Re: Stable on Blade server

2007-02-24 Thread Alex Hayward
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, John Nielsen wrote: > On Friday 23 February 2007 07:12, Marian Hettwer wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:06:54 +0100, Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I work for a little web agency/isp and we are going to buy new hw to > > > sustain th

Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD

2006-10-25 Thread Alex Hayward
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > Hello! > > On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 04:10:19PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > > As for the disk configuration, using RAID-5 is one of the worst > > possible choices for a database; using multiple RAID-1 mirrors or a > > RAID-10 config would probably d

Re: Best practices for remote upgrade?

2006-05-10 Thread Alex Hayward
On Tue, 9 May 2006, Scott Harrison wrote: > This sounds nice except that I do not have my disk already > partitioned like this. Can I take a 4.7 machine (for example) and > live repartition it to be like this? It /is/ possible to upgrade from at least some versions of FreeBSD 4 to some ver

Re: ipfw drop syn+fin

2001-02-23 Thread Alex Hayward
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Tom wrote: > On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Alexandr Kovalenko wrote: > > > # TCP_DROP_SYNFIN adds support for ignoring TCP packets with SYN+FIN. This > > # prevents nmap et al. from identifying the TCP/IP stack, but breaks support > > # for RFC1644 extensions and is no