Re: Unable to xm console into a virtualized server with Xen and Etch

2008-09-08 Thread Luke S Crawford
Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > dom0 uses Debian Etch with a custom made 2.6.21 kernel provided by my > webhosting company Ovh. I cannot make any changes to dom0. ? I thought that Xen0 support was only in 2.6.18? > My domU is installed using debootstrap and runs Etch on a > 2.6.18-6-xen

Re: Network Bandwidth Monitoring

2008-07-31 Thread Luke S Crawford
janskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a tool that can monitor bandwidth consumed on a specific user? For > example, in my flat network where: > > internet->cisco router->firewall->linux/windows clients & servers > > I want to monitor a client or want to know who's downloading stuff to >

Re: swap space on a large system

2008-06-11 Thread Luke S Crawford
"Mag Gam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Typically, we create a partition to capture a kernel dump when the system > crashes. Therefore, a system with 16GB of RAM will have a partition with > 16GB. > How would I scale a system with 64 or 128GB of memory? Any thoughts? As far as I understand, thou

Re: RAID for large disks

2008-06-08 Thread Luke S Crawford
"Mag Gam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want RAID 5 but without mirroring. The data is important but not that > important. Ok, there are performance advantages and disadvantages to RAID5. First, the advantage: reading is awesome. almost as good as a stripe. the other advantage: writes in f

Re: 97% use of / system

2008-05-22 Thread Luke S Crawford
andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My / partition is some 12GB and I see that it is currently 97% > full. How can I clean this out without trashing important files? What > should I be looking for in terms of likely culprits that can be > deep-sixed safely? cd / du -h -s * then drill down to the b

Re: Blocking Gmail ads

2008-05-15 Thread Luke S Crawford
"Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are they really giving us access? I've seen screenshots of the printer > setup utility in Mac OS X, and although it looks vaguely like > Foomatic, I'm quite sure there's stuff in there that's not being > shared back thanks to the GPL exception

Re: Blocking Gmail ads

2008-05-15 Thread Luke S Crawford
"Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Also, the GPL exception in CUPS for Apple only, of which I have > recently also complained. :-) This is what I was talking about with the 'gpl enables new business models' - apple let the main cups developers 'cash out' (thus encouraging o

Re: Blocking Gmail ads

2008-05-15 Thread Luke S Crawford
"Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ... Apple taking code without > giving back in a usable way, or not giving back at all? see Darwin- Apple is giving away a bunch of it's OS-level advances. Like most companies, they don't want to give away their 'core technology' (which fo

Re: xenblk and xennet kernel modules

2008-03-22 Thread Luke S Crawford
I found my problem, see below: Luke S Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am attempting to get pygrub working with a debian DomU, with a stock > debian-xen kernel. (I have a similar setup with CentOS DomUs that works > great) the kernels look ok and boot (but then panic

Re: RAID suggestions?

2008-03-19 Thread Luke S Crawford
"Michael S. Peek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ...That is, unless someone knows a good and cheap way to have big-time > data density outside the machine. The other option I'm looking at is > a NAS, but it seems to me that the cheaper solution is to build a > storage server myself instead. Price

Re: RAID suggestions?

2008-03-18 Thread Luke S Crawford
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Or... don't buy sucky h/w in the first place. If you *really* care > about your data, you spend the extra bucks for quality h/w that has > a competent support staff behind it. And you pay for an adequate > backup solution! I think most people on this lis

xenblk and xennet kernel modules

2008-03-17 Thread Luke S Crawford
So I have a few Debian (4.0) DomUs running; they work great, except that I am using a generic (open-source xen generic, that is) kernel rather than a debian specific kernel. I see that there are kernel-xen packages, however, they appear to be aimed at the Dom0 (they have no xennet or xenblk mo