RE: cleaning memory.

2005-04-30 Thread guy keren
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Tzahi Fadida wrote: Well, I tried to do the O_DIRECT but its not so simple as just adding and just using the posix_memalign. errr... why? cause the buffer sizes must also be multiples of 512 bytes each? Anyway, I was trying something else. I disabled the swap file to

Re: Service console redirection

2005-04-30 Thread guy keren
On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Gil Freund wrote: I have Debian installed on two servers, and IBM Netfinity 5000 and an HP Proliant DL380, and I would like to make the most of their service ports. The DL380 has the service port redirected to ttyS0. I can see the the BIOS boot sequence via minicom,

Re: Asterisk

2005-04-30 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Aviram Jenik wrote: On Friday 29 April 2005 10:33, Patrick Kariuki wrote: Has anyone fully implemented asterisk with their office phone system without any glitch? Yup, we did. Same here. I know of more Israeli deployments and did some myself. Gilad

Re: VMware GSX host file systems

2005-04-30 Thread guy keren
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Gil Freund wrote: On 4/29/05, guy keren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: perhaps you didn't dig into the thing - it uses the linux system as a console OS, not as a host OS. the guest machines do not run on top of this linux system at all. all the device drivers that are

Re: Service console redirection

2005-04-30 Thread Itay Duvdevani
Is this a DL380 G1, or G2? The DL380 G2 has this kind of management port (called an iLO in this series, Integrated Lights Out). During bootup you can configure it by pressing F8 somewhere along the process. As guy said, after you configure it correctly (and connected it to the net), you can surf

Re: Service console redirection

2005-04-30 Thread Gil Freund
On 4/30/05, Itay Duvdevani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this a DL380 G1, or G2? It's a G1 (ServerWorks CNB20HE). I can see the service processor in lspci: :00:06.0 System peripheral: Compaq Computer Corporation Advanced System Management Controller The DL380 G2 has this kind of management

Re: Service console redirection

2005-04-30 Thread Gil Freund
On 4/30/05, guy keren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Gil Freund wrote: I have Debian installed on two servers, and IBM Netfinity 5000 and an HP Proliant DL380, and I would like to make the most of their service ports. The DL380 has the service port redirected to

Re: VMware GSX host file systems

2005-04-30 Thread Gil Freund
On 4/30/05, guy keren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Gil Freund wrote: On 4/29/05, guy keren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] consider the differences between suzuky swift and suzuky baleno. the swift has all the functionality of the baleno - they both have 4 wheels, an

Re: [OT] The Gnome -Beagle -Novell -Nasralla - Asad Connection

2005-04-30 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
Hi Lior, Do you think any connection to a foreign Arab LUG could benefit anything ? Miguel's photos from the Lebanese LUG show quite a casual LUG. Then again, in this opportunity, I must note that despite the arab population being a _lot_ larger than ours, the amount of contributors to Free

RE: cleaning memory.

2005-04-30 Thread Tzahi Fadida
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Tzahi Fadida wrote: Well, I tried to do the O_DIRECT but its not so simple as just adding and just using the posix_memalign. errr... why? cause the buffer sizes must also be multiples of 512 bytes each? well, 512 bytes aligned. But what they do is use one

Resizing Reiserfs - does it work?

2005-04-30 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi, I have to shrink a bit my single Reiserfs 3.6 filesystem to make room for Ubuntu (which I'd like to install, not just experiment). It looks like it should be strigh-forward, with GNU Parted doing the both the filesystem and partition resizing in one go (e.g.

Re: Resizing Reiserfs - does it work?

2005-04-30 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 09:41:53PM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: It looks like it should be strigh-forward, with GNU Parted doing the both the filesystem and partition resizing in one go (e.g. http://www.newsforge.com/os/03/10/07/2028234.shtml). Last time I tried, working with parted made it

Re: Resizing Reiserfs - does it work?

2005-04-30 Thread Amos Shapira
On 4/30/05, Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 09:41:53PM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: It looks like it should be strigh-forward, with GNU Parted doing the both the filesystem and partition resizing in one go (e.g. http://www.newsforge.com/os/03/10/07/2028234.shtml).Last

Re: Resizing Reiserfs - does it work?

2005-04-30 Thread Gil Freund
On 4/30/05, Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have to shrink a bit my single Reiserfs 3.6 filesystem to make room for Ubuntu (which I'd like to install, not just experiment). I have good experience with resize_reiserfs. However I did this on LVM. Parted scared me :) It

Re: cleaning memory.

2005-04-30 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 02:35:32PM +0200, Tzahi Fadida wrote: btw, the cache does not seem to drop under 5mb for some reason. I am interested to know why. Things that are used are cached. You're always using *something*. Cheers, Muli -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org |

[HAIFUX LECTURE]Firewall Piercing - Alon Altman

2005-04-30 Thread Orna Agmon
This Monday (2/5/2005), 18:30, the Haifa Linux Club will once again meet to hear alon Altman talk about: Firewall Piercing Abstract: In this lecture I will present the art and practice of Firewall piercing, that is (ab)using a network you are connected to but not totally control

RE: cleaning memory.

2005-04-30 Thread Tzahi Fadida
Yeah, but if you do a sequential scan of a big something the cache will never be actually used (at least for it). Of course, I am talking about non-executable files. It also caches executable files which is what we use right? Question is, if it includes those executable files in the cached in top.

Re: cleaning memory.

2005-04-30 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 08:30:03PM +0200, Tzahi Fadida wrote: It also caches executable files which is what we use right? Yes, as well as libraries and anything else you read off of the disk (e.g. metadata). Question is, if it includes those executable files in the cached in top. Check

RE: cleaning memory.

2005-04-30 Thread Tzahi Fadida
-Original Message- From: Muli Ben-Yehuda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 7:49 PM On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 08:30:03PM +0200, Tzahi Fadida wrote: Better that it not, since I don't need the code to keep reloading also. Not that it really matters since my

Re: cleaning memory.

2005-04-30 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 09:20:18PM +0200, Tzahi Fadida wrote: I don't want to count dumping and reloading from storage my code just the data, but I think block_dump will not know the difference. Obvious solution is to put the data (and only the data) on another block device (e.g. disk,

RE: cleaning memory.

2005-04-30 Thread Tzahi Fadida
-Original Message- From: Muli Ben-Yehuda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 8:26 PM On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 09:20:18PM +0200, Tzahi Fadida wrote: I don't want to count dumping and reloading from storage my code just the data, but I think block_dump

RE: cleaning memory.

2005-04-30 Thread Tzahi Fadida
Maybe there is another way. Is there a way to also count the cache hits on blocks and not only cache misses as I do with block_dump per process? Regards, tzahi. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the

Subversion server on Debian

2005-04-30 Thread Diego Iastrubni
CVS on steroids atomic commits we all heard of those nice slogans... So I installed one of those toys on a Debian-testing server only to found out that after each import of the repository the Berkly data base gets corrupted. The only way to recover it is using svnadmin recover

Re: Subversion server on Debian

2005-04-30 Thread Gabor Szabo
On 4/30/05, Diego Iastrubni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have heard many disaster stories from SVN. One of them is mine, as it seems that the bdb backend is problematic under MacOS and Debian. Does anyone have a clue what is really hapenning there? Anyone else experienced those symptoms? For

Re: Subversion server on Debian

2005-04-30 Thread Gil Freund
On 4/30/05, Diego Iastrubni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CVS on steroids atomic commits we all heard of those nice slogans.. [snip] I have heard many disaster stories from SVN. One of them is mine, as it seems that the bdb backend is problematic under MacOS and Debian. Does anyone have

Re: cleaning memory.

2005-04-30 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 10:13:16PM +0200, Tzahi Fadida wrote: Thought about it but it can be done only for my own files I generate. Since I use postgresql which uses regular files it cannot be done. I have a hard time believing you can't do it for pgsql's *data* files, which is what you care

Re: cleaning memory.

2005-04-30 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 10:40:42PM +0200, Tzahi Fadida wrote: Maybe there is another way. Is there a way to also count the cache hits on blocks and not only cache misses as I do with block_dump per process? Not that I know, but I haven't looked into it. Adding it should be pretty simple.

RE: cleaning memory.

2005-04-30 Thread Tzahi Fadida
-Original Message- From: Muli Ben-Yehuda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 10:15 PM On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 10:13:16PM +0200, Tzahi Fadida wrote: Thought about it but it can be done only for my own files I generate. Since I use postgresql which uses

Re: Subversion server on Debian

2005-04-30 Thread webmaster
I have a subversion repository around 400MB on my debian machine (unstable) and didn't encounter any problems yet. I also have a much smaller repository on a sarge machine - don't have problems there. about connection way: sid - svn:// sarge svn+ssh:// CVS on steroids atomic commits we

Re: cleaning memory.

2005-04-30 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 11:57:45PM +0200, Tzahi Fadida wrote: Of course, it's a directory with regular files but how can it help, it would get cached because they are regular files no matter what device I use. So unmount and mount every time you want to clear the cache. Or use any of the

RE: cleaning memory.

2005-04-30 Thread Tzahi Fadida
-Original Message- From: Muli Ben-Yehuda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 11:41 PM To: Tzahi Fadida Cc: linux-il@linux.org.il Subject: Re: cleaning memory. On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 11:57:45PM +0200, Tzahi Fadida wrote: Of course, it's a directory

Re: Subversion server on Debian

2005-04-30 Thread Shlomi Fish
Subversion works pretty well here (subversion trunk, Mandriva Limited Edition 2005, Apache 2 compiled from source, etc.). What version of Debian do you have? What version of Subversion have you installed? Have you consulted #svn on Freenode? Or the subversion mailing lists? Regards,

Re: Subversion server on Debian

2005-04-30 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sunday 01 May 2005 05:16, Shlomi Fish wrote: Subversion works pretty well here (subversion trunk, Mandriva Limited Edition 2005, Apache 2 compiled from source, etc.). What version of Debian do you have? What version of Subversion have you installed? Have you consulted #svn on Freenode? Or

Re: Subversion server on Debian

2005-04-30 Thread Lior Okman
Gil Freund wrote: On 4/30/05, Diego Iastrubni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CVS on steroids atomic commits we all heard of those nice slogans.. [snip] I have heard many disaster stories from SVN. One of them is mine, as it seems that the bdb backend is problematic under MacOS and