Orange as a landline ISP

2009-02-02 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
I seriously considering Orange's offer of a combo package of some sort of box, cell phone air time and 2.5mbit Internet. From what I understand the Internet part is over your (not included) cable modem or aDSL line. Does anyone have it? Or have Orange as an ISP? Are they Linux friendly? I

Re: [YBA] TCP connection rate

2009-02-02 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: Dear list members, What limits the rate that the Linux kernel TCP stack can accept new connections? How is that rate related to the rate that the application listening on a port can handle the connections? That is, if I try to connect and get ECONNREFUSED is there

Re: [YBA] TCP connection rate

2009-02-02 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
Hi Gilad, Thanks. The problem is that the connections are exceedingly short-lived. By the time I type in netstat -na already 1000 of them have come and gone. - yba On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:29:23 +0200 From: Gilad Ben-Yossef

Fw: Re: PAC 207 Webcam

2009-02-02 Thread Moshe Brace using Yahoo
[r...@localhost ~]# lsusb Bus 008 Device 002: ID 03eb:3301 Atmel Corp. at433301 4-port Hub Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Bus 002 Device 002: ID 04a9:2216 Canon, Inc. Canoscan3200F Bus 002 Device 005: ID 1307:0165 Transcend Information, Inc. Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Bus 007 Device

Re: Fw: Re: PAC 207 Webcam

2009-02-02 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 05:33:42PM +, Moshe Brace using Yahoo wrote: [r...@localhost ~]# lsusb Bus 007 Device 002: ID 093a:2468 Pixart Imaging, Inc. Easy Snap Snake Eye Webcam Is it gspca or qc-usb? The latter, I think. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is

JOB OFFER: NDS is looking for Linux/UNIX sysadmin

2009-02-02 Thread Vitaly Karasik
Wanted: LINUX/UNIX System Administrator. For a challenging position of users’ support, SW and HW installation, troubleshooting on different levels Requirements: At least 5 years experience in LINUX (RedHat) system administration; LINUX expertise in high level, RHCE - advantage; Experience in

Re: [YBA] TCP connection rate

2009-02-02 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
Hi Marc, The .NET client has a bug that prevents use of persistent MySQL connections. The application is already cached up the wazoo. Where would I look in the kernel to see if it is rejecting the connections as opposed to MySQL? Or is this just unlikely given that the hardware is fairly

[YBA] TCP connection rate

2009-02-02 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
Dear list members, What limits the rate that the Linux kernel TCP stack can accept new connections? How is that rate related to the rate that the application listening on a port can handle the connections? That is, if I try to connect and get ECONNREFUSED is there a way for me to know if I got

Re: ptrace in production systems

2009-02-02 Thread Oron Peled
On Sunday, 1 בFebruary 2009, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Oron Peled wrote: On Sunday, 1 בFebruary 2009, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Then again, it is a daemon. It has no parent (well, init is its parent). It's not clear from your description (or your replies to other posters) why you

Re: [YBA] TCP connection rate

2009-02-02 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Just check what the value of the backlog parameter is and then use netstat to watch the application connections when you get ECONNREFUSED error. If the number of connections in netstat is equal (or at least very close to) the backlog parameter then it's the backlog

Re: ptrace in production systems

2009-02-02 Thread Valery Reznic
The second point is that I don't need advice about how it can be done. I can think of three or four ways not mentioned here at all. They have disadvantages in relation to what I implemented, mostly in how long it takes to figure out that the daemon has, indeed, finished, and in how much