FreeBsd Beginner

2012-02-28 Thread shanib.k.k
HI, Hi am a Ruby on rails developer. I have done a project in ROR and currently its hosted in Ubuntu.Now the requires it to be changed to FreeBSD. As am entirely fresh to FreeBSD i would like to know more about how can configure or install it. Am using Windows OS in my personal system.How

Re: FreeBsd Beginner

2012-02-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 28/02/2012 05:43, shanib.k.k wrote: Hi am a Ruby on rails developer. I have done a project in ROR and currently its hosted in Ubuntu.Now the requires it to be changed to FreeBSD. As am entirely fresh to FreeBSD i would like to know more about how can configure or install it. The best place

Re: FreeBsd Beginner

2012-02-28 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:13:41 +0530, shanib.k.k wrote: As am entirely fresh to FreeBSD i would like to know more about how can configure or install it. The basic documentation on how to install and configure the system can be found in The FreeBSD Handbook and the FAQ available from the main web

FreeBSD beginner part2 questions

2004-07-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
after receiving lots of support from freebsd-question i completely (almost) moved home machine/server to freebsd. and have question: 1) can userland ppp negotiate deflate with NetBSD pppd on other side? my ppp.conf looks like that: stalka: set log Phase Chat tun set device /dev/cuaa2

Re: FreeBSD beginner (NetBSD advanced)

2004-07-16 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
I have used a single 256MB mfs on FreeBSD for months without any problem. I was not doing heavy IO on it, it was used in a /tmp fashion and most of the time was swapped out, going down to 8MB resident size at times. softdeps in NetBSD is very buggy. putting very high load like deleting huge

Re: FreeBSD beginner (NetBSD advanced)

2004-07-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have used a single 256MB mfs on FreeBSD for months without any problem. I was not doing heavy IO on it, it was used in a /tmp fashion and most of the time was swapped out, going down to 8MB resident size at times. does FreeBSD deallocate pages that are unused. NetBSD does not. if you create

Re: FreeBSD beginner (NetBSD advanced)

2004-07-16 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
does FreeBSD deallocate pages that are unused. NetBSD does not. if you create 100MB file on mfs and delete it, VM size of mfs is still over 100MB. while it will get swapped out it's a kind of nonsense IMHO FreeBSD tries to swap out idle pages. That means that you'll have more physical memory

FreeBSD beginner (NetBSD advanced)

2004-07-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i want to go to FreeBSD instead of NetBSD on my i386 machines because of all new features :( introduced in NetBSD after 1.5 mostly crashing softdeps, strange memory/unified disk cache management (large writing to file almost freezes everything) etc. etc. i installed FreeBSD once to do quick

Re: FreeBSD beginner (NetBSD advanced)

2004-07-15 Thread Mike Hogsett
Wojciech Puchar wrote: my questions: Start here : http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD beginner (NetBSD advanced)

2004-07-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
Wojciech Puchar wrote: i installed FreeBSD once to do quick performance tests, and at least in disk I/O and fair scheduling it's MUCH better (tested 4.10 and 5.1). It's nice to be welcomed by higher performance when you switch OSes. :-) my questions: 1) what is Buf and Cache in top exactly? why

Re: FreeBSD beginner (NetBSD advanced)

2004-07-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 08:30:10PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: i want to go to FreeBSD instead of NetBSD on my i386 machines because of all new features :( introduced in NetBSD after 1.5 mostly crashing softdeps, strange memory/unified disk cache management (large writing to file almost

RE: FreeBSD beginner (NetBSD advanced)

2004-07-15 Thread Eric Crist
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wojciech Puchar Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 1:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FreeBSD beginner (NetBSD advanced) [snip] my questions: 1) what is Buf and Cache in top exactly? why buf on 96MB

Re: FreeBSD beginner (NetBSD advanced)

2004-07-15 Thread epilogue
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 20:30:10 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i want to go to FreeBSD instead of NetBSD on my i386 machines because of all new features :( introduced in NetBSD after 1.5 mostly crashing softdeps, strange memory/unified disk cache management (large writing

RE: FreeBSD beginner (NetBSD advanced).

2004-07-15 Thread Julien Gabel
2) can i compile kernel with -march=pentium,pentium[234] -O2 optimization? in NetBSD 2.0 doing -march=pentium produces kernel that doesn't boot at all, just resets. 2.0 is always under develpoment and not yet released. I don't see the problem with 1.6.2. 4) is IPv6 working well? (i mean no

Re: FreeBSD beginner (NetBSD advanced)

2004-07-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Wojciech Puchar wrote: i installed FreeBSD once to do quick performance tests, and at least in disk I/O and fair scheduling it's MUCH better (tested 4.10 and 5.1). It's nice to be welcomed by higher performance when you switch OSes. :-) while high performance is always cool, stable performance