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Re: [RndTbl] Debian Memory on a VM
by Sean Cody 02 Feb '10

02 Feb '10

Can you send me the VMX file for the VM? I would try setting VM to 512 and go to 4GB and see where the upper limit is meaning there is some kind resource pooling limit in ESX... The idea came from here: http://www.van-lieshout.com/2009/04/esx-memory-management-part-1/ On 2010-02-02, at 7:46 AM, Doob,Brian [Wpg] wrote: > I don't have access to my home email at work, so I'm bypassing the MUUG Roundtable for the moment.... My server is a Dell R710 with 24GB RAM running VMware ESXi 4.0. The guest VM has 2GB RAM, and the guest BIOS sees the full 2GB. Debian Sarge only sees 927129600 bytes. This is /proc/meminfo: > > total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: > Mem: 927129600 281206784 645922816 0 63918080 109105152 > Swap: 2780102656 0 2780102656 > MemTotal: 905400 kB > MemFree: 630784 kB > MemShared: 0 kB > Buffers: 62420 kB > Cached: 106548 kB > SwapCached: 0 kB > Active: 103484 kB > Inactive: 102972 kB > HighTotal: 0 kB > HighFree: 0 kB > LowTotal: 905400 kB > LowFree: 630784 kB > SwapTotal: 2714944 kB > SwapFree: 2714944 kB > > I'm attaching output from dmesg and dmidecode (no "-t" option was available). I think the "905MB" was from top, but I was quoting from memory. The system is running kernel 2.4.27-3-386. I really appreciate your willingness to look into this. Thanks! > > Brian Doob > MSC Regional Operations Division | MSC opérations régionales > Infrastructure Operations Directorate | Direction générale des opérations de l'infrastructure > Chief Information Officer Branch | Direction générale du dirigeant principal de l'information > Environment Canada | Environnement Canada > 123 Main Street, Suite 150 | 123, rue Main, pièce 150 > Winnipeg (Manitoba) R3C 4W2 > brian.doob(a)ec.gc.ca > Telephone | Téléphone 204-983-8495 > Facsimile | Télécopieur 204-983-0109 > Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada > Website | Site Web www.ec.gc.ca > <dmidecode_out.txt><dmesg_out.txt> -- Sean

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Re: [RndTbl] Debian doesn't see all RAM in a VM
by Adam Thompson 02 Feb '10

02 Feb '10

Good idea, but that doesn't fly in an ESX VM. I think the default emulation is of an S3-type PCI video card, and video memory is allocated from the host and presented discontiguously to the guest - just like a real S3 card. I don't think ESXi (this is v3 or v3.1, right???) supports memory "ballooning", or that could have explained it. Hmm. Eagerly awaiting more details... ------Original Message------ From: Cody, Sean Sender: roundtable-bounces(a)muug.mb.ca To: Roundtable, MUUG Subject: Re: [RndTbl] Debian doesn't see all RAM in a VM Sent: Feb 2, 2010 00:23 Shared video memory off alignment could make sense here but it is a radically weird number. Video memory is the only hardware I've seen that would share RAM. Everything else I've seen in my limited experience has been using memory via memory mapped address space for DMA, nothing explicitly communicating via RAM itself. On 2010-02-01, at 9:17 PM, Adam Thompson wrote: > Agreeing completely with Sean here - and 900Mb is just plain a very strange number that makes even less sense than 1024Mb. -- Sean _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list Roundtable(a)muug.mb.ca http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable

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Debian doesn't see all RAM in a VM
by Brian Doob 02 Feb '10

02 Feb '10

I installed Debian Sarge (with 2.4.x kernel) on VMware ESXi in a virtual machine with 2GB RAM. It looks like Linux only sees 900MB of memory (according to top, vmstat and /proc/meminfo). Does anyone know why this would be happening and how I can fix it? Do I need to compile different options into the kernel? Thanks. -Brian

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Shaw dropping on greylist?
by Trevor Cordes 29 Jan '10

29 Jan '10

I have an apparent greylisting issue with Shaw. I wonder if anyone else has noticed this. Shaw's mail server appears to only try either a few times or for a limited amount of time and then give up. I get lots of logs like the following (names have been changed to protect the guilty). After that, no further hits from that from address. I had my greylisting time set to 29mins, but have now changed it to 15mins to try to get within the Shaw window. Anyone else with a >16 min greylist delay might want to check their logs for similar behaviour, and/or take reports of missing emails more seriously. Please report back if you see similar behaviour. Thanks! Jan 20 17:51:35 pog milter-greylist: o0KNpZhm012547: addr idcmail-mo2no.shaw.ca[64.59.134.9] from <bobo(a)clown.com> to <me(a)mine.com> delayed for 00:29:00 Jan 20 17:51:35 pog sendmail[12547]: o0KNpZhm012547: from=<bobo(a)clown.com>, size=5720, class=0, nrcpts=0, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=idcmail-mo2no.shaw.ca [64.59.134.9] Jan 20 17:52:37 pog milter-greylist: o0KNqbE4012577: addr idcmail-mo2no.shaw.ca[64.59.134.9] from <bobo(a)clown.com> to <me(a)mine.com> delayed for 00:27:58 Jan 20 17:52:37 pog sendmail[12577]: o0KNqbE4012577: from=<bobo(a)clown.com>, size=5720, class=0, nrcpts=0, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=idcmail-mo2no.shaw.ca [64.59.134.9] Jan 20 17:54:41 pog milter-greylist: o0KNsfrZ012640: addr idcmail-mo2no.shaw.ca[64.59.134.9] from <bobo(a)clown.com> to <me(a)mine.com> delayed for 00:25:54 Jan 20 17:54:41 pog sendmail[12640]: o0KNsfrZ012640: from=<bobo(a)clown.com>, size=5720, class=0, nrcpts=0, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=idcmail-mo2no.shaw.ca [64.59.134.9] Jan 20 18:00:54 pog milter-greylist: o0L00sXO012857: addr idcmail-mo2no.shaw.ca[64.59.134.9] from <bobo(a)clown.com> to <me(a)mine.com> delayed for 00:19:41 Jan 20 18:00:54 pog sendmail[12857]: o0L00sXO012857: from=<bobo(a)clown.com>, size=5720, class=0, nrcpts=0, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=idcmail-mo2no.shaw.ca [64.59.134.9] Jan 20 18:06:36 pog milter-greylist: o0L06ahf013092: addr idcmail-mo2no.shaw.ca[64.59.134.9] from <bobo(a)clown.com> to <me(a)mine.com> delayed for 00:13:59 Jan 20 18:06:36 pog sendmail[13092]: o0L06ahf013092: from=<bobo(a)clown.com>, size=5720, class=0, nrcpts=0, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=idcmail-mo2no.shaw.ca [64.59.134.9]

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I just found a use for paste(1)!
by Adam Thompson 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

OK, I've now used paste(1) about /three/ times in my life... To re-flatten the output of egrep into a single line, as in: egrep -e '^Date:|^From:|^Subject:' $mailfile | paste -d'|' - - - Specifically, I'm working on Maildir-style files so I don't have to worry about "losing synchronization" if one of the headers is missing for some reason, and the names of the files are contained in the file "0006966d83811cd33a120e436a67d312". so: for i in $(cat 0006966d83811cd33a120e436a67d312 ); do (echo $i|cut -d'/' -f2 ; egrep '^Date:|^From:|^Subject:' ../$i ) | paste -d'|' - - - - ; done produces output like: .DNS|Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 21:16:22 -0400 (EDT)|From: "easyDNS Support" <support(a)easydns.com>|Subject: [easyDNS] Automated 30 day renewal reminder 2009-07-05 .DNS|Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 21:16:22 -0400 (EDT)|From: "easyDNS Support" <support(a)easydns.com>|Subject: [easyDNS] Automated 30 day renewal reminder 2009-07-05 which I can then feed into the next stage of parsing. -Adam

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Fwd: HotPar '10 Submissions Deadline Approaching
by Gilbert E. Detillieux 13 Jan '10

13 Jan '10

FYI... -------- Original Message -------- Subject: HotPar '10 Submissions Deadline Approaching Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:19:48 -0800 From: Lionel Garth Jones <lgj(a)usenix.org> We're writing to remind you that the submissions deadline for the 2nd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Parallelism (HotPar '10) is quickly approaching. Please submit you work by Sunday, January 24, 2010. http://www.usenix.org/hotpar10/cfpb HotPar '10 will bring together researchers and practitioners doing innovative work in the area of parallel computing. HotPar recognizes the broad impact of multicore computing and seeks relevant contributions in all fields, including application design, languages and compilers, systems, and architecture. We request submissions of 5-page position papers that propose new directions for research of products in these areas, advocate non-traditional approaches to the problems engendered by parallelism, or potentially generate controversy and discussion. More information and submission guidelines are available at http://www.usenix.org/hotpar10/cfpb We look forward to receiving your submissions! Sincerely, Geoff Lowney, Intel David Patterson, University of California, Berkeley HotPar '10 Program Co-Chairs hotpar10chairs(a)usenix.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers: 2nd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Parallelism (HotPar '10) June 14-15, 2010 Berkeley, CA, USA http://www.usenix.org/hotpar10/cfpb Sponsored by USENIX in cooperation with ACM SIGMETRICS, ACM SIGSOFT, ACM SIGOPS, ACM SIGARCH, and ACM SIGPLAN Position paper submissions due: January 24, 2010 ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: Jobs
by Montana Quiring 08 Jan '10

08 Jan '10

I have a friend who's company is looking to hire a couple people. Please see attached PDF's. If you apply for one of the jobs, please mention Jeff Howie's name as he gets a bonus if you get hired. ;) -Montana Blog and Aggregation Site: http://montanaquiring.info iPhone/Touch Apps I have bought: http://appshopper.com/feed/user/antikx/myapps ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: GROG! (Jeff Howie) <uncle.grog(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 11:17 AM Subject: Jobs To: Montana Quiring <montanaq(a)gmail.com> Hey there. How's it going? Long time no see, talk or otherwise. :) My office just lost a couple of tech people in the last bit & while I don't think you'd be interested (or maybe you are?), maybe you know someone who is? Pass'em on if you do & let me know. I get a small bonus if someone is hired that I brought in, so make sure my name is dropped :). Take care. -- GROG!

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MUUG Meeting, January 12, 7:30pm -- Zimbra
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 06 Jan '10

06 Jan '10

The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, January 12. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: Zimbra Montana Quiring will cover Zimbra, the open-source collaboration suite, which includes e-mail, calendars and more. In this presentation, Montana will give an overview what Zimbra is, talk about what's new in Zimbra 6 and explain the installation process a bit. Before the break, as this month's RTFM topic, Adam Thompson will cover the cut(1) and paste(1) commands. The group holds its general meetings at 7:30pm on the second Tuesday of every month from September to June. (There are no meetings in July and August.) Meetings are open to the general public; you don't have to be a MUUG member to attend. ********************************************************************** Please note our meeting location: The IBM offices, at 400 Ellice Ave. (between Edmonton and Kennedy). When you arrive, you will have to sign in at the reception desk, and then wait for someone to take you (in groups) to the meeting room. Please try to arrive by about 7:15pm, so the meeting can start promptly at 7:30pm. Don't be late, or you may not get in. (But don't come too early either, since security may not be there to let you in before 7:15 or so.) Non-members may be required to show photo ID at the security desk. Limited parking is available for free on the street, either on Ellice Ave. or on some of the intersecting streets. Indoor parking is also available nearby, at Portage Place, for $5.00 for the evening. Bicycle parking is available in a bike rack under video surveillance located behind the building on Webb Place. ********************************************************************** For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their Web server: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ Help us promote this month's meeting, by putting this poster up on your workplace bulletin board or other suitable public message board: http://www.muug.mb.ca/meetings/MUUGmeeting.pdf -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca> Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ PO Box 130 St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg MB CANADA R2H 3B4 Fax: (204)474-7609

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Text based spread sheet
by John Lange 23 Dec '09

23 Dec '09

I have a very wide "tab delimited" file that I need to edit in an ssh console. I've been downloading it, editing it with OpenOffice, then re-uploading it but aside from being tedious, that isn't always possible if I don't have my laptop handy. Does anyone have any recommendations for a curses based program that would make my life easier? I have no requirements other than editing and preserving the file's tab structure in columns. If it can keep the top row (the column labels) in view while editing that would be a bonus. -- John Lange http://www.johnlange.ca

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Changes for Ubuntu?
by Montana Quiring 18 Dec '09

18 Dec '09

Interesting read (Linux Journal) about the changes going on at Canonical: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/even-self-appointed-benevolent-dictator… -Montana Blog and Aggregation Site: http://montanaquiring.info iPhone/Touch Apps I have bought: http://appshopper.com/feed/user/antikx/myapps

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