Benchmarking server app on FreeBSD

1999-07-16 Thread Ken Bolingbroke
e SYN attack protection for these tests? Or is it something else limiting FreeBSD? For reference, the FreeBSD server has a custom kernel compiles with MAXUSERS set to 512, and other performance enhancements I've gleaned off these lists. Thanks, Ken Bolingbroke hac...@bolingbroke.com

FreeBSD 2.2.7

1999-09-03 Thread Ken Bolingbroke
Is there any place someone can download and install FreeBSD 2.2.7? Ken Bolingbroke hack...@bolingbroke.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Biometric security?

2001-01-23 Thread Ken Bolingbroke
Has anyone gotten any biometric security devices to work with FreeBSD? I'm particularly interested in something like a fingerprint scanner that I could use to authenticate logins or disable my password protected screensaver rather than typing in my password all the time... Ken To Unsubscribe

FreeBSD on S/390?

2001-02-28 Thread Ken Bolingbroke
Long shot, probably, but I've got a bunch of virtual machines on an IBM S/390 mainframe, and while we're running SuSE Linux on most of them, on a whim I tossed out the idea of running FreeBSD on one of them, and to my surprise, it was taken seriously. So, has anyone done any work with getting Fr

Re: Amount of free memory available in system?

2002-01-12 Thread Ken Bolingbroke
On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Nate Williams wrote: > I was hoping to get do 'sysctl foo.bar.bletch' to tell me information. From: http://people.freebsd.org/~adrian/sysctl.descriptions hw.physmem: Physical memory in system hw.usermem: Physical memory avaliable to user processes Ke

Re: Amount of free memory available in system?

2002-01-12 Thread Ken Bolingbroke
Pardon me, I just realized I misread the original question. Never mind. Ken Bolingbroke [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Ken Bolingbroke wrote: > > > On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Nate Williams wrote: > > > I was hoping to get do 'sysctl foo.bar.bletch' to tell me

Benchmarking server app on FreeBSD

1999-07-16 Thread Ken Bolingbroke
e SYN attack protection for these tests? Or is it something else limiting FreeBSD? For reference, the FreeBSD server has a custom kernel compiles with MAXUSERS set to 512, and other performance enhancements I've gleaned off these lists. Thanks, Ken Bolingbroke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubs

FreeBSD 2.2.7

1999-09-03 Thread Ken Bolingbroke
Is there any place someone can download and install FreeBSD 2.2.7? Ken Bolingbroke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Practical limit for number of TCP connections?

1999-12-18 Thread Ken Bolingbroke
as described above, let me know. I'd be very interested in seeing this, if you could post a URL perhaps? Thanks, Ken Bolingbroke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Posix Threads

1999-12-26 Thread Ken Bolingbroke
it needs, or just pthread_join() to wait until the secondary thread terminates. Ken Bolingbroke [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, Steffen Merkel wrote: > Hello, > > I'm learning C now for some weeks and today I wanted to program > POSIX threads. Unfortunately my source

Re: Sorry, but another thread problem!

1999-12-29 Thread Ken Bolingbroke
s thread-safe should solve that problem. Ken Bolingbroke [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Steffen Merkel wrote: > Hello, > > first let me thank all of you for all your great help and the dozens > of responses I got. > Unfortunately I have a very strange problem in a multi

Re: "very dangerously dedicated mode" is

2000-01-18 Thread Ken Bolingbroke
I've always been able to 'fix' dangerously dedicated IDE disks by running DOS's fdisk with the /mbr switch. That overwrites the MBR, and at least puts it back into a state friendly with other operating systems... Ken Bolingbroke [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 15 Jan 2000