Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:37:11 -0600 From: Darcy Grant To: Carey Williamson Subject: [Fwd: uml] Hi Carey, Apparently something is up with the latest assignment and the servers are getting hammered. Below is a solution to the issue, which should make the students happy. Their is another e-mail with some more details coming after this one. D -------- Original Message -------- Subject: uml Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:02:30 -0600 From: Thushyanthan Amirthalingam To: Darcy Grant There is apparently a big assignment due and students are doing something that requires 32-bit computing. Or at least cannot do on 64-bit machines. So, the compute servers are being clobbered for space and students are on a deadline. Apparently. I talked to Wayne and he suggested putting their unpacked filesystems on /home/scratch/uml I've done this and chmod'ed it 1777 Students will need to edit - /usr/uml/457-init and - /usr/uml/startuml The best thing to do is copy these two files into their home directories and: 1. Edit 457-init (in homedir) and change the following line: DESTDIR=/home/scratch/uml/$USERNAME/uml 2. Edit startuml (in homedir) and change the following line: UMLDIR=/home/scratch/uml/${USERNAME:$-USER}/uml/ They can then run the virtual machines from any of the 32-bit compute servers. Thanks D -------- Original Message -------- Subject: uml addendum Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:04:26 -0600 From: Thushyanthan Amirthalingam To: Darcy Grant If the students want to save their existing work on uml, they can copy their /tmp/$USERNAME tree to /home/scratch/uml/$USERNAME The students need to run uml from the compute servers. Wayne has assured me that /home/scratch/uml will be deleted after April 30th, 2010.