Another question

2000-08-29 Thread tps
Maybe I missed it, but what's the deal with the new kernels (2.4.0xxx) and shared memory? From top: CPU states: 5.2% user, 1.8% system, 0.0% nice, 93.0% idle Mem: 78592K av, 75848K used, 2744K free, 0K shrd, 1932K buff Swap: 185464K av, 11520K used, 173944K free

lvm

2000-08-29 Thread tps
Has anyone had any luck getting the lvm stuff to work? Tim -- >< >> Tim Sailer (at home) >< Coastal Internet, Inc. << >> Network and Systems Operations >< PO Box 671 <<

Re: AMD Duron CPU & Debian

2000-08-29 Thread Art Sackett
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 10:08:53PM -0600, Art Sackett wrote: > ('compact' is sporting a 2.2.14pre-something Dump typo from a poorly-skilled keyboard operator. 2.2.17pre-something. -- Art Sackett

Re: AMD Duron CPU & Debian

2000-08-29 Thread Art Sackett
On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 10:05:46PM +0100, Jonathan McDowell wrote: > > I had a machine with a 2940 lock up after a fair few SCSI bus resets. I > compiled up the latest 2.2.17 pre release which has the latest driver in > it and turned off tagged command queuing and haven't seen a problem > since. I

Re: Another question

2000-08-29 Thread Nathan
Check the Readme's with the Kernel source - there is actualy a device you have to mount in your fstab file (you know, for bootup;) that enables shared memory. It uses a "imaginary" mount point like /proc does. However, as far as I know, "free" and friends don't show the shared memory in use corr

Another question

2000-08-29 Thread tps
Maybe I missed it, but what's the deal with the new kernels (2.4.0xxx) and shared memory? From top: CPU states: 5.2% user, 1.8% system, 0.0% nice, 93.0% idle Mem: 78592K av, 75848K used, 2744K free, 0K shrd, 1932K buff Swap: 185464K av, 11520K used, 173944K free

lvm

2000-08-29 Thread tps
Has anyone had any luck getting the lvm stuff to work? Tim -- >< >> Tim Sailer (at home) >< Coastal Internet, Inc. << >> Network and Systems Operations >< PO Box 671 <

Re: AMD Duron CPU & Debian

2000-08-29 Thread Art Sackett
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 10:08:53PM -0600, Art Sackett wrote: > ('compact' is sporting a 2.2.14pre-something Dump typo from a poorly-skilled keyboard operator. 2.2.17pre-something. -- Art Sackett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: AMD Duron CPU & Debian

2000-08-29 Thread Art Sackett
On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 10:05:46PM +0100, Jonathan McDowell wrote: > > I had a machine with a 2940 lock up after a fair few SCSI bus resets. I > compiled up the latest 2.2.17 pre release which has the latest driver in > it and turned off tagged command queuing and haven't seen a problem > since.

Re: reiserfs & databases.

2000-08-29 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 04:36:23PM +0200, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: > but, there are some commercial databases which keep their data directly > on partitions ( this should be much better then any *fs including > reiserfs) and the weird part is that that direct-partition instalation > scheme seems to

Re: what is sufficient free memory?

2000-08-29 Thread Erik Peter P. Abella
Hello again, Robert Davies wrote: > Why wait? > > Run the command vmstat, and observe how much is paged in /out, what is the > scan rate? That indicates how hard the page stealer is looking for pages it > can free off. vmstat 10 is usually a goodish, number but if you can run it > a long time,

ppp configuration PROBLEM

2000-08-29 Thread James Clawson
Help: I am new to Debian and am unabel to get internet applications running after connecting with wvdial?? Perhaps someone can advise me where I can enter my ISP's DNS address? Any help will be gratly appeciated. Jim Clawson __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo!

Re: what is sufficient free memory?

2000-08-29 Thread Robert Davies
> Thanks for all the reponses. From most of the replies, can I gather that > I'll have to observe my how much is being swapped to determine whether I > should immediately "up" the RAM back to 128MB? (and pester the tight-wad > suits who'll approve the requesition) Why wait? Run the command vmstat

Re: what is sufficient free memory?

2000-08-29 Thread Erik Peter P. Abella
Hello All, Thanks for all the reponses. From most of the replies, can I gather that I'll have to observe my how much is being swapped to determine whether I should immediately "up" the RAM back to 128MB? (and pester the tight-wad suits who'll approve the requesition) To paint a better picture, h

Re: reiserfs & databases.

2000-08-29 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 04:36:23PM +0200, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: > but, there are some commercial databases which keep their data directly > on partitions ( this should be much better then any *fs including > reiserfs) and the weird part is that that direct-partition instalation > scheme seems t

Re: what is sufficient free memory?

2000-08-29 Thread Tamas TEVESZ
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Nathan wrote: > Why not that cheap? Less than half of his ram is being used for actual > needed data. The rest is either free, in cache or in buffers which means > the memory isn't even close to being stressed on the system. The 3MB in that's exactly what i'm talking ab

Re: what is sufficient free memory?

2000-08-29 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Not to mention that unless you are having MILD traffic through the squid box, you probably want a box dedicated to just that. On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Bulent Murtezaoglu wrote: | | Your biggest potential hog is squid. It maintains data structures in | memory and their size grows with your cache si

dfme network driver

2000-08-29 Thread Allen Ahoffman
Hi: does anyone know if the dfme network driver is available during a debian 2.2 install? If so, dos it show up on the list of cards, and which hardare set should I get for the following items: I'll use a machine with udma66 drives, and the dfme network onboard. under RH Ihave to use insmod after

Re: what is sufficient free memory?

2000-08-29 Thread Nathan
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Tamas TEVESZ wrote: > On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Erik Peter P. Abella wrote: > > > 70 processes: 69 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped > > CPU states: 0.1% user, 0.7% system, 0.0% nice, 99.0% idle > > Mem: 63124K av, 61296K used, 1828K free, 36880K shrd, 7712K bu

Re: what is sufficient free memory?

2000-08-29 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Erik, linux will always use almost 100% of the memory (unless you have a BUTTLOAD of extra (ie. 512MB RAM)) for buffers and things like that. For example: skank:~# free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 62956 61460 1496 15432

Re: what is sufficient free memory?

2000-08-29 Thread Tamas TEVESZ
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Erik Peter P. Abella wrote: > 70 processes: 69 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped > CPU states: 0.1% user, 0.7% system, 0.0% nice, 99.0% idle > Mem: 63124K av, 61296K used, 1828K free, 36880K shrd, 7712K buff > Swap: 104380K av, 3128K used, 101252K free

what is sufficient free memory?

2000-08-29 Thread Bulent Murtezaoglu
Your biggest potential hog is squid. It maintains data structures in memory and their size grows with your cache size. If anything causes trashing that'll be it. The squid FAQ's give some back-of-envelope calculations for this AFAIK. cheers, BM

what is sufficient free memory?

2000-08-29 Thread Erik Peter P. Abella
Hello All, I had problems with the RAM (128MB SDRAM DIMM) of my server and the only spare I had was (64MB SDRAM DIMM). Hear is what top says: 70 processes: 69 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 0.1% user, 0.7% system, 0.0% nice, 99.0% idle Mem: 63124K av, 61296K used, 1

Re: what is sufficient free memory?

2000-08-29 Thread Erik Peter P. Abella
Hello again, Robert Davies wrote: > Why wait? > > Run the command vmstat, and observe how much is paged in /out, what is the > scan rate? That indicates how hard the page stealer is looking for pages it > can free off. vmstat 10 is usually a goodish, number but if you can run it > a long time

ppp configuration PROBLEM

2000-08-29 Thread James Clawson
Help: I am new to Debian and am unabel to get internet applications running after connecting with wvdial?? Perhaps someone can advise me where I can enter my ISP's DNS address? Any help will be gratly appeciated. Jim Clawson __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo

Re: what is sufficient free memory?

2000-08-29 Thread Robert Davies
> Thanks for all the reponses. From most of the replies, can I gather that > I'll have to observe my how much is being swapped to determine whether I > should immediately "up" the RAM back to 128MB? (and pester the tight-wad > suits who'll approve the requesition) Why wait? Run the command vmsta

Re: Routing

2000-08-29 Thread Christian Hammers
On Tue, 29.08.00 09:48 -0700, Kevin wrote: > I've got my network on 10.0.0.0/24. The gateway is 10.0.0.1 and the > bridge/router is on 10.0.0.1. I need to setup a static route in the > gateway that says anything for 10.1.1.0/24 should use 10.0.0.1 as > its next hop. From my view I can't

Re: what is sufficient free memory?

2000-08-29 Thread Erik Peter P. Abella
Hello All, Thanks for all the reponses. From most of the replies, can I gather that I'll have to observe my how much is being swapped to determine whether I should immediately "up" the RAM back to 128MB? (and pester the tight-wad suits who'll approve the requesition) To paint a better picture,

Re: what is sufficient free memory?

2000-08-29 Thread Tamas TEVESZ
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Nathan wrote: > Why not that cheap? Less than half of his ram is being used for actual > needed data. The rest is either free, in cache or in buffers which means > the memory isn't even close to being stressed on the system. The 3MB in that's exactly what i'm talking a

Re: what is sufficient free memory?

2000-08-29 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Not to mention that unless you are having MILD traffic through the squid box, you probably want a box dedicated to just that. On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Bulent Murtezaoglu wrote: | | Your biggest potential hog is squid. It maintains data structures in | memory and their size grows with your cache s

dfme network driver

2000-08-29 Thread Allen Ahoffman
Hi: does anyone know if the dfme network driver is available during a debian 2.2 install? If so, dos it show up on the list of cards, and which hardare set should I get for the following items: I'll use a machine with udma66 drives, and the dfme network onboard. under RH Ihave to use insmod after

Re: what is sufficient free memory?

2000-08-29 Thread Nathan
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Tamas TEVESZ wrote: > On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Erik Peter P. Abella wrote: > > > 70 processes: 69 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped > > CPU states: 0.1% user, 0.7% system, 0.0% nice, 99.0% idle > > Mem: 63124K av, 61296K used, 1828K free, 36880K shrd, 7712K b

Re: what is sufficient free memory?

2000-08-29 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Erik, linux will always use almost 100% of the memory (unless you have a BUTTLOAD of extra (ie. 512MB RAM)) for buffers and things like that. For example: skank:~# free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 62956 61460 1496 15432

Re: what is sufficient free memory?

2000-08-29 Thread Tamas TEVESZ
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Erik Peter P. Abella wrote: > 70 processes: 69 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped > CPU states: 0.1% user, 0.7% system, 0.0% nice, 99.0% idle > Mem: 63124K av, 61296K used, 1828K free, 36880K shrd, 7712K buff > Swap: 104380K av, 3128K used, 101252K free

what is sufficient free memory?

2000-08-29 Thread Bulent Murtezaoglu
Your biggest potential hog is squid. It maintains data structures in memory and their size grows with your cache size. If anything causes trashing that'll be it. The squid FAQ's give some back-of-envelope calculations for this AFAIK. cheers, BM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

what is sufficient free memory?

2000-08-29 Thread Erik Peter P. Abella
Hello All, I had problems with the RAM (128MB SDRAM DIMM) of my server and the only spare I had was (64MB SDRAM DIMM). Hear is what top says: 70 processes: 69 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 0.1% user, 0.7% system, 0.0% nice, 99.0% idle Mem: 63124K av, 61296K used,

Routing

2000-08-29 Thread Kevin
I've got my network on 10.0.0.0/24. The gateway is 10.0.0.1 and the bridge/router is on 10.0.0.1. I need to setup a static route in the gateway that says anything for 10.1.1.0/24 should use 10.0.0.1 as its next hop. From my view I can't do it with normal route as it will only take an

Re: Routing

2000-08-29 Thread Christian Hammers
On Tue, 29.08.00 09:48 -0700, Kevin wrote: > I've got my network on 10.0.0.0/24. The gateway is 10.0.0.1 and the > bridge/router is on 10.0.0.1. I need to setup a static route in the > gateway that says anything for 10.1.1.0/24 should use 10.0.0.1 as > its next hop. From my view I can't

Web crawler engine.

2000-08-29 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
There are lot of web search engines around, i mean like altavista's google's infoseek's etc.. What does one do when she wants to build one herself. I mean what do you people use when you build local search engine ( city, locality, my needs are about 100 000 pages?webs? for the beggining). I've be

reiserfs & databases.

2000-08-29 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
AFAIK reiserfs is about keeping files (blocks) in b-trees, and DBMS keep their data in a bunch of files, which are accessed directly (non-sequential access). So I figured that reiserfs would be great for keeping DBMS's data on it. but, there are some commercial databases which keep their data dir

Routing

2000-08-29 Thread Kevin
I've got my network on 10.0.0.0/24. The gateway is 10.0.0.1 and the bridge/router is on 10.0.0.1. I need to setup a static route in the gateway that says anything for 10.1.1.0/24 should use 10.0.0.1 as its next hop. From my view I can't do it with normal route as it will only take an

apache & ssl & certificates,

2000-08-29 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
Hello, I am having a little problem with ?x.509? certificates and virtual domains, it seems like name (not ip) of host is being put in certificate, so when I sign my cet as host.net, then when someone connects to virtual.host.net she gets 'hosts name differ from certificate' or sth error. Same

Web crawler engine.

2000-08-29 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
There are lot of web search engines around, i mean like altavista's google's infoseek's etc.. What does one do when she wants to build one herself. I mean what do you people use when you build local search engine ( city, locality, my needs are about 100 000 pages?webs? for the beggining). I've b

reiserfs & databases.

2000-08-29 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
AFAIK reiserfs is about keeping files (blocks) in b-trees, and DBMS keep their data in a bunch of files, which are accessed directly (non-sequential access). So I figured that reiserfs would be great for keeping DBMS's data on it. but, there are some commercial databases which keep their data di

apache & ssl & certificates,

2000-08-29 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
Hello, I am having a little problem with ?x.509? certificates and virtual domains, it seems like name (not ip) of host is being put in certificate, so when I sign my cet as host.net, then when someone connects to virtual.host.net she gets 'hosts name differ from certificate' or sth error. Same