Re: big machines running Debian?

2009-02-27 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 05:58:43PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: As would auto-replacement of bad drives by hot spares. Usually the firmware of a raid card does that itself. If a drive is flagged hotspare, the raid card should automatically start the rebuild if a drive fails. You should never have

Re: big machines running Debian?

2009-02-27 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 06:06:07PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Most DC managers have a bit more clue and good reasons than simply rules for rules' sake. Mainly logistics: if all the center's disks are SAS (or whatever other standard you choose) in only one or two vendor's SANs (or whatever

Re: wpasupplicant in Lenny

2009-02-27 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Hi all, as the change of wpasupplicant in Lenny, I looked for an option to specify the essid in /etc/network/interfaces for WPA to use any AP. By using WEP, there is the possibility to say wireless_essid any, so I can use any AP. I looked for the same feature

cpufreq doesn't work

2009-02-27 Thread Tom Vier
cpufreq won't work on any K8 cpu that I have. I've tested multiple machines (details below). I used modprobe to load cpufreq_ondemand, cpufreq_stats, and freq_table, but there's no /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu?/cpufreq/ dir. Here are the machines I've tested: single dual-core opteron 175, msi

Re: wpasupplicant in Lenny

2009-02-27 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Freitag, 27. Februar 2009 schrieb Jörg-Volker Peetz: Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Hi all, as the change of wpasupplicant in Lenny, I looked for an option to specify the essid in /etc/network/interfaces for WPA to use any AP. By using WEP, there is the possibility to say wireless_essid

Re: cpufreq doesn't work

2009-02-27 Thread Jaime Ochoa Malagón
Yeap that works, I'm not able to send the information right now about the version, but I'm pretty sure, I have an Opteron ??? on an Asus mobo... On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Tom Vier nes...@gmail.com wrote: cpufreq won't work on any K8 cpu that I have. I've tested multiple machines (details

Re: big machines running Debian?

2009-02-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/27/2009 07:50 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 05:58:43PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: As would auto-replacement of bad drives by hot spares. Usually the firmware of a raid card does that itself. If a drive is flagged hotspare, the raid card should automatically start

Re: cpufreq doesn't work

2009-02-27 Thread Mauro Lizaur
On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Tom Vier wrote: cpufreq won't work on any K8 cpu that I have. I've tested multiple machines (details below). I used modprobe to load cpufreq_ondemand, cpufreq_stats, and freq_table, but there's no /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu?/cpufreq/ dir. It does work for me, i have

Re: big machines running Debian?

2009-02-27 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:49:29AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: I was referring to the fact that softraid couldn't do that. Are you sure? mdadm appears capable of managing spares automatically when such are setup for the raid. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: big machines running Debian?

2009-02-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/27/2009 02:25 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:49:29AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: I was referring to the fact that softraid couldn't do that. Are you sure? No... mdadm appears capable of managing spares automatically when such are setup for the

Re: big machines running Debian?

2009-02-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 02:44:04PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/27/2009 02:25 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:49:29AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: I was referring to the fact that softraid couldn't do that. Are you sure? No... mdadm appears capable of

Re: big machines running Debian?

2009-02-27 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 02:44:04PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: In mdadm.conf? I'm really surprised (and pleased)! Probably in the monitoring mode. man mdadm talks about spare drives and spare groups and moving spares between raids and such. Sounds pretty likely to automatically use a spare

Re: big machines running Debian?

2009-02-27 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 04:14:52PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 02:44:04PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: In mdadm.conf? I'm really surprised (and pleased)! Probably in the monitoring mode. man mdadm talks about spare drives and spare groups and moving spares between

Re: big machines running Debian?

2009-02-27 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) writes: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 04:07:54PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: I think the limit is 1024 cores. Or was that fixed to allow more? I think people are working on that, but not too many machines need that yet. Most machines with