Re: [lopsa-discuss] swap or no swap that is the question

2009-09-11 Thread Stephen Johnson
7;t every plan on using swap, I include small spap partion. No one can forsee every eventuality (not we System Admins). At peak usage, I'd like to be to login on a console and try to shutdown a box gracefully if I need to. I really display just having to pull the plug, in order to recovery a server.

Re: [lopsa-discuss] swap or no swap that is the question

2009-09-11 Thread Stephen Johnson
Ugh. Sorry for that stream of dribble. Some packets got malformed between my brain and fingers. All of the late nights this week are starting to catch up with me. Ah, who am I kidding? They've caught up to me and passed my like I was standing still. -- Stephen Jo

Re: [lopsa-discuss] swap or no swap that is the question

2009-09-14 Thread Stephen Johnson
fore I did the math. Even reflashing it a few hundred times, the IPAQ would be obsolete long before I wore out the flash in it. -- Stephen Johnson ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list pr

Re: [lopsa-discuss] swap or no swap that is the question

2009-09-14 Thread Stephen Johnson
e concerned. Devices that use the flash as basically ROM should have nothing to worry about. Devices that use the flash for R/W storage, there you have to be concerned. IF there is no wear leveling or babd chip detection in storage driver, the device could very well drive itself into non-operat

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Linux patching back-out procedures

2010-01-15 Thread Stephen Johnson
time). Server was dead after a power event in our data center. I was able to create a virtual server on one of my beefy XEN servers. Restore the data from backup and get back into production in a few hours. It worked out quite nice. I also for an OS upgrade for the server out of the deal. :) -- Stephe