Re: multicore processors gain

2011-01-07 Thread Benny Löfgren
On 2011-01-07 20.45, Benny LC6fgren wrote: Also, both tests were run with the MP kernel, so even the single-task test would probably utilize several kernels at times. *duh* Meant to say "...utilize several cores...", not kernels. /B -- internetlabbet.se / work: +46 8 551 124 80 / "

Re: multicore processors gain

2011-01-07 Thread Benny Löfgren
On 2011-01-07 19.54, Ted Unangst wrote: experiment with parallel ports building on a 64-way sparc64 T2 went. With 32 build jobs it looked like this: 0.8%Int 48.9%Sys 6.0%Usr 0.0%Nic 44.3%Idle around that all the time My understanding is that the T2 is closer to an 8-way machine. If we

Re: iostat and more than one core

2010-11-17 Thread Benny Löfgren
On 2010-11-17 18.23, Luis Useche wrote: Doing a small disk benchmark in my laptop with dd, I found that dd and iostats were reporting different numbers. To be precise, iostat was returning half of the MB/sec than dd (24.5 vs 49 MB/sec). Digging a bit on the iostat code, I realized that the "stru

Re: nfsv4?

2010-10-29 Thread Benny Löfgren
On 2010-10-29 11.28, Eric Furman wrote: On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 08:23 +0200, "Henning Brauer" * James A. Peltier [2010-10-28 20:23]: What it offers: Kerberos security, what again? selectable security level (-o sec=krb5/krb5i/krb5p), ha ha ha ha firewall friendly right And this huge infra

Re: laptop disk shows wierd contents when moved to external enclosure

2010-10-17 Thread Benny Löfgren
On 2010-10-17 12.57, Jonathan Thornburg wrote: Summary --- My primary laptop ("nitrogen") died, so I moved its disk to a backup laptop ("oxygen"). That laptop then died. :( I have now moved the former-nitrogen-disk to an external enclosure so that I can access my files via USB from still an

Re: Auto Logout Idle Users

2010-10-15 Thread Benny Löfgren
On 2010-10-15 17.13, Stephane Sezer wrote: On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:28:51 +0200 "Benny LC6fgren" wrote: On 2010-10-15 00.59, Brad Tilley wrote: On 10/14/2010 06:45 PM, Ben Niccum wrote: I thought about doing that too. I need to test it more to see what happens when ksh is the shell and the use

Re: Auto Logout Idle Users

2010-10-15 Thread Benny Löfgren
On 2010-10-15 00.59, Brad Tilley wrote: On 10/14/2010 06:45 PM, Ben Niccum wrote: I thought about doing that too. I need to test it more to see what happens when ksh is the shell and the user executes csh manually. I suppose ksh will still honor TMOUT in that case. Brad Don't mean to complicate

Re: computer hangs after varying amount of data is received from network via ssh

2010-10-13 Thread Benny Löfgren
Robert wrote: On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:55:18 -0400 Ted Unangst wrote: can be done about it, and 10 year old quirky PC hardware doesn't attract a of interest... As long as it's on [1] I hope it does? I guess I'm not the only one who uses a Pentium 4 (or older stuff) for firewalls and other syste

Re: Web hosting, restrict user to access only his folder

2010-08-22 Thread Benny Löfgren
Chris Cappuccio wrote: Benny L??fgren [bl-li...@lofgren.biz] wrote: (I've long wished for a privsep apache with separate chroot():s for every virtual domain... one of these days I'm gonna have to look into it, but I suppose it's not trivial to implement or someone would have done it by now. :-)

Re: Web hosting, restrict user to access only his folder

2010-08-13 Thread Benny Löfgren
Daniel Ouellet wrote: i used ftpd (-4Dln) for users to upload their website(with /etc/ftpchroot configured). My problem, user can see content of others. For example, 2ndxx can update his folder but he can see also the content of "firstxx" folder. How can i restrict that ? Well, you could setu

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Benny Löfgren
Steve Shockley wrote: On 8/13/2010 2:55 AM, open...@e-solutions.re wrote: Is there someone to advice me about the choice of the MTA ? I've used Courier-MTA on OpenBSD for a few years. I think it's a good choice if you want an all-in-one package but you don't think your mail server should co

Re: usb memory stick failing

2010-07-09 Thread Benny Löfgren
patrick keshishian wrote: I recently attempted an installation from a usb memory stick, where installation of xfont47.tgz failed consistently due to "crc error"[0]. The stick was prepared following steps from OBSD FAQ[1]. I recopied xfont47.tgz file to the stick, and confirmed (or so I thought)

Re: Ordering CDs in Europe becoming increasingly difficult

2010-07-08 Thread Benny Löfgren
Jona Joachim wrote: Hi, I've been buying every CD release over the last couple of years. I purchased 4.6 from openbsdeurope.com and it was just as comfortable as with Wim the years before. However I haven't purchased 4.7 yet because the ordering involves too much hassle. openbsdeurope.com now req

Re: strangely slow OpenBSD server connection

2010-05-10 Thread Benny Löfgren
Andreas Gerdd wrote: Nothing more than a base OpenBSD 4.6 & stock Apache & and PHP. My problem is, whenever i download a file from my server over HTTP, the MAXIMUM speed i can reach is: < ~80 KB/s. This is not because of my own internet connection, i've a 8 Mbit internet line. Not because of my s

Re: cd arrived in Italy, and in Sweden too

2010-05-10 Thread Benny Löfgren
matteo filippetto wrote: Hi all, today cd arrived in Italy ...and mine came today as well, together with two mugs and two t-shirts that my girlfriend immediately banned from use in public amongst non-nerds. :-) Thanks, folks. /B -- internetlabbet.se / work: +46 8 551 124 80 /

Re: State of multiprocessing and multithreading in OpenBSD

2010-05-05 Thread Benny Löfgren
Jan Stary wrote: On May 04 22:15:09, Juan Miscaro wrote: What is the current state of multiprocessing and multithreading in OpenBSD? Also, what applications are multithreaded? In particular, someone told me that pf is "garbage" because it is not multithreaded? What truth is there to this? Und

Re: Spamd, gmail and aol...

2006-04-07 Thread Benny Löfgren
Jeff Ross wrote: Never had any trouble with gmail once the various servers were whitelisted. Are you putting your whitelist after Bob Beck's list in spamd.conf? After your own blacklist? From my spamd.conf all:\ :china:korea:blacklist:beck:whitelist Not that it's likely to have any bear