unsupported file layout

2005-11-15 Thread Ian Lord
COMPAT_FREEBSD5 # Compatible with FreeBSD5 Shouldn't it be working ? or do I need to do antything special to activate these functions Thanks ~~ Ian Lord, CCNA MSD Informatique 1711 Montée Major Terrebonne (Québec) J7M 1E6 Tél.: (514) 776-MSDI- (514) 776-6734

Web Balancing with multicast

2005-11-09 Thread Ian Lord
Hi, is there an application to load balance web traffic using multicast on freebsd ? We have web servers currently running NLB (network load balancing) on windows 2003 that works this way (simplified for clarity): We have server A that listen on ip 10.10.10.11 We have server A that listen

Re: Web Balancing with multicast

2005-11-09 Thread Ian Lord
Thanks for the hint, but this is an active/passive software so only one host can answer request while others wait to see if they need to become master (because master has failed) At 12:53 2005-11-09, Jon Krause wrote: - Original Message - From: Ian Lord Sent: Wednesday, November 09

Re: CPU affinity in new ULE scheduler

2005-11-09 Thread Ian Lord
Are you saying that ULE is slower then 4BSD ? I'm new to this and when I compiled my kernel, it was clear ULE was a better alternative for performance then 4BSD Thanks At 19:05 2005-11-09, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 04:16:31PM -0600, Jon Brisbin wrote: I can't find any

Ports: php5-mysqli 5.0.5_1 Dependencies

2005-11-06 Thread Ian Lord
Hi, I just installed port php5-mysqli. One of the packages it installs at the same time is mysql_client which is for mysql 4.1 If I try to manually install package for mysql50_client I get a conflict saying I cannot install because files go at the same place. How can I bypass this kind of

EM Nic driver not up to date

2005-11-05 Thread Ian Lord
Hi, I just did a makeworld and I notice that the em drivers of the distribution is now version 2.1.7 On intel's website, the sources of em version 3.2.15 for freebsd are available, can someone update the sources so that people can benefit from it ? (not sure where to ask for this) For

Re: Bug ?: SCHED_4BSD VS SCHED_ULE

2005-11-04 Thread Ian Lord
At 03:38 2005-11-04, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 10:58:58PM -0500, Ian Lord wrote: Hi, I am running amd64 version on a Dell 2850 Dual Xeon processor with emt64 as soon as I turn on SCHED_ULE instead of SCHED_4BSD in rc.conf, the system starts to behave strangely. During boot

Bug ?: SCHED_4BSD VS SCHED_ULE

2005-11-03 Thread Ian Lord
Hi, I am running amd64 version on a Dell 2850 Dual Xeon processor with emt64 as soon as I turn on SCHED_ULE instead of SCHED_4BSD in rc.conf, the system starts to behave strangely. During boot, named and sshd can't start normally, system is unstable, etc Is that a known bug or isnt it

Swap space

2005-11-01 Thread Ian Lord
Hi, I just bought 4 servers with 4 gigs of ram, the documentation proposes to use 2 to 3 times the amount of ram for swap... I don't think 12 gigs of swap would be useful lol, but do I really need to put 4 gigs of ram. (It might be useful for kernel dump but...) What do you guys do with

Broken port ? : mysql50-server.tar.gz

2005-11-01 Thread Ian Lord
Hi, I downloaded the port from here: http://cvsweb.freebsd.org/ports/databases/mysql50-server/mysql50-server.tar.gz?tarball=1 when I try to use make, I get the following error output: ~ === mysql-server-5.0.15 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/libtool15 - found === mysql-server-5.0.15

Freebsd 5.4 smp on amd64

2005-10-31 Thread Ian Lord
Hi, I compiled my kernel using options SMP it seems to work, I now see 4 cpus on my server (2 xeon with HTT) so It seems fine. Following the documentation I tried to use either device apic or options APIC_IO both are refused by /usr/sbin/config are they mandatory or does the

em(4) driver not working with Intel Pro 1000 P (dual port pci express)

2005-10-30 Thread Ian Lord
Hi, we just bought a bunch of Dell PowerEdge 1850 and Dell PowerEdge 2850. They have 2x1000 mbps nic onboard (intel pro 1000) which works fine with the em(4) kernel module. We also bought a pci express dual port Intel pro 1000 P nic (the chip on it is a 82546GB) We are unable to detect

em(4) driver not working with Intel Pro 1000 P (dual port pci express)

2005-10-30 Thread Ian Lord
Hi, we just bought a bunch of Dell PowerEdge 1850 and Dell PowerEdge 2850. They have 2x1000 mbps nic onboard (intel pro 1000) which works fine with the em(4) kernel module. We also bought a pci express dual port Intel pro 1000 P nic (the chip on it is a 82546GB) We are unable to detect

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