Re: NFS zfs serveur (hardware question)

2011-06-26 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 5:07 AM, Peter Toth free...@snap.net.nz wrote: There is still a way to increase NFS performance in 9.0 (without a ZIL SSD) by setting zfs property sync=disabled, which will disable synchronous writes - comes with some risks, research it before switching it off. Also,

Re: NFS zfs serveur (hardware question)

2011-06-25 Thread Peter Toth
On 06/24/11 10:17, David Brodbeck wrote: On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: As a rule of thumb and for a serious server, I would recommend 1 SSD as dedicated cache and 2 SSD for a mirrored ZIL (you don't want to lose this data). However I think ppl posted

Re: NFS zfs serveur (hardware question)

2011-06-23 Thread Daniel Staal
On Wed, June 22, 2011 9:26 pm, Damien Fleuriot wrote: You will lose your main ZFS pool if you lose: - more than 1 of your full ZFS pools or - your ZIL (need confirmation on that) From my reading, on the ZIL: Under 8.2, true. If you have patched your ZFS install, or are running -CURRENT,

Re: NFS zfs serveur (hardware question)

2011-06-23 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: As a rule of thumb and for a serious server, I would recommend 1 SSD as dedicated cache and 2 SSD for a mirrored ZIL (you don't want to lose this data). However I think ppl posted about running intro trouble when using both

NFS zfs serveur (hardware question)

2011-06-22 Thread Michel Le Cocq
Hi all, I'm planning to change my data NFS server. For 60 clients. I wanted to serv NFS for data over NFS and also for diskless host (http://projets.mathrice.org/faddef/cgi-bin/trac.cgi). Here is the harware I chose : a little proc : 1.6 Ghz Xeon 4 coeurs (mono) : It's seems that on a such

Re: NFS zfs serveur (hardware question)

2011-06-22 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:41:58 -0500, Michel Le Cocq miconof80.l...@gmail.com wrote: speedy disk : Sas 15K : to limit IO Wait The more spindles the better. Get more disks if possible. Regards, Mark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

the age old 3D hardware question

2008-10-25 Thread xorquewasp
Hello. I'm looking to buy a new workstation that needs to be able to run in 64-bit (long) mode (working with large data sets). What are my options for 3D acceleration without binary drivers? My needs are quite minimal, I'm not running any games. As far as I can tell, only onboard Intel graphics

Re: the age old 3D hardware question

2008-10-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I'm looking to buy a new workstation that needs to be able to run in 64-bit (long) mode (working with large data sets). What are my options for 3D acceleration without binary drivers? My needs are quite minimal, I'm not running any games. you actually need 3D accelerator or just fast 2D card?

Re: the age old 3D hardware question

2008-10-25 Thread xorquewasp
On 20081025 10:18:01, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I'm looking to buy a new workstation that needs to be able to run in 64-bit (long) mode (working with large data sets). What are my options for 3D acceleration without binary drivers? My needs are quite minimal, I'm not running any games. you

Re: the age old 3D hardware question

2008-10-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
afaik openGL always requires local display On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20081025 10:18:01, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I'm looking to buy a new workstation that needs to be able to run in 64-bit (long) mode (working with large data sets). What are my options for 3D

Re: the age old 3D hardware question

2008-10-25 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20081025 10:18:01, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I'm looking to buy a new workstation that needs to be able to run in 64-bit (long) mode (working with large data sets). What are my options for 3D acceleration without binary drivers? My needs are

Re: the age old 3D hardware question

2008-10-25 Thread xorquewasp
On 20081025 11:48:02, Bruce Cran wrote: I would guess the development and testing will be done on the same machine. -- Bruce If that was a question, then yeah, you're correct. It seems that I can actually get open acceleration using the r500 series of ATI cards (the X1950 is the most

Re: the age old 3D hardware question

2008-10-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 08:48:58AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I'm looking to buy a new workstation that needs to be able to run in 64-bit (long) mode (working with large data sets). What are my options for 3D acceleration without binary drivers? My needs are quite minimal, I'm

Re: hardware question

2007-03-02 Thread jekillen
On Mar 1, 2007, at 10:38 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: jekillen wrote: On Mar 1, 2007, at 8:04 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: jekillen wrote: Hello; I have built a machine with ASUS M2N32 WS pro motherboard. It has dual network interface ports that are Marvell interfaces. I understand that FreeBSD

hardware question

2007-03-01 Thread jekillen
Hello; I have built a machine with ASUS M2N32 WS pro motherboard. It has dual network interface ports that are Marvell interfaces. I understand that FreeBSD does not yet support Marvell as of v6.2. I did get a reference to a source for the driver source and instructions to compile and install.

Re: hardware question

2007-03-01 Thread Garrett Cooper
jekillen wrote: Hello; I have built a machine with ASUS M2N32 WS pro motherboard. It has dual network interface ports that are Marvell interfaces. I understand that FreeBSD does not yet support Marvell as of v6.2. I did get a reference to a source for the driver source and instructions to

Re: hardware question

2007-03-01 Thread Garrett Cooper
Garrett Cooper wrote: jekillen wrote: Hello; I have built a machine with ASUS M2N32 WS pro motherboard. It has dual network interface ports that are Marvell interfaces. I understand that FreeBSD does not yet support Marvell as of v6.2. I did get a reference to a source for the driver source and

Re: hardware question

2007-03-01 Thread jekillen
On Mar 1, 2007, at 8:18 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: Garrett Cooper wrote: jekillen wrote: Hello; I have built a machine with ASUS M2N32 WS pro motherboard. It has dual network interface ports that are Marvell interfaces. I understand that FreeBSD does not yet support Marvell as of v6.2. I did

Re: hardware question

2007-03-01 Thread Garrett Cooper
jekillen wrote: On Mar 1, 2007, at 8:04 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: jekillen wrote: Hello; I have built a machine with ASUS M2N32 WS pro motherboard. It has dual network interface ports that are Marvell interfaces. I understand that FreeBSD does not yet support Marvell as of v6.2. I did get a

Hardware question (Intel Mobo + 3Ware RAID) ...

2005-01-30 Thread Marc G. Fournier
I'm putting together a new FreeBSD server ... decided to go 1U this time, and just ran into a snag ... I'm using the Intel SE7520JR2 Mobo in an SR1400 chassis ... everything is put together fine, but went to install my 3Ware 9500S-4LP controller, only to find out that it doesn't fit ... Has

Intel Xeon 64 Bit Hardware Question

2004-11-09 Thread Sean Murphy
Will FreeBSD 5.3 Run on this Hardware Configuration CPU Network Cards I would also like to Hardware Raid 5 with the Intel Raid Card Would this be seamless to FreeBSD? 5U Intel SC5300 Rack Mount Black Dual Intel CPU Xeon 3GHz CPU, 64-bit, 1mb cache Intel Gigabit Ethernet x 2 2 GB ECC memory 4 144GB

SMP Supported Hardware Question

2003-08-08 Thread Scott Ballantyne
Hello All, I am interested in playing with SMP and am curious if there is anyone out there using the following combo with success: Athlon AMSN2400Box Gigabyte: GA-7DPXDW I plan on using 4.8 for the moment. Thanks in advance and please pardon the newbie nature of this question. Scott

Re: software/hardware question

2003-06-17 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 11:55:36 -0700 (PDT) mell miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all, i've just recently heard of bsd and am seriously considering going that way, but before i go much further i have what is likely a stupid question but since in the past i've disregarded such questions

software/hardware question

2003-06-16 Thread mell miller
hi all, i've just recently heard of bsd and am seriously considering going that way, but before i go much further i have what is likely a stupid question but since in the past i've disregarded such questions thinking they were unimportant or that the answer was obvious only to later regret it i

Re: software/hardware question

2003-06-16 Thread Rus Foster
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, mell miller wrote: hi all, i've just recently heard of bsd and am seriously considering going that way, but before i go much further i have what is likely a stupid question but since in the past i've disregarded such questions thinking they were unimportant or that the

Re: software/hardware question

2003-06-16 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
Hi, There are things called winmodems and winprinters which do require Windows as some of the work the hardware would normally do is handeled on the CPU. However I've found FreeBSD to work on 99% of the hardware I've chucked at it without any problems. sometimes its take a bit of work to but

RE: software/hardware question

2003-06-16 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
16, 2003 3:03 PM To: Rus Foster Cc: mell miller; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: software/hardware question Hi, There are things called winmodems and winprinters which do require Windows as some of the work the hardware would normally do is handeled on the CPU. However I've

Re: software/hardware question

2003-06-16 Thread heikki soerum
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 15:12:23 -0400 (EDT) Kenneth Wayne Culver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the ATI Raedon 7500 all in wonder, and finding out if the tv tuner works in freebsd or not has been quite fruitless so far. Google for gatos. Except that the Gatos drivers i general need an

Re: software/hardware question

2003-06-16 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
Except that the Gatos drivers i general need an patched linux DRM kernel module and/or at least the Video4Linux linux kernel subsystem. To my knowledge freebsd doesn't support either. (Although I'm a bit outdated since i gave up on gatos and ATI-tuners/video inn/out chipsetts about a year

Re: software/hardware question

2003-06-16 Thread Bill Moran
Please wrap your lines around 72 characters or so. See: http://www.lemis.com/questions.html mell miller wrote: hi all, i've just recently heard of bsd and am seriously considering going that way, but before i go much further i have what is likely a stupid question but since in the past i've

Re: software/hardware question

2003-06-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
hi all, i've just recently heard of bsd and am seriously considering going that way, but before i go much further i have what is likely a stupid quesion but since in the past i've disregarded such questions thinking they were unimportant or that the answer was obvious only to later regret

Re: Networking hardware question

2002-12-22 Thread Jerry Bell
, December 20, 2002 1:47 PM Subject: Networking hardware question Hi, For one week, I have the responsability to administrate a LAN in a society where there's at least 5 swithes and 1 hub connected together in chain. I heard that plugging too many hubs or swithes in chain can cause network

Networking hardware question

2002-12-20 Thread Christophe Simon
Hi, For one week, I have the responsability to administrate a LAN in a society where there's at least 5 swithes and 1 hub connected together in chain. I heard that plugging too many hubs or swithes in chain can cause network stability problems. Is that right, and what can I do. I have been

Re: Networking hardware question

2002-12-20 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hi Christophe, On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 18:47, Christophe Simon wrote: Hi, For one week, I have the responsability to administrate a LAN in a society where there's at least 5 swithes and 1 hub connected together in chain. I heard that plugging too many hubs or swithes in chain can cause

Another hardware question.

2002-12-01 Thread Artem Koutchine
Hello again. Well, people said that dual P III 550 with SDRAM is definetely slower than single P 4 3Ghz with DDR RAM. Now, a bit trickier question. Is DUAL P III 1,4Ghz with SDRAM faster than SINGLE P4 3Ghz with hyperthreading and DDR RAM (PC 3200)? How much it is slower or faster? Regards,

Re: Another hardware question.

2002-12-01 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 10:29:15PM +0300, Artem Koutchine wrote: Hello again. Well, people said that dual P III 550 with SDRAM is definetely slower than single P 4 3Ghz with DDR RAM. Now, a bit trickier question. Is DUAL P III 1,4Ghz with SDRAM faster than SINGLE P4 3Ghz with