Scalability of Hardware linux and databasea

2004-11-29 Thread Bob Baker
Folks, I handle tech for small ISP that has < 5000 users. We are about to do a big marketing push for new users (all those getting PCs over holidays). Users will get email and hard disk space. 1GB limit Wondering if any of you have any metrics on what gets typically used. Up to now we have never

Re: Hardware

2004-09-07 Thread Timo Veith
On Tuesday 07 September 2004 16:40, Maykel Moya wrote: > Those of you who run large imap/pop boxes with either Cyrus or Courier > could send me your hardware configuration? > > Thanks in advance > mike There is a list of installations on the cyrus wiki page which you might fin

Re: Hardware

2004-09-07 Thread Maykel Moya
> Maykel Moya a écrit : > > Those of you who run large imap/pop boxes with either Cyrus or Courier > > could send me your hardware configuration? > > If it is not already planned, could you please send a summary of > the answers on the list? It could be interesting for man

Re: Hardware

2004-09-07 Thread Emmanuel Halbwachs
Hello, Maykel Moya a écrit : Those of you who run large imap/pop boxes with either Cyrus or Courier could send me your hardware configuration? If it is not already planned, could you please send a summary of the answers on the list? It could be interesting for many of us. Cheers, -- Emmanuel

Hardware

2004-09-07 Thread Maykel Moya
Those of you who run large imap/pop boxes with either Cyrus or Courier could send me your hardware configuration? Thanks in advance mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hardware/optimizations for a download-webserver

2004-07-20 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 20:05, Brett Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (create large file) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dd if=/dev/urandom of=public_html/large_file bs=1024 > > count=5 5+0 records in > > 5+0 records out > > > > (get large file) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ wget www.lobefin.net/

Re: hardware/optimizations for a download-webserver

2004-07-20 Thread Russell Coker
m David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted in 1997. At the time Dave used that as his standard .sig because it was really ground-breaking performance from Linux of >11MB/s TCP! When I did tests I never got 11MB/s on my machines, that is because my hardware was probably not as good, and bec

Re: hardware/optimizations for a download-webserver

2004-07-20 Thread Brett Parker
On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 10:49:26PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Michelle Konzack said: > > Am 2004-07-19 10:01:06, schrieb Russell Coker: > > >On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 05:59, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> >Thinking of the expected 50KB/sec download rate

Re: hardware/optimizations for a download-webserver

2004-07-19 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Michelle Konzack said: > Am 2004-07-19 10:01:06, schrieb Russell Coker: > >On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 05:59, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >Thinking of the expected 50KB/sec download rate i calculated a > >> >theoretical maximum of ~250 simultaneous download

Re: hardware/optimizations for a download-webserver

2004-07-19 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2004-07-19 10:01:06, schrieb Russell Coker: >On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 05:59, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >Thinking of the expected 50KB/sec download rate i calculated a >> >theoretical maximum of ~250 simultaneous downloads -- am i right ? >> >> With a 100 MBit NIC you can have a m

Re: hardware/optimizations for a download-webserver

2004-07-18 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 05:59, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Thinking of the expected 50KB/sec download rate i calculated a > >theoretical maximum of ~250 simultaneous downloads -- am i right ? > > With a 100 MBit NIC you can have a maximum of 7 MByte/sec What makes you think so? Oth

Re: hardware/optimizations for a download-webserver

2004-07-18 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2004-07-18 13:37:03, schrieb Henrik Heil: >However the 50/150 concurrent requests are a guess (best i can get for now) >What do you think is the request-limit with a >Pentium IV 2 GHz, 1GB RAM, 100Mbit, IDE-disk ? > >Thinking of the expected 50KB/sec download rate i calculated a >theoretical m

Re: hardware/optimizations for a download-webserver

2004-07-18 Thread Johannes Formann
Henrik Heil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However the 50/150 concurrent requests are a guess (best i can get for now) > What do you think is the request-limit with a > Pentium IV 2 GHz, 1GB RAM, 100Mbit, IDE-disk ? Since all your files could be cached into the RAM, with a fast webserver like thttp

Re: hardware/optimizations for a download-webserver

2004-07-18 Thread Henrik Heil
Thanks for your advice -- seems i have been too chicken-hearted. Summary: Don't bother with tuning the server and don't even think about setting up a cluster for something like this - definitely overkill. ;o) That's what i'll do ;-) However the 50/150 concurrent requests are a guess (best i can get

Re: hardware/optimizations for a download-webserver

2004-07-16 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 14:09, Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Other good ways to do this include a shared RAID'ed network filesystem > on a central box and two front-end boxes that are load-balanced with a > hardware load-balancer.  That gets into the "must be up 24/7

Re: hardware/optimizations for a download-webserver

2004-07-16 Thread Nate Duehr
uying the IDENTICAL hardware for the standby machine and then scramble to reconfigure or fight with other hardware issues when they swing to the machine manually. Other good ways to do this include a shared RAID'ed network filesystem on a central box and two front-end boxes that are load-

Re: hardware/optimizations for a download-webserver

2004-07-16 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 10:39, Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 16, 2004, at 1:43 PM, Markus Oswald wrote: > > Summary: Don't bother with tuning the server and don't even think about > > setting up a cluster for something like this - definitely overkill. ;o) > > Unless there's a business

Re: hardware/optimizations for a download-webserver

2004-07-16 Thread Nate Duehr
On Jul 16, 2004, at 1:43 PM, Markus Oswald wrote: Summary: Don't bother with tuning the server and don't even think about setting up a cluster for something like this - definitely overkill. ;o) Unless there's a business requirement that it be available 24/7 with no maintenance downtime - that adds

Re: hardware/optimizations for a download-webserver

2004-07-16 Thread Russell Coker
able to spit out at least > 5MB/s. You should also make sure you have plenty of RAM (at least 512MB) to > make sure you can cache as much of the files in RAM as possible. As long as we are not talking about 486 class hardware then disks can handle >5MB/s. In 1998 I bought the cheapest ava

Re: hardware/optimizations for a download-webserver

2004-07-16 Thread Markus Oswald
have cable modems and their download > speed should not drop below 50KB/sec. > > My questions are: > What would be an adequate hardware to handle i.e. 50(average)/150(peak) > concurrent downloads? > What is the typical bottleneck in this setup? > What optimizations shou

Re: hardware/optimizations for a download-webserver

2004-07-16 Thread Skylar Thompson
he users will have cable modems and their download > speed should not drop below 50KB/sec. > > My questions are: > What would be an adequate hardware to handle i.e. 50(average)/150(peak) > concurrent downloads? > What is the typical bottleneck in this setup? > What optimization

hardware/optimizations for a download-webserver

2004-07-16 Thread Henrik Heil
questions are: What would be an adequate hardware to handle i.e. 50(average)/150(peak) concurrent downloads? What is the typical bottleneck in this setup? What optimizations should i apply to a standard woody or sarge installation? (anything kernelwise?) I have experiences with not so specialized

monitor hardware for failure on hp proliant servers.

2004-06-09 Thread Lucas Albers
I currently have 2 compaq systems: 1 running rhel3 hp proliant ml350 and the other debian3.0r2. proliant ml 330. I have been unable to find a consistent listing of where I can get the software to do, disk and various hardware monitoring on the system. I am planning to purchase a rackmount

monitor hardware for failure on hp proliant servers.

2004-06-09 Thread Lucas Albers
I currently have 2 compaq systems: 1 running rhel3 hp proliant ml350 and the other debian3.0r2. proliant ml 330. I have been unable to find a consistent listing of where I can get the software to do, disk and various hardware monitoring on the system. I am planning to purchase a rackmount

Re: Hardware for massive DVD writing

2004-02-05 Thread John Keimel
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 11:01:22PM +0100, Joaquin Ferrero wrote: > Hi. > > A customer will need to burn 50Gb daily to DVDs (satellite imaginery > products). All discs have different contents. > > We need a juke box with space to store virgin disk and burned disk... > many discs... for automatic w

Hardware for massive DVD writing

2004-02-05 Thread Joaquin Ferrero
Hi. A customer will need to burn 50Gb daily to DVDs (satellite imaginery products). All discs have different contents. We need a juke box with space to store virgin disk and burned disk... many discs... for automatic writing. I looked to: http://www.daxarchiving.com/ but i need more options...

Re: Hardware for massive DVD writing

2004-02-05 Thread John Keimel
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 11:01:22PM +0100, Joaquin Ferrero wrote: > Hi. > > A customer will need to burn 50Gb daily to DVDs (satellite imaginery > products). All discs have different contents. > > We need a juke box with space to store virgin disk and burned disk... > many discs... for automatic w

Hardware for massive DVD writing

2004-02-05 Thread Joaquin Ferrero
Hi. A customer will need to burn 50Gb daily to DVDs (satellite imaginery products). All discs have different contents. We need a juke box with space to store virgin disk and burned disk... many discs... for automatic writing. I looked to: http://www.daxarchiving.com/ but i need more options...

Re: System Hardware Tracking

2003-12-04 Thread DI Peter Burgstaller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cool, I know the answer to that one. You can use DMO (http://sourceforge.net/projects/dmo) The sourceforge link is the frontend to the database. Its still lacking some scripts but in general, it uses nmap, nessus etc. to discover as much as possible f

Re: System Hardware Tracking

2003-12-04 Thread DI Peter Burgstaller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cool, I know the answer to that one. You can use DMO (http://sourceforge.net/projects/dmo) The sourceforge link is the frontend to the database. Its still lacking some scripts but in general, it uses nmap, nessus etc. to discover as much as possible f

Re: System Hardware Tracking

2003-12-03 Thread Jamie Baddeley
e > no idea what's in them. As an ISP with several hundred machines, it's > become quite the challenge to remember all of the hardware. > > Has anyone made/found/dreamed of a script that can be run on each machine > to keep track of the hardware in that machine. I'm

Re: System Hardware Tracking

2003-12-03 Thread Jamie Baddeley
e > no idea what's in them. As an ISP with several hundred machines, it's > become quite the challenge to remember all of the hardware. > > Has anyone made/found/dreamed of a script that can be run on each machine > to keep track of the hardware in that machine. I'm

Re: System Hardware Tracking

2003-12-03 Thread Martin Foster
ools: http://linas.org/linux/cmvc.html other... http://cbbrowne.com/info/linuxsysconfig.html I'd be interested in hearing of any other OSS solutions that have client machines updating to/from a central database with their current hardware and software configuration. Cheers, --

Re: System Hardware Tracking

2003-12-03 Thread Martin Foster
ools: http://linas.org/linux/cmvc.html other... http://cbbrowne.com/info/linuxsysconfig.html I'd be interested in hearing of any other OSS solutions that have client machines updating to/from a central database with their current hardware and software configuration. Cheers, --

System Hardware Tracking

2003-12-02 Thread Chris G.
Well it's finally hit the point where we have a few machines where we have no idea what's in them. As an ISP with several hundred machines, it's become quite the challenge to remember all of the hardware. Has anyone made/found/dreamed of a script that can be run on each machine t

System Hardware Tracking

2003-12-02 Thread Chris G.
Well it's finally hit the point where we have a few machines where we have no idea what's in them. As an ISP with several hundred machines, it's become quite the challenge to remember all of the hardware. Has anyone made/found/dreamed of a script that can be run on each machine t

hardware encryption accelerators or any other way to have disk partitions encrypted on the fly

2003-10-01 Thread Vlad Harchev
ately they are inacceptable due to the very slow speed and due to the way linux kernel caches block devices' content (linux kernel will cache *encrypted* blocks, so all operations that involve reading from in-memory cache will involve decryption!). So we are looking for a hardware-based

Re: [Help] Find server hardware stress/benchmark tools on linux box

2003-09-17 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 19:30:19 +0200, axacheng wrote: > > Hello List : > > We're 2 intel base testing servers need to stress/benchmark for hardware stability > and reliability > > those are testing servers runing Debian woody... As a stress test, I'd go for

Re: [Help] Find server hardware stress/benchmark tools on linux box

2003-09-17 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 03:50, Alex Borges wrote: > Bonnie++For testing your disks/storage (you can BM a samba share if > you want for example) Particularly try the experimental version, it has some new features. > slapper For testing your ldap Never got time to implement that one... >

Re: [Help] Find server hardware stress/benchmark tools on linux box

2003-09-16 Thread Alex Borges
farm is not big enough. Get enough to make those servers cry. El mar, 16-09-2003 a las 12:03, axacheng escribió: > Hello List : > > We're 2 intel base testing servers need to stress/benchmark for hardware stability > and reliability > > those are testing serv

[Help] Find server hardware stress/benchmark tools on linux box

2003-09-16 Thread axacheng
Hello List : We're 2 intel base testing servers need to stress/benchmark for hardware stability and reliability those are testing servers runing Debian woody... Anyone has any good advice? -- Trust & Unique ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: IDE Hardware RAID-1 at boot time

2003-03-18 Thread Marco Kammerer
Michelle Konzack wrote > Am 23:32 2003-02-28 +0100 hat Christoph Loeffler geschrieben: > > > >Hello, > > > >i want to install debian to server with two IDE 80GB disks on a > >Hardware RAID. The Controller is a Promise Fasttrak tx 2000. > > ??? Hardware Ra

Re: IDE Hardware RAID-1 at boot time

2003-03-18 Thread Marco Kammerer
Michelle Konzack wrote > Am 23:32 2003-02-28 +0100 hat Christoph Loeffler geschrieben: > > > >Hello, > > > >i want to install debian to server with two IDE 80GB disks on a > >Hardware RAID. The Controller is a Promise Fasttrak tx 2000. > > ??? Hardware Ra

Re: IDE Hardware RAID-1 at boot time [SOLVED]

2003-03-18 Thread Christoph Löffler
Hi, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 23:32 2003-02-28 +0100 hat Christoph Loeffler geschrieben: i want to install debian to server with two IDE 80GB disks on a Hardware RAID. The Controller is a Promise Fasttrak tx 2000. ??? Hardware Raid ??? This Controler is not a real Hardware RAID. For that use a

Re: IDE Hardware RAID-1 at boot time [SOLVED]

2003-03-18 Thread Christoph Löffler
Hi, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 23:32 2003-02-28 +0100 hat Christoph Loeffler geschrieben: i want to install debian to server with two IDE 80GB disks on a Hardware RAID. The Controller is a Promise Fasttrak tx 2000. ??? Hardware Raid ??? This Controler is not a real Hardware RAID. For that

Re: IDE Hardware RAID-1 at boot time

2003-03-17 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 02:09 2003-03-01 +0100 hat Mark Schouten geschrieben: > >Hi, > >On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 11:32:50PM +0100, Christoph Loeffler wrote: >Had this problem once. There are two options: > >1: You select an option in the kernelconfiguration, which says that you >system should use offboard IDE-devices a

Re: IDE Hardware RAID-1 at boot time

2003-03-17 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello , Am 23:32 2003-02-28 +0100 hat Christoph Loeffler geschrieben: > >Hello, > >i want to install debian to server with two IDE 80GB disks on a >Hardware RAID. The Controller is a Promise Fasttrak tx 2000. ??? Hardware Raid ??? This Controler is not a real Hardware RAID. F

Re: IDE Hardware RAID-1 at boot time

2003-03-17 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello , Am 23:32 2003-02-28 +0100 hat Christoph Loeffler geschrieben: > >Hello, > >i want to install debian to server with two IDE 80GB disks on a >Hardware RAID. The Controller is a Promise Fasttrak tx 2000. ??? Hardware Raid ??? This Controler is not a real Hardware RAID. F

Re: IDE Hardware RAID-1 at boot time

2003-03-17 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 02:09 2003-03-01 +0100 hat Mark Schouten geschrieben: > >Hi, > >On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 11:32:50PM +0100, Christoph Loeffler wrote: >Had this problem once. There are two options: > >1: You select an option in the kernelconfiguration, which says that you >system should use offboard IDE-devices a

Re: IDE Hardware RAID-1 at boot time

2003-02-28 Thread Mark Schouten
Hi, On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 11:32:50PM +0100, Christoph Loeffler wrote: > i want to install debian to server with two IDE 80GB disks on a > Hardware RAID. The Controller is a Promise Fasttrak tx 2000. > The two disks are configured as RAID-1 (mirroring) > > It was not possible to

Re: IDE Hardware RAID-1 at boot time

2003-02-28 Thread Mark Schouten
Hi, On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 11:32:50PM +0100, Christoph Loeffler wrote: > i want to install debian to server with two IDE 80GB disks on a > Hardware RAID. The Controller is a Promise Fasttrak tx 2000. > The two disks are configured as RAID-1 (mirroring) > > It was not possible to

IDE Hardware RAID-1 at boot time

2003-02-28 Thread Christoph Loeffler
Hello, i want to install debian to server with two IDE 80GB disks on a Hardware RAID. The Controller is a Promise Fasttrak tx 2000. The two disks are configured as RAID-1 (mirroring) It was not possible to install debian directly to the disk, because the disks where not found. At the point, when

IDE Hardware RAID-1 at boot time

2003-02-28 Thread Christoph Loeffler
Hello, i want to install debian to server with two IDE 80GB disks on a Hardware RAID. The Controller is a Promise Fasttrak tx 2000. The two disks are configured as RAID-1 (mirroring) It was not possible to install debian directly to the disk, because the disks where not found. At the point, when

Re: linux software RAID with hot-swap hardware

2003-01-25 Thread Fraser Campbell
Russell Coker wrote: > > boot = /dev/hda, map = /boot/map.0301 > > Added Linux * > > boot = /dev/hdc, map = /boot/map.1601 > > Added Linux * > > That looks like an old version of LILO. The latest LILO in Debian is > 22.3.3 and doesn't work like that. Yes, at home I have 22.3.3-2.

Re: linux software RAID with hot-swap hardware

2003-01-25 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 14:15, Fraser Campbell wrote: > > > the way I've tested it also works with > > > > > > install-mbr /dev/md1 > > > > Why would you want to use install-mbr on a RAID device? > > > > I use install-mbr for the MBR on the hard drive (/dev/sda and /dev/sdb in > > this case) and then h

Re: linux software RAID with hot-swap hardware

2003-01-25 Thread Fraser Campbell
Russell Coker wrote: > > > raid-extra-boot="/dev/sda,/dev/sdb" > > > > > > According to the documentation of lilo, this shouldn't be necessary, > > > but apparently either the funcionality or the docs are buggy. Without > > > that line I couldn't boot at all from the second disk, > > > > the way I

Re: linux software RAID with hot-swap hardware

2003-01-23 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 01:25, Andraz Sraka wrote: > On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 14:42, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: > > Instead of install-mbr, I used the following line in lilo.conf: > > > > raid-extra-boot="/dev/sda,/dev/sdb" > > > > According to the documentation of lilo, this shouldn't be necessary, > > bu

Re: linux software RAID with hot-swap hardware

2003-01-23 Thread Andraz Sraka
re On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 14:42, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: > Instead of install-mbr, I used the following line in lilo.conf: > > raid-extra-boot="/dev/sda,/dev/sdb" > > According to the documentation of lilo, this shouldn't be necessary, > but apparently either the funcionality or the docs are b

Re: linux software RAID with hot-swap hardware

2003-01-23 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:-> "Russell" == Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi > I've written a document on using Linux software RAID with hot-swap SCSI > hardware. nice doc, just a little comment about booting: > *Booting* > To make a RAID-1 device boo

linux software RAID with hot-swap hardware

2003-01-23 Thread Russell Coker
I've written a document on using Linux software RAID with hot-swap SCSI hardware. It's slightly specific to the hardware I use (I wrote it for internal use) but can easily be adapted to be more generic. If someone wants to add it to a HOWTO or something then be my guest, pleas

Re: Hardware IDE RAID-1 controller recommandation

2002-12-09 Thread Michelle Konzack
>If what you require is only a small drive, and you don't have too much >I/O on it (basically serving webpages is OK, SQL is not), did you >consider using CF cards ? I have no experience with compactflasch and my local dealers can not give me informations about it... Suggestins ?

Re: Hardware IDE RAID-1 controller recommandation

2002-12-07 Thread Michelle Konzack
>If what you require is only a small drive, and you don't have too much >I/O on it (basically serving webpages is OK, SQL is not), did you >consider using CF cards ? I have no experience with compactflasch and my local dealers can not give me informations about it... Suggestins ?

Re: Hardware IDE RAID-1 controller recommandation

2002-12-06 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.05.1114 +0100]: > Have fun with it, if a harddisk fails ( on most controllers ) your > system will hang and it doesn't boot anymore. So good luck with your > IBM controllers. If i would buy a controller it would be an Adaptec > due to my go

Re: Hardware IDE RAID-1 controller recommandation

2002-12-05 Thread robjeh
> On Wed, 04 Dec 2002 11:31:00 +, Michelle Konzack > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >A two chanel RAID-1 Controller for two Harddisks for 480 US$ ;-)) > > They come with a price. > > If you're looking for something cheaper, I'd say goodbye to my > requirements and get some el cheapo promise car

Re: Hardware IDE RAID-1 controller recommandation

2002-12-05 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 04 Dec 2002 11:31:00 +, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >A two chanel RAID-1 Controller for two Harddisks for 480 US$ ;-)) They come with a price. If you're looking for something cheaper, I'd say goodbye to my requirements and get some el cheapo promise cards or do softwar

Re: Hardware IDE RAID-1 controller recommandation

2002-12-04 Thread Nicolas Bougues
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 11:25:55AM +, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > > >On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 02:22:43AM +, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > >RAID-1 is mirroring. You plan 4- or 8-way mirroring ?? > > what do you mean with '4- or 8-way' ? > You said in

Re: Hardware IDE RAID-1 controller recommandation

2002-12-04 Thread Michelle Konzack
ne original and one mirror) Had problems with Software RAID, because the mirror is not bootable and after a shutdown thy Server was not starting. I think, I can use only Hardware RAID. >3ware. Definetly. Although I'm not sure that it supports RAID-1 arrays I have not found a rese

RE: Hardware IDE RAID-1 controller recommandation

2002-12-04 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Steven, Am 10:09 2002-12-03 +1300 hat Jones, Steven geschrieben: > >lol, > >all over the place does not incl NZ. > >Choice is very limited here in NZ, Id like a 3ware but its try and get >someone in the US to sell & send it to me at a sane price (international >shipping hence no warrantee) o

Re: Hardware IDE RAID-1 controller recommandation

2002-12-03 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002 08:53, Nicolas Bougues wrote: > > curently I am installing some new Servers and I need Hardware > > RAID-1 Controllers for two, four and eight Harddisks. > > RAID-1 is mirroring. You plan 4- or 8-way mirroring ?? RAID-1 on 2X disks (where X>1) == RAID-10

Re: Hardware IDE RAID-1 controller recommandation

2002-12-03 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002 10:09:00 +1300 , "Jones, Steven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >all over the place does not incl NZ. Michelle claims to be only able to order in Germany. I am in Germany too. Hence I named products readily available in Germany. In fact, Michelle ist known pretty well on the german

Re: Hardware IDE RAID-1 controller recommandation

2002-12-02 Thread Nicolas Bougues
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 02:22:43AM +, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hello, > > curently I am installing some new Servers and I need Hardware > RAID-1 Controllers for two, four and eight Harddisks. > RAID-1 is mirroring. You plan 4- or 8-way mirroring ?? Or you'd like to

RE: Hardware IDE RAID-1 controller recommandation

2002-12-02 Thread Jones, Steven
ware unit is looking $1400AU+ like $700US+then i have to pay Customs off so another 12.5%, way too much. regards Thing -Original Message- From: Marc Haber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 3 December 2002 9:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Hardware IDE RAID-1 contro

Re: Hardware IDE RAID-1 controller recommandation

2002-12-02 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 02 Dec 2002 02:22:43 +, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >curently I am installing some new Servers and I need Hardware >RAID-1 Controllers for two, four and eight Harddisks. 3ware, available all over the place. >Ic possibel with HOTSWAP. Infortrend,

Hardware IDE RAID-1 controller recommandation

2002-12-02 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, curently I am installing some new Servers and I need Hardware RAID-1 Controllers for two, four and eight Harddisks. Can anyone recomand some ? Ic possibel with HOTSWAP. Please note, that I have only acces to german distributors. Is there a RAID-1 Controller which support PIO Mode 4

Re: network watchdog hardware/software

2002-06-20 Thread Ian Cass
We use APC Powerswitch here. They're not badly priced and give you a telnet/http controllable 8 port powerbar. -- Ian Cass - Original Message - From: "John Ackermann N8UR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 1:26 PM Subject: network watchdog hard

network watchdog hardware/software

2002-06-20 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I'm using a "business class" cable modem setup with Roadrunner. Actually, it works pretty well and the reliability is OK. However, when it goes down, the tech support line's first answer is always to reset the router (a Cisco br905). Amazingly and annoyingly enough, that usually works. The

Re: good jbod hardware

2002-04-19 Thread Jason Lim
> > There is no performance-hit with UDMA100/133 drives when using two > > devices per channel. This an old "SCSI-is-best" story that were true a > > long time ago. > > On http://www.coker.com.au/hardware/46g.png I have a graph of this using > ATA66 on an A

Re: RE : BGP4/OSPF routing daemon for Linux? Hardware?

2002-03-05 Thread Jean-Francois Dive
urces to handle it, so dont plan on a too small one. So, at the end, a standard Off the market PC should be ok as the actual configs are quite impressive now. Hope that help, Cheers, JeF On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 10:48:46AM +0100, Anders Gjære wrote: > what hardware is nessesary to run a bgp/ze

RE : BGP4/OSPF routing daemon for Linux? Hardware?

2002-03-05 Thread Anders Gjære
what hardware is nessesary to run a bgp/zebra router on i386-platform, routing a 100mbit line? mvh anders gjære -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Software VS Hardware Raid

2002-02-01 Thread Jason Lim
good at anything ;-) Performance is lackluster, and reliability... well, lets put it this way: there are IDE RAID cards here with Highpoint chips for US$25 with change ;-) > > > I think (hopefully) that a Hardware IDE Raid card should solve this > > problem. I am in the process of buying a

Re: Software VS Hardware Raid

2002-01-31 Thread Jason Lim
good at anything ;-) Performance is lackluster, and reliability... well, lets put it this way: there are IDE RAID cards here with Highpoint chips for US$25 with change ;-) > > > I think (hopefully) that a Hardware IDE Raid card should solve this > > problem. I am in the process of buying a

Re: Software VS Hardware Raid

2002-01-31 Thread Russell Coker
. This allows them to deal with that problem at boot time, and then the kernel does software RAID with the same mapping once it's loaded. > I think (hopefully) that a Hardware IDE Raid card should solve this > problem. I am in the process of buying a couple of 3ware cards right now > (es

Re: Software VS Hardware Raid

2002-01-31 Thread Jason Lim
ds might work better, but I tested with an Asus and Magic-Pro motherboard, and had the same thing happen. I think (hopefully) that a Hardware IDE Raid card should solve this problem. I am in the process of buying a couple of 3ware cards right now (especially after Promise said outright that they do n

Re: Software VS Hardware Raid

2002-01-31 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 1 Feb 2002 10:22, Jose Alberto Guzman wrote: > >Who recommends that you don't use software RAID on the root file system? > > > >Not me (lilo maintainer and user of this), not the lilo author, not the > >software RAID kernel maintainer. > > Sorry, I'm not up to date on the newest features

Re: Software VS Hardware Raid

2002-01-31 Thread Jose Alberto Guzman
loader don't allow booting >from the second disk then you just have to physically swap disks (which is >much less effort than swapping disks and restoring from backup). > >> You can't be 24x7-high-availability with software raid only, there's >>always some down time involved with it, or at least a higher risk of >>downtime than with hardware raid. >> > >Actually LinuxBIOS could solve this issue... > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Software VS Hardware Raid

2002-01-30 Thread Russell Coker
#x27;t allow booting from the second disk then you just have to physically swap disks (which is much less effort than swapping disks and restoring from backup). > You can't be 24x7-high-availability with software raid only, there's > always some down time involved with i

Re: Software VS Hardware Raid

2002-01-29 Thread jose
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Jason Lim wrote: > > Depending on your syslog configuration, it whines that you should > change the > > faulty drive with a good one until you do. > > Thats want I want then... ;-) [..and from 'closest to debian'] >>Unfortunately, if this happens at 3am in the morning, no

Re: Software VS Hardware Raid

2002-01-29 Thread Jason Lim
one? so that lilo boots... ?? > Yeap... if you plug the faulty drive into hdc (you know what i mean) and the working into hda, then it boots. > > My question: if this was hardware RAID 1... would this have happened? > > Would the hardware RAID controller recognise the problem, an

Re: Software VS Hardware Raid

2002-01-29 Thread jose
x7-high-availability with software raid only, there's always some down time involved with it, or at least a higher risk of downtime than with hardware raid. > If the bad drive is put in by itself, after a while the disk is > failed and it tries to boot by floppy. Does Lilo

Re: Software VS Hardware Raid

2002-01-28 Thread Jason Lim
> > My question: if this was hardware RAID 1... would this have > > happened? Would the hardware RAID controller recognise the > > problem, and only stop briefly, then try the second disk > > automatically and transparently? > > I believe hardware RAID would

Re: Software VS Hardware Raid

2002-01-28 Thread Jason Lim
Sincerely, - Original Message - From: "Russell Coker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jason Lim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 2:26 PM Subject: Re: Software VS Hardware Raid > On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 13:01, Ja

Re: Software VS Hardware Raid

2002-01-27 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 13:01, Jason Lim wrote: > Case 1) > I replaced one of the disks with an old disk with bad blocks and strange [...] > My question: if this was hardware RAID 1... would this have happened? > Would the hardware RAID controller recognise the problem, and only stop >

Software VS Hardware Raid

2002-01-27 Thread Jason Lim
2 disks are not on the same cable btw. The BIOS had the usual settings allowing me to set the boot order (Floppy first, CDrom next, hard disk 0, then network (no, i can't put hard disk 1, I wish i could), and finally had "Boot other devices" set to yes. My question: if this was hard

RE: hardware raid

2001-11-05 Thread Jesse Molina
> -Original Message- > From: Andrew Kaplan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 3:20 PM > To: Debian-Isp > Subject: hardware raid > > > I'm looking for a good hardware raid 1 (mirroring) solution > for Debian. Will > the promise c

RE: hardware raid

2001-11-05 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
The 3ware cards work really well. www.3ware.com and check out the Escalade 6200/6400? or 7xxx series if you have 64-bit PCI slots. - jsw -Original Message- From: Andrew Kaplan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 5:20 PM To: Debian-Isp Subject: hardware raid I&#

hardware raid

2001-11-05 Thread Andrew Kaplan
I'm looking for a good hardware raid 1 (mirroring) solution for Debian. Will the promise cards work with Debian or is there a better solution thanks. Andrew P. Kaplan Network Administrator CyberShore, Inc. http://www.cshore.com "I couldn't give him advice in business and he c

Re: hardware recommendation

2001-07-17 Thread Peter Billson
Allen, I don't know if you're aware but your mailer seems to have a Y2K problem. >From your mail header: Date: Tue, 17 Jul 101 10:04:43 -0400 (EDT) Gotta' be perl! :-) Pete -- http://www.elbnet.com ELB Internet Services, Inc. Web Design, Computer Consulting, Internet Hosting -- To UNSU

hardware recommendation

2001-07-17 Thread Allen Ahoffman
anyone have recommendation for these specifications: motherboard that fits in 1u case onboard lan and video no scsi dual cpu upto 1Ghz cpu price range: $180 and under I want to put a acceleraid on it on the pci slot so don't need the onboard scsi like the s2510u3ng from Tyan trying to save some

Re: Hardware and debian

2001-07-12 Thread Mark Janssen
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 04:25:13PM +0200, bibi wrote: > Hi there, > > I have plan to change some of the hardware in one of my server: new > motherboard and new processors > > My question is : do I have to take care of the kernel or something else > ? > I m a little bi

Hardware and debian

2001-07-12 Thread bibi
Hi there, I have plan to change some of the hardware in one of my server: new motherboard and new processors My question is : do I have to take care of the kernel or something else ? I m a little bit worried about changing hardware. I dont know if I will be able to reboot correctly after the

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