CentOS 5 Hardware :: Low Power Usage / Low Noise Hardware For 5.3 Recommendations?
Apr 12, 2009
I'm looking at various low power consumption system options for running CentOS 5 on. The goal is to get a system that draws 20 watts or less, is silent (but I'll settle for very quiet), and is fast enough to be a light duty server. The kinds of things I envisage for it are low volume mail, http, ftp, subversion, ssh, maybe samba, and perhaps asterisk if I get enthused enough. Wireless network support isn't something I'll need and realistically the system is going to spend most of its running life being idle. I don't foresee any particular need to run X on it as I imagine that if I ever need to configure something graphically I'll do so by forwarding X over ssh.
I'm leaning towards the Asus Eee Box B202 as it's readily available, seems to be in the ball park of what I want, and I see on the forums here that other people have had success running CentOS 5 on it. Still, I'd prefer a silent system (though I suspect silent systems may only be available at a premium). So I'm after war stories and recommendations. What other low power systems have you run? For the Eee Box B202 or other system what kinds of real world power usage figures have you seen with CentOS when idle and when under load? Did the system perform below your expectations? If you needed to change the hardware (say, replace or upgrade the hard drive), was that straightforward or was it a chore?
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Jul 12, 2011
I'm trying to get the HP Proliant DL120 G6 server a lot quieter after startup under Ubuntu Server 11.04 (x64).
For now, it seems like there is no fan control at all: when I start the server, the fans start running at max speed, then it slightly lowers to 3.5K-5K RPM. Once there, it never goes down or up. There's just no fan or power control at all.
In no specific order, I will describe as much as I can my situation.
The system is IPMI 2.0 compliant, so when using the ipmitool package I can get the values of the sensors like this:
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I tried to follow the procedures for using the fancontrol package together with lm-sensors, as shown at [url]. One of the very first steps is to launch "sensors-detect", which gives:
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Jan 4, 2011
Linux OS: Ubuntu 10.10..In Windows, we can use Device Manager to check the power usage of my USB devices (like my WiFi adapter use 500mA). How to check this under linux?The purpose of asking this question is just to learn.
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Apr 26, 2011
I've installed Xfce power manager via Ubuntu, but I have no idea how to use it, even after a restart still no change. I've gone through Control Center and even searching for it, but alas no sign of it anywhere.This is the command I ran via Terminal.
Code:
$ sudo apt-get install xfce4-power-manager.I'm on Natty Beta 2,
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Jan 11, 2010
I've got two servers that are (as far as I'm aware) exactly the same. Both are Dell PE1850 with the same hardware configuration, both are running of FC12, both have the same deamons running (except number 1 runs apache/php and number 2 runs mysqld). The same modules are activated for the kernel. I still have to dubbelcheck the BIOS settings, but they should be all the same.
But the power consumption of both systems is very different! A graph of the power usage is attached to this post, the spikes are reboots. Anyone can help me on finding out which system difference between these systems is causing the power consumption differences?
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Jul 27, 2010
Since I own one of those Centrino based Core 2 notebooks that create annoying buzzing noises when idle (= entering C3 or C4 power saving states), I'm looking for a program that creates artificial CPU usage. It should allow me to limit the CPU usage to a certain percentage (I know that there are a lot of easy ways to create 100% usage ;-).
Another option would be to disable the C3 or C4 states, but in newer kernels the sysfs interface to set the max_cstate on-the-fly was removed for some reason, and I don't always want to reboot after switching from AC to battery (and vice versa).
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Mar 7, 2009
I'm looking for a rock solid stable USB wireless driver supported in CentOS 5.2 or even 5.3 (when it's released). I'd like specific manufacturer and model recommendations if possible. I want to stay away from zd1211rw and ndiswrapper.
I've tried a zd1211rw based SMC device with miserable results. I backported the USB IDs from 2.6.25 to get it working, as well as tried the RHEL 5.3 backported module. With both, zd1211rw intermittently creates a soft lockup situation where all ptys and ttys freeze. Pings, and other non-{p,t}ty services still work okay, but I have to halt via the power switch then reboot to get things back to normal.
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May 15, 2010
I just installed 5.4 on a home machine and I would like to get a UPS that will auto shutdown the server if the power goes out. Here an inexpensive tripplite from Costco. [URL] I only need it to shut down the 1 centos 5.4 machine if the power fails. Tripplite has linux software now that will shutdown machines. [URL]
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Jun 17, 2015
Since according to liquorix.net the kernel
Code: Select alluname -a
Linux t 4.0-5.dmz.3-liquorix-amd64 #1 ZEN SMP PREEMPT Debian 4.0-12 (2015-06-14) x86_64 GNU/Linux
incorporates Zen Interactive Tuning and this
[URL] .... wrote:Tunes the kernel for responsiveness at the cost of throughput and power usage.
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Dec 17, 2009
I'm setting up an email server for a small office and need a few specific features. I was hoping that someone might give me a few recommendations to meet the following criteria:
IMAP support anti-spam some sort of webmail client - doesn't have to be fancy, but it needs a search function graphical administration panel The last one is so that other people in the office, who aren't necessarily familiar with linux, can do some basic administration. Adding mail boxes, etc.
I've seen the guide for Postfix/Dovecot. That's great but doesn't cover everything that I need. I've also seen Zimbra, which... Well I don't know, that may work, but the open source version has some features removed and that makes me leery. Have people had good experiences with open-source Zimbra? Is it sufficiently feature-complete?
Edit: Well, looks like I just needed to do a little more searching. This seems to cover most everything:[URL]... I'd still like to hear what people have to say about Zimbra though.
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Dec 23, 2009
We have 6 Dell r610 running CentOS 5.4 with stock kernels, with a couple of Broadcom NetExtreme II 5706c 1GB NICs in them. The NICs are flaking under load, and we'd like to try some alternative NICs (in additional to playing around with driver and firmware upgrades to see if the Netextreme II's can be made stable). Assuming we do not want to do bonding or TOE and just want basic solid transport, can anyone recommend a server NIC that is rock solid with CentOS 5.4? The goal is stable as source-able, we just want to get some baseline functionality up and running while we fight the broadcom issues.
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May 2, 2010
I am looking for recommendations on open source accounting software for small business that could be run via web interface on CentOS 5.The more user friendly it is the better. Users use the windows platform for their desktop environment.
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Feb 28, 2010
I built a home server (NAS/WWW/SSH/media server etc) and chose CentOS 5 as the OS (stability, easy of configuration).I was just about to start tuning the power consumption when I realised that the kernel CentOS uses is so "old" that it does not support the latest reduced power consumption enhancements that Linux has achieved in big strides in the recent past (we are probably still talking 6-12+ months ago e.g. tickless kernel)..
So my questions; 1) I know CentOS was maybe not meant for home servers (certainly its not its primary purpose), but if it is, any ideas of what kind of power consumption it takes (I know its relative) and if there are particular power consumptions that are worthwhile?
2) Do you recommend me compiling my own 2.6.21+ kernel from kernel.org or am I just likely to have compatibility issues (I really did not want to do that) or when is CentOS 5.4 supposed to have a newer 2.6.21+ version kernel?
Was it wrong of me in principle to choose CentOS for a home server when I am power conscious? (I don't have a low-power VIA processor either but a P4 so I am really just hoping to make do with software changes).
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Aug 18, 2010
I need to limit the ram usage under the below scenario,
" having 8GB of ram, need to limit the ram usage up to 4GB, thereafter must use swap only"
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Apr 5, 2011
I am calling clock_gettime() function to get time with nano seconds accuracy. My program works fine on Ubuntu but have high CPU usage problem on CentOS 5. it takes 40% CPU on Ubuntu and 90% CPU on CentOS. Kindly give me solution so that I can reduce high CPU usage problem on CentOS. You can build this code like: "gcc -lrt gettime.c -o gettime.e"
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Mar 16, 2010
I am trying to get my head around my new server. I am using CENTOS 5.4 x86_64 with 300GB harddrive.
The 300 GB been partitioned with the following:
Device Size Used Available Percent Used Mount Point
/dev/md0 99M 18M 77M 19% /boot
/dev/md1 16G 8.7G 5.8G 61% /
/dev/md2 246G 40G 194G 18% /home
/dev/md3 4.8G 1.6G 3.0G 35% /var
/usr/tmpDSK 3.9G 432M 3.3G 12% /tmp
I have increased teh tmpDSK as it was getting full very quickly. My question is, what are these md0; md1, md2 and md3 are they harddrive partitions and as md1 is getting full will that have an impact on my sites.
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Jul 14, 2010
My Centos PC has got 1 gig of rams. I'm running a webserver with 2 websites and a mysql service. also i need to start two other programs, which uses ~300-350 mbs/each. My memory usage without them is around 450-500 without them. It was 100MB~ free with everything i need on a sec ago. I've refreshed those two sites and it was ~50 left. SO what, site refresh for each user takes 20 megabytes or something? Is there any way to lower the overall usage without turning off mysql, apache and the two other programs? If there is how? And about number read, it says in the top command on mem like 4.4, 1.2, 2.0, etc.
What does that mean? I thought it's like 2.0=20 megabytes, but it doesn't add up to 450-500 then. And by the way, swap memory is 0kb. I have no possibility adding more rams except paying more 5 dollars a month for another 512. 5$/month is a lot for me (sounds funny)? Check out my country, you'll have to rethink. Especially being a student with no possibility to find a job). As for webhostings, i cannot find anything for free, that I could host my wehsites with ping less than 100 actually. Or <80 if say, then it's php memory limit is too low for my WP blog needs.
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Jun 7, 2010
Im looking for an app pr line of code that could let me observe a process, save the info in a number of variable and then put the gathered info on a file.
Ive been trying with variations of top but no luck. I am running several CentOS virtual servers, VM is 2gb ram 2 processor.
Maybe a script that works over a specified amount of time while writing lines with the info on a text file so at the end i can have a sort of table with the data.
The thing is Im going to stress test the server and I would like to have the data to make some statistics.
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Mar 2, 2010
is there any software which can show us real time monitoring of ISA2006 usage(for example as we can see in WinGate software)
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Aug 13, 2011
I was looking into using control groups to limit the memory usage of each user on my CentOS system. I was told that this required me to recompile the kernel to have cgroup support. Is this true? Or is there a kernel module that will allow cgroups to work for users and groups on the system without kernel re-compile? Or, is there another way to limit the users memory usage? I have tried ulimit and it doesn't seem to work right.
I ask since this setup will be on a VPS system, that means to re-compile the kernel I need to use Xen instead of OpenVZ. Plus I have never in my life re-compiled the kernel, least of all with different modules ha ha ha so I would have to pay my NOC to do it. So if I don't HAVE to recompile the kernel to get cgroup support.
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May 4, 2010
The problems I was having earlier: [URL]seemed to be solved.
I was not getting any error messages after restart. I should have powered down fully, but did not think that it would make a difference. :(
The same issue is again occurring, but after shutdown ONLY and only on the first boot. After the first boot, a system restart will not cause any error messages. (I have rebooted at least ten or twenty times to make sure)
But after a system shutdown, the first boot hangs up and I get the
"Red Hat nash version 5.1.19.6 starting hdb: timeout waiting for DMA hdb: drive not ready for command"
errors five or six times before each boot. Also the system boots very slowly the first time.
I used the getinfo.sh all command and posted the info to the suggested site here: [URL]
Is it possible this could be a hardware issue? This is an old salvaged HDD. Ive changed everything I c an think of in the BIOS with no results.
I have used the hdparm -d /dev/hdb command and verified that dma is not being used on initial boot or after a shutoff but IS being used after a reboot...
here are the HDD settings
/dev/hdb:
multcount = 16 (on)
IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit)
unmaskirq = 0 (off)
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Jun 7, 2009
I am about to purchase a new external hard drive which will be driven through the USB port. It will probably be a 1.0 TB drive from Frys/CompUSA/MicroCenter or some discount source. It will probably come formatted to run on a Windows machine and I intend this drive to be run only from my Linux laptop. I'd like to format it to be able to make the most of it from my Linux machine. Although re-formatting may not be absolutely necessary, as it probably will work "OK" just out of the box as is, how can I format it to get the maximum usage out of this new drive?
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Jun 23, 2009
I've run into a problem gathering usage for my xen virtual systems. With my old model I used to gather all network usage via my cisco devices using the the counters for each port. Each system had it's own port on the switch, and I tracked network usage accordingly. Now that I'm using xen for virtual systems, and multiple vm's share the same switch port, i'm not exactly sure what my best option is for tracking usage.
I thought I may be able to setup vlans on the switch, and bind each vm to a different vlan using vconfig... but it seems like there has to be a better solution than that.
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Jan 7, 2010
A lot of activity is happening on our local server and I want to know which port is getting the most used and which daemon is using the port. I think it will be some modification of netstat command.
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Mar 15, 2010
I was trying to get the status of memory usage and disk usage using sigar in windows and ubuntu. done this in windows by just copying the sigar library into jdk library. But i was unable to do so in ubuntu. I've copied the library to java-6-sun library but still can't run the program.
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Sep 19, 2009
I had a power failure the other day and my server shutdown abruptly. After bringing the server up I noticed that the /var partition came up as read only. I was not able to edit the crontab, not able to write to files within /var/log/ and do other write operations within /var.
I did a mount and it showed that /var was mounted read and write but when trying to run certain operations the system was still saying that it was read only.
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Dec 15, 2009
This OS is has been cloned from the drive of another computer. The motherboard is now an SIS730. I assume the hardware is sufficiently different to prevent the OS from shutting down the computer.How do I fix this? ---without installing, if possible.
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Dec 10, 2010
I'm running into a problem where my system is running out of disk space on the root partition, but I can't figure out where the runaway usage is. I've had a stable system for a couple of years now, and it just ran out of space. I cleaned some files up to get the system workable again, but can't find the big usage area, and I'm getting conflicting results.For example, when I do a df it says I'm using 44GB out of 58 GB:
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[root@Zion ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
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Nov 15, 2010
Is there any way to monitor one process' CPU usage and RAM usage over time on Linux? I am trying to change to a cheaper VPS and need to work out what level of CPU and RAM I need!
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Jul 13, 2009
I have built a Centos 5.3 server for a friend of mine that is being used as a NAS server. The server has 4 1TB drives in a RAID 5 configuration and a dedicated non raid system drive for the OS. My friend isnt very Linux literate so I need this bow to be relatively simple. I have worked most of it out but have a question with regards to remote reboot.
I need to be able to shut this device down through the power switch without human intervention (at the moment when the power switch is pushed the server asks to confirm shutdown) the server wont have a Monitor connected so this isn't practical. Is it possible to use the power switch to do an clean, immediate shutdown?
The other option is shutdown through a web page is this something that has been done before? I know he can do it through terminal by issuing a shutdown now command but as I said this guy wants something simple. I don't really want to explain everytime he needs to shut the Server down how to do it if he can just do it via a website or even with the power button.
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