Re: Different cpu usage between Fedora and SL6 guests

2012-07-17 Thread Vladimir Mosgalin
Hi Orion Poplawski! On 2012.07.17 at 16:46:19 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote next: > >That depends heavily on what version of Fedora they are (particularly Rawhide > >instances), and what services they are running. > > Well, I have a Fedora 17 instance running now with nothing but > kernel proces

Re: server crashing out of memory

2012-07-17 Thread Vladimir Mosgalin
Hi Orion Poplawski! On 2012.07.17 at 13:38:50 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote next: > > If your atop service is on, you should be able to see something about > >what was happening shortly before the crash by viewing the appropriate > >/var/log/atop/ with the atop -r command. > > You could

Re: SL6 won't boot. Is this related to xorg issue?

2012-07-17 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012, William Lutter wrote: Wouldn't you know it, I just rebooted my SL6.0 or 6.1 linux PC prior to leaving town for a week and it hangs on all 3 of the available kernels. I see a black screen with white letters "Scientific Linux 6." I've not tried start up options. No problem

Re: X11 server won't start after yum upgrade

2012-07-17 Thread Joseph Areeda
Malcolm, Which rpm's worked for you? I have sshd running so I've been able to survive but none of the suggestions so far let me log in from the console on my VM. thanks Joe On 07/17/2012 01:41 AM, Malcolm MacCallum wrote: I have solved my problem by downloading the relevant rpm files to my Wi

Re: Different cpu usage between Fedora and SL6 guests

2012-07-17 Thread zxq9
On 07/18/2012 07:46 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote: On 07/17/2012 04:17 PM, zxq9 wrote: On 07/18/2012 06:55 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote: While staring at top on my kvm server waiting for it to crash, I noticed that my idle Fedora kvm guests appear to be consuming between 8-12% cpu while my idle SL6 gu

Re: Different cpu usage between Fedora and SL6 guests

2012-07-17 Thread Orion Poplawski
On 07/17/2012 04:17 PM, zxq9 wrote: On 07/18/2012 06:55 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote: While staring at top on my kvm server waiting for it to crash, I noticed that my idle Fedora kvm guests appear to be consuming between 8-12% cpu while my idle SL6 guests appear to be consuming between 0.3-2% cpu a

Re: Different cpu usage between Fedora and SL6 guests

2012-07-17 Thread zxq9
On 07/18/2012 06:55 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote: While staring at top on my kvm server waiting for it to crash, I noticed that my idle Fedora kvm guests appear to be consuming between 8-12% cpu while my idle SL6 guests appear to be consuming between 0.3-2% cpu as shown in the qemu-kvm processes in

Different cpu usage between Fedora and SL6 guests

2012-07-17 Thread Orion Poplawski
While staring at top on my kvm server waiting for it to crash, I noticed that my idle Fedora kvm guests appear to be consuming between 8-12% cpu while my idle SL6 guests appear to be consuming between 0.3-2% cpu as shown in the qemu-kvm processes in top. Does anyone have any insight as to why

Re: SL6 won't boot. Is this related to xorg issue?

2012-07-17 Thread zxq9
On 07/18/2012 06:22 AM, William Lutter wrote: Wouldn't you know it, I just rebooted my SL6.0 or 6.1 linux PC prior to leaving town for a week and it hangs on all 3 of the available kernels. I see a black screen with white letters "Scientific Linux 6." I've not tried start up options. No proble

SL6 won't boot. Is this related to xorg issue?

2012-07-17 Thread William Lutter
Wouldn't you know it, I just rebooted my SL6.0 or 6.1 linux PC prior to leaving town for a week and it hangs on all 3 of the available kernels. I see a black screen with white letters "Scientific Linux 6." I've not tried start up options. No problem with this PC. I did have a matlab issue usi

Re: server crashing out of memory

2012-07-17 Thread Orion Poplawski
On 07/17/2012 11:46 AM, Stephan Wiesand wrote: On Jul 17, 2012, at 19:22 , Orion Poplawski wrote: Our SL6.2 KVM and nfs/backup server has been crashing frequently recently (starting around Fri 13th - yikes!) with Kernel panic - Out of memory and no killable processes. The server has 48GB ram

Re: server crashing out of memory

2012-07-17 Thread Orion Poplawski
On 07/17/2012 12:21 PM, Steven J. Yellin wrote: If your atop service is on, you should be able to see something about what was happening shortly before the crash by viewing the appropriate /var/log/atop/ with the atop -r command. You could just try increasing your swap space; you don't

Re: server crashing out of memory

2012-07-17 Thread Steven J. Yellin
If your atop service is on, you should be able to see something about what was happening shortly before the crash by viewing the appropriate /var/log/atop/ with the atop -r command. You could just try increasing your swap space; you don't have very much compared with your ram. Simple '

Re: server crashing out of memory

2012-07-17 Thread Stephan Wiesand
On Jul 17, 2012, at 19:22 , Orion Poplawski wrote: > Our SL6.2 KVM and nfs/backup server has been crashing frequently recently > (starting around Fri 13th - yikes!) with Kernel panic - Out of memory and no > killable processes. The server has 48GB ram, 2GB swap, only about 15GB > dedicated to

server crashing out of memory

2012-07-17 Thread Orion Poplawski
Our SL6.2 KVM and nfs/backup server has been crashing frequently recently (starting around Fri 13th - yikes!) with Kernel panic - Out of memory and no killable processes. The server has 48GB ram, 2GB swap, only about 15GB dedicated to VM guests. I've tried bumping up vm.min_free_kbytes to 2621

Re: Scientific Linux 6.3 Beta 1 Release now available for testing

2012-07-17 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 11:01:22AM -0500, Connie Sieh wrote: > > *SL_enable_serialconsole-1152-4.1-1.el6 > ... > -removed support for non-grub bootloaders as none are available for SL6 > To nit-pick the wording, of course there are non-grub bootloaders available for SL6. syslinux/extlinux/p

attention: sudo update for 5.x "breaks" nsswitch if selinux is enforcing

2012-07-17 Thread Connie Sieh
FYI. This is from the "centos" list. -Connie Sieh From: Alexander Dalloz To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] attention: sudo update breaks nsswitch Hi, please be aware of a problem caused by yesterday's sudo u

Scientific Linux 6.3 Beta 1 Release now available for testing

2012-07-17 Thread Connie Sieh
Since there has been interest in the release of SL 6.3 I am forwarding this testing anouncment which normally only goes to scientific-linux-devel . -Connie Sieh - Scientific Linux 6.3 Beta 1 i386/x86_64

Re: DHCP server under a router

2012-07-17 Thread William Scott
On 4 July 2012 03:11, Duke wrote: > On 7/2/12 9:55 AM, William Scott wrote: >> >> >> What is the device being used as a router at 192.168.0.1? >> > > It is a Windows Server (2003) with DHCP server enabled. > I believe you now have a double nat'ed setup. If I was doing this I would try to get the

Re: X11 server won't start after yum upgrade

2012-07-17 Thread zxq9
On 07/17/2012 05:41 PM, Malcolm MacCallum wrote: I could boot up to the screen saying 'Scientific Linux 6' and then get a shell (by CTRL-ALT-F2) and log in. Thus I got to runlevel 3 with no network connection. My problem was how to then get to a state where I could run yum with remote repos. I

Re: X11 server won't start after yum upgrade

2012-07-17 Thread Malcolm MacCallum
I could boot up to the screen saying 'Scientific Linux 6' and then get a shell (by CTRL-ALT-F2) and log in. Thus I got to runlevel 3 with no network connection. My problem was how to then get to a state where I could run yum with remote repos. I have solved my problem by downloading the relevant