Availability of freebsd-stable snapshot releases

2012-03-26 Thread Kai Gallasch
Hi. I wonder why there are no more stable freebsd-stable snapshots made available on the ftp servers. Was there an official explanation? ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots The process of publishing them somehow stopped in mid-2011. From time to time it comes in very handy for testing

Re: Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind

2012-03-26 Thread Arthur Chance
On 03/25/12 23:33, Barbara La Scala wrote: Apologies for the off topic posting but my stepfather is blind and he wants my advice about how to get online. I have no idea where to start looking for information on hardware and/or software for him. However, I vaguely remember someone on this list

Re: Availability of freebsd-stable snapshot releases

2012-03-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 26/03/2012 08:53, Kai Gallasch wrote: I wonder why there are no more stable freebsd-stable snapshots made available on the ftp servers. Was there an official explanation? ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots The process of publishing them somehow stopped in mid-2011. From

Re: Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind

2012-03-26 Thread Beni Brinckman
Op 26 maart 2012 09:42 heeft Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org het volgende geschreven: On 03/25/12 23:33, Barbara La Scala wrote: Apologies for the off topic posting but my stepfather is blind and he wants my advice about how to get online. I have no idea where to start looking for

Re: Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind

2012-03-26 Thread Keith McKenzie
On 25/03/12 23:33, Barbara La Scala wrote: Apologies for the off topic posting but my stepfather is blind and he wants my advice about how to get online. I have no idea where to start looking for information on hardware and/or software for him. However, I vaguely remember someone on this

Re: Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind

2012-03-26 Thread Da Rock
On 03/26/12 19:32, Keith McKenzie wrote: On 25/03/12 23:33, Barbara La Scala wrote: Apologies for the off topic posting but my stepfather is blind and he wants my advice about how to get online. I have no idea where to start looking for information on hardware and/or software for him.

GSOC 2012 interest

2012-03-26 Thread prankur gupta
Hi, Currently I am in my first year of Masters in Computer Science from SUNY, New York. I want to participate in GSOC 2012. I am new to the open source development arena, so what better place than GSOC to start with. So, I was going through the projects list offered by freebsd. In that list, I

Re: Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind

2012-03-26 Thread Keith McKenzie
On 26/03/12 11:12, Da Rock wrote: O I'm going to have to dredge up my copy and check that out - it sounds very interesting primarily because the techniques could be easily adapted here :P On version 6; not sure if it came earlier. Keith -- Sent from Free Open Source Software (FOSS).

Re: GSOC 2012 interest

2012-03-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 26/03/2012 13:06, prankur gupta wrote: Currently I am in my first year of Masters in Computer Science from SUNY, New York. I want to participate in GSOC 2012. I am new to the open source development arena, so what better place than GSOC to start with. So, I was going through the

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freebsd 9.0-release + zfs + mysqld(percona) = kernel: swap zone exhausted, increase kern.maxswzone

2012-03-26 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
/var/log/messages Mar 23 22:21:50 sabertooth kernel: swap zone exhausted, increase kern.maxswzone Mar 23 22:21:50 sabertooth kernel: pid 86697 (mysqld), uid 88, was killed: out of swap space how to repeat: $ mysql -ux file.sql (~150GB) worth basically, it slows down continually until it dies.

Re: Vivaldi Tablet

2012-03-26 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 07:21:51PM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote: Considering that FreeBS positions itself 'primrily' as a _server_ OS, I would suggest that it is 'unlikely'. I suppose iXsystems and the PC-BSD project might be a place to send out feelers as well, being more interested in

Remote System Builds

2012-03-26 Thread Martin McCormick
Is there yet any way to remotely rebuild a FreeBSD system? I have two FreeBSD systems on two remote campuses that presently run FreeBSD6.3. They need to be running FreeBSD9.0 and I don't really care how I get there as long as it can be done over the network. If we were physically there, I

Re: Remote System Builds

2012-03-26 Thread Doug Hardie
On 26 March 2012, at 11:20, Martin McCormick wrote: Is there yet any way to remotely rebuild a FreeBSD system? I have two FreeBSD systems on two remote campuses that presently run FreeBSD6.3. They need to be running FreeBSD9.0 and I don't really care how I get there as long as it can

Re: Remote System Builds

2012-03-26 Thread Boris Samorodov
26.03.2012 22:20, Martin McCormick пишет: Is there yet any way to remotely rebuild a FreeBSD system? I have two FreeBSD systems on two remote campuses that presently run FreeBSD6.3. They need to be running FreeBSD9.0 and I don't really care how I get there as long as it can be done over

Re: Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind

2012-03-26 Thread Martin McCormick
There may be several people on this list who are blind, meaning no usable vision to see a screen. I definitely fit that description so I will gladly try to answer questions which breaks my usual practice here of asking beginner-level questions even though I have been using FreeBSD for

RE: Remote System Builds

2012-03-26 Thread Devin Teske
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Doug Hardie Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 11:54 AM To: Martin McCormick Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Remote System Builds On 26 March 2012,

Re: FreeBSD9 + PHP

2012-03-26 Thread alexus
I appreciate everyone's input on this matter and the bottom line is: mod_php and/or php-fpm should be created as a _separate_package_ for users who have no need for it, should _NOT_ install it in fact if this package exists or not it shouldn't even concern you (since you not using it) for users

Re: Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind

2012-03-26 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Martin McCormick wrote: There may be several people on this list who are blind, meaning no usable vision to see a screen. I definitely fit that description so I will gladly try to answer questions which ... Hi Martin, cc questions@ Might you be prepared to write a page for the FreeBSD

Re: Remote System Builds

2012-03-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 26/03/2012 19:20, Martin McCormick wrote: I just tried to unpack the 9.0 image using tar which has worked in the past to let one modify loader.conf but I got a bunch of errors this time about files that couldn't be created so maybe this is not the recommended headless installation

Re: Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind

2012-03-26 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:21:08 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: The easiest and most economical interface for computer users who are blind is spoken speach. That's correct. However, unlike a Braille readout which gives tactile information (through the reader's hands), synthetic voice cannot

Re: Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind

2012-03-26 Thread Robert Huff
Polytropon writes: Speech recognition requires training. Both the user and the system have to learn from each other. But you have a learning curve everywhere, be it typing, talking, or reading from a Braille output. In the case of speech recognition, that's a curve many might be

Re: Vivaldi Tablet

2012-03-26 Thread Da Rock
On 03/27/12 01:42, Chad Perrin wrote: On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 07:21:51PM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote: Considering that FreeBS positions itself 'primrily' as a _server_ OS, I would suggest that it is 'unlikely'. I suppose iXsystems and the PC-BSD project might be a place to send out feelers as

Re: Vivaldi Tablet

2012-03-26 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 09:07:25AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On 03/27/12 01:42, Chad Perrin wrote: I think the point of the initial email to start this thread was to see if there were people in the community with an interest in working on this project, and might actually be a fairly logical step

Re: Vivaldi Tablet

2012-03-26 Thread Da Rock
On 03/27/12 09:29, Chad Perrin wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 09:07:25AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On 03/27/12 01:42, Chad Perrin wrote: I think the point of the initial email to start this thread was to see if there were people in the community with an interest in working on this project, and

Re: Vivaldi Tablet

2012-03-26 Thread Da Rock
On 03/27/12 09:32, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Mar 26, 2012, at 4:07 PM, Da Rock wrote: To explain the major hurdle in porting to a tablet, you'd need to probably find an alternative windowing solution then Xorg (low memory, especially in vivaldi)- I'm not 100% sure what iOS and Android use. iOS

Re: freebsd 9.0-release + zfs + mysqld(percona) = kernel: swap zone exhausted, increase kern.maxswzone

2012-03-26 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Some other tuning updates $ zfs set zfs:zfs_nocacheflush = 1 $ sysctl vfs.zfs.prefetch_disable=1 $ cat /etc/my.cnf skip-innodb-doublewrite innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit=2 $ zfs set primarycache=metadata zmysqlD $ zfs set atime=off zmysqlD $ zfs set recordsize=16k zmysqlD but not on zmysqlL