January 2004 - openSUSE AMD64 - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Ximian Desktop 2 for SUSE 9.0 (x86_64) ?
by Christian Sander Røsnes 27 Jan '04

27 Jan '04

Does anyone know if Ximian Desktop 2 will be available for SUSE Linux 9.0 (x86_64 version) in the near future ? Christian

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RE: [suse-amd64] teTeX available for x86-64?
by Liaw, Andy 27 Jan '04

27 Jan '04

Bob, Thanks for the pointer. I downloaded tetex-2.0.2-96.x86_64.rpm from the SUSE ftp site, but it fails the requirement: $ rpm -ivh tetex-2.0.2-96.x86_64.rpm error: failed dependencies: info is needed by tetex-2.0.2-96 libpng.so.3()(64bit) is needed by tetex-2.0.2-96 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3)(64bit) is needed by tetex-2.0.2-96 So seems like SLES8 is missing quite a few things that teTeX in SUSE 9 has. Anyone has other suggestions? TIA, Andy > From: Bob Fischer [mailto:bob.fischer17@earthlink.net] > > I'm running SuSE 9.0 and I got teTeX off a SuSE mirror: > > ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/suse/x86_64/9.0 > > -- Bob > > On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 15:43, Liaw, Andy wrote: > > Hi, > > > > We have a dual Opteron box running SLES8. Does anyone know > if there's teTeX > > for this? I could not find it in the CDs. TIA for any pointers. > > > > Best, > > Andy > > > > Andy Liaw, PhD > > Biometrics Research PO Box 2000, RY33-300 > > Merck Research Labs Rahway, NJ 07065 > > mailto:andy_liaw@merck.com <mailto:andy_liaw@merck.com> > 732-594-0820 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments, contains information of Merck & Co., Inc. (One Merck Drive, Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, USA 08889), and/or its affiliates (which may be known outside the United States as Merck Frosst, Merck Sharp & Dohme or MSD and in Japan, as Banyu) that may be confidential, proprietary copyrighted and/or legally privileged. It is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named on this message. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail and then delete it from your system. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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My experience with Full 64 bit Java app server
by Travis Reeder 26 Jan '04

26 Jan '04

We have recently setup a full 64 bit system with Dual AMD Opteron and 1024 MB RAM to replace a single p4, 3.0 Ghz with 1024 MB RAM. SUSE 64 bit Blackdown JDK 64 bit Mysql 64 bit This server is used to constantly process data and put it into a database. The p4 generally ran at 100% all day long with Mysql using most of that time. The server generally got large processing queues during busy times and the performance dropped significantly during these times. We have found the new one to be about 3 times faster in processing data when compared to the p4 running when it wasn't backed up. The new Opteron has not been put to full capacity yet since it never gets behind, so I can't tell you how it will perform if it were running at 100%. This is just FYI. Travis

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RE: [suse-amd64] Quad opteron performance issues in suse 9
by Jason Clark 26 Jan '04

26 Jan '04

Yep I did that, I re-ran mkinitrd afterwards and no errors there. No issues loading any of the modules under the 2.4 kernel at all. -----Original Message----- From: Gerd Knorr [mailto:kraxel@bytesex.org] Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 11:28 AM To: Jason Clark Cc: 'Andreas Jaeger'; suse-amd64(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Quad opteron performance issues in suse 9 On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 10:01:31AM -0500, Jason Clark wrote: > I did everything that was in kraxels readme? What else do you have to do?. rerun mkinitrd after updating it (in case you installed it after the kernel)? All modules loaded? Disk detected correctly (i.e. some "sda: <partitions>" line in the kernel log)? Gerd -- "... und auch das ganze Wochenende oll" -- Wetterbericht auf RadioEins

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RE: [suse-amd64] Quad opteron performance issues in suse 9
by Jason Clark 26 Jan '04

26 Jan '04

Hi Andreas, here is the error that the test kernel gives on boot: VFS: cannot open root device "sda2" or unknown block (2,0) Thats the panic error, the reiser file system and megaraid controller had loaded prior to the error. I installed mkinitrd-1.0-110.x86_64.rpm update from the /pub/people/kraxel. Any ideas? -----Original Message----- From: Jason Clark [mailto:jason@anandtech.com] Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 2:54 PM To: 'Andreas Jaeger' Cc: 'suse-amd64(a)suse.com' Subject: RE: [suse-amd64] Quad opteron performance issues in suse 9 If you mean this readme: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/kraxel/README No, I just rpm installed the kernel and rebooted. Excuse the lack of experience, some questions: 1. Where does one find these updated rpms? I found mkinitrd-1.0-110.x86_64.rpm, but can't find aaa_base or modutils. 2. after those modules are installed is it just rpm -Uvh kernel.rpm? When I ran it the first time it updated the bootloader itself. Again excuse the basic questions, but this is a first for me. Cheers -----Original Message----- From: Andreas Jaeger [mailto:aj@suse.de] Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 2:34 PM To: Jason Clark Cc: suse-amd64(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Quad opteron performance issues in suse 9 "Jason Clark" <jason(a)anandtech.com> writes: > Yep, I gave kernel-smp-26-2.6.1-5.x86_64.rpm a try and got a kernel mode > panic, something about the file system. I'm using an lsi logic 320-2 With the exact message, we might be able to help. I hope you set up the modules according to the README. > megaraid controller, suse is installed on a resier file system on an array > off the lsi logic. And that lsi logic is loaded correctly? Andreas > Cheers. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andreas Jaeger [mailto:aj@suse.de] > Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 2:04 PM > To: Jason Clark > Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Quad opteron performance issues in suse 9 > > "Jason Clark" <jason(a)anandtech.com> writes: > >> Are there any 2.6 kernels available for suse 9, pre-built? Haven't had a >> whole lot of luck building one. > > Yes, there are - in ftp.suse.com/pub/people/kraxel > > Andreas >> Cheers >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Andreas Jaeger [mailto:aj@suse.de] >> Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 9:37 AM >> To: Jason Clark >> Cc: suse-amd64(a)suse.com >> Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Quad opteron performance issues in suse 9 >> >> "Jason Clark" <jason(a)anandtech.com> writes: >> >>> I've been playing around with Suse 9 AMD64 for the past few days, trying >>> some canned benchmarks and one that we've constructed. So far, I'm not >>> seeing any scaling from a dual opteron to a quad opteron on suse 9. Most >> of >>> the tests I've tried are based off of mysql. During the quad cpu tests >> each >>> cpu was averaging at least 90%, same as the dual cpu tests. Is the 2.4 >>> kernel ok for quad opterons, or is 2.6 required? >> >> The kernel is fine for 4 ways and it scales with our experiments. >> >> The 2.6 kernel is far less locks than 2.4 so depending on your tests, >> updating might make a difference. >> >>> >>> >>> A side issue, for some reason you cannot install the rpm binaries of > mysql >>> 4.0.17 without getting a segmentation fault. So all of the mysql testing >> >> Please tell that to those that did the rpms... >> >>> was done on 4.0.15, included with suse 9. -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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RE: [suse-amd64] Quad opteron performance issues in suse 9
by Jason Clark 26 Jan '04

26 Jan '04

Yep, I gave kernel-smp-26-2.6.1-5.x86_64.rpm a try and got a kernel mode panic, something about the file system. I'm using an lsi logic 320-2 megaraid controller, suse is installed on a resier file system on an array off the lsi logic. Cheers. -----Original Message----- From: Andreas Jaeger [mailto:aj@suse.de] Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 2:04 PM To: Jason Clark Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Quad opteron performance issues in suse 9 "Jason Clark" <jason(a)anandtech.com> writes: > Are there any 2.6 kernels available for suse 9, pre-built? Haven't had a > whole lot of luck building one. Yes, there are - in ftp.suse.com/pub/people/kraxel Andreas > Cheers > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andreas Jaeger [mailto:aj@suse.de] > Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 9:37 AM > To: Jason Clark > Cc: suse-amd64(a)suse.com > Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Quad opteron performance issues in suse 9 > > "Jason Clark" <jason(a)anandtech.com> writes: > >> I've been playing around with Suse 9 AMD64 for the past few days, trying >> some canned benchmarks and one that we've constructed. So far, I'm not >> seeing any scaling from a dual opteron to a quad opteron on suse 9. Most > of >> the tests I've tried are based off of mysql. During the quad cpu tests > each >> cpu was averaging at least 90%, same as the dual cpu tests. Is the 2.4 >> kernel ok for quad opterons, or is 2.6 required? > > The kernel is fine for 4 ways and it scales with our experiments. > > The 2.6 kernel is far less locks than 2.4 so depending on your tests, > updating might make a difference. > >> >> >> A side issue, for some reason you cannot install the rpm binaries of mysql >> 4.0.17 without getting a segmentation fault. So all of the mysql testing > > Please tell that to those that did the rpms... > >> was done on 4.0.15, included with suse 9. > > > Andreas Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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SLES 8 & TYAN 2880 greater than 4GB
by Kris Ongbongan 25 Jan '04

25 Jan '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Has anyone had any success running SLES 8 (2.4.21-127-smp. or anything, for that matter) on the Tyan 2880 motherboard with > 4GB of RAM. We've tried: - - all 3 banks (2x) 1GB modules (6GB total). - - 1 cpu1 bank + 1 cpu2 back full (4GB total). They seem to run, but after a while I get memory errors, most often with the file cache, thus corrupting out mysql database, data in the corrupted cache is different from what's on the disk. We've been running with 4GB (4x 1GB modules) all in the CPU1 slots. and it's been fine for months now. But we're starting to starve for more RAM. Does anyone know of an alternate solution to this? Any recommendations for other motherboards that run stable with 6GB or more? The more RAM it can handle the better. I was told it was a design flaw in the Tyan 2880 board(unfixable by BIOS?). Anyone try the Tyan 2881 yet? Kris. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFAE2SsuBLfyXibQuYRArc4AKCGvsg1Jt5v0M8ZPLxOyvpxmUuRPACgtGYa br7Be4YQyj3CvoT8llSFYrg= =X4Oz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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ext3 and ReiserFS for AMD64
by Bob Fischer 25 Jan '04

25 Jan '04

The Gentoo web site warns against using ReiferFS for AMD64. I'm sorry, I can't find where I read this, nor can I say how accurate it is. In response, I'm running in ext3. Has anyone else heard about this issue? -- Bob

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Quad opteron performance issues in suse 9
by Jason Clark 25 Jan '04

25 Jan '04

I've been playing around with Suse 9 AMD64 for the past few days, trying some canned benchmarks and one that we've constructed. So far, I'm not seeing any scaling from a dual opteron to a quad opteron on suse 9. Most of the tests I've tried are based off of mysql. During the quad cpu tests each cpu was averaging at least 90%, same as the dual cpu tests. Is the 2.4 kernel ok for quad opterons, or is 2.6 required? A side issue, for some reason you cannot install the rpm binaries of mysql 4.0.17 without getting a segmentation fault. So all of the mysql testing was done on 4.0.15, included with suse 9. Cheers

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Crash: Gimp, Mozilla Calendar
by Bob Fischer 25 Jan '04

25 Jan '04

I'm running my own 2.6.1 kernel on SuSE 9.0, as described in a previous message. The problems here happened on the standard 2.4.21 kernel as well. They do not happen on the standard 2.4.21 32-bit kernel (i.e. the standard 32-bit SuSE 9.0 distribution) running on the same hardware. I'm using the standard versions of these programs, as they came with SuSE 9.0 1. The Gimp crashes when I try to use the "Image->Scale Image" function. This does not crash on 32-bit SuSE 9.0 (running on the same hardware). I assume this is almost certainly due to a problem with 32-bit plug-ins on a 64-bit build of the Gimp. For now, I would like to use a 32-bit Gimp build but don't know how to go about it. Any suggestions? 2. Mozilla Calendar (1.4) crashes when I try to add an event to the calendar. This does not crash on 32-bit SuSE 9.0 (running on the same hardware). I briefly found a version of Mozilla Calendar 1.5 that did not crash: http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/suse-people/kraxel/9.0-x86_64/x86_64/ However, I rebuild my system many times (trying to solve kernel problems) and when I went back to download Mozilla again, the version I got (1.6) did crash again. I've written to kraxel and believe he's submitting a bug report to Bugzilla. Any suggestions on maybe trying to re-compile Mozilla? Maybe I could compile a 32-bit version of that too... Thanks, -- Bob

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