Re: [CentOS] Live CD Planning systems

2008-01-05 Thread Jason Clark
Not to pitch another distro, but knoppix and dsl do pretty much what are looking for ,minus the xen. What I would propose though is to run vmware P2V (now called converter) on your XP machine. It will export a vmware image of that drive, then just format that sucker, install centos and vmware and

Re: [CentOS] I need storage server advice

2008-05-06 Thread Jason Clark
The point was, acceptable performance can be had without purchasing a hardware controller. And for archival purposes on a tight budget $500 bucks means one controller for 3 more drives. On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 6:17 PM, John R Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > > > > T

Re: [CentOS] RAID5 or RAID50 for database?

2008-05-22 Thread Jason Clark
You're going to need two RAID controllers and 6 drives to do RAID 50. RAID 50 will be faster, but costs more in drives and controllers. Jason www.cyborgworkshop.org mcclnx mcc wrote: > we have DELL 6800 server with 12 internal disks in it. O.S. is CENTOS > 4.6 and SCSI control card is PERC 4

Re: [CentOS] Strange NTP problem

2008-05-22 Thread Jason Clark
I had a similar problem on a different server that I fixed last night. Evidently it had a BIOS level feature that tried to modify the CPU clock rate, much like cpu-freq does within the kernel, and was doing so by messing with the system clock impacting the RTC. I was drifting all over the place u