Re: ipfw nat inbound keep-state with net.inet.ip.fw.one_pass=0

On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, umage wrote: > Some points: > 1) I did use the handbook as reference, and my ruleset mimics the layout used > there. Excuse the late response, I've been away. The best reference, apart from ipfw(8), is /etc/rc.firewall. 'Nuff said. > 2) Handbook uses divert natd, whic

Re: gpu support for modern systems

On Thu Jun 23 11, Christopher Bergström wrote: > On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Alexander Best wrote: > > hi there, > > > > modern systems with their suffisticated gpus provide quite a potential for > > moving some of the workload from cpu to gpu. for certain stuff gpus are much > > faster than

Re: gpu support for modern systems

On 06/25/11 05:45 PM, Alexander Best wrote: On Thu Jun 23 11, Christopher Bergström wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Alexander Best wrote: hi there, modern systems with their suffisticated gpus provide quite a potential for moving some of the workload from cpu to gpu. for certain stuf

Re: gpu support for modern systems

On Sat Jun 25 11, "C. Bergström" wrote: > On 06/25/11 05:45 PM, Alexander Best wrote: > >On Thu Jun 23 11, Christopher Bergström wrote: > >>On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Alexander Best > >>wrote: > >>>hi there, > >>> > >>>modern systems with their suffisticated gpus provide quite a potential

Re: NFS zfs serveur (hardware question)

On 06/24/11 10:17, David Brodbeck wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: >> As a rule of thumb and for a serious server, I would recommend 1 SSD as >> dedicated cache and 2 SSD for a mirrored ZIL (you don't want to lose this >> data). >> However I think ppl posted about

gpart

OK, I follow the manual but still... I have a disk fo 20Gb I create a GPT table for the whole disk on it: # gpart create -s gpt /dev/md0 -> md0 created # gpart show md0 34 8573 md0 GPT (4.2M) Only 4 Mb?? Not really what I wanted. Anyone an idea of why the whole disk is nog used? What am I do

Re: gpart

Op 25-6-2011 15:14 schreef Dick Hoogendijk: OK, I follow the manual but still... I have a disk fo 20Gb I create a GPT table for the whole disk on it: # gpart create -s gpt /dev/md0 -> md0 created # gpart show md0 34 8573 md0 GPT (4.2M) Only 4 Mb?? Not really what I wanted. Anyone an idea of w

Re: FreeBSD ZFS system

Op 23-6-2011 9:35 schreef Valentin Bud: On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Dick Hoogendijk > wrote: OK, it works very well. Installing a ZFS FreeBSD system with an ufs /boot is very very easy using the PC-BSD DVD. However, I have one question: I'd like to i

Re: SAS controller for FreeBSD

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 06:51:37PM -0400, Daniel Feenberg wrote: > > We have been using ZFS under FreeBSD for a while, and are very pleased, > but are considering building a system with SAS drives, in the hope that > they will be faster (any truth to that?). I am assuming that I should look > f

Re: FreeBSD ZFS system

On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > ** > Op 23-6-2011 9:35 schreef Valentin Bud: > > On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > >> OK, it works very well. Installing a ZFS FreeBSD system with an ufs /boot >> is very very easy using the PC-BSD DVD. >> However

[dtrace] attaching to a PID

Does anyone else see the following crash? $ sh -c 'sleep 60& dtrace -P syscall -p $!' dtrace: description 'syscall' matched 2092 probes Assertion failed: (dpr != NULL), file .../cddl/contrib/opensolaris/lib/libdtrace/common/dt_proc.c, line 751. Exit 134 Also triggers without specifying

Performance of a USB ZIL for ZFS

I was wondering if anyone had tried using a decent USB flash drive for the ZIL. I know it'd be hard finding one fast enough, but some from patriot seem like they might be suitable for home use. Part of the idea is to just minimize hard drive thrashing and the wear and tear associated with it.

Enlightenment error after update some relative ports

Today I updated some relative ports with enlightenment like ecore-*. When starting X, the screen turn to console after enlightenment splash screen show. The error is "Enlightenment cannot initialize the FDO desktop system. Perhaps you are out of memory?" "out of memory" is impossible. I try to rebo

Re: SAS controller for FreeBSD

On Sat, 25 Jun 2011, Leon Meßner wrote: On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 06:51:37PM -0400, Daniel Feenberg wrote: ... There are some SAS RAID controllers that claim to support FreeBSD but I can't tell if their JBOD mode is a true pass-through, or leaves some undesirable junk on the disk. So does a

Re: SAS controller for FreeBSD

On 6/25/11 3:47 PM, "Daniel Feenberg" wrote: >All the cards on the LSI website that I can find using the SAS2008 chipset >include the sentence "Integrated RAID avoids additional host CPU overhead" >in their brief description, even the ones labeled "HBA". There are two different firmware options.

Re: Where to download latest FreeBSD snapshots

Hiroki Sato writes: > Hello, > > dave jones wrote > in : > > s.> It seems that allbsd.org is up, but I can't find the HEAD snapshots, > s.> only RELENG. > s.> Would you like to build HEAD snapshots? Thank you very much. > > Building snapshots of HEAD and RELENG_[67] are temporarily disabled >

Re: pkg-config --cflags glib-2.0 gives wrong -I dir

In the last episode (Jun 25), Matthias Apitz said: > Why gives > > $ pkg-config --cflags glib-2.0 > -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include > > $ ls -ld /usr/local/include/glib-2.0 /usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include > ls: /usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include: No such file or dir

Re: FreeBSD ZFS system

On 25 Jun 2011, at 16:39, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > Op 23-6-2011 9:35 schreef Valentin Bud: >> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Dick Hoogendijk > > wrote: >> >>OK, it works very well. Installing a ZFS FreeBSD system with an >>ufs /boot is very very easy using the P

Re: Performance of a USB ZIL for ZFS

On 25 Jun 2011, at 19:17, Joshua Isom wrote: > I was wondering if anyone had tried using a decent USB flash drive for the > ZIL. I know it'd be hard finding one fast enough, but some from patriot seem > like they might be suitable for home use. Part of the idea is to just > minimize hard dri

Re: Performance of a USB ZIL for ZFS

On 6/25/2011 9:32 PM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 25 Jun 2011, at 19:17, Joshua Isom wrote: I was wondering if anyone had tried using a decent USB flash drive for the ZIL. I know it'd be hard finding one fast enough, but some from patriot seem like they might be suitable for home use. Part o

Re: NFS zfs serveur (hardware question)

On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 5:07 AM, Peter Toth wrote: > There is still a way to increase NFS performance in 9.0 (without a ZIL > SSD) by setting zfs property "sync=disabled", which will disable > synchronous writes - comes with some risks, research it before switching > it off. Also, this will only d