fewt@blog:~$ _: Performance Tuning VMWare Server on Ubuntu Linux

fewt@blog:~$ _: Performance Tuning VMWare Server on Ubuntu Linux: "Performance Tuning VMWare Server on Ubuntu Linux"

Great tuning tips for any platform of linux (with appropriate changes for flavour)
Tested and verified on CentOS 4.7 64bit and vmware server 1.06.

Clint Huffman's Windows Performance Blog : Identifying 32-bit Kernel Memory Issues

Clint Huffman's Windows Performance Blog : Identifying 32-bit Kernel Memory Issues: "Identifying 32-bit Kernel Memory Issues"
This is a great source of information on performance analysis.

Installing Mondo Rescue on Clark Connect.

Packages required:-
These worked for me on Clark Connect version 4.3
gzip is installed by default on my system.
mindi-1.2.0-2.rhel4.i586.rpm
mindi-busybox-1.2.2-2.rhel4.i586.rpm
mondo-2.2.0-2.rhel4.i586.rpm

You need to connect in using ssh and install these packages.
dvd+rw-tools
which
afio
mkisofs

apt-get install dvd+rw-tools which afio mkisofs

These versions threw errors after upgrading to them.
mindi-2.0.4-1.rhel4.i386.rpm
mindi-busybox-1.7.3-1.rhel4.i386.rpm
mondo-2.2.7-1.rhel4.i386.rpm

Complaints about mindi errors with /dev/md2
The problem was solved by removing references to LABEL in /etc/fstab
The system involved was using software raid1 but the swap partitions (one per drive) had been created as
LABEL=SWAP-sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
LABEL=SWAP-sdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0
The answer was to change them to /dev/sda2 and /dev/sdb2 respectivly, removing the reference to LABEL.
These latest versions of mondo mindi and mindi-busybox are now working fine.