Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 kvm disk write performance

2012-08-11 Thread Nux!
On 10.08.2012 13:46, Julian price wrote: I have 2 similar servers. Since upgrading one from CentOS 5.5 to 6, disk write performance in kvm guest VMs is much worse. There are many, many posts about optimising kvm, many mentioning disk performance in CentOS 5 vs 6. I've tried various changes

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 kvm disk write performance

2012-08-11 Thread Philip Durbin
Nice post, Julian. It generated some feedback at http://irclog.perlgeek.de/crimsonfu/2012-08-10 and a link to http://rhsummit.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/wagner_network_perf.pdf Phil On Aug 10, 2012, at 8:46 AM, Julian price centos@julianprice.org.uk wrote: I have 2 similar servers.

Re: [CentOS-virt] RAID: by host or within KVM?

2012-08-11 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 8/10/12, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu m3fr...@thesandhufamily.ca wrote: 1. Let the KVM host manage the drives (i.e. RAID with LVM on top) and just assign the single volume to OMV. OMV will see it as one HD. 2. Assign the individual drives to the OMV KVM, and let OMV manage the RAID creation,

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 kvm disk write performance

2012-08-11 Thread Julian price
I have 2 similar servers. Since upgrading one from CentOS 5.5 to 6, disk write performance in kvm guest VMs is much worse. Philip Durbin wrote: Nice post, Julian. It generated some feedback at http://irclog.perlgeek.de/crimsonfu/2012-08-10 and a link to

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 kvm disk write performance

2012-08-11 Thread Nanook
Actually the physical disk position can make a HUGE difference. I have a machine with a velociraptor 1GB drive which I have parititioned into two 500GB partitions, the average speed of the first (on the outside cylinders of the drive) is far better than the second on the inside. Sorry I

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 kvm disk write performance

2012-08-11 Thread Julian price
physical disk position shouldn't have such a marked effect should it? Nanook wrote: Actually the physical disk position can make a HUGE difference. Thank you Nanook for your explanation. I think you're right. It looks like the variation in performance is not due to LVM, but the position on

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 kvm disk write performance

2012-08-11 Thread Trey Dockendorf
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Julian price centos@julianprice.org.uk wrote: physical disk position shouldn't have such a marked effect should it? Nanook wrote: Actually the physical disk position can make a HUGE difference. Thank you Nanook for your explanation. I think you're

Re: [CentOS] IPv6 on Centos 6

2012-08-11 Thread James Hogarth
On Aug 11, 2012 2:00 AM, Alan Batie a...@peak.org wrote: On 8/10/12 5:50 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 05:24:12PM -0700, Alan Batie wrote: IPV6_DEFROUTE=yes Not sure where you get that from. That's not something normally in our configs, I think it was in the

Re: [CentOS] Repo data lagging behind

2012-08-11 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 08/10/2012 06:13 PM, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: Hello, I just noticed there's a security update for openldap on C6 that's a few days old. However my box is not receiving the update. I've checked both ftp://ftp.plusline.de and ftp://ftp.nluug.nl. Both have the updates in the Packages

[CentOS] Missing dependency in C6 ISO

2012-08-11 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, I had downloaded c6 64 bits ISO, selected all packages to be installed. One dependency warning relating to Emacs appeared. I chose to continue. Unfortunately I was multitasking and did not note down the package name Twice this issue appeared -- first time around aborted install due

Re: [CentOS] Missing dependency in C6 ISO

2012-08-11 Thread ashkab rahmani
installing all packages is very bad idea. many of them may conflict in installation process or after it. ——— Ashkan R On Aug 11, 2012 8:41 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan raju.rajs...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, I had downloaded c6 64 bits ISO, selected all packages to be installed. One

Re: [CentOS] Missing dependency in C6 ISO

2012-08-11 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 9:43 PM, ashkab rahmani ashkan...@gmail.com wrote: installing all packages is very bad idea. many of them may conflict in installation process or after it. Completely agree. /ducks I know no sysadmin installs everything on a centos box... But then it is

Re: [CentOS] IPv6 on Centos 6

2012-08-11 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 8/11/12, Alan Batie a...@peak.org wrote: We've been running ipv6 for a year or so now, but some of our newer instances (all on an ESX cluster) are not working. It looks like it's all of our Centos 6 instances. I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction... centos666.peak.org

Re: [CentOS] Missing dependency in C6 ISO

2012-08-11 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Ashkab, Be so kind not to top post and trim your replies. On Sat, 2012-08-11 at 20:43 +0430, ashkab rahmani wrote: installing all packages is very bad idea. many of them may conflict in installation process or after it. The distribution is build by upstream so packages within a release

Re: [CentOS] Boot.log Issue

2012-08-11 Thread Blackburn, Marvin
This was taken out of RHEL in 5 and was to be replaced. However, I've not seen where, though I've not looked at 6 yet _ He's no failure. He's not dead yet. William Lloyd George -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Missing dependency in C6 ISO

2012-08-11 Thread Karanbir Singh
hi, firstly, you haven't pointed out what the problem was. On 08/11/2012 05:19 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: installing all packages is very bad idea. many of them may conflict in installation process or after it. Completely agree. I can also confirm that its impossible to install

Re: [CentOS] Missing dependency in C6 ISO

2012-08-11 Thread fred smith
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 07:34:15PM +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: hi, firstly, you haven't pointed out what the problem was. On 08/11/2012 05:19 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: installing all packages is very bad idea. many of them may conflict in installation process or after it.

Re: [CentOS] Missing dependency in C6 ISO

2012-08-11 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 08/11/2012 07:40 PM, fred smith wrote: I can also confirm that its impossible to install everything on CentOS-6. That is by design, there are functional overlaps that are enforced at the rpm level that prevent you from doing so. KB: I assume this was done for some useful purpose, not simply

[CentOS] Eth1 problem on CentOS-6.3

2012-08-11 Thread James B. Byrne
I am trying to transport a dd image between to hosts over a cross linked gigabit connection. Both hosts have an eth1 configured to a non routable ip addr on a shared network. No other devices exist on this link. When transferring via sftp I received a stall warning. Checking the logs I see

Re: [CentOS] Strange issue with system time being off

2012-08-11 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 08/09/2012 12:33 PM, Russell Jones wrote: The hardware clock is configured in local time. /etc/sysconfig/clock is set to UTC=false and ZONE=America/Chicago. What other settings are in that file? The system is treating your hardware clock as if it were UTC. Actually setting it to UTC is

Re: [CentOS] Strange device labeling in 6.3

2012-08-11 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 08/09/2012 11:31 AM, Scott Robbins wrote: It's another idea from Fedora, the theory, IIRC, was that this way, devices would always have the same name, whereas under the method that has been used device names could change on a reboot. The idea actually came from Dell. It's frequently

Re: [CentOS] Missing dependency in C6 ISO

2012-08-11 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 12:19 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: On 08/11/2012 07:40 PM, fred smith wrote: I can also confirm that its impossible to install everything on CentOS-6. That is by design, there are functional overlaps that are enforced at the rpm level that

Re: [CentOS] How protect bash history file, do audit alike in server

2012-08-11 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 08/08/2012 11:34 AM, Brian Mathis wrote: Capturing history files is error-prone and a very bad way to approach this problem. You should instead look into using process accounting, provided by the psacct package. You can read about it here:

Re: [CentOS] compare zfs xfs and jfs o

2012-08-11 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 08/04/2012 07:01 AM, ashkab rahmani wrote: i want to share it on network via nfs. which file system is better for it? I have a hard time imagining that you'd get useful information from cross-posting this to the FreeBSD and CentOS lists. Their implementations of filesystems are completely

Re: [CentOS] Missing dependency in C6 ISO

2012-08-11 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 08/11/2012 07:30 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: Greetings, On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 12:19 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: On 08/11/2012 07:40 PM, fred smith wrote: I can also confirm that its impossible to install everything on CentOS-6. That is by design, there are