rpc.lockd leaking memory on 6.3

2008-04-09 Thread Mark Lastdrager
, Postfix) refuses to run without it. On the 6.3 server rpc.lockd leaks memory, somewhat less than 1 meg per hour. This means that every few days we need to restart the daemon. This is quite annoying because we need to stop/start rpc.lockd on both the server and the clients in a controlled fashion

Re: more than 2gb of memory

2008-04-03 Thread Victor M. Blood
On 03.04.2008, Pieter de Goeje wrote: > On Thursday 03 April 2008, Victor M. Blood wrote: >> On 03.04.2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> > with ulimit >> > >> > on i386 - i don't know if 2 or 3GB is a limit. >> > on amd64 - essentially no limit >> >> ussage of amd is impossible, current machine is Int

Re: more than 2gb of memory

2008-04-03 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Thursday 03 April 2008, Victor M. Blood wrote: > On 03.04.2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > with ulimit > > > > on i386 - i don't know if 2 or 3GB is a limit. > > on amd64 - essentially no limit > > ussage of amd is impossible, current machine is Intel Xeon. Depending on the type of Xeon, the us

Re: more than 2gb of memory

2008-04-03 Thread Erwan David
On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 09:36:11AM CEST, Erwan David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 09:29:33AM CEST, "Victor M. Blood" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> said: > > On 03.04.2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > with ulimit > > > > > on i386 - i don't know if 2 or 3GB is a limit. > > > on amd

Re: more than 2gb of memory

2008-04-03 Thread Erwan David
On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 09:29:33AM CEST, "Victor M. Blood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On 03.04.2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > with ulimit > > > on i386 - i don't know if 2 or 3GB is a limit. > > on amd64 - essentially no limit > > ussage of amd is impossible, current machine is Intel Xeon. I

Re: more than 2gb of memory

2008-04-03 Thread Victor M. Blood
On 03.04.2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > with ulimit > on i386 - i don't know if 2 or 3GB is a limit. > on amd64 - essentially no limit ussage of amd is impossible, current machine is Intel Xeon. -- With all regards, Victor M. Blood. mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FTN: 2:5024/[EMAIL PROTECTED], IC

Re: more than 2gb of memory

2008-04-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
with ulimit on i386 - i don't know if 2 or 3GB is a limit. on amd64 - essentially no limit On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Victor M. Blood wrote: Hi, All. How to allow ussage more than 2gb of memory on freebsd per process? -- With all regards, Victor M. Blood. mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] F

more than 2gb of memory

2008-04-02 Thread Victor M. Blood
Hi, All. How to allow ussage more than 2gb of memory on freebsd per process? -- With all regards, Victor M. Blood. mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FTN: 2:5024/[EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ#3567656 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: DRI on radeon 9500 using too wide memory bus?

2008-03-18 Thread Reid Linnemann
hat made me doublethink that. >>> >>> The radeon 9500 is an r300 chipset, and differs from the 9700 only >>> in the width of the memory bus (128 bit vs 256 bit) and possibly >>> clock speed. If memory serves, the chip itself had the capacity to >>> ad

Re: DRI on radeon 9500 using too wide memory bus?

2008-03-14 Thread Tijl Coosemans
eing rendering artifacts in gl in the form of a >> cross-hatch pattern of pixels that don't get filled. At first I >> figured the card was failing, but I remembered a fact about the 9500 >> that made me doublethink that. >> >> The radeon 9500 is an r300 chipset, a

Re: DRI on radeon 9500 using too wide memory bus?

2008-03-13 Thread Reid Linnemann
pixels that don't get filled. At first I figured the card was failing, > but I remembered a fact about the 9500 that made me doublethink that. > > The radeon 9500 is an r300 chipset, and differs from the 9700 only in > the width of the memory bus (128 bit vs 256 bit) and possi

DRI on radeon 9500 using too wide memory bus?

2008-03-12 Thread Reid Linnemann
failing, but I remembered a fact about the 9500 that made me doublethink that. The radeon 9500 is an r300 chipset, and differs from the 9700 only in the width of the memory bus (128 bit vs 256 bit) and possibly clock speed. If memory serves, the chip itself had the capacity to address 256 bits, but

Re: Booting from Memory Stick

2008-03-02 Thread Walker
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # set root password and timezone (optionally add users here as well) > chroot ${USBMNT} /bin/sh > passwd root > tzsetup One error, the above should be: # set root password and timezone (optionally add users here as well) chr

Re: Booting from Memory Stick

2008-03-02 Thread Walker
On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 4:23 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am working on getting a FreeBSD system to boot from a USB memory stick. FWIW, my cut/paste script for installing 7.0 to a USB flash drive. This is adapted from a post by Ceri Davies (thank you!). ** This assumes the drive i

Re: Booting from Memory Stick

2008-03-01 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 01 March 2008 04:23:24 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am working on getting a FreeBSD system to boot from a USB memory > stick. > > Would it be possible to install the operating system using the > following: > > cd /usr/src > make DESTDIR=/mnt/usbdisk w

Re: Booting from Memory Stick

2008-03-01 Thread Dominique Goncalves
Hi, On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 10:23 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am working on getting a FreeBSD system to boot from a USB memory stick. > > Would it be possible to install the operating system using the following: > > cd /usr/src > make DESTDIR=/mnt/usbdisk wo

Re: Booting from Memory Stick

2008-03-01 Thread Tim Kellers
: At 03:23 PM 3/1/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am working on getting a FreeBSD system to boot from a USB memory stick. Would it be possible to install the operating system using the following: cd /usr/src make DESTDIR=/mnt/usbdisk world boot0cfg -v -B -o noupdate da0 Or, is there an easier

Re: Booting from Memory Stick

2008-03-01 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:23 PM 3/1/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am working on getting a FreeBSD system to boot from a USB memory stick. Would it be possible to install the operating system using the following: cd /usr/src make DESTDIR=/mnt/usbdisk world boot0cfg -v -B -o noupdate da0 Or, is there an easier

Booting from Memory Stick

2008-03-01 Thread jhall
I am working on getting a FreeBSD system to boot from a USB memory stick. Would it be possible to install the operating system using the following: cd /usr/src make DESTDIR=/mnt/usbdisk world boot0cfg -v -B -o noupdate da0 Or, is there an easier way to do this? Thanks, Jay

rmuser error - shared memory

2008-02-18 Thread Lubomir Matousek
Thanks very much Bill and James. Hana vs hanka is only typo at this mail (hana is correct, as it is in my box). I apologize for this incorrect information. Bill, you are right, the kernel was build without shared memory support. Option SYSVSHM is not included in the kernel. As I cannot

Re: Memory Error using Mailman on FreeBSD. How to debug?

2008-02-08 Thread Mel
ncrease much in size (maybe it went from 8.5M to 12.5M), > >then it just bombed and a new process was spawned (easy to tell by the > >large increase in PID). > > All I can think us that qrunner asks for such a large amount of memory > in one go, that it bombs out without ever growing

The disk memory size restrictions

2008-02-08 Thread Xinyu Dong
Hello: RAM disk to root file system. I would like to use in embedded FreeBSD, and the creation of a 64 MB memory disk, and all normal, but 128 MB RAM disk at the time of always automatically restart. Loader in the configuration file, use or use md_image mfs_root? How to resolve this problem

Re: Memory Error using Mailman on FreeBSD. How to debug?

2008-02-08 Thread Mark Sapiro
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > >You are also getting a stack trace from python when it exits with the >"out of memory" error. ktrace is just showing python printing the stuff >- it may be that the error also ends up in a log file somewhere - don't >know where mailman logs,

Re: Memory Error using Mailman on FreeBSD. How to debug?

2008-02-08 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
I can think us that qrunner asks for such a large amount of memory in one go, that it bombs out without ever growing. That fits with the ktrace output as well. Regretably, I don't think you can tell *how* much memory was asked for. (The normal pattern with out of memory errors is fo

Re: Memory Error using Mailman on FreeBSD. How to debug?

2008-02-08 Thread Lachlan Michael
ogle or mail archives may turn it > up - that's the kernel option but requires a recompile. Ok, I am going to gradually try different limits. It seems as though setting kern.maxssiz="256M" and so on in /boot/loader.conf will allow me to increase the limits. Having to reboot is a

Re: Memory Error using Mailman on FreeBSD. How to debug?

2008-02-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Lachlan Michael wrote: How big does the mailman process actually get? top will tell you. Mailman values don't budge. None of the mailman processes go over about 8.5M, which is what they are during idle time. Real puzzler. I'm surprised not to have at least one process growing, tho

Re: Memory Error using Mailman on FreeBSD. How to debug?

2008-02-06 Thread Lachlan Michael
(seconds, -t) unlimited file size (512-blocks, -f) unlimited data seg size (kbytes, -d) 524288 stack size (kbytes, -s) 65536 core file size (512-blocks, -c) unlimited max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited locked memory (kbytes, -l) un

Re: Memory Error using Mailman on FreeBSD. How to debug?

2008-02-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Lachlan Michael wrote: # su mailman This account is currently not available. I'm not sure about the syntax but limits -U mailman doesn't seem to make the user mailman, but just use the class default. su -m mailman will do what you want. However, to be sure what your limits are, I would s

Re: Memory Error using Mailman on FreeBSD. How to debug?

2008-02-05 Thread Lachlan Michael
> On Feb 5, 2008, at 7:17 PM, Lachlan Michael wrote: >>> On Feb 5, 2008, at 4:17 AM, Lachlan Michael wrote: >>> >>>> I have a question about debugging a memory error on FreeBSD. >>>> >>>> When a user sends an e-mail with an attachment ab

Re: Memory Error using Mailman on FreeBSD. How to debug?

2008-02-05 Thread Dan Busarow
On Feb 5, 2008, at 7:17 PM, Lachlan Michael wrote: On Feb 5, 2008, at 4:17 AM, Lachlan Michael wrote: I have a question about debugging a memory error on FreeBSD. When a user sends an e-mail with an attachment above about 500kB to a very small mailing list (4 members), Mailman on my

Re: Memory Error using Mailman on FreeBSD. How to debug?

2008-02-05 Thread Lachlan Michael
> On Feb 5, 2008, at 4:17 AM, Lachlan Michael wrote: > >> I have a question about debugging a memory error on FreeBSD. >> >> When a user sends an e-mail with an attachment above about 500kB to >> a very >> small mailing list (4 members), Mailman on my server

Re: Memory Error using Mailman on FreeBSD. How to debug?

2008-02-05 Thread Lachlan Michael
> Barry just answered on Mailman list saying that the memory fault may > be in Python for that matter Thanks for forwarding that mail. If it's a python problem I'm probably in big trouble, but since I can't find evidence of other having the same problem with such smal

Re: Memory Error using Mailman on FreeBSD. How to debug?

2008-02-05 Thread Dan Busarow
On Feb 5, 2008, at 4:17 AM, Lachlan Michael wrote: I have a question about debugging a memory error on FreeBSD. When a user sends an e-mail with an attachment above about 500kB to a very small mailing list (4 members), Mailman on my server aborts processing with the error MemoryError

Re: Memory Error using Mailman on FreeBSD. How to debug?

2008-02-05 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, Barry just answered on Mailman list saying that the memory fault may be in Python for that matter [quote] > Now to just work out the root cause of the memory errors ... It's important to remember that Python's email parsing code sucks the entire message text into mem

Memory Error using Mailman on FreeBSD. How to debug?

2008-02-05 Thread Lachlan Michael
I have a question about debugging a memory error on FreeBSD. When a user sends an e-mail with an attachment above about 500kB to a very small mailing list (4 members), Mailman on my server aborts processing with the error MemoryError : out of memory After talking on the Mailman list, the

Re: wpi error: bus_dmamem_alloc failed to align memory properly

2008-01-07 Thread Tim Kellers
vittorio wrote: Il Monday 07 January 2008 03:18:21 Benjamin Close ha scritto: vittorio wrote: Context: HP laptop DV6000, centrino duo, FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 When loading if_wpi I get the following line saying that "bus_dmamem_alloc failed to align memory properly" wpi0: mem

Re: wpi error: bus_dmamem_alloc failed to align memory properly

2008-01-07 Thread vittorio
Il Monday 07 January 2008 03:18:21 Benjamin Close ha scritto: > vittorio wrote: > > Context: HP laptop DV6000, centrino duo, FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 > > When loading if_wpi I get the following line saying that > > "bus_dmamem_alloc failed to align memory properly"

Re: wpi error: bus_dmamem_alloc failed to align memory properly

2008-01-06 Thread Benjamin Close
vittorio wrote: Context: HP laptop DV6000, centrino duo, FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 When loading if_wpi I get the following line saying that "bus_dmamem_alloc failed to align memory properly" wpi0: mem 0xd800-0xd8000fff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2 bus_dmamem_alloc failed to al

wpi error: bus_dmamem_alloc failed to align memory properly

2008-01-06 Thread vittorio
Context: HP laptop DV6000, centrino duo, FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 When loading if_wpi I get the following line saying that "bus_dmamem_alloc failed to align memory properly" wpi0: mem 0xd800-0xd8000fff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2 bus_dmamem_alloc failed to align memory properly. la

Re: 4GB memory and more

2007-12-24 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Montag, 24. Dezember 2007 23:21:32 schrieb Robert Fitzpatrick: > I have a couple of Supermicro servers and upgraded both with more > memory. I upgraded our ESMTP server from 1GB to 4GB and our MX server > from 2GB to 5GB. Below are the dmesg memory findings and, yes, I get the > mem

4GB memory and more

2007-12-24 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have a couple of Supermicro servers and upgraded both with more memory. I upgraded our ESMTP server from 1GB to 4GB and our MX server from 2GB to 5GB. Below are the dmesg memory findings and, yes, I get the memory over 4GB ignored when booting up. The ESMTP even says that about 130MB is ignored

Re: Bash script to find out the summary of user memory usage [not working]

2007-12-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-17 06:00, Patrick Dung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have correction with the script but still doesn't work: > > #!/usr/local/bin/bash > for user in `ps -A -o user | sort | uniq | tail +2` > do > echo "user: $user" > >ps aux -U $user | tail +2 | while read line >do > >

Re: Bash script to find out the summary of user memory usage [not working]

2007-12-17 Thread Patrick Dung
I have correction with the script but still doesn't work: #!/usr/local/bin/bash for user in `ps -A -o user | sort | uniq | tail +2` do echo "user: $user" ps aux -U $user | tail +2 | while read line do mem=`echo $line | awk {'print $4'}` echo "mem: $mem" TMPSUMM

Bash script to find out the summary of user memory usage [not working]

2007-12-14 Thread Patrick Dung
Hello, any idea about why below script is not working? The final sum is empty.. #!/usr/local/bin/bash for user in `ps -A -o user | sort | uniq | tail +2` do echo "user: $user" ps aux -U $user | tail +2 | while read line do mem=`echo $line | awk {'print $4'}` echo "mem

Re: Memory leak with conky, anyone else?

2007-12-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 09:56:25PM -0700, Modulok wrote: > I get the feeling Conky 1.4.8 (the sysutil), or one of the libs it > links against, has a memory leak. I do not have any hard evidence yet > (like a patch to fix it), but the memory consumption slowly climbs to > what a

Memory leak with conky, anyone else?

2007-12-13 Thread Modulok
I get the feeling Conky 1.4.8 (the sysutil), or one of the libs it links against, has a memory leak. I do not have any hard evidence yet (like a patch to fix it), but the memory consumption slowly climbs to what appears to be excessive. I did read the manual page about: "Conky is gene

Re: Determining bus speed/memory

2007-12-06 Thread Derek Ragona
At 09:20 AM 12/6/2007, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I have a couple of servers (5.5 and 6.2) at a remote location that I need to order additional memory. I need to know bus speed and, if possible, how many chips currently installed to help determine whether I need to replace or match and fill

Re: Determining bus speed/memory

2007-12-06 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 10:20:28AM -0500, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > I have a couple of servers (5.5 and 6.2) at a remote location that I > need to order additional memory. I need to know bus speed and, if > possible, how many chips currently installed to help determine whether I

Determining bus speed/memory

2007-12-06 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have a couple of servers (5.5 and 6.2) at a remote location that I need to order additional memory. I need to know bus speed and, if possible, how many chips currently installed to help determine whether I need to replace or match and fill available slots. For instance, I know one server has 1GB

OT: VIA-EK disabling shared memory

2007-11-19 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi: I got a VIA EPIA-EK board which has some advanced settings for graphics, you can toggle how much shared memory to allocate for graphics. Nice, but my device won't have a display so I'd like not to allocate any. There is an option for disabling shared memory, but then the sys

Re: Odd memory stick formatting

2007-11-16 Thread Joshua Isom
On Nov 16, 2007, at 10:31 AM, RW wrote: I have a couple of USB devices that I mount as /dev/da0s1, which what I would expect. I've just got a memory stick that's showing as /dev/da0 & /dev/da0s4. and only /dev/da0 mounts. The output of fdisk is garbage, showing four un

Odd memory stick formatting

2007-11-16 Thread RW
I have a couple of USB devices that I mount as /dev/da0s1, which what I would expect. I've just got a memory stick that's showing as /dev/da0 & /dev/da0s4. and only /dev/da0 mounts. The output of fdisk is garbage, showing four unfeasibly large partitions with unknown sysid values.

Re: FreeBSD cache memory allocation

2007-11-14 Thread icantthinkofone
The kernel is really lacking some features. They need a method to set precise type of memory cache but BSD doesn't provide way to specify memory cache. For that reason MS has the beautiful MmAllocateContigousMemorySpecifyCache()[/QUOTE] Well, I know there's contigmalloc(9) in Free

Re: FreeBSD cache memory allocation

2007-11-14 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
;> [QUOTE]The kernel is really lacking some features. They need a method to > >> set precise type of memory cache but BSD doesn't provide way to specify > >> memory cache. > >> > >> For that reason MS has the beautiful > >> MmAllocateContigousMemoryS

Re: FreeBSD cache memory allocation

2007-11-14 Thread icantthinkofone
Ivan Voras wrote: icantthinkofone wrote: Someone I can't stand said this about FreeBSD. Though I know C, I don't know anything about it and would love to respond. [QUOTE]The kernel is really lacking some features. They need a method to set precise type of memory cache but B

Re: FreeBSD cache memory allocation

2007-11-14 Thread Ivan Voras
icantthinkofone wrote: > Someone I can't stand said this about FreeBSD. Though I know C, I don't > know anything about it and would love to respond. > [QUOTE]The kernel is really lacking some features. They need a method to > set precise type of memory cache but BSD doesn&#x

FreeBSD cache memory allocation

2007-11-13 Thread icantthinkofone
Someone I can't stand said this about FreeBSD. Though I know C, I don't know anything about it and would love to respond. [QUOTE]The kernel is really lacking some features. They need a method to set precise type of memory cache but BSD doesn't provide way to specify memory ca

Re: thunderbird eats all memory and dies

2007-11-09 Thread Adam J Richardson
Yuri wrote: Hi, Beginning from the time I last reinstalled FreeBSD from scratch I have my thunderbird dying with the following message: terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc' what(): St9bad_alloc Abort trap (core dumped) This is after it grows in memory t

Re: Memory problem

2007-11-07 Thread Derek Ragona
-MHz K8-class CPU) > > Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x6f6 Stepping = 6 > > Cores per package: 2 > > real memory = 3488481280 (3326 MB) > > avail memory = 3362598912 (3206 MB) > > FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs > > cpu0 (BSP): A

Re: Memory problem

2007-11-07 Thread Mario Lobo
be working > > fine. > > > > The machine is: > > > > -- > > FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #0: Mon Sep 10 14:15:16 BRT 2007 > > CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6700 @ 2.66GHz (2669.94-MHz K8-class CPU) > > Origin = &qu

Re: Memory problem

2007-11-07 Thread Derek Ragona
14:15:16 BRT 2007 CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6700 @ 2.66GHz (2669.94-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x6f6 Stepping = 6 Cores per package: 2 real memory = 3488481280 (3326 MB) avail memory = 3362598912 (3206 MB) FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs c

Memory problem

2007-11-07 Thread Mario Lobo
2 CPU 6700 @ 2.66GHz (2669.94-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x6f6 Stepping = 6 Cores per package: 2 real memory = 3488481280 (3326 MB) avail memory = 3362598912 (3206 MB) FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (A

Re: Memory problem

2007-11-07 Thread Erik Trulsson
t; > The machine is: > > -- > FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #0: Mon Sep 10 14:15:16 BRT 2007 > CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6700 @ 2.66GHz (2669.94-MHz K8-class CPU) > Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x6f6 Stepping = 6 > Cores per package: 2 > real memory = 3488481280 (3326 M

Re: fsck and memory filesytems (fsck_mfs: No such file or directory)

2007-11-05 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:54:31 + Christopher Key wrote: > Boris Samorodov wrote: > > On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:00:06 + Christopher Key wrote: > > > >> # cat /etc/fstab > >> # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options Dump > >> Pass# > >> /dev/ad8s1b none

Re: fsck and memory filesytems (fsck_mfs: No such file or directory)

2007-11-05 Thread Christopher Key
in/sh: The problem is, I'm sure, is essentially identical to that described in, http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg21675.html namely that the entry for the memory filesystem, /tmp, in /etc/fstab is confusing fsck. My /etc/fstab looks like,

Re: fsck and memory filesytems (fsck_mfs: No such file or directory)

2007-11-05 Thread Daniel Bye
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 05:00:06PM +, Christopher Key wrote: > The problem is, I'm sure, is essentially identical to that described in, > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg21675.html > > namely that the entry for the memory filesystem, /tmp, in /etc/f

Re: fsck and memory filesytems (fsck_mfs: No such file or directory)

2007-11-05 Thread Boris Samorodov
NCY: >mfs: md (/tmp) > Unknown error; help! > NEnter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: > The problem is, I'm sure, is essentially identical to that described in, > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg21675.html > namely that the entry for t

fsck and memory filesytems (fsck_mfs: No such file or directory)

2007-11-05 Thread Christopher Key
scribed in, http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg21675.html namely that the entry for the memory filesystem, /tmp, in /etc/fstab is confusing fsck. My /etc/fstab looks like, # cat /etc/fstab # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /

thunderbird eats all memory and dies

2007-11-04 Thread Yuri
Hi, Beginning from the time I last reinstalled FreeBSD from scratch I have my thunderbird dying with the following message: terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc' what(): St9bad_alloc Abort trap (core dumped) This is after it grows in memory to over 1G

Re: memory pool, rfc

2007-10-31 Thread Eduardo Morras
At 01:46 01/11/2007, you wrote: >> No, i don't want to sell anything to anyone. I'm already on hackers >> list but has very low traffic (9 messages last 5 days) and this is >> a question list no ? ;-) I think that in this list are FreeBSD >> *gurus*/hacks too which could say a "try it" or a "are

Re: memory pool, rfc

2007-10-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-01 02:06, Eduardo Morras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 01:38 01/11/2007, you wrote: >> This is a 'general' questions list, with a fairly high level of traffic. >> Many FreeBSD committers and team affiliates are subscribed, but there >> are still a lot of knowledgeable people who are re

Re: memory pool, rfc

2007-10-31 Thread James
gt; > code to FreeBSD. > > Agreed, so could it be added as a port, or can you license the code > with the BSD license and post a link to it? > > To be honest, from what you say about your application, it sounds > beneficial. I personally would be willing to try it on one of the &

Re: memory pool, rfc

2007-10-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-01 01:00, Eduardo Morras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm already on hackers list but has very low traffic (9 messages last > 5 days) and this is a question list no ? ;-) This is a 'general' questions list, with a fairly high level of traffic. Many FreeBSD committers and team affiliates

Re: memory pool, rfc

2007-10-31 Thread Eduardo Morras
At 01:45 01/11/2007, you wrote: And is it better than bzip? Depends on your concept of better. It doesn't compress more, it compress/decompress faster, it's designed for memory to memory compression. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

Re: memory pool, rfc

2007-10-31 Thread Eduardo Morras
At 01:38 01/11/2007, you wrote: This is a 'general' questions list, with a fairly high level of traffic. Many FreeBSD committers and team affiliates are subscribed, but there are still a lot of knowledgeable people who are respected team members, but are *not* subcribed here. Maybe in a more app

Re: memory pool, rfc

2007-10-31 Thread Steve Bertrand
> And is it better than bzip? This is in essence why I tried to lead this thread off of this list. The OP stated nothing of being 'better'. On top of that, the OP was referencing libraries, not applications. The OP is trying to get his own code under the BSD license and that is great. Asking w

Re: memory pool, rfc

2007-10-31 Thread Steve Bertrand
>> No, i don't want to sell anything to anyone. I'm already on hackers >> list but has very low traffic (9 messages last 5 days) and this is >> a question list no ? ;-) I think that in this list are FreeBSD >> *gurus*/hacks too which could say a "try it" or a "are you crazy?" >> > Even though you

Re: memory pool, rfc

2007-10-31 Thread Steve Bertrand
he code with the BSD license and post a link to it? To be honest, from what you say about your application, it sounds beneficial. I personally would be willing to try it on one of the boxes that I boot from removable USB disk and run the entire OS in memory, with no hard disk whatsoever. > The

Re: memory pool, rfc

2007-10-31 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 11/1/07, Eduardo Morras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 00:38 01/11/2007, you wrote: > >Ouch! ...you are not trying to sell anything are you? It may be in > >your best interest if you proceed to the hackers list, to initiate > >conversation in a way that explains how your code will benefit a > >

Re: memory pool, rfc

2007-10-31 Thread Eduardo Morras
At 00:38 01/11/2007, you wrote: Ouch! ...you are not trying to sell anything are you? It may be in your best interest if you proceed to the hackers list, to initiate conversation in a way that explains how your code will benefit a cause, not slam other people (and their work) that are already est

Re: memory pool, rfc

2007-10-31 Thread Steve Bertrand
> I have some free time and want to do an memory pool. The idea is > to have a memory zone of N KB (or several MB) compressed in memory. I > have fast compression algorithms now that can release under BSD > licence that are faster than hd i/o, so it take less > compress/decompres

memory pool, rfc

2007-10-31 Thread Eduardo Morras
Hello: I have some free time and want to do an memory pool. The idea is to have a memory zone of N KB (or several MB) compressed in memory. I have fast compression algorithms now that can release under BSD licence that are faster than hd i/o, so it take less compress/decompress a memory

Re: How to mount USB memory (Thumb Drive) and then to copy files

2007-10-16 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
illiamkow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Could anybody assist me on how to mount a USB memory drive/thumb drive, > > so that I can copy file to and from it. Thank you. > > Or, alternatively, install the mtools port, which will let you copy > files back and forth without mo

Re: How to mount USB memory (Thumb Drive) and then to copy files

2007-10-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
williamkow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could anybody assist me on how to mount a USB memory drive/thumb drive, > so that I can copy file to and from it. Thank you. Or, alternatively, install the mtools port, which will let you copy files back and forth without mounting the devi

Re: How to mount USB memory (Thumb Drive) and then to copy files

2007-10-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
man mount_msdos man cp On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, williamkow wrote: Could anybody assist me on how to mount a USB memory drive/thumb drive, so that I can copy file to and from it. Thank you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

RE: How to mount USB memory (Thumb Drive) and then to copy files

2007-10-15 Thread Terry Sposato
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of williamkow Sent: Tuesday, 16 October 2007 4:04 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How to mount USB memory (Thumb Drive) and then to copy files Could anybody assist me on how to mount a USB memory

How to mount USB memory (Thumb Drive) and then to copy files

2007-10-15 Thread williamkow
Could anybody assist me on how to mount a USB memory drive/thumb drive, so that I can copy file to and from it. Thank you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Memory ignored

2007-10-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
- use the PAE extension (but see ยง8.4.1 in the FreeBSD Handbook) . the inefficient solution. . - switch to the amd64 architecture. the right solution.___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-que

Re: Memory ignored

2007-10-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hi all, i am maybe new to BSD. I had setup my DELL server 2900 to run freeBSD 7.0server but i have seen a message that ignored my 4GB of my memory in my server. Can somebody tell me what is happening and give me some idea so that i can maximize my memory usage. My total memory is 8GB. use

Re: Memory ignored

2007-10-07 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 10:09:17PM +0800, TAJUL AZHAR Mohd Tajul Ariffin wrote: > Hi all, > i am maybe new to BSD. I had setup my DELL server 2900 to run freeBSD > 7.0server but i have seen a message that ignored my 4GB of my memory > in my server. Can somebody tell me what is happen

Re: Memory ignored

2007-10-07 Thread Bill Moran
"TAJUL AZHAR Mohd Tajul Ariffin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > i am maybe new to BSD. I had setup my DELL server 2900 to run freeBSD > 7.0server but i have seen a message that ignored my 4GB of my memory > in my > server. Can somebody tell me what is h

Memory ignored

2007-10-07 Thread TAJUL AZHAR Mohd Tajul Ariffin
Hi all, i am maybe new to BSD. I had setup my DELL server 2900 to run freeBSD 7.0server but i have seen a message that ignored my 4GB of my memory in my server. Can somebody tell me what is happening and give me some idea so that i can maximize my memory usage. My total memory is 8GB. Thank you

Re: Forcing buffer cache to use available memory

2007-10-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hello, Is there a way to force the buffer cache to be more aggressive when caching reads? Or even just plain force a certain number of megabytes to be dedicated to the buffer cache? it is. sometimes too aggressive. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Forcing buffer cache to use available memory

2007-09-30 Thread Peter Schuller
> You want to adjust the vfs.read_max sysctl, I believe, or the > vfs.maxbufspace for your second question. "sysctl -d vfs" is likely to be > informative Thanks! That looks like what I'm after. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retriev

Re: Forcing buffer cache to use available memory

2007-09-30 Thread Chuck Swiger
Peter Schuller wrote: Is there a way to force the buffer cache to be more aggressive when caching reads? Or even just plain force a certain number of megabytes to be dedicated to the buffer cache? You want to adjust the vfs.read_max sysctl, I believe, or the vfs.maxbufspace for your second que

Forcing buffer cache to use available memory

2007-09-30 Thread Peter Schuller
Hello, Is there a way to force the buffer cache to be more aggressive when caching reads? Or even just plain force a certain number of megabytes to be dedicated to the buffer cache? -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail

Re: Dual Opterons don't see all memory

2007-09-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I've recently taken ownership of a server (dual Opterons) in my research group. Whereas it was previously running linux, it is now running FreeBSD. Everything seems to be going great, except linux was able to make use of it's 6GB of memory, and FreeBSD can only see about 4GB of

Re: Dual Opterons don't see all memory

2007-09-27 Thread Paul Schmehl
, 2007, at 8:57 PM, Erich Dollansky wrote: Eric Osterweil wrote: make use of it's 6GB of memory, and FreeBSD can only see about 4GB of it. Can anyone help me figure out how to make use of the missing GB? FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 11:05:30 UTC 2007 this looks like a 32 bit binary t

Re: Dual Opterons don't see all memory

2007-09-26 Thread Eric Osterweil
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sep 26, 2007, at 10:35 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Erich Dollansky wrote: Paul Schmehl wrote: --On September 26, 2007 9:06:57 PM -0700 Eric Osterweil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sep 26, 2007,

Re: Dual Opterons don't see all memory

2007-09-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
>>> Eric Osterweil wrote: >>>> >>>>> make use of it's 6GB of memory, and FreeBSD can only see about 4GB >>>>> of it. >>>>> Can anyone help me figure out how to make use of the missing GB? >>>>> FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #

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