Re: [CentOS] Octet (was: IP6 Anyone?)

2011-03-06 Thread Bob Marcan
On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 13:32:34 + Always Learning wrote: > > On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 04:12 -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote: > > > Those of us who've used older mainframes (such as the PDP-10) remember > > "byte" being a synonym for "bit field" and a byte could be any number of > > bits, typically

Re: [CentOS] Octet (was: IP6 Anyone?)

2011-03-06 Thread Always Learning
On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 14:36 +0100, Bob Marcan wrote: > On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 13:32:34 + > Always Learning wrote: > > > PDP being a 'main franme'? Baby mainframe perhaps when compared to > > Honeywell's (later Bull's) Level 66? Level 66 had 36 bit words which > > could be used as 6 BCD chara

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - What are you looking forward to?

2011-03-06 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 03:33:10PM -0500, Kwan Lowe wrote: > On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 3:11 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > > > IBM Power servers since the Power4+ CPU (they are up to Power7 now) have > > hardware partitioning support, commonly known as LPAR.  LPAR can be > > divided in units of 1/10th o

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - What are you looking forward to?

2011-03-06 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 03:33:10PM -0500, Kwan Lowe wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 3:11 PM, John R Pierce wrote: >> >> > IBM Power servers since the Power4+ CPU (they are up to Power7 now) have >> > hardware partitioning support, commonly

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - What are you looking forward to?

2011-03-06 Thread Mag Gam
We are a data shop. nfs v4 support native XFS support ext4 Hopefully by 6.4 they will have native brtfs :-) On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 03:33:10PM -0500, Kwan Lowe wrote: >>> On Fr

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and Marvell SAS/SATA drivers

2011-03-06 Thread Chuck Munro
On 03/06/2011 09:00 AM, compdoc wrote: > >> >Regarding the Marvell drivers, I had good luck with the 'sata_mv' driver >> >in Scientific Linux 6 just yesterday, running a pair of 4-port PCIe-x4 >> >Tempo 'Sonnet' controller cards. > Are those the Mac/Windows Sonnet cards that go for less than $200?

[CentOS] Problem burning dvd's

2011-03-06 Thread Jimmy Bradley
I have a question on burning dvd iso's, using k3b. I have a sony dvd rw, and I've burned cd's with now problem, including iso's. The problem I'm having is, when I burn a dvd iso, k3b says it's a success, but then when I re-insert the disk, the drive tries to read the disk, but the read/write

Re: [CentOS] Updating hardware clock from cron

2011-03-06 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Friday, March 04, 2011 3:04 PM -0500 "Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane" wrote: > Not if you are running ntp and it was able to sync, because ntpd > activates a mode in the kernel that sets the hwclock every 11 minutes > when ntp declares it got synced. Thanks, this is the part

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - What are you looking forward to?

2011-03-06 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/06/11 5:50 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > It's kind of funny since OracleVM*is* Xen, and it's counted as > "hardware partitioning" :) OracleVM(tm) is a brand name now, being used for anything that remotely resembles virtualization, from Xen to Solaris Zones to hardware partitioning on the M

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - What are you looking forward to?

2011-03-06 Thread Peter A
On Sunday, March 06, 2011 05:28:13 pm John R Pierce wrote: > On 03/06/11 5:50 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > It's kind of funny since OracleVM*is* Xen, and it's counted as > > "hardware partitioning" :) > > OracleVM(tm) is a brand name now, being used for anything that remotely > resembles virtua

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and Marvell SAS/SATA drivers

2011-03-06 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Chuck Munro wrote: > > On 03/06/2011 09:00 AM, compdoc wrote: >> >>> >Regarding the Marvell drivers, I had good luck with the 'sata_mv' driver >>> >in Scientific Linux 6 just yesterday, running a pair of 4-port PCIe-x4 >>> >Tempo 'Sonnet' controller cards. >> Are th

Re: [CentOS] Gnu Screen - terminal issues

2011-03-06 Thread Sean Carolan
>> The remote host's $TERM variable is in fact xterm.  When I connect to >> the screen session the $TERM variable is 'screen'. > > Are you running screen locally or remotely? Remotely. My work machine is a laptop, which is not powered on all the time. Hence I use a remote box as a jumping-off po

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-06 Thread Charles Polisher
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > A warning: round robin can be problematical. Amen. Consider what happens with round-robin DNS when one host stops working. Round-robin DNS will hand out the address of the failed host just as often as it did when it was all working. Some clients (applications) will atte

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and Marvell SAS/SATA drivers

2011-03-06 Thread Charles Polisher
Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > I like Adaptec for price/performance, and good Linux overall > compatibility (including CentOS). Just don't order those "fell off the > truck" Taiwan specials that are clearly Adaptec chipsets, but have > actually had the numbers filed off. Adaptec is proud of their

Re: [CentOS] kernel NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out

2011-03-06 Thread Charles Polisher
Simon Matter wrote: > > Sometimes my server network connection on Linux goes down with short > > message in syslog saying: "[localhost kernel] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: > > transmit timed out" (or similar). > > > > By the way , I installed the CentOS 5.4 x86_64 bit and the kernel version > > was 2.6

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-06 Thread Tim Dunphy
an interesting choice for low cost hardware load balancing appliances is coyote point http://www.coyotepoint.com/products/?gclid=CI6ri9jQu6cCFQbc4Aodmi1V4Q however for my purpose open and free HAProxy remains best choice!! On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Charles Polisher wrote: > m.r...@5-cent.

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-06 Thread Lucian
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 4:40 AM, Tim Dunphy wrote: > however for my purpose open and free HAProxy remains best choice!! +1 for HAProxy; excellent piece of software. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-06 Thread David Brian Chait
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 4:40 AM, Tim Dunphy wrote: > however for my purpose open and free HAProxy remains best choice!! > +1 for HAProxy; excellent piece of software. It really depends on your needs, if you are building a production ops environment then the last thing that you would want woul

[CentOS] BUG: soft lockup CPU stuck for 10seconds (Server went down)

2011-03-06 Thread Roland RoLaNd
Hello, Today my server stopped responding. i went to the console and on the screen there were a continuous loop of the following info shown on the screen: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 10s! [java:13959] and alot of other information. ii've took a screen shot of the info shown , you can fi

Re: [CentOS] BUG: soft lockup CPU stuck for 10seconds (Server went down)

2011-03-06 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am 07.03.2011 08:31, schrieb Roland RoLaNd: > > Hello, > > Today my server stopped responding. > i went to the console and on the screen there were a continuous loop of the > following info shown on the screen: > > BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 10s! [java:13959] > > and alot of other info

Re: [CentOS] BUG: soft lockup CPU stuck for 10seconds (Server went down)

2011-03-06 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 07 Mar 2011 09:31:42 +0200 Roland RoLaNd wrote: > BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 10s! [java:13959] > i tried googling with no luck for direct relevant info. The first google result for the above string takes me here: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3582 Which in turn contains a

Re: [CentOS] BUG: soft lockup CPU stuck for 10seconds (Server went down)

2011-03-06 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am 07.03.2011 08:46, schrieb Frank Cox: > On Mon, 07 Mar 2011 09:31:42 +0200 > Roland RoLaNd wrote: > >> BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 10s! [java:13959] > >> i tried googling with no luck for direct relevant info. > > The first google result for the above string takes me here: > > http://b