[Linux] Centos, F7, other 4AM madness

[Mark Brettin]

I guess I'm as dorky as you!  I like your posts though.  Thanks Kwan.



--- Kwan Lowe <kwan@digitalhermit.com> wrote:

> Whoohoo!  Just got Centos5 installed. The ancient FC5 that was there before
> had
> served with valor and distinction, but it was just getting too long in the
> tooth. I
> thought about trying to get my old FC5 Xen partitions to work, but decided on
> just
> redoing them. I already have Kickstart files so this can be completely
> automated.
> There were kernel issues in the last couple  FC5 updates that were never
> fully
> resolved.  These problems didn't exist in FC6 (or F7 test), but apparently
> couldn't
> be back-ported to FC5.
> 
> Speaking of F7 (Fedora 7) -- I've been running it in test for a few months.
> It's so
> far my favorite version and has stabilized quite a bit. I'll throw it on a
> couple
> virtual machines and hammer it for a few weeks before redoing my main
> workstation.
> 
> At around 2AM this morning I installed Apache/TomCat and have been having
> loads of
> fun making little Java programs print "Hello, World!" in my browser. I'm
> trying to
> integrate it with Eclipse but then 3AM came around.
> 
> 3AM is when my backups run.
> 
> Or, rather, they're supposed to run. Did I mention that I installed Centos? 
> I've
> been preparing for this over the past week and had a bunch of ISOs for
> refreshing
> new distributions sitting on my file server. I pulled down Ubuntu because
> that would
> be on an upcoming Dell. I pulled down Centos5. Grabbed the RHEL5 CDs.
> Archived some
> Xen machines.  Something interesting happened. Normally the backups take 45
> minutes
> or so to complete for each server. With another 20gig in ISOs and archives,
> this
> took longer than expected.
> 
> It started on Monday. One job ran into another. Backups that should have
> completed
> overnight lasted *all* day.  It got worse the next day because the previous
> jobs
> didn't complete. I ended up killing 20 rsync and scp jobs that built up over
> the
> week.
> 
> Crud.
> 
> Anyhoo, if you've read this far you're probably as dorky as me. Wish I could
> sleep.
> 
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