Re: Which of these NICs will work?

2010-09-04 Thread H.Fazaeli
based on 10+ exprience and working with a dozen models, I recommend intel cards: - Intel explicitly supports freebsd. - the cards are highly stable - have best performance among all other cards on freebsd and if you look for best performance, buy a card based on 82575 or 82576 controllers. On

DL360 G6 Reboot

2009-11-04 Thread H.Fazaeli
On a HP DL360 G6 freebsd 6.4-RELEASE installs but reboots right before login prompt. 7.2 installs and works fine but unfortunately I can not use 7.2 due to some restrictions. Any hints? -- Best regards. Hooman Fazaeli ___

Re: reread newsyslog.conf without reboot

2009-02-14 Thread H.fazaeli
newsyslog.conf is read by newsyslog(8) and newsyslog is executed by cron(8) as specified in /etc/crontab, usually every hour. so you changes will take effect the next time cron runs newsyslog. Fbsd1 wrote: How do I get the system to reread /etc/newsyslog.conf file with out rebooting the

Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?

2009-01-15 Thread H.fazaeli
ifconfig fastEthernet0 192.168.1.0/24 Yony Yossef wrote: -Original Message- From: H.fazaeli [[1]mailto:faza...@sepehrs.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 6:24 PM To: Yony Yossef Cc: [2]freebsd-...@freebsd.org; [3]freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org; Eitan Shefi; Oleg Kats; Liran

Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?

2009-01-15 Thread H.fazaeli
hardwares? It seems quite wrong, don't you agree? And how come the unit number is given an arbitrary value? Is there a good reason for that? Yony _ From: H.fazaeli [mailto:faza...@sepehrs.com] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 10:26 AM To: Yony Yossef Cc: freebsd

Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?

2009-01-14 Thread H.fazaeli
you may not change unit numbers as they are strictly controlled by kernel. However, on freebsd 5.3+, you may use 'ifconfig name your-name-here' to achieve the same affect Yony Yossef wrote: Hi, I would like to determine the unit number of my network cards, e.g. make the device on pci0:16 be

Re: UFS2 limits

2008-11-09 Thread H.fazaeli
The number of files and sub-directories is limited by the number of available inodes which is fixed at the time you create the file system (by -i argument to newfs(8)). Anyway, stick with Jeremy's advise if you do not like trouble. Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at

Re: HP DL servers

2008-10-05 Thread H.fazaeli
HP servers usually have NICs with broadcom or intel chipsets which are recognized as bge and em under freebsd and work great. We have the following configurations and they work fine: - freebsd 6.3 on dl320G5 with on-board broadcom network chipset and SATA HDDs. We had problems with

Re: Mystical Server Shutdown.

2008-09-18 Thread H.fazaeli
If you applied all the Matthew's suggestions and it is still a mystery, and if server's shutdown is clean, look for a a (buggy) user land process that sends SIGUSR2 signal to init(1). Matthew Seaman wrote: Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, I started getting watchmouse errors about on pf my servers

SMP questions

2008-08-28 Thread H.fazaeli
Hi all, I have 3 questions regrading SMP on freebsd 6.x: 1. Is there any userland tool/api to bound a process to a specific cpu? 2. Is there any way to force UP operation apart form recompiling kernel without SMP option? 3. Can someone shed some light on the logic of how schedulers