Re: FreeBSD 4.x EoL

2006-10-19 Thread Jim C. Nasby
ad(2,2,f) > to boot from "f" partition of the 2nd slice on the 3rd drive. > > If you have lots of physical memory and swap space, you may be able > to spare swap space for this porpuse for a moment. In another word, > you can disable swap device for a while and use it as a

Re: FreeBSD 4.x EoL

2006-10-26 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 12:02:59AM +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:09:50 -0500 > "Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The issue I run into is that I use software raid (vinum in 4.11, > > gmirror in 6.x), and I don&#x

Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD

2006-10-26 Thread Jim C. Nasby
taware- > freebsd-and-postgresql/ And that's on a dual opteron with 12G of memory and a run of the mill RAID10 (for the database that is). -- Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect[EMAIL PROTECTED] Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Windows: "

Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD

2006-10-27 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 10:06:30AM -0400, Bucky Jordan wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim C. Nasby > > Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 12:44 AM > > To: David Magda > >

Re: the best graphicscard for FreeBSD

2004-11-30 Thread Jim C. Nasby
4 > P.O. Box 4014 Fax:+41-32-3452120 > CH-2500 Bienne 4 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ___ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send a

Disabling write-behind on IDE drives, and SMART

2005-01-20 Thread Jim C. Nasby
that the default is speed over data integrity. Question two: is there any support for SMART in FreeBSD? I see that atacontrol cap displays the status (supported and disabled), but I don't know of any way to turn it on. Likewise, what about the other options shown by atacontrol cap? -- Ji

Re: Disabling write-behind on IDE drives, and SMART

2005-01-21 Thread Jim C. Nasby
n used with softupdates avoids the performance hit > caused by turning off write caching, at least for most workloads. Does SATA support an equivalent to tagged queuing? -- Jim C. Nasby, Database Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net

Problems with mailing lists

2005-01-30 Thread Jim C. Nasby
I've been trying to change my email address from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on all my subscriptions at freebsd.org, but the Change globally option isn't working. -- Jim C. Nasby, Database Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Give your computer some b

Re: Problems with mailing lists

2005-01-31 Thread Jim C. Nasby
First, my apologies for sending this to -stable. It's not what I meant to do. Both addresses are still active, and someone's looking into it for me. On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 02:54:28PM -0800, Doug White wrote: > On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Jim C. Nasby wrote: > > > I've bee

Re: Tarpitting Spam Traffic using PF...

2005-02-22 Thread Jim C. Nasby
more productive to run http://projecthoneypot.org. -- Jim C. Nasby, Database Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do

ad0 errors on FBSD 4.11-RELEASE

2005-03-08 Thread Jim C. Nasby
m running vinum, if that matters. I guess if I need to I can run both drives off the second IDE controller... is there any magic I'd need to do in vinum to accomplish that? -- Jim C. Nasby, Database Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Give your computer some brain candy! www.distri

Re: (LONG) ATA Benchmark: 5.x Reads Slower than Writes

2005-04-09 Thread Jim C. Nasby
Have you been certain to disable write caching on the drives? If not I bet that's what you're seeing (which also means you're begging for database corruption). -- Jim C. Nasby, Database Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed

Re: kernel killing processes when out of swap

2005-04-13 Thread Jim C. Nasby
e that some day some mechanism to solve that problem will be > available in FreeBSD aswell. It's extremely disappointing that you can't turn this off. I've been bashing linux for months now about how they think it's OK to kill random processes. But at least they'll let y

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 on ASUS A8N-SLI motherboard

2006-02-28 Thread Jim C. Nasby
to use its RAID > feature if possible, otherwise I'll try gmirror. > Please let me know if somebody has experience about it. I've been unable to make the on-board ethernet work. I don't recall the exact error, 'cause I ended up dropping a card into it as a workaro

Problems with portupgrade

2005-05-21 Thread Jim C. Nasby
oblem, but I'm curious as to what's causing this. Anyone have any ideas? This is 4.11-RELEASE if that matters... -- Jim C. Nasby, Database Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Windows: "Where do you want to

Re: Problems with portupgrade

2005-05-21 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 02:47:28PM -0500, Barry Pederson wrote: > Jim C. Nasby wrote: > >I'm trying to upgrade spamassassin, but portupgrade is stubling on every > >dependant port. It appears it wants to re-install each port, which of > >course doesn't work. It gen

Problem with portupgrade

2005-05-23 Thread Jim C. Nasby
04-12-25) [i386-freebsd4] I've tried manually reinstalling both ruby and portupgrade to no avail. -- Jim C. Nasby, Database Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux

Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/*.sh not working?

2005-06-14 Thread Jim C. Nasby
ts, and they have no rcNG infrastructure. BTW, you might find http://rrs.decibel.org useful, though it currently doesn't have a graphical front end. -- Jim C. Nasby, Database Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Windo

Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

2005-06-20 Thread Jim C. Nasby
such a manner that you don't have any data integrity anyway. For example, if you fat-finger 'innodb' as 'innodd' or something MySQL siletly creates a MyISAM table for you. So if you care about data integrity, you should probably look beyond MySQL in the first place. -- Jim C

Problem with p5-Net-DNS and SpamAssassin

2005-06-27 Thread Jim C. Nasby
) and extracted in into /usr/ports/dns and it fixed the issue. -- Jim C. Nasby, Database Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?&quo

Re: 6.0 and -O2 option

2005-08-30 Thread Jim C. Nasby
orts on 6.0? > > cheers, > > Beto > > Simply because not every port works with -O2 optimisations. It caused > bad code in some circumstances. Is there an automated way to identify those ports so they can be forced not to use -O higer than -O1? -- Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect

Re: 6.0 and -O2 option

2005-08-31 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 10:57:05AM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Jim C. Nasby wrote: > >On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 10:57:53AM +1000, Robert Backhaus wrote: > [ ... ] > >>Simply because not every port works with -O2 optimisations. It caused > >>bad code in some cir

Re: vinum problem

2000-01-10 Thread Jim C. Nasby
networking people > fon: +49.30.308806-13 fax: -77 web: http://innominate.de pgp: /pgp/tg > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Jim C. Nasby (aka Decibel!) /^\ [EMAIL

Re: shutdown problems FBSD 3.4-STABLE

2000-01-12 Thread Jim C. Nasby
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Klimadatenserver des IPA, Universitaet Mainz > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Jim C. Nasby (aka Decibel!)

Re: Weirdest crash I ever saw...

2000-03-13 Thread Jim C. Nasby
e device for operation at the lower frequency. Generally speaking, you can go from 50Hz to 60Hz though. -- Jim C. Nasby (aka Decibel!) /^\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /___\ Freelance lighting designer and database developer

Re: Weirdest crash I ever saw...

2000-03-13 Thread Jim C. Nasby
Brad Knowles wrote: > > At 4:09 PM -0600 2000/3/13, Jim C. Nasby wrote: > > > Speaking as a BSEE, the 240V 'leak' is either due to the building wiring or > > due to very poor design (or both). If possible, try plugging both > >the computer > > and t