Re: How to convert BIND to TinyDNS?

2006-01-04 Thread Benson Wong
This is the cheat sheet I have at the top of my tinydns data (definition) file: ### # TinyDNS Data File for domains hosted on our primary name server # Notes: # # Make sure all domains use [a.ns.domain.com] and

Re: Help on bash script?

2005-08-12 Thread Benson Wong
I prefer: for COREFILE in `find / -type f -name core -print` do ... done Wouldn't that accomplish the same thing? On 8/12/05, Ian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri 12 Aug 2005 09:33:54 +0800 Xu Qiang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: find / -type f -name core -print | while

Re: bge0: WatchDog Timedout -- resetting in FreeBSD 5.3

2005-08-05 Thread Benson Wong
I had this problem last week after upgrading to a newer 5.4-STABLE. The problem looked like an IRQ problem since both bge interfaces were sharing the same IRQ. The problem went away after disabling hyper threading in bios. The box is a dual XEON so I had enabled SMP. SMP works fine, but HTT was

Re: FreeBSD 5.4+SMP, severe network degredation

2005-07-28 Thread Benson Wong
I've been having similar issues after upgrading to the latest 5.4-STABLE. I used to have it running 5.4-STABLE with the GENERIC PAE kernel. I rebuilt the world, and the kernel and now my bge (1Gbit) gets a lot of watchdog timeout -- resetting issues. I have acpi enabled in my kernel as well,

Load much higher after upgrading to 5.4-STABLE

2005-07-26 Thread Benson Wong
Hi, I upgraded from 5.4-STABLE (about 5 months old) to 5.4-STABLE as of last Sunday. Went through the standard procedure, buildkernel, buildworld, install kernel, install world, mergemaster, etc. The system functions normally except now load on the system hovers around 2.4 average, where it

Re: installing big qmail server ... where to start?

2005-05-09 Thread Benson Wong
I told the XRAID to slice the 2 x 2.2TB arrays into 4 x 1.1TB arrays. No problems after that. Ben. On 5/6/05, Matthias F. Brandstetter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- quoting Benson Wong -- There are a couple of issues you will run into here. 1. Mass storage. FreeBSD doesn't

Re: installing big qmail server ... where to start?

2005-05-05 Thread Benson Wong
I'm CC this answer back to FBSD-Questions. On 5/5/05, Odhiambo Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Benson Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20050505 02:56]: wrote: Hi Ben, I run a qmail-ldap installation for about 10,000 users. Each has 100MB of quota. I use 2 LDAP servers, 2 qmail servers

Re: installing big qmail server ... where to start?

2005-05-04 Thread Benson Wong
I run a qmail-ldap installation for about 10,000 users. Each has 100MB of quota. I use 2 LDAP servers, 2 qmail servers and have all the Maildirs stored on a 5.6TB Xserve RAID. There are a couple of issues you will run into here. 1. Mass storage. FreeBSD doesn't support file systems 2TB, at

Re: Where to find good/cheap tech support

2005-04-25 Thread Benson Wong
I've actually seen the ATAPI_TIMEOUT problems before, but not with an Adaptec SCSI card. I thought I wrote up about it here: http://www.mostlygeek.com/node/22 but looks like I didn't bother mentioning the ATAPI_TIMEOUT problems. Oops. I think I'll have to update it. First of all, does the system

Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions - UPDATE

2005-04-22 Thread Benson Wong
No. Doesn't work. Fdisk couldn't figure out how to partition it correctly. Actually it had a very hard time figuring out the correct Cylinder, Heads, Sectors values that worked correctly. I gave up on this. I boot from a 3Ware RAID5 host array (160GB). 2. No. I had 2.2TB arrays and I couldn't

Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions - UPDATE

2005-04-22 Thread Benson Wong
Hi Edgar, Good to hear you finally got it running. Sounds like you went through the same challenges I went through. I wound up getting FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE running and it's been stable for weeks. I put it through quite a bit of load lately and it seems to running well. Comments below: As

Solution for ATAPI_TIMEOUT on FreeBSD 5.3 on some SuperMicro motherboards

2005-04-15 Thread Benson Wong
Hi, I know a few people have had ATAPI_TIMEOUT errors when installing 5.3-RELEASE on SuperMicro motherboards. I got it successfully installed on a SuperMicro X6DHE-X8 which has dual Broadcom 5721 which are not supported in 5.3-RELEASE. I wrote up the solution here:

Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions

2005-04-15 Thread Benson Wong
If your array is just going to used for one large filesystem, you can skip any partitioning steps and newfs the base device directly. then if you decide to grow the array (and if your controller supports nondestructive resizing), you can use growfs to expand the filesystem without the

Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions

2005-04-14 Thread Benson Wong
I'm halfway through a project using about the same amount of storage, 5.6TB on an attach Apple XServe RAID. After everything I have about 4.4TB of usable space, 14 x 400GB HDDs in 2 RAID5 arrays. All, I have a project in which I have purchased the hardware to build a massive file server

Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions

2005-04-14 Thread Benson Wong
From my experience mucking around with UFS1/UFS2 this is what I learned. On UFS2 the largest filesystem you can have is 2TB. I tried with a 2.2TB and it wouldn't handle it. I read somewhere that with UFS2 you have 2^(32-1) 1K-blocks and UFS1 supports 2^(31-1) 1K blocks per filesystem. That is

Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions

2005-04-14 Thread Benson Wong
!! PS: Muhaa haa haa! From: Nick Pavlica [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 2:49 PM To: Benson Wong Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions

Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions

2005-04-14 Thread Benson Wong
So theoretically it should go over 1000TBI've conducted several bastardized installations due to sysinstall not being able to do anything over the 2TB limit by creating the partition ahead of timeI am going to be attacking this tonight and my efforts will be primarily focused on creating one

Does the mpt(4) driver work for the LSI Logic 929X chipset?

2005-03-21 Thread Benson Wong
Hi, I am thinking of getting an LSI Logic LSI7202XP-LC Fibre Channel card (uses 929X). I read the hardware compatibility list for FreeBSD 5.3 and it says there is full support for the 929 chipset. I was wondering if that also extends to the 929X as well. The X means that the card uses PCI-X. I

Re: FreeBSD 4.10 not finding 3ware controllers

2004-10-22 Thread Benson Wong
] wrote: On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:55:12 -0700, Benson Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just got a new server with a SuperMicro X6DH8-G motherboard. it's basically a dual xeon board with 2 3Ware controllers in it. The Controllers: 8006-2LP 8506-4LP A couple of days ago I installed

FreeBSD 4.10 not finding 3ware controllers

2004-10-21 Thread Benson Wong
Hi, I just got a new server with a SuperMicro X6DH8-G motherboard. it's basically a dual xeon board with 2 3Ware controllers in it. The Controllers: 8006-2LP 8506-4LP A couple of days ago I installed 4.10 on old Dell 300S PowerEdge server, with the same 3ware controllers and the installation