Re: ext3 support

2007-03-08 Thread Ivan Voras
FreeBSD Daemon wrote: > dear list, > > does freebsd 6.x support the ext3 filesystem? Only in "ext2" mode (i.e. no journaling). signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: limitiation on memory allocation

2007-03-09 Thread Ivan Voras
Dima Sorkin wrote: > Hi. > > On FreeBSD 6.2 i386 with 2GB of physical memory I can't allocate > more than 500Mb for my program. > > I'm a new to FreeBSD. Is this limitatin is something known, > how do I overcome it ? Google for MAXDSIZ and relevent discussions. See here for example: http://list

Re: FreeBSD on IDE Flash disk drive

2007-03-09 Thread Ivan Voras
Nejc Škoberne wrote: > However I have no idea how to measure > how many writes are performed during a normal operation of a FreeBSD > server running DHCP and pf firewall. You could get an upper bound by running a perpetual "iostat"... signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Howmany CPU Does FreeBSD Support ?

2007-03-10 Thread Ivan Voras
Susanth K wrote: > Dear Friends, > > Howmany CPU Does The FreeBSD 6.2 Support ? and what will be the support > in 7 The maximum number of CPUs that 6.2 will make use of is 16 (kern.smp.maxcpus: 16). I don't know if it will be raised in 7.0, but since 7.x should support UltraSPARC T1, it might. H

Re: limitiation on memory allocation

2007-03-10 Thread Ivan Voras
Dima Sorkin wrote: > Hi. > I've read some pages about 'kern.maxusers', 'kern.maxdsize'. > I have questions: > 1) > After I reduce 'maxusers' to some reasonable amount for that computer > (say 10), maxusers is somewhat badly named because of historical reasons. Today it means something like "how ma

Re: The FreeBSD's Implementation Language

2007-03-11 Thread Ivan Voras
Susanth K wrote: > Dear Friends, > > Is FreeBSD Completely Written in C ? Almost. The kernel and most parts are. > Is there any part of OS written in C++ ? There are some but there are not many of them. It's not a matter of policy but of the individual choice of a developer. > And I Guess GCC

Re: -stable kernel and release 6.2 base system. Do they need to be in sync?

2007-03-12 Thread Ivan Voras
Sunnz wrote: > Hi, > > Just updated /usr/src to -stable (-rRELENG_6), and are now compiling > the -stable kernel. > > Just wondering if I will need to rebuild the base system (world?) as > well so they are in sync? Probably nothing bad will happen if you don't, but if you start getting weird err

Re: Howmany CPU Does FreeBSD Support ?

2007-03-12 Thread Ivan Voras
Vulpes Velox wrote: > That is only true if the process is giant locked. When look at dmesg, > look for things that say GIANT-LOCKED and those will be ones confined > to one processor. Which happens to include all SCSI devices I've encountered... sigh. And it's NOT rare to see giant locked proce

Re: Howmany CPU Does FreeBSD Support ?

2007-03-12 Thread Ivan Voras
Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 3/12/07, Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Which happens to include all SCSI devices I've encountered... >> sigh. >> >> And it's NOT rare to see giant locked processes on a heavily loaded web >> server. &g

Re: How to reinstall gcc

2007-03-13 Thread Ivan Voras
Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: > My question is without a functioning gcc, how do a install a functioning > gcc? It seems to me that the easiest way would be to do a binary install/upgrade from the distribution CD. You might even get away with copying the relevant files (don't know which... probably bin

Re: dmesg and GIANT-LOCK

2007-03-13 Thread Ivan Voras
James Long wrote: > Is it just the difference in chipset/controller type that requires > the fxp driver to use GIANT on the second machine, but not the first? > I also note that on the first machine, irq 10 is solely assigned to > fxp0. On t30, irq 11 is shared with a number of other devices. D

Re: Core 2 Duo

2007-03-14 Thread Ivan Voras
Goncalves, Antonio wrote: It has Core 2 Duo and a NVidia 7950 GTX. Can you please let me know wish release shall I install? Both i386 and AMD64 versions will work, but you'll probably have less problems with the i386 version. There are even nVidia binary drivers for FreeBSD, but you must che

Re: Downgrading to PHP 5.1.4

2007-03-18 Thread Ivan Voras
bsd wrote: > Hello, > > I am using the latest BSD 6.2 with a Apache 1.3.x and a PHP 5.2.1 > > For some reason out of my control we need to run an app that will use > PHP 5.1.4 // > > I would like to know if there is a simple way to do that using the ports. If you use cvsup to update your ports

Re: Differences between BSD and Linux : got article link?

2007-03-19 Thread Ivan Voras
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Need to educate some people because they made some incorrect statements > or misunderstand the purpose of *BSD. > > I know it's been discussed on the list, but I forget when and the > archives are large enough that I won't have time to search them during > my lunch break

Re: Postgres Startup Error Message

2007-03-25 Thread Ivan Voras
Gerard wrote: > I occasionally receive this error message when booting up: > > Mar 25 08:28:24 scorpio postgres[756]: [1-1] FATAL: the database system > is starting up > > Since it is an intermittent error message, I am unable to track down > what is causing it or how to fix it. I've "always" s

Re: Real-time File Replication ... or close to it ...

2007-03-25 Thread Ivan Voras
Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > Does anyone know of any work being done with FreeBSD to do the above? I know > about ggate/gmirror, but that is at the file system / kernel level ... I'd > like > to do something at the userland level, or something that combines the two ... I have TDFS (http://tdfs.s

Re: Real-time File Replication ... or close to it ...

2007-03-25 Thread Ivan Voras
Marc G. Fournier wrote: >> Marc G. Fournier wrote: >>> Does anyone know of any work being done with FreeBSD to do the above? I >>> know >>> about ggate/gmirror, but that is at the file system / kernel level ... I'd >>> like to do something at the userland level, or something that combines the >>

Re: 3Ware - Giant locked?

2007-03-25 Thread Ivan Voras
Don O'Neil wrote: > Anyone know why the 3ware TWE raid driver is still Giant locked? > > When my system boots it shows: > twe0: [GIANT-LOCKED] It's not a very big deal except if something else important is also Giant-locked (for example, network driver). If it's the only important thing under Gia

Re: Copy/move files between Windows and FreeBSD

2007-03-26 Thread Ivan Voras
Nagy László Zsolt wrote: Hi, I need to copy,move and delete files across two machines. They are located far away from each other. I have other FreeBSD machines and we were using SSH2 for this kind of task. Under windows, I could not find the right software. This is an automated task, and it

Re: FreeBSD on IBM Blade HS21

2007-03-27 Thread Ivan Voras
Nejc Škoberne wrote: > When I try to boot FreeBSD (either from USB disk with the installation > I am trying to move, either from FreeBSD 6.2 disc 1 installation CD-ROM) > the kernel doesn't load in full. It finds the USB disk, the SAS disks, > but then stops here: > > Timecounters tick every 1.00

Re: Is this a hard drive crash?

2007-03-29 Thread Ivan Voras
Janos Dohanics wrote: I also ran the Seagate drive utility which found no problems with the drive. When the same kind of crash happened again, I thought the problem may be the IDE controller, I have replaced the motherboard. Now it crashed again with the new motherboard - and I don't know what

Re: About file systems and formats

2007-03-29 Thread Ivan Voras
Andrew Falanga wrote: > Yesterday while working on a problem at work, a colleague and I were > talking > about the various file systems and something that I have always wondered on > is what are the various file systems doing when a format is being done. > For > example, at home, my PC has 2 80gb

Re: FreeBSD on IBM Blade HS21

2007-03-30 Thread Ivan Voras
Nejc Škoberne wrote: -- Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec lo0: bpf attached rr232x: no controller detecde. md0: Preloaded image 4423680 bytes at 0xc0af6544 probe64:umass-sim1:1:0:0): error 22 probe64:umass-sim1:1:0:0): Unretryable

Re: FreeBSD on IBM Blade HS21

2007-03-30 Thread Ivan Voras
Nejc Škoberne wrote: Hello, Try waiting about 30 minutes, there was a nasty timeout problem here when I tried it - you might have the same. Google for my posts on freebsd-stable mailing list. Okay, it really seems it's the "nasty timeout" I am facing (I booted into the "verbose mode" and it's

Re: 'Safest' filesystem defaults

2007-04-03 Thread Ivan Voras
mal content wrote: > Hello. > > Which filesystem options are the 'safest' in terms of data loss > after power failure? > > I'm current using: > > /dev/ad0s1f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates) > /dev/ad0s1d on /var (ufs, local, nosuid, soft-updates) > /dev/ad1s1d on /mnt/home (ufs, local, nosuid

NFS exports and paths with dashes?

2007-04-10 Thread Ivan Voras
I have the following line in my /etc/exports: /services/www-smartx -maproot=1000 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy with the intention to export the directory "/services/www-smartx". But mountd complains: bad exports list line /services/www-smartx -maproot and vim's highlighting marks the first

Re: PHP, pear, session problems on FreeBSD 6.2

2007-04-10 Thread Ivan Voras
Andrei Iarus wrote: After noticing that I get an php error (an Segmentation fault error), I reinstalled my php port. Than I got some errors related to the preg_match function => I reinstalled all php extensions (with portupgrade -rf php-5.2.1_3), including pcre. After this, my apache server did

Re: Terabyte harddisks, GELI, AMD64, Samba and Zen...

2007-04-11 Thread Ivan Voras
Solon Luigi Lutz wrote: ---Sequential Output ---Sequential Input-- --Random-- -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks--- MachineMB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU 1000 37922 31.5 48829 1

Re: Installing the CVS

2007-04-11 Thread Ivan Voras
Dhananjaya hiremath wrote: Hello sir, Please specifies how to get the CVS to FreeBSD.And some packages are not CVS is a part of FreeBSD and it's always installed. installing lile( samba,python etc) It is giving the error so how we can install this one. See http://www.freebsd.org/doc

Re: "No CD/DVD devices found" after booting from FreeBSD 6.2 CD 1

2007-04-11 Thread Ivan Voras
Isaac Grover wrote: Good morning, I am attempting to install FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE on a Dell Dimension C521n (no Windows pre-installed) with a Sony model DDU1615S CD/DVD drive as the chosen boot media. Booting from the CD shows that the CD drive shows up as cd, and after doing the fdisk/disklabel

Re: Geli and fsck

2007-04-16 Thread Ivan Voras
User1001 wrote: Nowhere in the Handbook nor the MANual pages is there any mention of how to handle a situation where it is necessary to perform a file system check (FSCK) on the encrypted partition ("provider"?). How is it any different than the other cases? You make the unencrypted data avail

Re: Terabyte harddisks, GELI, AMD64, Samba and Zen...

2007-04-17 Thread Ivan Voras
Solon Luigi Lutz wrote: Hi again, after some troubleshooting and some hours of memory tests, it finaly seems to be a hardware problem... The machine is based on an ASUS M2N4-SLI (Nforce4) and since the heat-sink on the north/southbridge is rather small and passive, the chip seems to get too hot.

Re: OOPS www proxy

2006-12-11 Thread Ivan Voras
Wojciech Puchar wrote: > is anybody using it with success. > > for me it works. and works really fast, much faster than squid but after > maybe 8-12 hours it crashes. > > is it buggy or i'm doing something wrong? I used it for several years and am still using it, but not on high loads. It works

Re: OOPS www proxy

2006-12-14 Thread Ivan Voras
Wojciech Puchar wrote: >>> for me it works. and works really fast, much faster than squid but after >>> maybe 8-12 hours it crashes. >>> >>> is it buggy or i'm doing something wrong? >> >> I used it for several years and am still using it, but not on high >> loads. It works without crashing on the

Re: GEOM Gate: sparc64/i386 compatibility issues?

2006-12-17 Thread Ivan Voras
You should probably report this in the freebsd-geom list. Andrea Montemaggio wrote: > Hi there, > I've two machines with a 6.1-RELEASE installed on: one is a sparc64 and > the another is an i386 machine > with a little (and I think not relevant) kernel configuration differences. > If I run ggated

Re: Process States Explanation

2006-12-18 Thread Ivan Voras
Fr0zen wrote: > Where can I get a good list of what each process state means? It's not standardised - every kernel developer and device driver writer can introduce whatever states he needs. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: FreeBSD & fakeraid RAID10 @ Intel ICH7

2006-12-20 Thread Ivan Voras
Lada 'Ray' Lostak wrote: > After reboot, BSD don't boot and I can see message "Boot error". > Nothing more. I have no clue, if this is BIOS or readed MBR/bootsector. > ctrl+alt+delete works this time and I can reboot machine. > > So, there is some boot problem, which I was not abble t

Re: No driver for NIC...

2006-12-28 Thread Ivan Voras
B. Hansmann wrote: > How do I get this ethernet thing to work or is this chipset not > supported? (mcp55 sound works as stated in the hardware list on freebsd). I have almost the same chipset (nForce 550 / MCP55). I know there's an unofficial development-in-progress driver (it's mentioned on the

Re: compiling/compiler comparison

2006-12-28 Thread Ivan Voras
Your questions don't belong in this list because they don't have anything to do with FreeBSD but here goes... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does the executable code quality depend only on the compiler? Comparison > between native and cross-compiling? In general, the choice of algorithm is of the hig

Re: Tuning PostgreSQL for bulk imports

2007-01-07 Thread Ivan Voras
Kirk Strauser wrote: > I have an hourly job that converts our legacy Foxpro database into > PostgreSQL tables so that our web applications, etc. can run reports off > the data in a reasonable amount of time. Believe it or not, this has been > running perfectly in production for over a year. The o

Re: Tuning PostgreSQL for bulk imports

2007-01-07 Thread Ivan Voras
Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Sunday 07 January 2007 15:15, Ivan Voras wrote: >> - What might help you is to keep the WAL (write-ahead-log, i.e. journal) >> files on a completely separate (and fast) drive from the rest of the >> database, to allow parallelism and speed. For be

Re: Why is sysinstall considered end-of-life?

2007-01-07 Thread Ivan Voras
Mark Lu wrote: > I've read up a few things stating that sysinstall is at its > end-of-life and there are plans to replace it. I'm wondering about the > reasons or rationale behind this. Even today, sysinstall seems to work > extremely well as an easy-to-use, simple, and stable tool for the > instal

Re: Adduser utility to generate "random" passwds ?

2007-01-08 Thread Ivan Voras
Frank Bonnet wrote: > I want to generate new "strong" password for existing users. Here's an idea: $ head -c 64 /dev/random | md5 | head -c 10 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions T

Re: Adduser utility to generate "random" passwds ?

2007-01-08 Thread Ivan Voras
Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Monday 08 January 2007 5:26 am, Ivan Voras wrote: > >> Here's an idea: >> >> $ head -c 64 /dev/random | md5 | head -c 10 > > Hugely bad idea. Since md5 outputs hex, you're only getting 4 bits of > entropy per character.

Re: Adduser utility to generate "random" passwds ?

2007-01-08 Thread Ivan Voras
Ivan Voras wrote: > Frank Bonnet wrote: > >> I want to generate new "strong" password for existing users. > > Here's an idea: > > $ head -c 64 /dev/random | md5 | head -c 10 ... or, following the upthread discussion, a preferable alternative: > op

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Release

2007-01-09 Thread Ivan Voras
Jay Chandler wrote: > On a semi-related note, are there installation instructions for > upgrading from 6.1 to 6.2? Upgrading between minor version of FreeBSD is always the same - run cvsup, recompile, install - it's also the same between 6.1 and 6.2. (see http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859

Re: Simple DoS

2007-01-10 Thread Ivan Voras
Nejc Škoberne wrote: > Hello, > > yesterday one of our clients did something interesting (stupid): they > connected both ends of an UTP cable to the same switch, to which our > FreeBSD server was also connected. The server was immediately completely > unresponsive from yesterday evening until this

Re: Dell PE 1950 - Only seeing 3.2 gigs of ram

2007-01-10 Thread Ivan Voras
Jeff MacDonald wrote: > Hi, > > I put a fresh install of 6.1-RELEASE on a dell poweredge 1950 server. > It's configured with 4 gigs of ram. > > However when I boot i get the following right before DMESG > > 786432k above 4GB ignored > > Which is strange, but then dmesg shows this > > real memo

Re: Dell PE 1950 - Only seeing 3.2 gigs of ram

2007-01-11 Thread Ivan Voras
Jeff MacDonald wrote: > When I did a default install of ubuntu, it saw all 4 gigs without a > hitch. So does that mean it already includes PAE, or something else ? Yes, AFAIK some newer Linuxes (and Windows SP2) include PAE by default. ___ freebsd-ques

Re: Which build to use for Intel Core 2 Duo 64-bit?

2007-01-11 Thread Ivan Voras
Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > Which build should I use to build a native 64-bit installation on an > Intel Core 2 Duo (E6600)? AMD64 kernel, SMP variant. Specific compiler optimizations will not yield high enough benefits to be generally useful but it probably[*] won't hurt you. [*] There was a

Re: hardware mirrors recognized as individual disks in fbsd

2007-01-16 Thread Ivan Voras
Steve Franks wrote: > I want two 160GB mirrored volumes, not 4 unmirrored ones. The RAID is an > ASUS P5DR1-VM motherboard with a ULI raid chipset onboard. Very nice setup > for the money. I don't know about the chipset or the controller, but judging from the symptoms it's highly likely you act

Re: Very Poor Raid Card Performance

2007-01-16 Thread Ivan Voras
Steven Lowry wrote: > The main problem is my HD performance, it is approx 6x slower than in > windows XP, hopefully there is a solution. I have an LSI Megaraid 8x with > four drives in a raid 5 configuration, in windows I was getting upto 60MB/s > transfer rates but in FBSD I am getting upto 9MB/s

Re: Very Poor Raid Card Performance

2007-01-16 Thread Ivan Voras
Wood, Russell wrote: > I have an LSI MegaRaid with three drives at RAID 5: works a > god-damn-treat. I don't know what my throughput is on RAID 5 but RAID 0 > was fast (70MB/s+). Mine was RAID5. Hmm, oops, it wasn't LSI but HP/Compaq CISS, battery backed, SATA on SAS. da0 at ciss0 bus 0 target 0

Re: apache exiting on signal 6

2007-01-20 Thread Ivan Voras
Joe Auty wrote: > I've also seen some info which suggests that this might be an Apache bug > of some sort, but I've seen this in both Apache 1.3 and 2.0. Right now, > I'm running 2.0.59 with eAccelerator. > > I guess the next step might be to try disabling eAccelerator... I'll let > you know if t

Re: virtual memory management

2007-01-20 Thread Ivan Voras
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > The problem is I cannot add more RAM (too old machine to do that) but I > know what to do to decrease the load a bit. So thanks for the pointer! I > appreciate it! You might also want to stop using mod_php in apache and convert to fastcgi setup - this way you'll get all

Re: virtual memory management

2007-01-20 Thread Ivan Voras
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > hello, > >>> The problem is I cannot add more RAM (too old machine to do that) but I >>> know what to do to decrease the load a bit. So thanks for the pointer! I >>> appreciate it! >> You might also want to stop using mod_php in apache and convert to >> fastcgi setup - th

Re: virtual memory management

2007-01-20 Thread Ivan Voras
[LoN]Kamikaze wrote: >> Don't forget that the system also pages to swap space and it takes the >> attitude of parking as much as possible out there in case it comes in >> to demand again. Ten if it really needs the space for something, it >> invalidates the oldest stuff and uses that space. >> >>

Re: more than 7 partitions on a SCSI-drive

2007-01-21 Thread Ivan Voras
Jeff Mohler wrote: > If there is a fundamental reason why we still partition things like we > only have 10, 20, or 40Mb RLL. or slightly larger ESDI drives from > back in the day..im willing to learn. 1. if you only have one file system and something corrupts it, it's all gone. Some people even u

Re: PCIe Core2 Duo Motherboard?

2007-01-22 Thread Ivan Voras
Andrew Fremantle wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking at building a few new general-purpose servers in the near > future. I'd like to use Intel Core 2 Duo processors in these machines. Nothing wrong with that... > I'm currently evaluating a machine with a looks-good-on-paper > motherboard, the Intel

Re: PCIe Core2 Duo Motherboard?

2007-01-22 Thread Ivan Voras
Philippe Lang wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> 2) Can anyone suggest a well supported board with gigabit lan, >>> onboard video, and PCIe expansion, that accepts Core2 Duo CPUs? >> If you're willing to pay for it, server boards will suit you better. >> For example something like this: >> >

Re: PCIe Core2 Duo Motherboard?

2007-01-24 Thread Ivan Voras
Philippe Lang wrote: > Hum, that means LAN works on a SuperMicro X7DBE motherboard? That's Note that I'm really emphasizing that I don't know *why* it was working :) > really good news! I was hesitating buying one, because of the supposed > lack of 82563EB support, but I see I'm wrong. Can anyon

Re: RAID Performance Questions

2007-01-25 Thread Ivan Voras
Milo Hyson wrote: > I also ran some performance tests with a stock build of PostgreSQL 8.0 > to get a different angle on things. Two tests were run on each of the > UDMA system drive, the RAID 5 unit, and the RAID 10 unit. The first > tested sequential-scans through a 58,000+ record table. The sec

Re: Is a re-boot req'd after changing 'resolv.conf' ?

2007-01-25 Thread Ivan Voras
V.I.Victor wrote: > I'm simply going to change 2 "nameserver" ip-addresses. > > Most of what I've found re. 'resolv.conf' implies it can just be changed > on-the-fly. However, other sources (mostly upgrading info) have a reboot > involved. > > So -- re-boot or not? (Note: this is a static-ip b

Re: how can i obtain a @freebsd.org mail address ?

2007-01-25 Thread Ivan Voras
i b wrote: > hi > > i'm a freebsd user and i can see a lot of people who has a @freebsd.org > mail > addr. (most are developers) > > how can I obtain an address like those ? Become a developer :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://l

Re: Problem with mod_fcgid inside a jail.

2007-02-02 Thread Ivan Voras
Vincent Bolinard wrote: > [emerg] (2)No such file or directory: mod_fcgid: Can't create share > memory for size 316628 byte > I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE, Apache 2.0.59 and mod_fcgid 1.09. Try running v1.10, here's what it says in changelog: "3. Use anonymous shared memeory to make OS X hap

Re: Mainboard buzzer -- How to disable?

2007-02-04 Thread Ivan Voras
Modulok wrote: > The integrated buzzer on system mainboards, can this be disabled from > FreeBSD? I looked through my BIOS and didn't see any relevant settings. > Everytime I press backspace one too many times, it beeps at me. It is damn > annoying. > > Before I get the pliers...thoughts, hints, p

Re: acpi_bus_number: can't get _ADR pci0: at device 0.7 (no driver attached)

2007-02-09 Thread Ivan Voras
lveax wrote: > hey all, > > i found some error msg from dmesg,what does these mean? > acpi_bus_number: can't get _ADR Nothing serious - it probably makes no sense to even display this message. > pci0: at device 0.0 (no driver attached) > pci0: at device 0.1 (no driver attached) > pci0: at de

Re: Proliant G5 and E200i controller

2007-04-22 Thread Ivan Voras
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have purchased a new Proliant G5 server with the E200i RAID controller. > > FreeBSD is not recognizing the the drives. The ciss module for the > controller is not loaded. Do I need to do something special to make > FreeBSD recognize the controller? Which version of

Re: Memory >3.5GB not used?

2007-04-24 Thread Ivan Voras
Bill Moran wrote: > In response to "Don O'Neil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> I never had this problem before when I built the kernel the first time. >> Could my module source be corrupt? If so, how do I re-install just the >> kernel sources for 6.1? > > Not all modules work with PAE. Read the examp

Re: Memory >3.5GB not used?

2007-04-25 Thread Ivan Voras
Bill Moran wrote: > Does this test demonstrate usage of memory over 4G? It's my understanding > that PAE starts to suffer when it has to look at the memory over 4G (which > is the problem it's intended to solve) > > If your entire test fits in under 4G, you're not seeing the worst of it. > At

Re: How to make Apache (2.2.4) less greedy, or Sendmail less polite?

2007-05-04 Thread Ivan Voras
Olaf Greve wrote: PID USERNAMEPRI NICE SIZERES STATETIME WCPUCPU COMMAND 91459 www 1240 141M 15136K RUN 0:02 5.52% 5.52% httpd 91352 www 1190 139M 12596K select 0:14 3.61% 3.61% httpd The size of apache processes is te

Re: How to make Apache (2.2.4) less greedy, or Sendmail less polite?

2007-05-04 Thread Ivan Voras
Olaf Greve wrote: Will that not have some other downsides? I remember that previously when running PHP on the CGI, that e.g. a lot of debugging power got lost, as each and every error would simply either return a blank page, or simply an "internal servor error 500" or so Is that also the c

Re: How to make Apache (2.2.4) less greedy, or Sendmail less polite?

2007-05-07 Thread Ivan Voras
Olaf Greve wrote: O.k., I'll check this out, and will let you guys know how I get along with it, and if indeed the script is at fault, or whether it is due to some PHP/Apache issue. If you've rebuilt PHP with modules, there's a slight chance that the order of loaded modules (in extensions.in

Re: FreeBSD with Duel Processors

2007-05-07 Thread Ivan Voras
Martin McCormick wrote: Is there anything special I need to do to make FreeBSD6.2 make use of both CPU's on a Dell 2650 mother board? The boot messages indicate that the OS knows about the 2 CPU's. Is this correct? I heard some rumors that one has to give some sort of kernel di

Re: downloading the IPMI driver on FreeBSD

2007-05-10 Thread Ivan Voras
Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: Dhananjaya hiremath wrote: here we installed the FreeBSD 6.2 and we updated and build the system and installed the kernel.Now we want to Download the IPMI driver on FreeBSD, build it, load it, and want to ensure that it runs successfully. Driver is already in base

Re: MySQL slowness in SMP

2007-05-11 Thread Ivan Voras
Martin Blapp wrote: So would upgrading to FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT would make MySQL runs faster or it's not optimized for dual cpu yet? Of course would upgrading to FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT make it faster because some bottlenecks (unix domain sockets etc, old malloc) have been removed. On the other ha

Re: Dual boot.

2007-05-30 Thread Ivan Voras
Paul Halliday wrote: I just installed 6.2 on a 90GB drive. During the installation I created the usual partitions and left 50GB untouched. I then rebooted ran partition magic to put a DOS FS on the remainder then ghosted XP pro onto it. Do I need to start over or can I fix this? It's usually

Re: How to produce FreeBSD app under Windows?

2007-07-06 Thread Ivan Voras
Serge Slepov wrote: I need to compile a C++ source into a binary that will run under FreeBSD, but I only have Windows installed. What's the easiest way for me to do this? Do I have to install FreeBSD? The Easiest Way (tm) for you is to install FreeBSD in a virtual machine (see for example th

Turn off monitor

2005-04-18 Thread Ivan Voras
Is there a way to turn off the system monitor (console screen)? There are actually two things I'd like: to turn off the screen after some period of inactivity (but after the screen saver runs - to keep the screensaver as a reminder that the monitor will be turned off soon), and to turn it off pr

Re: [freebsd-questions] Turn off monitor

2005-04-19 Thread Ivan Voras
Lowell Gilbert wrote: On the (syscons(4)) console, you can enable screen blanking as a screensaver in its own right. You would load either the "green" or "apm" screen saver (available as kernel modules) and enable it with vidcontrol(1). I don't think you can trigger it by hand. I tried both (befo

Re: [freebsd-questions] Turn off monitor

2005-04-19 Thread Ivan Voras
Kevin Kinsey wrote: Option "DPMS" Ok, this works! Also, with command "xset dpms force off" I can turn it off at will. Now only to find something for the (text) console... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

Re: common filesystem for Linux and FreeBSD

2007-12-17 Thread Ivan Voras
Chad Perrin wrote: > That being the case, there is some data I would like to keep available to > both FreeBSD and Linux systems, in stable read/write access with > reasonably high access performance for both (fast enough to achieve > decent frame rates, for instance). This seems to rule out both

Re: How to know total number of bytes of a directory

2007-12-17 Thread Ivan Voras
Andy Greenwood wrote: > DSA - JCR wrote: >> Hi all >> >> I would like to know the total number of bytes of a directory and its >> related subdirs, occupied by the files inside it. I haven't found any >> command for knowning it. >> > > # du -s /etc > 17008 /etc > > You need read privs to all

Re: common filesystem for Linux and FreeBSD

2007-12-18 Thread Ivan Voras
Chad Perrin wrote: > On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 10:39:31AM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: >> Chad Perrin wrote: >> >>> That being the case, there is some data I would like to keep available to >>> both FreeBSD and Linux systems, in stable read/write access with >>&

Re: Re[2]: Turkish character sorting on PostgreSQL

2007-12-22 Thread Ivan Voras
On 22/12/2007, Ismail YENIGUL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By the way, LC_COLLATE is link to the ../la_LN.US-ASCII/LC_COLLATE > in /usr/share/locale/tr_TR.ISO8859-9 directory. Does this mean that > LC_COLLATE is missing for tr_TR.ISO8859-9 ? Yes. __

Re: kernel panic 6.2-RELEASE SMP dual quad core

2007-12-29 Thread Ivan Voras
Iain Dooley wrote: > hi all, > > uname -a > FreeBSD HOSTNAME 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 11:05:30 > UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 > > running on dual quad core intel xeons with 4gb ram. Are you using PAE? (probably not if this is the generic SMP con

Re: kernel panic 6.2-RELEASE SMP dual quad core

2007-12-29 Thread Ivan Voras
Iain Dooley wrote: > i'm just running a web application on it. it's a total pain though. i > should have just bought a late model second hand p4 or something rather > than a state of the art machine. i'm too out of touch with modern > hardware to have known what i was getting myself into. live and

Re: Low Level Language Suggestions: OT

2007-12-31 Thread Ivan Voras
Victor Subervi wrote: >I'm thinking Java's > probably my best bet, just because there are more Java programmers out there > than any other language (I think). That's almost always the *worst* reason for choosing a language. On similar basis, you might want to do it in PHP since "a lot of people

Re: Low Level Language Suggestions: OT

2007-12-31 Thread Ivan Voras
Victor Subervi wrote: >I know that one has to install all sorts of s/w and > rebuild the kernel for working with Java. Is that true of C++ as well? Or is > it like C, native to FBSD? It's native - it's the GNU c++ compiler (g++). signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Porting from linux to FreeBSD (procfs question)

2008-01-03 Thread Ivan Voras
Fernando Apesteguía wrote: > 1 - Try to rely the porting on the compatibility procfs from FreeBSD > 2 - Do the things in a completely different way (which one is this? > Invoking sysctl system call?) > > I would like to know from you which one is the best approach. The best way to do it is to ab

Re: Porting from linux to FreeBSD (procfs question)

2008-01-03 Thread Ivan Voras
On 03/01/2008, Fernando Apesteguía <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, that's my problem. In Linux I can get from /proc/cpuinfo for > example: name, model, stepping, cache size, clock speed, supported > extensions, etc... > But using sysctl in FreeBSD (sysctl -a) I can only see name and vendor > for

Re: db performance

2008-01-17 Thread Ivan Voras
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: real memory = 3220635648 (3071 MB) avail memory = 3150565376 (3004 MB) we have 3GB of RAM available with actually 4GB physical RAM installed? If you're using a 32-bit (i386) kernel you need PAE. Or switch to 64-bit (amd64). signature.asc Description: OpenPGP di

Re: Trying to support my product on FreeBSD

2008-01-18 Thread Ivan Voras
navneet Upadhyay wrote: > Hi , >My product is successfully running on Linux( all most all versions) > and HP- UX and Windows . > > *It is 100 % C++ code*. > > I am planning to support it on FreeBSD, i have two queries : > > 1. *How to build my code into binaries* on FreeBSD , i have m

Re: Endianness of freeBSD

2008-02-04 Thread Ivan Voras
> 1. Is FreeBSD little Endian like windows? >=20 > 2. Linux is Big endian? >=20 > wrote a code int i =3D 1;if((i >> 1) =3D=3D 0) little else big > got little on all platforms bsd,linux,windows. >=20 > *Does endianness depends on OS or the hardware?* It depends on the hardware. http://en.wikipe

Re: script to be executed on system startup.

2008-02-06 Thread Ivan Voras
navneet Upadhyay wrote: > Hi, > I have a script file, i want that script to be executed on system > startup. > > I am doing this on Linux in following two steps : - > > 1. Copying the script to /etc/rc.d directory. > 2. /sbin/chkconfig --add "scriptname" > > > I want to achieve the same

Re: script to be executed on system startup.

2008-02-06 Thread Ivan Voras
Ivan Voras wrote: > An advanced feature ... I'd like to add some more info on the subject: the rc.d script mechanism is extremely powerful and you can do many things with it, if you need them. Scripts are passed arguments like "start" and "stop" which you might want

Re: script to be executed on system startup.

2008-02-06 Thread Ivan Voras
On 06/02/2008, Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (for example: "/etc/rc.d/myscript") > > 2. chmod a+x the script > > 3. you're done. > > > > This will work for the recent versions of FreeBSD (you didn't say for > > which version do you need it). > > you need to make that script react f

Re: script to be executed on system startup.

2008-02-07 Thread Ivan Voras
RW wrote: > On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:55:12 +0100 > Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I've seen some complicated examples on this thread, and want to >> suggest a simple one: >> >> 1. create a regular shell script in /etc/rc.d, n >>

Re: should I change to multicore CPU??

2008-02-09 Thread Ivan Voras
Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: Hi, I know that freebsd7 has huge improvement on multi-threading execution. I wonder if I upgrade to 7, would I feel it?? I now own a amd64/3400+, running 6.3. It's just personal use, download files, watch movies, etc. I guess it will be faster on multi-core when I run menco

Re: /bin/csh script in GELI partition crashes 6.3-STABLE

2008-02-12 Thread Ivan Voras
Scott Bennett wrote: > It does it every time, so it is certainly repeatable. Is this a > known problem? Or is there some feature of GELI-encrypted file systems > that is expected to have problems running scripts? (I do not know whether > the problem is limited to /bin/csh scripts. After s

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