Cannot boot with latest Lenny kernel 2.6.26

2008-11-25 Thread Neil Gunton
Hi, My server is a dual Opteron 265, 4GB RAM, 4x10k SCSI drives in RAID0 on an Adaptec zero channel SmartRaid V card (the drive appears as /dev/i2o/hda1, so it's using the i2o_block driver). I am running fully up-to-date Debian Lenny, using the AMD64 port. I cannot boot with the latest kerne

Re: Lenny

2008-07-06 Thread Neil Gunton
Chris Bannister wrote: On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 07:24:40AM +0200, Daniel Ngu wrote: Hi, I read that Lenny will be released sometime in September this year. I've been using Etch and am contemplating on moving to Lenny now instead. There are some issues: First off: If you have a nvidia graphics

Using Lenny on production server?

2008-07-04 Thread Neil Gunton
I run a moderately busy community website, hosted on my own LAMP (Perl, MySQL) AMD64 server, currently running Etch in a colo. I am going to go up to the datacenter on July 16th to rebuild the server for various reasons. This will include a complete re-install. One change I am considering is to

Re: Search for string in files

2007-08-25 Thread Neil Gunton
Johannes Tax wrote: Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to find a certain string inside a bunch of files. If I, for examples, look for a certain function in a large source tree, I could do cat `find . -name '*.c'` | grep 'a_certain_function' but this seems quite awkward, furthermore it doesn't he

Re: Hardware vs Software RAID 10 performance?

2007-08-25 Thread Neil Gunton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Neil Gunton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: (First of all, I apologise if anyone sees this twice - I first posted to the AMD64 list, but then thought that the more general debian users list might get a broader response)... I'm curious as to whether anyone has

Hardware vs Software RAID 10 performance?

2007-08-25 Thread Neil Gunton
(First of all, I apologise if anyone sees this twice - I first posted to the AMD64 list, but then thought that the more general debian users list might get a broader response)... I'm curious as to whether anyone has experience of software RAID in Linux giving better overall performance on RAID

Switching from i2o_block to dpt_i2o

2007-08-09 Thread Neil Gunton
Hi, I am going to be rebuilding my colo server next week using the latest Etch netinst. The box has an Adaptec RAID card that has been using the dpt_i2o driver rather than i2o_block. I built this back in 2005, rolling my own kernel and going through quite a contorted process to get AMD64 inst

Re: Building my own Perl on Sarge AMD64

2006-09-03 Thread Neil Gunton
Neil Gunton wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Obviously there are issues with building your own perl, but I'm sure it must be possible to do it using the "official Debian way". Can anyone give me a step-by-step instructions on how you're supposed to build your own Per

Re: Building my own Perl on Sarge AMD64

2006-09-03 Thread Neil Gunton
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Obviously there are issues with building your own perl, but I'm sure it must be possible to do it using the "official Debian way". Can anyone give me a step-by-step instructions on how you're supposed to build your own Perl on a Debian system, while still keeping every

Building my own Perl on Sarge AMD64

2006-09-03 Thread Neil Gunton
Hi all, I am using Sarge on AMD64 (dual Opteron). I noticed recently that there were some issues with the stock version of Perl - "v5.8.4 built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi". Messages were appearing in my apache error log every time a child process terminated, to the effect that "2 or more t