Re: [CentOS] Server locking up everyday around 3:30 AM - (INFO: task wget:13608 blocked for more than 120 seconds) need sleep, help.

2011-03-12 Thread Alexander Georgiev
Almost everyday around 3:30 AM the server completely locks up and has to be power cycled before it will come back online. (this means someone hat to wake up and reboot the server, oh how I love being an internet janitor! :) Smells like a hardware issue to me too, but I went through all of

Re: [CentOS] Server locking up everyday around 3:30 AM

2011-03-12 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 03/11/2011 04:06 PM, PJ wrote: snip Interesting entries in /var/log/cron: -snip- (this runs 24/7 every 5 minutes as normal...) Mar 11 02:20:01 web1 crond[12919]: (webuser) CMD (wget -q www.domain.com/cron.php /dev/null 21) snip (fast forward to 3 AM, the same cron job starts

[CentOS] wich filesystem to store 250E6 small files in same or hashed dire

2011-03-12 Thread Alain Spineux
Hi I need to store about 250.000.000 files. Files are less than 4k. On a ext4 (fedora 14) the system crawl at 10.000.000 in the same directory. I tried to create hash directories, two level of 4096 dir = 16.000.000 but I had to stop the script to create these dir after hours and rm -rf would

Re: [CentOS] Web server becoming unresponsive : high load

2011-03-12 Thread Kai Schaetzl
As John says: from where did you get it? Or is this from CentOS-testing? (I didn't follow testing or extras for versions.) I recommend ius for those packages that replace base packages. Kai ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Race condition with mdadm at boot [still mystifying]

2011-03-12 Thread compdoc
On the particular Supermicro motherboard I'm using, there is a very long delay (10 or 15 sec) between power-on and initiation of visible BIOS activity, so all disk drives have ample time to spin up and stabilize. Yeah, I have used Supermicro in the past and they had the same long pause when you

Re: [CentOS] wich filesystem to store 250E6 small files in same or hashed dire

2011-03-12 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
I haven't tried it but could you possibly use a database to hold all those files instead? At less than 4K per row, performance from an indexed database might be faster. On 3/12/11, Alain Spineux aspin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I need to store about 250.000.000 files. Files are less than 4k. On

Re: [CentOS] wich filesystem to store 250E6 small files in same or hashed dire

2011-03-12 Thread Simon Matter
Hi I need to store about 250.000.000 files. Files are less than 4k. On a ext4 (fedora 14) the system crawl at 10.000.000 in the same directory. I tried to create hash directories, two level of 4096 dir = 16.000.000 but I had to stop the script to create these dir after hours and rm -rf

Re: [CentOS] CentOS MD RAID 1 on Openfiler iSCSI

2011-03-12 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 3/2/11, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: I'm very interested to find out what happened with this project and what you ended up doing? There were delays after changes after delays for that project that was meant to run on the VM setup. Spent more time hacking temporary solutions to their

[CentOS] What iSCSI is used in Centos 5 and RHEL6?

2011-03-12 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
I was looking up on iSCSI in preparation and became aware that there are different iSCSI software/drivers/whatever-is-the-correct-term available. e.g. IET http://iscsitarget.sourceforge.net/ SCST http://scst.sourceforge.net/ STGT http://stgt.berlios.de/ LIO http://linux-iscsi.org/ Based on

Re: [CentOS] What iSCSI is used in Centos 5 and RHEL6?

2011-03-12 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 02:41:07AM +0800, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: I was looking up on iSCSI in preparation and became aware that there are different iSCSI software/drivers/whatever-is-the-correct-term available. e.g. IET http://iscsitarget.sourceforge.net/ SCST

Re: [CentOS] What iSCSI is used in Centos 5 and RHEL6?

2011-03-12 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
Thanks for the confirmation and the note about LIO On 3/13/11, Ray Van Dolson ra...@bludgeon.org wrote: On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 02:41:07AM +0800, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: I was looking up on iSCSI in preparation and became aware that there are different iSCSI

Re: [CentOS] Race condition with mdadm at boot

2011-03-12 Thread Chuck Munro
On 03/12/2011 09:00 AM, compdoc wrote: On the particular Supermicro motherboard I'm using, there is a very long delay (10 or 15 sec) between power-on and initiation of visible BIOS activity, so all disk drives have ample time to spin up and stabilize. Yeah, I have used Supermicro in the

Re: [CentOS] wich filesystem to store 250E6 small files in same or hashed dire

2011-03-12 Thread Alain Spineux
Thanks to everybody for answering. I thing 250E6 is a lot and keep decent read and write access speed is unreal using mutli-purpose filesystems like ext? and other ?FS. I would need a dedicated filesystem for that. This problem was only a possible solution to another problem. I will solve the

[CentOS] try with succes rpm bind 9.7.3 with koji el4 and el5

2011-03-12 Thread fakessh @
rehello centos list after some modifications rpm fedora core 14 of bind-9.7.3 and patching. diff -u unpatched/configure.in patched/configure.in --- unpatched/configure.in 2010-07-05 14:02:20.0 +0200 +++ patched/configure.in 2010-07-05 14:03:48.0 +0200 @@ -282,7 +282,8 @@

Re: [CentOS] wich filesystem to store 250E6 small files in same or hashed dire

2011-03-12 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Alain Spineux aspin...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks to everybody for answering. I thing 250E6 is a lot and keep decent read and write access speed is unreal using mutli-purpose filesystems like ext? and other ?FS. I would need a dedicated filesystem for that.

Re: [CentOS] Alternatives to apache for php based servers: Nginx

2011-03-12 Thread Lucian
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Geoff Galitz ge...@galitz.org wrote: Anyone here using Nginx as alternative to apache in conjunction to php scripts? Care to share thoughts and caveats? Yes, we use nginx + PHP and also apache + nginx + PHP extensively and it works well. You can also look

Re: [CentOS] Which file system to use for a USB backup

2011-03-12 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Wednesday, March 09, 2011 2:56 PM -0800 Todd Cary t...@aristesoftware.com wrote: I have some photographs on my Centos 4 server that I want to copy to a USB drive. However, I want to be able to access the files from Windows or Mac OS's. Where should I look for instructions on how to

[CentOS] Mumble gamers' VOIP server (murmur)

2011-03-12 Thread Kenneth Porter
I was unable to build the whole Mumble system on CentOS but it's available for Fedora Development. I just wanted the server part on my headless server, and a static build is available from the Mumble project on Sourceforge. So I grabbed the Mumble SRPM from Fedora Development, the static build

Re: [CentOS] Web server becoming unresponsive : high load

2011-03-12 Thread robert mena
Hi, Yes Centos-Testing. I've been using for a while (1 year) with no problems. The last ius package that I've used (5.2.15?) kept aborting without any good reason. On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl mailli...@conactive.comwrote: As John says: from where did you get it? Or is this