Re: httpd and memory usage

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Hurst
* David Banning ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I seem to have a lot of memory being eaten by httpd (part output of top); > Any ideas to have httpd timeout sooner to preserve memory? MaxRequestsPerChild is there to cope with leaks, it won't help if Apache is using a lot of memory to start with thou

Re: httpd and memory usage

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Hurst
* David Banning ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > You might also consider switching to something like lighttpd, which > > uses a single process that's generally about 1/3 the size of an > > equivilent httpd process. > > I like these ideas. Thanks. What is the downside, if any, to using > lighttpd? Is

Re: Stability issues with FreeBSD + MySQL

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Ken Ebling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The database server is running FreeBSD 4.11 (had all sorts of > problems with MySQL after upgrading to 5.x) with mysql-server > (4.0.24_1, installed from ports, compiled with LinuxThreads) I'm running MySQL 4.1 on a 5.3-RELEASE dual Opteron (i386), wi

Re: Stable many-port SATA controller recommendations

2007-05-10 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Peter Schuller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > after spending time and money on several Promise and Sillicon Image > based cards that don't work properly, I am still in desperate need of a > stable SATA controller. Promise are supposed to be one of the better makes when it comes to documentation a

Re: Hardware RAID 5 - Need vinum?

2005-05-13 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Greg 'groggy' Lehey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > There have been issues with growfs in the past; last time I looked > it hadn't been updated to handle UFS 2. If you don't need the UFS 2 > functionality, you might be better off using UFS 1 if you intend to > grow the file system. growfs gained

Re: buffer cache size

2005-05-19 Thread Thomas Hurst
* michael luch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I think that the buffer cache on my system is not growing sufficiently > and wonder if I can I tune it. > > Here's a snippet from the output of top on my system: > > Mem: 646M Active, 2905M Inact, 174M Wired, 121M Cache, 112M Buf, 5460K Free > Swap: 512M

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 Boot issues - reposted

2005-05-21 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Vizion ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > This system has been built in a mini ATX case and has a Proxim Harmony > 802.11a Model 8150 PCI card on (I am on a boat - then intention is to > be able to disconnect it from the ships network, lug it to a position > in range of a wireless network and do a por

Re: portaudit is being stubborn

2005-05-21 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Chris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > This annoys me as well, I expect portaudit to alert me when an update > is available to fix an exploit, but wget has no update so what is the > point of the warning, there also seems to be no way to shut it up. portaudit_fixed is only for OS bugs (i.e. associa

Re: portaudit is being stubborn

2005-05-21 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Tony Shadwick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'd like to see it done, but I know just enough sh scripting to be > dangerous. ;) > > If it were perl I'd be all over it. Any takers? :) Well, the relevent bit is actually written in awk :) The attached patch seems to do the trick. Note portaudi