Monthly Archives: September 2006

Xen and Gentoo

I am in the process of set­ting up Xen on one of my new servers. Just stick­ing some notes here. Will clean them up later init­tab changes 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1 #2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2 #3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3 #4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4 #5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5 #6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6 No need for ker­nel level ip address in xen con­fig file set ip =“off”; DO NOT SET eth0 …

September 11, 2006 – 8:12 am | By Nick Anderson | Posted in Posts | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Gentoo on Software RAID1

I am in the process of set­ting up one of my new servers. Yes my old dual pIII machines are going to retire. They are going to live in a “retire­ment com­mu­nity” . Any way This time around I am going to use a mir­ror to pro­tect my data. I never expe­ri­enced a hard­ware fail­ure …

September 4, 2006 – 8:10 am | By Nick Anderson | Posted in Posts | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Disk Performance

So what kind of per­for­mance should peo­ple expect from a disk or raid? How long should it take to cre­ate 100G file? time dd if=/dev/zero of=mako1 bs=65536 count=163840 A cus­tomer of ours is using this to cre­ate a 10G file and its tak­ing about 20 min­utes to cre­ate the file on a 12 drive raid 5 with …

September 2, 2006 – 8:05 am | By Nick Anderson | Posted in Posts | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)