[CentOS] setting the device queue_depth

2014-05-19 Thread axel.weber
Hi, Due to limitations of our Storage we need to set the device queue_depth to 4. I did this with a script that basically does this: echo 4 > /sys/block/sdft/device/queue_depth. But after a few minutes it starts to grow until it reaches 32 again. What could cause that behavior? Furthermore th

Re: [CentOS] setting the device queue_depth

2014-05-19 Thread John R Pierce
On 5/19/2014 12:00 AM, axel.we...@cbc.de wrote: > Centos: CentOS release 6.3 (Final) > Storage: DDN 9900 > Qlogic: 2560 (using distri firmware) have you tried 6.5 with latest yum update patches? If it does the same thing, then its quite likely Red Hat you need to file the report with, as Centos

Re: [CentOS] Large file system idea

2014-05-19 Thread Andrew Holway
> I have not looked at Lustre, as I have heard many negative things about it > (including Oracle ownership). The only business using Lustre where I know > the admins has had a lot of trouble with it. No redundancy. I know some Lustre admins that indeed have the far away stare similar to people tha

Re: [CentOS] Centos backup tools

2014-05-19 Thread John Doe
From: Fred Smith > Looking for suggestions on backup software I can use. You could also have a look at bacula... JD ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] build system for cutting edge software

2014-05-19 Thread Gergely Buday
On 19 May 2014 04:50, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 01:30:24PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> > An idea is to build it in a directory, as much independent as it is >> > possible from the installed libraries on the centos installation. Is >> > there an automated build system fo

Re: [CentOS] Large file system idea

2014-05-19 Thread Steve Thompson
On Sun, 18 May 2014, Ted Miller wrote: > How recently have you looked at Gluster? It has seen some significant > progress, though small files are still its weakest area. I believe that > some use-cases have found that NFS access is faster for small files. I last looked at Gluster about two mont

Re: [CentOS] Large file system idea

2014-05-19 Thread Steve Thompson
On Sun, 18 May 2014, Les Mikesell wrote: > Do you really need filesystem semantics or would ceph's object store work? Yes, I really need file system semantics; I am storing home directories. Steve ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.

Re: [CentOS] Sorry

2014-05-19 Thread Larry Martell
On 5/18/2014 8:51 AM, Chris Weisiger wrote: > > I'm posting from my phone so I can't bottom post > That is not a valid excuse. I'm posting from my phone now and I was able to post properly. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.

Re: [CentOS] Sorry

2014-05-19 Thread mark
On 05/17/14 18:29, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am 17.05.2014 23:22, schrieb Always Learning: >> I blame M$ for introducing TOP POSTING. > > It makes no sense to blame a company, it is the people who don't make > enough effort to help everyone on a mailinglist to follow the > discussions in an effici

Re: [CentOS] Heads up on local root escalation

2014-05-19 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 15.05.2014 um 11:22 schrieb Leon Fauster : > Am 15.05.2014 um 07:23 schrieb Eero Volotinen : >> >> 2014-05-12 21:13 GMT+03:00 James Hogarth : >> >>> Remember to be especially aware if you have systems that can potentially >>> have code uploaded and run (ftp to httpd vhost or improper php confi

Re: [CentOS] Large file system idea

2014-05-19 Thread Richer, Mark (CIV)
We were using glusterfs for shared home directories and it was really slow. We're using an NFS shared and it's working much faster. Mark > On May 18, 2014, at 21:35, "Ted Miller" wrote: > >> On 05/18/2014 11:47 AM, Steve Thompson wrote: >> MooseFS and GlusterFS have both been evaluated, and we

[CentOS] Disabling IRQ 16

2014-05-19 Thread Alessandro Baggi
Hi list, I've a problem with my system on CentOS 6.5 x86_64 on a workstation. During utilizzation, after several hours after boot (6/7 hours) I get an error: Disabling IRQ #16 and after this seems be that 3d acceleration is unloaded. This is a workstation with a dedicated vga (nvidia gt450)

Re: [CentOS] Sorry

2014-05-19 Thread Dave Cross
On 19 May 2014 13:06, mark wrote: > Wrong. It was M$ Lookout, er, Outlook, that introduced top posting by default. I'm pretty sure that Microsoft email applications were top-posting long before Outlook arrived :-) Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg _

Re: [CentOS] Sorry

2014-05-19 Thread m . roth
Dave Cross wrote: > On 19 May 2014 13:06, mark wrote: > >> Wrong. It was M$ Lookout, er, Outlook, that introduced top posting by >> default. > > I'm pretty sure that Microsoft email applications were top-posting > long before Outlook arrived :-) > I don't think so. They only got email that was wid

Re: [CentOS] Sorry

2014-05-19 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 7:06 AM, mark wrote: > On 05/17/14 18:29, Alexander Dalloz wrote: >> Am 17.05.2014 23:22, schrieb Always Learning: > >>> I blame M$ for introducing TOP POSTING. >> >> It makes no sense to blame a company, it is the people who don't make >> enough effort to help everyone on

Re: [CentOS] Sorry

2014-05-19 Thread Dave Cross
On 19 May 2014 15:47, wrote: > Dave Cross wrote: >> On 19 May 2014 13:06, mark wrote: >> >>> Wrong. It was M$ Lookout, er, Outlook, that introduced top posting by >>> default. >> >> I'm pretty sure that Microsoft email applications were top-posting >> long before Outlook arrived :-) >> > I don't

Re: [CentOS] Large file system idea

2014-05-19 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 6:35 AM, Steve Thompson wrote: > On Sun, 18 May 2014, Les Mikesell wrote: > >> Do you really need filesystem semantics or would ceph's object store work? > > Yes, I really need file system semantics; I am storing home directories. In that case, wouldn't it be simpler to ha

Re: [CentOS] Sorry

2014-05-19 Thread Steve Lindemann
On 5/19/2014 9:02 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > I'ts not really a bad thing in the context of 1<->1 messages and > business communications where you are interested enough to not need > the reply put in context for you but might want the audit-trail of the > whole previous conversation for reference. >

Re: [CentOS] Centos backup tools

2014-05-19 Thread Fred Smith
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 06:12:17PM +, Richer, Mark (CIV) wrote: > We're using rsnapshot. > > My colleague set it up, but I will be taking over administration soon. > > Mark Having looked more deeply into rsnapshot, I think I'll try it, as it appears it'll do what I need. My thanks to ALL O

Re: [CentOS] Sorry

2014-05-19 Thread Dominic Hoogendijk
On 19-05-14 17:10, Dave Cross wrote: > On 19 May 2014 15:47, wrote: >> Dave Cross wrote: >>> On 19 May 2014 13:06, mark wrote: >>> Wrong. It was M$ Lookout, er, Outlook, that introduced top posting by default. >>> I'm pretty sure that Microsoft email applications were top-posting >>>

Re: [CentOS] Sorry

2014-05-19 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: > On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 7:06 AM, mark wrote: >> On 05/17/14 18:29, Alexander Dalloz wrote: >>> Am 17.05.2014 23:22, schrieb Always Learning: > I'ts not really a bad thing in the context of 1<->1 messages and > business communications where you are interested enough to not ne

[CentOS] Top posting threads.

2014-05-19 Thread Lamar Owen
There are only two things more annoying on a mailing list than top posting: bottom posting with no trimming of quoted content and all the endless discussions about top posting. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/l

Re: [CentOS] Top posting threads.

2014-05-19 Thread O'Reilly, Dan
There is one more thing more annoying: people sending endless emails about what's annoying on a mailing list... -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Lamar Owen Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 9:28 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject

Re: [CentOS] Top posting threads.

2014-05-19 Thread zep
and in retaliation for spawning ANOTHER thread about less than 10 seconds after I made my filter to delete the old, I'll top post respond to it. thanks. On 05/19/2014 11:27 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > There are only two things more annoying on a mailing list than top > posting: bottom posting with

Re: [CentOS] Sorry

2014-05-19 Thread John R Pierce
On 5/19/2014 8:17 AM, Dominic Hoogendijk wrote: > There are 2 lines of M$ mail clients, Mail that became Outlook express > and then Mail again and Outlook (the exchange enabled client). -- > DeHostingFirma.nl The original Microsoft Mail wasn't internet mail at all, it used a completely proprietar

[CentOS] SCSI not settling???

2014-05-19 Thread Gé Weijers
I'm getting a lot of this at boottime: udev still not settled. Waiting. udevadm settle - timeout of 0 seconds reached, the event queue contains: /sys/module/scsi_wait_scan (11707) udev still not settled. Waiting. udevadm settle - timeout of 0 seconds reached, the event queue contains: /sys/mo

Re: [CentOS] SCSI not settling???

2014-05-19 Thread m . roth
Gé Weijers wrote: > I'm getting a lot of this at boottime: > > udev still not settled. Waiting. > udevadm settle - timeout of 0 seconds reached, the event queue contains: > /sys/module/scsi_wait_scan (11707) > > udev still not settled. Waiting. > udevadm settle - timeout of 0 seconds reached, the

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.4 How to increase console font size.

2014-05-19 Thread Michael Coffman
This is what I added to my grub.conf kernel lines to revert to a console that looks like it did at 5.X nouveau.modeset=0 This just disables the driver which worked for what I needed... On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 8:38 AM, Richard Reina wrote: > Just installed 6.4 on and old Dell laptop and the fo

Re: [CentOS] SCSI not settling???

2014-05-19 Thread Gé Weijers
Thanks for answering. a) The workstation has: - CPU E5-2687W - 32 GB RAM (ECC) - AMD FirePro V7900, original graphics card. (This happens with both the AMD driver installed and not installed.) - MegaRAID SAS 2008 controller configured for RAID1 I had a quad PCIe serial card in it as well, but I h

Re: [CentOS] SCSI not settling???

2014-05-19 Thread Gé Weijers
BTW: I just saw those 'oopses', or I would have mentioned them right away. I'm seriously suspecting the RAID controller. Gé On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Gé Weijers wrote: > Thanks for answering. > > a) The workstation has: > - CPU E5-2687W > - 32 GB RAM (ECC) > - AMD FirePro V7900, origina

Re: [CentOS] SCSI not settling???

2014-05-19 Thread m . roth
Gé Weijers wrote: > Thanks for answering. > > a) The workstation has: > - CPU E5-2687W > - 32 GB RAM (ECC) > - AMD FirePro V7900, original graphics card. (This happens with both the > AMD driver installed and not installed.) > - MegaRAID SAS 2008 controller configured for RAID1 > > I had a quad PCI

Re: [CentOS] SCSI not settling???

2014-05-19 Thread Gé Weijers
I'm running a memory check right now, just to rule things out. Gé On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 2:36 PM, wrote: > Gé Weijers wrote: > > Thanks for answering. > > > > a) The workstation has: > > - CPU E5-2687W > > - 32 GB RAM (ECC) > > - AMD FirePro V7900, original graphics card. (This happens with b

[CentOS] wpa_supplicant - an utter failure, for some reason

2014-05-19 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello listmates, I feel a little embarrassed but I can not get through this one and any help will be much appreciated. I have a Broadcom WiFi adapter in a 64-bit CentOS 6.5 laptop. Trying to get it connect automatically - and it just would not - no error messages, nothing. With the same config Ne

Re: [CentOS] Centos backup tools

2014-05-19 Thread Arun Khan
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Derrik Walker v2.0 wrote: >> > I've been using BackupPC for years. I currently have it running on a > small CentOS system that mainly does backups. > > I like it because it's agentless ( it uses ssh/rsync ). The Pooling and > Data-deduping is also nice, and saves