Re: Why kernel kills processes that run out of memory instead of just failing memory allocation system calls?

2009-05-21 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Nate Eldredge (neldre...@math.ucsd.edu) wrote: There may be a way to enable the conservative behavior; I know Linux has an option to do this, but am not sure about FreeBSD. I seem to remember a patch to disable overcommit. Here we go: http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/overcommit/ --

Re: How to get filename of an open file descriptor

2007-11-18 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Skip Ford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: It would be interesting to know for sure, though, if Solaris uses hardlinks and, if so, what their utility is called. Nope. They *do* use hardlinks in that they have 32bit wrappers in /usr/bin etc which dispatch to the relevent architecture, but the

Re: page fault degaradation performance

2007-11-07 Thread Thomas Hurst
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: how to reduce the number of page faults to upgrade program or OS performance? Install more memory. I can cause paging on my hugely overendowed RELENG_6 system (8GB, ~2GB active) just by reading some big files and churning through cache. It's

Re: amrd disk performance drop after running under high load

2007-10-16 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Alexey Popov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: So I can conclude that FreeBSD has a long standing bug in VM that could be triggered when serving large amount of static data (much bigger than memory size) on high rates. Possibly this only applies to large files like mp3 or video. I've seen highly

Re: FreeBSD Hot pluggable disks (SATA?)

2007-07-26 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: It is a function of the disk controller and driver. AFAIK, the ata driver supports hot-plug as long as the SATA controller does. I believe most Promise and Intel ICH SATA controllers do, not sure about Sil or nVidia MCP. Both SiI and

Re: ollecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2006-08-07 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Eric Anderson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I saw these two warnings come up soon after rebooting a server (running 5-STABLE): kernel: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC kernel: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC I see there is a tunable

Re: Backup methodes

2005-11-08 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Carlos Silva aka |Danger_Man| ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: what is the best method to backup network information and local disk information with another disk? dump/restore performs snapshotted incremental backups of complete filesystems. -- Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst http://hur.st/

Re: temperature monitoring

2002-09-21 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Clark C. Evans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This is probably common question, but I was wondering if there is any temperature monitoring mechanisms out there; specifically for ABit motherboard (KG7). sysutils/healthd? -- Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.aagh.net/

Re: httpd in malloc(): warning: recursive call (FreeBSD error??)

2002-03-02 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Max David Krüper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have a FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE box running, when i start apache first all works fine, but after like 3 minutes in the logfile i see this messages: httpd in free(): warning: chunk is already free httpd in free(): warning: recursive call httpd in

Re: in-kernel HTTP Server for FreeBSD?

2002-02-17 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Dag-Erling Smorgrav ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hiten Pandya [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there any In-Kernel HTTP Server for FreeBSD, like there is kHTTPD for Linux? God forbid! Lots of hack value, sure, but not something you'd seriously consider for production use. Don't functions

Re: in-kernel HTTP Server for FreeBSD?

2002-02-17 Thread Thomas Hurst
* John Polstra ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: To those who dismissed it as a dumb idea: broaden your minds. It wasn't dismissed as a dumb idea, more an idea nobody would use for a production webserver, which I doubt includes: a testbed for performance testing various kinds of network appliances.

Re: New feutures...........

2001-12-15 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Wilko Bulte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 03:26:27PM +, George Reid wrote: On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 11:03:49PM +0800, Rafter Man wrote: 2. I hope that in the furture the FreeBSD developers will rewrite the system in C++. Geez, talk about a bleak outlook