Re: [lopsa-tech] Overhauling front end

2010-11-03 Thread david
operate in ram disk buffers, can be noticable at high traffic levels Definantly measure where your latency is happening. It could be that apache is the problem, but it could also be that you are running into something else. how many processes are you seeing that is making you concerned? David L

Re: [lopsa-tech] Overhauling front end

2010-11-04 Thread david
ill a lot of overhead in starting and stopping a apache process (less in the fork than in all the other setup for starting, but it hurts). just avoiding the thrashing can gain you quite a bit. also install the sysstat package and run iostat during heavy load to see what your disk I/O is looking lik

Re: [lopsa-tech] Overhauling front end

2010-11-04 Thread david
forking speed that linux has, there is still a lot >> of overhead in starting and stopping a apache process (less in the fork >> than in all the other setup for starting, but it hurts). just avoiding the >> thrashing can gain you quite a bit. >> >> also install the syssta

Re: [lopsa-tech] Fiber or copper between Switches

2010-11-29 Thread david
re reliable (eliminating ground loops). this problem is more likely with longer distances. If you are setting up High Availability with two switches and different servers connected into each switch, having a fiber connection between switches means that no matter what

Re: [lopsa-tech] Recommendations for expandable UPS systems?

2010-11-30 Thread david
filtering without overheating anything and without throwing away too much power is a large part of the reason that good UPS systems are so expensive. David Lang ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [lopsa-tech] Recommendations for expandable UPS systems?

2010-11-30 Thread david
ey need some other voltages, they invert it and use appropriate > switching power supplies to get > the desired voltage. more precisely, it's -48v from ground that's used in telco environments. there's a lot of value for those comp

Re: [lopsa-tech] BeyondTrust's PowerBroker?

2010-11-30 Thread david
ker is overkill and a waste of your money, however the ability to do all this other stuff, and control it from a central point (instead of the sudo configuration across all your systmes) can make it very nice in high sensitivity environments. David Lang On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, Michael C Tie

Re: [lopsa-tech] Linux I/O scheduler choice can make a big, big difference

2010-12-16 Thread david
have little, if any effect on single disks due to seek times, but are very noticable if you are reading from something that doesn't have seek times). so if you have a sophisticated disk subsystem, you almost always want NOOP David Lang On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Ski Kacoroski wrote: > Hi,

Re: [lopsa-tech] Linux I/O scheduler choice can make a big, big difference

2010-12-16 Thread david
ved by noop, I think they are (and it's definantly worth testing them) David Lang ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/

Re: [lopsa-tech] Linux I/O scheduler choice can make a big, big difference

2010-12-16 Thread david
e you are best off with noop as well, the host is going to have it's own scheduler for real disk I/O, and so all that logic is a waste of time for the guest. David Lang > cheers, > > ski > > On 12/16/2010 11:17 AM, Jonathan Nicol wrote: >> Agreed, I've done a fair

Re: [lopsa-tech] Linux I/O scheduler choice can make a big, big difference

2010-12-16 Thread david
anyone know of any references for optimum performance configurations? the scheduler for the real disks should be something like CFQ, if there is a scheduler for the raid itself, that should be noop David Lang ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https:

Re: [lopsa-tech] Bcache and FlashCache (a software solution to the 'use a ssd for write-back cache in a safe way' problem)

2010-12-19 Thread david
gt; upstream, and bcache, well, the posts from Overstreet seem to > indicate that he's working on it and making good headway, but even > if it does get upstreamed, it'll need to be backported to something > that supports a Xen Dom0. I'm not using it, but I am seeing the linu

Re: [lopsa-tech] RAID cards with flash-backed cache?

2010-12-19 Thread david
s reading a drive, you still get your answer from the other drives at the normal degraded performance. But if the kernel has problems reading a drive, it keeps retrying, which can take quite a while, during which time lots of things just stop. David Lang ___

Re: [lopsa-tech] RAID cards with flash-backed cache?

2010-12-19 Thread david
ntage in both cases, the application can write in small chunks, do it's fsync and be confident the data is safe, but thesewrites can then be combined and re-ordered on a larger time scale by the controller card. David Lang ___ Tech mail

Re: [lopsa-tech] RAID cards with flash-backed cache?

2010-12-20 Thread david
. if you are running a database with a journal log file, all the writes (and their associated fsyncs) are likely to be combined. but random writes to different places on the disk will not be combined, which is what I think you were referring to. David Lang __

Re: [lopsa-tech] RAID cards with flash-backed cache?

2010-12-20 Thread david
that makes a LOT of sense, it avoids the write speed and wear issues, and is fairly trivial to implement safely (while trying to power the drives long enough to write to them is not practical) David LangOn 12/19/10 15:00, Skylar Thompson wrote: > Dell's PERC H700 and H800 cards supp

Re: [lopsa-tech] software raid under linux

2010-12-23 Thread david
ntial writes have much less overhead. David Lang___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lops

Re: [lopsa-tech] software raid under linux

2010-12-23 Thread david
ure raid10 to keep 3 copies of everything or not. remember that these disk arrays are not high performance systems, they are high capacity and cheap, but not high performance. David Lang i think i know how to deploy such a beast, but wanted to check my understanding, which is that mdadm i

Re: [lopsa-tech] software raid under linux

2010-12-24 Thread david
ge the number to a maximum > of the number of devices in the array. So, --layout=n3 would get you three > copies, etc. I knowthat I've seen some posts on linux-kernel about problems with multiple copies in raid 1. I don't remember details, but that would

Re: [lopsa-tech] Simple code review web tool?

2011-01-11 Thread david
ng to have configs (firewalls, routers, applications) checked into a VCS (probably git) on a regular basis. I then need to display the changes that happen in a given time period and have a person review the changes and the change management tickets and sign off that this set of changes correspo

Re: [lopsa-tech] Question concerning the http request process

2011-01-12 Thread david
ow it's something in the network (probably a firewall) if it doesn't work from another machine on the same network, it's not a route issue. At that point it would probably be a firewall type issue on the receiving server (I say firewall type issue as it could be iptables rule

Re: [lopsa-tech] Question concerning the http request process

2011-01-12 Thread david
On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, John BORIS wrote: > David, > When I changed the port I left the IP the same. So I lean toward the > Firewall.acl/iptables issue. One thing I can't check and have to depend > on the upstream folks. if you have other servers on the same network, you can check

Re: [lopsa-tech] Server Recommendations

2011-01-17 Thread david
you keep using a vendor long enough, you will run into problems with them. I have one model where after several years, the power supplies are starting to die regularly, but as a point of comparison, about 3 years ago we had a similar problem with the RS6000 IBM machines (and you cann

Re: [lopsa-tech] Is it possible to run an open relay on a different Postfix port

2011-01-18 Thread david
in postfix you can set the mynetworks variable to include any internal systems that you want to be able to have send out messages without them going through the spam checks. David Lang On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Ski Kacoroski wrote: > Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:19:35 -0800 > From: Ski Kac

Re: [lopsa-tech] Recovering a service after a security breach

2011-01-24 Thread david
y you can't do this, you need to scan the box (nmap or similar) to try and make sure that there aren't any ports listening that you don't expect. but you really should plan on rebuilding the box as soon as you possibly can, ideally before putting it back online. David Lang __

Re: [lopsa-tech] Log correlation question

2011-01-24 Thread david
tion period) is also very expensive. I wouldn't willingly eliminate the capabilities that it gives me, but I also do not want to eat up that cluster's capacity with things that are better done elsewhere. David Lang ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/

Re: [lopsa-tech] Recovering a service after a security breach

2011-01-24 Thread david
do a solid job with SELinux (and for a case like this, you really need a solid job, just useing a distro default is not likely to be tight enough to help against this specific threat) David Lang ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://

Re: [lopsa-tech] Log correlation question

2011-01-25 Thread david
orders of magnatude faster (many millions of seeks/sec). If you are doing a summary report of data that shows up a lot, then you can get into a mode where you are not seek limited, but are instead retreiving lots of data and uncompressing it, you can become cpu limited, but even there you will c

Re: [lopsa-tech] No silver bullet

2011-03-13 Thread david
re hours dealing with audit paperwork, discussins, legal folks, etc than you will spend doing anything technical (including designing and implementing all the security measures involved) this same individual can also make decisions that will make you question their sanity about how lax things c

Re: [lopsa-tech] IPv6 and Firewall traversal

2011-03-31 Thread david
But it does mean that > in6addr_any is not a suitable default in the way that INADDR_ANY was and > so there's a little more code than there used to be. and how exactly is this software supposed to know which address to pick? remember that an 'internal' network may have more tha

Re: [lopsa-tech] amount of swap

2011-04-20 Thread david
ain, then you can use swap space without slowing down very much (you swap pages out but never swap them back in). I haven't personally seen this case, but it is possible. I never set swap >2g on my servers, and that's probably overkill. David Lang_

Re: [lopsa-tech] amount of swap

2011-04-20 Thread david
are that's out there either doesn't do the checks, of just crashes the app if the allocation fails. In this case are you really better off? David Lang ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/

Re: [lopsa-tech] amount of swap

2011-04-20 Thread david
reason _not_ to use a 64 bit kernel? avoiding the entire 'lowmem' issue is just one of the benifits, having registers twice as big and twice as many of them can make a significant difference to the kernel. David Lang On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, apostolos pantazis wrote: I can tell you m

Re: [lopsa-tech] RFPs -- Industry Standards/Best Practices (structured cabling)

2011-04-27 Thread david
ght from the start even if you're using Greenfield. I agree with the importance of doing the job right. I just question if what tests someone has taken (and note that this is not neccessarily the tech assigned to your work) really is the deciding factor. David Lang_

Re: [lopsa-tech] scp

2011-05-04 Thread david
on when it finishes getting the file to do anything else. this won't work for run-of-the-mill ad-hoc sysadmin work, but it will work for process automation work. David Lang___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailma

Re: [lopsa-tech] scp

2011-05-04 Thread david
n the far side after the file has completed? how can rsync change the permissions on the far side? (it can make the permissions match the sending side, but so can scp -p) David Lang ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/c

Re: [lopsa-tech] Server rack filler panels

2011-06-14 Thread david
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Re: [lopsa-tech] Free PDF Creator

2011-07-09 Thread david
then print to a file, on linux it should be the default if you print to a file) you can run the file through ps2pdf on a linux system to produce a .pdf file this won't have the bells and whistles that the other approaches have, but it's simple and doesn't require downloading extra

Re: [lopsa-tech] MySQL and Encryption

2011-08-24 Thread david
ves (or if you don't properly wipe the drives when you dispose of them) really, the only thing that this solves is the audit checkbox labeled 'database encryption' David Lang On Wed, 24 Aug 2011, Singer X.J. Wang wrote: Is it snake oil or is it not the solution for your

Re: [lopsa-tech] MySQL and Encryption

2011-08-24 Thread david
l value of this is in satisfying auditors, not in real security. David Lang On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 23:44, wrote: it only protects against the machine being stolen if the decryption key is not also stored on the machine. This would mean that there needs to be a manual step (either to ente

Re: [lopsa-tech] MySQL and Encryption

2011-08-24 Thread david
enter the key on startup. David Lang I've downloaded the docs will grab a read through tonight sometime probably and see what kind of a beast we're really dealing with. Paul On 8/24/2011 5:48 PM, Singer X.J. Wang wrote: How often do you reboot your database servers? It also

Re: [lopsa-tech] MySQL and Encryption

2011-08-25 Thread david
s that stealing the DB server (or it's disk) s no longer enough, you also need to steal (or otherwise get access to) the keyserver, and the kyserver can be locked down with FIPS 140 type protections David Lang ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lops

Re: [lopsa-tech] MySQL and Encryption

2011-08-25 Thread david
work. this will find the problem after the fact, but since the data needs to be stolen as well as the key, you may catch someone tho got the key before they get the data) David Lang ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org

Re: [lopsa-tech] Does anybody sell wired (not wireless!) routers anymore?

2011-09-16 Thread david
the linksys 3700 has two ports on the main processor, but one of those ports is connected to a 4-port switch that is able to do vlans so you could partition it up and use all 5 ports independantly. It does have both 2.4 and 5G wireless, but you can turn those off. David Lang On Fri, 16 Sep

Re: [lopsa-tech] SSD RAID or Drive Recommendation ?

2011-09-16 Thread david
tting those writes to flash if the power fails. David Lang ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/

Re: [lopsa-tech] SSD RAID or Drive Recommendation ?

2011-09-16 Thread david
On Fri, 16 Sep 2011, Liyun Yu wrote: Thanks David, it is good to know this. One of our team members suggested that the SSD also tend to be wear out every 12-16 months. I was puzzled by that statement since I never know if the RAM or other chip-based memory device would be wear out

Re: [lopsa-tech] Does anybody sell wired (not wireless!) routers anymore?

2011-09-16 Thread david
at.net/projects/cerowrt David Lang On Fri, 16 Sep 2011, Rick Thomas wrote: Hi David, That's interesting and helpful. Do you have a URL for technical details on the 3700? I'm not familiar with vlans (I know what they are and I've read the IEEE specs on how they are imp

Re: [lopsa-tech] Fwd: mounting switches backwards? a lot more waste heat

2011-10-20 Thread david
On Thu, 20 Oct 2011, Luke S. Crawford wrote: On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 04:52:57PM -0400, Doug Hughes wrote: On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 3:08 PM, David Bronder wrote: Luke S. Crawford wrote: I've been mounting switches backwards forever; I mean, the ports are on the back of the servers,

Re: [lopsa-tech] Password management

2011-11-01 Thread david
than I was paying for the annual maintinance of the Symark appliances. David Lang On Tue, 1 Nov 2011, Mathew Snyder wrote: Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 22:10:34 -0400 From: Mathew Snyder To: Edward Ned Harvey Cc: LOPSA Tech Subject: Re: [lopsa-tech] Password management "One use" is pro

Re: [lopsa-tech] [lopsa-discuss] Email list and IRC channel for LISA

2011-11-30 Thread david
he discussions in a central place. I don't like the idea of a separate -lisa or -conference list, and the idea of having a list and then wiping it's archives afterwords just doeesn't make sense, you can't wipe all records of the messages, so what is it you are hoping to gain

Re: [lopsa-tech] Throttleable network traffic generation

2011-12-07 Thread david
look at tcpreplay. David Lang On Wed, 7 Dec 2011, Matt Lawrence wrote: Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 14:33:27 -0600 (CST) From: Matt Lawrence To: t...@lopsa.org Subject: [lopsa-tech] Throttleable network traffic generation I need to test a patch for a 10Gb interface on AIX, so I need to be able to

Re: [lopsa-tech] USB over IP for Linux

2011-12-09 Thread david
eally shouldn't matter because the system should just migrate other virtual machines instead. David Lang ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professio

Re: [lopsa-tech] moving computers without shutting them down

2011-12-30 Thread david
nk this sort of thing is your best bet. David Lang On Fri, 30 Dec 2011, Matt Simmons wrote: This guy on ServerFault recommends it, too - http://serverfault.com/a/27514/4392 I think it's going to boil down to practice. Work on doing it to something that doesn't hate being unplug

Re: [lopsa-tech] RAID for windows

2012-01-02 Thread david
han software raid for crashes and other things that don't cause the entire system to loose power because the card will complete the writes to the drives even if the main OS halts. David LangOn Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 09:12:44AM -0500, Edward Ned Harvey spake thusly: > If it's in BIOS,

Re: [lopsa-tech] RAID for windows

2012-01-02 Thread david
ernel? hardware raid makes the mirror look like a single drive to the BIOS and so even if one drive is dead, the BIOS will still find a drive to boot from. David LangOn Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 10:27:50PM -0500, Brandon Allbery spake thusly: > The hardware/software distinction, in practicality, is &quo

Re: [lopsa-tech] Speaking of software RAID...

2012-01-03 Thread david
space and the kernel will use both partitions, spreading the I/O load across two drives. the downside is that if one drive dies, your system will crash as you have lost some of the contents for swap. besides, you really shouldn't be using swap in the first place, right ;-)

Re: [lopsa-tech] A strange file related to ssh

2012-01-26 Thread david
re the issue. If the attacker has control of this machine they can use it to attack others (both within your network and outside of it). David Lang___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This

Re: [lopsa-tech] computer generation of network diagrams

2012-01-27 Thread david
t are documented for blockdiag will work with all the other tools. David Lang On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: The attributes you can set on nodes and edges are documented here: http://blockdiag.com/en/blockdiag/examples.html On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 2:43 AM, Mark Eisenblaetter

Re: [lopsa-tech] 120v single-phase, 208v split-phase and three-phase in the data center.

2012-02-27 Thread david
s from the higher voltage are not going to be large enough to read on the metter). It's not a big difference on an individual server basis. David Lang I mean, this is at data centers that can handle north of 10Kw of load per rack. It just seems weird to me that I should get 5 20a 120v

Re: [lopsa-tech] 120v single-phase, 208v split-phase and three-phase in the data center.

2012-02-27 Thread david
its are solidly 208v. I think it's the phase difference. I wasn't saying that resistance was causing the voltage drop, I was explaining why 208v is better to use than 120v David Lang but if your equipment will run at 208v, you are best off using that voltage. If you put a meter o

Re: [lopsa-tech] 120v single-phase, 208v split-phase and three-phase in the data center.

2012-02-28 Thread david
the power supply in the PC to convert back to various DC levels to use inside the machine. While AC->DC converters are ~90% efficient, DC -> AC inverters are less so, topping out around 70-80% efficiency. It seems like it should be possible to do a lot bet

Re: [lopsa-tech] tcp/ip overhead

2012-02-28 Thread david
. but in your case, I agree with others here, it sounds like your application is sending small packets. David Lang ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Pr

Re: [lopsa-tech] 120v single-phase, 208v split-phase and three-phase in the data center.

2012-02-28 Thread david
very well. If you use a automotive battery, be careful about venting the hydrogen to the outside properly, go with a gel-cell or similar and you won't have this problem. you can probably get away with one of those 'battery minder' maintiners to keep the battery topped off. David L

Re: [lopsa-tech] tools for managing and composing shell scripts?

2012-03-19 Thread david
om a central master (even if they are manually edited on that central master) 5. then work to eliminate the manual editing. David Lang ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provide

Re: [lopsa-tech] tools for managing and composing shell scripts?

2012-03-20 Thread david
hardware migration. If you know you wnt to automate a bigger cluster later, take the time in development with your small cluster to learn the tool and work through the configuration. David Lang ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists

Re: [lopsa-tech] tools for managing and composing shell scripts?

2012-03-20 Thread david
packages, store them locally, and install just the version that you want. This can be via some tool like puppet/chef/cfengine, or you can run your own repositories locally (one each for dev/qa/prod) with some sort of process to graduate packages from one repository to the next as testing com

Re: [lopsa-tech] tools for managing and composing shell scripts?

2012-03-20 Thread david
of that package and everything else. I try to work at a much more granular level where a server seldom has as many as a half dozen 'app bundles' on them and each app bundle may install a bunch of packages. If you need systems to do a lot of different th

Re: [lopsa-tech] tools for keeping notes?

2012-03-22 Thread david
wayside a LOT of the time. David Lang___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/

Re: [lopsa-tech] implicit or explicit deny?

2012-03-24 Thread david
of "deny everything, unless it's explicity allowed". Just the confirmation of the mindset can be important when new people come on board. David Lang ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/lis

Re: [lopsa-tech] The "Enterprise Apple Laptop"

2012-04-06 Thread david
central administration tool, but (at least when I last looked at it), it's not really designed for that use. David Lang ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/

Re: [lopsa-tech] The "Enterprise Apple Laptop"

2012-04-06 Thread david
e-and-forget patch management system, complete with all the nice reporting stuff that audit types like. David Lang ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Profess

Re: [lopsa-tech] The "Enterprise Apple Laptop"

2012-04-06 Thread david
I also seem to remember seeing a paper at either LISA or annual tech within the last year or so on centrally managing Mac systems. David Lang On Fri, 6 Apr 2012, Gilbert Wilson wrote: Before going down the path of purchasing third party solutions to manage your systems and/or firewalling

Re: [lopsa-tech] How to problematically identify the root volume.

2012-04-12 Thread david
in LILO or GRUB) David Lang On Thu, 12 Apr 2012, Justin Ellison wrote: Using /proc/mounts is a little better for machine readability rather than parsing the output of 'mount'. The only way I can think of to identify the actual root device (from the kernel perspective) is by interrogatin

Re: [lopsa-tech] How to problematically identify the root volume.

2012-04-13 Thread david
nd /usr should be enough to differentiate it from other filesystems that also contain bin and lib directories. This will work in the simple cases, but it may find more than one qualifying device. David Lang ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://

Re: [lopsa-tech] home wifi

2012-04-18 Thread david
wer access points, not the right direction to be going nowdays. David Lang On Wed, 18 Apr 2012, unix_fan wrote: Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 23:25:16 -0700 (PDT) From: unix_fan To: Andrew Hume , LOPSA Technical Discussions Subject: Re: [lopsa-tech] home wifi I swear by dd-wrt firmware on a C

Re: [lopsa-tech] home wifi

2012-04-19 Thread david
doesn't do 5GHz At Scale this year we had about 1/4 of the users on 5GHz David Lang On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. wrote: I don't have any Android devices with 5Ghz only my two Linux laptops. Otherwise, its WiFi Analyzer that I use to see what the 2.4Ghz networks

Re: [lopsa-tech] Job/Process Profiling

2012-06-19 Thread david
/usr/bin/time will provide a lot of stats, take a look and see how close it comes to what you want. David Lang On Tue, 19 Jun 2012, Christopher R Webber wrote: Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 05:34:14 -0700 From: Christopher R Webber To: tech@lists.lopsa.org Subject: [lopsa-tech] Job/Process

Re: [lopsa-tech] Job/Process Profiling

2012-06-19 Thread david
fter the run is completed (in which case anything looking in proc is going to miss some info) David Lang On Tue, 19 Jun 2012, Andrew Hume wrote: Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 11:02:15 -0700 From: Andrew Hume To: da...@lang.hm Cc: Christopher R Webber , tech@lists.lopsa.org Subject: Re: [lopsa-te

Re: [lopsa-tech] linux disk device question

2012-07-17 Thread david
/O cards. opening it O_DIRECT may work to bypass the caches in linux, but you are getting into tricky areas here. I'd suggest trying O_DIRECT, but you may need to ask some kernel experts if this is enough. David Lang___ Tech mailing list

Re: [lopsa-tech] linux disk device question

2012-07-18 Thread david
any case, take a look at the code for GFS, it does what you are trying to do, but since it's in the kernel, it may be bypassing some layers that you will have trouble bypassing with a completely userspace solution. David Lang On Wed, 18 Jul 2012, Andrew Hume wrote: point taken. due to

Re: [lopsa-tech] linux disk device question

2012-07-18 Thread david
a perfect example of a big gaping hole that doesn't make sense. Either both should be blocked, or you should be able to open up the network as well. David Lang ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/

Re: [lopsa-tech] linux disk device question

2012-07-18 Thread david
doing is what a bad guy would do to bypass your network access policies. David Lang ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/

Re: [lopsa-tech] linux disk device question

2012-07-19 Thread david
ument. Yeah, I've had to deal with veritas before, what they want to do at the network layer is extremely ugly. David Lang and having two systems share a drive allows certain attacks between those two systems for sure, but those are of a different nature than island-hopping networki

Re: [lopsa-tech] Home/small business KVMs?

2012-08-13 Thread david
n let you get at it remotely to try and fix. David Lang ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/

Re: [lopsa-tech] Home/small business KVMs?

2012-08-13 Thread david
iness" to the large side. besides, I'm told that everyone uses Journaled File Systems nowdays, and they don't need fsck, right :-) David Lang ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech

Re: [lopsa-tech] Google wants images of my passport, driver's license, bank statement, etc.

2012-08-22 Thread david
tions" of apple? Given the high publicity that his case has recieved, I would expect that many of the online providers are trying to be less forgiving and flexible right now to try and keep the next set of headlines from being about them. David Lang

Re: [lopsa-tech] Google wants images of my passport, driver's license, bank statement, etc.

2012-08-23 Thread david
ame, etc) due to the ease of searching for what was at one point obscure data about you. Encouraging more use of such tactics is not a smart security move. David Lang ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman

Re: [lopsa-tech] linux and swapping

2012-08-27 Thread david
The system now has 23GB in swap and 20GB of free memory to use for something else. The system is not going to take the time to pull the data back in from swap unless some application needs it. David Lang On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, Andrew Hume wrote: err, that is the whole point. SwapTotal

[lopsa-tech] never say never was: Re: linux and swapping

2012-08-28 Thread david
u not only will miss the right solution at some point, you will also fall into the trap of thinking that other rules must never be broken that are actually far less rigid. David Lang ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org

Re: [lopsa-tech] Virtualization High Availability (HA)

2012-09-07 Thread david
m having both primary and backup on the same physical host. It's more work to setup, but there's less "magic" involved that can cause subtle breakage on you. David Lang ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://l

Re: [lopsa-tech] Virtualization High Availability (HA)

2012-09-07 Thread david
is may be acceptable, or it may not. It sure is a nice idea to not have to think about HA because the virtualization handles it for you, but you need to not drink the kool-aid and believe that this can guarantee seamless failover. David Lang ___ Te

Re: [lopsa-tech] Virtualization High Availability (HA)

2012-09-07 Thread david
hat situation the worst case would have been having the root password changed to something that nothing and nobody knows, resulting in an unmaintainable system. In that case the cost was not acceptable (especially since competing systems did real clustering and were not depen

Re: [lopsa-tech] Virtualization High Availability (HA)

2012-09-07 Thread david
On Fri, 7 Sep 2012, Michael Ryder wrote: David, I don't dispute your information, but I'm curious -- are these your actual experiences with VMware FT? Have you seen vLockstep fail in any way? no, this is not experience, this is reasoning through the technology limitations. It tak

Re: [lopsa-tech] Welding in open server room -- am I right to be concerned?

2012-09-24 Thread david
is a REALLY good idea. If you look around at places that support home construction (especially in the subspecialty of asbestos abatement) you will find that there is an entire mini-industry that deals with this, including filtration fo the air, positive preasu

Re: [lopsa-tech] Redundant DHCP w/o failover

2012-10-02 Thread david
d tolorate some files getting copied but not others as a worst case, rsync will prevent you from having a partially copied file. With failover like heartbeat (http://linuxha.org) you can have it perform any checks that you want at startup time, it's just a frame

Re: [lopsa-tech] Apple Airport Extreme?

2012-10-04 Thread david
27;t really happy with it. If you want to do things the way DD-WRT decided makes sense, it's easy to do things. If you want to do anything a little different it's rather hard. OpwnWRT by comparison is like a linux distro, they set things up by default, but if you want

Re: [lopsa-tech] Tips for migrating to a new (different) DHCP server?

2012-10-15 Thread david
will be affected are then ones who are online at the time you change the server. David Lang___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrato

Re: [lopsa-tech] Tips for migrating to a new (different) DHCP server?

2012-10-15 Thread david
Since this is a small shop, you probably have enough IP addresses that you can have the new DHCP server issue different addresses than the old ones, at which point you don't really care if some boxes get stuck on the old ones for a while. David Lang On Mon, 15 Oct 2012, David Parter

Re: [lopsa-tech] linux and networking

2012-10-17 Thread david
that is under a huge load of short-lived connections. David Lang___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org

Re: [lopsa-tech] linux and networking

2012-10-17 Thread david
r all packets, no matter what iptables rules you have in place. It may be that in some configurations the kernel module doesn't get loaded in some cases, but you would really want to check that. David Lang ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa

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