[rhelv5-list] RE: multipathing in RHEL5

2008-07-21 Thread Domenico Viggiani
We are currently using native Red Hat multipath with an EMC Clariion CX700 disk-array. No problem at all, you need only to be well-disciplined and methodical with creating/destroying LUNs. Only real BIG problem is that you cannot resize a LUN online (unless you add PV to an existing VG, using

[rhelv5-list] guaranteed cpu power to VMs

2008-07-21 Thread Ahmed Kamal
Hi guys, I'm planning on buying a Dell poweredge 2900 server. I'll be running 5.2 on it. I plan on using Xen to split that fairly powerful machines (to us). The thing is, I want to control that certian VMs cannot abuse the whole machine. Basically, I want to control that a certain VM is for

RE: [rhelv5-list] guaranteed cpu power to VMs

2008-07-21 Thread Zavodsky, Daniel (GE Money)
Hello, You cannot overcommit memory. However, you can set max-mem to a higher value and then dynamically (but manually) control the memory allocation to individual domains. You can also control the amount of CPU power a domain is guaranteed to get via the xm sched-credit command.

Re: [rhelv5-list] guaranteed cpu power to VMs

2008-07-21 Thread Ahmed Kamal
Cool, thanks a lot. Would have been cool for xm to offer swap like features for over committing RAM. Anyway, thanks a million One more question actually, this machine is gonna be a NFS homes server for 30 Linux workstations. The homes are fairly IO busy, especially when rsnapshot runs :) The

Re: [rhelv5-list] guaranteed cpu power to VMs

2008-07-21 Thread Paul Krizak
One more question actually, this machine is gonna be a NFS homes server for 30 Linux workstations. The homes are fairly IO busy, especially when rsnapshot runs :) The question is, would such a workload be happy to run in a Xen domU or should I be running it as the dom0 ? I think it makes

RE: [rhelv5-list] RE: multipathing in RHEL5

2008-07-21 Thread Domenico Viggiani
It seems that online resizing of a multipath device is actually impossible: http://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2007-August/msg00205.html This is my personal offline how-to: # Rescan devices (for all 4 paths) echo 1 /sys/bus/scsi/drivers/sd/h\:b\:t\:l/block/device/rescan ... # Check

RE: [rhelv5-list] RE: multipathing in RHEL5

2008-07-21 Thread Collins, Kevin [Beeline]
Thanks for the info... Since we are primarily an HP-UX shop (where there is no such thing as pvresize, nor any opther LUN resize ability in LVM) we would normally just add a new LUN anyway. Thanks, Kevin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: [rhelv5-list] xemacs gone??

2008-07-21 Thread Corey Kovacs
Well, it seems that the xemacs I was looking for is actually called emacs-x in RHEL5. -C On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:06 PM, Stephen John Smoogen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Stephen John Smoogen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Corey

Re: [rhelv5-list] xemacs gone??

2008-07-21 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Corey Kovacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, it seems that the xemacs I was looking for is actually called emacs-x in RHEL5. Oh I can see how that can cause some confusion: xemacs -- http://www.xemacs.org emacs-x -- http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ Hope the

Re: [rhelv5-list] kcminit_startup hangs...

2008-07-21 Thread Ed Brown
Not sure which behavior you are asking about (failed login, or failed displays with workaround), but the former MIGHT be related to the still unresolved nss_ldap bug introduced in 5.2, if you are using ldap for any name service lookups (nsswitch.conf). See:

Re: [rhelv5-list] xemacs gone??

2008-07-21 Thread Bob Arendt
Corey Kovacs wrote: Well, it seems that the xemacs I was looking for is actually called emacs-x in RHEL5. If you do a rpm -f `which emacs-x` it should point back to the emacs package. The gnu emacs package supplies emacs-x and emacs-nox (with/without X11 at startup). From the emacs RPM

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2008-07-21 Thread Bill Doran
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[rhelv5-list] RE: RE: multipathing in RHEL5

2008-07-21 Thread Rich Graves
It seems that http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.2/html/Online_Storage_Reconfiguration_Guide/ was recently posted. Previously the work in progress could only be found in an obscure bugzilla. The main reason I see to resize LUNs and rescan, rather than add a PV, is to