Re: SL Speed vs Fedora and CentOS

2009-11-30 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Sun, 29 Nov 2009, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: 5) your CentOS measurement 375 M/min does not reach even the 100Mbit/sec network speed limit, perhaps some other application is "stealing" network or disk bandwidth. Maybe. Alternatively the CentOS network or disk controller driver does not f

Re: SL Speed vs Fedora and CentOS

2009-11-30 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:06:59AM +, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > On Sun, 29 Nov 2009, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: > > >5) your CentOS measurement 375 M/min does not reach even the 100Mbit/sec > >network speed limit, perhaps > > some other application is "stealing" network or disk bandwid

Re: 5.4 fail to install from DVD

2009-11-30 Thread Troy Dawson
It shouldn't be asking for that, and it should be working, it at least worked for our tests. Just to make sure, can you give us the URL where you got it, especially if it is a mirror. Also, did you check the md5sum of the iso image before burning it? Thanks Troy Antonio Silvestri wrote: Hi, I

Re: problem upgrading from 5.1 to 5.4 on _64 machines

2009-11-30 Thread Troy Dawson
Hi Andy, This is my fault. I really had thought I'd updated that page, and now that I look at it, I didn't. I'll update it right now. But for now, the problem is that RedHat, and SL, originally had perl.i386 and perl.x86_64 in our initial releases (5.0 and 5.1), but then RedHat took out perl.

SL 5.4 Install perfectly

2009-11-30 Thread Larry J. Linder
Made DVDs and installed it on test system that has nVidea chip set and SATA drives. It installed perfectly. I down loaded it from last site in list as an "ftp" and not the "html" sites. Larry Linder MicroControls LLC

SL and Oracle

2009-11-30 Thread Howard, Chris
I've been an Oracle DBA for quite a number of years, working on HP-UX systems. Now I'm also running some Oracle Application Server on Linux machines and I could use some advice about Oracle and Linux. For SL, I'm assuming I can call my SL 5.3 installation equivalent to Red Hat 5.3 for Oracle su

Re: SL and Oracle

2009-11-30 Thread Matthias Schroeder
Howard, Chris wrote: I've been an Oracle DBA for quite a number of years, working on HP-UX systems. Now I'm also running some Oracle Application Server on Linux machines and I could use some advice about Oracle and Linux. For SL, I'm assuming I can call my SL 5.3 installation equivalent to R

TESTING - yum update for SL5

2009-11-30 Thread Troy Dawson
Hello, The kernel module plugin has been updated to deal with the situation where both a package that has a kernel module (such as openafs) is being updated at the same time that a kernel is being updated, while an old kernel is being removed. Two other bugs have been fixed - string TypeError

Re: XFS in the current sl5 kernels

2009-11-30 Thread Troy Dawson
I have compiled the fixed kernel and put it into SL5 x86_64 testing. I haven't compiled any kernel modules for it, just the kernel. Troy Jon Peatfield wrote: On Fri, 27 Nov 2009, Michael Bontenackels wrote: Hi Jon, we encountered the same problem on four of our 64-bit machines in Aachen. Th

Re: 5.4 fail to install from DVD

2009-11-30 Thread Changjie Cui
Hi, Antonio Pls try to skip the step of DVD validation. Best regards Cui 2009/11/26 Antonio Silvestri > Hi, > I have downloaded ISO files of version 5.4 x86_64 from your site. > I burnt a DVD with these isos but > the installation process always bring me to the page where I am told to > choose