From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 29 00:04:08 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40DD8106566B for ; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:04:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from samankaya@netscape.net) Received: from imr-mb02.mx.aol.com (imr-mb02.mx.aol.com [64.12.207.163]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 015B38FC18 for ; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:04:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from imo-da03.mx.aol.com (imo-da03.mx.aol.com [205.188.169.201]) by imr-mb02.mx.aol.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id nBT03kMe027725; Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:03:46 -0500 Received: from samankaya@netscape.net by imo-da03.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v42.5.) id 8.c36.6104f944 (43999); Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:03:39 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.2.21] (dsl.dynamic81215233158.ttnet.net.tr [81.215.233.158]) by cia-dd06.mx.aol.com (v127.7) with ESMTP id MAILCIADD068-abdf4b39475930a; Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:03:39 -0500 Message-ID: <4B394759.6040304@netscape.net> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 02:03:37 +0200 From: Kaya Saman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090605 SeaMonkey/1.1.17 (Ubuntu-1.1.17+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pieter de Goeje References: <4B3927EB.4030802@optiplex-networks.com> <200912290044.08105.pieter@degoeje.nl> In-Reply-To: <200912290044.08105.pieter@degoeje.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AOL-IP: 81.215.233.158 X-Mailer: Unknown (No Version) X-Spam-Flag: NO X-AOL-SENDER: samankaya@netscape.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:04:08 -0000 > > The most common cause is that either hald (sysutils/hal) or dbus (devel/dbus) > isn't running. Xorg needs them both to detect mouse and keyboard. Add > dbus_enable="YES" and hald_enable="YES" to rc.conf to get them to start > automatically. > We'll see what the issue actually is - as I mentioned I kinda stuffed this question in without any proper log or tty output to support anything I mentioned which is quite ad-hoc and not recommended on mailing lists of this caliber unless wanting to irritate the participants. Just need to clear up my notebooks drive first before setting up the VM environment to test! > > > I agree with Adam Vande More's opinion that UFS2 is the way to go on such a > low memory system. UFS2 also works well with large disks (1+ TB) if you tune > the newfs parameters a bit (mainly to shorten the fsck time). With geom(8) > you can do all kinds of mirroring/striping if you're into RAID. With regards > to stability, UFS2 was before the import of ZFS the only filesystem widely > used. It is very well tested, and in my opinion, very stable. In fact, I > can't remember ever having a UFS2 filesystem go bad to the point I couldn't > repair it anymore. If you're expecting lots of power outages, it may be > worthwile to set up journaling using gjournal(8), which will reduce fsck > times considerably, at the cost of reduced streaming write speed (which will > halve unless a dedicated journal disk is used). > I agree also and thank you guys for your opinions! As mentioned I know UFS1 from Solaris 9 on my SPARC systems and have never had any issues with it at all. "Hang on what are these things called slices and this wacky naming convention I thought disks where labeled hdax or sdax according to the partition...." :-P sorry internal joke! > > > That won't be a problem. To illustrate, FreeBSD on a 256MB (i386) machine has > about 211MB memory free just after startup. To be safe you could configure a > large swap, so the system won't kill the memory hogs as soon as it runs out > of memory. > Yeah I reckon large swap also! Usually round 2 or 3 times amount of memory but for everyday generic use I find about 1.5 - 3 gigs is enough. This is the good part of static filesystems I find over ZFS is that the swap space is easily tunable without editing ZFS pools or other. > > NFS, BIND, SNMP (bsnmpd) and NTP come with the OS and are installed by > default. Samba can be installed from ports. > Hmm.... I will need a bit of assistance for the ports part as I'm kinda used to Debian backports through the Apt repos but BSD ports is something quite different. I'm sure there's plenty of documentation on the web to find out how to install and implement! bsnmpd sounds to me more like snmpx from Solaris in terms of that it is different from opensnmpd. Not a problem won't be doing any SNMP monitoring right now as I don't have anything to monitor as my router isn't even my beloved Cisco at the mo. When I have more memory I will play around with SNMP monitoring software if available for BSD, and my all time favorite: Cacti. > > Good luck! > > Pieter > Thanks a lot Pieter!!!! --Kaya