Determining free memory on FreeBSD 4.8-REL

2004-02-13 Thread dap
I know this question has been asked, but the answers I find tend to be along the lines of "Well, it's complicated." How do I determine if my FreeBSD is actually low on memory not? And what is Inact? I did read the manpages, but even they seem to skirt how I should view Inact vs. Free. (I did read

FreeBSD NFS clients and mount options..

2004-02-20 Thread dap
I am running an NFS server and several FreeBSD NFS clients. The NFS clients are web servers running Apache. I want to be sure that if my NFS server dies that I don't get odd problems (e.g., the default hard NFS option will cause the process to hang, and I can't kill it). I realize that the hard opt

NFS and different exports to the same host

2004-02-20 Thread dap
Per the FreeBSD handbook, I have to follow the rule that for a specific host I have to export everything the same for a particular filesystem. So let's say I have one filesystem, /. So I can't have: /export1-roserver1 server2 /export2 server1 Instead, I need: /export1 \ /exp

MySQL and FreeBSD 4.x.. problems, problems with server

2004-02-28 Thread dap
This has happened with enough servers at different locations that I have to believe there is a relationship here. I have servers running the latest release of MySQL. I've run the servers on FreeBSD 4.4., 4.7, and 4.8. I am not using the threaded version. On all three versions, on different servers