Re: [OT] SATA 3TB: unsupported sector size -1548812288.

2011-09-01 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/1/2011 5:39 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 01/09/11 19:40, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 8/31/2011 12:54 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: NOTE: I got well side-tracked here - I'm don't know whether the OP's problem is partition table type, sector size (some new drives use large sectors?) or some other

Re: SATA 3TB: unsupported sector size -1548812288.

2011-08-30 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/29/2011 11:58 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 30/08/11 13:52, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 8/29/2011 2:50 PM, Lisi wrote: On Monday 29 August 2011 19:32:05 Stan Hoeppner wrote: There is no compatibility or other reason I know of that would force one to stay on Lenny KDE 3.5.10. The OP stated

Re: SATA 3TB: unsupported sector size -1548812288.

2011-08-29 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/29/2011 12:23 PM, Rafał Radecki wrote: Hi everyone. I hava a problem with Debian Lenny server: uname -a Linux xxx 2.6.18-4-686-bigmem #1 SMP Wed Feb 21 17:30:22 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux This is an Etch system, unless it was dist upgraded to Lenny without upgrading the kernel as well.

Re: SATA 3TB: unsupported sector size -1548812288.

2011-08-29 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/29/2011 2:50 PM, Lisi wrote: On Monday 29 August 2011 19:32:05 Stan Hoeppner wrote: There is no compatibility or other reason I know of that would force one to stay on Lenny KDE 3.5.10. The OP stated the machine with the problem is a server. I would guess that most *nix sysadmins run

Re: How to distribute IRQs to all cores

2011-08-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/25/2011 5:11 AM, J.Hwan Kim wrote: Hi, everyone The interrupts of my ixgbevf driver occurs only Core 0 although the user space irqbalance serivce is working. Calling irqbalance a user space service shows a serious lack of understanding of how irqbalance works. How can I distribute the

Re: howto boot from the second disk in raid 1

2011-08-23 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/23/2011 12:50 PM, abdelkader belahcene wrote: *hi, I installed squeeze on 2 disks sata using raid 1. Hardware/mobo fakeraid, or Linux MD RAID (mdadm)? Please state mobo brand and model#, as well as any IDE/SATA PCI/e cards. the system runs fine with both disks, it runs fine with the

Re: PAE Kernel to generic

2011-08-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/20/2011 4:36 AM, Camaleón wrote: PAE kernel is not only convenient for more than 4 GiB of ram but is also enables SMP (multi-processing) and NX bit (a security measure). In brief, just keep it as is :-) To clarify, the *Debian* PAE kernel package in question was built with these kernel

Re: 2TB file system

2011-08-19 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/17/2011 9:25 AM, Pete Orrall wrote: BTW: Didn't Hitachi used to be IBM? I believe IBM sold Hitachi their hard drive business. Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), had already been producing all of IBM's disk drives for about a decade. IBM simply sold HDS the brands UltraStar and DeskStar,

Re: LVM write performance

2011-08-19 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/19/2011 4:38 PM, Dion Kant wrote: I now think I understand the strange behaviour for block sizes not an integral multiple of 4096 bytes. (Of course you guys already knew the answer but just didn't want to make it easy for me to find the answer.) The newer disks today have a sector size

Re: 2TB file system

2011-08-17 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/16/2011 12:30 PM, Camaleón wrote: A single volume of 2 TiB is very big (and big file systems are more prone to errors and hard to recover in the event of a corruption... fsck can take... ages? :-P). I've never seen a correlation between filesystem size and probability of FS corruption.

Re: LVM write performance

2011-08-14 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/14/2011 2:14 AM, Dion Kant wrote: On 08/13/2011 03:55 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: My explanation to you wasn't fully correct. I confused specifying no block size with specifying an insanely large block size. The other post I was referring to dealt with people using a 1GB (or larger) block

Re: LVM write performance

2011-08-13 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/13/2011 6:53 AM, Dion Kant wrote: Stan, You are right, with bs=4096 the write performance improves significantly. From the man page of dd I concluded that not specifying bs selects ibs=512 and obs=512. A bs=512 gives indeed similar performance as not specifying bs at all. When

Re: LVM write performance

2011-08-13 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/13/2011 9:45 AM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com writes: […] The horrible performance with bs=512 is likely due to the LVM block size being 4096, and forcing block writes that are 1/8th normal size, causing lots of merging. If you divide 120MB/s by 8

Re: Best linux Distro 2011

2011-08-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/11/2011 2:12 AM, Johann Spies wrote: * It was a HPC-cluster that I was administrating. Normal updating of packages was a lot slower than on Debian servers. Cluster nodes should be booting via bootp or PXE, and NFS mounts, and their IP addresses and hostnames assigned statically via

Re: Hardware - Boot issues: No post

2011-08-10 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/9/2011 2:30 PM, KS wrote: On Mon, 08 Aug 2011 23:47 -0500, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: On 8/8/2011 6:59 PM, KS wrote: I shut down the machine and tried to boot it with just the Mushkin RAM. Same beep sequence followed. If you put the Mushkin back in the original

Re: Hardware - Boot issues: No post

2011-08-10 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/10/2011 1:19 PM, KS wrote: The PSU was not disconnected but turned off from the switch on the PSU. I make sure that when I buy one, it does have a switch on itself rather than common practice of many manufacturers to take that off to save $0.01. Wish you'd made this statement, or

Re: ntp problem: the server clock slowly recedes

2011-08-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/9/2011 2:40 AM, owl...@gmail.com wrote: remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter == ntp1.inrim.it .CTD.1 u 46 64 377 23.641 329686. 2517.77

Re: ntp problem: the server clock slowly recedes

2011-08-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/9/2011 6:55 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: In many cases, judicious use of adjtimex to trim the system clock can avoid a system board replacement. And if the machine is under depot warranty? Better yet, that + on-site service contract? If it does turn out to be defective hardware, and the

Re: ntp problem: the server clock slowly recedes

2011-08-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/9/2011 9:11 AM, owl...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/8/9 Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com: On 8/9/2011 6:28 AM, owl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Stan, thanks for your reply, we have a bare metal host hp dl580g7 no VM guest After this post we have add nomodify at localhost lines and offset

Re: LVM write performance

2011-08-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/9/2011 9:12 AM, Dion Kant wrote: Thanks for your remarks. The disk info is given below. Writing to the disk is oke when mounted, so I think it is not a hardware/alignment issue. However your remarks made me do some additional investigations: 1. dd of=/dev/sdb4 if=/dev/zero gives

Re: LVM write performance

2011-08-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/8/2011 1:25 AM, Dion Kant wrote: Dear list, When writing to a logical volume (/dev/sys/test) directly through the device, I obtain a slow performance: root@dom0-2:/dev/mapper# dd of=/dev/sys/test if=/dev/zero 4580305+0 records in 4580305+0 records out 2345116160 bytes (2.3 GB)

Re: LVM write performance

2011-08-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/8/2011 2:00 PM, Dion Kant wrote: On 08/08/2011 03:33 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 8/8/2011 1:25 AM, Dion Kant wrote: Dear list, When writing to a logical volume (/dev/sys/test) directly through the device, I obtain a slow performance: root@dom0-2:/dev/mapper# dd of=/dev/sys/test

Re: LVM write performance

2011-08-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/8/2011 11:03 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 8/8/2011 2:00 PM, Dion Kant wrote: On 08/08/2011 03:33 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 8/8/2011 1:25 AM, Dion Kant wrote: Dear list, When writing to a logical volume (/dev/sys/test) directly through the device, I obtain a slow performance: root

Re: Hardware - Boot issues: No post

2011-08-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/8/2011 6:59 PM, KS wrote: I shut down the machine and tried to boot it with just the Mushkin RAM. Same beep sequence followed. If you put the Mushkin back in the original sockets, then you likely: 1. Damaged the mainboard PCB when inserting modules 2. Lodged a screw, or something

Re: thread issue

2011-08-06 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/5/2011 12:32 PM, lina wrote: On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Walter Hurry walterhu...@lavabit.com wrote: On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 10:03:28 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: (http://www.sgi.com/products/servers/altix/uv/) I think I could afford to be *very* nice if I had one of those ;-) Very

Re: thread issue

2011-08-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/4/2011 9:40 AM, lina wrote: On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Robert Baron robertbartlettba...@gmail.com wrote: have you tried adding an '' to the tasks you think can be run in parallel (as in running them in the background (ie 'mycmd myargs '))? Thanks, is cool. now is fully

Re: thread issue

2011-08-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/4/2011 10:33 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 10:28:01AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 8/4/2011 9:40 AM, lina wrote: On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Robert Baron robertbartlettba...@gmail.com wrote: have you tried adding an '' to the tasks you think can be run

Re: thread issue

2011-08-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/4/2011 10:34 AM, Walter Hurry wrote: On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:28:41 +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 10:23:08PM +0800, lina wrote: Thanks for suggestions, Actually I got a job which contains several small jobs inside. if run the bash script, it will do those one by

Re: thread issue

2011-08-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/4/2011 10:42 AM, lina wrote: Actually the nice-concern was in cluster. ... I can't use qsub or mpi Full stop. Time to give us more background Lina. You've not been forthcoming. :) I'm seeing cluster and mpi for the first time in this thread, and we're some ~30 posts deep. You should

Re: thread issue

2011-08-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/4/2011 11:03 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List: just use a job scheduler as SLURM: http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/slurm-llnl She already has PBS. Apparently you didn't read her posts. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: thread issue

2011-08-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/4/2011 11:52 AM, lina wrote: On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 12:31 AM, Jerome BENOIT g62993...@rezozer.net wrote: Hello List: On 04/08/11 18:26, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 8/4/2011 11:03 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List: just use a job scheduler as SLURM: http://packages.debian.org/wheezy

Re: Another problem

2011-08-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/4/2011 4:25 AM, Kevin Williams wrote: I got past the login but now it shows my username@debian20:$ what I do now It was immediately apparent to me after your second post that you're without doubt trolling for your own amusement. There will be tons more suckers on the Ubuntua and other nub

Re: thread issue

2011-08-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/4/2011 8:12 AM, lina wrote: Hi, I noticed when make -j 8, the 8 cores can be fully occupied. can I use some way to enable 8 cores at the same time when I run something, such as a bash script? This will fully answer your question, and then some:

Re: thread issue

2011-08-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/4/2011 9:15 AM, Frank Lanitz wrote: Other applications do need to support multi threading in most cases already inside source code. Very few FOSS Linux applications are written with threads. Those needing it simply fork processes to achieve multiprocessor scalability. I've not done a

Re: 3.0 kernel fails to compile

2011-08-03 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/2/2011 6:56 PM, Dave Witbrodt wrote: On 08/02/2011 04:50 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 8/1/2011 9:44 PM, Dave Witbrodt wrote: I was a long-time user of make-kpkg, but since I learned how to use the in-kernel deb-pkg target I have been taking the Debian Kernel Team's advice

Re: 3.0 kernel fails to compile

2011-08-02 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/1/2011 9:44 PM, Dave Witbrodt wrote: I was a long-time user of make-kpkg, but since I learned how to use the in-kernel deb-pkg target I have been taking the Debian Kernel Team's advice and recommending building custom kernels that way. As was I. One downside (depending on how you look

Re: lenny-squeeze upgrade - failed with grub-pc upgrade

2011-08-01 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/31/2011 11:09 PM, Lukasz Szybalski wrote: Everything went fine, but towards the end I was asked to upgrade to grub-pc. LILO - Til you pull it from my cold dead hands! -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Problems with PAE kernel sort of solved.

2011-07-29 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/29/2011 1:26 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: What I am going to do is compare the kernel config files of the last of the 2.6.38 and .39 series and the first kernels where PAE was eanbled to see what is the difference. Maybe some other change is affecting me. We'll see. I thought I already

Re: Problems with PAE kernel sort of solved.

2011-07-26 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/25/2011 11:19 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: You early adopter you. I haven't rebooted my machine to the new kernel today yet. :-) And since then I have rebooted. All good here. :-) But not a PAE kernel here since I am using 64-bits. I don't

Re: Linux RAID for Perfomance and supported Card

2011-07-26 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/26/2011 6:34 AM, Siju George wrote: Hi, A few of my servers are running on Linux Software RAID 1 and is meeting disk I/O bottle Neck. What is the nature of the bottleneck, IOPS or throughput? What is the workload? Email, database, file server, web server, etc? How much disk space

Re: Problems with PAE kernel sort of solved.

2011-07-26 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/26/2011 9:15 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: Never assume :) So, if you were me, which options would you include or drop...I don't need PAE (one gig of memory in this machine) and I now know it's not a multi-core, so CONFIG_X86_SMP is the only one needed ?? I have compiled kernels before

Re: firewall?

2011-07-18 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/18/2011 2:12 AM, hadi motamedi wrote: Yes, you are right. I have set for the DNS on my windows machine but it cannot still browse valid ulr. What IP address did you plug into the Windows machine toi use for DNS resolution? Sun's (Oracle's) 192.9.9.3 name server is not a public resolver

Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

2011-07-18 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/18/2011 1:39 PM, Tomas Kral wrote: On Sat, 2011-07-16 at 11:42 +0200, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/16/2011 3:52 AM, Tomas Kral wrote: linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 2.6.32-35 $ su -c'mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0' # or $ mount /floppy [ 8744.146621] FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset

Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

2011-07-16 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/16/2011 3:52 AM, Tomas Kral wrote: linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 2.6.32-35 $ su -c'mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0' # or $ mount /floppy [ 8744.146621] FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive! But no floppy is really mounted as

Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

2011-07-16 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/16/2011 5:22 AM, Dom wrote: I've had to build a custom kernel for some of my old systems that *need* IDE support. I think what you meant to say is systems that need the old IDE drivers, because the hardware doesn't work with libata drivers. Libata provides IDE support for most legacy IDE

Re: kernel compile error in wheezy

2011-07-16 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/16/2011 1:19 PM, Frank Miles wrote: I just tried compiling the kernel for My 'wheezy' system (2.6.39) [amd64]. As I've done many times - using make-kpkg --revision N kernel_image But with the recent linux-source update - shortly after starting I get: Do you get the same error using

Re: Does IPv6 preclude use of a NAT gateway?

2011-07-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/12/2011 1:22 PM, Arno Schuring wrote: As an aside, 192.168.x.x is not a class C network. It is a collection of 256 (-1) class C networks. Correct. CIDR notation might be helpful here in better explaining this. People's use of 'x.x.x.x' notation in this thread seems to be confusing them.

Re: Networking -- use of two Internet connections for one server with round robin DNS -- web okay, but should I do mail this way too?

2011-07-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/12/2011 3:33 PM, lee wrote: Yeah, when you know in advance from which IPs you don't want to receive mail, you can lock them out before they can contact the MTA. Isn't that something that could be done with your table? One could probably configure fail2ban to add IP addresses from which

Re: Networking -- use of two Internet connections for one server with round robin DNS -- web okay, but should I do mail this way too?

2011-07-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/12/2011 4:50 PM, lee wrote: The contention has pretty much been decided already :( To decide whether to send and to receive mail is not up to the users. Only the postmasters can do that. It is not surprising that they are striving hard to keep and to extend their powers, or is it?

Re: Networking -- use of two Internet connections for one server with round robin DNS -- web okay, but should I do mail this way too?

2011-07-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/11/2011 4:27 AM, Chris Davies wrote: Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: Because no one should be receiving email directly from residential PCs, most which have dynamic IP addresses, some static addresses. Do you include people who run their own MTA on consumer xDSL

Re: Networking -- use of two Internet connections for one server with round robin DNS -- web okay, but should I do mail this way too?

2011-07-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/11/2011 2:22 PM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: But, the blocking of xDSL mail servers that are properly set up just because they aren't going through an ISP is a horrible abuse of the Internet. They're not properly setup if they have a dynamic IP address, and most xDSL customers get a dynamic

Re: Networking -- use of two Internet connections for one server with round robin DNS -- web okay, but should I do mail this way too?

2011-07-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/11/2011 3:55 PM, Chris Davies wrote: Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: You're obviously new to the world of running an email server and spam fighting About 20 years experience in a professional environment, with about 5 or so running an MTA at home (may be longer; I can't

Re: Networking -- use of two Internet connections for one server with round robin DNS -- web okay, but should I do mail this way too?

2011-07-10 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/10/2011 7:26 AM, lee wrote: Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com writes: On 7/9/2011 12:00 PM, lee wrote: The rDNS check is very useful because it keeps out tons of SPAM without occupying too many resources. It also seems to be common practise. Do you have a better suggestion

Re: Networking -- use of two Internet connections for one server with round robin DNS -- web okay, but should I do mail this way too?

2011-07-10 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/10/2011 8:31 PM, lee wrote: Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com writes: On 7/10/2011 7:26 AM, lee wrote: Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com writes: On 7/9/2011 12:00 PM, lee wrote: Just checking for the existence of rDNS is no longer sufficiently effective against bot spam from

Re: Networking -- use of two Internet connections for one server with round robin DNS -- web okay, but should I do mail this way too?

2011-07-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/9/2011 12:00 PM, lee wrote: The rDNS check is very useful because it keeps out tons of SPAM without occupying too many resources. It also seems to be common practise. Do you have a better suggestion? Just checking for the existence of rDNS is no longer sufficiently effective against

Re: Debian with HP ProLiant DL120 G7

2011-07-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/7/2011 10:17 AM, Aniruddha wrote: I wonder if anyone has experience with installing Debian on HP ProLiant DL120 G7. Does it work out-of-the-box? Or are there special drivers necessary to get these working? Officially only Red Hat and Suse are supported although HP does have an Debian

Re: Debian with HP ProLiant DL120 G7

2011-07-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/7/2011 3:10 PM, frank thyes wrote: On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 17:17 +0200, Aniruddha wrote: I wonder if anyone has experience with installing Debian on HP ProLiant DL120 G7. Does it work out-of-the-box? Or are there special drivers necessary to get these working? Officially only Red Hat and

Re: hard drive configuration

2011-06-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/10/2011 2:11 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 21:49 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: for single user or / /home /media/big - /home/$user1/big /media/big - /home/$user2/big For a single user I switched from / + /home to / only. For special tasks I add e.g.

Re: Keeping stable stable.

2011-06-01 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/1/2011 6:07 PM, R. Clayton wrote: I'm running squeeze on a system, and I'd like to keep the system on the stable release independent of what the release is called. I changed all non-commented appearances of squeeze with stable in sources.list; do I need to do anything else? Is this

Re: SSD partition alignment considerations

2011-05-31 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/30/2011 10:39 PM, Cam Hutchison wrote: I'm about to do a fresh install of Debian onto a new box with a Crucial M4 128GB SSD. I want to ensure that I get the best performance I can out of the SSD so I want to make sure I take care of any partition alignment issues. I have read tytso's

Re: How to use the net install CD with PPPoE?

2011-05-30 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/29/2011 6:00 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Do I need to download and install pppoeconf + dependencies or is there another way to get a PPPoE connection? You buy a cheap consumer router, like everyone else does who isn't provided one by their ISP. For instance:

Re: Anyone solved the b43legacy 1 Mb/s issue in Squeeze?

2011-05-26 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/26/2011 12:59 PM, Mark wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.comwrote: On 5/25/2011 10:28 PM, Mark wrote: This is a long-standing issue with b43legacy wireless and transmission rates being slow, across various Linux distros and many years. Since I

Re: does Debian labeled for AMD-64 run on Pentium cpu family 6?

2011-05-26 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/26/2011 10:50 PM, tarcisio praciano-pereira wrote: I have a Pentium cpu family 6 (copy from /proc/cpuinfo) model 23 - Dual Core, cpuid level 13. I hope I have no missed the important information. Does Debian 6.0 labeled for AMD-64 run in this CPU? Yes. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Anyone solved the b43legacy 1 Mb/s issue in Squeeze?

2011-05-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/25/2011 10:28 PM, Mark wrote: This is a long-standing issue with b43legacy wireless and transmission rates being slow, across various Linux distros and many years. Since I upgraded to Squeeze I was hopeful the rate issue would be fixed but alas it is not. I can run iwconfig wlan0 rate

Re: rolling vanilla kernel on Squeeze

2011-05-18 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/18/2011 3:08 AM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, not a bug, it's a feature ;-). It's been added to the make deb-pkg target. Your best bet is to look into /scripts/package/builddeb I think you can safely ignore the packages if you don't use modules at all, if you didn't miss them

Re: Making /dev/md2 RAID smaller to create another partition for OpenVZ

2011-05-17 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/17/2011 11:24 AM, Sebastian Tarach wrote: Hello, I have two hard drives ( sda and sdb ) which are used to create md0,md1 and md2. I want to resize md2, sda3 and sdb3 to create another set of partition for md3 on which I would like to setup OpenVZ. I already resized md2 using

rolling vanilla kernel on Squeeze

2011-05-17 Thread Stan Hoeppner
System: Squeeze Current Kernel: 2.6.34.1 vanilla built under Lenny long before upgrading to Squeeze Issue: Seeing two extra .debs being built by make I grabbed 2.6.38.6 from kernel.org yesterday and rolled a kernel using 'make KDEB_PKGVERSION=custom.x.x

Re: rolling vanilla kernel on Squeeze

2011-05-17 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/17/2011 9:20 PM, Perry Thompson wrote: On 05/17/2011 10:09 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: System: Squeeze Current Kernel: 2.6.34.1 vanilla built under Lenny long before upgrading to Squeeze Issue: Seeing two extra .debs being built by make I grabbed

Re: Tracing Filesystem Accesses

2011-05-16 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/15/2011 4:21 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 4dcec70c.9020...@hardwarefreak.com, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 5/14/2011 11:02 AM, Rainer Dorsch wrote: My Main reason for not doing it was that I do run the SSD partitionless to avoid partition alignment issues. There are no partition

Re: Dovecot Problems on Sid

2011-05-14 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/14/2011 6:07 AM, deloptes wrote: Someone is brainless - but definitely not me! deloptes@yahoo.com Nope, definitely not you. ;) -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Dovecot Problems on Sid

2011-05-14 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/14/2011 6:13 AM, deloptes wrote: someone is thinking with his/her ass instead of his/her head Your statement could very well be applied to occasional users who attempt to install unstable software, i.e. yourself. sid is subject to massive changes and in-place library updates. This can

Re: Tracing Filesystem Accesses

2011-05-14 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/14/2011 11:02 AM, Rainer Dorsch wrote: Am Freitag, 13. Mai 2011 schrieb Miles Fidelman: Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 5/12/2011 5:19 AM, Rainer Dorsch wrote: Sometimes though something is accessing data on the disk drives, which I do not understand. Did you relocate swap to the SSD? What

Re: Dovecot Problems on Sid

2011-05-14 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/14/2011 1:28 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/14/2011 11:32 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 5/14/2011 6:07 AM, deloptes wrote: Someone is brainless - but definitely not me! deloptes@yahoo.com Nope, definitely not you. ;) That's pretty rude, and definitely uncalled for on a public list

Re: Dovecot Problems on Sid

2011-05-14 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/14/2011 2:25 PM, David Baron wrote: Unfortunately, the maintainers changed the configurations to the more modern/recent conf.d directory script system without providing any script for transition and NO WARNING for apt-listchanges. To tell us to avoid unstable is no excuse,

Re: Help About Squeeze

2011-05-13 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/12/2011 4:49 AM, Markus Neviadomski wrote: Am 12.05.2011 11:41, schrieb Stan Hoeppner: It's becoming very clear you've not been in the SA game very long... SA? System Administration Two mirrored would be better, so $400-1200 USD. This would yield 50,000 seeks/second vs the 300 he

Re: Help About Squeeze

2011-05-13 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/12/2011 5:05 AM, Lisi wrote: On Thursday 12 May 2011 10:20:44 Stan Hoeppner wrote: ~$20k can buy you a 2 socket 24 core AMD Magny Cours HP server with 32GB RAM, quad GbE ports, a 10 GbE PCIe x4/x8 NIC, LSI's top of the line PCIe x8 RAID HBA with 1GB BBWC and 2 SFF8088 SAS ports, two LSI 24

Re: Tracing Filesystem Accesses

2011-05-13 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/12/2011 5:19 AM, Rainer Dorsch wrote: Hello, I added an SSD in my system and moved the root filesystem to the SSD (which includes now also most of /home in my system). I spin down the regular hard disks and the system is a lot more quiet than before :-) Sometimes though something is

Re: Tracing Filesystem Accesses

2011-05-13 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/13/2011 2:38 AM, Doug wrote: According to some information on the various lists, you should *not* run swap on a SSD, because the SSD has a limited number of read/write cycles, and swap uses them up way too quickly. That's pure FUD. Read the following soup to nuts:

Re: Tracing Filesystem Accesses

2011-05-13 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/13/2011 1:34 PM, Bob McConnell wrote: Before we go any further, lets get a couple of things sorted out. What type of SSD (Solid State Drive) are you all talking about here? If it contains Flash memory, then yes, there is a limit to the number of ERASE cycles each sector can do. How

Re: Tracing Filesystem Accesses

2011-05-13 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/13/2011 4:21 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: This seems like hi-jacking my sub-thread. I asked a question of Stan Hoeppner because I was puzzled about the status of the technology behind the techy-buzzword SSD. The unstated purpose of asking was to get some clarity, for me, as to what he

Re: Help About Squeeze

2011-05-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/12/2011 2:14 AM, Markus Neviadomski wrote: Hi, Thats sound like a fake, sorry. A single-core CPU with a some piece of RAM as file server for 200 users? No... Buy a new hardware with 4 or 6 cores, 16GB RAM and a raid controller and some disks. Then copy your data from the old system on the

Re: Help About Squeeze

2011-05-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/12/2011 3:29 AM, Markus Neviadomski wrote: And the costs of hardware could be igored, if you have to recover broken or lost data w/o raid or backup! This typically holds true in the US where the total cost of labor is far greater than hardware. This is definitely not the case in

Re: Help About Squeeze

2011-05-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/12/2011 4:23 AM, Markus Neviadomski wrote: Am 12.05.2011 10:58, schrieb Stan Hoeppner: a new setup is the best way with the fewest possible errors. It's becoming very clear you've not been in the SA game very long... Two mirrored would be better, so $400-1200 USD. This would yield

Re: Help About Squeeze

2011-05-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/12/2011 4:34 AM, Markus Neviadomski wrote: You are right...but, read my first post. I wrote about 4-6 cores. This is a typical sandy bridge system with core i7. No real server hardware, but fast enough for the OP, when his Sempron is working until today! 16GB Ram are possible and cheap

Re: Squeeze: Fan control

2011-05-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/11/2011 10:05 AM, Hoang Le wrote: Dear Stan, I sent my laptop to HP and I got the fan replaced. Now it's running quite cool. Thank you for your support Hoang Le You're welcome. Glad you got it fixed. What was HP's turn around time--how long were you without the laptop? -- Stan

Re: SATA Harddisk order in debian squeeze

2011-05-10 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/10/2011 3:45 AM, Markus Neviadomski wrote: Hello list, Good lord man fix your MUA's formatting. I've had to pull 3 pairs of scissors out to replay to this... running 3 SATA-drives in Raid 5 for a couple of years. I used kernel 2.6.23 since, 3 or 4 months ago, CF-Card, mounted as

Re: SATA Harddisk order in debian squeeze

2011-05-10 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/10/2011 6:17 AM, Markus Neviadomski wrote: Am 10.05.2011 12:20, schrieb Stan Hoeppner: On 5/10/2011 3:45 AM, Markus Neviadomski wrote: Hello list, Good lord man fix your MUA's formatting. I've had to pull 3 pairs of scissors out to replay to this... Oh, sorry. But, some other kind

Re: SATA Harddisk order in debian squeeze

2011-05-10 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/10/2011 8:27 AM, Markus Neviadomski wrote: This is my mdadm.conf, using a UUID since a long time. saturn:/home/domski# cat /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf DEVICE partitions ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid5 num-devices=3 spares=1 UUID=4105560e:bf03b97e:ba419cbc:b7000e73 MAILADDR root If you were already

Re: Disk Space Issues

2011-05-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/9/2011 1:58 AM, Michiel Piscaer wrote: Op 9-5-2011 10:48, Daniel Linux schreef: Yes, I need generic steps. After running df -h I know what filesystem is almost full. What should I do? du -h /fullfilesystem is a good start, possibly with --max-depth to limit the output. With # du -h

Re: ReiserFS: filesystem is not clean after a kernel update

2011-05-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/8/2011 7:44 AM, Camaleón wrote: Hello, Yesterday I updated the kernel to 2.6.38-2 on wheezy and now I get (at a random basis) a warning about the ReiserFS filesystem is not clean when booting. Despite the boot message, there are no more indications of a filesystem corruption and indeed,

Re: Multiple instances of udev daemon?

2011-05-06 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/6/2011 10:45 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 06 May 2011 08:56:35 -0400, Christopher Judd wrote: Is it normal to have multiple instances of udev daemon running? user@gibbs:~/data/icp-ms/Routine/2011/Agilent7500$ ps aux | grep udev root 381 0.0 0.0 21424 848 ?Ss

Re: file systems

2011-05-05 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/2/2011 5:54 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I'm slightly surprised by the results. It's possible it was slightly weighted toward JFS because of the %CPU and Ops/%CPU metrics, which I don't think matter too much. As I mentioned previously, the only relevant graph of each set is the

Re: file systems

2011-05-05 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/4/2011 6:44 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In4dc1e009.30...@hardwarefreak.com, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 5/2/2011 4:02 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: They are also essential for any journaled filesystem to have correct behavior in the face of sudden pwoer loss. This is true only

Re: file systems

2011-05-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/2/2011 4:02 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: They are also essential for any journaled filesystem to have correct behavior in the face of sudden pwoer loss. This is true only if you don't have BBWC. Barriers ensure, (e.g.) that the journal entry creating a file is flushed to the

Re: file systems

2011-05-02 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/1/2011 10:40 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In4dbd0d23.1080...@hardwarefreak.com, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Independent Linux filesystem tests performed by an IBM engineer to track BTRFS performance during development. XFS trounces the others in most tests: These results are interesting

Re: file systems

2011-05-02 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/1/2011 12:10 PM, prad wrote: neither is this an argumentum ad antiquitatem. again all that is being shown is that xfs has a long history of use again with a reputable organization. again, it is merely supporting evidence and it is not being argued that because the organization has used

Re: file systems

2011-05-01 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 4/30/2011 11:48 PM, shawn wilson wrote: i'm interested in not seeing unsubstantiated opinion on a technical mailing list. That 'opinion' is based, in part, on the following facts, many of which are in my previous posts to this list. If you would like, to avoid expressing 'opinion' in

Re: file systems

2011-05-01 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/1/2011 3:35 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Du, 01 mai 11, 02:34:59, Stan Hoeppner wrote: [snip various super-stuff running xfs] I understand that xfs is great for super-computers[1] and stuff, but how is that relevant to a desktop computer with something like this? The background info I

Re: file systems

2011-05-01 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/1/2011 7:57 AM, Chen Wei wrote: 2) performs well on a lots of small files, maildir and extrace linux kernel source for example. This was XFS Achilles heal until the introduction of Dave Chinner's delayed logging patch in 2.6.35. Prior to this XFS was absolutely horrible with metadata

Re: Roundcube broken after Squeeze upgrade

2011-05-01 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/1/2011 9:51 AM, Camaleón wrote: Regarding the Suhosin module, it should be disabled by default unless you are not using Apache web server. Review /usr/share/doc/roundcube-core/ News.Debian.gz file. Camaleón, thank you. This is what I needed to know. I indeed do not use Apache, but

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