Re: [CentOS] Installation of CentOS 6 on KVM - Hangs

2012-05-18 Thread Tim Nelson
- Original Message - > > > I see a delay after all packages are installed as well sometimes > > and I > > think this has something to do with post-install jobs that have to > > be done. > > How big is your boot partition? > > I see a huge delay as well, and I think it's unrelated to %po

Re: [CentOS] Installation of CentOS 6 on KVM - Hangs

2012-05-18 Thread Lars Hecking
> I see a delay after all packages are installed as well sometimes and I > think this has something to do with post-install jobs that have to be done. > How big is your boot partition? I see a huge delay as well, and I think it's unrelated to %post. I've timed my kickstart file %post section a

Re: [CentOS] VMWare Issue

2012-05-18 Thread Phil Schaffner
Rhugga Harper wrote on 05/17/2012 03:58 PM: > I just installed CentOS 5.6 32-bit Have you tried installing the current/supported CentOS-5 release 5.8? Phil ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Installation of CentOS 6 on KVM - Hangs

2012-05-18 Thread Tim Nelson
- Original Message - > On 05/18/2012 11:19 PM, Tim Nelson wrote: > > - Original Message - > >> - Original Message - > >>> Greetings- > >>> > >>> I'm attempting to install CentOS-6 x86_64 to a virtual machine > >>> running via KVM on a Proxmox 1.9 system. The specs are 4x CPU

Re: [CentOS] Z-Stream?

2012-05-18 Thread Digimer
On 05/18/2012 05:32 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > Hi, > I just learned that there exists a "z-stream" channel upstream that > apparently carries some important bugfixes. Does anyone know what the > policies are for this channel and how this relates to centos releases? > > Regards, > Dennis

Re: [CentOS] Installation of CentOS 6 on KVM - Hangs

2012-05-18 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 05/18/2012 11:19 PM, Tim Nelson wrote: > - Original Message - >> - Original Message - >>> Greetings- >>> >>> I'm attempting to install CentOS-6 x86_64 to a virtual machine >>> running via KVM on a Proxmox 1.9 system. The specs are 4x CPUs, 4GB >>> RAM, and 160GB HDD. Installation

[CentOS] Z-Stream?

2012-05-18 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
Hi, I just learned that there exists a "z-stream" channel upstream that apparently carries some important bugfixes. Does anyone know what the policies are for this channel and how this relates to centos releases? Regards, Dennis ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Installation of CentOS 6 on KVM - Hangs

2012-05-18 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Fri, 18 May 2012, Tim Nelson wrote: Surely *someone* has installed CentOS 6 in a KVM VM and gotten it to work? :) Time after time after time. :-) -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org htt

Re: [CentOS] Installation of CentOS 6 on KVM - Hangs

2012-05-18 Thread Dean Jones
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Tim Nelson wrote: > - Original Message - >> - Original Message - >> > Greetings- >> > >> > I'm attempting to install CentOS-6 x86_64 to a virtual machine >> > running via KVM on a Proxmox 1.9 system. The specs are 4x CPUs, 4GB >> > RAM, and 160GB HD

Re: [CentOS] Installation of CentOS 6 on KVM - Hangs

2012-05-18 Thread Tim Nelson
- Original Message - > - Original Message - > > Greetings- > > > > I'm attempting to install CentOS-6 x86_64 to a virtual machine > > running via KVM on a Proxmox 1.9 system. The specs are 4x CPUs, 4GB > > RAM, and 160GB HDD. Installation proceeds fine using either minimal > > or n

Re: [CentOS] Setting overcommit_memory=2 kills system

2012-05-18 Thread Michael Coffman
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 11:23 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 05/18/12 10:09 AM, Michael Coffman wrote: > > 99 2425 1 4052 136382123488 > /opt/ictools/64bit/synopsys-aserver/bin/AServer > ^^ > > well, I dunno what that process is, but thats a HUGE vsiz

Re: [CentOS] Setting overcommit_memory=2 kills system

2012-05-18 Thread John R Pierce
On 05/18/12 10:09 AM, Michael Coffman wrote: > 99 2425 1 4052 136382123488 > /opt/ictools/64bit/synopsys-aserver/bin/AServer ^^ well, I dunno what that process is, but thats a HUGE vsize. -- john r pierceN 37, W 122 sa

Re: [CentOS] Setting overcommit_memory=2 kills system

2012-05-18 Thread Michael Coffman
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Michael Coffman > wrote: > > > >> If you are already overcommitted, what do you expect to happen when > >> you say not to allow that? The kernel doesn't have a really good way > >> to handle that situation

Re: [CentOS] Setting overcommit_memory=2 kills system

2012-05-18 Thread Michael Coffman
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Michael Coffman > wrote: > > > >> If you are already overcommitted, what do you expect to happen when > >> you say not to allow that? The kernel doesn't have a really good way > >> to handle that situation

Re: [CentOS] Setting overcommit_memory=2 kills system

2012-05-18 Thread Michael Coffman
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Michael Coffman > wrote: > > > >> If you are already overcommitted, what do you expect to happen when > >> you say not to allow that? The kernel doesn't have a really good way > >> to handle that situation

Re: [CentOS] Setting overcommit_memory=2 kills system

2012-05-18 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Michael Coffman wrote: > >> If you are already overcommitted, what do you expect to happen when >> you say not to allow that?   The kernel doesn't have a really good way >> to handle that situation (or any other OOM condition for that >> matter...). >> >> > OK.  S

Re: [CentOS] Setting overcommit_memory=2 kills system

2012-05-18 Thread Michael Coffman
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Michael Coffman > wrote: > > > >> Just because one machine fails gracefully does not mean the next will. > >> > > > > I don't even know what the above means. > > > > > >> But really buy some ram for real. OR

Re: [CentOS] 6.2 minimal install NIC driver issue

2012-05-18 Thread m . roth
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > I tried to upgrade one user's system, a Dell Optiplex GX620, and yum got a > GPF. After *much* grief, I finally gave up, and rebuilt the system. > > Or, rather, I'm trying to. First problem: I did a minimal install from the > graphical installer - I don't know if that's re

[CentOS] 6.2 minimal install NIC driver issue

2012-05-18 Thread m . roth
I tried to upgrade one user's system, a Dell Optiplex GX620, and yum got a GPF. After *much* grief, I finally gave up, and rebuilt the system. Or, rather, I'm trying to. First problem: I did a minimal install from the graphical installer - I don't know if that's relevant - but when it boots, it do

Re: [CentOS] Setting overcommit_memory=2 kills system

2012-05-18 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Michael Coffman wrote: > >> Just because one machine fails gracefully does not mean the next will. >> > > I don't even know what the above means. > > >> But really buy some ram for real. OR solve the real problem. >> >> > > Well that's just ridiculous.  'Real probl

Re: [CentOS] Setting overcommit_memory=2 kills system

2012-05-18 Thread Michael Coffman
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 6:15 AM, John Stanley wrote: > On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 13:08 -0600, Michael Coffman wrote: > > > vm.overcommit_ratio = 50 > ^^ > > Try changing the commit ratio to a greater value (yes you can go over > 100). > Then sysctl -w vm.overcom

Re: [CentOS] Setting overcommit_memory=2 kills system

2012-05-18 Thread John Stanley
On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 13:08 -0600, Michael Coffman wrote: > vm.overcommit_ratio = 50 ^^ Try changing the commit ratio to a greater value (yes you can go over 100). Then sysctl -w vm.overcommit_memory=2 Just because one machine fails gracefully does not me

Re: [CentOS] kernel: nfs: RPC call returned error 88

2012-05-18 Thread Rob Kampen
On 18/05/2012 4:21 a.m., Rhugga Harper wrote: > We have a 2-node Oracle RAC that keeps getting the following error: > kernel: nfs: RPC call returned error 88 > > The storage being mounted is netapp. We don't see any errors/issues on the > storage itself or the switches this client is connecting thr

[CentOS] oVirt on CentOS 6

2012-05-18 Thread John Blaut
Hi Are there any future plans for CentOS to build and directly provide oVirt packages compatible with CentOS 6? If not, has anyone tried the packages available at http://www.dreyou.org/ovirt/ and would these be considered fit for a CentOS-based oVirt production setup? I've heard many great things