Re: Jailed Service contact IMAPS

2009-12-28 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Monday, December 28, 2009 3:43 PM -0500 Peter Fraser petros.fra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All I have two servers, one running apache and squirrelmail in a jail. Squirrelmail on this server is trying to contact dovecot running imaps on port 993 on another server and failing. When I try

Re: Regression with txcsum/rxcsum on vge(4) drivers on 8.0-Release

2010-01-15 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Friday, January 15, 2010 10:32 AM +0100 Olivier Cochard-Labbé oliv...@cochard.me wrote: Hi, I've just upgraded on of my server from 7.2 to 8.0-Release and meet a problem with the vge(4) drivers: All my SCP transferts didn't works since this upgrade: they close, after a random time,

Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-19 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Wednesday, January 20, 2010 1:16 AM +0100 O. Hartmann ohart...@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: This could end in a bad situation, where one process writes a files, say with some arbitrary stuff and another successing process is intended to read this file. even if the processes are run

Re: Multiple serial consoles via null modem cable

2010-01-22 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Friday, January 22, 2010 10:05 PM +0100 Nicolas Rachinsky fbsd-stabl...@ml.turing-complete.org wrote: * Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com [2010-01-19 23:46 -0800]: You cannot do something like where box1 COM1 is wired to box2 COM1, and depending on what box you're on doing the

Re: ntpd struggling to keep up - how to fix?

2010-02-11 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Thursday, February 11, 2010 10:49 PM +0100 Stefan Krueger stadtki...@gmx.de wrote: snip PS: I had a spare disk so I tried Linux on the same machine, and ntpd is running fine for 2 days without any problems; so I guess it's not a hw fault It is a HW fault. FreeBSD and Linux are

Re: More zfs benchmarks

2010-02-14 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Sunday, February 14, 2010 5:28 PM + Jonathan Belson j...@witchspace.com wrote: Hiya After reading some earlier threads about zfs performance, I decided to test my own server. I found the results rather surprising... You really need to test with at least 4GB of data, else

Re: Multi node storage, ZFS

2010-03-24 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Wednesday, March 24, 2010 9:20 AM -0700 Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Michal mic...@ionic.co.uk wrote: I wrote a really long e-mail but realised I could ask this question far far easier, if it doesn't make sense, the original e-mail is bellow

Re: Multi node storage, ZFS

2010-03-24 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Wednesday, March 24, 2010 5:12 PM + Michal mic...@ionic.co.uk wrote: If you were to do something like this, I'd make sure to have a fast local ZIL (log) device on the head node. That would reduce latency for writes, you might also do the same for reads. Then your bulk storage

Re: 8-STABLE freezes on UDP traffic (DNS), 7.x doesn't

2010-03-25 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Thursday, March 25, 2010 3:22 PM +0100 Attila Nagy b...@fsn.hu wrote: ... Both unbound and python accepts DNS requests, and it seems when 25% interrupt happens, only unbound is in *udp state, where it is 50%, both programs are in that state. Try turning of hardware TSO/checksum offload

Re: gmirror(8) rebuild speed

2010-04-22 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Thursday, April 22, 2010 6:59 PM +1000 Andrew Reilly arei...@bigpond.net.au wrote: On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 09:19:29AM +0200, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: I wonder if is possible to configure the gmirror rebuild speed. Neither I've found any related info in the net nor the man pages.

Re: vm.swap_reserved toooooo large?

2010-12-18 Thread Michael Loftis
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 8:28 AM, George Mamalakis mama...@eng.auth.gr wrote: where one can see that pid 1544 was killed before 2864, which is the process that caused all this mess. Yes, I know that I should use limits so as not to allow such things to happen, but on the other hand, if a

Re: Policy on static linking ?

2011-01-14 Thread Michael Loftis
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Pete French petefre...@ticketswitch.com wrote: I build code using static linking for deployment across a set of machines. For me this has a lot of advantages - I know that the code will run, no matter what the state of the ports is on the machine, and if there

Re: WANTED: good server tutorial

2011-03-21 Thread Michael Loftis
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Jason Hsu jhsu802...@jasonhsu.com wrote: I'm looking for a good step-by-step quick-and-dirty FreeBSD server tutorial for the current stable version.  Most of the tutorials I've seen are for outdated versions of FreeBSD. My setup is: Internet - Modem -

Re: LDAP authentication confusion

2013-07-15 Thread Michael Loftis
nss_ldap fulfills most of the get*ent calls, thus based on the bits of your configuration you've exposed I think you're ending up with that behavior and not using pam_ldap at all. Instead the authentication is happening via nsswitch fulfilling getpwent() call's (the passwd: files ldap line in

Re: FreeBSD LVS replacement

2013-07-22 Thread Michael Loftis
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 12:47 PM, dweimer dwei...@dweimer.net wrote: Perhaps CARP is what you are looking for http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/carp.html Not even remotely close to the same thing. LVS is a kernel level load balancer/director. Combined with some

Re: Multiple IP/subnet in jail, source address for connections

2015-08-24 Thread Michael Loftis
Normally when jails are added their IPs are created as normal aliases, so they'll get a /32 netmask when you don't specify. So Depending on how you're creating the jail you'll need to specify the netmask with the IP wherever you configure your jail. (You didn't mention if you're using ezjail or

Re: when the sshd hits the fan

2015-09-23 Thread Michael Loftis
Sendmail for one can hang for stupidly long times waiting in dead resolvers before allowing the system to continue booting. That's the most common thing, RC scripts hanging waiting on external resources while you're locked out simply because sshd starts ridiculously late. Very common problem. On

Re: Intel NVMe troubles?

2016-08-01 Thread Michael Loftis
FWIW I've had similar issues with Intel 750 PCIe NVMe drives when attempting to use 4K blocks on Linux with EXT4 on top of MD RAID1 (software mirror). I didn't dig much into because too many layers to reduce at the time but it looked like the drive misreported the number of blocks and a subsequent