From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 28 22:14:32 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF1F216A4CE for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:14:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A62E43D41 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:14:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBADB5F07; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:14:31 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 79946-04; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:14:29 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-114-38.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.114.38]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 790FC5E93; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:14:29 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <41FAB947.3010605@mac.com> Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:14:31 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Oren Baum References: <1106945920.41faa7806f30b@secure.creativeimage.ca> In-Reply-To: <1106945920.41faa7806f30b@secure.creativeimage.ca> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Seemingly odd disc i/o behaviour, need help to diagnose X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:14:32 -0000 Hello-- Oren Baum wrote: [ ... ] > Configuration: > > FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE > apache+mod_ssl-1.3.22+2.8.5_1 > mysql-server-3.23.42 > Hard Drive (dual ATA disks, no RAID) on a Dell P4 PowerEDGE server Your software is several years out of date, and there are important security holes in at least FreeBSD and apache which have since been fixed. You ought to upgrade to recent versions and retest the system to see whether your problems get solved as a result... -- -Chuck