Re: [CentOS] DRBD very slow....

2009-07-27 Thread Roman Savelyev
Invest in a HW RAID card with NVRAM cache that will negate the need for barrier writes from the OS as the controller will issue them async from cache allowing I/O to continue flowing. This really is the safest method. It's a better way. But socket oprions in DRBD up to 8.2 (Nagel alghoritm)

Re: [CentOS] DRBD very slow....

2009-07-27 Thread Coert Waagmeester
On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 10:18 +0400, Roman Savelyev wrote: Invest in a HW RAID card with NVRAM cache that will negate the need for barrier writes from the OS as the controller will issue them async from cache allowing I/O to continue flowing. This really is the safest method. It's a better

Re: [CentOS] DRBD very slow....

2009-07-27 Thread Coert Waagmeester
On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 08:30 +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote: On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 10:18 +0400, Roman Savelyev wrote: Invest in a HW RAID card with NVRAM cache that will negate the need for barrier writes from the OS as the controller will issue them async from cache allowing I/O to

Re: [CentOS] DRBD very slow....

2009-07-27 Thread John R Pierce
On google I found the following page: http://www.nabble.com/Huge-latency-issue-with-8.2.6-td18947965.html I have found in the drbdsetup (8) man page the sndbuf-size option, and I will try setting this. On the nabble page they talk about the TCP_NODELAY and TCP_QUICKACK socket option. Does

[CentOS] Centos 5.3, no AHCI on HP DL320 G5p?

2009-07-27 Thread Veiko Kukk
I have one HP Proliant DL320 G5p, where for some reason, the AHCI mode is not enabled. According to server specs, it should have AHCI/NCQ capability, but ata_piix module gets loaded during bootup, not ahci module. Any ideas how to enable AHCI mode? lspci output: # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge:

Re: [CentOS] Cleaning up some problems

2009-07-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Sam Drinkard wrote on Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:32:54 -0400: I don't have a perl version installed at that location. I've only added a few modules from cpan. You have no Perl, but installed modules via CPAN? Digest that. What are you telling us? And, btw, you didn't even tell what your actual

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.3, no AHCI on HP DL320 G5p?

2009-07-27 Thread Ned Slider
Veiko Kukk wrote: I have one HP Proliant DL320 G5p, where for some reason, the AHCI mode is not enabled. According to server specs, it should have AHCI/NCQ capability, but ata_piix module gets loaded during bootup, not ahci module. Any ideas how to enable AHCI mode? I'm not sure for this

[CentOS] Compile linux kernel problem

2009-07-27 Thread Hanmo
Hello everyone, I compiled the linux kernel 2.6.18.8 in CentOS 5.3, but when make install, the system says: WARNING: No module sata_nv found for kernel 2.6.18.8, continuing anyway WARNING: No module sata_nv found for kernel 2.6.18.8, continuing anyway Just if I installed RHEL 5 version's

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.3, no AHCI on HP DL320 G5p?

2009-07-27 Thread chandlercody
I had to disable it with ahci=no at boot time, have you tried ahci=yes at boot time of kernel? --Original Message-- From: Ned Slider Sender: centos-boun...@centos.org To: CentOS mailing list ReplyTo: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.3, no AHCI on HP DL320 G5p? Sent: Jul

Re: [CentOS] DRBD very slow....

2009-07-27 Thread Coert Waagmeester
On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 12:02 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote: On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 08:30 +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote: Hello Roman, I am running drbd 8.2.6 (the standard centos version) Hi, have you considered to test the drbd-8.3 packages?

Re: [CentOS] Compile linux kernel problem

2009-07-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Hanmo wrote on Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:35:56 +0800: Hello everyone, Please stop hijacking threads. If you want to ask something then hit the button new message. Thanks! Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: [CentOS] SATA DVD Burner / AHCI / CentOS 4.7 (kernel: 2.6.9-78.0.22.EL)

2009-07-27 Thread James Pearson
Robert Heller wrote: OK, it seems that the kernel I have (stock CentOS 4.7: 2.6.9-78.0.22.EL i686) seems to gronk the nVideo SATA controller in AHCI mode. It is NOT able to deal with the SATA DVD Burner I have. It is a Sony Optiarc DVD Burner with LightScribe Black SATA Model AD-7241S-0B

Re: [CentOS] Compile linux kernel problem

2009-07-27 Thread luc...@lastdot.org
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Hanmohanmoch...@gmail.com wrote: Hello   everyone, I compiled the linux kernel  2.6.18.8 in CentOS 5.3,  but when make install, the system says: WARNING: No module sata_nv found for kernel 2.6.18.8, continuing anyway WARNING: No module sata_nv found for

[CentOS] potsfix keeping mail in queue on delivery error

2009-07-27 Thread Robert Grasso
Hello, Our mail server is running CentOS 5.3. I configured postfix with maildrop as the MDA. I had to deal with a strange issue : a user sent an email to an alias, which resolves into several internal addresses. One of these addresses had its mbox filled up (reached the mailbox_size_limit); so

Re: [CentOS] install DVD mounted -noexec by default == bad interpreter permission denied

2009-07-27 Thread James Pearson
Dave wrote: Installing matlab on Centos5. command I typed: /media/MATHWORKS_R2009A/install Error message I received: [1] 10759 [r...@taro matlab]# bash: /media/MATHWORKS_R2009A/install: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied Google found no hits with this precise error

Re: [CentOS] Cleaning up some problems

2009-07-27 Thread Sam Drinkard
Alan Sparks wrote: Sam Drinkard wrote: NET::DNS is a core perl module. You don't want to get any version from CPAN. $locate DNS.pm /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/Net/DNS.pm I don't believe on CentOS this is a core module. Try a Yum install of

Re: [CentOS] Cleaning up some problems

2009-07-27 Thread Sam Drinkard
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Sam Drinkard wrote on Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:32:54 -0400: I don't have a perl version installed at that location. I've only added a few modules from cpan. You have no Perl, but installed modules via CPAN? Digest that. What are you telling us? And, btw, you

Re: [CentOS] Cleaning up some problems

2009-07-27 Thread Kwan Lowe
 BTW, what is wrong with using cpan?  I thought they were the most up to date of the perl modules available, but I rarely ever see anything perl related in a yum update... maybe I just missed it. sigh Hello Sam: I can't answer the parent question, but I do use CPAN modules quite often.

Re: [CentOS] potsfix keeping mail in queue on delivery error

2009-07-27 Thread Andreas Rogge
Am Montag, den 27.07.2009, 14:37 +0200 schrieb Robert Grasso: Hello, Our mail server is running CentOS 5.3. I configured postfix with maildrop as the MDA. I had to deal with a strange issue : a user sent an email to an alias, which resolves into several internal addresses. One of these

Re: [CentOS] SATA DVD Burner / AHCI / CentOS 4.7 (kernel: 2.6.9-78.0.22.EL)

2009-07-27 Thread Robert Heller
At Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:39:10 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Robert Heller wrote: OK, it seems that the kernel I have (stock CentOS 4.7: 2.6.9-78.0.22.EL i686) seems to gronk the nVideo SATA controller in AHCI mode. It is NOT able to deal with the SATA DVD Burner

Re: [CentOS] Cleaning up some problems

2009-07-27 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 21:16, Sam Drinkards...@wa4phy.net wrote: I get this one every week when /etc/cron.weekly runs. Which one? You never included the error message you actually have... Please re-read your original e-mail, and post the exact error message you have, and also where you get

Re: [CentOS] Cleaning up some problems

2009-07-27 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 22:32, Sam Drinkards...@wa4phy.net wrote: BTW, what is wrong with using cpan? It does not work along with RPM very well... if you mix CPAN with RPM (and you can't avoid RPM considering you need the OS Perl that comes in RPM) a future update of the RPMs might break

Re: [CentOS] install DVD mounted -noexec by default == bad interpreter permission denied

2009-07-27 Thread Hakan Koseoglu
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 2:32 AM, Davetdbtdb+cen...@gmail.com wrote: Installing matlab on Centos5. [r...@taro matlab]# bash: /media/MATHWORKS_R2009A/install: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied Sometimes this can happen if the file has Windows-style EOLs and the interpreter /bin/sh is

Re: [CentOS] install DVD mounted -noexec by default == bad interpreter permission denied

2009-07-27 Thread Hakan Koseoglu
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Hakan Koseogluha...@koseoglu.org wrote: On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 2:32 AM, Davetdbtdb+cen...@gmail.com wrote: Installing matlab on Centos5. [r...@taro matlab]# bash: /media/MATHWORKS_R2009A/install: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied Sometimes this can

Re: [CentOS] Cleaning up some problems

2009-07-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Sam Drinkard wrote on Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:03:39 -0400: As for the exact problem -- it's an error message You may not have noticed that you didn't quote that error message. At least not in the messages I got. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services:

Re: [CentOS] SATA DVD Burner / AHCI / CentOS 4.7 (kernel: 2.6.9-78.0.22.EL)

2009-07-27 Thread Robert Heller
At Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:07:54 -0400 Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: OK, it seems that the kernel I have (stock CentOS 4.7: 2.6.9-78.0.22.EL i686) seems to gronk the nVideo SATA controller in AHCI mode. It is NOT able to deal with the SATA DVD Burner I have. It is a Sony Optiarc DVD

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 53, Issue 7

2009-07-27 Thread centos-announce-request
-announce/attachments/20090727/15bf3295/attachment-0001.bin -- Message: 2 Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:26:24 +0200 From: Tru Huynh t...@centos.org Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:1178 Moderate CentOS 3 x86_64 python -security update To: centos-annou

Re: [CentOS] Cleaning up some problems

2009-07-27 Thread Alan Sparks
Sam Drinkard wrote: Alan Sparks wrote: Sam Drinkard wrote: NET::DNS is a core perl module. You don't want to get any version from CPAN. $locate DNS.pm /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/Net/DNS.pm I don't believe on CentOS this is

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.3, no AHCI on HP DL320 G5p?

2009-07-27 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 at 1:19pm, Veiko Kukk wrote I'm not sure for this particular model server, but normally this is a *BIOS* setting for the SATA controller. There are no settings in BIOS for AHCI mode, it's only possible to choose between raid and sata controller mode, i have chosen sata

[CentOS] Simple resource manager?

2009-07-27 Thread Eduardo Grosclaude
I need to serialize computing job requests for two different multicore machines, and in some near future, for a cluster. I have worked with SGE but it requires NFS and other administrative steps, plus it seems a bit overkill for my needs. I guess some simpler queue managing engine may have been

Re: [CentOS] Simple resource manager?

2009-07-27 Thread Michel van Deventer
Hi, have a look at Torque (http://www.clusterresources.com/products/torque-resource-manager.php) It might be a bit overkill, but it might also suit your needs :) Regards, Michel On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 15:22 -0300, Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: I need to serialize computing job

Re: [CentOS] Simple resource manager?

2009-07-27 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 14:22, Eduardo Grosclaudeeduardo.groscla...@gmail.com wrote: I have worked with SGE but it requires NFS I believe it is possible to set up SGE without any NFS at all. On the other hand, you will have to handle the distribution of the scripts and programs you want to

[CentOS] Graphic card question for CentOS 5.3

2009-07-27 Thread Olaf Mueller
Hello, just a short hardware question. Does CentOS 5.3 supports a Leadtek LR2960 (model S26361-D1910-V128, agp, 128mb) graphic card with a nVidia GeForce FX5200 chip and dual dvi? Thank you very much! regards Olaf ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Cleaning up some problems

2009-07-27 Thread Sam Drinkard
Filipe Brandenburger wrote: Hi, On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 21:16, Sam Drinkards...@wa4phy.net wrote: I get this one every week when /etc/cron.weekly runs. Which one? You never included the error message you actually have... Please re-read your original e-mail, and post the exact

Re: [CentOS] Cleaning up some problems

2009-07-27 Thread nate
Sam Drinkard wrote: # ./makewhatis.cron cat: /usr/share/man/man3/s: No such file or directory Read file error: /usr/share/man/man3/s No such file or directory cat: Net::DNS: No such file or directory Read file error: Net::DNS No such file or directory Look what's in /usr/share/man/man3/

Re: [CentOS] Cleaning up some problems

2009-07-27 Thread Kwan Lowe
If I recall, but I'll look back, I quoted the exact message output from the run of cron.weekly, but here it is again:: # ./makewhatis.cron cat: /usr/share/man/man3/s: No such file or directory Read file error: /usr/share/man/man3/s No such file or directory cat: Net::DNS: No such file or

Re: [CentOS] DRBD very slow....

2009-07-27 Thread Coert Waagmeester
On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 12:37 +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote: On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 12:02 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote: On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 08:30 +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote: Hello Roman, I am running drbd 8.2.6 (the standard centos version) Hi, have you

[CentOS] What's the configure specs for the generic Apache install of CentOS x86_64 5.3?

2009-07-27 Thread Al Sparks
I'm trying to install apache 2.2.x from a tarball. And it works. But I'm also trying to install modsecure, and I can't get that to work. It might help to know what CentOS uses to install Apache when doing the ./configure. === Al ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] What's the configure specs for the generic Apache install of CentOS x86_64 5.3?

2009-07-27 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Al Sparksdata...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm trying to install apache 2.2.x from a tarball. And it works.  But I'm also trying to install modsecure, and I can't get that to work. It might help to know what CentOS uses to install Apache when doing the

Re: [CentOS] What's the configure specs for the generic Apache install of CentOS x86_64 5.3?

2009-07-27 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 17:09, Al Sparksdata...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm trying to install apache 2.2.x from a tarball. Why would you want to do that? CentOS 5.3 already ships Apache 2.2 packaged as an RPM. But I'm also trying to install modsecure, and I can't get that to work. I think you

Re: [CentOS] What's the configure specs for the generic Apache install of CentOS x86_64 5.3?

2009-07-27 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Al Sparksdata...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm trying to install apache 2.2.x from a tarball. And it works.  But I'm also trying to install modsecure, and I can't get that to work. It might help to know what CentOS uses to install Apache when doing the

[CentOS] perl woes - perl-file-Temp conflict

2009-07-27 Thread Rob Kampen
Hi all, everytime I play with perl I end up falling on my face. Yesterday, some new perl modules available from rf (my chosen repo for perl, perl is excluded from my CentOS-Base), however it did not like an already installed perl-File-Temp, so not recalling it was necessary for my mail system

Re: [CentOS] DRBD very slow....

2009-07-27 Thread Ross Walker
On Jul 27, 2009, at 4:09 PM, Coert Waagmeester lgro...@waagmeester.co.za wrote: On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 12:37 +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote: On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 12:02 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote: On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 08:30 +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote: Hello Roman, I am running

Re: [CentOS] perl woes - perl-file-Temp conflict

2009-07-27 Thread Rob Kampen
Rob Kampen wrote: Hi all, everytime I play with perl I end up falling on my face. Yesterday, some new perl modules available from rf (my chosen repo for perl, perl is excluded from my CentOS-Base), however it did not like an already installed perl-File-Temp, so not recalling it was

Re: [CentOS] What's the configure specs for the generic Apache install of CentOS x86_64 5.3?

2009-07-27 Thread Al Sparks
Option 1 doesn't work on a new CentOS install of the web server. I did have to use http://localhost to get the standard CentOS web page up. I went through the /var/www/html directory, and there was nothing there. So I don't know where they put them. Adding the server-info to the URL gives

Re: [CentOS] What's the configure specs for the generic Apache install of CentOS x86_64 5.3?

2009-07-27 Thread nate
Al Sparks wrote: Option 1 doesn't work on a new CentOS install of the web server. I did have to use http://localhost to get the standard CentOS web page up. I believe that page is served up as an 'ErrorDocument' rather than a documentroot. You can download the SRPM from one of the mirrors, I

[CentOS] Problems with Broadcom 4312 wireless

2009-07-27 Thread Milos Blazevic
Hello David, In brief, I've solved this problem on my Dell Inspiron 1525 (with Broadcom 4312 wireless card), so I figured letting You know would be nice, 'cause it didn't seem like the issue is resolved. Visit this link: http://jomcode.com/fadhil/?p=59 and in addition check out the comment on

Re: [CentOS] What's the configure specs for the generic Apache install of CentOS x86_64 5.3?

2009-07-27 Thread Al Sparks
Perhaps I can use that to determine what ./configure options to use when compiling, but really, I don't see any differences in the two except some directory paths, and APR version (the CentOS version uses APR 1.3.0 and my version uses APR 1.2.7). I actually did look into specifying

Re: [CentOS] What's the configure specs for the generic Apache install of CentOS x86_64 5.3?

2009-07-27 Thread Ian Forde
On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 14:09 -0700, Al Sparks wrote: I'm trying to install apache 2.2.x from a tarball. That'll pretty much break the apache rpm installation... And it works. But I'm also trying to install modsecure, and I can't get that to work. If you stick with the rpm-based Apache

Re: [CentOS] What's the configure specs for the generic Apache install of CentOS x86_64 5.3?

2009-07-27 Thread nate
Al Sparks wrote: Perhaps I can use that to determine what ./configure options to use when compiling, but really, I don't see any differences in the two except some directory paths, and APR version (the CentOS version uses APR 1.3.0 and my version uses APR 1.2.7). I actually did look into

Re: [CentOS] What's the configure specs for the generic Apache install of CentOS x86_64 5.3?

2009-07-27 Thread Ian Forde
On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 16:06 -0700, Al Sparks wrote: Perhaps I can use that to determine what ./configure options to use when compiling, but really, I don't see any differences in the two except some directory paths, and APR version (the CentOS version uses APR 1.3.0 and my version uses APR

Re: [CentOS] Problems with Broadcom 4312 wireless

2009-07-27 Thread Ned Slider
Milos Blazevic wrote: Hello David, In brief, I've solved this problem on my Dell Inspiron 1525 (with Broadcom 4312 wireless card), so I figured letting You know would be nice, 'cause it didn't seem like the issue is resolved. Visit this link: http://jomcode.com/fadhil/?p=59 and in

Re: [CentOS] fixed perl woes - perl-file-Temp conflict

2009-07-27 Thread Rob Kampen
Rob Kampen wrote: Rob Kampen wrote: Hi all, everytime I play with perl I end up falling on my face. Yesterday, some new perl modules available from rf (my chosen repo for perl, perl is excluded from my CentOS-Base), however it did not like an already installed perl-File-Temp, so not

Re: [CentOS] What's the configure specs for the generic Apache install of CentOS x86_64 5.3?

2009-07-27 Thread Robert Heller
At Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:11:36 -0700 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 16:06 -0700, Al Sparks wrote: Perhaps I can use that to determine what ./configure options to use when compiling, but really, I don't see any differences in the two except some

Re: [CentOS] What's the configure specs for the generic Apache install of CentOS x86_64 5.3?

2009-07-27 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 28.07.2009 um 03:23 schrieb Robert Heller: Right. The other option, if there is some specific thing you need changed is to grab the source RPM and tweek the .spec file and include your own patch(es). Keep the patch(es), along with a patch file for the .spec file someplace, so you

[CentOS] Help with Intel Driver

2009-07-27 Thread Clint Dilks
Hi People I have a machine with a Intel Corporation 82Q35 Express Integrated Graphics Controller lspci 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82Q35 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) The xorg.conf is configured to use the intel' driver and I need to enable 3D

Re: [CentOS] What's the configure specs for the generic Apache install of CentOS x86_64 5.3?

2009-07-27 Thread Ian Forde
On Jul 27, 2009, at 6:28 PM, Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote: Am 28.07.2009 um 03:23 schrieb Robert Heller: Right. The other option, if there is some specific thing you need changed is to grab the source RPM and tweek the .spec file and include your own patch(es). Keep

[CentOS] perl woes - perl-file-Temp conflict

2009-07-27 Thread Rob Kampen
Hi all, everytime I play with perl I end up falling on my face. Yesterday, new perl modules available from rf (my chosen repo for perl, perl is excluded from my CentOS-Base), however it did not like an already installed perl-File-Temp, so not recalling it was necessary for my mail system I

[CentOS] mdadm RAID sync speed limitation?

2009-07-27 Thread Tim Nelson
While creating some arrays this evening, I noticed this line my dmesg: md: using maximum available idle IO bandwidth (but not more than 20 KB/sec) for reconstruction. Why is there a 200MBps limitation on the mdadm sync speed? It certainly isn't a concern for my particular systems (15k U320

Re: [CentOS] mdadm RAID sync speed limitation?

2009-07-27 Thread nate
Tim Nelson wrote: to or higher than the limit. Is this limit arbitrary? Based on detected system specs? Limitation of mdadm itself? From the docs.. http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/md.txt 453sync_speed_min 454sync_speed_max 455 This are similar to

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:1178 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 python - security update

2009-07-27 Thread Tru Huynh
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2009:1178 python security update for CentOS 3 i386: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1178.html The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: updates/i386/RPMS/python-2.2.3-6.11.i386.rpm

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:1178 Moderate CentOS 3 x86_64 python - security update

2009-07-27 Thread Tru Huynh
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2009:1178 python security update for CentOS 3 x86_64: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1178.html The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: x86_64: updates/x86_64/RPMS/python-2.2.3-6.11.x86_64.rpm

Re: [CentOS-virt] The best network to use.

2009-07-27 Thread Dennis J.
On 07/25/2009 10:24 PM, Christopher G. Stach II wrote: - Richrhd...@gmail.com wrote: When using a para-virtualized guest, which network type should be used? Are you asking whether NAT vs. bridged is better? If so, it doesn't matter. The guest is virtualized, remember? It doesn't

[CentOS-virt] I/O load distribution

2009-07-27 Thread Dennis J.
Hi, What is the best way to deal with I/O load when running several VMs on a physical machine with local or remote storage? What I'm primarily worried about is the case when several VMs cause disk I/O at the same time. One example would be the updatedb cronjob of the mlocate package. If you

Re: [CentOS-virt] I/O load distribution

2009-07-27 Thread Manuel Wolfshant
Dennis J. wrote: Hi, What is the best way to deal with I/O load when running several VMs on a physical machine with local or remote storage? What I'm primarily worried about is the case when several VMs cause disk I/O at the same time. One example would be the updatedb cronjob of the

Re: [CentOS-virt] I/O load distribution

2009-07-27 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 07/27/2009 02:15 PM, Dennis J. wrote: Hi, What is the best way to deal with I/O load when running several VMs on a physical machine with local or remote storage? have you looked at : http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/ioband/ -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522...@icq

Re: [CentOS-virt] I/O load distribution

2009-07-27 Thread Ben Montanelli
I am certainly no expert on Xen. I have read through docs and various threads a bit considering the I/O demands and have the impression that there are a couple of primary factors to work with (please correct me if I'm wrong). My comprehension is far from complete. 1 - Select which scheduler,

Re: [CentOS-virt] I/O load distribution

2009-07-27 Thread Dennis J.
On 07/27/2009 04:53 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 07/27/2009 02:15 PM, Dennis J. wrote: Hi, What is the best way to deal with I/O load when running several VMs on a physical machine with local or remote storage? have you looked at : http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/ioband/ Yes, I've

Re: [CentOS-virt] I/O load distribution

2009-07-27 Thread Dennis J.
On 07/27/2009 05:12 PM, Ben Montanelli wrote: I am certainly no expert on Xen. I have read through docs and various threads a bit considering the I/O demands and have the impression that there are a couple of primary factors to work with (please correct me if I'm wrong). My comprehension is