5.3-RELEASE: SMP: system clock has died

2004-12-30 Thread Stephane Raimbault
I have an ASUS P2B-DS motherboard with dual P2 400MHz CPU's. I have compiled the SMP kernel and noticed that something is not right. In "top" the CPU values indicate 0% across the board, even idle! last pid: 9462; load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00up 2+18:57:30 13:11:47 14 processes:

DELL PE 2850 - problems with SMP and PAE kernels

2005-06-27 Thread Stephane Raimbault
Hi, I have been working with a Dell PE 2850 here recently and I've been having some weird problems. I noticed a few previous posts about a PE 2850 and some problems, but I think my problems are slightly different, however somewhat similar. I'm setting up my PE 2850 (dual 2.8 xeon, w/ 4G

Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

2005-06-28 Thread Stephane Raimbault
On 28-Jun-05, at 1:01 PM, Xin LI wrote: We care about why MySQL appears to be slower, how to improve the situation, and not numbers from poorly done benchmarks which ignored the effect of debugging options, version, disk mount options, etc., which is IMHO meaningless. Maybe a key feat

Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

2005-06-28 Thread Stephane Raimbault
this can help us out to get MySQL humming on -STABLE, if it isn't already. Thanks, Stephane On 28-Jun-05, at 5:08 PM, Stephane Raimbault wrote: On 28-Jun-05, at 1:01 PM, Xin LI wrote: We care about why MySQL appears to be slower, how to improve the situation, and not numbers

Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

2005-06-28 Thread Stephane Raimbault
speaking of noise how about I include a URL http://www.segr.ca/index.php/FreeBSD/MySQL sheesh... sorry to all. Stephane On 28-Jun-05, at 8:55 PM, Stephane Raimbault wrote: I also quickly put a wiki together to help me document any kind of testing or patching we can try. Feel free to

5.4: Can't start ssh due to entropy source blocking?

2005-09-01 Thread Stephane Raimbault
I installed a fresh 5.4-RELEASE/amd64 system on a Dell PE1850 and when attempting to setup sshd for the server I'm getting a weird error: # /etc/rc.d/sshd start /etc/rc.d/sshd: WARNING: Setting entropy source to blocking mode. Type a full scr

Re: 5.4: Can't start ssh due to entropy source blocking?

2005-09-01 Thread Stephane Raimbault
ra wrote: On Sep 1, 2005, at 1:29 PM, Stephane Raimbault wrote: Type a full screenful of random junk to unblock it and remember to finish with . This will timeout in 300 seconds, but waiting for the timeout without typing junk may make the entropy source deliver predictable output. Just hit fo

Re: 5.4: Can't start ssh due to entropy source blocking?

2005-09-01 Thread Stephane Raimbault
d.org Entropy device is blocking. I confirmed by rebooting the server and making sure sshd didn't try to start on bootup nslookup and host are working, as soon as I try to start sshd, I start getting the errors. I am baffled as to what is going on. Thank you, Stephane Raimbault, Systems Adm

Re: 5.4: Can't start ssh due to entropy source blocking?

2005-09-01 Thread Stephane Raimbault
sure where I've gone wrong, it's was a pretty basic install, setup network, caching dns server, ntpd, and now trying to get sshd running. Any further thoughts or ideas? Thanks, Stephane On 1-Sep-05, at 4:40 PM, Stephane Raimbault wrote: Thanks for the suggestion, but it doesn&#x