Re: [vserver] CentOS 5.3 host update/upgrade

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

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> 
> 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