Re: jail cpu/memory resource limits question

2007-04-14 Thread Marc G. Fournier
inefficient (compared to FreeVPS for example) > and with over 1000 processes it creates noticable overhead. Is this true? Unless I'm missing something, these aren't included *in* FreeBSD at this time, but are only distributed as patches to it ... - Marc G. Fournier

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-27 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sun, 27 May 2001, Doug Barton wrote: > Andrew Reilly wrote: > > > It is quite concievable that a performance tweak to the IMAP > > server could involve a header cache in a relational database of > > some sort, and that would certainly contain references to the > > individual files, which would

Re: Idea about "skeleton jail"

2005-02-01 Thread Marc G. Fournier
stion: Is this mean we can have init(8) running in jail? alias reboot 'kill -TERM -1' alias shutdown 'kill -TERM -1' ? Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!:

Re: Status of unionfs in -STABLE

2003-11-09 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > Hi there, > > Recently I've began to consider making some use of unionfs in > (semi-)production environment. Can someone aware of its current status > in -STABLE comment a bit on this subject? I use it *quite* extensively on all my production serve

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-09 Thread Marc G. Fournier
. With 2 or 3 floppies > it is awfully slow, i have done once and will never do it again. I still use floppies to do my installs, and find getting the base system up over FTP to generally take <30minutes *shrug* Faster, IMHO, then downloading the ISO and burning it to a CD .. Marc G. Four

Re: Kernel Virtual Address Space

2004-01-29 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-O -mpentium -pipe -DKVA_PAGES=512 we do it in make.conf, since doing it into the kernel config itself doesn't propogate to various userland binaries that also need to know of the change ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PR

Re: Subversion/CVS experiment summary

2004-02-12 Thread Marc G. Fournier
### note that this was pre-0.34, but since its still "under development", there is always the chance that this happens again ... a load of the system took 49hrs, I believe was mentioned ... how long to dump/reload the system once its already "in subvsersion&qu

How do inodes work?

2004-05-15 Thread Marc G. Fournier
119837208 101467120 878311292% 7460715 7587989 50% so I take there are 'gaps' in the inode list? it doesn't re-use freed ones but keeps climbing until maybe it rolls around or something? Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org

fsck: % done possible?

2004-05-16 Thread Marc G. Fournier
right now, my fsck is reporting: ZERO LENGTH DIR I=9222075 OWNER=root MODE=40755 SIZE=0 MTIME=May 10 17:33 2004 CLEAR? yes any way of findign out what the max I= will be, so that one can know how close to the end things are? Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http

Re: fsck: % done possible?

2004-05-16 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sun, 16 May 2004, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (May 16), Marc G. Fournier said: > > > > right now, my fsck is reporting: > > > > ZERO LENGTH DIR I=9222075 OWNER=root MODE=40755 > > SIZE=0 MTIME=May 10 17:33 2004 > > CLEAR? yes > > >

Re: fsck: % done possible?

2004-05-16 Thread Marc G. Fournier
ed, the current phase number and phase- specific progress information. Wish I had known that yesterday ... :( On Sun, 16 May 2004, Julian Elischer wrote: > how about just hitting ^T? > > > On Sun, 16 May 2004, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > > > right now, my fsck is re

Re: Jail Replication

2003-02-12 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Anders Nordby wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 09:38:19PM -0400, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > >>The easiest way is to set the jail up as a file using vnconfig. > > there are various software packages that will not work in a vnconfig > > environment ... I tried using

Re: 4.8-stable kernel panic

2003-09-14 Thread Marc G. Fournier
and the problem is/was? On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > It's been almost a month now since I posted the original message on the > list and I'm wondering about the progress on resolving this problem. > > I still can reproduce the panics after cvs-supping to RELENG_4 ~ 2

Re: [SAtalk] Partial analysis of FreeBSD/spamass-milter hang ...

2002-02-13 Thread Marc G. Fournier
s is either a > BSD bug or a perl-on-BSD bug, I think. There might be a way to work > around it though -- the trick would be to find some other forking tcp > daemon which does work... > > C > > On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 19:07, Marc G. Fournier wrote: >

4.5-STABLE panicks ... KVA_PAGES the solution?

2002-04-19 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Morning ... I have a server with the following specs from DMESG: Copyright (c) 1992-2002 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE #7: Fri Apr

Re: 4.5-RELEASE generic kernel crashing on sysctl -a

2002-05-16 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Thu, 16 May 2002, Gautham Ganapathy wrote: > Hi > > I had posted this sometime back, but didn't receive much feedback > > After installing 4.5-RELEASE, (BSD Mall Feb 2002 CD), when I ran > 'sysctl -a', the kernel crashed with the foll message. > > Fault trap 12: page fault while in kernel mo

Re: reboot your own jail ?

2002-05-16 Thread Marc G. Fournier
web interface that is password protected that does: ssh root@ kill -TERM -1 On Thu, 16 May 2002, Patrick Thomas wrote: > > currently I reboot jails with this process: > > 1. someone logs into the jail and runs `kill -KILL -1` > 2. someone logs onto the BASE mach

Re: reboot your own jail ?

2002-05-16 Thread Marc G. Fournier
water ... On Thu, 16 May 2002, Patrick Thomas wrote: > > why -TERM ? the jail man page recommends -KILL ... just curious... > > On Thu, 16 May 2002, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > > > web interface that is password protected that does: > > > > ssh root@ kill

How to dump a 4gig system on panic ?

2002-05-16 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Evening all ... I have a 4gig Dual CPU system that is giving me kernel panic's ... Doug White suggested getting a trace, but, alas, not figuring I'd ever need to do such, my swap looks like: jupiter# pstat -s Device 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Type /dev/amrd0s1b

Re: How to dump a 4gig system on panic ?

2002-05-17 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Oh, I like the netdump one ... I have a machine sitting right beside this one that I can use to dump to ... has anyone thought to include this as a 'standard' sort of thing with FreeBSD? So that it keeps up with the current code? On Fri, 17 May 2002, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > There are 3 t

Re: How to dump a 4gig system on panic ?

2002-05-17 Thread Marc G. Fournier
k that I'd like to test with before I try it on "the real thing", if at all possible? On Fri, 17 May 2002, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Marc G. Fournier writes: > > > > Oh, I like the netdump one ... I have a machine sitting right beside this > > one that I can

Re: How to dump a 4gig system on panic ?

2002-05-17 Thread Marc G. Fournier
. On the 'dump server', a vmcore gets created, but its zero length ... thoughts? On Fri, 17 May 2002, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Marc G. Fournier writes: > > > > Well, downloaded the files (a .tar.gz would be nice? *grin*) and the > > client built perfect

Re: How to dump a 4gig system on panic ?

2002-05-18 Thread Marc G. Fournier
wrote: > > Marc G. Fournier writes: > > > > Okay, seem to be about halfway there ... client kldload's no problem, > > server runs ... do a ctl-alt-esc to get into DDB and type panic, and it > > gives a message that its looking for the server and it finds it on t

Re: Security of a JAIL UDP patch

2002-09-27 Thread Marc G. Fournier
U, named currently does work within a jail ... I run several at the moment ... On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Martin Matuska wrote: > I would like to ask which aspects has this patch on security of a jailed > environment. > This patch enables the use of named or ircd in jails. > > --- in_pcb.c.old

Re: I'm leaving the project

2002-12-17 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > : > :Matt Dillon wrote: > :> Thanks to my dear friend Warner Losh. I've decided to leave FreeBSD and > :> flame in another project. Maybe I could join OpenBSD, the seem to share > :> my views on how to deal with other people. > :> > :> I hereby give m

Squid under FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE ...

1999-10-07 Thread Marc G. Fournier
processes - didn't do this, since am using them This document can be found at http://bakeoff.ircache.net ... Comments/ideas on how to improve things? Thanks... Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems Administrator