Re: memory

2014-10-09 Thread Michael Havens
sorry about the delay I had to go to work. top - 22:16:50 up 1 day, 8:59, 2 users, load average: 0.30, 0.19, 0.15 Tasks: 168 total, 2 running, 166 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 12.0 us, 2.3 sy, 0.0 ni, 84.1 id, 1.7 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st KiB Mem: 1983332 total, 1

Re: Configuring a test box with multiple VM's

2014-10-09 Thread James Dugger
​Just so you know Vagrant is a developer tool. The servers you create with Vagrant are not hardened. It is good for building servers to test configs and as a local dev server for web app development testing. You would use the provisioner (in my case Puppet) to build the hardened version​. Puppe

Re: Configuring a test box with multiple VM's

2014-10-09 Thread James Dugger
​Definitely DevOps​. VM managers like proxmox, vmware etc. are going to be overkill. You'll probably spend way too much time trying to figure out how to configure/use the manager rather than the real work which is the LAMP server config. Because your running Linux you really have 2 options: 1) bu

Re: memory

2014-10-09 Thread Mark Phillips
I have found the best number to watch is the amount of swap used. If that grows, then you need more RAM. If you are running slow and not using swap, then adding RAM won't help. Mark On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Carruth, Rusty wrote: > Unless his problem is LACK of ram. Yes, I know it said 4

RE: memory

2014-10-09 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Unless his problem is LACK of ram. Yes, I know it said 489M free. Without a look at top I’m not convinced yet that he won’t see any improvement. Here is ‘top’ from a machine which is pretty un-loaded: top - 16:40:14 up 63 days, 1:12, 3 users, load average: 0.42, 0.62, 0.67 Tasks: 287

Shared hosting Position available

2014-10-09 Thread Sesso
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Re: Configuring a test box with multiple VM's

2014-10-09 Thread techlists
The testing I want to do is simple. I want to be able to test current PHP apps (ones I support) on future versions of Apache, PHP, MariaDB. I am on the CentOS upgrade path and would like to do some testing to include CentOS 7.x and the versions of Apache, PHP, MariaDB before they are includ

Re: memory

2014-10-09 Thread Mark Phillips
Mike, On page 91 of the Dell Dimension C521 that I sent to you, you can use memory sticks at 533 MHz, 667 MHz, and 800 MHz. Since the original ones are 800 MHz, you did the right thing by changing your order from 533 MHz to 800 MHz. Bottom line...unless you were doing a lot of RAM intensive compu

Re: Configuring a test box with multiple VM's

2014-10-09 Thread James Dugger
It depends. What is the purpose of your testing? Proxmox, is a virtual server manager, much like VMware ESXi & XenServer they simply manage and monitor VM's. I would use (and have used) Proxmox to manage servers in a VLAN (just one example). However if you are developing/configuring LAMP servers

RE: memory

2014-10-09 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Well, maybe. I don’t' remember if he gave us a 'top' output, which includes the 'load avg'. If that is much above one you're probably disk limited. I'd be very interested in the top part of the 'top' output. And I've been using 'underpowered' CPUs for a long time and not feeling much if any

RE: memory

2014-10-09 Thread techlists
My question is what is the computer used for? Are you using it for your Linux from scratch project? If your just browsing the web and doing email, I wonder if more RAM will really make a difference. When you posted your memory usage I think you had more than 400MB free. I did a search and

Re: memory

2014-10-09 Thread Michael Havens
I emailed the company I bought the ram from and they said they would send the 800 Mhz instead of the chips advertised. If that happens I don't know. If it does not happen should I get the matching 533Mhz ram or can I have the mismatching speeds (will it default the the slower speed)? :-)~MIKE~(-:

Re: Configuring a test box with multiple VM's

2014-10-09 Thread techlists
Thanks!! On 2014-10-09 14:23, Sean Roe wrote: Im going to have to go with JD.  Proxmox is the best opensource VM solution period. Sean On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 11:40 AM, JD Austin wrote: Proxmox, your preferred Linux OS with Virtualbox, or using your preferred Linux OS's KVM/Qemu virtualizatio

Re: memory

2014-10-09 Thread techlists
I did a search on "CPU family 15 Model 79 Stepping 2" and this is what I found. http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K8/AMD-Sempron%2064%203400%2B%20-%20SDA3400IAA3CN%20%28SDA3400CNBOX%29.html And here is the benchmark I found http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Sempron+3400%2B I would

Re: Configuring a test box with multiple VM's

2014-10-09 Thread techlists
Thanks!! On 2014-10-09 14:27, JD Austin wrote: Proxmox is free by the way; you don't have to do their subscriptions and having a nag telling you that you're not registered on login hasn't been a big deal for me :) -- JD Austin Voice: 480.269.4335 (480 2MY Geek) j...@twingeckos.com On Thu, Oct

Re: Configuring a test box with multiple VM's

2014-10-09 Thread JD Austin
Proxmox is free by the way; you don't have to do their subscriptions and having a nag telling you that you're not registered on login hasn't been a big deal for me :) -- JD Austin Voice: 480.269.4335 (480 2MY Geek) j...@twingeckos.com On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Sean Roe wrote: > Im going

Re: Configuring a test box with multiple VM's

2014-10-09 Thread Sean Roe
Im going to have to go with JD. Proxmox is the best opensource VM solution period. Sean On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 11:40 AM, JD Austin wrote: > Proxmox, your preferred Linux OS with Virtualbox, or using your preferred > Linux OS's KVM/Qemu virtualization will all work about as well. Proxmox > give

Re: memory

2014-10-09 Thread Michael Havens
bmike1@C521 ~ $ lscpu Architecture: x86_64 CPU op-mode(s):32-bit, 64-bit Byte Order:Little Endian CPU(s):1 On-line CPU(s) list: 0 Thread(s) per core:1 Core(s) per socket:1 Socket(s): 1 NUMA node(s): 1 Vendor ID:

Re: Configuring a test box with multiple VM's

2014-10-09 Thread techlists
Thanks!! I took a look at Proxmox. I'm looking for something free. You jogged my memory - I was told a while ago to use KVM. I took a quick look and it looks like I install KVM and configure each VM using it. It appears I would not need to install any other software to create VM's - very

Re: memory

2014-10-09 Thread techlists
what CPU does that box have? On 2014-10-09 09:36, Mark Phillips wrote: Michael, It seems the max memory is 4GB for that system - 4 banks of 1 GB sticks. RAM memory Capacity - 4 GB Memory Type - DDR2 SDRAM - DIMM 240-pin Data Integrity Check - Non-ECC Speed - 667 MHz ( PC2-5300 ) Features - Du

Re: Configuring a test box with multiple VM's

2014-10-09 Thread JD Austin
Proxmox, your preferred Linux OS with Virtualbox, or using your preferred Linux OS's KVM/Qemu virtualization will all work about as well. Proxmox gives you a nice interface to manage it all; there are some 'free' VMWare versions you can use as well. -- JD Austin Voice: 480.269.4335 (480 2MY Geek)

Re: Configuring a test box with multiple VM's

2014-10-09 Thread techlists
I provided the wrong specs here is the specs of the box I want to use i3-3220 with visualization http://ark.intel.com/products/65693/Intel-Core-i3-3220-Processor-3M-Cache-3_30-GHz 8GB RAM. Thank you for your help!! Keith On 2014-10-09 13:01, techli...@phpcoderusa.com wrote: Hi, I'd lik

Re: microsoft, IBM, and how to kill a big company....

2014-10-09 Thread techlists
Real missed opportunity. M$ could have made some cool stuff, and they did and we owe them for where we are at today. I just wish they would have made a leaner O/S and focused just on the O/S and dev tools. They seemed to understand how to make things intuitive and easy. I really like Visu

Configuring a test box with multiple VM's

2014-10-09 Thread techlists
Hi, I'd like to configure a test box for LAMP development. What I have in mind is setting up multiple VM's on the box and loading a different distro in each VM. Probably only need 2 or 3 VMs. The number might grow over time. Will not be configuring X on any of the VM's - they will be LAM

Re: memory

2014-10-09 Thread Michael Havens
yeah? I couldn't find any 2 gig memory chips so I got the two 1 gig chips. As for the speed of the chips I hope what I got is okay. The chips in now say 800 Mhz. oops! the chips I bought are 533 Mhz :( What will the two different speeds do? Should I buy two more of the 533 Mhz? :-)~MIKE~(-: O

RE: memory

2014-10-09 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Michael – Wow, I’m glad Mark thought to check the max memory for the computer! (Thanks, Mark!) So, what Mark said. The only thing I’d add is to modify ‘get the fastest memory you can afford’ to something like ‘get as much memory as your computer can hold, as fast as possible’. There is

microsoft, IBM, and how to kill a big company....

2014-10-09 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Very interesting read (well, ok, I read the first 2 'pages' only) about what happened to Microsoft. Written a few years back... http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2012/08/microsoft-lost-mojo-steve-bal lmer --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-disc

OT - Fulltime experienced Linux SA in Scottsdale Wanted

2014-10-09 Thread Mike Ballon
As the topic reads - Required: LAMP, Shell Scripting, Mod_Security, AWS, Must be able to create and maintain documents in detail, Should have: Nagios, Basic AD Knowledge, Bachelor's or equivalent experience, ITIL Policies, Detailed Knowledge of the TCP/IP Protocol Suite such as DNS, Experience wi

Re: KDE Users: kdeconnect

2014-10-09 Thread Stephen Partington
Well now that is something I will need to investigate. On Oct 8, 2014 10:29 PM, "Brian Cluff" wrote: > I've been using it for months. It's a great utility. I use mine with > WiFi, so no bluetooth is needed. As long as your computer is on the same > network as your phone they will automatically