Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Gary Clemans-Gibbon
Darren Tucker wrote: Gary Clemans-Gibbon wrote: Also I have just grabbed the stable branch from cvs and am running stable GENERIC and still doesn't fix it. Just a recap - the problem is not just samba writes to either of the data disks from the network via samba or scp are painfully slow. Rea

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Gary Clemans-Gibbon
Darren Tucker wrote: Gary Clemans-Gibbon wrote: Also I have just grabbed the stable branch from cvs and am running stable GENERIC and still doesn't fix it. Just a recap - the problem is not just samba writes to either of the data disks from the network via samba or scp are painfully slow. Rea

(g)as on amd64

2005-07-19 Thread Brian
Is there anything special I need to do for assembly on amd64? I am having trouble with the following code: .data msg: .ascii "Hello\n" len = . - msg .text .global _start _syscall: int $0x80 ret _start: xo

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Darren Tucker
Gary Clemans-Gibbon wrote: Also I have just grabbed the stable branch from cvs and am running stable GENERIC and still doesn't fix it. Just a recap - the problem is not just samba writes to either of the data disks from the network via samba or scp are painfully slow. Reads from the box to the

Re: Adaptec 6944a or Sun "Happy Meal"

2005-07-19 Thread Ted Unangst
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Steven Bowers wrote: > I need to add another ethernet card to the box, but have run out of > PCI slots. Currently there is an Intel dual port (fxp) in there and > I'm considering one of the above as a replacement. Could anyone with > experience with one of these cards comment

Adaptec 6944a or Sun "Happy Meal"

2005-07-19 Thread Steven Bowers
I need to add another ethernet card to the box, but have run out of PCI slots. Currently there is an Intel dual port (fxp) in there and I'm considering one of the above as a replacement. Could anyone with experience with one of these cards comment as to the pro's/con's of either card? Steve

Re: sgi 02 R5K irix 6.3 4.3 unsuccessful installation

2005-07-19 Thread Steven Manos
i was under the impression that the only way to install the 3.7 release of OpenBSD/mips was via tftp / netboot. this is the only installation method mentioned in the install doc. it worked fine for me. On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 05:22:54PM -0700, Roger Neth Jr wrote: > Hello List, > I could not find

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Gary Clemans-Gibbon
John Brooks wrote: How about a nic from a different mfr? Using another good 'dc' nic doesn't rule out a basic hardware incompatibility related directly to that brand of nic card coupled with your other hardware. JB . Even though it worked fine with RH7.3 a three + year old OS ? I've

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow - more info

2005-07-19 Thread Steve Shockley
Gary Clemans-Gibbon wrote: > I've tried a couple of things. Firstly I swapped out the NIC for a > different brand, no change. Writes god-awful slow, reads nice and zippy. When you swapped out the NIC, did you try a non-dc NIC? Maybe a different slot? > $ netstat -in > dc0 1500 192.168.20/ 1

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread John Brooks
> > How about a nic from a different mfr? Using another good 'dc' nic doesn't > > rule out a basic hardware incompatibility related directly to that brand > > of nic card coupled with your other hardware. > > > > JB > > > > . > > > > Even though it worked fine with RH7.3 a three + year old OS ? I

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread John Brooks
> > Sounds like a bad nic. If you have a spare, you might try > swapping with it. > > > > Also, what's the other machine and what is it running? > > > > The NIC is fine, and yes I swapped it out early on as well as the cable > and the port on the switch. I've also tried a crossover cable. I'v

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Brad
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 09:50:03PM -0400, Don Koch wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > I heeded your words of wisdom and after some rummaging I found a crossover > > cable. Hooked it up the same winXP box direct and the exact same result. > > Sounds like a bad nic. If you have a spare, you mi

Re: Kernel Panic in 3.7

2005-07-19 Thread Ted Unangst
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Gordon Ross wrote: > So that's what the kernel panic really means: Out of memory ? yes and no. it means what it says, but the root cause is being out of memory. -- And that's why we're leaving California.

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Gary Clemans-Gibbon
Don Koch wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I heeded your words of wisdom and after some rummaging I found a crossover cable. Hooked it up the same winXP box direct and the exact same result. Sounds like a bad nic. If you have a spare, you might try swapping with it. Also, what's the other

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Don Koch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I heeded your words of wisdom and after some rummaging I found a crossover > cable. Hooked it up the same winXP box direct and the exact same result. Sounds like a bad nic. If you have a spare, you might try swapping with it. Also, what's the other machine and what i

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Gary Clemans-Gibbon
Tim Hammerquist wrote: Gary Clemans-Gibbon wrote: Yes, I've tried different cables and different ports on the switch. This hardware has all been used before together. I cycled the power to the switch (can't find a reset button) and no change. Via samba or SCP it takes 7 minutes to write a file

Amanda port WO gnuplot?

2005-07-19 Thread stan
I'm building several new 3.7 machines. These machines will be Amanda clients (only, not servers)/ Looks like the amanda port depends on gnuplot, which depends on X11. Now, I really don;t want X on these machines. Is there a way to tell the port build provess to make the client side only? Or just t

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Tim Hammerquist
Gary Clemans-Gibbon wrote: > Yes, I've tried different cables and different ports on the switch. > This hardware has all been used before together. I cycled the power to > the switch (can't find a reset button) and no change. Via samba or SCP > it takes 7 minutes to write a file to the server and 1

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Gary Clemans-Gibbon
Avtar Gill wrote: Stephen Marley wrote: Have you tried a crossover cable, bypassing the switch? Words of wisdom right there. I would definitely try a crossover cable between the OpenBSD server and your client machine. That will show you whether the problem lies with Samba or elsewhere.

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Avtar Gill
Stephen Marley wrote: Have you tried a crossover cable, bypassing the switch? Words of wisdom right there. I would definitely try a crossover cable between the OpenBSD server and your client machine. That will show you whether the problem lies with Samba or elsewhere. I remember experienc

sgi 02 R5K irix 6.3 4.3 unsuccessful installation

2005-07-19 Thread Roger Neth Jr
Hello List, I could not find a specific mailing list for sgi or mips, hopefully someone can assist me with trying to install OpenBSD on an O2. I have tried several ftp sites to burn the snapshot image of sgi but when I use Roxio CD Creator it tells me invalid image even though the image is cd

ipsec bump-in-the-wire transport mode

2005-07-19 Thread Juraj Bednar
Hello, I'm fairly new to OpenBSD. I need to create a simple IPSec setup, which is (as I learned) called "bump-in-the-wire". Basically, I have OpenBSD box with two ethernet interfaces bridged together. I want to protect communication with one particular server in _transport_ mode with IPSec. That

Re: [Long] Toshiba laptop 3.7 installation problem (Solved)

2005-07-19 Thread Z L
> No it doesn't have a serial console. Can I send the Linux dmesg for > this laptop? Is there anything else I should try? The problem which was present in this Laptop since OpenBSD 3.5 has now been solved with this help: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq8.html#PCI. But /I think/ I need to hack the k

Re: YA suexec question...

2005-07-19 Thread knitti
On 7/20/05, Thanos Tsouanas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've added > User foo > on a VirtualHost apache directive, > > but when I try to exec the cgi script I want, these appear in the error > logs: > (9)Bad file descriptor: getpwuid: invalid userid 2050 > 2050 being the correct userid fo

Re: kdeinit problems in 3.7-current

2005-07-19 Thread Josh Grosse
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 01:56:41PM -0400, I'd written, in part: > ...I'm not sure whether this is an Xorg issue, a KDE issue, or -- because I'm > running firefox, an X application issue. Any advice you might have to help > me narrow down the problem further would be appreciated I have manage

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Stuart Henderson
--On 19 July 2005 10:46 -0500, Daniel Ramaley wrote: I've had this problem before. Other protocols work OK (not great, but OK), but Samba is gets modem speeds on a fast ethernet connection. I've had poor speeds samba->windows before and sometimes been able to fix it by just disabling and re-e

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Stephen Marley
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 02:57:33PM -0700, Gary Clemans-Gibbon wrote: > Yes, I've tried different cables and different ports on the switch. This > hardware has all been used before together. I cycled the power to the > switch (can't find a reset button) and no change. Via samba or SCP it > takes

Re: rm: Unknown error: -618868888

2005-07-19 Thread viq
...I guess I just need to replace hardware. Now-like... viq -- Startuj z INTERIA.PL! >>> http://link.interia.pl/f186c

Re: Both carp interfaces are master

2005-07-19 Thread Markus Wernig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Niclas Sodergard wrote: | Hi, | | I'm having trouble with our firewalls. They are both Dell 2850 with | identical hardware inside (dmesg below). I have five carp interfaces | connected to five different em interfaces. carp0,2,3,4 works fine | (master

Re: USB2 (EIDE) bad mojo...

2005-07-19 Thread Rene Rivera
Rogier Krieger wrote: On 7/19/05, Rene Rivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] I just can't follow current on a production server (as other users will also tell you). At the risk of sounding discourteous, you should get yourself a proper test environment. That way you can leave your producti

rm: Unknown error: -618868888

2005-07-19 Thread viq
$ rm testfile rm: testfile: Unknown error: -61886 That's the error i saw, first when updating cvs tree via cvsync, but later, just to check, touched a file in my homedir (separate partition

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Daniel Ramaley
I've had this problem before. Other protocols work OK (not great, but OK), but Samba is gets modem speeds on a fast ethernet connection. I've had some success in the past by manually specifying the network speed and duplexing. See "man hostname.if" for info on how to do that (pay particular att

YA suexec question...

2005-07-19 Thread Thanos Tsouanas
Hello. I have the following problem with suexec: I've chmod'ed /usr/sbin/suexec: [1:09:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~> l /usr/sbin/suexec -r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin - 12052 Feb 2 07:58 /usr/sbin/suexec* I've added User foo on a VirtualHost apache directive, but when I try to exec the cgi script I

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Gary Clemans-Gibbon
Stephen Marley wrote: On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 01:28:17PM -0700, Gary Clemans-Gibbon wrote: A little bit more info, i ran the following... . $ ifconfig -m dc0 dc0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 address: 00:50:bf:9c:62:e4 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex) stat

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 7/19/05, Stephen Marley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 01:28:17PM -0700, Gary Clemans-Gibbon wrote: > > A little bit more info, > > > > i ran the following... > > snip dont forget to use netstat -i (-e on windows) to look for errors on the line, which would be indicative o

Re: USB2 (EIDE) bad mojo...

2005-07-19 Thread knitti
On 7/19/05, Rene Rivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So please, if you, or others know of specific changes that pertain to my > problem mention them. part of your dmesg: > OpenBSD 3.7-stable (RED5OF5) #0: Tue Jun 21 09:59:30 CDT 2005 reproduce your problem on a GENERIC kernel, if you want at lea

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Stephen Marley
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 01:28:17PM -0700, Gary Clemans-Gibbon wrote: > A little bit more info, > > i ran the following... > > > > . > > > $ ifconfig -m dc0 > > dc0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > address: 00:50:bf:9c:62:e4 > media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex) > sta

Re: USB2 (EIDE) bad mojo...

2005-07-19 Thread Rogier Krieger
On 7/19/05, Rene Rivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] I just can't follow current on a production server (as other users > will also tell you). At the risk of sounding discourteous, you should get yourself a proper test environment. That way you can leave your production equipment alone. For

Re: D-Link DWL-520 (ath): unknown regulatory domain and kernel freezes

2005-07-19 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 08:17:31PM +0200, Matthias Kilian wrote: > I just tried to get a D-Link DWL-520 PCI adapter I purchased the > other day running. It appears to be a DWL-G520+, (or "AirPlus Extreme"), so it just isn't supported by OpenBSD. Sorry for the noise. Ciao, Kili

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Gary Clemans-Gibbon
Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 11:15 PM -0700 7/18/05, Gary Clemans-Gibbon wrote: Thanks David, I just tried that line but it seems to be the same or if anything it seems even slower. I missed the start of this thread, but make sure that you do not have a duplex-mismatch with your ethernet car

Re: USB2 (EIDE) bad mojo...

2005-07-19 Thread Rene Rivera
WARNING, this is likely going to sound offensive to some people... Johan M:son Lindman wrote: On Tuesday 19 July 2005 17:02, you wrote: Since OpenBSD is not very helpful in this case I can only enclose the dmesg without the enclosure plugged in. But first here's the info for the enclosure as L

Re: Profiling a milter

2005-07-19 Thread Juan J.
El mar, 19-07-2005 a las 18:24 +0200, Juan J. Martmnez escribis: > Hello, > > I'm trying to profile a milter. > > I compile and link it with -pg option and all seems OK, but when I run > the binary I get the message: > > # ./milter > cannot find atexit, destructors will not be run! For the reco

outdated index.txt in ~/3.7/packages/i386/

2005-07-19 Thread alain
Is the index.txt in the ~/3.7/packages/i386/ not updated? I just found out that index.txt is rather oud-of-date. The new list can be found at http://pastapower.ath.cx/etc/index.txt.new If I am wrong, sorry for the noise.

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Michael Shalayeff
Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from Alexander Bochmann: > ...on Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 12:56:03AM -0700, Tim Hammerquist wrote: > > > I've seen this same phenomenon when copying to from my OSX Powerbook and > > my fileserver (running both FreeBSD 5 and Gentoo Linux), with the OSX

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:15 PM -0700 7/18/05, Gary Clemans-Gibbon wrote: Thanks David, I just tried that line but it seems to be the same or if anything it seems even slower. I missed the start of this thread, but make sure that you do not have a duplex-mismatch with your ethernet cards. You want to be sure you

Re: sniffer

2005-07-19 Thread Andy Hayward
On 7/19/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I need to sniff a network segment and I need to sniff both headers and > data. Because tcpdump captures only headers its unsuitable for the task. > I saw that ports has ettercap and sniffit but I didn' get around to > testing them

Re: sniffer

2005-07-19 Thread Brian
Hannah Schroeter wrote: Hello! On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 05:20:43PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to sniff a network segment and I need to sniff both headers and data. Because tcpdump captures only headers its unsuitable for the task. No. Read the manpage, look for the option

Profiling a milter

2005-07-19 Thread Juan J.
Hello, I'm trying to profile a milter. I compile and link it with -pg option and all seems OK, but when I run the binary I get the message: # ./milter cannot find atexit, destructors will not be run! The milter itself interfaces bogofilter, so it needs to spawn a process to scan the messages an

Re: sniffer

2005-07-19 Thread Spruell, Darren-Perot
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I need to sniff a network segment and I need to sniff both > headers and > data. Because tcpdump captures only headers its unsuitable > for the task. > I saw that ports has ettercap and sniffit but I didn' get around to > testing them to see i

Re: sniffer

2005-07-19 Thread tomte
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 05:20:43PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > > I need to sniff a network segment and I need to sniff both headers and > data. Because tcpdump captures only headers its unsuitable for the task. > I saw that ports has ettercap and sniffit but I didn' get around to > t

Re: sniffer

2005-07-19 Thread Alexander Bochmann
...on Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 05:20:43PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I need to sniff a network segment and I need to sniff both headers and > data. Because tcpdump captures only headers its unsuitable for the task. ?? You do know about the -s and -w switches of tcpdump? Alex.

Re: sniffer

2005-07-19 Thread paolo
Hi Chris Nop. tcpshow decodes pcap files and if the creating sniffer doesn't write the packet payload it won't show it :( I need a sniffer that will write into a file (preferably in pcap format) everything coming on the wire. Ethereal does that, but it doesn't compile on OpenBSD :( Paolo

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Alexander Bochmann
...on Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 12:56:03AM -0700, Tim Hammerquist wrote: > I've seen this same phenomenon when copying to from my OSX Powerbook and > my fileserver (running both FreeBSD 5 and Gentoo Linux), with the OSX > acting as samba client. Just to drop this in again - at least here, writing f

Re: sniffer

2005-07-19 Thread eric
On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 17:20:43 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] proclaimed... > I need to sniff a network segment and I need to sniff both headers and > data. Because tcpdump captures only headers its unsuitable for the task. > I saw that ports has ettercap and sniffit but I didn' get around to > testin

Re: sniffer

2005-07-19 Thread Jaime Fournier
tcpdump -s 1500 will get you your data as well. Now for dissection tethereal(1) might be better suited. Capture using tcpdump(1), then read with tethereal(1) as a non uid 0 user. The latest ethereal-10.11 compiles fine. If you have any issues let me know. "I am not your puppet. Since when? Now

Re: sniffer

2005-07-19 Thread Hannah Schroeter
Hello! On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 05:20:43PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I need to sniff a network segment and I need to sniff both headers and >data. Because tcpdump captures only headers its unsuitable for the task. No. Read the manpage, look for the option -s. >[...] Kind regards, Hanna

Re: Increasing network performance

2005-07-19 Thread Arnaud Bergeron
As an alternative, I recoomend tptest (http://tptest.sourceforge.net). It worked great for me, i got ~80 MBps for a p3-500 with dc NICs (OpenBSD) and a p3-866 windows computer.

Re: USB2 (EIDE) bad mojo...

2005-07-19 Thread Johan M:son Lindman
On Tuesday 19 July 2005 17:02, you wrote: > Since OpenBSD is not very helpful in this case I can only enclose the > dmesg without the enclosure plugged in. But first here's the info for > the enclosure as Linux sees it (dmesg): Read this, http://www.openbsd.org/report.html (hint, you should try a

sniffer

2005-07-19 Thread paolo
Hi I need to sniff a network segment and I need to sniff both headers and data. Because tcpdump captures only headers its unsuitable for the task. I saw that ports has ettercap and sniffit but I didn' get around to testing them to see if they will do the job I need. Can anyone recommend other t

Re: How to change flags of a route?

2005-07-19 Thread Michael Adam
On 7/19/05, Roy Morris wrote: > > sorry, I must be reading this wrong or not understanding. Why > would you not just put in a static arp entry? Is there ever a > time when you don't want traffic to take this route? No, I want all traffic to take this route. There are several imaginable solutions:

USB2 (EIDE) bad mojo...

2005-07-19 Thread Rene Rivera
So here I am again talking about using a USB2 drive to do backups. So I have all the new hardware for this including two 250GB Hitachi drives, and this USB2-EIDE enclosure: http://www.kingwin.com/pdut_detail.asp?LineID=&CateID=27&ID=248 First thing I tried was hooking up an old 3GB HD I had ar

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Nick Holland
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 02:34:04PM +0200, Michael Hamerski wrote: > the FAQ which you refer to mentions 1M per 1G of storage, so that's not > really 1G of RAM for this system, is it? or is there a reason I'm missing? no...256M would in theory do it (assuming nothing bigger than around 200G in on

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Steve Williams
Marius Van Deventer - Umzimkulu wrote: Or you could disable apm0 and see if that helps. -Original Message- From: David Gwynne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 July 2005 01:57 PM To: Gary Clemans-Gibbon Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow Fr

Re: Where to get a good seed for srandom()

2005-07-19 Thread Hannah Schroeter
Hello! On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 11:02:54AM -0700, Jack Bates wrote: >[...] >4) Do not use the % (modulo) operator to select a card. The residues from >% introduce small amounts of bias, and this is a disqualifying factor for >regulated gaming. Does that point still hold, assuming I use a modulus

Re: How to change flags of a route?

2005-07-19 Thread Michael Adam
Hi, On 7/19/05, Alexander Bochmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That setup is broken by design. Well yes, but sometimes you don't have all aspects of the network setup under your control. > The only real way to make this work is > to have 192.168.1.2 do proxy-arp for > 192.168.1.3, which will so

Question about ftp-proxy and self-defending ftp server

2005-07-19 Thread Tomas
Hi list, I've seen a lot of people using ftp-proxy in their pf.conf's thought their servers are only ftp servers (not clients) and are self-defending (there are no any firewalls in front of them to defend them). But I've been reading PF FAQ and got a little bit confusing... From PF FAQ: "Please n

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Henning Brauer
* Michael Hamerski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-19 14:57]: > I am curious as I have a number of lower-end file-serving systems with > 200G - 500G and usually 256M RAM and have never been bit by a fsck > slowdown, even rebuilding raidframe parity is tolerable. Granted I have > partitions usually

Both carp interfaces are master

2005-07-19 Thread Niclas Sodergard
Hi, I'm having trouble with our firewalls. They are both Dell 2850 with identical hardware inside (dmesg below). I have five carp interfaces connected to five different em interfaces. carp0,2,3,4 works fine (master stays master and backup stays backup). For carp5 however both interfaces stays as m

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Michael Hamerski
Nick Holland wrote: Gary Clemans-Gibbon wrote: Hi All, I just built a OpenBSD 3.7 samba file server for my home lan. It's a P3 500, 128mb RAM, with a 2 gig IDE HDD for the OS and two x Maxtor 200 GB IDE drives for data. whoa. no where near enough RAM. Trip over the power cord, you will end u

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Marius Van Deventer - Umzimkulu
Or you could disable apm0 and see if that helps. > -Original Message- > From: David Gwynne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 19 July 2005 01:57 PM > To: Gary Clemans-Gibbon > Cc: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow > > > From: "Gary Clemans-Gibbon" <[E

Re: Increasing network performance

2005-07-19 Thread Artur Grabowski
Rickard Dahlstrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I are using the pc engine wrap-boxes for network measurement. Iperf > tops out at 25 Mbit/s send and 37 Mbit/s receive. If I look at top at > the same time I get 0% idle and the rest is evenly distributed between > interrupt, system and use

LaSalleBank NOTICE

2005-07-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[IMAGE] Dear LaSalle Bank customer, We recently noticed one or more attempts to log in your LaSalle Bank online banking account from a foreign IP address and we have reasons to believe that your account was hijacked by a third party without your authorization. If you recently accessed your accou

Re: Increasing network performance

2005-07-19 Thread Rickard Dahlstrand
Stuart Henderson wrote: --On 19 July 2005 12:50 +0200, Rickard Dahlstrand wrote: Stuart Henderson wrote: --On 19 July 2005 10:50 +0200, Rickard Dahlstrand wrote: I are using the pc engine wrap-boxes for network measurement. Iperf tops out at 25 Mbit/s send and 37 Mbit/s receive. If I look

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread David Gwynne
From: "Gary Clemans-Gibbon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks for your reply Tim. If anything it makes me feel worse. I was hoping it was something easily fixed. I just tried transferring a 50 Mb file to the OBSD samba box from win using SCP. Again very slow writes but much faster reads. The 50 Mb f

Re: Increasing network performance

2005-07-19 Thread Stuart Henderson
--On 19 July 2005 12:50 +0200, Rickard Dahlstrand wrote: Stuart Henderson wrote: --On 19 July 2005 10:50 +0200, Rickard Dahlstrand wrote: I are using the pc engine wrap-boxes for network measurement. Iperf tops out at 25 Mbit/s send and 37 Mbit/s receive. If I look at top at the same time I

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Nick Holland
Gary Clemans-Gibbon wrote: > Hi All, > > I just built a OpenBSD 3.7 samba file server for my home lan. It's a P3 > 500, 128mb RAM, with a 2 gig IDE HDD for the OS and two x Maxtor 200 GB > IDE drives for data. whoa. no where near enough RAM. Trip over the power cord, you will end up swapping dur

Re: Increasing network performance

2005-07-19 Thread Rickard Dahlstrand
Stuart Henderson wrote: --On 19 July 2005 10:50 +0200, Rickard Dahlstrand wrote: I are using the pc engine wrap-boxes for network measurement. Iperf tops out at 25 Mbit/s send and 37 Mbit/s receive. If I look at top at the same time I get 0% idle and the rest is evenly distributed between inte

Re: How to change flags of a route?

2005-07-19 Thread Alexander Bochmann
...on Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 10:29:34AM +0200, Michael Adam wrote: > The scenario is the following: On an OpenBSD firewall and > router, I have an interface if0 with address 192.168.1.1/24. > Now, there is a host 192.168.1.2 which sits behind a third host > 192.168.1.3 from the network segment o

Re: Increasing network performance

2005-07-19 Thread Stuart Henderson
--On 19 July 2005 10:50 +0200, Rickard Dahlstrand wrote: I are using the pc engine wrap-boxes for network measurement. Iperf tops out at 25 Mbit/s send and 37 Mbit/s receive. If I look at top at the same time I get 0% idle and the rest is evenly distributed between interrupt, system and user.

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Tony
This *may* help. man mount softdep (FFS only.) Mount the file system using soft dependen- cies. Instead of metadata being written immediately, it is written in an ordered fashion to keep the on-disk

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Tim Hammerquist
Gary Clemans-Gibbon wrote: > Thanks for your reply Tim. If anything it makes me feel worse. I was > hoping it was something easily fixed. > > I just tried transferring a 50 Mb file to the OBSD samba box from win > using SCP. Again very slow writes but much faster reads. The 50 Mb > file took about

Re: Increasing network performance

2005-07-19 Thread knitti
On 7/19/05, Rickard Dahlstrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I are using the pc engine wrap-boxes for network measurement. Iperf tops > out at 25 Mbit/s send and 37 Mbit/s receive. If I look at top at the > same time I get 0% idle and the rest is evenly distributed between > interrupt, system and us

Increasing network performance

2005-07-19 Thread Rickard Dahlstrand
Hi, I are using the pc engine wrap-boxes for network measurement. Iperf tops out at 25 Mbit/s send and 37 Mbit/s receive. If I look at top at the same time I get 0% idle and the rest is evenly distributed between interrupt, system and user. Obviously I have no option here to replace hardware

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Gary Clemans-Gibbon
Thanks for your reply Tim. If anything it makes me feel worse. I was hoping it was something easily fixed. I just tried transferring a 50 Mb file to the OBSD samba box from win using SCP. Again very slow writes but much faster reads. The 50 Mb file took about 7 mins to transfer to the OBSD box

How to change flags of a route?

2005-07-19 Thread Michael Adam
Hi, I asked this question a week ago but there was no reply, so I am asking it again somewhat differently. I would really greatly appreciate any comments on this! Is it possible to change a cloned link-level host route (generated by arp requests) into a static gateway host route? The scenari

Re: carp and spamd greylisting

2005-07-19 Thread Niclas Sodergard
On 7/18/05, Bryan Irvine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a mail server located in a DMZ and I just changed my gateway to > run with carp. I was wondering if there's a way to sync the spamd db > so that in the event of failover new messages won't take twice as long > to arrive. I don't expect

Re: Where to get a good seed for srandom()

2005-07-19 Thread Marcus Watts
Alexander Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asks: ... > If % is not good enough for getting random values in a range, then what is? ... Actually, % 32 is fine (or any reasonably small power of 2). Modulo any odd number is guaranteed to have at least a small problem, and module a large enough number is g

Re: Kernel Panic in 3.7

2005-07-19 Thread Gordon Ross
So that's what the kernel panic really means: Out of memory ? GTG >>> Ted Unangst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 19/07/2005 03:36 >>> On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Gordon Ross wrote: > I've got an OpneBSD 3.7 machine (no patches - just the standard 3.7 CD > install) running under VMWare GSX Server V3.1 Today, the

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Tim Hammerquist
Gary Clemans-Gibbon wrote: > David Gwynne wrote: > > Gary Clemans-Gibbon wrote: > > > Everything is working fine except that when I copy files to the > > > box from a Windows XP box the transfers are very slow, like > > > 9 minutes for a 48 Mb file. Copying the same file back to the win > > > box

Re: how to reduce ntpd polling cycle in OpenNTPd

2005-07-19 Thread Henning Brauer
* sean conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-19 01:33]: > G'Day, > Is there a way to reduce the interval NTPD polls for time updates? > I have installed 3.7 and have determined NTPD is contacting the time > server approx. 30sec. ntpd scales the quey interval down itself based on t

Re: Where to get a good seed for srandom()

2005-07-19 Thread Alexander Farber
Hi, that is an interesting (off-)topic :-) May I ask the very last question? If % is not good enough for getting random values in a range, then what is? I see a lot of "arc4random() % ..." when grepping the /usr/src on OpenBSD. And my (probably too naive) approach to shuffling 32 cards has been

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow - more info

2005-07-19 Thread Gary Clemans-Gibbon
This is really puzzling me, please someone help me out. I've tried a couple of things. Firstly I swapped out the NIC for a different brand, no change. Writes god-awful slow, reads nice and zippy. I did some googling and tried some things. Here are the results of ifconfig -a netstat -in netsta