Re: Binding application to one ethernet interface

to add another server application (cvs and pgsql) to another intranet. Of course we can buy a new server to do that, but i want to know if i can add a new ethernet card to the current server and force apache to serve to one intranet and cvs/pgsql to the other intranet. is it another subnet to

Re: Binding application to one ethernet interface

depending on the application itself. I think that by default, freebsd will balance the charge between both cards, is it true?? No that is not true. If you have both card in the same subnet, I am not sure what would happen, but I beleive no load balancing. it will use the first for transm

RE: Research About FreeSBD , consult

Daniel Thanks very much for your support I really appreciate it. I have a 2nd level of questions more related to the current domain of FreeBSD in the market (% of participation , mindshare , competitive advantages, others) the answers are lots, lots a lot of and a lot of. as FreeBSD (name says

Re: Stress testing/burning in HDDs

What is the best way to do this? It's reasonable to start with something like a: dd if=/dev/your_disk of=/dev/null bs=5120 ...to at least try reading every sector on the drive as a basic sanity check. why so small blocks of 10 sectors? i use bs=64k at least goes faster. Better would be to

Re: Dual Opterons don't see all memory

I've recently taken ownership of a server (dual Opterons) in my research group. Whereas it was previously running linux, it is now running FreeBSD. Everything seems to be going great, except linux was able to make use of it's 6GB of memory, and FreeBSD can only see about 4GB of it. Can anyone

Re: CPU Monitoring Software

a certain time. I downloaded sysstat for my linux boxes, but it does not want to compile under freebsd. systat under freebsd (single s) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsub

Re: CPU Monitoring Software

I was wanting to see what my servers utilize as far as memory, disk, cpu, etc. over a certain time period. Is there some software that I can use? I guess something like the 'top' command that gives an average output over a certain time. you could make a script using top|head +sleep :) _

Re: Forcing buffer cache to use available memory

Hello, Is there a way to force the buffer cache to be more aggressive when caching reads? Or even just plain force a certain number of megabytes to be dedicated to the buffer cache? it is. sometimes too aggressive. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

please explain me systat

what it is actually showing! /0 /1 /2 /3 /4 /5 /6 /7 /8 /9 /10 Load Average | /0 /5 /10 /15 /20 /25 /30 /35 /40 /45 /50 /55 /60 Mbufs 171378 yes - 171378

Re: linux-flashplugin9 (usable?)

I do know the GNU Flash project ["gnash"] is worth looking at. Sure it's not perfect, but they're certainly having a good try at it. It works fairly well in Firefox at least. Thanks for the help! Now I don't have to emulate linux... I have installed "gnash" from the ports collection. Been on you

Re: minimal install is too big

specs if I could get the general system small enough. The minimal install of FreeBSD as from the developers is about 130MB. I want to get something working on a 8MB flash. (For those curious, it's a ethernet NAS device) compressed kernel (well stripped) <1.5MB loader etc 300kB libs - ca 2MB 4M

rtadvd - network is down?

Oct 5 17:57:55 helnet rtadvd[43408]: sendmsg on em0: Network is down getting this regularly, while network is up all the time everything else works ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-q

Re: Equations (WAS: good replacement for open office)

Word rather than try to teach them troff (or TeX). While they are all i'm not top-flight scientist but i was able to learn latex... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscrib

Re: good replacement for open office

nobody intelligent (or completely not caring about it) use any of big public mail/news/etc services. as google gets stronger and stronger just means that for most people using brain is too painful. but it's really worth of do you really want the world to know what you are writing? icantthi

Re: Building a SAN using FreeBSD

Anyone have any resources for building a FreeBSD based SAN device? IE, how can I create an extendable file system using networked drives in muliple boxes without paying a billion dollars for someones expensive drive arrays. it depends what you mean SAN. if you define it buy usability, then simp

RE: Building a SAN using FreeBSD

Multiple disks basically added together like RAID, but in a software/hardware setup to create one large volume (and single file system). man gconcat man ggated man ggatec man gmirror (could be useful) man growfs The use would be for web services... so when a particular volume fills up I ca

RE: Building a SAN using FreeBSD

different file systems, etc... I think you want to look into ZFS then, available on current. ZFS is not a distributed filesystem AFAIK ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsub

Re: C++ Compiler On FreeBSD

Im learning C++ from Sams Teach Yourself C++, now many will call this a dumb method, and the books pointless and stupid, but i have no knowledge of any lower level languages, so i do need to be spoon fed the basics. so you should start from lower level first - learn C first :) C is easy. it's a

Re: C++ Compiler On FreeBSD

i complete my software engineering degree. PHP isn't really a programming language. It's more a fancy templating for me it's just funny thing that needs several megs of RAM to display the current date ;) but as being treated as "technology" instead of just tool, it's used everythere withou

Re: C++ Compiler On FreeBSD

a lot of pitfalls and gotchas that you won't experience elsewhere (not so much with C itself, but with C++). And that's why it's good to start with C ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-quest

Re: Memory ignored

Hi all, i am maybe new to BSD. I had setup my DELL server 2900 to run freeBSD 7.0server but i have seen a message that ignored my 4GB of my memory in my server. Can somebody tell me what is happening and give me some idea so that i can maximize my memory usage. My total memory is 8GB. use fre

Re: Memory ignored

- use the PAE extension (but see §8.4.1 in the FreeBSD Handbook) . the inefficient solution. . - switch to the amd64 architecture. the right solution.___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-que

Re: I am looking for a bandwidth limiter tool as to time and kilobytes.

I used to live at a campus dorm where you would get 10 Gbit outbound traffic per 24h. If you used more than that, they would cut your just 2 CD's. not that much ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/f

zero copy tcp send

i found sendfile(2) doing this. but the question - does normal write(2) doing this when sending from user process memory, not file? does memory have to be aligned special way,like to page boundary? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: controleur RAID LSI 3041 ER 4SAS

On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Elissonde, Maryline (FR) wrote: Bonjour Ce contrôleur est-il supporté par FREE BSD z tego co widze to nie. Merci de votre retour urgent Cdt Maryline ELISSONDE-GUINOT Ingénieur Commerciale GROSSISTES-IT STORES-GMS-EXPORT MAXDATA SARL Z.A. de la Croix aux Bergers 7 Avenue

Re: help with text-append over SSH ?

'dd' command (among others) on the remote host ... so for instance, I can do things like this: ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] rm -rf filename So, with all that in mind, how do I append the contents of a local file to a remote file, over SSH, using either 'echo' or 'dd' ? Thanks. cat file |ssh [EMAIL

Re: How to mount USB memory (Thumb Drive) and then to copy files

man mount_msdos man cp On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, williamkow wrote: Could anybody assist me on how to mount a USB memory drive/thumb drive, so that I can copy file to and from it. Thank you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.free

Re: Why 7.0 is so late ?

Anyone known why this time the release of 7.0 is so late ? In generaly the date on http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html is alway very optimist. late for whom? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: Why 7.0 is so late ?

while companies like Microsoft must publish in time to make the share holders not to mention that microsoft regularly has delays like year. happy, FreeBSD can afford to wait until the programmers are convinced that their work is good enough for the public. Erich

Re: Storage cluster with FreeBSD

I have this pet project, playing with the Lustre Cluster FS. Is there anything similar to this that would run with FreeBSD as the host? ( Clients supported would HAVE to be linux,freebsd, Win32, OSX, ideally over standard protocols with no need for special driver). I seem to remember that gga

Re: ipv6 confusion

AFAIK, IPv6 setup is much more difficult than IPv4 setup. Still i don't i don't think so. it is no more difficult, or even easier. more difficult is to put rev-dns entries but still not a problem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://

Re: DNS and IP

please read apache manual and set up httpd.conf right. it's not only possible, but very often used, i have >30 sites on one IP On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Brian Finniff wrote: My question is, if you are running a website for 2 different people on the Internet and they both wanted to acquire a domai

Re: Help Failing Disk Problem

I use dump with the following options (e.g. for /usr); dump -0 -B 4589560 -C 8 -h 0 -L -u -P \ 'cat - >usr-0-20071106-vol${DUMP_VOLUME}.dump' /usr This splits dump output in DVD-R sized chunks. completely strange better -f file1,file2,file3,. (you may type more files than actually need

Re: List of sites using FreeBSD?

Does anybody out there know where I can find a list of sites running FreeBSD? possibly millions :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTE

X screen film recording

is there any app for this. to simply record what's going on X server as movie file (like .mov, .avi) or animated .gif? or any other way to convert flash animation (no links, menus etc.) to animated .gif? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: X screen film recording

I once used vnc2swf on Linux. It looks like it's in ports, so I'm well i would like to convert OUT OF flash movie to something like animated gif or just frames. vnc2pnm or vnc2avi or vnc2gif would be nice. but there's no such things. ___ freebsd-ques

Re: puc and uart as modules with FreeBSD6.2-REL

irq 12 at device 11.0 on pci0 but when I kldload uart, whether before or after puc, I don't see any new devices appear, nor do I get any dev.uart.* sysctls. sio not uart Am I missing something obvious, or do I need to compile yet another custom kernel to get this card working? Jonathan

what's wrong with rtadvd?!

on 3 machines - works fine. on one - doesn't tcpdump -i em0 -n ip6 shows nothing transmitted ifconfig em0 shows em0: flags=88843 mtu 1500 options=4b inet6 fe80::21b:21ff:fe00:9e16%em0 prefixlen 64 duplicated scopeid 0x1 inet 10.254.1.248 netmask 0xfc00 broadcast

Re: make configure vs first make

because you have to type make config On Sun, 11 Nov 2007, Le Cocq Michel wrote: Hello all, I know the question has been ask many times, but I don't understand why some times if I build a port with make install and then remove it with pkg_delete and make clean && make clean-depends I can't ob

Re: make configure vs first make

is there a way to entirely clean a ports or remove config file to obtain the config dialog at the next make or make install rm -rf /var/db/ports for removing configs of everything or rm -rf /var/db/ports/someport it doesn't affect already installed ports, just building process ___

Re: disk drive serial number

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# atacontrol cap ad0 Protocol ATA/ATAPI revision 6 device model ST9120822A serial number 5LZ2F879 firmware revision 3.ALD cylinders 16383 heads 16 sectors/track 63 lba supported 234441648 sectors lba

Re: Msdos/FAT stability issues

more concurrent torrents something happens with the fat slice and/or its driver. All programs trying to access the slice will freeze and this even includes the Gnome desktop. During shutdown, flushing of a little more than 1600 buffers fails. I run 6.2-release. Does the FAT driver contain known

/etc/issue for telnet

how to turn it on there is something written in telnetd manual about setting it in gettytab, but i can't find an example of gettytab for telnetd session. how to set it up? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

OT: gcc/binutils question

how to convert arbitrary data (in file) to object file, so i will be able to do extern char something[] and use it - in C. i did wrote converter that converts data from file to const char something[]={firstbyte,secondbyte,.}; and then cc to compile it. and it's VERY SLOW when data are

Re: How to set maximum disk cache size?

Hi All, Is there a way (sysctl?) to tell FreeBSD (6.2 RELEASE) how many memory can it use for caching file data from disk? It might be that FreeBSD will use all available RAM, and reduce the cache it already does ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org m

Re: a curious jails question

ive been building jails for a while, and have always used the canonical method as listed out in the handbook. today, i tried something new. i have read that instead of doing: make world ... make distribution ... that you can instead: make installworld ... make distribution ... i know even

hyperthreading CPU and broken scheduling?

i have machune with intel's CPU with hyperthreading. it is detected right, but only first thread is ever used. top shows at least 50% idle no matter what i run! what's wrong? root@:/usr62/src/sys/amd64/compile/serwer.tensor.gdynia.pl Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU:

Re: hyperthreading CPU and broken scheduling?

http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" To enable hyperthreading, try setting the following in /etc/sysctl.conf: machdep.hyperthreading_allowed=1 and reboot (or execute sysctl machdep.hyperthreading_allowed=1 by hand).

Re: how to delete a file?

- -rw-r--r-- 1 jos jos0 Nov 19 15:34 - - -rw-r--r-- 1 jos jos 767 Nov 19 15:39 .cshrc drwx-- 3 jos jos 512 Nov 19 15:40 .imap How to delete the - file rm "-" doesnot work (even with root access) rm -- - will work. everything after -- is forced to be used as fil

RE: What server for a mail server

I have a project where I should set-up a mail server for approximately 12000 users, 4000 virtual domains, 15000 messages per day, 700 MB traffic per day. 200 mails*users/day is safe assumption. maybe 1-2 of them won't be spams means about 2.5 million mails a day, assume 5 millions because there

freebsd-update

--- The following files are affected by updates, but no changes have been downloaded because the files have been modified locally: /etc/rc.d/jail --- how could i look at this update manually? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

Re: Networker

check freebsd site for this. On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Paul Urdanivia wrote: Hi: The EMC Networker is supported in freebsd ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, se

Re: launch x app from non-x tty?

Is there a way to log in from ssh and pop up a program on the local xterminal? I tried, and got complaints that there was no x, so I you mean local local display (local X server). simply you have to export DISPLAY=:0 before running. must be the same user as logged locally.

Re: xdm woes

pushing aqnd releasing the power button, so the OS shuts down using ACPI). This happens every time. No matter what window manager I use. But it only happens when I use xdm. If I start X with startx, it shuts down cleanly and returns to the tty from which I ran startx. how you start xdm? from

Re: New OFFERT

incredible how did they do it! sox, lame, mikmid and visual builder generated wrapper ? :) TOTAL MP3 CONVERTER... THIS WEEK FOR FREE!!! The best just got better. Now you can appreciate our new product at its true value! MP3 Converter is a high quality product.

Re: Secure remote shell

root, that could be automated in a script (no password required). - have information input into browser - have web server save information to server disk in non-executable format - have script (or admin) authenticate/authorize commands to be performed (recommend doing this manually for a while t

Re: ls -l takes a forever to finish.

Is a partition close to full, use df to see that. doesn't matter as ls read, not writes. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: ls -l takes a forever to finish.

ls | wc strange. i did [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/b]$ a=0;while [ $a -lt 1 ];do mkdir $a;a=$[a+1];done completed <25 seconds on 1Ghz CPU ls takes 0.1 seconds user time, ls -l takes 0.3 second user time. unless you have 486/33 or slower system there is something wrong. __

Re: ls -l takes a forever to finish.

ls takes 0.1 seconds user time, ls -l takes 0.3 second user time. unless you have 486/33 or slower system there is something wrong. Has anyone tried fsck and/or smartmontools on the drive? Maybe something like Spinrite? he stated that CPU load is near 100% so it's not disk problem

Re: ls -l takes a forever to finish.

unless you have 486/33 or slower system there is something wrong. Another possible scenario is that the directory is badly fragmented. Unless something has changed since I last researched this (which is it is for sure. the fix would be mv /usr/home /usr/oldhome;mkdir /usr/home;mv /usr/oldhom

Re: ls -l takes a forever to finish.

I guess that replacing qsort(3) in /usr/src/lib/libc/gen/fts.c:fts_sort() with another sort algorithm which doesn't expose this anomaly would solve that problem. for sure his /home wasn't worst case. it's just average case so it's not that problem.

Re: ataidle - causing apache & cvs timeouts

I'm running ataidle on my personal server to save electricity. saving your drive instead of electricity is much more economic. all drives prefers running in stable environment - like being up 24h/day. average drive takes <10Watts , so it's <90kWh/year. in Poland it's about 30PLN/year, assuming

Re: problem with network card in P35+ICH9

is your phy (mii) detected OK? FreeBSD 6.2 server# ifconfig -a re0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 options=1b inet 192.168.2.54 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255 ether 00:1a:4d:53:54:4d media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: no carrier server# dmesg |grep re0 re0: port 0xc000-0xc0ff me

Re: CD/DVD writer no longer works

/home/pauls/Downloads/FreeBSD/6.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso fixate burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCWRITESPEED): Input/output error [EMAIL PROTECTED] mount /dev/acd acd0 acd1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mount /dev/acd1 /mnt/cdrom/ mount: /dev/acd1: Input/output error mount_cd9660 - unless you use FFS on CD/DVD. CDB:

Re: Manual routing

I have 2 machines (A and B) interconnected by a cable network crossover; added the following addresses on the network card: Machine "A": 192.168.1.1/24 Machine "B": 10.10.1.1/24 Question: How would for these machines to communicate, adding routes manually? no way. select same subnet Thanks

Re: DVD's and FreeBSD

no problems yo play anything that is video with mplayer - including DVDs. On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Gary Kline wrote: Update: Well, totem chokes when trying to play a DVD, but kmplayer works --altho with fewer control flow options. And after compiling in "device at

why nfs is so slow?

i'm getting about 6MB/s with NFS (100Mbit cross-connect ethernet), while over 9.5 by FTP. nfs is set to work over TCP. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Absolute FreeBSD

isn't /usr/share/doc good? On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Michael S wrote: Good evening all, I was wondering if anyone bought M. Lucas' new FreeBSD book. How would you rate it? I already have the first edition, is it worth the money buying the second one? Thanks in advance, Michael Michael Sherman ht

Re: Capturing tar output

I am using the following command to perform backups each evening. /usr/local/gtar/bin/tar -C /usr/home/photos --listed-incremental \ /var/db/photos.snar -cvf - ./ | /usr/local/bin/gpg --encrypt --recipient \ "recipient" | dd of=/dev/nsa0 obs=128K Since I am having tar write the output of the co

Re: Capturing tar output

/usr/local/gtar/bin/tar -C /usr/home/photos --listed-incremental \ /var/db/photos.snar -cvf - ./ |tee outfile| /usr/local/bin/gpg --encrypt --recipient \ "recipient" | dd of=/dev/nsa0 obs=128K this will duplicate data, not filenames -- Original message -- F

Re: Capturing tar output

no space between 2 and > with space you started /usr/local/gtar/bin/tar -cvf - /home/hallja 2 and redirected stdout to /var/log/test.txt while trying to pipe the output too to gpg On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: redirect stderr with "2>" operator Using the following command

Re: Encrypted disk on a server

organized the server is located in an easily accessible place (actually outside my apartment) and I am afraid it might be stolen. It's a cheap old PC, so I am mostly worried about data stored on it. What is the most convenient way of securing this data (besides moving the machine :)? Encrypting t

Re: geli and soft-updates

I'm wondering if soft-updates on UFS2 should be enabled on a geli provided disk, da1.eli, for example. That is, same as without geli. geli device behaves like normal disk/partition, just it's encrypted. P.S. Anyone running ZFS on multiple geli providers? as above.

Re: geli authentication algo and newfs weirdness

the/root{156}~# geli init -a hmac/sha256 /dev/da1 Enter new passphrase: Reenter new passphrase: the/root{157}~# the/root{157}~# geli attach da1 Enter passphrase: check what is default (and possibly minimum) sector size for hmac/sha256 fragment size of UFS can't be less _

Re: kill -KILL fails to kill process

others). This can happen when your process blocks on pending file I/O. The process opens a file descriptor, could even be a socket, and asterisk does only file I/O and network I/O. file I/O works fine so it can't be a problem (everything else works on the same filesystem. get what it's wa

Re: kill -KILL fails to kill process

1. The process hangs in "disk wait" (flag "D" in ps' STAT column). This often means there's a hardware problem with your disk or controller (or a driver bug), or a network problem if you use NFS. not this for sure. no NFS, no filesystem is blocked. 2. The process was suspended (S

Re: FSJ clone

man split man cat On Sun, 21 Sep 2008, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: Hi, is there a similar program like FSJ, file split/join tool on freebsd? thanks!! TFC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-que

Re: FSJ clone

what do you mean "media file"? On Sun, 21 Sep 2008, Tim Kellers wrote: For media files, there is also lxsplit in ports. /usr/ports/sysutils/lxsplit Tim Wojciech Puchar wrote: man split man cat On Sun, 21 Sep 2008, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: Hi, is there a similar program like

Re: Shared /usr in jails

I want to implement a number of jails for different services on a single box. Since /usr is the same everywhere I'd like to just mount one copy of it read-only to all the jails and then have them each have their own /usr/local well - i already do this, but both /usr and /usr/local are common s

Re: using /dev/random

What is the canonical way to get data from /dev/random? Specifically: having opened the file, how do I read the stream? I'm currently using union { float f; char c[4]; } foo; foo.f = 0.0; fscanf(rand_fp,"%4c",foo.c); simply read 4 bytes into foo ___

Re: upgrade from 6.1-RELEASE to 6.3-RELEASE

1) Do the system interface change? That is, will I have to recompile all ports after upgrading? no 2) Any gotcha, hints or things to be aware of? i don't think so Of course, as usual I'll take full backups before beginning the upgrade.. Best regards. Robi __

Re: Moving to freebsd firewall for a small DataCenter network

quite "light" for what I am doing. I have now 10 servers hosted on one uniq /28 network with direct connexion to the Net. I was wondering if there is a good if possible "integrated" firewall device running on FreeBSD. just read manual. ipfw is excellent. _

Re: Server - Linux Compat

first time, I enabled linux compatability ... Each build since, I have enabled it ... So not I am at the point of asking myself why? All I run is webservers and namesrvers, you know, Bind, Apache, Mysql, vmpop3d, PHP, Exim and shh...not to mention a few utils, ipa, ipfw etc. Does anyone have

Re: dovecot, maildir, UFS 2 performance

dir goes to SATA. The secondary task for this server is to be an IMAP and mail server. We will be using dovecot, and shared maildir folders with ten thousands of messages. I'm not sure where to put the maildir folders, and what options to use for unless you have tens of thousands of mail user

Re: Filesystem of choice for a Linux/FreeBSD shared backup disk?

mount_ext2fs is available in FreeBSD but I can't speak for its reliability. i can. it simply works. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PRO

Re: Filesystem of choice for a Linux/FreeBSD shared backup disk?

Except that you cannot create files with >4GB size on FAT32. You might be able to use an archiver that is able to split archives into smaller parts. or simply split(1) This has always been a problem. FreeBSD is open source. So Linux is, but they do not have a common filesystem that could b

Re: Filesystem of choice for a Linux/FreeBSD shared backup disk?

about trying to make the data as available as possible. Do anyone here have any suggestion about what kind of filesystem would be best to use? Can ufs2 be read by linux? It looks like it from my short persual of google hits, but it also looks kind of complicated. IS ext2 a safer bet? Anything to

Re: dovecot, maildir, UFS 2 performance

i have everything (/) on single partition on most of my servers, including those having lots of mail. I don't think that is clever. sysinstall creates different partitions for / but i do. sysinstall and most people and manuals just copy "traditions". it's nonsense. Except when my users search

Re: Syslogd - Different Files

I have read the man pages: However it is very confusing what exactly to add to the syslog.conf file. I have tried numerous variations but still no success. example on serwer blah.AAA.com +blah.AAA.co

Re: dovecot, maildir, UFS 2 performance

2) keeping problems on one partition from raising trouble on another partition. e.g., filesystem corruption in a home directory keeping the root from being able to boot, or filling up a mail directory keeping people from logging in. today we have live CDs. and - UFS doesn't get totally c

Re: any supported NTSC-output cards?

I'm just curious. My friend set up one of those TIVO clones with the 'ol freebsd server to the TV would be kind of nifty in the bling add secondary PCI card (anything will suffice)+converter, and set up TV-compatible mode in your Xorg.conf this will give you actual TV output with right resol

Re: any supported NTSC-output cards?

you may find this useful too http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg20834.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: ethernet statistics

systat, then type :ifstat On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Vonarburg, David wrote: Hi, I am using Intel PRO/1000PT Server adaptor with freeBSD 7.0. How can I read out the statistics of the card from software? (num bytes received, packets sent and more) Thanks in advance David __

Re: Hard disk bottle neck.

Server Info: FreeBSD 6.2 Apache 2.2.9 DELL PowerEdge 1850 2GB RAM (only 184MB is active) so what's up with other 1.8GB? 6x300MB SCSI 10K RPM RAID5 300MB disks at 10K? there was such? Gigabit Ethernet Connection My server can output NO MORE than 60Mbps (read only). you mean Mbps or MBps

RE: Hard disk bottle neck.

esult. I'll tell you how I go. Maybe sometimes in the next fortnight. Thanks everyone, thanks Wojciech Puchar, after you recompile the kernel with that patch, check your disk performance in some directory consisting of many large files cd that_dir for x in *;do (cat $x >/dev/null &

RE: Hard disk bottle neck.

#ifndef MAXDUMPPGS I'll update the result. I'll tell you how I go. Maybe sometimes in the next fortnight. Thanks everyone, thanks Wojciech Puchar, Danny anyway - how your RAID5 is configured? didn't you selected SMALL stripe sizes? this way - every large read uses 3 di

Re: Hard disk bottle neck.

If the patch dont works, maybe yoy may try to split the raid (2 raid 5) or better use a raid 10. The raid 5 isnt a top performance raid. properly configured RAID5 is top performing on reads ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.f

RE: Hard disk bottle neck.

The reason I use RAID5 because I don't want to waste too much space on redundancy whilst taking the advantage of read. Over 99% of disk access are expected to be reading. in that case - RAID5 is perfect, just properly set up. ___ freebsd-questions@fre

Re: Midnight Commander's subshell gone..

Both xterm and without X I have the same symptoms. So I have set all mc-related files in /usr/local/share/mc to 777 to check. I use both in /root/ as well in /home/herbs/ the same .profile and ./mc files -- still not working.. The previous mc-version ran just fine. What am I doing wrong?? usi

Re: SATA READ_DMA timeouts - SOLVED?

The Wikipedia article you refer to documents a very well-known topic: the SATA150-limiting jumpers on hard disks. Drive vendors have this jumper enabled (capped) by default due to incompatibilities with certain in friday i bought 2 new 750GB disks, connected it and got SATA-300, one was samsun

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