[CentOS] CentOS 5.5/5.6 on Sandy Bridge

2011-01-14 Thread Kenni Lund
Hi list Has anyone tried to install CentOS 5.5 on a system with one of the new Sandy Bridge processors with integrated GPU? I can live with bad X11 performance - I'm happy as long as I get a X11 desktop (with VESA or whatever) with no crashes :) I'll mostly use this system as a KVM host with a VNC

Re: [CentOS] Network bandwidth tools. (long)

2011-01-16 Thread Kenni Lund
2011/1/16 : > Barry Brimer wrote: > At the risk of pissing off the list for such a long > post Personally, I never get pissed off due to long mails, but I do get pissed off when people keeps changing the subject (and/or use broken mail clients)...like: "Network bandwidth tools" "Network bandwidth

Re: [CentOS] Intel DH67BL + CentOS 5.5 IRQ #177 nobody cared

2011-01-20 Thread Kenni Lund
2011/1/18 Drew Weaver : > Because the installer doesn't have drivers for the onboard and all of our > installs are PXE and in general it removes a lot of confusion by just > disabling the onboard NIC and having one single NIC for everything. Drew, out of curiosity (I have a similar motherboard in

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about compression rates

2011-01-22 Thread Kenni Lund
2011/1/22 Kai Schaetzl : > Again, please go somewhere else if you want to discuss general topics. I > subscribed to this list because of Centos-related issues, not because I > want to discuss pro's and con's of several compression algorithms. It is > ok to post the occasional off-topic question, bu

Re: [CentOS] RAID support in kernel?

2011-01-31 Thread Kenni Lund
2011/1/30 Michael Klinosky : > Robert wrote: >> You are generally *better off* to *disable* the motherboard RAID >> controller and use native Linux software RAID. > > After my research, I'm realizing that linux doesn't quite support it. > So, I'll probably do as you suggested. I don't know if "lin

Re: [CentOS] RAID support in kernel?

2011-01-31 Thread Kenni Lund
2011/1/31 Steve Brooks : > On Mon, 31 Jan 2011, Les Bell wrote: > >> >> Kenni Lund wrote: >> >>>> >> Fakeraid is a proprietary software RAID >> solution, so if your motherboard suddently decides to die, how will >> you then get access to y

Re: [CentOS] We haven't had a lot of demand for Fedora...people seem okay with CentOS!

2011-02-20 Thread Kenni Lund
2011/2/18 Larry Vaden : > That just in from chunkhost.com, where you help them beta test Xen for $FREE > :) Wow, I'm really impressed with the professionalism of that site :-P Quotes from their FAQ: "Currently, our physical servers are ... ... with RAID 1 (mirroring) 10K SATA drives. The mirrori

Re: [CentOS] how to optimize CentOS XEN dom0?

2011-02-22 Thread Kenni Lund
2011/2/23 Rudi Ahlers : > Hi, > > I have a problematic CentOS XEN server and hope someone could point me > in the right direction to optimize it a bit. (SNIP) > the server itself seems to eat up a lot of resources: > > > root@zaxen01:[~]$ free -m >             total       used       free     shar

Re: [CentOS] task md1_resync:9770 blocked for more than 120 seconds and OOM errors

2011-03-20 Thread Kenni Lund
2011/3/20 Alexander Farber > Hello, > > yesterday night I had a problem with > my server located at a hoster (strato.de). > I couldn't ssh to it and over the remote serial console > I saw "out of memory" errors (sorry, don't have the text). > > Then I had reinstall CentOS 5.5/64 bit + all my setu

Re: [CentOS] task md1_resync:9770 blocked for more than 120 seconds and OOM errors

2011-03-20 Thread Kenni Lund
2011/3/20 Alexander Farber > > Thank you, I've decreased > /proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_max > from 20 to 10. 20 is just the theoretical maximum. If your discs max out at 8, you'll need to set it lower than that. While syncing, you can check the current sync speed with: cat /proc

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization platform choice

2011-03-29 Thread Kenni Lund
Den 29/03/2011 15.41 skrev "David Sommerseth" : > This makes me wondering how well it would go to migrate from SL6 to CentOS > 6, if all KVM guests are on dedicated/separate LVM volumes and that you > take a backup of /etc/libvirt.  So when CentOS6 is released, scratch SL6 > and install CentOS6, pu

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization platform choice

2011-03-31 Thread Kenni Lund
2011/3/31 David Sommerseth : > On 29/03/11 21:13, Kenni Lund wrote: >> The main problem is Windows guests, which easily chokes on hardware >> changes (forced reactivation of Windows or unbootable with BSOD). Each >> qemu-kvm version will behave differently, so moving from

Re: [CentOS] Convert Filesystem to Ext4

2011-04-19 Thread Kenni Lund
Den 19/04/2011 19.42 skrev "Matt" : > > On a running 64 bit CentOS 5.6 box is it possible to convert from Ext3 > to Ext4 to improve performance? This is entirely from memory, so it might be incorrect and not relevant anymore: When ext4 got released, it was possible to upgrade ext3 to ext4, but whi

Re: [CentOS] Still a kvm problem after 5.6 upgrade

2011-04-21 Thread Kenni Lund
2011/4/21 Johnny Hughes : > On 04/21/2011 06:11 AM, David McGuffey wrote: >> redlibvirtError: internal error Process exited while reading console log >> output: qemu: could not open disk image /dev/hda > > You should not need to do anything in virsh to dump a file ... there > should be an xml file

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6 and KVM failure

2011-04-21 Thread Kenni Lund
2011/4/21 Ian Forde : > Turns out that wasn't the only problem I faced in my migration.  With 2 > KVM servers, both sharing a volume mounted via NFS for VMs, I migrated > all VMs to the second node, upgraded the first, them moved them all back > to KVM1.  Instant disk corruption on all VMs.  Boom.

Re: [CentOS] Attaching LinkSys WRT54GL to CentOS machine

2011-04-24 Thread Kenni Lund
2011/4/24 Timothy Murphy : > I have a LinkSys WRT54GL router, > which I would like to attach to my CentOS-5.6 server, > to set up a LAN 192.168.2.* . > The server is attached to the internet > through a Billion modem/router which has a single ethernet outlet. > > The instructions for the LinkSys ro