdb: sdb1
sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb

ata2: no sense translation for status: 0x51
ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0x3/11/04
ata2: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
ata2: no sense translation for status: 0x51
ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0x3/11/04
ata2: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }

2.4.33-pre3 kernel, CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_SIL driver, EIO DM-8301R SATA RAID card:

libata version 1.20 loaded.
PCI(00:0c.0): version 0.9
ata1: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xD080C080 ctl 0xD080C08A bmdma 0xD080C000 irq 11
ata2: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xD080C0C0 ctl 0xD080C0CA bmdma 0xD080C008 irq 11
ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:746b 83:7f01 84:4023 85:7469 86:3c01 87:4023 88:407f
ata1: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 488397168 sectors: LBA48
ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100
ata2: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:746b 83:7f01 84:4023 85:7469 86:3e01 87:4023 88:407f
ata2: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 488397168 sectors: LBA48
ata2: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100
scsi0 : sata_sil
scsi1 : sata_sil
  Vendor: ATA       Model: WDC WD2500KS-00M  Rev: 02.0
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
  Vendor: ATA       Model: WDC WD2500JS-55N  Rev: 10.0
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0

Partial solution to DMA/write errors – BIOS upgrade:

http://www.siliconimage.com/search/searchresults.aspx?keyword=3112+bios

(4.2.76 at the time of writing)

Learned the hard way: NEVER COMPILE ip_conntrack into the Linux kernel…

The fourth opensource PDC (Primary Domain Controller) using samba, with a openldap backend for storing users, groups and computers. It can replace a Microsoft Windows Domain Controller.

Provides central authentication services, file and printer sharing for Windows and Unix clients. Local logon credentials are taken from LDAP, too.

Tested on fedora core 4 and slackware 10.2.

Just got two Asus WL-500g!

dmesg:

CPU revision is: 00024000
Enabling BCM4710A0 cache workarounds.
Primary instruction cache 8kB, physically tagged, 2-way, linesize 16 bytes.
Primary data cache 4kB, 2-way, linesize 16 bytes.
Linux version 2.4.30 (wbx@ux-2y01) (gcc version 3.4.4) #1 Wed Sep 14 17:49:26 CEST 2005
Setting the PFC value as 0x15
Determined physical RAM map:
memory: 01000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
On node 0 totalpages: 4096
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 0 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: root=/dev/mtdblock2 rootfstype=squashfs,jffs2 init=/etc/preinit noinitrd console=ttyS0,115200
CPU: BCM4710 rev 0 at 125 MHz
Using 62.400 MHz high precision timer.
!unable to setup serial console!
Calibrating delay loop... 82.94 BogoMIPS
Memory: 14296k/16384k available (1390k kernel code, 2088k reserved, 100k data, 80k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Checking for 'wait' instruction... unavailable.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: Fixing up bus 0
PCI: Fixing up bridge
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 01:00.0 to 64
PCI: Fixing up bus 1
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
JFFS2 version 2.1. (C) 2001 Red Hat, Inc., designed by Axis Communications AB.
Squashfs 2.1-r2 (released 2004/12/15) (C) 2002-2004 Phillip Lougher
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
Software Watchdog Timer: 0.05, timer margin: 60 sec
Amd/Fujitsu Extended Query Table v1.1 at 0x0040
Physically mapped flash: Swapping erase regions for broken CFI table.
number of CFI chips: 1
cfi_cmdset_0002: Disabling fast programming due to code brokenness.
Flash device: 0x400000 at 0x1fc00000
Creating 5 MTD partitions on "Physically mapped flash":
0x00000000-0x00040000 : "pmon"
0x00040000-0x003f0000 : "linux"
0x000ba4b0-0x001c0000 : "rootfs"
mtd: partition "rootfs" doesn't start on an erase block boundary -- force read-only
0x003f0000-0x00400000 : "nvram"
0x001c0000-0x003f0000 : "OpenWrt"
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 2048)
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (5953 buckets, 5953 max) - 320 bytes per conntrack
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Ethernet Bridge 008 for NET4.0
802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 Ben Greear
All bugs added by David S. Miller
VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly.
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 80k freed
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
Algorithmics/MIPS FPU Emulator v1.5
diag boardtype: 0000041a
jffs2.bbc: SIZE compression mode activated.
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:02.0 to 64
eth0: Broadcom BCM47xx 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Controller 3.90.23.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:08.0 to 64
eth1: Broadcom BCM47xx 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Controller 3.90.23.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 01:02.0 to 64
PCI: Enabling device 01:02.0 (0004 -> 0006)
eth2: Broadcom BCM4320 802.11 Wireless Controller 3.90.37.0
Universal TUN/TAP device driver 1.5 (C)1999-2002 Maxim Krasnyansky
device eth0 entered promiscuous mode


eth0 – LAN
eth1 – WAN
eth2 – WLAN

New production DNS server is up since Saturday night.

It runs PowerDNS with a MySQL 4.1 backend on FreeBSD 5.4. Complete with web (SSL) administration and statistics.

So far:

Uptime: 18 hours Queries/second, 1, 5, 10 minute averages: 6.4, 5.12, 5.15. Max queries/second: 40.1
Cache hitrate, 1, 5, 10 minute averages: 24%, 22%, 20%
Backend query cache hitrate, 1, 5, 10 minute averages: 63%, 62%, 62%
Backend query load, 1, 5, 10 minute averages: 10, 8.2, 8.59. Max queries/second: 26.7
Total queries: 313999. Question/answer latency: 0.678ms