Low NTFS read performance

2008-01-22 Thread Diomidis Spinellis
provider da0s1 is ntfs/Backup. Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a GEOM_LABEL: Label ntfs/Backup removed. GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider da0s1 is ntfs/Backup. I'd appreciate any suggestions you may have. Diomidis Spinellis - http://www.spinellis.gr __

Re: scp -c none (was Re: NFS client slow on amd64 6.2-PRERELEASE #2)

2006-10-09 Thread Diomidis Spinellis
Hans Lambermont wrote: Diomidis Spinellis wrote: You can also use ports/net/socketpipe. For example you can copy a directory with: socketpipe -b -i { tar cf - directory } -l { ssh remotehost } -r { tar xvf - } Just curious, what is the advantage of this approach to the following

Re: scp -c none (was Re: NFS client slow on amd64 6.2-PRERELEASE #2)

2006-10-08 Thread Diomidis Spinellis
Oliver Fromme wrote: Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > It's really too bad the OpenBSD guys refuse to > incorporate the HP (high-performance) patches into OpenSSH, and > being able to say "-c none" would *really* help when it comes to > benchmarking network I/O via scp He

Re: reading process memory

2006-06-08 Thread Diomidis Spinellis
Tofik Suleymanov wrote: Diomidis Spinellis wrote: Tofik Suleymanov wrote: The only way you're going to be able to read another processes address space is in the kernel.Even a process running as root is not able to read another process's data. Incorrect; see this example: $ sed

Re: reading process memory

2006-06-07 Thread Diomidis Spinellis
Tofik Suleymanov wrote: The only way you're going to be able to read another processes address space is in the kernel.Even a process running as root is not able to read another process's data. Incorrect; see this example: $ sed -e 's/this/that/' & [1] 87345 $ /bin/su Password: # dd if=/pro

vm_fault on 8GB RAM AMD-64 with 5.4-RC3 and 5.4-STABLE

2005-04-22 Thread Diomidis Spinellis
0 bus 2 target 0 lun 0 da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: Tagged Queueing Enabled da0: 286063MB (585858420 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 36468C) SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a -- Diomidis Spinellis - dds@ - http://www.spinellis.gr __

Re: Mounting a powered-down HDD renders system unusable

2005-04-06 Thread Diomidis Spinellis
. The idea is that even if the computer gets electrically fried by lightning, the disk will survive. Thus, the procedure I use is: atacontrol attach 0 mount /backup # Perform backup umount /backup atacontrol detach 0 -- Diomidis Spinellis - http://www.spinellis.gr

Re: Different snapshot sizes.

2004-11-16 Thread Diomidis Spinellis
David Gilbert wrote: > and progressively delete them such that the oldest > snapshot we keep is about 30 days old. Off topic comment: consider using ports/sysutils/fileprune for this task. Diomidis Spinellis ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing lis