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  1. danbi

    Xfce desktop-less XFCE - keyboard issue

    The keyboard mapping initialisation might come from some other X client, because xdm does not have anything to do with xfce and yet any session that starts from it works properly. I have experimented to run the same commands in the .xinitrc that are in the various xdm scripts, without any...
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    Xfce desktop-less XFCE - keyboard issue

    The purpose of the loop is to start the VM again if the user closes it’s window or it crashes.
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    Xfce desktop-less XFCE - keyboard issue

    I need to have a setup, where when the computer starts, it goes into X server and opens an session with two VirtualBox VMs running. I want to avoid the user starting anything else. Eventually, I hacked a crude rc.d script to start X at boot that does this: exec su -l user -c startx The user's...
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    Solved FreeBSD on HP ProDesk G6

    I can confirm that recent (at least the ones from 2022) FreeBSD-stable boot images boot and install just fine on this hardware. Good job!
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    BIND 9.16 (named) :: Possible Memory Leak ?!

    I have the same problem with named 9.16.13, used as recursive resolver. Not seen on non-recursive servers. It was fixed by adding named_flags="-M external" to /etc/rc.conf. Playing with zone-statistics did not help. Interesting this only occurs on 12-stable. It doesn't occur on 11-stable...
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    Solved FreeBSD on HP ProDesk G6

    Already tried hw.vga.textmode=1, which probably is a no-op in UEFI anyway. Experimented all possible gop modes. Some posts suggest certain UEFI BIOSes would boot if gop modes are changed back and forth.. not in my case. It came with BIOS S23 2.4.1 and there was an update to 2.5.1, same result...
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    Solved FreeBSD on HP ProDesk G6

    I have installed FreeBSD on quite different machines over the years, but this is my first "strictly UEFI only" BIOS one and I can't get the installer image to work. There is no Legacy ot Compatibility mode in this BIOS at all. So far tried the most recent USB images of 11.4, 12.1, 12.2, 13.0...
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    NFS write performance with mirrored ZIL

    Sometimes, the obvious is the answer, no? You need large capacitors for FLASH storage, in order to prevent the FLASH drive from being *destroyed* by an power failure. Obeying cache sync is a different thing. If your drive obeys cache sync, then ZFS can be confident, that critical data is...
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    NFS write performance with mirrored ZIL

    You are trying to make ZFS lose data? Something it is designed not to do. About the only way you can achieve this is if you have VERY faulty hardware.
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    Home server on FreeBSD

    HP sells the ProLiant MicroServer. That has N36L 1.3 GHz dual core (older model) or N40L 1.5 GHz dual core (current model) AMD CPU, up to 8 GB RAM (supports ECC). The most interesting feature is it has 4 drive bays inside + space for full-size CD/DVD drive. It has 7 USB ports, 5 SATA and 1 eSATA...
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    access to remote removable USB drive

    For some reason, ggate does not work for me. First, on the server side it randomly reports that the USB drive disconnects and indeed the kernel seems to disconnect/reconnect the drive for some reason. This has never happened with istgt and the same drive. Then, when this happens there is no...
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    access to remote removable USB drive

    I am trying to set up environment where an USB flash drive plugged in one FreeBSD machine will be accessible in another machine. Low maintenance solution is better (not having to execute scripts on both). My initial idea was to use istgt on the machine where the USB drives plug and the bundled...
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    NFS write performance with mirrored ZIL

    This sort of tests is pretty much useless and very much misleading. Consumer disks may have the same or even better sequential read/write speeds compared to enterprise drives. Where enterprise drives excel is reliability and multi-threaded performance. Also, it is unwise to compare SATA and...
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    NFS write performance with mirrored ZIL

    Perhaps the only useful settings in that thread are vfs.zfs.vdev.min_pending="1" vfs.zfs.vdev.max_pending="1" This is because SATA disks don't perform well in concurent load. ZFS has defaults that are probably designed for SAS drives, although the current values were updated to...
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    AOC-USAS2-L8i zfs panics and SCSI errors in messages

    According to the comments in that file, the commented variables are the defaults. Therefore, by default .zfs directories should be ignored. Also, they would be included only if already mounted, otherwise are invisible. But, it never hurts to be sure.
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    NFS write performance with mirrored ZIL

    It is faster than X25-E, because that Intel drive is really old. But it also uses SLC flash, which means: - less risk of device/data failure at power outage - much, much larger lifespan If you are using it in enterprise environment (X25-E is clearly an enterprise drive), you must care about...
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    ipfw and tables

    Have you tried to flush/reload your table many times?
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    ipfw and tables

    I looked at the thread you mentioned in -net, but cannot correlate it with IPFW and tables. This particular table has between 4000 and 5000 entries. I could of course iterate over the table content and remove entries one by one, but this would might end up with the same problem. A 'flush'...
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    ipfw and tables

    This does not work either. Any IP address listed after a flush is not modifiable --- as would be expected with a memory leak that messed up IPFW internal structures.
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    ipfw and tables

    I am using ipfw with tables of IP addresses. Tables get updated few times a hour with a sequence like this: ipfw table 1 flush cat file | while read line;do ipfw table 1 add $line 1 done This.. sort of works, but once in a while some IP address hangs in the table and cannot be cleared. I...
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