Re: Streaming server / YouTube

2009-05-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
without that youtube nonsense there wouldn't be a youtube anymore it's a copyright agreement not to store the videos on someone's harddrive while watching... you mean videos from youtube are copyrighted? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Streaming server

2009-05-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
anyway - file that is available through FTP/HTTP or similar way you can stream too. just without any extra tools both under windoze and unix. You're aware of UDP-based real-time streaming protocols, right? yes it is, but we talked about youtube-like services. it's not UDP based very well).

Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5%

2009-05-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
you are funny. Don't ever send me private messages like that. You are a troll who gives harmful and misleading advice. exactly because of sentences like that i think you are funny. sorry - but you moved this to public ___

Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5%

2009-05-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Do you actually read back what you write: you're saying here that when a CPU has only 10% utilization, it'll run slower than when performing at 100%... i said it perform 10 times less work than when 100% utilized. exactly - read back again. I'm giving up ;-) looks like you just want to

Re: Streaming server

2009-05-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I already have FreeBSD installed. Just wondering if there is a streaming server for it. Hardly can believe that dedicated download (by opening the remote file in a media player) will be more efficient that a streaming server that takes care of bandwidth throttle and average processing time on

Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5%

2009-05-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
performing at 100%... While it's not the default behaviour, if you run powerd(8) then yes, the CPU will run slower when it's less utilized. that's extra,and very useful option. anyway even without that modern processor gets MUCH less power just when being halted by hlt instruction. there is

Re: Streaming server / YouTube

2009-05-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
So again, speaking before you research? again unnecessary comments. It's in the terms of use http://www.youtube.com/t/terms The content on the YouTube Website, except all User Submissions i'm not regular youtube watcher and actually i was not aware that there are really anything else

RE: updating from 7.1 to 7.2 AMD64

2009-05-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I am trying to update 2 7.1 systems to 7.2. sun3# freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.2RELEASE 7.2-RELEASE Maybe? Haha ... thank I knew it was something blindly obvious that I was missing ... there be a lesson don't try to upgrade 3 systems at once and watch TV. even more important - why you are

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
1024x600 9 display and an attached USB Huawei E220 dongel for UMTS. I have installed 8-CURRENT and all works as it should, only the inbuild cam is not supported, but I don't neet this at the moment (maybe later when Skype for FreeBSD can do video as well). Matthias, What kind of battery life

Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5%

2009-05-24 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Look below: load over 7 and no processes take much CPU. load average is NOT sum of CPU loads. for example program reading constantly from HDD and using no CPU will add 1 to load average. other things like net I/O etc. are calculated too. i can't explain you exactly how because i don't

Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5%

2009-05-24 Thread Wojciech Puchar
From the glossary (p. 630) of _The_Design_and_Implementation_of_the _FreeBSD_Operating_System_ by McKusick and Neville-Neil: load average A measure of CPU load on the system. The load average in FreeBSD is an average of the number of processes ready to

Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5%

2009-05-24 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I was just now looking into ARM netbooks. I think there's only one actual shipping model so far, but ARM shows great promise because ARM CPUs use very little power. I expect there will be lots of them by the end of the year. Is there a FreeBSD ARM port? There's not one for 7.2. there are

Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5%

2009-05-24 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Is there a FreeBSD ARM port? There's not one for 7.2. I'm not aware of one, but I think NetBSD has it. But finally, NetBSD isn't FreeBSD. :-) quite a big difference. was enough for me to switch to FreeBSD some time ago. ___

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I'm about to buy a netbook, which: - is compatible with FreeBSD (wifi is especially important) - has a good battery life (at least 4 hours) - has a normal HDD not an SSD point 2 and 3 is somehow incompatible - HDD takes more power. anyway in order of few watts, compared to CPUs taking 20-50W,

Re: 4x quad core on freebsd

2009-05-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
pros / cons of running a 4 cpu (16 core) system on FreeBSD. I found FreeBSD 7 is quite scallable, said to work well for up to 8-16 cores. but it depends of what you do. if your I/O (both disk and network) to computind ratio is low it would scale well on even more cores. Tyan S4985 4 x AMD

Re: Why build's user CPU on 4-CPU machine with hyper-threading always higher with -j 8 compared to with -j 4?

2009-05-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I noticed that the same exact build on i7-920 (4 CPUs) consumes ~15% more user CPU when run with -j 8 compared to -j 4. Hyper-threading is enabled so top shows 8 CPUs. Why would user time be higher in a hyper-threaded run? because it doesn't count actual instruction executed but - as name

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
point 2 and 3 is somehow incompatible - HDD takes more power. anyway in order of few watts, compared to CPUs taking 20-50W, excluding those really mobile. so 4 hours on batteryHDD seems possible. I respectfully disagree. As much as I hate Apple as a company, I currently have a MacBook Pro

Re: FreeBSD as USB joystick

2009-05-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
That is, I have a PS2 and want to be able to control it via my laptop. This would amount to connecting a USB cable between my PS2 and my laptop, and getting the PS2 to detect it as a joystick with the right identifier string, and being able to send button presses etc via my laptop to the PS2.

Re: Lenovo s9e or well supported netbook

2009-05-19 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I'm use FreeBSD on my Lenovo T61. All works perfect. and T23 -- Alexandr Matveev ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Disabling ssh timeouts?

2009-05-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Read from remote host troutmask.apl.washington.edu: Connection reset by peer Connection to troutmask.apl.washington.edu closed. The only way I'v efound to complete a run of the GCC testsuite is to sit at the terminal and hit enter every so often. Also there is screen program. note, nohup

Re: BGP

2009-05-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
look at ports index there are BGP deamons On Wed, 13 May 2009, alexus wrote: is there a way to have FreeBSD work as BGP router and/or at least failover between 2 different ISPs? -- http://alexus.org/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Installing Unix

2009-05-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I am a newbie to Unix with no experience in installing unix operating system. Have been through Download Freebsd but not quite sure what I should download. install CD. if you have good network connection - download small bootonly CD. it will then fetch all needed by the net. but do read a

Re: Processors

2009-05-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I'm new with FreeBSD setup. Just want to as if Core 2 Duo processor compatible with FreeBSD. yes. FreeBSD/amd64 Thanks a lot.. -- Renato A. Rocabo mobile: 09208095152 email: cserge...@gmail.com ym: carlos_serge...@yahoo.com skype: rrocabo If you don't write it down, then it never

Re: Sun E250

2009-05-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
isn't it external disk array connected with SCSI connector? if so - it looks like SCSI disk(s) to the computer and is supported by FreeBSD disk driver On Mon, 11 May 2009, RAUL H C LOPES wrote: Hello, We've got a Sun server E250 with a disk array Storedge A1000. We'd like to have Freebsd

Re: Processors

2009-05-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
yes. FreeBSD/amd64 Or i386. if you want limited system - yes -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Wake-on-LAN support in FreeBSD?

2009-05-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Has anyone successfully used the wake-on-LAN tool wol to wake-up a FreeBSD system? wake on lan works before any OS is started, actually before computer is powered up - as it's made to power up computer by LAN ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Wake-on-LAN support in FreeBSD?

2009-05-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Long story short: Wake-on-LAN requires OS/NIC driver support. The OS puts the NIC in a mode at shutdown that allows Wake-on-LAN to work. FreeBSD has isn't it BIOS option? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Help creating bpf0 device (bpf won't do it for me)

2009-05-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I'm in the final stages of setting up a new wireless connection but have been having problems getting bpf running. For some reason, even though bpf has been compiled into a new kernel, the system won't automatically create a are you sure? your symptops suggest it was not compiled it

Re: Maintaining a FreeBSD system - Workcycle

2009-05-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
more so (for the base system I just install them always, as it doesn't pay off in the long run to skip them). Portaudit for a (web)server has a lot of notifications that are not critical, like several issues over the last year with php's safe mode that any sane webserver admin doesn't use. i

Re: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data

2009-05-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
If you aren't using ZFS, or even a GEOM volume with mirror/RAID5/softup/etc, you cannot make the statement that hardware RAID is faster. I learned that 3 years ago. i state exactly opposite. all hardware raid cards are made just to suck money from those who believe in it. like performance

Re: Run script on boot, as ordinary user

2009-05-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
man crontab @reboot On Thu, 7 May 2009, Nerius Landys wrote: So there's cron. Is there anything that lets an ordinary user start his/her programs at bootup of the system? And then run a script when the system is shutting down? I'm familiar with /etc/rc.d/, but that's not really what I'm

Re: Frozen on Boot - Kernel Hanging?

2009-05-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
My server was fine when I went to work. When I got back, it was dead. I had the datacenter reboot it, and it refused to boot. It just hangs with no error message when booting. After the Welcome to FreeBSD menu, it just freezes up. I have no idea where to start to fix this. Any ideas? most

Re: What is the highest hard drive read/write speed you were able to achieve by entire disk mirroring or striping?

2009-05-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I am seeing 85MB/s as a speed of a single Hitachi 1TB HD. How high can you go by mirroring or striping 2, 3, 4 harddrives? mirroring - the same, just with 2 processes reading both can get the bandwidth. make sure you use -s high enough (like 1048576) doing gmirror label stripping - the

Re: Configuring an IPv6 router to assign addresses

2009-05-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
start rtadvd on interface On Wed, 6 May 2009, af300...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've found in the handbook how to start up a v6 router and some other helpful links on this topic at the FreeBSD diary. However, I'm wondering, how do I configure the router to assign addresses to hosts. Thanks,

Re: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data

2009-05-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
- it took about 12 hours to delete these 30GB of files and sub-directories (smarty cache files: many small files in many dirs). It's a little bit surprising, as it's on a recent HP proliant DL360 g5 with SAS disks (Raid1) running freebsd 6.x ( /dev/da0s1f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates) ) if

Re: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data

2009-05-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
means you had 6 million files. df -i would have been more useful in the output above. This brings a number of questions up: * Are you _sure_ softupdates is enabled on that partition? That's he showed mount output - he has softdeps on. * Are these 7200RPM disks or 15,000? Again, going

Re: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data

2009-05-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
config, or gmirror/gstripe config. usually it's far much slower Sorry, but my experience with that very server using a P400 controller with 256MB write cache is very different. My benchmarks showed that controller using Raid5 (with only 4 disks) is significantly faster than software

RE: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data

2009-05-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
It could just be me, but I swear Hardware RAID has been faster for many many years, especially with RAID5 arrays - or anything that requires maybe with RAID5, but using RAID5 today (huge disk sizes, little sense to save on disk space) instead of RAID1/10 doesn't make much sense, as RAID5 is

Re: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data

2009-05-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
yes, some of them suck royally. you should rather say some of them doesn't suck. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

vtundlinux client

2009-05-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i wanted to give IPv6 tunnel to someone running linux with vtund added position as usual to vtund.conf (there are already many tunnels), and he can't connect. In FreeBSD you have to add VTUN_EXTENDED_MODE=yes to /etc/make.conf before compiling from ports to have IPv6 support. in linux - i

Re: Shopping for external harddrive

2009-05-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
warranty replacement died out of the box. It took 69 days as well as dozens of phone calls + emails to get a replacement for the dead replacement. while i never had problems with warranty on hard drives (only internal but anyway), it always took 2-3 weeks. shop where i bought it handled it

Re: Honey pot email address

2009-05-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
On Sun, 3 May 2009, Duane wrote: On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 12:57 AM, Andrew a...@awdcomp.net wrote: Does anyone have any ideas on how to get on as many spammers mailing lists as possible? What are your plans for the resultant collection of junque? redirect to the president ? ;)

Re: Where am I wasting resources? How to fix this problem?

2009-04-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
#define EAGAIN 35 /* Resource temporarily unavailable */ check your process count limit. On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, VeeJay wrote: Sorry Folks, I should have provided complete information in order to get help... I am running DB: Server version: 5.0.77-log FreeBSD

Re: Where am I wasting resources? How to fix this problem?

2009-04-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
[r...@wojtek ~]# sysctl -a |grep maxpr kern.maxproc: 5266 kern.maxprocperuid: 4739 i don't know if there is limit ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

2009-04-26 Thread Wojciech Puchar
software installation CPU/RAM needs), run the dialog(3) interface. If it's a fast 686, default to a X environment. nonsense. please stop this stupid discussion at all. just use linux or windows (maybe PC-BSD) if it's important for you. ___

Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress''

2009-04-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
You can do a lot with synthesized spoken language, but the human voice perception apparatus reacts to them differently than it does to a native (natural) voice, even if both say the same text. until someone will make speech synthetizer good enough ;)

Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

2009-04-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I think there's no need to worry (yet). Some of us use FreeBSD on headless systems (which often don't even have the VGA and keyboard circuitry). And of course, we install via remote serial consoles. Anything purely GUI-oriented with no alternative would mean instant migration to OpenBSD or

Re: Converting the partition type

2009-04-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
IMHO there are no converters On Sat, 25 Apr 2009, Christopher Chambers wrote: Hi, I have an msdos partition with a large amount of data. Is there a way to convert to a ufs partition without having to remove the data off the partition first? -- Christopher Chambers ccha...@interchange.ubc.ca

Re: Banwidth limited to 800kb per connection

2009-04-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I agree. Check the interface on the device that connects into their network. You will likely see all sorts of interface errors. Try having them force to 100/Full, and you do the same at your end. it's VERY common when other end is cisco switch ;) and nothing helps except using other NIC. i

Re: Software raid5 through a sata port multiplier

2009-04-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
thinking that a software raid5 solution may not be such a bad idea. software raid5 isn't any more bad than hardware raid5 most cases. just raid5 is bad if you use it in ANY type of load except: a) mostly reads - then set LARGE RAID stripe size b) mostly huge files - then set small RAID stripe

Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

2009-04-24 Thread Wojciech Puchar
done a ton of FreeBSD installs the headless way, I hope any new installer will not absolutely require a GUI. If it can run in a GUI mode, fine, but I hope it will still let one connect via a serial port and direct the process that way. as you can do everything easily in text mode, it just

Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

2009-04-24 Thread Wojciech Puchar
a modern installer for FreeBSD? If I can add my 2 cents to this entire discusion, it will be nice if will be the TUI which is similar to TUI done in Debian Lenny installer. You can do simply next and back option, you can easily choose betwen e.g ext3 or reiserfs. It will be nice if we can also

Re: Unexpected gmirror behavior: Is this a bug?

2009-04-24 Thread Wojciech Puchar
This only happens with ad4. If ad6 for example goes offline in the same way, when it is reinserted it does not become the dominant drive and resync its data with the other drives. Rather its data is overwritten with the data from the 3 member mirror, as you'd expect. looks like very strange

Re: Unexpected gmirror behavior: Is this a bug?

2009-04-24 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i think it's a bug but only happens with such massive mirror. very few people do more than 2-way mirrors that's probably it wasn't catched. please do report the bug - it's critical. On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Peter Steele wrote: This only happens with ad4. If ad6 for example goes offline in the

Re: Banwidth limited to 800kb per connection

2009-04-24 Thread Wojciech Puchar
When downloading files over FTP (proftpd) or HTTP (apache 2.2) I only get about 800kb/s, uploading seems to have the same limit (couldn't test it really, as my line stops at abount 860kb/s). When I start multiple downloads, I get 800kb/s for each transfer, up to about 5000kb/s, which is the

Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

2009-04-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
The problem is that if the graphics isn't optional (if it's the default), the whole thing is *limiting* the actions you can do with it. like installing over serial port or without mouse. both i use ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

2009-04-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Good ways to go (for those who want it this way) are PC-BSD, DesktopBSD and FreeSBIE. or ever better - Windows. don't use imitations when you can get an original! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

2009-04-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
the number of possible partitions per slice is higher. I'd really wish FreeBSD's bsdlabel(8) would allow for more partitions. The problem here is not with sysinstall though. From bsdlabel(8): that's isn't supported by sysinstall but you can partition a partition.

Re: Disk usage analysis

2009-04-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
These are called directories. You don't call files sheets of paper either, do you? :-) YES!! I'm probably too up-tight about the use of folder, but it just seems like waay too much stupiding-down of the std Unix terminology. ([I thought I was the only one]. And

Re: unable to completely remove directory during deinstall

2009-04-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
pkg_delete: couldn't entirely delete package (perhaps the packing list is incorrectly specified?) It occurs at the end of a deinstall as a matter of updating a port by hand. What is the proper procedure to correct this? Run pkgdb -F? Rm the offending files/dirs by hand? Both? check what

Re: i had a tought

2009-04-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
he smoked too much why there is not a lunix operatingsystem consortium, for the kernel end the commercial userinterface -- Arjen Simon Scheer Konigin Wilhelminalaan 4-017 4205ET Gorinchem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

2009-04-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
As a big fan (and paying subscriber) of FreeBSD it pains me to ask this question: When are you going to build a modern installer for FreeBSD? what is missing in current to make anything else? if you have some ideas about extending it - just tell, and even better - send a patch

Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

2009-04-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
as better than sysinstall. Once upon time, there was a Summer of Code projects set to develop a graphical installer for FBSD 7.x. I don't know what happened to it, but also agree there is no need for such a thing. Sysinstall may appear intimidating but it's really quite easy to use once

RE: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

2009-04-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
IMHO numbers and letters look the same in the scary dark place, a TUI, or GUI. Better device detection, faster, more packages, etc. would all be better and should be more of a priority than making a GUI exactly. GUI don't need to have any priority, it's just don't needed AT ALL. if fancy

Re: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?

2009-04-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I'm trying to print from my FreeBSD machine. I've been through a yes. i do cat file /dev/lpt0 :) never used cups and never will. but i use lpd and postscript to pcl filter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD's interaction with MS-DOS partitions

2009-04-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
ms-dos partition. For example, I attempted to download a torrent with ctorrent. Works perfectly if I am saving to the bsd partition but my whole system freezes if I use the ms-dos partition. I mount it in /etc/fstab as /dev/ad0s2 /d msdosfs rw 0 0 Is this behaviour the result of the 0 0? no.

Re: Dump | Restore

2009-04-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
target machine FreeBSD 6.2, target disk /dev/ad1s1a mounted on /mnt. Run dump -0aLf - / | ssh ip_address ''cd /mnt/ cat | restore - rf -'', dump/restore goes without any errors. 1 total nonsense: cat|restore instead of restore 2 probably nonsense: use rsh not ssh unless you really need

Re: Upgrading from 6.3 to 7.1 -- how dangerous?

2009-04-19 Thread Wojciech Puchar
how i do this (but this is probably not politically correct ;) 1) get all files of new version in one place (subdir) say at /7.1 2) separate out manually all configs - it's /etc, /var/namedb and maybe few more 3) using livecd just put all other files with tar|tar to the place 4) manually

Re: Fetchmail problem

2009-04-19 Thread Wojciech Puchar
On Sun, 19 Apr 2009, Annelise Anderson wrote: I am trying to use fetchmail on FreeBSD but get the message: fetchmail: SMTP 451 4.1.8 Domain of sender address owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org does not resolve I can send mail out from the box but can't fetch mail. so check why domain

Re: snd-hda no sound whatsoever

2009-04-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar
what mixer says? On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Eitan Adler wrote: I have no sound whatsoever. Speakers are plugged in and turned on. I'm not sure what debugging information I need. $kldstat |grep snd 51 0xc5985000 19000snd_hda.ko $cat /bin/sh /dev/dsp Produces no sound $sysctl -a|grep hda

Re: snd-hda no sound whatsoever

2009-04-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar
which will turn PCM and master volume to 100:100. For checking, it's usually the most comfortable way to play some media file, instead of a plain file into /dev/dsp. plain binary will make plain noise ;) so it's good test The play command from the port / package sox or mpg123 / madplay for

Re: Freebsd Built-in vacation program does not auto reply

2009-04-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
did you vacation -i On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, lyd mc wrote: Hi guys, Why Freebsd built-in vacation program (/usr/bin/vacation) does not auto reply? I am using fresh installed Freebsd7.0 and 7.1. here is my configs. Under the home directory of the user (alydio.mc) .forward     \alydio.mc,

Re: Need to change screen resolution...

2009-04-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I am trying to find a way to change my current screen resolution from the default 720x426 (I think). The monitor I use to view all my servers via KVM switch - the font is too big on the screen - if I could increase the screen size to maybe 1028x756 that would be great. from what you've got that

Re: Software to manage virtual hosts on a dedicated server

2009-04-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
just another man that wants to get everything not just for free, but not even without much knowledge. learn and MAKE IT YOURSELF, that it will fit exactly to your needs. Or - provide services for 1$/year like there are lots of today. crappy and all the same - but cheap. Maybe you will earn

Re: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded... what to do?

2009-04-14 Thread Wojciech Puchar
increase kern.maxfiles :) in sysctl.conf On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, VeeJay wrote: Hi there I am keep getting this error on the screen. I have tried to solve this problem by myself but still no luck. Could anyone guide what to do to increase the limit and avoid this error? kern.maxfiles limit

Re: How to diagnose hardware problem?

2009-04-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
The database ran well for about 2 minutes, then the server crashed again. The filesystem was again corrupted so badly that we could not even log in to look at the logs. did memtest? it looks like it's fine until you stress your hardware We've reinstalled FreeBSD again, just to be able to

Re: How to create NTFS file system from FreeBSD?

2009-04-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I need to format NTFS partition to give HD to someone to write things on it under Windows. i would rather make FAT32 partition newfs_msdos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: loader.conf

2009-04-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hi all: I have a machine with 2GB memory. in the file loader.conf, there is a line: #hw.physmem=1G# Limit physical memory. See loader(8) Could I remove the # and change that to 2G? # mean commented out. leave it as is or delete. you don't have to specify it unless you

Re: disk usage statistics

2009-04-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hello. Could you suggest me how can I get my disk usage statistics in terms of percentage of the possible disk activity (like in gstat) or megabytes per second (like in iostat), please? systat then type :vmstat ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Dump/Restore

2009-04-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Please Help! After dump-restore /dev, /proc, /usr/compat/linux/proc - is empty, system fealure to boot. Please guide me, how to dump/restore it always should be - before mounted as pseudo-fs devfs. df -h Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on

Re: Change to Graphical Mode from DOS Mode

2009-04-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
how you started FreeBSD in DOS mode? i would like to do so as i sometimes need to run DOS programs, but i have to boot DOS or use slow dosbox. tell me - it's interesting. ___ Pretty sure he meant virtual terminal mode, where all you get is so he

Re: Change to Graphical Mode from DOS Mode

2009-04-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have successfully downloaded FreeBSD 6.4 Release linux installed on my PC. But it starts in DOS Mode. how you started FreeBSD in DOS mode? i would like to do so as i sometimes need to run DOS programs, but i have to boot DOS or use slow dosbox. tell me - it's interesting.

Re: Copying files without scp

2009-04-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
To copy data from one server, I normally (always) use scp. man rcp ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: [ fbsd_quest ] file_caching and hd caches

2009-04-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
hard_drive internal_caches and their sizes [ e. g., 2mb, 8mb, 16mb ] important ? It depends on workload. almost not important. if FreeBSD would support NCQ it will be more, but still anything above 4MB doesn't make a difference IMHO.

Re: Migration to 7.1 ?

2009-04-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Does 7.1 has reached a stability that it could be used for a high load production server ? at least for me - it's stable under high loads doing lots of different thing. i mean /amd64 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: gmirror THEN geli, correct?

2009-04-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking for a confirmation on the order: When setting up a (root partiton) gmirror+geli, what is the propper order? e.g: gmirror the disks and THEN initialize geli on the /dev/mirror partitions? Is this yes it is right order. with geli then gmirror -

Re: ipfw: bandwidth limiting

2009-04-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
[snip] $ipfwcmd pipe 1 config bw 80KByte/s $ipfwcmd add pipe 1 ip from any to 192.168.10.0/24{100-254} via em1 [snip] I'm not sure it works. When I do a large download which takes long and anybody else want download too, this download will only get a reduce bandwidth. I expect that the second

Re: Recovering partitions from disk image? *resolved*

2009-04-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
so write a short article about how you did this and why using hardware RAID solutions is bad, and put it on your website. it's AT LEAST funny that your hardware raid instead of protecting - rendered your data inaccessible. ___

Re: FreeBSD as a Business Server

2009-04-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Samba3 performs excellend nowadays. You should have no trouble at all serving 20 workers. In my setup (7.1-release/amd64/dual x2 3800 amd cpu/gigabit) smb generates only 3-5% cpu load when reading at 50MB/sec. below 10% CPU when reading 8MB/s through fast ethernet link on PIII/500 I

Re: Recovering partitions from disk image?

2009-04-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hello FreeBSD gurus, I recently had the pleasure of trying to recover a failed RAID1 array. It consisted of two 120GB disks in mirrored configuration. Both drives have a ton of bad sectors, so bad that the 3ware RAID card stopped recognizing that there was a mirror at all. Having no other

Re: FreeBSD as a Business Server

2009-04-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Samba to support standard file sharing, is there any caveats or issues that anyone perceives? I've done multiple FreeBSD installations, and if you use windoze XP or newer and some multiuser programs like accounting etc. you will have to use veto oplock files man smb.conf for details

Re: FreeBSD as a Business Server

2009-04-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
The latest samba port if very robust. You should find this trivial to complete. I encourage you to go with new hardware if possible. i use Pentium III 500Mhz, 384 MB ram as file serwer (samba) for 12 clients, and mail serwer, VoIP PBX and few less important things. works quick without

Re: kernal dump on zfs file system panic?!? panic: ffs_blkfree freeing free block

2009-04-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
dev = twed0s1d, block = 1, fs = /archive panic: ffs_blkfree freeing free block looks like ffs related panic, not ZFS. something is completely wrong here. cpuid = 1 Uptime = 11m23s Physical memory: 1011 MB Dumping 67 MB: 52 36 20 4 Dump complete /archive has no files in it as it is an empty

Re: Xeon Quad with 9 GB RAM - only 4 GB detected

2009-04-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
just for sure - after installation is still 4GB detected (with generic kernel) or 9? On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Matej Šerc wrote: Hi all, I am just trying to install FreeBSD 7.1 amd64 distro on the HP ML 150 G5 server and when booting, BIOS detects 9 GB of RAM, but when starting to install the

Re: qemu: booting from USB key?

2009-04-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
USB is a disk On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, How could I let boot the VM qemu from an USB key? I've checked the man page but it is only saying ... Boot on floppy (a), hard disk (c), CD-ROM (d), or Etherboot (n).. any idea? thx matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager

Re: gmirror 6.2 - 7.1

2009-04-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hello everyone, Do you think the following way to upgrade gmirror 6.2 - 7.1 is safe for the average person? yes 1. Backup 2. Remove one of the two SCSI HDDs from the gmirror 3. Install 7.1 on the removed HDD 4. Instruct the boot loader to boot from the 7.1 HDD 5. Reboot 6. Copy data 7.

Re: Xeon Quad with 9 GB RAM - only 4 GB detected

2009-04-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have finished the installation and yes, the entire amount is detected. Is this normal behaveour (why does it happen?) i'm not sure if install kernel is actually /i386 version. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Question about forcing fsck at boottime

2009-03-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i don't know why you do want to FORCE it every boot. in FreeBSD it's not needed. but you may add background_fsck=NO to check filesystems at boot when needed, not delayed. IMHO this background fsck isn't good idea at all ___

Re: Why?? (prog question)

2009-03-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Tabbing is the worst form of indentation. It is *much* better to use spaces consistently. stupid discussion and off topic. everybody write code as he/she like, or as a team decided if it's not single person work. only end result matters. ___

Re: [OT] - Best Practices(TM) for Configuration File Changes

2009-03-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hello, list. Before I pose my question, I am not intending to start a flame-war of any sort -- I'm just searching for different ways of doing things. With so many different version control systems available (aside from the traditional keep current backups solution), I am curious: Q: What is

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