Re: [CentOS] rsync and swapping

2008-01-30 Thread MHR
On Jan 30, 2008 11:49 AM, Milton Calnek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > MHR wrote: > > > > # file /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5 > > /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, AMD > > x86-64, version 1, stripped > > > > Doesn't look that way - BUT, it is a self-extracting archiv

Re: [CentOS] rsync and swapping

2008-01-30 Thread MHR
On Jan 30, 2008 10:51 AM, Marko A. Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, January 30, 2008 1:36 pm, MHR wrote: > > > As long as the majority of the files are not plain text - I have had > > really bad results using bzip2 on text files - specifically, massive > > file corruption. I have had

Re: [CentOS] rsync and swapping

2008-01-30 Thread Milton Calnek
MHR wrote: On Jan 30, 2008 11:03 AM, Milton Calnek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: MHR wrote: On Jan 30, 2008 8:26 AM, William L. Maltby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 17:14 +0100, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: Marcelo Roccasalva wrote: On Jan 30, 2008 11:24 AM, Jerry Geis <[EM

Re: [CentOS] rsync and swapping

2008-01-30 Thread MHR
On Jan 30, 2008 11:03 AM, Milton Calnek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > MHR wrote: > > On Jan 30, 2008 8:26 AM, William L. Maltby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 17:14 +0100, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: > >>> Marcelo Roccasalva wrote: > On Jan 30, 2008 11:24 AM, Jerry Ge

Re: [CentOS] rsync and swapping

2008-01-30 Thread MHR
On Jan 30, 2008 10:46 AM, Brian Mathis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I once knew a guy who bought a really cheap PC with an AMD CPU in it. > Despite the fact that the power supply was underpowered, and > everything else on the machine was just as cheap as possible, he > blamed the AMD chip for all

Re: [CentOS] rsync and swapping

2008-01-30 Thread nate
MHR wrote: > On Jan 30, 2008 8:26 AM, William L. Maltby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As long as the majority of the files are not plain text - I have had > really bad results using bzip2 on text files - specifically, massive > file corruption. I have had to go back to pre-bzipped archives to > re

Re: [CentOS] rsync and swapping

2008-01-30 Thread Milton Calnek
MHR wrote: On Jan 30, 2008 8:26 AM, William L. Maltby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 17:14 +0100, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: Marcelo Roccasalva wrote: On Jan 30, 2008 11:24 AM, Jerry Geis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi all, As long as the majority of the files are not p

Re: [CentOS] rsync and swapping

2008-01-30 Thread Les Mikesell
Marcelo Roccasalva wrote: I use rsync to copy/backup ALL my stuff to another disk. When I run this seems like my machine (4 GIG ram centos 5.1) now begins to swap out more programs. Is there a way to reduce that swapping? I am running with echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness I simply mount /dev/

Re: [CentOS] rsync and swapping

2008-01-30 Thread Marko A. Jennings
On Wed, January 30, 2008 1:36 pm, MHR wrote: > As long as the majority of the files are not plain text - I have had > really bad results using bzip2 on text files - specifically, massive > file corruption. I have had to go back to pre-bzipped archives to > rebuild these files - not a fun task. W

Re: [CentOS] rsync and swapping

2008-01-30 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 1:36 PM, MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As long as the majority of the files are not plain text - I have had > really bad results using bzip2 on text files - specifically, massive > file corruption. I have had to go back to pre-bzipped archives to > rebuild these file

Re: [CentOS] rsync and swapping

2008-01-30 Thread MHR
On Jan 30, 2008 8:26 AM, William L. Maltby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 17:14 +0100, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: > > > > Marcelo Roccasalva wrote: > > > On Jan 30, 2008 11:24 AM, Jerry Geis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> hi all, > > >> > > >> I use rsync to copy/backup AL

Re: [CentOS] rsync and swapping

2008-01-30 Thread Milton Calnek
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: Marcelo Roccasalva wrote: On Jan 30, 2008 11:24 AM, Jerry Geis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi all, I use rsync to copy/backup ALL my stuff to another disk. When I run this seems like my machine (4 GIG ram centos 5.1) now begins to swap out more programs. Is ther

Re: [CentOS] rsync and swapping

2008-01-30 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 17:14 +0100, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: > > Marcelo Roccasalva wrote: > > On Jan 30, 2008 11:24 AM, Jerry Geis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> hi all, > >> > >> I use rsync to copy/backup ALL my stuff to another disk. > >> > >> When I run this seems like my machine (4 GIG ra

Re: [CentOS] rsync and swapping

2008-01-30 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Marcelo Roccasalva wrote: On Jan 30, 2008 11:24 AM, Jerry Geis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi all, I use rsync to copy/backup ALL my stuff to another disk. When I run this seems like my machine (4 GIG ram centos 5.1) now begins to swap out more programs. Is there a way to reduce that swapping

Re: [CentOS] rsync and swapping

2008-01-30 Thread Marcelo Roccasalva
On Jan 30, 2008 11:24 AM, Jerry Geis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all, > > I use rsync to copy/backup ALL my stuff to another disk. > > When I run this seems like my machine (4 GIG ram centos 5.1) > now begins to swap out more programs. Is there a way to reduce > that swapping? I am running with

Re: [CentOS] rsync and swapping

2008-01-30 Thread Les Mikesell
Jerry Geis wrote: hi all, I use rsync to copy/backup ALL my stuff to another disk. When I run this seems like my machine (4 GIG ram centos 5.1) now begins to swap out more programs. Is there a way to reduce that swapping? I am running with echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness I simply mount /dev/s

[CentOS] rsync and swapping

2008-01-30 Thread Jerry Geis
hi all, I use rsync to copy/backup ALL my stuff to another disk. When I run this seems like my machine (4 GIG ram centos 5.1) now begins to swap out more programs. Is there a way to reduce that swapping? I am running with echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness I simply mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/backup; mk