Re: MySQL vs. Postgres

2000-08-30 Thread Art Sackett
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 06:34:54PM +0200, Arno Vije wrote: snip where setting up some servers for a small ISP, they want to have a SQL database, but i`m in doubt. Which one would you recommend, mysql or postgres? The SQL database will be used in combination with PHP3 (or 4) to generate

Proftpd 226 message

2000-08-30 Thread Jaume Teixi
After upgrading proftp to 1.2.0pre10-2 now when an user connect to ftp site, for each directory that browsers on gets stupid message: 226-Transfer complete. 226 Quotas off how to disable this ?¿ thanks, jaume. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: MySQL vs. Postgres

2000-08-30 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
If you don't need record-level locking, rollbacks, etc. then I would recommend MySQL, simply because it's very fast. Hmm, if you need fast why use sql server? you could use databases in files. they're fast, simple etc. If you need to create apps based on SQL you will need transactions, and

Re: reiserfs databases.

2000-08-30 Thread Bulent Murtezaoglu
[...] RC The idea is that the database vendor knows their data storage RC better than the OS can guess it, and that knowledge allows RC them to implement better caching algorithms than the OS can RC use. The fact that benchmark results show that raw partition RC access is

RE: Apache vhosts dinamically alias

2000-08-30 Thread Brian Jones
Hmm... This might work... In your virtualhost declaration in httpd.conf place the Alias definition such as "Alias /stats/ /var/stats/virtualhosta.com" For example: VirtualHost www.virtualhosta.com ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] DocumentRoot /var/WWW ServerName www.virtualhosta.com Alias /stats/

Re: AMD Duron CPU Debian

2000-08-30 Thread Art Sackett
On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 10:05:46PM +0100, Jonathan McDowell wrote: I had a machine with a 2940 lock up after a fair few SCSI bus resets. I compiled up the latest 2.2.17 pre release which has the latest driver in it and turned off tagged command queuing and haven't seen a problem since. I

lvm

2000-08-30 Thread tps
Has anyone had any luck getting the lvm stuff to work? Tim -- Tim Sailer (at home) Coastal Internet, Inc. Network and Systems Operations PO Box 671 http://www.buoy.comRidge, NY 11961 [EMAIL

Another question

2000-08-30 Thread tps
Maybe I missed it, but what's the deal with the new kernels (2.4.0xxx) and shared memory? From top: CPU states: 5.2% user, 1.8% system, 0.0% nice, 93.0% idle Mem: 78592K av, 75848K used, 2744K free, 0K shrd, 1932K buff Swap: 185464K av, 11520K used, 173944K free

Re: Another question

2000-08-30 Thread Nathan
Check the Readme's with the Kernel source - there is actualy a device you have to mount in your fstab file (you know, for bootup;) that enables shared memory. It uses a imaginary mount point like /proc does. However, as far as I know, free and friends don't show the shared memory in use

Re: reiserfs databases.

2000-08-30 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 04:36:23PM +0200, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: but, there are some commercial databases which keep their data directly on partitions ( this should be much better then any *fs including reiserfs) and the weird part is that that

Re: what is sufficient free memory?

2000-08-30 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
70 processes: 69 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 0.1% user, 0.7% system, 0.0% nice, 99.0% idle Mem: 63124K av, 61296K used, 1828K free, 36880K shrd, 7712K buff Swap: 104380K av, 3128K used, 101252K free 35860K cached This doesen't look like a

Re: what is sufficient free memory?

2000-08-30 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
sorry for my last post, I haven't noticed that you people told everything already. To paint a better picture, here's an entire top screen: just a little hint - don't sort your processes by cpu usage when you want to check memory usage ( just press big 'M' and it'll all clear up ) regards,

Re: reiserfs databases.

2000-08-30 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
to sum things up - my idea to use reiserfs as database placeholder ain't that stupid. - modern fs's do better job that commercial database designers well, actually I'm using postgresql which can't use raw partitions anyway. thanks for the response.

MySQL vs. Postgres

2000-08-30 Thread Arno Vije
Hi, where setting up some servers for a small ISP, they want to have a SQL database, but i`m in doubt. Which one would you recommend, mysql or postgres? The SQL database will be used in combination with PHP3 (or 4) to generate dynamic websites. greets, :::

Re: MySQL vs. Postgres

2000-08-30 Thread Art Sackett
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 06:34:54PM +0200, Arno Vije wrote: snip where setting up some servers for a small ISP, they want to have a SQL database, but i`m in doubt. Which one would you recommend, mysql or postgres? The SQL database will be used in combination with PHP3 (or 4) to generate

Apache vhosts dinamically alias

2000-08-30 Thread Jaume Teixi
I have each virtual host under /var/www I want to enable a virtualhostA.com/stats URL that points to /var/stats/virtualhostA.com same for virtualhostB, etc I've tried Alias /%1/stats/var/stasts/%1 with no success any Ideas? thanks, jaume.

Proftpd 226 message

2000-08-30 Thread Jaume Teixi
After upgrading proftp to 1.2.0pre10-2 now when an user connect to ftp site, for each directory that browsers on gets stupid message: 226-Transfer complete. 226 Quotas off how to disable this ?¿ thanks, jaume.

RE: MySQL vs. Postgres

2000-08-30 Thread Scott Thompson
We run mySQL here and created an application with PHP3/4 to interface with the SQL engine. I will tell you now, that we re-wrote all the php pages into ANSI C as the performance was PATHETIC. (p2 350 with 256 megs of ram) The performance was 10 times faster than php. Another thing that I notice

Re: reiserfs databases.

2000-08-30 Thread Bulent Murtezaoglu
[...] RC The idea is that the database vendor knows their data storage RC better than the OS can guess it, and that knowledge allows RC them to implement better caching algorithms than the OS can RC use. The fact that benchmark results show that raw partition RC access is

RE: Apache vhosts dinamically alias

2000-08-30 Thread Brian Jones
Hmm... This might work... In your virtualhost declaration in httpd.conf place the Alias definition such as Alias /stats/ /var/stats/virtualhosta.com For example: VirtualHost www.virtualhosta.com ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] DocumentRoot /var/WWW ServerName www.virtualhosta.com Alias /stats/

RE: Apache vhosts dinamically alias

2000-08-30 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
For example: VirtualHost www.virtualhosta.com ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] DocumentRoot /var/WWW ServerName www.virtualhosta.com Alias /stats/ /var/stats/virtualhosta.com /VirtualHost I think he ment mass_vhost from mod_vhost_alias or sth. Maybe mod_rewrite could help you in this case?

Re: MySQL vs. Postgres

2000-08-30 Thread hendriks
hi, Sorry, not that familiar with sql servers. postgres is using record-level locking, what does mysql do, is it locking the whole table ? what are rollbacks? what other advantages are there in using postgres instead of mysql ? i maintain a small hosting server, that runs mysql (beside

Apache mod_rewrite

2000-08-30 Thread Jaume Teixi
I need to do the following in order to access stats for each based virtual host when typing url www.virtualhost1.com/stats or www.virtualhost99.com/stats server page located under /var/reports/virtualhost1 or /var/reports/virtualhost99 I've tryed on my httpd.conf: RewriteEngine on

Re: MySQL vs. Postgres

2000-08-30 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
postgres is using record-level locking, what does mysql do, is it locking the whole table ? what are rollbacks? what other advantages are AFAIK mysql locks whole table, rollback is term used with transaction - thing is, you put some sql statements inside transaction, and one of them fail, you

Re: MySQL vs. Postgres

2000-08-30 Thread Christian Hammers
On Wed, 30.08.00 18:02 +0200, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: Hmm, if you need fast why use sql server? you could use databases in files. they're fast, simple etc. Which file based database system is faster than mysql? I tried Berkeley db3 (although with transaction code) and it was horrible slow! bye,

Re: MySQL vs. Postgres

2000-08-30 Thread Robert Davies
My workplace used php3 + mysql, then php3 + oracle, now looking at a combination of php3 + local mysql + master oracle db (the local mysql db's would act as caches for fast answers to most page queries). This is for scalability and availability reasons. php most commonly used with mysql, told

RE: MySQL vs. Postgres

2000-08-30 Thread Scott Thompson
SNIP Some stats for you. Keep in mind that these are only for the webserver. Hits Bytes Visits PViews Month 8,891,404 58,798,965,869 211,007 1,528,073 Jun 2000 10,853,047 57,775,413,897 224,862 1,375,197 Jul 2000 9,121,259

RE: routing

2000-08-30 Thread Kevin
Alright I've run into another problem or maybe I'm just dumb. 208.3.69.1 is the main router connected to the internet. 208.3.69.2 (eth0) is the device connected via ethernet to the main router on the linux router/bridge. 208.3.69.4 (eth1) goes to the client (208.3.69.3). The main

RE: routing

2000-08-30 Thread Bulent Murtezaoglu
You are setting 255.255.255.0 netmasks so the machines are expecting to find .1 .2 .3 machines on the local ethernet interfaces. I don't know why you are doing it like that, but what would fix your problem is getting the Linux router machine to do a proxy-arp. You can turn this on by echo'ing

Re: MySQL vs. Postgres

2000-08-30 Thread R. W. Rodolico
postgres is using record-level locking, what does mysql do, is it locking the whole table ? what are rollbacks? what other advantages are AFAIK mysql locks whole table, rollback is term used with transaction - thing is, you put some sql statements inside transaction, and one of them

Re: Another question

2000-08-30 Thread tps
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 11:35:10PM -0600, Nathan wrote: Check the Readme's with the Kernel source - there is actualy a device you have to mount in your fstab file (you know, for bootup;) that enables shared memory. It uses a imaginary mount point like /proc does. OK, I found it. It actually