At Ade’s prompting, I’m getting ready to move FreshPorts onto the dual opteron. It should have moved there some time ago.
To keep track of the system stats, I’m using Cacti. I used the database I created on another server and copied it over to the new box. As part of this, I […]

I wanted to get linprocfs running on the dual opteron. I was setting up Cacti and a few of the features I am using requires access to linprocfs. First, let’s get the Linux Binary Compatibility:

# kldload linux
kldload: can’t load linux: File exists

Eh? Really?

# kldstat
Id Refs Address […]

I have written much about caching. FreshPorts has over 500,000 pages. Only a handful of those pages are static, the rest are generated from the database. Sometimes it takes a while to generate that page. To reduce the load on the server and make the website snappier for the user, page […]

FreshPorts often tries to help by creating HTML links. Most of the time, it gets this right. But for a recent port, it got it very wrong.
Have a look at the PostgreSQL 8.2 page. Note the commits for 05 Feb 2007 and 09 Jan 2007.
The code is taking what it thinks is […]