Re: is there a microsoft one note counterpart for freebsd?

2009-03-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
no idea what's microsoft one note (i don't use their products), but - as usual - try to find unix program(s) that will accomplish your task, not equivalents. or try wine ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Root shell

2009-03-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I heard that changing root shell to bash is not good idea from whom? use what you like the most. , also programing in any C shell not applicable. So which shell is the most appropriate for root user ? anything you like. ___

Re: Root shell

2009-03-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Why is this not a good idea? The only reason I can think of it that you want your root shell on the root hard drive. As many system use a separate partition for /usr and that bash installs to /usr/local/bin per yes it may be a reason, but there is always /rescue directory. and - at least me -

Re: Tandberg RDX QuikStor

2009-03-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hello. Has anyone been using the above (either USB or SATA)? Do they work with FreeBSD? i don't see a reason it should not. anyway - it's cardridges are more expensive than ordinary hard disks - doesn't make sense. ___

Re: Tandberg RDX QuikStor

2009-03-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i don't see a reason it should not. Although they are HD, they are sold as tape replacement. I was told they are seen as tapes and last time I checked only SCSI tapes were supported by FreeBSD. The whole thing might however not hold and they could be seen for what they are: just hard

Re: Tandberg RDX QuikStor

2009-03-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
worked exactly as a SATA disc. Its more convenient than plugging data / power every day and looks more ^^ the only true argument. if they like to pay more and You sell it - very good. for SATA disks - use e-SATA connectors or USB-SATA bridges

Re: Tandberg RDX QuikStor

2009-03-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
for sure not. Well, they say they resist a lot better to accidental falling; I never looked you seriously underestimate normal cheap hard disks :) of course they will fail when hit WHILE WORKING, but when turned off they can stand REALLY a lot.

Re: How to repeat playing mp3 with mpg123

2009-03-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I tried bash like this for((;;)) do mpg123 [mp3] done but it keeps running new mpg123 in background . while true;do mpg123 filename;done ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: backup msdos slice

2009-03-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
So, what I would like is something that would dump the MS slice to a FreeBSD file or media written in the FreeBSD world and that I could then pick out files and directories somewhat like I do using restore on a dump file.I suspect that tar might not keep enough meta information to be right

Re: Xorg is now broken

2009-03-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I'm using Freebsd 7.1 and everything had been working fine, until I noticed there were upgrades for Xorg. I went ahead and used portupgrade to upgrade the packages and now I get a server error 11. I'm including the Xorg.0.log and xorg.conf for you to examine. good lesson to not change

Re: I cannot login coz bash is deinstalled

2009-03-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
login. I can only login in with single user mode which freebsd proovide, but few tools are provided. How can I change my shell to sh without logining? run chsh on single user I have a debian cd which can bring me to its shell,but when i mount /dev/hda ,it says no such device. Thanks.

Re: PAE kernel problem on Dell PowerEdge 2950

2009-03-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I see no reason why you should run 6.4 at all though. What's your motivation towards thaat angle? I suggest you install the 7.1 and update it to -STABLE then see if anything changes as regards the CPU (est message), while we wait for the magic word from the dedicated developers. -- why not

Re: I cannot login coz bash is deinstalled

2009-03-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
- boot in singkle user mode - mount all your s=disks: mount -a - edit /etc/passwd with your favourite editor it won't work. databases must be rebuild, you have to use chsh or vipw ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: PAE kernel problem on Dell PowerEdge 2950

2009-03-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
anything changes as regards the CPU (est message), while we wait for the magic word from the dedicated developers. -- why not simply use /amd64? You mean he changes the CPU? it's that CPU 64-bit capable?

Re: Simple Sites Make Me 137.00 Daily!

2009-03-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
You Are About To See How A Simple Little Three Page Website Makes Me Over $137 In PROFIT Each And Every Day... And It Only Took Me 45 Minutes To Build! Yes... Unlike The 'Other Guys' I Am Actually Gonna Let You See It! My Simple Sites Have Generated Over $2,298,443 In Revenue Over The Past 4

Re: the yes comand

2009-03-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
if you have program that do too much questions like (are you sure), and you are sure then you do yes|program On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Vasadi I. Claudiu Florin wrote: Hell-o, Ever wondered about the yes command? Well, I have. If one does yes into a terminal one get's an infinit output of y on a

Re: USB key with 7.5 GByte but no space left on device after 4 GByte written

2009-03-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Mar 5 08:48:33 rebelion kernel: umass0: USBest Technology USB Mass Storage Device, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2 on uhub4 Mar 5 08:48:33 rebelion kernel: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 Mar 5 08:48:33 rebelion kernel: da0: Ut165 USB2FlashStorage 0.00 Removable Direct Access SCSI-2

Re: Quirk with latex-suite]

2009-03-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hello; I am having a funny little problem with latex-suite. When I press F5, and am prompted with a list of environments to insert, no matter which I choose, it is inserted with a superfluous that appears right before the cursor. So, for example, \begin{equation} cursor_is_here \end{equation}

Re: USB key with 7.5 GByte but no space left on device after 4 GByte written

2009-03-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
formatted properly? I did a 'ls -l /dev/da*' after key insert and there was only /dev/da0; maybe I should do # newfs_msdos /dev/da0 yes. anyway - windoze at least XP no more needs partitions on such devices. ??? Thx matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC

Re: USB key with 7.5 GByte but no space left on device after 4 GByte written

2009-03-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
formatted properly? I did a 'ls -l /dev/da*' after key insert and there was only /dev/da0; maybe I should do # newfs_msdos /dev/da0 ??? to be sure do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=64k count=1 before to clean anything from beginning, if any mess is there.

Re: SATA Port Multipliers in FreeBSD (6.3)

2009-03-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Why not just upgrade to 7-Stable and then use these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815121009 they cost less than port multipliers. They don't do RAID, but then if you're on 7-Stable, you can use ZFS zraid. or use geom based RAIDs and UFS thanks for URL, anyway new

Re: FreeBSD and UPS

2009-03-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
install apcupsd from ports On Fri, 6 Mar 2009, Pieter Donche wrote: The vendor of our new server, tells me that an APC Smart-UPS 2200VA or APC Smart-UPS 3000VA does not have software for automatic shutdown when power is lost, which is compatible with FreeBSD, it is only compatible with

Re: FreeBSD and UPS

2009-03-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I am working in Angola and have had a lot of problems with electricity // until I have discovered this soft. It works perfectly with the apc network card (It came as an option on my APC 1500). I have setup apcupsd to use snmp (this seems to be the most stable use). I was very surprised

Re: Serial port config..

2009-03-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
ad0: 38182MB MAXTOR 4K040H2 A08.1500 at ata0-master UDMA100 ad1: 19092MB IC35L020AVER07 0 ER2OA41A at ata0-slave UDMA100 acd0: CDROM CRD-8482B/1.05 at ata1-master UDMA33 SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider acd0 is iso9660/CARD07C. Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad1s1a em0:

Re: RAID-5

2009-03-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
search geom_raid5 in google. i don't know why it's not yet integrated in FreeBSD. it works On Fri, 6 Mar 2009, Peter wrote: hello, What is the easiest way to achieve RAID-5 in freebsd aprt for Vinum ? I plan to use 1 x 250 GB (no mirroring) + 3 x 1.5 TB in RAID 5 Is there any tutorial

Re: RAID-5

2009-03-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
unpack tar.gz, compile, load kernel module and use graid5 tool :) On Sat, 7 Mar 2009, Peter wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: search geom_raid5 in google. i don't know why it's not yet integrated in FreeBSD. I did search even earlier today, but all I got was wikipedia article + some forums

Re: RAID-5

2009-03-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
just because it's not part of FreeBSD. why - i don't know On Sat, 7 Mar 2009, Peter wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: unpack tar.gz, compile, load kernel module and use graid5 tool :) I was going to say initially I feel like I am back in Linux - no ports, download compile, test :-)), However

Re: MT4

2009-03-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Id like to know if you can run metatrader 4 platform on freebsd. its normally run on windows but im not a fan of windows. but if you are fan of metatrader 4 you should be fan on windows ;) you may try wine, but is it really worth of it, unless you run this program occasionally, while doing

Re: USENET?

2009-03-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
tin slrn On Sun, 8 Mar 2009, Gary Kline wrote: are there any ports that offer an interface to USENET? I think mozilla did, but that was a long time ago ... . gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org

Re: USENET?

2009-03-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
news/pan seems to work OK, if you want a GUI. But be aware that nowadays, you'll probably have to pay a monthly fee for usenet. ISPs don't seem to routinely offer it as part of the deal anymore like they used to. at least in Poland there are free. and for my clients i have nntpcache'd news

Re: USENET?

2009-03-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
at least in Poland there are free. and for my clients i have nntpcache'd news from Gda?sk University. Actually, in most parts of the world, news are still freely available with many ISPs (you may have to ask them explicitly), except for alt.binaries.* which are quite bandwidth intensive. i'm

Re: Busy disk and page fault

2009-03-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
The server is overload, the disk is 100% busy with 250 write operations per second and a throuput of 6MB/s. My first idea is because of mass random access/write on the disk. But I also see the server can make 20k page fault per second. what page fault? most page faults in FreeBSD doesn't mean

Re: FreeBSD 7.1R on laptop

2009-03-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I am using FBSD 7.1R on PC. But yesterday (8 Mar 09) my hard disk was physically broken. My machine is very old anyway. So I want to buy a new laptop (notebook). I have some questions. simply getting new hard drive could be enough. 1. Previously I use ADSL but now I go back to 56k serial

sendmail limits

2009-03-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i'm just asking for sure - do sendmail has any limits of how much adresses is put in CC/BCC in single mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: sendmail limits

2009-03-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:51:12 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: i'm just asking for sure - do sendmail has any limits of how much adresses is put in CC/BCC in single mail? Yes, of course. There is *support* for a limit, but the default is to accept a large

Re: sendmail limits

2009-03-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
define(`confMAX_RCPTS_PER_MESSAGE', `20') thank you very much. that's what i was looking for. You are welcome :) FWIW, there are many more options tunables. You can read about them in the `/usr/share/sendmail/cf/README' file. yes i know this, but didn't read well.

Re: MT4

2009-03-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
but if you are fan of metatrader 4 you should be fan on windows ;) you may try wine, but is it really worth of it, unless you run this program occasionally, while doing everything else on FreeBSD? Do you have any suggestions for an alternative? definitely no, i don't know even what

Re: libsndfile portupgrade cuts sound... :-(

2009-03-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Today, I successfully portupgraded libsndfile, but afterwards I noticed that my sound doesn't work anymore. Running FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0 and have a '82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio' sound card. Before it was working without any problems with the sound/snd_hda drivers. What can

Re: libsndfile portupgrade cuts sound... :-(

2009-03-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
:) Nope, no sound coming out of my speakers. I was a bit worried that it was my audio card died on me but booting from another external HD with FreeBSD, everything seems to work fine. I'll portupgrade the other HD also to verify if the same issue occurs. run mixer and check if it's not

Re: bsd vs gpl

2009-03-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i've not paid much attention to licensing philosophy i the past, because for me it was always windoze vs the goodguys. however, recently i've become aware of there being a chasm within the goodguys in that the bsd attitude is do what you want as long as you give credit to the creator, whereas

Re: How to auto-detect a USB drive?

2009-03-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
devd.conf On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Peter Steele wrote: I want to have a process running on my FreeBSD box that automatically detects when a USB drive is inserted. What's the easiest way to accomplish this? I know I could simply monitor /var/log/messages and look for the appropriate events to

Re: bsd vs gpl

2009-03-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
That's why the GPL is often called a viral license. As GPL is a communist licence. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: bsd vs gpl

2009-03-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
At 16:09 11/03/2009, Wojciech Puchar wrote: That's why the GPL is often called a viral license. As GPL is a communist licence. No, even communist are more generous ... It's not funny. Communism is common today, and it's getting stronger from day they just changed to names to hide

Re: bsd vs gpl

2009-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
The ACM Queue (1 May 2004) article by Jay Michaelson of Wasabi Systems is very insightful. There is no such thing as Free (Software) lunch Please take a look at http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1005066 In 2009, you would like your product (esp infrastructure product or platform) to reach out

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I'd like to download information from our competitor's web site, without their knowing it's from us. so tell me address and i will download and send it ;) The Tor network works fine, but they don't seem to provide a *nix there is tor for unix in ports. tor works fine i used it a lot and

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Thanks Andeas. Up to now, I only used the Tor client for Windows that comes with Privoxy, so never used Tor as-is, and never on the command line. If someone's used to using Tor, I have a couple of questions. On FreeBSD, I intend to use it to run a Python script to connect to a remote web server

Re: USB hub and USB to Serial cable on FreeBSD

2009-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Do you know if i can get FreeBSD 7.0 to see USB to serial (RS232) cables if they are connected to a USB hub? load a proper USB-serial driver ;) man ucom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: USB KVM Raritan DKX2-232

2009-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
This KVM uses only one USB connector for both mouse and keyboard. I have several servers with different hardware and FreeBSD from 6.2 to 7.1, and no one works properly the problem is: input doesn`t work at all OR/AND mouse moves interpretend as keyboard pressings OR/AND input with like CTRL

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
You don't need privoxy for that. but isn't the point of of using privoxy to strip identifying information from http requests that would otherwise undermine tor. if python script won't put any extras - what info you want to strip out? ___

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
stopped. Why - because it got to widely known and there are actually less secure than not using it at all.There are lots of hackers that run modified tor that do analyzes/changes what going through. I stopped when i once used it on my bank webpage and got message about change of SSL key!!!

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
8.0 CURRENT i386. On 7.0, 7.1 and 7-STABLE there is still a little bit annoying message in dmesg on my nx7300, but i it's harmless as I suppose: acpi_tz0: _CRT value is absurd, ignored (256.0C) completely harmless, it's buggy ACPI. ___

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
This machine uses wpi and bge. Both devices seem to work ok chucking files around a domestic network. at least for wired network i never had a problem with broadcom chips w...@pci0:8:0:0:class=0x028000 card=0x135c103c chip=0x42228086 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel

Re: usb sound card

2009-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Does anyone have experience with a usb sound card? Are any of them supported in FreeBSD? looks like it is - man snd_uaudio from manual it looks like it's standard of USB audio interfaces so all should work - unless some manufacturers don't comply to standards. simple get some laptop with

Re: bsd vs gpl

2009-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Do you have any credible proof ? yes. i used NetBSD quite a long. i started turning into crap just when wasabisystems appeared and employed good deal of NetBSD developers. Then i switched to FreeBSD because i wanted WORKING system, while older version no longer worked on new computers.

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Thanks much for the help. If my modest Python script used to download some web pages goes through Tor, is there a way for the remote web server to somehow trace this connection back to me? if you won't help them with extra info in request headers - no.

Re: / partition full

2009-03-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I've looked as much as i can, but with only 5meg free on / .. its making things in terms of building world kernel a lil difficult .. what's the command so i can see exactly what dir on / is using up all the space so i can free it up ? du -s directory good lesson to NOT make multiple

Re: SanDisk USB stick with FreeBSD 7

2009-03-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
da0: SanDisk Cruzer Micro 8.02 Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 1.000MB/s transfers da0: Attempt to query device size failed: UNIT ATTENTION, Medium not present this suggest defective device or USB controller/driver problems. if you can - check it on another computer running other

Re: best archiver?

2009-03-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
guys, this is for any compression experts on-list. my main desktop is nearly full. i'm looking for the best means of compressing [mostly] audio files. mp3, ogg, and .flag. i cross backup among my servers and would like to have mp3 is already compressed as ogg flac

Re: best archiver?

2009-03-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
already highly compressed and will not compress much further. As far as the best compressor, I vote for bzip2/bunzip2. in my tests i found NO case when grzip would not compress data better than bzip2 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: best archiver?

2009-03-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I would look into archivers/bunzip and archivers/p7zip. I recall reading that the 7z format produces better compression rates than RAR 7zip is comparable to grzip (sometimes sligtly better - difference in order of 1%), while much slower ___

Re: best archiver? (for music)

2009-03-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
- The general archivers can compress the wav somewhat without loss, but none do as well as the dedicated lossless compression program flac. - Trying to compress mp3, ogg and flac files further is a waste of time. - If you want smaller files, use lossy compression like mp3 or ogg vorbis, and

Re: best archiver? (for music)

2009-03-14 Thread Wojciech Puchar
lame -h -b 96 - i was able to tell the difference on every song, but it wasn't really huge deal. hm. oh, yeah, my new box has to have a superior soundcard. and i'll pony up for even better speakers too. (so when i'm ready, i'll ask what's best. maybe find

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-14 Thread Wojciech Puchar
through a GELI encrypted GEOM. (No plain-text ever touches the disk.) much better - use keyboard password. Edit the rc.conf file to spoof the Ethernet (MAC) hardware address to be a new pseudo-random value at each boot. Configure the system to automatically receive an IP address via DHCP.

Re: best archiver? (for music)

2009-03-14 Thread Wojciech Puchar
There is a special codec for speech. You'll find it the audio/speex port. From the pkg-descr: actually i use it with asterisk - at about 15kbps (VBR) there are audible differences between this and standard 64kbps a-law - but the differences are POSITIVE - speech sounds clearer! The

Re: best archiver? (for music)

2009-03-14 Thread Wojciech Puchar
For the same reason, you do not convert between lossy formats. Each might give different kinds of artifacts that you do not want to combine. (Of especially true with mp3 and ogg Are you sure you can hear the difference between your flac originals and --preset standard lame encoded mp3?

Re: boot loader I/O through ethernet

2009-03-14 Thread Wojciech Puchar
question. More and more systems are made without serial ports these days. This means I can't access the loader prompt on FreeBSD without a monitor and keyboard, which is an annoyance. So my question is, is there a way to channel input and output of the loader through LAN / Ethernet by software

Re: the pause that removes

2009-03-14 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I've been under the impression that this (fast deletes) had something indeed. FreeBSD actually postpones free space bitmap update. after deleting many gigs of files you'll see disk working after a while. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: the pause that removes

2009-03-14 Thread Wojciech Puchar
indeed. FreeBSD actually postpones free space bitmap update. after deleting many gigs of files you'll see disk working after a while. excellent! so is this a freebsd thing or a ufs filesystem thing? for sure FreeBSD implementation of UFS ;) i'm not sure how about UFS on other OS.

Re: best archiver? (for music)

2009-03-14 Thread Wojciech Puchar
listened-to (kttsd) the man lame. Then surfed around; then came back to the man page and read the several examples. So: the idea is that lame [just] converts WAV files to mp3. There is a as every good unix tool - it does exactly what is supposed to do. nobody forbids

Re: best archiver? (for music)

2009-03-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
That's the idea: take telephone/voice @ what? 4kbps? -- it was standard means between 300-3100Hz. often - sounds below 300Hz are now that filtered today. record your voice at 8Khz sampling rate and then compress with speex various options and compare compressed and uncompressed.

Re: best archiver? (for music)

2009-03-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
If you're not an expert you should probably stick with one of the --preset modes. E.g. '--preset medium' or '--preset standard'. That will give you variable bitrate files with good quality. lame -h -V 3 is what i use. The speakers in telephones are tiny. That's probably a large part of it.

Re: Speeding up exit(2)?

2009-03-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Not sure what's really going on there, but apparently, the process reads in pages from swap that have been paged out previously (according to top(1)). is it your program and you are sure it's on exit? i'm sure it's not. it's because the program is writted the way it's doing a lot of things

Re: Speeding up exit(2)?

2009-03-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
is it your program and you are sure it's on exit? Every memory hungry program is concerned; and yes: it happens exactly on exit. strange. i just wrote a test program #include stdio.h int test[1024*1024*128]; main() { int a; for(a=0;a1024*1024*128;a++) test[a]=a; puts(end); } it fills

Re: Linux Java Update?

2009-03-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
You'll probably have to ask the port maintainer directly: cd /usr/ports/java/linux-sun-jre16 make maintainer he made him and the maintainer appeared ;) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Speeding up exit(2)?

2009-03-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
it swapped a lot, then wrote end and immediately exited. Hmmm... yes, it's strange. With malloc-ed space, exit is also very fast. On a 2 GB machine with amd64, exit is almost immediate: try mallocing 2 million times 2 kilobytes and fill. maybe exit first free all malloc'ed space which is

Re: Restart caused by?

2009-03-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
my fresh FreeBSD install just rebooted last night and i wonder how to find out the reason why this happened? I took a look at the log files but there was no explanation for this. if your logs just cut off, it just panicked or hard-restarted. if first - look at /var/run/dmesg.boot to see if

Re: Speeding up exit(2)?

2009-03-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Apart from having to close each tab/window, freeing all its resources, bits of the executable itself need to be paged in to do various things, which may need to page out some more. What's amazing is that it can do that for several minutes, coming out unscathed when it finally quits! (extreme

Re: Speeding up exit(2)?

2009-03-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
But as Dan has pointed out, firefox et al. are probably written in such a way that they reawaken all their dynamic data structures from swap while cleaning up. There's not much one can do from the OS side to prevent this from happening. indeed. there are no fix for crappy software, usually

Re: Speeding up exit(2)?

2009-03-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
By this stage mozilla is about 150MB with about 60MB resident, and swap is pushing 200MB. *seriously* paging, just on flipping to another tab. Now close mozilla and watch top while it's shutting down. Go and pour yourself a cuppa, there's no hurry .. just tested with opera - the same. crappy

Re: Speeding up exit(2)?

2009-03-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
just tested with opera - the same. crappy software rulez ;) Yes, clearly web browsers should be optimized for speed of exiting. of other things - too ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Speeding up exit(2)?

2009-03-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
But, honestly, a marginally minor resource footprint would not be bad, either. But I've got a certain feeling that this thread'll go to advocacy sooner or later :) would be really nice about advocacy of GOOD web browser that not only exits faster, but WORKS faster. i don't know any, except

Re: Advise on PCIX dual network card

2009-03-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
look at chips that are on that card. On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, I need to buy a PCI eXtended dual network card, any advise on what brand is supported and work reliabily? TIA, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Advise on PCIX dual network card

2009-03-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
so first check what chips it uses before ordering ask manufacturer/seller. or if it's intel - buy without checking :) On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, look at chips that are on that card. I need to buy a PCI eXtended dual network card, any advise on what brand is supported

Re: Advise on PCIX dual network card

2009-03-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I use the intel PCI-X cards with multiple OS's. They have 2 and 4 port versions. /Nota bene/: I bought an (AGP) PRO/1000 GT dual port a while back. PRO/1000s generally were harder to find and (if I remember correctly) the two- and four-porters more expensive per port tham /N/

Re: links vs real directories

2009-03-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
drwxr-xr-x 4 master master 512 Mar 16 11:06 db etc... So, I guess a link is NOT exactly equivalent to a directory. At least not the way I am doing it. I'm guessing I'm making a real newbie mistake, so if anyone can set me straight, I'd appreciate it. IMHO you did everything properly,

Re: Speeding up exit(2)?

2009-03-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I know one: Google Chrome - but it's only for Windows. Not only was it designed to be faster, but also more secure. You mean more securely getting all data about user for google. NO THANKS! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: umass performance

2009-03-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
bs=64k (or more) On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Hello. I'm using dd to clone an 8GB USB memory into an identical one. # dd if=/dev/da2 of=/dev/da1 load: 0.01 cmd: dd 12026 [physwr] 0.00u 0.01s 0% 904k 396+0 records in 395+0 records out 202240 bytes transferred in 1.453741

Re: Cooking LLVM in FreeBSD 8

2009-03-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
On Ivoras'FreeBSD page, ``What's cooking for FreeBSD 8'' http://ivoras.sharanet.org/freebsd/freebsd8.html LLVM site shows it's something like precompiler+runtime compiling. will it be used that way, or as usual compiler? the first way sound really good (single binary for every arch, and

Re: Cooking LLVM in FreeBSD 8

2009-03-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I think the idea is to get away from gcc with its evil GPL3 license as the very good move. i wasn't aware that usable GCC replacement exist, as it was probably the only reason to keep communist licenced programs with master FreeBSD sources. ___

Re: System crashed.... any help?

2009-03-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
attached where? On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, VeeJay wrote: Hi, Due to power faliure... my system was crashed... now I am unable to start it... getting this on consol...please see attached screen dump... Any help will be very appreciated to fix the problem -- Thanks! BR / vj

Re: Cooking LLVM in FreeBSD 8

2009-03-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
It does look promising, though. I hope it'll eventually surpass gcc in actually - it's matter of measurement. for example - gcc generated code is very fast, but often in expense of code size. Even -Os compiled programs are quite large. Large code=less efficient caching=SLOWER overall

Re: Cooking LLVM in FreeBSD 8

2009-03-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
master FreeBSD sources. Please don't read too much into my remark, as I don't like to engage in license ideology debates. I like GPL, BSD, and all the zillions of other i do use GPL programs too without any problems - because there is no BSD licenced equivalent (most often), or BSD

Re: Cooking LLVM in FreeBSD 8

2009-03-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I'm a big supporter of small, efficient binaries. In fact, I'll often put -Os in my /etc/make.conf CFLAGS setting. This only rarely improves raw speed over more agressive optimization flags, however. I use it primarily it do improves speed on DSP-like code that do repetitively the same on

Re: how to cancel packages

2009-03-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar
make config On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, szhou wrote: Hi, All I want to install ipsec-tools in FreeBSD6.3. I click command make install in directory/usr/ports/security/ipsec-tools/, and i select all packages in prompted window. while the installation failed, because the kernel do not

Re: RAID 1 failure

2009-03-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar
#echo 'geom_mirror_load=YES' /boot/loader.conf UNFORTUNATELY, I forgot that steps now I'm facing a problem how to correct it where in after I restart the machine the system refuse to boot, I'm stack on this loading: F1 FreeBSD F5 Drive 1 Default:F1 BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.02

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Oh, I'll agree with everyone saying IBM laptops are the best; but they sold the Thinkpad line to Lenovo, who as I've mostly found have kept up the standards. They are excellent buys. not sure how about new ones but my Thinkpad T23 works excellent and everything is supported, even winmodem with

Re: renaming user account?

2009-03-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar
vipw On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Joe Chimento wrote: Is there an easy way to rename a user account belonging to 'www' group? -- Joe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: Linux Compatability

2009-03-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar
and it failed when run complaining that it needs a CPU with SSE instuctions enabled. does anyone know what this is and related too? are you CPU SSE capable? if so, probably this app checks capabilities through /proc add this to /etc/fstab linprocfs /compat/linux/proc linprocfs

Re: imap on freebsd7

2009-03-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar
same Outlook 2003. In the FreeSBD7 system, outcommented in /etc/inetd.conf the line imap4 stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/libexec/imapd imapd and did # /etc/rc.d/inetd reload Then set up a new mailaccount in Outlook 2003 for this FreeSBD7 mailbox in EXACTLY the same way in the way I did for

Re: 7.1 64 bit

2009-03-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar
anyway - you SOMEHOW got into that list and not linux one. So you must know something about FreeBSD anyway :) On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Gal Lis wrote: I guess that shows just how unexperienced I am with all of this. On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Ross Cameron abal...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed,

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