greetings,
the subject says it all right? ;->
naw......
is the 3ware Escalade 9500S series mature enough yet for CentOS?
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On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 23:09 -0700, Robert Hanson wrote:
greetings, the subject says it all right? ;-> naw...... is the 3ware Escalade 9500S series mature enough yet for CentOS?
I would wait until you hear more definite things on the 9.2.1 firmware (currently engineering release) before considering the 9500S for RAID-5.
thanks Bryan, Kirk, and Shawn and others that may reply...
what i wonder is this, when will we know about this next run of stability issues with the 9500S series and the "next" (meaning after current one) engineering beta firmware release etc?
errrrr ;-> , how long till we know it's stable and that **another** "GOOD bugfix" is in the pipe?
thanks
- rh
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Robert Hanson wrote:
thanks Bryan, Kirk, and Shawn and others that may reply...
what i wonder is this, when will we know about this next run of stability issues with the 9500S series and the "next" (meaning after current one) engineering beta firmware release etc?
errrrr ;-> , how long till we know it's stable and that **another** "GOOD bugfix" is in the pipe?
thanks
I'm either really "lucky" or the bug just isn't that common. I'm using a 9500 with RAID 5 on more than one production video editing system. Nary a problem to date and those disks get the crap beaten out of them when we edit uncompressed video.
Cheers,
C
On Thu, 4 Aug 2005 at 8:08am, Chris Mauritz wrote
Robert Hanson wrote:
thanks Bryan, Kirk, and Shawn and others that may reply...
what i wonder is this, when will we know about this next run of stability issues with the 9500S series and the "next" (meaning after current one) engineering beta firmware release etc?
errrrr ;-> , how long till we know it's stable and that **another** "GOOD bugfix" is in the pipe?
I'm either really "lucky" or the bug just isn't that common. I'm using a 9500 with RAID 5 on more than one production video editing system. Nary a problem to date and those disks get the crap beaten out of them when we edit uncompressed video.
To explain more fully, there's a cache allocation bug in the 9.2 firmware that kills performance on cards where there is more than one unit defined at boot time. A second unit includes a hot spare. So if you have only one array on your boards and no hot spares, there'll be no problem.
On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 08:08 -0400, Chris Mauritz wrote:
I'm either really "lucky" or the bug just isn't that common. I'm using a 9500 with RAID 5 on more than one production video editing system. Nary a problem to date and those disks get the crap beaten out of them when we edit uncompressed video.
Hmmm, are you running with 9.1.5.1 firmware?
Robert Hanson wrote:
greetings,
the subject says it all right? ;->
naw......
is the 3ware Escalade 9500S series mature enough yet for CentOS?
Initially, I had some problems with it locking up while running with a specific motherboard chipset. Once I switched to an Intel board, I've had no problems. That predated my use of CentOS, so CentOS 4 has always supported the card fine for me.
I use the 3w-9xxx driver that comes with CentOS. Anaconda picked it up during install and I've been good to go ever since.
You should know that I'm only using it for 1) disk mirroring and 2) software RAID. So, your mileage will vary greatly. In this sense I'm using it more as a set of add-on SATA ports moreso than for its built in RAID capabilities.
Hope this helps,
--Shawn
"Shawn M. Jones" smj@littleprojects.org wrote:
You should know that I'm only using it for 1) disk mirroring and 2) software RAID. So, your mileage will vary greatly. In this sense I'm using it more as a set of add-on SATA ports moreso than for its built in RAID capabilities.
As I mentioned before, I use Broadcom RAIDCore PCI-X cards when I just need SATA channels for software. They also sell a suite of software RAID support for even Linux.
Just installed one (4-port version) in a newly built server. Runs great. Driver is included in the 2.6 kernel. No problems in my testing so far.
Kirk Bocek
Robert Hanson wrote:
greetings,
the subject says it all right? ;->
naw......
is the 3ware Escalade 9500S series mature enough yet for CentOS?
- rh
-- Robert Hanson Abba Communications http://www.abbacomm.net
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I need to setup my server so I can connect to it through it's phone modem. Is there a howto anyone knows of? I'm not even sure what to look it up as. Thanks, Kevin
On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Kevin Anderson wrote:
I need to setup my server so I can connect to it through it's phone modem. Is there a howto anyone knows of? I'm not even sure what to look it up as.
This is fairly straightforward with the mgetty package, and has not changed materially from RHL 7 days. At one time, I had a step-by-step outline, as it was a bit tricky to get the 'auto-ppp' option working, so as to authenticate against the /etc/passwd /etc/shadow, file values (using 'pam' as it occurs to me).
/me goes and looks ... oh yeah ... back in RHL 7.2 they (RH) broke ppp a bit against the MS DUN tool, but that is probably long fixed by now.
http://www.owlriver.com/projects/ppp/
As I recall, /etc/mgetty/getty.conf and /etc/ppp/options, and possibly the /etc/ppp/peers <?> files needed to be configured. I don't find that I have an external writeup on the process. I will check at the office tomorrow for one.
- Russ Herrold
For some reason Yum now hangs at reading repository metadata in from local files. It gets anywhere between 22-27% and then just hangs. It was working previously, and I can't think of anything new that was done to this machine. Thanks, Kevin
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On 8/4/05, Kevin Anderson kevanderson@adelphia.net wrote:
For some reason Yum now hangs at reading repository metadata in from local files. It gets anywhere between 22-27% and then just hangs. It was working previously, and I can't think of anything new that was done to this machine.
Hi.
Centos 3 or 4? Standard or newer yum?
Maybe a "yum clean all" would help?
Also, that can be a processor intensive action - what does top show? What happens if you just leave it running for an hour?
Another idea is that the yum folks are preparing to do a new release which will have lots of speed improvements. You could wait for that if you don't mind running non-centos packages.
Greg
Sorry, Centos 4.1 yum 2.2.1, and I'll try to leave it run for an hour
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org]On Behalf Of Greg Knaddison Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 1:50 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] Re: Yum hangs at primary.xml.gz
On 8/4/05, Kevin Anderson kevanderson@adelphia.net wrote:
For some reason Yum now hangs at reading repository metadata in from local files. It gets anywhere between 22-27% and then just hangs. It was working previously, and I can't think of anything new that was done to this machine.
Hi.
Centos 3 or 4? Standard or newer yum?
Maybe a "yum clean all" would help?
Also, that can be a processor intensive action - what does top show? What happens if you just leave it running for an hour?
Another idea is that the yum folks are preparing to do a new release which will have lots of speed improvements. You could wait for that if you don't mind running non-centos packages.
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On 8/4/05, Kevin Anderson kevanderson@adelphia.net wrote:
Sorry, Centos 4.1 yum 2.2.1, and I'll try to leave it run for an hour
Did you do the yum clean all as well?
When was the last time you had a yum activity that worked in the normal amount of time?
And check top whil it's running to see if memory and/or processor is maxed out working on yum.
Greg
Yes I ran clean-all, let it run for an hour and yum doesn't appear in top after it hangs. It worked last week, but then it stopped working. I'll just download the yum rpm and try a reinstall. On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 13:16 -0700, Greg Knaddison wrote:
On 8/4/05, Kevin Anderson kevanderson@adelphia.net wrote:
Sorry, Centos 4.1 yum 2.2.1, and I'll try to leave it run for an hour
Did you do the yum clean all as well?
When was the last time you had a yum activity that worked in the normal amount of time?
And check top whil it's running to see if memory and/or processor is maxed out working on yum.
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That sounds like a plan. Although, if you have time and interest in hunting down what happened the folks over on https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum would be happy to help troubleshoot and possibly fix whatever bug caused this (if it is a bug and not something weird that happened on just your box).
Be sure to send your yum, OS, python, rpm versions and your yum.conf and yum.repos.d
Greg
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