Re: [plug] Bigger SWAP File/Partition on Hosted Dedicated Machine

2009-07-05 Thread Holden Hao
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 1:23 PM, fluxbox wrote: > Gurus, > > My dedicated server (debian4) is currently hosted off-shore. My initial > configuration was 1GB swap partition then the rest (119GB) is /. Due to > demand on resources I would like to expand or add size to my swap to at > least 32GB. I

Re: [plug] Bigger SWAP File/Partition on Hosted Dedicated Machine

2009-07-05 Thread Winelfred G. Pasamba
try to see if you can create swap files in your / and try to mount them as swap. add ram add disks in the extreme, if your disks are mirrored, you might take out a mirror and use it for swap. hehe or maybe swap over the network. On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 1:23 PM, fluxbox wrote: > Gurus, > > My dedica

[plug] Bigger SWAP File/Partition on Hosted Dedicated Machine

2009-07-05 Thread fluxbox
Gurus, My dedicated server (debian4) is currently hosted off-shore. My initial configuration was 1GB swap partition then the rest (119GB) is /. Due to demand on resources I would like to expand or add size to my swap to at least 32GB. What are my options? Without messing my box. XD Thanks in adv

Re: [plug] using multiple gw

2009-07-05 Thread Winelfred G. Pasamba
i'm been trying this "ip route add ... equalize..." thing. sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. however failover is automatic and looks like it works. i can unplug any of the routers and after some time all the pings to different hosts work again. (dead route detection) i also see pings to g

Re: [plug] Introducing FOSS/Linux to Students

2009-07-05 Thread Kelvin Quee
I tend to think that the most important thing about FOSS is not about FOSS vs Windows, It's not even about functionality or productivity. It's about the philosophy and the completely different approach to software building. For example - Just about anyone with enough knowledge or energy can 1) f

Re: [plug] Introducing FOSS/Linux to Students

2009-07-05 Thread Ronald Artos
Comparative demo on what you can do in Linux and in windows. Emphasize on the productivity and system/web development sector. Also tackles the software licensing and stuff around it. On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Winelfred G. Pasamba < winelfredpasa...@gmail.com> wrote: > in our experience

Re: [plug] And we wonder why GNU/Linux "fails" at marketing?

2009-07-05 Thread Rage Callao
b On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Daniel Escasa wrote: > http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/65877.html?wlc=1246679309 -- > there's surely a lot of blame to go around, starting with Microsoft, > but the Linux zealots are probably as bad, if not worse, than MS. > > -- > Daniel O. Escasa > independ