Re: SU+J Lost files after a power failure

2013-10-14 Thread Charles Swiger
On Oct 14, 2013, at 11:33 AM, CeDeROM cede...@tlen.pl wrote: On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On 10/14/2013 6:16 PM, CeDeROM wrote: Isn't there Journal to prevent and reverse such damage? Unlike other journaling filesystems, UFS+J only protects the

Re: SU+J Lost files after a power failure

2013-10-14 Thread Charles Swiger
Hi-- On Oct 14, 2013, at 11:51 AM, Daniel Feenberg feenb...@nber.org wrote: This discussion skirts the critical issue - are files that are not open for writing endangered? No description of the uses of journaling can be considered informative if it doesn't address that explicitly. As a naive

Re: SU+J Lost files after a power failure

2013-10-14 Thread Charles Swiger
On Oct 14, 2013, at 12:41 PM, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 11:48:18 -0700 Charles Swiger wrote: Yes. Without journalling, you'd normally perform the full timeconsuming fsck in the foreground. Journalling removes the need for the background fsck which only

Re: Excessive bounces

2013-08-26 Thread Charles Swiger
Hi-- On Aug 26, 2013, at 2:03 PM, Harald Weis ha...@free.fr wrote: Hi All, My membership to this list has been disabled due to excessive bounces. Could somebody please tell me how to stop these bounces in the future ? Probably, but without the details it's not possible to give specific

Re: copying milllions of small files and millions of dirs

2013-08-15 Thread Charles Swiger
On Aug 15, 2013, at 11:13 AM, aurfalien aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a faster way to copy files over NFS? Probably. Currently breaking up a simple rsync over 7 or so scripts which copies 22 dirs having ~500,000 dirs or files each. There's a maximum useful concurrency which depends on

Re: copying milllions of small files and millions of dirs

2013-08-15 Thread Charles Swiger
On Aug 15, 2013, at 11:37 AM, aurfalien aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: On Aug 15, 2013, at 11:26 AM, Charles Swiger wrote: On Aug 15, 2013, at 11:13 AM, aurfalien aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a faster way to copy files over NFS? Probably. Ok, thanks for the specifics. You're most

Re: copying milllions of small files and millions of dirs

2013-08-15 Thread Charles Swiger
[ ...combining replies for brevity... ] On Aug 15, 2013, at 1:02 PM, Frank Leonhardt fra...@fjl.co.uk wrote: I'm reading all this with interest. The first thing I'd have tried would be tar (and probably netcat) but I'm a probably bit of a dinosaur. (If someone wants to buy me some really big

Re: Purpose of /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg?

2013-07-16 Thread Charles Swiger
Hi-- On Jul 16, 2013, at 9:57 AM, Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote: What is the purpose of /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg? It holds old versions of shared libraries which were once used by installed ports. As far as I can see, in a properly organised system, all the shared libraries in

Re: to gmirror or to ZFS

2013-07-16 Thread Charles Swiger
Hi-- On Jul 16, 2013, at 10:33 AM, Johan Hendriks joh.hendr...@gmail.com wrote: [ ... ] I would us a zfs for the os. I have a couple of servers that did not survive a power failure with gmirror. The problems i had was when the power failed one disk was in a rebuilding state and then when the

Re: to gmirror or to ZFS

2013-07-16 Thread Charles Swiger
Hi-- On Jul 16, 2013, at 11:27 AM, Johan Hendriks joh.hendr...@gmail.com wrote: Well, don't do that. :-) When the server reboots because of a powerfailure at night, then it boots. Then it starts to rebuild the mirror on its own, and later the fsck kicks in. Not much i can do about it.

Re: Troubleshooting a gmirror disk marked broken

2013-06-27 Thread Charles Swiger
Hi-- On Jun 26, 2013, at 7:38 PM, Nikola Pavlović n...@riseup.net wrote: [ ... ] At the moment I'm attaching smartctl -a results for both disks (ad4 was marked broken). As I'm completely useless in deciphering smartctl results (apart from being thought by experience to pretty much ignore(tm)

Re: Troubleshooting a gmirror disk marked broken

2013-06-27 Thread Charles Swiger
Hi-- On Jun 27, 2013, at 9:58 AM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Charles Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: If you haven't rebuilt the mirror already, running a full disk read scan against both drives (ie, via dd if=/dev/ad4 of=/dev/null bs=1m

Re: Should I move to amd64 ?

2013-05-30 Thread Charles Swiger
Hi-- On May 30, 2013, at 10:19 AM, Michael Gass mg...@csbsju.edu wrote: I am currently using a 9.1-RELEASE with an i386 install. The hardware is a core 2 duo with 2 GB of RAM. My video card is an ati radeon hd 2400 xt. Things work fine. Would I gain anything by starting over and doing an

Re: RES column in top(1) output

2013-05-21 Thread Charles Swiger
On May 21, 2013, at 11:03 AM, Dmitry Sivachenko trtrmi...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Can you please explain me the meaning of RES column in top(1) output: as far as I understand from man-page, it is resident portion of the process, that is the amount of memory process takes from RAM. Yes,

Re: Home WiFi Router with pfSense or m0n0wall?

2013-04-24 Thread Charles Swiger
Hi-- On Apr 24, 2013, at 1:53 PM, Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.com wrote: This is along the lines of what I was thinking. I am my own CA and can generate certs that no one else has the private keys to. So can someone who does not run their own CA...? The problem with buying certs from

Re: Profiling a dlopened library

2013-04-18 Thread Charles Swiger
Hi-- On Apr 18, 2013, at 11:21 AM, Niklaus nikl...@gmail.com wrote: How do i profile a library which is dlopened from an executable. The executable and the library are compiled with -g using gcc . Can somone tell me tool that would profile it at runtime. For gprof-style profiling, you'll

Re: Login class and limit

2012-12-06 Thread Charles Swiger
Hi-- On Dec 6, 2012, at 6:32 AM, Vagner vag...@bsdway.ru wrote: Hi all! I need help configuring limits for users at FreeBSD 8.3. I set next options and parametrs at login.conf(5): [ … ] # sudo -u daemon limits Resource limits (current): cputime infinity secs but: # su

Re: free memory keeps going down on 5.4-release

2006-11-06 Thread Charles Swiger
On Nov 6, 2006, at 12:22 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Nov 06), Roselyn Lee said: Does freebsd use memory for disk caching that is not accounted for in these stats? Yes, free memory is used as cache. As Free decreases, you will see Inact, Cache and Buf increase. Yep. What

Re: SWAP priority

2006-10-02 Thread Charles Swiger
On Oct 2, 2006, at 2:06 PM, Bob wrote: On Monday 02 October 2006 09:14, Chuck Swiger wrote: The swap system knows how to interleave data between the additional swap areas relatively efficiently, Yes I discovered that. The additional swap space was instantly used as soon as I activated it;

Re: What assembler(s) do you folks use with FreeBSD?

2006-10-02 Thread Charles Swiger
On Oct 2, 2006, at 2:15 PM, ograbme wrote: I've been playing with the gcc compiler along with Perl 5.8.8 (both supplied with FreeBSD) and have enjoyed it. I got to thinking about what assemblers (hopefully of the 'free' variety) you folks have used or may be using on FreeBSD. In my case, the

Re: SSH connection cut during dump on tape

2006-09-27 Thread Charles Swiger
On Sep 27, 2006, at 5:25 PM, Philippe Lang wrote: While doing a backup on an HP Ultrium LTO1 tape, my ssh connection froze, and since then, I'm not able to use the tape device anymore. Presumably there is another instance of dump or whatever is still running; try to kill -INT or kill -9 it.

Re: Sync files locally?

2006-09-27 Thread Charles Swiger
On Sep 27, 2006, at 5:40 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: What's the best way to sync files locally? I'm running rsync over ssh to backup files from a server. rsync (as root) works just fine to perform local copies preserving permissions and symlinks and so forth. Other people use a tar pipeline,

Re: How to filter the contents of two text files ..

2006-08-07 Thread Charles Swiger
On Aug 7, 2006, at 3:40 PM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: I have two text files, each has just a single column of data FileA has 2798 entries, while FileB has 4242 entries; There are entries in FileA that are also in FileB... I'd like to filter against the two files, so I only get those entries

Re: Using extended partitions.. ?

2006-07-28 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jul 28, 2006, at 4:55 PM, Gobbledegeek wrote: I've wanted to try this for a long time, but I believed its not possible, but never asked anyone so Is it possible to have multiple freebsd slices (partitions) on a single disk? Sure. You'd be mounting filesystems from

Re: Free BSD sources

2006-07-28 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jul 28, 2006, at 5:43 PM, Kakinada Umamaheswar-W00231 wrote: I am new to FreeBSD, would like get the FreeBSD sources, the network sources like IP stack and natd. I was trying to find it from the FreeBSD web site also looked at the hand book. Any tar format source tree for FreeBSD would

Re: tool to track processes read/write

2006-07-26 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jul 26, 2006, at 10:58 AM, Tamouh H. wrote: Is there a tool that shows how many times a process has read / written to disk ? Preferred in a TOP style. Why, yes-- run top -mio. :-) -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Configure postfix to forward to isp smtp server?

2006-07-26 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jul 26, 2006, at 5:46 PM, Chris T. wrote: I am trying to create a home mail gateway. First thing is getting it to relay messages to my ISP as if I had connected directly to the isp in the first place. Set: relayhost = [mailserver.isp.net] ...in main.cf. That is without adding any

Re: Postfix

2006-07-24 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jul 24, 2006, at 9:16 AM, Grant wrote: i want postfix to accept ANY mail sent to example1.com like a catch all then any mail that it gets i want it to just bounce it on to [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is hosted on another server. If you want to act as an MX secondary, see this section of

Re: Memory usage for MySQL

2006-07-19 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jul 19, 2006, at 1:14 PM, Thaddeus Quintin wrote: The issue that I'm having is that when I start up MySQL I get a couple Out of Memory errors before it actually starts up. Looks like this- 060719 11:55:35 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 43656 /usr/local/libexec/mysqld: Out of

Re: Memory usage for MySQL

2006-07-19 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jul 19, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Thaddeus Quintin wrote: I already took care of that, it was in my first email- I tweaked /boot/loader.conf to allow larger data size for processes already (rebooted after changes)- kern.maxdsiz=1395864371 # 1.3GB kern.dfldsiz=1395864371 # 1.3GB

Re: Memory usage for MySQL

2006-07-19 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jul 19, 2006, at 2:51 PM, Thaddeus Quintin wrote: Or maybe it's trying to ask for a big shared memory segment...? Your guess is as good as mine. Are there tools or anything else I can use to try and figure this out? MySQL probably has some documentation which would help, although if

Re: Updating system's natd config from natd.conf

2006-07-14 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jul 14, 2006, at 4:00 PM, Darek M wrote: What is the procedure to make active changes made to /etc/natd.conf? Sometimes, restarting the natd process with an HUP drops my connection. Other times the restart didn't seem to make any difference. The only way I've ever updated natd rules

Re: qt33 Port Compilation Error

2006-07-05 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jul 5, 2006, at 4:27 PM, Jacob Jennings wrote: If I correct this unterminated comment in that file the compilation will continue until another error concerning the same file occurs, whose only output is: *** Signal 4 I've never had these problems with QT before and I've been using KDE for 4

Re: Please help - adaptec 2820sa not ... RESOLVED

2006-06-19 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jun 18, 2006, at 10:44 PM, Ensel Sharon wrote: Let's say I have 8 disks. Let's say I require raid6. You require RAID-6 because...? If you want more fault tolerance or better performance, RAID-10 makes a lot more sense to me than RAID-6, but YMMV. If I make one array, I lose 25% to

Re: fxp driver performance expectations

2006-06-15 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jun 15, 2006, at 2:25 PM, Paul Marciano wrote: For larger packets (e.g. 700 bytes) I am getting 100Mbps throughput port to port. For min-size packets (64 bytes) I am only seeing around 60Mbps. Increasing HZ and the polling parameters does not help. You should be aware that the minimum

Re: Freebsd-Devel

2006-06-12 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jun 11, 2006, at 10:46 AM, Jim Stapleton wrote: I was looking at the mailing list, and I couldn't find a freebsd-devel list, though I thought I heard of one's existance. What am I missing here? There are lots of FreeBSD mailing lists oriented towards developers, but they tend to be

Re: man pages in plain text - how to?

2006-06-09 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jun 9, 2006, at 3:01 PM, Wayne wrote: Was wondering how to get man to output pages in plain text? I want the basic formating (indentation whatnot) but NOT the bold and other special effects. Just ascii text I can grep through. I tried setting the terminal type to dumb and the stupid

Re: Heavy creation and deletion of symlinks

2006-06-07 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jun 6, 2006, at 10:49 PM, Dag Rune Sneeggen wrote: So my question is; how does such activity affect the general health and operation of FreeBSD? It doesn't, really. The OS will happily deference the symlinks you create as needed. Also, the health of the harddrive(s) which will most

Re: Heavy creation and deletion of symlinks

2006-06-07 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jun 6, 2006, at 10:49 PM, Dag Rune Sneeggen wrote: So my question is; how does such activity affect the general health and operation of FreeBSD? It doesn't, really. The OS will happily deference the symlinks you create as needed. Also, the health of the harddrive(s) which will most

Re: On mail principles

2006-06-07 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jun 7, 2006, at 1:20 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But this way is bad for local purposes: my MTA's diagnostic messages are sent trough internet or lost at all, e. g. when my ADSL is in down. (Moreover, my letters sent to other local users have non-local envelope from address. Then local

Re: Strange messages in mail queue

2006-05-25 Thread Charles Swiger
On May 25, 2006, at 9:39 AM, Eric wrote: what MTA are you using? i'm wondering why your server accepted the email in the first place. Yes, well, that question implies the right direction for a solution: you want to reject spam before trying to deliver it, rather than accepting it and then

Re: Fast du

2006-05-17 Thread Charles Swiger
On May 17, 2006, at 5:35 PM, Albert Shih wrote: I search some technics/command/anything can make very fast «du» especialy when in the file system there are lot of lot of hard-link. Set up a swap-based RAM disk and run your du commands against files on that...? Otherwise, if you have to

Re: Connecting to CISCO Devices

2006-05-15 Thread Charles Swiger
On May 15, 2006, at 1:27 PM, Yousef Raffah wrote: What kind of tools are there to connect to CISCO devices' console on FreeBSD using the COM port? I'm sure there are a lot of you on the list managing CISCO devices! tip and cu come with the base system, I believe, otherwise look for

Re: newly installed apps not in path?

2006-05-15 Thread Charles Swiger
On May 15, 2006, at 4:36 PM, Atom Powers wrote: Whan I install a new application (from ports) I have to execute it with the full path until I start a new shell. (in sh, tcsh, and bash) What causes this behavior, and how can I fix it (cause newly installed apps to be executable without a full

Re: Security Testing on Production Systems

2006-05-15 Thread Charles Swiger
On May 15, 2006, at 4:54 PM, TRODAT wrote: This is a hot topic as of late where I work: Once a system has gone into 'production' should testing, specifically security, be done on it if the system could be broken by the test itself? What is your take on this issue and why? Yes, although

Re: daemon to listen on localhost only?

2006-05-10 Thread Charles Swiger
On May 10, 2006, at 3:59 PM, Sean Murphy wrote: Is there a way to tell a daemon to listen only to the localhost without using a firewall? If the daemon has an option to listen on a specific IP address, yes; otherwise, no. -- -Chuck ___

Re: daemon to listen on localhost only?

2006-05-10 Thread Charles Swiger
On May 10, 2006, at 4:35 PM, Sean Murphy wrote: the ftp daemon that is started with inetd it is the ftp that comes with the freebsd system 5.4. OK. man ftpd suggests the following options are relevant: -4 When -D is specified, accept connections via AF_INET4 socket. -6

Re: which graphics card?

2006-05-04 Thread Charles Swiger
On May 4, 2006, at 12:28 PM, Kep Woof wrote: it seems like a huge waste to run the i386 version on an amd64 machine, but can anyone comment on the performance difference? Sure. For the most part, if you don't have more than 4GB of RAM, there is little point to running in 64-bit mode. A

Re: which graphics card?

2006-05-04 Thread Charles Swiger
On May 4, 2006, at 1:25 PM, Kep Woof wrote: Sure. For the most part, if you don't have more than 4GB of RAM, there is little point to running in 64-bit mode. A more fine-grained analysis: I think I get it now.. having seen loads of adverts and hype (particularly from apple) bigging up

Re: Huge (100k+) number of processes

2006-04-26 Thread Charles Swiger
On Apr 26, 2006, at 10:50 AM, Dan Nelson wrote: The problem is that kern.maxproc=20 line in /boot/loader.conf only raised the real value to 21576. Is that authoritative, or should I just try and run 200k processes? I only have 512Mb of RAM, and I wonder if it's enough to run 100k+ of, say,

Re: CGI service.

2006-04-26 Thread Charles Swiger
On Apr 26, 2006, at 11:07 AM, Pgold wrote: Hi, I´m developing a web app in C++. But it loads a huge amount of from a Database to memory, and I can´t afford doing this everytime someone asks for the page. Is there a way to make the program to keep running, and reading requests made via CGI? If it

Re: clustering question.......

2006-04-18 Thread Charles Swiger
On Apr 18, 2006, at 12:05 PM, Wright Jim Contr 14MDSS/SGSI wrote: Hallo ! I'm sure there is some info on this, but I can't seem to find it. I guess what I'm looking for is the FreeBSD Clustering for Dummies guide. Dummies aren't qualified to set up a cluster, I'm afraid. You should start by

Re: /etc/resolv.conf with 3 nameservers

2006-04-10 Thread Charles Swiger
On Apr 10, 2006, at 9:54 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ cat /etc/resolv.conf domain Sisis.de nameserver 10.0.1.201 nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx nameserver yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy But only the 1st one (10.0.1.201) is contacted to make the name lookup (I've checked this with trussing a 'ping

Re: sendmail error messages

2006-03-27 Thread Charles Swiger
On Mar 27, 2006, at 3:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mar 25 23:28:15 sendmail[1181]: k2Q3wGR00214: SYSERR(root): hash map Alias0: unsafe map file /etc/mail/aliases.db: World writable directory It repeats with IDs 1298 , 1328 , 1357 , 1439 , 1466 , 1491 in the brackets after

Re: The 'Amnesiac' screen s set up when FreeBSD starts up

2006-03-27 Thread Charles Swiger
On Mar 27, 2006, at 3:36 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a command that tells one on which screen one now sits, and if so what is its path-name? Where are these screens set up, and can one change that, say adding new screens? The tty command will indicate which terminal the

Re: Shell scripting question

2006-03-24 Thread Charles Swiger
On Mar 24, 2006, at 12:12 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: Neither rc.conf nor source_rc_confs appears anywhere else in the script, so how does this suck in the variables? And what does the syntax . /etc/rc.conf do? Your second question is the answer to your first question: . /etc/rc.conf

Re: sendmail problem.

2006-03-24 Thread Charles Swiger
On Mar 24, 2006, at 2:26 PM, Efren Bravo wrote: Inside the console I type: telnet localhost 25 end I receive answer from sendmail but from a remote PC I only receive connection failed. Is obvious that sendmail isn't accepting external connections. I need ideas, where can I look for? Unless

Re: filling up UDP socket buffers like mad

2006-03-24 Thread Charles Swiger
On Mar 24, 2006, at 4:17 PM, Michael W. Lucas wrote: Running FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE as a DNS, dhcp, and syslog server. I'm having trouble with DNS, DHCP, and syslogd locking up, and I think I've found what they all share in common. During the lockups, the box starts dropping UDP due to full

Re: e-mail relaying without forwarding the entire message?

2006-03-23 Thread Charles Swiger
On Mar 23, 2006, at 10:28 AM, Steve Camp wrote: The conversation that I envision would look something like: - MAIL FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 250 2.1.0 Sender ok - RCPT TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - XYZ X.W.V Go See someotherserver.otherdomain.com for [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is such a

Re: setting shmmax for postgres

2006-03-20 Thread Charles Swiger
On Mar 20, 2006, at 3:36 PM, Miguel wrote: shiva2# sysctl -a kern.ipc.shmmax kern.ipc.shmmax: 2147483647 but postgres always fails with this error The PostgreSQL documentation contains more information about shared memory configuration. FATAL: could not create shared memory segment: Cannot

Re: setting shmmax for postgres

2006-03-20 Thread Charles Swiger
On Mar 20, 2006, at 4:29 PM, Miguel wrote: Just how much RAM do you have in the machine? I don't think you can allocate more than 256MB or so to SysV shared memory without tuning the number of KVA pages being allocated to the kernel...? Maybe it depends on whether the SysV shmem

Re: NIC and Jumbo Frames

2006-03-13 Thread Charles Swiger
On Mar 13, 2006, at 2:57 PM, Sean Murphy wrote: How do I set Jumbo Frames on a Gigabit NIC in FreeBSD? ifconfig _device_ mtu 8192 ...where you would use em0, bge0, or whatever the actual interface device is. See the manpages for the various devices, for example man em: Support for

Re: NIC and Jumbo Frames

2006-03-13 Thread Charles Swiger
On Mar 13, 2006, at 5:02 PM, Sean Murphy wrote: What do I need to add to the rc.conf config line so that it sets up the mtu for jumbo 16128 bytes size and sets the speed from auto to 1000? I have this so far... ifconfig_em0=inet x.x.x.x netmask x.x.x.x 1000baseTX Something like:

Re: Strange memory problems

2006-03-08 Thread Charles Swiger
On Mar 8, 2006, at 12:52 PM, Eugene wrote: With Apache stopped, it goes down to RSS=0.5GB and VSZ=0.6G -- but Inactive Memory remains above 2.5GB. Is it a memory leak somewhere or what? That looks quite normal to me, apart from the zombie process. FreeBSD always attempts to occupy most of

Re: ftp issues

2006-03-06 Thread Charles Swiger
On Mar 6, 2006, at 5:25 PM, electroteque wrote: this is nuts lots of them do this if i click this ftp:// ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/sparc64/ISO-IMAGES/6.0/ my mac will try to load it as a network drive, i get The operation cannnot be completed because one or more required items

Re: Interested in selling retail freeBSD sets

2006-02-13 Thread Charles Swiger
On Feb 13, 2006, at 12:48 PM, Robert Slade wrote: As I understand it, you are free to redistribute it provided that you do not claim to have produced it nor charge for it. You can charge for producing the CDs though. You are welcome to charge as much for FreeBSD as you like, actually. Of

Re: Help with strange web server problem

2006-02-13 Thread Charles Swiger
On Feb 13, 2006, at 7:58 AM, Jerry Bell wrote: It's hit or miss, but the first time someone visits the web site, they get a server not found page. On hitting refresh, they get the page - no problems. If I wait a while and try again, I get the same problem. Path MTU problem? The problem

Re: Help with strange web server problem

2006-02-13 Thread Charles Swiger
On Feb 13, 2006, at 3:12 PM, Jerry Bell wrote: I didn't want to spam the link out, but it's www.musiclodge.com. I will gather the capture data from working and non working sessions and send it out. Well, I can confirm the behavior you've described. It looks somewhat like a stateful

Re: Memory leak?

2006-02-13 Thread Charles Swiger
On Feb 13, 2006, at 4:40 PM, David Scheidt wrote: Unfortunately no, its cli only, no x, pretty much just Postgres and Python and C :-( I've seen (very, very, very, very) large memory leaks on long-lived Python processes. I haven't looked at it to figure out if it's python, some module, or the

Re: Memory leak?

2006-02-13 Thread Charles Swiger
On Feb 13, 2006, at 5:13 PM, Robert Leftwich wrote: After 1 dataset it is: Mem: 107M Active, 1919M Inact, 158M Wired, 16K Cache, 214M Buf, 570M Free Swap: 4068M Total, 4068M Free which totals 2968M While running on the 6th dataset: Mem: 1032M Active, 1045M Inact, 260M

Re: Possibility to submit requests for new ports?

2006-02-06 Thread Charles Swiger
On Feb 6, 2006, at 4:07 PM, FreeBSD Prospect wrote: I was wondering, if there is any communication channel to request new ports. Yes, the freebsd-ports mailing list. I mean, isn't it likely, that a FreeBSD user (not a codergeek able to create ports himself) is looking for some software,

Re: Getting a new server

2006-02-01 Thread Charles Swiger
On Feb 1, 2006, at 2:55 PM, lars wrote: Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you're buying new hardware, pretty much anything has enough CPU to handle the reader side; the spamfiltering and virus scanning will be more CPU- intensive. Dual-3GHz Xeon's with 2GB of RAM? Your normal

Re: Upgrading apache form 2.0.x to 2.2.x

2006-01-31 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jan 31, 2006, at 10:06 AM, Kövesdán Gábor wrote: I've upgradde today, but SSL doesn't work with the old settings. I suspect something's wrong with my self-signed certificates. If I set SSLEngine On globally, I get this: [Tue Jan 31 14:11:09 2006] [warn] RSA server certificate is a CA

Re: Problem with fsck : continued

2006-01-31 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jan 31, 2006, at 12:25 PM, manish jain wrote: So now the question is if I can get FreeBSD 6.0 to run fsck automatically on restart in such a manner that all services come up consistently. I am even willing to have fsck run in the foreground upon EACH restart, irrespective of whether

Re: pkg_add down!

2006-01-31 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jan 31, 2006, at 12:38 PM, Sean Murphy wrote: if I go to the ftp site with my browser it seems to work fine. What should I do as the package never seems to download. is there a queue on the ftp servers? No queue. Presumably you have a local network problem involving active versus

Re: Upgrading 5.3 to 6.0 question

2006-01-31 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jan 31, 2006, at 3:28 PM, Michael S wrote: I have a question related to upgrading my machine from 5.3 to 6.0. I am convinced I need to upgrade it, and the base system upgrade procedure is pretty much clear to me. However I am somewhat not clear about 3rd party software. Since all the programs

Re: My script to replace strings in ASCII files

2006-01-11 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jan 11, 2006, at 3:24 PM, Kristian Vaaf wrote: Just curious, what do I need to do to be able to execute this script like: $ text-replace old_string new_string I find it a bit inconvenient having to edit the script for every thing I need to replace. Use positional arguments $1 and $2,

Re: Abort signal

2006-01-09 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jan 9, 2006, at 2:38 PM, Paul Khavkine wrote: I'm trying to debug an application that always crashes with Signal 6 with free(): error: chunk is already free error. But the application does not produce a core dump to find out where it happends. Run the program under gdb. -- -Chuck

Re: Abort signal

2006-01-09 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jan 9, 2006, at 2:52 PM, Paul Khavkine wrote: When i do that it crashes also but produces gdb.core The backtrace form that doesn't tell me anything about where it happends. If gdb itself crashes, I would suspect you've got hardware problems like bad memory. Try running memtest86.org's

Re: How long to compile...

2006-01-03 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jan 3, 2006, at 10:46 AM, Crispy Beef wrote: This is kind of related to my other post (Kernel Compilation), but thought I'd post it seperately as it would be interesting to know... Was wondering on average how long building userland and the kernel for 6.0-RELEASE should take on a 466MHz

Re: SPAM Trap

2005-12-23 Thread Charles Swiger
On Dec 23, 2005, at 12:12 PM, Gerard Seibert wrote: I have been reading about SPAM Traps. Exactly what is a SPAM Trap? I noticed that it seems to be used in conjunction with blacklisting organizations. How would one go about setting up one? The simplest case is to set up some email

Re: fquestions

2005-12-14 Thread Charles Swiger
On Dec 14, 2005, at 12:10 PM, Gary Kline wrote: I'm looking at buying a Celeron 3GHz m'board with the Via chipset. I'm not familiar with the via, but according to the Bsdforums, it works with FBSD. Does anybody know what kind of builtin audio of video is

Re: fquestions

2005-12-14 Thread Charles Swiger
On Dec 14, 2005, at 2:21 PM, Gary Kline wrote: You forgot to tell us which VIA chipset or MB-- there are lots and lots of VIA-based motherboards around, with a wide variety of hardware. Here's the URL on the board. It looks okay, but then it was written by salesmen:). I'm

Re: Determining disk latency

2005-12-14 Thread Charles Swiger
On Dec 14, 2005, at 4:56 PM, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: Dec 14 14:17:49 esmtp postfix/qmgr[29605]: 7BEE97E997: from=[EMAIL PROTECTED], size=11246, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Dec 14 14:27:29 esmtp postfix/qmgr[29605]: 7BEE97E997: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=none, delay=592, status=deferred (delivery

Re: Multiple CPUs

2005-12-13 Thread Charles Swiger
On Dec 13, 2005, at 2:12 PM, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I guess this means my new server is only using one of my CPUs? esmtp# grep CPU /var/log/dmesg.today CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz (2399.33-MHz 686-class CPU) Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs cpu0: ACPI CPU (2 Cx states) on acpi0 Can

Re: /etc/mail/local-host-names

2005-12-13 Thread Charles Swiger
On Dec 13, 2005, at 3:03 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: how line should look at this file to enable anybody in IPv4 10.0.0.0/8 to relay through this server 10. seems not to work. As someone else has said, local-host-names controls class W, the list of hosts for which mail will be delivered

Re: bad udp cksum 26ff!

2005-11-28 Thread Charles Swiger
On Nov 28, 2005, at 1:46 PM, John Palmer wrote: I am running FreeBSD 5.4 p8. I did a tcpdump -vv -i em0. The output produced a bad udp cksum with my DNS server. Does anyone know what it means? Or, how I can correct the problem? If you are sniffing traffic from the machine itself,

Re: system time slowing down ?

2005-11-28 Thread Charles Swiger
On Nov 28, 2005, at 6:40 PM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: For some time now, I have noticed that the time on my system keeps lagging behind. I reset it with `date 2005MMDDHHMM` but after a few days I see that it's lost quite some hours again? What should I suspect? CMOS battery has been changed,

Re: How to check if a processor in the machine is dead

2005-11-21 Thread Charles Swiger
On Nov 21, 2005, at 3:04 PM, Jayesh Jayan wrote: I am having problem with my dell 2850 server. It has freebsd 5.4 installed. Today the machine is flashing amber light on the face plate. On checking I found that to be PROC Machine Chk which means cpu has failed. Dell has floppy and CD-ROM

Re: route how to?

2005-11-11 Thread Charles Swiger
On Nov 11, 2005, at 12:15 PM, Perttu Laine wrote: I'd like to add route to my computer so one ip would be forwarded to /dev/null. So all other connections would work normally, but connection to for example 192.168.10.1 http://192.168.10.1 would not work. How can this be done? And I propably

Re: Upgrading application(s)

2005-11-11 Thread Charles Swiger
On Nov 11, 2005, at 12:57 PM, Sasa Stupar wrote: I am quite new to freebsd. I have several applications build from the ports collection. When some port change for a new version (I cvsup my ports collection) how do I do upgrade of that application? Is it the same as for the first time: just

Re: ifconfig mystery card

2005-11-09 Thread Charles Swiger
On Nov 9, 2005, at 5:21 PM, Live-Wire wrote: running ifconfig I see (besides my localhost lo0 entry): x10: flags=8802BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 options=9RXCSUM,VLAN_MTU ether 00:01:03:20:d5:fd media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: no carrier and yet, running ifconfig

Re: smbfs small read tuning?

2005-11-07 Thread Charles Swiger
On Nov 7, 2005, at 10:42 AM, Kirk Strauser wrote: I have an application that makes hundreds of thousands of small read ()s (a few hundred bytes each time). If I run it directly on files on an smbfs mount, the runtime is on the order of an hour. If I copy the files to my local hard drive

Re: debug.log questions

2005-11-07 Thread Charles Swiger
On Nov 7, 2005, at 6:35 PM, Sean Murphy wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 5.4 with sendmail that was included with FreeBSD. There is a debug.log that I have questions about. Is the debug.log just for mail troubleshooting? Can I turn it off or reduce the amount of logging? No such file exists by

Re: a simple question...

2005-11-04 Thread Charles Swiger
On Nov 4, 2005, at 1:12 PM, Javier Matos wrote: Hello, I´m a student of computer science and this year I must to do an application using system calls. We are using linux system calls like pid_t fork(void) and other services of the standard POSIX. I want to know if it´s possible to use that

Re: Fast diff command for large files?

2005-11-04 Thread Charles Swiger
On Nov 4, 2005, at 12:29 PM, Kirk Strauser wrote: Multigigabyte? Find another approach to solving the problem, a text-base diff is going to require excessive resources and time. A 64-bit platform with 2 GB of RAM 3GB of swap requires ~1000 seconds to diff ~400MB. There really aren't

Re: sendmail/mailertable question

2005-10-24 Thread Charles Swiger
On Oct 24, 2005, at 6:38 PM, stan wrote: I have a machine that hosts several virtual domains. The domains have wildcarded DNS records. I want mail recived for say [EMAIL PROTECTED] to get passed on downstream like that without striping out the listmaint part. I think I can do this with

Re: Problem with groups

2005-10-21 Thread Charles Swiger
On Oct 21, 2005, at 4:12 PM, RW wrote: From a KDE Root console, I changed a directory's permissions to 770 and added my account to it's group with pw. In another console, under my own account, I tried to cd into the directory and failed, no gui application could access the directory

Re: Installing 2nd CPU on SMP board

2005-10-19 Thread Charles Swiger
On Oct 19, 2005, at 4:44 PM, Doug Poland wrote: I've inherited an SMP machine for which I've no documentation and don't have convenient access to the hardware itself. The computer has a single Xeon 2.8GHz CPU and I'd like to purchase another CPU. Question is, can I simply match another Xeon

Re: Help With Find Syntax

2005-10-14 Thread Charles Swiger
On Oct 14, 2005, at 2:53 PM, Drew Tomlinson wrote: $ find /multimedia/Pictures -iname *.gif -or *.jpg -print find: paths must precede expression Usage: find [path...] [expression] I've tried various placement of quotes, parenthesis, etc. but can't seem to find the right way to do this.

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