Re: ionice in FreeBSD?

2010-02-08 Thread Michael Vince
On 3/02/2010 10:52 PM, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: On 02/03/2010 12:12 PM, Bruce Simpson wrote: On 02/02/2010 17:19, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: In FreeBSD we've nice(1), renice(8) and even rtprio, idprio(1) but if I'm understanding correctly, they're related to CPU priorty only, not to I/O.

Re: FreeBSD amd64 apache + mod_perl

2007-03-27 Thread Michael Vince
Yeah I have only been able to use that Perl module for Oracle on FreeBSD with i386 which is a bit frustrating. I believe because it uses i386 binary drivers which don't work on AMD64. Mike Stefan Lambrev wrote: Hello list, Is there any way to have apache + mod_perl on FreeBSD amd64 and to co

Re: 6.1 with PAE on a recent server (HP DL380 G5 or Dell PE 1950) ?

2006-11-13 Thread Michael Vince
Olivier Mueller wrote: Hello, I will soon get some new servers with more than 4 GB of RAM, and I am wondering if they will work fine even with the PAE option activated: are all the required drivers (RAID mfid, bce on the Dell, ciss0 on the HP) 100% compatible, or should I expect trouble? If

Re: probs on 6.2-prerelease

2006-09-26 Thread Michael Vince
Danny Braniss wrote: [...] Hey all, I don't know if this is pre 6.2 specific but I changed my /etc/tty for device ttyd0 to 'on' from 'off' and when I rebooted the pc I couldn't login via regular KVM console, just don't get a login. The more alarming thing was that while it appeared everyt

Re: probs on 6.2-prerelease

2006-09-25 Thread Michael Vince
Danny Braniss wrote: Hey all, I don't know if this is pre 6.2 specific but I changed my /etc/tty for device ttyd0 to 'on' from 'off' and when I rebooted the pc I couldn't login via regular KVM console, just don't get a login. The more alarming thing was that while it appeared everything was

probs on 6.2-prerelease

2006-09-24 Thread Michael Vince
Hey all, I don't know if this is pre 6.2 specific but I changed my /etc/tty for device ttyd0 to 'on' from 'off' and when I rebooted the pc I couldn't login via regular KVM console, just don't get a login. The more alarming thing was that while it appeared everything was booting up from the boo

Re: Polling and em0

2006-09-16 Thread Michael Vince
Bill Blue wrote: polling(4) says that supported devices include em(4) and that polling support is turned on and off with ifconfig's 'polling' option. But ifconfig doesn't seem to recognize that option either as a standalone request or with the initial em0 setup at boot. This is after a sour

Re: Dell Server 2900 with the new Intel processor Woodcrest

2006-08-09 Thread Michael Vince
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Agersborg wrote: I want to purchase a Dell Server 2900 with these specifications <...> Dual-Core 64-bit Intel Xeon processor 5160 <...> 4GB (4x1GB) 667MHz FBD memory (max 32GB) <...> is there any issues which I need to be aware of in regard to the se

Re: em(4) update for 6-STABLE

2006-08-06 Thread Michael Vince
Gleb Smirnoff wrote: On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 04:14:35PM -0700, Nikolas Britton wrote: N> >First, it significantly improves perfromance of the driver N> >under high pps load. N> >Second, it adds support for few new chips. N> > N> >You need to update your system to fresh RELENG_6. The driver N> >w

Re: em device hangs on ifconfig alias ...

2006-07-08 Thread Michael Vince
Robert Watson wrote: On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, User Freebsd wrote: I think that I have patched, built and loaded the em(4) kernel module correctly. After applying the patch there were no rejects, before building the module I intentionally appended " (patched)" to its version string in if_em.c, an

Re: em device hangs on ifconfig alias ...

2006-06-29 Thread Michael Vince
User Freebsd wrote: On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Peter Jeremy wrote: On Thu, 2006-Jun-29 17:30:07 +1000, Michael Vince wrote: For me its IP alias additions take 1 or maybe 2secs, but it is noticeable, but really isn't an issue for me. But it obviously is for Atanas, who has 100's

Re: em device hangs on ifconfig alias ...

2006-06-29 Thread Michael Vince
Atanas wrote: Dan Nelson said the following on 6/28/06 3:52 PM: In the last episode (Jun 28), User Freebsd said: has anyone figured out why the em device 'hangs' for about 30-45 seconds whenever you ifconfig alias a new IP on to the device? The em driver resets the card when you add an IP

Re: Gigabit ethernet very slow.

2006-06-26 Thread Michael Vince
Nikolas Britton wrote: On 6/25/06, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/25/06, Sean Bryant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /dev/zero not exactly the best way to test sending data across the > network. Especially since you'll be reading a 8k chunks. > > I could be wrong, strong possibil

Re: 6.1 Stable keeps hanging

2006-06-05 Thread Michael Vince
Are you running tcpdump at all? that practically switches off ethernet for some reason on most of my Dell 6.x servers, and via ssh it feels like the machine has fully halted but it isn't, i normally serial in and manually kill the tcpdump to get back in control. The behavior is different in ja

Re: SSH debug messages

2006-04-21 Thread Michael Vince
Michael Vince wrote: Hey all, Since using 6-stable for the last few months I keep getting these ssh client/server? debug messages, I wasn't that annoyed with them at first I figured it was just something part of 6.1 betas but now its just getting annoying, and I am still getting them o

SSH debug messages

2006-04-21 Thread Michael Vince
Hey all, Since using 6-stable for the last few months I keep getting these ssh client/server? debug messages, I wasn't that annoyed with them at first I figured it was just something part of 6.1 betas but now its just getting annoying, and I am still getting them on the latest rc1 build. Here

Re: kde

2006-03-13 Thread Michael Vince
Steinberg, Michael wrote: im compiling kde from the ports for about the hundreth time and something always goes wrong this time its more simple than most but i can't seem to find what im looking for. It attempted to fetch a library called tiff.4 in several places and found nothing. It asked me t

6-stable and Tcpdump problems

2006-03-04 Thread Michael Vince
I am using the latest FreeBSD 6-stable and I am still having trouble dumping tcpdump in clear text data. In FreeBSD 5.x using 'tcpdump -A -s 0 -i sk0' I would always give me a full screen Ascii dump of current network data to the screen but now it just shows everything in Hex. I submitted a send

Re: FreeBSD 6-stable hosts.allow and samba

2006-02-28 Thread Michael Vince
Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote: Hi, On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 22:07:52 +1100 Michael Vince <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: mv> I checked the logs like hell on (enabled all.log) and saw nothing, no mv> server rejections nothing. In log.nmbd I did see a bunch of nice mv> mes

FreeBSD 6-stable hosts.allow and samba

2006-02-28 Thread Michael Vince
Hi Guys, I have been stuffing around for a silly amount of time trying to connect to a test samba install on a 6-stable box with from WinXP with no success. I checked the logs like hell on (enabled all.log) and saw nothing, no server rejections nothing. In log.nmbd I did see a bunch of nice m

Re: 6.0 on Dell 1850 with PERC4e/DC RAID?

2006-01-05 Thread Michael Vince
Scott Mitchell wrote: Hi all, I may be getting a new Dell PE1850 soon, to replace our ancient CVS server (still running 4-STABLE). The new machine will ideally run 6.0 and have a PERC4e/DC RAID card - the one with battery-backed cache. This is listed as supported by amr(4), but I'm wondering

Re: RELENG_6: Which scheduler for SMP?

2005-12-29 Thread Michael Vince
Mark Ovens wrote: I've never had any success with the ULE scheduler on my dual Athlon box running RELENG_5; it was so unstable it made Windows 3.1 look stable. In fact my current build, cvsup'd a couple of days ago, won't even boot with ULE. From what I remember, ULE was intended to become t

Re: Reduced java/tomcat performance 6-beta3 -> 6-stable ?

2005-11-30 Thread Michael Vince
Some apps that use of frequent queries of the system time for example MySQL are well known in FreeBSD to be slower then Linux because its more expensive to call compared to Linux, maybe Tomcat is also another such app this can also be double the case depending on on your jsp and servlet code.

Re: Rotating web server logs without restarting Apache

2005-11-24 Thread Michael Vince
Ladislav Bodnar wrote: Hi, Every time my httpd-access.log file is rotated I need to restart Apache, otherwise it won't write into the new httpd-access.log file. Is there a way for Apache (version 2.0.55 on FreeBSD 6.0) to write to the new log file without the need to restart it? I restart i

Re: New user confused by need to do huge upgrade

2005-11-07 Thread Michael VInce
Alistair wrote: Hello, All I am a user of Linux for many years (and an aged BSD sysadmin from 1985-1989), but laterly mainly use Gentoo. FreeBSD seemed to be a good alternative, so I get the 6.0 release a few days after it was released. Being a Gentoo person, I like the ports system, but

Re: Network performance 6.0 with netperf

2005-10-20 Thread Michael VInce
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 04:26:31PM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote: At 10:49 PM +1000 2005-10-20, Michael VInce wrote: > The 4 ethernet ports on the Dell server are all built-in so I am assuming > they are on the best bus available. In my experience, the terms "Dell

Re: Network performance 6.0 with netperf

2005-10-20 Thread Michael VInce
Sten Daniel Sørsdal wrote: Michael VInce wrote: I reinstalled the netperf to make sure its the latest. I have also decided to upgrade Server-C (the i386 5.4 box) to 6.0RC1 and noticed it gave a large improvement of network performance with a SMP kernel. As with the network setup ( A

Re: Network performance 6.0 with netperf

2005-10-20 Thread Michael VInce
nce with the right sysctls. Needs more testing but it appears using AMD64 FreeBSD might be better then i386 for Apache2 network performance on SMP kernels. Single interface speeds tests from the router with polling enabled and with 'net.isr.direct=1' appears to affect performance. Regards

Re: Network performance 6.0 with netperf

2005-10-20 Thread Michael VInce
nce with the right sysctls. Needs more testing but it appears using AMD64 FreeBSD might be better then i386 for Apache2 network performance on SMP kernels. Single interface speeds tests from the router with polling enabled and with 'net.isr.direct=1' appears to affect performance. Regards

Re: Network performance 6.0 with netperf

2005-10-19 Thread Michael VInce
Robert Watson wrote: On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Michael VInce wrote: I been doing some network benchmarking using netperf and just simple 'fetch' on a new network setup to make sure I am getting the most out of the router and servers, I thought I would post some results in case some on

Network performance 6.0 with netperf

2005-10-14 Thread Michael VInce
Hey all, I been doing some network benchmarking using netperf and just simple 'fetch' on a new network setup to make sure I am getting the most out of the router and servers, I thought I would post some results in case some one can help me with my problems or if others are just interested to

Re: FYI - RELENG_6 branch has been created.

2005-07-18 Thread Michael VInce
Wow thats a big jump from what I got in a test I did a couple of months ago, here is a copy and paste of an older email Are you using AMD64 mode or i386? Dell 1850 Dual CPU with 4 Gigs of ram, thats in idle CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz (3192.23-MHz 686-class CPU) FreeBSD 5.

Re: DELL PowerEdge 2850 and FreeBSD 5.4

2005-06-03 Thread Michael VInce
I have numerous Dell 1850s all with 4gigs of ram and SCSI in mirror 1 raid. I feel I must of been very lucky because I have never had a single problem with these machines, 1 of them is under severe load. I setup these machines in a different way then most people. Because I run the machines in a

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 SMP freezes with MySQL 4.1

2005-03-30 Thread Michael Vince
I am running 1 mildly busy new MySQL server thats running fine on 5.3-RELEASE-p5 #5: Sat Jan 22 04:54:07 EST 2005 from the generic conf kernel Its a Dell 1850 Dual P4 Xeon CPU 3.00GHz EMT64 with HTT enabled FYI I actually have a Dell 2650 thats not doing anything at the moment be

Re: sk(4), 3C940 unknown reason hang

2004-10-07 Thread Michael Vince
Interestingly I just put on 5.3Beta 7 on an AMD64 based machine and my sk0 interface hangs when I do some file transfers over to the machine via scp I just put an intel pci card in to fix the problem Rong-En Fan wrote: >[I'm not on list, so please CC me thanks] > >Hi, > >It is a 4.10-RELEASE-p2

scp/sftp large file transfers always fail

2001-07-28 Thread Michael Vince
I have been trying to transfer large files over scp and sftp but they always stall / time out and fail. If they are small its ok like around 10megs its ok. But when they are like 50megs or 300megs they ALWAYS fail! I have tryed everything SSH built into freebsd. ssh v3 and v2 from ssh.com. SSH fro