Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems and Solutions

2009-10-09 Thread Martin Suehowicz
Raid10 should be better on your writes. Random reads and writes are the most important for a db. For random io the more spindles(disks) you have the better. I would use sas over sata if possible. How big is your database? If it is small you may be able to put it on a few solid state drives there re

Re: [CentOS] syslog: CPU stuck for 10s!

2009-03-17 Thread Martin Suehowicz
Try upgrading to the latest kernel. -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of tblader Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 9:05 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] syslog: CPU stuck for 10s! Hi All, I have a Centos 5 box serving

[CentOS] Looking for a list of default services to disable in centos 5

2009-03-25 Thread Martin Suehowicz
I am looking for a list of services that you disable by default on your server. Here is what I am disabling so far. avahi-daemon bluetooth cups firstboot haldaemon hidd hplip ip6tables isdn messagebus pcscd rpcgssd rpcidmapd sendmail xfs xinetd yum-updatesd Thanks for any input

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a list of default services to disable in centos 5

2009-03-25 Thread Martin Suehowicz
My question was targeted at minimal install that I could start with bare bones. Just what you need to run the os. I would use it to build the rest of my kickstarts with adding the needed services for webservers, databases, etc. I see the usefulness it for example You can pretty much say that everyo

Re: [CentOS] Two sets of Heartbeat HTTPD clusters on same subnet

2009-04-01 Thread Martin Suehowicz
Think here is a faq somewhere on the heartbeat website that recommended using multicast and 2 different ports. Perhaps you could just use 2 diffent udp ports though. Have a look at the halinux faq. -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Beh