Re: Help with hardware choices

2005-03-30 Thread Jason Wever
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Brandon Mercer wrote: Also, I don't know how you'd ever build a box for 700 bucks running scsi. Actually, in the comparison Dave was making (Sun Blade 1500 to an Opteron based sever), SCSI probably isn't applicable as a Sun Blade

Re: __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed

2005-03-30 Thread David S. Miller
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 19:01:17 -0500 Mike Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The reason I asked was because the IBM article I linked to earlier > seemed to indicate the problem cropped up on 64 bit systems. That problem in that article is S390 platform specific. They use these higher-order alloc

Problem with /tmp d-i BUG?

2005-03-30 Thread Uwe A. P. Wuerdinger
After my succesfull install of sarge on a Balde 100 I doscoverd that the permissions for /tmp are wrong. It should be drwxrwxrwx but it is drwxr-xr-x also the partition recipe of d-i created a seperated tmp partition /dev/hda7 there was no ext3 filesystem created on it and /dev/shm tmpfs was mounte

Re: __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed

2005-03-30 Thread Mike Edwards
The reason I asked was because the IBM article I linked to earlier seemed to indicate the problem cropped up on 64 bit systems. In any case, I can't recall coming across this issue before, and most of the systems I run have far less memory than this beast. :) Is there a way to fix this? On Wed

Re: Help with hardware choices

2005-03-30 Thread David S. Miller
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:20:25 -0500 Brandon Mercer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I do not know what you're talking about. Sparcs use considerably less > power, run cooler, last longer, are more stable and are comparable with > speed. You've got to be kidding me. Maybe for ancient pre-UltraSPARC b

Re: __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed

2005-03-30 Thread David S. Miller
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 17:58:58 -0500 Mike Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This doesn't sound useful for servers. :) Is this an issue with Linux > in general, or only with certain ports? When I said "The kernel" I did mean Linux in general not for a specific port such as Sparc. -- To UNSUB

Re: Help with hardware choices

2005-03-30 Thread Brandon Mercer
David S. Miller wrote: >On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:51:29 -0600 >Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Dale Scheetz wrote: (snippage throughout) >> >> >> >>>I have been tasked with picking the hardware, and my feeling is that >>>SPARC offers the best bang for the buck. >>> >>> >>Let

Re: __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed

2005-03-30 Thread Mike Edwards
This doesn't sound useful for servers. :) Is this an issue with Linux in general, or only with certain ports? Is there a patch, or something else I can do to keep this from happening again? As far as uptime goes... 17:58:45 up 78 days, 5:08, 18 users, load average: 0.28, 0.27, 0.23 On Tue,

Re: Help with hardware choices

2005-03-30 Thread David S. Miller
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:51:29 -0600 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dale Scheetz wrote: (snippage throughout) > > >I have been tasked with picking the hardware, and my feeling is that > >SPARC offers the best bang for the buck. > > Let me preface this by saying I have no idea what I'm talk

Re: Help with hardware choices

2005-03-30 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >I have been tasked with picking the hardware, and my feeling is that >SPARC offers the best bang for the buck. I have been pointed at two >different lines of machines by a Systems Engineer for Sun here in >Tallahassee, but I was hoping that you guys would

Re: Help with hardware choices

2005-03-30 Thread Kent West
Dale Scheetz wrote: (snippage throughout) I have been working for the Florida Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs. I am currently building a new database for the Division. It is web based Apache/php4/postgreSQL software that will allow Individuals and Organizations to view and update

Re: Proposal to document sparc installation issues

2005-03-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 14:07, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Tuesday 29 March 2005 21:19, Frans Pop wrote: > > The first issue is with USB keyboards by Sun as used on > > for example SunBlade systems. These are incorrectly "recognized" by > > the installer as regular Sun keyboards. A workaro

Help with hardware choices

2005-03-30 Thread Dale Scheetz
For the past several years I have been working for the Florida Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs. We make grants to Florida Arts organizations and some small stipends to Individual Artists. I am currently building a new database for the Division. It is web based Apache/php4/postgre

Re: can't partition disk?

2005-03-30 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Uwe A. P. Wuerdinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-30 03:27]: > >>Is this on O2? It worked for me last night. > >Yep. I just went through it again. I wonder if the install gets > >confused if it thinks there's already a previous installation? > > I've seen exactly that behavier with RC3 netboo

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