Question about hard limits

2008-04-21 Thread Thomas Frell
I run an icecast server which may grow into 10 000 listeners or more. Are their any gotchas that I might need to patch change with sysctl? I've changed kern.maxfiles and wondering if I could run out of TCP sockets, or file descriptors, or something else I may have missed? Aiming for high

Re: Question about hard limits

2008-04-21 Thread Bryan Irvine
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 11:15 PM, Thomas Frell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I run an icecast server which may grow into 10 000 listeners or more. Are their any gotchas that I might need to patch change with sysctl? I've changed kern.maxfiles and wondering if I could run out of TCP sockets, or

Re: Really large drives (was Re: Is there a badblocks-equivalent for OpenBSD?)

2008-04-21 Thread David Gwynne
On 21/04/2008, at 1:53 PM, Matthew Weigel wrote: David Gwynne wrote: solaris suffers from this problem. you cant use big disks with 32bit solaris kernels. For UFS, at least, but doesn't ZFS on i386 (not amd64) scale? this is a block layer problem, nothing to do with the filesystems. if

Re: Really large drives (was Re: Is there a badblocks-equivalent for OpenBSD?)

2008-04-21 Thread Janne Johansson
On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 22:53 -0500, Matthew Weigel wrote: David Gwynne wrote: solaris suffers from this problem. you cant use big disks with 32bit solaris kernels. For UFS, at least, but doesn't ZFS on i386 (not amd64) scale? The filesystem yes, but the block addressing no. I had to split

OpenBSD 4.2 and spamassasin

2008-04-21 Thread Szymon Nowak
Hello I use OpenBSD 4.2 with spamd ( all works ok !! ) But a have a question - can I use spamassasin with spamd SzymonN [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.0penbsd.pl Visit http://www.inbox.com/email to find out more!

Re: Is there a badblocks-equivalent for OpenBSD?

2008-04-21 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008-04-21, Siegbert Marschall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i think there are some companies out there having collected a lot more smart-data the we do, wonder what they do with it... ;) in the case of Google, they wrote a paper, Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population (Pinheiro, Weber,

Fixed ! (Re: Projector/external monitor not working on OpenBSD 4.2-current on Thinkpad X60)

2008-04-21 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Matthieu Herrb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Amarendra Godbole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am unable to move the display to a projector or an external monitor on my Thinkpad X60, which is running OpenBSD 4.2-current. Fn-F7 is

Re: OpenBSD 4.2 and spamassasin

2008-04-21 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Szymon Nowak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello I use OpenBSD 4.2 with spamd ( all works ok !! ) But a have a question - can I use spamassasin with spamd Yes. Spamassassin also comes with a 'spamd' binary, but it installs in a different location in the file system. The way things

QLogic lies: now it's up to you

2008-04-21 Thread Stephan A. Rickauer
In October 2007 I have established contact with QLogic, to investigate whether they could help us in making iSCSI HBAs work in OpenBSD by donating some hardware and by providing free programming documentation. o;?Unfortunately, Qlogic has chosen to be difficult. This means, I am forced to make

Re: poll(2) vs kqueue(2) performance

2008-04-21 Thread Henning Brauer
* Edwin Eyan Moragas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-04-19 07:34]: been reading the select(2) man pages and it mentions poll(2) being more efficient in most cases. this makes it obvious to discard the use of select(2) in writing new servers. yes. poll is the way better API, easier to use, easier

Re: poll(2) vs kqueue(2) performance

2008-04-21 Thread Marc Espie
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 11:43:20AM +0200, Jonathan Schleifer wrote: Edwin Eyan Moragas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the question is, which one is more useful when writing new servers? kqueue or poll? poll is more portable, while kqueue should be more performant (at least, that's why it was

Re: short _file in stdio - fd leak

2008-04-21 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:56:53PM -0400, Jan Schaumann wrote: Hey, So at work we ran into a situation where a process had to fdopen more than 32K files, which lead to a file descriptor leak. The reason for this leak was that while regular fds are ints, _file is a short, so if fdopen got

Re: Really large drives (was Re: Is there a badblocks-equivalent for OpenBSD?)

2008-04-21 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 03:35:13PM -0400, Chris Zakelj wrote: Matthew Weigel wrote: Chris Zakelj wrote: ... I'm wondering if thought is being given on how to make the physical size (not filesystem... I totally understand why those should be kept small) limitation of

Re: poll(2) vs kqueue(2) performance

2008-04-21 Thread Edwin Eyan Moragas
Marc, Henning, thank you for the insight. On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Marc Espie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 11:43:20AM +0200, Jonathan Schleifer wrote: Edwin Eyan Moragas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the question is, which one is more useful when writing new

Re: poll(2) vs kqueue(2) performance

2008-04-21 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 02:31:26PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote: programming w/ libevent is convenient at times, the decision poll vs libevent should not be made based on performance considerations, exception beeing the above massive concurrent connection case. I spent a lot of time doing

Re: PowerEdge T105

2008-04-21 Thread Thomas Martin
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 08:01:15PM +, Sevan / Venture37 wrote: I spent some time today testing Free/Open/NetBSD on the 2 PowerEdges which turned up yesterday. You can find the dmesgs here: http://geeklan.co.uk/files/poweredge_t105/ a brief write up here: http://www.geeklan.co.uk/?p=102

can't build ifconfig on landisk

2008-04-21 Thread Thomas Schoeller
hello, i can't build the ifconfig on landisk. snapshot is from 2008/04/18 /usr/src is up to date. see attached logfile. best regards thomas cc -O2 -pipe-DINET6 -c ifconfig.c ifconfig.c: In function `setifwmm': ifconfig.c:1422: error: storage size of `wmm' isn't known ifconfig.c:1426: error:

Re: PowerEdge T105

2008-04-21 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008-04-21, Thomas Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 08:01:15PM +, Sevan / Venture37 wrote: I spent some time today testing Free/Open/NetBSD on the 2 PowerEdges which turned up yesterday. You can find the dmesgs here: http://geeklan.co.uk/files/poweredge_t105/ a

Re: can't build ifconfig on landisk

2008-04-21 Thread Damien Bergamini
Run make includes in /usr/src/include/ first. Damien | hello, | i can't build the ifconfig on landisk. | snapshot is from 2008/04/18 /usr/src is up to date. | | see attached logfile. | | best regards | thomas | cc -O2 -pipe-DINET6 -c ifconfig.c | ifconfig.c: In function `setifwmm': |

Re: Question about hard limits

2008-04-21 Thread Travers Buda
* Thomas Frell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-04-21 02:15:29]: I run an icecast server which may grow into 10 000 listeners or more. Are their any gotchas that I might need to patch change with sysctl? I've changed kern.maxfiles and wondering if I could run out of TCP sockets, or file descriptors,

aterm, rxvt -- memory usage

2008-04-21 Thread Jesus Sanchez
Hi all, I'm using 4.2 without problem, and I'm trying to find one xterm to my personal use with only one thing in mind: low cpu and memory usage. I discarded xterm because it have some things I don't need and it uses a lot of memory too. My two favourite options are aterm and rxvt. I have done

Correctly uninstall default Apache and install Apache 2.2.4?

2008-04-21 Thread Ed Flecko
Hi folks, For a variety of reasons and features, I'd like to install the apache-httpd-2.2.4.tgz package. As a side note, I tried to install it on OpenBSD 4.2, and there are a few package dependencies it apparently is missing (at least on my box, which runs 4.2 without X) because the install fails.

Re: Correctly uninstall default Apache and install Apache 2.2.4?

2008-04-21 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:19:18AM -0700, Ed Flecko wrote: | Hi folks, | For a variety of reasons and features, I'd like to install the | apache-httpd-2.2.4.tgz package. As a side note, I tried to install it | on OpenBSD 4.2, and there are a few package dependencies it apparently | is missing (at

Re: aterm, rxvt -- memory usage

2008-04-21 Thread Claer
On Mon, Apr 21 2008 at 34:18, Jesus Sanchez wrote: Hi all, Hi, I'm using 4.2 without problem, and I'm trying to find one xterm to my personal use with only one thing in mind: low cpu and memory usage. I discarded xterm because it have some things I don't need and it uses a lot of memory

Re: Correctly uninstall default Apache and install Apache 2.2.4?

2008-04-21 Thread Dorian Büttner
Ed Flecko schrieb: Hi folks, For a variety of reasons and features, I'd like to install the apache-httpd-2.2.4.tgz package. As a side note, I tried to install it on OpenBSD 4.2, and there are a few package dependencies it apparently is missing (at least on my box, which runs 4.2 without X)

Re: Correctly uninstall default Apache and install Apache 2.2.4?

2008-04-21 Thread Matthew Weigel
Ed Flecko wrote: Hi folks, For a variety of reasons and features, I'd like to install the apache-httpd-2.2.4.tgz package. As a side note, I tried to install it on OpenBSD 4.2, and there are a few package dependencies it apparently is missing (at least on my box, which runs 4.2 without X) because

Re: QLogic lies: now it's up to you

2008-04-21 Thread Stephan A. Rickauer
Coincidentally, I have just received an update from QLogic in which they emphasize their will to ship us the promised HBAs. Please pause your efforts in sending emails to QLogic for now - it seems it already has helped a lot. I will update you as soon as I hear back from them, which should be end

Re: poll(2) vs kqueue(2) performance

2008-04-21 Thread Gilles Chehade
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 09:43:43AM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 02:31:26PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote: programming w/ libevent is convenient at times, the decision poll vs libevent should not be made based on performance considerations, exception beeing the above

Re: Correctly uninstall default Apache and install Apache 2.2.4?

2008-04-21 Thread Jason Larson
Ed Flecko wrote: Hi folks, For a variety of reasons and features, I'd like to install the apache-httpd-2.2.4.tgz package. As a side note, I tried to install it on OpenBSD 4.2, and there are a few package dependencies it apparently is missing (at least on my box, which runs 4.2 without X) because

Re: aterm, rxvt -- memory usage

2008-04-21 Thread Clint Pachl
Jesus Sanchez wrote: Hi all, I'm using 4.2 without problem, and I'm trying to find one xterm to my personal use with only one thing in mind: low cpu and memory usage. I have been using mrxvt for years. It's also multi-tabbed. Currently, I'm running 10 terminals in a single mrxvt process and

Samba performance question.

2008-04-21 Thread Tim May
Has anyone had an opportunity to gauge Samba performance on OpenBSD recently, either officially or simply casual observations, I'd love to hear opinions. I'm curious how it might compare to Samba on a modern Linux machine on similar hardware. Thanks in advance.