Re: Massive apache slowdown after high load period

2006-06-22 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Steven Hartland wrote: We've just had a box which was subjected to a large amount of small apache requests once this subsided the response of apache was still very slow. Many seconds between requests showing in tcpdump and response being returned. Upon investigation it

6.1 quota bugs cause adaptec 2820sa kernel to crash ?

2006-06-22 Thread Ensel Sharon
FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE, p4 xeon system, adaptec 2820sa SATA raid controller with all 8 disks in use. Two arrays are present - a mirror to boot from, and a 6-disk raid6 array of size 1.8TB. I am aware that there are problems with quotas in 6.1, but I am successfully using them with 6.0-RELEASE and

Real time privileges for non-root users

2006-06-22 Thread mal content
Hello. Is it possible to grant real-time privileges to ordinary users (not root) under FreeBSD? I'm doing some audio work and I'd like to give real time privileges to my user id. MC ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list

problem of boot/reboot from SimpleTech SP-U25/60 USB drive on PCG-6J2L

2006-06-22 Thread Jin Guojun [VFFS]
This is my first time to install FreeBSD 5.x/6.x on a USB drive, so I am not sure if the boot/reboot problem is particular to this drive (SimpleTech SP-U25/60), or it is a generic USB issue (I do not have a second USB drive to confirm the problem). This USB device contains a WDC WD60

Coding question: finding the size of a block device

2006-06-22 Thread Andrew
Hello, First off, is this the appropriate list for coding questions? I read questions@, but I do not often see discussions about code there, so I thought I might ask here instead. If not, please correct me. I need to know the size of a block device in some code that I'm writing. I checked the

Re: Coding question: finding the size of a block device

2006-06-22 Thread Mike Meyer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: So I guess my question is: is there a POSIX compatible function that will allow me to check the size of a given block device? I'd be surprised - POSIX doesn't seem to deal with block devices at all. Checking the sources to df, it uses

Re: Coding question: finding the size of a block device

2006-06-22 Thread Dave Cornejo
There are no block devices in FreeBSD, only character devices http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/driverbasics-block.html dave c In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: So I guess my question is: is there a POSIX compatible function that will allow

Re: Coding question: finding the size of a block device

2006-06-22 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 22), Mike Meyer said: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: So I guess my question is: is there a POSIX compatible function that will allow me to check the size of a given block device? I'd be surprised - POSIX doesn't seem to deal with block

Re: Coding question: finding the size of a block device

2006-06-22 Thread Eric Anderson
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jun 22), Mike Meyer said: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: So I guess my question is: is there a POSIX compatible function that will allow me to check the size of a given block device? I'd be surprised - POSIX doesn't seem to deal