Re: exim or postfix

2004-11-07 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Rodney Richison said on Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 09:19:40PM -0600: > Are most of you using exim or postfix? Just curious. I've never tried > exim. Don't know about most; I use Postfix. I don't think exim is a bad choice, though; I just liked Postfix better, and it performs well enough to meet my n

Re: NFS-mounting crontabs

2004-11-07 Thread Mark Ferlatte
martin f krafft said on Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 12:30:06PM +0100: > also sprach Mark Ferlatte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.11.06.0123 +0100]: > > Do you really want your user's crontabs to run on every host in your > > cluster? > > They are mounted from master:/srv/va

Re: NFS-mounting crontabs

2004-11-05 Thread Mark Ferlatte
martin f krafft said on Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 02:43:02PM +0100: > I am trying to set up persistent crontabs in a FAI cluster by using > NFS to export /var/spool/cron/crontabs to the clients, thus > effectively storing the crontabs on the server. I further would like > to use root_squash. Do you re

Re: distributing SSH keys in a cluster environment

2004-10-29 Thread Mark Ferlatte
martin f krafft said on Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 01:35:33AM +0200: > FWIW, there is no cfengine host (yet). I am still somewhat taken > aback by its complexity. Just reinstalling the machines with FAI > seems simpler and cleaner. Yeah, I haven't gotten around to using it in production either. :) >

Re: distributing SSH keys in a cluster environment

2004-10-29 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Martin F Krafft said on Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 07:03:02PM +0200: > As far as I can tell, there remains one problem: we use SSH > hostbased authentication between the nodes, and while I finally got > that to work, every machine gets a new host key on every > reinstallation, requiring the global databa

Re: additional dns search spaces

2004-10-29 Thread Mark Ferlatte
martin f krafft said on Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 10:38:39AM +0200: > In /etc/resolv.conf, the search parameter can take multiple values. > However, when using DHCP, this field is populated by 'option > domain-name', which lists the domain name only, and must not do > anything else, or headless clients

Re: Intel SR1325TP1-E & 3ware 9xxx RAID thoughts

2004-10-14 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Simon Buchanan said on Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 08:20:15AM +1300: > Hi There, I am looking to deploy some 1U rack servers based on the Intel > Entry Server Platform SR1325TP1-E, but using a 3ware Escalade 9500S-4LP > hardware raid with 3 x SATA 200GB drives (RAID 5) instead of the onboard > stuff (a

Re: Still Considering Debian - But Stuck!

2004-02-02 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Fred Whipple said on Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 01:24:24PM -0500: > I see that Debian 3.0r2 includes a nicely aged (like fine cheese) Linux > 2.2 kernel. While I'm certain the aging process only makes its flavour > stronger and more delectable, I'm afraid it's going to choke at the > thought of 10,00

Re: Still Considering Debian - But Stuck!

2004-02-02 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Fred Whipple said on Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 01:24:24PM -0500: > I see that Debian 3.0r2 includes a nicely aged (like fine cheese) Linux > 2.2 kernel. While I'm certain the aging process only makes its flavour > stronger and more delectable, I'm afraid it's going to choke at the > thought of 10,00

Re: I/O performance issues on 2.4.23 SMP system

2004-01-29 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Daniel Erat said on Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 08:08:49AM -0800: > I was the poster who initiated the previous thread on this subject. The > problem disappeared here after we went down to 2 GB of memory (although > we physically removed it from the server rather than passing the arg to > the kernel... s

Re: I/O performance issues on 2.4.23 SMP system

2004-01-29 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Daniel Erat said on Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 08:08:49AM -0800: > I was the poster who initiated the previous thread on this subject. The > problem disappeared here after we went down to 2 GB of memory (although > we physically removed it from the server rather than passing the arg to > the kernel... s

Re: I/O performance issues on 2.4.23 SMP system

2004-01-28 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Benjamin Sherman said on Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 03:16:56PM -0600: > >I've got some machines in nearly the same configuration. What I ended up > >doing was to put an `append="mem=1G"' in the lilo.conf boot stanza for the > >kernel I was using, and rebooted the machine in question. > > > >This does

Re: I/O performance issues on 2.4.23 SMP system

2004-01-28 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Benjamin Sherman said on Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 03:49:24PM -0600: > So, I have a couple of questions because this box made it to production > before the problem was discovered and I can't test as I'd like. > * If I were to use 64GB HIGHMEM support. Would this problem go away? Nope. > * Is the I/O

Re: I/O performance issues on 2.4.23 SMP system

2004-01-28 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Benjamin Sherman said on Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 03:16:56PM -0600: > >I've got some machines in nearly the same configuration. What I ended up > >doing was to put an `append="mem=1G"' in the lilo.conf boot stanza for the > >kernel I was using, and rebooted the machine in question. > > > >This does

Re: I/O performance issues on 2.4.23 SMP system

2004-01-28 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Benjamin Sherman said on Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 03:49:24PM -0600: > So, I have a couple of questions because this box made it to production > before the problem was discovered and I can't test as I'd like. > * If I were to use 64GB HIGHMEM support. Would this problem go away? Nope. > * Is the I/O

Re: Considering Debian (currently using Red Hat)

2004-01-14 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Fred Whipple said on Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 09:56:35AM -0500: > 1.) One of the biggest reasons we went with Red Hat many years ago was > RPM. Of course I know that Debian has a package system, and there're > constant arguments about which is better, if either. What I wonder, > though, is how th

Re: Considering Debian (currently using Red Hat)

2004-01-14 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Fred Whipple said on Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 09:56:35AM -0500: > 1.) One of the biggest reasons we went with Red Hat many years ago was > RPM. Of course I know that Debian has a package system, and there're > constant arguments about which is better, if either. What I wonder, > though, is how th

Re: spec-ing/dimensioning a server?

2003-11-26 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Dave Watkins said on Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 06:38:39PM +1300: > Mark Ferlatte wrote: > >Which lists? I've had a hell of a time with SCSI SCA connected disks; a > >single bad SCSI disk can wipe out the whole chain, whereas with SATA that > >seems to be less likely. I&

Re: spec-ing/dimensioning a server?

2003-11-26 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Dave Watkins said on Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 06:38:39PM +1300: > Mark Ferlatte wrote: > >Which lists? I've had a hell of a time with SCSI SCA connected disks; a > >single bad SCSI disk can wipe out the whole chain, whereas with SATA that > >seems to be less likely. I&

Re: spec-ing/dimensioning a server?

2003-11-25 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Nate Duehr said on Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 09:13:48AM -0700: > Agreed on the "as fast a CPU as you can afford" and the 10K RPM disk > comments. However I'm not a huge fan of SATA yet. There's been quite a > bit of discussion on various mailing lists of people having trouble with > them. I'm old-

Re: spec-ing/dimensioning a server?

2003-11-25 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Nate Duehr said on Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 09:13:48AM -0700: > Agreed on the "as fast a CPU as you can afford" and the 10K RPM disk > comments. However I'm not a huge fan of SATA yet. There's been quite a > bit of discussion on various mailing lists of people having trouble with > them. I'm old-