Re: [CentOS] OT: Linux recommendations for old Pentium PC

2018-09-03 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Friday 31 August 2018 18:09:13 Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: > We use mysql as database backend for bacula, and it becomes heavy loaded, > over time especially wenn restoring respectively generating filelists. So, > not sure if such old CPU provides enough compute power ... This isn't the dire

Re: [CentOS] OT: Linux recommendations for old Pentium PC

2018-09-03 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Friday 31 August 2018 18:20:20 Warren Young wrote: > You’re giving two very mixed signals here. > > “Old Pentium,” as someone else said, can mean anything back to 1993, but “4 > TB drive” suggests something far newer than that. > > I ask because that affects the expected energy draw of the serve

Re: [CentOS] OT: Linux recommendations for old Pentium PC

2018-09-03 Thread Warren Young
On Sep 3, 2018, at 2:30 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote: > > ...Pentium M processor...tiny fan...assumed power consumption would be low. You could well be right, but I’m a fan of taking measurements over guessing. :) If you were in the US, I’d recommend either of these from personal testing: http

[CentOS] Centos on Dell XPS15

2018-09-03 Thread H
Is anyone successfully running Centos 7 on a Dell XPS15? If so, which model? If not, what was the problem? Thank you! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] OT: Linux recommendations for old Pentium PC

2018-09-03 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
Gary Stainburn wrote: > I had not considered the lack of energy efficiency. The server has > a MSI MS-9628 board with a Pentium M processor, and the one modern > 4TB HDD. This means that you'll need a 32-bit OS, and that PAE might not be recognized by the OS. Debian 9 32-bit would work; CentO

Re: [CentOS] OT: Linux recommendations for old Pentium PC

2018-09-03 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Monday 03 September 2018 15:13:06 Yves Bellefeuille wrote: > This means that you'll need a 32-bit OS, and that PAE might not be > recognized by the OS. Debian 9 32-bit would work; CentOS 6 32-bit > might not. It previously had Centos 6 on it, but I wanted to avoid that as it now has a limited

[CentOS] VDO killed my server

2018-09-03 Thread david
Folks I was impressed with the description of VDO (Virtual Device Optimizer?) in the RedHat documentaion, so much that I tried to use it. The tutorials led me to a few commands. I built a VDO device on top of two USB disks which I made into a Logical Volume, and I was ready to go. In my te

Re: [CentOS] VDO killed my server

2018-09-03 Thread Yan Li
Interesting observation! I'm thinking about trying VDO too. On 09/03/2018 11:40 AM, david wrote: I was impressed with the description of VDO (Virtual Device Optimizer?) in the RedHat documentaion, so much that I tried to use it.  The tutorials led me to a few commands.  I built a VDO device on