Re: GEOM (ggate) compression consumer +problem

2004-10-01 Thread Ivan Voras
João Carlos Mendes Luís wrote: Instead of block compression, wouldn't it be better (and maybe easier) to use file compresion, in a VFS layer (and a threaded daemon)? Better, yes. Easier very much not, since I know something about GEOM (actually, ggate), and nothing about VFS and kernel

Sudden Reboots

2004-10-01 Thread Jim Durham
I have had this problem now with at least 3 FreeBSD servers over a period of about 2 years. I had put it down to some hardware problem but it seems to be too much of a coincidence with 3 different machines doing the same thing. The first time was when I put 4.5-RELEASE on a brand new Dell

Sigmatel USB IrDA dongle

2004-10-01 Thread ALeine
Hi, I'd like to use the SigmaTel USB IrDA dongle to connect my computer (FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE) and my mobile phone (Samsung X600). According to my log, the dongle is recognized: /kernel: ugen0: Sigmatel Inc IrDA/USB Bridge, rev 1.10/0.08, addr 2 So what do I do now? I've searched everywhere and

Re: Sigmatel USB IrDA dongle

2004-10-01 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 30), ALeine said: I'd like to use the SigmaTel USB IrDA dongle to connect my computer (FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE) and my mobile phone (Samsung X600). According to my log, the dongle is recognized: /kernel: ugen0: Sigmatel Inc IrDA/USB Bridge, rev 1.10/0.08, addr 2 So

Re: Sudden Reboots

2004-10-01 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Jim Durham writes: | I have had this problem now with at least 3 FreeBSD servers over a period of | about 2 years. I had put it down to some hardware problem but it seems to be | too much of a coincidence with 3 different machines doing the same thing. | | The first time was when I put

Re: Sudden Reboots

2004-10-01 Thread John Von Essen
Could there be some more elaboration on these memory issues. From the way you described it, it sounds like if you have two machines serving the same function with the same load, and one machine has 512Mb and the other has 2.5Gb, the one with more memory might be prone to be more problems. Why

Re: Sudden Reboots

2004-10-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 10:03:00AM -0400, Jim Durham wrote: I have had this problem now with at least 3 FreeBSD servers over a period of about 2 years. I had put it down to some hardware problem but it seems to be too much of a coincidence with 3 different machines doing the same thing.

Re: Sudden Reboots

2004-10-01 Thread Jim Durham
On Friday 01 October 2004 12:36 pm, Doug Ambrisko wrote: Jim Durham writes: | I have had this problem now with at least 3 FreeBSD servers over a period | of about 2 years. I had put it down to some hardware problem but it seems | to be too much of a coincidence with 3 different machines doing

Re: Sudden Reboots

2004-10-01 Thread Jim Durham
On Friday 01 October 2004 06:38 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 10:03:00AM -0400, Jim Durham wrote: I have had this problem now with at least 3 FreeBSD servers over a period of about 2 years. I had put it down to some hardware problem but it seems to be too much of a

Re: Sudden Reboots

2004-10-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 08:23:04PM -0400, Jim Durham wrote: Actual spontaneous reboots are very rare These are very rare except they seem to happen about once a day for a while and then stop... very strange.. and usually caused by hardware problems (e.g. faulty power supply,

Re: Sudden Reboots

2004-10-01 Thread Jim Durham
On Friday 01 October 2004 06:38 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: Do you have ddb enabled? I just recompiled the kernel (4.10 patchlevel 3) and installed it. It's in use right now and I can't reboot it, but it may do so for me! 8- ). If not, I'll do it early tommorow AM. I used options DDB and

Re: Sudden Reboots

2004-10-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 08:37:34PM -0400, Jim Durham wrote: On Friday 01 October 2004 06:38 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: Do you have ddb enabled? I just recompiled the kernel (4.10 patchlevel 3) and installed it. It's in use right now and I can't reboot it, but it may do so for me! 8- ).

Re: Sudden Reboots

2004-10-01 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Jim Durham writes: [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] | On Friday 01 October 2004 12:36 pm, Doug Ambrisko wrote: | Jim Durham writes: | | I have had this problem now with at least 3 FreeBSD servers over a period | | of about 2 years. I had put it down to some hardware problem but

Amazing.

2004-10-01 Thread Frank Mayhar
I just want to drop a line to you folks (and to Bill Paul in particular) to express my appreciation for your work. I received my new laptop today after my old one finally succumbed to a combination of old age and ancient coffee spills. I installed 5.3-BETA6 on it immediately, no trouble, it knew

Re: Sudden Reboots

2004-10-01 Thread David Scheidt
On Oct 1, 2004, at 7:23 PM, Jim Durham wrote: These are very rare except they seem to happen about once a day for a while and then stop... very strange.. and usually caused by hardware problems (e.g. faulty power supply, overheating CPU, bad RAM). Possible, but if so, the hardware fixed

Re: Sudden Reboots

2004-10-01 Thread Bruce R. Montague
Hi, re: The odd thing was that it was happening at virtualy the same time every morning [...] Then, they both just *stopped doing it by themselves* with no apparent correlation to anything installed software-wise. Neither server has had any problem for over a year now. * What was the

Re: Sudden Reboots

2004-10-01 Thread Jim Durham
On Friday 01 October 2004 11:34 pm, Bruce R. Montague wrote: Hi, re: The odd thing was that it was happening at virtualy the same time every morning [...] Then, they both just *stopped doing it by themselves* with no apparent correlation to anything installed software-wise. Neither