After upgrading my laptop to 2.6.15.1 kernel, hibernation worked flawlessly. Running my previous version of kernel – 2.6.14.2, I have had some hibernation instabilities. I’ve had some memory corruptions here and there, which would have required I reboot the machine. So far, and it’s been a while, I’m glad to say I had no reason…
I’ve lost an external DAS (Direct Attached Storage) today. Not lost as in could not find, but lost due to power supply failure. I’ve been home, got a phone call saying all the company’s Unix storage, which is contained on a DAS including two 72GB HDDs in a mirror (DiskSuite on Solaris8) is not available….
Alongside a newer kernel, I’m enjoying a newer Software Suspend2 package. I am not crazy about betas, or RCs, so now I’m on the 2.2 stable. I have hibernated only once since I’ve upgraded kernel, but it went just fine on the first try, so I’m rather ok with it without setting a set of…
I’ve been to Hostopia today. The land of hosting servers. I’ve had an emergency job on one Linux server, due to a mistake I’ve made. It appears that the performance hindrance of using raid0 instead of raid1 (Centos/RH default raid setup is raid0 and not raid1, which led me to this mistake) for the root…
I’m in the process of installing VCS on two guest (virtual) Linux nodes, each using the following setup: 256MB RAM One local (Virtual) HDD, SCSI channel 0 Two shared (Virtual) HDDs, SCSI channel 1 Two NICs, one bridged, and one using /dev/vmnet2, a personal Virtual switch. The host (carrier) is a Pentium 3 800MHz, with…
It’s been a long while since I’ve written. I get to have, once a while, a period of time dedicated for laziness. I’ve had just one of these for the last few weeks, in which I’ve been almost completely idle. Usually, waking up from such idle time is a time dedicated to self studies and…
