Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0?

2009-11-30 Thread Bill Moran
shipped with a more performant default setting, it would also be nice if mindless benchmark drones would quit assuming that every system ships pre-configured to perform optimally in their benchmarks. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran

Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0?

2009-11-30 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com: Bill Moran writes: It's common knowledge that the default value for vfs.read_max is non- optimal for most hardware and that significant performance improvements can be made in most cases by raising it. Documentation/discussion

Re: Signing Request

2009-09-23 Thread Bill Moran
understand your purpose in spamming three mailing lists with this demand. What problem are you trying to solve? -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: issues with Intel Pro/1000 and 1000baseTX

2009-05-14 Thread Bill Moran
get a card that's just flaky. Hope this helps. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe

Re: getting garbage faster using FreeBSD?

2007-02-20 Thread Bill Moran
. Do you think playing with randoms' sysctl interface might influence performance? Does /dev/random automatically re-seed from time to time or is it seeded at boot time only? -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

Re: Your Recent Trade Show Results

2007-02-20 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Trond Endrestøl [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 plz! go away with all your junk. I reported it to spamcop.net ... as usual. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

Re: getting garbage faster using FreeBSD?

2007-02-20 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:12:38AM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Volker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 02/19/07 20:51, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 08:40:37PM +0100, Volker wrote: The tape sits there since 48 hours

pmap panic message: can someone take a look at this PR?

2007-01-29 Thread Bill Moran
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/108121 -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 6.2 buildworld fails without NO_CXX=YES

2007-01-29 Thread Bill Moran
++. If you can live without groff, there may be a NO_GROFF knob you could tweak. However, it looks like openssl is also written in C++ as well. If you can live without those two, it should be doable. I'm not sure how practical a system without C++ is in the modern world. -- Bill Moran

Re: freebsd-stable Digest, Vol 190, Issue 5

2007-01-24 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Pieter Migo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: please unsubscribe ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bill Moran

Re: Failover-HA-Setup

2007-01-17 Thread Bill Moran
, but you should be able to set the required variables and export them into the environment prior to calling the mysql-server script. If not, just create a wrapper script that sets the required variables then calls the rc script. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc

Re: rsync write fails on descriptor 3

2006-12-28 Thread Bill Moran
can confirm that your problem goes away with the removal of pf rules as well. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail

Communicating with the public (was Re: Possibility for FreeBSD 4.11 Extended Support)

2006-12-22 Thread Bill Moran
for 4.x is every 5 minutes. The result is that it's just hitting home for a lot of people now that it's the 11th hour. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Communicating with the public (was Re: Possibility for FreeBSD 4.11 Extended Support)

2006-12-22 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Adrian Chadd [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 22/12/06, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I could be wrong, but I get the impression that this whole EOL issue with 4.x is partly a result of not reminding people when the EOL date for 4.x is every 5 minutes. The result is that it's

Re: Cached file read performance with 6.2-PRERELEASE

2006-12-21 Thread Bill Moran
this will be large enough that they'll have to go through CURRENT first, then get MFCed back in to 6. Keep in mind also that the holidays tend to slow things down, it might be early January before you get a lot of people looking at this issue seriously. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc

Re: Block IP

2006-12-21 Thread Bill Moran
, as this will not work if a previous rule allows the connection. Also how do I block out IPs after a certain number of invalid login attempts to prevent brute forcing? There are a number of ports that provide this functionality. I believe the most popular is called denyhosts. -- Bill Moran Collaborative

Re: Possibility for FreeBSD 4.11 Extended Support

2006-12-21 Thread Bill Moran
that 6.1 and 5.5 have been at release status for quite some time, and thus have been providing ample opportunity to upgrade for some time now? Or has this topic simply degraded to Troll bait? -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-stable

Re: Possibility for FreeBSD 4.11 Extended Support

2006-12-21 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Michael R. Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Private reply. Not interested in trolling or becoming a troll... On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 09:58:11AM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: Are the people making this argument unaware that 6.1 and 5.5 have been at release status for quite some time

Re: Dell 1955 Blade - Broadcom NIC not detected (BCM5708S)

2006-12-15 Thread Bill Moran
appreciated. Any development here? We have just started purchasing 1955 Blades and would very much like to install FreeBSD on them :) Support for them is in CURRENT and 6.2, although the comment saying that they're _not_ supported is still there as well ;) -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc

Re: Dell 1955 Blade - Broadcom NIC not detected (BCM5708S)

2006-12-15 Thread Bill Moran
but then bails out with SerDes controller not supported. Have tried (many times :-/ ). Ah ... that part wasn't clear. Unfortunately, I don't have any further information on this. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing

Re: mount_smbfs: unable to open connection: syserr = Operation timed out

2006-12-08 Thread Bill Moran
time pissing around with kernels. The above error sounds like a routing and/or port-blocked issue. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe

Re: em interrupt storm

2006-11-14 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Jack Vogel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 11/13/06, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just experienced an interrupt storm on an em device that disabled a server until I could reboot it. My initial research turned up this thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd

em interrupt storm

2006-11-13 Thread Bill Moran
in the diagnosis on this, but I'm looking for pointers to keep me from doing random upgrades or other time-wasting activities. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 412-422-3463x4023 IMPORTANT: This message contains

Re: AMD64 Stable fails to boot on Dell PowerEdge 1950

2006-10-31 Thread Bill Moran
had to tweak anything at all in the BIOS. I missed the start of this thread. Did you give any more hardware details? -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: 6.x from i386 to amd64

2006-10-31 Thread Bill Moran
not had any problems. Although our amd64 deployment is still young, we have several machines humming away happily. Where did you have problems, specifically? -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 412-422-3463x4023

Re: RELENG 6.1/AMD64 system hangs when SMP enabled

2006-10-27 Thread Bill Moran
you'll need to start: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug-online-ddb.html -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: When will the new BCE driver in HEAD be incorporated into RELENG_6?

2006-10-23 Thread Bill Moran
came in this morning (About 2.5 hours so far), with no failures. This is the first version of the driver that has allowed me to actually complete a buildworld over NFS. I will continue testing and report again at the end of the day. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc

Re: cpu usage

2006-10-23 Thread Bill Moran
nice level, but that doesn't seem to change much. and looking through ports there only seems to be cpu monitoring tools, not suppression? It's unlikely that there's anything you can do in software to fix this problem. You need to fix your cooling so the CPU doesn't overheat. -- Bill Moran

Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD

2006-10-23 Thread Bill Moran
://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/ -- Bill Moran The presence of stale files in this directory can cause the dreaded unpredictable results, and therefore it is highly recommended that you delete them. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: When will the new BCE driver in HEAD be incorporated into RELENG_6?

2006-10-19 Thread Bill Moran
filesystem (UDP mount, GigE speeds). Same here, although it seemed to require a lot more effort to produce the problem. I see there have been additional updates to the driver in the past 10 hours. I'll grab those and try again to see if they help any. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc

Re: When will the new BCE driver in HEAD be incorporated into RELENG_6?

2006-10-19 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In response to Jason Thomson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Scott Long wrote: Conrad Burger wrote: Hi It looks like there is a new version of the bce driver in HEAD. When will it be incorporated into Releng_6

Re: When will the new BCE driver in HEAD be incorporated into RELENG_6?

2006-10-18 Thread Bill Moran
. So far, no one has. I'm working on that now. I wasn't aware that improvements had been committed or I'd have started on it 2 days ago ... -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: When will the new BCE driver in HEAD be incorporated into RELENG_6?

2006-10-18 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In response to Scott Long [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Conrad Burger wrote: Hi It looks like there is a new version of the bce driver in HEAD. When will it be incorporated into Releng_6? It will be merged when someone, preferably 2-3

Re: Ping question

2006-10-12 Thread Bill Moran
is causing packets to take multiple routes back at times, thus arriving twice. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Dell 1950 does not properly respond to reboot and shutdown -p

2006-10-12 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Bruno Ducrot [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 02:53:15PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Doug Ambrisko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: John Baldwin writes: | On Tuesday 10 October 2006 08:54, Bill Moran wrote: | In response to Doug Ambrisko [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Dell 1950 does not properly respond to reboot and shutdown -p

2006-10-12 Thread Bill Moran
guessing bce is not part of the title? -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dell 1950 does not properly respond to reboot and shutdown -p

2006-10-12 Thread Bill Moran
fine (cf. thread on freebsd-hardware). Are you saying that the version from that site makes your bce card reliable? Doesn't seem to address the issues being worked on: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-October/029407.html -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc

Re: Dell 1950 does not properly respond to reboot and shutdown -p

2006-10-10 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Doug Ambrisko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bruno Ducrot writes: | On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 02:07:12PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: | In response to Bruno Ducrot [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | Hi, | | On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 12:28:35PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: | |A reboot causes

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS! [Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2]

2006-10-04 Thread Bill Moran
. I might even be able to get remote console access to this machine approved for a developer. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS! [Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2]

2006-10-04 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In my case, it's a bce driver that's doing it. I also have some em cards in this machine that I can test if the information will be helpful. Note that I can _not_ reproduce the problem with an em interface (a PCI NIC). As mentioned earlier, I can

Dell 1950 does not properly respond to reboot and shutdown -p

2006-10-04 Thread Bill Moran
:umass-sim1:1:0:0): Unretryable error Opened disk da0 - 6 Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/mfid0s1a -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only

Re: Dell 1950 does not properly respond to reboot and shutdown -p

2006-10-04 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Guy Helmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bill Moran wrote: A reboot causes the OS to halt, but the hardware just sits there on the shutdown screen. A shutdown -p does the same. Other ACPIish stuff seems to work as advertised. (i.e. hitting the power button cleanly shuts down

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS! [Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2]

2006-10-04 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Mike Tancsa [EMAIL PROTECTED]: At 12:27 PM 10/4/2006, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In my case, it's a bce driver that's doing it. I also have some em cards in this machine that I can test if the information will be helpful. Note

Re: Dell 1950 does not properly respond to reboot and shutdown -p

2006-10-04 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Guy Helmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bill Moran wrote: In response to Guy Helmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bill Moran wrote: A reboot causes the OS to halt, but the hardware just sits there on the shutdown screen. A shutdown -p does the same. Other ACPIish stuff

Re: Dell 1950 does not properly respond to reboot and shutdown -p

2006-10-04 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Bruno Ducrot [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 12:28:35PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: A reboot causes the OS to halt, but the hardware just sits there on the shutdown screen. A shutdown -p does the same. What exactly are the last few lines? (manually

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS! [Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2]

2006-10-04 Thread Bill Moran
suspect there may be more than one problem here. In progress ... I'll contact you privately when it's ready. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only

Re: Intel se7230NH1-E, 6gb memory not working on FreeBSD 6.0

2006-09-27 Thread Bill Moran
an amd64 kernel on the system? -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Intel se7230NH1-E, 6gb memory not working on FreeBSD 6.0

2006-09-27 Thread Bill Moran
. Unless it's specifically an Itanium (in which case an i386 kernel wouldn't even boot) it's amd64. -- Bill Moran Many miles away, something crawls through the slime at the bottom of a dark, Scottish lake. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: PostgreSQL in FreeBSD jails

2005-04-26 Thread Bill Moran
shared_buffers = 100 Please help! What am I doing wrong? -- Alexander Rusinov ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bill

Re: PostgreSQL in FreeBSD jails

2005-04-26 Thread Bill Moran
Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Bill Moran wrote: Alexander Rusinov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I need to run a number of PostgreSQL servers in different FreeBSD jails. I managed to run a first instance of PostgreSQL server in a jail, but after I

Re: Newbie Question About System Update

2005-04-25 Thread Bill Moran
access the system when it's in single user mode. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Newbie Question About System Update

2005-04-25 Thread Bill Moran
. With a networkable KVM like you've got, there is no real advantage that I can see (unless you're doing kernel debugging, but that's a pretty advanced topic) But compare your KVM to a typical, non-networkable KVM and you get the same idea of what I was thinking when I compared a serial console to a KVM. -- Bill

Re: background_fsck=no does not work?

2005-04-25 Thread Bill Moran
with similar complaints about OpenOffice, so I haven't said much. The problem also happens pretty rarely, and I don't have any idea how to reproduce it on demand. I don't think this is _quite_ the same problem, however. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: Newbie Question About System Update

2005-04-25 Thread Bill Moran
remotely admin GUI-based servers easily. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Newbie Question About System Update

2005-04-22 Thread Bill Moran
Matthias Buelow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Fact is, trying to update a running system could result in silent failures. The system can not replace programs that are in use, so there's always the chance that something or other won't get updated (cron would

Re: Newbie Question About System Update

2005-04-19 Thread Bill Moran
as part of the learning process. There are ways to restore your system if you've made this mistake and the above doesn't work, but it's rather advanced stuff. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

Re: Newbie Question About System Update

2005-04-19 Thread Bill Moran
available from a number of vendors, and if you have a spare machine available, you can always hook it up as a serial terminal. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Newbie Question About System Update

2005-04-19 Thread Bill Moran
Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Moran wrote: The system can not replace programs that are in use, This is generally not the case. Unix lets you continue to access a file after it has been deleted, so long as the process hangs on to a file descriptor. This lets you replace

Re: Newbie Question About System Update

2005-04-19 Thread Bill Moran
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:34:37 -0600 (MDT) Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Newbie Question About System Update Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:32:37 -0400 Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Moran wrote: The system can not replace

Re: urgent help

2004-12-27 Thread Bill Moran
improperly. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upgrading sequence to 4.x from 3.3-R

2003-03-12 Thread Bill Moran
.x, if you don't upgrade it, you may not even be able to build 4.x, and if it does build and install, you may find many utilities don't work. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body

Re: wrong CPU frequency detection

2003-03-03 Thread Bill Moran
. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message

Re: fsck problem

2003-02-24 Thread Bill Moran
Jaime wrote: New info for this problem: S array.p0.s0 crashed S array.p0.s1 up S array.p0.s2 up S array.p0.s3 stale Should I just vinum start at the shell? Well, at this point you've got vinum started now. I would fix the raid problem before bothering with an fsck, if it were me. -- Bill Moran

Re: PCI oddity

2003-02-11 Thread Bill Moran
that cards usually brag about if they support. If you have non-sharing cards trying to use a shared interrupt, it won't work. Crashes don't surprise me under these circumstances. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: DVD writer support in -STABLE?

2002-09-13 Thread Bill Moran
; the manufacturer's web page says its interface is ATAPI (ATA/ATAPI-5 MCC3, SFFCINF 8090 Ver.5). The last time I looked at this, the answer was no, you can't burn DVDs in FreeBSD yet I just send an email to Soren to see if he needs hardware to develop with, we're ready to donate a DVD-burner to help. -- Bill

Re: Frequent Restarts

2002-02-09 Thread Bill Moran
as crash dumps to be saved which can be analized with gdb. -- Bill Moran Potential Technology http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message

Re: samba package

2002-02-04 Thread Bill Moran
. Did you check all 4 CDs? -- Bill Moran Potential Technology technical services http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message

Re: ultra160 SCSI

2002-01-20 Thread Bill Moran
running U160 at full speed. I don't remember which version of FreeBSD started to support full spped U160, but if you're not running 4.4, you may want to upgrade before trying. -- Bill Moran Potential Technology http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: 4.5-PRERELEASE (25 Dec) and IBM IC35L040AVER07-0

2001-12-29 Thread Bill Moran
HDDs complaining about the same thing. Have there been any patches to the ata code that could affect this? If so, I'll update this machine and see if it continues to be a problem. -- Bill Moran Potential Technology http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: 4.5-PRERELEASE -- Pobs in compiling custom kernel

2001-12-29 Thread Bill Moran
large messages to the list will generally not be received well. Thanx a lot. Thanks for being curteous enough to check before posting :) -- Bill Moran Potential Technology http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body

Re: dirpref benefit on virtual disks

2001-11-12 Thread Bill Moran
the new dirpref code to see if that number has changed. -- Bill Moran Potential Technology http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message

Re: ipfilter/ipnat question

2001-10-04 Thread Bill Moran
become commonplace to do it. IPv6 needs to come into use soon. This internet thing is such a mess that it amazes me that it works at all! -- Bill Moran Potential Technology technical services (412) 793-4257 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable

Re: VINUM PANIC ON -STABLE

2001-09-15 Thread Bill Moran
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I posted a message to -hackers several days ago, complete with a kernel backtrace.The panic is 100% reproducible on my machine running the latest -stable. Does anyone care? My message to Greg Lehey was rejected by his mail server, but I am pretty sure he

Re: prerelease 4.4

2001-08-16 Thread Bill Moran
klein brock wrote: i don't wanna see this message... does somebody know how ? Is that coming from /etc/motd? -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message

kernel won't build from kernel sources

2001-08-16 Thread Bill Moran
Before I get flamed or anything, let me first say that I don't know for sure that this is broken, but it WAS broken in 4.3-RELEASE. I have been meaning to cut a CD and see if it's still broken in 4.4-PRERELEASE but I've been simply overwhelmed lately. If nobody else gets around to it first, I'll

Re: Q: upgrade from 4.0-RELEASE

2001-08-08 Thread Bill Moran
Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Moran writes: : Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong on this (anyone?) I've upgraded from 4.0-current to 4.3-stable about a month ago. I don't know why he's seeing this problem. Hmmm ... I've had a number of people correct me

Re: RELENG_4_3 calls itself -RELEASE?

2001-08-04 Thread Bill Moran
Why not 4.4.1-RELEASE, 4.4.2-RELEASE, etc It's simple, to the point. Implies upgrades. Allows you to quickly determine exactly how current a particular system is with regards to patches, and follows long-standing conventions. Just my $.02 -Bill Andrew Boothman wrote: [Boy do I wish I hadn't

Re: Is FreeBSD more secure than Windows NT or Windows 2000?

2001-07-21 Thread Bill Moran
Sung Nae Cho wrote: One thing that makes me uncomfortable with both Linux and FreeBSD is that unlike Windows NT, both UNIX clones seem to be less secure for a desktop use. ( ** Note clones doesn't mean it's any less better than UNIX, it just means, it's not officially considered UNIX by

Re: JFS

2001-07-08 Thread Bill Moran
Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Dave Uhring [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just took a look at www.sistina.com and a web site which has its font set to Arial is suspect, IMHO. If they have to use Microsoft products to produce a web site.. Is that the best you could come up with? I mean,

Re: JFS

2001-07-08 Thread Bill Moran
Juha Saarinen wrote: On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Bill Moran wrote: I know my opinion of Wind River has been negatively impacted by the numerous spelling errors I found on their web site the first time I visited. That's different though -- one person rubbishes the product because

Re: JFS

2001-07-07 Thread Bill Moran
Dave Uhring wrote: You seem to have missed the critical point of that paper. When the system goes completely haywire and either crashes or locks up so hard that a manual reset is required, UFS/softupdates requires a substantial amount of time to run fsck. If you have a very large

RE: Staying *really stable* in FreeBSD

2001-06-27 Thread Bill Moran
Is there a reason why you took this off the list? On Wednesday, June 27, 2001 10:52 AM, Mike Porter [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: On Wednesday 27 June 2001 07:11, you wrote: On Tuesday, June 26, 2001 5:07 PM, Chad R. Larson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: If anyone is taking votes, I

RE: Staying *really stable* in FreeBSD

2001-06-27 Thread Bill Moran
On Wednesday, June 27, 2001 3:14 PM, Mike Porter [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: On Wednesday 27 June 2001 09:44, Bill Moran wrote: Is there a reason why you took this off the list? my mistake (or my mailer's depending on how you look at it). If the majordomo config file for the list

RE: Staying *really stable* in FreeBSD

2001-06-27 Thread Bill Moran
On Wednesday, June 27, 2001 5:30 PM, Juha Saarinen [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Bill Moran wrote: In a company, alpha testing is done by the developers or other employees of the company, Once Upon A Time this was true, but no longer. Viz. Microsoft's Technology

Re: sendmail does not return

2001-06-18 Thread Bill Moran
As a side note: if this is the problem, sendmail will not block _forever_. It will eventually time out. I don't know what the actual value is, but it seems like 5 minutes or something, so it could easily seem like it's frozen. -Bill Mike Tancsa wrote: The place where I have come across this

rpc.statd mem leak?

2001-01-28 Thread Bill Moran
I seem to be "memory leak guy" this month ... Is it normal for rpc.statd to soak up 257M (as reported by top in the size column)? The "res" column shows 542K. The machine seems to be functioning just fine otherwise. It just seems a little unusual. It's a 4.2-STABLE (Jan 8) machine and it's

Re: Problems in Memory

2000-11-13 Thread Bill Moran
Jorge Filipe Andrade wrote: I am to have problems with the memory of my server. I have 384MB, and I have 200MB of Swap, it simply, passed one week You should have more swap than RAM. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Dangerously dedicated (was Re: Really odd BTX halted problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux h)

2000-10-30 Thread Bill Moran
John Baldwin wrote: It is kind of semantic. However, on the alpha it is hardly dangerous. Nor do we fake a MBR on the alpha (which is what makes it dangerous). The alpha architecture doesn't use MBR's, but the PC arch does. Thus, having a disklabel on the alpha is normal, having one at

Re: Where do i ask newbie install questions

2000-10-24 Thread Bill Moran
[EMAIL PROTECTED] send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this single line in the body: subscribe freebsd-questions erich alfred heine wrote: I subscribed to this list, but after reading it for the last few days, i dont think this is the place to ask newbie install questions. If you could

Re: username with -

2000-10-09 Thread Bill Moran
Doug Barton wrote: I think a better question is, why does rmuser need to check the validity of the username at all? Should it do wildcarding? If not, it needs to check for invalid chars that could be used to wildcard. On the flipside, wildcarding might be nice. -Bill To

Re: Stop error in make world

2000-09-05 Thread Bill Moran
John Reynolds~ wrote: Well, I just cvsup'ed 1 hour ago and built world. No problems. That segfault you got when building perl looks really odd. Other people have said that segfaults during buildworld are generally hardware problems. Most likely memory. I'd be surprised ... considering I did

Re: problems with make world (Sunday)

2000-09-04 Thread Bill Moran
What I've seen in the UPDATING file seems to refer to 3.X upgraded to 4.X As far as I can tell there is no special documented procedure for updating within the 4.X line. Should be able to do everything in the ordinary way. I've done it that way on the current system. Along those same lines ...