Re: freebsd 5.3, gmirror raid 1, PROBLEM

2006-05-30 Thread Mikhail Goriachev
sara lidgey wrote: > Hi, > > The machine won't boot from either drive connected as a master. I tried > them one at a time. I'm guessing I'll have to boot from a CD but don't know > the process. Any help is appreciated. > Thanks, > S. > Hmmm... I can only suggest using a livecd, for ins

Re: freebsd 5.3, gmirror raid 1, PROBLEM

2006-05-30 Thread sara lidgey
Hi, The machine won't boot from either drive connected as a master. I tried them one at a time. I'm guessing I'll have to boot from a CD but don't know the process. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, S. Mikhail Goriachev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: sara lidgey wrote: > Hi All, > > I've be

Re: freebsd 5.3, gmirror raid 1, PROBLEM

2006-05-30 Thread Mikhail Goriachev
sara lidgey wrote: > Hi All, > > I've been running a server using FreeBSD 5.3 and gmirror to mirror two > identical IDE hard drives. Its been running great for over a year. But > recently everything went down and when I reboot and put a monitor on it I get > the following errors on screen:

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 Boot issues - reposted

2005-05-22 Thread Vizion
On Saturday 21 May 2005 03:42, the author Thomas Hurst contributed to the dialogue on Re: FreeBSD 5.3 Boot issues - reposted: & * Vizion ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: & & > This system has been built in a mini ATX case and has a Proxim Harmony & > 802.11a Model 8150 PCI c

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 Boot issues - reposted

2005-05-21 Thread Vizion
On Saturday 21 May 2005 03:42, the author Thomas Hurst contributed to the dialogue on Re: FreeBSD 5.3 Boot issues - reposted: & * Vizion ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: & & > This system has been built in a mini ATX case and has a Proxim Harmony & > 802.11a Model 8150 PCI c

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 Boot issues - reposted

2005-05-21 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Vizion ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > This system has been built in a mini ATX case and has a Proxim Harmony > 802.11a Model 8150 PCI card on (I am on a boat - then intention is to > be able to disconnect it from the ships network, lug it to a position > in range of a wireless network and do a por

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and NIS

2005-05-19 Thread Tony Shadwick
I know this is going to be a hot in the dark for me since I left 4x behind quite a long while ago, but I seem to remember reading something about some compatibility issues between nis on 4x and 5x. There were changes that could be made to work around it, but wow...I just don't remember where I

Re: FreebSD 5.3

2005-05-15 Thread Ed Stover
Richard Verwayen wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 11.05.2005, 16:53 -0700 schrieb Dixit, Viraj: > >>Folks, >> >>I have accidentally changed the permissions to my directories on my test >>system. Now I cannot login either on console using root or any other login >>account. I simply cannot login, the per

Re: FreeBSD 5.3

2005-05-13 Thread Hervé Kergourlay
Kris Kennaway a écrit : On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 02:24:51PM +0200, Herv? Kergourlay wrote: I change the kernel with the following command sysctl kern.corefile="/cores/%U/%P%N.core" Make sure those directories exist and are writable by the user. They won't be created automatically.

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 installation problem

2005-05-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
simon butsana wrote: When trying to install FreeBSD 5.3 on my computer, I get the following error "No disks found". But I can install without any problem Linux or Windows on that computer. The hard disk is IDE 160 GB (Western Digital). Does anyone have an idea on a solution? 5.4 just came out,

Re: FreeBSD 5.3

2005-05-12 Thread Hervé Kergourlay
Kris Kennaway a écrit : On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 02:24:51PM +0200, Herv? Kergourlay wrote: I change the kernel with the following command sysctl kern.corefile="/cores/%U/%P%N.core" Make sure those directories exist and are writable by the user. They won't be created automatically.

Re: FreeBSD 5.3

2005-05-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 02:24:51PM +0200, Herv? Kergourlay wrote: > >>I change the kernel with the following command > >>sysctl kern.corefile="/cores/%U/%P%N.core" > >> > >> > > > >Make sure those directories exist and are writable by the user. They > >won't be created automatically. > > > >

Re: FreeBSD 5.3

2005-05-12 Thread Hervé Kergourlay
Kris Kennaway a écrit : On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 09:33:03AM +0200, Herv? Kergourlay wrote: we are porting our product on FreeBSD 5.3 it's a backup product which is still running on FreeBSD 4.0 here's a list of questions after checking the documentation 1) PAM it's working, the only problem is wit

Re: FreeBSD 5.3

2005-05-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 09:33:03AM +0200, Herv? Kergourlay wrote: > we are porting our product on FreeBSD 5.3 > > it's a backup product which is still running on FreeBSD 4.0 > > here's a list of questions after checking the documentation > > 1) PAM > > it's working, the only problem is with the

Re: FreebSD 5.3

2005-05-11 Thread Richard Verwayen
Am Mittwoch, den 11.05.2005, 16:53 -0700 schrieb Dixit, Viraj: > Folks, > > I have accidentally changed the permissions to my directories on my test > system. Now I cannot login either on console using root or any other login > account. I simply cannot login, the permissions change has done it.

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 NVIDIA-1.0.7174 GLX extension problem

2005-05-04 Thread Randy Dawson
/etc/X11/xorg.conf to change the driver "nv" to "nvidia" enjoy the open gl screensavers! Randy Dawson - Original Message - From: "Soheil Hassas Yeganeh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 1:21 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3 NVID

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 NVIDIA-1.0.7174 GLX extension problem

2005-05-03 Thread Soheil Hassas Yeganeh
I had installed the nvidia-1.0.7174 from nvidia. I had used 1.0-6113 from ports. It works nice. But i wanted just to upgrade to the new NVIDIA Version. On 03 May 2005 12:08:40 -0400, Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have proble

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 NVIDIA-1.0.7174 GLX extension problem

2005-05-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have problem using NVIDIA-1.0.7174. > It failed to load GLX. What i can do for this? > > This is a warnings and errors of my X.org log > > (WW) NV(0): Option "CursorShadow" is not used > (EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (NVIDIA X drive

Re: freebsd 5.3

2005-05-01 Thread Robert Slade
On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 16:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > freebsd 5.3 is release and become stable version soon, > i have a question, i wanna secure my freebsd box what should i do to optimize > it? > Try the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security.html Rob

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and forcible unmounts

2005-04-19 Thread markzero
> Plug a USB mass-storage-type still camera, mount it, unplug it, and > try to forcibly unmount it using 'umount -f'. The whole system hangs > right away. > > Is it a known bug ? I can confirm this. FreeBSD-5.3-RELEASE-p9. Mark -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EA

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 X-Windows Config During Installation

2005-04-08 Thread CHris Rich
On Apr 8, 2005 12:00 PM, WOLOSCHAK, FRANK, JR (FRANK) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good Morning, > > I am having problems installing FreeBSD 5.3. It appears that the installation > options do not include: "Configure XFree86 Server" and "Configure XFree86 > Desktop". I am aware that version 5.3 n

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 X-Windows Config During Installation

2005-04-08 Thread pete wright
On Apr 8, 2005 10:00 AM, WOLOSCHAK, FRANK, JR (FRANK) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > QUESTIONS: > 1) Why doesn't the FreeBSD 5.3 install give configuration options for the > X-Windows server and desktop? If you check out the handbook it states that the X installation has been removed from the in

Re: FreeBSD 5.3: Sharedlibs using sharedlibs (and Tcl)

2005-03-24 Thread Palle Girgensohn
--On onsdag, mars 16, 2005 20.13.03 +0100 Peter Much <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 03:35:16PM +0100, Palle Girgensohn wrote: ! ! --On onsdag, mars 16, 2005 11.43.31 +0100 Peter Much ! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ! ! >! So, you're saying that pctclsh *can* access, but pgaccess

Antwort: Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and too many files open...

2005-03-23 Thread Axel . Gruner
Hi, >On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> i run into a problem on a FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE Applicationserver (2GB >of RAM, >> 4GB Swap, Dual XEON 3.06Ghz). >> The box serves the "xfrce4-panel" for 80 Network Clients via ssh so >the >> Users can start OpenOffice.org and firefox

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and too many files open...

2005-03-23 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
Hi, On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, i run into a problem on a FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE Applicationserver (2GB of RAM, 4GB Swap, Dual XEON 3.06Ghz). The box serves the "xfrce4-panel" for 80 Network Clients via ssh so the Users can start OpenOffice.org and firefox from that panel. It is go

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and too many files open...

2005-03-23 Thread Axel . Gruner
Mario wrote: ># [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> >> kern.maxfilesperproc: 5898 >> kern.maxusers: 384 >> >> My /boot/loader.conf looks like: >> kern.maxfiles="65536" >> kern.ipc.nmbclusters=64000 >> kern.ipc.nmbufs=256000 >> kern.maxproc=8192 >> kern.ipc.somaxconn=4096 >> >>So i do not get it, imho the confi

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and too many files open...

2005-03-23 Thread Mario Hoerich
# [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > kern.maxfilesperproc: 5898 > kern.maxusers: 384 > > My /boot/loader.conf looks like: > kern.maxfiles="65536" > kern.ipc.nmbclusters=64000 > kern.ipc.nmbufs=256000 > kern.maxproc=8192 > kern.ipc.somaxconn=4096 > > So i do not get it, imho the configuration is just fine, b

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 - Write failure on transfer

2005-03-19 Thread lists
I have made some limited progress on the FreeBSD 5.3 Netserver problem outline below. I have been able to install FreeBSD 5.3 on a Netserver using the onboard SCSI card. However it will not install if I use the HP 1si NetRaid card for the SCSI drives. So it appears to be having a problem with

Re: FreeBSD 5.3+ Vinum or Gvinum

2005-03-16 Thread Nick Pavlica
John, That did the trick. I built a new kernel with the GEOM_STRIPE option and added an entry to my fstab to mount the volume(stripe) and everything worked like a charm. In the end this turned out to be much simpler than I had anticipated. I wish this information would have been available in t

Re: FreeBSD 5.3+ Vinum or Gvinum

2005-03-16 Thread John Pettitt
Nick Pavlica wrote: >Andrea, > I have started testing with gstripe and have had good results to >this point. I'm still a little unclear about how to make my stripe >persistent after a reboot? My server consists of three drives. A >40GB drive that has the operating system and two 200Gb drives

Re: FreeBSD 5.3+ Vinum or Gvinum

2005-03-16 Thread Nick Pavlica
Andrea, I have started testing with gstripe and have had good results to this point. I'm still a little unclear about how to make my stripe persistent after a reboot? My server consists of three drives. A 40GB drive that has the operating system and two 200Gb drives that I'm using for the raid

Re: FreeBSD 5.3: Sharedlibs using sharedlibs (and Tcl)

2005-03-16 Thread Peter Much
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 03:35:16PM +0100, Palle Girgensohn wrote: ! ! --On onsdag, mars 16, 2005 11.43.31 +0100 Peter Much ! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ! ! >! So, you're saying that pctclsh *can* access, but pgaccess *cannot*? ! >Odd... ! I would expect they'd both use the same lib to connect,

Re: FreeBSD 5.3+ Vinum or Gvinum

2005-03-15 Thread Nick Pavlica
Hi Doug, I will take a look at this. Have you used it on any production servers? How does it compare to vinum/gvinum in terms of performance reliability? --Thanks! Nick On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:04:31 -0600, Doug Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:01:06PM -0700, Nick

Re: FreeBSD 5.3+ Vinum or Gvinum

2005-03-15 Thread Doug Poland
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:01:06PM -0700, Nick Pavlica wrote: > All, > I would like to set up a raid 0 volume on my 5.3 server using two > identical SATA drives.After reading through a number of documents > I noticed that there are two related utilities to do this, Vinum and > Gvinum. Which u

Re: FreeBSD 5.3: Sharedlibs using sharedlibs (and Tcl)]

2005-03-15 Thread Peter Much
Ups, forgot the mailinglist... --- Begin Message --- On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 07:28:14PM +0100, Palle Girgensohn wrote: Hi Palle, I'm glad You are in with it! ! There is (and was in 5.3 release) a knob to build postgresql with Kerberos. ! WITH_HEIMDAL_KRB5=YES. Did you try that when building Po

Re: FreeBSD 5.3: Sharedlibs using sharedlibs (and Tcl)

2005-03-15 Thread Palle Girgensohn
Hi Peter, There is (and was in 5.3 release) a knob to build postgresql with Kerberos. WITH_HEIMDAL_KRB5=YES. Did you try that when building PostgreSQL? It would probably do the same thing as you managed by trying around with the linker command. Setting this knob to yes will add --with-krb5=/usr

Re: FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE error creating jail

2005-03-14 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: >I am following the directions in man jail to set up a jail on my >system: > >D=/here/is/the/jail >cd /usr/src >mkdir -p $D >make world DESTDIR=$D ^ Try changing this line to "env DESTDIR=$D && make world" >cd etc >make distribution DESTDIR=$D >mount_devfs devfs

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 et multiprocessor

2005-03-10 Thread ISP Informatique
Anthony Atkielski wrote: ISP Informatique writes: Hello, I recently have just passed a server of FreeBSD 4.2 to FreeBSD 5.3. Why? The rule for production systems is to never fix what isn't broken; what was wrong with FreeBSD 4.2 that required an upgrade to 5.3? Sometimes you doesn't ha

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 et multiprocessor

2005-03-09 Thread Anthony Atkielski
ISP Informatique writes: > Hello, I recently have just passed a server of FreeBSD 4.2 to FreeBSD > 5.3. Why? The rule for production systems is to never fix what isn't broken; what was wrong with FreeBSD 4.2 that required an upgrade to 5.3? -- Anthony ___

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 freezes under heavy hdd load

2005-03-08 Thread cyb
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 23:59 -0800, pete wright wrote: > A couple of things will be neccessary to help us help you. Custum > kernel, post or link to your KERNEL_CONFIG, or better yet a dmesg. > Also I'd suggest testing this first w/o SMP enabled (not sure if SMP > is even that helpfull with hyper

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 freezes under heavy hdd load

2005-03-07 Thread pete wright
On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 08:28:32 +0100, cyb <"cyb."@gmx.net> wrote: > Hello, > > from time to time my FreeBSD freezes under heavy hdd load and only a > hard reset will bring it back to life with fsck complaining about > 'Softupdate Inconsistencies'. > > I had this behaviour on 5.3-RELEASE, 5.3-RELEA

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 - Raid

2005-02-27 Thread Robert Slade
On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 15:26, Ean Kingston wrote: > On February 27, 2005 08:59 am, Robert Slade wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Sorry if this is dumb question. > > > > I have a new install of FreeBSD on a single IDE drive. I have backed this > > up so I am not too concerned about drive failure. I have now ad

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 - Raid

2005-02-27 Thread Andy Firman
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 01:59:35PM +, Robert Slade wrote: > I have a new install of FreeBSD on a single IDE drive. I have backed this up > so I am not too concerned about drive failure. I have now added 2, 250 Gbyte > drives (ad3 and ad4) to hold data. I would like to mirror them using sofwar

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 - Raid

2005-02-27 Thread Ean Kingston
On February 27, 2005 08:59 am, Robert Slade wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry if this is dumb question. > > I have a new install of FreeBSD on a single IDE drive. I have backed this > up so I am not too concerned about drive failure. I have now added 2, 250 > Gbyte drives (ad3 and ad4) to hold data. I would l

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 - Raid

2005-02-27 Thread Peter Schuller
> I have read the manual and searched the web for a simple way to do the above. > The manual seems to cover complex solutions and may be somewhat behind the > times. Personally I would go for geom_mirror. See gmirror(8) ('man gmirror') for usage instructions including examples. Creating a mirro

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 dev nodes

2005-02-25 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 25), Tim Traver said: > I have just started using the 5.X branch of FreeBSD, and needed to > mount a hot swap drive in a second drive bay. In the past, I've > simply run MAKEDEV, and it made the device files for me, and then I > was able to mount the drive and I was on my w

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 very slow data-transfer

2005-02-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 05:27:16AM +0100, Jack Raats wrote: > Yesterday I've install FreeBSD 5.3 on a machine. After compiling the kernel > with device my, I can connect through the network with that machine. > Everything works fine, but when I try to update the source tree or ftp-ing > to a local

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 MySQL Performance

2005-02-10 Thread Ean Kingston
On February 10, 2005 04:53 pm, Jeff Behl wrote: > >Any so-called "benchmark" comparing Linux to anything else (especially > >windoze) has been polluted by the tradition in the linux/windoze world > >of running their disks in the completely unsafe "asynchronous" mode so > >popular with the ATA disk

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 MySQL Performance

2005-02-10 Thread Jeff Behl
Any so-called "benchmark" comparing Linux to anything else (especially windoze) has been polluted by the tradition in the linux/windoze world of running their disks in the completely unsafe "asynchronous" mode so popular with the ATA disk drive manufacturers. This method means that you never actu

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 MySQL Performance

2005-02-10 Thread Ceri Davies
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 04:22:02PM -0800, Matt Olander wrote: > hey gang, > > We've got a customer that is considering a network expansion while moving > from Linux to FreeBSD. > > They are big users of MySQL and have been running it on Linux. > > Most of the information that I've found is a bit

RE: FreeBSD 5.3 MySQL Performance

2005-02-09 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 16:44 -0800, Matt Olander wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 07:58:56PM -0500, Alec Berryman wrote: Also, does anybody have any FreeBSD 5.3/MySQL benchmarks? I searched the mailing lists but didn't turn up anything. >>> >>> There was an arti

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 MySQL Performance

2005-02-09 Thread Joe Kelsey
On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 16:44 -0800, Matt Olander wrote: > On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 07:58:56PM -0500, Alec Berryman wrote: > > > Also, does anybody have any FreeBSD 5.3/MySQL benchmarks? I searched > > > the mailing lists but didn't turn up anything. > > > > There was an article posted to Newsforge t

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 MySQL Performance

2005-02-09 Thread Matt Olander
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 07:58:56PM -0500, Alec Berryman wrote: > > Also, does anybody have any FreeBSD 5.3/MySQL benchmarks? I searched > > the mailing lists but didn't turn up anything. > > There was an article posted to Newsforge today about benchmarking > MySQL on different operating systems.

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 MySQL Performance

2005-02-09 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Matt Olander wrote: > Also, does anybody have any FreeBSD 5.3/MySQL benchmarks? I searched the > mailing lists but didn't turn up anything. This was posted to some NetBSD lists today: http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/27/1243207&from=rss This "Comparing MySQ

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 I/O Performance / Linux 2.6.10 | Continued Discussion

2005-02-03 Thread Robert Watson
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Nick Pavlica wrote: > I was wondering if any progress has been made in determining the cause > of the poor disk I/O performance illustrated by the testing in this > thread? Now that 5.3 is labeled as the production stable version, and > 4.x is labeled as legacy, improving th

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and sshd

2005-02-02 Thread Irina
= - Original Message - From: "Richard Cotrina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Irina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 2:13 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and sshd > > sshd is disabled by default in FreeBSD 5.3, e

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and sshd

2005-02-02 Thread Richard Cotrina
sshd is disabled by default in FreeBSD 5.3, enable it by hand: # /etc/rc.d/sshd start Then, If you want it to be started at boot time, add the following line to /etc/rc.conf : sshd_enable="YES" HTH On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Irina wrote: > Hello at FreeBSD list. > > I have installed FreeBSD 5.3, ha

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and sshd

2005-02-02 Thread Jon Krause
From: "Irina" Hello at FreeBSD list. I have installed FreeBSD 5.3, have not upgraded to STABLE yet. During the installation I created a user account that is in the "wheel" group. After the installation, logged in as that user at console with no problems. But can not login using putty from my

Re: FreeBSD 5.3, Openfiles Limit in login.conf not respected

2005-02-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Matt Rechkemmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 05:01:53PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > > What configuration file should I execute this on? login.conf? > > > > Yes. Go back to /etc/login.conf and read the first few lines. > > Lowell, I can't thank you enough :-). I sh

Re: FreeBSD 5.3, Openfiles Limit in login.conf not respected

2005-02-01 Thread Matt Rechkemmer
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 05:01:53PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > What configuration file should I execute this on? login.conf? > > Yes. Go back to /etc/login.conf and read the first few lines. Lowell, I can't thank you enough :-). I should have RTFP in the first place. Now another question r

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 I/O Performance / Linux 2.6.10 | Continued Discussion

2005-02-01 Thread Nick Pavlica
All, I was wondering if any progress has been made in determining the cause of the poor disk I/O performance illustrated by the testing in this thread? Now that 5.3 is labeled as the production stable version, and 4.x is labeled as legacy, improving the performance of the 5.4+ distributions is

Re: FreeBSD 5.3, Openfiles Limit in login.conf not respected

2005-02-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Matt Rechkemmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 02:17:37PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > > > It works for me; maybe you forgot to run cap_mkdb(1)? > > What configuration file should I execute this on? login.conf? Yes. Go back to /etc/login.conf and read the first few l

Re: FreeBSD 5.3, Openfiles Limit in login.conf not respected

2005-02-01 Thread Matt Rechkemmer
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 02:17:37PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > It works for me; maybe you forgot to run cap_mkdb(1)? What configuration file should I execute this on? login.conf? Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.

Re: FreeBSD 5.3, Openfiles Limit in login.conf not respected

2005-02-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Matt Rechkemmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi folks, > > I recently setup FreeBSD 5.3R on my P4 2.4 GHz system and have a slight > problem with it not respecting the limits set in /etc/login.conf. The entry > I've made in /etc/login.conf is below: > > bopm:\ > :openfiles=8192:\ >

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 I/O Performance / Linux 2.6.10 | Continued Discussion

2005-01-28 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Mike Tancsa wrote: > >I/O (reads, writes at fairly large multiples of the sector size -- 512k is > >a good number) and small I/O size (512 bytes is good). This will help > >identify the source along two dimmensions: are we looking at a basic > >storage I/O problem that's pre

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 I/O Performance / Linux 2.6.10 | Continued Discussion

2005-01-27 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 08:14 PM 27/01/2005, Robert Watson wrote: > > My tests use the exact same disk layout, and hardware. However, I have > had consistent results on all 4 boxes that I have tested on. I am redoing mine so that I boot from a different drive and just test on one large RAID5 partition so that the lay

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 I/O Performance / Linux 2.6.10 | Continued Discussion

2005-01-27 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Nick Pavlica wrote: > > The move to an MPSAFE VFS will help with that a lot, I should think. > > Do you know if this will find it's way to 5.x in the near future? Hopefully not too quickly, it's fairly experimental. I know there's interest in getting it into 5.x however.

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 I/O Performance / Linux 2.6.10 | Continued Discussion

2005-01-27 Thread Nick Pavlica
> The move to an MPSAFE VFS will help with that a lot, I should think. Do you know if this will find it's way to 5.x in the near future? > > Also, while on face value this may seem odd, could you try the following > additional variables: > > - Layer the test UFS partition directly over ad0 ins

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 file system troubles

2005-01-26 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Terry R. Friedrichsen wrote: > Is anybody besides *me* having file system corruption problems with > FreeBSD 5.3? I've looked around on several of the mailing lists and > found no men- tion of this. > > I have two different platforms on which I'm trying to run FreeBSD 5.3.

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 I/O Performance / Linux 2.6.10 | Continued Discussion

2005-01-26 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Robert Watson wrote: > While it's not for the feint of heart, it might be interesting to see > how results compare in 6-CURRENT + debugging of various sorts (including > malloc) turned off, and debug.mpsafevfs turned on. One possible issue > with the twe/twa drivers is that

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 I/O Performance / Linux 2.6.10 | Continued Discussion

2005-01-26 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 01:47 PM 26/01/2005, Nick Pavlica wrote: > >All, > > With the recent release of 4.11 I thought that I would give it a > > Yes, I found the same thing basically. My test box is a P4 3Ghz with 2G > of RAM on a 3ware 8605 controller with 4 drives in R

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 file system troubles

2005-01-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 03:53:46PM -0700, Terry R. Friedrichsen wrote: > I wrote: > > >> try running something that works the file system and simply turn off the > >> system power in the middle of it. > > to which [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied: > > > This is expected if you don't turn off write cach

re: FreeBSD 5.3 file system troubles

2005-01-26 Thread Terry R. Friedrichsen
I wrote: >> try running something that works the file system and simply turn off the >> system power in the middle of it. to which [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied: > This is expected if you don't turn off write caching of the hard > disks. It breaks the softupdates consistency model because data > wr

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 I/O Performance / Linux 2.6.10 | Continued Discussion

2005-01-26 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 01:47 PM 26/01/2005, Nick Pavlica wrote: All, With the recent release of 4.11 I thought that I would give it a Yes, I found the same thing basically. My test box is a P4 3Ghz with 2G of RAM on a 3ware 8605 controller with 4 drives in RAID5. Virtually every test I did with iozone* showed a

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 file system troubles

2005-01-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 12:42:47PM -0700, Terry R. Friedrichsen wrote: > > Thanks for responding to my inquiry. If it fits into your testing program, > try running something that works the file system and simply turn off the > system power in the middle of it. This is expected if you don't turn

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 file system troubles

2005-01-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 05:50:02AM -0700, Terry R. Friedrichsen wrote: > > Is anybody besides *me* having file system corruption problems with FreeBSD > 5.3? I've looked around on several of the mailing lists and found no men- > tion of this. > > I have two different platforms on which I'm tryin

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 file system troubles

2005-01-26 Thread Nick Pavlica
That same thought ran thought my mind when I was testing. I started a process that does heavy writing and literally pulled the plug during the middle of the operation. I plugged it back in and the box came back up without a hitch. I did all my testing on x86 boxes using SCSI and IDE drives. I cu

re: FreeBSD 5.3 file system troubles

2005-01-26 Thread Terry R. Friedrichsen
Thanks for responding to my inquiry. If it fits into your testing program, try running something that works the file system and simply turn off the system power in the middle of it. Twice, now, doing this on my Alpha has rendered the system unrecoverable at boot time, necessitating a reinstall.

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 file system troubles

2005-01-26 Thread Nick Pavlica
I have been testing 5.3 (Standard Install/Default settings) and haven't had any file system corruption. However, the I/O performance results from my testing currently show that there is a major difference between 4.11 and 5.3 (4.11 is much faster!). I have a suspicion that these issues may be rel

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 I/O Performance / Linux 2.6.10 | Continued Discussion

2005-01-26 Thread Nick Pavlica
All, With the recent release of 4.11 I thought that I would give it a spin and com pair my results with my previous testing. I was blown away by the performance difference between 4.11 and 5.3. Iostat showed a difference of over 30Mb/s difference between the two. In fact, it kept up or out per

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 file system troubles

2005-01-26 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 05:50:02 -0700 (MST), Terry R. Friedrichsen wrote: > Is anybody besides *me* having file system corruption problems with FreeBSD > 5.3? I've looked around on several of the mailing lists and found no men- > tion of this. Not the same problem as you, but I've been getting freq

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 I/O Performance / Linux 2.6.10 | Continued Discussion

2005-01-25 Thread Petri Helenius
Matthias Buelow wrote: Petri Helenius wrote: Are you sure you aren't comparing filesystems with different mount options? Async comes to mind first. a) ext3 and xfs are logging filesystems, so the problem with asynchronous metadata updates possibly corrupting the filesystem on a crash doesn't ar

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 I/O Performance / Linux 2.6.10 | Continued Discussion

2005-01-25 Thread Matthias Buelow
Petri Helenius wrote: Are you sure you aren't comparing filesystems with different mount options? Async comes to mind first. a) ext3 and xfs are logging filesystems, so the problem with asynchronous metadata updates possibly corrupting the filesystem on a crash doesn't arise. b) asynchronous met

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 I/O Performance / Linux 2.6.10 | Continued Discussion

2005-01-25 Thread Jesper Louis Andersen
Quoting Nick Pavlica ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I would like to start addressing some of the feedback that I have > been given. I started this discussion because I felt that it was > important to share the information I discovered in my testing. I also > want to reiterate my earlier statement that

RE: FreeBSD 5.3 on Compaq ProLiant 1500

2005-01-24 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > jeremy pedersen > Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 6:22 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: FreeBSD 5.3 on Compaq ProLiant 1500 > > > I have an old Compaq ProLiant 1500 that I would like to

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 I/O Performance / Linux 2.6.10 | Continued Discussion

2005-01-24 Thread Nick Pavlica
I didn't change any of the default mount options on either OS. FreeBSD: # cat /etc/fstab # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options DumpPass# /

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 I/O Performance / Linux 2.6.10 | Continued Discussion

2005-01-24 Thread Edward B. Dreger
PH> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 00:08:52 +0200 PH> From: Petri Helenius PH> To: Nick Pavlica PH> Are you sure you aren't comparing filesystems with different mount PH> options? Async comes to mind first. He _did_ say "as many default options as possible"... does Linux still mount async by default?

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 I/O Performance / Linux 2.6.10 | Continued Discussion

2005-01-24 Thread Petri Helenius
Are you sure you aren't comparing filesystems with different mount options? Async comes to mind first. Pete Nick Pavlica wrote: All, I would like to start addressing some of the feedback that I have been given. I started this discussion because I felt that it was important to share the informat

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 I/O Performance / Linux 2.6.10

2005-01-24 Thread Matthias Buelow
Oliver Fuchs wrote: Maybe there is a performance problem with FreeBSD - but again that was not his question. I don't know why people are so obsessed with performance.. after all, you can't really load stock Unix systems properly anyways (like, say, an IBM mainframe, which you can keep at 90+% loa

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 I/O Performance / Linux 2.6.10

2005-01-24 Thread Matthias Buelow
Chris wrote: In addition, was on OS running a window manager and the other not? Was I seriously doubt that raw disk performance of such a test is noticably affected by the existence of a window manager, or sshd... mkb. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 I/O Performance / Linux 2.6.10

2005-01-24 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Emanuel Strobl wrote: > Am Montag, 24. Januar 2005 06:17 schrieb Oliver Fuchs: > > > > In addition, was on OS running a window manager and the other not? Was > > > one running ssh and the other not, was FBSD running Linux emu? ... Was > > > one running (insert program) and th

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 I/O Performance / Linux 2.6.10

2005-01-24 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Montag, 24. Januar 2005 06:17 schrieb Oliver Fuchs: > > In addition, was on OS running a window manager and the other not? Was > > one running ssh and the other not, was FBSD running Linux emu? ... Was > > one running (insert program) and the other not... > > In addition to this: > - how often

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 I/O Performance / Linux 2.6.10

2005-01-23 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Chris wrote: > Oliver Fuchs wrote: > >On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Nick Pavlica wrote: > > > > > >>All, > >> This post is not about BSD VS. Linux and should not be taken that > >>way. I think that "Flame Wars/Engineer Wars" are waste of time and > >>energy. I was surprised by my te

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 I/O Performance / Linux 2.6.10

2005-01-23 Thread Chris
Oliver Fuchs wrote: On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Nick Pavlica wrote: All, This post is not about BSD VS. Linux and should not be taken that way. I think that "Flame Wars/Engineer Wars" are waste of time and energy. I was surprised by my test results and didn't want to take FBSD out of the loop just ye

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 I/O Performance / Linux 2.6.10

2005-01-23 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Nick Pavlica wrote: > All, > This post is not about BSD VS. Linux and should not be taken that > way. I think that "Flame Wars/Engineer Wars" are waste of time and > energy. I was surprised by my test results and didn't want to take > FBSD out of the loop just yet. There

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 CD2 ?

2005-01-23 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 10:13, Daniel S. Haischt wrote: > AFAIK - The 2nd CD only contains additional software > packages ... > > faisal gillani schrieb: > > i installed freebsd 5.3 & the first cd installed > > everything i needed , but i got 2 cds with freebsd , i > > browsed it but couldent unders

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 CD2 ?

2005-01-23 Thread Daniel S. Haischt
AFAIK - The 2nd CD only contains additional software packages ... faisal gillani schrieb: i installed freebsd 5.3 & the first cd installed everything i needed , but i got 2 cds with freebsd , i browsed it but couldent understand wat is it for ? = *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ Allah-hu-Akber*º¤., ¸¸,.¤º

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 I/O Performance / Linux 2.6.10 | More Info

2005-01-22 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: >All, > This post is not about BSD VS. Linux and should not be taken that >way. I think that "Flame Wars/Engineer Wars" are waste of time and >energy. I was surprised by my test results and didn't want to take >FBSD out of the loop just yet. There may be flaws in my testing that >

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 I/O Performance / Linux 2.6.10

2005-01-22 Thread Nick Pavlica
All, This post is not about BSD VS. Linux and should not be taken that way. I think that "Flame Wars/Engineer Wars" are waste of time and energy. I was surprised by my test results and didn't want to take FBSD out of the loop just yet. There may be flaws in my testing that have led me to inac

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 I/O Performance / Linux 2.6.10

2005-01-21 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: >However, after performing a number of I/O and Postgresql tests on >different equipment, the performance proved to be considerably faster >when using Fedora. Fedora with XFS was the clear performance winner >in every test, followed by Fedora with EXT3, then FreeBSD. I was >surpri

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