Re: Corrupted stack - Why Ubuntu 7.10 does not have libsafe; does not show errors in ?

2008-05-20 Thread guy keren
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: guy keren wrote: when you can use valgrind - most other things are pretty useless. did you encounter a memory-handling bug that valgrind failed to catch, while another tool (such as libsafe) did catch? note: i never used libsafe, so i might be missing something - i

Re: Corrupted stack - Why Ubuntu 7.10 does not have libsafe; does not show errors in ?

2008-05-20 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Hi Guy, guy keren wrote: AFAIK Valgrind does not detect neither stack nor static buffer overflows at all. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat c2.c #include stdio.h void f(char* p_i ) { char i[1024]; f(i); } int main() { f((char*)NULL); return 0; } [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gcc -Wall

LVM2 and other snapshots to emulate Netapp filesr's?

2008-05-20 Thread Ira Abramov
http://zumastor.org/ - any comments? LVM2 snapshots and a wrapper script? How would you emulate snapshots of a home directory partition? is there anoher project I should look for? I found lvm snapshot-for-mysql-backup automation scripts, but no references to people using it like on a Filer (with

Re: [YBA] http://www.project-open.com/?

2008-05-20 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Jonathan Ben Avraham, from the post of Thu, 15 May: Hi list members, Anyone have experience with this, http://www.project-open.com/? I was supposed to install one for a client, but they haven't returned after the price offer. I'm guessing they are looking for a competing offer then :-)

Re: LVM2 and other snapshots to emulate Netapp filesr's?

2008-05-20 Thread Erez D
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Ira Abramov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://zumastor.org/ - any comments? LVM2 snapshots and a wrapper script? How would you emulate snapshots of a home directory partition? is there anoher project I should look for? I found lvm snapshot-for-mysql-backup

Re: LVM2 and other snapshots to emulate Netapp Filer's?

2008-05-20 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Ira Abramov, from the post of Tue, 20 May: http://zumastor.org/ - any comments? LVM2 snapshots and a wrapper script? The more I read about ZumaStor I like it more, but the big boon in LVM2 is that I don't have to recompile RHEL's kernel. so any production-env experiance shared will be

Re: LVM2 and other snapshots to emulate Netapp filesr's?

2008-05-20 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Erez D, from the post of Tue, 20 May: I didn't use LVM for a long time ... however, i tried using it as a replacment for somthing like netapp, and encontered server freezes. few years later i tried again, thinking it must be stable by now, and again server freezes. The freezes

controlling CPU's fan speed

2008-05-20 Thread Boaz Rymland
Hi, I've recently discovered that on my HP Pavillion 6010a the CPU fan is most likely always running at its lowest CPU fan speed. This results in relatively high CPU temperatures - when machine is loaded (and since its running Gentoo its loaded quite a few times ;-), its reaching 70 degrees

Re: LVM2 and other snapshots to emulate Netapp Filer's?

2008-05-20 Thread Amos Shapira
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:19 AM, Ira Abramov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Ira Abramov, from the post of Tue, 20 May: http://zumastor.org/ - any comments? Back when it was mentioned here a few weeks ago I grabbed their paper and looked around and got the impression that it's a very nice