Seeking performance tuning pointers/tracking down GIANT

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I read man tuning and did some goggling. Yet questions remain. System: Dual processor Intel PentiumPro motherboard. FreeBSD 5.3 SMP kernel. fxp 100baseT NIC. I am managing a system that is running tor, a fairly network intensive service. See http://t

DEVICE_POLLING vs. SMP kernels

ction have been removed from kern_poll.c by now? What are the corner cases, if any, that an admin should be aware of that keep this error message in the code? TIA, -- Lucky Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP encrypted email preferred. ___ freebs

kern.maxfiles formula?

each GB of RAM? Thanks, --Lucky This email was not PGP encrypted. The next email can be PGP encrypted, but for this to happen you need to first click on to the URL below: https://keys.cypherpunks.to/b/b.e?r=freebsd-questions%40fre

question...

do you provide also C-sources of your utilities on your web-page? if yes, where can i find them? thank you PS: i know, my english is not very good :-( ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To uns

Dual NICs, can only connect to one at time

leteness, here is the ifconfig when rl0 is using DHCP: rl0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::205:5dff:fe34:8133%rl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet 192.168.1.103 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 ether 00:05:5d:34:81:33 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX )

RE: Linux emulation: acd0a is not a cooked ioctl CDROM

Lowell wrote: > "Lucky Green" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Do you believe that the ATAPI/CAM patches at > > http://www.cuivre.fr.eu.org/~thomas/atapicam/ might make cdparanoia > > compatible with an ATAPI drive on FreeBSD? > > Probably. >

RE: Linux emulation: acd0a is not a cooked ioctl CDROM

Lowell wrote: > "Lucky Green" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Nick wrote: > > > > Checking /dev/cdrom for cdrom... > > > > Testing /dev/cdrom for cooked ioctl() interface > > > > /dev/acd0a is not a

RE: Linux emulation: acd0a is not a cooked ioctl CDROM

ot; is and how one could perhaps create a device entry for a CDROM under FreeBSD that would meet the cooked ioctl test. Thanks in advance, --Lucky Green To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Linux emulation: acd0a is not a cooked ioctl CDROM

oes anybody here have any idea how to fix/debug this problem? Thanks in advance, --Lucky Green To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Mouse jumping all over the place in X

" EndSection I am running FreeBSD 4.6.2 with the latest patches and ports, including X, cvsupped yesterday. I re-ran XFree86 -configure, which lead to the same XF86config entry as above. Does anybody here know the fix for this, as I heard it sometimes called, "supermouse" problem?

Tunefs tutorial?

Is there a tutorial that explains the various tunefs options, ideally with examples as to what the optimal settings are for various drives? I read the man page, but it just shows what the various options can do, not what their ideal settings are under various circumstances. Thanks, --Lucky Green