Re: vlc + vaapi and nvidia performance

2011-07-19 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011, Andrew Z wrote: I spent some silly amount of time trying to get all three to perform together. Finally i guess i succeeded, but the results are nowhere to be excited about. It takes about 40 minutes to transcode of ~800MB avi to mpeg on my ancient Sempron system with 2GB an

SL6 CERN?

2011-07-19 Thread Mark Marshall
Hi, I had a few questions about the SL6 CERN build What are the main differences between that build, and the vanilla SL6? What RPMs are included by default in the CERN build, but not in SL6 proper? Is the CERN build suitable for external usage? Thanks for any advice, Mark

Re: Dropboxing (was Re: virtual network)

2011-07-19 Thread jonathan
spideroak is a dropbox solution with "comprehensive 'zero-knowledge' data encryption" and with an iOS & Android client. jonathan On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 14:40 -0700, Chris Tooley wrote: > > Thanks Todd.I like it but don't completely trust it. I keep > > critical data files outside the VM and "

Re: SL6 CERN?

2011-07-19 Thread Bernhard Linseisen
For an extensive answer you probably should ask the people at CERN IT directly, but so far I can tell you: Main differences: - There are some other default settings for installation concerning connectivity and authentication - There are different images during the installation - There is an add

Re: SL6 CERN?

2011-07-19 Thread Jaroslaw Polok
Hello all On 07/19/2011 11:09 AM, Bernhard Linseisen wrote: > For an extensive answer you probably should ask the people at CERN IT > directly, but so far I can tell you: Thank you Bernhard for the answer , very nice summary ! I will just add a little: > About the default RPMs I don't know. D

Re: SL6 CERN?

2011-07-19 Thread Mark Marshall
On 19 July 2011 10:09, Bernhard Linseisen wrote: > For an extensive answer you probably should ask the people at CERN IT > directly, but so far I can tell you: I assumed there would be a CERN representative on the list :) Thanks for the information. > > The question is more: Why would you nee

Re: RPM: file versions

2011-07-19 Thread Andrew Z
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 10:58 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Phil Perry wrote: > > On 15/07/11 19:28, Andrew Z wrote: > >> > >> Hello, > >> i just got curios (google is not helping me @ the moment)... > >> What is the right way to handle versions of the files dur

xen on Scientific Linux 6 32-Bit or 64-Bit

2011-07-19 Thread Justin Sandy
Is there a way to install xen on 32-bit or 64-bit Scientific Linux 6? -- Justin Sandy justmatt9...@gmail.com

Re: xen on Scientific Linux 6 32-Bit or 64-Bit

2011-07-19 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 13:30, Justin Sandy wrote: > Is there a way to install xen on 32-bit or 64-bit Scientific Linux 6? Probably not easily. The kernels are optimized to work with KVM. You would need to tear out that kernel and build one for Xen and a xen image > -- > Justin Sandy > justmatt9

Re: xen on Scientific Linux 6 32-Bit or 64-Bit

2011-07-19 Thread Eero Volotinen
2011/7/19 Stephen John Smoogen : > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 13:30, Justin Sandy wrote: >> Is there a way to install xen on 32-bit or 64-bit Scientific Linux 6? > > Probably not easily. The kernels are optimized to work with KVM. You > would need to tear out that kernel and build one for Xen and a x

Re: xen on Scientific Linux 6 32-Bit or 64-Bit

2011-07-19 Thread Steven Haigh
On 20/07/2011 6:54 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote: 2011/7/19 Stephen John Smoogen: On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 13:30, Justin Sandy wrote: Is there a way to install xen on 32-bit or 64-bit Scientific Linux 6? Probably not easily. The kernels are optimized to work with KVM. You would need to tear out th

Re: RPM: file versions

2011-07-19 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Andrew Z wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 10:58 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia > wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Phil Perry wrote: >> > On 15/07/11 19:28, Andrew Z wrote: >> >> >> >> Hello, >> >>  i just got curios (google is not helping me @ the moment)..

Re: xen on Scientific Linux 6 32-Bit or 64-Bit

2011-07-19 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Steven Haigh wrote: > On 20/07/2011 6:54 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote: >> >> 2011/7/19 Stephen John Smoogen: >>> >>> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 13:30, Justin Sandy >>>  wrote: Is there a way to install xen on 32-bit or 64-bit Scientific Linux 6? >>> >>> Probably

Re: xen on Scientific Linux 6 32-Bit or 64-Bit

2011-07-19 Thread Steven Haigh
On 20/07/2011 8:16 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Steven Haigh wrote: On 20/07/2011 6:54 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote: 2011/7/19 Stephen John Smoogen: On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 13:30, Justin Sandy wrote: Is there a way to install xen on 32-bit or 64-bit Scientif

Supermicro IPMI watchdog issues.

2011-07-19 Thread Kelsey Cummings
This isn't exactly an scientific linux issue but I hope that folks here may be more likely to be using IPMI then some of the other lists. We have a series of Supermicro systems w/IPMI running RHEL 5.5. We're using IPMI primarily to monitor psu status and for the hardware watchdog support team