Re: Using crontab to end a process

2005-07-19 Thread marc
Steven Manos wrote: something like... kill `ps aux | grep mplayer | head -n 1 | awk {'print $2'}` see pkill(1)

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Gary Clemans-Gibbon
Thanks David, I just tried that line but it seems to be the same or if anything it seems even slower. Gary David Gwynne wrote: I would suggest looking at the socket options parameter in /etc/samba/ smb.conf. I have the following in my smb.conf and transfer speeds seem to perform a lot

Re: Onboard and USB Sound Trouble

2005-07-19 Thread steven mestdagh
Hello I have installed and used sound successfully in the past. I reread the man and faq pages about sound but still no good. This is an amd64 setup so I dont know if that is the reason for my trouble. On motherboard is nForce4 AC97 and USB is Creative Technology SB Live! 24-bit

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow - more info

2005-07-19 Thread Gary Clemans-Gibbon
This is really puzzling me, please someone help me out. I've tried a couple of things. Firstly I swapped out the NIC for a different brand, no change. Writes god-awful slow, reads nice and zippy. I did some googling and tried some things. Here are the results of ifconfig -a netstat -in

Re: Where to get a good seed for srandom()

2005-07-19 Thread Alexander Farber
Hi, that is an interesting (off-)topic :-) May I ask the very last question? If % is not good enough for getting random values in a range, then what is? I see a lot of arc4random() % ... when grepping the /usr/src on OpenBSD. And my (probably too naive) approach to shuffling 32 cards has been:

Re: how to reduce ntpd polling cycle in OpenNTPd

2005-07-19 Thread Henning Brauer
* sean conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-07-19 01:33]: G'Day, Is there a way to reduce the interval NTPD polls for time updates? I have installed 3.7 and have determined NTPD is contacting the time server approx. 30sec. ntpd scales the quey interval down itself based on the

Re: Kernel Panic in 3.7

2005-07-19 Thread Gordon Ross
So that's what the kernel panic really means: Out of memory ? GTG Ted Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] 19/07/2005 03:36 On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Gordon Ross wrote: I've got an OpneBSD 3.7 machine (no patches - just the standard 3.7 CD install) running under VMWare GSX Server V3.1 Today, the machine

Re: Where to get a good seed for srandom()

2005-07-19 Thread Marcus Watts
Alexander Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED] asks: ... If % is not good enough for getting random values in a range, then what is? ... Actually, % 32 is fine (or any reasonably small power of 2). Modulo any odd number is guaranteed to have at least a small problem, and module a large enough number is

Re: carp and spamd greylisting

2005-07-19 Thread Niclas Sodergard
On 7/18/05, Bryan Irvine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a mail server located in a DMZ and I just changed my gateway to run with carp. I was wondering if there's a way to sync the spamd db so that in the event of failover new messages won't take twice as long to arrive. I don't expect any

How to change flags of a route?

2005-07-19 Thread Michael Adam
Hi, I asked this question a week ago but there was no reply, so I am asking it again somewhat differently. I would really greatly appreciate any comments on this! Is it possible to change a cloned link-level host route (generated by arp requests) into a static gateway host route? The

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Gary Clemans-Gibbon
Thanks for your reply Tim. If anything it makes me feel worse. I was hoping it was something easily fixed. I just tried transferring a 50 Mb file to the OBSD samba box from win using SCP. Again very slow writes but much faster reads. The 50 Mb file took about 7 mins to transfer to the OBSD

Increasing network performance

2005-07-19 Thread Rickard Dahlstrand
Hi, I are using the pc engine wrap-boxes for network measurement. Iperf tops out at 25 Mbit/s send and 37 Mbit/s receive. If I look at top at the same time I get 0% idle and the rest is evenly distributed between interrupt, system and user. Obviously I have no option here to replace

Re: Increasing network performance

2005-07-19 Thread knitti
On 7/19/05, Rickard Dahlstrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I are using the pc engine wrap-boxes for network measurement. Iperf tops out at 25 Mbit/s send and 37 Mbit/s receive. If I look at top at the same time I get 0% idle and the rest is evenly distributed between interrupt, system and user.

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Tim Hammerquist
Gary Clemans-Gibbon wrote: Thanks for your reply Tim. If anything it makes me feel worse. I was hoping it was something easily fixed. I just tried transferring a 50 Mb file to the OBSD samba box from win using SCP. Again very slow writes but much faster reads. The 50 Mb file took about 7

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Tony
This *may* help. man mount softdep (FFS only.) Mount the file system using soft dependen- cies. Instead of metadata being written immediately, it is written in an ordered fashion to keep the on-disk

Re: Increasing network performance

2005-07-19 Thread Stuart Henderson
--On 19 July 2005 10:50 +0200, Rickard Dahlstrand wrote: I are using the pc engine wrap-boxes for network measurement. Iperf tops out at 25 Mbit/s send and 37 Mbit/s receive. If I look at top at the same time I get 0% idle and the rest is evenly distributed between interrupt, system and user.

Re: How to change flags of a route?

2005-07-19 Thread Alexander Bochmann
...on Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 10:29:34AM +0200, Michael Adam wrote: The scenario is the following: On an OpenBSD firewall and router, I have an interface if0 with address 192.168.1.1/24. Now, there is a host 192.168.1.2 which sits behind a third host 192.168.1.3 from the network segment of

Re: Increasing network performance

2005-07-19 Thread Rickard Dahlstrand
Stuart Henderson wrote: --On 19 July 2005 10:50 +0200, Rickard Dahlstrand wrote: I are using the pc engine wrap-boxes for network measurement. Iperf tops out at 25 Mbit/s send and 37 Mbit/s receive. If I look at top at the same time I get 0% idle and the rest is evenly distributed between

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Nick Holland
Gary Clemans-Gibbon wrote: Hi All, I just built a OpenBSD 3.7 samba file server for my home lan. It's a P3 500, 128mb RAM, with a 2 gig IDE HDD for the OS and two x Maxtor 200 GB IDE drives for data. whoa. no where near enough RAM. Trip over the power cord, you will end up swapping during

Re: Increasing network performance

2005-07-19 Thread Stuart Henderson
--On 19 July 2005 12:50 +0200, Rickard Dahlstrand wrote: Stuart Henderson wrote: --On 19 July 2005 10:50 +0200, Rickard Dahlstrand wrote: I are using the pc engine wrap-boxes for network measurement. Iperf tops out at 25 Mbit/s send and 37 Mbit/s receive. If I look at top at the same time I

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread David Gwynne
From: Gary Clemans-Gibbon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for your reply Tim. If anything it makes me feel worse. I was hoping it was something easily fixed. I just tried transferring a 50 Mb file to the OBSD samba box from win using SCP. Again very slow writes but much faster reads. The 50 Mb file

Re: Increasing network performance

2005-07-19 Thread Rickard Dahlstrand
Stuart Henderson wrote: --On 19 July 2005 12:50 +0200, Rickard Dahlstrand wrote: Stuart Henderson wrote: --On 19 July 2005 10:50 +0200, Rickard Dahlstrand wrote: I are using the pc engine wrap-boxes for network measurement. Iperf tops out at 25 Mbit/s send and 37 Mbit/s receive. If I look

LaSalleBank NOTICE

2005-07-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: Increasing network performance

2005-07-19 Thread Artur Grabowski
Rickard Dahlstrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I are using the pc engine wrap-boxes for network measurement. Iperf tops out at 25 Mbit/s send and 37 Mbit/s receive. If I look at top at the same time I get 0% idle and the rest is evenly distributed between interrupt, system and user.

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Marius Van Deventer - Umzimkulu
Or you could disable apm0 and see if that helps. -Original Message- From: David Gwynne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 July 2005 01:57 PM To: Gary Clemans-Gibbon Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow From: Gary Clemans-Gibbon [EMAIL

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Michael Hamerski
Nick Holland wrote: Gary Clemans-Gibbon wrote: Hi All, I just built a OpenBSD 3.7 samba file server for my home lan. It's a P3 500, 128mb RAM, with a 2 gig IDE HDD for the OS and two x Maxtor 200 GB IDE drives for data. whoa. no where near enough RAM. Trip over the power cord, you will end

Both carp interfaces are master

2005-07-19 Thread Niclas Sodergard
Hi, I'm having trouble with our firewalls. They are both Dell 2850 with identical hardware inside (dmesg below). I have five carp interfaces connected to five different em interfaces. carp0,2,3,4 works fine (master stays master and backup stays backup). For carp5 however both interfaces stays as

Question about ftp-proxy and self-defending ftp server

2005-07-19 Thread Tomas
Hi list, I've seen a lot of people using ftp-proxy in their pf.conf's thought their servers are only ftp servers (not clients) and are self-defending (there are no any firewalls in front of them to defend them). But I've been reading PF FAQ and got a little bit confusing... From PF FAQ: Please

Re: How to change flags of a route?

2005-07-19 Thread Michael Adam
Hi, On 7/19/05, Alexander Bochmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That setup is broken by design. Well yes, but sometimes you don't have all aspects of the network setup under your control. The only real way to make this work is to have 192.168.1.2 do proxy-arp for 192.168.1.3, which will solve

Re: Where to get a good seed for srandom()

2005-07-19 Thread Hannah Schroeter
Hello! On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 11:02:54AM -0700, Jack Bates wrote: [...] 4) Do not use the % (modulo) operator to select a card. The residues from % introduce small amounts of bias, and this is a disqualifying factor for regulated gaming. Does that point still hold, assuming I use a modulus

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Steve Williams
Marius Van Deventer - Umzimkulu wrote: Or you could disable apm0 and see if that helps. -Original Message- From: David Gwynne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 July 2005 01:57 PM To: Gary Clemans-Gibbon Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Nick Holland
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 02:34:04PM +0200, Michael Hamerski wrote: the FAQ which you refer to mentions 1M per 1G of storage, so that's not really 1G of RAM for this system, is it? or is there a reason I'm missing? no...256M would in theory do it (assuming nothing bigger than around 200G in one

USB2 (EIDE) bad mojo...

2005-07-19 Thread Rene Rivera
So here I am again talking about using a USB2 drive to do backups. So I have all the new hardware for this including two 250GB Hitachi drives, and this USB2-EIDE enclosure: http://www.kingwin.com/pdut_detail.asp?LineID=CateID=27ID=248 First thing I tried was hooking up an old 3GB HD I had

Re: How to change flags of a route?

2005-07-19 Thread Michael Adam
On 7/19/05, Roy Morris wrote: sorry, I must be reading this wrong or not understanding. Why would you not just put in a static arp entry? Is there ever a time when you don't want traffic to take this route? No, I want all traffic to take this route. There are several imaginable solutions:

sniffer

2005-07-19 Thread paolo
Hi I need to sniff a network segment and I need to sniff both headers and data. Because tcpdump captures only headers its unsuitable for the task. I saw that ports has ettercap and sniffit but I didn' get around to testing them to see if they will do the job I need. Can anyone recommend other

Re: sniffer

2005-07-19 Thread Hannah Schroeter
Hello! On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 05:20:43PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to sniff a network segment and I need to sniff both headers and data. Because tcpdump captures only headers its unsuitable for the task. No. Read the manpage, look for the option -s. [...] Kind regards, Hannah.

Re: sniffer

2005-07-19 Thread Jaime Fournier
tcpdump -s 1500 will get you your data as well. Now for dissection tethereal(1) might be better suited. Capture using tcpdump(1), then read with tethereal(1) as a non uid 0 user. The latest ethereal-10.11 compiles fine. If you have any issues let me know. I am not your puppet. Since when? Now

Re: sniffer

2005-07-19 Thread eric
On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 17:20:43 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] proclaimed... I need to sniff a network segment and I need to sniff both headers and data. Because tcpdump captures only headers its unsuitable for the task. I saw that ports has ettercap and sniffit but I didn' get around to testing

Re: sniffer

2005-07-19 Thread paolo
Hi Chris Nop. tcpshow decodes pcap files and if the creating sniffer doesn't write the packet payload it won't show it :( I need a sniffer that will write into a file (preferably in pcap format) everything coming on the wire. Ethereal does that, but it doesn't compile on OpenBSD :( Paolo

Re: sniffer

2005-07-19 Thread tomte
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 05:20:43PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I need to sniff a network segment and I need to sniff both headers and data. Because tcpdump captures only headers its unsuitable for the task. I saw that ports has ettercap and sniffit but I didn' get around to

Re: sniffer

2005-07-19 Thread Spruell, Darren-Perot
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I need to sniff a network segment and I need to sniff both headers and data. Because tcpdump captures only headers its unsuitable for the task. I saw that ports has ettercap and sniffit but I didn' get around to testing them to see if

Profiling a milter

2005-07-19 Thread Juan J.
Hello, I'm trying to profile a milter. I compile and link it with -pg option and all seems OK, but when I run the binary I get the message: # ./milter cannot find atexit, destructors will not be run! The milter itself interfaces bogofilter, so it needs to spawn a process to scan the messages

Re: sniffer

2005-07-19 Thread Brian
Hannah Schroeter wrote: Hello! On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 05:20:43PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to sniff a network segment and I need to sniff both headers and data. Because tcpdump captures only headers its unsuitable for the task. No. Read the manpage, look for the option

Re: sniffer

2005-07-19 Thread Andy Hayward
On 7/19/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I need to sniff a network segment and I need to sniff both headers and data. Because tcpdump captures only headers its unsuitable for the task. I saw that ports has ettercap and sniffit but I didn' get around to testing them to see

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Michael Shalayeff
Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from Alexander Bochmann: ...on Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 12:56:03AM -0700, Tim Hammerquist wrote: I've seen this same phenomenon when copying to from my OSX Powerbook and my fileserver (running both FreeBSD 5 and Gentoo Linux), with the OSX

Re: USB2 (EIDE) bad mojo...

2005-07-19 Thread Rene Rivera
WARNING, this is likely going to sound offensive to some people... Johan M:son Lindman wrote: On Tuesday 19 July 2005 17:02, you wrote: Since OpenBSD is not very helpful in this case I can only enclose the dmesg without the enclosure plugged in. But first here's the info for the enclosure as

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Gary Clemans-Gibbon
Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 11:15 PM -0700 7/18/05, Gary Clemans-Gibbon wrote: Thanks David, I just tried that line but it seems to be the same or if anything it seems even slower. I missed the start of this thread, but make sure that you do not have a duplex-mismatch with your ethernet

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 7/19/05, Stephen Marley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 01:28:17PM -0700, Gary Clemans-Gibbon wrote: A little bit more info, i ran the following... snip dont forget to use netstat -i (-e on windows) to look for errors on the line, which would be indicative of lan

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Gary Clemans-Gibbon
Stephen Marley wrote: On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 01:28:17PM -0700, Gary Clemans-Gibbon wrote: A little bit more info, i ran the following... . $ ifconfig -m dc0 dc0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 address: 00:50:bf:9c:62:e4 media: Ethernet

YA suexec question...

2005-07-19 Thread Thanos Tsouanas
Hello. I have the following problem with suexec: I've chmod'ed /usr/sbin/suexec: [1:09:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ l /usr/sbin/suexec -r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin - 12052 Feb 2 07:58 /usr/sbin/suexec* I've added User foo on a VirtualHost apache directive, but when I try to exec the cgi script I

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Daniel Ramaley
I've had this problem before. Other protocols work OK (not great, but OK), but Samba is gets modem speeds on a fast ethernet connection. I've had some success in the past by manually specifying the network speed and duplexing. See man hostname.if for info on how to do that (pay particular

Re: USB2 (EIDE) bad mojo...

2005-07-19 Thread Rene Rivera
Rogier Krieger wrote: On 7/19/05, Rene Rivera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I just can't follow current on a production server (as other users will also tell you). At the risk of sounding discourteous, you should get yourself a proper test environment. That way you can leave your

Re: Both carp interfaces are master

2005-07-19 Thread Markus Wernig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Niclas Sodergard wrote: | Hi, | | I'm having trouble with our firewalls. They are both Dell 2850 with | identical hardware inside (dmesg below). I have five carp interfaces | connected to five different em interfaces. carp0,2,3,4 works fine | (master

Re: rm: Unknown error: -618868888

2005-07-19 Thread viq
...I guess I just need to replace hardware. Now-like... viq -- Startuj z INTERIA.PL! http://link.interia.pl/f186c

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Stuart Henderson
--On 19 July 2005 10:46 -0500, Daniel Ramaley wrote: I've had this problem before. Other protocols work OK (not great, but OK), but Samba is gets modem speeds on a fast ethernet connection. I've had poor speeds samba-windows before and sometimes been able to fix it by just disabling and

Re: kdeinit problems in 3.7-current

2005-07-19 Thread Josh Grosse
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 01:56:41PM -0400, I'd written, in part: ...I'm not sure whether this is an Xorg issue, a KDE issue, or -- because I'm running firefox, an X application issue. Any advice you might have to help me narrow down the problem further would be appreciated I have managed

Re: YA suexec question...

2005-07-19 Thread knitti
On 7/20/05, Thanos Tsouanas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've added User foo on a VirtualHost apache directive, but when I try to exec the cgi script I want, these appear in the error logs: (9)Bad file descriptor: getpwuid: invalid userid 2050 2050 being the correct userid for the

ipsec bump-in-the-wire transport mode

2005-07-19 Thread Juraj Bednar
Hello, I'm fairly new to OpenBSD. I need to create a simple IPSec setup, which is (as I learned) called bump-in-the-wire. Basically, I have OpenBSD box with two ethernet interfaces bridged together. I want to protect communication with one particular server in _transport_ mode with IPSec. That

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Avtar Gill
Stephen Marley wrote: Have you tried a crossover cable, bypassing the switch? Words of wisdom right there. I would definitely try a crossover cable between the OpenBSD server and your client machine. That will show you whether the problem lies with Samba or elsewhere. I remember

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Gary Clemans-Gibbon
Avtar Gill wrote: Stephen Marley wrote: Have you tried a crossover cable, bypassing the switch? Words of wisdom right there. I would definitely try a crossover cable between the OpenBSD server and your client machine. That will show you whether the problem lies with Samba or elsewhere.

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Tim Hammerquist
Gary Clemans-Gibbon wrote: Yes, I've tried different cables and different ports on the switch. This hardware has all been used before together. I cycled the power to the switch (can't find a reset button) and no change. Via samba or SCP it takes 7 minutes to write a file to the server and 12

Amanda port WO gnuplot?

2005-07-19 Thread stan
I'm building several new 3.7 machines. These machines will be Amanda clients (only, not servers)/ Looks like the amanda port depends on gnuplot, which depends on X11. Now, I really don;t want X on these machines. Is there a way to tell the port build provess to make the client side only? Or just

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Gary Clemans-Gibbon
Tim Hammerquist wrote: Gary Clemans-Gibbon wrote: Yes, I've tried different cables and different ports on the switch. This hardware has all been used before together. I cycled the power to the switch (can't find a reset button) and no change. Via samba or SCP it takes 7 minutes to write a file

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Don Koch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I heeded your words of wisdom and after some rummaging I found a crossover cable. Hooked it up the same winXP box direct and the exact same result. Sounds like a bad nic. If you have a spare, you might try swapping with it. Also, what's the other machine and what is

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Gary Clemans-Gibbon
Don Koch wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I heeded your words of wisdom and after some rummaging I found a crossover cable. Hooked it up the same winXP box direct and the exact same result. Sounds like a bad nic. If you have a spare, you might try swapping with it. Also, what's the other

Re: Kernel Panic in 3.7

2005-07-19 Thread Ted Unangst
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Gordon Ross wrote: So that's what the kernel panic really means: Out of memory ? yes and no. it means what it says, but the root cause is being out of memory. -- And that's why we're leaving California.

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Brad
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 09:50:03PM -0400, Don Koch wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I heeded your words of wisdom and after some rummaging I found a crossover cable. Hooked it up the same winXP box direct and the exact same result. Sounds like a bad nic. If you have a spare, you might

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread John Brooks
Sounds like a bad nic. If you have a spare, you might try swapping with it. Also, what's the other machine and what is it running? The NIC is fine, and yes I swapped it out early on as well as the cable and the port on the switch. I've also tried a crossover cable. I've also

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread John Brooks
How about a nic from a different mfr? Using another good 'dc' nic doesn't rule out a basic hardware incompatibility related directly to that brand of nic card coupled with your other hardware. JB . Even though it worked fine with RH7.3 a three + year old OS ? I've seen specific

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Gary Clemans-Gibbon
John Brooks wrote: How about a nic from a different mfr? Using another good 'dc' nic doesn't rule out a basic hardware incompatibility related directly to that brand of nic card coupled with your other hardware. JB . Even though it worked fine with RH7.3 a three + year old OS ? I've

Re: sgi 02 R5K irix 6.3 4.3 unsuccessful installation

2005-07-19 Thread Steven Manos
i was under the impression that the only way to install the 3.7 release of OpenBSD/mips was via tftp / netboot. this is the only installation method mentioned in the install doc. it worked fine for me. On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 05:22:54PM -0700, Roger Neth Jr wrote: Hello List, I could not find a

Adaptec 6944a or Sun Happy Meal

2005-07-19 Thread Steven Bowers
I need to add another ethernet card to the box, but have run out of PCI slots. Currently there is an Intel dual port (fxp) in there and I'm considering one of the above as a replacement. Could anyone with experience with one of these cards comment as to the pro's/con's of either card? Steve

Re: Adaptec 6944a or Sun Happy Meal

2005-07-19 Thread Ted Unangst
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Steven Bowers wrote: I need to add another ethernet card to the box, but have run out of PCI slots. Currently there is an Intel dual port (fxp) in there and I'm considering one of the above as a replacement. Could anyone with experience with one of these cards comment as

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Darren Tucker
Gary Clemans-Gibbon wrote: Also I have just grabbed the stable branch from cvs and am running stable GENERIC and still doesn't fix it. Just a recap - the problem is not just samba writes to either of the data disks from the network via samba or scp are painfully slow. Reads from the box to the