which performance test tool to use?

2013-09-26 Thread takCoder
Hi everyone, I need and am trying to find a way to run reliable performance tests on my Network nodes. I am looking for proper BSD-Based tools, which give me information about my systems' throughput, latency, packet-drop and alike in the performance test family... Would you please share your

Re: FreeBSD 8.4 Boot failure

2013-09-26 Thread Tyler Sweet
Well, I wasn't able to continue troubleshooting. I took the opportunity that the server was already down to upgrade the BIOS. HP kindly does not provide any checks or warnings letting you know that you need to do a stepped upgrade, so the server is bricked. *sigh*. So this likely won't get

Re: this 48-core box...

2013-09-26 Thread Adrian Chadd
The cache alignment happens because it hits a specific size threshold, and jemalloc/phkmalloc(I think!) just round everything up to be page size aligned. The underlying problem may actually be a code change to how the math is done. It just runs slower on page-aligned alignments.. adrian On 22

Re: minor vi/vim qstn

2013-09-26 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 19:47:08 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: dunno how you know im using the zsh, but yup. This is because of my magical allknowinglyness. :-) You wrote: pts/14 17:11 tao [5011] vi! zsh: command not found: vi! ^^^ This gave me the impression you're using the Z shell.

Voice Mail required QuickTime

2013-09-26 Thread Carmel
I have a voice mail account with Time Warner Cable. I can access the account from my home telephone, Windows PC, etcetera, but not from my FreeBSD machine. This error message pops up when I try to play the recording on the web site: To play audio online, you must have QuickTime Player installed.

Re: Voice Mail required QuickTime

2013-09-26 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:54:34 -0400, Carmel wrote: I have a voice mail account with Time Warner Cable. I can access the account from my home telephone, Windows PC, etcetera, but not from my FreeBSD machine. This error message pops up when I try to play the recording on the web site: To play

Just wanted to say Thanks to Polytropon

2013-09-26 Thread Walter Hurry
A few weeks ago I asked about mouse trails. Polytropon suggested xeyes. I have found it excellent, and have had no trouble whatsoever with it. It has made my life so much easier. Thanks, Polytropon! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: minor vi/vim qstn

2013-09-26 Thread Gary Kline
Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. Of_Interest: With 27 years of service to the Unix community. On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 03:26:29PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 19:47:08 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: dunno how you know im using the zsh, but yup.

Re: minor vi/vim qstn

2013-09-26 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 12:51:32 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: my zsh does a default to 10 or so history with just % h I was trying to remember how to set it to ,, say, 100. Depending on _typical_ terminal heights (100 lines?), this seems to be a bit high. But I assume zsh

Re: minor vi/vim qstn

2013-09-26 Thread Gary Kline
Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. Of_Interest: With 27 years of service to the Unix community. On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:05:06PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 12:51:32 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: my zsh does a default to 10 or so history

Re: Voice Mail required QuickTime

2013-09-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 01:54:34PM -0400, Carmel wrote: I have a voice mail account with Time Warner Cable. I can access the account from my home telephone, Windows PC, etcetera, but not from my FreeBSD machine. This error message pops up when I try to play the recording on the web site: To

Re: minor vi/vim qstn

2013-09-26 Thread Gary Kline
Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. Of_Interest: With 27 years of service to the Unix community. On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:05:06PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 12:51:32 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: my zsh does a default to 10 or so history

Re: minor vi/vim qstn

2013-09-26 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:58:19 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. Of_Interest: With 27 years of service to the Unix community. On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:05:06PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: I also assume the zsh has some settings on how

Re: Just wanted to say Thanks to Polytropon

2013-09-26 Thread Mike Jeays
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 19:42:15 + (UTC) Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote: A few weeks ago I asked about mouse trails. Polytropon suggested xeyes. I have found it excellent, and have had no trouble whatsoever with it. It has made my life so much easier. Thanks, Polytropon!

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Gnome green screen of death

2013-09-26 Thread leeoliveshackelford
Good afternoon, dear FreeBSD enthusiast. I have installed X11 and Gnome on my computer equipped with FreeBSD 9.1. The X11 and Gnome packages were taken from the d.v.d.-r.o.m. that contained the operating system. The computer is an H.P. Z220 with an Intel Xeon quad-core processor. I do not

IDOS, 2013 - Harvesting the fruits of the digitization. Watch LIVE discussion on 27th September, 2013; 9:00 AM (IST) onwards

2013-09-26 Thread 24 Frames Digital
This mail is an invitation to watch the LIVE webcast only. IDOS, organized by Media Partners Asia (MPA) and Indian Television Dot Com (ITV), in Goa with the objective to provide a strategic platform to discuss, evaluate and drive forward the digitization process and its impact on

Re: minor vi/vim qstn

2013-09-26 Thread Karl Vogel
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:05:06PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: P Depending on _typical_ terminal heights (100 lines?), this [history P setting] seems to be a bit high. But I assume zsh handles the h P alias similarly to the csh, where an alias is defined (system-wide in P /etc/csh.cshrc or per user