Re: mysql frequently crash on 6.2

2007-05-17 Thread Tom Samplonius
- "Albert Wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > key_buffer = 32M key_buffer has the most influence over the performance of MyISAM database. You should increase it as much as possible. On a dedicated 2GB server, 1GB is good. But it only helps, if you actually have indexes. There is no po

Re: fast rate of major FreeBSD releases to STABLE

2007-05-17 Thread LI Xin
Ivan Voras wrote: > Chris wrote: > >> and its for a desktop element of the os, does it matter if servers >> running FreeBSD have to remain on vulnerable versions of ports as a >> result of this? > > This looks like another call to have RELENG_x branches on ports, with > which I agree. Hmm... Br

Re: fast rate of major FreeBSD releases to STABLE

2007-05-17 Thread Ivan Voras
Chris wrote: and its for a desktop element of the os, does it matter if servers running FreeBSD have to remain on vulnerable versions of ports as a result of this? This looks like another call to have RELENG_x branches on ports, with which I agree. __

RE: mysql frequently crash on 6.2

2007-05-17 Thread Albert Wong
Mark: Thanks for the tips about the placement of the log into [mysqld] -- maybe it will start to show some error messages if I put it up into the mysqld section. :-) I will also take a look at table_cache and query_cache and read_rnd_buffer_size. [I've got some reading / figuring out to do!] M

Re: mysql frequently crash on 6.2

2007-05-17 Thread Michael Schuh
Hello Albert, Hello @list, first, i be a native german speaker, so please excuse my ugly english. Greetings everyone... I am observing what appears to be a similar problem as well... I have a dedicated server with *very* light traffic. It looks like every day or so my server load slowly climbs

Re: udp fragmentation with pf/ipf

2007-05-17 Thread Mark Andrews
> > This should be rejected as "keep frags" is meaningless here. > > pass out log quick on bge0 proto udp from xxx.xxx.xxx.113/32 to any port = 53 > keep state keep frags > > You need > > pass in quick from any to any with frag keep frag The reason is that "ip

Re: udp fragmentation with pf/ipf

2007-05-17 Thread Mark Andrews
This should be rejected as "keep frags" is meaningless here. pass out log quick on bge0 proto udp from xxx.xxx.xxx.113/32 to any port = 53 keep state keep frags You need pass in quick from any to any with frag keep frag -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dun

udp fragmentation with pf/ipf

2007-05-17 Thread Hugo Koji Kobayashi
Hello, While making some tests with fragmented udp DNS responses (with EDNS0), we discovered a possible problem with ipf and pf in FreeBSD 6.2 and 7.0 (200705 snapshot). Our test is a DNS query to an DNSSEC enabled server which replies with a ~4KB udp response. We do this with the following dig

Re: mysql frequently crash on 6.2

2007-05-17 Thread Mark Saad
Hello In general This is what I use for my libmap.conf , it works fine for me any you may want to give it a try. [mysqld] libpthread.so libthr.so libpthread.so.2 libthr.so.2 Note nothing in MySQL 4.1 compiled on FreeBSD 6.2 should use libc_r.so . The other thing in your libmap that

Re: fast rate of major FreeBSD releases to STABLE

2007-05-17 Thread Tuomo Latto
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > As someone who has had to show many people "how" to use the FreeBSD > installer, I can confirm what Chris is referring to. > > Here's some of the generic end-user complaints I've heard (and some > of which I have); [...] As someone who only very rarely plays with the inst

Re: mysql frequently crash on 6.2

2007-05-17 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
On 5/17/07, Albert Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can you go for MySQL 5.0.37? -- Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freeb

libarchive version 1.3.1 appears to be broken

2007-05-17 Thread Jeff Davis
When I pass the "z" flag to tar when creating an archive, and the files grow while the archive is being created, I get an invalid gzip output: $ tar --version bsdtar 1.2.53 - libarchive 1.3.1 $ tar zcf mybackup.tar.gz mybackup/ # files in mybackup/ are growing tar: Truncated write; file may have

Re: mysql frequently crash on 6.2

2007-05-17 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
On 5/17/07, Albert Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes... this is possible Currently, I am on MySQL 4.1.20 ... but I believe that MySQL is backwards compatible... so I can definitely try this. Do you know if this bug is squashed with MySQL 5.0.37 ? Thanks, Albert > -Original Message---

RE: mysql frequently crash on 6.2

2007-05-17 Thread Albert Wong
Yes... this is possible Currently, I am on MySQL 4.1.20 ... but I believe that MySQL is backwards compatible... so I can definitely try this. Do you know if this bug is squashed with MySQL 5.0.37 ? Thanks, Albert > -Original Message- > From: Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri [mailto:[EMAIL

mysql frequently crash on 6.2

2007-05-17 Thread Albert Wong
Greetings everyone... I am observing what appears to be a similar problem as well... [referring to the posts from earlier this month with the same subject]... I have a dedicated server with *very* light traffic. It looks like every day or so my server load slowly climbs from 0.20 to 14.00 and then

Re: fast rate of major FreeBSD releases to STABLE

2007-05-17 Thread Mark Linimon
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 01:35:10PM -0500, Craig Boston wrote: > > Now this is totally bogus. The freeze before the 6.0 release was VERY > > long and several have been longer than this one has been so far. > > I think the complaint may be more a result of this being a deeper freeze > than normal.

Re: xfce4 broke after pkgdb -Ff

2007-05-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
KAYVEN RIESE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 17 May 2007, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > >> Please don't top-post. >> >> KAYVEN RIESE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> so the "-r" option will be the significant difference for the portupgrade >>> comamnd, just verifying >> >> Yes. Otherwise, you

mysql frequently crash on 6.2

2007-05-17 Thread Albert Wong
Greetings everyone... I am observing what appears to be a similar problem as well... I have a dedicated server with *very* light traffic. It looks like every day or so my server load slowly climbs from 0.20 to 14.00 and then stays there indefinitely locking down the system [until I do an "apa

Re: xfce4 broke after pkgdb -Ff

2007-05-17 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 17 May 2007 02:37:15 pm KAYVEN RIESE wrote: > On Thu, 17 May 2007, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > Please don't top-post. > > > > KAYVEN RIESE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> so the "-r" option will be the significant difference for the > >> portupgrade comamnd, just verifying > > > > Yes.

Re: xfce4 broke after pkgdb -Ff

2007-05-17 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
On Thu, 17 May 2007, John Nielsen wrote: On Thursday 17 May 2007 02:37:15 pm KAYVEN RIESE wrote: On Thu, 17 May 2007, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Please don't top-post. KAYVEN RIESE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: so the "-r" option will be the significant difference for the portupgrade comamnd, ju

last email

2007-05-17 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
what i sent may or may not make sense. i run pine for email client and am having some buffer lag right now. my keystrokes are not being immeditaelyt echoed and i didn't really mean to send it. if it DOES make sense, feeel free to comment. sorry about that. also typos are a symptom of the key

make mplayer failed

2007-05-17 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
here is my error message onfigure: error: Package requirements (glib-2.0 >= 2.12.0atk >= 1.9.0 pa ngo >= 1.12.0cairo >= 1.2.0) were not met: No package 'atk' found Requested 'cairo >= 1.2.0' but version of cairo is 1.0.2 Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if

Re: xfce4 broke after pkgdb -Ff

2007-05-17 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
On Thu, 17 May 2007, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Please don't top-post. KAYVEN RIESE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: so the "-r" option will be the significant difference for the portupgrade comamnd, just verifying Yes. Otherwise, you may end up with some of the ports that depend on pango being u

Re: fast rate of major FreeBSD releases to STABLE

2007-05-17 Thread Craig Boston
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 10:24:15AM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > The recent ports freeze has also concerned me, this is the longest > > ports freeze I have witnessed since I started using FreeBSD years ago > > and its for a desktop element of the os, does it matter if servers > > running FreeBSD

Re: fast rate of major FreeBSD releases to STABLE

2007-05-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 05:51:07PM +0100, Gavin Atkinson wrote: > On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 16:30 +0100, Chris wrote: > > A more user friendly installer so datacentres stop been put off FreeBSD. > > Although work on a new installer is "ongoing", nobody ever seems to be > clear what the problems are wi

Re: fast rate of major FreeBSD releases to STABLE

2007-05-17 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 16:30:50 +0100 > From: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I have mentioned this before about releasing a new major version of > FreeBSD at such short intervals. Now I am wondering what path the > FreeBSD community is taking in regards to server and

Re: NIC (Network Card) is not detected by FreeBSD 6.2 into PowerEdge Blade 1955 Server

2007-05-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 07:08:39PM +0530, Sachin Sharma wrote: > Hi, > > FreeBSD 6.2 Kernel don't support Broadcom NIC BCM 5708S model. One need to > patch kernel Source to make it live. Below i written steps i took. > > 1, Download patch > http://people.freebsd.org/~dwhite/patches/bce-se

Re: xfce4 broke after pkgdb -Ff

2007-05-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Please don't top-post. KAYVEN RIESE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > so the "-r" option will be the significant difference for the portupgrade > comamnd, just verifying Yes. Otherwise, you may end up with some of the ports that depend on pango being unable to use the new version. Make sure you

Re: fast rate of major FreeBSD releases to STABLE

2007-05-17 Thread Gavin Atkinson
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 16:30 +0100, Chris wrote: > Stuff I would love to see in FreeBSD 7.x (CURRENT) before 7.0 release > which looks like it isnt going to happen [snip] > More hardware support - FreeBSD still has poor hardware support when > compared to other OS's, in particular vendors such as

Re: fast rate of major FreeBSD releases to STABLE

2007-05-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 04:30:50PM +0100, Chris wrote: > The recent ports freeze has also concerned me, this is the longest > ports freeze I have witnessed since I started using FreeBSD years ago > and its for a desktop element of the os, does it matter if servers > running FreeBSD have to remain

Re: NIC (Network Card) is not detected by FreeBSD 6.2 into PowerEdge Blade 1955 Server

2007-05-17 Thread Cristiano Deana
2007/5/16, Sachin Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, NIC (Network Card) is not detected by FreeBSD 6.2 into PowerEdge Blade 1955 Server. I need FreeBSD in these server . Please help me. it works with 6.2-STABLE. download a 6.2 snapshot and install it. works fine here -- Cris, member of G.U.F.I

Re: xfce4 broke after pkgdb -Ff

2007-05-17 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
so the "-r" option will be the significant difference for the portupgrade comamnd, just verifying On Thu, 17 May 2007, Lowell Gilbert wrote: KAYVEN RIESE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: i did the command pkgdb -Ff and it broke my X (xfce4) the desktop had been able to come up, but the cursor wa

fast rate of major FreeBSD releases to STABLE

2007-05-17 Thread Chris
I have mentioned this before about releasing a new major version of FreeBSD at such short intervals. Now I am wondering what path the FreeBSD community is taking in regards to server and desktop use. Stuff I would love to see in FreeBSD 7.x (CURRENT) before 7.0 release which looks like it isnt g

Re: xfce4 broke after pkgdb -Ff

2007-05-17 Thread Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez
On Thu, 17 May 2007 08:51:13 -0400 Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > pkgdb -Ff had had a pango problem, so i did a portupgrade -f pango. > > > > now i can't even get a terminal in my xfce4 > > I think you missed some of the instructions in /usr/ports/UPDATING. > I'm also a bit confuse

Re: NIC (Network Card) is not detected by FreeBSD 6.2 into PowerEdge Blade 1955 Server

2007-05-17 Thread Sachin Sharma
Hi, FreeBSD 6.2 Kernel don't support Broadcom NIC BCM 5708S model. One need to patch kernel Source to make it live. Below i written steps i took. 1, Download patch http://people.freebsd.org/~dwhite/patches/bce-serdes-20070111.tar.gz 2, cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf 3, cp GENRIC MYKERNEL 4,

Re: xfce4 broke after pkgdb -Ff

2007-05-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
KAYVEN RIESE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i did the command pkgdb -Ff and it broke my X (xfce4) the desktop > had been able to come up, but the cursor was the "X" that it has > while it is booting.. i was able to start a terminal, but not a mozilla > browser. i had been able to use the termina