Re: Can FreeBSD be installed on DellPowerEdge2800 ?

2005-03-08 Thread David Sze
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 08:25:40AM -0600, Art Mason wrote: > >Vinny Abello wrote: >> >>At 05:50 PM 3/1/2005, Art Mason wrote: >>> >>>Indeed, just installed on a customer's server last night, and I build >>>SMP support into the GENERIC kernel this morning. Only issues I >>>encountered has to do

Re: Can FreeBSD be installed on DellPowerEdge2800 ?

2005-03-08 Thread David Sze
At 05:55 PM 08/03/2005 -0700, Scott Long wrote this to All: >>David Sze wrote: >>>On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 08:25:40AM -0600, Art Mason wrote: >>> >>>Yeah, I cam across that on some mailing list archives, but saw some >>>additional references that this can

Re: Can FreeBSD be installed on DellPowerEdge2800 ?

2005-03-09 Thread David Sze
At 09:15 PM 08/03/2005 -0600, David Sze wrote this to All: At 05:55 PM 08/03/2005 -0700, Scott Long wrote this to All: >>David Sze wrote: >>On my 2850 the upper 1GB of RAM cannot be addressed without PAE support >>in the kernel. However, amr in 4.11-RELEASE does indeed seem to h

Re: FreeBSD 4.11-Release IPS device issues

2005-04-07 Thread David Sze
At 09:13 AM 06/04/2005 +0100, Anthony Downer wrote this to All: Hello Folks, (I am afraid) we are using FreeBSD as the initial boot/hardware/disk configuration tool for our Standard Windows Server builds. We have a bootable CD that identifies hardware, partitions disk zero, copies the install files

Re: [PATCH] Stability fixes for IPS driver for 4.x

2005-04-10 Thread David Sze
At 09:17 AM 09/04/2005 -0600, Scott Long wrote this to All: All, Thanks to the keen eye of David Sze, the cause of the instability in the ips driver in FreeBSD 4.x might have been found. If it's affecting you, please try the attached patch and let me know the results. I'll commi

Re: [PATCH] Stability fixes for IPS driver for 4.x

2005-04-11 Thread David Sze
At 11:31 PM 10/04/2005 -0600, Scott Long wrote this to All: Making a driver PAE-ified means either teaching it to do 64-bit scatter-gather (assuming that the peripheral hardware can do this and that it's documented), or teaching the driver to correctly handle EINPROGRESS from bus_dmamap_load() alon

Re: [PATCH] Stability fixes for IPS driver for 4.x

2005-04-12 Thread David Sze
At 12:26 PM 12/04/2005 -0600, Scott Long wrote this to All: David Sze wrote: At 11:31 PM 10/04/2005 -0600, Scott Long wrote this to All: Making a driver PAE-ified means either teaching it to do 64-bit scatter-gather (assuming that the peripheral hardware can do this and that it's documented

Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

2005-06-17 Thread David Sze
At 05:15 PM 16/06/2005 +0100, Steve Roome wrote this to All: Thank you all for your suggestions on this thread, here's a brief breakdown of most of the ideas from people: Billy Newsom: COMPILER, DISK, MYSQLVERSION Daniel Eischen: +/-HTT, Thread scopes Greg Lehey: MALLOC Guy Helmer: PREEMPTIVE, v

Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

2005-06-17 Thread David Sze
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:28:24AM -0400, JM wrote: > i think you're missing the point... using CURRENT on a production > machine is a bad idea... the performance is great, but hardly worth the > risk of breaking something. Under normal circumstances I'd agree, but -CURRENT is already in code f

Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

2005-06-17 Thread David Sze
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 05:47:56PM +0200, Matthias Buelow wrote: > > Is CentOS using ext2? I thought everyone moved to ext3 already, which > provides nearly the speed of ext2+async but is safe due to its journal. > If you make such comparisons, please use current technology, and not > the status q

Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

2005-06-17 Thread David Sze
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 12:05:54PM -0400, JM wrote: > David Sze wrote: > > > >Under normal circumstances I'd agree, but -CURRENT is already in code > >freeze in preparation for the upcoming 6.0 release: > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/schedule

Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

2005-06-17 Thread David Sze
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 06:20:59PM +0200, Matthias Buelow wrote: > David Sze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >CentOS uses ext3 by default. How does having a journal help if the > >journal is stored on the same async filesystem? Unless the journal > >writes are gua

Re: dangerous situation with shutdown process

2005-07-14 Thread David Sze
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 09:52:53PM +0200, Matthias Buelow wrote: > Kevin Oberman wrote: > > >The problem is that disks lie about whether they have actually written > >data. If the power goes off before the data is in cache, it's lost. > > No, the problem is that FreeBSD doesn't implement request

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

2006-01-05 Thread David Sze
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 03:34:24PM -0800, Doug White wrote: > On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, 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

Re: 6.0 on Dell 1850 with DRAC4 management card?

2006-01-06 Thread David Sze
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 05:32:54PM +0100, Marian Hettwer wrote: > > The only thing missing would be hardware power down. if that can be done > via DRAC, that'll be an advantage :) One big advantage of the DRAC is virtual media (floppy, CD) support. Good for BIOS/firmware upgrades, booting a rescu

Re: stable + squid 2.5_3

2003-06-09 Thread David Sze
It looks like you don't have enough message queues. http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-22.html#ss22.6 On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Mike Hoskins wrote: > > I seem to be having a problem, but I'm not sure if it's -stable, Squid, or > neither. I've been running -stable+Squid on a Dell 4600 for a coupl