Re: FreeBSD on Intel Server Board SE7501WV2

2003-09-11 Thread Lanny Baron
Hi, Personally, Linksys and netgear are pure grade 1 childrens toys. Or pure adulterated CRAP. If you want performance use Intel Pro/1000 Server NICs If you are going to use Fibre, check the hardware list. We use QLogic. Mind you we build the Cadillac of PC Servers :) Regards, Lanny Richard you

ASUS P4P8x with Intel 865P chipset Boot problems

2003-09-11 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
I have just aquired a few systems based around ASUS P4P8x motherboard with Intel 865P chipset. Attempt to install both 5.1-R and 4.8-20030810 snap have failed. I've turned off every onboard device in the BIOS that is possible. During the install of 5.1 the system hangs at acpi_cpu0: throttling e

help with sendfile code

2003-09-11 Thread vijay singh
Hello hackers. What would be the FreeBSD 2.1 equivalent of the following sendfile code from uipc_syscalls.c for (off = uap->offset; ; off += xfsize, sbytes += xfsize) { vm_pindex_t pindex; vm_offset_t pgoff; pindex = OFF_TO_IDX(off); retry_l

Re: flush on close

2003-09-11 Thread Bruce Evans
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Eno Thereska wrote: > In FreeBSD 4.4, I am noticing a huge number of calls > to ffs_fsync() (in /sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_vnops.c) > when running a benchmark like Postmark. > > ffs_fsync() flushes all dirty buffers with an open file > to disk. Normally this function would be called > e

Re: flush on close

2003-09-11 Thread Eno Thereska
Doung, Thanks for the quick reply. I am using the default options (noasync, which according to the man pages means that metadata I/O should be done synchronously, while data I/O is asynchronous). Unfortunately, with any of these options (nosync, async or using soft updates), I think the flush-on-

Re: flush on close

2003-09-11 Thread Doug White
Remove -fs. Don't crosspost, please. On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Eno Thereska wrote: > In FreeBSD 4.4, I am noticing a huge number of calls > to ffs_fsync() (in /sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_vnops.c) > when running a benchmark like Postmark. Were you using softupdates, or the sync or async mount options? I believe

Re: FreeBSD on Intel Server Board SE7501WV2

2003-09-11 Thread Richard Sharpe
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Yaoping Ruan wrote: > Hello, > > We plan to install FreeBSD on an Intel Server Board SE7501WV2 with 1 XEON > 2.4GHz CPU, 4GB PC2100 DDR memory, and a Seagate 120GB ATA 7200RPM > harddisk, and use the server box for high demand SpecWeb99 tests. Does > anyone have any experienc

FreeBSD on Intel Server Board SE7501WV2

2003-09-11 Thread Yaoping Ruan
Hello, We plan to install FreeBSD on an Intel Server Board SE7501WV2 with 1 XEON 2.4GHz CPU, 4GB PC2100 DDR memory, and a Seagate 120GB ATA 7200RPM harddisk, and use the server box for high demand SpecWeb99 tests. Does anyone have any experience on this Server Board, and see any compatibility prob

Re: Booting a machine over the network without pxe.

2003-09-11 Thread omestre
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > boot.netif.hostname already exists as kern.hostname. Why create yet > another knob for the same value? I have used the structures that already exists.. for bootp or pxe purposes... Maybe you did not understand my patch (terrible english :), but I'm