Re: gmirror security problem on jail env?

2007-05-07 Thread Oliver Fromme
Manuel Martini wrote: # sysctl -a | grep jail [...] security.jail.jailed: 1 # df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/mirror/gm0s1g 129719744 17056610 10228555614%/ # gmirror status NameStatus Components mirror/gm0

Re: 6.2 newfs/tunefs minfree

2007-05-07 Thread Richard Tector
Oleg Gritsak wrote: You should find a message written by Oliver Fromme at 26-th of April 2007, subject Re: UFS: optimization changed. That's an answer to your question... :) (here's the link http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/archive/freebsd-stable.html) Whoops, must have missed that one. Thanks,

Unstable behavior of the system with tds version = 4.2 (maybe a kernel bug?)

2007-05-07 Thread Nikolay Pavlov
Hello. I have a very strange and 100% reproducible behavior of the several FreeBSD servers (5.4, 5.5, 6.1, 6.2 releases). The only thing that triggers this anomaly is a TDS protocol version in freetds.conf file. If i am using tds version = 4.2 (the default) all is fine: last pid: 1342; load

Re: mfs and buildworlds on da SunFire x4600

2007-05-07 Thread Oliver Fromme
Mars G. Miro wrote: Actually, it's not about having to finish building da world in da smallest amount of time, it's about whether mfs would really speed things up... I've made similar tests in the past, and my conclusion is that it's not worth it. Using a memory disk for /usr/obj doesn't

HP DL-360 Kernel Crashes on 6.2-R

2007-05-07 Thread Pat Wendorf
Hey all, I'm running 6.2R-p4 and I'm having some terrible problems with stability on HP-DL360 G4 and G5 hardware. We use these systems mostly for high volume postfix mail servers, and under heavy postfix queue load, the server will crash (sometimes within minutes, sometimes 12-14 hours after

Re: Socket leak (Was: Re: What triggers No Buffer Space) Available?

2007-05-07 Thread Oliver Fromme
Marc G. Fournier wrote: Now, that makes sense to me, I can understand that ... but, how would that look as far as netstat -nA shows? Or, would it? For example, I have: You should use -na to list all sockets, not -nA. mars# netstat -nA | grep c9655a20 c9655a20 stream 0 0

Re: FreeBSD vs Region Code DVDs

2007-05-07 Thread Oliver Fromme
Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: [...] Anyway, how can I tell cd(4) to give me more error output? How can I access the DVD at the bottom-most layer? Something line sending a Test Unit Ready command? Or checking if the drive recognizes an inserted medium? camcontrol tur will do that. Best

Re: mfs and buildworlds on da SunFire x4600

2007-05-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 07/05/07, Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mars G. Miro wrote: Actually, it's not about having to finish building da world in da smallest amount of time, it's about whether mfs would really speed things up... . . . By the way, please stop writing da instead of the. It looks

Re: mfs and buildworlds on da SunFire x4600

2007-05-07 Thread Mars G. Miro
On 5/8/07, Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mars G. Miro wrote: Actually, it's not about having to finish building da world in da smallest amount of time, it's about whether mfs would really speed things up... I've made similar tests in the past, and my conclusion is that it's not

Re: mfs and buildworlds on the SunFire x4600

2007-05-07 Thread Oliver Fromme
I took the liberty to s/da/the/g in your mail. Mars G. Miro wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: Mars G. Miro wrote: Actually, it's not about having to finish building the world in the smallest amount of time, it's about whether mfs would really speed things up... I've made similar

Re: mfs and buildworlds on the SunFire x4600

2007-05-07 Thread Mars G. Miro
On 5/8/07, Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I took the liberty to s/da/the/g in your mail. Mars G. Miro wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: Mars G. Miro wrote: Actually, it's not about having to finish building the world in the smallest amount of time, it's about whether mfs would

Re: mfs and buildworlds on the SunFire x4600

2007-05-07 Thread Oliver Fromme
Mars G. Miro wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: By the way, what are you actually trying to do? What is your goal? Do you need to reduce the buildworld time? as i've mentioned in my original email, does mfs speed up I/O stuff ? Sometimes it does. But most of the time, a real disk

Re: mfs and buildworlds on the SunFire x4600

2007-05-07 Thread Kip Macy
as i've mentioned in my original email, does mfs speed up I/O stuff ? there's been a lot of threads in teh past that a buildworld on mfs increases speed --- tho it might not be the appropriate test for high-end machines (speaking of w/c I just gots a T2000). buildworld on NFS or local disk on

Re: Socket leak (Was: Re: What triggers No Buffer Space) Available?

2007-05-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 07:01:02PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: Now, that makes sense to me, I can understand that ... but, how would that look as far as netstat -nA shows? Or, would it? For example, I have: You should use -na to list all sockets, not -nA.

Re: Socket leak (Was: Re: What triggers No Buffer Space) Available?

2007-05-07 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On Monday, May 07, 2007 19:01:02 +0200 Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I remember correctly, you wrote that 11k sockets are in use with 90 jails. That's about 120 sockets per jail, which isn't out of the ordinary. Of course it

Re: mfs and buildworlds on the SunFire x4600

2007-05-07 Thread Mars G. Miro
On 5/8/07, Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mars G. Miro wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: By the way, what are you actually trying to do? What is your goal? Do you need to reduce the buildworld time? as i've mentioned in my original email, does mfs speed up I/O stuff ? Sometimes

Re: mfs and buildworlds on the SunFire x4600

2007-05-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 11:45:12AM +0800, Mars G. Miro wrote: that or, does mfs speeding things up really work? remains to be seen ... Of course it does...even the fastest disk hardware on the market (well, as of a year ago) is several times slower than memory writing, and commodity disk