Re: hardware testing / burn in software

2005-01-28 Thread cali
Hi List, Is there any freebsd based p.c hardware / burn in testing software available ? Someone suggested this to me when I had a suspected hardware problem earlier this month: http://www.memtest86.com/ cali ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

hardware testing / burn in software

2005-01-28 Thread Dave Carrera
Hi List, Is there any freebsd based p.c hardware / burn in testing software available ? I ask as i am building 3 new servers and want to check all parts ie, mem, hdd, cpu etc before loading on my freebsd. What would be ideal is a micro kernal on a floppy disk or self booting cd with the

Tools for program testing?

2004-11-04 Thread Choy Kho Yee
Hi, to the experienced developers out there, I would like to know if there are any tools that help in testing/debugging a program? To be specific, what I need to know is which lines of the code have been tested and which have not. AFAIK, gdb is the standard tool for debugging and I am using it. I

Re: "stress" testing

2004-10-23 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
lity that can be used to do some sort of "stress" testing. The reference was in a man page style [ command(n) ] type reference in the thread. I though I saved it but cannot find it. Is there some sort of port or utility or command that can do general system/sub-system stress testing?

Re: "stress" testing

2004-10-22 Thread Vulpes Velox
be used to do some sort of "stress" testing. The > reference was in a man page style [ command(n) ] type reference in > the thread. I though I saved it but cannot find it. Is there some > sort of port or utility or command that can do general > system/sub-system stress testi

"stress" testing

2004-10-22 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
Hi In reading one of the various performance threads recently in either -questions or -current, I seem to recall someone mentioning a utility that can be used to do some sort of "stress" testing. The reference was in a man page style [ command(n) ] type reference in the thread.

Re: 5.3-BETA1 released today for testing

2004-08-21 Thread Guillermo García-Rojas
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/schedule.html On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 23:45:09 +0300, Ion-Mihai Tetcu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:33:11 -0500 > Guillermo García-Rojas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:51:15 -0400, JJB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >

Re: 5.3-BETA1 released today for testing

2004-08-20 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:33:11 -0500 Guillermo García-Rojas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:51:15 -0400, JJB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/schedule.html says that the > > 5.3-BETA1 tier-1 platform images are scheduled to be released and > >

Re: 5.3-BETA1 released today for testing

2004-08-20 Thread Bill Moran
d and > >> uploaded to ftp-master.FreeBSD.org by Aug 20, 2004. > >> > >> The ftp-master.FreeBSD.org server does not accept guest or > anonymous > >> logons. > >> > >> Is the testing release of 5.3-BETA1 behind schedule allready and >

RE: 5.3-BETA1 released today for testing

2004-08-20 Thread JJB
gt; >> The ftp-master.FreeBSD.org server does not accept guest or anonymous >> logons. >> >> Is the testing release of 5.3-BETA1 behind schedule allready and not >> yet on ftp-master.FreeBSD.org? >> >> How can people get 5.3-BETA1 miniistall.iso image for test

Re: 5.3-BETA1 released today for testing

2004-08-20 Thread Guillermo García-Rojas
uploaded to ftp-master.FreeBSD.org by Aug 20, 2004. > > The ftp-master.FreeBSD.org server does not accept guest or anonymous > logons. > > Is the testing release of 5.3-BETA1 behind schedule allready and not > yet on ftp-master.FreeBSD.org? > > How can people get 5.3-BETA1 miniistall.

5.3-BETA1 released today for testing

2004-08-20 Thread JJB
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/schedule.html says that the 5.3-BETA1 tier-1 platform images are scheduled to be released and uploaded to ftp-master.FreeBSD.org by Aug 20, 2004. The ftp-master.FreeBSD.org server does not accept guest or anonymous logons. Is the testing release of 5.3

mod_python testing using mptest.py failed on FreeBSD5.2.1

2004-08-10 Thread Suhaimi Jamalludin
Hi All, Need your advice on mod_python. I'm running FreeBSD5.2.1, apache+mod_ssl-1.3.31+2.8.19 and mod_python-2.7.10. I have done the configuration seting on http.conf and restart my apache. Apache runing fine, however during my mod_python testing I got this error in my httpd-error.log.

Re: max concurrent scp sessions - and testing methodology for them...

2004-06-30 Thread Bill Moran
l pan out in reality. Depending on the number of files and how much RAM is available, there's always some % chance that a file will be in cache. However, overall, it's not a bad testing scheme, as you're trying to get worst case scenerio. > I would think the major bottleneck

max concurrent scp sessions - and testing methodology for them...

2004-06-30 Thread Joe Schmoe
I have read several documents on the number of concurrent https sessions a FreeBSD system is capable of. However, I wonder how well this relates to how many ssh sessions (scp file transfers, specifically) that a FreeBSD server can handle. Can anyone throw out some basic numbers for this ? Assum

Re: testing

2004-05-05 Thread Bill Moran
Branton, Chris wrote: Dear Folks, I would like to volunteer to be a tester for you. If you want more info on me, and how I use FreeBsd let me know. Here are some excellent resources on contributing to FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/index.html http://ww

testing

2004-05-05 Thread Branton, Chris
Dear Folks, I would like to volunteer to be a tester for you. If you want more info on me, and how I use FreeBsd let me know. Chris Branton ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To un

Testing groups.

2004-03-28 Thread Tim Hawkins
I would like to make some contribution back to the freebsd project, in the form of time testing. Is there any groups that are organising testing activites that I can contact? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Problem in Netgraph ( TESTING OF MY NODE )

2004-03-21 Thread manish gautam
Ist problem = i hav created my own node named "m" .and using commands kldload netgraph kldload ng_ether kldload ng_m i also create an ether node and then i attach my "m" node to ether node using ngctl mkpeer ed0: m upper right after that on command ::--> ngctl msg my_m: getstats

where is late (scheduler testing tool)

2004-01-26 Thread Benjamin Lutz
I've been reading Jeff Roberson's ULE paper - very interesting. He uses a tool called late for testing. Where can I find this tool? He says that it should be available in FreeBSDs source repository, but I'm unable to find it. Can anyone point me towards it? Thanks. - Benjamin

Re: looking for virtual machine for testing booting ISO images

2003-12-31 Thread wmrfreebsd
Bochs is quite capable of booting just about anything. The nice thing about it is you can 'edit' the CPU and have it print out what it's doing for hard-to-debug stuff. Just put your CD in your /dev/cdrom drive, then put these lines in .bochsrc ata0-slave: type=cdrom, path=/dev/cdrom, status=in

looking for virtual machine for testing booting ISO images

2003-12-30 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
I am looking for a method where I can boot ISO images in a chroot-like environment. (I understand that VMware and Virtual PC may be able to do this, but I'd prefer to use an open source product.) I was told on the plex86 list to look at bochs. I did look at some bochs documentation that mentioned

Re: hardware testing - e.g. memory - on old hardware

2003-12-16 Thread Mykroft Holmes IV
paul van den bergen wrote: Like most geeks[1] I have a pile of roting hardware at home... Someone yesterday mentioned (vaguely) about utilities for testing hardware - especially RAM - but presumably this could be extended to other hardware - that would 1) tell you if it is OK. This is

hardware testing - e.g. memory - on old hardware

2003-12-16 Thread paul van den bergen
Like most geeks[1] I have a pile of roting hardware at home... Someone yesterday mentioned (vaguely) about utilities for testing hardware - especially RAM - but presumably this could be extended to other hardware - that would 1) tell you if it is OK. 2) isolate and by some mechanism make

Re: freebsd testing bandwidth

2003-10-17 Thread Joseph Begumisa
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, DanB wrote: > Is there a way to test bandwidth with a free bsd box? > > Dan you can also make use of pchar located in /usr/ports/net/pchar/ Joseph. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/free

Re: freebsd testing bandwidth

2003-10-16 Thread Kliment Andreev
> Is there a way to test bandwidth with a free bsd box? There a some utilities in the ports tree to test the network speed, but you can also use your favorite browser in your favorite X shell, to check the DSL/Cable speed. www.dslreports.comm/tools _

Re: freebsd testing bandwidth

2003-10-16 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 17), DanB said: > Is there a way to test bandwidth with a free bsd box? Sure. Check out ports/benchmarks/netperf. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mail

freebsd testing bandwidth

2003-10-16 Thread DanB
Is there a way to test bandwidth with a free bsd box? Dan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Hardware testing tool (off-topic)

2003-08-18 Thread Pranav A. Desai
Hi! Sorry for asking an off-topic question, but I am kind of in a tight situation. Does anyone know of a hardware testing tool that can be booted of a floppy or a CD and do some basic hardware checks on the CPU, Memory and Hard drives and see if they are not faulty. Any OS would do ? Thanks

Re: network performance testing

2003-07-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"XR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm considering purchasing hosting from a provider that says I will have > a dedicated 10 Mbit connection with burst to 20 Mbit on a FreeBSD box I > rebuilt to suit my needs.. The network is Multihomed with three other > providers. However, I'm a skeptic. I went

network performance testing

2003-07-21 Thread XR
I'm considering purchasing hosting from a provider that says I will have a dedicated 10 Mbit connection with burst to 20 Mbit on a FreeBSD box I rebuilt to suit my needs.. The network is Multihomed with three other providers. However, I'm a skeptic. I went ahead and purchased for 1 month and now

Re: SMP kernel hanging after testing 8254 intr delivery (RELENG_4)

2003-07-02 Thread Lars Köller
-- Hello, anything news concerning my SMP problem with the Fujitsu-Siemens RX300 system? Would be nice to have SMP running at Friday evening, when I have to go into production. Thanks and best regards Lars -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]\ Lars Köller [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: SMP kernel hanging after testing 8254 intr delivery (RELENG_4)

2003-07-01 Thread Lars Köller
-- Hi, sorry, I've forgotten in my last mail to attache the mp_table output. Is anything else needed? === MPTable, version 2.0.15 --

Re: SMP kernel hanging after testing 8254 intr delivery (RELENG_4)

2003-07-01 Thread Lars Köller
psm0: model IntelliMouse Explorer, device ID 4 vga0: at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on isa0 sc0: at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <12 virtual consoles, flags=0x100> sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A, console sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitm

SMP kernel hanging after testing 8254 intr delivery (RELENG_4)

2003-06-30 Thread Lars Köller
Hi experts, I need urgently help or a patch for FreeBSD-4-STABLE on a Fujitsu-Siemens RX300 hardware: - The non-SMP kernel runs well - With the SMP kernel a lockup occur after the 8254 interrupt delivery is tested: ... APIC_IO: Testing 8254 interrupt delivery I&#x

Re: Testing...NO CONTENTS...

2003-05-29 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 28 May 2003 at 21:24:27 -0400, Xpression wrote: > Please don't send test mail to the normal FreeBSD lists. It wastes a lot of money around the world. There's a special test list for this purpose. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you do

Testing...NO CONTENTS...

2003-05-29 Thread Xpression
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KBurnCD is now available for testing.

2003-03-28 Thread Justin L. Boss
If your like me you may have wished that their was a good GUI front-end to FreeBSD's burncd command for ATAPI CD burners. I know reading this list, I have seen a lot of questions about this. Well it is now here. KBurnCD is a KDE front-end to the FreeBSD command burncd (a command line ATAPI CD b

RE: Diagnois network issues (packet sniffing, bandwidth testing,etc.)

2003-03-27 Thread Yonatan Bokovza
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 21:02 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Diagnois network issues (packet sniffing, bandwidth > testing, etc.) > > > I have some issues at work wh

Diagnois network issues (packet sniffing, bandwidth testing, etc.)

2003-03-27 Thread jaime
I have some issues at work which might be network issues. For example, I sometimes see slow response times on file sharing. Can anyone suggest a set of tools on FreeBSD (preferably in the ports, but I can use make if I have to) to look for problems like extra protocols, ethernet collision

Re: Load testing tool with apache ?

2003-03-24 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Thomas von Hassel wrote: > Some time ago i found a small webserver load generator that apparently > came with apache. Anyone know what its called, or am i imagining stuff ? 'ab' it is usually in 'support' or in bin. Dw To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Load testing tool with apache ?

2003-03-24 Thread Edmond Baroud
apache bench. binary is called 'ab'. $apache_home/sbin , this is the default path. Ed. On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 15:43:11 +0100 Thomas von Hassel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some time ago i found a small webserver load generator that apparently > came with apache. Anyone know what its called, or am

Load testing tool with apache ?

2003-03-24 Thread Thomas von Hassel
Some time ago i found a small webserver load generator that apparently came with apache. Anyone know what its called, or am i imagining stuff ? /thomas To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Replicating a Production Machine for Testing

2003-03-10 Thread FreeBSD Questions Account
Hi Everyone, I'm in a bit of a situation. I have a production system that is to remain up, it acts as a web server for several virtual domains, and has a web based interface written in perl which integrates among other things Apache with many modules, qMail (mySQL Powered), and BIND DNS. The vers

testing testing

2003-01-16 Thread romanbsd
just a test, sorry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Apache stress testing tool ?

2003-01-08 Thread Sven Mueller
maybe this is the problem: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02%3A20.syncache.asc Sven On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 07:11:00PM +0100, Sven Mueller wrote: > Hello! > > I checked ab on my FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE server with installed > apache+mod_ssl-1.3.27+2.8.11 and > mod_g

Re: Apache stress testing tool ?

2003-01-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 01:11 PM, Sven Mueller wrote: [ ... ] > Two times the server rebooted without a messages in the logfiles! :-( For one time it worked. Does anyone has any idea, why the server rebooted?? It shouldn't do that, of course. Try following the steps in "man crash"

Re: Apache stress testing tool ?

2003-01-08 Thread Sven Mueller
Hello! I checked ab on my FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE server with installed apache+mod_ssl-1.3.27+2.8.11 and mod_gzip-1.3.19.1a, mod_log_mysql-1.14, mod_perl-1.27, mod_php4-4.2.3 for three times. Two times the server rebooted without a messages in the logfiles! :-( For one time it worked. Does

Re: Apache stress testing tool ?

2003-01-08 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
t that) - or check out flood; also an apache project for more advanced testing cycles. Dw. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Apache stress testing tool ?

2003-01-07 Thread mattb
On 1/7/03 at 1:04 PM Thomas von Hassel wrote: |Anybody recommend a good/simple tool to load/stress test an apache |webserver ? (or any other webserver for that matter) Check out http://hammerhead.sourceforge.net/ Regards, Matthew Bettinger To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: Apache stress testing tool ?

2003-01-07 Thread Gerard Samuel
Me personally, I use siege in the ports. MikeM wrote: On 1/7/03 at 1:04 PM Thomas von Hassel wrote: |Anybody recommend a good/simple tool to load/stress test an apache |webserver ? (or any other webserver for that matter) = If you have a windoze box available, this tool is very go

Re: Apache stress testing tool ?

2003-01-07 Thread MikeM
On 1/7/03 at 1:04 PM Thomas von Hassel wrote: |Anybody recommend a good/simple tool to load/stress test an apache |webserver ? (or any other webserver for that matter) = If you have a windoze box available, this tool is very good: http://www.opensta.org/ To Unsubscribe: send ma

Re: Apache stress testing tool ?

2003-01-07 Thread Miguel Mendez
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 13:04:25 +0100 Thomas von Hassel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anybody recommend a good/simple tool to load/stress test an apache > webserver ? (or any other webserver for that matter) ab(1) domes with apache. DESCRIPTION ab is a tool for benchmarking your Apache HyperT

Apache stress testing tool ?

2003-01-07 Thread Thomas von Hassel
Anybody recommend a good/simple tool to load/stress test an apache webserver ? (or any other webserver for that matter) /thomas To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Testing serial ports

2003-01-03 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 02:36:06AM -0500, Dragoncrest wrote: > I've got a slight problem where I think that I've got a serial port > that has failed on one of my machines. So I'm looking for the simplest way > to test a serial port to see if it is in fact working. Thanks for the inf

Testing serial ports

2003-01-02 Thread Dragoncrest
I've got a slight problem where I think that I've got a serial port that has failed on one of my machines. So I'm looking for the simplest way to test a serial port to see if it is in fact working. Thanks for the info. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-

Re: testing memory speed

2002-12-09 Thread Cliff Sarginson
] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jason Hunt > Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 10:08 PM > To: David S. Jackson > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: testing memory speed > > > On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, David S. Jackson wrote: > > > Is there a utility to test me

RE: testing memory speed

2002-12-09 Thread Mike
:08 PM To: David S. Jackson Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: testing memory speed On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, David S. Jackson wrote: > Is there a utility to test memory speed? I looked at memtest in > ports, but it looks like that mainly tests for faulty memory. I did a > websearch an

Re: testing memory speed

2002-12-09 Thread Jason Hunt
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, David S. Jackson wrote: > Is there a utility to test memory speed? I looked at memtest in ports, > but it looks like that mainly tests for faulty memory. I did a > websearch and found a command: dd /dev/null, but that > doesn't seem to summarize the memory speed easily for m

testing memory speed

2002-12-09 Thread David S. Jackson
Is there a utility to test memory speed? I looked at memtest in ports, but it looks like that mainly tests for faulty memory. I did a websearch and found a command: dd /dev/null, but that doesn't seem to summarize the memory speed easily for me. Can anyone else give me a pointer to how to test

testing ability to send mail to list, apologize for the spam

2002-11-08 Thread Eric Timme
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Re: Novice question about testing sound cards

2002-11-05 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, you wrote: >Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: OK, I'm willing to give that a try, but what device should I can the .au file to? Do I cat to /dev/dsp0 ? >>> >>>Yes, give it a try. >> >> >> I tried it, and nothing happened. No sound came out. >> >> I cat'd the

Re: Novice question about testing sound cards

2002-11-04 Thread Andrew Boothman
t free MP3 files for testing? I'm sure if you Google around, you will find something. That's how I found the .au file. Sorry I can't be more help. Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Novice question about testing sound cards

2002-11-04 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
give it a try. I tried it, and nothing happened. No sound came out. I cat'd the file to /dev/dsp0. Was that correct? > As I mentioned above, if you have MP3 files then try >using a command-line mp3 decoder as well. They also use the /dev/dsp >entries. OK. I'll try th

Re: Novice question about testing sound cards

2002-11-04 Thread Andrew Boothman
Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: Also, try doing 'cat /dev/sndstat' to make sure that pcm really does understand your card. OK, did that, and I get: FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Installed Devices: pcm0: at io 0x220 irq 5 drq 1:5 bufsz 4096d (1p/1r/0v channels duplex) Does that all seem OK? Abso

Re: Novice question about testing sound cards

2002-11-04 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, you wrote: >Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: >> Ok, so question: What's the simplest and easiest way to simply check >> to see if a given sound card is working or not? >> >> I gather that it is _not_ as simple as just cat'ing some .mp3 file to >> one of the /dev/dsp* d

Re: Novice question about testing sound cards

2002-11-03 Thread Andrew Boothman
Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: The card is now clearly recognized on boot up, however I'm still not 100% that it's working. I tried using a couple of CD player utilities and no sound came out if the speakers. The card will only act as a CD-player if it is directly connected to the CD-player b

Novice question about testing sound cards

2002-11-03 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
Greetings, I have to confess massive ignorance about sound cards. I haven't used these things much in the past, if at all. Anyway, I just installed 4.7-RELEASE on a new system that's got an ancient and crusty ISA Sound Blaster 16 PnP card (that I bought second-hand) installed in it. I also ge

Testing

2002-10-29 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Hi all, Just want to say thanks for all the great work. Figure its time for me to start contributing more actively to our communities. I have the following setup, and would be happy to test some things for people not having access to an envirnment like this. Architecture 350MHz Intel PII w/ 64M

Bad Blocks Testing on SCSI HDD

2002-10-24 Thread Ruslan Morozoff
Hello All, Can anyone recommend me simple solution to test "Second-Hand" HDD under FreeBSD for phisycal defects? Just in 'write-read-test_CRC' style... ;) P.S.: it will be SeaGate Cheetah ST39102LW, running 4.7-STABLE... -- Best regards, Ruslan Morozoff mailto:FreeBSD@

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