Re: A New FreeBSD Server

2006-06-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
This belongs on -questions, not -hackers at this point. Please wrap your lines before 80 columns. On Mon, 2006-Jun-26 19:16:35 -0400, Bob Richards wrote: On Boot, the >boot-loader complained bitterly "Can't find a Kernel to boot", and >dropped me to an "OK" prompt. Damn says I! Murpheys law in eff

Re: A New FreeBSD Server

2006-06-26 Thread Bob Richards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wow! First I want to thank all of you who responded for the great information! As I read it all, I became more and more excited about my decision to switch to FreeBsd! And became more and more impatient with US Postal Mail! So! I went and downloade

Re: A New FreeBSD Server

2006-06-26 Thread Ed Maste
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 10:10:28AM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dmitry Morozovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Mike Meyer wrote: > > MM> The other constraint on swap is that if you want the system to save a > > MM> core dump if it panics, you need a dev

Re: A New FreeBSD Server

2006-06-26 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dmitry Morozovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Mike Meyer wrote: > MM> The other constraint on swap is that if you want the system to save a > MM> core dump if it panics, you need a device to dump on that's 64Kb > MM> bigger than ram. That's one device,

Re: A New FreeBSD Server

2006-06-26 Thread Dmitry Morozovsky
On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Mike Meyer wrote: MM> The other constraint on swap is that if you want the system to save a MM> core dump if it panics, you need a device to dump on that's 64Kb MM> bigger than ram. That's one device, not all of swap. This is not quite true, as there always are some unused me

Re: A New FreeBSD Server

2006-06-25 Thread Robert Watson
On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Mike Meyer wrote: Swap drive, should probably be a piece of one of the 17GB drives (NO RAID) the Box has 500MB ram.. Why not RAID your swap? The extra reliability might not be worth very much, but the extra performance couldn't hurt - unless you don't plan on swappin

Re: A New FreeBSD Server

2006-06-25 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Avleen Vig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 03:32:26PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: : > Why not RAID your swap? The extra reliability might not be worth very : > much, but the extra performance couldn't hurt - unless you don't plan : > on

Re: A New FreeBSD Server

2006-06-24 Thread Avleen Vig
On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 03:32:26PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: > Why not RAID your swap? The extra reliability might not be worth very > much, but the extra performance couldn't hurt - unless you don't plan > on swapping at all. This is enough of a win that the swap subsystem > will interleave swap us

Re: A New FreeBSD Server

2006-06-24 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bob Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi Folks: > > This is my first post here. I believe it is the correct list for my > questions. If not, > please excuse me and direct me to the proper list. > > I have been using

Re: A New FreeBSD Server

2006-06-24 Thread Eric Anderson
Bob Richards wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Folks: This is my first post here. I believe it is the correct list for my questions. If not, please excuse me and direct me to the proper list. I have been using Linux as my WorkStation since V0.98 Kernel, so I know a bit

A New FreeBSD Server

2006-06-24 Thread Bob Richards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Folks: This is my first post here. I believe it is the correct list for my questions. If not, please excuse me and direct me to the proper list. I have been using Linux as my WorkStation since V0.98 Kernel, so I know a bit about NIX's I am givin