Re: Yum Updates Sequence

2009-01-23 Thread g
Rahul Tidke wrote: > Is it necessary to follow the order/sequence while installing the updates > on Fedora? I want to apply only selected updates from the available updates. > Can I install updates in random order? you should be able to. yum is fairly good at handling dependencies. -- peace

Re: Yum Updates Sequence

2009-01-23 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Rahul Tidke wrote: Hello, Is it necessary to follow the order/sequence while installing the updates on Fedora? Somewhat oversimplified: Yes. More precisely, there exist packages-dependencies and an implicit package-installation order packages must meet to be installed properly. I want to a

Yum Updates Sequence

2009-01-23 Thread Rahul Tidke
Hello, Is it necessary to follow the order/sequence while installing the updates on Fedora? I want to apply only selected updates from the available updates. Can I install updates in random order? Regards, Rahul. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://ww

X11 sweep frequencies, how are they determined?

2009-01-23 Thread Leslie Satenstein
My question is in the subject line. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Will btfrs file system obsolete LVM?

2009-01-23 Thread Leslie Satenstein
My question is in the subject line. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: sysklogd conflicts with rsyslog

2009-01-23 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, sysklogd conflicts with rsyslog Which one should I install ? rsyslog is the default. sysklogd is a replacement providing files under same paths and hence has a conflict. You should stick to the default's unless you have a specific need for alternatives. Rahul -

gdm - displaying of information/ F10

2009-01-23 Thread Mail Lists
Our policy is to minimize information leakage - we recently switched from kdm/kde to gdm/gnome and I cannot find how to adjust gdm greeter to achieve : (1) stop list of users displayed (2) stop last user being displayed (3) control the banner/logo content I looked around and this sit

Re: database mess up

2009-01-23 Thread Patrick Dupre
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Panu Matilainen wrote: On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, For a reason that I ignore my database is totallt mess up. rpm --rebuilddb only rebuild iy partially. The packages are installed, but rpm --rebuilddb does not see them. How can I recover them without

Re: Amazon Kindle and Fedora

2009-01-23 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 18:04 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > It seams that giving away electronic version of "older" > books actually increases sales of books that would otherwise > experience declining sales. And, it's about the only way to get some older books. Once a book's out of print, yo

Re: What is the fedora way of setting a kernel module to load at boot time?

2009-01-23 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Mark wrote: > Hey, > > The title prity much says it all. > What i want to do is add a certain module at the fedora boot time. > Mainly one of the fb modules and i want to use them in the grub boot > line. For example: uvesafb, vesafb, intelfb to name a few. > I either want to use there fb options

Re: service

2009-01-23 Thread Patrick Dupre
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 02:47:30AM +, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, What is the service/daemon with make that rpm db is regularly locked ? Thank You should see the process id of the locker. Do a "ps -efl | grep PID" to be sure. I suspect

Re: database mess up

2009-01-23 Thread Patrick Dupre
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 11:04 +, Patrick Dupre wrote: On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 02:36 +, Patrick Dupre wrote: On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 02:19 +, Patrick Dupre wrote: O

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread fred smith
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:55:20AM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 10:24 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > > Original Message > > Subject: Re: RAM question for everyone! > > From: Alan Evans > > To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for u

sysklogd conflicts with rsyslog

2009-01-23 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, sysklogd conflicts with rsyslog Which one should I install ? Thank -- --- == Patrick DUPRÉ | | Department of Chemistry| |Phone: (44)-(0)-1904-434384 The University of York

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 04:54:24PM +, Dan Track wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan . > >> > > >> > I'm really curious. > >> > > >> > >> SATA Hard drive speeds - 70 megs to 150 megs a second unless you're RAIDing > >> DDR2 RAM speeds - 6000 megs a second and up. >

Re: Package Manager Denies Permission to Install

2009-01-23 Thread Kam Leo
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 12:10 -0500, R. G. Newbury wrote: >> Jeff Spaleta wrote: >> > > Kevin Kofler wrote: >> > > But PolicyKit does not work in a root session: >> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447266 >> >> > Hmm...this

Re: Amazon Kindle and Fedora

2009-01-23 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Sounds good, however my objection to the Kindle business model is that > you can't lend a book to a friend, something I do all the time with > printed books. > > poc > That depends on where you buy books. I buy mainly from Baen's web site. They do not use copy prot

Re: Software RAID 5 or something else?

2009-01-23 Thread Gordon Messmer
arag...@dcsnow.com wrote: My original idea was to put them in a RAID 5 configuration. This sounded good until I started researching RAID controller cards. It looks like it will cost me $520 to get a good PCI-E card (3Ware 8 port). I don't think I want to spend that much if I don't have to. M

Re: Amazon Kindle and Fedora

2009-01-23 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:33:02 -0500 Robert L Cochran wrote: > Started Firefox 3 and read a few paragraphs. Try FBReader. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com DRY CLEANER BUSINESS FOR SALE ~ http://www.canadadrycleanerforsale.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedor

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Gordon Messmer
Dan Track wrote: I was recently asked a question about how much RAM should there be within a server given that the APP uses 8GB of Memory, should I buy 10Gig of memory and have a small harddrive and no swap space? Would this configuration allow everything in my OS to run from RAM and not from swa

Re: Ideal Swap Partition Size-part 2

2009-01-23 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 16:56 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > [...] > backing store for reasons of speed. How is it used? It's used to hold > the pages (or segments) of processes which are currently in use, for > some definition of "currently". I mean of course "*not* currently in use". poc -

Re: Amazon Kindle and Fedora

2009-01-23 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 15:49 -0600, Kevin Martin wrote: > > Robert L Cochran wrote: > > I do own a Kindle and I have connected it to my Fedora 7 machine (yeah, > > I know Fedora 7 is way out of date, I hope to finally upgrade later this > > year.) The Kindle just appears to be another hard drive. I

Re: Ideal Swap Partition Size

2009-01-23 Thread Gordon Messmer
Aaron Konstam wrote: This is explained in nearly all textbooks on Computer Architecture. So the question remains, where is the address space in Linux. Patrick isn't the only one confused by your question. I can't make heads or tails of it. Are you asking where the mapping between the virtu

What is the fedora way of setting a kernel module to load at boot time?

2009-01-23 Thread Mark
Hey, The title prity much says it all. What i want to do is add a certain module at the fedora boot time. Mainly one of the fb modules and i want to use them in the grub boot line. For example: uvesafb, vesafb, intelfb to name a few. I either want to use there fb options in the grub line or in the

Re: Amazon Kindle and Fedora

2009-01-23 Thread Robert L Cochran
Robert L Cochran wrote: > Robert L Cochran wrote: > >> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> >> >>> Robert L Cochran wrote: >>> >>> >>> Please note: I am saying all the above after having downloaded only one free sample chapter of a Kindle-ized book, and I have never bou

Gateway DX4720 installation problems

2009-01-23 Thread Charles Landau
I just bought a DX4720-03 from Gateway. Has anyone succeeded in installing Fedora on this system? When I boot off the Fedora 10 full distribution DVD, at the first screen, "Welcome to Fedora 10!", I tell it to Install or upgrade, and then I get a variety of errors on the text console, includin

Re: Amazon Kindle and Fedora

2009-01-23 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Kevin Martin wrote: > > FWIW, I own a Kindle and, for reading the Kindle'ized ebooks it rocks > AFAIC. I was given one for Christmas (along with a gift card for > Amazon) and, to be frank, have read probably a dozen books on it since > then. For just reading books it's great...very easy on the e

Re: network traffic analyzer

2009-01-23 Thread Rick Stevens
Michael Cronenworth wrote: Original Message Subject: Re: network traffic analyzer From: Robin Laing To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. Date: 01/23/2009 02:18 PM Have you looked at Ganglia? http://ganglia.info/ I have only seen it used

Re: network traffic analyzer

2009-01-23 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Original Message Subject: Re: network traffic analyzer From: Robin Laing To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. Date: 01/23/2009 02:18 PM Have you looked at Ganglia? http://ganglia.info/ I have only seen it used for clusters but it may be u

Re: Software RAID 5 or something else?

2009-01-23 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 14:53:34 -0600, Seann Clark wrote: > > The biggest advantage with hardware RAID is you don't need to boot to be > able to fix your RAID. Minor difference for some of your more hardcore > computer guys, and rather trivial, but it is nice to see your RAID is > shatter

Re: Amazon Kindle and Fedora

2009-01-23 Thread Kevin Martin
Robert L Cochran wrote: > I do own a Kindle and I have connected it to my Fedora 7 machine (yeah, > I know Fedora 7 is way out of date, I hope to finally upgrade later this > year.) The Kindle just appears to be another hard drive. I also happen > to have a 4 Gb flash card installed in mine, and

Re: Package Manager Denies Permission to Install

2009-01-23 Thread David
Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 12:10 -0500, R. G. Newbury wrote: >> Jeff Spaleta wrote: >> > > Kevin Kofler wrote: >> > > But PolicyKit does not work in a root session: >> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447266 >> > Hmm...this is probably worthy of some nuanced

Re: Software RAID 5 or something else?

2009-01-23 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:39:44 -0500, arag...@dcsnow.com wrote: > 2) I want to increase my performance. I have benchmarked my read and > write performance to and from this server. Using Samba, I seem to be able > to get about 50Mb/sec reads and 40Mb/sec writes. I am on a gig network > and w

Re: Ideal Swap Partition Size-part 2

2009-01-23 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 14:54 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 11:34 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 08:53 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > All this avoids the question I asked. VM processing involves paging > > > between a memory space and an address

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 13:13 -0700, Robin Laing wrote: > Some times I work with 6 and 8 Gig graphic files so the swap comes > into play. That piqued my interest. If I may ask, what are you doing? 3D rendering of the planet Earth in 1 metre resolution? -- [...@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.9-73.

Re: Ideal Swap Partition Size

2009-01-23 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 14:47 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 11:34 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 08:53 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > All this avoids the question I asked. VM processing involves paging > > > between a memory space and an address

Re: Package Manager Denies Permission to Install

2009-01-23 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 12:10 -0500, R. G. Newbury wrote: > Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > > Kevin Kofler wrote: > > > But PolicyKit does not work in a root session: > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447266 > > > Hmm...this is probably worthy of some nuanced and masterfully > > persu

Re: Software RAID 5 or something else?

2009-01-23 Thread Wayne Feick
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 18:20 +, Alan Cox wrote: > > So considering that, what do you gain from dedicated hardware for RAID? > > You get a commercially supported RAID software and hardware package, and > > you get to unload a bit of CPU from the main system. > > The big thing it saves you on

Re: Software RAID 5 or something else?

2009-01-23 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 14:53 -0600, Seann Clark wrote: > The biggest advantage with hardware RAID is you don't need to boot to > be > able to fix your RAID. Minor difference for some of your more > hardcore > computer guys, and rather trivial, but it is nice to see your RAID is > shattered prior

Re: SataRaid and Installation

2009-01-23 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 09:41:11 -0700, Chris Linville wrote: > > I got to say that I have been greatly disappointed by Fedora for the last 2 > releases. I have a rockin system. I can play any game out there, I love. I > just can't install Fedora with out sacrificing my system speed. For

Re: Software RAID 5 or something else?

2009-01-23 Thread aragonx
>> 1) Bite the bullet and get the hardware RAID controller. Will this give >> me the performance I want? > > That depends on the rest of the system - you get to play "move the bottleneck". It will then depend on your PCI-X controller, your memory bandwidth and if you have the CPU 8). The 3ware is

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 16:16 +, Dan Track wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Mark Haney wrote: > > Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > >> Mark Haney wrote: > >>> Dan Track wrote: > I was recently asked a question about how much RAM should there be > within a server given that the APP uses

Re: Ideal Swap Partition Size-part 2

2009-01-23 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 11:34 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 08:53 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > All this avoids the question I asked. VM processing involves paging > > between a memory space and an address space. The question is where is > > the address space of the pro

Re: Software RAID 5 or something else?

2009-01-23 Thread Seann Clark
Robin Laing wrote: Alan Cox wrote: So considering that, what do you gain from dedicated hardware for RAID? You get a commercially supported RAID software and hardware package, and you get to unload a bit of CPU from the main system. The big thing it saves you on in RAID 1 & 5 is memory bandw

Re: Ideal Swap Partition Size

2009-01-23 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 11:34 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 08:53 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > All this avoids the question I asked. VM processing involves paging > > between a memory space and an address space. The question is where is > > the address space of the pro

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Chris Snook
Dan Track wrote: I was recently asked a question about how much RAM should there be within a server given that the APP uses 8GB of Memory, should I buy 10Gig of memory and have a small harddrive and no swap space? Would this configuration allow everything in my OS to run from RAM and not from swa

Re: Boot Loader and reinstalling windows...

2009-01-23 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 11:40 -0500, Michael Comperchio wrote: > Looks like, for now, I'm going to have to have a bootable windows. So... > How can I restore (easily) the boot loader if/when the windows > installation munges it? Hopefully this is something I can do without > reinstalling F10? of c

Re: Software RAID 5 or something else?

2009-01-23 Thread Robin Laing
Alan Cox wrote: So considering that, what do you gain from dedicated hardware for RAID? You get a commercially supported RAID software and hardware package, and you get to unload a bit of CPU from the main system. The big thing it saves you on in RAID 1 & 5 is memory bandwidth, and in RAID5 d

printer fails with kernel error

2009-01-23 Thread rfjones
I have fc10 with a HP lj2100 connected to the box yesterday I began having kernel failures related to printing I can print a text file from the console using lpr I can print a test page from the system/printer/properties dialog I can print this message from the mail client There is another box conn

Re: network traffic analyzer

2009-01-23 Thread Robin Laing
Michael Cronenworth wrote: Original Message Subject: Re: network traffic analyzer From: Peter Larsen To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. Date: 01/23/2009 06:44 AM nagious is way too much for what I want. I only have three hosts on the L

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Robin Laing
Dan Track wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Mark Haney wrote: Bryn M. Reeves wrote: Mark Haney wrote: Dan Track wrote: I was recently asked a question about how much RAM should there be within a server given that the APP uses 8GB of Memory, should I buy 10Gig of memory and have a small

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Jeff Voskamp
Les wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 11:07 -0500, Mark Haney wrote: I guess I do not comprehend the issue of more memory stressing low memory? I know that a 32 bit system is constrained in addressing to something like 4G, due to the intel addressing architecture, and 32 bit constraint, so app

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Les
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 11:07 -0500, Mark Haney wrote: > Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > > Mark Haney wrote: > >> Dan Track wrote: > >>> I was recently asked a question about how much RAM should there be > >>> within a server given that the APP uses 8GB of Memory, should I buy > >>> 10Gig of memory and have

Re: Fedora GUI is not loading on Toshiba Satellite L305-S5907

2009-01-23 Thread Rick Stevens
sivakumar purushothaman wrote: Hi Toshiba, I have Toshiba Satellite L305-S5907 laptop with Microsoft Vista.I tried installing Fedora 9 on my laptop but GUI is not loading on it,system will try to load GUI and showing different colors of lines and screen blinks continously , but desktop is not

Fedora GUI is not loading on Toshiba Satellite L305-S5907

2009-01-23 Thread sivakumar purushothaman
Hi Toshiba,   I have Toshiba Satellite L305-S5907 laptop with Microsoft Vista.I tried installing Fedora 9 on my laptop but GUI is not loading on it,system will try to load GUI and showing different colors of lines and screen blinks continously , but desktop is not loading .Laptop Monitor speci

Re: F10, NetworkManager, and intermittent dns -- Update

2009-01-23 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:32:08 -0500 McGuffey, David C. wrote: > Update: Intermittent dns is still present. I'd strongly suspect this is NM getting the resolv.conf file correct on initial connect, then screwing it up on subsequent DHCP lease renewal. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat

Re: Install Fedora 10 for the 1st time

2009-01-23 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:28:33PM -0600, Harvey Folse wrote: > I am having a problem installing Fedora on a Dell Poweredge box. > Keep getting the following error > > Volume group "VolGroup00" not found > Unable to access resume device (/dev/VolGroup00/LogVolGroup00/LogVol101) > > I have format

Install Fedora 10 for the 1st time

2009-01-23 Thread Harvey Folse
I am having a problem installing Fedora on a Dell Poweredge box. Keep getting the following error Volume group "VolGroup00" not found Unable to access resume device (/dev/VolGroup00/LogVolGroup00/LogVol101) I have formatted & created a hardware RAID one for the install. What am I doi

Re: F10, NetworkManager, and intermittent dns -- Update

2009-01-23 Thread McGuffey, David C.
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:41:39, McGuffey, David C. wrote: > > A couple of weeks back I did a fresh install of F10, blowing away F7. > Got F10 up and running, did an update and then converted to static IP > addressing. Everything went downhill from there. Could only get on the > network about 1 out

Re: database mess up

2009-01-23 Thread Panu Matilainen
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, For a reason that I ignore my database is totallt mess up. rpm --rebuilddb only rebuild iy partially. The packages are installed, but rpm --rebuilddb does not see them. How can I recover them without resintalling them manually ? Find the latest

Re: Software RAID 5 or something else?

2009-01-23 Thread Alan Cox
> So considering that, what do you gain from dedicated hardware for RAID? > You get a commercially supported RAID software and hardware package, and > you get to unload a bit of CPU from the main system. The big thing it saves you on in RAID 1 & 5 is memory bandwidth, and in RAID5 doubly so for

Re: database mess up

2009-01-23 Thread Panu Matilainen
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 19:49 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: http://www.rpm.org/wiki/Docs/RpmRecovery OK, but /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_sta is not part of rpm for fedora ! Regards indeed - they seem to have removed the db4 utilities from rpmdb Rpm in F10 n

Re: database mess up

2009-01-23 Thread Panu Matilainen
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 01:00 +, Patrick Dupre wrote: On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Panu Matilainen wrote: On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, For a reason that I ignore my database is totallt mess up. rpm --rebuilddb only rebuild iy partially.

Re: database mess up

2009-01-23 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 19:49 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: > >>> http://www.rpm.org/wiki/Docs/RpmRecovery > >> OK, but /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_sta is not part of rpm for fedora ! > >> Regards > > > > indeed - they seem to have removed the db4 utilities from rpmdb > > Rpm in F10 no longer uses an in

Re: Software RAID 5 or something else?

2009-01-23 Thread Phil Meyer
arag...@dcsnow.com wrote: Hello all, I had a drive failure a few months back so I decided it was time to rework my home server's storage. Now I have 5 750GB SATA dives and now I need some advice on how to set things up. My original idea was to put them in a RAID 5 configuration. This sounded

Re: SataRaid and Installation

2009-01-23 Thread Alan Cox
>broken. The fix is for me to stop using Sata RAID0. This is not a good fix, >my disk IO doubles by having this. I have seen posts all over the boards and >bugzilla relating to various problems in DMRaid. Yet for 2 releases, it has >stayed broken. To me this is a show stopper when you can't

Re: Software RAID 5 or something else?

2009-01-23 Thread Seann Clark
arag...@dcsnow.com wrote: Hello all, I had a drive failure a few months back so I decided it was time to rework my home server's storage. Now I have 5 750GB SATA dives and now I need some advice on how to set things up. My original idea was to put them in a RAID 5 configuration. This sounded

Re: Software RAID 5 or something else?

2009-01-23 Thread Chris Tyler
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 12:39 -0500, arag...@dcsnow.com wrote: > 1) I want to get some redundancy in case of a drive failure. > > 2) I want to increase my performance. I have benchmarked my read and > write performance to and from this server. Using Samba, I seem to be able > to get about 50Mb/se

Re: Software RAID 5 or something else?

2009-01-23 Thread Dave Stevens
On Friday 23 January 2009 09:39:44 am arag...@dcsnow.com wrote: > Hello all, > > I had a drive failure a few months back so I decided it was time to rework > my home server's storage. > > Now I have 5 750GB SATA dives and now I need some advice on how to set > things up. > > My original idea was to

Re: Software RAID 5 or something else?

2009-01-23 Thread Alan Cox
> 1) Bite the bullet and get the hardware RAID controller. Will this give > me the performance I want? That depends on the rest of the system - you get to play "move the bottleneck". It will then depend on your PCI-X controller, your memory bandwidth and if you have the CPU 8). The 3ware is at l

FC9 Linux gateways, VPN working, IP forwarding isn't

2009-01-23 Thread Gary Stainburn
Hi folks. I've given up on openswan because it won't work though my ADSL router. I've now got a very simple ppp-over-ssh VPN working using the following script /usr/sbin/pppd updetach noauth passive \ pty "ssh $HOST -P -o Batchmode=yes /usr/sbin/pppd nodetach notty noauth" \ $LocIP:$RemIP I

Re: database mess up

2009-01-23 Thread Panu Matilainen
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 11:04 +, Patrick Dupre wrote: On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 02:36 +, Patrick Dupre wrote: On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 02:19 +, Patrick Dupre wrote: O

Re: network traffic analyzer

2009-01-23 Thread Phil Meyer
Michael Cronenworth wrote: I'm looking for a web based (graphs) solution for (real-time) network traffic on a Linux (Fedora) router. I currently use iptraf to catch bandwidth usage and type of usage, but I'd love a more accessible interface. What you are looking for has existed a few times as

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Matthew Flaschen
Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote: > Hi there -- > > One question that needs to be answered is whether or not the operating system > in > question is 32-bit or 64-bit architecture. > > The 32-bit architecture has a 'glass > ceiling' limit of up to 4 gigabytes of RAM that it can access. It's more of a ic

Software RAID 5 or something else?

2009-01-23 Thread aragonx
Hello all, I had a drive failure a few months back so I decided it was time to rework my home server's storage. Now I have 5 750GB SATA dives and now I need some advice on how to set things up. My original idea was to put them in a RAID 5 configuration. This sounded good until I started researc

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Matthew Flaschen
Michael Cronenworth wrote: >> I'm really curious. >> > > SATA Hard drive speeds - 70 megs to 150 megs a second unless you're RAIDing > DDR2 RAM speeds - 6000 megs a second and up. > > If performance is a key issue, which I'm sure it is, you don't want swap. No, you don't want to /have/ to use sw

how to add a Netgear Wireless PCI Adapter 54Mbps WG311 v3 to fedorah 10

2009-01-23 Thread David Tolo
Can any one tell me how to add a: how to add a Netgear Wireless PCI Adapter 54Mbps WG311 v3 NIC to fedorah 10 64 bit? Thank you, David ps. step by step please.. I am still a little wet behind the ears. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mai

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Alan Evans
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > SATA Hard drive speeds - 70 megs to 150 megs a second unless you're RAIDing > DDR2 RAM speeds - 6000 megs a second and up. > > If performance is a key issue, which I'm sure it is, you don't want swap. Of course I'm perfectly aware that

Re: Disk Partition Size Query

2009-01-23 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 16:55 +, Dan Track wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Dan Track wrote: > > Hi > > > > I've got a DL360 G4p connected to an MSA20 disk array. It's got a 9TB > > logical partition created by HP SmartStart. How can I go about > > creating a 9TB partition under rhel 5.

Re: SataRaid and Installation

2009-01-23 Thread Seann Clark
Chris Linville wrote: Not sure if this is the right list, but maybe someone will see this. I started out my computer experience as a DOS users a long time ago. Then on to windows and about 8 years ago I started using Linux to get ahead and to see what it could do. Over the years it has grown

Re: Package Manager Denies Permission to Install

2009-01-23 Thread R. G. Newbury
Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > Kevin Kofler wrote: > > But PolicyKit does not work in a root session: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447266 > Hmm...this is probably worthy of some nuanced and masterfully > persuasive oratory as to where to strike the balance between designing > for ex

Re: Disk Partition Size Query

2009-01-23 Thread Dan Track
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Dan Track wrote: > Hi > > I've got a DL360 G4p connected to an MSA20 disk array. It's got a 9TB > logical partition created by HP SmartStart. How can I go about > creating a 9TB partition under rhel 5.2? What block size do I need to > achieve this and how will it a

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Dan Track
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 10:24 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: >> Original Message >> Subject: Re: RAM question for everyone! >> From: Alan Evans >> To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora.

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Gilboa Davara wrote: Yeah, but this problem can more-or-less be avoided by lowering /proc/sys/vm/swappiness. Sure, that will make the VM more likely to evict pagecache data than anonymous pages when it's trying to free pages. I haven't tested this to any real degree on my desktop boxes (as I

SataRaid and Installation

2009-01-23 Thread Chris Linville
Not sure if this is the right list, but maybe someone will see this. I started out my computer experience as a DOS users a long time ago. Then on to windows and about 8 years ago I started using Linux to get ahead and to see what it could do. Over the years it has grown on me. I have used

Boot Loader and reinstalling windows...

2009-01-23 Thread Michael Comperchio
Looks like, for now, I'm going to have to have a bootable windows. So... How can I restore (easily) the boot loader if/when the windows installation munges it? Hopefully this is something I can do without reinstalling F10? of course I may not need to... but just 'cuz I'm paranoid doesn't mean w

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 16:26 +, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > Alan Evans wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Dan Track wrote: > >> I was recently asked a question about how much RAM should there be > >> within a server given that the APP uses 8GB of Memory, should I buy > >> 10Gig of memory a

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 10:24 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Original Message > Subject: Re: RAM question for everyone! > From: Alan Evans > To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. > > Date: 01/23/2009 10:19 AM > > > > > This question, along w

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Alan Evans wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Dan Track wrote: I was recently asked a question about how much RAM should there be within a server given that the APP uses 8GB of Memory, should I buy 10Gig of memory and have a small harddrive and no swap space? Would this configuration allow

Backup Restore questions/concerns

2009-01-23 Thread Kevin Kempter
Hi all; I've got a new dell laptop I'm trying to setup. Most everything is working well but I cannot get dual monitor support working. There's a local Linux install-fest this weekend near me and I plan to attend seeking some help. However, I use this laptop as my main work computer and I canno

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Original Message Subject: Re: RAM question for everyone! From: Alan Evans To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. Date: 01/23/2009 10:19 AM This question, along with other recent discussion about swap, leads me to ask a question in response: W

RE: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Kaplan, Andrew H.
Hi there -- One question that needs to be answered is whether or not the operating system in question is 32-bit or 64-bit architecture. The 32-bit architecture has a 'glass ceiling' limit of up to 4 gigabytes of RAM that it can access. The same is not true for 64-bit architecture. Once you have

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Alan Evans
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Dan Track wrote: > I was recently asked a question about how much RAM should there be > within a server given that the APP uses 8GB of Memory, should I buy > 10Gig of memory and have a small harddrive and no swap space? Would > this configuration allow everything i

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Dan Track
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Mark Haney wrote: > Bryn M. Reeves wrote: >> Mark Haney wrote: >>> Dan Track wrote: I was recently asked a question about how much RAM should there be within a server given that the APP uses 8GB of Memory, should I buy 10Gig of memory and have a smal

Re: network traffic analyzer

2009-01-23 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Original Message Subject: Re: network traffic analyzer From: Peter Larsen To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. Date: 01/23/2009 06:44 AM For a single box, ntop is what you're looking for. Be forewarned though - traceing ALL packages (which n

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 15:43 +, Dan Track wrote: > I was recently asked a question about how much RAM should there be > within a server given that the APP uses 8GB of Memory, should I buy > 10Gig of memory and have a small harddrive and no swap space? Would > this configuration allow everything

Re: network traffic analyzer

2009-01-23 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Original Message Subject: Re: network traffic analyzer From: Tim To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. Date: 01/23/2009 06:17 AM On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 21:00 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: I'm looking for a web based (graphs) solution for (

Re: F10+ Burn multiple discs concurrent from iso?

2009-01-23 Thread Robin Laing
Frank Murphy wrote: Can any of the fedora supplied, GUI Burners, burn multiple copies concurrent. Looking at setting up a PC based Duplicator. Any controller card better than another Fedora POV? May 6 devices Internal. Frank I think you would be better off using a script and a CLI tool. It

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Mark Haney
Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > Mark Haney wrote: >> Dan Track wrote: >>> I was recently asked a question about how much RAM should there be >>> within a server given that the APP uses 8GB of Memory, should I buy >>> 10Gig of memory and have a small harddrive and no swap space? Would >>> this configuration

Re: Ideal Swap Partition Size

2009-01-23 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 08:53 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > All this avoids the question I asked. VM processing involves paging > between a memory space and an address space. The question is where is > the address space of the process? It can't be the computer's real > memory because that would be t

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