Re: why no Oracle on FreeBSD ?

2009-09-27 Thread Michael Vince
On 25/09/2009 10:28 PM, Saifi Khan wrote: On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Julian H. Stacey wrote: i noticed that there is no Oracle available for FreeBSD http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/database/index.html What could be the reason for that ? Best ask direct of

Re: Dual Core Or Dual CPU - What's the real difference in performance?

2007-02-07 Thread Michael Vince
Nicole Harrington wrote: Hello all, I have been building/using servers that were dual CPU AMD Opteron systems for some time. (usually 246 Opteron cpu's) Now of course the world is shifting to Dual Core. Using FreeBSD, what is really the difference, besides power and ability to shove in

Remote X via winXP and Xclient security

2006-03-06 Thread Michael Vince
Hi All, I was wondering if any one had some ideas on my little problem / goal. I have been testing out using a X-cygwin and my X server in windows XP and FreeBSD / KDE as my X client via ssh, I really like this and was thinking of using it at work for many reasons I don't want to have to

Re: Setting up VPN+IPSec+Racoon

2006-02-17 Thread Michael Vince
Kövesdán Gábor wrote: Hello, it is the first time I have to set up such configuration. Could you tell me some guidelines? What should I care about? I see there's a chapter in the Handbook about VPN. It mentions the FAST_IPSEC kernel option in 5.X. Should I use this implemetation or the KAME

Re: VPN not working

2006-02-10 Thread Michael Vince
You can try out this script if you like, it may or may not help. I created it so I could more easily remember all the VPN knobs that need to be touched when creating a VPN. http://www.roq.com/projects/vpnsetup/vpnsetup.pl Mike Subhro wrote: Hello, I am trying to connect to my workplace

Re: FreeBSD router two DSL connections

2006-01-01 Thread Michael Vince
Yance Kowara wrote: Hi all, I am trying to figure out if *BSD can achieve this: I have two DSL connections to play with, and I would like to configure a *BSD router that can combine the two DSLs together. There is a howto at http://stevenfettig.com/mythoughts/archives/000173.php But it

Re: STressing a new server...

2006-01-01 Thread Michael Vince
Gary Kline wrote: Folks, When I bought this bare-bones box and plugged in stuff it took several days of figuring out what benchmark and other utilities to run to stress it. After a few weeks of pushing the load to 70+, the burning-in was a fair indicator that the HW

Re: BSD Question's.

2005-12-30 Thread Michael Vince
If you want to try an different Desktop replacement OS over Windows XP I would say you would have better luck with something like Linspire. But the truth is there isn't much difference at all between any Linux distribution or FreeBSD and when I see the latest Linux review on some of those so

Re: Using SCHED_ULE vs. SCHED_4BSD ...

2005-12-29 Thread Michael Vince
Kiffin Gish wrote: I recently upgraded from 5.4 to 6.0 and noticed the introduction of option SCHED_ULE for supporting multi-processor environments. However, I understood that using SCHED_ULE with only one CPU can also improve performance significantly. Is this true, and if so, what are the

Re: Freebsd Theme Song

2005-12-12 Thread Michael Vince
What about just turning on Polling? I have polling turned out for a router and all I get is gigabit performance. I have tested it with a wire variety of tests from basic fetch tests from a FreeBSD client box via a FreeBSD router (with polling) to another FreeBSD box and all I got was gigabit

Re: Freebsd 5.4+samba

2005-12-12 Thread Michael Vince
Monah Baki wrote: Hi all, I just installed Freebsd 5.4 with samba 3.x, I'm running a calyx software, and the 6 clients are winxp. The smb.conf is as simple as possible. I noticed that some clients are very slow to connect to the share drive and run a database search. The server is a dell

Re: MySQL forgot some of my data!

2005-12-08 Thread Michael Vince
daniel wrote: Our company has a few very large databases (9gb) which required a shut down, upgrade and restart last night, it this act has caused me all manour of headache: 1. I did a full backup of all the data (Good Idea) 2. I ran mysqladmin -uroot -p shutdown 3. I waited... and

Re: FreeBSD apache21 port...

2005-12-06 Thread Michael Vince
Just in case you missed it, try the Apache 2.2 port. I been using it and its great. /usr/ports/www/apache22/ Mike Douglas A. Maske wrote: Hi, Just curious why this port isn't properly building? I had to manually compile apr and apr-utl, then manually put the include files in place, and

Re: BSD vs Linux Threads

2005-12-04 Thread Michael Vince
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-12-02 14:00, Michael Vince [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For 6 Linux threads from my benchmarking and from what I have seen some peoples posts gives poor performance compared to libthr or libpthread I am using more of libthr over libpthread in 6.0 and have been

Re: BSD vs Linux Threads

2005-12-04 Thread Michael Vince
Michael Vince wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-12-02 14:00, Michael Vince [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For 6 Linux threads from my benchmarking and from what I have seen some peoples posts gives poor performance compared to libthr or libpthread I am using more of libthr over libpthread

Re: BSD vs Linux Threads

2005-12-01 Thread Michael Vince
For 6 Linux threads from my benchmarking and from what I have seen some peoples posts gives poor performance compared to libthr or libpthread I am using more of libthr over libpthread in 6.0 and have been benchmarking best results. Try this in /etc/libmap.conf [mysqld] libpthread.so.2

Re: tomcat + apache + java

2005-11-26 Thread Michael Vince
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone point me to a surefire how-to to get tomcat java apache running on a FreeBSD 5.3R box. Here are the current setup. OS : FreeBSD 5.3R Apache 2.0.50 Tomcat 5.0.28 mod_jk - seems to be 1.2.5 java - jdk1.4.2 Thanks, Ed Your best off using mod_proxy to

Re: using freebsd for a router

2005-11-24 Thread Michael Vince
JD Bronson wrote: I dont want to start a flame/war here...but was *just* wondering... I currently use OpenBSD-3.8 for my router (T-1 with many statics) and then use FreeBSD-6.0 for my servers (web/mail/DNS...) I am debating on just standardizing to all FreeBSD. It seems the security is

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-11 Thread Michael Vince
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Admittedly if Microsoft were trying to make Windows XP run well on a 486 it wouldn't be nearly as a likable OS it is today. That's not true either. If Microsoft were trying to make it work on a 486 it would run a lot better on bigger hardware because they would

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-11 Thread Michael Vince
I prefer the idea of the FreeBSD team aiming at only the latest hardware, all I use is brand new server equipment. I don't like the idea that FreeBSD features and performance development could be hampered by the core guys trying to make stuff work on old hardware, in fact if it was a fact that

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-10 Thread Michael Vince
Gayn Winters wrote: There are some things broken in 5.4 that are still broken in 6.0 with regards to support of older hardware. In particular the ida driver is a mess - EISA support in that was busted years ago, then 5.X busted support for more 'modern' systems like the Compaq 1600R HP DL

Re: Wireless Card Suggestion

2005-11-10 Thread Michael Vince
Tim Holmes wrote: I've finally decided to add wireless to my gateway. It's already doing all my gateway and firewall duties, and more and more people are coming over with wireless devices and I'd like to offer them the option of using my network. Instead of buying a wireless router, I plan to

Re: How to upgrade from 4.3 to 4.7

2002-10-16 Thread Michael Vince
A cvsup and make buildworld, make installworld will NOT work in 4.3 its simply to old a version. I had the same problem my self, and its in one of the errata's and mailing lists that its not possible. What I did was do buildworld on another machine (A fbsd v4.6 server) and then tared up the