Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Best way to improve interactivity with heavy disk activity?

2010-11-28 Thread App Deb
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 7:39 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: I'm confused about which of all these various mechanisms apply to single-cpu machines.  AFAICT Con's BFS (e.g.) is really a CPU scheduler and doesn't affect single-cpu machines very much.  What about CFQ and group scheduling?  

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to improve interactivity with heavy disk activity?

2010-11-27 Thread App Deb
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: Hi there, As per subject, what's the best way to improve interactivity with heavy disk activity, please? Or perhaps a better question would be: what approaches are available? Presently my main Linux system is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Best way to improve interactivity with heavy disk activity?

2010-11-27 Thread App Deb
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 2:13 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 11/28/2010 01:03 AM, Stroller wrote: On 27/11/2010, at 10:22pm, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: The ck patch set does not support group scheduling anyway; Now I'm a little more confused. Does `ionice` need the CFQ

Re: [gentoo-user] Varying clocks freqs of CPU ?

2010-11-25 Thread App Deb
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 7:00 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi,  new features, new problems...  Recent multi-core CPUs modify the clock freqs of their core  if only a subset of all cores are used.  Are their any CONFIGs need to be set in the linux kernel to  guarantee a stable system

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: State of Radeon drivers

2010-07-27 Thread App Deb
If you are going to use any *nix, nvidia is the best option for years now. The nvidia closed source drivers are of professional quality and have great performance. Actually they are the *standard* for graphics in *nix, and many (professional or not) applications actually support only nvidia. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: State of Radeon drivers

2010-07-27 Thread App Deb
of other funky stuff and keep people from being able to fully use the full extend of X. Just search this list (among others) for xRanderer and other components of X and you'll see the full story of nVidia's proprietary driver. Ben *From:* App Deb appde...@gmail.com *To:* gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] libvirt needs VirtualBox XPCOMC

2010-07-16 Thread App Deb
; if it has more than one conflicting USE flags, warn the user and use a default flag; anyway, it should never fail, specially like that. :-) On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 1:11 PM, App Deb appde...@gmail.com wrote: Do you want to use libvirt with virtualbox? If not (say you want to use it with kvm

Re: [gentoo-user] Virtualbox USB w/o usbfs

2010-07-15 Thread App Deb
You should never add that line in fstab in Gentoo. Don't follow random tutorials about random distro workarounds. Gentoo bootscripts mount usbfs on boot with gid=group=usb, so if you want to give user permissions for usbfs, you add yourself to the usb group, you don't need to do anything else, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-07 Thread App Deb
You have dual core so 60% means: 50% (full one core) is for decoding, and the rest 10% is for audio, resizing etc. You can't play the video correctly because your decoder is not multithreaded and uses just the one CPU at its fullest. Try using multithreaded version of mplayer mplayer-mt (in

Re: [gentoo-user] (gnome) default pdf viewer

2010-07-07 Thread App Deb
Right click on a pdf file, select properties - open with - and select evince instead of acroread. That it the way to easily change default applications for gnome. On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, I've discovered balsa , a great mail

Re: [gentoo-user] (gnome) default pdf viewer

2010-07-07 Thread App Deb
or search and delete the file that you told me (wine-extension-pdf). The previous gnome instructions I told you should have worked though. On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: On 07/07/10 12:45:05, App Deb wrote: Right click on a pdf file, select

Re: [gentoo-user] libvirt needs VirtualBox XPCOMC

2010-07-07 Thread App Deb
Do you want to use libvirt with virtualbox? If not (say you want to use it with kvm or something else) try emerging libvirt without the virtualbox flag using package.use . Else try emerging virtualbox-ose or virtualbox-bin befire libvirt. But this is probably a bug? libvirt should have