Re: what's your Debian uptime?

2013-04-18 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 4/18/2013 11:56 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: I don't think uptime challenges are useful. It makes people want to do something that they shouldn't want to do. Uptime is about continuous availability and reliability of infrastructure, systems, and software, with least disruption to users, and

Re: what's your Debian uptime?

2013-04-17 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 4/17/2013 1:10 AM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Am Mittwoch, 17. April 2013 schrieb Tixy: On Tue, 2013-04-16 at 22:59 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Linux greer 3.2.6 #1 SMP Mon Feb 20 17:05:10 CST 2012 i686 GNU/Linux 22:35:31 up 412 days, 10:05, 1 user, load average: 1.18, 0.97, 0.44 So you

what's your Debian uptime?

2013-04-16 Thread Stan Hoeppner
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Re: RAID 6 mdadm

2013-04-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 4/15/2013 1:44 PM, Dexter Filmore wrote: Am Wednesday 10 April 2013 23:54:28 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: On 4/10/2013 12:32 PM, Dexter Filmore wrote: Am Wednesday 10 April 2013 18:05:08 schrieb Ross Boylan: You cannot get more than about 200MB/s out of a RAID1 setup, not even with 15krpm SAS

Re: RAID 6 mdadm

2013-04-10 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 4/10/2013 9:15 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: actually what i need is 4GB LAN throughput with teaming (802.3ad) for data storage to backup VMs and same huge data manipulations will be done. so just confused if it going to work or not. Addressing the bonded ethernet issue: 802.3ad LACP

Re: RAID 6 mdadm

2013-04-10 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 4/10/2013 12:32 PM, Dexter Filmore wrote: Am Wednesday 10 April 2013 18:05:08 schrieb Ross Boylan: You cannot get more than about 200MB/s out of a RAID1 setup, not even with 15krpm SAS drives. the RAID1 will never be faster than a single disk. How would it. It can read faster than a

Re: NAS raid with Debian?

2013-04-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 4/3/2013 7:00 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: Are there any readily available, inexpensive (US$200-500), NAS (Network Attached Storage) boxes in the 1-3TB capacity that are capable of running Debian and NFS? I'm looking for a device that can export a RAID-1, either ext4 or ZFS, capacity in the

Re: 4 port LAN card for Debian Squeeze or higher

2013-04-02 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 4/2/2013 1:02 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: i am about to build a centralized storage and i want some auto detect (where no requirement of drivers and high performance capability) LAN card for our server. Intel i350-T4

Re: 4 port LAN card for Debian Squeeze or higher

2013-04-02 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 4/2/2013 10:33 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 4/2/2013 1:02 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: i am about to build a centralized storage and i want some auto detect (where no requirement of drivers and high performance capability) LAN card for our server. Intel i350-T4 http://www.intel.com

Re: HP NC380T Dual Port PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Card (374443-001) in Debian

2013-04-01 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 4/1/2013 12:03 AM, egam...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Stan, Thank you for your reply. No, I do not have the card for now. Just planning to buy a dual port Gigabit PCI-e Ethernet card. The Intel cards are always cheaper, work out-of-the-box with the stock Intel drivers in Squeeze

Re: need advice

2013-04-01 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 4/1/2013 9:59 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: i have been working on Postfix dovecot etc for couple of months and suddenly my my management ask the question that they want to sync mobile device calendar along with i map. i am sure about IMAP i can implement this with no issues but calendar

Re: HP NC380T Dual Port PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Card (374443-001) in Debian

2013-03-30 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 3/29/2013 10:33 PM, Eric Gamess wrote: I am planning to install a HP NC380T Dual Port PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Card (374443-001) in our Debian 6.0.6 computer. Do you already have it? What do you plan to use it for? Dual GbE suggests high bandwidth and/or redundancy requirements. I have no

Re: wheezy problem

2013-03-24 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 3/23/2013 4:01 PM, Glenn English wrote: I installed wheezy on one of the LAN hosts yesterday. Everything else is squeeze, including my amanda backup machine. Amanda kept saying my wheezy box wasn't working: WARNING: sbox.slsware.lan: selfcheck request failed: timeout waiting for ACK

Re: Wheezy issue with broadcom 5720 nic on new dell PowerEdge R720

2013-03-18 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 3/18/2013 3:57 AM, Casper Langemeijer wrote: If I ifup both eth0 and eth1, ifconfig shows both interfaces. No difference between output for them. (except ip/mac of course) The counters get reset every few seconds for the broken eth0. Also: ethtool shows nothing out off the ordinary except

Re: Wheezy issue with broadcom 5720 nic on new dell PowerEdge R720

2013-03-18 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 3/18/2013 2:44 PM, Casper Langemeijer wrote: On 03/18/2013 02:23 PM, Casper Langemeijer wrote: It gets even more weird: I had the NIC daughter card replaced, and the problem still exists. I think I will use the machine in production as it is now. Since I'm not using 4 ethernet ports, for

Re: Wheezy issue with broadcom 5720 nic on new dell PowerEdge R720

2013-03-17 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 3/17/2013 10:34 AM, Casper Langemeijer wrote: Which has alway been my understanding of it until so far. But I like to repeat from my first email: I tried the debian installer again, but even then it's not able to get a DHCP IP address using eth0. eth1 is working fine. This is after a cold

Re: I need help with setting up my first samba server.

2013-03-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Hi Paul, Don't know if you remember me. I helped you get your wireless working up there on the mountain, quite some time ago. On 3/15/2013 5:45 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: I think I have an OK understanding of the 'theory' of samba, but something is not working in practice. There's not much

Re: newer kernels from experimental?

2013-03-14 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 3/13/2013 8:00 PM, Brad Alexander wrote: ... play with ... features ...like f2fs and btrfs. ... I was wondering if anyone is running any of them, and if they are stable enough for day-to-day use. I see a major disconnect here. Playing with something new is not day-day use. You can buy a

Re: Up to date Sid: Custom kernel, trying to install Virtualbox

2013-03-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 3/12/2013 7:30 PM, Curt Howland wrote: On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Joel Wirāmu Pauling j...@aenertia.net wrote: Just out of curiosity why are you not using KVM? It is better, faster, and integrated with the kernel. virt-manager is more than capable tool for provisioning VM's.

Re: HP BL460c G8 blades with 10Gb FlexibleLOM support?

2013-03-07 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 3/7/2013 11:20 AM, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote: Hey guys, Anyone out there happen to have Debian running on a HP BL460c G8 blade with the FlexFabric 2-port adapter? We're running Debian squeeze and have issues with the P420 Smart Array that required a backported kernel (kmuto d-i build) to get

Re: Running pae kernel on non-pae system

2013-02-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 2/24/2013 7:41 AM, Tixy wrote: Actually, I just double checked, and my CPU [1] does have PAE after all. PAE is in every AMD/Intel chip manufactured post 1998. You'd have to be using a Pentium MMX, AMD K6-2, or older chip, to lack PAE support. The general rule here: if the chip clock is

Re: 64 bit Wheezy RAM Limitation

2013-02-03 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 2/3/2013 8:56 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I am using Oracle VirtualBox (v 4.2.6 r82870) as a testbed for Wheezy Testing before upgrading my production linux computer. The software is installed on my 64 bit Dell Inspiron laptop with 8 GB of RAM running MS Win 7 Professional as the

Re: /var full

2013-01-30 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 1/30/2013 6:54 AM, Bonno Bloksma wrote: Hi, I had a problem that generated A LOT of messages in syslog and it grew untill the entire /var partition had 0 bytes free. The /var/log/syslog file was over 4GB large. I deleted it using a simple rm /var/log/syslog command and the file is

Re: Why the 64 bit ISA is better

2013-01-19 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 1/19/2013 3:41 AM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Thanks for detailed informations, I was suggesting some of them (instruction sets and range of registers, but did not known about the new GPRs), but did not had the knowledge to explain things as nicely as you. I would like to

Why the 64 bit ISA is better

2013-01-18 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Given the recent threads regarding 32 vs 64 bit I thought I'd take a moment to present information often omitted in responses to these posts. First, the i386 kernel/user space have access to only the original 8 general purpose registers of the 80386 ISA that are 32 bits wide, and cannot generally

Re: [1/2OT] how to delete ??? file

2013-01-18 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 1/18/2013 6:37 AM, lina wrote: It is my /home/lina/try directory. Honest speaking, I even didn't know when it showed up. And for those files inside, it looks so strange for me. might some Fortran code? or something. $ cd try/ -bash: cd: try/: Permission denied I don't feel so

Re: [1/2OT] htop for 128 processors

2013-01-17 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 1/16/2013 10:35 PM, lina wrote: Hi, I don't know how to scroll down in htop, for 128 processors. What system do you possess that has 128 cores/hardware threads? HP DL980? Supermicro 5086B-TRF? What are you using it for? That's a tremendous amount of horsepower... Please reply-all so I

Re: [1/2OT] htop for 128 processors

2013-01-17 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 1/17/2013 9:53 PM, lina wrote: On Friday 18,January,2013 11:18 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: What system do you possess that has 128 cores/hardware threads? HP DL980? Supermicro 5086B-TRF? What are you using it for? That's a tremendous amount of horsepower... I can't find the answer

Re: [1/2OT] how to delete ??? file

2013-01-17 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 1/17/2013 11:57 PM, Doug wrote: What happens if you do rm -rf /try from root? (I/m not all that familiar with Deb, but you must have some way to get admin permission, if you are the owner of the install. su or perhaps sudo.) If this pertains to the 8-way box, it's not running Debian, but

Re: [1/2OT] htop for 128 processors

2013-01-17 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 1/18/2013 1:29 AM, lina wrote: Anyone has some idea about how to set 4 columns like this? http://htop.sourceforge.net/htop-64.png $ man htop F2, S Setup screen. There you can configure meters displayed on the top side of the screen, as well as set various display

Re: SSD alignment for debian

2012-12-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 12/22/2012 2:30 AM, Daniel Dalton wrote: I've installed debian with a separate /home partition on my samsung 830 series ssd drive. I would like to verify partition alignment is correct though. Regardless of what you've read on the interwebs, there is no such thing as proper or improper

Re: [OT] tips for spending the pdflatex

2012-12-10 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 12/10/2012 11:03 PM, lina wrote: Let's say, I have some .tex which will generate more than 100 pages in PDF. The pdflatex consume a bit longer to finish in one core. Here I have physical 4 cores with virtual 4. I wonder whether or how can make it fast. In my situation, if I

Re: raid recomendation

2012-12-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 12/7/2012 5:48 PM, Aaron Toponce wrote: A RAID-1 will outperform a parity-based RAID using the same disks every time, due to calculating the parity. This hasn't been true for almost a decade. Even the slowest of modern single core x86 CPUs have plenty of excess horsepower for soft RAID

Re: Informazioni Log Analyzer Postfix

2012-12-05 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 12/5/2012 5:54 PM, Hans van Kranenburg wrote: The ultimate goal should be to be able to have some sort of log database for troubleshooting purposes containing the analyzed mail log files of the last X days/weeks on which a query could be done for a message id, a from or to address, some

Re: exchange like alternative

2012-12-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 12/4/2012 9:50 PM, s0lid wrote: Im not sure if this was discussed before but is there an application that is like microsoft exchange(Mail, Calendar, and contacts). The whole suite not just the mail server. This software class is called groupware. The term has been around for 15 years or

Re: (SOLVED) Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-12-03 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 12/3/2012 1:23 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: Yes, I had intended to get 1600 MHz memory as a replacement, but I accidentally got the 1333. If I add additional memory I realize that I will have to used 1333 for that, as well, unless I replace all of it. Unless you have an integrated GPU that

Re: (SOLVED) Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-12-01 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 12/1/2012 5:34 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: I'm calling this case settled. I went back to Fry's today and returned the second kit of Patriot Memory. I got a store creidit and went back to pick out new memory. Fry's does not carry Micron memory, and only occasionally has Crucial. They were

Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-11-29 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 11/28/2012 9:14 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 11/27/2012 11:09 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 11/27/2012 11:29 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: Gigabyte 970A-DS3 MB 8GB (2x4GB) Patriot G3 RAM The DIMMS are 1600. According to the BIOS the CPU Timing is at 200 and the memory is at x8.0

Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-11-27 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 11/27/2012 11:29 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: Last weekend I put together a new box to replace the one that has been locking up repeatedly. The components are: Gigabyte 970A-DS3 MB 8GB (2x4GB) Patriot G3 RAM AMD FX-4100 Quad Core CPU ASUS DVD/CD Writer MSI R5450

Re: Disused Floppy Drive Needs Head Exercise.

2012-11-06 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 11/6/2012 9:51 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: Is there any utility that will move the heads on a floppy drive from one stop to the other? I needed to write a floppy on an old system and discovered that the drive's head moving hardware has gotten stiff with disuse. It gets better the

Re: Disused Floppy Drive Needs Head Exercise.

2012-11-06 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 11/6/2012 11:34 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: Stan Hoeppner writes: #!/bin/bash count=0 while [ $count -le 100 ]; do dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/null count=1 skip=1 dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/null count=1 skip=2940 let count=count+1 done Thanks! That appears to be doing the job. Time

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Intel/AMD x86 CPU microcode update system in non-free

2012-11-06 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 11/6/2012 10:08 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: What I do know is that lack of microcode update support is a severe issue IMO. Debian has survived and functioned very well with good stability, all the while lacking microcode update capability for all these years. This doesn't seem

Re: linpack benchmark

2012-11-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 11/4/2012 10:42 AM, Dr Beco wrote: With so many processors out there, each one installed in a different system with different amount of RAM, kinds of disks (normal, SSD, flash, etc.), a benchmark like linpack came to fill a gap when comparing systems (not only processors). That is

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-11-03 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 11/2/2012 7:44 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Well with ARM getting more performant the differences might blur. Yes, which is the fact that started this discussion. What is a tablet? What is a desktop? If there are already attempts to make regular computer displays touchable for example.

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-11-03 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 11/2/2012 9:56 PM, Charles Kroeger wrote: On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 12:30:02 +0100 Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: Now if they'd just smarten up I've pondered this sort of thing my whole adult life. I don't understand everything you're saying here but it sounds pretty straight

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-11-03 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 11/3/2012 2:32 AM, Neal Murphy wrote: On Saturday, November 03, 2012 01:47:40 AM Stan Hoeppner wrote: Motorola 680x0, DEC Alpha, SGI MIPS, HP PA-RISC, Motorola/IBM PowerPC, Sun SPARC, Cray Vector, Intel Itanium (irony here). You missed Moto's 88K I didn't include the 88K because its

Re: If btrfs is a way to save my SSD. Then what is for swap?

2012-11-02 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 11/2/2012 12:05 AM, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: SSD like samsung 840 (TLC) only has 1k write times. Swap directly on it would not be horrible? Your question I presume: Is SSD suitable for a swap partition? Answer: Yes, all SSDs are much faster than mechanical HDD for swap duty Reason:

Re: Catastrophe on Bootup

2012-11-02 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 11/1/2012 1:23 AM, David Baron wrote: I get as far as the USB ports. From there I can get into a root-shell where I must vgmknodes to get my lvm volumes mounted! Various other inits like USB capabilities, network (cannot find eth2 device!), etc., rc.local, are not executed. Problem

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-11-02 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 11/2/2012 7:16 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: And thus I say, that I better use a dual core CPU with higher peak performance for typical desktop workloads, than a quad core CPU with lower peak performance. A quad core CPU with as high peak performance might be in order if something

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-11-02 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 11/2/2012 7:27 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: But granted I find it a pity that soo much variety of CPU platforms has gone already. Yes, a shame. A short list of some CPU archs that have been pushed out of the market or severely marginalized by x86,

Re: btrfs on LUKS

2012-11-01 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/31/2012 7:56 PM, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 19:01:40 -0500 Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: Why didn't you purchase a self encrypting SSD? Eliminates all of these issues. Lots of them available today. Price? Doing a quick check on Newegg, the cheapest SSDs

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-11-01 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 11/1/2012 11:42 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Montag, 29. Oktober 2012 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: For powerful laptops and power saving desktops I think Intel Sandybridge/Ivybridge is best bet currently - except for the political dimension. Sure, but 90% of users don't need powerful

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-31 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/30/2012 8:01 AM, John Hasler wrote: Stan Hoeppner writes: No, I mean millions [of ARM cpus]. One billion chips per year would equal 1 for every 7 humans on the planet, and that's simply impossible. Over 3 billion people have never used an electronic device. That's almost half

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-31 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/30/2012 8:05 AM, John Hasler wrote: Stan Hoeppner writes: At this point in time, and in the foreseeable, the only way to crack into the desktop market is with a new x86 chip that has sufficiently compelling advantages over both Intel and AMD. And since one must have a license from

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-31 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/30/2012 12:02 PM, Celejar wrote: As I have said, I don't have a deep understanding of these issues, but one apparent flaw in your argument is that IBM, Motorola and DEC weren't moving billions of their chips independently of their push into the desktop market, as ARM is. What's

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-31 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/30/2012 11:58 AM, Celejar wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/30/amd_to_partner_with_arm_for_server_cpus/ Just saw that, too: Do note that the SeaMicro acquisition was announced in March. Before the acquisition every SeaMicro product used Intel chips, from hot running Xeons to

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-31 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/30/2012 10:44 PM, Charles Kroeger wrote: On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 23:50:02 +0100 Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: If enough people buy AMD then Intel has a strong competitor. This keeps the marketplace healthy and keeps Chipzilla from becoming a total monopoly WRT x86

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-31 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/31/2012 4:48 AM, Jochen Spieker wrote: Stan Hoeppner: So again, ARM will never reach the desktop, nor succeed, without full ISV support. Which, as I stated previously, is why ARM will only have a chance on the desktop if the consumer conditions are right to launch an Android based PC

Re: btrfs on LUKS

2012-10-31 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/31/2012 5:46 PM, Christian Stalp wrote: Hello out there, I want to prepare my new ssd as an encrypted fs. In order to do that I took a reasonably new version of the network-installer and created: first an ext3 partition to hold the kernel. Then one MB of free space (the debian-installer

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-30 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/30/2012 4:16 AM, Joe wrote: On Mon, 29 Oct 2012 23:02:58 -0500 Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: No, I mean millions. One billion chips per year would equal 1 for every 7 humans on the planet, and that's simply impossible. Over 3 billion people have never used an electronic

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-30 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/30/2012 7:19 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 29 oct 12, 21:06:36, Stan Hoeppner wrote: The second big reason is that neither Microsoft nor ISVs will profit from a non x86 CPU architecture entering the desktop space. Supporting ARM would simply cost them money. So there's no incentive

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-29 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/29/2012 1:15 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Sonntag, 28. Oktober 2012 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: On 10/28/2012 4:38 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 27 oct 12, 22:27:30, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Coming from a 2800+ which is a ~60 watt CPU, and given the fact you'll never make use of more than

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-29 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/29/2012 6:08 PM, Celejar wrote: Interesting. Google shows that there was a thread on /. a year ago about the question of ARM on the desktop, but a quick skim shows no obviously compelling reason why it won't ever happen. Thoughts? There a dozens of reasons. First and foremost, ARM

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-29 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/29/2012 9:17 PM, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 29 Oct 2012 21:06:36 -0500 Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: On 10/29/2012 6:08 PM, Celejar wrote: Interesting. Google shows that there was a thread on /. a year ago about the question of ARM on the desktop, but a quick skim shows

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-28 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/28/2012 4:38 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 27 oct 12, 22:27:30, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Coming from a 2800+ which is a ~60 watt CPU, and given the fact you'll never make use of more than 2 of those 8 cores, I recommend a dual core AthlonII X2 @ 3.4GHz. I have the 3GHz model and the 2nd

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-27 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/27/2012 7:29 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: I'm really getting annoyed by my random system lockups, so I have been looking at new motherboards, new systems, etc. ... I saw a Fry's add for a motherboard, an AMD 8 Core CPU and memory for That's a 125 watt CPU (ouch!). That's two 60 watt

Re: High PCI Adapter Temperature

2012-10-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
cheap and easy to implement. -- Stan On Oct 24, 2012, at 11:59 PM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: On 10/24/2012 8:54 AM, Zhong wrote: Hi, I'm not sure if this is the second time I've send you this message but regarding about my fan heating up, is there any known issue

Re: ServeRAID M5110e driver for Debian Squeeze

2012-10-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
CC'ing back to debian-users On 10/25/2012 1:50 AM, s0lid wrote: I just read the specs on the System x3650 M4 (sorry I din previously) and it has the m5110e integrated on the mobo, and AFAICT no other SAS/SATA ASIC. Thus the method I described for getting Debian and a mainline kernel

Re: ServeRAID M5110e driver for Debian Squeeze

2012-10-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/25/2012 2:54 AM, Berni Elbourn wrote: On 23/10/12 14:14, s0lid wrote: Hi, I have a new server IBM X3650 M4 with a raid controller ServeRaid M5110e. I'm having a problem finding driver for this device. I tried to install debian using the ISO from http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/ which say

Re: High PCI Adapter Temperature

2012-10-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
control issues. Which is why you always reply to the list, not individuals. -- Stan Thanks. On Oct 25, 2012, at 12:20 PM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: On 10/25/2012 12:06 AM, Zhong wrote: The problem is, high temperature readings only occur in Debian but not evident

Re: ServeRAID M5110e driver for Debian Squeeze

2012-10-24 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/24/2012 4:15 AM, s0lid wrote: I actually have 5 of this new servers to replace my old ones. hmmm... i can do that or can i use the testing branch of debian instead? I just read the specs on the System x3650 M4 (sorry I din previously) and it has the m5110e integrated on the mobo, and

Re: High PCI Adapter Temperature

2012-10-24 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/24/2012 8:54 AM, Zhong wrote: Hi, I'm not sure if this is the second time I've send you this message but regarding about my fan heating up, is there any known issue surrounding the Linux kernel on a similar problem such as mine? Because much of my research on this topic either

Re: ServeRAID M5110e driver for Debian Squeeze

2012-10-23 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/23/2012 8:14 AM, s0lid wrote: Hi, I have a new server IBM X3650 M4 with a raid controller ServeRaid M5110e. I'm having a problem finding driver for this device. I tried to install debian using the ISO from http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/ which say that it has the driver for the M5110e but

Re: Wheezy Driver for Intel RMS25CB080 RAID Controller

2012-10-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/21/2012 10:10 AM, r...@microway.com wrote: I think the correct driver should be mpt2sas. That should be available in the regular kernel (no extra driver source needed), although I'm not sure off hand if Debian's binary kernel package includes it. mpt2sas is for LSI based SAS/SATA HBAs.

Re: Debian Etch(Kernel 2.6.24) Can't insatll on Ivy bridge platform

2012-10-18 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/17/2012 8:18 AM, richie.jf@foxconn.com wrote: First off, I own a couple of your socket AM3 M61PMP-K motherboards. The CPU temp doesn't report correctly, which is not critical. Besides that they work great and I'm pleased with them. When we install Debian Etch(Kernel 2.6.24) on Intel

Re: Reason to NOT install from online repositories

2012-10-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/15/2012 10:41 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: Recently someone was chided for attempting installation from a CD. Not all of us have convenient access to a high speed internet connection. I can have limited access to high speed access by carrying one of my laptops to the local library. I

Re: Debian 6.0.0 squeeze unable to detect RAID Controller and NIC Card on Dell R720 2U Rack Server

2012-10-13 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/13/2012 5:06 AM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: I am installing Debian 6.0.0 squeeze with kernel version 2.6.32-5-amd64 on Dell R720 2U server( http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/dell-poweredge-r720-spec-sheet.pdf), the installer is unable to detect the RAID Controller and NIC

Re: Debian 6.0.0 squeeze unable to detect RAID Controller and NIC Card on Dell R720 2U Rack Server

2012-10-13 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/13/2012 6:42 AM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: On 10/13/2012 5:06 AM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: I am installing Debian 6.0.0 squeeze with kernel version 2.6.32-5-amd64 on Dell R720 2U server( http://www.dell.com

Re: Debian 6.0.0 squeeze unable to detect RAID Controller and NIC Card on Dell R720 2U Rack Server

2012-10-13 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/13/2012 8:12 AM, Lisi wrote: On Saturday 13 October 2012 12:42:52 Kaushal Shriyan wrote: What is the difference between drivers and firmware blobs. I actually said binary blob. I would not have used the term firmware blob. In fact, that is the first time that I have seen it used.

Re: dynamic IP assignment on servers = brain damage

2012-10-07 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/6/2012 7:43 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Tom H wrote: On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 11:56 PM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: This thread reinforces what experienced server admins round the world have known forever: DO NOT USE dynamic network address assignment on servers

Re: dynamic IP assignment on servers = brain damage

2012-10-07 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/6/2012 1:52 PM, Satoru Otsubo wrote: Hi, Stan The problem in this thread is but one of many that can/will result from using dynamic IP assignment with servers. If the OP had mentioned his use of dynamic IP up front he would have saved himself, and the rest of us, much time.

Re: apache2's handling of IP version 6

2012-10-05 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/4/2012 12:06 PM, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 7:23 AM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: On 10/4/2012 3:46 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: On Oct 3, 2012, at 8:40 PM, Satoru Otsubo wrote: But the phenomena are same, that is, When booting my PC, apache2 failed to start

dynamic IP assignment on servers = brain damage

2012-10-05 Thread Stan Hoeppner
This thread reinforces what experienced server admins round the world have known forever: DO NOT USE dynamic network address assignment on servers. The problem in this thread is but one of many that can/will result from using dynamic IP assignment with servers. If the OP had mentioned his use

Re: apache2's handling of IP version 6

2012-10-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/4/2012 3:46 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: On Oct 3, 2012, at 8:40 PM, Satoru Otsubo wrote: But the phenomena are same, that is, When booting my PC, apache2 failed to start. And when I executed the following: # /etc/init.d/apache2 restart apache2 started successfully with the dual stack.

Re: apache2's handling of IP version 6

2012-10-03 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/3/2012 9:08 AM, Satoru Otsubo wrote: I'm Satoru Otsubo I have some problems concerning apache2's handling of IP version 6. My PC: Linux squeeze Japanese version clean install. I use the normal apache2 package prepared by debian maintainers, that is, I did not compile apache2.

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-10-02 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/1/2012 2:02 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: Agreed, if you where going to change the name, x86-64 makes the most sense, is the most common name for it in the Linux community (MS users tend to use x64, which is absurd), and is technically accurate. Actually, x86-64 is no longer technically

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-30 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/30/2012 6:02 AM, Wolf Halton wrote: How long after end-of-life of the itanium chip will Debian keep the port to IA64? There's no requirement, that I am aware of, that says Debian must wait until EOL of a processor before dropping support for it. Anyone have a link to the release inclusion

Re: monstermarketplace malware for linux?

2012-09-30 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/25/2012 1:27 PM, Edward C. Jones wrote: I use up-to-date Debian testing (wheezy), amd64 architecture. When I do a Google search, I sometimes get a window asking if I want to do a search at monstermarketplace.com. For Windows, there is a piece of malware with this name. Does this

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-29 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/28/2012 1:52 AM, Neal Murphy wrote: On Friday, September 28, 2012 02:35:49 AM Stan Hoeppner wrote: The only permanent solution to this confusion is for Debian to rename the IA64 port to Itanium and rename the AMD64 port to something like AMDINTL64. Something wrong with 'x86_64

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-29 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/28/2012 6:30 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: AMDINTL64 seems to long for me. Compared to kfreebsd-amd64 or kfreebsd-i386 it's not long at all. Besides, the length is pretty much irrelevant. What matters is that people know exactly what it is by name alone. I think x86-64 would make some

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-29 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/28/2012 7:54 AM, Jon Dowland wrote: On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 01:35:49AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Maybe we could start some kind of petition for Itanium and AMDINTL64. I think these tell everyone at a glance what they need to know when selecting a port, and would completely eliminate

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-29 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/29/2012 4:51 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 01:47:55 -0500 Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: Hello Stan, name I suggest above allows even the most challenged users to understand. I disagree. the use of the letters INTL are already established, admittedly

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-28 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/27/2012 10:07 AM, Jochen Spieker wrote: Tony Baldwin: On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 09:33:45AM +0200, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: I also had to find the answer for 'IA64 or AMD64?'. AFAIR I used google and then I grepped /proc/cpuinfo for 'lm'. Isn't this just a question of whether you have

Re: No shutdown after processor change

2012-09-26 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/26/2012 11:14 AM, Artifex Maximus wrote: On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Selim T. Erdogan se...@alumni.cs.utexas.edu wrote: Artifex Maximus, 18.09.2012: On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 8:29 PM, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: Artifex Maximus artife...@gmail.com writes: I've changed my

Re: Slow boot when network up

2012-09-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/25/2012 1:33 PM, Marek Pawinski wrote: Hi, I have noticed recently when my DSL router is on and connected and i power on my machine, it's gets to the part (after i hit enter on my kernel of choice) where a message appears loading please wait and this goes on for a few minutes.

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-24 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/23/2012 8:14 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Freitag, 21. September 2012 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: That's how it's supposed to work, but rarely does. Most people these days go straight for the mailing list hoping to save themselves the time/effort of doing research. This is what the OP

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-24 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/23/2012 9:20 AM, Christofer C. Bell wrote: Stan, I feel your question is sincere and I will answer it sincerely. Below is your original post, quoted in its entirety: I'm going to snip a lot and try to respond to specific points as we've taken up so much list space with this tread already.

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-23 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/22/2012 7:14 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:53:21 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 9/21/2012 10:06 AM, Camaleón wrote: Stan, just my personal opinion but I think there's no need (and no gain) to say this on the list. We all can think whatever we want -and we can be wrong

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-23 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/23/2012 3:20 AM, Christofer C. Bell wrote: While one could hope you're wanting this off the list because you've finally realized how much you've embarrassed yourself, I know that, sadly, that isn't true. The only thing in this thread that has embarrassed me is the hypocrisy of those,

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/22/2012 2:38 AM, Christofer C. Bell wrote: Stan violates these two points of the CoC: * The mailing lists exist to foster the development and use of Debian. Non-constructive or off-topic messages, along with other abuses, are not welcome. * Try not to flame; it is not polite. I

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