IPMI doesn't work...

2005-03-14 Thread Jeff Behl
on a 5.3 amd64 system. anyone have any luck or know anything about this? i can query variables right up until the point where the kernel loads, then nothing. ibm is saying this can be caused by the actual net driver (the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) shares the network interface);

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 MySQL Performance

2005-02-10 Thread Jeff Behl
Any so-called benchmark comparing Linux to anything else (especially windoze) has been polluted by the tradition in the linux/windoze world of running their disks in the completely unsafe asynchronous mode so popular with the ATA disk drive manufacturers. This method means that you never

%cpu in system - squid performance in FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-01 Thread Jeff Behl
howdy, I've got a dual proc AMD64 (2gHz) FreeBSD 5.3R system running two squid processes (to take advantage of both CPUs). Each process is doing around 195 req/s, and the total bandwidth is ~40Mb/s (gig nic via bge driver). Squid is being used exclusively as a reverse proxy, with all content

%cpu (usr/system/idle) disappears on AMD64/5.3

2004-11-14 Thread Jeff Behl
On a 2 proc amd64 system, I lose cpu stats after being up for a period of time (~5 days in this case). Anyone know what's up with this? It's happened a number of times, with the only fix that I know of being a reboot. Any help greatly appreciated (we're trying to benchmark this system for