Recently I setup a VMWare infrastructure at work, and when I finally thought I had everything right, I began getting errors about systems not being able to contact the “Isolation Address”. Naturally, I said “LOLWTFLOL” as I Googled for my error message.
It turns out that in order to enable VMotion, every system on the [...]
If you’ve ever tried to run named inside a FreeBSD jail you’ve seen this error:
/etc/rc.d/named: WARNING: devfs_domount(): Unable to mount devfs on /var/named/dev
devfs rule: ioctl DEVFSIO_RAPPLY: Operation not permitted
devfs rule: ioctl DEVFSIO_RAPPLY: Operation not permitted
The reason for this is that by default in FreeBSD named tries to run within a chroot. The chroot for [...]
Note to self: In Windows Server Land, FTP User Isolation does not mean what you think it would.
By default, users are restricted to the FTP Site’s home, and no directories above it, only below.
To get a better idea of what isolation is: Google It!
Buildworld Benchmark: My New Server Continued.
The same benchmark as previously done was redone with the ULE Scheduler. The results were quite odd, as the times were actually slightly higher than recorded without the ULE Scheduler.
This leads me to believe that I probably screwed up somewhere, but I just don’t want to spend more [...]
Well, it’s finally running. I installed FreeBSD about a week ago, let it run overnight, and the PSU burned (yes, literally burned). So now that the RMA is done, and it’s up and running I decided to do a little benchmark of it.
This chart shows build times vs. j-levels in FreeBSD when running buildworlds. The [...]