FW: The rcp worked fine.. Ulimit conquiered....
John Esak
john at valar.com
Thu Jun 3 21:13:51 PDT 2010
Here is some info about the $799 amazing HP servers...
-----Original Message-----
From: Dale [mailto:dale at leemyles.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 11:01 PM
To: john at valar.com
Subject: RE: The rcp worked fine.. Ulimit conquiered....
John the following is the guy I got the servers from and what I got with
prices, feel free to share.
Thanks Dale
From: Recep YORULMAZ [mailto:recep at yorulmaz.com]
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 12:32 PM
To: dale at eganauto.com
Subject: DL380 G4 Servers
Hi Dale,
Per our conversation, your two system will have same configration as
follows;
HP ProLiant DL380 G4 Server
(2x) Dual Intel Xeon 3.6 GHz 2MB Level 2 Cache 800MHz Processors
8GB (2x2GB + 4x1GB) PC2-3200R DDR2 ECC Registered
(6x) 73GB 15K Ultra320 SCSI Hard Drives with Hot Plug Tray
Smart Array 6i Raid Controller - RAID 0, 1, 1+0, 5
(2) Dual 575W Redundant Power Supplies
DVD-ROM / 1.44MB Slimline
Rail Kit Included (Server-side and Rack-side)
30 Day Warranty
PRICE: $777.00 each
I will also add battery backup cache writer with 128Mb ram into your system
for $35.00 extra for each system. ($35.00 x 2 = $70.00)
You also requested 3x HP 72.8GB 15K SCSI Hard Drives with Trays ($45.00 each
x 3 = $135.00)
I will throw 4x power cords and 4x plastik cable organizer for FREE
So, your total becomes $1759.00 with shipping included and I am going to
ship them today.
Please let me know if you need anything else and I also need your PayPal
address to sent you a PayPal invoice.
Best Regards,
Recep Yorulmaz
-----Original Message-----
From: John Esak [mailto:john at valar.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 6:45 AM
To: 'ken white'
Cc: 'Dale Egan'
Subject: RE: The rcp worked fine.. Ulimit conquiered....
Can you email to Ken the place you got these amazing boxes...
Thanks,
John
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ken white [mailto:kenwhite at verizon.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 6:36 PM
> To: john at valar.com
> Subject: Re: The rcp worked fine.. Ulimit conquiered....
>
> where did he buy the server?
>
> I just purchased a dell t310 xenon 3460 hardware raid / 4gb /
> 2x sas 15k
> 146gb drives / 4 ethernet ports but it was not 799
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "John Esak" <john at valar.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 6:28 PM
> To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
> Subject: The rcp worked fine.. Ulimit conquiered....
>
> > Thanks to all responding to the ulimit problem... My
> problem with rcp was
> > a
> > simle one Ken White spotted. I had an error in my .rhosts
> file. Fixed
> > it,
> > fixed the problem.
> >
> > As for the 2Gb ulimit, it is hard and fast in terms of file
> size. I do not
> > know any way around that other than buying a different O/S.
> It's funny,
> > though, I got in my head that filePro's 5.6 broke the
> limit... And so
> > something in me must have concluded that SCO 5.7 was also
> enhanced in that
> > way. It was an all new "buy" in terms of money outlay and
> new licensing
> > protocol, so I guess I just did that bad link up and never
> expected to run
> > into the problem. I was never going to just tarball the
> file system and
> > ftp
> > it across to the other machine, that was only a fallback because I
> > couldn't
> > make rcp work. I thought for some reason because the machines were
> > clones... It had to do with that. Well, the simple typo in
> .rhosts made
> > all
> > this unneccessary, and rcp worked fine. Later I suppose I
> will work out
> > some kind of rsync thing if that's needed, but it really
> isn't. The
> > machine
> > is to accept backups and be a share stop for lots of PC's
> >
> > I will say this... It is the exact machine he bought
> several years ago.
> > First I tried to make a DELL work and couldn't on 5.7
> SCO... So we moved
> > to
> > an HP and it flew just fine. The machine is beyond
> awesome. It had 6
> > 73Gb
> > drives, a DVD, 2 3.0 CPU's, two redundant PS's... A million
> or maybe more
> > GIANT fans.... And it to this day is the fastest machine I
> have ever
> > seen...
> > On all counts. It was several grand when he got it say in
> 2007. Now, he
> > got this clone, well it's a super clone. All the same guts
> motherboard,
> > backplane, etc. But 2 3.6Gb CPU's and 8Gb of memory instead
> of 2Gb on the
> > original mahcine. It has 15k drives instead of 10k... And
> all the same
> > elsewise..... I suppose because of the CPU's, this machine
> is actually
> > even
> > faster... Just amazingly so. Maybe the faster drives, too,
> but I had
> > always
> > thought that the speed of drives is not too much of an
> issue when you are
> > RAID 5'ing them. For whatever reasons, it's a monster. I
> spent 10 minutes
> > trying to fix a problem with one of my "ffind/cpio" scripts
> because it
> > kept
> > returning to the prompt... And not working. Turns out it
> *was* working.
> > It
> > was just instantly returning to the prompt after dumping
> hundreds of megs
> > of
> > data into a tarball.... !!! I simply couldn't believe it
> was actually
> > doing
> > it until I looked. :-)
> > And the point of all this, is... He bought two of these
> machines last week
> > for $799. that's it, oh yeah, they also had a second 6400 2 channel
> > controller for the tape drive. Yes, using a 30 unit SCSI
> adapter for a
> > single tape drive... A little overkill, but the thing was
> essentially
> > free.
> > Also, the guy through in some DAT4 drives for the machine
> as well. I mean
> > $799, I almost bought one, too. First because this machine has been
> > absolutely bullet proof, and second because $799!!!!!!!!
> >
> > Jeez, that has got to be the best deal ever on servers...
> And I believe
> > the
> > guy had 10 of them. He may have some left. I suppose you
> could query Dale
> > Egan as to who on the net is selling these things. Man, if
> my apartment
> > wouldn't have been blown away by the fans and the noise...
> I'd have one
> > this
> > minute. You would all have to see this monster rack item
> to understand
> > why
> > $799 is such a good deal. If you can't imagine it, just
> take my word for
> > it. Of course having a giant rack to put it in is another
> concern. I have
> > only worked with the little racks from olden days.... The
> big ones are
> > pretty damn big. Oh by the way, all the rack hardware to
> slide the whole
> > machine out came included in the $799. yeesh.
> >
> > Okay, I'm done.
> >
> > Well, not quite.
> >
> > Now, I just need to sell him my SCO license, and my FP
> license and get all
> > that stuff rebranded to him, and he'll be off and running.
> >
> > John
> >
> >
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