Re: [OT] Sun Fire v440 servers

2011-04-28 Thread is123
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Kfir Lavi wrote: > Hi all, > Is anybody interested in some old beasts? > http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/v440/ > > Regards, > Kfir > > Ok, > 6 x Sun Fire v440 quads, raid, 2 power supplies > 2 x Sun 220 (not sure but are older) > 1 x IBM pizza box server (v

Fw: [OT] Sun Fire v440 servers

2011-04-28 Thread is123
and maybe one of the 220s... Thanks again, Israel ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: Disk I/O as a bottleneck?

2011-05-07 Thread is123
On Sun, 08 May 2011 07:28:49 +0300 Nadav Har'El wrote: > Instead of buying a huge SSD for "thousands of dollars" another option you > might consider is to buy a relatively small SSD with just enough space to > hold your "/" partition and swap space. Even 20 G may be enough. > The rest of your dis

Re: Disk I/O as a bottleneck?

2011-05-08 Thread is123
On Sun, 08 May 2011 09:55:35 +0300 Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Sun, May 08, 2011, is...@zahav.net.il wrote about "Re: Disk I/O as a > bottleneck?": > > I don't agree with this setup. Regular consumer drives setup with RAID > > to stripe are going to be much, much faster and have less problems in > >

Re: Disk I/O as a bottleneck?

2011-05-08 Thread is123
On Sun, 08 May 2011 10:02:18 +0300 geoffrey mendelson wrote: > One of the bad things is that standard *NIX files systems are designed > with magnetic media in mind, they update the access time of files > every time you open them. This is bad for files that are opened often. You can stop this

Re: Disk I/O as a bottleneck?

2011-05-08 Thread is123
On Sun, 08 May 2011 10:15:30 +0300 Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Sun, May 08, 2011, Nadav Har'El wrote about "Re: Disk I/O as a > bottleneck?": > > Having two hard disks will, at best case, *double* your seek time. This > > is > > Of course, I meant *half*, not *double* :-) Actually it might do a lo

Re: Disk I/O as a bottleneck?

2011-05-08 Thread is123
On Sun, 08 May 2011 17:28:07 +0300 Gilboa Davara wrote: > On Sun, 2011-05-08 at 07:31 +, is...@zahav.net.il wrote: > > > > at this point Linux (and BSD) still aren't doing SMP > > as well as other OS > > Care to elaborate? I think it's well-known Solaris exploits multicore better than Linux

Re: Disk I/O as a bottleneck?

2011-05-08 Thread is123
On Sun, 08 May 2011 18:11:24 +0300 Gilboa Davara wrote: > On Sun, 2011-05-08 at 14:56 +, is...@zahav.net.il wrote: > > On Sun, 08 May 2011 17:28:07 +0300 > > Gilboa Davara wrote: > > I don't track Linux very much but I can see from conky on my boxes Linux > > just doesn't do that well. And r

Re: Disk I/O as a bottleneck? [OT]

2011-05-08 Thread is123
On Sun, 08 May 2011 19:19:25 +0300 guy keren wrote: > and how is all this related to solaris Vs. linux? solaris is *nix, at > least was the last time i heard ;) Yes, you are right, but for some reason Solaris has the reputation for handling multicore better than Linux and BSD. Maybe you guys kno

Re: sending mail from the command line

2011-05-10 Thread is123
On Tue, 10 May 2011 17:37:10 +0300 guy keren wrote: > > according to the logs - the mail was not delivered to an external > machine. check your sendmail's mail queue (using 'mailq') to see if the > message is still there. > > it could also be that the mail was delivered to some local mailbox, >

Re: Disk I/O as a bottleneck? [OT]

2011-05-10 Thread is123
On Tue, 10 May 2011 21:57:53 +0300 Oron Peled wrote: > On Sunday, 8 בMay 2011 19:42:55 is...@zahav.net.il wrote: > > On Sun, 08 May 2011 19:19:25 +0300 > > guy keren wrote: > > > > > and how is all this related to solaris Vs. linux? solaris is *nix, at > > > least was the last time i heard ;) >

Re: RMS, Hosts Must Support Boycott?

2011-06-15 Thread is123
> I may act differently if the FSF boycotts israel. Is the FSF not boycotting Israel? I guess it depends on how you see things, but when Stallman signs on a letter as President of the FSF that he will not come to Israel unless it is at a venue that sponsors an anti-Israel boycott, I don't know wha

Re: USB I/O draining my userspace (Ubuntu Natty 64b)

2011-06-15 Thread is123
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:19:08 +0300 Ira Abramov wrote: > First, an appology. I added another message on the RMS fiasco only to > find out later the threads all died out and I was committing a faux pas. > my appologies! please ignore I posted it if at all possible. It's too late! You've done it no

Re: secure data export

2011-06-23 Thread is123
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:35:16 +0300 Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote: > Hello all security experts, > > I would like to export data from a machine on a business's internal > network on a safe media, such that only the files I want exported are on > the media. Specifically, I consider the possibility t

[somewhat OT] simple machine forums software update

2011-07-04 Thread is123
I noticed today the simple machine forums software that is used for many tech bulletin boards and forums has a new country in the countries list: "Palestinian Territory, Occupied" I didn't realize Palestine was a country and I thought the Israelis left when they created the PA, if so, who is occu

Re: [somewhat OT] simple machine forums software update

2011-07-04 Thread is123
On Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:08:55 +0300 Mordecha Behar wrote: > You should send an email to RMS asking his opinion about it. > Make sure he replies as president of the FSF so people can argue about his > views in the future. No doubt, just as all those respectful and well written emails to Stallman w

Re: [somewhat OT] simple machine forums software update

2011-07-04 Thread is123
On Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:38:18 +0300 Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Mon, Jul 04, 2011, is...@zahav.net.il wrote about "[somewhat OT] > simple machine forums software update": > > I noticed today the simple machine forums software that is used for many > > tech bulletin boards and forums has a new country