Re: Troubleshooting a 3Ware 9550SX under 6.3

2008-08-01 Thread Patrick C
This is a very important point. By turning the cache on, you have not resolved an underlying performance issue, if there even is one. Please try dd again with a well-sized bs= parameter, or use some more accurate reporting like iozone, sysbench, etc. Also, I am not sure how much memory is on the

Re: Dell's PERC6i

2008-07-10 Thread Patrick C
The 6i will work on FreeBSD, however realize that a much better choice for a production machine is a card which really supports FreeBSD... just due to the availability and reliability of the tools required for maintaining the system while running. Have you considered SuperMicro machines with

Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?

2008-06-19 Thread Patrick C
I can, as usual, highly recommend M5 Hosting. Mike (the owner) is VERY helpful and he is very knowledgeable in *BSD - a lot of hosts will install it, but few know how to use it. His hardware is good and he uses AMCC (3Ware) cards for RAID. The network rocks. I can also say I have had decent luck

Re: High load, lots of free memory and processes in devfs state

2008-06-16 Thread Patrick C
Is the MySQL daemon still running on that box? I see a mysqldump but no mysqld. If it is, try doing a shutdown and see if the load decreases. Sounds odd, but I have been having similar issues with MySQL. -Patrick 2008/6/16 Stut [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 16 Jun 2008, at 18:48, Oliver Fromme wrote:

Re: mfi freebsd7

2008-06-11 Thread Patrick C
Great info, Kalin. I have several boxes with LSI controllers, the PERC 5i works wonderfully with FreeBSD (though the Dell 6850 sucks), and I have a couple boxes with Supermicro boards with built-in LSI MegaRaid, however it's done in software. This means that the mfi controller works fine as

Re: Survive from DDoS

2008-05-28 Thread Patrick C
I think the size and the fact that his ISP could not filter this indicates that the problem cannot be solved locally. You can do all the blocking on your end you want, but they can (and did) still saturate links ahead of you. Your ISP (or even their uplink, I'm guessing your ISP was also pretty

Re: Adobe Flash Player Petition

2008-04-09 Thread Patrick C
Note that there isn't even a x64 version of the flash player for Linux. I think it also took quite a while before they released the Windows 64-bit version. Can't hurt to try though. -Patrick On 09/04/2008, E. J. Cerejo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Da Rock wrote: On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 10:15

Re: SCSI network

2008-04-01 Thread Patrick C
Perhaps on your motherboard, also possible they don't even make it farther than the pins of the controller chip. Lots of controllers have lots of ports that never get used. -Patrick On 31/03/2008, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: with firewire - it works fine, i know :) - fwip(4)

Re: Where to rent the best dedicated servers?

2008-03-24 Thread Patrick C
Guys, careful on the reply to all on this message :-) If you're looking for FreeBSD hosting, I have had very good luck with m5hosting.com. It's a small company but they host in a very nice datacenter with good connectivity, and their support is awesome. The owner (Mike) is very knowledgeable with

Re: Email processing in Python (was: e-mail processing in C)

2008-03-24 Thread Patrick C
Searching real quick shows the existence of both libmime and libmbox... don't know if they're maintained. Another option would be to dig out the associated code in pine, elm, or whatnot. See how they access mail. -Patrick On 24/03/2008, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 24 Mar

Re: A general purpose LDAP solution?

2008-03-24 Thread Patrick C
I'd be interested in a read. I am currently using NIS/YP with FreeBSD servers and Linux clients... makes things very interesting. I've been meaning to exploit PAM for a more modern solution but it hasn't been a huge priority. Is there any support for built-in redundancy on the server level? I

Re: OT: (Way OT) PHP and MySQL concurrency control using MyISAM tables

2008-03-23 Thread Patrick C
MyISAM supports locking (like all engines) but not transactions. Without transactions, you can do a lock lock a table or tables, and unlock them, however you cannot roll back statements -- so if a statement down the line fails for some reason there is no way to rollback and undo past statements

Re: removable devices auto umounting

2008-03-20 Thread Patrick C
What about a Safely Remove Hardware-style icon on your desktop, which could simply run a script to unmount (with force if the user has it open somewhere). -Patrick On 20/03/2008, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:55:32AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: I'm just looking

Re: linux emulation

2008-03-19 Thread Patrick C
I think you're talking about Linux binary compatibility. While I have heard of project(s) for device driver compatibility I do not believe anything exists in a usable state. -Patrick On 19/03/2008, Da Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've read the handbook and just about anything on linux compat

Re: Problem with multiple scsi adapters and drive assignments

2008-03-18 Thread Patrick C
This is exactly what labeling your disks solves. Please see info on 'tunefs' and 'glabel' which provide labels to devices. Basically, when you insert a device not only does it get its scan-order-based /dev/___, it also gets a named entry in either /dev/ufs/ or /dev/label (tunefs/geom). You then

Re: Load Averages

2008-03-15 Thread Patrick C
I don't think it's an accounting bug, my guess is there is an issue in the kernel. Have you checked the output of dmesg? Anything unusual? Any issues accessing locally mounted file systems? Instead of upgrading, have you considered rebooting? :) -Patrick On 15/03/2008, Grant Peel [EMAIL

Re: Load Averages

2008-03-15 Thread Patrick C
, Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only thing I see in dmesg is: Too many dynamic rules (from ipfw). Maybe I should try removing the keep-state statements? I only want to reboot as a last resort :-) -Grant - Original Message - From: Patrick C [EMAIL PROTECTED

Unable to reboot with 7.0 release candidates and -RELEASE on AMD64

2008-03-07 Thread Patrick C
I am having issues getting a new machine with 7 to reboot and power down. The machine uses a SuperMicro X7DCL-3 and there are two quad-core processors installed. Upon issuing a reboot or power off, the machine hangs immediately after displaying the Uptime statement. I have tried disabling ACPI in