Re: EVFILT_VNODE doesn't scale to large directory trees?

2010-10-26 Thread Igor V. Ruzanov
would obviously be a lot worse), so I guess I'll live with it. | |Well, one other idea: Is there a way to simply monitor *all* I/O by all |processes owned by the current user? I could then filter the events down to |the directory I'm interested in. Not the ideal solution, but it would scale

Re: EVFILT_VNODE doesn't scale to large directory trees?

2010-10-25 Thread Kenton Varda
: EVFILT_VNODE doesn't scale to large directory trees? Hi all, I am trying to write some code which monitors a possibly-large directory tree for changes. Specifically, it's a build system, and I want it to automatically start rebuilding whenever I modify a source file. So far

Re: EVFILT_VNODE doesn't scale to large directory trees?

2010-10-25 Thread Igor V. Ruzanov
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010, Kenton Varda wrote: |That doesn't answer my question. I'm not even using make. I could write a |few thousand words describing exactly what I'm trying to do and why it does, |in fact, make sense, but it's really beside the point. I just want to know |if there is any

Re: EVFILT_VNODE doesn't scale to large directory trees?

2010-10-25 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:48:58AM +0400, Igor V. Ruzanov wrote: On Sun, 24 Oct 2010, Kenton Varda wrote: |That doesn't answer my question. I'm not even using make. I could write a |few thousand words describing exactly what I'm trying to do and why it does, |in fact, make sense, but it's

Re: EVFILT_VNODE doesn't scale to large directory trees?

2010-10-25 Thread Igor V. Ruzanov
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, Erik Trulsson wrote: |On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:48:58AM +0400, Igor V. Ruzanov wrote: | On Sun, 24 Oct 2010, Kenton Varda wrote: | | |That doesn't answer my question. I'm not even using make. I could write a | |few thousand words describing exactly what I'm trying to do

Re: EVFILT_VNODE doesn't scale to large directory trees?

2010-10-25 Thread Ivan Voras
On 10/25/10 03:05, Kenton Varda wrote: Hi all, I am trying to write some code which monitors a possibly-large directory tree for changes. Specifically, it's a build system, and I want it to automatically start rebuilding whenever I modify a source file. So far the approach I've taken is

Re: EVFILT_VNODE doesn't scale to large directory trees?

2010-10-25 Thread Kenton Varda
with it. Well, one other idea: Is there a way to simply monitor *all* I/O by all processes owned by the current user? I could then filter the events down to the directory I'm interested in. Not the ideal solution, but it would scale to a source tree of infinite size (since the machine can only

Re: EVFILT_VNODE doesn't scale to large directory trees?

2010-10-25 Thread Kenton Varda
Ivan Voras wrote: Short answer: no. Long answer: There should be. There were past discussions on writing such a facility to e.g. receive events for all files on per-mountpoint basis (which you could filter...), but we're not there yet. Thanks! That answers my question. I'll find some sort

EVFILT_VNODE doesn't scale to large directory trees?

2010-10-24 Thread Kenton Varda
Hi all, I am trying to write some code which monitors a possibly-large directory tree for changes. Specifically, it's a build system, and I want it to automatically start rebuilding whenever I modify a source file. So far the approach I've taken is to use EVFILT_VNODE to watch every file and

Re: EVFILT_VNODE doesn't scale to large directory trees?

2010-10-24 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sun Oct 24 22:17:42 2010 Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 18:05:34 -0700 From: Kenton Varda tempo...@gmail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: EVFILT_VNODE doesn't scale to large directory trees? Hi all, I am trying to write some code which

Re: FreeBSD router - large scale

2010-06-23 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On 28 May 2010 07:38, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: This is possibly the wrong place to be saying this, but isn't OpenBSD usually recommended for routers? I believe the version of pf, for example, is normally kept more up-to-date than than in FreeBSD.  The major downside I know of is

Re: FreeBSD router - large scale

2010-06-23 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On 27 May 2010 12:12, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: The hardest job I've had an OpenBSD firewall do is actually as a mid-level firewall between a DMZ full of web servers and a back-end database layer.  The thing to watch out for is running out of states in PF.  It's

Re: 'Serious' crypto? (was: FreeBSD router - large scale)

2010-05-28 Thread Peter Cornelius
Hi Chuck, Thanks for the response. Or is it still worthwhile to consider hardware accelerators such as the ones guys like soekris [1] and others offer? Does anyone have an idea how much such an accelerator may help on older vs. on newer hardware? Something like a 1GHz P3 or equivalent can

Re: FreeBSD router - large scale

2010-05-28 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
handle approximately fifteen thousand devices. DHCP and DNS would be passed through to other servers, this hardware would only be responsible for address translation and pf. I've done this on a very, very small scale (small/home office, small business) but I'm curious how many other folks are doing

Re: FreeBSD router - large scale

2010-05-28 Thread Bruce Cran
. Overall bandwidth is low, only a gigabit connection, but we handle approximately fifteen thousand devices. DHCP and DNS would be passed through to other servers, this hardware would only be responsible for address translation and pf. I've done this on a very, very small scale (small/home office, small

Re: FreeBSD router - large scale

2010-05-28 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
On 28.05.2010 13:38, Bruce Cran wrote: *snip!* This is possibly the wrong place to be saying this, but isn't OpenBSD usually recommended for routers? I believe the version of pf, for example, is normally kept more up-to-date than than in FreeBSD. The major downside I know of is that it's

Re: FreeBSD router - large scale

2010-05-28 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Svein Skogen (Listmail Account) wrote: Actually, I'd find an answer from the FreeBSD Networking gurus useful as well. My trusted Cisco 3640 is getting old (had it's ten-years-of-service birthday a little while ago), so I guess I must be prepared to replace it with something new. Preferrably

FreeBSD router - large scale

2010-05-27 Thread Kevin Wilcox
and DNS would be passed through to other servers, this hardware would only be responsible for address translation and pf. I've done this on a very, very small scale (small/home office, small business) but I'm curious how many other folks are doing it on this scale, the hardware they are running

Re: FreeBSD router - large scale

2010-05-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
bandwidth is low, only a gigabit connection, but we handle approximately fifteen thousand devices. DHCP and DNS would be passed through to other servers, this hardware would only be responsible for address translation and pf. I've done this on a very, very small scale (small/home office, small

'Serious' crypto? (was: FreeBSD router - large scale)

2010-05-27 Thread Peter Cornelius
Hi, NAT. Doing serious crypto slows things up somewhat. I've been pondering this since a while but thought that crypto engines on modern hardware would make 'extra' hardware accelerators obsolete? Or is it still worthwhile to consider hardware accelerators such as the ones guys like soekris

Re: 'Serious' crypto? (was: FreeBSD router - large scale)

2010-05-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 27, 2010, at 1:49 PM, Peter Cornelius wrote: Hi, NAT. Doing serious crypto slows things up somewhat. I've been pondering this since a while but thought that crypto engines on modern hardware would make 'extra' hardware accelerators obsolete? It depends upon usage. Or is it

BSD perspective at SCALE?

2010-02-21 Thread mikel king
Is the anyone who attend SCALE this weekend that would be interested in writing a couple of paragraphs about the event on BSD News? Please contact me off list. Regards, Mikel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

SCALE

2009-02-22 Thread ntwrkd
I just wanted to say the FreeBSD booth at SCALE this year was great. There was a guy named Matt there, but I don't remember his last name. If you read this please message me directly. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Port Management on a larger scale

2008-07-24 Thread Peter Boosten
Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:41:46AM -0400, Derek Belrose wrote: What is the recommended way of doing port management? Alternatively you could use one server to build packages which are then stored on a shared filesystem to install on all others, but that sounds like more

Re: Port Management on a larger scale

2008-07-24 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Thursday 24 July 2008, Peter Boosten wrote: Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:41:46AM -0400, Derek Belrose wrote: What is the recommended way of doing port management? Alternatively you could use one server to build packages which are then stored on a shared filesystem

Re: Port Management on a larger scale

2008-07-24 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:41:46 -0400 Derek Belrose wrote: Sorry if this has been asked before, but I've inherited a fairly large number of FreeBSD servers. All of them are running 6.3. What is the recommended way of doing port management? Or if there isn't a recommended way of updating ports

Port Management on a larger scale

2008-07-23 Thread Derek Belrose
Sorry if this has been asked before, but I've inherited a fairly large number of FreeBSD servers. All of them are running 6.3. What is the recommended way of doing port management? Or if there isn't a recommended way of updating ports on 10-15 servers, what do people do? How do you

Re: Port Management on a larger scale

2008-07-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:41:46AM -0400, Derek Belrose wrote: What is the recommended way of doing port management? There doesn't seem to be a single standard way of doing this. There are several things you could do, assuming that all servers use identically configured software. Probably the

Re: [freebsd-questions] Re: Port Management on a larger scale

2008-07-23 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
Or you could mount /usr/local from a single NFS server on all others, keeping them automatically in sync but that might strain the NFS server and make it a single point of failure which is undesirable. Maybe it would be better to use the Coda filesystem in this case.=20 In theory

Re: [freebsd-questions] Re: Port Management on a larger scale

2008-07-23 Thread darko
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) Taking down or a failure of the NFS server pulls EVERY other system with it. ..just thinking out loud here...but.. what if you had 2 identical NFS/rsync servers and used them together in a standby/failover

Re: Large scale NAT

2007-05-11 Thread Erik Norgaard
On Fri, 11 May 2007, Todor Dragnev wrote: Hello list, I have about 4000 users behind NAT. I use ipnat(ipf) on single freebsd box( v6.2) to translate RFC1918 ip addresses to real one. All works fine, but my CPU usage is very high and router starts to drop packets and sometimes freeze. I fix

Large scale NAT

2007-05-11 Thread Todor Dragnev
Hello list, I have about 4000 users behind NAT. I use ipnat(ipf) on single freebsd box( v6.2) to translate RFC1918 ip addresses to real one. In ipnat.conf I have: --- map vlan0 10.X.0.0/16 - a.b.c.X/32 proxy port ftp ftp/tcp map vlan0 10.X.0.0/16 - a.b.c.X/32 portmap tcp/udp auto map vlan0

Portupgrade failure: / filesystem full.... any suggestions short of full-scale re-install?

2004-09-16 Thread dfarmour
Hello, I'm not sure what's next: hedgehogs falling from the skies, perhaps? Mostly, I know I'm flailing around in the newbie waters, an otherwise straightforward 5.2.1 install (single user, desktop) gone horribly, horribly wrong. The story so far... I got through most of the sysinstall

Re: Portupgrade failure: / filesystem full.... any suggestionsshort of full-scale re-install?

2004-09-16 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm not sure what's next: hedgehogs falling from the skies, perhaps? Mostly, I know I'm flailing around in the newbie waters, an otherwise straightforward 5.2.1 install (single user, desktop) gone horribly, horribly wrong. The story so far... And what have

Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?

2003-10-06 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 09:54, Gabriel Striewe wrote: Hello! Can anybody recommend a low-scale presentation programm in OpenOfficeImpress or PowerPoint style, but which does not use as much resources. From other responses you'll see there are quite a number of options. I guess you need to try

Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?

2003-10-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 5 October 2003 at 1:23:50 +0100, Rus Foster wrote: On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Gabriel Striewe wrote: Hello! Can anybody recommend a low-scale presentation programm in OpenOfficeImpress or PowerPoint style, but which does not use as much resources. How about saving it as HTML

Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?

2003-10-05 Thread Simon Rutishauser
anybody recommend a low-scale presentation programm in OpenOfficeImpress or PowerPoint style, but which does not use as much resources. Thanks for any hints Gabriel ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?

2003-10-05 Thread Michal F. Hanula
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 02:24:33AM +0200, Gabriel Striewe wrote: Hello! Can anybody recommend a low-scale presentation programm in OpenOfficeImpress or PowerPoint style, but which does not use as much resources. Thanks for any hints What about OperaShow? http://www.opera.com/support

Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?

2003-10-05 Thread Todd Stephens
On Sunday 05 October 2003 02:56 am, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I'd be very interested to hear from people who are picky, who have actually used any of these packages, and who can tell me how to use them well. (Amongst other things, this is a roundabout way of saying that I don't know

Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?

2003-10-05 Thread Todd Stephens
On Sunday 05 October 2003 09:22 am, Todd Stephens wrote: Slideshow seems like an impressive application to me from looking at the web site http://www.alobbs.com/slideshow. It has an option to create ASCII Slides, so I don't know if that means it can read from a text file or not. I might

Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?

2003-10-05 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 10:16:07AM +0200, Simon Rutishauser wrote: Hi, give the Latex Prosper Package a try (you have to fetch it separately). With it you can create pdf files. These you can present using xpdf -fullscreen (I think xpdf doesn't need too much ressources ;-)) Peschmä I

Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?

2003-10-05 Thread Simon Rutishauser
Am Sun, 05 Oct 2003 08:57:10 -0600 schrieb Tillman Hodgson: On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 10:16:07AM +0200, Simon Rutishauser wrote: Hi, give the Latex Prosper Package a try (you have to fetch it separately). With it you can create pdf files. These you can present using xpdf -fullscreen (I

Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?

2003-10-05 Thread Timothy J. Luoma
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 13:26:31 +0200, Michal F. Hanula [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 02:24:33AM +0200, Gabriel Striewe wrote: Hello! Can anybody recommend a low-scale presentation programm in OpenOfficeImpress or PowerPoint style, but which does not use as much resources

Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?

2003-10-05 Thread Todd Stephens
On Sunday 05 October 2003 07:26 am, Michal F. Hanula wrote: On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 02:24:33AM +0200, Gabriel Striewe wrote: Hello! Can anybody recommend a low-scale presentation programm in OpenOfficeImpress or PowerPoint style, but which does not use as much resources

Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?

2003-10-05 Thread Michal F. Hanula
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 01:21:43PM -0400, Todd Stephens wrote: What about OperaShow? http://www.opera.com/support/tutorials/operashow/ Assuming one knows how to author an html document. Is this part of the Opera port? On the web page is says it is part of Opera for Windows, but

Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?

2003-10-05 Thread Gabriel Striewe
Hello! I found this website with information on LaTeX- and HTML-based screen presentation tools. http://www.miwie.org/presentations/presentations.html I hope this is any helpful. Gabriel ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?

2003-10-04 Thread Gabriel Striewe
Hello! Can anybody recommend a low-scale presentation programm in OpenOfficeImpress or PowerPoint style, but which does not use as much resources. Thanks for any hints Gabriel ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?

2003-10-04 Thread Rus Foster
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Gabriel Striewe wrote: Hello! Can anybody recommend a low-scale presentation programm in OpenOfficeImpress or PowerPoint style, but which does not use as much resources. How about saving it as HTML then using netscape? Rus -- w: http://www.jvps.com | Virtual Dedicated

Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?

2003-10-04 Thread Todd Stephens
On Saturday 04 October 2003 08:23 pm, Rus Foster wrote: How about saving it as HTML then using netscape? I think he wanted something that /wasn't/ a resource hog :-) Seriously, if you have KDE installed (which you probably don't if you are worried about system resources) there is KPresenter.

Re: C scale using /dev/speaker

2003-02-20 Thread Dave2206
for coaxing C major scale out of /dev/speaker? TIA. Dave To play C major scale, starting at middle C, do this: cat o3cdefgabo4c /dev/speaker man spkr(4) for more details. Thanks guys! : o) dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

C scale using /dev/speaker

2003-02-19 Thread Dave2206
Hi, what is proper syntax for coaxing C major scale out of /dev/speaker? TIA. Dave p.s. piano and spkrtest work great To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: C scale using /dev/speaker

2003-02-19 Thread Matthew Emmerton
Hi, what is proper syntax for coaxing C major scale out of /dev/speaker? TIA. Dave To play C major scale, starting at middle C, do this: cat o3cdefgabo4c /dev/speaker man spkr(4) for more details. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: C scale using /dev/speaker

2003-02-19 Thread Matthew Emmerton
Yes. It's been a LONG day. did you mean echo o3cdefgabo4c /dev/speaker ? On Wednesday 19 February 2003 10:14 pm, Matthew Emmerton wrote: Hi, what is proper syntax for coaxing C major scale out of /dev/speaker? TIA. Dave To play C major scale, starting at middle C

Re: Best way to scale SMTP auth?

2002-12-19 Thread Ronan Lucio
to use the Pop before SMTP method over authentication before SMTP. However from my understanding, it doesn't scale very well. So I'm trying to find a way to make this be able to handle as much traffic as possible without overloading the existing system. Thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail

Best way to scale SMTP auth?

2002-12-17 Thread Steven Lake
Hi. Got a slight problem. I'd like to do an SMTP system that allows up to 100 users a second to authenticate to the system using the simplest means possible. I'd like to use the Pop before SMTP method over authentication before SMTP. However from my understanding, it doesn't scale very

TTT scale

2002-11-03 Thread sudiana
I managed to get the ttt running on my box. Thanks to any advice from you all. Somehow i feel that the scale is not convenience because it's in Mbps. Hot to scale it to Kbps ? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message