[sage-devel] Re: Question about notebook server setup in a VM

2009-04-01 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:20 AM, kcrisman wrote: > > > >> > (Parenthetical note:  Unfortunately, the Ubuntu webpage says: Ubuntu >> >> From my experience I would say this is 100% due to lack of memory. >> You really need >> much more than 1GB RAM and 0GB swap to support 20-30 users at once. > > Yu

[sage-devel] Re: Question about notebook server setup in a VM

2009-04-01 Thread kcrisman
> > (Parenthetical note:  Unfortunately, the Ubuntu webpage says: Ubuntu > > From my experience I would say this is 100% due to lack of memory. > You really need > much more than 1GB RAM and 0GB swap to support 20-30 users at once. Yup, I agree - I was just replying to the original post a littl

[sage-devel] Re: Question about notebook server setup in a VM

2009-03-31 Thread William Stein
2009/3/31 kcrisman : > > >> 1. what VM you are using? > > VMWare. The virtual machine itself gotten with the Sage download is > some version of Ubuntu, apparently Feisty Fawn? > > (Parenthetical note: Unfortunately, the Ubuntu webpage says: Ubuntu > 7.04 Feisty Fawn Release Date April 19 2007 En

[sage-devel] Re: Question about notebook server setup in a VM

2009-03-31 Thread kcrisman
> 1. what VM you are using? VMWare. The virtual machine itself gotten with the Sage download is some version of Ubuntu, apparently Feisty Fawn? (Parenthetical note: Unfortunately, the Ubuntu webpage says: Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn Release Date April 19 2007 End of life date October 2008. This h

[sage-devel] Re: Question about notebook server setup in a VM

2009-03-31 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:18 AM, kcrisman wrote: > >> Yesterday I setup this server as a brand new notebook server >> instance:http://480.sagenb.org/.  It's running on exactly the same VMware >> virtual machine as sagenb.org (so 8GB RAM and two virtual processers). >>   It's literally the *same*

[sage-devel] Re: Question about notebook server setup in a VM

2009-03-31 Thread kcrisman
> Yesterday I setup this server as a brand new notebook server > instance:http://480.sagenb.org/.  It's running on exactly the same VMware > virtual machine as sagenb.org (so 8GB RAM and two virtual processers). >   It's literally the *same* machine, not just a copy of it.   I then > had over 30

[sage-devel] Re: Question about notebook server setup in a VM

2009-03-31 Thread William Stein
Just continuing this notebook thread... Yesterday I setup this server as a brand new notebook server instance: http://480.sagenb.org/. It's running on exactly the same VMware virtual machine as sagenb.org (so 8GB RAM and two virtual processers). It's literally the *same* machine, not just a co

[sage-devel] Re: Question about notebook server setup in a VM

2009-03-29 Thread Dan Drake
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 at 12:55PM -0300, Gonzalo Tornaria wrote: > For those of you running notebook servers in "production", inside a > VM, here are some questions about configuration. I'm particularly > interested in sagenb.org. For the two servers at sagenb.kaist.ac.kr: > 1. what VM you are using

[sage-devel] Re: Question about notebook server setup in a VM

2009-03-29 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Gonzalo Tornaria wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 8:59 PM, William Stein wrote: What is virtio? >> 10s of times faster than what?  When I transfer a single large file >> over ssh between boxen.math.washington.edu (my vmware server host) and >> a guest imag

[sage-devel] Re: Question about notebook server setup in a VM

2009-03-29 Thread Gonzalo Tornaria
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 8:59 PM, William Stein wrote: >>> What is virtio? > 10s of times faster than what?  When I transfer a single large file > over ssh between boxen.math.washington.edu (my vmware server host) and > a guest image, the speed is 40MB/s on average.  That's basically being > limit

[sage-devel] Re: Question about notebook server setup in a VM

2009-03-29 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Gonzalo Tornaria wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 1:48 PM, William Stein wrote: >>> 1. using KVM-72 from debian lenny (stable)  --- using virtio for disk >>> and network (makes a huge difference). The host is core 2 quad with >>> 8Gb ram. >> >> What is virtio?

[sage-devel] Re: Question about notebook server setup in a VM

2009-03-29 Thread Gonzalo Tornaria
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 1:48 PM, William Stein wrote: >> 1. using KVM-72 from debian lenny (stable)  --- using virtio for disk >> and network (makes a huge difference). The host is core 2 quad with >> 8Gb ram. > > What is virtio? http://lwn.net/Articles/239238/ virtio is a special kind of "para

[sage-devel] Re: Question about notebook server setup in a VM

2009-03-29 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Gonzalo Tornaria wrote: > > For those of you running notebook servers in "production", inside a > VM, here are some questions about configuration. I'm particularly > interested in sagenb.org. > > 1. what VM you are using? Ubuntu 8.0.4LTS and VMware virtual server