Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0?

2009-11-30 Thread James Phillips
--- On Mon, 11/30/09, Bruce Cran wrote: > > This is actually the way UFS/FFS works too: when my system > was crashing > fairly regularly I was a bit surprised to find empty files > after > editing them. > > Also, I just verified that saving a file, rebooting, > editing it again > (with ee(1))

Firefox 3.5 and Epiphany crashing since the GNOME 2.28 update

2009-11-30 Thread Curly Brace
Hi all, I'm on 8.0/amd64, and my GNOME 2.28 update went off with no problems, but now Firefox 3.5 and Epiphany 2.28 crash when visiting certain pages, such as the "Welcome to firefox" first-start page. Firefox leaves "Segmentation fault (core dump)" in the console when it crashes, and Epiphany is s

stable/8/UPDATING - no mention of 8.0 release

2009-11-30 Thread Peter
iH, Been updating my src via svn and following stable/8. Looking at the UPDATING file, it does not mention '8.0-RELEASE' Did it just not make it in there yet? http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/stable/8/UPDATING?view=markup vs. http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/release/8.0.0/UPDATING?view=

Wanting to buy a laptop w/ FreeBSD, AND...

2009-11-30 Thread compcent
Hello - I found the?"freebsd - hardware" ?list.? Where is the freebsd-software list?? I'm sending this to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ? I would like to buy a new or dependable used laptop.??Initially, most of my questions are concerning?software.?? For hardware, I would like a HP laptop, as?HP

Re: 8.0 & MYSQL50 denying access to user root no password

2009-11-30 Thread Fbsd1
Tim Judd wrote: On 11/29/09, Fbsd1 wrote: For many releases of Freebsd going back to 4.3 I have all ways used the default mysql user root localhost with no password which has been the default. With 8.0/mysql-server-5.0.86 I am denied access now. The mysql manual still says the normal install de

Re: CF Ethernet for FreeBSD?

2009-11-30 Thread Brett Glass
At 05:13 PM 11/30/2009, Olivier Nicole wrote: Not to mentione FreeBSD drivers, but only finding an Ethernet interface that plugs into a CF sockets seems very chalenging: you don't really send/receive the same information to memory and to network interface; CF can address GB of data, while the ne

Re: CF Ethernet for FreeBSD?

2009-11-30 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, > So, I'm interested in finding out if anyone knows of an Ethernet > interface which will plug into the CF socket and has drivers for > FreeBSD. Please let me know; any help would be MUCH appreciated! Not to mentione FreeBSD drivers, but only finding an Ethernet interface that plugs into a

tcp delays in jails

2009-11-30 Thread William Taylor
I recently started having a problem with tcp connections in one of my jails. Im running 4.9-stable both sendmail and perdition experience the same problem. I even tried stopping everything on the box and the problem still persists. Connections to other jails on different ip's on the same box are fi

Re: ACPI temperature

2009-11-30 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/11/29 Steven Friedrich : > On Sunday 29 November 2009 11:03:28 am you wrote: >> 2009/11/29 Steven Friedrich : >> > I booted my HP Pavilion zd8215us and I immediately invoked >> > chkCPUTemperature. The first temp reported was 52C, which is 125.6F. This >> > leads me to believe that acpi has an

Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0?

2009-11-30 Thread Bruce Cran
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:22:17 -0800 (PST) James Phillips wrote: > > > Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:07:15 +1100 > > From: alex > > Subject: Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD > > 8.0? > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Message-ID: <4b138b43.4000...@mailinglist.ahhyes.net> > >

Re: FreeBSD only on MacBook? Having problems...

2009-11-30 Thread w s
>> 2. How can I "lose the GPT"? When I run "# gpart destory ad5" I get >> "gpart: Device busy". I presume that it is because / is mounted to run >> the livefs CD. So ... >> >> > Not quite, if you run gpart show you should get a list of stuff on ad5, > so before you can destroy the GPT you have to d

Re: portupgrade print/cups-client (cups-client-1.3.10_4) fails

2009-11-30 Thread Richard Kolkovich
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 07:49:54PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > Try this; > > # cd /usr/ports/print/cups-client > # make patch > # cd work/cups-1.4.2 > Open Makedefs.in in an editor and remove @PIEFLAGS@ from line 143. > # cd ../.. > # make > > It should then build OK. Tested on 8.0-RELEASE amd6

CF Ethernet for FreeBSD?

2009-11-30 Thread Brett Glass
Everyone: I'm working on an embedded system which will be using a small Intel Atom motherboard with a single Ethernet port. The problem is, some configurations of the system are going to need two Ethernet ports, and only available ports on the system are a few USB slots and a CF (CompactFlash

Re: 8.0 & MYSQL50 denying access to user root no password

2009-11-30 Thread Tim Judd
On 11/29/09, Fbsd1 wrote: > For many releases of Freebsd going back to 4.3 I have all ways used the > default mysql user root localhost with no password which has been the > default. > With 8.0/mysql-server-5.0.86 I am denied access now. > The mysql manual still says the normal install defaults to

Re: portupgrade print/cups-client (cups-client-1.3.10_4) fails

2009-11-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 11:40:58PM -0600, Richard Kolkovich wrote: > On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 08:42:30AM +0100, n dhert wrote: > > In my nightly portupgrade I got, while upgrading print/cups-client : > > ... > > /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/crt1.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 can not be used when > > making >

RE: PL_sv_undef and PL_stack_max undefined - FreBSD 8.0, Perl 5.8.9 or 5.10, FreeRADIUS 2.1.6

2009-11-30 Thread Meyers, Dan
Interestingly, a completely fresh install of 7.2 that never sees anything out of ports installs perl 5.8.9_2 not 5.8.9_2, and freeradius 2.1.4 instead of 2.1.6 via pkg_add if I do a pkg_add freeradius. *That* works absolutely fine. Unfortunately the packages for 8.0 are 5.8.9_3 and 2.1.6 respective

Re: ntpdate on FreeBSD 8.0

2009-11-30 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 06:13:24AM -0600, ajtiM wrote: > On Sunday 29 November 2009 21:38:04 Warren Block wrote: > > On Sun, 29 Nov 2009, ajtiM wrote: > > > I have new installed FreeBSD 8.0 and in rc.conf I have: > > > > > > ntpdate_enable="YES" > > > ntpdate_hosts="ntp1.cs.wisc.edu" > > > > > > Wh

Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0?

2009-11-30 Thread James Phillips
> Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:07:15 +1100 > From: alex > Subject: Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD > 8.0? > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Message-ID: <4b138b43.4000...@mailinglist.ahhyes.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; > format=flowed > > I didn't know

Re: ZFSROOT / Custom Kernels [or upgrades]

2009-11-30 Thread Robert Noland
On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 02:17 -0500, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: > Hi All, > > 1) > I followed this wiki link to setup our server [sigyn.apache.org] > (Dell r710 with 4 disks mfid[0123] as raidz2) > http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/RAIDZ2 > > Rebooted all was well. > > 2) off on another

RE: PL_sv_undef and PL_stack_max undefined - FreBSD 8.0, Perl 5.8.9 or 5.10, FreeRADIUS 2.1.6

2009-11-30 Thread Meyers, Dan
Had a bit more of a poke. Same symptoms under FreeBSD 7.2 amd64. I am now looking towards there being some kind of issue with the perl or freeradius in ports/packages. Has anyone else seen this at all? > -Original Message- > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-

Re: bsnmpd + zfs

2009-11-30 Thread krad
2009/11/30 Gergely CZUCZY > Hello, > > I've read in the 8.0 detailed release notes [1] that bsnmpd(1) now > supports ZFS OIDs. So far i wasn't able to lure this support out of it, > and I'm neither able to find any information on this in its manual or > among the MIB files, or in the complete snm

Re: Transparent proxy using IPFW

2009-11-30 Thread krad
2009/11/30 > Dear All, > > Is it possible to do like my requirement below? > > 1. Setup portfwd in my server listen on port 555 and forward all > connection through this port to another server with same port or different > port > 2. All client which connected through this port, then remote server

ports/print/cups-base: failed to update via portmaster since yesterday

2009-11-30 Thread O. Hartmann
portmaster -dav fails updating ports since yesterday, stopping at print/cups-base with the following error message: [...] client.o(.text+0x1c95): In function `encrypt_client': /usr/ports/print/cups-base/work/cups-1.4.2/scheduler/client.c:3217: undefined reference to `_httpReadGNUTLS' client.o(.

Re: ntpdate on FreeBSD 8.0

2009-11-30 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, ajtiM wrote: On Sunday 29 November 2009 21:38:04 Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 29 Nov 2009, ajtiM wrote: I have new installed FreeBSD 8.0 and in rc.conf I have: ntpdate_enable="YES" ntpdate_hosts="ntp1.cs.wisc.edu" When I boot computer I get a message there are no this hos

PL_sv_undef and PL_stack_max undefined - FreBSD 8.0, Perl 5.8.9 or 5.10, FreeRADIUS 2.1.6

2009-11-30 Thread Meyers, Dan
We've had a setup for a while where we have a FreeBSD server running FreeRADIUS 2.1.6 and using the rlm_perl module to examine a database and do some fairly complex checking of the returned data before deciding whether to accept or reject the radius request. This works fine on FreeBSD 7.2 amd64 wit

Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0?

2009-11-30 Thread Ivan Voras
Robert Huff wrote: Bill Moran writes: It's common knowledge that the default value for vfs.read_max is non- optimal for most hardware and that significant performance improvements can be made in most cases by raising it. Documentation/discussion where? There is no documentation e

Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0?

2009-11-30 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Robert Huff : > > Bill Moran writes: > > > It's common knowledge that the default value for vfs.read_max is > > non- optimal for most hardware and that significant performance > > improvements can be made in most cases by raising it. > > Documentation/discussion where?

Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0?

2009-11-30 Thread Robert Huff
Bill Moran writes: > It's common knowledge that the default value for vfs.read_max is > non- optimal for most hardware and that significant performance > improvements can be made in most cases by raising it. Documentation/discussion where? Respectfully,

Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0?

2009-11-30 Thread Ivan Voras
Holger Kipp wrote: On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 02:49:17PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: On the other hand, random IO is negatively influenced by readahead :) Parallel Random I/O gives better results on Raid 5 than a single sequential read :-) I also found FreeBSD UFS with Softupdates handling directo

Re: problem with Olympus USB camera on 8.0 RELEASE

2009-11-30 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:35:17 +, Mike Clarke wrote: > Unfortunately I don't have one, perhaps my simplest solution would be to > get a USB card reader and bypass the camera's USB system. I found this solution very handy. With my camera (Canon S3 IS), it's easier to get the card out of the ca

Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0?

2009-11-30 Thread Holger Kipp
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 02:49:17PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: > Bill Moran wrote: > >In response to Ivan Voras : > > > >>Thomas Backman wrote: > >>>On Nov 30, 2009, at 9:47 AM, O. Hartmann wrote: > >>> > I'm just wondering what's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0/amd64 when I read the > Benchmarks on P

Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0?

2009-11-30 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Ivan Voras : > Thomas Backman wrote: > > On Nov 30, 2009, at 9:47 AM, O. Hartmann wrote: > > > >> I'm just wondering what's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0/amd64 when I read the > >> Benchmarks on Phoronix.org's website. Especially FreeBSD's threaded I/O > >> shows in contrast to all clai

Re: 2 processes reproducible read same file with different speed

2009-11-30 Thread Ivan Voras
cronfy wrote: Hello. I've noticed a very weird behavior of 2 Apache processes that shold read the same file to process a request (they configured to read it on every request). One spends about 6ms to read the file, and second spends about 114ms (I used ktrace to find this out). Every time, on

Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0?

2009-11-30 Thread Ivan Voras
Thomas Backman wrote: On Nov 30, 2009, at 9:47 AM, O. Hartmann wrote: I'm just wondering what's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0/amd64 when I read the Benchmarks on Phoronix.org's website. Especially FreeBSD's threaded I/O shows in contrast to all claims that have been to be improoved the opposite. Co

Re: problem with Olympus USB camera on 8.0 RELEASE

2009-11-30 Thread Mike Clarke
On Sunday 29 November 2009, krad wrote: > 2009/11/28 Mike Clarke > > > The camera in question is an Olympus C-2040Z, I've had no problems > > using it with 6.4. I tried rev. 7 some time ago but plugging the > > camera in always caused a panic and crash so I stayed with 6.4. Now > > that 8.0 is ou

Re: ntpdate on FreeBSD 8.0

2009-11-30 Thread ajtiM
On Sunday 29 November 2009 21:38:04 Warren Block wrote: > On Sun, 29 Nov 2009, ajtiM wrote: > > I have new installed FreeBSD 8.0 and in rc.conf I have: > > > > ntpdate_enable="YES" > > ntpdate_hosts="ntp1.cs.wisc.edu" > > > > When I boot computer I get a message there are no this host but when I >

Re: FreeBSD only on MacBook? Having problems...

2009-11-30 Thread Vincent Hoffman
w s wrote: > (x posted to http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=8827, my > apologies, but no one seems interested there...) > > I am trying to follow the steps to install FreeBSD 8.0 on my MacBook. > I don't want to dual boot or anything, so I am following along here: > > http://wiki.freebsd.o

Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0?

2009-11-30 Thread Thomas Backman
On Nov 30, 2009, at 12:38 PM, O. Hartmann wrote: > Thomas Backman wrote: >> On Nov 30, 2009, at 9:47 AM, O. Hartmann wrote: >>> I'm just wondering what's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0/amd64 when I read the >>> Benchmarks on Phoronix.org's website. Especially FreeBSD's threaded I/O >>> shows in contrast

Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0?

2009-11-30 Thread O. Hartmann
Thomas Backman wrote: On Nov 30, 2009, at 9:47 AM, O. Hartmann wrote: I'm just wondering what's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0/amd64 when I read the Benchmarks on Phoronix.org's website. Especially FreeBSD's threaded I/O shows in contrast to all claims that have been to be improoved the opposite. Co

bsnmpd + zfs

2009-11-30 Thread Gergely CZUCZY
Hello, I've read in the 8.0 detailed release notes [1] that bsnmpd(1) now supports ZFS OIDs. So far i wasn't able to lure this support out of it, and I'm neither able to find any information on this in its manual or among the MIB files, or in the complete snmp walk of the host. I've enabled mbII

Transparent proxy using IPFW

2009-11-30 Thread kalpin
Dear All, Is it possible to do like my requirement below? 1. Setup portfwd in my server listen on port 555 and forward all connection through this port to another server with same port or different port 2. All client which connected through this port, then remote server which landed to the end ca

Re: ZFSROOT / Custom Kernels [or upgrades]

2009-11-30 Thread krad
2009/11/30 Philip M. Gollucci > Hi All, > > 1) > I followed this wiki link to setup our server [sigyn.apache.org] > (Dell r710 with 4 disks mfid[0123] as raidz2) > http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/RAIDZ2 > > Rebooted all was well. > > 2) off on another 'build' box [loki.apache.org], I

Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0?

2009-11-30 Thread Thomas Backman
On Nov 30, 2009, at 9:47 AM, O. Hartmann wrote: > I'm just wondering what's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0/amd64 when I read the > Benchmarks on Phoronix.org's website. Especially FreeBSD's threaded I/O shows > in contrast to all claims that have been to be improoved the opposite. Corrected link: http:

Re: Why I am getting message: "wlan0: ieee80211_new_state_locked: pending SCAN -> RUN transition lost" in 8.0 with ndis driver?

2009-11-30 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 11/30/09, Yuri wrote: > After upgrading to 8.0 I am getting a new message: wlan0: > /ieee80211_new_state_locked: pending SCAN/ -> RUN transition lost. > I use ndis driver with Broadcom WiFi card BCM94312MCGSG. That is debug message temporarely enabled unconditionally and then forgotten. There

Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0?

2009-11-30 Thread alex
I didn't know these were released already, but I had a look. I was disappointed with the results. If anyone wants to look here is the link: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=freebsd8_benchmarks&num=1 Linux's ext4 seems to leave UFS and ZFS well behind in a number of benchmark

Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0?

2009-11-30 Thread O. Hartmann
I'm just wondering what's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0/amd64 when I read the Benchmarks on Phoronix.org's website. Especially FreeBSD's threaded I/O shows in contrast to all claims that have been to be improoved the opposite. oh ___ freebsd-questions@freebs