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measuring iops on linux - numbers make sense?
by Amos Shapira 05 Dec '09

05 Dec '09

Hello, When approaching hosting providers for services, the first question many of them asked us was about the amount of IOPS the disk system should support. While we stress-tested our service, we recorded between 4000 and 6000 "merged io operations per second" as seen in "iostat -x" and collectd (varies between the different components of the system, we have a few such servers). A couple of hosting providers told us that this (iostat and collectd "merged operations per second") is a not so bad way to get IOPS. A partner of ours doubts that this is possible with the current hardware - a 3ware 9690SA-4I4E (http://www.3ware.com/products/sas-9690SA.asp) with 512Mb battery backed up cache and 8 SAS 15k rpm disks (SEAGATE ST3300656SS) in RAID 1+0. They calculate 750 IOPS per spindle and say that the maximum they ever saw from any 15k disk was 350 iops on RAID 0. Am I measuring the numbers correctly? Is there a better way to measure IOPS on CentOS? The OS is CentOS 5.3 x86_64, the rest of the hardware is 64Gb RAM, 2 quad-core 3GHz Intel Xeon CPU's. Thanks, --Amos

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Non official shop
by Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann 05 Dec '09

05 Dec '09

Hey I just discovered that one of the Promo pages [1] points to a spread shirt shop [2]. Maybe this link should be removed as I don't think Lance is still involved? Or can we take it over somehow? Cheers Didi [1] http://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Promo/TODO [2] http://centos.spreadshirt.com/us/US/Shop/ -- My www page: www.ribalba.de Email / Jabber: ribalba(a)gmail.com Skype : ribalba

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proper protocol for installing a *really* new package?
by Robert P. J. Day 04 Dec '09

04 Dec '09

what is the proper approach to install on centos 5.4 a package that's newer than the currently supported one? at the moment, AFAICT, the latest "poppler-utils" package for centos is 0.5.4. however, the source is up to version 0.12: http://poppler.freedesktop.org/ which matches the current fedora version, but that's not surprising since, naturally, fedora zips right along keeping up with that sort of thing. however, i have a case where it's important that a newer version of poppler-utils (and, consequently) poppler be installed on a centos 5.4 box. someone has claimed he's done it by (gack! choke!) installing the fedora package. that just creeps me out. in any case, what would be the proper solution under centos? is there a "rawhide"/dev equivalent for centos? thanks. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================

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runuser: cannot set groups: Operation not permitted
by Mathur, Prashant 04 Dec '09

04 Dec '09

Hi, We have installed apatare and running the script aptare_agent, but it is giving error "runuser: cannot set groups: Operation not permitted" if we run it as aptare user. We have made this user the part of root group. If we run the same script with root user there is no error. Any thought? ________________________________ This e-mail is the property of NaviSite, Inc. It is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential, or otherwise protected from disclosure. Distribution or copying of this e-mail, or the information contained herein, to anyone other than the intended recipient is prohibited.

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dump take long time to finish on new DELL 900 sefver (CENTOS 5.3 and 5.4)??
by mcclnx mcc 04 Dec '09

04 Dec '09

We have several new DELL R900 servers which have 5 internal disks (PERC 6/i with 450GB SAS disks). we configured it as 0,1 mirror and 2,3 mirror and 4 single disk. When we doing performance test and found "dump" very slow. The O.S. servers using are Centos 5.3 or 5.4. 1. we did setup "blockdev": # blockdev --getra /dev/sdc3 4096 2. when we using dump for 16GB data (first logical volume to third logical volume) and it take 26 min to finish (10MB/sec). #dump -0uf /u3/BKOS/root.dmp -B 40000000 / DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Fri Dec 4 09:03:57 2009 DUMP: Dumping /dev/sdc2 (/) to /u3/BKOS/root.dmp DUMP: Label: / DUMP: Writing 10 Kilobyte records DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] DUMP: estimated 15803002 blocks on 0.40 tape(s). DUMP: Volume 1 started with block 1 at: Fri Dec 4 09:04:24 2009 DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files] DUMP: 16.69% done at 8453 kB/s, finished in 0:24 DUMP: 36.04% done at 9305 kB/s, finished in 0:17 DUMP: 57.06% done at 9887 kB/s, finished in 0:11 DUMP: 76.35% done at 9955 kB/s, finished in 0:06 DUMP: 99.68% done at 10418 kB/s, finished in 0:00 DUMP: Closing /u3/BKOS/root.dmp DUMP: Volume 1 completed at: Fri Dec 4 09:31:23 2009 DUMP: Volume 1 16771020 blocks (16377.95MB) DUMP: Volume 1 took 0:26:59 DUMP: Volume 1 transfer rate: 10358 kB/s DUMP: 16771020 blocks (16377.95MB) on 1 volume(s) DUMP: finished in 1607 seconds, throughput 10436 kBytes/sec DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Fri Dec 4 09:03:57 2009 DUMP: Date this dump completed: Fri Dec 4 09:31:23 2009 DUMP: Average transfer rate: 10358 kB/s DUMP: DUMP IS DONE anyone have ideal? ___________________________________________________ 您的生活即時通－溝通、娛樂、生活、工作一次搞定！ http://messenger.yahoo.com.tw/

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Centos 5.4 on Acer Aspire One
by Frank Cox 04 Dec '09

04 Dec '09

I currently have my Acer Aspire One netbook set up with Fedora 11. I would like to change it over to Centos 5.4 if I can. I downloaded the Centos 5.4 i386 livecd image and made a bootable USB flash drive out of it. Unfortunately, when I boot off of that flash drive, Grub (I guess) immediately turns the screen entirely white. If I hit a key I can faintly see the outline of "Press tab to change options" or words to that effect. (It's very faint and hard to read against the white background.) That bit of text rapidly scrolls off of the top of the screen, so I assume that the rest of the boot-up messages are being printed. Hitting Ctrl-Alt-anyFkey does nothing for a while, then every keystroke beeps. I can't get to a text terminal and I never see anything other than a completely white screen. Am I doing something wrong? Fedora 11 works fine on this machine, and I installed that from a livecd. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com

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Centos 4.7 /var/log/messages file kill process
by mcclnx mcc 04 Dec '09

04 Dec '09

We have DELL 2650 server and I found recently /var/log/messages have following messages continue pop-up: =========================================== Dec 3 15:47:06 HOST1 kernel: Free pages: 17816kB (1664kB HighMem) Dec 3 15:47:06 HOST1 kernel: Active:7463815 inactive:656000 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0 free:4454 slab:119979 mapped:730440 pagetables:63277 Dec 3 15:47:06 HOST1 kernel: DMA free:12448kB min:64kB low:128kB high:192kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:16384kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? yes Dec 3 15:47:06 HOST1 kernel: protections[]: 0 0 0 Dec 3 15:47:06 HOST1 kernel: Normal free:3704kB min:3728kB low:7456kB high:11184kB active:2688kB inactive:2284kB present:901120kB pages_scanned:6237 all_unreclaimable? yes Dec 3 15:47:06 HOST1 kernel: protections[]: 0 0 0 Dec 3 15:47:06 HOST1 kernel: HighMem free:1664kB min:512kB low:1024kB high:1536kB active:29852572kB inactive:2621716kB present:33423360kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no Dec 3 15:47:06 HOST1 kernel: protections[]: 0 0 0 Dec 3 15:47:06 HOST1 kernel: DMA: 2*4kB 5*8kB 3*16kB 2*32kB 4*64kB 2*128kB 2*256kB 0*512kB 1*1024kB 1*2048kB 2*4096kB = 12448kB Dec 3 15:47:06 HOST1 kernel: Normal: 0*4kB 3*8kB 54*16kB 6*32kB 1*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 3704kBDec 3 15:47:06 HOST1 kernel: HighMem: 4*4kB 54*8kB 0*16kB 18*32kB 4*64kB 1*128kB 1*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 1664kB Dec 3 15:47:06 HOST1 kernel: 7920770 pagecache pages Dec 3 15:47:06 HOST1 kernel: Swap cache: add 144565971, delete 144479462, find 64245277/81316857, race 15+5335 Dec 3 15:47:06 HOST1 kernel: 0 bounce buffer pages Dec 3 15:47:06 HOST1 kernel: Free swap: 39981120kB Dec 3 15:47:06 HOST1 kernel: 8585216 pages of RAM Dec 3 15:47:06 HOST1 kernel: 8158130 pages of HIGHMEM Dec 3 15:47:06 HOST1 kernel: 266508 reserved pages Dec 3 15:47:06 HOST1 kernel: 11584926 pages shared Dec 3 15:47:06 HOST1 kernel: 87087 pages swap cached Dec 3 15:47:06 HOST1 kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 27850 (oracle). =================================================== This server have 32 GB RAM and 40GB swap space. I don't know why I continue got those messages? $ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 33274832 33200168 74664 0 7116 31325660 -/+ buffers/cache: 1867392 31407440 Swap: 40957676 945640 40012036 ___________________________________________________ 您的生活即時通－溝通、娛樂、生活、工作一次搞定！ http://messenger.yahoo.com.tw/

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Getting EXTERN.h, perl.h, etc
by Charles E Campbell Jr 04 Dec '09

04 Dec '09

Hello: I have a Fedora Core 11 system at home (Centos 5.2 at work). I'd like to build vim with huge and perl. This works under Centos, but fails at home: no EXTERN.h or perl.h (and, presumably, other things). So: is there a yum package I should be downloading, and if so, which one? (both the home computer and the work computer are 64-bit systems) Thank you, Chip Campbell -- someday I'll have a good signature, I'm sure of it...

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"csh -v" show history at end of batch job (CENTOS 5.4)???
by mcclnx mcc 04 Dec '09

04 Dec '09

I have some batch JOBs migrate from CEBTOS 5.3 to CENTOS 5.4 server. Those batch files start on "#!/bin/csh -v". Those batch files run good under CENTOS 5.3. on CENTOS 5.4 batch jobs still run good but end of batch priocess it will show "history". Does anyone know why? Thanks. ___________________________________________________ 您的生活即時通－溝通、娛樂、生活、工作一次搞定！ http://messenger.yahoo.com.tw/

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Kerberos + NFSv4 difficulties
by Dan Burkland 04 Dec '09

04 Dec '09

Hey All, I recently have been trying to setup an NFSv4 share that utilizes Kerberos. My experience in general with NFS is very slim however I feel like I am very close to getting this project completed. Currently I have the following things in place: 1) NFS server nfs.example.net (VM#2) - Running CentOS 5.4 with all of the latest updates and NFS-related packages 2) Kerberos KDC running on Kerberos.example.net (VM#1) - Running CentOS 5.4 with all of the latest updates 3) NFS client nfs-client.example.net (VM#3) - Running CentOS 5.4 with all of the latest updates Before I give you the error message I receive when I enable NFS, I'll first describe my setup process. 1) Verified Kerberos works on all machines by attempting a kinit testuser which worked properly. 2) Verified that the clocks on all machines represent the same time (synced using a local NTP server) 3) Created a service principle for nfs.example.net by performing the following commands on the nfs.example.net machine: - (Performed on NFS server) a. kadmin (Logged in as an admin principle) b. addprinc -randkey nfs/nfs.example.net c. ktadd -e des-cbc-crc:normal nfs/nfs.example.net d. quit e. kinit nfs/nfs.example.net -k -t /etc/krb5.keytab f. klist to verify 4) Edited /etc/idmapd.conf with the following changes: - (Performed on NFS server) a. changed Nobody-{User,Group} to nfsnobody b. changed Domain to nfs.example.net 5) Mkdir /nfs/ - (Performed on NFS server) 6) Added the following to /etc/exports - (Performed on NFS server) a. /nfs gss/krb5p(rw,sync,fsid=0) 7) exportfs -rv - (Performed on NFS server) 8) Verified all relevant nfs services were stopped - (Performed on NFS server) 9) Uncommented and made the following changes to /etc/sysconfig/nfs - (Performed on NFS server) a. MOUNTD_NFS_V1="no" b. MOUNTD_NFS_V2="no" c. RPCNFSDARGS="-N 2 -N 3 -U" d. SECURE_NFS = "yes" 10) /etc/init.d/portmap start; /etc/init.d/rpcidmapd start; /etc/init.d/nfs start - (Performed on NFS server) 11) And I receive the following output when the nfs service starts: a. Starting RPC svcgssd: FAILED b. Starting NFS Services: OK c. Starting NFS quotas: OK d. Starting NFS daemon: NFSD: Using /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery as the NFSv4 state recovery directory e. NFSD: starting 90-second grace period f. Starting NFS mountd: OK 12) I then checked /var/log/messages to find the following log entries: a. Dec 2 12:16:51 nfs rpc.svcgssd[6018]: ERROR: GSS-API: error in gss_acquire_cred(): Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information - No principal in keytab matches desired name b. Dec 2 12:16:51 nfs rpc.svcgssd[6018]: Unable to obtain credentials for 'nfs' c. Dec 2 12:16:51 nfs rpc.svcgssd[6018]: unable to obtain root (machine) credentials d. Dec 2 12:16:51 nfs rpc.svcgssd[6018]: do you have a keytab entry for nfs/<your.host>@<YOUR.REALM> in /etc/krb5.keytab? I seem to be stuck at this point and would appreciate your insight. Thank you, Dan

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