Re: Performance benchmarks pitting FreeBSD against Windows

2008-12-05 Thread Ivan Voras
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I don't even know if this has been done before, nor do I know for sure > if it's a sound comparison. Never the less, someone posted, in response > to someone else here just a few days ago, some very nice benchmarks > provided by Kris ?Kenneway? I could be wrong o

Re: what script is whacking root's files

2008-12-04 Thread Ivan Voras
Derek Ragona wrote: > This particular server is running in a VM on a vmware esx 3.5 server. > The server runs fine, but every so often the dot files disappear for > root. I have not found the behavior to follow a reboot, but some period > of time. Hence my suspicions it was a periodic script. >

Re: Tool for benchmark local disk vs. iSCSI

2008-12-04 Thread Ivan Voras
Wojciech Puchar wrote: >>> >>> My first thought was about "iozone"... >> >> iozone is ok, but a little complex to run. Any disk benchmark will be ok >> - bonnie++, blogbench, etc. but each has an emphasis on a different >> aspect of the system. I think bonnie++ will be the simplest in your case. >

Re: Tool for benchmark local disk vs. iSCSI

2008-12-04 Thread Ivan Voras
Ewald Jenisch wrote: > Hi, > > To gain an understanding on the performance of iSCSI vs. local disk IO > I'm looking for a tool. > > My first thought was about "iozone"... iozone is ok, but a little complex to run. Any disk benchmark will be ok - bonnie++, blogbench, etc. but each has an emphasis

Re: Best Journaling File System - ZFS/???

2008-12-03 Thread Ivan Voras
Wojciech Puchar wrote: >>> what file system would you choose? What options are out there besides >>> UFS and ZFS? What FS's are least likely to have corruption issues >>> when there are power hits? >> >> May be UFS + gjournal. >> I use gjournal since FreeBSD 7.0 and it seems to work fine. > is it r

Re: Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-02 Thread Ivan Voras
Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> >>> What about DragonFlyBSD's new HAMMER FS? I hear it has similar >>> capabilities >>> as ZFS without the overhead. Though, strangely, I haven't really heard >>> anyone discuss it even though it was released some months ago. > > it's maybe pre-pre-prerelease. > > it's

Re: Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-02 Thread Ivan Voras
Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> >> It's already usable on DragonFly. DragonFLY itself is stable, but only >> supports one CPUIt probably will never be ported to FreeBSD due to >> API differences. > > time to wait and see if they will really make dragonfly faster than > FreeBSD (it's their goal)... http

Re: Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-02 Thread Ivan Voras
2008/12/2 Nathan Lay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > What about DragonFlyBSD's new HAMMER FS? I hear it has similar capabilities > as ZFS without the overhead. Though, strangely, I haven't really heard > anyone discuss it even though it was released some months ago. Well, that's because it doesn't :) __

Re: Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-01 Thread Ivan Voras
Kirk Strauser wrote: > At this point, I'm almost ready to go back to good ol' UFS2, but I'd hate to > give up that easy addition of new filesystems. I *could* have a single 700GB > root FS but that just doesn't seem right. Are there any good, tested GEOM- > based ways of getting that functiona

Re: RAID5 on FreeBSD 6 or 7

2008-12-01 Thread Ivan Voras
Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> fast, though. See it's page on Wikipedia for more info. I'd use it >> more if it >> was part of official FreeBSD release, but for now it is only available >> as a >> patch (AFAIK). > > which is strange. someone don't like RAID5 to be included in system? I'd like to see

Re: Pasting via ssh causes data loss

2008-12-01 Thread Ivan Voras
Chris wrote: > a cat >testfile then pasted through an ssh terminal.app connection over > satellite (very > bad connection) into a FreeBSD 7.0 box I built in the last month. At Btw. lousy connections don't come into this as SSH does HMAC checking on the data - i.e. even if you somehow managed to l

Re: Pasting via ssh causes data loss

2008-11-30 Thread Ivan Voras
Eugene Pimenov wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm not really sure weither it's related to freebsd or ssh. > > When I paste a lot of data (6060 bytes, 60 lines 100 bytes each + ‘\n’) > via ssh into `cat > test.txt` or the small program, one freebsd receives > 5181, another receives 3221 bytes. I re

Re: repair v.7 installation

2008-11-28 Thread Ivan Voras
PJ wrote: > I believe that my installation should be salvageable but I do not know > how to phrase my search question. > Here is the problem: > Apparently due to some connector problem in the computer one or some > files were damaged. I ran a regenerating program on the disk and all > sectors are r

Re: APIC error

2008-11-27 Thread Ivan Voras
Da Rock wrote: > Would this be in the cpu itself or in the mainboard (best guess)? If its > the cpu it could be from overheating (could the cpu alone cause all > these errors?), but mainboard would mean an inherent communication > problem wouldn't it? If you can look up the CPU temperature in you

Re: APIC error

2008-11-27 Thread Ivan Voras
Da Rock wrote: > I know the system is failing because I'm getting usb enumeration errors > (something that has come up twice before on dying systems, and has > disappeared as soon as I bought a new one), plus acpi errors in the form > of being unable to attach device data. > > I understand this s

Re: ZFS over iSCSI anyone ?

2008-11-25 Thread Ivan Voras
2008/11/26 Frank Bonnet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Well good news ! it seems to be integrated inside > operating system isn't it ? Yes, the patch is for -CURRENT (which means it will be present in the 8.0 release; bug the developers if you need it earlier). ___

Re: ZFS over iSCSI anyone ?

2008-11-25 Thread Ivan Voras
Ivan Voras wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 04:29:06PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: >>> Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >>>> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 03:44:23PM +0100, Frank Bonnet wrote: >>>>> Hello >>>>> >>>>&

Re: Analysing VMcore files.

2008-11-24 Thread Ivan Voras
Simon Burke wrote: > I am currently running FreeBSD 7.0 as my desktop OS, and I have a need to > analyse VWCores from a RedHat ES system. > Knowing very little about analysing dumps, is it possible to do this? or > would I have to set up a more comparable environment? In theory, you could set up a

Re: PHP Session Support in /tmp

2008-11-23 Thread Ivan Voras
APseudoUtopia wrote: > Hey. > > PHP stores session data for the 'file' handler in /tmp, by default. > For organizational purposes, I'd like to change this to something like > /tmp/php_sessions/ or so. However, I have the clear_tmp_enable feature > enabled, so /tmp is cleared on reboot. PHP wont cr

Re: realtime network replication

2008-11-19 Thread Ivan Voras
Ansar Mohammed wrote: > Hello all, > > I need to replicate /home between two freebsd servers in real time (no > scheduled rsyncs) > > > > What are my options? Maybe the best option for you would be http://www.furquim.org/chironfs/index.en.html used in combination with NFS. It's available as

Re: PEA kernel in FreeBSD 7.0

2008-11-19 Thread Ivan Voras
Olivier Nicole wrote: > Hi, > > I am about to install few brand new servers, each with 8GB RAM. > > If I choose to use 7.0, will I have to use PEA kernel to be able to > access the total memory? Yes if you want to use the 32-bit version of FreeBSD. Use a 64-bit version instead. signature.asc

Re: ZFS over iSCSI anyone ?

2008-11-17 Thread Ivan Voras
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 04:29:06PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: >> Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >>> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 03:44:23PM +0100, Frank Bonnet wrote: >>>> Hello >>>> >>>> Does anyone has tried to use ZFS over i

Re: ZFS over iSCSI anyone ?

2008-11-17 Thread Ivan Voras
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 03:44:23PM +0100, Frank Bonnet wrote: >> Hello >> >> Does anyone has tried to use ZFS over iSCSI ? > > Another FreeBSD user recently brought to my attention problems with > iSCSI on FreeBSD. There is a patch available which fixes the issue, but > I

Re: php5 Only IE Users can View Pages.

2008-11-15 Thread Ivan Voras
Martin McCormick wrote: > I inherited a mrtg application thatnow is running on a > FreeBSD6.3 system. Clients report that one can see the php pages > when using Internet Explorer but not other browsers that should > display the pages. Those customers see raw code. > > Any suggestion as

Re: FreeBSD not stable enough for Xen?

2008-11-14 Thread Ivan Voras
Redd Vinylene wrote: > Hello hello. I want this hosting company to offer FreeBSD but they > claim it's not yet stable enough for their Xen setup. Is there > anything I can do to prove them wrong? No. Xen work is highly experimental even in -CURRENT. It *can* be used, and people have successfully

Re: 128 Bucket Failures?

2008-11-13 Thread Ivan Voras
Chris Pratt wrote: > I have asked this before a couple of years ago but received no > replies. I assumed that's because it's a somewhat obscure question. > I'm still interested and thought I might try again in case someone > new is watching this list who might know. > > A vmstat -z on my highest t

Re: fastest raw device copy?

2008-10-31 Thread Ivan Voras
Christoph Kukulies wrote: > OK, I understand that 1000 isn't good, I just thought it wouldn't > harm. But if it is a transfer rate killer then I'd better think of > typing ^C now. The command is running for 6 hours now. No, with a size that isn't a multiple of sector sizes your transferred da

Re: fastest raw device copy?

2008-10-31 Thread Ivan Voras
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 09:48:16AM +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote: >> What would be the fastest way to do that sector by sector copy? I'm >> using dd right now, >> >> dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/da0 bs=1000 > On the flip side, your blocksize (bs) there is quite high for

Re: iSCSI support

2008-10-30 Thread Ivan Voras
Jeff Chen - PTT 陳龍焜 wrote: > Hi, > My company is a storage RAID system company. There is one customer ask iSCSI > solution with my production of my company with FreeBSD 6.1. But I found some > information in the Internet, the iSCSI full support on FreeBSD is 7.0. Is it > mean FreeBSD 6.1 can’t s

Re: VLAN filtering on FreeBSD 7.0 / 6.3

2008-10-28 Thread Ivan Voras
Yony Yossef wrote: > Hi, > > I have two questions about VLANs on FreeBSD 6.3/7.0. > > 1. > I'm trying to understand whether HW VLAN filtering can be supported. > Looking at the code I can't find a proper ioctl that will inform the driver > about a vlan creation/destruction. > Is there a way of do

Re: performance problem in regex

2008-10-09 Thread Ivan Voras
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > I've got some performance hit using regex in libc on freebsd 6.3. I've > done some test whit the patterns that l7-filter [http://l7-filter.sf.net] use > to recognize level 7 internet protocol. For example, with the skypeout > pattern, > regexec() takes more

Re: Weird FS behavior tru FTP on CD9660

2008-10-08 Thread Ivan Voras
Sdävtaker wrote: > Hey, > I found a weird situation today, > I mounted a DVD with the mount_cd9660 and accessed it through > "filezilla". I got 2 times every file in the list, go back to the > original Pc and checked with "ls" and they appear only once. :-/ > Im using last version Filezilla in MSW,

Process memory inspection

2008-10-01 Thread Ivan Voras
Hi, The top utility has SIZE and RES, but doesn't have what part of SIZE is sysv shared memory. Is there something that can print out in detail how a process uses / allocates its memory (I'm specifically interested in sysvshm but there's also the stack & mmap)? __

Re: Upgrade to rel 7.0 broke SSH

2008-09-24 Thread Ivan Voras
Olaf Courtney wrote: > Hello and greetings from Newbyville, > > I recently upgraded from FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE to 7.0-RELEASE-p4, and now SSH > is broken. Other important services (chiefly SAMBA) are working properly. > From the FreeBSD server I can successfull SSH and SFTP to the localhost > (

Re: dovecot, maildir, UFS 2 performance

2008-09-24 Thread Ivan Voras
Laszlo Nagy wrote: The secondary task for this server is to be an IMAP and mail server. We will be using dovecot, and shared maildir folders with ten thousands of messages. I'm not sure where to put the maildir folders, and what options to use for the filesystem. Dovecot wiki is not talking ab

Re: pc with 4G memory

2008-09-22 Thread Ivan Voras
2008/9/18 Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/9/18 Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>> # Don't build modules with this kernel config, since they are not built >>> with >>> # the correct options headers. >>> makeoptions NO_MODUL

Re: kernel upgrades

2008-09-19 Thread Ivan Voras
Joe Tseng wrote: > I'm still new to FreeBSD (coming from CentOS/Ubuntu) so this might be > something totally obvious to others... I know I can update ports by using > portsnap fetch/extract/update - does this update the kernel source as well? No, you need to do two things: 1) copy /usr/share/exa

Re: pc with 4G memory

2008-09-18 Thread Ivan Voras
2008/9/18 Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> # Don't build modules with this kernel config, since they are not built >> with >> # the correct options headers. >> makeoptions NO_MODULES=yes >> """ >> >> wrong? > > Not as such, but if you use buildkernel then modules *are* built with the > co

Re: freeBSD 7.0 supports ACE Proactor?

2008-09-18 Thread Ivan Voras
Mungyung Ryu wrote: > Hi freeBSD users, > > I've developed couple of server applications on Windows platform with ACE > Proactor > and it worked quite well. But, because of the expensive Windows Server, > I wanna move to Linux or freeBSD. > > Recently, I'm considering to build a server applicati

Re: pc with 4G memory

2008-09-18 Thread Ivan Voras
2008/9/18 Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Ivan Voras wrote: >> >> * Use a PAE kernel, which works fairly well, but doesn't support kernel >> modules (if you are not familiar with kernel modules then you probably >> don't need them so

Re: server is crashing constantly

2008-09-14 Thread Ivan Voras
Jonathan Horne wrote: > I have a new web server for a moderately high traffic website that i have > recently deployed for a friend. it has apache22, php5, and mysql50 on it > (latest from ports). this server is crashing 2-3 times a day, and thus far i > have no idea where to start troubleshoot

Re: x3550 ServeRAID-8k and FBSD 7, group limit

2008-09-14 Thread Ivan Voras
Yury Michurin wrote: > We are currently considering to purchase IBM x3550 with ServeRAID-8k, in > order to run FreeBSD 7 with RAID5, > but it is very unclear from what I've saw on the Internet, whether the > driver support on FreeBSD is stable enough for production use, I've never had problems wit

Re: pc with 4G memory

2008-09-14 Thread Ivan Voras
gahn wrote: > hello: > > the machine i am using for freebsd has 4G memory. should i add follow lines > in my customized kernel file?: > > # Compile acpi in statically since the module isn't built properly. Most > # machines which support large amounts of memory require acpi. > device a

Re: Starting and using services -- Single-user mode -- TECRA_A9-S9017

2008-09-05 Thread Ivan Voras
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have the need to start and use service while in single_user mode. To > this point I'm not able to use 'top' or 'ps' respectively. In ps is in /bin, top is in /usr/bin ; unless you a) have your PATH wrong or b) commonly put /bin on separate file systems, you should be

Re: pkg_create

2008-09-03 Thread Ivan Voras
Matias Surdi wrote: > I've a directory tree structure in /usr/local from wich I'd like to > create a package. > > How are pkg_create arguments supposed to be? > > Where can I find an example? > > I've read the manpage, but an example would be really usefull. > > Thanks for your help again. Tho

Re: Google Chrome

2008-09-03 Thread Ivan Voras
RW wrote: > On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:16:08 -0800 > Peter Giessel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> And Safari is based on KDE's Konquerer (which already runs on >> FreeBSD), so with a FreeBSD version of Chrome, you would essentially >> have Konquerer ported to Apple, ported to Microsoft, ported to

Re: gjournal & fsck

2008-08-28 Thread Ivan Voras
Brian McCann wrote: > Yes...I apologize...I did that when I built the file system with > "newfs -J". Here's the tunefs -p output for one of the file systems: > > # tunefs -p /dev/da2.journal > tunefs: ACLs: (-a) disabled > tunefs: MAC multilabel: (-l)

Re: SMP questions

2008-08-28 Thread Ivan Voras
H.fazaeli wrote: > > Hi all, > I have 3 questions regrading SMP on freebsd 6.x: > > 1. Is there any userland tool/api to bound a process to a specific cpu? This support is native to 8-CURRENT, I think most of it is backported to 7.1. > 2. Is there any way to force UP operation apart form recomp

Re: gjournal & fsck

2008-08-28 Thread Ivan Voras
Brian McCann wrote: > Hi all. I'm having some problems with several servers I've built > recently (7.0-RELEASE) that are using gjournal. I had two reboot a > few days ago (un-related to FreeBSD problems I think)...but when they > came back up, the file systems wouldn't mount since they were not >

Re: Cloning a gmirrored hard drive

2008-08-25 Thread Ivan Voras
Sasa Stupar wrote: > Hi! > > My situation: I have a server with FBSD 7 installed with two 40 GB disks > in RAID 1 (gmirror) config. > Now I have noticed the lack of space on the drive so I am thinking to > change these disks for two 160 GB. > What is the best way to clone the main hard disk in rai

Re: turn on beastie beside the 'Welcome to FreeBSD' boot optionsmenu

2008-08-22 Thread Ivan Voras
Oliver Fromme wrote: > enom-FBSD1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > beastie_disable="NO" had no effect. > > That's because "NO" is already the default. Setting it > to "YES" will completely disable the whole boot menu. > > > All that was needed was loader_logo="beastie" > >

Re: Migrating to gmirrored RAID1

2008-08-18 Thread Ivan Voras
Henry Karpatskij wrote: > Hi, > > I have a failing IDE disk which is running my 7.0-p1 server. I've been > investigating the possible solutions and I've decided to go with two new > IDE disks and gmirror. However, I'm not too familiar with disk > internals, I know how to install the system and som

Re: Upgrade v5.x to v7.0

2008-08-11 Thread Ivan Voras
Vince Sabio wrote: I am currently running FreeBSD v5.1 (yes, I am a Bad Person(tm)), and need to update it to v7.0. Questions: 1. Can I go straight from v5.1 to v7.0? Or do I need to make a stop at v6.x? Theoretically it might be possible but definitely not recommended. 5.1 is very old (it'

Re: IBM eServer x225 - LSI 1030 SCSI - BTX Halted / infinite loop

2008-08-06 Thread Ivan Voras
underligast wrote: On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 10:15 PM, Derek Ragona wrote: Obviously it is the SCSI card or drives. Have you tried changing the BIOS settings on the SCSI? You might want to try changing the SCSI BUS speed. You may also want to try turning off hyperthreading. -Derek D

Re: IBM eServer x225 - LSI 1030 SCSI - BTX Halted / infinite loop

2008-08-05 Thread Ivan Voras
underligast wrote: I'm trying to install FreeBSD 7.0 on my "new" server, an IBM eServer x225 (8647-5CG) The server/drives runs fine under windows 2003 and ubuntu server but the FreeBSD installation just halts. So far i've tried: CD: disk1 from 6.2, 7.0, CD: bootonly from 7.0 Floppys: 7.0 They a

Re: Component-based Operating System.

2008-07-28 Thread Ivan Voras
Chuck Robey wrote: Ivan Voras wrote: Juan Carlos Villalobos wrote: Hello, I am writing a paper on Component-based Operating Systems. I just wanted to know if FreeBSD is an Operating System engineered based on Components. I appreciate your input on this. "Components" is a wide,

Re: Component-based Operating System.

2008-07-28 Thread Ivan Voras
Juan Carlos Villalobos wrote: Hello, I am writing a paper on Component-based Operating Systems. I just wanted to know if FreeBSD is an Operating System engineered based on Components. I appreciate your input on this. "Components" is a wide, wide term. Since FreeBSD as an operating system

Re: malloc options

2008-07-27 Thread Ivan Voras
Doug Hardie wrote: On Jul 26, 2008, at 19:03, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: While that's understandable, the current malloc() has undergone quite extensive testing by Jason Evans and a lot of people who use it in FreeBSD 7.X or later. Its ability to expose bugs in this way was deemed important eno

Re: malloc options

2008-07-26 Thread Ivan Voras
Doug Hardie wrote: If you did recompile it and it is behaving differently then it is probably because your program contains bugs in how it manages memory that happened to be working by accident with the old memory allocator. e.g. because you were making use of memory after it had been freed,

Re: graid3

2008-07-26 Thread Ivan Voras
Wojciech Puchar wrote: i read the graid3 manual and http://www.acnc.com/04_01_03.html to make sure i know what's RAID3 and i don't understand few things. 1) "The number of components must be equal to 3, 5, 9, 17, etc. (2^n + 1)." why it can't be say 5 disks+parity? The reaso

Re: Core(TM)2 Quad and TOP output

2008-07-14 Thread Ivan Voras
tethys ocean wrote: > Hi all > > I have new server(webserver) quad core but performans is not well (according > our old webserver pent IV ). Maybe its performans depends on our web page > sourcecode. FreeBSD 6.3 stable is running on it. dmesg is in below. There are a bazillion factors that can in

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and RAM limit

2008-07-10 Thread Ivan Voras
Robert Heron wrote: Hi, I use: FreeBSD 7.0-R on i386 server with motherboard S5000VSA and 6GB RAM onboard. BIOS version - 88 (the latest) Kernel includes: optionsMAXMEM=(6*1024*1024) You generally shouldn't touch MAXMEM as it's autotuned. And FreeBSD reports only: real memory =

Re: Which VIA CPUs have hardware RNG support?

2008-07-09 Thread Ivan Voras
Joseph Gleason wrote: I am trying to figure out which VIA CPUs support hardware RNG under recent FreeBSD. I've been looking at things on 7.0-RELEASE-p2. If there is something that else I should be looking at, please let me know. Based on 'man 4 random' I see: "The only hardware implementation

Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

2008-06-08 Thread Ivan Voras
Wojciech Puchar wrote: 2) ZFS RAID-z turns your X drives to single drive performance both on read and write. every normal RAID-5 implementation will give you random read speed of X-1 times single drive speed, while slow random write speeds (but still at least half of single drive). but this is

Re: FreeBSD 7 on Windows 2008 (Hyper-V)

2008-05-12 Thread Ivan Voras
Natham wrote: > Hi: > > Im trying to set up a FreeBSD VM under Hyper-V but i the instalation > do not start. i try x86 and x64 boot disk only (for a net install). > The error i got is "cant load kernel". > > Im a novice on FreeBSD but i have set up a few small server with it. Any idea? You didn'

Re: Questions from a Total samba Novice.

2008-05-09 Thread Ivan Voras
Martin McCormick wrote: > I just found out that I will need to copy some files > from a FreeBSD system to a Windows shared drive on our network so that > Windows users can have access to the files. > > After reading a little documentation and talking to a > cowworker, I was under the i

Re: Group of the newly created files and directories

2008-05-08 Thread Ivan Voras
Unga wrote: > Hi > > I have noticed in FreeBSD, the group of the newly > created files and directories are assumed by default > of the group of the parent directory! Yes, this is the difference between SYSV and BSD systems - each variant has its own arguments in favour so this behaviour is not li

Re: Software RAID and Logical Volume in Linux versus FreeBSD

2008-04-25 Thread Ivan Voras
Matt Proud wrote: > Hi all, > > I have used FreeBSD for a long time very casually but have never explored > any of its software RAID or volume management features---at least to a > degree to which I feel comfortable with them. What I would like to know with > this post is 1.) whether there exists

Re: brindging ath0 with re0 working, kinda, almost

2008-04-25 Thread Ivan Voras
Reinhold wrote: > Any help would be appreciated. I don't have any more suggestions, except the obvious: is there a firewall somewhere in there, and are the routing tables ok? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: brindging ath0 with re0 working, kinda, almost

2008-04-24 Thread Ivan Voras
Reinhold wrote: > I have a bridge set up on re0 and ath0 to get bridge0, here is my ifconfig > > ath0: flags=8943 metric 0 > mtu 2290 > rl0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 > bridge0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 > The bridge is working in that both lan and wlan can access the internet > perfectl

rum driver panic [ was: Re: USB wireless AP? ]

2008-04-23 Thread Ivan Voras
John Nielsen wrote: On Wednesday 23 April 2008 11:57:28 am Ivan Voras wrote: I've found a perfect match for my needs: D-Link DWL-G122, with the "rum" driver. Not a single problem so far, everything works as documented. Truly a plug and play experience. I'm just curious abo

Re: USB wireless AP?

2008-04-23 Thread Ivan Voras
I've found a perfect match for my needs: D-Link DWL-G122, with the "rum" driver. Not a single problem so far, everything works as documented. Truly a plug and play experience. I'm just curious about one more thing: I wish to set up a "b/g" network, so both b and g devices can connect. Apparent

Re: USB wireless AP?

2008-04-23 Thread Ivan Voras
2008/4/23 Martes G Wigglesworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Is there a particular reason that the USB adapter concept is needed for > your application? Yes - there are no other ports to extend the (small, embedded) computer with. ___ freebsd-questions@free

Re: When's FreeBSD going to catch up in the world of virtualization.

2008-04-21 Thread Ivan Voras
Peter Brezny wrote: I'm a die hard FreeBSD user. For the past 10 years (since version 2.8 was released) it's been in production on all of my servers. Now however, I'm forced to use linux as the host OS for Vmware as there currently seems to be no current support for FreeBSD as the Host OS for p

Re: OpenBSD -> FreeBSD migration

2008-04-21 Thread Ivan Voras
Andrew Wright wrote: > > Hi All; > > I want to migrate a system from OpenBSD 4.2 (ie; the current version) > to FreeBSD (7.0). I have poked around on the archives a little > to determine how best to do this, and I want to make sure that > my understanding (summarized below) is indeed correct. I

Re: vpn + samba

2008-04-20 Thread Ivan Voras
alexus wrote: hi i need to get vpn + samba working by vpn i mean a remote user being on the road can connect to box and use samba file sharing, most of our users use vista, some xp See and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openvpn and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cifs signature.asc Description

Re: gmirror, geli, gjournal performance

2008-04-19 Thread Ivan Voras
hideo wrote: Hi everyone, I was replacing a disk in a gmirror+geli pair and decided to compare the performance of gmirror+geli+gjournal before adding the new disk. When using these three together is the appropriate order to 1) fdisk and label 2) mirror the disk, 3) geli the partitions, and 4) u

Re: Sidetracked: why gjournal over soft-updates (Was: Re: UFS2 Journaling implementation detail)

2008-04-19 Thread Ivan Voras
2008/4/19 Mel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Friday 18 April 2008 17:40:04 Ivan Voras wrote: > > > > 5. "Some UFS implementations avoid journaling and > > > instead implement soft updates: they order their > > > writes in such a way that the on-disk f

Re: UFS2 Journaling implementation detail

2008-04-19 Thread Ivan Voras
2008/4/19 Unga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > --- Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > No, gjournal is a layer below the file system (think > > of it as a virtual disk drive) that does > journalling. > > You need to create a file system on top of g

Re: UFS2 Journaling implementation detail

2008-04-18 Thread Ivan Voras
> Ivan, thanks for the links. What I mean is configure > journaling via gjournal(8) for the UFS file system. Just follow the example in gjournal(8) :) > I have following questions in this regard: > > 1. "Pawel (pjd) has reimplemented gjournal with hooks > in the file system code so it can p

Re: UFS2 Journaling implementation detail

2008-04-16 Thread Ivan Voras
Unga wrote: Hi all I'm looking for papers or documentation covering details of the UFS2 Journaling implementation of the FreeBSD. Please give me links to them if you guys know any. Many thanks in advance. There's no such thing as UFS2 Journalling in FreeBSD (yet). There's "gjournal" which i

Re: ZFS-Pool is lost after reboot ( amd64 )

2008-04-11 Thread Ivan Voras
Norman Maurer wrote: > If I run zpool import x1 it works. But as you say it should do it by its > own. Maybe it whould be the best to open a bugreport ? Do you have zfs_enabled="YES" in rc.conf ? If you upgraded FreeBSD from an earlier release, remember to run mergemaster. signature.asc Descr

Re: 7.0R && freemind 0.8.1 crashes randomly

2008-04-10 Thread Ivan Voras
Kris Kennaway wrote: > Ivan Voras wrote: >> Kris Kennaway wrote: >> >>> What do you expect is wrong with the 6.x jdk running under >>> compatibility? >> >> I don't expect it, I'm talking from personal experience (confirmed by >> occasio

Re: Pine and IMAP

2008-04-10 Thread Ivan Voras
Chris Maness wrote: > I have been using a local pine client in conjunction with IMAP for years > without issues. However, recently, it looks like when pine moves mail > to the mbox file, it hoses up my ability to use my imap clients. Has > something changed so that I cannot use pine as a local cl

Re: 7.0R && freemind 0.8.1 crashes randomly

2008-04-10 Thread Ivan Voras
Kris Kennaway wrote: > What do you expect is wrong with the 6.x jdk running under compatibility? I don't expect it, I'm talking from personal experience (confirmed by occasional reports on mailing lists). (What's wrong with it is that if it's not near 100% reliable, it's unusable, much like ZFS

Re: my webserver suddenly crash

2008-04-09 Thread Ivan Voras
Satria Bramana wrote: > greetings.. > > my webhosting server suddenly crash and showing this in /var/log/messages : > Apr 9 11:37:52 hosting kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(10): failed > > i'm using a monitoring software and i found that the usage of my swap space > only about 1% of my tota

Re: 7.0R && freemind 0.8.1 crashes randomly

2008-04-09 Thread Ivan Voras
Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Wednesday, April 09, 2008 a las 02:48:18PM +0200, Ivan Voras escribió: > >> Matthias Apitz wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm used to use 'freemind' (and used 0.8.0 a lot in FreeBSD 6.2); since >>> the up

Re: 7.0R && freemind 0.8.1 crashes randomly

2008-04-09 Thread Ivan Voras
Matthias Apitz wrote: > Hello, > > I'm used to use 'freemind' (and used 0.8.0 a lot in FreeBSD 6.2); since > the update to 7.0-REL and freemind as 0.8.1 from ports it is unusable > because it crashes randomly, sometimes it does not even comes up without > any message, sometimes it crashes by its o

Re: Inline assembly under FreeBSD

2008-04-07 Thread Ivan Voras
Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> asm("pushfl; stc; int $0x13; setc %%al; popfl" >> : "+a" (ax), "+b" (bx), "=c" (cx), "+d" (dx) >> : : "esi", "edi"); >> >> if ((u8)ax) >> return -1;/* No extended information */ >> else >> return 1;/* Extended information

Re: Does FreeBSD 6.3 network support TSO/LSO?

2008-04-07 Thread Ivan Voras
Mr Y wrote: > Thanks, No, it's implemented in 7.x. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: FReeBSD on IBM Blade Servers

2008-04-06 Thread Ivan Voras
Maximillian Dornseif wrote: What is the status of FreeBSD on the different flavours of the IBM Blade Servers. I found some postings from 2005 statings that there were serious issues. Is this still true? Somebody using FreeBSD & IBM Blade hardware in production? The posts you saw were maybe mi

Re: FreeBSD installation on AMD64

2008-04-01 Thread Ivan Voras
Sébastien Morand wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new in FreeBSD, I'm used to GNU/Linux from many years but I'm trying to > migrate to FreeBSD. > My hardware is AMD64 / 1GB RAM / envy24ht network car / nVidia 7300GS GC / > USB Scanner / HP 660 Printer This looks like a desktop computer, with multimedia capab

Re: FreeBSD-6.3 only detects 3GB of RAM

2008-03-27 Thread Ivan Voras
fred wrote: > I have read that OPTION PAE in kernel would fix the problem but I have also > read that compiling FreeBSD AMD64 might be a better solution, any advices > before I break my current setup? Except if you have a strong reason to stick with the 32-bit kernel, use AMD64. signature.as

Re: FreeBSD-6.3 only detects 3GB of RAM

2008-03-27 Thread Ivan Voras
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > fred writes: >> Hello all, >> >> I am trying to fix an issue with my dual xeon ibm server, it only detects >> 3GB or RAM but I have 4GB: > [...] > > I have seen this problem under Linux on IBM Intellistations (6225). > IBM pointed me to a tech document (the number of w

Re: cpu

2008-03-24 Thread Ivan Voras
Irodatechnika Hajdu wrote: Hi! I have got a XEON (E5320) based computer. Which version to install? AMD64 or I386? AMD64. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Load Averages

2008-03-15 Thread Ivan Voras
Grant Peel wrote: last pid: 5181; load averages: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00 up 741+02:47:14 10:19:56 23 processes: 1 running, 22 sleeping CPU states: 0.4% user, 0.0% nice, 0.4% system, 0.0% interrupt, 99.2% idle Mem: 34M Active, 102M Inact, 44M Wired, 9924K Cache, 35M Buf, 58M Free Swap: 516M

Re: 16GB RAM -> Swap?

2008-03-13 Thread Ivan Voras
Ewald Jenisch wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a Blade-system with 16GB RAM, but "only" one 140GB > harddisk. My question is about swap-space: Traditional knowledge > recommends swap = 2*RAM. This would mean 32GB swap (!). > > Should I really go for 32GB swap space? Or will e.g. 16GB (= RAM-size) > be e

Re: Installation

2008-03-12 Thread Ivan Voras
dajaasge wrote: > Hi there > > As a relatively inexperienced user of FreeBSD I have little input to > offer the community as a whole save to suggest that offering a DVD iso > image from which to install would save the sometimes extreme tediousness > of disc swapping when adding packages. If I knew

Re: How use and manage a Berkeley DB 1.85?

2008-03-12 Thread Ivan Voras
Nicolas Letellier wrote: > Hello, > > I have a db Berkeley DB 1.85. I have softwares which use it. > I would like to know how manage it? How show all datas contained? How > delete a data? How insert a data? > Is there a port to do this? BDB is a single-file key-value database. It's not a SQL or a

Re: FreeBSD on IBM x3400?

2008-03-07 Thread Ivan Voras
Matt Emmerton wrote: > Anyone had any luck (or horror stories) with FreeBSD on IBM x3400 systems? Don't know about this specific model, but the components it's made of (http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/x/hardware/tower/x3400/specs.h) should work fine. I know x32?? and x36?? models run without proble

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