Re: Why 7.0 is so late ?

2007-10-17 Thread Ivan Voras
Gueven Bay wrote: > So, but the original question was : What is not working _now_ at this > moment so that 7 cannot be released _now_ ? I can think of several issues of the top of my head: - rt_check bug in network routing causes panics under certain circumnstances (my favorite) - ZFS relativel

Re: Why 7.0 is so late ?

2007-10-17 Thread Ivan Voras
On 17/10/2007, Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are just many of us who would like a little more ongoing information > on how it is going - such as what you give above, plus maybe an occasional > guess update. You can get all that information by monitoring the developer mailing

Re: Storage cluster with FreeBSD

2007-10-27 Thread Ivan Voras
Norberto Meijome wrote: > indeed. Well, as I said in OP, similar to what Lustre offers. I don't know what Lustre has so my response might or might not be what you need... > Let's see : what I am after is a way to hook up a few computers ( say, 6) with > a few HD (say, 6 x 400 GB), and setup a

Re: Fw: Best way for a gmirrored gjournal?

2007-10-30 Thread Ivan Voras
Patrick Hurrelmann wrote: > I kindly ask you for your ideas and proposals on my questions below. Some of the questions seem a bit confused. > The server in question is a amd64 with 512mb of ram and 2x 80gb sata > hdds. So I was thinking of a mount-point layout like the following: > > ad0s1 >

Re: ipfw -- why need to let icmp out that I already let in?

2007-10-30 Thread Ivan Voras
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > add 10510 allow icmp from any to any out via oif() keep-state I don't think ICMP is stateful :) You need both in and out rules for ICMP because the logical responses to packets can't be reliably connected into a single communication. signature.asc Description: Open

Re: Virtualization

2007-10-30 Thread Ivan Voras
Bart Silverstrim wrote: > I was curious with the information coming out regarding FreeBSD 7 what > option are available for virtualizing other OS's using FreeBSD as a host. Extremely limited. > I've been running several servers (Windows of various versions and a > Linux system) as virtual machine

Re: Virtualization

2007-10-31 Thread Ivan Voras
On 31/10/2007, Erik Osterholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 11:57:20PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: > > There's a donation box on > > http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/2007cb.html for developers to get > > VMWare Workstation working on FreeB

Re: Problem with Apache22

2007-11-01 Thread Ivan Voras
Peter Uthoff wrote: > Hello, > > I have a problem where my Apache procs are dying almost exactly every > ten > minutes as you can from the messages and web logs below: > > Oct 25 10:34:44 kernel: pid 66337 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 4 Signal 4 is "illegal instruction", it might be caused

Re: Extended FreeBSD licens

2007-11-14 Thread Ivan Voras
Rico Secada wrote: > Hi. > > Would it be possible for someone to add some conditions to the FreeBSD > licens and then call it his extended FreeBSD licens? > > I mean would that be legally binding if he provided that licens with > software he developed? You can modify the license any way you want

Re: FreeBSD cache memory allocation

2007-11-14 Thread Ivan Voras
icantthinkofone wrote: > Someone I can't stand said this about FreeBSD. Though I know C, I don't > know anything about it and would love to respond. > [QUOTE]The kernel is really lacking some features. They need a method to > set precise type of memory cache but BSD doesn't provide way to specify

Re: What server for a mail server

2007-11-14 Thread Ivan Voras
Olivier Nicole wrote: > Hi, > > I have a project where I should set-up a mail server for approximately > 12000 users, 4000 virtual domains, 15000 messages per day, 700 MB > traffic per day. Depending on how you interpret this information, its load is not that high - this amounts to something like

Re: FreeBSD-7.0-Beta2 (i386) on Opteron?

2007-11-15 Thread Ivan Voras
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > >> Sounds like you might have a corrupted installation. Did you >> verify the MD5 checksum on the ISO images? > This is completely off topic but MD5 is not secure: > http://www.infosec.sdu.edu.cn/paper/md5-attack.pdf > > Similar weaknesses have been found in the entire

Re: How to set maximum disk cache size?

2007-11-16 Thread Ivan Voras
On 16/11/2007, Laszlo Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ivan Voras wrote: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/vm-fileio.html > > > I read this too but I don't understand. Too difficult for me. > > So what is the answer? Do I need

Re: How to set maximum disk cache size?

2007-11-16 Thread Ivan Voras
Bruce Cran wrote: > Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> Laszlo wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> Is there a way (sysctl?) to tell FreeBSD (6.2 RELEASE) how many >>> memory can it use for caching file data from disk? >>> >>> It might be that FreeBSD will use all available RAM, and reduce the >>> cache >> it already

Re: How to set maximum disk cache size?

2007-11-17 Thread Ivan Voras
On 17/11/2007, Bruce Cran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ivan Voras wrote: > > On 16/11/2007, Laszlo Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Ivan Voras wrote: > > > >>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/vm-fileio.html > &

Re: rsync to lacie disk (via samba?)

2007-11-21 Thread Ivan Voras
Jerahmy Pocott wrote: > Hello, > > I'm wanting to use rsync from FreeBSD to some lacie ethernet disks, > they have a number of access options including ftp and windows > file sharing.. > > Would mounting the shares with samba then using rsync on the mounted > samba share as though it was syncing

Re: stability of FreeBSD 7 Beta 3?

2007-11-25 Thread Ivan Voras
Dave wrote: > Hello, >How stable is FreeBSD 7 Beta 3? Is it near production are their any > outstanding issues? Probably no major bugs will be fixed between now and 7.0 so you might as well start using it now. It's "stable enough" like all .0 releases, meaning you should throughly test it for

Re: stability of FreeBSD 7 Beta 3?

2007-11-26 Thread Ivan Voras
Tore Lund wrote: > Ivan Voras wrote: >> Dave wrote: >>> Hello, >>>How stable is FreeBSD 7 Beta 3? Is it near production are their any >>> outstanding issues? >> Probably no major bugs will be fixed between now and 7.0 so you might as >> well sta

Re: Help for very bad perf for MySQL

2007-11-26 Thread Ivan Voras
Albert Shih wrote: > Hi all > > I've already send a message. But I don't receive any answer :-(. I try again > and hope there more solution > > I've a bi-proc single core Xeon 3.2ghz with FreeBSD 6.2, I'm running Mysql > 5.X on this server and the performance of MySQL is very bad. For some > com

Re: Upper limit on make -j ?

2007-11-27 Thread Ivan Voras
Aryeh Friedman wrote: > Before I file a PR I just want to know if it is worth it to file a PR for: > > make -j1000 buildworld buildkernel installkernel > seg faulting Yes it is. Like others said, obtain as much information about the problem as you can (backtraces). Try to discover if it fails in

Re: Advanced Routing/Firewall Interface Options for FreeBSD 7

2007-11-28 Thread Ivan Voras
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > FreeBSD 7 supports ZFS. From there, NFS and Samba are easy. I've been > using Solaris for this, but it's rather archaic in many ways, and the > only reason I use it is for the stable ZFS support. Everything else in > Solaris - given my needs - is a poor match. People ha

Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )

2007-12-06 Thread Ivan Voras
Randy Ramsdell wrote: > We started using FreeBSD for some network monitoring, but have found > that a hard reboot forces us to answer filesytem questions on boot. Is > there a way to mount each filesystem without this? Or how can we use > FreeBSD in a remote location without needing to intervene in

Re: FreeBSD on a PC with Windows

2007-12-07 Thread Ivan Voras
David Morton wrote: > Anyway, I have a laptop preinstalled with Vista Home Premium and I would > like to also run BSD on it. In reading your installation documentation, I > do not see anything that suggests I can install FreeBSD onto my PC without > wiping Windows. There are several ways to do i

Re: Skype problem - followup

2007-12-13 Thread Ivan Voras
AN wrote: > PS: I see the following coming from tcpdump: > > 14:46:08.651647 IP amd64X2.foo.bar.59321 > sss1.skype.net.33033: UDP, > length 18 > 14:46:08.833159 IP sss1.skype.net > amd64X2.foo.bar: ICMP sss1.skype.net > udp port 33033 unreachable, length 36 > 14:46:12.702939 IP amd64X2.foo.bar.5

Re: pc with 4G memory

2008-09-14 Thread Ivan Voras
gahn wrote: > hello: > > the machine i am using for freebsd has 4G memory. should i add follow lines > in my customized kernel file?: > > # Compile acpi in statically since the module isn't built properly. Most > # machines which support large amounts of memory require acpi. > device a

Re: x3550 ServeRAID-8k and FBSD 7, group limit

2008-09-14 Thread Ivan Voras
Yury Michurin wrote: > We are currently considering to purchase IBM x3550 with ServeRAID-8k, in > order to run FreeBSD 7 with RAID5, > but it is very unclear from what I've saw on the Internet, whether the > driver support on FreeBSD is stable enough for production use, I've never had problems wit

Re: server is crashing constantly

2008-09-14 Thread Ivan Voras
Jonathan Horne wrote: > I have a new web server for a moderately high traffic website that i have > recently deployed for a friend. it has apache22, php5, and mysql50 on it > (latest from ports). this server is crashing 2-3 times a day, and thus far i > have no idea where to start troubleshoot

Re: pc with 4G memory

2008-09-18 Thread Ivan Voras
2008/9/18 Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Ivan Voras wrote: >> >> * Use a PAE kernel, which works fairly well, but doesn't support kernel >> modules (if you are not familiar with kernel modules then you probably >> don't need them so

Re: freeBSD 7.0 supports ACE Proactor?

2008-09-18 Thread Ivan Voras
Mungyung Ryu wrote: > Hi freeBSD users, > > I've developed couple of server applications on Windows platform with ACE > Proactor > and it worked quite well. But, because of the expensive Windows Server, > I wanna move to Linux or freeBSD. > > Recently, I'm considering to build a server applicati

Re: pc with 4G memory

2008-09-18 Thread Ivan Voras
2008/9/18 Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> # Don't build modules with this kernel config, since they are not built >> with >> # the correct options headers. >> makeoptions NO_MODULES=yes >> """ >> >> wrong? > > Not as such, but if you use buildkernel then modules *are* built with the > co

Re: kernel upgrades

2008-09-19 Thread Ivan Voras
Joe Tseng wrote: > I'm still new to FreeBSD (coming from CentOS/Ubuntu) so this might be > something totally obvious to others... I know I can update ports by using > portsnap fetch/extract/update - does this update the kernel source as well? No, you need to do two things: 1) copy /usr/share/exa

Re: pc with 4G memory

2008-09-22 Thread Ivan Voras
2008/9/18 Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/9/18 Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>> # Don't build modules with this kernel config, since they are not built >>> with >>> # the correct options headers. >>> makeoptions NO_MODUL

Re: dovecot, maildir, UFS 2 performance

2008-09-24 Thread Ivan Voras
Laszlo Nagy wrote: The secondary task for this server is to be an IMAP and mail server. We will be using dovecot, and shared maildir folders with ten thousands of messages. I'm not sure where to put the maildir folders, and what options to use for the filesystem. Dovecot wiki is not talking ab

Re: Upgrade to rel 7.0 broke SSH

2008-09-24 Thread Ivan Voras
Olaf Courtney wrote: > Hello and greetings from Newbyville, > > I recently upgraded from FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE to 7.0-RELEASE-p4, and now SSH > is broken. Other important services (chiefly SAMBA) are working properly. > From the FreeBSD server I can successfull SSH and SFTP to the localhost > (

Process memory inspection

2008-10-01 Thread Ivan Voras
Hi, The top utility has SIZE and RES, but doesn't have what part of SIZE is sysv shared memory. Is there something that can print out in detail how a process uses / allocates its memory (I'm specifically interested in sysvshm but there's also the stack & mmap)? __

Re: Weird FS behavior tru FTP on CD9660

2008-10-08 Thread Ivan Voras
Sdävtaker wrote: > Hey, > I found a weird situation today, > I mounted a DVD with the mount_cd9660 and accessed it through > "filezilla". I got 2 times every file in the list, go back to the > original Pc and checked with "ls" and they appear only once. :-/ > Im using last version Filezilla in MSW,

Re: performance problem in regex

2008-10-09 Thread Ivan Voras
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > I've got some performance hit using regex in libc on freebsd 6.3. I've > done some test whit the patterns that l7-filter [http://l7-filter.sf.net] use > to recognize level 7 internet protocol. For example, with the skypeout > pattern, > regexec() takes more

Re: VLAN filtering on FreeBSD 7.0 / 6.3

2008-10-28 Thread Ivan Voras
Yony Yossef wrote: > Hi, > > I have two questions about VLANs on FreeBSD 6.3/7.0. > > 1. > I'm trying to understand whether HW VLAN filtering can be supported. > Looking at the code I can't find a proper ioctl that will inform the driver > about a vlan creation/destruction. > Is there a way of do

Re: iSCSI support

2008-10-30 Thread Ivan Voras
Jeff Chen - PTT 陳龍焜 wrote: > Hi, > My company is a storage RAID system company. There is one customer ask iSCSI > solution with my production of my company with FreeBSD 6.1. But I found some > information in the Internet, the iSCSI full support on FreeBSD is 7.0. Is it > mean FreeBSD 6.1 can’t s

Re: fastest raw device copy?

2008-10-31 Thread Ivan Voras
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 09:48:16AM +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote: >> What would be the fastest way to do that sector by sector copy? I'm >> using dd right now, >> >> dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/da0 bs=1000 > On the flip side, your blocksize (bs) there is quite high for

Re: fastest raw device copy?

2008-10-31 Thread Ivan Voras
Christoph Kukulies wrote: > OK, I understand that 1000 isn't good, I just thought it wouldn't > harm. But if it is a transfer rate killer then I'd better think of > typing ^C now. The command is running for 6 hours now. No, with a size that isn't a multiple of sector sizes your transferred da

Re: 128 Bucket Failures?

2008-11-13 Thread Ivan Voras
Chris Pratt wrote: > I have asked this before a couple of years ago but received no > replies. I assumed that's because it's a somewhat obscure question. > I'm still interested and thought I might try again in case someone > new is watching this list who might know. > > A vmstat -z on my highest t

Re: FreeBSD not stable enough for Xen?

2008-11-14 Thread Ivan Voras
Redd Vinylene wrote: > Hello hello. I want this hosting company to offer FreeBSD but they > claim it's not yet stable enough for their Xen setup. Is there > anything I can do to prove them wrong? No. Xen work is highly experimental even in -CURRENT. It *can* be used, and people have successfully

Re: php5 Only IE Users can View Pages.

2008-11-15 Thread Ivan Voras
Martin McCormick wrote: > I inherited a mrtg application thatnow is running on a > FreeBSD6.3 system. Clients report that one can see the php pages > when using Internet Explorer but not other browsers that should > display the pages. Those customers see raw code. > > Any suggestion as

Re: ZFS over iSCSI anyone ?

2008-11-17 Thread Ivan Voras
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 03:44:23PM +0100, Frank Bonnet wrote: >> Hello >> >> Does anyone has tried to use ZFS over iSCSI ? > > Another FreeBSD user recently brought to my attention problems with > iSCSI on FreeBSD. There is a patch available which fixes the issue, but > I

Re: ZFS over iSCSI anyone ?

2008-11-17 Thread Ivan Voras
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 04:29:06PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: >> Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >>> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 03:44:23PM +0100, Frank Bonnet wrote: >>>> Hello >>>> >>>> Does anyone has tried to use ZFS over i

Re: PEA kernel in FreeBSD 7.0

2008-11-19 Thread Ivan Voras
Olivier Nicole wrote: > Hi, > > I am about to install few brand new servers, each with 8GB RAM. > > If I choose to use 7.0, will I have to use PEA kernel to be able to > access the total memory? Yes if you want to use the 32-bit version of FreeBSD. Use a 64-bit version instead. signature.asc

Re: realtime network replication

2008-11-19 Thread Ivan Voras
Ansar Mohammed wrote: > Hello all, > > I need to replicate /home between two freebsd servers in real time (no > scheduled rsyncs) > > > > What are my options? Maybe the best option for you would be http://www.furquim.org/chironfs/index.en.html used in combination with NFS. It's available as

Re: PHP Session Support in /tmp

2008-11-23 Thread Ivan Voras
APseudoUtopia wrote: > Hey. > > PHP stores session data for the 'file' handler in /tmp, by default. > For organizational purposes, I'd like to change this to something like > /tmp/php_sessions/ or so. However, I have the clear_tmp_enable feature > enabled, so /tmp is cleared on reboot. PHP wont cr

Re: Analysing VMcore files.

2008-11-24 Thread Ivan Voras
Simon Burke wrote: > I am currently running FreeBSD 7.0 as my desktop OS, and I have a need to > analyse VWCores from a RedHat ES system. > Knowing very little about analysing dumps, is it possible to do this? or > would I have to set up a more comparable environment? In theory, you could set up a

Re: ZFS over iSCSI anyone ?

2008-11-25 Thread Ivan Voras
Ivan Voras wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 04:29:06PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: >>> Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >>>> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 03:44:23PM +0100, Frank Bonnet wrote: >>>>> Hello >>>>> >>>>&

Re: ZFS over iSCSI anyone ?

2008-11-25 Thread Ivan Voras
2008/11/26 Frank Bonnet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Well good news ! it seems to be integrated inside > operating system isn't it ? Yes, the patch is for -CURRENT (which means it will be present in the 8.0 release; bug the developers if you need it earlier). ___

Re: APIC error

2008-11-27 Thread Ivan Voras
Da Rock wrote: > I know the system is failing because I'm getting usb enumeration errors > (something that has come up twice before on dying systems, and has > disappeared as soon as I bought a new one), plus acpi errors in the form > of being unable to attach device data. > > I understand this s

Re: APIC error

2008-11-27 Thread Ivan Voras
Da Rock wrote: > Would this be in the cpu itself or in the mainboard (best guess)? If its > the cpu it could be from overheating (could the cpu alone cause all > these errors?), but mainboard would mean an inherent communication > problem wouldn't it? If you can look up the CPU temperature in you

Re: repair v.7 installation

2008-11-28 Thread Ivan Voras
PJ wrote: > I believe that my installation should be salvageable but I do not know > how to phrase my search question. > Here is the problem: > Apparently due to some connector problem in the computer one or some > files were damaged. I ran a regenerating program on the disk and all > sectors are r

Re: Pasting via ssh causes data loss

2008-11-30 Thread Ivan Voras
Eugene Pimenov wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm not really sure weither it's related to freebsd or ssh. > > When I paste a lot of data (6060 bytes, 60 lines 100 bytes each + ‘\n’) > via ssh into `cat > test.txt` or the small program, one freebsd receives > 5181, another receives 3221 bytes. I re

Re: Pasting via ssh causes data loss

2008-12-01 Thread Ivan Voras
Chris wrote: > a cat >testfile then pasted through an ssh terminal.app connection over > satellite (very > bad connection) into a FreeBSD 7.0 box I built in the last month. At Btw. lousy connections don't come into this as SSH does HMAC checking on the data - i.e. even if you somehow managed to l

Re: RAID5 on FreeBSD 6 or 7

2008-12-01 Thread Ivan Voras
Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> fast, though. See it's page on Wikipedia for more info. I'd use it >> more if it >> was part of official FreeBSD release, but for now it is only available >> as a >> patch (AFAIK). > > which is strange. someone don't like RAID5 to be included in system? I'd like to see

Re: Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-01 Thread Ivan Voras
Kirk Strauser wrote: > At this point, I'm almost ready to go back to good ol' UFS2, but I'd hate to > give up that easy addition of new filesystems. I *could* have a single 700GB > root FS but that just doesn't seem right. Are there any good, tested GEOM- > based ways of getting that functiona

Re: Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-02 Thread Ivan Voras
2008/12/2 Nathan Lay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > What about DragonFlyBSD's new HAMMER FS? I hear it has similar capabilities > as ZFS without the overhead. Though, strangely, I haven't really heard > anyone discuss it even though it was released some months ago. Well, that's because it doesn't :) __

Re: Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-02 Thread Ivan Voras
Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> >> It's already usable on DragonFly. DragonFLY itself is stable, but only >> supports one CPUIt probably will never be ported to FreeBSD due to >> API differences. > > time to wait and see if they will really make dragonfly faster than > FreeBSD (it's their goal)... http

Re: Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-02 Thread Ivan Voras
Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> >>> What about DragonFlyBSD's new HAMMER FS? I hear it has similar >>> capabilities >>> as ZFS without the overhead. Though, strangely, I haven't really heard >>> anyone discuss it even though it was released some months ago. > > it's maybe pre-pre-prerelease. > > it's

Re: Best Journaling File System - ZFS/???

2008-12-03 Thread Ivan Voras
Wojciech Puchar wrote: >>> what file system would you choose? What options are out there besides >>> UFS and ZFS? What FS's are least likely to have corruption issues >>> when there are power hits? >> >> May be UFS + gjournal. >> I use gjournal since FreeBSD 7.0 and it seems to work fine. > is it r

Re: Tool for benchmark local disk vs. iSCSI

2008-12-04 Thread Ivan Voras
Ewald Jenisch wrote: > Hi, > > To gain an understanding on the performance of iSCSI vs. local disk IO > I'm looking for a tool. > > My first thought was about "iozone"... iozone is ok, but a little complex to run. Any disk benchmark will be ok - bonnie++, blogbench, etc. but each has an emphasis

Re: Tool for benchmark local disk vs. iSCSI

2008-12-04 Thread Ivan Voras
Wojciech Puchar wrote: >>> >>> My first thought was about "iozone"... >> >> iozone is ok, but a little complex to run. Any disk benchmark will be ok >> - bonnie++, blogbench, etc. but each has an emphasis on a different >> aspect of the system. I think bonnie++ will be the simplest in your case. >

Re: what script is whacking root's files

2008-12-04 Thread Ivan Voras
Derek Ragona wrote: > This particular server is running in a VM on a vmware esx 3.5 server. > The server runs fine, but every so often the dot files disappear for > root. I have not found the behavior to follow a reboot, but some period > of time. Hence my suspicions it was a periodic script. >

Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0?

2009-11-30 Thread Ivan Voras
Thomas Backman wrote: On Nov 30, 2009, at 9:47 AM, O. Hartmann wrote: I'm just wondering what's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0/amd64 when I read the Benchmarks on Phoronix.org's website. Especially FreeBSD's threaded I/O shows in contrast to all claims that have been to be improoved the opposite. Co

Re: 2 processes reproducible read same file with different speed

2009-11-30 Thread Ivan Voras
cronfy wrote: Hello. I've noticed a very weird behavior of 2 Apache processes that shold read the same file to process a request (they configured to read it on every request). One spends about 6ms to read the file, and second spends about 114ms (I used ktrace to find this out). Every time, on

Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0?

2009-11-30 Thread Ivan Voras
Holger Kipp wrote: On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 02:49:17PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: On the other hand, random IO is negatively influenced by readahead :) Parallel Random I/O gives better results on Raid 5 than a single sequential read :-) I also found FreeBSD UFS with Softupdates handling

Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0?

2009-11-30 Thread Ivan Voras
Robert Huff wrote: Bill Moran writes: It's common knowledge that the default value for vfs.read_max is non- optimal for most hardware and that significant performance improvements can be made in most cases by raising it. Documentation/discussion where? There is no documentation e

Re: tcp delays in jails

2009-12-01 Thread Ivan Voras
William Taylor wrote: I recently started having a problem with tcp connections in one of my jails. Im running 4.9-stable I guess it will not do any good to tell you to upgrade to 8.0? :) both sendmail and perdition experience the same problem. I even tried stopping everything on the box and t

Re: FreeBSD is too filesystem errors sensitive

2009-12-08 Thread Ivan Voras
cronfy wrote: Hello. Please forgive me for probably a very stupid question. But why is FreeBSD so sensitive to filesystem errors that it ends up with panics like 'freeing free block' or 'ffs_valloc: dup alloc'? I just can't get it. Failed to allocate vnode? Go allocate another one! Freeing fr

Re: Intel SRCZCR ?

2009-12-09 Thread Ivan Voras
Julien Cigar wrote: Hello, At work we've a machine which is currently running FreeBSD 7.0 and we would like to upgrade to 7.2 This machine has an esoteric embedded RAID controller, the "Intel SRCZCR RAID adapter". When I installed the machine one year ago I read the RELEASE Hardware Notes

Re: XFCE4 Errors on FreeBSD 8.0 RELEASE

2009-12-11 Thread Ivan Voras
Diego Montalvo wrote: Warren, Got XFCE4 installed after a get amount of tweaking. It turns out Portsnap did not update all the appropriate files so installed "portupgrade" and did a portupgrade glib. Glib was not the current version needed for "usr/ports/x11-wm/xfce4". After the portupgrade "m

Re: snapshot rsync dump/restore

2009-12-17 Thread Ivan Voras
n dhert wrote: I was told one could do this using rsync and by using a snapshot it would even be faster (?) Also try http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-que

Re: kernel: g_vfs_done error = 5 and initiate_write_inodeblock_ufs2: already started (panic)

2009-12-17 Thread Ivan Voras
Bas Smeelen wrote: Hi, We have a FreeBSD 7.2 Release amd64 running at a customers site in a vmware esx 3.5 environment with a san. This server is sometimes throwing errors and sometimes panicing or locking up in ways I have not seen before. I would say this has something to do with a failing dis

Re: ifdown/ifup under FreeBSD?

2009-12-17 Thread Ivan Voras
Sandra Kachelmann wrote: $ /etc/rc.d/netif restart but that just ended in errors that the route was already configured and so on. Sure I could do all the work manually with ifconfig and route but that's not my question. Maybe you also need "/etc/rc.d/routing restart"? __

Re: kernel: g_vfs_done error = 5 and initiate_write_inodeblock_ufs2: already started (panic)

2009-12-17 Thread Ivan Voras
Bas Smeelen wrote: So basically it would be advisable to recommend to look in the vmkernel and san logs around the same timestamps as I see this happening in the FreeBSD guest? Yes, try that. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lis

Re: Confusion About "FreeBSD now supports host and guest modes in VirtualBox"

2009-12-18 Thread Ivan Voras
Ryan Ware wrote: Maybe someone here can distribute some enlightenment. In the press release for 8.0 it says, "FreeBSD now supports host and guest modes in VirtualBox". I understand what the host mode support is with the VirtualBox port. What I don't understand is what support for guest mode

Re: Geom not found, disaster recovery plan on FREEBSD 7.2 STABLE

2009-12-18 Thread Ivan Voras
Jeronimo Calvo wrote: Ho folks, As a plan for a recovery planing due to a crash on a kernel Update, when restarted I used to have F1 Freebsd and F2 Other, I choosed F2 wich seems to belong to an old linux installation and a Grub-error pop up, after restarting again, Freebsd completly dissapear b

Re: Geom not found, disaster recovery plan on FREEBSD 7.2 STABLE

2009-12-18 Thread Ivan Voras
2009/12/18 Jeronimo Calvo : > Hi, how can i change that value on the MBR? You can try reading this: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?fdisk Search for "active slice". > 2009/12/18 Ivan Voras : >> Jeronimo Calvo wrote: >>> >>> Ho folks, >>> &g

Re: Confusion About "FreeBSD now supports host and guest modes in VirtualBox"

2009-12-28 Thread Ivan Voras
Ivan Voras wrote: Ryan Ware wrote: Maybe someone here can distribute some enlightenment. In the press release for 8.0 it says, "FreeBSD now supports host and guest modes in VirtualBox". I understand what the host mode support is with the VirtualBox port. What I don't und

Re: How use and manage a Berkeley DB 1.85?

2008-03-12 Thread Ivan Voras
Nicolas Letellier wrote: > Hello, > > I have a db Berkeley DB 1.85. I have softwares which use it. > I would like to know how manage it? How show all datas contained? How > delete a data? How insert a data? > Is there a port to do this? BDB is a single-file key-value database. It's not a SQL or a

Re: Installation

2008-03-12 Thread Ivan Voras
dajaasge wrote: > Hi there > > As a relatively inexperienced user of FreeBSD I have little input to > offer the community as a whole save to suggest that offering a DVD iso > image from which to install would save the sometimes extreme tediousness > of disc swapping when adding packages. If I knew

Re: 16GB RAM -> Swap?

2008-03-13 Thread Ivan Voras
Ewald Jenisch wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a Blade-system with 16GB RAM, but "only" one 140GB > harddisk. My question is about swap-space: Traditional knowledge > recommends swap = 2*RAM. This would mean 32GB swap (!). > > Should I really go for 32GB swap space? Or will e.g. 16GB (= RAM-size) > be e

Re: Load Averages

2008-03-15 Thread Ivan Voras
Grant Peel wrote: last pid: 5181; load averages: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00 up 741+02:47:14 10:19:56 23 processes: 1 running, 22 sleeping CPU states: 0.4% user, 0.0% nice, 0.4% system, 0.0% interrupt, 99.2% idle Mem: 34M Active, 102M Inact, 44M Wired, 9924K Cache, 35M Buf, 58M Free Swap: 516M

Re: cpu

2008-03-24 Thread Ivan Voras
Irodatechnika Hajdu wrote: Hi! I have got a XEON (E5320) based computer. Which version to install? AMD64 or I386? AMD64. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: FreeBSD-6.3 only detects 3GB of RAM

2008-03-27 Thread Ivan Voras
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > fred writes: >> Hello all, >> >> I am trying to fix an issue with my dual xeon ibm server, it only detects >> 3GB or RAM but I have 4GB: > [...] > > I have seen this problem under Linux on IBM Intellistations (6225). > IBM pointed me to a tech document (the number of w

Re: FreeBSD-6.3 only detects 3GB of RAM

2008-03-27 Thread Ivan Voras
fred wrote: > I have read that OPTION PAE in kernel would fix the problem but I have also > read that compiling FreeBSD AMD64 might be a better solution, any advices > before I break my current setup? Except if you have a strong reason to stick with the 32-bit kernel, use AMD64. signature.as

Re: FreeBSD installation on AMD64

2008-04-01 Thread Ivan Voras
Sébastien Morand wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new in FreeBSD, I'm used to GNU/Linux from many years but I'm trying to > migrate to FreeBSD. > My hardware is AMD64 / 1GB RAM / envy24ht network car / nVidia 7300GS GC / > USB Scanner / HP 660 Printer This looks like a desktop computer, with multimedia capab

Re: FReeBSD on IBM Blade Servers

2008-04-06 Thread Ivan Voras
Maximillian Dornseif wrote: What is the status of FreeBSD on the different flavours of the IBM Blade Servers. I found some postings from 2005 statings that there were serious issues. Is this still true? Somebody using FreeBSD & IBM Blade hardware in production? The posts you saw were maybe mi

Re: Does FreeBSD 6.3 network support TSO/LSO?

2008-04-07 Thread Ivan Voras
Mr Y wrote: > Thanks, No, it's implemented in 7.x. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Inline assembly under FreeBSD

2008-04-07 Thread Ivan Voras
Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> asm("pushfl; stc; int $0x13; setc %%al; popfl" >> : "+a" (ax), "+b" (bx), "=c" (cx), "+d" (dx) >> : : "esi", "edi"); >> >> if ((u8)ax) >> return -1;/* No extended information */ >> else >> return 1;/* Extended information

Re: 7.0R && freemind 0.8.1 crashes randomly

2008-04-09 Thread Ivan Voras
Matthias Apitz wrote: > Hello, > > I'm used to use 'freemind' (and used 0.8.0 a lot in FreeBSD 6.2); since > the update to 7.0-REL and freemind as 0.8.1 from ports it is unusable > because it crashes randomly, sometimes it does not even comes up without > any message, sometimes it crashes by its o

Re: 7.0R && freemind 0.8.1 crashes randomly

2008-04-09 Thread Ivan Voras
Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Wednesday, April 09, 2008 a las 02:48:18PM +0200, Ivan Voras escribió: > >> Matthias Apitz wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm used to use 'freemind' (and used 0.8.0 a lot in FreeBSD 6.2); since >>> the up

Re: my webserver suddenly crash

2008-04-09 Thread Ivan Voras
Satria Bramana wrote: > greetings.. > > my webhosting server suddenly crash and showing this in /var/log/messages : > Apr 9 11:37:52 hosting kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(10): failed > > i'm using a monitoring software and i found that the usage of my swap space > only about 1% of my tota

Re: 7.0R && freemind 0.8.1 crashes randomly

2008-04-10 Thread Ivan Voras
Kris Kennaway wrote: > What do you expect is wrong with the 6.x jdk running under compatibility? I don't expect it, I'm talking from personal experience (confirmed by occasional reports on mailing lists). (What's wrong with it is that if it's not near 100% reliable, it's unusable, much like ZFS

Re: Pine and IMAP

2008-04-10 Thread Ivan Voras
Chris Maness wrote: > I have been using a local pine client in conjunction with IMAP for years > without issues. However, recently, it looks like when pine moves mail > to the mbox file, it hoses up my ability to use my imap clients. Has > something changed so that I cannot use pine as a local cl

Re: 7.0R && freemind 0.8.1 crashes randomly

2008-04-10 Thread Ivan Voras
Kris Kennaway wrote: > Ivan Voras wrote: >> Kris Kennaway wrote: >> >>> What do you expect is wrong with the 6.x jdk running under >>> compatibility? >> >> I don't expect it, I'm talking from personal experience (confirmed by >> occasio

Re: ZFS-Pool is lost after reboot ( amd64 )

2008-04-11 Thread Ivan Voras
Norman Maurer wrote: > If I run zpool import x1 it works. But as you say it should do it by its > own. Maybe it whould be the best to open a bugreport ? Do you have zfs_enabled="YES" in rc.conf ? If you upgraded FreeBSD from an earlier release, remember to run mergemaster. signature.asc Descr

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