Re: terrible performance in 6.1beta4

2006-03-30 Thread Bill Moran
Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 10:49:01PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kris, Yes, this is my impression of the problem too. Any time your process is waiting on disk I/O it is going to perform terribly (on any OS - disks are slow), and the way to

Re: SiI3112 Controller Question

2006-03-30 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:51 PM -0800 3/30/06, Richard P. Koett wrote: Some quick questions: 1) Are these SiI3112 controllers any good? They suck. They are horrible. They are very cheap to buy -- and are overpriced after you add in all the aggravation they provide. Don't waste your time on them. Buy a real SATA

Re: something better then rsync for duplicating systems ... ?

2006-03-30 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 6:46 PM -0400 3/30/06, Marc G. Fournier wrote: I have two servers, one of them a backup of the other ... right now, I'm using rsync to do it, but since rsync has to traverse both servers file systems to do its comparison, it puts a good load on the system, and takes awhile to run ... You

Re: terrible performance in 6.1beta4

2006-03-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 07:24:37PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 10:49:01PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kris, Yes, this is my impression of the problem too. Any time your process is waiting on disk I/O it is going

RE: SiI3112 Controller Question

2006-03-30 Thread Richard P. Koett
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Richard P. Koett wrote: 1) Are these SiI3112 controllers any good? I have the option of using a HighPoint HPT372 instead but was planning to use that elsewhere. A simple google for sil3112 freebsd will return you plenty of responses which will provide an answer to

Re: terrible performance in 6.1beta4

2006-03-30 Thread Bill Moran
Miguel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Miguel attached is my config file, shared_buffers are 25% of total RAM im guessing that this is a disk controlled bug or something, when i execute any query involving many rows, the server response is very low, ssh, su, even copy

RE: SiI3112 Controller Question

2006-03-30 Thread Richard P. Koett
Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 1:51 PM -0800 3/30/06, Richard P. Koett wrote: Some quick questions: 1) Are these SiI3112 controllers any good? They suck. They are horrible. They are very cheap to buy -- and are overpriced after you add in all the aggravation they provide. Don't waste

HP OfficeJet 4215 Scanner question

2006-03-30 Thread M. Warner Losh
[[ please CC me on any reply, I'm not on this list ]] Greetings, I was wondering if anybody had any luck getting an HP OfficeJet 4125 working on FreeBSD. I plugged it into my 6.1-beta4 system, and it was recognized as a printer. However, my attempts to get sane to access the scanner portion

Re: ASCII files becoming double lined

2006-03-30 Thread wc_fbsd
Vaaf wrote: I pointed out a flaw in FreeBSD's methodology. The fact that it doesn't have one. I thought you were using DragonFlyBSD now. Why are you complaining on this list then? If there is one thing Vaaf does well, it's annoying all of you. If you judge it based on the number of

Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade

2006-03-30 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Thursday 30 March 2006 17:53, Albert Shih wrote: Le 30/03/2006 à 14:42:10-0800, Micah a écrit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1.5.0.1_2 was commited last night, so it's probably a recent breakage. I just found a bug report on it at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=95100 So we

Re: formating a disk

2006-03-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi all I've strange problem with a external disk (firewire). I don't know how I can format it. I've already format this disk (on my FreeBSD box with newfs), after that I re­format this disk with Windows XP (maybe bad idea ;-) ) and now I cannot format the disk with anything When I

Re: HP OfficeJet 4215 Scanner question

2006-03-30 Thread Danny Pansters
On Friday 31 March 2006 02:45, M. Warner Losh wrote: [[ please CC me on any reply, I'm not on this list ]] Greetings, I was wondering if anybody had any luck getting an HP OfficeJet 4125 working on FreeBSD. I plugged it into my 6.1-beta4 system, and it was recognized as a printer.

Re: HP OfficeJet 4215 Scanner question

2006-03-30 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Danny Pansters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : On Friday 31 March 2006 02:45, M. Warner Losh wrote: : [[ please CC me on any reply, I'm not on this list ]] : : Greetings, : : I was wondering if anybody had any luck getting an HP OfficeJet 4125 : working

Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade

2006-03-30 Thread Pete Slagle
Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Thursday 30 March 2006 17:53, Albert Shih wrote: Le 30/03/2006 à 14:42:10-0800, Micah a écrit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1.5.0.1_2 was commited last night, so it's probably a recent breakage. I just found a bug report on it at

Re: SiI3112 Controller Question

2006-03-30 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Mar 30, 2006, at 5:45 PM, Richard P. Koett wrote: Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 1:51 PM -0800 3/30/06, Richard P. Koett wrote: Some quick questions: 1) Are these SiI3112 controllers any good? They suck. They are horrible. They are very cheap to buy -- and are overpriced after you add in

bge0 problem on 6.1-PRERELEASE

2006-03-30 Thread SungGON Yi.
I am using 6.x on Tyan S2885ANRF board and add one more lan card. Deive names are bge0 (board lan) and bge1 (additional land card). These worked well on FreeBSD 6.0-amd64 stable. But when I updated to 6.1-PRERELEASE version, I had below messages and bge0 did not work. bge1 worked well as

sshd BREAKIN ?

2006-03-30 Thread Tang Ho Yim
I got a error messages from /var/log/auth.log which is about sshd.. .sshd : reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for core-01.148.rdcw.com failed - POSSIBLE BREAKIN ATTEMPT ! all my sshd_config is default setting except I have change to PasswordAuthentication NO ,

Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade

2006-03-30 Thread Robert Huff
Pete Slagle writes: This happened to me also, until I remembered this has happened before and what to try. Login as root, start the GUI (mine is KDE), open a terminal program and start firefox from there. After that, I had no problems. It's working fine. Surprisingly,

Re: ipfw secure setup for ssh bruteforcers

2006-03-30 Thread Olivier Nicole
admin said that doing this can be bad, especially when the kiddy is connected to a large network like a company or university; I may block other people who aren't guilty of the act. (which makes sense) I know I have no problem with blocking one IP from a larger network, nor even blocking the

Re: sshd BREAKIN ?

2006-03-30 Thread Wee-Sern Soo
Checked that your machine core-01.148.rdcw.com has a PTR record in DNS. It is used to determine name of machine from the IP address. Regards, Wee-Sern Tang Ho Yim wrote the following on 31/03/2006 2:48 PM: I got a error messages from /var/log/auth.log which is about sshd..

Re: sshd BREAKIN ?

2006-03-30 Thread jdow
From: Tang Ho Yim [EMAIL PROTECTED] I got a error messages from /var/log/auth.log which is about sshd.. .sshd : reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for core-01.148.rdcw.com failed - POSSIBLE BREAKIN ATTEMPT ! all my sshd_config is default setting except I have change to

Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade

2006-03-30 Thread Micah
Pete Slagle wrote: Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Thursday 30 March 2006 17:53, Albert Shih wrote: Le 30/03/2006 à 14:42:10-0800, Micah a écrit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1.5.0.1_2 was commited last night, so it's probably a recent breakage. I just found a bug report on it at

Re: sshd BREAKIN ?

2006-03-30 Thread Tang Ho Yim
core-01.148.rdcw.com is not my machine...how come ? Wee-Sern Soo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Checked that your machine core-01.148.rdcw.com has a PTR record in DNS. It is used to determine name of machine from the IP address. Regards, Wee-Sern Tang Ho Yim wrote the following on 31/03/2006

Hard crash on 6.x -- reproducible, multiple people affected

2006-03-30 Thread Peter Thoenen
Hallo everybody. Will prob end up PR'ing this but want to post to the list first and get some feelers. At first I thought it was just me but as the port maintainer for tor-devel I have had a couple other folk email me with the exact same problem (believing tor to be the cause). Its not.

Re: formating a disk

2006-03-30 Thread Albert Shih
Le 30/03/2006 20:19:17-0500, Jerry McAllister a ?crit I wonder what exactly you mean by 'format'. We don't tend to use that word to mean making slices (fdisk), partitions (disklabel/bsdlabel) or file systems (newfs). Well the purpose is of course newfs. Usually format refers to

Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade

2006-03-30 Thread Yuan Jue
On Friday 31 March 2006 09:18, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: This happened to me also, until I remembered this has happened before and what to try. Login as root, start the GUI (mine is KDE), open a terminal program and start firefox from there. After that, I had no problems. It's working fine.

Re: terrible performance in 6.1beta4

2006-03-30 Thread usleepless
Bill, Actually I seem to recall that on Linux with default settings fsync() lies and does not actually sync data before returning, so maybe it's worth turning off on FreeBSD too if you're comfortable with the implications of this. If you have fsync off and the system crashes, your

Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade

2006-03-30 Thread Wee-Sern Soo
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/releases/1.5.0.1.html#issues It's a known issue. Need to run as privileged user on all platforms, the first time. Yuan Jue wrote the following on 31/03/2006 4:46 PM: On Friday 31 March 2006 09:18, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: This happened to me also, until I

Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade

2006-03-30 Thread Graham North
Okay - I'm pretty close to newbie status, but could this be a needed rehash? G/ -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.3.3/298 - Release

Re: terrible performance in 6.1beta4

2006-03-30 Thread usleepless
Miguel, you are not inserting into an indexed table, are you? yes, i am... is that a problem? it used to be a problem, but since your gentoo box is doing the same task in 4-5 minutes, i doubt it is currently the problem. i seem to recall some speedup of the copyin-command in one of the

Re: reciept of damaged jewel cases.

2006-03-30 Thread usleepless
Geoff, I could use 2 jewel cases like the 6.0 to hold the 3 versions currently floating caseless i am not sure what you are saying here. Myers 4425c Treat Blvd PMB#337 concord, ca. 94521 also find the culprit :) you have not identified the shop where you got your CDs from yet. regards,

Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade

2006-03-30 Thread Yuan Jue
On Friday 31 March 2006 13:52, you wrote: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/releases/1.5.0.1.html#issues It's a known issue. Need to run as privileged user on all platforms, the first time. got it. thanks again :) Yuan Jue wrote the following on 31/03/2006 4:46 PM: On Friday 31 March 2006

Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade

2006-03-30 Thread Yuan Jue
On Friday 31 March 2006 14:02, Graham North wrote: Okay - I'm pretty close to newbie status, but could this be a needed rehash? sorry, but what is your point? -- Best Regards Yuan Jue @ www.yuanjue.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Best way to print photos

2006-03-30 Thread M. Warner Losh
Let us suppose that I have a HP DeskJet 5850 that I can talk to via CUPS. I can print test pages w/o any problem. What are my options to print photos and what kind of quality can I expect relative to Windows? Warner ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade

2006-03-30 Thread Graham North
As said, I am pretty new to unix but is the rehash command not used for reorganized the userland directory iindexes after program upgrades? G/ Yuan Jue wrote: On Friday 31 March 2006 14:02, Graham North wrote: Okay - I'm pretty close to newbie status, but could this be a needed rehash?

freebsd log files

2006-03-30 Thread Logan McNaughton
What log file stors things like system shutdown notices and that, I want to run root-tail in my icewm background, and Im looking for the right log file to show, i tried /var/log/messages, but it doesnt show shutdown notices, can anyone help me out? thanks

Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade

2006-03-30 Thread Yuan Jue
On Friday 31 March 2006 14:20, Graham North wrote: As said, I am pretty new to unix but is the rehash command not used for reorganized the userland directory iindexes after program upgrades? if what you mean is why firefox cannot start after upgrade, then this is maybe a mozilla known problem.

Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade

2006-03-30 Thread Graham North
Hi Yuan: I did not pose a question. My suggestion to do a rehash was in response to someone else having trouble after upgrading Firefox. It may or may not have been a great suggestion but that is all it was. If you have a good understanding of that command and why it may or may not be

Re: freebsd log files

2006-03-30 Thread Olivier Nicole
What log file stors things like system shutdown notices and that, I want to It may depend on your setting, in my /var/log/messages I see things like: Mar 23 11:07:00 machine reboot: rebooted by root Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: something better then rsync for duplicating systems ... ?

2006-03-30 Thread bsd
Unison? It's in ports. On 3/30/06, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have two servers, one of them a backup of the other ... right now, I'm using rsync to do it, but since rsync has to traverse both servers file systems to do its comparison, it puts a good load on the system, and

ipf and ipnat stopped working, no routing between nics.

2006-03-30 Thread Daniel A.
Hi, I run a FreeBSD 6.0 at home in my closet. Yesterday, while I was linking IRCd services with a friend of mine, my router completely stopped routing any packets between the internal nic (sis0) and the external nic (rl0). The only thing that I can think of, whoich could have caused this, is that

The packages in FreeBSD

2006-03-30 Thread retrograd
Hello! Does the package openldap with mysql backend exist or I need to compile it myself from a source? Best regards, Maxim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: ipf and ipnat stopped working, no routing between nics.

2006-03-30 Thread Erik Norgaard
Daniel A. wrote: Hi, I run a FreeBSD 6.0 at home in my closet. Yesterday, while I was linking IRCd services with a friend of mine, my router completely stopped routing any packets between the internal nic (sis0) and the external nic (rl0). The only thing that I can think of, whoich could have

Re: getop.h conflict when building audio/akode

2006-03-30 Thread Olivier Nicole
Deinstall the libgnugetopt port - it's only needed on FreeBSD releases earl= ier=20 than 5.x and causes buildtime errors on later versions (as you found out). Thanks. After I managed to rebuild audio/akode, it seems that it was not depending on libgnugetopt anymore. I cannot get rid of

Re: The packages in FreeBSD

2006-03-30 Thread Peter
--- retrograd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! Does the package openldap with mysql backend exist or I need to compile it myself from a source? Best regards, Maxim If I were you I would search the (openldap server) port's Makefile for SQL Backend.

Re: Packet drops and queue length upon bandwidth limiting in PF

2006-03-30 Thread Ashish Awasthi
On 3/30/06, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ashish Awasthi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a relative newbie, so please don't flame me if my question doesn't make sense. In a network experiment to determine appropriate length of router buffers, I am using pfctl on FreeBSD 5.3 to

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