[CentOS] Awk vs Perl performance (was:Re: Config file semantics.)

2011-06-18 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, June 17, 2011 04:54:09 PM Les Mikesell wrote: > Yes - and then some. You need something to waste those cycles that you > save by running awk instead of perl. Well. I once wrote an awk script to parse a RealAudio server log to determine simultaneous listeners at a given time. This

[CentOS] CentOS 5 32bit and 3Tbyte drives

2011-06-18 Thread Stephen Harris
Has anyone tried to use these yet? For hysterical raisons, my primary machine is CentOS5 32bit (up to date). In the machine I have a SiI 3132 dual port SATA controller with port multiplier. Both ports are plugged into an external storage device which presents 4 SATA disks on each port, for a tot

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 32bit and 3Tbyte drives

2011-06-18 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, June 18, 2011 10:00:25 PM Stephen Harris wrote: > But space is running out; I wondering if the new 3Tb disks would work > in this scenario; most importantly will 2.6.18-238.9.1.el5PAE see the > whole disk? And also whether I need to be worried about 4Kbyte sectors. You'll have to cha

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 32bit and 3Tbyte drives

2011-06-18 Thread Stephen Harris
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 10:13:00PM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Saturday, June 18, 2011 10:00:25 PM Stephen Harris wrote: > > But space is running out; I wondering if the new 3Tb disks would work > > in this scenario; most importantly will 2.6.18-238.9.1.el5PAE see the > > whole disk? And also wh