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Thanks scottro and SirDice. For safety's sake, I think I'll stick with compiling my programs from source.

Is it possible to compile and install programs from the ports tree and also use pkg to add/upgrade programs on the same system? I know that compiling from the ports tree and using pkg_add on the same system was a bad idea.

That worked, thanks!

I just ran portsnap fetch update on my FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE server. [root@server1 ~]# portsnap fetch update Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 6 mirrors found. Fetching snapshot tag from your-org.portsnap.freebsd.org... done. Fetching snapshot metadata... done. Updating from Mon Feb 25...

I've been burned a few times by pressing the backspace key when working in a text box. Somehow the text box lost the focus and Firefox took me back one page. I disabled this by setting browser.backspace_action=2 in about:config. I don't know how to disable everything else.

I have similar hardware but mine is a small form factor desktop that acts as my firewall. It has run for around 3 years straight with no problems. I also have hyper-threading enabled and have not experienced any issues related to the CPU. CPU: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU 330 @ 1.60GHz...

Here is the output from gpart show without manual partition editing. I ran gpart destroy -F ada0 to be sure that the partitions I created manually were removed before reinstalling to run benchmarks. # gpart show => 34 1953525101 ada0 GPT (931G) 34 128 1...

What I don't understand is why was there very little difference between the bonnie++ benchmarks for an unaligned partitions compared to properly aligned partitions. I thought I would see a significant increase in throughput once the partitions were configured correctly. I ran diskinfo and...

Benchmarks I'm thinking that the steps I performed in message #4 of this thread did not properly align the partitions. I ran bonnie++ on a clean, generic installation and again on the same system with manually aligned partitions. Most of the throughput statistics are slower on the aligned...

Xtaz- you were right. I created a var, tmp and usr directory under /mnt, mounted the partitions, and everything installed and booted correctly. Thanks for the advice! Now I'm trying to confirm that the sector size is 4K instead of 512B. gpart list shows 512B sectors, is this right...

Thanks for posting your Disk Setup Guide. It was very helpful. I found another article for on partition alignment during install which was also useful. Just for reference, here is a list of partitions, mount points and sizes that I'm using: ada0p1 boot 512K ada0p2 / 2G ada0p3 swap 4G...

I'm installing FreeBSD 9.1 on a PC with a 1 TB Western Digital Green drive with 4K sectors. Disk details from dmesg: ada0 at ata3 bus 0 scbus2 target 0 lun 0 ada0: <WDC WD1001FALS-00J7B1 05.00K05> ATA-8 SATA 2.x device ada0: 150.000MB/s transfers (SATA, UDMA5, PIO 8192bytes) ada0: 953869MB...

The output from top shows 2 zombie processes. I wonder if that is contributing to your memory issue.

I am interested in determining how much memory and disk I/O a script consumes while it executes. Is there some type of utility that would provide this information in a way similar to time? For example, I can run time myscript and get real 0m0.105s user 0m0.071s sys 0m0.037s...

I'm having the same problem running on 9.0 Release. The same hardware ran fine on 8.2. The NIC is integrated into an Asus desktop motherboard. I also tried changing the checksum settings but those changes yielded no improvement. No errors are reported to either the console or...

Print $PATH Line by Line Sometimes it's difficult to locate a particular directory in a long $PATH variable. I wrote a quick Perl script to list each $PATH directory line by line. I named it ppath- Perlpath. Script: #!/usr/local/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $path; my @paths...

That worked perfectly. Thanks!

Tonight I executed a command that I've probably run thousands of times: find . -name *.php And I got a strange, single line response instead of a list of php files: find: cron.php: unknown primary or operator There is a file called cron.php in the working directory. There is nothing special...

I'm running 8.2-RELEASE-p3 AMD64 and I get the same error.

I think rsync over ssh would work for you.