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My memory leak problem from last week.
by ken jones Aug. 28, 2006

Aug. 28, 2006

I have moved from mozilla mail and mozilla browser to thunderbird mail and firefox browser. The memory leak problem seems to have either gone away completely or greatly been reduced. Interesting... thanks for the suggestions and help. Ken Jones

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My memory leak problem.
by ken jones Aug. 24, 2006

Aug. 24, 2006

Everyone: It is hard to believe that X is the problem. It came with Fedora 4 and no one else seems to be reporting it as a bug. I have another Fedora 4 machine that does not display this swap space problem. Karl's idea of looking carefully at my drivers is a good one. This machine has more than one special driver. It is late now. I am tired. I shall pursue this track tomorrow or Friday. If anyone else is interested in the cut and paste of ps auxw lspci uname -a lsmod vmstat dmesg tell me. I will send you a copy. Thank you all:-) Ken Jones Thank you.

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Re: [Wlug] Problem with xosview SWAP space.
by Karl Hiramoto Aug. 23, 2006

Aug. 23, 2006

ken jones wrote: > Karl: I hesitate to send this big message to the whole gang. > Attached are the results of your suggestion. Thank you in advance. > Ken Jones > > [root@kjones-fedora kjones]# ps auxw > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND > root 3252 51.6 41.7 435956 215064 ? S Aug18 3719:53 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -br -nolisten tcp :0 vt7 -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0 > Well it seems most of your memory is used up by the X process. Keep watching this process if it's memory size grows then there may be a memory leak eating up your memory.. I'm not a fedora expert, are there any X updates? have you run yum or updated your system? What version of X are they using? perhaps send your /var/log/xorg.0.log [root@kjones-fedora kjones]# lspci 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R300 NE [Radeon 9500 Pro] 01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R300 [Radeon 9500 Pro] (Secondary) I see you have an ATI graphics card. Do you know what video driver you are using? perhaps there is a problem there.

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Re: [Wlug] storrage suggestion
by Karl Hiramoto Aug. 22, 2006

Aug. 22, 2006

Doug Mildram wrote: >>> i know i can buy a linux PC, and slap in 11 or more 500 GB disks and do >>> > this RAID5. > > doug> Hate to disrespect our beloved wlug-favorite-OS, but, > Linux for NFS server may be a bad choice....a bad implementation, > I say from 2.4-kernel experience and I dont THINK it improved in 2.6. > (have you used linux NFS server in demanding/loaded situations? > ...the linux load avg goes to 20 as it becomes useless.) I have setup a few servers with 1TB, 1.5TB and 2TB doing NFS, mainly for video streaming and at most 15-20 NFS clients. Using kernel 2.6.15.7 for a while now with no performance complaints. I have seen 15 NFS clients streaming DVD quality mpeg2 video (9mbps) work nicely. Getting over 2TB, tho starts to be a lot of disks and there are heat problems, also problems finding enough drive bays. -- Karl Hiramoto http://karl.hiramoto.org/

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storrage suggestion
by Karl Hiramoto Aug. 22, 2006

Aug. 22, 2006

Anyone have suggestions? i need: * >= 5TB disk space * iSCSI, ATA over Ethernet, or NFS mountable to linux >= 2.6.15 *RAID (must survive single disk failure) and must know when a failure happened. * $$/TB is important. * Must be able to sustain minimum 10MB/s disk read on Gbit network. normally these will be big multimedia files. Yes, i know i can buy a linux PC, and slap in 11 or more 500 GB disks and do this RAID5. Something off the shelf, and easy to service would be nice. -- Karl Hiramoto http://karl.hiramoto.org/

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Re: [Wlug] router/printing problems
by Bill Mills-Curran Aug. 22, 2006

Aug. 22, 2006

Thanks for all the suggestions from the group. There were several requests for a more clear description of the setup. Here it is: Verizon FIOS DSL <=> Actiontek router (192.168.1.1) <=> LinkSys router (192.168.1.20 <=> 192.168.2.1) Linux box (with samba printer): 192.168.1.14 windows box (needing to print): 192.168.2.200 The fix: 1. Enable printing from 192.168.2.x in the samba setup. (I'm not sure that helped, because the LinkSys router was set up as a gateway, thus the print request showed up from 192.168.1.20.) 2. Set up a route to the 192.168.2.x network on my linux box. 3. Lots of mucking around with the LinkSys. I also opened it up to all outside access. I also set "dynamic routing". 4. Whacked at the windows box quite a bit. It finally (magically?) started working. Unresolved questions: 1. What did I do to make it work? 2. Why do I need to keep the LinkSys set with the "gateway" rather than the "router" setting? If I set "router", then I can access between the 2 networks nicely, but the 192.168.2.x will not route to the internet. Maybe I needed a static route? It would be nice to understand what was the key. I'd also like to understand how to set the LinkSys as a router rather than a gateway, but at least it works and my wife is no longer reminding me how much linux messes things up. :-) Thanks, Bill

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Mailing List with web post interface
by Michael Zarozinski Aug. 21, 2006

Aug. 21, 2006

Does anyone know of a mailing list package that allows you to post via a web form along with the standard email interface?

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router/printing problems
by Bill Mills-Curran Aug. 21, 2006

Aug. 21, 2006

I have a home network with 2 routers. My 192.168.2.x network has a couple of windows boxes (some wireless) behind a linkSys router. This network feeds to my 192.168.1.x network which connects to the internet through a second router. My linux box (samba print server) is on the 192.168.1.x network and has a static IP. I just moved to this setup when I got Verizon FIOS. (Their wireless router has poor range.) Problem. Since moving, I can't print to the samba-served printer from the windows boxes. I have modified samba to accept connections from the 192.168.2.x machines. Here's my samba log for the machine that tries to print. [2006/08/20 04:02:21, 1] smbd/server.c:open_sockets_smbd(353) Reloading services after SIGHUP [2006/08/20 22:17:10, 0] smbd/server.c:main(798) smbd version 3.0.14a-2 started. Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2004 [2006/08/20 22:27:29, 0] tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(725) tdb(/var/cache/samba/printing/hp.tdb): rec_read bad magic 0xd9fee666 at offset=175296 [2006/08/20 22:28:09, 0] tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(725) tdb(/var/cache/samba/printing/hp.tdb): rec_read bad magic 0xd9fee666 at offset=175296 Any suggestions? TIA, Bill

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DNS and PPP
by Andy Stewart Aug. 18, 2006

Aug. 18, 2006

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 HI gang, I have a setup like this: palmtx -> computer --> firewall/dns_server The connection between the palmtx and the computer is a PPP connection (ppp0) over bluetooth, which works fine between the palmtx and the computer. The connection between the computer and the firewall is ethernet (eth0), and it also works fine. My problem is that I can't get the palmtx to get dns responses back from the dns server. I ran ethereal on eth0 and ppp0. I can see the DNS query go from the palmtx to the computer, and out to the firewall on eth0. The firewall responds onto eth0, but the computer doesn't seem to be sending that back to the palmtx on ppp0. On the computer, routing is enabled (or the dns server wouldn't have seen the initial request). The route table has the entry (1st in the list) for the PPP connection. iptables is set to accept everything. What did I miss? Thanks! Andy - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE4+1tHl0iXDssISsRAmVEAJ4/yMPiP3Qrm8twHyLxdgJYKJEAtQCfeGmw 4J+q1cxJh9v6GyjomZPMSEg= =0wJS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [Wlug] Linux laptops
by Andrew Robert Aug. 15, 2006

Aug. 15, 2006

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I saw some activity inquiring about Linux laptops recently and then came across this. Lenovo has introduced a laptop running SLED 10. Here is the link if you are interested. http://www.betanews.com/article/Lenovo_Debuts_SUSE_Linux_Portables/11556557… - -- Adversity: That which does not kill me only postpones the inevitable. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) Comment: GnuPT 2.7.2 iD8DBQFE4iAdDvn/4H0LjDwRAmCZAJ4o0L6niZYocdlDa00J7AN/nIg3qgCeP3gT hgCeGxNR4leocT8EcdrR2AE= =y56v -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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