Am 22.07.2011 00:35, schrieb walt:
On 07/20/2011 10:54 PM, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
So not sure about march=native now as it is only what was built with
native thats been problematic.
Makes me wonder if gcc and glibc need to be recompiled with arch=native
before rebuilding the rest of the
The 21/07/11, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:14:11 -0500, Dale wrote:
It's the standard video driver, x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa
And I change nvidia to vesa or do I need to unmerge nvidia first?
If you keep xorg.conf, change it to use vesa.
Or move it to /root.
The 21/07/11, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
The 21/07/11, Dale wrote:
I have not been able to get the nv drivers to work. It has been so
long since I had to use them, it appears I have forgot how to use
them. I'm not sure I have ever used them since I been using Gentoo.
Try VESA.
I would
On Thursday 21 July 2011 21:44:51 Alan McKinnon wrote:
Sounds like a case for a swap partition that can be activated when you
need it for big emerges. I hit the same thing with firefox-5 oddly
enough.
I have one smallish swap partition at PRI=10 and a bigger one at PRI=1.
As for OOo, long
Am 21.07.2011 20:38, schrieb Mick:
Whatever Dale had on his machine must have infected mine! LOL!
A 32bit x86 box with KDE4.6, running firefox-3.6.17 and xulrunner-1.9.2.17
after a few hours and loads of tabs (sometimes up to 15 or so) eventually
hangs X.
I had the same problem with
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 22:16:41 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote:
Think of it this way: You have a house with an attic. Now the attic is
not as efficient as say, the middle of your living room. You have a
Christmas tree, but you only use that Christmas tree maybe once a year.
Now it's much more
On Friday 22 July 2011 13:54:09 Sebastian Beßler wrote:
Am 21.07.2011 20:38, schrieb Mick:
Whatever Dale had on his machine must have infected mine! LOL!
A 32bit x86 box with KDE4.6, running firefox-3.6.17 and
xulrunner-1.9.2.17 after a few hours and loads of tabs (sometimes up to
15
On Thursday 21 July 2011 19:38:53 Mick wrote:
Whatever Dale had on his machine must have infected mine! LOL!
A 32bit x86 box with KDE4.6, running firefox-3.6.17 and xulrunner-1.9.2.17
after a few hours and loads of tabs (sometimes up to 15 or so) eventually
hangs X.
I can switch to a
Am 22.07.2011 15:13, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann:
maybe it is not KDE's fault when firefox is badly coded?
Lets think.
KDE4+Firefox = X hangs and firefox can't be killed
XFCE4+Firefox = no problems
Sure, it has to be firefox
Oh and a test 20 minutes ago showed
KDE4+Chromium = X hangs and
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
Its more how much i/o rather than the size. If you have a bunch of
stuff swapped out, but it hardly ever needs to be swapped in, the
impact will be low.
Keep an eye on the use with vmstat;
adam@rix ~ $ vmstat 5
procs
On Friday 22 July 2011 16:39:41 Sebastian Beßler did opine thusly:
Am 22.07.2011 15:13, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann:
maybe it is not KDE's fault when firefox is badly coded?
Lets think.
KDE4+Firefox = X hangs and firefox can't be killed
XFCE4+Firefox = no problems
Sure, it has to be
On Friday 22 July 2011 16:39:41 Sebastian Beßler wrote:
Am 22.07.2011 15:13, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann:
maybe it is not KDE's fault when firefox is badly coded?
Lets think.
KDE4+Firefox = X hangs and firefox can't be killed
XFCE4+Firefox = no problems
Sure, it has to be firefox
Oh
On Thursday 21 July 2011 17:26:33 kashani did opine thusly:
On 7/21/2011 4:53 PM, Grant wrote:
So swap isn't treated exactly like RAM. It actually has special
handling in Linux which makes it beneficial to have on almost
any
Linux system? According to Alan, things get very bad when a
On Thursday 21 July 2011 21:08:49 Albert Hopkins did opine thusly:
When a linux machine hits swap, it does so very aggressively,
there is nothing nice about it at all. The entire machine slows
to a painstaking crawl for easily a minute at a time while the
kernel writes pages out to disk,
Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
The 21/07/11, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
The 21/07/11, Dale wrote:
I have not been able to get the nv drivers to work. It has been so
long since I had to use them, it appears I have forgot how to use
them. I'm not sure I have ever used them since I been using
Am 22.07.2011 17:05, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann:
and you strace'd firefox, X or chromium to see where this stuff hangs, did
you?
No I did not, a strace is only as good as the person who can read it,
and in my case is that not much, not because I'm too stupid but because
I rather let my
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:39:49AM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote:
Spelunking in /etc/rc.conf, I found the rc_parallel setting,
accompanied with a quite significant WARNING.
Have anyone experienced any trouble setting rc_parallel to YES?
I did. I have a net configuration with some VLAN. Each VLAN
Am 22.07.2011 16:57, schrieb Alan McKinnon:
It may look like KDE is the likely culprit based on just the
information you provide, but I would be more inclined to look at
browser plugins first, concentrating on those with both Firefox and
Chromium versions from the same developer team.
I
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 10:54:09AM -0500, Dale wrote:
Just picking a post to reply here and it may have a good point. I
was browsing around to see what software I had for my UPS. I
thought I would download the thing, untar it and just check out the
README file to see what would be involved
Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 10:54:09AM -0500, Dale wrote:
Just picking a post to reply here and it may have a good point. I
was browsing around to see what software I had for my UPS. I
thought I would download the thing, untar it and just check out the
README file to
Assuming you have the concept right, if I have 'MaxClients 50' and
'MaxSpareServers 10', there should never be more than 60 apache2
processes running and I should be able to serve up to 50 simultaneous
TCP sessions?
I'd guess it wouldnt go past 50.
Can anyone explain why I have 20 apache2
Then why not have a really big swap file? If swap is useful as a
second layer of caching behind RAM, why doesn't everyone with some
extra hard drive space have a 100GB swap file?
You've not understood what I said, I think. Swap is not useful as
filesystem cache. Swap is as efficient
...
To confuse you even more, there is a swappiness setting as well. On my old
x86 rig, I have 2Gbs of ram. My hard drive is really slow since it is IDE.
I set swappiness to 20. That tells the kernel that I have swap space but
don't use it unless you must. For what I use the rig for, 2Gbs
On Friday 22 Jul 2011 17:18:40 Sebastian Beßler wrote:
Am 22.07.2011 17:05, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann:
and you strace'd firefox, X or chromium to see where this stuff hangs,
did you?
No I did not, a strace is only as good as the person who can read it,
and in my case is that not much,
...
Then why not have a really big swap file? If swap is useful as a
second layer of caching behind RAM, why doesn't everyone with some
extra hard drive space have a 100GB swap file?
I have 12GB of RAM and 12GB of swap on my main PC. Why? Because... why
not? :) After 5 days uptime, it
...
Then why not have a really big swap file? If swap is useful as a
second layer of caching behind RAM, why doesn't everyone with some
extra hard drive space have a 100GB swap file?
I have 12GB of RAM and 12GB of swap on my main PC. Why? Because... why
not? :) After 5 days uptime, it
On Friday 22 July 2011 19:13:35 Grant wrote:
Wouldn't a sufficiently large swap (100GB for example) completely prevent
out of memory conditions and the oom-killer?
Of course, on any system with more than a few dozen MB of RAM, but I can't
imagine any combination of running programs whose size
Grant wrote:
...
To confuse you even more, there is a swappiness setting as well. On my old
x86 rig, I have 2Gbs of ram. My hard drive is really slow since it is IDE.
I set swappiness to 20. That tells the kernel that I have swap space but
don't use it unless you must. For what I use
On Friday 22 July 2011 19:46:25 Grant wrote:
That's what I'm curious about. If some swap is good, why isn't more
better? Paul has demonstrated that a Linux system will put at least
10GB to use and probably much more given the opportunity. Disk space
is so cheap, why isn't everyone running
On Friday, July 22 at 11:46 (-0700), Grant said:
That's what I'm curious about. If some swap is good, why isn't more
better? Paul has demonstrated that a Linux system will put at least
10GB to use and probably much more given the opportunity. Disk space
is so cheap, why isn't everyone
On Friday, July 22 at 19:55 (+0100), Peter Humphrey said:
Wouldn't a sufficiently large swap (100GB for example) completely
prevent
out of memory conditions and the oom-killer?
Of course, on any system with more than a few dozen MB of RAM, but I
can't
imagine any combination of
On Friday 22 July 2011 18:41:26 Sebastian Beßler wrote:
Am 22.07.2011 16:57, schrieb Alan McKinnon:
It may look like KDE is the likely culprit based on just the
information you provide, but I would be more inclined to look at
browser plugins first, concentrating on those with both Firefox
Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Friday 22 July 2011 19:13:35 Grant wrote:
Wouldn't a sufficiently large swap (100GB for example) completely prevent
out of memory conditions and the oom-killer?
Of course, on any system with more than a few dozen MB of RAM, but I can't
imagine any
Hi,
I would like to offer to some friends similar service
as i.e. dyndns.org does: FQDN for their dynamic IP.
But I have no idea how to set-up my bind for this task.
And what is even worse, they are mostly running Windows.
IIRC, dyndns.org (and similar services) offer some
kind of end-user
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
...
Then why not have a really big swap file? If swap is useful as a
second layer of caching behind RAM, why doesn't everyone with some
extra hard drive space have a 100GB swap file?
I have 12GB of RAM and 12GB of swap on my
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I would like to offer to some friends similar service
as i.e. dyndns.org does: FQDN for their dynamic IP.
But I have no idea how to set-up my bind for this task.
And what is even worse, they are mostly running Windows.
On Friday, July 22 at 11:13 (-0700), Grant said:
That all makes perfect sense. So the reason a swap larger than maybe
1GB is not usually implemented is because idle processes don't
normally have more than a few hundred MB of pages in memory?
That's not entirely true, either. For example,
On 07/22/2011 11:13 AM, Grant wrote:
Wouldn't a sufficiently large swap (100GB for example) completely
prevent out of memory conditions and the oom-killer?
There's always someone who can pull a corner case out of his hat :)
I can't remember the details now, but there was a piece of code in
Howdy,
I noticed the new kernel in the tree. Anybody know whether make
oldconfig will work when coming from a 2.6.39 series kernel? Since I'm
having issues right now, I wouldn't mind trying to new and improved,
hopefully, version.
I just had a thought, what are the odds the nvidia drivers
Am 23.07.2011 00:54, schrieb Dale:
Howdy,
I noticed the new kernel in the tree. Anybody know whether make
oldconfig will work when coming from a 2.6.39 series kernel? Since I'm
having issues right now, I wouldn't mind trying to new and improved,
hopefully, version.
I just had a
On 22 July 2011 15:54, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
I noticed the new kernel in the tree. Anybody know whether make oldconfig
will work when coming from a 2.6.39 series kernel? Since I'm having issues
right now, I wouldn't mind trying to new and improved, hopefully, version.
Despite the
On 07/23/2011 01:54 AM, Dale wrote:
Howdy,
I noticed the new kernel in the tree. Anybody know whether make
oldconfig will work when coming from a 2.6.39 series kernel? Since I'm
having issues right now, I wouldn't mind trying to new and improved,
hopefully, version.
I just had a thought, what
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
Am 23.07.2011 00:54, schrieb Dale:
Howdy,
I noticed the new kernel in the tree. Anybody know whether make
oldconfig will work when coming from a 2.6.39 series kernel? Since I'm
having issues right now, I wouldn't mind trying to new and improved,
hopefully,
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Howdy,
I noticed the new kernel in the tree. Anybody know whether make oldconfig
will work when coming from a 2.6.39 series kernel? Since I'm having issues
right now, I wouldn't mind trying to new and improved, hopefully,
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 07/23/2011 01:54 AM, Dale wrote:
Howdy,
I noticed the new kernel in the tree. Anybody know whether make
oldconfig will work when coming from a 2.6.39 series kernel? Since I'm
having issues right now, I wouldn't mind trying to new and improved,
hopefully, version.
I
Hi everyone,
First, thanks for all the input regarding CFLAGS.
Can I be honest here? My technical skills don't seem to be anywhere
near on a par with most of the people on this list. I've been using
Gentoo since 2004 and the reason I do, is for the control that I have
over my system.
Because
Is there anyone who can help me recover my raid array?
On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 20:43 -0400, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 09:06 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
On 07/18/2011 11:08 PM, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
Pardon my additional questions before taking the plunge here.
Hi All,
I recently ran an emerge -NDuav on my system and world lists, and now I
can't start X and keep the keyboard or mouse operating.
Is this a known issue? Any simple fixes?
Thanks in advance
Jeff
On Friday, July 22 at 18:42 (-0500), Dale said:
I sort of hate to hear there are no major changes. I was hoping for
a
fix on my kernel panic problem. Oh well. I'll upgrade anyway.
Maybe
it will help.
Fixing a kernel bug is not considered a major change. A major change
would be
On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 22:00 -0400, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
Hi All,
I recently ran an emerge -NDuav on my system and world lists, and now I
can't start X and keep the keyboard or mouse operating.
Is this a known issue? Any simple fixes?
Thanks in advance
Jeff
Did you follow the
On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 21:53 -0400, CJoeB wrote:
Hi everyone,
First, thanks for all the input regarding CFLAGS.
Can I be honest here? My technical skills don't seem to be anywhere
near on a par with most of the people on this list. I've been using
Gentoo since 2004 and the reason I do,
On Sat, 2011-07-23 at 10:18 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 22:00 -0400, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
Hi All,
I recently ran an emerge -NDuav on my system and world lists, and now I
can't start X and keep the keyboard or mouse operating.
Is this a known issue? Any
On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 22:39 -0400, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
On Sat, 2011-07-23 at 10:18 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 22:00 -0400, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
Hi All,
I recently ran an emerge -NDuav on my system and world lists, and now I
can't start X and keep the
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 6:53 PM, CJoeB colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi everyone,
First, thanks for all the input regarding CFLAGS.
Can I be honest here? My technical skills don't seem to be anywhere
near on a par with most of the people on this list. I've been using
Gentoo since 2004
As part of Project:Protogenoi [1], I am planning to replace root with
a united filesystem using aufs. The layers will be:
Top: /dev/xvda3 (Xen/XenServer Virtual Disk device)
Bottom: /.root.sqfs
The aim would be to generate the smallest .xva (XenServer Virtual
Appliance) possible. To achieve
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