Re: FreeBSD MySQL Performance Tunning suggestions???

2008-06-05 Thread Antony T Curtis
Hi, FreeBSD 7 should offer much better performance for MySQL. The FreeBSD kernel developers have found ways to relieve some of the kernel bottlenecks which permit multithreaded applications to operate much better. Regards, Antony. On 3 Jun 2008, at 03:43, VeeJay wrote: Hi Guys I need

Missing characters in /var/log/messages - hardware fault?

2008-06-05 Thread Mark
Hi, I'm seeing missing characters in /var/log/messages after kernel panics on a brand new box with a fresh install of 7.0-RELEASE. Typical lines are: May 30 0:14:53 odin2008 savecore: rebot after panic: age fault May 3 10:14:3 odin2008 savecore: wrting core to vmcore.0 Does this imply a

Query on kgdb output

2008-06-05 Thread 1
Hi, I'm seeing regular kernel panics on my new box with a fresh install of 7.0-RELEASE. I'm trying to get some information out of kgdb by following the instructions in the handbook - however, I'm getting a 'cannot access memory' message when I try it: odin2008# kgdb kernel.debug

Re: Effects of CPUTYPE

2008-06-05 Thread Mark Ovens
On Thu, June 5, 2008 00:24, Jonathan Chen wrote: In my personal opinion, the small gain you get is more than overwhelmed by the big pain you get from setting CPUTYPE. Thanks Jonathan. I think I'll reinstall my 7.0 system from scratch and install the apps from packages rather than build from

BSDstats: May Statistics - 23 998 Hosts Reported In

2008-06-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As of June 5th, 2008, the project is seeing 23 998 hosts reporting in, with a break down as follows: PC-BSD 14 715 hosts FreeBSD 6 331 hosts DesktopBSD2 662 hosts NetBSD

Jails and IPv6

2008-06-05 Thread Steve Bertrand
Hi everyone, Through all the information I've read (and after testing for myself), it appears as though IPv6 is still not possible inside of a jail. Is this correct? Is there any way that this can be accomplished? Regards, Steve ___

Re: vm.pmap.shpgperproc syslog messages

2008-06-05 Thread D Hill
On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 at 18:46 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: I just noticed today I'm starting to get messages in ../messages stating: Approaching the limit on PV entries, consider increasing either the vm.pmap.shpgperproc or the vm.pmap.pv_entry_max sysctl. I did some

size of executable - g95 vs gfortran42 - shared libs?

2008-06-05 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I use two different fortran90 compiler on a simple input file and get executables which differ in size by almost 3 orders of magnitude, see below. Is this something to do with the use of shared libraries? % gfortran42 tmp.f90 % ls -al a.out -rwxr-xr-x 1 xxx zzz9179 5 Jun 14:15 a.out % g95

RE: size of executable - g95 vs gfortran42 - shared libs?

2008-06-05 Thread Tobias Hoellrich
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anton Shterenlikht Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 7:21 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: size of executable - g95 vs gfortran42 - shared libs? I use two different fortran90 compiler on

Re: size of executable - g95 vs gfortran42 - shared libs?

2008-06-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I use two different fortran90 compiler on a simple input file and get executables which differ in size by almost 3 orders of magnitude, see below. Is this something to do with the use of shared libraries? You tell us :) What does file tell you? Kris % gfortran42

list files in FreeBSD ports tree package

2008-06-05 Thread Simon Jolle
Hi FreeBSD users I am searching for something similar to Red Hat's rpm -q -l package and Debian's dpkg -L package. cheers Simon -- XMPP: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: list files in FreeBSD ports tree package

2008-06-05 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, June 05, 2008 a las 03:35:01PM +0200, Simon Jolle escribió: Hi FreeBSD users I am searching for something similar to Red Hat's rpm -q -l package and Debian's dpkg -L package. cheers Simon Don't know nothing about Red Hat or Debian, but how about $ pkg_info -L

Re: size of executable - g95 vs gfortran42 - shared libs?

2008-06-05 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 06:29:35AM -0700, Tobias Hoellrich wrote: I use two different fortran90 compiler on a simple input file and get executables which differ in size by almost 3 orders of magnitude, see below. Is this something to do with the use of shared libraries? Run file and

Re: size of executable - g95 vs gfortran42 - shared libs?

2008-06-05 Thread Sébastien Morand
% ldd *.out g95.out: libm.so.5 = /lib/libm.so.5 (0x280c5000) libc.so.7 = /lib/libc.so.7 (0x280db000) gf42.out: libgfortran.so.2 = /usr/local/lib/gcc-4.2.4/libgfortran.so.2 (0x2807e000) libm.so.5 = /lib/libm.so.5 (0x28103000) libgcc_s.so.1 =

Re: size of executable - g95 vs gfortran42 - shared libs?

2008-06-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 06:29:35AM -0700, Tobias Hoellrich wrote: I use two different fortran90 compiler on a simple input file and get executables which differ in size by almost 3 orders of magnitude, see below. Is this something to do with the use of shared

Re: list files in FreeBSD ports tree package

2008-06-05 Thread Simon Jolle
On 6/5/08, Matthias Apitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't know nothing about Red Hat or Debian, but how about $ pkg_info -L stardict-2.4.8_5 or even $ man pkg_info HIH matthias Thank you Matthias -- XMPP: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 218, Issue 8

2008-06-05 Thread Camilo Reyes
Simply upgrade your kernel. I believe there is an upgrade guide on the release notes: http://freebsd.org/releases/6.3R/announce.html  Camilo Bono Vince Malum -- Message: 23 Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:28:29 +0100 From: Vince Hoffman Subject: Re: any news? 3945

Re: intrusion? find is thrashing my disk every time I boot.

2008-06-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Steve Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm really no security expert. I don't leave the system up 24/7, and I'm on a US DSL connection with a bunch of windows boxes. Seems to be a recent phenomena, I've started experiencing disk thrashing I can hear across the room. ps and top report

Re: Looking for gurus willing to help write Freebsd tutorials

2008-06-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 10:18:26PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jeffrey Goldberg Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 1:34 PM To: Jerry McAllister Cc: FreeBSD List Subject: Re: Looking for gurus

Re: Errors with pkg_add

2008-06-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Phusion [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am running FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE i386 and am having problems with pkg_add. I can install packages as the root user without problems. - pkg_add -r packages, works when running as root - pkg_add -r packages, errors out when using sudo % sudo pkg_add -r

Re: intrusion? find is thrashing my disk every time I boot.

2008-06-05 Thread Christian Walther
2008/6/4 Steve Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm really no security expert. I don't leave the system up 24/7, and I'm on a US DSL connection with a bunch of windows boxes. Seems to be a recent phenomena, I've started experiencing disk thrashing I can hear across the room. ps and top report

Upgrading Kernel on a Remote Server

2008-06-05 Thread Schiz0
Hey, I recently ordered a FreeBSD server from a hosting company. This would be the first time I do not have physical access to a FreeBSD system. I'm looking for any hints/tricks/suggestions for managing and upgrading it safely (as in, not locking myself out or having boot errors). The host does

Example uses of bsnmp-ucd?

2008-06-05 Thread Chris Haulmark
Hello, I have discovered that bsnmp-ucd provides the ability to monitor FreeBSD by gathering memory, load average, cpu usage and other system statistics. I wonder if anyone else have any examples of how they graph those statistics? I am currently using cacti and it seems difficult for me to

problems compiling Abiword and almost any Gtk app to FreeBSD 6.2: fusefs-kmod

2008-06-05 Thread pedro alves
Hello I am running FreeBSD 6.2-release on a Thinkpad600. I am trying to build a decent workstation for my work (text editing and minor plain web browsing). I do cvs updates weekly of the ports. However recently I found that I can't build abiword or gnumeric or any other gtk2

RE: Upgrading Kernel on a Remote Server

2008-06-05 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 12:15:44 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Freebsd-questions@freebsd.org CC: Subject: Upgrading Kernel on a Remote Server Hey, I recently ordered a FreeBSD server from a hosting company. This would be the first time I do not have physical access to a FreeBSD

Re: Upgrading Kernel on a Remote Server

2008-06-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 12:15:44PM -0400, Schiz0 wrote: Hey, I recently ordered a FreeBSD server from a hosting company. This would be the first time I do not have physical access to a FreeBSD system. I'm looking for any hints/tricks/suggestions for managing and upgrading it safely (as in,

Re: problems compiling Abiword and almost any Gtk app to FreeBSD 6.2: fusefs-kmod

2008-06-05 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 09:15:09AM -0400, pedro alves wrote: Hello I am running FreeBSD 6.2-release on a Thinkpad600. I am trying to build a decent workstation for my work (text editing and minor plain web browsing). I do cvs updates weekly of the ports. However recently

6.3 to 7.0 STABLE upgrade buildworld failures

2008-06-05 Thread Casey Scott
Can we no longer use make buildworld to upgrade from source builds? Everytime I've tried, I get build errors. I've gotten the impression from a few things I've read that freebsd-update is suppose to be used. I don't want a binary install/upgrade though. I've just sync from CVS with this in the

RTL8168/8111 PCI express support

2008-06-05 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
Hi all, I got a computer with a RTL8168/8111 PCI Express nic. It is shown in pciconf but it is not seen by FreeBSD 7. I'm using i386 arch. I have re and rl drivers compiled in the kernel (stock GENERIC kernel, actually). What do I need to make the NIC work properly? I tried to compile the

HylaFAX in FreeBSD jail?

2008-06-05 Thread Nejc Škoberne
Hello, anyone tried running HylaFAX in a FreeBSD jail? Does it work? Thanks, Nejc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mfi freebsd7

2008-06-05 Thread kalin m
hi vince... thank you for the advice. i did update my ports and install the 1.01.40 version... i have the linux-base installed and the linprocfs and linsysfs mounted.. but still nothing substantial happening: # megacli -adpCount Controller Count: 0.

Re: 6.3 to 7.0 STABLE upgrade buildworld failures

2008-06-05 Thread Dominique Goncalves
Hi, On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Casey Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can we no longer use make buildworld to upgrade from source builds? Everytime I've tried, I get build errors. I've gotten the impression from a few things I've read that freebsd-update is suppose to be used. I don't

Poor read() performance, and I can't profile it

2008-06-05 Thread Kirk Strauser
I'm running a command (dumprecspg from my XBaseToPg project) on a FreeBSD 7 server. I've noticed that throughput on that program is a lot lower than I would have expected, and further investigation found it spending most of its time in the kernel, presumably in read() [1]. I was testing the same

Instant Article Wizard, boost Your Writing

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Re: Poor read() performance, and I can't profile it

2008-06-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
Kirk Strauser wrote: I'm running a command (dumprecspg from my XBaseToPg project) on a FreeBSD 7 server. I've noticed that throughput on that program is a lot lower than I would have expected, and further investigation found it spending most of its time in the kernel, presumably in read() [1].

could you resend? was: regarding OT website templates...

2008-06-05 Thread Gary Kline
Yesterday, someone sent me a file with a couple URLs to frree sites with (i think) xhtml webpages ... free examples of templates. sorry, but ican't find the mail (erp) please resend?? gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public Service Unix

Re: 6.3 to 7.0 STABLE upgrade buildworld failures

2008-06-05 Thread Chris St Denis
Various parts of the FreeBSD base system are interdependent on each other. It's likely that one of the NO_* lines is breaking it. Since libgcc is what is failing I'd suspect NO_TOOLCHAIN mergemaster is normally done after installworld, but the -p mode is for pre-buildworld. See the man page

Re: Poor read() performance, and I can't profile it

2008-06-05 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Thursday 05 June 2008, Kris Kennaway wrote: Kirk Strauser wrote: ktrace(1) and check for the buffer size in use. It is probably too small. Kris It seems to be doing a lot of read()s with 4096-byte buffers. Is that what you mean? It's also doing a lot of lseek()s to what is likely the

Re: BSDstats: May Statistics - 23 998 Hosts Reported In

2008-06-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On Thursday, June 05, 2008 16:31:30 +0300 Odhiambo Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, I am surprised at how fast PC-BSD is picking up. I know that during installation, it prompts the installer to enable the submission of stats.

Re: Best solution - mobile wifi hotspot

2008-06-05 Thread Jim Stapleton
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Chris Whitehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: My dad makes instruments and goes to a lot of festivals. They are typically in the middle of nowhere, without internet. Many vendors still bring notebooks as they provide quick easy access to many

Denyhost

2008-06-05 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Anyone using this? I've used it for a long time on a 6.x box and it worked fine. Recently I had to deactivate it since it seems to lock away every IP which is listed in the logs. Any hint? bye Thanks av. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: 6.3 to 7.0 STABLE upgrade buildworld failures

2008-06-05 Thread Casey Scott
commenting NO_TOOLCHAIN did the trick. Thanks, Casey - Chris St Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Various parts of the FreeBSD base system are interdependent on each other. It's likely that one of the NO_* lines is breaking it. Since libgcc is what is failing I'd suspect NO_TOOLCHAIN

Re: Poor read() performance, and I can't profile it

2008-06-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
Kirk Strauser wrote: On Thursday 05 June 2008, Kris Kennaway wrote: Kirk Strauser wrote: ktrace(1) and check for the buffer size in use. It is probably too small. Kris It seems to be doing a lot of read()s with 4096-byte buffers. Is that what you mean? It's also doing a lot of

Re: mfi freebsd7

2008-06-05 Thread kalin m
ok... i guess i've had it with the mfi according to the hardware list on the freebsd site there are only 3 cards supported by the mfi driver on freebsd7 and the LSI MegaSAS 1078 ain't one of them. and lsi appears to be a remote company in singapore which apparently doesn't like to support

Re: BSDstats: May Statistics - 23 998 Hosts Reported In

2008-06-05 Thread Murray Stokely
Hi Marc, can you please post these individually to different lists next time rather than one massive cross-post? On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 6:31 AM, Odhiambo Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, I am surprised at how fast PC-BSD is picking up. I know that during installation, it prompts the

Re: Denyhost

2008-06-05 Thread Derek Ragona
At 04:36 PM 6/5/2008, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Anyone using this? I've used it for a long time on a 6.x box and it worked fine. Recently I had to deactivate it since it seems to lock away every IP which is listed in the logs. Any hint? bye Thanks av. I believe denyhost has been

Re: Poor read() performance, and I can't profile it

2008-06-05 Thread Kirk Strauser
Kris Kennaway wrote: No, if it's reading in 16 byte units it will explain the terrible performance. No, it's actually doing 4096-byte reads. That was just an example of what I meant. Since I wrote that, though, I wrote a program to do 1,000,000 seeks to position 0, and it ran immeasurably

Re: Best solution - mobile wifi hotspot

2008-06-05 Thread George Hartzell
Jim Stapleton writes: [...] Do you know of a wireless router that can provide individual user authentication, without requiring a complex setup? Some places may not want to pay for the internet connection, so he'll need to 'rent out' connection bandwidth to other vendors. Nocatsplash

Queuing and Prioritization with PF

2008-06-05 Thread Schiz0
Hey, I have pf running as the firewall on a web and IRC box. I'd like to setup a bit of prioritization. I want ssh to be a higher priority than any other traffic. I've read up on Class Based Queuing and Priority Queuing. If I understand it correctly, priority queuing will transfer ALL packets

Re: Poor read() performance, and I can't profile it

2008-06-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
Kirk Strauser wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: No, if it's reading in 16 byte units it will explain the terrible performance. No, it's actually doing 4096-byte reads. That was just an example of what I meant. I don't understand what you meant by It's also doing a lot of lseek()s to what is

Re: list files in FreeBSD ports tree package

2008-06-05 Thread Camilo Reyes
The best way to do searches on a BSD system is to use good old 'locate,' or even 'find / -name package.' This will give you a result based on the ports package which you can then add using 'pkg_add -r package name.' Camilo Bono Vince Malum -- Message: 6 Date:

Re: list files in FreeBSD ports tree package

2008-06-05 Thread prad
On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 19:37:42 -0700 (PDT) Camilo Reyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The best way to do searches on a BSD system is to use good old 'locate,' or even 'find / -name package.' i think you can also look in /var/db/pkg or do pkg_info | grep WHATEVER if i understood the original post

Re: Upgrading Kernel on a Remote Server

2008-06-05 Thread Camilo Reyes
I don't have much experience with this other than once I ran a server from home and remotely ssh'ed to it to do maintenance. One of the things I learned from that experience was that you can easily patch your services any time there is a new threat, all you have to do is patch your code,

Re: Poor read() performance, and I can't profile it

2008-06-05 Thread Kirk Strauser
Kris Kennaway wrote: I don't understand what you meant by It's also doing a lot of lseek()s to what is likely the current position anyway (example: seek to 0x00, read 16 bytes, seek to 0x10, etc.). then. I just meant that 16 was a smaller number than 4096 to use in an example. :-) But

Re: Denyhost

2008-06-05 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 06:19:26PM -0500, Derek Ragona wrote: At 04:36 PM 6/5/2008, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Anyone using this? I've used it for a long time on a 6.x box and it worked fine. Recently I had to deactivate it since it seems to lock away every IP which is listed in the logs.

Re: Upgrading Kernel on a Remote Server

2008-06-05 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Camilo Reyes wrote: I don't have much experience with this other than once I ran a server from home and remotely ssh'ed to it to do maintenance. One of the things I learned from that experience was that you can easily patch your services any time there is a new threat, all you have to do is

Re: Upgrading Kernel on a Remote Server

2008-06-05 Thread Steve Bertrand
A nice trick for easily recovering from unbootable kernels is nextboot(8). Try man nextboot I certainly concur with Sean on the co-ordinate a time theory, especially if it includes them being on standby for a clean recovery, but this nextboot(8) tactic that I never knew about before seems

Re: Denyhost

2008-06-05 Thread Sahil Tandon
Andrea Venturoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone using this? I've used it for a long time on a 6.x box and it worked fine. Recently I had to deactivate it since it seems to lock away every IP which is listed in the logs. Any hint? Give more information. Which logs? Give an example. Show

Re: DVD Writer problems

2008-06-05 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
On 05/06/2008, at 3:14 AM, Julien Cigar wrote: I have also this problem on almost all my machines .. the only solution I found is to disable DMA (atapi_dma), but then performances are very poor .. If you find a solution please let us know :) I tried disabling DMA 'atacontrol mode acd0