700th blob so far...

| Life

So this is my 700th blob! I am thinking about celebrating it, but hey, let’s have a rest first!

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RAID-5 Disaster on InfoTrend based TOYOU SATA disk array

| Development

And finally, it happend.

On Monday, one of our server, running FreeBSD, panic’ed with “ffs_clusteralloc: map mismatch”. This message is quite uncommon and should only happen when there is some “event” with the memory or hard disk.

I have suggested our administrator to reboot and do “fsck” on the volume, since it has very small block size and can not be checked background (I have made a change to warn about this to FreeBSD, and was MFC’ed to 5-STABLE so you will get the feature in 5.4-RELEASE). Unfortunatelly, the check is so slow and we start to suspect whether there is some hardware problem.

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大家一起来找新系外行星zz

| The Universe

转载自TAS台湾天文网

一个正在横掠过恒星的新系外行星

在这节庆季中,先进的业余天文学家可以贡献一个特别的礼物给天文界,那就是:侦测到一个正在横掠过恒星的新系外行星。

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超越

| Diary Excerpt

Excerpt from item 20040311

有时候会问自己,你真的能够超越自己么?

能,凭什么?不能,又为什么?

决定勇往直前的是自己,决定裹足不前的也是自己。

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想不到大家都这么喜欢八卦

| Life

八卦去吧……反正也不是第一回第二回被八卦了……

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Congratulations to null

| Life

As title. It seems that he got an offer that he has desired for a long time and made great progress.

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eAccelerator

| Development

A GPL’ed (say, it’s not OpenSource, but the source code is available publicly) PHP accelerator has been evaluated at lab, which is called eAccelerator. I should adjust my claim that this sort of application is not useful.

During my test, the accelerator has improved the TPS by about 50%, and is quite impressive.

In order to install this on FreeBSd, you should have installed PHP from ports, and go to www/eaccelerator and ``make install’'.

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Will I shut up at everything? Yes if they stop advocating lie in our world

| Life

If there is single advocacy stuff have seen in any Chinese BSD forum, no matter which, if I saw, I will not shut up for the following week. Stop cheating, and I shut up, if you continue cheating, I won’t, and moreover, I promise to use your evidence to prove that you are lying. Shut up, and that’s not a unilateral action, mmmkay?

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postfix to release 2.2.0

| Distributed Computing

Today, Wietse Venema has announced postfix 2.2.0-RELEASE. To quote him:

The official Postfix 2.2 release adopts widely used third-party patches and a bunch of new functionality that was developed over the past year. Below is a summary of the changes. These and more are detailed in the RELEASE_NOTES document, which also describe the incompatible changes that you should be aware of BEFORE upgrading from Postfix
2.1 or earlier.

  • TLS and IPv6 support are now built into Postfix, based on code
    from third-party patches.

  • Extended query interface for LDAP, MySQL and PostgreSQL with free
    form SQL queries, and domain name filters to reduce unnecessary
    lookups.

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How can you ensure that the system is stable?

| Life

With FreeBSD, we have a stress test tool called “make universe”.

This will stress test your RAM, I/O, and CPU.

Then I found that my new system have defect RAM :-(

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