Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

On 28/08/2022 22:53, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 2:33 PM Wol > wrote: > > On 28/08/2022 22:07, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Is there a particular reason why your mailer inserts the quote character > > only on the first line of a quote

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 2:33 PM Wol wrote: > > On 28/08/2022 22:07, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Is there a particular reason why your mailer inserts the quote character > > only on the first line of a quote paragraph? It makes reading your replies a > > little difficult because it is not

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

Am Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 06:26:39AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > I looked into the Raspberry and the newest version, about $150 now, > doesn't even have SATA ports.  I can add a thing called a "hat" I think > that adds a couple but thing is, that costs more and still isn't > enough. I run a raspi with

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

On 28/08/2022 22:07, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Is there a particular reason why your mailer inserts the quote character only on the first line of a quote paragraph? It makes reading your replies a little difficult because it is not visible on first glance where your quote ends and your reply

Re: [gentoo-user] Limiting amount of memory a program can use.

On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 11:32 AM Wols Lists wrote: > > On 28/08/2022 15:21, Rich Freeman wrote: > > Something I wish linux supported was discardable memory, for > > caches/etc. A program should be able to allocate memory while passing > > a hint to the kernel saying that the memory is

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

Am Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 07:09:32AM -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht: > On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 4:27 AM Dale wrote: > > > > > I looked into the Raspberry and the newest version, about $150 now, > doesn't even have SATA ports. I can add a thing called a "hat" I think > that adds a couple but thing is,

Re: [gentoo-user] Limiting amount of memory a program can use.

On 28/08/2022 15:21, Rich Freeman wrote: Something I wish linux supported was discardable memory, for caches/etc. A program should be able to allocate memory while passing a hint to the kernel saying that the memory is discardable. Linux DOES have that ... I'm not sure how to use it, but you

Re: [gentoo-user] Limiting amount of memory a program can use.

On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 5:25 AM Dale wrote: Is there even a mobo that has a 64GB option??? :/ > > Dale > > :-) :-) My ROG Strix 570 MB handles up to 128GB. The board and that much memory is pretty expensive though. As to your question I suspect sticking the app in a VM would more completely

Re: [gentoo-user] Limiting amount of memory a program can use.

On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 8:24 AM Dale wrote: > > What I would like to do is limit the amount of memory torrent > software can use. While ulimit/cgroups/etc will definitely do the job, they're probably not the solution you want. Those will cause memory allocation to fail, and I'm guessing at that

Re: [gentoo-user] Limiting amount of memory a program can use.

On Sunday, 28 August 2022 14:03:00 BST you wrote: > On Sunday, 28 August 2022 13:56:09 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Sunday, 28 August 2022 13:24:46 BST Dale wrote: > > > Is this something I do on the command line or a setting is some file > > > somewhere? I don't even know where to start on

Re: [gentoo-user] Limiting amount of memory a program can use.

On Sunday, 28 August 2022 13:56:09 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday, 28 August 2022 13:24:46 BST Dale wrote: > > Is this something I do on the command line or a setting is some file > > somewhere? I don't even know where to start on this. By the way, I'm > > maxed out at 32GBs of memory for

Re: [gentoo-user] Limiting amount of memory a program can use.

On Sunday, 28 August 2022 13:24:46 BST Dale wrote: > Is this something I do on the command line or a setting is some file > somewhere? I don't even know where to start on this. By the way, I'm > maxed out at 32GBs of memory for this mobo. So adding memory isn't a > option. Is there even a

[gentoo-user] Limiting amount of memory a program can use.

Howdy, As most know, I got a much faster internet and I use torrent software, quite a lot.  I was using Ktorrent and it was OK but it was slow.  I started using Qbittorrent and like it better in a way but it has its own speed issues and both affect my desktop response.  I did some googling and

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

On Sunday, 28 August 2022 00:30:08 BST Dale wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 4:37 PM Mark Knecht > > > > wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 4:21 PM Dale > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I have looked into