cpu utilization question in FreeBSD

2010-02-03 Thread Stefan Parvu
Hi, Im trying to put together a number of data recorders, to collect raw data from kernel or from applications. Here you can see a basic idea of SDR: http://www.systemdatarecorder.org/recording/recdesign.html http://www.systemdatarecorder.org/recording/recorders.html Im currently trying to

Re: Disabling openssl from ports

2010-02-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 3 Feb 2010, at 03:36, Olivier Nicole wrote: I have one port, namely /usr/ports/www/pound that needs the version of openssl from the ports (/usr/ports/security/openssl). But others ports works way better with the stock openssl from the system. Personally, I've been using the ports

Re: can't make an 'a' slice except with auto-defaults

2010-02-03 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Wednesday 03 February 2010 03:59:15 Steve Franks wrote: On a running system. I mean, I know I should quit being a %^# and read the manpage for bsdlabel, but sysintall really does have a nice tui. sade(8) is the standalone version of sysinstall's partitioning subroutine. Also, if you're

Backup and FreeBSD/ZFS

2010-02-03 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm currently considering switching my Backend (Running WSS2008 Enterprise) to FreeBSD RELENG_8+zfs, however my last melee with ZFS and backups to Autoloader (HP 1/8 G2 LTO-3 job) didn't quite turn out in my favour. Seems FreeBSD has a decent backup

Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

2010-02-03 Thread James R. Van Artsdalen
Dan Naumov wrote: [j...@atombsd ~]$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/jago/test2 bs=1M count=4096 4096+0 records in 4096+0 records out 4294967296 bytes transferred in 143.878615 secs (29851325 bytes/sec) This works out to 1GB in 36,2 seconds / 28,2mb/s in the first test and 4GB in 143.8 seconds /

Re: portsnap - broken metadata

2010-02-03 Thread Angelin Lalev
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Angelin Lalev lalev.ange...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, I believe I have broken the metainformation folders of portsnap. How to fix them? ironholm# rm -rf /var/db/portsnap/ ironholm# mkdir /var/db/portsnap ironholm# portsnap fetch Looking up

Re: can't make an 'a' slice except with auto-defaults

2010-02-03 Thread Polytropon
Just a sidenote to avoid misunderstandings: On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 19:59:15 -0700, Steve Franks bahamasfra...@gmail.com wrote: 'C'reate slice goes straight to 'd', even on a 'fresh' disk. I think you create a partition, not a slice. The slice editor would 'C'reate 's1'. :-) I see in the

Re: Disabling openssl from ports

2010-02-03 Thread b. f.
OK, this /should/ work. Add the following to /etc/make.conf: WITH_OPENSSL_BASE= yes .if ${.CURDIR:M*/www/pound} WITH_OPENSSL_PORT= yes .endif No, it won't -- at least, if you leave it in make.conf after building www/pound, it wil break all subsequent rebuilds of all other ports that

Helps! Installation hangs for FreeBSD 4.x and 5.1

2010-02-03 Thread Paul Shi
Dear All, I have encountered in installing FreeBSD including version 4.3, 4.5, 4.6, 4.8 and 5.1 on my new Dell laptop. Here is some info about the laptop. It came with Vista Home Basic. I have formatted the hard drive and installed XP on it. While doing so, I change the SATA option from AHCI to

Re: portsnap - broken metadata

2010-02-03 Thread RW
On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 12:20:53 + Angelin Lalev lalev.ange...@gmail.com wrote: I have proxy server that requires username and password and I have set the HTTP_PROXY and FTP_PROXY environment variables accordingly. (HTTP_PROXY = FTP_PROXY = USERNAME:passw...@proxy.uni-svishtov.bg:8080)

Re: Helps! Installation hangs for FreeBSD 4.x and 5.1

2010-02-03 Thread Ivan Voras
On 02/03/10 14:22, Paul Shi wrote: Dear All, I have encountered in installing FreeBSD including version 4.3, 4.5, 4.6, 4.8 and 5.1 on my new Dell laptop. Here is some info about the laptop. These versions of FreeBSD are so old they probably don't support your hardware. Try installing

Re: portsnap - broken metadata

2010-02-03 Thread RW
On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 13:22:59 + RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 12:20:53 + Angelin Lalev lalev.ange...@gmail.com wrote: I have proxy server that requires username and password and I have set the HTTP_PROXY and FTP_PROXY environment variables accordingly.

GeForce GTX 260M on amd64

2010-02-03 Thread Bc. Radek Krejca
Hello, I have bought new notebook with GeForce GTX 260M and installed amd64 distribution of freebsd 8 because of 4GB RAM. Is there any way to run OpenGL (get drivers for this graphics card)? Thanks Radek ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: fixing up port dependencies properly

2010-02-03 Thread b. f.
John W wrote: I updated my ports tree with csup, and tried to run 'portmaster -na'. It gave me this: === The mail/p5-Email-Simple-Creator port has been deleted: Folded into p5-Email-Simple package Ok, that makes sense. But what do I do to fix it? It seems I need to replace dependencies on

Re: fixing up port dependencies properly

2010-02-03 Thread b. f.
On 2/3/10, b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote: John W wrote: -o , or portupgrade -o, which will succeed in the simplest cases. You could also do it manually, by using sed(1) to substitute every occurrence of the old PKGNAME with the new PKGNAME in the @pkgdep lines in

Re: Disabling openssl from ports

2010-02-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/02/2010 12:57, b. f. wrote: OK, this /should/ work. Add the following to /etc/make.conf: WITH_OPENSSL_BASE= yes .if ${.CURDIR:M*/www/pound} WITH_OPENSSL_PORT= yes .endif No, it won't -- at least, if you leave it in

Re: GeForce GTX 260M on amd64

2010-02-03 Thread George Liaskos
Hi Did you try the binary driver x11/nvidia-driver? Your card should be supported. 2010/2/3 Bc. Radek Krejca ra...@ceskedomeny.cz: Hello, I have bought new notebook with GeForce GTX 260M and installed amd64 distribution of freebsd 8 because of 4GB RAM. Is there any way to run OpenGL (get

Re: can't make an 'a' slice except with auto-defaults

2010-02-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 07:59:15PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: On a running system. I mean, I know I should quit being a %^# and read the manpage for bsdlabel, but sysintall really does have a nice tui.'C'reate slice goes straight to 'd', even on a 'fresh' disk. I see in the handbook,

Re: Backup and FreeBSD/ZFS

2010-02-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 11:05:06AM +0100, Svein Skogen (Listmail Account) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm currently considering switching my Backend (Running WSS2008 Enterprise) to FreeBSD RELENG_8+zfs, however my last melee with ZFS and backups to Autoloader (HP

Re: crontab

2010-02-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Nadir Aliyev na...@ultel.net writes: Hello friends. I have interesting situation with cron. I created a simple script for process monitoring: #!/usr/local/bin/bash processname=`/bin/ps aux | /usr/bin/grep -v grep | /usr/bin/grep -c 'maintenance_jobs.php'` if [ $processname -le 0 ];

Mac applications on FreeBSD

2010-02-03 Thread Bill White
Will Mac OS X applications run on FreeBSD? Specifically, Microsoft Office:Mac? If so, does it require special manipulation like hacking the system kernel and/or application in order to get it to run? Thanks very much, Bill ___

Re: Mac applications on FreeBSD

2010-02-03 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 03 February 2010 pm 23:38:55 Bill White wrote: Will Mac OS X applications run on FreeBSD? Specifically, Microsoft Office:Mac? If so, does it require special manipulation like hacking the system kernel and/or application in order to get it to run? Thanks not to my knowledge. Only

Re: Mac applications on FreeBSD

2010-02-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 03/02/2010 15:38, Bill White wrote: Will Mac OS X applications run on FreeBSD? Specifically, Microsoft Office:Mac? If so, does it require special manipulation like hacking the system kernel and/or application in order to get it to run? Thanks very much, Bill No. FreeBSD can run many

Re: Backup and FreeBSD/ZFS

2010-02-03 Thread Goran Lowkrantz
I have been using Amanda straight from the port, it supports both tar from snapshots if you need to be able to retrieve individual files from the backup and zfs send if recovery at filesystem level is OK. --glz --On Wednesday, February 03, 2010 11:05 AM +0100 Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)

Re: can't make an 'a' slice except with auto-defaults

2010-02-03 Thread Steve Franks
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 07:59:15PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: On a running system.  I mean, I know I should quit being a %^# and read the manpage for bsdlabel, but sysintall really does have a nice tui.    'C'reate slice

adding disk moves ad0 to ad4

2010-02-03 Thread Steve Franks
Just curious, having read the handbook section talking about freebsd going straight to the hardware and skipping the bios for disk numbering, why then, if I stick a sata disk in 'sata0' on the motherboard, does it come up as ad0, but if I add a second disk in 'sata1' or 'pata0', on the next boot,

Re: can't make an 'a' slice except with auto-defaults

2010-02-03 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 10:26:06 -0700, Steve Franks bahamasfra...@gmail.com wrote: I'm just trying to make a fresh disk ready for dump/restore with a 1G /, so I guess sysinstall is out as an option at this time. Why so complicated? The command # newfs /dev/ad1 will prepare the disk,

Re: adding disk moves ad0 to ad4

2010-02-03 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Steve Franks bahamasfra...@gmail.comwrote: Just curious, having read the handbook section talking about freebsd going straight to the hardware and skipping the bios for disk numbering, why then, if I stick a sata disk in 'sata0' on the motherboard, does it

Re: can't make an 'a' slice except with auto-defaults

2010-02-03 Thread Steve Franks
Why so complicated? The command        # newfs /dev/ad1 I'm looking to mirror/dup/image the entire system to something I can stick in another system.I hear there's good reasons for not running my whole system off of a single partition. The 'other' system has 7.2 and has devolved to a 25%

Re: can't make an 'a' slice except with auto-defaults

2010-02-03 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 10:42:42 -0700, Steve Franks bahamasfra...@gmail.com wrote: Why so complicated? The command        # newfs /dev/ad1 I'm looking to mirror/dup/image the entire system to something I can stick in another system. Sorry, my misunderstanding. I thought you're intending

Re: adding disk moves ad0 to ad4

2010-02-03 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 10:35:48 -0700, Steve Franks bahamasfra...@gmail.com wrote: Just curious, having read the handbook section talking about freebsd going straight to the hardware and skipping the bios for disk numbering, why then, if I stick a sata disk in 'sata0' on the motherboard, does it

Re: adding disk moves ad0 to ad4

2010-02-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/02/2010 17:35, Steve Franks wrote: Just curious, having read the handbook section talking about freebsd going straight to the hardware and skipping the bios for disk numbering, why then, if I stick a sata disk in 'sata0' on the motherboard,

Re: Backup and FreeBSD/ZFS

2010-02-03 Thread LoH
If my memory serves, you're looking at something similar to taking a snapshot and then sending it to the tape device, so zfs send snapshot | (tape device access). This, IIRC, is functionally identical to dump/restore. The Solaris ZFS Admin guide is generally helpful (even as we live in the

Re: adding disk moves ad0 to ad4

2010-02-03 Thread Steve Franks
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 10:35:48 -0700, Steve Franks bahamasfra...@gmail.com wrote: Just curious, having read the handbook section talking about freebsd going straight to the hardware and skipping the bios for disk numbering, why

Re: can't make an 'a' slice except with auto-defaults

2010-02-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 06:37:22PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 10:26:06 -0700, Steve Franks bahamasfra...@gmail.com wrote: I'm just trying to make a fresh disk ready for dump/restore with a 1G /, so I guess sysinstall is out as an option at this time. Why so

Re: adding disk moves ad0 to ad4

2010-02-03 Thread Arthur Chance
Steve Franks wrote: Just curious, having read the handbook section talking about freebsd going straight to the hardware and skipping the bios for disk numbering, why then, if I stick a sata disk in 'sata0' on the motherboard, does it come up as ad0, but if I add a second disk in 'sata1' or

Re: can't make an 'a' slice except with auto-defaults

2010-02-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 10:42:42AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: Why so complicated? The command        # newfs /dev/ad1 I'm looking to mirror/dup/image the entire system to something I can stick in another system.I hear there's good reasons for not running my whole system off of a

Re: kmem_size / arc_max ratio

2010-02-03 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 03), Rolf Nielsen said: I recently installed more RAM in my computer; increased it from 4GB to 8GB. Mainly to be able to use a larger arc for zfs. Now my question is, how much memory does the kernel need apart from the arc? I currently have kmem_size_max 512MB

Re: Backup and FreeBSD/ZFS

2010-02-03 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03.02.2010 19:14, LoH wrote: If my memory serves, you're looking at something similar to taking a snapshot and then sending it to the tape device, so zfs send snapshot | (tape device access). This, IIRC, is functionally identical to

Re: Backup and FreeBSD/ZFS

2010-02-03 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03.02.2010 17:41, Goran Lowkrantz wrote: I have been using Amanda straight from the port, it supports both tar from snapshots if you need to be able to retrieve individual files from the backup and zfs send if recovery at filesystem level is OK.

IPv6: rtsol must be run a second time after boot to pick up default route

2010-02-03 Thread Brian Conway
I recently set up an HE.net tunnel using the following guides: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-ipv6.html http://www.freebsddiary.org/ipv6.php FreeBSD 7.2-p5 is used for the router and the host, and it works beautifully, except that the host will only pick up the IPv6 prefix on

Re: Backup and FreeBSD/ZFS

2010-02-03 Thread Goran Lowkrantz
Yes, I have three sets running that way, my home systems using a Dell 122 and a 5 rack config at work with a 7x200G Tandberg and a 48 slot 4U IBM beast. All are using the mtx changer scripts that come with Amanda. -glz --On Wednesday, February 03, 2010 8:22 PM +0100 Svein Skogen (Listmail

More sysinstall questions 1 of 2

2010-02-03 Thread Martin McCormick
Yesterday, I asked how sysinstall mounts the drive on which FreeBSD is to install. I might not have been clear enough so I will try again since my question may have been confusing. The system is booting via mfs so we are starting out with a virtual disk drive made of memory. The

More sysinstall questions 2 of 2

2010-02-03 Thread Martin McCormick
When looking at the screen in sysinstall that lets one choose a medium to import an install.cfg file, there is the CDROM, the floppy disk and what looks like another option. Here is the text of the screen: ³ ³ fd0floppy drive unit A³ ³ ³ ³

Re: More sysinstall questions 1 of 2

2010-02-03 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:01:52 -0600, Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu wrote: The commit does not format the disk. There is no last chance prompt. It goes right to the download and proceeds to install FreeBSD all over mfs. This seems to be obvious because no changes have been

Re: More sysinstall questions 2 of 2

2010-02-03 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:09:28 -0600, Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu wrote: ³ ³ ufsid/4b6787a7598a9a8bs1a ufsid/4b6787a7598a9a8bs1a ³ ³ Is that line with the ufsid some way to import a file without having to install a CDROM or some other physical media? To me, it

this may be impossible: iis there a way to play streams on our firefox?

2010-02-03 Thread Gary Kline
Is there a way of streaming stuff like old tv shows, the bbc-player, and pbs steams on the freebsd version of firefox35? thought i'd give it a last try since everything is upgraded on my desktop. -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org

Re: IPv6: rtsol must be run a second time after boot to pick up default route

2010-02-03 Thread Brian Conway
On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Brian Conway wrote: I recently set up an HE.net tunnel using the following guides: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-ipv6.html http://www.freebsddiary.org/ipv6.php FreeBSD 7.2-p5 is used for the router and the host, and it works beautifully, except that the

Re: this may be impossible: iis there a way to play streams on our firefox?

2010-02-03 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Is there a way of streaming stuff like old tv shows, the bbc-player, and pbs steams on the freebsd version of firefox35? thought i'd give it a last try since everything is upgraded on my

Re: GeForce GTX 260M on amd64

2010-02-03 Thread Bc. Radek Krejca
Hello, I found this - now I am waiting if this will be in ports: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=142120 Radek ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: can't make an 'a' slice except with auto-defaults

2010-02-03 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 296, Issue 6, Message: 20 On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 10:26:06 -0700 Steve Franks bahamasfra...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 07:59:15PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: On a running