Re: Why kernel kills processes that run out of memory instead of just failing memory allocation system calls?

2009-05-21 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Nate Eldredge (neldre...@math.ucsd.edu) wrote: > There may be a way to enable the conservative behavior; I know Linux > has an option to do this, but am not sure about FreeBSD. I seem to remember a patch to disable overcommit. Here we go: http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/overcommit/ -- Thom

Re: How to get filename of an open file descriptor

2007-11-18 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Skip Ford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > It would be interesting to know for sure, though, if Solaris uses > hardlinks and, if so, what their utility is called. Nope. They *do* use hardlinks in that they have 32bit wrappers in /usr/bin etc which dispatch to the relevent architecture, but the com

Re: page fault & degaradation performance

2007-11-07 Thread Thomas Hurst
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > how to reduce the number of page faults to upgrade program or OS > > performance? > > Install more memory. I can cause paging on my hugely overendowed RELENG_6 system (8GB, ~2GB active) just by reading some big files and churning through cache.

Re: amrd disk performance drop after running under high load

2007-10-16 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Alexey Popov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > So I can conclude that FreeBSD has a long standing bug in VM that > could be triggered when serving large amount of static data (much > bigger than memory size) on high rates. Possibly this only applies to > large files like mp3 or video. I've seen high

Re: FreeBSD & Hot pluggable disks (SATA?)

2007-07-26 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > It is a function of the disk controller and driver. AFAIK, the ata > driver supports hot-plug as long as the SATA controller does. I > believe most Promise and Intel ICH SATA controllers do, not sure about > Sil or nVidia MCP. Both SiI and nFor

Re: ollecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2006-08-07 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Eric Anderson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I saw these two warnings come up soon after rebooting a server > (running 5-STABLE): > > kernel: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC > kernel: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC > > I see there is a tun

Re: Backup methodes

2005-11-08 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Carlos Silva aka |Danger_Man| ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > what is the best method to backup network information and local disk > information with another disk? dump/restore performs snapshotted incremental backups of complete filesystems. -- Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst http://hur.st/ _

Re: temperature monitoring

2002-09-21 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Clark C. Evans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > This is probably common question, but I was wondering if there is any > temperature monitoring mechanisms out there; specifically for ABit > motherboard (KG7). sysutils/healthd? -- Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.aagh.net

Re: httpd in malloc(): warning: recursive call (FreeBSD error??)

2002-03-02 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Max David Krüper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have a FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE box running, when i start apache first > all works fine, but after like 3 minutes in the logfile i see this > messages: > > httpd in free(): warning: chunk is already free > httpd in free(): warning: recursive call > ht

Re: in-kernel HTTP Server for FreeBSD?

2002-02-17 Thread Thomas Hurst
* John Polstra ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > To those who dismissed it as a dumb idea: broaden your minds. It wasn't dismissed as a dumb idea, more an idea nobody would use for a production webserver, which I doubt includes: > a testbed for performance testing various kinds of network appliances

Re: in-kernel HTTP Server for FreeBSD?

2002-02-17 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Dag-Erling Smorgrav ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hiten Pandya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Is there any In-Kernel HTTP Server for FreeBSD, like there is kHTTPD > > for Linux? > > God forbid! Lots of hack value, sure, but not something you'd > seriously consider for production use. Don't fu

Re: New feutures...........

2001-12-15 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Wilko Bulte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 03:26:27PM +, George Reid wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 11:03:49PM +0800, Rafter Man wrote: > > > > > 2. I hope that in the furture the FreeBSD developers will rewrite > > > the system in C++. > > > > Geez, talk about a b