[CentOS] Centso 6.2 bug ?

2012-01-22 Thread Riccardo Veraldi
Hello, is anyone experiencing this ? I have a sympa process (bulk.pl) which triggers this bug: [ cut here ] WARNING: at kernel/sched.c:5914 thread_return+0x232/0x79d() (Not tainted) Hardware name: X8DTU-LN4+ Modules linked in: cpufreq_ondemand acpi_cpufreq freq_table mperf

Re: [CentOS] Centso 6.2 bug ?

2012-01-22 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am 22.01.2012 14:08, schrieb Riccardo Veraldi: > Hello, > is anyone experiencing this ? > I have a sympa process (bulk.pl) which triggers this bug: > > [ cut here ] > WARNING: at kernel/sched.c:5914 thread_return+0x232/0x79d() (Not tainted) > Hardware name: X8DTU-LN4+ > Mod

[CentOS] Problem with spamassassin under CentOS-5.7

2012-01-22 Thread Timothy Murphy
I'm getting the following warning in my logwatch, or if I restart the spamassassin service. I've tried yum-reinstalling the packages involved but that didn't help. --- /etc/cron.daily/sa-learn: Subroutine IO::Socket::INET6::AF_INET6 redefined at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Ex

Re: [CentOS] Problem with spamassassin under CentOS-5.7

2012-01-22 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am 22.01.2012 14:22, schrieb Timothy Murphy: > I'm getting the following warning in my logwatch, > or if I restart the spamassassin service. > I've tried yum-reinstalling the packages involved > but that didn't help. > --- > /etc/cron.daily/sa-learn: > > Subroutine IO::

[CentOS] weird XFS problem

2012-01-22 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello all, I have a CentOS 5.7 machine hosting a 16 TB XFS partition used to house backups. The backups are run via rsync/rsnapshot and are large in terms of the number of files: over 10 million each. Now the machine is not particularly powerful: it is 64-bit machine, dual core CPU, 3 GB RAM. So

Re: [CentOS] Centso 6.2 bug ?

2012-01-22 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 5:08 AM, Riccardo Veraldi wrote: > Hello, > is anyone experiencing this ? > I have a sympa process (bulk.pl) which triggers this bug: > > [ cut here ] > WARNING: at kernel/sched.c:5914 thread_return+0x232/0x79d() (Not tainted) > Hardware name: X8DTU-

Re: [CentOS] weird XFS problem

2012-01-22 Thread Boris Epstein
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Boris Epstein wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a CentOS 5.7 machine hosting a 16 TB XFS partition used to house > backups. The backups are run via rsync/rsnapshot and are large in terms of > the number of files: over 10 million each. > > Now the machine is not parti

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and LessFS

2012-01-22 Thread Ross Walker
On Jan 17, 2012, at 4:00 PM, "Hugh E Cruickshank" wrote: > From: Les Mikesell Sent: January 17, 2012 05:56 >> >> Big disks are cheap these days - I wouldn't worry that much about the >> total space that much and you'll still be able to keep a lot online. > > This is true for current hardware ho

Re: [CentOS] weird XFS problem

2012-01-22 Thread Miguel Medalha
> Now the machine is not particularly powerful: it is 64-bit machine, dual > core CPU, 3 GB RAM. So perhaps this is a factor in why I am having the > following problem: once in awhile that XFS partition starts generating > multiple I/O errors, files that had content become 0 byte, directories > di

Re: [CentOS] weird XFS problem

2012-01-22 Thread Miguel Medalha
> Correction to the above: the XFS partition is 26TB, not 16 TB (not that it > should matter in the context of this particular situation). Yes, it does matter: Read this: *[CentOS] 32-bit kernel+XFS+16.xTB filesystem = potential disaster* http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2011-April/10914

Re: [CentOS] weird XFS problem

2012-01-22 Thread Boris Epstein
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Miguel Medalha wrote: > Correction to the above: the XFS partition is 26TB, not 16 TB (not that it >> should matter in the context of this particular situation). >> > > Yes, it does matter: > > Read this: > > *[CentOS] 32-bit kernel+XFS+16.xTB filesystem = potentia

Re: [CentOS] weird XFS problem

2012-01-22 Thread Miguel Medalha
> > uname -a > Linux nrims-bs 2.6.18-274.12.1.el5xen #1 SMP Tue Nov 29 14:18:21 EST > 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > this is clearly a 64-bit OS so the 32-bit limitations ought not to apply. > Ok! Since you didn't inform us in your initial post, I thought I should ask you in order to e

Re: [CentOS] weird XFS problem

2012-01-22 Thread Miguel Medalha
Nevertheless, it seems to me that you should have more than 3GB of RAM on a 64 bit system... Since the width of the binary word is 64 bit in this case, 3GB correspond to 1.5GB on a 32 bit system... If you have a 64 bit system you should give it space to work properly. ___

Re: [CentOS] weird XFS problem

2012-01-22 Thread Miguel Medalha
> Nevertheless, it seems to me that you should have more than 3GB of RAM > on a 64 bit system... > Since the width of the binary word is 64 bit in this case, 3GB > correspond to 1.5GB on a 32 bit system... > If you have a 64 bit system you should give it space to work properly. ... and the fact t

Re: [CentOS] weird XFS problem

2012-01-22 Thread Boris Epstein
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Miguel Medalha wrote: > > Nevertheless, it seems to me that you should have more than 3GB of RAM on > a 64 bit system... > Since the width of the binary word is 64 bit in this case, 3GB correspond > to 1.5GB on a 32 bit system... > If you have a 64 bit system you s

Re: [CentOS] weird XFS problem

2012-01-22 Thread Boris Epstein
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Miguel Medalha wrote: > > Nevertheless, it seems to me that you should have more than 3GB of RAM >> on a 64 bit system... >> Since the width of the binary word is 64 bit in this case, 3GB >> correspond to 1.5GB on a 32 bit system... >> If you have a 64 bit system

Re: [CentOS] weird XFS problem

2012-01-22 Thread Miguel Medalha
> > You are right - it would indeed be desirable to have more than 3 GB of > RAM on that system. However it is not obvious to me that having that > little RAM should cause I/O failure? Why? That it would make the > machine slow is to be expected - and especially so given that I had to > jack

Re: [CentOS] weird XFS problem

2012-01-22 Thread Boris Epstein
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Miguel Medalha wrote: > > > >> You are right - it would indeed be desirable to have more than 3 GB of >> RAM on that system. However it is not obvious to me that having that little >> RAM should cause I/O failure? Why? That it would make the machine slow is >> to b

Re: [CentOS] weird XFS problem

2012-01-22 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>I have a CentOS 5.7 machine hosting a 16 TB XFS partition used to house >backups. The backups are run via rsync/rsnapshot and are large in terms of >the number of files: over 10 million each. > >Now the machine is not particularly powerful: it is 64-bit machine, dual >core CPU, 3 GB RAM. So perhap

Re: [CentOS] weird XFS problem

2012-01-22 Thread Boris Epstein
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >I have a CentOS 5.7 machine hosting a 16 TB XFS partition used to house > >backups. The backups are run via rsync/rsnapshot and are large in terms of > >the number of files: over 10 million each. > > > >Now the machine is not particularl

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and LessFS

2012-01-22 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Ross Walker wrote: >> > If this is only a 1-2 year temporary solution and the backups will be > discarded once a permanent solution is obtained then I'm sure it will be OK. > > If your thinking of building a long-term backup solution this way then your > buildin

Re: [CentOS] weird XFS problem

2012-01-22 Thread Ross Walker
On Jan 22, 2012, at 10:00 AM, Boris Epstein wrote: > Jan 22 09:17:53 nrims-bs kernel: 3w-9xxx: scsi6: AEN: ERROR (0x04:0x0026): > Drive ECC error reported:port=4, unit=0. > Jan 22 09:17:53 nrims-bs kernel: 3w-9xxx: scsi6: AEN: ERROR (0x04:0x002D): > Source drive error occurred:port=4, unit=0. > J

Re: [CentOS] weird XFS problem

2012-01-22 Thread Ross Walker
On Jan 22, 2012, at 4:41 PM, Ross Walker wrote: > On Jan 22, 2012, at 10:00 AM, Boris Epstein wrote: > >> Jan 22 09:17:53 nrims-bs kernel: 3w-9xxx: scsi6: AEN: ERROR (0x04:0x0026): >> Drive ECC error reported:port=4, unit=0. >> Jan 22 09:17:53 nrims-bs kernel: 3w-9xxx: scsi6: AEN: ERROR (0x04:0

Re: [CentOS] weird XFS problem

2012-01-22 Thread Keith Keller
On 2012-01-22, Boris Epstein wrote: > > Also, here's somethine else I have discovered. Apparently there is an > potential intermittent RAID disk trouble. At least I found the following in > the system log: > > Jan 22 09:17:53 nrims-bs kernel: 3w-9xxx: scsi6: AEN: ERROR (0x04:0x0026): > Drive ECC e

Re: [CentOS] weird XFS problem

2012-01-22 Thread Boris Epstein
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Keith Keller < kkel...@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote: > On 2012-01-22, Boris Epstein wrote: > > > > Also, here's somethine else I have discovered. Apparently there is an > > potential intermittent RAID disk trouble. At least I found the following > in > > the

Re: [CentOS] squid transparent proxy problem

2012-01-22 Thread João Rodrigues
Please verify you resolv.conf João Rodrigues On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 10:33 PM, Hüvely Balázs wrote: > Greetings, > > I installed a squid 3.1.10.i686 squid to a centos 6.2i686. The proxy is > working fine with the default config. > After I decided to use it as a transparent proxy, I added two lin

Re: [CentOS] Problem with spamassassin under CentOS-5.7

2012-01-22 Thread Timothy Murphy
Alexander Dalloz wrote: >> I'm getting the following warning in my logwatch, >> or if I restart the spamassassin service. >> I've tried yum-reinstalling the packages involved >> but that didn't help. >> --- >> /etc/cron.daily/sa-learn: >> >> Subroutine IO::Socket::INET

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and LessFS

2012-01-22 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 15:50 -0800, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: > We have been looking at implementing deduplication on a backup server. > >From what I have been able to find the available documentation is > pretty thin. I ended up trying to install LessFS on this CentOS 5.7 > box but we have now enco

Re: [CentOS] weird XFS problem

2012-01-22 Thread Keith Keller
On 2012-01-22, Boris Epstein wrote: > > The RAID is on the controller level. Yes, I believe the controller is a > 3Ware 9xxx series - I don't recall the details right now. The details are important in this context--the 9550 is the problematic one (at least for me, though I've seen others with sim

Re: [CentOS] CentOS6 KDE: Desktop Activity type: desktop only

2012-01-22 Thread wwp
Hello Phil, On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:39:03 -0500 Phil Schaffner wrote: > wwp wrote on 01/20/2012 09:56 AM: > > Hello there, > > > > > > I'm looking at different desktop activity types (in Desktop Settings), > > and on my CentOS 6, I only have "desktop". No folderview, for instance. > > > > Does