poll() timing problems?

2002-03-15 Thread Markus Stumpf
We are experiencing some problems which I think *could* be related to timeout problems with poll(). 1) mysql-3.23.48 + FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE (also happens with prior mysql releases) CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (796.54-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x683

Re: dump(8) race conditions?

2002-02-07 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 11:54:02AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > Dump should ideally be run on an unmounted filesystem. The next best > is to create a snapshot ( /usr/src/sys/ufs/ffs/README.snapshot ) and > dump that. True. But on systems that host e.g. mailservers or webservers its unacceptable to

dump(8) race conditions?

2002-02-07 Thread Markus Stumpf
We use amanda and dump for backups. Some hosts have rather busy disks even during non prime time hours when backup is run. >From time to time amanda reports dump(8) errors like the following: sendbackup: info end | DUMP: Date of this level 5 dump: Wed Feb 6 01:53:12 2002 | DUMP: Date of las

3.4 - large file - seek problems

2000-03-23 Thread Markus Stumpf
This is FreeBSD 3.4 Hmmm ... I've thought files larger than 2 GB are supported since around 2.2.5. Now I have a logfile of a apache server that is -rw-rw-r-- 1 rootwheel 2412880509 Mar 23 22:05 access.http.23-01 If I do $ less access.http.23-01 Cannot seek to that file positi

Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for OpenGL/Mesa)

1999-09-09 Thread Markus Stumpf
sts/freebsd/net\ /home/maex/Maildir/lists/freebsd/scsi \ /home/maex/Maildir/lists/freebsd/stable # freebsd-scsi folder-hook lists/freebsd/scsi \ 'my_hdr From: "Markus Stumpf&

Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for OpenGL/Mesa)

1999-09-09 Thread Markus Stumpf
/home/maex/Maildir/lists/freebsd/scsi \ /home/maex/Maildir/lists/freebsd/stable # freebsd-scsi folder-hook lists/freebsd/scsi \ 'my_hdr From: "Markus Stumpf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>'

Re: Proposal: Add generic username for 3rd-party MTA's

1999-09-02 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 11:42:58AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > The numeric ID is not important. Neither is the name. So long as there's > something that people maintaining ports can use. I've followed Solaris' > lead on the choice of name, ``smtp''. The numeric id IS important. How do you think

Re: Proposal: Add generic username for 3rd-party MTA's

1999-09-02 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 11:42:58AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > The numeric ID is not important. Neither is the name. So long as there's > something that people maintaining ports can use. I've followed Solaris' > lead on the choice of name, ``smtp''. The numeric id IS important. How do you think

Re: Proposal: Add generic username for 3rd-party MTA's

1999-09-01 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 03:56:10PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > If we do this, I hope a more obvious name is chosen; something like > "mailman" might be a start. Or "mailperson", or "postperson", or > whatever. "mta" just feels a little obscure. May I vote for NO more predefined uids/gids at all

Re: Proposal: Add generic username for 3rd-party MTA's

1999-09-01 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 03:56:10PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > If we do this, I hope a more obvious name is chosen; something like > "mailman" might be a start. Or "mailperson", or "postperson", or > whatever. "mta" just feels a little obscure. May I vote for NO more predefined uids/gids at al

Re: Solution for mail pseudo-users?

1999-08-04 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 02:22:17PM -0700, Alex Zepeda wrote: > > Also you'll have to run the script to allow users to change passwords as > > "root", which you probably will NOT want to do (same for adding/ > > deleting/changing users) > > So with your setup, any user can add/delete/modify existi

Re: Solution for mail pseudo-users?

1999-08-04 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 02:22:17PM -0700, Alex Zepeda wrote: > > Also you'll have to run the script to allow users to change passwords as > > "root", which you probably will NOT want to do (same for adding/ > > deleting/changing users) > > So with your setup, any user can add/delete/modify exist

Re: Solution for mail pseudo-users?

1999-08-03 Thread Markus Stumpf
I would recommend qmail (http://www.qmail.org/). It has a VERY modular structure, where you e.g. can easily substitue the "checkpassword" module with a e.g. perl script doing the lookups. Nothing else needs to be patched/changed and the described scenario can be accomplished with standard qmail f

Re: Solution for mail pseudo-users?

1999-08-03 Thread Markus Stumpf
I would recommend qmail (http://www.qmail.org/). It has a VERY modular structure, where you e.g. can easily substitue the "checkpassword" module with a e.g. perl script doing the lookups. Nothing else needs to be patched/changed and the described scenario can be accomplished with standard qmail

Re: Microsoft performance (was: ...)

1999-06-24 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 01:23:19PM +0930, Mark Newton wrote: > > I've found FreeBSD to outperform NT-anything in any task you throw at the > > machine from web service to Samba for file and print service for PCs > > running Windows. > > Granted. Perhaps we're seeing an artifact of NT's develo

2.2.7 + NBUF + NMBCLUSTERS

1999-06-22 Thread Markus Stumpf
Hoi folx, I have a 2.2.7 system that runs out of mbuf clusters. maxuser 64 I've raised options NMBCLUSTERS=6144 options NBUF=3072 and that made it for a while. However the system is running a chatserver and a webserver of a customer and now it hits me again. Are there any pro