Tuning the scheduler? Desktop with a CPU-intensive task becomes rapidly unusable.

2010-09-01 Thread jan . grant
ser experience. At the moment I'm fiddling around with cpusets to try to pin my port builds to a subset of the available processors. Suggestions are welcome! Cheers, jan PS. I've stuck it out with sched_ule since it's been available, but I should point out this isn't a sudden

Re: Tuning the scheduler? Desktop with a CPU-intensive task becomes rapidly unusable.

2010-09-02 Thread jan . grant
complex beast, and putting numbers against "look and feel" is tricky - however in this situation, I can get numbers from a wall-clock, the behaviour is that pronounced. I'll certainly try getting the whole X tree onto a single socket

Re: Tuning the scheduler? Desktop with a CPU-intensive task becomes rapidly unusable.

2010-09-02 Thread jan . grant
sabled. The graphics are from an nVidia GeForce 8500 GT (G86) with the X.org driver. (It's not _just_ desktop behaviour that's affected, though: the box runs a number of small headless [interactive] server processes which also appear to get rapidly starved of CPU time.) The behav

Re: rm(1) bug, possibly serious

2007-09-25 Thread Jan Grant
ugh. The first time, your current directory is getting removed (so ../ won't refer to a real directory the second time around). The bug is really in rm(1)'s initial diagnostic message. -- jan grant, ISYS, University of Bristol. http://www.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0)117 3317661 http

Re: FreeBSD 4.x EoL

2006-10-18 Thread Jan Grant
or a binary upgrade ad lib; just reboot (with nextboot) when done. This also means you can keep the previous OS around for a while in case there are problems with the new one. For setups that aren't amenable to automated deployments this works pretty well and gives you a safety-net for upgrad

(some?) startup scripts being run twice..?

2006-05-02 Thread Jan Grant
/etc/rc why this might be occurring. -- jan grant, ISYS, University of Bristol. http://www.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0)117 3317661 http://ioctl.org/jan/ ...and then three milkmaids turned up (to the delight and delactation of the crowd). ___ freebsd-stable@free

Solved (pilot error) Re: (some?) startup scripts being run twice..?

2006-05-02 Thread Jan Grant
On Tue, 2 May 2006, Jan Grant wrote: > I'm running a stock freebsd-stable as a workstation. I'm seeing > something unusual: it looks like some startup scripts are being run > twice when the machine boots. > > Originally I caught this because an old-fashioned /usr/loc

Re: (some?) startup scripts being run twice..?

2006-05-02 Thread Jan Grant
port 22 on 0.0.0.0 failed: Address already in use. Apr 27 08:51:01 xxx sshd[1296]: fatal: Cannot bind any address. ]]] The instance of sshd that is running was successfully started a few seconds before this. Again, this is coming out of /etc/rc. > 2006/5/2, Jan Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: who has experience about updating freebsd from 4.11 to 5.x

2005-09-06 Thread Jan Grant
nly issue I came across was one of my own making: I used a second drive to install copies of /, /usr to manage upgrades (much like solaris' liveupdate) and wound up with a ufs2 /, which my original bootloader (from the 3.x days) didn't grok. Cheers, jan -- jan grant, ILRT, Universi

Resolver doesn't like 1.2.3.04 in /etc/hosts

2005-10-26 Thread Jan Grant
enough to work around. Cheers, jan -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0)117 3317661 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Unfortunately, I have a very good idea how fast my keys are moving. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.o

Re: Resolver doesn't like 1.2.3.04 in /etc/hosts

2005-10-27 Thread Jan Grant
t also generates less > support complaints. I'm happy to reject octal and hex too! Anyway, count this as one (minor) support gripe :-) Thanks for your time, jan -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0)117 3317661 http://ioctl.org/jan/ stt

Re: Resolver doesn't like 1.2.3.04 in /etc/hosts

2005-10-27 Thread Jan Grant
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Paul T. Root wrote: > man inet_addr > > and you'll find: > > All numbers supplied as ``parts'' in a `.' notation may be decimal, > octal, or hexadecimal, as specified in the C language (i.e., a leading > 0x or 0X implies hexadecimal; otherwise, a leading 0 implies octal; > o

Re: Resolver doesn't like 1.2.3.04 in /etc/hosts

2005-10-27 Thread Jan Grant
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Paul T. Root wrote: > Jan Grant wrote: > > > > On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Paul T. Root wrote: > > > > > > > man inet_addr > > > > > > and you'll find: > > > > > > All numbers supplied as ``parts

Re: upgrading 5.4 -> 6.0 without reinstalling. safe ?

2005-11-10 Thread Jan Grant
) prior to the reboot it should work fine and offers a simple backout in the case of disaster. On a multiuser system this obviously works better if you arrange your setup to work in a "read-only root/usr" setup, so late-in-the-day changes by users to stuff under /etc aren't lost.

Re: upgrading 5.4 -> 6.0 without reinstalling. safe ?

2005-11-10 Thread Jan Grant
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Filip Lenaerts wrote: > hi all > > On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 11:17:13AM +0000, Jan Grant wrote: > > > > FWIW I've just done a successful remote source-based upgrade from 5.4 to > > 6.0 (I'm brave) with no problems. I use a second root an

Re: gnome-upgrade.sh

2005-11-11 Thread Jan Grant
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > On Friday 11 November 2005 01:43, Jan Grant wrote: > > My pkgtools.conf has hundreds(! - busy workstation) of entries along > > these lines - some entries apply to several ports, and the portupgrade > > toolset just basically

Re: gnome-upgrade.sh

2005-11-11 Thread Jan Grant
mechanical process to take pkgtools.conf and spit out a corresponding portmanager config. Thanks Mike. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0)117 3317661 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Personal responsibility for corporate decisions: if they've nothing

Re: gnome-upgrade.sh

2005-11-11 Thread Jan Grant
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > On Friday 11 November 2005 05:58, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > > On Friday 11 November 2005 05:58, Jan Grant wrote: > > > On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > > > > > > [on wildcards in portmanager rul

Re: gnome-upgrade.sh

2005-11-11 Thread Jan Grant
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Re: Remote upgrading (was: /etc/make.conf question)

2002-03-14 Thread Jan Grant
e stuck with a serial console to try to figure things out. Sun have something like this for Solaris; it's a neat trick. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Impact of vulnerability:

Re: HEADS UP: OpenSSL 0.9.7 in -STABLE

2003-02-26 Thread Jan Grant
PIII800. When doing a dump from a fast > > client, with 3des I was looking at close to 40%-50% of CPU going to sshd on > > the server. Now I see about 3%-5%. > > So how is the total throughput? Is it a win or a lose with the 7951? Excuse my curiosity: would measuring the throughput o

Re: /var error

2003-07-09 Thread Jan Grant
en inodes - eg, the script at http://ioctl.org/unix/scripts/openfiles does that. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ ...and then three milkmaids turned up (to the delight and delactation of

Expert input required: P4 odd signals, no apparent memory fault, DISABLE_PSE?

2003-10-20 Thread Jan Grant
g tickled than I'd normally suspect from these symptoms. I'm about to experiment with this option but it currently feels a little like cargo-cult admin. If there are any definitive tests that would indicate if this hardware problem is present and addressed by this, that's be nice to kno

Re: Expert input required: P4 odd signals, no apparent memoryfault, DISABLE_PSE?

2003-10-20 Thread Jan Grant
ing to emails I've had] for a while.) -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Prolog in JavaScript: http://ioctl.org/logic/prolog-latest ___

Solved. Re: Expert input required: P4 odd signals, no apparent memoryfault, DISABLE_PSE?

2003-10-20 Thread Jan Grant
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Jan Grant wrote: > On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > > How recent is your copy of RELENG_4 ? The PSE disable code was committed > > to the tree already as well as a fix so it would work with APM on the > > 17th. By default it is disabl