Re: ls -l takes a forever to finish.

2007-11-28 Thread Jeff Mohler
HOW large is the directory? ls | wc -l On Nov 28, 2007 7:44 AM, Mark Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No we are not using NIS. it is a large directory i am listing. actually it is the /usr/home directory, and is probably the largest on the system. However ls -l runs for close to six

Re: who wrote this

2007-11-25 Thread Jeff Mohler
I'll take up the challenge. Hitler was evil. Quoting Hitler is not. When we seek to suppress information, no matter how troubling, we obscure the very lessons of history we need most to learn. If, because Hitler was evil, we do not allow discussion of him, how will future generations learn

Re: FreeBSD NFS server responds with wrong address

2007-11-20 Thread Jeff Mohler
Two nics, same subnet..problems exist in that configuration now and again. Im betting offhand that the traffic came in port B, but port A has the default route for the subnet, and thats where it left the box. On Nov 20, 2007 10:37 AM, Philip M. Gollucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Loren M. Lang

Max file size in 6.1?

2007-11-08 Thread Jeff Mohler
Whats the max file size you can create under 6.1? Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?

2007-10-23 Thread Jeff Mohler
The difficulty for my moving the last of my Linux boxes, is...iscsi support. God how I wish I could map luns, boot from luns, and share lun love with my other freebsd boxes. Im starting on another venture, that I -want- on FreeBSD, but likely will not be able to, because I cant use iscsi on it.

Re: Installing freeBSD on an Intel RAID5 partition

2007-10-10 Thread Jeff Mohler
Did you know that most oh my god RAID failures happen during the reconstruction of a failed drive? .Especially on SATA as the non-recoverable-bit-error math is so much easier to run into. I think..that on a 500G drive, there are enough bits to read/write that mathematically you could run into a

Re: Installing freeBSD on an Intel RAID5 partition

2007-10-10 Thread Jeff Mohler
be less reliable than on SCSI??? Where d'you read that anyway?? Jeff Mohler wrote: Did you know that most oh my god RAID failures happen during the reconstruction of a failed drive? .Especially on SATA as the non-recoverable-bit-error math is so much easier to run into. I think

Re: networking overloaded (was Re: confirm 3454f2d8611cde291b81fa177d2434593f5e6d36)

2007-10-04 Thread Jeff Mohler
On 10/4/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-10-04 13:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: Re: confirm 3454f2d8611cde291b81fa177d2434593f5e6d36 What a great way of stating my non-idiot credentials :) ___ Nah..youre just

Re: Can't connecto to www.freebsd.org

2007-09-27 Thread Jeff Mohler
On 9/27/07, icantthinkofone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just found I am having this problem, too. I can access every other site I visit, both large and small. 'make fetchindex' no longer works, eg, it times out. As does 'fetch www.freebsd.org/docs' as suggested. --- Well dang.. I tried

Re: Silly IPFW question.

2007-09-24 Thread Jeff Mohler
Well..where is the mac you want to firewall from/against? On 9/24/07, Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am sorry if this is a no-brainer Is there anyway to make a rule in IPFW that will match MAC addresses instead of IP or port numnbers (and no, I didnt see anything in

Re: Best SCSI or SAS RAID for a NAS?

2007-09-11 Thread Jeff Mohler
Tell us what your workload IS..that will help a lot. Its not necessarily MB/sec, but disk IO's per second. Such as..if you have 5 servers with applications creating 100 IOPS on the local drive, then you need a RAID array capable of at least 500 IOPS at under 20ms to remain happy with it. You

Re: 4gb address space limitation for i386

2007-08-30 Thread Jeff Mohler
Youre pretty much going to require an AMD setup for that. On 8/30/07, User Bobby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an IBM xSeries 350 4xPIII with 5.5gb of RAM, and see that only about 3.5gb is being used under the i386 port. I've been looking through the archives to try and figure out what

Re: FreeBSD 4.11 binary compatibility (libm.so.2, etc)

2007-08-28 Thread Jeff Mohler
On 8/28/07, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 01:52:51PM -0700, Thomas D. Dean wrote: Have you tried linking libm.so to libm.so.2? Sorry, but that's really bogus advice. Kris It would work for MacGuyver or the A-Team...

Re: /bin/[

2007-08-26 Thread Jeff Mohler
*heh* DONT remove that.its normal. On 8/26/07, Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry if you get this question a lot - a few searches didn't find results for me. I have a /bin/[ file in my system - I just want to make sure it's not a sign of someone having hacked my machine.

Re: Major Bug

2007-08-14 Thread Jeff Mohler
How are you trying to access it? Stone knives and bearskins? Telnet? SSH? Soup cans and string? Maybe you used the wrong color cable. On 8/14/07, Steve O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To whom it may concern, I setup a FreeBsd 7.0 server and cannot access it remotely with Windows Vista

Re: Major Bug

2007-08-14 Thread Jeff Mohler
. -- *From:* Jeff Mohler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Tuesday, August 14, 2007 12:19 PM *To:* Steve O'Connor *Cc:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Subject:* Re: Major Bug How are you trying to access it? Stone knives and bearskins? Telnet? SSH? Soup cans and string? Maybe you used

Re: Major Bug

2007-08-14 Thread Jeff Mohler
Vista or Mac or BSD servers. -- *From:* Jeff Mohler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Tuesday, August 14, 2007 12:25 PM *To:* Steve O'Connor *Cc:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG *Subject:* Re: Major Bug Did you set the default route correctly so that you can see

Re: Unbelievably bad RAID-1 performance

2007-08-05 Thread Jeff Mohler
The EDGE is faster byte wise, not the center. The distance between traditional or perpendicular sectors remains the same, just more of them around the drive at a given distance from the center, than at the center. So..because RPM remains the same at all distances from the center, you will read

Re: amd

2007-07-15 Thread Jeff Mohler
Dick: It would have been graceful to say nothing in the sense that you dont KNOW the answer, than point out that there are differences. On 7/15/07, Dick Hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael B Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm a C developer. I normally use Linux but I'm trying

Re: 10Mbps versus 100Mbps Cable Modems

2007-07-14 Thread Jeff Mohler
Yup..and it goes back to my original point. If it saves $5/box times 100,000 units and they charge you the same for the box rental/purchase, its a good business decision. On 7/14/07, fbsd2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is right off the cable internet service providers website. Plan Name

Re: 10Mbps versus 100Mbps Cable Modems

2007-07-11 Thread Jeff Mohler
Do you have more than 10Mbit/sec of cable internet bandwidth available? I dont see it as a problem if you dont, but if you have 20Mbit/sec of internet, then ya.. If it saves then $5 a unit, for 10,000 units, no harm. On 7/11/07, fbsd2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Comclark cable in Angeles City

Multi CPU?

2007-06-18 Thread Jeff Mohler
Am I using both CPUs as I should when I look at this from top? PIDUID THR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 11 0 1 171 52 0K 8K CPU1 0 0:00 99.56% idle: cpu1 12 0 1 171 52 0K 8K RUN0 666.2H 78.81%

Re: Best remote backup method?

2007-05-16 Thread Jeff Mohler
Is there a free NDMP tool for Freebsd? On 5/16/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 16 May 2007, Roland Smith wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 01:38:13PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: I'm presently backing up two servers in a remote location to a usb drive located elsewhere

Re: Video fileserver - Need some input

2007-05-09 Thread Jeff Mohler
45MB/sec is too fast for GigE? Wha? On 5/9/07, Chris Slothouber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2007-05-09 08:21, Andreas Widerøe Andersen wrote: I'm planning a new fileserver for my post-production facility and need some input regarding

Re: Video fileserver - Need some input

2007-05-09 Thread Jeff Mohler
Chris: Accept my fallin on my sword..I didnt see your reply before I sent. ;) On 5/9/07, Chris Slothouber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2007-05-09 10:12, Andreas Widerøe Andersen wrote: On 5/9/07, Chris Slothouber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On

Re: Video fileserver - Need some input

2007-05-09 Thread Jeff Mohler
The _main_ think I can think of, is windows in a SINGLE threaded movement of data via CIFS, is gonna limit you to about 17MB/sec. Andreas..have you tested this via CIFS/Redirector and been able to sustain the performance that you need before going with Samba (another performance layer issue) On

Re: Time Synchronizing Between Two Servers

2007-05-02 Thread Jeff Mohler
Is that working? If it is..seems you nailed it. On 5/2/07, Duane Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have two servers that have to have their time synchronized between the two to within one second. What is recommended? Currently, I have ntpd running on one and have the other synchronizing it's

Re: Single Instance Service

2007-04-26 Thread Jeff Mohler
Serving home directories, you end up with tons. One marketting dude creates a 10Mb PPT slide, sends it to 10 people that forward it to 2 more each... Next thing you know you have dozens of copies of thousands of the same documents sitting in deep storage home directories, taking up space. In

Re: Single Instance Service

2007-04-26 Thread Jeff Mohler
It can if your storage appliance supports ASIS. Some even operate at the block level, not just the file level. On 4/26/07, GARRISON, TRAVIS J. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Olivier Nicole

Re: Tagging email subject line with something like [fbsd-questions]

2007-04-25 Thread Jeff Mohler
I dont think subject tagging is poor at all. whats poor is overly long poorly organized subject lines..but hey..[FBSDQ] aint all that long. On 4/25/07, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Amarendra Godbole wrote: I subscribe to many fbsd lists through gmail, and am not able to visually

Re: Terabyte harddisks, GELI, AMD64, Samba and Zen...

2007-04-10 Thread Jeff Mohler
Was your 17mb/sec a drag drop from a windows client? 17Mb/sec is about right, as Windows deals with that as a single threaded I/O operation. You can stuff a GigE pipe from a windows machine to a netapp or some other solid CIFS server if you can fire up multiple threads to copy with. So..dont

Re: Uptime

2007-03-23 Thread Jeff Mohler
You measure the time between kicking it, and someone catching it, I think. No..thats hangtime. Try: uptime On 3/23/07, Stan Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi; How do I determine the uptime of my server? Thanks, Stan2 - TV dinner still cooling? Check out

Re: X11 library question..

2007-03-02 Thread Jeff Mohler
My output to your commands is identical to yours in that it was found, and is the same open-motif version. :( :( On 3/2/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/03/07, Jeff Mohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The error: error while loading shared libraries: libXm.so.3: cannot

Re: X11 library question..

2007-03-02 Thread Jeff Mohler
For kicks I copied to to /usr/lib. NEW error.. error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libXm.so.3: ELF file OS ABI invalid On 3/2/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/03/07, Jeff Mohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The error: error while loading shared libraries

X11 library question..

2007-03-01 Thread Jeff Mohler
The error: error while loading shared libraries: libXm.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Ive done a few searches, and installing open-motif seemed to be the right answer, but isnt getting me anywhere. Ideas/suggestions?

NBU Linux Compat

2007-02-28 Thread Jeff Mohler
Has anyone ever run Net Backup under Linux emulation? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Could we get the FreeBSD torrent servers back?

2007-02-25 Thread Jeff Mohler
It would be a facinating experiment if a lrge group of Fbsd users at 1000s of hosts were recruited as supporters to the Fbsd Organization..to host some subset of critical files. It would be super neato if you could configure what you wished to donate via a tool that would populate your box

Re: Could we get the FreeBSD torrent servers back?

2007-02-25 Thread Jeff Mohler
Oh ya..i agree. I was being a futurist, not a realist. On 2/25/07, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Chris Slothouber [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 10:02 PM Subject: Re: Could we get the

Re: RAID Performance Questions

2007-01-25 Thread Jeff Mohler
How about one large raid, and two partitions to serve each purpose? Being so limited in HW, youre either going to take a _huge_ performance hit with only 2 disks per raid (unless Raid0), or an availability hit with everything on one RAID set. But..considering the costs of adding RAID to a

Re: more than 7 partitions on a SCSI-drive

2007-01-21 Thread Jeff Mohler
Ive never understood why we still partition drives so much..its one spindle..sure, a hige filesystem might cause an edge performance issue..but..its one spindle. / works. ? If there is a fundamental reason why we still partition things like we only have 10, 20, or 40Mb RLL. or slightly larger

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-11 Thread Jeff Mohler
requests for the client, cuz everytime ../.. walks somewhere the client knows nothing and it's all sent over the wire again. Over and over and over. Thats as much as I understand about it, freebsd-fs has great detail on this bug. On 1/11/07, Freminlins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/01/07, Jeff

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Jeff Mohler
1 - To fix stuff that works in linux but goes to crap in freebsd, one such example is NFS. I don't actually have a problem with FreeBSD and NFS. This is using about 20+ clients and 2 NetApp filers. What problem are you having, rather than just goes to crap? --- If for example you do a make

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Jeff Mohler
hard..just that perhaps a decision was made to let the linux community write the new code and Fbsd community would polish it and/or emulate it once it was complete. On 1/10/07, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff Mohler wrote: Not all of us can program..but let me ask this question. Linux

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Jeff Mohler
Most of us are, understanding how we/it got here, IS positive. What to do about it..is progress. On 1/10/07, Bob McIsaac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ? - This is a tired old thread Please put it to bed Don't keep it fed Think

Re: iSCSI

2007-01-09 Thread Jeff Mohler
That only works if the target comes up within the 2min window that SCSI allows for. It won't wait forever. On 1/9/07, Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode (Jan 09), DAve said: The developers response, for those who are interested. hi Dave, the initiator for iSCSI will

Re: iSCSI

2007-01-09 Thread Jeff Mohler
I never said it was, my rather poor example (I said I was new to iSCSI) was if a remote file system crashes, who should fsck it? The server (Target) or the client (Initiator)? --- Clearly, the initiator. It owns the filesystem. Its just a big anonymous file on the target with no relevant

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Jeff Mohler
Fbsd needs SAN support before it can cope with virtualization..virtualization requires a lot of disk..spindles..and FCP/iSCSI is a great way to drive this condensation. I mean..when you have to read this list, and see people wonder which end of a SAN connection owns the responsibility for

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Jeff Mohler
If I could program my way out of a _paper bag_ I would. But I cant. But ive helped drive some wonderful gifting Fbsd's way in my time..im still a believer. On 1/9/07, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/9/07, Jeff Mohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fbsd needs SAN support before it can

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Jeff Mohler
Not all of us can program..but let me ask this question. Linux is all volunteer, how did it get so far ahead? Granted I'll take ports over RPM's and such any day, but..ports hasnt sucked up all of the Fbsd oxygen by itself in the last handful of years. On 1/9/07, Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: off-topic: video web hosting questions

2006-12-17 Thread Jeff Mohler
Firstl..how much Netapp can you afford?:) Id start here: http://www.sitepoint.com/ On 12/17/06, Malcolm Fitzgerald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where can I ask questions about the web hosting? I am being asked to set-up a web site that will deliver video, a youTube wannabe :-) So I'd like visit

Re: Question about gmirror?

2006-12-11 Thread Jeff Mohler
Sure..just mount it as /newdisk or something. On 12/11/06, perikillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi people. I have one system running FreeBSD 6.1-p11 i have there a Raid-1 setup with gmirror, is working very good stable, but i need to add another space not for the raid, is for the

Re: Empty directory 60M in size; used to contain 1.7 million files

2006-11-26 Thread Jeff Mohler
The directory size grew to accomodate the metadata required to list the files within it. You cant shrink it. You'll have to remove it and recreate it. On 11/26/06, Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Observe: hyperion# ls -la total 61634 drwxr-xr-x 2 xxx yyy 63047168 Nov 18

Re: Unsubscribe me please

2006-11-18 Thread Jeff Mohler
If he uses linux, there's probly a broken RPM for that. On 11/18/06, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Read the last line on _any_ email on this list. Aww c'mon guys! He asked very nicely, and he's obviously a non-techie. I sent an un-sub for him; hopefully he can handle the

Re: Dual core processors

2006-11-14 Thread Jeff Mohler
My dmesg matches yours Juha.. Would enabling Hyperthreading increase any of my processing power? On 11/14/06, Juha Saarinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/15/06, Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like my hyperthreading is enabled and it is in the BIOS. I was told there was

Re: Dual core processors

2006-11-14 Thread Jeff Mohler
I thought that since we both had HTT tags in the CPU ID, that we had it. ;) On 11/14/06, Juha Saarinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/15/06, Jeff Mohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My dmesg matches yours Juha.. Would enabling Hyperthreading increase any of my processing power? Well, if you

Re: Network Monitoring Application Help, What do you use?

2006-11-14 Thread Jeff Mohler
Im am _loving_ zabbix for this. 1.1 in ports works, 1.1.3 from the site works, 1.3 doesnt compile for me cleanly at all..but what does work..does ALL of those things very easily. On 11/14/06, Sean Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was looking into a Network/Server monitoring application that

Re: Dual core processors

2006-11-14 Thread Jeff Mohler
, Jeff Mohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought that since we both had HTT tags in the CPU ID, that we had it. Yeah, well... that's a funny thing that tag. Got it on my first-generation 1.3GHz Pentium 4 as well. Makes me wonder if Intel had that feature in the processors very early on, but only

Re: v6 speed compared to previous versions

2006-11-13 Thread Jeff Mohler
Fair to say that those tools should be recompiled on a 6 system to ensure full update-ness? On 11/13/06, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 11:39:16AM -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote: When I switched to 6.0, then 6.1, it was noticed by most of my clients that my

Re: Zabbix Port out of Date

2006-11-09 Thread Jeff Mohler
Im lovin it a lot more than Cacti...I had a graph charting by itself in near real time within 10 minutes. On 11/9/06, David Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, thats awesome news. Zabbix is really a great Product and should be brought forward when possible. Good Bye, David On Nov 10, 2006,

Re: Cacti -vs- mrtg

2006-11-07 Thread Jeff Mohler
a graph of my localhost interface counts. I dont wanna get into that here however. Gimme a customer Pb of storage, and a SOW to configure it by... PS: Betcha never heard of the middle aged blonde singer dude fromthe UK. :) On 11/7/06, Howard Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff Mohler wrote: I

Cacti -vs- mrtg

2006-11-06 Thread Jeff Mohler
I can use MRTG, and have MRTG do what I want it to do. Id like to try cacti, but..am I alone in finding that it's a PITA? Im not trying to be negative, just looking for a reality check. I like the simplicity of mrtg, but I like the go back in time of cacti to view performance data. If its

Re: installworld to an NFS mount

2006-11-04 Thread Jeff Mohler
If you dont have locking..check it. If you -cant- mount with -L option by hand. On 11/4/06, Jeremy Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings everyone, I currently attempting to build and install a world from my AMD64 machine to a i386 machine mounted via nfs on the build machine. I've

Re: 3Com 3c905B-COMBO and 10base2/BNC

2006-11-02 Thread Jeff Mohler
What museum is this in, can we visit it? On 11/2/06, Karol Kwiatkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, anyone got 3Com 3c905B-COMBO network card (Fast EtherLink XL PCI) working with 10base2/BNC? I just bought one and I can't figure it out. It has BNC connector and should be supported

Re: 3Com 3c905B-COMBO and 10base2/BNC

2006-11-02 Thread Jeff Mohler
It...should, its been about I dunno, 1994 since I used one of those tho. It's possible that some code-creep got into the driver that just hasnt been tested for a decade. On 11/2/06, Karol Kwiatkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [format recovered] On 02/11/2006 21:58, Jeff Mohler wrote: On 11/2

Re: iSCSI setup

2006-10-31 Thread Jeff Mohler
I got bored, installed this on 5.3 with a Netapp F880. Slow isnt the word..anyone else try this with similar results? Like..max write speed is 600k/sec. On 10/23/06, freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to have my mailboxes put on iSCSI (NetAPP). I downloaded iscsi-17.5.tar.bz2

How much space for ftp.freebsd.org

2006-10-30 Thread Jeff Mohler
If I was to ask how much online storage space is required for say..ftp.freebsd.org to hold _everything_ and then add in the kitchen sink, how much space would that be. Who are the admins of the ftp heiarchy these days? Thanks. ___

Re: cvsup*.au.freebsd.org ??

2006-10-30 Thread Jeff Mohler
Whats the error they reject with? On 10/30/06, Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, i'm trying to cvsup /usr/src from cvsup.au.freebsd.org, cvsup2.freebsd.org and even 3. they are all rejecting my connections... Is it that I stink ;) or something else is going on? cheers :)

Re: Totally hosed up filesystem..wtf?

2006-10-28 Thread Jeff Mohler
/var/log and delete anything you can there. Then try fsck. -Derek At 07:26 PM 10/27/2006, Jeff Mohler wrote: So..last night im workin away, and then the machine gets slow, then stops responding to anything. I can ping it, but no telnet, MailScanner has detected a possible fraud

Re: Totally hosed up filesystem..wtf?

2006-10-28 Thread Jeff Mohler
Not if fsck wont fix it. ;( But..will give it a shot On 10/28/06, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should be able to remove the bad drive leaving the good one in use. -Derek At 03:18 PM 10/28/2006, Jeff Mohler wrote: Appears the issue is in the IBM servers RAID

Totally hosed up filesystem..wtf?

2006-10-27 Thread Jeff Mohler
So..last night im workin away, and then the machine gets slow, then stops responding to anything. I can ping it, but no telnet, www...anything. Hung hard. Last thing I saw in a make buildworld was a 'cant write to filesystem' error..or something like that but not a 'no room on device' error.

NFS client attr caching question..

2006-10-26 Thread Jeff Mohler
Can anyone answer these questions? What size the NFS client attribute cache is? Is it a per mount cache, or a systemwide cache? Id appreciate any insight into these answers. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: cvsup

2006-10-26 Thread Jeff Mohler
hmm..Im running the latest code, but I dont see that file fastest_cvsup. On 10/25/06, Kent Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 25 October 2006 06:07, eoghan wrote: On 25 Oct 2006, at 14:03, Gábor Kövesdán wrote: eoghan wrote: Hi Trying to cvsup my ports and server is saying:

Re: cvsup

2006-10-26 Thread Jeff Mohler
Thanks muchly. :) On 10/26/06, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff Mohler wrote: hmm..Im running the latest code, but I dont see that file fastest_cvsup. On 10/25/06, Kent Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 25 October 2006 06:07, eoghan wrote: On 25 Oct 2006, at 14:03

Re: apache20 going nuts

2006-10-25 Thread Jeff Mohler
I was just there on 5.1 for the last few months..when I did a kdump/ktrace, I saw invalid fnctl's just sucking things up. I nailed it down to something in PHP, because I could trigger this immediately by uploading photos to my coppermine installation, or randomly with zencart. Moving those

Re: two NIC and nfs

2006-10-23 Thread Jeff Mohler
Are nic1 and nic2 on the same network? Are client2 and nic2 on the same network? Need a bigger picture with some detail. On 10/23/06, Albert Shih [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I've two NIC on my server. Until now I just use one. I want use the second interface to increase perfs. The

Re: two NIC and nfs

2006-10-23 Thread Jeff Mohler
anything up. On 10/23/06, Albert Shih [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le 23/10/2006 à 13:09:21-0800, Jeff Mohler a écrit Are nic1 and nic2 on the same network? Are client2 and nic2 on the same network? Yes all in same subnet, all connected on the same gigabits switch. and all nfs traffic

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-17 Thread Jeff Mohler
Linux supports more devices than FreeBSD, especially new devices. --- Linux clearly supports many more bugs than FreeBSD as well. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-16 Thread Jeff Mohler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/16/06, Jeff Mohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linux has iSCSI...which hands Fbsd a real beating in the server space. I work on projects at more customers than I can keep track of that -have- to use Linux in the middle of Fbsd farms just because of the amazing lack

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-15 Thread Jeff Mohler
Linux has iSCSI...which hands Fbsd a real beating in the server space. I work on projects at more customers than I can keep track of that -have- to use Linux in the middle of Fbsd farms just because of the amazing lack of iscsi support. Linux has been doing iscsi since what..2002 or so? Maybe

iSCSI support..

2006-10-12 Thread Jeff Mohler
Freebsd ever hope to have a stable supported iscsi layer? Thanks for any hints. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

NFS Client..attr caching..

2006-10-10 Thread Jeff Mohler
here at work we want to compile deep trees of code on Fbsd boxes, but we are finding that the compiles on local disk are faster than via NFS (very very fast/new Netapp boxes) on the FreeBSD boxes (single spindle SATA drives). However, cross-compiling the same code on a linux box over NFS to the