ZFS on root and "find" performance

2011-06-23 Thread Andrew Moran
Is anyone else running zfs on root and running into very slow finds? The /etc/periodic/daily/450.status-security can take over a noisy HD thrashing hour to finish, the culprit being the find that crawls the filesystem. I'm hoping there is some I'm not sure if there if some simple zfs tuning I

Re: msk0 interface stops working when downloading

2011-03-28 Thread Andrew Moran
To close the loop on this, I upgraded the latest freebsd current (8.2) and it now seems to work with the integrated chip.Huzzah. --Andy On Dec 2, 2010, at 10:10 PM, Andrew Moran wrote: > Good to know about the GB switch vs 100MB switch. > > But rather than downgrade my switc

Re: Upgrading FreeBSd when using a zfs-only installation?

2011-03-13 Thread Andrew Moran
I have successfully upgraded form FreeBSD 8.1 to FreeBSD 8.2. Here were my steps: cvsup /root/stable-supfile cd /usr/src make buildworld make buildkernel make installkernel shutdown -r now *select single user mode* mount -u / zfs mount -a mergemaster -p make installworld mergemaster gpart b

Upgrading FreeBSd when using a zfs-only installation?

2011-03-13 Thread Andrew Moran
Hallo, I switched my system over to using a ZFS on root setup in 8.1. I want to upgrade it to 8.2. Is there any changes to the buildworld/buildkernel/installworld/installkernel/mergemaster routine? The only thing I found via google was this: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?23,178

Re: msk0 interface stops working when downloading

2010-12-02 Thread Andrew Moran
l Message- > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of John Baldwin > Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 8:54 AM > To: freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org > Cc: Andrew Moran; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: msk0 i

msk0 interface stops working when downloading

2010-11-23 Thread Andrew Moran
Hey guys, After banging my head against this for a few hours, I've decided to ask for help. I installed FreeBSD 8.1 amd64 on a Shuttle J1 4100 system (tech specs here http://us.shuttle.com/J1_4100.aspx). I installed from DVD and the install went fine. I notice when I pkg_add -r anythin

Re: Booting freebsd 7.1 from Firewire or USB2 drive

2009-03-17 Thread Andrew Moran
hold down option while booting (that normally shows all bootable drives). I was hoping if anyone has done this for some pointers. --Andy On Mar 17, 2009, at 3:51 PM, Steve Bertrand wrote: Andrew Moran wrote: Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone had any success in installing FreeBSD 7.1

Booting freebsd 7.1 from Firewire or USB2 drive

2009-03-17 Thread Andrew Moran
Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone had any success in installing FreeBSD 7.1 on a USB2 or Firewire 800 drive connected to an intel Mac Mini and successfully booting off of it? --Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fr

Re: SpamAssassin/Perl eating enormous amounts of memory?

2009-03-04 Thread Andrew Moran
On Mar 3, 2009, at 12:31 PM, Mel wrote: On Tuesday 03 March 2009 07:26:02 Andrew Moran wrote: Ok sadly that didn't seem to do much: celebrian# cat /boot/loader.conf kern.maxdsiz="8G" kern.defdsiz="4G" celebrian# Can you show limits -H -d? [r...@celebrian

Re: SpamAssassin/Perl eating enormous amounts of memory?

2009-03-03 Thread Andrew Moran
On Mar 3, 2009, at 8:01 AM, Andrew Moran wrote: In Mar 3, 2009, at 7:40 AM, Mel wrote: On Monday 02 March 2009 16:21:53 Andrew Moran wrote: What's even weirder is that the process gets that far. Did you play with kern.maxdsiz loader tuneable? If so, set it lower, so you can at least

Re: SpamAssassin/Perl eating enormous amounts of memory?

2009-03-03 Thread Andrew Moran
In Mar 3, 2009, at 7:40 AM, Mel wrote: On Monday 02 March 2009 16:21:53 Andrew Moran wrote: What's even weirder is that the process gets that far. Did you play with kern.maxdsiz loader tuneable? If so, set it lower, so you can at least have the machine in a usable state at all time

Re: SpamAssassin/Perl eating enormous amounts of memory?

2009-03-02 Thread Andrew Moran
On Mar 2, 2009, at 3:39 PM, Mel wrote: This is hard to debug, but I'd first toggle the PERL_MALLOC option in the configuration dialog for the perl port. If this doesn't solve the problem, then you'd have to get a ktrace to get some indication of what is allocating the memory. Thank yo

SpamAssassin/Perl eating enormous amounts of memory?

2009-03-01 Thread Andrew Moran
Hey guys, After having lots of problems with memory and 7.1/ZFS, I first switched everything to 64-bit (amd64), and then I had a new problem, so I eventually gave up and switched back to UFS (saying on amd64 distro/ports), but I'm still having memory issues. My current one is that SpamAss

Updating 7.1 kernel using zfs root

2009-02-27 Thread Andrew Moran
Hey guys, I'm currently running on FreeBSD 7.1 AMD64 using a ZFS filesystem, but my /boot folder is linked to a UFS filesytem (/bootdir). I set it up following the instructions here: http://www.ish.com.au/solutions/articles/freebsdzfs In a nut shell: Install a minimal FreeBSd 7.1 fr

Re: Upgrade from FreeBSD 7.1/i386 to FreeBSD 7.1/AMD64?

2009-02-26 Thread Andrew Moran
On Feb 23, 2009, at 1:32 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Feb 23), Andrew Moran said: I have 8 gigs of memory in this system, and I decided go to the ZFS route, and am now getting kernel panics about kmem exhaustion. I know there are some tweaks I can do to help alleviate these

Re: Upgrade from FreeBSD 7.1/i386 to FreeBSD 7.1/AMD64?

2009-02-23 Thread Andrew Moran
x27;t need the ports to be 64-bit, but they SHOULD run just fine without recompiling, yes? --Andy On Feb 23, 2009, at 12:05 PM, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:30:10AM -0800, Andrew Moran wrote: I installed the i386 distro on my Core 2 Duo instead of AMD64 and now I want to s

Upgrade from FreeBSD 7.1/i386 to FreeBSD 7.1/AMD64?

2009-02-23 Thread Andrew Moran
I installed the i386 distro on my Core 2 Duo instead of AMD64 and now I want to switch to using AMD64. Is there a good path to do this? Will I have to reinstall, or can I do a buildworld/installworld over the i386? --Andy ___ freebsd-questions@

Re: Updated php, and apache segfaults on SIGHUP

2008-05-23 Thread Andrew Moran
Excellent suggestions. On May 20, 2008, at 12:42 PM, Sean C. Farley wrote: I meant the opposite. The latest port version of PHP has a bug on FreeBSD 7. Try it again with the previous patch. How do I do that with the ports collection? On May 20, 2008, at 12:45 PM, Claus Guttesen wrote:

Re: Updated php, and apache segfaults on SIGHUP

2008-05-20 Thread Andrew Moran
OK I've narrowed down my problem to: extension=mhash.so in extensions.ini If I comment out that php extension, I'm good. If I don't, I crash when sending HUP signal to parent apache process. I experimented with the order of the extensions.ini file but could not get to work regardles

Updated php, and apache segfaults on SIGHUP

2008-05-19 Thread Andrew Moran
Hey guys, I recently upgraded my php5 ports to latest ports tree versions (5.2.6), and now I'm in a situation where any HUP signal sent to apache is causing the entire process to dump core. I get this in the apache error log: [Mon May 19 16:08:48 2008] [notice] SIGHUP received. Attempt

5.3 and Spinlock issues (again!)

2004-11-08 Thread Andrew Moran
I've updated to FreeBSD 5.3 I've rebuilt all my ports (portupgrade -f -a). I'm still having problems getting gnucash to launch: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~$ gnucash Fatal error 'Spinlock called when not threaded.' at line 83 in file /usr/src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_spinlock.c (errno = 2) Abort tra

Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

2004-10-08 Thread Andrew Moran
On Oct 8, 2004, at 8:54 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You must be a democrat Kris, because you always spin what people say in a way such that is completely wrong when you say it. I said "the 99% of us If there was any doubt in my mind that TM4525 was a troll, he's just removed it. I think it's tim

benchmarking a process

2004-10-07 Thread Andrew Moran
This isn't specific to freebsd I suppose.. but does anyone know any good programs to measure how long a process took, how much memory it requested, and how much network traffic it send/received? I know for the time we can use 'time', but I'd like a utility that can tell me more than the time (m

RE: Shell script error

2004-10-07 Thread Andrew Moran
o run it things work fine. Sorry for the clutter. Ben -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Moran Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 11:02 AM To: Pratt, Benjamin E. Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Shell script error That script works fi

Re: Shell script error

2004-10-07 Thread Andrew Moran
That script works fine for me on my box and I'm also running FreeBSD 5.3-BETA with bash2. What kind of error are you getting? What is the output of "bash -x " (filling in the script name of course). --Andy On Oct 7, 2004, at 7:07 AM, Pratt, Benjamin E. wrote: Hello, it's me again. This time

Re: Rebuilding "world"

2004-10-05 Thread Andrew Moran
Your installworld error is saying that it can't install without the new proxy user being added.the proxy user is added during the mergemaster -p.. So because your mergemaster -p is failing, your installworld is failing. Fix the mergemaster problem, and your installworld problem should

CUPS and parallel port printing problem

2004-08-28 Thread Andrew Moran
hello all, I somehow managed to foobar my CUPS printing system. I had it working and I don't even know what I did to break things, but in an attempt to fix things, I uninstalled all the cups packages, updated my ports tree from CVS, and rebuilt everything. Now I don't get any errors, but I al