John A. Sullivan III 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 Sorry I missed that there were two of you with first name of John. As I asked John Alberts, did you do a yum update or fresh install to get to 5.3? > 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. Yeah I remember a thread on this. I haven't redone a vhashify for awhile. Of course I'm currently only running about 20 some odd guests per host so don't have a disk space issue. But the first time I did a unification of the whole server the 30% (maybe more -- it was a long time ago) recovered space was impressive. \\||/ Rod -- > > 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