Re: tweak FreeBSD 8 for optimal java/weka performance

2010-01-05 Thread Simon Olofsson
On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 14:28 -0800, Greg Lewis wrote: On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 06:54:22AM -0800, Dino Vliet wrote: Are there any other tweaks I should think of to get as much RAM for my java programs? IIRC there is an option to tell the JVM to use as much RAM as possible, but I don't recall

Re: Updating from 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #901 to 8-release

2010-01-05 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:14:45 -0600 eculp ec...@encontacto.net wrote: I intend to first upgrade my old, but up to date, 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #901 to the latest 8.0 release I want to conserve as much as I can so I thought that I might give freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.0-RELEASE a

portmaster -a question

2010-01-05 Thread kalpin
Hello all, Is it possible to run portmaster -a with other options to recompile all dependency without interactive? Of course accept default options for all modules. Thank you Kalpin E. Silaen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Qt4: Help, can not install or update any QT lib/app anymore!

2010-01-05 Thread O. Hartmann
Dear Sirs, on a very 'production'-sensitive box I get an error whenever I try to install any qt4-related application or library. After deinstalling every qt4-lib/-app, and deleting every /usr/local/*/qt4 directory, I'm incapable of installing anything related to Qt4, even qt4-corelib fails.

Re: Qt4: Help, can not install or update any QT lib/app anymore!

2010-01-05 Thread Dima Panov
On Tuesday 05 January 2010 23:02:25 O. Hartmann wrote: Dear Sirs, on a very 'production'-sensitive box I get an error whenever I try to install any qt4-related application or library. After deinstalling every qt4-lib/-app, and deleting every /usr/local/*/qt4 directory, I'm incapable of

Re: tweak FreeBSD 8 for optimal java/weka performance

2010-01-05 Thread Dino Vliet
--- On Mon, 1/4/10, Greg Lewis gle...@eyesbeyond.com wrote: From: Greg Lewis gle...@eyesbeyond.com Subject: Re: tweak FreeBSD 8 for optimal java/weka performance To: Dino Vliet dino_vl...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, gle...@freebsd.org, si...@olofsson.de Date: Monday, January

Re: Updating from 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #901 to 8-release

2010-01-05 Thread eculp
Quoting Andreas Rudisch c...@gmx.net: On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:14:45 -0600 eculp ec...@encontacto.net wrote: I intend to first upgrade my old, but up to date, 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #901 to the latest 8.0 release I want to conserve as much as I can so I thought that I might give

Re: Failed to Load Kernel

2010-01-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Programmer In Training wrote: Hello, P I T (Joseph?), I'm rather astounded that no one has responded to your email as of yet. IANAE, but here goes: snipped the part about checksums, per your later post The message I'm getting (wish I could just screen cap and put it up on the web):

Re[2]: BUG setfib

2010-01-05 Thread Коньков Евгений
Здравствуйте, Ihor. Вы писали 4 января 2010 г., 20:44:18: IP Коньков Евгений wrote: Здравствуйте, Freebsd-questions. kes# setfib 1 get_last.pl setfib: get_last.pl: No such file or directory kes# pwd /usr/home/kes/ Для продолжения нажмите любую клавишу... kes# setfib -1

copying a disk with ignoring errors

2010-01-05 Thread Christoph Kukulies
I recall a case when I had a hard disk that had got bad sectors and it wasn't accessible through normal mounting anymore. Then a tool came into the game that - I believe - Poul Henning had recommended or written for this purpose. It copies a disk sector by sector to a file (kind of dd), but

Re: FreeBSD 2.0.5 Release

2010-01-05 Thread nvidican
Paul, You'll need either a *nix machine with 'dd' or rawwrite.exe (should be on the cd image in the /tools/ folder). You need to write 'root.flp' to a floppy disk similar to the way you'd write an .iso image to a cdrom. dd if=root.flp of=/dev/fd0- assuming existing FreeBSD box, or

Re: FreeBSD 2.0.5 Release

2010-01-05 Thread nvidican
Confirmed; you should only need boot.flp to boot to do an install on FreeBSD 2.0.5, (just tried with older 2.2.2 disks I had). root.flp is the 'live/fixit' boot image IIRC. -- Nathan Vidican nat...@vidican.com Quoting Paul Shi shih...@hkusua.hku.hk: Actually, I do have a floppy drive on

LSILogic SAS/SATA Adapter performance under FreeBSD 8.0 and 7.2 ( 20!!! times slower then in RHEL )

2010-01-05 Thread Baginski Darren
Hi! I have a Dell 1435 with folowing LSI config: mpt0:vol0(mpt0:0:0): Settings ( Hot-Plug-Spares High-Priority-ReSync ) mpt0:vol0(mpt0:0:0): Using Spare Pool: 0 mpt0:vol0(mpt0:0:0): 2 Members: (mpt0:1:32:0): Primary Online (mpt0:1:1:0): Secondary Online mpt0:vol0(mpt0:0:0): RAID-1 -

Re: Rename pictures in the command-line interface

2010-01-05 Thread P.
Ter, 2010-01-05 às 15:35 +0100, herbert langhans escreveu: Hi Dario, another way is to use batren - its a shell script and should work out of the box on FreeBSD: http://batren.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/blis.cgi/Home Cheers herb langhans Thank you Herbert, sounds a interesting tool. I'm

Re: copying a disk with ignoring errors

2010-01-05 Thread tk
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 03:31:46PM +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote: Hi, It copies a disk sector by sector to a file (kind of dd), but ignores errors, it just skips sectors it couldn't read (after a couple of retries). The result was, that one had a - albeit - worm-eaten - I think you mean

Re: LSILogic SAS/SATA Adapter performance under FreeBSD 8.0 and 7.2 ( 20!!! times slower then in RHEL )

2010-01-05 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:46:06 +0300 Baginski Darren wrote: Now is the same server under RHEL5 Is the server really the *same* or *alike*? I've got such difference in performance between similar RAID cards with and without BBU (battery backup unit). -- WBR, Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research

Re: Re: LSILogic SAS/SATA Adapter performance under FreeBSD 8.0 and 7.2 ( 20!!! times slower then in RHEL )

2010-01-05 Thread Baginski Darren
Same mean I had initialy FreeBSD on it, not it's reformated under RHEL. I can reformat back to FreeBSD 8.0 or 7.2 to perform additional tests. 05.01.10, 19:58, Boris Samorodov b...@ipt.ru: On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:46:06 +0300 Baginski Darren wrote: Now is the same server under RHEL5

re-installing a port to a specific version

2010-01-05 Thread bsd
Hello, I am re-installing a server where I have an old version of slony installed (db replication for postgresql)… I am keeping my port tree up to date with portmaster (I have added an +IGNOREME file in order to avoid updates on this specific port). I have to change server, a new server has

Re: re-installing a port to a specific version

2010-01-05 Thread Paul Macdonald
On 05/01/2010 17:52, bsd wrote: Hello, I am re-installing a server where I have an old version of slony installed (db replication for postgresql)… I am keeping my port tree up to date with portmaster (I have added an +IGNOREME file in order to avoid updates on this specific port). I have to

Re: copying a disk with ignoring errors

2010-01-05 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 03:31:46PM +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote: I recall a case when I had a hard disk that had got bad sectors and it wasn't accessible through normal mounting anymore. Then a tool came into the game that - I believe - Poul Henning had recommended or written for this

Re: Failed to Load Kernel

2010-01-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 09:15:29AM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: I'm rather astounded that no one has responded to your email as of yet. IANAE, but here goes: For my part -- I just hadn't seen it before this. I'm surprised there aren't more replies too, though. Could that be readln? Been

Re: copying a disk with ignoring errors

2010-01-05 Thread Bob Johnson
On 1/5/10, Yuri Pankov yuri.pan...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 03:31:46PM +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote: I recall a case when I had a hard disk that had got bad sectors and it wasn't accessible through normal mounting anymore. Then a tool came into the game that - I believe -

Re: Rename pictures in the command-line interface

2010-01-05 Thread Karl Vogel
On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:52:09 -0500, Nathan Vidican nat...@vidican.com said: N Personally I find things like this a LOT easier to do in Perl... Ditto. Here's a more generic version which uses regular expressions to rename files:

Re: re-write is this booting info correct?

2010-01-05 Thread Bob Johnson
On 12/28/09, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: How is this rewrite correct? [...] corrupted by a virus. Microsoft/Windows provides no native method of selecting which partition to boot from in a multiple partition allocation. Windows NT and XP both use a built-in boot loader that can be

Re: Failed to Load Kernel

2010-01-05 Thread Programmer In Training
On 1/5/2010 9:15 AM, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Programmer In Training wrote: Hello, P I T (Joseph?), Joseph is fine. (: I'm rather astounded that no one has responded to your email as of yet. IANAE, but here goes: I'm used to it. snipped the part about checksums, per your later post The

Re: Problems building en-openoffice.org-GB-3.1.1 from ports

2010-01-05 Thread Mike Clarke
On Sunday 03 January 2010, Matthew Seaman wrote: Mike Clarke wrote: After pondering a bit more over this problem I think I know where the 6.4 stuff may have come from. After I built the base system I copied various useful files from /root on the 6.4 system, including /root/.cshrc which

7.2-RELEASE-p5 and kernel panic with mpt driver

2010-01-05 Thread Colin
Hi folks. I updated my server from 7.0 to 7.2 over the Christmas period (sources updated to 26th Dec I think). I have long suspected there was an issue with a hard drive in the server but the hosts told me that the useless messages logged by 7.0 were normal. Well it turns out one of the

7.2 equiv for usbconfig on 8.0?

2010-01-05 Thread Steve Franks
How do I reset my usb on 7.2 when I insert a card in the internal flash reader? usbconfig works great on 8, but I have systems I cannot upgrade at the moment... Thanks, Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: 7.2 equiv for usbconfig on 8.0?

2010-01-05 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:53 PM 1/5/2010, Steve Franks wrote: How do I reset my usb on 7.2 when I insert a card in the internal flash reader? usbconfig works great on 8, but I have systems I cannot upgrade at the moment... I dont think there is a reset equiv, but I usually do something like cat /dev/null

Re: 7.2-RELEASE-p5 and kernel panic with mpt driver

2010-01-05 Thread Colin Waring
It's a little difficult to tell from the lack of info you've provided, but I'd assume you're running a release to which the patch has not been applied. To do this, you'd need to upgrade to 7-STABLE, 8-RELEASE, or 8-STABLE. CURRENT would work too, but that's not really a candidate for

Re: 7.2-RELEASE-p5 and kernel panic with mpt driver

2010-01-05 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Colin Waring free...@southportcomputers.co.uk wrote: My supfile uses the tag *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_7_2 The docs on stable say to use RELENG_7 for which I assumed was out of date with the docs not always being updated frequently. Is there a different

Re: copying a disk with ignoring errors

2010-01-05 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:31:46 +0100, Christoph Kukulies k...@kukulies.org wrote: It copies a disk sector by sector to a file (kind of dd), but ignores errors, it just skips sectors it couldn't read (after a couple of retries). The result was, that one had a - albeit - worm-eaten - image of

Installing FreeBSD 8 on an HP Pavilion TX2510US

2010-01-05 Thread Ed Lerner
Hello, I have been wanting to put FreeBSD on my laptop for some time now. I backed up all of my files to a separate HD. I burned 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso to a DVD and installed it on my laptop, removing all partitions so FreeBSD is my sole OS. I also used the FreeBSD boot manager. I have

Re: copying a disk with ignoring errors

2010-01-05 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 08:30 PM 1/5/2010, Polytropon wrote: recoverdisk This one worked for me to recover my mum's borked Windows XP HD. It was able to recover enough, that I only needed to find one missing dll. Prior to that, it wouldnt even boot up getting stuck on the failing parts of the disk.

Re: Failed to Load Kernel

2010-01-05 Thread Programmer In Training
On 1/5/2010 9:15 AM, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Programmer In Training wrote: snip FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 (r...@almeida.cse.buffalo.edu, Sat Nov 21 14:05:36 UTC 2009) Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x88d680 readin failed Could that be readln?

Re: Installing FreeBSD 8 on an HP Pavilion TX2510US

2010-01-05 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Ed Lerner wrote: Hello, I have been wanting to put FreeBSD on my laptop for some time now. I backed up all of my files to a separate HD. I burned 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso to a DVD and installed it on my laptop, removing all partitions so FreeBSD is my sole OS. I also used

Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-05 Thread Da Rock
Its been a while- work's has been keeping me very busy for months now. I have revived an old laptop which has very little RAM, and it is absolutely hammering the swap. I'm trying to set it up as a demo for some skeptics with no money, so I need email, internet (with plugins), openoffice,

Re: Installing FreeBSD 8 on an HP Pavilion TX2510US

2010-01-05 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Warren Block wrote: For the future, it's often helpful to identify the notebook you're using. And now I see it was in the subject all along... -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Need sample xorg.conf for Intel Q35 Express chipset

2010-01-05 Thread manish jain
Hello All, I just installed FreeBSD-8.0-i386 on my office system. I can't find anything like the xf86cfg/xf86config tools for configuring X that used to come with FreeBSD earlier. The only utility I could find is xorg-edit, but this is nowhere as user-friendly as the earlier tools. Can somebody

Re: Need sample xorg.conf for Intel Q35 Express chipset

2010-01-05 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 12:57:21 +0530, manish jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com wrote: I can't find anything like the xf86cfg/xf86config tools for configuring X that used to come with FreeBSD earlier. They do not longer exist. The X command (to start X) has the option -configure; it creates