performance hints (6.2)

2007-08-17 Thread Mark Messier
I've got a freebsd 6.2 system, dual 2Ghz 5130 cpu, 4g ram, with raid5 Adaptec 2120s, running not much more than /usr/ports/mail/imap-uw and I'm having performance problems with only 20 IMAP users. I'm not swapping.. cpu is mostly idle, so I figure it must be I/O performance. Just to confirm, is

Re: performance hints (6.2)

2007-08-17 Thread Mark Messier
>> What does a gstat look like over time? Oooh, didn't know about gstat it shows disks as being 102% busy at times :-) Thanks to you and Chuck S. for the hints. -mark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

remote install of 6.2

2007-03-08 Thread Mark Messier
I have a remote machine running 4.8-p21. The system has two disks in it, but only one is used on a daily basis (the other is filled via dd every now and then). I want to get this remote machine running 6.2, so I figured I'ld install the new OS on the second disk, then boot off the second disk, l

per-interface default routes?

2007-03-14 Thread Mark Messier
Suppose you have a freebsd box with two LAN interfaces, one numbered on netA and one on netB... Some applications are listening on the netA IP address, some on the netB IP address. Some applications may be listening on all interfaces but might have a directive that indicates which IP address to

Re: per-interface default routes?

2007-03-14 Thread Mark Messier
>> Route has more information if you want to setup default routes for interfaces. I'm familiar with route(8)... but I don't see how that will work. Can you expand on your comment? I'm likely to do the ipfw approach suggested by Wojceich, as soon as I rebuild with "options IPFIREWALL_FORWARD",

Re: trouble with HT

2007-04-05 Thread Mark Messier
>> You also need to add: >> kern.smp.active = 1 >> kern.smp.cpus = 1 What? I've never added lines like those... They always seem to have the correct values for me: Here it is on 4.8: # sysctl -a | grep smp machdep.smp_active: 1 machdep.smp_cpus: 2 and 5.3: # sysctl -a | grep smp kern.ti

www/jserv on 6.2

2007-05-28 Thread Mark Messier
On a 6.2 system, I'm trying to get /usr/ports/www/apache-jserv to build. It failed the first time, so I updated the ports tree and it fails again. It reports: checking for httpd.h... no and the log file shows: /usr/local/include/apache22/httpd.h:50:24: apr_tables.h: No such file or direc

password file migration

2007-06-14 Thread Mark Messier
I know this has been covered before, but the search mechanism at the mailing list archive doesn't seem to work (zero matches for the word: password). I've got a 5.3 system and a 6.2 system. I want to migrate the user accounts from the 5.3 to the 6.2. They use different encryption mechanisms fo