Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:55:46 -0500 I'm running CentOS 5.3 on the host and all guests now. The patched yum is working fine and I haven't had any stability issues at all. John On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 9:56 AM, John A. Sullivan III <jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 07:39 -0700, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: >> Anyone (John?) running CentOS 5 as the host distribution? >> >> If so have any of you updated to CentOS 5.3? >> >> And ... John have you finished your tests on the patched yum? Results? >> Good, bad or ugly? :-) >> >> >> \\||/ >> Rod > So far, it is working fine. Guest installations of both CentOS 5.3 and > Ubuntu 8.0.4 all ran fine. vyum from the host and yum from the guest > appear to be running fine. Cloning is fine. We are having a bit of an > issue with hashify but I do not believe this is at all related to yum. > > We did hit a problem with processes spinning out of control and not > being able to be killed without a hard boot of the host. Apparently > this is not an issue with yum or CentOS but rather the 2.6.28 kernel we > are running and it is supposedly fixed in 2.6.29 so we are eagerly > awaiting the final patch from vserver. There were compelling reasons > for us to use ext4 and we felt a little funny relying on the backport > into 2.6.18 which shipped with 5.3. We normally don't play this close > to the cutting edge so it has been an adventure! Thanks for all your > help - John > -- > John A. Sullivan III > Open Source Development Corporation > +1 207-985-7880 > jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com > > http://www.spiritualoutreach.com > Making Christianity intelligible to secular society > > -- John Alberts