Re: FreeBSD with Duel Processors

2007-05-07 Thread Ivan Voras
Martin McCormick wrote: Is there anything special I need to do to make FreeBSD6.2 make use of both CPU's on a Dell 2650 mother board? The boot messages indicate that the OS knows about the 2 CPU's. Is this correct? I heard some rumors that one has to give some sort of kernel

Re: downloading the IPMI driver on FreeBSD

2007-05-10 Thread Ivan Voras
Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: Dhananjaya hiremath wrote: here we installed the FreeBSD 6.2 and we updated and build the system and installed the kernel.Now we want to Download the IPMI driver on FreeBSD, build it, load it, and want to ensure that it runs successfully. Driver is already in base

Re: MySQL slowness in SMP

2007-05-11 Thread Ivan Voras
Martin Blapp wrote: So would upgrading to FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT would make MySQL runs faster or it's not optimized for dual cpu yet? Of course would upgrading to FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT make it faster because some bottlenecks (unix domain sockets etc, old malloc) have been removed. On the other

Re: Dual boot.

2007-05-30 Thread Ivan Voras
Paul Halliday wrote: I just installed 6.2 on a 90GB drive. During the installation I created the usual partitions and left 50GB untouched. I then rebooted ran partition magic to put a DOS FS on the remainder then ghosted XP pro onto it. Do I need to start over or can I fix this? It's

Re: kernel panic 6.2-RELEASE SMP dual quad core

2007-12-29 Thread Ivan Voras
Iain Dooley wrote: hi all, uname -a FreeBSD HOSTNAME 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 11:05:30 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 running on dual quad core intel xeons with 4gb ram. Are you using PAE? (probably not if this is the generic SMP

Re: kernel panic 6.2-RELEASE SMP dual quad core

2007-12-29 Thread Ivan Voras
Iain Dooley wrote: i'm just running a web application on it. it's a total pain though. i should have just bought a late model second hand p4 or something rather than a state of the art machine. i'm too out of touch with modern hardware to have known what i was getting myself into. live and

Re: Low Level Language Suggestions: OT

2007-12-31 Thread Ivan Voras
Victor Subervi wrote: I'm thinking Java's probably my best bet, just because there are more Java programmers out there than any other language (I think). That's almost always the *worst* reason for choosing a language. On similar basis, you might want to do it in PHP since a lot of people use

Re: Low Level Language Suggestions: OT

2007-12-31 Thread Ivan Voras
Victor Subervi wrote: I know that one has to install all sorts of s/w and rebuild the kernel for working with Java. Is that true of C++ as well? Or is it like C, native to FBSD? It's native - it's the GNU c++ compiler (g++). signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Porting from linux to FreeBSD (procfs question)

2008-01-03 Thread Ivan Voras
Fernando Apesteguía wrote: 1 - Try to rely the porting on the compatibility procfs from FreeBSD 2 - Do the things in a completely different way (which one is this? Invoking sysctl system call?) I would like to know from you which one is the best approach. The best way to do it is to

Re: Porting from linux to FreeBSD (procfs question)

2008-01-03 Thread Ivan Voras
On 03/01/2008, Fernando Apesteguía [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, that's my problem. In Linux I can get from /proc/cpuinfo for example: name, model, stepping, cache size, clock speed, supported extensions, etc... But using sysctl in FreeBSD (sysctl -a) I can only see name and vendor for the

Re: db performance

2008-01-17 Thread Ivan Voras
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: real memory = 3220635648 (3071 MB) avail memory = 3150565376 (3004 MB) we have 3GB of RAM available with actually 4GB physical RAM installed? If you're using a 32-bit (i386) kernel you need PAE. Or switch to 64-bit (amd64). signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: Trying to support my product on FreeBSD

2008-01-18 Thread Ivan Voras
navneet Upadhyay wrote: Hi , My product is successfully running on Linux( all most all versions) and HP- UX and Windows . *It is 100 % C++ code*. I am planning to support it on FreeBSD, i have two queries : 1. *How to build my code into binaries* on FreeBSD , i have my unix

Re: Endianness of freeBSD

2008-02-04 Thread Ivan Voras
1. Is FreeBSD little Endian like windows? =20 2. Linux is Big endian? =20 wrote a code int i =3D 1;if((i 1) =3D=3D 0) little else big got little on all platforms bsd,linux,windows. =20 *Does endianness depends on OS or the hardware?* It depends on the hardware.

Re: script to be executed on system startup.

2008-02-06 Thread Ivan Voras
navneet Upadhyay wrote: Hi, I have a script file, i want that script to be executed on system startup. I am doing this on Linux in following two steps : - 1. Copying the script to /etc/rc.d directory. 2. /sbin/chkconfig --add scriptname I want to achieve the same on FreeBSD

Re: script to be executed on system startup.

2008-02-06 Thread Ivan Voras
Ivan Voras wrote: An advanced feature ... I'd like to add some more info on the subject: the rc.d script mechanism is extremely powerful and you can do many things with it, if you need them. Scripts are passed arguments like start and stop which you might want to handle (though stop is handled

Re: script to be executed on system startup.

2008-02-06 Thread Ivan Voras
On 06/02/2008, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (for example: /etc/rc.d/myscript) 2. chmod a+x the script 3. you're done. This will work for the recent versions of FreeBSD (you didn't say for which version do you need it). you need to make that script react for start and stop

Re: script to be executed on system startup.

2008-02-07 Thread Ivan Voras
RW wrote: On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:55:12 +0100 Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've seen some complicated examples on this thread, and want to suggest a simple one: 1. create a regular shell script in /etc/rc.d, n .. A more semantically pure example (and the one that's preferred

Re: should I change to multicore CPU??

2008-02-09 Thread Ivan Voras
Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: Hi, I know that freebsd7 has huge improvement on multi-threading execution. I wonder if I upgrade to 7, would I feel it?? I now own a amd64/3400+, running 6.3. It's just personal use, download files, watch movies, etc. I guess it will be faster on multi-core when I run

Re: /bin/csh script in GELI partition crashes 6.3-STABLE

2008-02-12 Thread Ivan Voras
Scott Bennett wrote: It does it every time, so it is certainly repeatable. Is this a known problem? Or is there some feature of GELI-encrypted file systems that is expected to have problems running scripts? (I do not know whether the problem is limited to /bin/csh scripts. After

Re: Kernel Panic with heavy disk i/o while running on battery

2008-02-13 Thread Ivan Voras
Nathan Alan Souer wrote: Nathan Alan Souer wrote: In advance, I appreciate any help that anyone has to offer. When my laptop is running on battery and there is heavy i/o on the disk The machine kernel panics and reboots. I have updated my base system to current (7_releng) just a couple days

Re: version of syslogd

2008-02-19 Thread Ivan Voras
brom wrote: Hello, I have a short question, how I can determinate version of syslogd? FreeBSD 6.2 I need version for resolve some issues. Thanks in advance! For the binary: ident /usr/sbin/syslogd | grep syslogd /usr/sbin/syslogd: $FreeBSD: src/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.c,v

Re: Dual core CPU's, but only 2 CPU's in-use?

2008-02-25 Thread Ivan Voras
Tigger wrote: The only security advisory I could find was for 5.x and contained info on how to disable, not enable. http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:09.htt.asc It's the same security issue, but it's handled differently on 5.x since it's old. See

Re: FreeBSD support this hardware?

2008-02-28 Thread Ivan Voras
Robe wrote: And here's the link to the CPU page http://www.dmp.com.tw/tech/Vortex86SX/ Can anybody tell me if FreeBSD support this hardware? Judging by the SX label and the information on the page, no, because it doesn't have a FPU. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: gmirror + glabel + gjournal and 7.0 installation

2008-02-29 Thread Ivan Voras
HN wrote: Not entirely clear in my mind how to do this. I've got: http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ for the mirroring, but don't have a grasp of how glabel and gjournal fit into this. Can I do this with sysinstall (should I ?) and what order should I be adding things in ? Can I

Re: apache 2.2.8 and php5

2008-02-29 Thread Ivan Voras
george wrote: I cant get apache to serve up my drupal pages the warning I receive is below And the internal server error page is displayed. Apache's Internal server error? Try looking at your /var/log/messages to see if apache or php processes are dieing. signature.asc Description:

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools)

2008-03-05 Thread Ivan Voras
Dimitri Yioulos wrote: On Tuesday 04 March 2008 12:22 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that everybody tries to hack around the problem...:) Does somebody know if this is a FreeBSD problem or a VMware problem and who should fix it, resp. when is a fix expected? I mean, in 6.x the VMware

Re: Some questions about installing a web server.

2008-03-06 Thread Ivan Voras
刘伟南 wrote: Hi guys, I'm a freshman man here. Please do not mind my silly questions. I am ready to install a web server, the main hardwares are as follows: CPU 4-core xeon 5410 * 2 MEM kingston 2G EEC FBD667 * 2 HD ST146G SAS 15K * 1 I have several questions. Which platform should I

Re: Some questions about installing a web server.

2008-03-06 Thread Ivan Voras
Vivian Liu wrote: Thanks a lot again. There are running some application has been built using PHP in this web box. Also need a small mail system and mysql for a game server that running on a win2003 machine. Maybe I need to upgrade the memory to 8G. 8 GB should be ok for most purposes.

Re: Some questions about installing a web server.

2008-03-06 Thread Ivan Voras
Wojciech Puchar wrote: what does 2000 people online mean. 2000 people fetching WWW page in the same time? if so - pentium 200 with 64MB would suffice :) I think the time of static .html files has passed years ago :) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Some questions about installing a web server.

2008-03-07 Thread Ivan Voras
Ivan Voras wrote: Unless you need software that doesn't work on i386, you should install amd64. Sorry, this should have been : Unless you need software that ONLY works on i386, you should install amd64. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: FreeBSD on IBM x3400?

2008-03-07 Thread Ivan Voras
Matt Emmerton wrote: Anyone had any luck (or horror stories) with FreeBSD on IBM x3400 systems? Don't know about this specific model, but the components it's made of (http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/x/hardware/tower/x3400/specs.h) should work fine. I know x32?? and x36?? models run without

Re: How use and manage a Berkeley DB 1.85?

2008-03-12 Thread Ivan Voras
Nicolas Letellier wrote: Hello, I have a db Berkeley DB 1.85. I have softwares which use it. I would like to know how manage it? How show all datas contained? How delete a data? How insert a data? Is there a port to do this? BDB is a single-file key-value database. It's not a SQL or any

Re: Installation

2008-03-12 Thread Ivan Voras
dajaasge wrote: Hi there As a relatively inexperienced user of FreeBSD I have little input to offer the community as a whole save to suggest that offering a DVD iso image from which to install would save the sometimes extreme tediousness of disc swapping when adding packages. If I knew more

Re: 16GB RAM - Swap?

2008-03-13 Thread Ivan Voras
Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, I've got a Blade-system with 16GB RAM, but only one 140GB harddisk. My question is about swap-space: Traditional knowledge recommends swap = 2*RAM. This would mean 32GB swap (!). Should I really go for 32GB swap space? Or will e.g. 16GB (= RAM-size) be enough?

Re: Load Averages

2008-03-15 Thread Ivan Voras
Grant Peel wrote: last pid: 5181; load averages: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00 up 741+02:47:14 10:19:56 23 processes: 1 running, 22 sleeping CPU states: 0.4% user, 0.0% nice, 0.4% system, 0.0% interrupt, 99.2% idle Mem: 34M Active, 102M Inact, 44M Wired, 9924K Cache, 35M Buf, 58M Free Swap:

Re: Which VIA CPUs have hardware RNG support?

2008-07-09 Thread Ivan Voras
Joseph Gleason wrote: I am trying to figure out which VIA CPUs support hardware RNG under recent FreeBSD. I've been looking at things on 7.0-RELEASE-p2. If there is something that else I should be looking at, please let me know. Based on 'man 4 random' I see: The only hardware implementation

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and RAM limit

2008-07-10 Thread Ivan Voras
Robert Heron wrote: Hi, I use: FreeBSD 7.0-R on i386 server with motherboard S5000VSA and 6GB RAM onboard. BIOS version - 88 (the latest) Kernel includes: optionsMAXMEM=(6*1024*1024) You generally shouldn't touch MAXMEM as it's autotuned. And FreeBSD reports only: real memory

Re: Core(TM)2 Quad and TOP output

2008-07-14 Thread Ivan Voras
tethys ocean wrote: Hi all I have new server(webserver) quad core but performans is not well (according our old webserver pent IV ). Maybe its performans depends on our web page sourcecode. FreeBSD 6.3 stable is running on it. dmesg is in below. There are a bazillion factors that can

Re: graid3

2008-07-26 Thread Ivan Voras
Wojciech Puchar wrote: i read the graid3 manual and http://www.acnc.com/04_01_03.html to make sure i know what's RAID3 and i don't understand few things. 1) The number of components must be equal to 3, 5, 9, 17, etc. (2^n + 1). why it can't be say 5 disks+parity? The reason

Re: malloc options

2008-07-26 Thread Ivan Voras
Doug Hardie wrote: If you did recompile it and it is behaving differently then it is probably because your program contains bugs in how it manages memory that happened to be working by accident with the old memory allocator. e.g. because you were making use of memory after it had been freed,

Re: malloc options

2008-07-27 Thread Ivan Voras
Doug Hardie wrote: On Jul 26, 2008, at 19:03, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: While that's understandable, the current malloc() has undergone quite extensive testing by Jason Evans and a lot of people who use it in FreeBSD 7.X or later. Its ability to expose bugs in this way was deemed important

Re: Component-based Operating System.

2008-07-28 Thread Ivan Voras
Juan Carlos Villalobos wrote: Hello, I am writing a paper on Component-based Operating Systems. I just wanted to know if FreeBSD is an Operating System engineered based on Components. I appreciate your input on this. Components is a wide, wide term. Since FreeBSD as an operating system

Re: Component-based Operating System.

2008-07-28 Thread Ivan Voras
Chuck Robey wrote: Ivan Voras wrote: Juan Carlos Villalobos wrote: Hello, I am writing a paper on Component-based Operating Systems. I just wanted to know if FreeBSD is an Operating System engineered based on Components. I appreciate your input on this. Components is a wide, wide term

Re: IBM eServer x225 - LSI 1030 SCSI - BTX Halted / infinite loop

2008-08-05 Thread Ivan Voras
underligast wrote: I'm trying to install FreeBSD 7.0 on my new server, an IBM eServer x225 (8647-5CG) The server/drives runs fine under windows 2003 and ubuntu server but the FreeBSD installation just halts. So far i've tried: CD: disk1 from 6.2, 7.0, CD: bootonly from 7.0 Floppys: 7.0 They

Re: IBM eServer x225 - LSI 1030 SCSI - BTX Halted / infinite loop

2008-08-06 Thread Ivan Voras
underligast wrote: On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 10:15 PM, Derek Ragona wrote: Obviously it is the SCSI card or drives. Have you tried changing the BIOS settings on the SCSI? You might want to try changing the SCSI BUS speed. You may also want to try turning off hyperthreading. -Derek

Re: Upgrade v5.x to v7.0

2008-08-11 Thread Ivan Voras
Vince Sabio wrote: I am currently running FreeBSD v5.1 (yes, I am a Bad Person(tm)), and need to update it to v7.0. Questions: 1. Can I go straight from v5.1 to v7.0? Or do I need to make a stop at v6.x? Theoretically it might be possible but definitely not recommended. 5.1 is very old

Re: Migrating to gmirrored RAID1

2008-08-18 Thread Ivan Voras
Henry Karpatskij wrote: Hi, I have a failing IDE disk which is running my 7.0-p1 server. I've been investigating the possible solutions and I've decided to go with two new IDE disks and gmirror. However, I'm not too familiar with disk internals, I know how to install the system and somehow

Re: turn on beastie beside the 'Welcome to FreeBSD' boot optionsmenu

2008-08-22 Thread Ivan Voras
Oliver Fromme wrote: enom-FBSD1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: beastie_disable=NO had no effect. That's because NO is already the default. Setting it to YES will completely disable the whole boot menu. All that was needed was loader_logo=beastie which produced

Re: Cloning a gmirrored hard drive

2008-08-25 Thread Ivan Voras
Sasa Stupar wrote: Hi! My situation: I have a server with FBSD 7 installed with two 40 GB disks in RAID 1 (gmirror) config. Now I have noticed the lack of space on the drive so I am thinking to change these disks for two 160 GB. What is the best way to clone the main hard disk in raid 1

Re: gjournal fsck

2008-08-28 Thread Ivan Voras
Brian McCann wrote: Hi all. I'm having some problems with several servers I've built recently (7.0-RELEASE) that are using gjournal. I had two reboot a few days ago (un-related to FreeBSD problems I think)...but when they came back up, the file systems wouldn't mount since they were not

Re: SMP questions

2008-08-28 Thread Ivan Voras
H.fazaeli wrote: Hi all, I have 3 questions regrading SMP on freebsd 6.x: 1. Is there any userland tool/api to bound a process to a specific cpu? This support is native to 8-CURRENT, I think most of it is backported to 7.1. 2. Is there any way to force UP operation apart form recompiling

Re: gjournal fsck

2008-08-28 Thread Ivan Voras
Brian McCann wrote: Yes...I apologize...I did that when I built the file system with newfs -J. Here's the tunefs -p output for one of the file systems: # tunefs -p /dev/da2.journal tunefs: ACLs: (-a) disabled tunefs: MAC multilabel: (-l)

Re: Google Chrome

2008-09-03 Thread Ivan Voras
RW wrote: On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:16:08 -0800 Peter Giessel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And Safari is based on KDE's Konquerer (which already runs on FreeBSD), so with a FreeBSD version of Chrome, you would essentially have Konquerer ported to Apple, ported to Microsoft, ported to Linux,

Re: pkg_create

2008-09-03 Thread Ivan Voras
Matias Surdi wrote: I've a directory tree structure in /usr/local from wich I'd like to create a package. How are pkg_create arguments supposed to be? Where can I find an example? I've read the manpage, but an example would be really usefull. Thanks for your help again. Though it's

Re: Starting and using services -- Single-user mode -- TECRA_A9-S9017

2008-09-05 Thread Ivan Voras
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the need to start and use service while in single_user mode. To this point I'm not able to use 'top' or 'ps' respectively. In ps is in /bin, top is in /usr/bin ; unless you a) have your PATH wrong or b) commonly put /bin on separate file systems, you should be

Re: pc with 4G memory

2008-09-14 Thread Ivan Voras
gahn wrote: hello: the machine i am using for freebsd has 4G memory. should i add follow lines in my customized kernel file?: # Compile acpi in statically since the module isn't built properly. Most # machines which support large amounts of memory require acpi. device acpi

Re: x3550 ServeRAID-8k and FBSD 7, group limit

2008-09-14 Thread Ivan Voras
Yury Michurin wrote: We are currently considering to purchase IBM x3550 with ServeRAID-8k, in order to run FreeBSD 7 with RAID5, but it is very unclear from what I've saw on the Internet, whether the driver support on FreeBSD is stable enough for production use, I've never had problems with

Re: server is crashing constantly

2008-09-14 Thread Ivan Voras
Jonathan Horne wrote: I have a new web server for a moderately high traffic website that i have recently deployed for a friend. it has apache22, php5, and mysql50 on it (latest from ports). this server is crashing 2-3 times a day, and thus far i have no idea where to start troubleshooting

Re: pc with 4G memory

2008-09-18 Thread Ivan Voras
2008/9/18 Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ivan Voras wrote: * Use a PAE kernel, which works fairly well, but doesn't support kernel modules (if you are not familiar with kernel modules then you probably don't need them so ignore this). There's a pre-packaged kernel configuration named PAE

Re: freeBSD 7.0 supports ACE Proactor?

2008-09-18 Thread Ivan Voras
Mungyung Ryu wrote: freebsd-questions@freebsd.orgHi freeBSD users, I've developed couple of server applications on Windows platform with ACE Proactor and it worked quite well. But, because of the expensive Windows Server, I wanna move to Linux or freeBSD. Recently, I'm considering to

Re: pc with 4G memory

2008-09-18 Thread Ivan Voras
2008/9/18 Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]: # Don't build modules with this kernel config, since they are not built with # the correct options headers. makeoptions NO_MODULES=yes wrong? Not as such, but if you use buildkernel then modules *are* built with the correct options

Re: kernel upgrades

2008-09-19 Thread Ivan Voras
Joe Tseng wrote: I'm still new to FreeBSD (coming from CentOS/Ubuntu) so this might be something totally obvious to others... I know I can update ports by using portsnap fetch/extract/update - does this update the kernel source as well? No, you need to do two things: 1) copy

Re: pc with 4G memory

2008-09-22 Thread Ivan Voras
2008/9/18 Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/9/18 Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]: # Don't build modules with this kernel config, since they are not built with # the correct options headers. makeoptions NO_MODULES=yes wrong? Not as such, but if you use buildkernel then modules

Re: dovecot, maildir, UFS 2 performance

2008-09-24 Thread Ivan Voras
Laszlo Nagy wrote: The secondary task for this server is to be an IMAP and mail server. We will be using dovecot, and shared maildir folders with ten thousands of messages. I'm not sure where to put the maildir folders, and what options to use for the filesystem. Dovecot wiki is not talking

Re: Upgrade to rel 7.0 broke SSH

2008-09-24 Thread Ivan Voras
Olaf Courtney wrote: Hello and greetings from Newbyville, I recently upgraded from FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE to 7.0-RELEASE-p4, and now SSH is broken. Other important services (chiefly SAMBA) are working properly. From the FreeBSD server I can successfull SSH and SFTP to the localhost

Process memory inspection

2008-10-01 Thread Ivan Voras
Hi, The top utility has SIZE and RES, but doesn't have what part of SIZE is sysv shared memory. Is there something that can print out in detail how a process uses / allocates its memory (I'm specifically interested in sysvshm but there's also the stack mmap)?

Re: Weird FS behavior tru FTP on CD9660

2008-10-09 Thread Ivan Voras
Sdävtaker wrote: Hey, I found a weird situation today, I mounted a DVD with the mount_cd9660 and accessed it through filezilla. I got 2 times every file in the list, go back to the original Pc and checked with ls and they appear only once. :-/ Im using last version Filezilla in MSW, and ftpd

Re: performance problem in regex

2008-10-09 Thread Ivan Voras
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've got some performance hit using regex in libc on freebsd 6.3. I've done some test whit the patterns that l7-filter [http://l7-filter.sf.net] use to recognize level 7 internet protocol. For example, with the skypeout pattern, regexec() takes more tha

Re: OOPS www proxy

2006-12-11 Thread Ivan Voras
Wojciech Puchar wrote: is anybody using it with success. for me it works. and works really fast, much faster than squid but after maybe 8-12 hours it crashes. is it buggy or i'm doing something wrong? I used it for several years and am still using it, but not on high loads. It works

Re: OOPS www proxy

2006-12-14 Thread Ivan Voras
Wojciech Puchar wrote: for me it works. and works really fast, much faster than squid but after maybe 8-12 hours it crashes. is it buggy or i'm doing something wrong? I used it for several years and am still using it, but not on high loads. It works without crashing on the default install

Re: GEOM Gate: sparc64/i386 compatibility issues?

2006-12-17 Thread Ivan Voras
You should probably report this in the freebsd-geom list. Andrea Montemaggio wrote: Hi there, I've two machines with a 6.1-RELEASE installed on: one is a sparc64 and the another is an i386 machine with a little (and I think not relevant) kernel configuration differences. If I run ggated on

Re: Process States Explanation

2006-12-18 Thread Ivan Voras
Fr0zen wrote: Where can I get a good list of what each process state means? It's not standardised - every kernel developer and device driver writer can introduce whatever states he needs. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: FreeBSD fakeraid RAID10 @ Intel ICH7

2006-12-20 Thread Ivan Voras
Lada 'Ray' Lostak wrote: After reboot, BSD don't boot and I can see message Boot error. Nothing more. I have no clue, if this is BIOS or readed MBR/bootsector. ctrl+alt+delete works this time and I can reboot machine. So, there is some boot problem, which I was not abble to

Re: No driver for NIC...

2006-12-28 Thread Ivan Voras
B. Hansmann wrote: How do I get this ethernet thing to work or is this chipset not supported? (mcp55 sound works as stated in the hardware list on freebsd). I have almost the same chipset (nForce 550 / MCP55). I know there's an unofficial development-in-progress driver (it's mentioned on the

Re: compiling/compiler comparison

2006-12-28 Thread Ivan Voras
Your questions don't belong in this list because they don't have anything to do with FreeBSD but here goes... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does the executable code quality depend only on the compiler? Comparison between native and cross-compiling? In general, the choice of algorithm is of the

Re: Tuning PostgreSQL for bulk imports

2007-01-07 Thread Ivan Voras
Kirk Strauser wrote: I have an hourly job that converts our legacy Foxpro database into PostgreSQL tables so that our web applications, etc. can run reports off the data in a reasonable amount of time. Believe it or not, this has been running perfectly in production for over a year. The only

Re: Tuning PostgreSQL for bulk imports

2007-01-07 Thread Ivan Voras
Kirk Strauser wrote: On Sunday 07 January 2007 15:15, Ivan Voras wrote: - What might help you is to keep the WAL (write-ahead-log, i.e. journal) files on a completely separate (and fast) drive from the rest of the database, to allow parallelism and speed. For best results, format it with 32k

Re: Why is sysinstall considered end-of-life?

2007-01-07 Thread Ivan Voras
Mark Lu wrote: I've read up a few things stating that sysinstall is at its end-of-life and there are plans to replace it. I'm wondering about the reasons or rationale behind this. Even today, sysinstall seems to work extremely well as an easy-to-use, simple, and stable tool for the

Re: Adduser utility to generate random passwds ?

2007-01-08 Thread Ivan Voras
Frank Bonnet wrote: I want to generate new strong password for existing users. Here's an idea: $ head -c 64 /dev/random | md5 | head -c 10 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Adduser utility to generate random passwds ?

2007-01-08 Thread Ivan Voras
Kirk Strauser wrote: On Monday 08 January 2007 5:26 am, Ivan Voras wrote: Here's an idea: $ head -c 64 /dev/random | md5 | head -c 10 Hugely bad idea. Since md5 outputs hex, you're only getting 4 bits of entropy per character. Yes, with 10 characters that's 5 bytes of practically

Re: Adduser utility to generate random passwds ?

2007-01-08 Thread Ivan Voras
Ivan Voras wrote: Frank Bonnet wrote: I want to generate new strong password for existing users. Here's an idea: $ head -c 64 /dev/random | md5 | head -c 10 ... or, following the upthread discussion, a preferable alternative: openssl rand -base64 6 This will generate a strong

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Release

2007-01-09 Thread Ivan Voras
Jay Chandler wrote: On a semi-related note, are there installation instructions for upgrading from 6.1 to 6.2? Upgrading between minor version of FreeBSD is always the same - run cvsup, recompile, install - it's also the same between 6.1 and 6.2. (see

Re: Simple DoS

2007-01-10 Thread Ivan Voras
Nejc Škoberne wrote: Hello, yesterday one of our clients did something interesting (stupid): they connected both ends of an UTP cable to the same switch, to which our FreeBSD server was also connected. The server was immediately completely unresponsive from yesterday evening until this

Re: Dell PE 1950 - Only seeing 3.2 gigs of ram

2007-01-10 Thread Ivan Voras
Jeff MacDonald wrote: Hi, I put a fresh install of 6.1-RELEASE on a dell poweredge 1950 server. It's configured with 4 gigs of ram. However when I boot i get the following right before DMESG 786432k above 4GB ignored Which is strange, but then dmesg shows this real memory =

Re: Dell PE 1950 - Only seeing 3.2 gigs of ram

2007-01-11 Thread Ivan Voras
Jeff MacDonald wrote: When I did a default install of ubuntu, it saw all 4 gigs without a hitch. So does that mean it already includes PAE, or something else ? Yes, AFAIK some newer Linuxes (and Windows SP2) include PAE by default. ___

Re: Which build to use for Intel Core 2 Duo 64-bit?

2007-01-11 Thread Ivan Voras
Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: Which build should I use to build a native 64-bit installation on an Intel Core 2 Duo (E6600)? AMD64 kernel, SMP variant. Specific compiler optimizations will not yield high enough benefits to be generally useful but it probably[*] won't hurt you. [*] There was a

Re: hardware mirrors recognized as individual disks in fbsd

2007-01-16 Thread Ivan Voras
Steve Franks wrote: I want two 160GB mirrored volumes, not 4 unmirrored ones. The RAID is an ASUS P5DR1-VM motherboard with a ULI raid chipset onboard. Very nice setup for the money. I don't know about the chipset or the controller, but judging from the symptoms it's highly likely you

Re: Very Poor Raid Card Performance

2007-01-16 Thread Ivan Voras
Steven Lowry wrote: The main problem is my HD performance, it is approx 6x slower than in windows XP, hopefully there is a solution. I have an LSI Megaraid 8x with four drives in a raid 5 configuration, in windows I was getting upto 60MB/s transfer rates but in FBSD I am getting upto 9MB/s. I

Re: Very Poor Raid Card Performance

2007-01-16 Thread Ivan Voras
Wood, Russell wrote: I have an LSI MegaRaid with three drives at RAID 5: works a god-damn-treat. I don't know what my throughput is on RAID 5 but RAID 0 was fast (70MB/s+). Mine was RAID5. Hmm, oops, it wasn't LSI but HP/Compaq CISS, battery backed, SATA on SAS. da0 at ciss0 bus 0 target 0

Re: cpu

2008-03-24 Thread Ivan Voras
Irodatechnika Hajdu wrote: Hi! I have got a XEON (E5320) based computer. Which version to install? AMD64 or I386? AMD64. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: FreeBSD-6.3 only detects 3GB of RAM

2008-03-27 Thread Ivan Voras
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fred writes: Hello all, I am trying to fix an issue with my dual xeon ibm server, it only detects 3GB or RAM but I have 4GB: [...] I have seen this problem under Linux on IBM Intellistations (6225). IBM pointed me to a tech document (the number of which I do

Re: FreeBSD-6.3 only detects 3GB of RAM

2008-03-27 Thread Ivan Voras
fred wrote: I have read that OPTION PAE in kernel would fix the problem but I have also read that compiling FreeBSD AMD64 might be a better solution, any advices before I break my current setup? Except if you have a strong reason to stick with the 32-bit kernel, use AMD64. signature.asc

Re: FreeBSD installation on AMD64

2008-04-01 Thread Ivan Voras
Sébastien Morand wrote: Hi, I'm new in FreeBSD, I'm used to GNU/Linux from many years but I'm trying to migrate to FreeBSD. My hardware is AMD64 / 1GB RAM / envy24ht network car / nVidia 7300GS GC / USB Scanner / HP 660 Printer This looks like a desktop computer, with multimedia

Re: FReeBSD on IBM Blade Servers

2008-04-06 Thread Ivan Voras
Maximillian Dornseif wrote: What is the status of FreeBSD on the different flavours of the IBM Blade Servers. I found some postings from 2005 statings that there were serious issues. Is this still true? Somebody using FreeBSD IBM Blade hardware in production? The posts you saw were maybe

Re: Does FreeBSD 6.3 network support TSO/LSO?

2008-04-07 Thread Ivan Voras
Mr Y wrote: Thanks, No, it's implemented in 7.x. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Inline assembly under FreeBSD

2008-04-07 Thread Ivan Voras
Wojciech Puchar wrote: asm(pushfl; stc; int $0x13; setc %%al; popfl : +a (ax), +b (bx), =c (cx), +d (dx) : : esi, edi); if ((u8)ax) return -1;/* No extended information */ else return 1;/* Extended information available */ } When it is

Re: 7.0R freemind 0.8.1 crashes randomly

2008-04-09 Thread Ivan Voras
Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, I'm used to use 'freemind' (and used 0.8.0 a lot in FreeBSD 6.2); since the update to 7.0-REL and freemind as 0.8.1 from ports it is unusable because it crashes randomly, sometimes it does not even comes up without any message, sometimes it crashes by its own

Re: 7.0R freemind 0.8.1 crashes randomly

2008-04-09 Thread Ivan Voras
Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Wednesday, April 09, 2008 a las 02:48:18PM +0200, Ivan Voras escribió: Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, I'm used to use 'freemind' (and used 0.8.0 a lot in FreeBSD 6.2); since the update to 7.0-REL and freemind as 0.8.1 from ports it is unusable because it crashes

Re: my webserver suddenly crash

2008-04-09 Thread Ivan Voras
Satria Bramana wrote: greetings.. my webhosting server suddenly crash and showing this in /var/log/messages : Apr 9 11:37:52 hosting kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(10): failed i'm using a monitoring software and i found that the usage of my swap space only about 1% of my total swap

Re: 7.0R freemind 0.8.1 crashes randomly

2008-04-10 Thread Ivan Voras
Kris Kennaway wrote: What do you expect is wrong with the 6.x jdk running under compatibility? I don't expect it, I'm talking from personal experience (confirmed by occasional reports on mailing lists). (What's wrong with it is that if it's not near 100% reliable, it's unusable, much like ZFS

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