filesystem full after many mmap/munmap cycles

2008-04-05 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
Hi, I'm running FreeBSD 7.0 RC1 on AMD 64, dual Opteron with h/w raid1 (scsi). I have an app server that uses mmap a lot. After running a long batch (four hours, 5,100+ transactions), I got the message filesystem full (/usr--ufs, local, soft-updates). df -i says plenty of space. I restarted th

Re: courier-authlib-0.58 dumps core at login

2005-12-13 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 10:17:16PM -0500, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > On 12/11/05 09:44 PM, Louis LeBlanc sat at the `puter and typed: These > passwords do match, but the debug log shows a rejection. I use MySql for users and recently noted that if maildir, uid and/or gid is not set properly the auth

[LONG] vmstat: What I/O is blocked and how to fix it?

2005-12-13 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
On two occasions recently, vmstat has showed me that a number of processes are blocked due to I/O. At the same time, the number of disk transactions per second reported is a small fraction of the disk's capability. I am thinking some kind of VM config will help, but based on what I have read,

Re: hardening FreeBSD for Spamassassin

2005-12-08 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 01:56:52AM +0200, Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote: > And I want to handle 130,000 mail/hour with using 2 or 4 P4 server > with raid1 and 2 or 4 gb ram . Try pf + spamd (the FreeBSD port of the OpenBSD app) to cut out as much mail as possible before it hits spamassassin. m __

nullfs [was: Need urgent help regarding security]

2005-11-17 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 10:16:16PM -0700, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > I then create one or more jails that use nullfs to READ ONLY mount > specific parts of the master hierarchy into the jail. This is very interesting to me, as I are currently working on a jail design and nullfs has a nu

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-16 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
Wow, did this thread veer off-topic! On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 11:50:40PM +, Chris wrote: > That is indeed a waste but consider that in that year the PC at 150 > watts This is probably a high estimate, especially for an older, single-cpu box. > has consumed 60 times as much power as the route

Re: Linux computability

2005-10-28 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 10:32:24AM -0400, Mark Bucciarelli wrote: > On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 02:45:42PM +1000, Michael Christie wrote: > > > Now Linux programs run in side of the jail. > > Thanks for posting what you had success with. > > I followed your instructions, b

Re: Linux computability

2005-10-28 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 02:45:42PM +1000, Michael Christie wrote: > Now Linux programs run in side of the jail. Thanks for posting what you had success with. I followed your instructions, but when I try to install the java/jdk14 port inside the jail, I get the message that I need to mount /com

linux: command not found

2005-10-27 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
I'm trying to load the linux kernel module to install java. When I type linux, I get a command not found error. Do I need to install a port or is this an issue with my kernel configuration? m ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://list

Cannot open /dev/tty for read

2005-10-05 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
I get the error in the subject line when trying to install the www/interchange port inside a jail. The full output of the make command is below. I'm using the standard devfs rule set 4 with the following addition: # devfs -m /web/jail/myjail/dev rule apply add path 'tty' unhide >From inside

Re: Limit client connections ssh

2005-09-27 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 02:27:26PM -0500, Efren Bravo wrote: > I'm using ssh to connect me to fBSD server, how can I limit the client > connections?, I mean, I only only that the server(ssh) accept incoming > connections from a specific IP or IPs range? You can restrict to a subset of your system

Re: PHP4 & PHP5 on same server?

2005-09-27 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 11:16:04AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Mark Bucciarelli wrote: > >Is it possible install both php4 and php5 on the same server using > >ports? > > > >I'm using fastcgi so two different interpreters should be fine. (Rename > >/us

PHP4 & PHP5 on same server?

2005-09-26 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
Is it possible install both php4 and php5 on the same server using ports? I'm using fastcgi so two different interpreters should be fine. (Rename /usr/local/bin/php to /usr/local/bin/php5-fcgi, for example.) Can I assume the php4 and php5 modules (for example, pear) won't step on each other's t

Stale dependency question

2005-09-13 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
On a 5.4 box, pkgdb -F is reporting stale PHP dependencies and I'm not sure of the correct way to fix it. For example (one of nine such messages): php5-mysql-5.0.4_2 -> php5-5.0.4_2 (lang/php). We have php5-cgi-5.0.4_2 installed, not php5-5.0.4_2. So ... 1. Portversion tells me that

Re: preventing a dual-mount of an NFS file system

2005-07-22 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 04:59:56PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > Just curious if there is an option that can be set (I've checked the man > page, and didn't find one) that would prevent a file system from being > mounted twise on the same mount point? > > For instance, I have /du defined i

Re: VPN solution

2005-07-20 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 11:26:17PM -0400, chris wrote: > Im looking around for a VPN solution that utilizes IPSEC and ssl. What > im really lookng for here on the list is suggestions. I need to use > IPSEC and ssl due to what is being ran at work (running linux). I > dont need anything fancy, jus

Re: better disk reliability on a desktop machine

2005-07-18 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 03:35:55PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: > As someone else suggested, you can also stick things like config files into > version control (like CVS, subversion, etc), and then back that up via the > mechanism above. Be careful about CVS and symbolic links. They don't mix.

Network Debugging

2005-07-07 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
I'm trying to improve the performance of our rural homebrew wireless broadband and am hoping some of the folks here can give me a pointer or two as to what network monitoring tools I should use. Background: - my internet access is five wireless and five wired hops downstream from a 1/2 T1 (ten

Re: RAID Cards

2005-07-01 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 04:34:13PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jun 30), Mark Bucciarelli said: > > > > I don't see the big win in hardware raid. > > The three big plusses for hardware raid are: if you get one with > battery-backed cache (strongly

Re: RAID Cards

2005-06-30 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 04:48:18PM -0400, Simon wrote: > Just because there is no monitoring tool available due to lack of > support, doesn't mean the card itself is bad. I much prefer hardware > implementation than software. True hardware RAID frees up a lot of > CPU time if you have heavy IO an

Re: Software RAID-1 on FreeBSD 5.4

2005-06-29 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 09:56:16PM +0200, ptitoliv wrote: > But I have a last question. My disks are differents. One is a Maxtor > detected with a 111 GB capacity and the other is a Seagate detected > with a 114 GB capacity. Will I have problems trying to use RAID with > this configuration ? Not

Re: How Can I Clean Up Files That Don't Exist?

2005-06-29 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 07:45:11AM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > Any other ideas? Any Windows shares involved? m ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Best hardware to mirror IDE drives under FreeBSD?

2005-06-26 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 10:53:47PM +0200, Björn König wrote: > Even most cheap ATA chipsets have hot-swap capabilities. I didn't know hot swap was possible with software raid! How can I tell if the ATA chipset on my system has hot-swap capability? m

Re: Best hardware to mirror IDE drives under FreeBSD?

2005-06-26 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 03:28:35PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > Nonetheless, the Web page is intriguing. Will the GEOM RAID subsystem really > allow the machine to run and/or boot from either drive? It worked for me. I unplugged each drive and rebooted after setting up gmirror following that ho

Re: Managing updates in jails

2005-06-25 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 12:31:42AM +0100, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > Mark Bucciarelli wrote: > > I don't understand the relationship between cvsup and portupgrade. > cvsup is a tool for maintaining a set of checked out files in sync with > a remote CVS repository without having

Re: Managing updates in jails

2005-06-25 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 06:29:42PM +0200, Ruben Bloemgarten wrote: > What I find a lot easier is to use freebsd-update for the base system > updates and, after having mount_nullfs'd /usr/ports from the host system > onto the jailed systems, portsnap and portupgrade. > -> host system : freebsd-upda

Re: Tuning FreBSD with specific applications

2005-06-02 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 10:17:13PM +0200, Vittorio De Martino wrote: > How could I obtain those improvements? What could I do to speed those > programs under freebsd? - Edit /etc/make.conf and set the processor and compiler optimizations. - Rebuild and install system (world and kernel) - Repost

Re: vinum: Inappropriate ioctl for device

2005-05-27 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
FreeBSD questions mailing list wrote: i tried Gvinum too but that doesn't have the setstate nor the ruibld parity command and still you can't stop gvinum (gvinum stop doesn't work, nor does kldunload geom_vinum.ko) try gmirror for raid 1. it worked great for me. could gmirror and gstripe

Re: Small business software for FreeBSD

2005-05-17 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
Damian Gerow wrote: I've given the ports tree a quick search, and I've poked through freshmeat.net and Google to no avail. Does anyone know of any small business management software -- something that can do quotes, invoicing, time tracking, etc. -- that runs on FreeBSD? sql-ledger. (you have to d

Re: backup

2005-05-13 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
Matt Juszczak wrote: Problem with this is that I have to then create a tar file on the remote machine, because if I login with sftp from my remote machine, that account wont have access to read all the files it needs to read. you can: - create a password-protected ssh cert for root - load key int

Managing updates in jails

2005-05-13 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
I'm a recent convert to FreeBSD, mainly because of the jail functionality. I am trying to figure out a good system for keeping jails updated and am running against my lack of experience with the compile-from-source approach as well as the different startup scripts. I have pretty much settled o

Re: I need further HDD advice before submitting order.

2005-05-11 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chuck - I'm going to take your advice on setting up some kind of mirror, software RAID or whatever, thanks. Just having gone through setting up software raid as my first post-install FreeBSD task, I can highly recommend gmirror. It uses the new GEOM code (like gvinum) b