Potato & Solaris
Hi, I need Solaris 2.6 x86 and Debian Potato on CD. Any help will be deeply appreciated! Alex Rier| System Administrator | Tel: +972-52-442549 Breakthrough Ltd.| FAX: +972-3-6356434 http://www.breakt.co.il | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mountd and RPC errors
Hi All , something i cant resolve on my own so i figured one of you linux wizards might have a clue the hosts i am talking about are all working 1.2.13 slackware machines. the kernel is old because of some development apps that no one has the bas to migrate. any way one machine suddenly will no longer export fs=20 when i try to mount i get "mount clntudp_create RPC program not regidtered. ps aux shows rpc.portmap rpc.mountd and rpc.nfsd are up=20 rpcinfo -p shows that udp/tcp ports for nfs and ypbind and portmapper are fine but mountd is not there. kill and restar /reboot /kick the box did not do any good i copied the binaries form a working machine near by still no good. removed and rewritten exports file any ideas (besides looking for a proper job ) would be greatlly apprichiated. Moti = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thrashing and Crashing
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Oren Shomron wrote: Sounds to me like an all too known XFree bug. When this happens, can you run `top' in a xterm (make sure you still have one free). I'll bet that X will be running at ~95% cpu and more. In any case, I advise on enlarging your swap to at least 64MB. (buying some RAM would also be a good idea, but I don't want to become like MickeySoft). --Ariel > Ariel Biener wrote: > > > On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Oren Shomron wrote: > > > >A few details. > > > >What machine is that ? How much memory ? How large is the swap ? > > > >Do you run as root ? Do you observe this behaviour under other > > applications ? > > > >Any special thing we should know about ? What kernel ? > > > > --Ariel > > Ok, it's an Intel Pentium-2 233, 32 megs physical ram and 40 megs swap. > I run as a user and I haven't had a chance to notice this with other > applications > because none of themleaked all their memory like Netscape. > The kernel is stock 2.2.10. > > The system becomes totally unresponsive, ALT-Q and CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE > both don't work, only ALT-SYSREQ and I'd really rather find a more elegent > way > out of the mess... > > - Oren > -- Ariel Biener e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work phone: 03-640608 fingerprint = 07 D1 E5 3E EF 6D E5 82 0B E9 21 D4 3C 7D 8B BC = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thrashing and Crashing
Small comment: The x2 rule doesn't actually mean anything now, as far as I know this rule-of-thumb comes from unices which will not use RAM unless they have swap to shadow it with. Of course, in this case, with 32MB of RAM he could use 128MB of swap. "Eugene L. Berman" wrote: > > Oren Shomron wrote: > > > > Ok, it's an Intel Pentium-2 233, 32 megs physical ram and 40 megs swap. > > Yes, that's a problem. The swap partition size must be at least > as twice as physical RAM. And for slow machines like yours, I'd suggest > at least 128 Mb of swap partition. > And if you use huge X applications like Netscape, Gnome or KDE, > it would be a good idea to add more RAM... > > -- > - > | Eugene L. Berman | | > |--<<-+-<<@ | | > | E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | NIHIL HABENTES,| > | Phone #: ++972-3-5538210 | OMNIA POSSIDENTES. | > | Mobile #: 054-809439 | | > | http://www.mannanetwork.com| | > - > > = > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- - | Omer Efraim| Earth First! | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | We can Strip Mine the other planets later... | - = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems installing LILO
Hello, I am now trying to install RedHat 6 [from cheap*bytes] and when reaching the "Installing bootloader" [after the rpms were installed with no problems] RedHat stops and tells me that it couldn't install the bootloader [no specific error message] and asks if I want to continue with the installation. I have tried a few times, repartitioning my HD as I do so but it failed always. I attempted to install LILO after loging in [using a boot disk] but the installed LILO auto boots linux and doesn't offer the option to boot Win95 [ one of my partitions ] Anyone has any ideas ? Specs: PI 166mhz / 48RAM hda 3.2G hdb 0.5G /dev/hda1 Linux primary /dev/hda2 Linux swap /dev/hda3 DOS >=32 [Here win95 resides] /dev/hdb1 DOS >=32 None of this are extended partitions. [Should they be ?] Attached is my /etc/lilo.conf which auto boots linux instead of offering me options. Best Regards Boris Dinkevich # LILO configuration created by QuickInst 21 Mon Jul 12 23:18:01 IDT 1999 boot = /dev/hda1 compact delay = 5 # optional, for systems that boot very quickly vga = normal# force sane state root = current # use "current" root image = /boot/vmlinuz label = linux other = /dev/hda3 table = /dev/hda label = dos
Re: Thrashing and Crashing
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Omer wrote: > Small comment: > The x2 rule doesn't actually mean anything now, > as far as I know this rule-of-thumb comes from > unices which will not use RAM unless they have > swap to shadow it with. That is correct. The "swap should be twice the RAM" rule holds true for BSD prior to version 4.4 (4.3 and below). It is not true for BSD 4.4 and SysV, as well as Linux. You can use this rule if you don't have any idea what will be your total process size. > Of course, in this case, with 32MB of RAM > he could use 128MB of swap. The system shouldn't be paging that much with 32Mb RAM. This configuration sounds very reasonable for X and netscape. As usuall, adding more RAM will improve performance. Adding more swap will not improve performance, it will just let you run your applications. I would guess that your netscape is indeed running out of swap, so it would be a good idea to add some. Assuming you are not into re-partition and install and no extra disk is laying around unused, I would advise that you will do this using a swap file (rather than a swap partition). Purists might argue that this will be slower, but it will do the job. Take a look at mkswap(8) and swapon(8) for more details, but basiclly you should do the following: dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/extraswap count=100 bs=1024k mkswap /var/extraswap swapon /var/extraswap This will give you 100Mb of swap (assuming you have a spare 100Mb on /var). Don't forget to add this to your /etc/fstab so that it will be added after each boot. -- Yaron. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thrashing and Crashing
Liran Zvibel wrote: > Quoting Oren Shomron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I'm having some trouble with Linux. Whenever some application starts > > taking up way too much memory (netscape with its leaks) and I run out, > > my system starts hard-drive thrashing like crazy and becomes totally > > unresponsive. > > I can't do anything but ALT+SYSREQ my way to a reboot. > > Is there any way to make linux handle this better? Any Kernel patches > > perhaps? > > > Would you by any chance be willing to tell us what is your kernel version, the > amount of physical memory you have, your swap partitions you use, and whether > you checked the swap space for bad blocks, and some more information that > might be relevant? > > Thanks, > > Liran. I'm using a linux swap partition which I *believe* I checked for bad blocks when I installed. This disk hasn't given me any trouble anyhow. It's IDE btw. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
