Re: State of Packages

2013-04-04 Thread Mark Blackman
On 4 Apr 2013, at 21:21, Bryan Drewery bdrew...@freebsd.org wrote: On 4/4/2013 1:57 PM, d...@safeport.com wrote: Its seems certain that pkg_add is not [going to] be[ing] restored. Progress is being made on providing pkg_add and pkgng packages again. They will come back. For those who

Re: no 9.1-release packages?

2013-03-09 Thread Mark Blackman
On 7 Mar 2013, at 15:52, Ruben de Groot mai...@bzerk.org wrote: Hi, I just rented a 9.1-release VPS and was trying to install some packages. This however does not work as there is no directory packages-9.1-release on the ftp server (ftp.freebsd.org). Why is this? If you're prepared

Re: which pkg repository with 9.1

2013-02-04 Thread Mark Blackman
On 4 Feb 2013, at 18:53, mhca12 wrote: On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 7:48 PM, mhca12 wrote: On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 7:31 PM, mhca12 wrote: I have just installed 9.1 amd64 on a test machine and wanted to install rsync. Is pkgng the right choice and if so is there a handy guide how to get started or

Re: Grow Mounted Filesystems project

2012-11-29 Thread Mark Blackman
On 29 Nov 2012, at 10:48, Lucian luc...@lastdot.org wrote: Hi, anyone knows what has become of this? http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/new-funded-project-grow-mounted.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2012-November/042539.html covers some of it, I believe. -

Re: high performance server design approach

2012-11-13 Thread Mark Blackman
On 13 Nov 2012, at 10:28, Friedrich Locke friedrich.lo...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you Mark for suggestion, but my doubt still remains. perhaps some benchmarking/testing will help clear up the doubt? - Mark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: high performance server design approach

2012-11-13 Thread Mark Blackman
On 13 Nov 2012, at 10:23, Friedrich Locke friedrich.lo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list members, i would like to be an http server for static content only. Due to this [snip] What you have to say benchmark nginx to see if it does the job already. - Mark

Re: high performance server design approach

2012-11-13 Thread Mark Blackman
On 13 Nov 2012, at 11:03, Friedrich Locke friedrich.lo...@gmail.com wrote: Mark, when i say high performance, i am looking something at least as fast as the fastest performing http server on the market for a given set of requests on the same pool of static files. I am aware og ngnix,

Re: pppoe configuration and dns name resolution

2012-10-16 Thread Mark Blackman
On 16 Oct 2012, at 16:08, Jack jacks.1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I'm new as a FreeBSD user, and trying to configure my pppoe connection. [snip] fxp0 is the ethernet interface of my PC via which adsl modem is connected. Any suggestions ... Consider using the ports mpd5 daemon for a

Re: pppoe configuration and dns name resolution

2012-10-16 Thread Mark Blackman
On 16 Oct 2012, at 16:38, Jack jacks.1...@gmail.com wrote: I 'll try mpd5. Thanks. Actually, I was concerned with userland ppp, becoz of the scenarios where we have a FreeBSD machine and the only way to connect to internet is an adsl modem in bridge mode (assuming the mode in modem, can't

Re: pppoe configuration and dns name resolution

2012-10-16 Thread Mark Blackman
On 16 Oct 2012, at 16:49, Mark Blackman m...@exonetric.com wrote: On 16 Oct 2012, at 16:38, Jack jacks.1...@gmail.com wrote: I 'll try mpd5. Thanks. Actually, I was concerned with userland ppp, becoz of the scenarios where we have a FreeBSD machine and the only way to connect

Re: Is there a way to run FreeBSD ports through port 80?

2012-07-12 Thread Mark Blackman
On 12 Jul 2012, at 17:23, Kaya Saman wrote: How does one get round this issue as my superiors are telling me that opening up FTP is a security risk and therefor don't want to proceed? I would like to use ports specifically and not the pkg_add tool to get software. Can anyone sugget

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-17 Thread Mark Blackman
On 17 Jun 2012, at 21:13, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Clang is consistently faster at compiling than GCC and it is very clean and modular -- not bloated. -r-xr-xr-x 3 root wheel 37025016 12 cze 21:46 /usr/bin/clang well.. hope you just left the debugging symbols in and statically

Re: FreeBSD: syslog-ng: I/O error occurred while writing; fd='xx', error='No buffer space available (yy)'

2012-03-23 Thread Mark Blackman
On 22 Mar 2012, at 11:40, Traiano Welcome wrote: That's what I thought as well, but it's the details that evade me. Almost all traffic to and from this server is UDP (syslog), the graph I sent earlier shows the kind of volumes and trends that are typical: Peak traffic during the problem

Re: FreeBSD: syslog-ng: I/O error occurred while writing; fd='xx', error='No buffer space available (yy)'

2012-03-23 Thread Mark Blackman
On 23 Mar 2012, at 08:58, Traiano Welcome wrote: Hi Mark On 22/03/2012 13:54, Mark Blackman m...@exonetric.com wrote: On 22 Mar 2012, at 11:40, Traiano Welcome wrote: Somehow this doesn't strike me as a large volume of throughput Š Ok, fair enough. You might try simulating

Re: FreeBSD: syslog-ng: I/O error occurred while writing; fd='xx', error='No buffer space available (yy)'

2012-03-22 Thread Mark Blackman
On 22 Mar 2012, at 09:00, Traiano Welcome wrote: My question is: What does this error mean, and how can I resolve it? From a very casual inspection of the problem, I'd say you're pushing out syslog messages faster than the kernel can get them out the interface. How many syslog messages

Re: posix compliance

2012-02-28 Thread Mark Blackman
On 28 Feb 2012, at 11:32, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: sorry to be a pain. Are we talking 10%, 50%, 90% complete? Depending on how you weight the various items of POSIX compliance, a finger-in-the-air guess would be around 90%, but I think only the -hackers list can give you a good answer.

Re: where is plig.net

2012-02-06 Thread Mark Blackman
On 6 Feb 2012, at 21:51, Chris Whitehouse wrote: About the first thing I ever learned about FreeBSD was the uk mirror ftp.plig.net and cvsup.plig.net which I think used to be ftp2.uk.freebsd.org. Since then I have always used them as a file source for broadband speed tests. They seem to

Re: no hyperthreading in FreeBSD 9?

2012-01-13 Thread Mark Blackman
On 13 Jan 2012, at 16:30, Marco Beishuizen wrote: Hi, I just upgraded from 8-STABLE to 9-STABLE on my dual Xeon (nocona). Now I have in my boot messages: ... root: /etc/rc.d/sysctl: WARNING: sysctl machdep.hlt_logical_cpus does not exist. root: /etc/rc.d/sysctl: WARNING: sysctl

Re: Need to know the compatibility

2011-12-29 Thread Mark Blackman
On 29 Dec 2011, at 15:45, Daniel Feenberg wrote: On Mon, 19 Dec 2011, vijayamurugan.kalyanasunda...@emc.com wrote: Hi Team, Kindly let me know on the compatibility of Intel X520 Dual Port 10 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe Adaptor Card with Free BSD 8.2 OS. I didn't see any answer to

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Solution for school lab

2011-10-30 Thread Mark Blackman
On 30 Oct 2011, at 10:01, Peter wrote: Hi, I am about to setup a small PC lab for teaching operating systems. Since computers will need to be used for teaching Windows/Unix(FreeBsd)/Linux(Novell) I need to find a way: 1. Systems to coexists on the same hardware 2. Easily restore system

Re: how to use cfs (cryptographic file system) ?

2011-05-06 Thread Mark Blackman
ALANO CONRAZ wrote: And I always get the same error : [tcp] localhost:/usr/local/cfsd-bootstrap: nfsd: RCPROG_NFS: RPC: Remote system error - Connection refused and the same with [tcp6] You need to start nfsd? - Mark ___

Re: how to increase stacksize?

2011-04-04 Thread Mark Blackman
On 4 Apr 2011, at 20:50, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: [snip] I'd like to increase stacksize. How do I do this? limits -s xxx doesn't set the limits, any anyway, in /etc/login.conf I get: So where do my shell settings come from? stacksize is ultimately a kernel limit, and the hard

Re: how to increase stacksize?

2011-04-04 Thread Mark Blackman
On 4 Apr 2011, at 21:00, Mark Blackman wrote: set 'kern.maxdxiz' in your /boot/loader.conf and reboot if you're already hitting the hard limit. hmm, edit failure there. 'kern.maxssiz' is what I meant of course. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: adding SRV records to a FreeBSD server

2011-03-17 Thread Mark Blackman
Using the standard version query syntax below.. dig +short @ns1.partnershiphp.org version.bind txt chaos DNS Server v2090 She seems to have a DNS server that I'm both unfamiliar with and unable to find with a search engine. So, as you say, this is a DNS server question not an OS question.

Re: FreeBSD-similar build-from-source Linux?

2010-11-10 Thread Mark Blackman
O. Hartmann wrote: well, my question may sound heretic, but since we use mostly Linux based systems in our scientific environment and FreeBSD seems to lack in severe support in GPGPU/CUDA capable graphics boards Hmm, interesting requirement. Sounds like a nice Google SoC project or even

Re: FreeBSD-similar build-from-source Linux?

2010-11-10 Thread Mark Blackman
C. Bergström wrote: This project is by far too much for a gsoc student not to mention who would mentor it... People throw around the term GPGPU/CUDA too much and don't realize that it breaks down into... fair point, I assumed it was a simple driver question. - Mark

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-06 Thread Mark Blackman
Charlie Kester wrote: On Tue 05 Oct 2010 at 06:25:05 PDT Mark Blackman wrote: There's also the whole train of thought that says FreeBSD isn't really aimed at the desktop/laptop/notebook use model and any benefit in that arena is entirely coincidental. I've often seen that opinion expressed

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-05 Thread Mark Blackman
Jon Radel wrote: I'm somewhat unclear on how that follows. Might it not be that many manufacturers, busily dealing with Microsoft, and easing into Linux now that it has significant mindshare, have simply decided that there's no economic benefit to releasing detailed hardware specs in a form

Re: A command to check network transfer

2010-10-01 Thread Mark Blackman
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Dear all, I cannot for the life of mine remember the command which allows me to check incoming and outgoing transfer on lo0 and re0. Can you please help? :) netstat -w 1 -i lo0 and netstat -w -l -i re0 for 1 second updates on each interface with packets/bytes in/out