How can I turn off hard disk if there's no IO for serveral minutes?

2004-10-11 Thread Rae
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"shutdown -p now" reboots my computer

2004-10-02 Thread Rae
I'm using 5.2.1-Release "shutdown -p now" command worked well couple of days ago. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

would async mount improve IO speed?

2004-10-05 Thread Rae
File systems used to be mounted with soft-updates(?) option. I disable it with "tunefs -n disable ." and mount all file system with "async" option but I can feel any difference. some said it's dangerous. Does it matter even if I'm not running any heavy load server? _

Re: How can I make a program keep running even after I logout?

2004-12-15 Thread Rae Kim
Thank you all guys.. I've tried daemon, nohup and Nicolas' csh method all works fine. On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 13:42:52 -0600, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Rae, I asked this very same question back in ("Job Control") back in > November, first thing

disk I/O slower then linux?

2004-12-14 Thread Rae Kim
I've recently changed to FreeBSD 5.3 from Gentoo linux. It looks like FreeBSD outperforms gentoo. I feel 'some' KDE applications runs at least 3 times faster on FreeBSD. ( gentoo was even prelinked) However, Disk IO seems too slow compare to linux. What makes FreeBSD so fast? Why is disk io slo

Re: disk I/O slower then linux?

2004-12-14 Thread Rae Kim
> On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:03:48 -0500, Rae Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've recently changed to FreeBSD 5.3 from Gentoo linux. > > > > It looks like FreeBSD outperforms gentoo. > > > > I feel 'some' KDE applications runs at least 3 times f

How can I make a program keep running even after I logout?

2004-12-15 Thread Rae Kim
I connect to my computer from school computer. I want to cvsup or/and portupgrade and logout but the program keep running? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[E

LAN w/ 2 Hubs

2004-02-09 Thread Elsie Rae Bryan
We are in the design phase for a small business LAN and want to use FreeBSD as our DSL router/gateway/firewall/DHCP. We need to run a backbone cable to a second hub in an adjacent building. Rather than connecting the two hubs via a switch box, can a third NIC be used to connect the second hub or sh