IRC log for #utah on 20101129

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02:14.57ReilithionI bet I'm the person in this room who is closest to space right now.
02:18.30Reilithionis in an airplane.
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03:34.29shalkieReilithion: As am I....
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04:12.50ReilithionAnyone awake?
04:32.30shalkieJust me passing time in the air I think...
04:32.32shalkie:-P
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04:32.45Reilithionshalkie: You flying too?
04:32.46shalkiejalbretsen: Hurray!
04:33.09shalkieReilithion: Yep. Headed to BWI, you?
04:33.17jalbretsenhurray?
04:33.18ReilithionBack to Salt Lake.
04:33.37shalkiejalbretsen: Just been a while...
04:35.22ReilithionFlying sometimes makes me want to play Aerobiz.
04:35.29ReilithionThat was a classic game.
04:36.06shalkieI don't think I ever played it.
04:36.50Reilithionshalkie: It was for the SNES.  There was the original and Aerobiz Supersonic.  Nice little simulations, both of them.
04:40.07ReilithionIt'd be nice to see someone do an update.  It doesn't exactly have a very modern selection of aircraft.
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04:44.27shalkieI never had an SNES, only a NES.
04:44.34shalkieStill only have a NES. ;-)
04:49.26shalkieReilithion: The SLC airport is extremely snowey btw.
04:50.05Reilithionshalkie: Heh.  The pilot said they had, "light snow" and that the system was "moving out of the area."
04:54.30shalkieIt had been snowing all day. A few flights got cancelled, most delayed. Probably around 3 inches on the ground.
04:54.36shalkieOr six.
04:54.39shalkie:-)
05:05.00shalkieLeslie Nielson is dead. I find it sadly ironic that I am in an airplane hearing this news.
05:16.31jalbretsenya, saw that
05:16.51jalbretsenSurely there was something they could have done.
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05:41.48shalkieAt 84 would it have been right? Well at least he will live on in classic slapstick films such as naked Gun
05:42.12shalkieAnd, well , airplane...
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14:50.37goozbachmorning utah!
14:50.54goozbachtis it still snowing?
14:52.17jsmithis wishing for snow in Virginia
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15:28.57romanovicalso wishes for snow
15:29.18romanovicthough, i was in utah just long enough to experience "blizzard 2010"
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15:42.32JessieAMorrisromanovic: Where at in UT?
15:47.44romanovicJessieAMorris: I was in SLC
15:48.07eightyeightheh. blizzard 2010
15:48.13eightyeightmore like 'lack thereof'
15:48.17romanovicseriously
15:48.26JessieAMorrisromanovic: Ahh... Down in Provo it was hardly a blizzard at all. I think I got about 1" of snow in Spanish Fork.
15:49.06romanovicwhen I got a text from ksl.com about the weather warning, they referred to it as "Blizzard 2010"
15:53.19Migshttp://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/I-Survived-the-Utah-Blizzard-of-November-23rd-2010/163349207033784
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16:14.28Heartsbanehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2a8TRSgzZY
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18:18.05sjansenhttp://www.sanfranmag.com/story/best-investment-advice-youll-never-get
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18:34.14goozbachTL;DR invest slow and steady in an index fund, don't try to 'beat the market'
18:39.49*** topic/#utah by sjansen -> logs @ http://ibot.rikers.org/%23utah/ | minecraft multiplayer: plug.org | TL;DR Tux and Torvalds are cute.
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21:07.33eightyeightis there a way to prevent yum from downloading the repository metadata everytime i perform a yum command, like say 'yum search foo'?
21:08.11*** join/#utah tyce (~tharmor@fw.oremut02.us.wh.verio.net)
21:08.24jsmith-busyeightyeight: Did you try the "-C" (capital C) option?
21:08.53eightyeightno. is that the trick?
21:08.58eightyeightchecks the manual
21:09.30eightyeightahh. reading only from the cache
21:09.34tyceif you're doing an rsync from one drive on a sata controller card to a raid6 array on the same controller, shouldn't all the processing happen on the card itself?
21:11.14goozbachtyce: is it true hardware raid6 or is it the silly winRAID stuff?
21:11.45eightyeighttyce: depends on the controller, if it's a true raid controller card, or fakeraid
21:12.15eightyeightand depending on the rsync command, will determine what the cpu processes
21:12.31eightyeightusing ssh and compression, for example, won't be performed on the controller card
21:13.12goozbachand rsyn has to read the files to memory then back to disk
21:13.22eightyeightindeed
21:14.14tyceI believe it's "true" raid6 it's a 3ware 9650SE
21:14.39tyceand I didn't specify ssh
21:14.54tyceor compression of any kind
21:15.50tyceI'm lucky to get 10 MB/s in the xfer
21:16.00tycetrying to figure out what my bottle neck is
21:16.18eightyeightraid6 isn't the fastest of raid levels...
21:16.40tycefaster then 5-10 MB/s though, I'd assume, right?
21:17.42eightyeightare you sure ssh isn't being used? rysnc uses it by default if the syntax is of '[host:]/path [host:]/path'
21:17.57jsmith-busyeightyeight: Another option is to set "metadata_expire=never" in /etc/yum.conf, and the do "yum makecache" when you want to refresh the cache
21:18.02eightyeightwhat does hdparm -t /dev/sda (or whatever your disk is) show?
21:18.14jsmith-busyeightyeight: (that makes it a lot more like apt-get and apt-cache)
21:18.43eightyeightheh
21:19.02tyceit's the same host, so i didn't specify
21:19.08tycejust paths
21:19.20eightyeightand the output of hdparm -t /dev/sda?
21:19.35eightyeight(for the raid6 disk)
21:19.56tyceone sec, it's thining
21:22.38tyce/dev/sdb: Timing buffered disk reads:  782 MB in  3.00 seconds = 260.56 MB/sec
21:23.02tycekilled the rsync and got : /dev/sdb: Timing buffered disk reads:  1040 MB in  3.00 seconds = 346.63 MB/sec
21:23.23tyceso yeah, a lot faster then 5-10
21:24.18tycessh is only the default for remote connections, right? it's not trying to use it for local xfers is it?
21:25.08eightyeightit will use it for local as well, if you have localhost:/path as one of the arguments
21:25.17eightyeightlocalhost, hostname, whatever
21:25.31tyceonly other thing I could of is the -v or --progress flags are being employed, but I'd hope they wouldn't bog it down that much just writing to the screen buffer.
21:25.55eightyeightwhat other flags are you passing?
21:26.11tycersync -av --progress arc/backup/ new/backup
21:26.13tycethat's it
21:26.25tycenothing fancy
21:26.56eightyeightand neither drive is network-mounted. both local to the system?
21:27.03tycecorrect
21:27.47tycethere are nfs exports on those drives, but I am not using them for the sync
21:28.16tyceand I killed everything I could think of which may be read/writing to them while I sync'd
21:28.38eightyeightcurious, but what does 'dd if=/dev/urandom of=/mount-point/tmp.img bs=100M count=10' produce (assuming you can create a 1GB file on the drive)?
21:28.56eightyeightthe hdparm is only showing reads. the dd should give you a rough estimate on writes
21:29.17eightyeightor you could use iozone, which you probably don't have installed. sweet tool for disk benchmarking
21:32.02tyceI was watching iostat earlier
21:32.09tyceI'll have to check out iozone
21:32.29tyceit's taking much longer then I would think to write that 1GB file
21:33.42tyce10+0 records in
21:33.42tyce10+0 records out
21:33.42tyce1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 197.724 s, 5.3 MB/s
21:33.42eightyeightdo you have any failed disks in the array?
21:34.12tycenot any longer, I did a week or so back, but plugged a new drive in and its status has been "ok" since
21:34.37eightyeighthow was the performance of the array before the failed disk versus now?
21:35.37tycehttp://pastebin.com/uLdpQX70
21:36.40tyceshortly after I set the array up initially, I had drive failure, so I can't answer that question.
21:38.06eightyeightmy guess would be that the controller card might be bad, or one of the disks in the array could be causing trouble, even if it hasn't failed
21:39.08eightyeighti would do more troubleshooting on the array, and each disk (if you can- some controller cards have software for this)
21:39.25eightyeightbut, in the meantime, 10MBps is faster than 0. ツ
21:39.53tyceyeah, that was a thought in the back of my mind, I just thought I'd try to rule everything else out before going the hardware failure route.
21:41.05tyceI appreciate your time as a sounding board.
21:41.09eightyeightnp
21:41.22eightyeightthat card seems to be a highly ranked card. lots of positive reviews for it online
21:41.55tyceyeah, that's why I ended up going with it.. that and the price I found was hard not to jump on.
21:42.34tyceI was previously using mdadm and got to the point where I thought it prudent to upgrade.
21:43.39eightyeighti'm using linux software raid at home for a 4-disk raid 10, and i'm happy with the performance
21:44.24tycewhat do you primarily use the array for?
21:44.46eightyeightmirrored backups and off-site archives
21:45.48tycebasic backups and file storage exports worked great for me, it wasn't until I started to use it to record HD streams OTA with MythTV when I noticed problems with the encodings
21:46.15eightyeightyeah. i would like to setup a mythtv box, but my wife isn't ready for that yet
21:46.35tensaieightyeight: my wife griped while I was spending the money to build mine, but she loves it now
21:46.57eightyeighttensai: yeah. that's what i've heard. they piss and moan about it, until push comes to shove, and they actually use it
21:47.12tyceLOL, I've had a bunch of friends tell me that until they bring them over and I show thier wives auto comm flagging/skipping... they all leave wanting it setup ;)
21:47.25eightyeightheh
21:47.51tyceplus mythweb is worth its weight in gold
21:48.03tensaicommercial autoskip fails too often for me to leave it on
21:48.16tyceit's a binus that I haven't paid for cable in 8 years.
21:48.22tycereally?
21:48.31tyceI have it on and almost never have a problem...
21:48.42tensaicertain shows are more problematic than others
21:48.49tyceare you allowing it to use "all available" algarythms to scan with?
21:48.57tensaiyes
21:48.59tycethat was key for me
21:49.19tyceOTA HD or cable tuner cards?
21:49.21tensaiota
21:49.25tycebummer
21:49.27eightyeighti'm lucky to have a 2tb backup. it'll be years before mythtv gets approved. heh
21:49.41tycewell, that's what the 'q' button is for ;)
21:50.08tyceif you've got the pc for it, OTA hd tuners are cheap!
21:50.27tensaihas a hdhomerun
21:50.29tyceI've paid ~$25 on average for the 5 of mine.
21:51.19mheathAre there any Linux based TV  appliances that support Netflix Streaming?
21:51.40tyceboxee?
21:51.52eightyeighta bigger want is getting the hardware to put my vonage behind asterisk
21:51.55tyceer... the boxee box that is
21:52.09mheathhmm, I guess Roku is Linux based as well.
21:52.20mheathI guess more to the point: can any of these systems be modified or customized at all?
21:52.25tyceeightyeight: nice, if I had a land line, I'd be right behind you in like there.
21:52.31eightyeighti would love to have more controll over who can and can't call me
21:53.04eightyeighttyce: we went the cell-only route, and spent 5x the amount of a monthly bill by going over one month. we then realized the value of a 'land line' ツ
21:53.32eightyeightand with google voice, if anything, we could probably drop the cell phones now to pre-pay, and save serious cash
21:54.23tycetotatlly agrees.
21:54.31mheathMy problem with Landlines was always my busy schedule. I have nothing against the landline service - and you're right, the unlimited inbound calls and unlimited local calls are awesome - but I'm never home to answer the phone.
21:54.40tycejust wishes he wasn't addicted to his iPhone :)
21:55.09mheathMy only interest in Asterisk would be an IVR for home automation things.
21:55.28mheathBut even that, I can easily do from my Android smartphone now.
21:56.31eightyeighti won't pay for internet on my phone, and the plans are getting more pricey, with more minutes
21:56.39tyceeightyeight: you said the name of that package was iozone?
21:56.42eightyeighti maybe use 100 minutes per month
21:56.45eightyeighttyce: yeah
21:57.13tyceiozone3 - Filesystem and Disk Benchmarking Tool
21:57.18tyceah.. forgot the 3 :)
21:57.24eightyeightah. yeah. that's it
21:57.47eightyeighti don't want 700 minutes for $50/month. i want to pay only for the minutes i use, and not a cent more
21:57.58tyceI wish they offered 100 min/month plans with unlimit text/net... I'd opt that route in a heartbeat
21:58.12eightyeightsprint has 7¢/minute plans for prepaid, and they can use your existing number
21:58.21tyceI text WAY more then I talk...
21:58.37eightyeightwith options for sms as well. and data (which isn't of interest to me)
21:58.47tyceguess I need to be more speciif there... 100 min.. *iPhone plans :)
21:58.58tyce*speciifc
21:59.00eightyeightand if the prepaid phone has 802.11 atenna, i'm there
21:59.13tycehahahaha... for sure
21:59.14eightyeighti'm surrounded by free wifi much more often than not
21:59.39tyceare there android/the like phones on the market yet with 802.11n?
21:59.54tycemy iphone4 is still g iirc
22:00.39eightyeighti'd purchase an android phone, if they'd sell it without the data plan
22:01.22tyce802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi (802.11n 2.4GHz only) -- from specs page
22:01.26tyceahh... that sucks
22:01.41eightyeighti don't know a provider that will do that
22:01.44tyceit's got n, just not the 5ghz band 'n'
22:01.48eightyeightheh
22:02.15tyceoh well, next summer :)
22:03.58tyceeightyeight: do you have any "favorite" tests you like to run using iozone (ie: flags, etc)?
22:05.18tycethese look decent: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-filesystem-benchmarking-with-iozone.html
22:05.50eightyeighttyce: it depends on the system
22:06.16eightyeighti always do writes that have the next prime number above the number of ram in the system, to prevent full caching
22:06.25eightyeightother than that, i just poke around
22:06.29eightyeightclicks the link
22:07.20eightyeighti never do excel compatible output. i just parse the data in stdout
22:07.51eightyeighti've been meaning to tie it in with bonnie++, but i've never gotten around to it
22:11.53tycenot seeing where you specify the filesystem you're wanting to test against (my eyes need to wake up from their tryptophan vacation)
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