DIY Avocent / Cyclades DB9/RJ45 serial console adapters

Sunday, 04. 20. 2008  –  Category: all, stash

These are quite pricey if you buy them pre-made. Depending on how fast you can make them up you can save money. The self-wire kits I found have the RJ45 connections fixed but let you decide the DB9 pin assigments. The Avocent needs a crossover which means the wiring isn’t one to one. It’s detailed […]

Truncated and borked Thunderbird attachments

Friday, 02. 8. 2008  –  Category: all, stash

Fixed thus: mail.server.default.fetch_by_chunks to false From here. Unsure if the break is local or on the mailserver, a reasonably normal Courier IMAP deal.

ZFS on FreeBSD

Wednesday, 01. 30. 2008  –  Category: all, sw

… rocks! However, some early VM-related kernel panics – kmem_map too small panic – knocked confidence a bit. Seems ZFS really nails the kernel’s memory demands. Happily “the vm_kern.c.2 patch” (it’s well known!) sorted things. I stressed ZFS-backed IO massively without any further wobbles. Now I can micro-quota all my jail(8)s with obsession!