Re: How backup huge pgsql ?

2008-01-12 Thread Peter Schuller
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/continuous-archiving.html Also the very long transaction used for the backup will prevent vacuuming from freeing tuples for the duration of the backup. If you have tables that rely on very frequent vacuuming for performance, those may be affected. -- / Pete

Re: FreeBSD bind performance in FreeBSD 7

2008-03-10 Thread Peter Schuller
sts right down to the constituent drives... I did, and eventually got a response after 1-2 weeks. But the response was such that I could not feel confident that the question was accurately forwarded to the right individual. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller &

Re: Good newsreaders for FreeBSD?

2004-10-19 Thread Peter Schuller
makes any > difference. It doesn't have that particular feature you mentioned, but the one news reader that is closest to being perfect for me is slrn - very nice. As someone mentioned; leafnode can be used as a suitable "proxy" NNTP server that can pull news from multiple

vinum + powerfailure -> one volume corrupt, others unaffected

2004-11-22 Thread Peter Schuller
st it was at the least a pretty random set of files from the filesystem. [4] http://www.scode.org/vinum-printconfig-postcrash.txt [5] http://www.scode.org/vinum-printconfig-precrash.txt [6] http://www.scode.org/vinum-dumpconfig-postcrash.txt -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP

Re: Setting up Postfix with PosgreSQLon FreeBSD

2004-11-22 Thread Peter Schuller
w what's going on. I haven't been following this thread so I don't know how much you already know or whether this helps. If this doesn't clear things up let me know and I can provide some URLs that are suitable for reading on this issue, and/or more details. At the moment I&

IBM T40p: em0/ath0 failure and PCMCIA difficulties

2003-07-16 Thread Peter Schuller
for the driver, it doesn't hurt. [5] "page fault whilte in kernel mode", fault code "supervisor write, page not present". Current process = "0 (swapper)" and stupped at = "ithread_add_handler+0x143: movl %ebx,0(%eax)" Any thoughs/comments are highl

Re: IBM T40p: em0/ath0 failure and PCMCIA difficulties

2003-07-16 Thread Peter Schuller
ng boot sa I do with a PCMCIA card inserted, even though I > believe the Bluetooth card is on the USB bus. Apparantly I can enable/disable the bluetooth card AFTER boot, and it will be successfully detected on the USB bus; and no crashing occurs. (Whether it actually works for use I have not yet

Re: nVidia nForse2

2003-08-14 Thread Peter Schuller
You may want to send him an E-Mail. Also, there is some possibly positive news on this front: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg09257.html -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key r

Re: Copying system/ports configuration?

2008-12-17 Thread Peter Schuller
o remove all packages, and then re-installing all the built binaries. I have some tools to help me do this that are semi-public, but not really in a nice state at this time. Let me know off-list if you would be interested. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller &#

Re: Backing Up ZFS

2008-12-20 Thread Peter Schuller
iles (e.g. collections of Maildir mailboxes). I mention rdiff-backup but of course there are plenty of others. I just happen to prefer rdiff-backup, mostly because of it's "rsync mirror + history" semantics and completely trivial setup. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or

Re: backup

2004-02-24 Thread Peter Schuller
oduces files in a format *not* guaranteed to work with 'restore' on another system if it is not running the exact same version of FreeBSD? Or having the same file system size? I had always assumed - given that it's a backup tool - that the format of the dump was portable. -- / Peter Sc

Re: qmail revisited

2004-03-03 Thread Peter Schuller
oot for example). qmail delivers mail as the user who owns the mailbox, so it has to be able to access it. *AND*, permissions may not be too wide wither, or qmail will refuse to deliver mail for security reasons (this is true for at least the .qmail files; not sure about the maildir). -- / P

Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1 and Bluetooth

2004-03-05 Thread Peter Schuller
of this. FWIW I have successfully connected to the internet via GPRS over bluetooth with a Nokia 7650 and the built-in USB adapter in the IBM T40p. It seems to run stable (well except for the buggy-in-general phone). Dunno about HID though. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP use

Re: Rxvt replacement?

2004-03-19 Thread Peter Schuller
> Is there any other xterm replacement which is small like rxvt? Or at least > smaller than xterm. Grepping around the ports tree i found 'wterm' which is supposedly a fork/branch of rxvt (haven't tried it yet). There's also aterm (also forked off rxvt apparant

Recommended USB 2.0 controller fr. 5.2+

2004-03-22 Thread Peter Schuller
somewhere that there was a problem with that particular controller but I don't remember why. So - if I want a USB 2 controller that works fine with FreeBSD, which one shojuld I get / which chipset should it be using? Thanks! -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B

Re: Recommended USB 2.0 controller fr. 5.2+

2004-03-22 Thread Peter Schuller
> So - if I want a USB 2 controller that works fine with FreeBSD, which one > shojuld I get / which chipset should it be using? To be more specific I found a controllre by Q-Tec (425U) wtih a Via VT6202 chipset. Anyone know if this will work? -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies H

Re: Java runtime?

2004-03-23 Thread Peter Schuller
.4.2. It will need to first install the linux-JDK though for bootstrapping purposes. Choose the JDK you would like to install and do 'make install'. It's going to ask you to download files from Sun manually due to licensing restrictions. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technolo

Re: Java runtime?

2004-03-23 Thread Peter Schuller
Linux JVM, running under emulation, which is failing, given that it is compiling the standard library for the native JVM.) -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-

Re: disconnecting keyboard: big trouble !?!

2004-03-23 Thread Peter Schuller
lead to serious problems both at home and in colocation environments. I'm very surprised FreeBSD doesn't handle this by default out of the box. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: S

Re: disconnecting keyboard: big trouble !?!

2004-03-23 Thread Peter Schuller
ad practice at all, since I have never heard of a failure, nor seen any concrete evidence why it would actually be bad. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E

mergemaster -U overwriting modified files

2009-04-25 Thread Peter Schuller
named.conf (!!!) on another machine. Is this a bug or intended? What is the intended functionality of -U? -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller ' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to getpgp...@scode.org E-Mail: peter.schul...@infidyne.com Web: http://www.scode.org

Re: dump/restore don't work, handbook lies

2008-09-02 Thread Peter Schuller
ul. FWIW, for doing stuff like moving the root fs (which I have done more often than I would like) I recommend using tar -cp or rsync -a. I preserves everything I care about preserving, and it has well-known and well-tested semantics that I feel comfortable with. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9

pfsync broadcasts without explicitly enabling it

2006-07-02 Thread Peter Schuller
ces with ifconfig. The second machine I saw this on has only been running for a few days, so I am even more sure I haven't done so on this one than on the other one. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>&#x

geom_eli and Safenet/hifn crypto accelerators

2006-07-21 Thread Peter Schuller
(Actually 50% system utilization on a dual-core 3800+, which I take to be one core saturated unless geli is able to use both CPU:s for the same userland I/O operation.) Thanks! -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTE

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