Re: max kernel memory

2001-06-20 Thread Ashutosh S. Rajekar
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: to handle more then 250 requests/sec. With the connection load you want to handle, the chance of the data being cacheable in ram is fairly low. So a disk-based caching proxy will drop connection performance by two orders of

Re: max kernel memory

2001-06-20 Thread Matt Dillon
: :On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: : : to handle more then 250 requests/sec. With the connection load you : want to handle, the chance of the data being cacheable in ram is : fairly low. So a disk-based caching proxy will drop connection : performance by two orders of

Re: max kernel memory

2001-06-20 Thread Ashutosh S. Rajekar
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: This is fairly easy to do. You can use SO_SNDBUF and SO_RCVBUF socket opts to adjust the tcp buffer space. You can make the default small and receive-centric and when you think you've got a good connection you can pump it up. I

Re: max kernel memory

2001-06-20 Thread Terry Lambert
Ashutosh S. Rajekar wrote: For the diskless case I don't know if you can make it to a million simultanious connections, but Terry has gotten his boxes to do a hundred thousand so we know that at least is doable. But rather then spend a Hmmm. I wonder how much TCP/IP

Re: max kernel memory

2001-06-20 Thread Ashutosh S. Rajekar
I guess we beat you to the punch... We have a product which is now shipping, and which currently supports 1,000,000 concurrent connections. I guess quite a lot of people are at it right now, the prime one is NetScaler. If I'm not wrong, they brag about a million connections or so, on a

Re: [xine-devel] FreeBSD 4.3 pthread implementation and FPU code

2001-06-20 Thread Michel LESPINASSE
Guenter, This code flips one bit in the eflags register, checking for the presense of the cpuid instruction. I'm not sure at all why this would have any side effects on any processor/OS combination - theorically there should be none... However H}kan had (if I remember right) already reported a

RE: Anyone see todays Wall Street Journal article: Microsoft Using Free Software (or something to that effect)

2001-06-20 Thread Jeroen Massar
Jordan Hubbard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's the BSD license for ya. There needs to be a license that says something to the effect of Anyone can use/buy/sell/modify/distribute this software with or without source code except Microsoft. Why? I'd personally be happy if Microsoft

Re: max kernel memory

2001-06-20 Thread Terry Lambert
Ashutosh S. Rajekar wrote: I guess we beat you to the punch... We have a product which is now shipping, and which currently supports 1,000,000 concurrent connections. I guess quite a lot of people are at it right now, the prime one is NetScaler. If I'm not wrong, they brag about a

Re: max kernel memory

2001-06-20 Thread Ashutosh S. Rajekar
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: Their 3200 only has 1G of RAM; you could _barely_ fit the TCP state for 1,000,000 connections into just 1G of RAM, and have a tiny amount left over for buffers, drivers, the rest of your kernel, etc.. I can't believe that their 3100 (only 512M of

submit article to sys admin magazine?

2001-06-20 Thread Gilbert Gong
After reading Michael's post at: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=2112 and exchanging a few emails with him, I've became convinced it might be reasonable to try to write an article and submit it to sys admin magazine, in re: tuning a freebsd box properly. The goal would be to

Re: [xine-devel] FreeBSD 4.3 pthread implementation and FPU code

2001-06-20 Thread H}kan Hjort
Wed Jun 20 2001, Michel LESPINASSE wrote: Guenter, This code flips one bit in the eflags register, checking for the presense of the cpuid instruction. I'm not sure at all why this would have any side effects on any processor/OS combination - theorically there should be none... However

Re: max kernel memory

2001-06-20 Thread Matt Dillon
: :On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: : : This is fairly easy to do. You can use SO_SNDBUF and SO_RCVBUF : socket opts to adjust the tcp buffer space. You can make the default : small and receive-centric and when you think you've got a good : connection you can pump it up.

Re: max kernel memory

2001-06-20 Thread void
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 12:04:22AM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote: A web proxy could be round-robined fairly easily, but for a mail relay it is often a good idea to split the incoming and outgoing mail into two separate round robins (two separate groups of machines). Why's that?

ProFTPd

2001-06-20 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey, I am using proftpd 1.2.1, after a complete CVSup to 3.5-STABLE (this is a production machine, going to 4 would cause way too many headaches). Anyway, I get this classic error in my logs: Jun 20 14:24:02 prime proftpd[36049]: no modules loaded for `ftp' service Jun 20 14:24:02 prime

Re: ProFTPd

2001-06-20 Thread Joe Clarke
I've heard that PAM in 3.x is mostly broken, but this is what I use for ProFTPd in 4.3-RELEASE, and it works fine: ftp authrequiredpam_unix.so try_first_pass ftp account requiredpam_unix.so try_first_pass ftp session requiredpam_permit.so Joe Clarke On Wed, 20

Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-20 Thread Dave McKay
Jordan Hubbard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: From: Jeroen Massar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code? Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 13:16:20 +0200 It all sounds really odd to me but alas a cat does stupid things when it gets cornered... I

Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-20 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Dave McKay [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010620 15:26] wrote: Jordan Hubbard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: From: Jeroen Massar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code? Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 13:16:20 +0200 It all sounds really odd to me but alas a

Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-20 Thread Peter
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6322264.html?tag=tp_pr Gates talks about GPL and being against it. ---Quote: In an interview Tuesday with CNET News.com at the TechEd 2001 conference, Gates observed that Microsoft routinely shares the source code for its Windows operating system with its

Re: max kernel memory

2001-06-20 Thread Rik van Riel
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: I don't think this represents the biggest problem you would face, though. It is far more likely that hung or slow connections (e.g. the originator goes away without disconnecting the socket or the originator is on a slow link) will

Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-20 Thread Nick Sayer
Peter wrote: However, Gates said, there are problems for commercial users relative to the (GNU General Public License), and we are just making sure people understand the GPL. end Quote. But the issue is that wasn't the end of the quotation. Later on, Bubba says, And so people

Re: max kernel memory

2001-06-20 Thread Sergey Babkin
Terry Lambert wrote: Ashutosh S. Rajekar wrote: I guess we beat you to the punch... We have a product which is now shipping, and which currently supports 1,000,000 concurrent connections. I guess quite a lot of people are at it right now, the prime one is NetScaler. If I'm

Re: max kernel memory

2001-06-20 Thread Sergey Babkin
Ashutosh S. Rajekar wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: Their 3200 only has 1G of RAM; you could _barely_ fit the TCP state for 1,000,000 connections into just 1G of RAM, and have a tiny amount left over for buffers, drivers, the rest of your kernel, etc.. I can't

Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-20 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GPL is great for simple things, that don't create any standard, but work upon one. But as even RMS [I think it was RMS] agreed, BSD license is much better for 'standards'. -- ie the oog format was BSD licensed and the GPL people endorsed it because this would

Re: Changes to the /etc/rc* boot system

2001-06-20 Thread David O'Brien
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 11:32:24PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: I think that we're closer to agreement here than it may appear. Last I heard from obrien he was overloaded, and wasn't looking to head this up himself unless no one else was going to do it. At this point I view myself as more

Your new web site

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Re: Your new web site

2001-06-20 Thread David Preece
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Re: Your new web site

2001-06-20 Thread Matthew Jacob
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Re: max kernel memory

2001-06-20 Thread Terry Lambert
void wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 12:04:22AM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote: A web proxy could be round-robined fairly easily, but for a mail relay it is often a good idea to split the incoming and outgoing mail into two separate round robins (two separate groups of

Re: max kernel memory

2001-06-20 Thread Terry Lambert
Rik van Riel wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: I don't think this represents the biggest problem you would face, though. It is far more likely that hung or slow connections (e.g. the originator goes away without disconnecting the socket or the