Re: [CentOS] 3Ware 9550SX and latency/system responsiveness

2007-09-14 Thread Sebastian Walter
Simon Banton wrote: > At 08:09 -0400 14/9/07, Jim Perrin wrote: >> Have you done any filesystem optimization and tried matching the >> filesystem to the raid chunk size? > > No, I haven't. This is 3ware hardware RAID-1 on two disks with a > single LVM ext3 / partition - I'm afraid I don't know how

Re: [CentOS] Re: hardware raid vs fake raid

2007-09-13 Thread Sebastian Walter
Mogens Kjaer wrote: > Sebastian Walter wrote: > ... >> As far as I see, the Adaptex AAC-RAID card is a SATA card, while >> Adaptec's SAS cards are called AIC, ASC/ASR or ASR > > I have 8 *SAS* disks on my AAC-RAID card: Thanks for pointing this out. > But maybe

Re: [CentOS] Re: hardware raid vs fake raid

2007-09-13 Thread Sebastian Walter
Mogens Kjaer wrote: > My IBM x3500 machines have this card: > > # lspci > ... > 03:00.0 RAID bus controller: Adaptec AAC-RAID (Rocket) (rev 02) > ... > > I'm not quite sure if this also has an IBM serveraid name. > > I don't think it is fakeraid; setting up raid devices can take > place at bios lev

Re: [CentOS] hardware raid vs fake raid

2007-09-13 Thread Sebastian Walter
Hi Tom, Tom Diehl wrote: > Does anyone know how I can find out if an ibm serveraid 8k sas storage > controller (zero channel RAID) is a real hardware RAID controller and > supported in the standard CentOs kernel or is it a fake raid controller. > I am trying to decide if I should get the serverai

Re: [CentOS] shrink LV with ext3 filesystem

2007-09-04 Thread Sebastian Walter
Thomas Antony wrote: > Is it possible that i log into the server with ssh and umount only > /var and then resize the logical volume? > Try it. Most probably the system will tell you that the disk is in use. What you could do then is booting from a live CD and resize it from there (System will be of

Re: [CentOS] OT: 4 dual cores agains 2 quad cores

2007-09-01 Thread Sebastian Walter
Hi, performance measurement is always strongly dependent on the kind of computation you are performing. So to really find out, you need to do benchmarks with the programs you want to run. If the price is not important, I would buy four quad cores with each 3GHz per server. Regards, Sebasti

Re: [CentOS] Can't print from Firefox

2007-08-28 Thread Sebastian Walter
Can you maybe print to file (Is the "Print" dialog showing up at all)? If you can print to a postscript file, you can print it using lp afterwards... regards, Sebastian Niki Kovacs wrote: > Niki Kovacs schrieb: >> Hi, >> >> I've just installed CentOS 5.0 on my father's laptop, in replacement >>

Re: [CentOS] Getting info on hardware RAID

2007-08-27 Thread Sebastian Walter
Hi, one solution which works for sure is to reboot your server, and then soon after the Dell logo disappears, a message is shown from the PERC (that's how the dell raids are called I think), where you can press -a or something like this. Then you are in the raid management tool where you get

Re: [CentOS] csgfs update for 4.5

2007-08-24 Thread Sebastian Walter
Hi, I am also interested in this. I downgraded to 2.6.9-55 kernel from a CentOS 4.5 install (because I couldn't install csgfs on the original kernel), and the gfs packages make problems (nodes crash on very heavy I/O load). From the linux-cluster list, I heard that using 2.6.9-55.0.2 would solve m