Pappy's Kernel Seeds Part III<Closed. Please use new thread>

pappy_mcfae · Last edited by pappy_mcfae on Sat Jul 23, 2011 7:12 pm; edited 1 time in total

Welcome to the new thread for Pappy's Kernel Seeds and www.kernel-seeds.org. For those counting, this is the third thread.

For the usual stuff. The site page will be updated later on today to add this new thread. The other threads will also remain accessible.

THREAD #1
THREAD #2

If the main page is down for a long time, please use the failover server.

NeddySeagoon, please make this sticky.

Thanks.

Cheers,
Pappy

Mod Edit: Stickied - tomk
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pappy_mcfae · Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 8:33 am Post subject:

Just in time to celebrate me fixing up three lighting dimmer packs for sale on ebay, the new thread...YAY...and a tuxonice sources version I seemed to have missed somehow, I have just uploaded the .configs for 2.6.32-tuxonice-r8 in both x86 and x86_64 flavors. Enjoy!

Cool...three threads. I never thought it would happen. Thank you to all those who use these threads.

Cheers,
Pappy
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Mike Hunt · Watchman Joined: 19 Jul 2009 Posts: 5287

HeyPappy,

Does all that stuff you buy on ebay actually work as expected? Do you get what you actually pay for?

Sound's surprising to me. I must be jaded.

Smile

Cheers,

MH.

pappy_mcfae · Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 7:29 pm Post subject:

The few things I've bought were in good shape. Everything I've sold has been ready to go. While I'm sure there's lots of crap floating around at ebay, there are some cool bargains.

Cheers,
Pappy
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Mike Hunt · Watchman Joined: 19 Jul 2009 Posts: 5287

Huh surprizing, especially how hippies have so degraded society nowadays. How can anybody be trusted anymore, why I won't even trust my own relatives man! How's that for jaded.

Oh well, guess ya got to take the good with the bad :roll:

Cheers friend

MH

pappy_mcfae · Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 4:46 am Post subject:

I am a hippie. Technically, I'm more of a sympathizer, at least where their color sensibilities were concerned.

The mobo for the present web server came from ebay. I'm actually thinking about snapping up another one when I get some other things going. Once all the kinks get worked out, that mobo is a screamer.

Cheers,
Pappy
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dufeu · l33t Joined: 30 Aug 2002 Posts: 924 Location: US-FL-EST

Hi Pappy,

Congrats on thread #3! Great job as always.

I'm setting up a vanilla-sources-2.6.34 kernel and using your settings write-up and my current 2.6.33.4 kernel as my guides. Helps in seeing what's changed from .33.X to .34.

On page 8 of the guide in the following section:

pappy_mcfae · Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 6:54 am Post subject:

Sorry it took so long getting back to you. Busy, busy, busy!

I will have to look at this a bit deeper, but you are most likely correct in this. I'm getting close to finishing things...only a few more pages left for the site. Once I get there, there are a lot of settings getting reset. For now, I'll add this to my list of notes to check for the next iteration of settings.

Cheers,
Pappy
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pappy_mcfae · Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 6:59 am Post subject:

It's a source-fest yet again, and this time, even hardened sources are represented in the list of the new. I kid you not!

I have just uploaded .configs for 2.6.27.47, 2.6.32.14, 2.6.32-hardened-r7, 2.6.32-zen7-r1, 2.6.33.5, and 2.6.33-zen2-r1 in both x86 and x86_64 flavors. I also added this discussion thread to the main site page. Enjoy!

Cheers,
Pappy

PS, thanks to tomk for sticky-ing this message. I meant to say that earlier.
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dufeu · l33t Joined: 30 Aug 2002 Posts: 924 Location: US-FL-EST

pappy_mcfae · Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 10:58 pm Post subject:

Sharing that kind of experience makes things better for everyone.

Cheers,
Pappy
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cach0rr0 · Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 1:29 am Post subject:

oh for the love of...

they come out with a 2.6.32-hardened kernel *now*, just my luck. I had to abandon btrfs for my VM's because .29 just wouldn't work (epic mount fail!)

3 or 4 days later a build appears that would have had no issue. And now, I can't well go to .32 because I already made most of my partitions reiserv3 (like to avoid BKL).

" :evil:

"

*sigh*

at any rate, about to do a .32 build on the brand new KVM guest that will be my irc server. No btrfs, all reiser, hopefully performance doesn't suck.

At least I don't have to go it alone! I'm sure it will be a breeze as always with the seed, will edit my post with feedback (so as to not clutter thread) once it's done.

pappy_mcfae · Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 2:16 am Post subject:

Clutter away!! That's what the forum is for.

I was thinking about your issue as I watched that kernel version come up. Frankly, I figured that hardened sources was gone, nevermore to be seen. And there it was, after months and months, another version of hardened sources. Will wonders ever cease?

Cheers,
Pappy
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cach0rr0 · Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 8:18 am Post subject:

well after forgetting to build in BTRFS this time, I panicked, thought "oh no, you mean this release can't mount it either?" (NOTE: I'm positive I included it for the original failures, as I was being more careful, and checked!)

facepalm

anyway, all sorted, rebuilt it, and as per usual it ZOOMS. Strangely it has half the memory of the guest functioning as my web server, seems a hell of a lot snappier (web and mail are both the same - headless kvm guests, 2.6.29, no btrfs). If it weren't for fear of BKL, I'd upgrade the other boxes to this build. Long time coming, but I'm very pleased with the work the hardened folks did on this.

If you're interested - tar'd up dmesg

and of course /proc/config.gz

For anyone else wondering, in order to get the hardware to where the above config worked, twas invoked as:

Moriah · Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 6:29 pm Post subject:

I too was interested in using BTRFS for both VM filesystems, and also for backup storage. It would be fairly easy to try if for backup on my laptop -- just grab another laptop-sized SATA-2 drive of rather large size and run my existing backup scripts on it for a while. Of course, I would still have to run the old scripts, just in case BTRFS flops.

Let me know how it works for you, and after a couple of weeks, I will try it if you find not grief.

I am currently 500 miles from home on a consulting gig, or I might even try it on my network backup server, which is where I really need it.
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cach0rr0 · Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 7:43 am Post subject:

Moriah · Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 3:51 am Post subject:

I'm not ready to go to zen on my laptop, as it is my road warrior machine, and I need it to earn my living. I am currently still running Linux gehazi 2.6.31-gentoo-r6 #44 SMP PREEMPT Sun Feb 28 20:35:58 EST 2010 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9400 @ 2.53GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux as per my Pappy's Seeds laptop tread from the earlier part of this year. It has been as solid as a rock, so I don't want to rock the boat.

I only want a dedup filesystem for backups, but if it works well at that, I am ready to try it as a vmware virtual disk store aslo, as it sure would save space with multiple vm's.
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Mike Hunt · Watchman Joined: 19 Jul 2009 Posts: 5287

Hey Pappy,

I knew you be a hippie, or 180 years old on South Fork ranch, or a hillbillie.

At any rate, these days,

I'm using the mrproper defaults (-video drivers, group sched, and a couple other things I know I don't need) for my bzImage

Makes image ~3MB but works great with new hardware.

Example: new nvidia drivers need PCI_MSI to function well. Still works without, but not well.

Surely there are others instances of these.

Cheers,

MH

Moriah · Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 2:52 pm Post subject:

I've got a weird thing happening. On an AMD quad-core, with a 5-bay SATA backplane, I am running the boot drive (a 1TB), a spare drive (also 1TB), and 3 new 2TB drives. Since the drives are new, I am running badblocks on them, as is my usual practice. One of the drives seems to be getting most of the attention, as the top display shows:

Mike Hunt · Watchman Joined: 19 Jul 2009 Posts: 5287

Moriah,

Seems alright to me, what sys-process/htop report.

Htop is usually more accurate that top, and provides a nicer, fuller output.

I also got me a new pair of 1TB WD SATA3 drives. Nice. Didn't do badblocks though. Raided them up. Works like a charm. Dream machine.

Later dude.

Cheers,

MH

aderesch · Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 3:52 pm Post subject:

Moriah · Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 5:25 pm Post subject:

Yikes! So I did!

I did not notice that. That would certainly explain it, wouldn't it? :oops:

I'll fix it right now.

I was hoping that the badblocks would be finished by tomorow night, but now I'm not so sure it will make it. I need to put these drives in service before 1:30 AM EDT Wednesday morning, or I'll miss a day of backups.

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pappy_mcfae · Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 6:26 am Post subject:

Another day, lots more tuxonice source releases. I've just uploaded the .configs for 2.6.30-tuxonice-r11, 2.6.31-tuxonice-r11, 2.6.32-gentoo-r10, and 2.6.32-tuxonice-r9 in both x86 and x86_64 flavors. Enjoy!

Cheers,
Pappy
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Mike Hunt · Watchman Joined: 19 Jul 2009 Posts: 5287

Pappy would I gain any advantage from using a tuxonice image over a gentoo-sources image?

Is there any doc that someone can point me at about this?

This tuxonice appears to be quite popular, for whatever reason.

pappy_mcfae · Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 6:05 pm Post subject:

Not really. The big claim to fame of tuxonice is that it's fully set up to handle hibernation. Along with tuxonice sources, you also get some scripts to make this happen as well. If the ability to hibernate is important, then by all means, use tuxonice sources. If it isn't, then stay where you are.

Other than the ability to hibernate, tuxonice sources are vanilla. For that reason, I can say that you really won't gain much if you switch sources unless hibernation isn't working for you under Gentoo sources.

Cheers,
Pappy
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