Re: Using mdconfig for swap space

2009-09-09 Thread Daniel Bye
On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 07:52:59PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 04:51:20PM -0500, Peter Steele wrote: > > > Are there any advantages to using mdconfig and creating a virtual disk for > > swap space as opposed to having a designated swap partition? For example, I > > c

Error building net-snmp port

2009-09-09 Thread Ian
I've been building a new 7.2-RELEASE server, putting it into service on Friday. I did a portsnap & updated all the ports to the latest version, but was unable to upgrade /usr/ports/net-mgmt/net-snmp - see below for output: ===> Building for net-snmp-5.4.2.1_5 making all in /usr/ports/net-mgmt/n

RE: Using mdconfig for swap space

2009-09-09 Thread Peter Steele
Thanks for the responses. The reason I'm looking at doing this is that we have increased memory on our platform from 4GB to 8GB and therefore have to increase swap space from 8GB to 16GB. We have enough space in our /var partition that we could add a swap file there and not have to touch the exi

Re: Using mdconfig for swap space

2009-09-09 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 09 September 2009 15:07:37 Peter Steele wrote: > Thanks for the responses. The reason I'm looking at doing this is that we > have increased memory on our platform from 4GB to 8GB and therefore have to > increase swap space from 8GB to 16GB. No you don't. It's advised, but not mandator

RE: Using mdconfig for swap space

2009-09-09 Thread Peter Steele
>Nowadays having swap twice as RAM is not necessary. If your system wasn't >swapping much in the past you can safely stay with 4G in my opinion... >extending it to 16G >would be waste of space :) I won't bore you with the details but in fact our application *does* require this much swap space,

Re: Using mdconfig for swap space

2009-09-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 11:57:07AM +0100, Daniel Bye wrote: > On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 07:52:59PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 04:51:20PM -0500, Peter Steele wrote: > > > > > Are there any advantages to using mdconfig and creating a virtual disk > > > for swap space

Re: Using mdconfig for swap space

2009-09-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Peter Steele writes: >>Nowadays having swap twice as RAM is not necessary. If your system >>wasn't swapping much in the past you can safely stay with 4G in my >>opinion... extending it to 16G would be waste of space :) > > I won't bore you with the details but in fact our application *does* > req

Re: Using mdconfig for swap space

2009-09-09 Thread Maciej Suszko
Peter Steele wrote: > Thanks for the responses. The reason I'm looking at doing this is > that we have increased memory on our platform from 4GB to 8GB and > therefore have to increase swap space from 8GB to 16GB. We have > enough space in our /var partition that we could add a swap file > there a

Re: Using mdconfig for swap space

2009-09-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jerry McAllister writes: > On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 11:57:07AM +0100, Daniel Bye wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 07:52:59PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: >> > On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 04:51:20PM -0500, Peter Steele wrote: >> > >> > > Are there any advantages to using mdconfig and creating a v

RE: Using mdconfig for swap space

2009-09-09 Thread Peter Steele
>It's easy to *try* the swap files. Then measure the performance. >If the behaviour is really as specific to your custom application as you >indicate, then general advice may not apply either. In fact, after discussing this with the team, we are going to do exactly that. We'll allocate an ext

Re: Using mdconfig for swap space

2009-09-09 Thread Daniel Bye
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 10:59:23AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 11:57:07AM +0100, Daniel Bye wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 07:52:59PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 04:51:20PM -0500, Peter Steele wrote: > > > > > > > Are there any a

Re: Using mdconfig for swap space

2009-09-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 11:23:14AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Jerry McAllister writes: > > > On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 11:57:07AM +0100, Daniel Bye wrote: > > > >> On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 07:52:59PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > >> > On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 04:51:20PM -0500, Peter Steele wr

7.2-RELEASE kbdmux

2009-09-09 Thread Chris Knipe
Hi, I've just checked out 7.2-RELEASE from CVS. My build world was successful, but I am failing on compiling the stock standard GENERIC kernel that comes out of CVS. ===> kbdmux (all) cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -D_KERNEL -DKLD_MODULE -std=c99 -nostdinc -DHAVE_KERNEL_OPTION_HEADERS -inclu

Re: Using mdconfig for swap space

2009-09-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 04:46:56PM +0100, Daniel Bye wrote: > On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 10:59:23AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 11:57:07AM +0100, Daniel Bye wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 07:52:59PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > On Tue, Sep 08, 2009

Regex Help - Greedy vs. Non-Greedy

2009-09-09 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I'm trying to do a search and replace in vim. I have lines like this: http://site1/dir/; http://site2/dir/;LastName, FirstName;Phone; http://site3/dir/;LastName, FirstName; http://site4/dir/; I'm want to match "http:*" and stop matching at the first ";". My basic regex is: /http:.\+;/ But i

Re: Regex Help - Greedy vs. Non-Greedy

2009-09-09 Thread Daniel Bye
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 09:15:25AM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I'm trying to do a search and replace in vim. I have lines like this: > http://site1/dir/; > http://site2/dir/;LastName, FirstName;Phone; > http://site3/dir/;LastName, FirstName; > http://site4/dir/; > > I'm want to match "http:*"

Re: Regex Help - Greedy vs. Non-Greedy

2009-09-09 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 09 September 2009 18:15:25 Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I'm trying to do a search and replace in vim. I have lines like this: > http://site1/dir/; > http://site2/dir/;LastName, FirstName;Phone; > http://site3/dir/;LastName, FirstName; > http://site4/dir/; > > I'm want to match "http:*" and

Re: Regex Help - Greedy vs. Non-Greedy

2009-09-09 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Daniel Bye wrote: On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 09:15:25AM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm trying to do a search and replace in vim. I have lines like this: http://site1/dir/; http://site2/dir/;LastName, FirstName;Phone; http://site3/dir/;LastName, FirstName; http://site4/dir/; I'm want to match

Re: Regex Help - Greedy vs. Non-Greedy

2009-09-09 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Drew Tomlinson wrote: Daniel Bye wrote: On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 09:15:25AM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm trying to do a search and replace in vim. I have lines like this: http://site1/dir/; http://site2/dir/;LastName, FirstName;Phone; http://site3/dir/;LastName, FirstName; http://site4/di

System crashed need some help troubleshooting

2009-09-09 Thread Graeme Dargie
Hi All, I have a server in the house that has been running away fine, I noticed today that it had rebooted 17hours or so ago, looking a little further it also looks like it had rebooted around 23hours previously. panic: kmem_malloc(131072): kmem_map too small: 505761792 total alloc

Re: Regex Help - Greedy vs. Non-Greedy

2009-09-09 Thread Bob Hall
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 09:15:25AM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I'm trying to do a search and replace in vim. I have lines like this: > http://site1/dir/; > http://site2/dir/;LastName, FirstName;Phone; > http://site3/dir/;LastName, FirstName; > http://site4/dir/; > > I'm want to match "http:*"

VirtualBox not opening... from 7.2 STABLE, (GUI KDE 3.5)

2009-09-09 Thread Jeronimo Calvo
Hi Folks!! I did compile VirtualBox, and followed the instructions under http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/virtualization-host.html But I am getting following error when launched from the terminal: > # VirtualBox > No protocol specified > Failed to open the X11 display!

Re: setquota + geli

2009-09-09 Thread Jacques Manukyan
Stefan Miklosovic wrote: hi, I would like to set some quotas with setquota on crypted disk with geli, but if I want to do so -> /etc/fstab /dev/ad0s2f.eli /home ufs rw,noatime,userquota,groupquota 2 2 /etc/rc.conf enable_quotas="YES" I can edit quotas by ed

Re: Regex Help - Greedy vs. Non-Greedy

2009-09-09 Thread George Davidovich
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 09:15:25AM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I'm trying to do a search and replace in vim. I have lines like this: > http://site1/dir/; > http://site2/dir/;LastName, FirstName;Phone; > http://site3/dir/;LastName, FirstName; > http://site4/dir/; > > I'm want to match "http:*"

Re: Custom ISOs

2009-09-09 Thread Al Plant
Manolis Kiagias wrote: Tim Judd wrote: I'm not sure if this is normal or not, but I'm getting <5.0KB/sec for two separate downloads each download speed for both the XFCE and Gnome DVD ISOs. Weird... I am aware that the site is sitting on wikidot.com, and not on dev-urandom.com anymore, I

Correct way to configure an IP range for firewall

2009-09-09 Thread Maxim Khitrov
Hello all, A quick question - I have a /29 block of IPs that needs to be handled by a firewall I'm setting up. Two addresses are lost to broadcast and network, one is the ISP gateway, so we end up with 5 usable IPs that can be assigned to the external interface. The question is how to do this corr

Re: Custom ISOs

2009-09-09 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Al Plant wrote: > Manolis Kiagias wrote: >> Tim Judd wrote: >>> I'm not sure if this is normal or not, but I'm getting <5.0KB/sec for >>> two separate downloads each download speed for both the XFCE and Gnome >>> DVD ISOs. >>> >>> >> >> Weird... >>> I am aware that the site is sitting on wikidot

Re: Correct way to configure an IP range for firewall

2009-09-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
Maxim Khitrov wrote: Am I correct in assuming that I just need to add four ifconfig_vr0_alias[0-3] lines to rc.conf? What happens if in the future we get a much bigger IP block, is there a more efficient way of accomplishing the same thing? I don't actually want the firewall to consider itself t

Re: Correct way to configure an IP range for firewall

2009-09-09 Thread Al Plant
Maxim Khitrov wrote: Hello all, A quick question - I have a /29 block of IPs that needs to be handled by a firewall I'm setting up. Two addresses are lost to broadcast and network, one is the ISP gateway, so we end up with 5 usable IPs that can be assigned to the external interface. The question

Re: Custom ISOs

2009-09-09 Thread Tim Judd
On 9/9/09, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > Al Plant wrote: >> Manolis Kiagias wrote: >>> Tim Judd wrote: I'm not sure if this is normal or not, but I'm getting <5.0KB/sec for two separate downloads each download speed for both the XFCE and Gnome DVD ISOs. >>> >>> Weird... I

Re: netbooks for freebsd?

2009-09-09 Thread Steve Franks
> I like my s10e too - but remember I don't have native wireless, I'm using > ndis. There are also some acpi glitches which the currently available patch > only partially resolves. re: acpi patch: Fascinating - now it reboots instead of hanginggonna try current one of these days... As far a

are there any notebooks with mouse-sticks?

2009-09-09 Thread Gary Kline
I'm looking for a small computer, 7-10" screen that has a ThinkPad-like stick to act as the mouse. Pref'ly, no touch-pad. The ASUS and just about every other notebook-size device has this kind of scratch-n-sniff pad; unfortunately, it looks as tho my palm would go there. (I *did* see a separa

Sound in FreeBSD

2009-09-09 Thread Алексей Михайлович
I want play *.mp3 in to FreeBSD My system data uname -a: 6.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE #0: Wed Nov 26 11:43:51 UTC 2008 r...@dessler.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 my sound driver: snd_hda $ cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Installed devi

Re: Sound in FreeBSD

2009-09-09 Thread Glen Barber
Hi. 2009/9/9 Алексей Михайлович : > I want play *.mp3 in to FreeBSD > > My system data > uname -a: >  6.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE #0: Wed Nov 26 11:43:51 UTC 2008     > r...@dessler.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386 > > my sound driver: >    snd_hda > >    $ cat /dev/sndstat

Re: are there any notebooks with mouse-sticks?

2009-09-09 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 02:08:36PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > I'm looking for a small computer, 7-10" screen that has a ThinkPad-like stick > to act as the mouse. Pref'ly, no touch-pad. The ASUS and just about every > other > notebook-size device has this kind of scratch-n-sniff pad; unfortun

Re: are there any notebooks with mouse-sticks?

2009-09-09 Thread Al Plant
Chad Perrin wrote: On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 02:08:36PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: I'm looking for a small computer, 7-10" screen that has a ThinkPad-like stick to act as the mouse. Pref'ly, no touch-pad. The ASUS and just about every other notebook-size device has this kind of scratch-n-sniff pa

DVD-R not recording .iso

2009-09-09 Thread Al Plant
Aloha, on FreeBSD 8 Current I have installed growisofs. I want to burn a DVD R of /path/7.2-RELEASE-p1-i386-disc1.iso . #growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/cd0=/path/7.2-RELEASE-p1-i386-disc1.iso . Got this from FreeBSD handbook. Get no such file or directory error. Whats wrong with the syntax?

Re: DVD-R not recording .iso

2009-09-09 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Al Plant wrote: > Aloha, > > on FreeBSD 8 Current > > I have installed growisofs. I want to burn a DVD R of > /path/7.2-RELEASE-p1-i386-disc1.iso . > > #growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/cd0=/path/7.2-RELEASE-p1-i386-disc1.iso . > > Got this from FreeBSD handbook. Get

Re: DVD-R not recording .iso

2009-09-09 Thread Chris Hill
On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Al Plant wrote: Aloha, on FreeBSD 8 Current I have installed growisofs. I want to burn a DVD R of /path/7.2-RELEASE-p1-i386-disc1.iso . #growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/cd0=/path/7.2-RELEASE-p1-i386-disc1.iso . Got this from FreeBSD handbook. Get no such file or directory

7.2-RELEASE/amd64 - weird stuff in dmesg

2009-09-09 Thread Alex R
Hi everyone, I was wondering whether anyone could shed some light on the following messages I am seeing in dmesg: <<33>>aarrpp:: uunnkknnoowwnn hhaarrddwwaarree aaress format (0x) ress format (0x) arp: unakrnpo:w nu nhkanrodwwna rhea raddwdarrees sa dfdorre

Re: are there any notebooks with mouse-sticks?

2009-09-09 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 02:50:01PM -1000, Al Plant wrote: > Chad Perrin wrote: > >On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 02:08:36PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > >>I'm looking for a small computer, 7-10" screen that has a ThinkPad-like > >>stick > >>to act as the mouse. Pref'ly, no touch-pad. The ASUS and just ab

Re: are there any notebooks with mouse-sticks?

2009-09-09 Thread Al Plant
Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 02:50:01PM -1000, Al Plant wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 02:08:36PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: I'm looking for a small computer, 7-10" screen that has a ThinkPad-like stick to act as the mouse. Pref'ly, no touch-pad. The ASUS and ju

Re: are there any notebooks with mouse-sticks?

2009-09-09 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 05:27:12PM -1000, Al Plant wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > > > Aloha, > I dont use the keypad at all. Keys and Mouse only. > > The HP Mini touchpad is centered below the keyboard, but the keyboard > had regular sized keys which is good. I think if you have a wireless > mouse