Re: [CentOS] Virtual Machine Manager error

2013-04-10 Thread Luke
> [root centos Desktop]# service libvert status > libvert: unrecognized service > service libvertd start libvertd meaning the libvert daemon. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Universal server hardware platform - which to choose?

2012-06-28 Thread Luke S. Crawford
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 09:57:33PM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > On 06/28/12 8:56 PM, Luke S. Crawford wrote: > > The problem with supermicro is that the end user assembles them; > > If you use ESD protection, this is fine. If you dont? go buy a dell > > or something. >

Re: [CentOS] Universal server hardware platform - which to choose?

2012-06-28 Thread Luke S. Crawford
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 03:03:23PM -0400, Steve Thompson wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jun 2012, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > > > We've had a number of servers fail, and it *seems* to be related to the > > motherboard. > > I too have had bad experiences with SuperMicro motherboards; never had one > last more

Re: [CentOS] RAID?

2012-06-25 Thread Luke S. Crawford
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 03:10:30AM +0800, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > On 6/25/12, Warren Young wrote: > > Then there's the LVM option, but I can't immediately come up with a > > one-liner that tells you whether a given LVM disk set is equivalent to > > software RAID. > > LVM has a mirroring optio

Re: [CentOS] XEN or KVM - performance/stability/security?

2012-05-16 Thread Luke S. Crawford
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 03:46:43PM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > A late reply, but hopefully a useful set of feedback for the archives: > > On 04/20/2012 05:59 AM, RafaƂ Radecki wrote: > > Key factors from my opint of view are: > > - stability (which one runs more smoothly on CentOS?) > > I foun

Re: [CentOS] RAID-10 vs Nested (RAID-0 on 2x RAID-1s)

2012-03-29 Thread Luke S. Crawford
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 04:49:26PM -0500, Tim Nelson wrote: > Am I overthinking this? Does the kernel handle the mirror/stripe > configuration under the hood, simply presenting me with a magical RAID10 > array? Or, is this something different and I really should be performing the > RAID creation

Re: [CentOS] md raid 10

2012-03-08 Thread Luke S. Crawford
On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 02:51:58PM -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > John R Pierce wrote: > > On 03/08/12 6:33 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >>> > ok, so 3 x 48/64 core servers uses the same power as 6 x 4/8 core ? > >>> > thats still major win. > >> Um, no - that's what I'm saying is*not* the ca

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.2 software raid 10 with LVM - Need help with degraded drive and only one MBR

2012-03-05 Thread Luke S. Crawford
On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 06:12:52PM -0500, Ross Walker wrote: > Technically if the data portion is a true RAID10 you would only need to > mirror /boot to sdb, cause if both sda AND sdb are out then the whole RAID10 > is SOL and there would be no need to boot off of sdc or sdd. > Having said that

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.2 software raid 10 with LVM - Need help with degraded drive and only one MBR

2012-03-04 Thread Luke S. Crawford
> Right. I was referring to RAID 1. For a RAID 10, you would have to > find the proper drive to boot from. This is why I tend to limit myself > to RAID 1 in software. If I need something more complex than that, I > get a hardware card so the OS just sees it as a single drive and you > don't hav

Re: [CentOS] Software RAID1 with CentOS-6.2

2012-03-01 Thread Luke S. Crawford
housand drives, and I don't have a good inventory system tracking errors, but I only have a few consumer-grade drives left in production, but it's still fairly common for a bad consumer drive to hang up an old server and set off my pager in the middle of the night, 'cause I/O has hun

Re: [CentOS] Software RAID1 with CentOS-6.2

2012-02-28 Thread Luke S. Crawford
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:27:53AM +1100, Kahlil Hodgson wrote: > Now I start to get I/O errors on printed on the console. Run 'mdadm -D > /dev/md1' and see the array is degraded and /dev/sdb2 has been marked as > faulty. what I/O errors? > So I start again and repeat the install process very c

Re: [CentOS] Data consumption (external connections only)

2012-02-26 Thread Luke S. Crawford
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 11:30:14PM -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:26:59 -0500 > Luke S. Crawford wrote: > > > check out http://bandwidthd.sourceforge.net/ - It only supports IPv4, > > but it's pretty convenient, as you can define what 'local&

Re: [CentOS] Data consumption (external connections only)

2012-02-26 Thread Luke S. Crawford
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 02:21:09PM -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > It looks like it does pretty much the same thing as several other monitoring > tools that I've looked at. However, none of them separate local traffic from > external traffic. check out http://bandwidthd.sourceforge.net/ - It only sup

Re: [CentOS] System reboots automatically more or less every two days

2012-02-23 Thread Luke S. Crawford
is happening. It can be a great help with hardware problems. -- Luke S. Crawford http://prgmr.com/xen/ - Hosting for the technically adept http://nostarch.com/xen.htm - We don't assume you are stupid. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@ce

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Godaddy hell...

2009-04-03 Thread Luke S Crawford
"Jason Pyeron" writes: > > Everyone's pushing you to one of the VPS providers because > > that's what all the cool kids are doing now that VM > > technology is commoditized. > > > > I do not have an opinion on this. I think people are pushing the VPS service because people who are intereste

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Network switches

2009-03-25 Thread Luke S Crawford
Les Mikesell writes: > If you get a service contract on any piece of Cisco equipment, you > typically get download access to all of the firmware updates. Yeah, but the problem for me is that for my frontend network, 100M is just fine. A used cisco 3548 is going to set me back around $200. Fo

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Network switches

2009-03-24 Thread Luke S Crawford
Rob Townley writes: > i would like to see real performance data via something like netperf > with client machines booted from a standardized LiveCD, then > peformance under their Linux Distribution and performance under > Windows. Performance data is not the most important metric, at least for

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-09 Thread Luke S Crawford
Bill Campbell writes: > I usually go to the Kingston site to find the proper memory for > specific main boards, and get most of our RAM from newegg.com. > > http://www.kingston.com > > http://www.newegg.com I second this, except that I find Kingston often has the best price for ram,

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-07 Thread Luke S Crawford
Rick writes: > Since memory has become quite cheap lately I decided to move from 2 GB > to 6. When I installed the memory every thing was fine until I went to > run level 5. At that point the screen turned to garbage and the system > froze. Is there a way to fix this so I can use the memory I bou

Re: [CentOS] RAID on Email Server

2008-10-20 Thread Luke S Crawford
Guy Boisvert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Your %iowait seems high. > > I had %iowait comparable to you with a single 200 Gigs 7200 RPM IDE drive. > > Now we've upgraded this server: Opteron 2216 with 4 Gigs RAM, CentOS > 64 v5.2) and an Adaptec 3405 plus 4 x 73 Gigs Seagate 15K RPM (RAID > 10).

Re: [CentOS] question on sending mail with 5.2

2008-09-13 Thread Luke S Crawford
Ralph Angenendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I really don't understand why people just don't turn off their mailservers if > they > don't want mail from others. Most of us have come close.I get north of 500 spams a day unprotected. I've been using the same email since '01. I know many ot

Re: [CentOS] question on sending mail with 5.2

2008-09-12 Thread Luke S Crawford
Jerry Geis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the event I have an important email and I want it try perhaps every > minute (1minute) > to send the email how do I accomplish this from the sendmail command line? considering just how many people use greylisting, this is likely a bad idea.Greylisti

Re: [Centos] mirroring with LVM?

2008-08-18 Thread Luke S Crawford
"Gordon McLellan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm pulling my hair out trying to setup a mirrored logical volume. > > lvconvert tells me I don't have enough free space, even though I have > hundreds of gigabytes free on both physical volumes. your problem is that vg1 only has one PV. if you are

Re: [CentOS] Bonding and Xen

2008-07-15 Thread Luke S Crawford
"Victor Padro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone has implemented this sucessfully? I have not used bonding with xen, but once you have a bonded interface in the Dom0 it should be trivial. setup your bonded interface as usual, then in /etc/xend-config.sxp where it says (network-script net

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 and Xen

2008-06-24 Thread Luke S Crawford
Ruslan Sivak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lanyon wrote: > > On 24/06/2008, at 9:08 AM, Luke S Crawford wrote: > >> We were discussing memory limits of the free (as in beer) closed source > >> citrix xensource product- limits are added to the free product in

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 and Xen

2008-06-23 Thread Luke S Crawford
Tom Lanyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I haven't been following the thread, but has the discussion been about > memory limits of Xen? We were discussing memory limits of the free (as in beer) closed source citrix xensource product- limits are added to the free product in order to encourage peo

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 and Xen

2008-06-17 Thread Luke S Crawford
Ruslan Sivak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Luke S Crawford wrote: > > It is PAE. > If it's PAE, then I'm a bit confused, as they advertise it as "*Native > 64-bit hypervisor:* Scalability and support for enterprise > applications" heh. looks like I

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 and Xen

2008-06-15 Thread Luke S Crawford
Ruslan Sivak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > running vmware under a xenU guest wouldn't lift any ram limit > > imposed by the xen kernel or dom0. ... > The 4GB limit is artificial, and only applies to the vm's started > using their closed source XenSource. The host OS is most likely > CentOS 5,

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 and Xen

2008-06-11 Thread Luke S Crawford
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > If you only have 512mb of ram, there's almost no reason to virtualize. > Windows needs a minimum of 128-512MB to run stable. I highly suggest that > you get more RAM - its very cheap these days. seconded. my standard server has 8G unbuffered ecc. Newegg sells 2x

Re: [CentOS] Hardening CentOS by removing "hacker" tools

2008-06-06 Thread Luke S Crawford
"Filipe Brandenburger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My boss asked me to harden a CentOS box by removing "hacker" tools, > such as nmap, tcpdump, nc (netcat), telnet, etc. Removing network tools does not make it harder to break into the box, however, it can make it harder to do something with it

Re: [CentOS] Re: several servers

2008-06-05 Thread Luke S Crawford
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > ok..i can install dovecot+postfix+MYSQL..etc..and maybe the problem it's > resolve. > i don't have problem with the machines, the machines are goods, my problem > is the tranparent receive e-mails to the users than are distributed in > four machines with the same number

Re: [CentOS] Convert a real system in a DomU

2008-05-16 Thread Luke S Crawford
"Sergio Belkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > dd if=/dev/sdaX of=fedora6.img (on FC6) of course, you can't do this if you are booting off /dev/sdaX- boot into a rescue disk or something. > and then on Centos 5.1 > > dd if=fedora6.img of=/dev/sdaX > > Could I run this system into Xen? assuming

Re: [CentOS] Best Motherboard

2008-05-15 Thread Luke S Crawford
Simon Jolle sjolle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What are the advantages of building your own server comparing with > products from HP, Dell and IBM? Is it cheaper? I find that if you order the base package from Dell, you get a pretty good deal. sometimes better than buying the parts alone. But

Re: [CentOS] Best Motherboard

2008-05-15 Thread Luke S Crawford
"Ryan Nichols" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Really? We bought that EXACT motherboard.. 10 to be exact and we've had 9 > fail and the 10th is on its way to major failure.. the odd thing is that > 10th one was the first one purchased and that was 6 months ago. Unless you have many hundreds of serve

Re: [CentOS] pvmove speed

2008-02-13 Thread Luke Dudney
On 13/02/2008 05:24, Joseph L. Casale wrote: But I really have a hunch that it is just a lot of I/O wait time due to either metadata maintenance and checkpointing and/or I/O failures, which have very long timeouts before failure is recognized and *then* alternate block assignment and mapping is d

Re: [CentOS] system smtp server question

2008-02-07 Thread Luke Dudney
system and the fault-tolerance such a setup provides, however, you can achieve similar levels of fault tolerance by implementing redundancy on your relay server system(s). I guess it's up to you to figure out what's appropriate to your envir

Re: [CentOS] swapping on centos 5.1

2008-02-01 Thread Luke Dudney
ture of how much swapping is occuring on your system. Cheers Luke ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Dump on remote filesystems?

2008-01-29 Thread Luke Dudney
s essentialy how a Samba mount is seen by the kernel on your office machine. If I am correct here then I doubt it would work over NFS either. I can put my vote in for amanda as a good alternative. cheers Luke ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@cent

Re: [CentOS] Xen clock drift

2008-01-09 Thread Luke Dudney
#x27;s clock forwards, but it won't push a fast clock backwards. I'm yet to see a "best practice" for ensuring proper time synchronisation within VMware VMs, but for now, NTP seems the best option. cheers Luke ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.1

2007-12-14 Thread Luke Dudney
with the published md5sums. Luke ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] ntpd

2007-12-12 Thread Luke Dudney
to have my understanding of this issue clarified! cheers Luke ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Clustering MySQL

2007-12-12 Thread Luke Dudney
does anyone else on the list have experience engineering a Centos Cluster Suit failover cluster for MySQL? cheers Luke ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem that doesn't store duplicate data

2007-12-05 Thread Luke Dudney
or it, that it can be done and probably also appears to some kernel hackers as a challenge... cheers Luke On 06/12/2007, at 1:33 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there such a filesystem available? It seems like it wouldn't be too hard to implement... Basically do things on a block by bloc