ifthen: we don't remove any files
our installs are as stock as possible
we modify /etc/ttys to enable serial and that's about it
i haven't told the list yet, but we now have an up-to-date OpenBSD mirror: http://mirrors.arpnetworks.com/OpenBSD/
updates every 8 hours.  use it for speedz.
awesome.
up_the_irons: working on freebsd too?
up_the_irons: also, do you ever sleep?
<up_the_irons> Thanks for the minimal mod policy statement on the OS offerings, I do believe it. I hope to see FreeBSD 9 in the checkbox for OS's stock some day.
(you can also do the install yourself if that's your cup of tea)
kraigu: i *am* working on freebsd, just the mirror i'm pulling from is slow and MAN the freebsd archive is HUGE
kraigu: i don't sleep, i'm a vampire
ifthen: freebsd 9 "as a checkbox" is coming soon :)
up_the_irons but vampires dont have artifical sun lamps
HighJinx: i retired that thing long ago :)
ahh
HighJinx:  I ordered an AMD 6000 series board that'll take 512GB of RAM :)
i saw, you getting some bulldozer action
but half a Tb o' ram is bananas
i actually saw one that will do 1TB of RAM, but it's too expensive.  the 512GB one is actually just under $500, very good deal
yeah i'm going all out on AMD
:O thats cheaper than my 4channel set for 8Gb, i think i paid 600$ for
fb-dimms tho
the pics i put on facebook are of the 4200's.  the 6200's are on the way
HighJinx: yeah man, fb-dimm's hurt, i have plenty of them and paid too much :(
now that registered dimm ddr3's have come down in price, they are a much better deal
brb
I'm getting really bad IO throughput on my VPS:
2097152000 bytes (2.1 GB) copied, 459.386 s, 4.6 MB/s
any ideas?
(that's the result of: dd if=/dev/zero of=ZEROS count=2000 bs=1M)
2097152000 bytes transferred in 52.823 secs (39700784 bytes/sec)
what the hell am I missing?  I have an /etc/pf.conf that has 2 rules.   "block all"  and one that specifically allows tcp if port = ssh
yet,  all ports are still open if I nmap the host.
pfctl -e
I'm a moron ;)
CaZe: now I'm at <2097152000 bytes (2.1 GB) copied, 27.1737 s, 77.2 MB/s>, but I often run into periods where disk IO is incredibly slow; it'd be helpful to know why
Well, you are sharing the hardware with other people.
lazard: if it's only occasionally.. it's probably not a big deal.  if it's frequent,  it could be that one of the other vps's is abusing their resources.  if so,  email support@ and have them look into it.
if it's abuse, they'll deal with it.  if it's just a vps using a lot of resources..  they may be able to move it to a host machine with differeing resources.
jpalmer: thanks. I was worried it might be due to a misconfiguration on my end
it might be,  but I'd say it's more likely another vps is hitting the disks hard occasionally.
Hit the abuse button.
up_the_irons: hahah, yeah, fbsd is monstrous
(thanks by the way
)
kraigu: np :)
:D