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To improve the performance of scripts that manipulate zfs snapshots and the zfs snapshot service in perticular there needs to be a way to list all the snapshots for a given object and only the snapshots for that object. There are two RFEs filed that cover this: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6352014 : ''zfs list'' should have an option to only present direct

Hello all! We are testing virtualization with two Sun X2200 M2 (2 x Opteron Dual Core) with Xen (3.1.3, locally compiled, Debian etch), KVM (Debian Sid) and Windows Virtual Server (Windows 2003 Server). We have tried paravirtualization and also full virtualization (Pacifica). In all cases we have experienced problems regarding stability in the systems, specifically erratic lost of network

Hi, I got a problem when prepared to pass-thru 82576 ethernet card with SR-IOV support. The 82576 card is build-in on the board. When loading igb driver for the card, dmesg show some errors like: pci 0000:05:00.0: BAR 10: can''t allocate mem resource [0xfbf00000-0xfbefffff] . igb 0000:05:00.0: not enough MMIO resources for SR-IOV igb 0000:05:00.0: Failed to initialize

I'm looking to buy a new workstation, and it looks like Thinkmate makes what I need -- their vsx "virtually silent" variety. I hestitate because I wasn't happy with a laptop I bought a few years ago from a small outfit that sold Linux boxes exclusively. Does anyone have experience with Thinkmate, and in particular, the VSX line? If the later, is it really quiet. I run Centos

I am about to lease another server to be a backup web/mail server with a replicated mysql database. The current live server is a dual Xeon 2.8Ghz. Would I do better to get another Xeon server or an Opteron based server? My concerns are compatibility of the database and the SSL certificate currently running on the Xeon machine. Are these concerns unfounded? TIA Mike

latest pxeboot (7.1): mother-board NIC/LOM CPU ------------- ------- --- Intel SWV25 em xeon works fine SUN X2200 bge amd works fine DELL PE 2950 bce xeon failes 95% of the times hangs or goes into btx dump regs. mode :-) Intel SE7320VP21 msk xeon failes 50% of the times - hangs pxeboot with btx.S 1.45 2008/02/27 23:35:39, works fine. so it seems that changes since 1.45 have

I am planning to build a server based on the SuperMicro X7DBE+-O motherboard. This server will have two dual-core Xeon processors and a 3ware 9550SX raid card. Has anyone built a server based on this motherboard? Are there any issues with the smp/dual-core support in CentOS4 that might cause problems? I appreciate any input. I'm just looking to find out about any possible problems before

Hi I'm setting up a SIP gateway, serving quite a few potential users, and I wonder if I should purchase a Opteron or Xeon based system. Xeon has it's HT, but is it worth it? Has anyone tested Opteron on asterisk? Does it work well? There'll be no transcoding in this system - G.711A all way through roy

I'm putting together a spec for a big(ger) memory x86_64 host, and I hope some of you-all can help. I'm looking for success stories of hardware that folks are using in production environments, preferably with CentOS 4, with more than 4GB of memory per CPU. I know there are lots of mobos out there that can do this, but I'm looking for what folks really have running. Call me

Hi, I am planning to buy a new PC for computing simulations in R under Linux. I was searching the web/mailing list-archives for useful hints about the "optimal" choice of hardware - surprisingly I found no recent topics. As far as I know, R doesn't use threads, so I think that there should be no benefit in choosing a dual-processor machine. So the remaining affordable choices

Hi, I have two installs of Xen 4.0.1 on Debian squeeze dom0s that occasionally skew the time by 3000 seconds. It is always 3000 seconds and it always affects all guests. Depending on the kernels in the guests they will say: tp0 kernel: [9339489.266542] Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -2999660317697 ns) or perhaps the kernel doesn''t notice but ntpd does: ls0 ntpd[15009]:

Dear mailing-list members, In the days of cheap RAM and microarray applications feasting on memory, 64-bit computers become more and more useful - to actually make use of memory beyond the magic 4GB border. I would like to report the success of running 64-bit R on an Intel Xeon EM64T machine under Linux. Just like on an AMD Opteron, R v2.0.0 compiles fine (and out of the box) and is happily

I have one HP Proliant DL320 G5p, where for some reason, the AHCI mode is not enabled. According to server specs, it should have AHCI/NCQ capability, but ata_piix module gets loaded during bootup, not ahci module. Any ideas how to enable AHCI mode? lspci output: # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 3200/3210 Chipset DRAM Controller (rev 01) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation

Hi there We''re planning to buy a new server with a PentiumD with VT. Unfortunately we have some legacy server software which runs on Windows only and for that reason I have to install WindowsXP under Xen3. The problem is that I didn''t find too much documentation (tutorials, howtos, whatever) which describes installation and experiences with WinXP, besides some problem

I am planning to replace our cisco 7200 core router with Linux. We currently serve around 1500 (3/4 DSL - different router) customers with probably half of them being concurrent at any given time. We have a fiber network and customers currently aren''t managed as far as how much bandwidth they can use at anytime. Therefore I have constructed a working tc qdisc Linux router as a test. It

Hello, I need to setup a NAS server on Centos. The machine will be: Dual xeon/Dual Opteron 4GB memory 13x 320GB SATA + 1 hotspare 1x 320GB SATA for OS The server can do RAID5,6,or 10. Has anyone installed such a software and can you recommand a specific product? Thank you.

Dear Group I'm still trying to bring many data into R (see older postings). After solving some troubles with the database I do most of the work in MySQL. But still I could be nice to work on some data using R. Therefore I can use a dedicated Server with Gentoo Linux as OS hosting only R. This Server is a nice machine with two CPU and 4GB RAM which should do the job: Dual Intel XEON 3.06 GHz

Hi! I want to upgrade hardware on my router (iptables, htb, >1000 users). Now it is based on usual desktop PC (Intel Prescott P4 3.00 Ghz, 1 Gb RAM). The reason of hardware upgrade is growing up number of users, also we are planning to increase upstream link from 100 Mbit/s to 1 Gbit/s. Iptables rules are now optimized with ipset tool, for tc I''m using hash tables as well. So I

2 questions- projected date on 64 bit support? and... can you run a 32-bit app on a 64-bit OS ? I just a read a great article on the Opteron vs. Xeon argument at: http://www.samag.com/documents/sam0411b/ Thanks, Dave

Dear list, I am planning to buy a new server -because the new Core2 Duo based Xeons (5100 series) are considerably faster in some scenarios than Opteron machines while not beeing more expensive, I would like to hear some real-world experiences from people who have installed CentOS 4.3 or 4.4 on such a setup. Specifically: CPU: 2x Intel Xeon 5100 2GHz Board: Intel S5000 chipset RAID5: