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by Mónica Marcela De los Rios A 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

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Swap
by Sam Drinkard 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

I know this is more of a general unix question, but the thread about the last kernel update, and memory usage got me to looking and thinking. Given a system with 2 Gb of memory, and at peak usage, top reports considerably less than the 2 gig amount in use, as well as system monitoring that never shows all available memory used, what would happen if you just turned swap off, and let memory handle things? This machine here, has now crept up to using just under 400mb of swap, yet I've never seen total memory usage above about 1.4gb. I'm a bit leary of just "swapoff" while the machine is running the weather model, as I'd hate to crash things, but I'm just wondering if turning off swap (assuming the system is actually using the disks) would break things or in the best case, speed things up. -- Sam W.Drinkard -- sam(a)wa4phy.net http://wa4phy.net Augusta Area Mesonet cell 706.825.8513 Home 706.868.7253 MAIL 4428 Branchwood Drive, Martinez Georgia, 30907-1304

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Swap memory: I can't reconcile this stuff.
by William L. Maltby 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

I need to look more into it, but before I start the long and arduous "googling my life away" process, I figured someone might know the answer. I've read the man pages several times and they didn't change! :-( As normal, while looking at one thing, something else bites my butt. I tuned on the swap field in top and sort on it. Here's an edited snippet of the results. Mem: 775708k total, 764752k used, 10956k free, 60780k buffers Swap: 1572856k total, 160k used, 1572696k free, 377324k cached PID VIRT RES SHR %MEM SWAP COMMAND 24729 127m 32m 15m 4.3 94m evolution 3409 97220 5268 4304 0.7 89m evolution-data- 2851 115m 36m 7120 4.8 79m X 10937 109m 45m 14m 6.0 63m firefox-bin 3417 63076 7876 6756 1.0 53m evolution-alarm 3363 40332 7284 6228 0.9 32m eggcups 24745 37480 8176 6876 1.1 28m evolution-excha 3736 53272 29m 8660 3.9 22m gnome-terminal 3361 44404 21m 10m 2.9 21m nautilus 3357 39868 21m 10m 2.8 17m gnome-panel 4096 25460 7600 5960 1.0 17m gkrellm 3373 20488 3492 2944 0.5 16m gnome-vfs-daemo 3367 43608 26m 10m 3.4 16m rhn-applet-gui 3359 19904 6128 5316 0.8 13m gnome-volume-ma 3387 20904 8068 6696 1.0 12m clock-applet 3389 19456 6648 5696 0.9 12m notification-ar 3316 19080 7140 5960 0.9 11m gnome-settings- 3385 22304 10m 7576 1.4 11m mixer_applet2 3244 21508 9960 6868 1.3 11m gnome-session 4144 22476 10m 7456 1.4 11m wnck-applet 2587 12412 2364 1940 0.3 9.8m gdm-binary 2846 13220 3340 2728 0.4 9880 gdm-binary 3365 13812 4532 3920 0.6 9280 pam-panel-icon 3355 14768 7524 5984 1.0 7244 metacity 7182 10328 3436 2280 0.4 6892 sendmail 18501 11080 4248 1912 0.5 6832 cupsd Note that the summary line says 160k of swap is used. The man pages say the summary and the details under "SWAP" are both reported in "k". No mention of "m" is made, I presume that it means "megabytes"? If so, I can't reconcile what I'm seeing. Free seems to support the summary lines. total used free... Mem: 775708 764772 10936... -/+ buffers/cache: 326584 449124 Swap: 1572856 160 1572696 Cat of /proc/meminfo also seems to support the summary lines. SwapTotal: 1572856 kB SwapFree: 1572696 kB Now, if I treat all those numbers ending in "m" as megabytes, it doesn't take long to see that I've been lied to somewhere along the way. Or alternatively, I'm dense and "Just Don't Get It" (TM). Any help? -- Bill

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RE: [CentOS] Simple backup program
by Bowie Bailey 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

Paul Heinlein wrote: > > Bacula (www.bacula.org) will do what you want, though wading through > the initial configuration process can take a couple hours. Tape > spanning is well supported; backups can be scheduled or initiated from > the command line; the cli restore process has an interface similar to > dump/restore, so it's fairly easy to navigate. > > We use it to back up CentOS, Debian, Gentoo, and OS X to tape. Will the el3 rpms work with CentOS4? Which rpms do I need? -- Bowie

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Fedora source packages on Centos -- libtiff again
by Robert Moskowitz 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

In my seeking a managable way to build libtiff, on the Asterfax forum I got the following recommendation (from another fax user that made the move to libtiff 3.8.2): ================================================================ Hi Robert, I have compiled libtiff-3.8.2 from the source package for my Fedora Core 4 machine. I am not sure about CentOS, but I think you can try to do the same with rpmbuild and the source package for Fedora: - Install the rpmbuild tools in CentOS; - Download the source package for Fedora: <http://mirrors.ircam.fr/pub/atrpms/src/fc6-i386/redhat/SRPMS.updates/libtif…>http://mirrors.ircam.fr/pub/atrpms/src/fc6-i386/redhat/SRPMS.updates/libtif… - Install the source package as a non-root user: rpm -ivh libtiff-3.8.2-2.src.rpm - Go to your rpmbuild folder: cd ~/rpmbuild - Rebuild the package: rpmbuild -ba SPECS/libtiff.spec If everything goes well, you will find a brand new set of RPM packages in the ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/i386/ (replace i386 for your actual architecture if you're not building on i386), which you can install with the upgrade RPM command: rpm -Uvh libtiff-3.8.2*.rpm ================================================================ Does this 'look right' for Centos? If not what do I change? And how do I get the rpmbuild tools? yum install rpmbuild ?? Finally, once I have built 3.8.2, how would I migrate it to other systems?

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Installing Centos4.3 in VMWare on XP
by Jeffrey B. Layton 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

Evening everyone, I'm trying to install Centos 4.3 in VMWare Workstation running on Windows XP (my laptop). I downloaded the CD iso's to my Linux box and burned them (I did them correctly since last time I screwed them up). However, when I start the VM in VMWare, it says the CD isn't bootable. Any ideas? Thanks! Jeff

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SAR
by Sam Drinkard 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

Folks, At what point in iowait should I start to worry about having a bottleneck, or is this something that can't be answerd with a single integer? According to sar, after my last reboot to turn off hyperthreading as a test, at one time, I see 4.9% iowait, but then one minute later, it droped back to 0.01%, and rarely even gets to 1.0%, at least what I remember from yesterday. ? thanks.... Sam

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RE: [CentOS] Installing Centos4.3 in VMWare on XP
by Mark Schoonover 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

Jeffrey B. Layton <mailto:laytonjb@charter.net> tapped at Tuesday, June 06, 2006 5:07 PM: > Jim Perrin wrote: >>> You lost me (not unusual). I'm new to VMWare. How do you tell it >>> to use the iso as the cdrom? Can you walk me through this? (off-line >>> of course). >> >> Put the iso in some location that makes sense. >> Edit the properties of your vmware machine, and then select the >> cdrom. The options should let you change it from a physical drive >> (the default) to an iso, where you'll be required to point it to the >> specific file. > Got it. So far so good. I'm working my way through the install. > What do I do when it asks for the second and third and fourth CDs? > Jeff, Just go into the properties for the CD drive, and choose the next ISO. Keep doing that for each "CD" you have. It'll work just fine... Thanks! Mark Schoonover IS Manager American Geotechnical - California, Nevada and Arizona V-> 858.450.4040 F-> 714.685.3909 C-> 858.472.3816 "Don't tell me I'm burning the candle at both ends, just tell me where to get more wax!"

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centos 4.3 alpha cd iso problems
by Michael Galloway 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

good day all ... i've started playing around with 4.3 alpha on some ES40 systems. first. the cd iso images all have the incorrect md5sums. i've downloaded them twice from two different mirrors. they are consistent between mirrors. here are the md5sums i get: af45445778616a7d06440fc5d42fcacb centos-4.3-alpha-disc1.iso 9e0a8dc5e5dfbd276fd50caa40428df0 centos-4.3-alpha-disc2.iso 2d9acc0ebe3528fc5b1265235576160f centos-4.3-alpha-disc3.iso 035fd4515ac889676f3a662855e364c6 centos-4.3-alpha-disc4.iso and from the MD5SUMS.cd file: 72d135f1bc2c06e6a535af1905f7c916 centos-4.3-alpha-disc1.iso 8fa0510f6d906bf834629c62d2aede39 centos-4.3-alpha-disc2.iso dfb75e71c34ec8b1caeca65f72d3d869 centos-4.3-alpha-disc3.iso f8711eb928fc91671633793a7586a166 centos-4.3-alpha-disc4.iso for grins i tried to boot disc1 but it completely failed to boot at all. is there a specific place to discuss the alpha port? or is this the correct channel? -- michael

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 16, Issue 3
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

Send CentOS-announce mailing list submissions to centos-announce(a)centos.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to centos-announce-request(a)centos.org You can reach the person managing the list at centos-announce-owner(a)centos.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of CentOS-announce digest..." Today's Topics: 1. CESA-2006:0543 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 spamassassin - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2006:0543 Moderate CentOS 4 axp spamassassin - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 3. CESA-2006:0543 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) spamassassin - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 4. CESA-2006:0543 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 spamassassin - security update (Johnny Hughes) 5. CESA-2006:0543 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 spamassassin - security update (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 00:40:09 +0300 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2006:0543 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 spamassassin - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20060606214009.GG14498(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2006:0543 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0543.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: files: updates/ia64/RPMS/spamassassin-3.0.6-1.el4.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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