On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 7:08 PM, PeerCorps Trust Fund <[email protected]> wrote: > I just wanted to take the opportunity update a previous post that I made to > the > list concerning a swap_pager concern. It isn't an issue at all but the fault > of my > own ignorance and hardware limits. > > The external drive in question was simply not pulling enough power from the > USB port of the laptop. This was likely resulting in a stalled drive when > anything > substantial was being copied to it. > > This has since been solved by connecting the drive first to an externally > powered > USB hub. So, if there is anyone else out there having a similar issue, trying > this > seems to do the trick. Alternatively, just use a drive that is powered > externally. > > Everything works beautifully now and this low cost experiment for a simple > file > server will find a home in a school classroom next year.
In Tanzania? FreeBSD had a writeup about a set of PCBSD machines installed in Nigeria IIRC. A blog post or other writeup to link on dragonflybsd.org would surely be nice.
