Re: md devices mounted with async

2008-06-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
mdmfs(8) has an example of a malloc-backed md device mounted with the async option. Is there any point in doing this with malloc and vnode devices? In neither case does a write to the file-system require a write to a physical disk. i don't think so. but if you use FreeBSD 7 use tmpfs. it says

Re: PORTS - no longer updated

2008-06-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
Jos Chrispijn wrote: I use a port that no longer is supported thru the regular ports. p5-Text-ParseWords-3.1 Parse text into an array of tokens or array of arrays ** Listing the failed packages (-:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed) - textproc/p5-Text-ParseWords (port directory error)

Re: sendmail's outgoing IPs

2008-06-15 Thread perryh
i have 3 different links to ISP all are ADSL's so outgoing bandwidth is low, i would like to spread the load generated by outgoing mails. Pardon my lack of imagination, but how could anyone -- other than a spammer -- be generating enough outbound email traffic to *need* to load-balance it, and

Re: PORTS - no longer updated

2008-06-15 Thread Jos Chrispijn
Matthew Seaman wrote: [-] to fix up the broken dependency linkages. Everything that depended on p5-Text-ParseWords would already depend on perl anyhow, so just delete the dependency if pkgdb can't work it out for itself. I understand and have done so, thanks for sharing; -- Jos

Re: sendmail's outgoing IPs

2008-06-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
by outgoing mails. Pardon my lack of imagination, but how could anyone -- other than a spammer -- be generating enough outbound email traffic to *need* to load-balance it, and yet have little enough please come to poland and use polish telecom's 4Mbit/s ADSL connections. you won't ask why.

Re: sendmail's outgoing IPs

2008-06-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Pardon my lack of imagination, but how could anyone -- other than a spammer -- be generating enough outbound email traffic to *need* to load-balance it, and yet have little enough total Internet traffic to be using DSL rather than something oriented to commercial use (like a T1)? the reason is

Re: Re[2]: Fwd: twe0 interrupt storm

2008-06-15 Thread Stanislav
Dear Daniel, Please tell me you had this storms only with 3ware 8006-2LP? Because as I remember on MSI motherboard controller, I have no problems with FreeBSD 6.2, but when I upgraded to FreeBSD 7.0 that storms appeared, but not so often as with 3ware. P.S. Maybe I have to ask them to update

Re[4]: Fwd: twe0 interrupt storm

2008-06-15 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Stanislav, Sunday, June 15, 2008, 12:40:57 PM, you wrote: Dear Daniel, Please tell me you had this storms only with 3ware 8006-2LP? Actually, I do have them on the boxes which do not have the raid controller. I have several boxes in hetzner. The ones that does not have any additional

Re: md devices mounted with async

2008-06-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
RW wrote: On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 03:08:34 +0200 Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RW wrote: I meant that a write to the filesystem doesn't require a corresponding write to disk, and the change can stay in memory indefinitely. Presumably, more or less, the same inactive pages get written-out

Re: md devices mounted with async

2008-06-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
Wojciech Puchar wrote: mdmfs(8) has an example of a malloc-backed md device mounted with the async option. Is there any point in doing this with malloc and vnode devices? In neither case does a write to the file-system require a write to a physical disk. i don't think so. but if you use

ggate[cd] - no IPv6?

2008-06-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
how can i put IPv6 address in /etc/gg.exports ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

OpenOffice 2.4.1: still getting compilation error in FBSD 7.0-STABLE

2008-06-15 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello, I still get this error since OO 2.4 was offered via ports (OO 2.3 did well). I was wondering if someone has no solution to this sticky error. Can anyone help? Regards, Oliver rm -f ../unxfbsdx.pro/lib/check_libvcl680fx.so mv ../unxfbsdx.pro/lib/libvcl680fx.so

Re: OpenOffice 2.4.1: still getting compilation error in FBSD 7.0-STABLE

2008-06-15 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
O. Hartmann wrote: Hello, I still get this error since OO 2.4 was offered via ports (OO 2.3 did well). I was wondering if someone has no solution to this sticky error. Can anyone help? I am not able tohelp but just to confirm this is due to libxml2 not being found right (note to

Re: sendmail's outgoing IPs

2008-06-15 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: no i'm not a spammer, but my users often send mails like 20-40MB sized. [..] something like T1 here costs far too much to dedicate it just for mails. for the same price i can get four 4Mbit/s ADSL's (which i have now), that

Re: sendmail's outgoing IPs

2008-06-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
something like T1 here costs far too much to dedicate it just for mails. for the same price i can get four 4Mbit/s ADSL's (which i have now), that actually gives 4Mbit/s download speed, but only 512kbps upload. Lucky you. We have a 1500/256kbps link for up to 20 boxes, though there's talk

FreeBSD and Xorg: session ending ends up in locked up Xorg server

2008-06-15 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello, I have a strange problem on one of my FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE boxes. The machine is a FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE/AMD64 box, most recently built-world. Whenever I logout from a local X11 session (using Xorg, most recent, and Windowmaker, also most recent, all X stuff recently rebuilt), Xorg eats up

mrtg peak on reboot / snmp-issue?

2008-06-15 Thread Olivier Mueller
Hello, Small but curious thing on my freebsd-based systems: when a server is rebooted, it generates a peak (or spike?) on the network mrtg for all interfaces (here just before 1 am): http://8304.ch/om/stuff/mrtg_localhost_1-day.png It happens with both net-snmp and ucd-snmp, with a quite

Re: FreeBSD and Xorg: session ending ends up in locked up Xorg server

2008-06-15 Thread dfeustel
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 03:46:17PM +, O. Hartmann wrote: Hello, I have a strange problem on one of my FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE boxes. The machine is a FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE/AMD64 box, most recently built-world. Whenever I logout from a local X11 session (using Xorg, most recent, and

stunnel 4.25 and portdowngrade

2008-06-15 Thread Noah
Hi there, I am in a bit of a peculiar situation. So I upgraded to stunnel 4.25 now. but since I upgraded the binary I find that the CPU is tacked and also eventually the ports it is supposed to be answering for no longer get answered. So I decided since 4.24 was working perfectly to

FreeBSD and Greek support

2008-06-15 Thread Dimitris Giakoudis
Hello, I use FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p1 i386 with custom kernel, xfce4 for gui and firefox (everything is installed using ports) for my desktop computer. I recently found this article http://www.freebsd.org/doc/el_GR.ISO8859-7/articles/greek-language-support/a rticle.html, applied the settings

Re: how to view environment variables

2008-06-15 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Whitehouse wrote: RW wrote: On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:27:10 +0100 Chris Whitehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, sysutils/fusefs-ntfs/files/README.FreeBSD refers to various environment variables, eg UBLIO_BLOCKSIZE and others. How do I

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

2008-06-15 Thread Stut
Hi, I'm having a serious problem with one of my FreeBSD servers. It runs FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE, Apache 2.2.8 and PHP 5.2.1. I've checked the hardware and it's all OK. There's approximately 400 Apache processes running and a 2GB memcached instance. Up until last weekend this server was

Re: mrtg peak on reboot / snmp-issue?

2008-06-15 Thread Hartmut Brandt
Olivier Mueller wrote: Hello, Small but curious thing on my freebsd-based systems: when a server is rebooted, it generates a peak (or spike?) on the network mrtg for all interfaces (here just before 1 am): http://8304.ch/om/stuff/mrtg_localhost_1-day.png This could happen if either the

Re: md devices mounted with async

2008-06-15 Thread RW
On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:39:35 +0200 Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I was referring to vnode devices. I guess there was some confusion because in your reply you mentioned swap, not vnode. Sorry, that was my fault. I meant to ask about about malloc and swap backed devices, and never

Re: md devices mounted with async

2008-06-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
but if you use FreeBSD 7 use tmpfs. it says it's experimental feature, but still not crashed on 3 computers i use it. There are known bugs, don't use it if you value your stability :) what it's missing is some kind of quota, you may crash the system by simply filling it up and using all swap

Re: mrtg peak on reboot / snmp-issue?

2008-06-15 Thread Josh Carroll
Sorry the blackberry is truncating your original mail, but yes I have noticed the same thing on my setup. In my case I am using a custom rrdtool perl script. While not a fix for the actual problem, my workaround has been to use a CDEF in my rrdgraph command to set the value to 0 if it exceeds a

Re: OpenOffice 2.4.1: still getting compilation error in FBSD 7.0-STABLE

2008-06-15 Thread Tim Kellers
I can confirm the error. I tried rebuilding everything I could think of in my installed ports, but the error remains the same: ERROR: Error 65280 occurred while making /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-2/work/OOH680_m17/vcl/util dmake: Error code 1, while making 'build_instsetoo_native'

Re: FreeBSD and Greek support

2008-06-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:41:28 +0300, Dimitris Giakoudis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I use FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p1 i386 with custom kernel, xfce4 for gui and firefox (everything is installed using ports) for my desktop computer. I recently found this article

Re: FreeBSD and Greek support

2008-06-15 Thread Tore Lund
Dimitris Giakoudis wrote: ... applied the settings and installed 'ports/x11-fonts/urwfonts' and everything is in Greek now. I have a problem though when viewing web pages that are encoded with el_GR, there are spaces among the letters and it is really ugly. Have you got examples of such web

Re: FreeBSD and Greek support

2008-06-15 Thread Nikos Kokkalis
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Dimitris Giakoudis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I use FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p1 i386 with custom kernel, xfce4 for gui and firefox (everything is installed using ports) for my desktop computer. I recently found this article

[SOLVED] FreeBSD and Greek support

2008-06-15 Thread Dimitris Giakoudis
So, x11-fonts/webfonts was the missing part of the puzzle :) Now, greek web pages seem pretty nice. Nikos, I think you should include this to the article. Thank you all, Dimitris. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: md devices mounted with async

2008-06-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
Wojciech Puchar wrote: but if you use FreeBSD 7 use tmpfs. it says it's experimental feature, but still not crashed on 3 computers i use it. There are known bugs, don't use it if you value your stability :) what it's missing is some kind of quota, you may crash the system by simply filling it

Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

2008-06-15 Thread Karl Vogel
On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 23:31:35 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: W but why you need [a filesystem for linux that do checksum on the fly]?! all W PATA/SATA drives do checksumming on every read. in hardware, no CPU load. These days, hardware isn't just hardware. A disk

Re: md devices mounted with async

2008-06-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
RW wrote: But isn't the normal point of async to avoid having the cpu waiting for the disk with nothing to do. If there's nothing to block on, the cpu can be consistently utilized without async. I suppose with SMP it might help spread the work between cpus, but with a single cpu it seems like

Re: sendmail's outgoing IPs

2008-06-15 Thread Al Plant
Wojciech Puchar wrote: by outgoing mails. Pardon my lack of imagination, but how could anyone -- other than a spammer -- be generating enough outbound email traffic to *need* to load-balance it, and yet have little enough please come to poland and use polish telecom's 4Mbit/s ADSL

Re: FreeBSD and Xorg: session ending ends up in locked up Xorg server

2008-06-15 Thread Derek Ragona
At 10:46 AM 6/15/2008, O. Hartmann wrote: Hello, I have a strange problem on one of my FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE boxes. The machine is a FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE/AMD64 box, most recently built-world. Whenever I logout from a local X11 session (using Xorg, most recent, and Windowmaker, also most recent,

Re: Flashplugin

2008-06-15 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 04:34:17AM -0500, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: for what it is worth, between 3 companies that I do consulting for, there are about 250 workstations that currently use, Windows ME, or Windows 2000.Flash and Microsoft Outlook remain the only 2 reasons we can not use PC-BSD.

Re: OpenOffice 2.4.1: still getting compilation error in FBSD 7.0-STABLE

2008-06-15 Thread Robert Huff
Tim Kellers writes: I can confirm the error. I tried rebuilding everything I could think of in my installed ports, but the error remains the same: ERROR: Error 65280 occurred while making /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-2/work/OOH680_m17/vcl/util dmake: Error code 1, while

Re: [SOLVED] FreeBSD and Greek support

2008-06-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:59:10 +0300, Dimitris Giakoudis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, x11-fonts/webfonts was the missing part of the puzzle :) Now, greek web pages seem pretty nice. Nikos, I think you should include this to the article. Hi Dimitris. Thanks for taking the time to post a

saslauthd on AMD64

2008-06-15 Thread Duane Hill
I have an AMD64 install using saslauthd and is failing. An identical installation on i386 works fine. Both installations are running on FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE with cyrus-sasl-2.1.22_1, and cyrus-sasl-saslauthd-2.1.22. A telnet session to the MTA yields the result: 535 5.7.8 Error:

Re: amule eats up my swap!!

2008-06-15 Thread James Cook
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:11:02AM -0400, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: Hi all, I guess this is a rare issue, but I think my amule, when no upload limit, eats up my swap, and cause amule to crash. After I set limit to 10K, the mule runs fine. I have 1G ram and 2G swap, and without upload limit,

moving FreeBSD installation disk to USB stick

2008-06-15 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, I've an USB stick of 1 GByte and my idea is to put the FreeBSD 7.0 installation disk on this to boot from and install the system in a laptop which does not have other external devices; in the past I've put already a FreeBSD boot able system on such a stick, following this recipe: