[CentOS] XFS-filesystem corrupted by defragmentation Was: Performance problems with XFS on Centos 5.4

2010-04-13 Thread Bernhard Gschaider
swear to god: I did not do anything else with the xfs_*-commands than the stuff mentioned above Bernhard ---BeginMessage--- On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 10:59:02 -0400 RW == Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: RW On Apr 9, 2010, at 9:59 AM, Bernhard Gschaider RW bgschaid_li...@ice- sf.at

Re: [CentOS] XFS-filesystem corrupted by defragmentation Was: Performance problems with XFS on Centos 5.4

2010-04-13 Thread Bernhard Gschaider
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:58:39 +0100 JP == James Pearson jame...@moving-picture.com wrote: JP Bernhard Gschaider wrote: Before I'd try to defragment my whole filesystem (see attached mail for whole story) I figured Let's try it on some file. JP Might be better to ask

Re: [CentOS] XFS-filesystem corrupted by defragmentation Was: Performance problems with XFS on Centos 5.4

2010-04-13 Thread Bernhard Gschaider
) Footnotes: [1] PEBCAB: Problem exists between chair and keyboard On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:54:53 +0200 BG == Bernhard Gschaider bgschaid_li...@ice-sf.at wrote: BG Before I'd try to defragment my whole filesystem (see attached BG mail for whole story) I figured Let's try it on some file

Re: [CentOS] Performance problems with XFS on Centos 5.4

2010-04-12 Thread Bernhard Gschaider
On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 10:59:02 -0400 RW == Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: RW On Apr 9, 2010, at 9:59 AM, Bernhard Gschaider RW bgschaid_li...@ice- sf.at wrote: Hi! During the last weeks I experienced some performance problems with a large file-system

[CentOS] Performance problems with XFS on Centos 5.4

2010-04-09 Thread Bernhard Gschaider
Hi! During the last weeks I experienced some performance problems with a large file-system on XFS basis. Sometimes for instance ls is painfully. Immidiatly afterwards ls on the same directory is immidiate. I used strace on this ls and found that during the first ls the lstat-calls need approx

[CentOS] Repository for clean and safe installation of python2.6 (and other python-software)

2009-11-30 Thread Bernhard Gschaider
Hi! I want to test some software on my CentOS 5 machine that is not too happy with the system python (2.4). So when I install a python to my machines I want it to be a) clean: in other words it should be a RPM b) safe: it should not remove the system-python (in order not to break the

Re: [CentOS] Repository for clean and safe installation of python2.6 (and other python-software)

2009-11-30 Thread Bernhard Gschaider
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:24:24 -0500 JP == Jim Perrin jper...@gmail.com wrote: JP On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Bernhard Gschaider JP bgschaid_li...@ice-sf.at wrote: a) clean: in other words it should be a RPM b) safe: it should not remove the system-python (in order

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade to 5.4 with an existing XFS-filesystem

2009-10-22 Thread Bernhard Gschaider
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:36:06 -0700 AY == Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: AY On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Bernhard Gschaider AY bgschaid_li...@ice-sf.at wrote: I've got a fileserver currently running under 5.3 with the /home-partition being an XFS-filesystem. I use

[CentOS] Upgrade to 5.4 with an existing XFS-filesystem

2009-10-20 Thread Bernhard Gschaider
Hi! I've got a fileserver currently running under 5.3 with the /home-partition being an XFS-filesystem. I use the kmod-xfs from extras. It works great ;) Now: as I understand it from the release-notes the 5.4 kernel has XFS already built-in. Right? Or is it just a kmod-package (technology

[CentOS] Install CentOS on Partition(!)-images as a Xen-guest

2009-09-15 Thread Bernhard Gschaider
Hi! Some weeks ago the Running Xen-book was recommended to me on this list. A nice book, but it gave me crazy idea: One of the recommendations (which sounds very reasonable to me) was to have instead of a single file that serves as a disk-image to have to files: one of them (which is mounted to

Re: [CentOS] virt-manager crashes Host during installation of guest

2009-08-24 Thread Bernhard Gschaider
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:47:07 +0200 BG == Bernhard Gschaider bgschaid_li...@ice-sf.at wrote: BG Thanks to everyone who took the time to answer in this thread. BG I'm just writing this message to give this thread some closure BG and am not expecting any answers I found the cause

Re: [CentOS] virt-manager crashes Host during installation of guest

2009-08-24 Thread Bernhard Gschaider
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:43:57 +0300 PK == Pasi Kärkkäinen pa...@iki.fi wrote: PK On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 06:04:06PM +0200, Bernhard Gschaider PK wrote: On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:47:07 +0200 BG == Bernhard Gschaider bgschaid_li...@ice-sf.at wrote: BG Thanks to everyone

Re: [CentOS] virt-manager crashes Host during installation of guest

2009-08-19 Thread Bernhard Gschaider
Thanks for the replies so far. On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:06:08 +0100 MMG == Marcelo M Garcia marcelo.maia.gar...@googlemail.com wrote: MMG Bernhard Gschaider wrote: Hi! I have the following problem: I have a server (CentOS 5.3 x86_64) on which I want to install a virtual

Re: [CentOS] virt-manager crashes Host during installation of guest

2009-08-19 Thread Bernhard Gschaider
Thanks to everyone who took the time to answer in this thread. I'm just writing this message to give this thread some closure and am not expecting any answers On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:29:33 -0700 (PDT) IM == Ian Murray murra...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: This (and other replies) lead me to two

[CentOS] virt-manager crashes Host during installation of guest

2009-08-18 Thread Bernhard Gschaider
Hi! I have the following problem: I have a server (CentOS 5.3 x86_64) on which I want to install a virtual Xen-machine (CentOS 5.3 x86_64), I ssh from my workstation (Centos 5.3 x86_64 do you see the pattern ;) ) to that server and start the virt-manager. I create a new Guest

[CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Bernhard Gschaider
Hi! I'm justing in the process of setting up a new fileserver for our company. I'm installing CentOS 5.3 (64 bit) on it. One of the problems with it is that it has a 3.5TB filesystem for the user data which I formatted during setup as an ext3. Now my experience with our current fileserver is

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Bernhard Gschaider
Thank you all for your quick answers (you guys must have started typing BEFORE I hit the Send-button). The general consensus seems to be If you can start anew: use XFS. This leaves one question: as the XFS is not included in the standard-kernel which option offers the smoothest sailing

[CentOS] Services take a long time during initialzation (LDAP-authentication)

2008-10-02 Thread Bernhard Gschaider
Hi! I've got a CentOS4.7-machine as a fileserver. The machine also serves as the LDAP-server against which all regular users are authenticated. The problem I am having is that the machine takes a very long time to boot. Most of the services start up rather quick, but three services take quite a

Re: [CentOS] Job Scheduling suggestions

2008-09-11 Thread Bernhard Gschaider
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:54:44 -0700 JRP == John R Pierce John wrote: JRP Mag Gam wrote: At my university we have 50 computers in the lab. We would like to use a scheduler to schedule our fluid models, and I was wondering what is a good suggestion? JRP you might

Re: [CentOS] Problem with nvidia-drv-x11 when upgrading to CentOS 5.2

2008-07-01 Thread Bernhard Gschaider
On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 10:40:38 -0700 M == MHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: M On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 1:55 AM, Bernhard Gschaider M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi John! As I understand it the nvidia-x11-drv IS the nvidia.com-driver just repackaged in such a way

Force reinstallation of packages Was: [CentOS] Root-filesystem remounts as read-only during 5.2 upgrade (system completely shoot)

2008-06-26 Thread Bernhard Gschaider
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:53:16 +0200 BG == Bernhard Gschaider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:39:22 -0400 WLM == William L Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WLM On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 20:27 +0200, Bernhard Gschaider wrote: snip Is there a way to say: Hey RPM, have

Re: Force reinstallation of packages Was: [CentOS] Root-filesystem remounts as read-only during 5.2 upgrade (system completely shoot)

2008-06-26 Thread Bernhard Gschaider
On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:51:35 -0400 WLM == William L Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WLM WARNING! Due to my background, I don't often read man pages WLM like I used to. So there may be some inaccuracies or WLM ambiguities below. WLM On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 11:58 +0200, Bernhard

Re: [CentOS] Problem with nvidia-drv-x11 when upgrading to CentOS 5.2

2008-06-26 Thread Bernhard Gschaider
@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Problem with J nvidia-drv-x11 when upgrading to CentOS 5.2 J On Tue, June 24, 2008 3:08 pm, Bernhard Gschaider wrote: Hi! I know that the nvidia-drv-x11-package is from RPMForge, but I thought I might mention it here. J problem

Re: [CentOS] Problem with nvidia-drv-x11 when upgrading to CentOS 5.2

2008-06-25 Thread Bernhard Gschaider
with J nvidia-drv-x11 when upgrading to CentOS 5.2 J On Tue, June 24, 2008 3:08 pm, Bernhard Gschaider wrote: Hi! I know that the nvidia-drv-x11-package is from RPMForge, but I thought I might mention it here. problem snipped J

Re: [CentOS] udevd can't reach LDAP-server during boot

2008-06-25 Thread Bernhard Gschaider
Thanks for the answers On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:51:37 -0400 MS == Meenoo Shivdasani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MS On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Johnny Hughes MS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a BUG with nss_ldap: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448014

[CentOS] No plugin-directory for firefox in CentOS 5.2

2008-06-25 Thread Bernhard Gschaider
I noticed, that the directory /usr/lib/firefox-3.0b5/plugins/ is NOT created on CentOS 5.2. Therefor for instance the flash-plugin is not installed for the new firefox (After manually creating the directory and setting the right symlink it works all right)

Re: [CentOS] No plugin-directory for firefox in CentOS 5.2

2008-06-25 Thread Bernhard Gschaider
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:03:26 +0100 KS == Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: KS Bernhard Gschaider wrote: I noticed, that the directory /usr/lib/firefox-3.0b5/plugins/ is NOT created on CentOS 5.2. Therefor for instance the flash-plugin is not installed for the new

[CentOS] Root-filesystem remounts as read-only during 5.2 upgrade (system completely shoot)

2008-06-25 Thread Bernhard Gschaider
Judging from the frequency of my messages here one could think that I'm too stupid to upgrade a workstation to 5.2 (but the servers I've tried work without problem) OK. The problem: I've tried to upgrade a 5.1-x86_64-workstation to 5.2. During the upgrade immidiatly after (according to the

Re: [CentOS] No plugin-directory for firefox in CentOS 5.2

2008-06-25 Thread Bernhard Gschaider
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:49:22 +0100 KS == Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: KS Bernhard Gschaider wrote: Also, sitewide plugins are better in KS /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ which comes from the xulrunner rpm. You're right. I wasn't aware of this directory. The funny thing

Re: [CentOS] Root-filesystem remounts as read-only during 5.2 upgrade (system completely shoot)

2008-06-25 Thread Bernhard Gschaider
OK. I managed to beat the machine into submission. But a slight incertainty remains. On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:34:26 +0200 BG == Bernhard Gschaider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BG Judging from the frequency of my messages here one could think BG that I'm too stupid to upgrade a workstation

[CentOS] Problem with evolution while upgrading to CentOS 5.2

2008-06-24 Thread Bernhard Gschaider
Hi! When trying to prepare a workstation with (so that the real yum upgrade doesn't have to download the packages) yum upgrade --upgradeonly it fails with these messages: Error: Missing Dependency: libegroupwise-1.2.so.12 is needed by package evolution Error: Missing Dependency:

[CentOS] Problem with nvidia-drv-x11 when upgrading to CentOS 5.2

2008-06-24 Thread Bernhard Gschaider
Hi! I know that the nvidia-drv-x11-package is from RPMForge, but I thought I might mention it here. I have a machine with a NVidia-card and because of the ease of use I use the rpmforge-package for that. After upgrading the problem was that during rebooting as soon as the machine hit the RHGB

[CentOS] udevd can't reach LDAP-server during boot

2008-06-24 Thread Bernhard Gschaider
Hi! I'm using CentOS 5.1 (x86_64) machines which authenticate using LDAP. At the start of booting I get messages like this: udevd[1158]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldaps://ldap.server.example.com/: Can't contact LDAP server udevd[1158]: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server...

Re: [CentOS] Problem with nvidia-drv-x11 when upgrading to CentOS 5.2

2008-06-24 Thread Bernhard Gschaider
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:17:56 -0400 (EDT) MAJ == Marko A Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MAJ On Tue, June 24, 2008 3:08 pm, Bernhard Gschaider wrote: Hi! I know that the nvidia-drv-x11-package is from RPMForge, but I thought I might mention it here. I have

Re: [CentOS] Problem with evolution while upgrading to CentOS 5.2

2008-06-24 Thread Bernhard Gschaider
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:25:11 -0500 JH == Johnny Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JH Bernhard Gschaider wrote: Hi! When trying to prepare a workstation with (so that the real yum upgrade doesn't have to download the packages) yum upgrade --upgradeonly it fails

Re: [CentOS] FireFox

2008-05-29 Thread Bernhard Gschaider
On Tue, 27 May 2008 21:51:07 -0400 WLM == William L Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WLM On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 17:19 -0700, MHR wrote: On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Robert Spangler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can I use one out of the Fedora's repos? If so, which repo?