Re: cable modem choices

2001-10-18 Thread Chris BeHanna
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Dennis Mathiasen wrote: > I haven't been able to locate information on how these things > actually work. Apparently the ISP just uses DHCP, but what about > any authentication? My ISP expects a certain MAC address. > Are the modems themselves all functionally the same?

Re: How does FreeBSD performs in server tasks? [off-topic]

2001-10-18 Thread Chris BeHanna
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Conrado Vardanega wrote: > I would like to hear from Athlon-based server owners/admins how does it > performs with server tasks. My aim is to find out how good is a Pentium III > chip for a server instead a low-cost, high-performance Athlon CPU. I would > consider, for evalua

Re: serial console

2001-10-18 Thread Kazutaka YOKOTA
>Hans de Hartog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Something else you might want to try: put > > -P in /boot.config and disconnect your > > keyboard during the BIOS-blabla > >/boot.config is obsolete No, it isn't obsolete, and it works. And I see no immediate need/plan to make it obsolete. >and do

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Re: dirpref gives massive performance boost

2001-10-18 Thread Chad R. Larson
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 08:26:00PM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote: > Can the diprefs code have a useful effect on an individual subtree > of a file system if just that tree was deleted and recreated? Sure. Do a "rm -rf /usr/ports/*" and then re-sup the damn thing. You'll be impressed. -crl -- C

Re: dirpref gives massive performance boost

2001-10-18 Thread Chad R. Larson
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 12:32:22PM -0500, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: >> If it's a UFS, and you're running a new enough kernel, it's getting >> done. Of course, it can only be smart about stuff written to the >> disk after you built the new kernel. If your disk is mostly empty, >> you're cool.

Re: Loads on a Web/Shell Server

2001-10-18 Thread Ryan Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hello, > > I have a shell/web hosting company (4EverMail Hosting Services) and I > have a little bit of a problem with the loads on my machine. I am > hosting a few IRC servers, eggdrop bots and a few apache websites > (mainly my own), and the loa

Re: AFS for FreeBSD?

2001-10-18 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:11 AM -0700 10/18/01, Gordon Tetlow wrote: >On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Schmalzbauer, Harald wrote: > > > see www.openafs.org. I read that somebody has successfully ported > > the server. I haven't tried it yet but I hope it's working. AFS > > is THE solution for many problems. > >/usr/ports/net/

Re: Recovering from clobbered boot manager?

2001-10-18 Thread Darryl Okahata
Lamont Granquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, whats the easist way to recover from a clobbered boot manager in > FreeBSD? I kind of naively assumed that this would be easy to do from an > installation CDROM (4.3-RELEASE) but I failed to get it to work. Going > Configure->Fdisk in sysinstall

Recovering from clobbered boot manager?

2001-10-18 Thread Lamont Granquist
So, whats the easist way to recover from a clobbered boot manager in FreeBSD? I kind of naively assumed that this would be easy to do from an installation CDROM (4.3-RELEASE) but I failed to get it to work. Going Configure->Fdisk in sysinstall didn't work for me. To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: dirpref gives massive performance boost

2001-10-18 Thread Oliver Fromme
Robert Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A related question that I was wondering, > "Does my /kernel have the new dirpref code?" If you've build kernel and userland from the same date (which is always recommended), then it is sufficient to look at the newfs(8) manpage. If it has the -g and -

Re: serial console

2001-10-18 Thread Crist J. Clark
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 06:36:35PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Hans de Hartog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Something else you might want to try: put > > -P in /boot.config and disconnect your > > keyboard during the BIOS-blabla > > /boot.config is obsolete and doesn't work with loader(8).

Re: spontaneous crashes with STABLE

2001-10-18 Thread Bill Moran
On Thursday 18 October 2001 08:58, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote: > The last week I have had several spontaneous crashes. So I've followed some > advice (compiling the kernel with 'makeoptions DEBUG=-g' and activating > savecore). > > Now, I've got some core-images, but since I'm not a programmer

Re: dirpref gives massive performance boost

2001-10-18 Thread Oliver Fromme
Tim Bunce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can the diprefs code have a useful effect on an individual subtree > of a file system if just that tree was deleted and recreated? Well, it depends on how much free space there is on the filesystem, and how "fragmented" it is. If the filesystem is 90% use

Re: dirpref gives massive performance boost

2001-10-18 Thread David W. Chapman Jr.
> Dirpref is not something which is "enabled" or "disabled", not in > the same sense as softupdates is "enabled". > > Dirpref is a smarter layout of information in a partition. You > need a version of the system which knows HOW to do that smarter > layout, and then you just rebuild the partition.

Re: dirpref gives massive performance boost

2001-10-18 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:57 AM -0500 10/18/01, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: > > > Must one supply any other arguments to newfs in order to enable > > > dirpref? A quick look at man newfs didn't make any mention of > > > dirpref. > > > > No, it's on by default in kernels that include the new code. > >Is there a

Re: dirpref gives massive performance boost

2001-10-18 Thread David W. Chapman Jr.
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 02:48:50PM +0100, Rasputin wrote: > * Doug Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011018 14:40]: > > On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 09:43:53PM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 09:20:02PM +0200, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > > > > On Fri, 28 Sep 2001 14:12:46 -0700 > >

art work

2001-10-18 Thread Chad R. Larson
I asked this a couple of days ago and got no answer, so I'm gonna give it another try. Perhaps this isn't the right place to ask these questions... I received my 4.4-RELEASE CD set from my subscription. The subscription had been vectored through BSDcentral. I want to clone the first (install)