FreeBSD, ruby 1.8.2, libpthreads

Wednesday, 09. 12. 2007  –  Category: all, vague

Anecdotally people recommend not using libpthread with Ruby on FreeBSD. I’ve duly always told the port to not use it, but ldd has always shown that it’s linked. autoconf insists on configuring the build with it, despite the –disable-pthread flag. My long time response to this was *shrug* – Ruby seems fine. Until a weird […]

Onboard RAID

Wednesday, 05. 17. 2006  –  Category: all, vague

Poor old zest.lemonia.org dropped off air, apparently with a dead CPU or motherboard. Its standby box, juice.lemonia.org was brought up with 15 hour old data (the backup sync cron’d at 0300, the failure happened at ~1800), but not before attempting to stick one half of zest’s mirror into juice. The root fs at /dev/ad1s1a was […]

Solaris fssnap and realtime processes

Wednesday, 12. 21. 2005  –  Category: all, vague

fsnap(1M) is most woo-esque for backing up filesystems, in a snapshot filesystem dump filesystem to tape release snapshot check dump kind of manner. It does, however, have problems with realtime priority processes. If the executable of such a process resides on the filesystem being snapshotted, things don’t work: snapshot error: File system could not be […]