Mag Gam

2013-07-21 Thread Mag Gam
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nfs proxy

2011-04-03 Thread Mag Gam
Here is my situation, I have 3TB of data on a NFS server which has 2 NICs (bonded). I have 50 clients which access this data -- mainly reading. Now, I also have spare servers and I would like to use these servers to cache the NFS traffic (if possible). Are there any programs/techniques to 'cache'

Re: unloading unnecessary modules

2010-11-30 Thread Mag Gam
, Nov 28, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: Mag Gam put forth on 11/28/2010 7:31 AM: Erp, pressed 'send' to quickly. TCP/UDP offloading, to my understanding  hardware has to support  and my hardware Intel e1000 doesn't by our engineering team. i know we can offset

Re: unloading unnecessary modules

2010-11-28 Thread Mag Gam
weird random tasks starting up at production hours which causes interrupts. This is a notoriously underestimated tip. On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: Mag Gam put forth on 11/27/2010 11:06 AM: Stan, Correct. On my severs I too have sound cards

Re: unloading unnecessary modules

2010-11-28 Thread Mag Gam
option but I am really not sure how it will affect our latency. On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Mag Gam magaw...@gmail.com wrote: Stan, thanks for the response. To my understanding, CONFIG_HZ is a kernel time option. Has that changed? I can certainly rebuild the kernel. How can I check via

Re: unloading unnecessary modules

2010-11-27 Thread Mag Gam
...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: Mag Gam put forth on 11/26/2010 11:14 PM: unloading unnecessary modules If they are unnecessary modules, the kernel won't load them in the first place, as the hardware they interface with doesn't exit.  If they're not loaded, how can you unload them? I think you need

unloading unnecessary modules

2010-11-26 Thread Mag Gam
Hello, I am currently working on a ecommerce system for a client. We are using Debian 5. I was told by an engineer that unloading unnecessary modules will improve performance in the system. My question(s) are: is this true? Also, how do I measure the kernel (or base OS) system before and after I

restricting number of user logins

2010-10-22 Thread Mag Gam
Currently we do alot of `rsync -e ssh` to a host. Is it possible to restrict only 5 logins per user on the server? My goal is to avoid having 100s of these sshd processes running on the server which will slow it down. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Host configuration

2010-06-28 Thread Mag Gam
I manage close to 4k servers at my research lab. Most of these hosts are used for research simulations. My problem is, most of these hosts need to have a very similar configuration such as having the same /etc/passwd, /etc/group, /etc/hosts.allow and etc...Are there any tools which exist will

mkfifo question

2010-04-26 Thread Mag Gam
Hello, Currently I download a file (which is about 700MB) from wget and place it in my /tmp and do my task on the file. If I have to work with 10 of these fies at a single time I have to have 10 files in /tmp; I was wondering if anyone has a clever idea how I can avoid having all 10 in /tmp and

DNS round robin with NFS

2010-01-01 Thread Mag Gam
I have 3 NFS servers which are serving the same exact data - ISO images. I have close to 50 clients who access this data so I manually mount up 1/3 clients to serverA, 1/3 clients to serverB, and the remainder to serverC. I was wondering if I can place the 3 NFS server in a pool and have all the

Re: checking for multicast traffic

2009-09-16 Thread Mag Gam
How do I send multicast traffic? How do I receive it? 2009/9/16 Γιώργος Πάλλας gp...@ccf.auth.gr: Mag Gam wrote: How can I check if my adapter is sending and receiving multicast traffic? I'd say install wireshark, capture the traffic and examine it... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

checking for multicast traffic

2009-09-15 Thread Mag Gam
How can I check if my adapter is sending and receiving multicast traffic? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

HP MSA60

2009-08-18 Thread Mag Gam
I was wondering if anyone here has experience with HP MSA60 with P400 and P800 controller. How reliable are they for a 24x7 shop? TIA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: sudo logging

2009-07-25 Thread Mag Gam
interesting indeed Does anyone have any experience with: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sudoscript/ On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Berthold Cogelco...@uni-koeln.de wrote: Chris Davies schrieb: Berthold Cogel co...@uni-koeln.de wrote: We're doing somthing like this in /etc/sudoers:

Re: sudo logging

2009-06-11 Thread Mag Gam
I though there was already a tool which integrates sudo and script. This is the combination I was looking for. On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 2:02 AM, Frank Lin PIATfp...@klabs.be wrote: On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 19:57 -0400, Mag Gam wrote: We have many users at my university engineering lab. Some

wget or curl?

2009-06-10 Thread Mag Gam
I would like to automatically get files from a FTPs using TLS. Is it better to use wget or curl? or is there another alternative? TIA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: wget or curl?

2009-06-10 Thread Mag Gam
by wget docs either. But I might err ... // Oliver PS: Had accidentally replied to the sender only. Original-Nachricht Datum: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:58:13 -0500 Von: Mark Allums m...@allums.com An: debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org Betreff: Re: wget or curl? Mag

sudo logging

2009-06-10 Thread Mag Gam
We have many users at my university engineering lab. Some professors need commands for root and of other users, so we decided to setup sudo permissions. I was wondering if there is a way to log all commands when they sudo into an account or root account. I would like to even capture key

Suggestion for a mail package

2009-06-05 Thread Mag Gam
We are planning to run an email server at my university. We would like to use something that has a nice Web based gui for its configuration. Does anyone have any good ideas? We have tried courier and exim, but their web-based GUIs were not that good. Any other email packages out there we can try?

creating a compact binary

2009-04-07 Thread Mag Gam
I was wondering if its possible to compile src code (for example rsync) to create 1 large binary. I want to do this to easily distribute rsync. TIA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: creating a compact binary

2009-04-07 Thread Mag Gam
correct. I want to make a static linked binary for rsync. Thanks for stating the obvious. On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 6:01 AM, Sharninder sharnin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Mag Gam magaw...@gmail.com wrote: I was wondering if its possible to compile src code (for example

Re: creating a compact binary

2009-04-07 Thread Mag Gam
I don't really care about the size. But I really want the entire rsync distribution to be in 1 file. What is the difference between static binary and standalone? On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: On 2009-04-06 18:59, Mag Gam wrote: I was wondering

stitching a filesystem

2009-03-17 Thread Mag Gam
Is it possible to combine 2 filesystems so they would appear as one? For example, you have 2 volumes: /vol0 (500GB) /vol1 (500GB) I want to export both of them so it would appear as 1TB volume. Any ideas? TIA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: stitching a filesystem

2009-03-17 Thread Mag Gam
I was wondering if there was some clever technique you can do with symbolic links and exports. On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca wrote: On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 07:22:13PM -0400, Mag Gam wrote: Is it possible to combine 2 filesystems so they would appear as one

RAID controller data loss

2009-03-08 Thread Mag Gam
Hello Debian Users: Have there been any instances where a RAID controller wiped out data in particular the logical drives it creates are no longer able to use. The only solution is to recreate the logical drive? Just curious. TIA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: OT: file system versus databases

2009-02-24 Thread Mag Gam
-23_23:28:22, Mag Gam wrote: I was curious why this was faster: At our company we store close to 50TB of certain transaction data and we stored it on a UNIX filesystem raw without any DBMS help. I will guess that, at your company, there are very few updates of this transaction data, New

OT: file system versus databases

2009-02-23 Thread Mag Gam
I was curious why this was faster: At our company we store close to 50TB of certain transaction data and we stored it on a UNIX filesystem raw without any DBMS help. For example: country/A/name/A.txt country/B/name/B.txt country/C/name/C.txt and so on... We have close to 500 million entries in

NIS tuning

2008-12-29 Thread Mag Gam
Hello All, We are using NIS for our university's mechanical/computer/civil engineering lab. We have near 4000 clients and 1 NIS server. We have 4 global NIS servers, which is used thru out the university, but I replicate 1 NIS server nightly to be used for the 4000 clients. Obviously, we will get

Re: NIS tuning

2008-12-29 Thread Mag Gam
andy, thanks for the response. I may try this. On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Mag Gam magaw...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All, We are using NIS for our university's mechanical/computer/civil engineering lab. We have near 4000 clients and 1 NIS server. We have 4 global NIS servers, which

server upgrade question

2008-12-11 Thread Mag Gam
At my university we have 10 servers. Each server has 8 cores with 32 GIG of memory running Debian 4.0. We have to give these servers to a different department, and our Dean would like to consiladate 10 servers into 5 servers. The new server will have 16 cores with 64 GIG of memory. Basically a

Re: updatedb for very large filesystems

2008-10-07 Thread Mag Gam
Great. Thanks. Basically I have 500+ directories; each directory which has over 9000 files. I was wondering if there is a trick I can use. TIA On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 9:29 AM, James Youngman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since

Re: updatedb for very large filesystems

2008-10-02 Thread Mag Gam
WEll, I am more interesting is searching a large Networked filesystem. On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 6:18 AM, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/02/08 04:28, James Youngman wrote: On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Mag Gam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if its possible to run

updatedb for very large filesystems

2008-10-01 Thread Mag Gam
I was wondering if its possible to run updatedb on a very large filesystem (6 TB). Has anyone done this before? I plan on running this on a weekly basis, but I was wondering if updatedb was faster than a simple 'find'. Are there any optimizations in 'updatedb' ? TIA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: updatedb for very large filesystems

2008-10-01 Thread Mag Gam
Thanks Sven. Is it possible to get file user owner and file size with the mlocate/updatedb ? I would like to get granular reports like that... On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Sven Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-10-01 13:15 +0200, Mag Gam wrote: I was wondering if its possible

tar block question

2008-09-14 Thread Mag Gam
I have to tar up many small files. I have over 30k files in a directory. What is the best way to do this? If I tar it its taking a long time but from what I have been reading if I increase my blocksize it should go faster. But I am not sure if that will work. Any thoughts? TIA -- To

Re: kernel swap question

2008-09-14 Thread Mag Gam
Michael: Interesting. That will just not use swap? So, it will FIFO pages into physical memory? On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 06:28:31PM -0400, Mag Gam wrote: I have a system with 32GB of RAM. The application is designed so it does

kernel swap question

2008-09-13 Thread Mag Gam
I have a system with 32GB of RAM. The application is designed so it does not do sequential reads and it does random operations. The application memory intensive and I would like it to not swap. I want it to use physical memory as much as possible. Once the memory is read and operated on, I want

Re: kernel swap question

2008-09-13 Thread Mag Gam
Also, my I/O is pretty fast. It can do 250/MBsec read/write randomly. If that helps.. TIA On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Mag Gam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a system with 32GB of RAM. The application is designed so it does not do sequential reads and it does random operations

fuse question

2008-09-04 Thread Mag Gam
I am trying to use fuse to mount up a user created filesystem. $ /sbin/lsmod | grep fuse fuse 40404 0 $ dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024k count=10 of=fs $ /sbin/mkfs.ext3 fs $ fusermount fs mnt fusermount: old style mounting not supported I am not sure what I am dong wrong. Any

NFS export question

2008-08-30 Thread Mag Gam
I noticed when exporting NFS we are specifying fsid=X Is it possible to auto increment this fsid? I am exporting over 70 directories and keeping track of this fsid number is becoming a task of its own. Any thoughts? How is everything else doing this? TIA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: syslog and email

2008-08-28 Thread Mag Gam
me. Is that possible? TIA On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 2:33 AM, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 07:58 -0400, Mag Gam wrote: Currently at my university we have 50 servers in our physics lab, and I am forwarding all syslog messages to 1 server. Is it possible to email me

syslog and email

2008-08-25 Thread Mag Gam
Currently at my university we have 50 servers in our physics lab, and I am forwarding all syslog messages to 1 server. Is it possible to email me an alert once a particular alert occurs? Instead of constantly parsing the log file, I would like something a big more realtime. TIA -- To

Re: interface for tar

2008-08-21 Thread Mag Gam
for all of your help guys! TIA On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 1:18 AM, Shachar Or [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 20 August 2008 13:50, Mag Gam wrote: David: Do you have some sort of script to manage this? I am a little hesitate to give professors mkfs and mount sudo access. Is there a way

Re: interface for tar

2008-08-21 Thread Mag Gam
FUSE looks really good. I am going to investigate it. TIA On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Shachar Or [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 21 August 2008 16:18, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 06:29:00AM -0400, Mag Gam wrote: Sharchar: Can I do that with autofs? Lets say I

Re: interface for tar

2008-08-20 Thread Mag Gam
David: Do you have some sort of script to manage this? I am a little hesitate to give professors mkfs and mount sudo access. Is there a way around this? On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Mag Gam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WOW! Very nice ideas. I like the dd idea. What command would I use

Re: interface for tar

2008-08-20 Thread Mag Gam
, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Glennie Vignarajah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le Wednesday 20 August 2008 vers 02:40, Mag Gam(Mag Gam [EMAIL PROTECTED]) a écrit: Hello, I would like to tar them per day into one tar file. I would then like an interface similar to zsh/ksh to cd tar.file and use

interface for tar

2008-08-19 Thread Mag Gam
At my university we run fluid dynamic simulations. These simulations create many small files (30,000) per hour. Their size is very small (20k to 200k). Instead of having this on the filesystem since it take up inode space, I would like to tar them per day into one tar file. I would then like an

Re: interface for tar

2008-08-19 Thread Mag Gam
WOW! Very nice ideas. I like the dd idea. What command would I use for that? Also, the files are coming from NFS; how can I help this? Any ideas for this? On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:24 PM, David Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Mag Gam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: bandwidth tool

2008-07-07 Thread Mag Gam
Well, I need something realtime and accurate. Any thoughts? TIA On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 11:03 AM, M. Piscaer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mag Gam schreef: Is there a tool to measure network traffic? I am using ifstat but its reporting wrong statistics. I am trying to get something similar

auto mounter and nfs question

2008-07-05 Thread Mag Gam
At my university we have Debian and Redhah (blah :-) )servers. Their primary purpose is to serve files to users. We are trying to figure out a easy way to manage and export the mount points via NFS to Linux labs which have around 500 clients. Each server has a mount point like this: Server1

Re: memory question (hardware)

2008-07-05 Thread Mag Gam
Thanks for the responses. What is the engineering challenge of having more memory in a single die? I expect latency would be a issue. Also, as Brad mentioned greater risk of failure. Any thing else? On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 11:04 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Original Message

Re: memory question (hardware)

2008-07-05 Thread Mag Gam
a whole slew of things, including memory timings among others. At least this is all what I remember...! On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Mag Gam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the responses. What is the engineering challenge of having more memory in a single die? I expect latency would

bandwidth tool

2008-07-05 Thread Mag Gam
Is there a tool to measure network traffic? I am using ifstat but its reporting wrong statistics. I am trying to get something similar to eth0 , 16Mb/sec eth1, 10Mb/sec etc.. I need something simple :-) TIA

memory question (hardware)

2008-07-02 Thread Mag Gam
I am curious... When memory is manufactured why does a stick of 4GB memory cost 2.5 times of 2GB memory? Is the manufacturing process that much different to justify the cost?

root file system question

2008-06-22 Thread Mag Gam
This is more of a theoretical Unix question, When there are no users on the system, the system is idle, would there still be I/O activity on the root disks? If so, what processes will be doing the I/O ? TIA

Re: root file system question

2008-06-22 Thread Mag Gam
Ok, so in theory assuming no processes use hd resources then there should be no HD activity. On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:36 AM, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Mag Gam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is more of a theoretical Unix question, When

Re: root file system question

2008-06-22 Thread Mag Gam
Very good points. Trying to understand Linux from a theoretical point of view. On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Gilles Mocellin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le Sunday 22 June 2008 18:08:45 Ron Johnson, vous avez écrit : On 06/22/08 11:01, Mag Gam wrote: Ok, so in theory assuming

Re: indexing particular file types

2008-06-14 Thread Mag Gam
Yes. This is exactly what I intend to do. Thanks for the feedback. If you have any advice on this please don't hesitate to share with us :-) TIA On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/10/08 05:43, Mag Gam

swap space on a large system

2008-06-11 Thread Mag Gam
Typically, we create a partition to capture a kernel dump when the system crashes. Therefore, a system with 16GB of RAM will have a partition with 16GB. How would I scale a system with 64 or 128GB of memory? Any thoughts? TIA

indexing particular file types

2008-06-10 Thread Mag Gam
Is it possible to index all symbolic links (source and destination) of a filesystem? For example, in my university we have a project where professors use vast amount of disk space -- over 10 TB a month. We provide the professors a mount point, /barXX and export that mount point. The professor then

Re: RAID for large disks

2008-06-08 Thread Mag Gam
, Mike Bird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat June 7 2008 17:04:02 Mag Gam wrote: Does this page, http://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-lvm/2006-October/msg00014.html, hold any validity? The poster makes a good argument, but by seeing Damon's response it makes no sense to go thru the trouble. I

Re: RAID for large disks

2008-06-08 Thread Mag Gam
Well said. Thankyou and everyone On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 07:33 -0400, Mag Gam wrote: Again, I appreciate the responses. Damon: I am dealing with HW RAID. I looked for the geometry for my controller, but could

RAID for large disks

2008-06-07 Thread Mag Gam
I have a RAID controller with 256MB of on board cache and its connected to 12 500GB SATA disks. I am planning to create 2 RAID groups (6 disks each), but I don't know what is the optimal stripe size should be. Also, once I stripe on the RAID controller I am planning to use LVM. Is striping a good

Re: RAID for large disks

2008-06-07 Thread Mag Gam
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 08:27 -0400, Mag Gam wrote: I have a RAID controller with 256MB of on board cache and its connected to 12 500GB SATA disks. I am planning to create 2 RAID groups (6 disks each), but I don't know what is the optimal stripe size should

Re: RAID for large disks

2008-06-07 Thread Mag Gam
with max-(128+1k)? On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 11:15 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/07/08 07:27, Mag Gam wrote: I have a RAID controller with 256MB of on board cache

Re: RAID for large disks

2008-06-07 Thread Mag Gam
PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 12:52:24PM -0400, Mag Gam wrote: With the RAID array I am planning to use RAID 5 so my data is still protected. My confusion is going with RAID striping (picking the right size). Also, Does the filesystem layout need to be specific when I do striping

Re: RAID for large disks

2008-06-07 Thread Mag Gam
some assistance... On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Brian McKee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Mag Gam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a RAID controller with 256MB of on board cache and its connected to 12 500GB SATA disks. I am planning to create 2 RAID groups