Re: 32-bit vs AMD64 on Opteron for LAMP server

2007-07-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
, if the machine supports more than 4 GB RAM, then the BIOS should as well. After all, why would someone manufacture a machine that can handle more than 4 GB RAM and then put in a BIOS that cannot? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com

Re: 32-bit vs AMD64 on Opteron for LAMP server

2007-07-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 05:39:54PM -0400, Jim Crilly wrote: On 07/07/07 04:45:57PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: The stock Debian kernels are configured like this: CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y So, if you have a machine with 4-64 GB RAM

Re: 32-bit vs AMD64 on Opteron for LAMP server

2007-07-06 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
in the card BIOS. This is something that you DO NOT want. Use something that has REAL hardware RAID (Intel MegaRAID, HP SmartArray, 3Ware, etc), or just use the Linux built-in software RAID. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com

Re: 32-bit vs AMD64 on Opteron for LAMP server

2007-07-06 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
of some sort or another. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: how to cleanly remove the chroot environment?

2007-06-21 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
again. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [off-topic] iptables and virtual network interfaces.

2007-06-11 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
not sure why you marked this OT, since it is certainly on-topic, assuming you are running it on Debian :-) Just use shorewall. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Shouldn't this work?

2007-05-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Problem creating 6TB partition...

2007-04-29 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
volume of ~5.6TB. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Problem creating 6TB partition...

2007-04-29 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
size too big since it will waste much space. If you will have mostly large files, then make the block sizes really big, since you won't waste too much space but will make filesystem access faster. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com

Re: Problem creating 6TB partition...

2007-04-29 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
it takes? I've had some XFS partitions that were several hundred GBs (but not close to 1TB) and those seemed to pass the fsck stage very quickly. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Problem creating 6TB partition...

2007-04-29 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 03:58:27PM -0400, Mike Dresser wrote: On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: Is it an exponential growth in the amount of time it takes? I've had some XFS partitions that were several hundred GBs (but not close to 1TB) and those seemed to pass the fsck stage