Re: IDE -- mount partitions for better performance

2011-03-15 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 14 March 2011 20:00, wrote: > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Guidance with the following: > > We are limited to Support for ATA-100/66/33 IDE and ATAPI compliant > devices.  With that said, we have our atapi/33 optical on a add in > controller (PCI) and are seeking to place four HDD’s on th

Re: IDE -- mount partitions for better performance

2011-03-15 Thread freebsd_user
Annotated below ... > Hi, > > On Tuesday 15 March 2011 07:00:30 freebsd_u...@guice.ath.cx wrote: >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> >> Guidance with the following: >> >> We are limited to Support for ATA-100/66/33 IDE and ATAPI compliant >> devices. With that said, we have our atapi/33 optical o

can make -j be used for ports?

2011-03-15 Thread John
Hello freebsd-questions, I am no expert on make, so, here goes: Can -j options be used for make when building ports? I have an AMD X2 6000+ so presumably I'd use -j3 if this is possible. I know from the docs that -j is not recommended for make installkernel or installworld - but for some ports pa

Re: can make -j be used for ports?

2011-03-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- [ ...followups sent to freebsd-ports@ list... ] On Mar 15, 2011, at 12:20 PM, John wrote: > I am no expert on make, so, here goes: > > Can -j options be used for make when building ports? Yes. Ports which support parallel builds will have MAKE_JOBS_SAFE=yes set in the port Makefile. It

Re: IDE -- mount partitions for better performance

2011-03-15 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:17 PM, wrote: > Annotated below ... > > > Hi, > > > > On Tuesday 15 March 2011 07:00:30 freebsd_u...@guice.ath.cx wrote: > >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >> > >> Guidance with the following: > >> > >> We are limited to Support for ATA-100/66/33 IDE and ATAPI complian

Re: IDE -- mount partitions for better performance

2011-03-15 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:17:34 -0400, freebsd_u...@guice.ath.cx wrote: > > did I get it right? You have four hard disks? > > Yes, four separate HDD's I assume you have two on each of the two lines: ad0 = primary master ad1 = primary slave ad2 = secondary master a

Dell iDRAC JViewer and FreeBSD 9.0: not working, help!

2011-03-15 Thread O. Hartmann
We use a Dell rack system with a JAVA based virtual console facility, iDRAC6, which works well when used via Windows 7 or some Linux boxes. On FreeBSD 9.0/amd64 (most recent) with JAVA diablo-jdk-1.6.0.07.02_13 Java Development Kit 1.6.0_07.02 openjdk6-b22_2 Oracle's Java 6 virtual machine

Re: IDE -- mount partitions for better performance

2011-03-15 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Polytropon wrote: > Keep in mind that performance "across" ad0 and ad2 is best. > Masters are always good. Slaves are slower. Using primary > and secondary in parallel works good, working on a master > and a slave simultanously is worse. > Your statement about ma

Re: IDE -- mount partitions for better performance

2011-03-15 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:07:20 -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: > Your statement about master being faster than a slave is simply not true for > almost every scenario when using devices with same capabilites. All > master/slave really controls is enumeration, and shouldn't effect > performance in and

Re: can make -j be used for ports?

2011-03-15 Thread Eitan Adler
>Is this possible or am I being unreasonable, or both, or not? This is unsupported, but you are not being unreasonable. This is a much wanted feature. > Yes.  Ports which support parallel builds will have MAKE_JOBS_SAFE=yes set in > the port Makefile.  It defaults to running -j with > MAKE_JOBS

Re: can make -j be used for ports?

2011-03-15 Thread David Forsythe
I had patches for this a couple of years ago when I worked on this problem for summer of code. What I did back then is surely stale, but if people really want it, I'd be happy to take another stab at it. On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: >>Is this possible or am I being unreaso

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-15 Thread Da Rock
On 03/08/11 03:00, Chad Perrin wrote: On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 07:31:43AM -0800, Nerius Landys wrote: Sorry I could not help but to realize the title of this forum discussion. "I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that." :-/ "I'm sorry Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that." (full quote) ht

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-15 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 08:32:01 +1000 Da Rock articulated: > On 03/08/11 03:00, Chad Perrin wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 07:31:43AM -0800, Nerius Landys wrote: > > > >> Sorry I could not help but to realize the title of this forum > >> discussion. > >> > >> "I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that

mpd- no ng_l2tp coming up

2011-03-15 Thread Da Rock
Been a while since I've had time to check the list- I became a dad again a couple of weeks ago so its been hectic to say the least. Apologies for the previous thread revival- my email client didn't show up with _all_ the emails I missed so I thought I was more recent than I had realised. I'm r

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-15 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 08:37:53PM -0400, Jerry wrote: > > The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to > choose from. . . . and most of them are supported on any given platform that isn't pathologically closed. > > Microsoft has approximately 90% of the desktop market s

looking for rack hosting company

2011-03-15 Thread Mr. Darren
Sorry if this is a bit off topic. I am looking to run a Freebsd server with a hosting company. Preferably on the cheaper side as our needs in the beginning will be somewhat limited. I would need enough ram/storage to do some trial and error with different databases. So the vmware virtual ser

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-15 Thread Lars Eighner
On Tue, 15 Mar 2011, Jerry wrote: Now, as far as HAL goes, the fragmented open-source community cannot even begin to agree on its replacement. Every distro is busy trying to reinvent the wheel. Here you want the majority of users to be dictated to by a minority of users who cannot even agree on

Re: looking for rack hosting company

2011-03-15 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Darren" == Darren writes: Darren> Sorry if this is a bit off topic. I am looking to run a Freebsd Darren> server with a hosting company. Preferably on the cheaper side Darren> as our needs in the beginning will be somewhat limited. I would Darren> need enough ram/storage to do some tri

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-15 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Wednesday 16 March 2011 07:37:53 Jerry wrote: > On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 08:32:01 +1000 > Da Rock articulated: > > > On 03/08/11 03:00, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 07:31:43AM -0800, Nerius Landys wrote: > > > > > The nice thing about standards is that there are so man

Re: looking for rack hosting company

2011-03-15 Thread Nerius Landys
> Sorry if this is a bit off topic.  I am looking to run a Freebsd server with a > hosting company.  Preferably on the cheaper side as our needs in the beginning > will be somewhat limited.  I would need enough ram/storage to do some trial > and > error with different databases.  So the vmware vir

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-15 Thread Robert Huff
Erich Dollansky writes: > > The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to > > choose from. > > when it comes to screwing, we use - at least outside the USA - > metric screws. M3, M4 ... M10 ... > > We do not care much who manufactured them. > > The software indu

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-15 Thread Da Rock
On 03/16/11 10:43, Chad Perrin wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 08:37:53PM -0400, Jerry wrote: The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. . . . and most of them are supported on any given platform that isn't pathologically closed. Microsoft h

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 16/03/2011 00:37, Jerry wrote: > Microsoft has approximately 90% of the desktop market share with > everyone else dividing up the remainder. If you are on a Microsoft > platform you use their products. The same applies to other platforms > and their utilities. Microsoft may once have had 90% of

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-15 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Mar 16, 2011, at 12:29 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > Microsoft may once have had 90% of the desktop market -- but is that > still true? Macs seem to be everywhere nowadays. It may have change a couple of percentage points. Apple marketshare has gone up a lot percentage wise but in the who