Re: [gentoo-user] Swap performance

2011-05-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
to disk), The result: the whole mess is fscking slow. You can have a nice fat raid with nice and fast harddisks - if you try to stream to a 15 year old DLT drive with 5/10mb/sec speed the dlt drive will constantly rewind - because harddisks suck when they have to seek. And swap (just like

Re: [gentoo-user] chrome and everything

2011-06-02 Thread Mike Edenfield
Gentoo ~amd64 box ever since Flash plugin 10.3 was released. Constantly freezing UI, flash video still showing when when window is closed, etc. With earlier 10.x series it was (mostly) okay, it was definitely usable. With 10.3 so far it is basically a waste of time to try loading any flash

Re: [gentoo-user] Threads changing Was: OT: website design

2011-06-05 Thread Indi
, and eventually that snowballs into a level of complexity which frustrates me and then I just end up putting ~x86 in make.conf. Anyway, I do use some gtk stuff as well as wmaker and fluxbox and those work (mostly) fine without having to be constantly fooled with. Sometimes gtk or vte breaks and I have

Re: [gentoo-user] mysqld invoked oom-killer

2011-07-21 Thread Albert Hopkins
likely to wear out your hard disk sooner using swap? Is this coming from someone who uses Gentoo linux, which is constantly downloading/compiling/linking object files? Syslog and other loggers writing everything under the sun to a log file. Backups, journal writes, database transactions, etc

Re: [gentoo-user] SSDs, swap, caching, other unusual uses

2011-07-30 Thread Florian Philipp
sitting swap (partition, file, whatever) on the SSD? Presumably, in scenarios where expanding the RAM in a system is prohibitively expensive, an SSD could reduce the impact of swap thrash. Sure why not. However, if you plan to swap constantly, I'd recommend doing a prediction of the life-time

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How can I power disk off?

2011-10-06 Thread Paul Hartman
of seeks in both cases). I think it is generally believed that by NOT spinning down the drive, you are going to shorten its life-span. Any HDD made in the past few years are designed with spin-up/spin-down when idle in mind. Constantly spinning will probably wear it out faster than regularly

Re: [gentoo-user] How to cross compile Perl for ARM?

2011-10-14 Thread czernitko
! I started playing a little bit with cross compilation for ARM architecture. Using crossdev I created a toolchain for arm-none-linux-gnueabi tuple. Now I'd like to emerge some more packages, but perl constantly refuses to emerge and it is needed by many packages. Not a direct answer to your

Re: [gentoo-user] How to cross compile Perl for ARM?

2011-10-15 Thread czernitko
...@st.com On 10/14/2011 01:14 PM, czernitko wrote: Hello! I started playing a little bit with cross compilation for ARM architecture. Using crossdev I created a toolchain for arm-none-linux-gnueabi tuple. Now I'd like to emerge some more packages, but perl constantly refuses to emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome3 hotkey for searching in overview

2011-12-02 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
patched so it doesn't show the time (if the time is shown on the desktop, I find I'm constantly looking at the time which is also distracting (for the same reason I don't wear a watch))[2]. So I like to keep things simple, and for most-used apps I use keyboard shortcuts. Works for me. If you want

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome3 hotkey for searching in overview

2011-12-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
of a few more icons on the top panel. I patched so it doesn't show the time (if the time is shown on the desktop, I find I'm constantly looking at the time which is also distracting (for the same reason I don't wear a watch))[2]. So I like to keep things simple, and for most-used apps I use

[gentoo-user] Re: Looking for IMAP-IMAP spam filtering

2012-02-20 Thread Grant Edwards
, and then writes the filtered messages into another IMAP server/mailbox. The source and destination servers may or may not be the same, and neither is the machine where the filter is running. I'd like the solution to use the IMAP IDLE command to avoid the latency and load of constantly

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for IMAP-IMAP spam filtering

2012-02-20 Thread Pandu Poluan
not be the same, and neither is the machine where the filter is running. I'd like the solution to use the IMAP IDLE command to avoid the latency and load of constantly setting up SSL connections and polling the source server. It looks like fetchmail - procmail+spamassassin - dovecot/deliver

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-11 Thread Dale
and save much more energy. With Nouveau, your GPU will be running full-on constantly. NVidia's drivers will reduce clocks and voltages when the card is idle. Additional question: what do you have for VIDEO_CARDS? my make.conf: VIDEO_CARDS=nvidia nv vesa Mine: VIDEO_CARDS=nvidia nv

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
. The binary drivers perform better and save much more energy. With Nouveau, your GPU will be running full-on constantly. NVidia's drivers will reduce clocks and voltages when the card is idle. Additional question: what do you have for VIDEO_CARDS? my make.conf: VIDEO_CARDS=nvidia nv vesa Mine

Re: [gentoo-user] Should I install pulseaudio to solve my phonon audio problems?

2012-08-19 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Michael Trausch m...@trausch.us wrote: PA works well with stereo-only outputs. That's most users. People such as myself, however, with 5.1 out, are perpetually disappointed and/or frustrated by the lack of the systems ability to work reliably. I constantly

Re: [gentoo-user] Should I install pulseaudio to solve my phonon audio problems?

2012-08-19 Thread Michael Trausch
m...@trausch.us wrote: PA works well with stereo-only outputs. That's most users. People such as myself, however, with 5.1 out, are perpetually disappointed and/or frustrated by the lack of the systems ability to work reliably. I constantly have problems playing music, because it reverts

Re: [gentoo-user] Having the possibility to set the system-wide locale settings

2012-09-09 Thread Dale
for you. This is what is in my file: LANG=en_US.UTF8 LC_ALL=en_US.UTF8 It works fine for me. Everything is in English as in American not the others. lol Dale :-) :-) P. S. Welcome to Gentoo and the world of constantly learning. Just when you learn something, something changes and you

Re: [gentoo-user] Beagle vs. Panda vs. Raspberry on Gentoo

2012-11-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
is not exactly the same thing in terms of computing requirement as Transformers3 :-) But what the heck, get yourself a Pi anyway and run OpenElec on it. Improvements are constantly being made to the code, you might find it's acceptable for your needs. And besides, it's always a thrill getting that tiny little

Re: [gentoo-user] Beagle vs. Panda vs. Raspberry on Gentoo

2012-11-23 Thread Grant
are constantly being made to the code, you might find it's acceptable for your needs. And besides, it's always a thrill getting that tiny little pcb running something useful. I think the Pandaboards actually can play 1080p video back smoothly as long as hardware video decoding is enabled. I've found

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing specific layman packages eix-test-obsolete

2012-12-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
at least solve part of the problem. For now, symlinking rather than copying, which I tried before, at least keeps things up to date. -- Neil Bothwick Snacktrek, n.: The peculiar habit, when searching for a snack, of constantly returning to the refrigerator in hopes that something new will have

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/hosts include file?

2013-03-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
is address space (or lack thereof, in the case of IPV4). The people who are truly interested in speeding up IPV6 adoption should do their best to shut up the internet hippies who constantly rant and rave about how NAT is evil. Don't let the cause get distracted by that unrelated issue. Focus

Re: [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/hosts include file?

2013-03-11 Thread Kevin Chadwick
in speeding up IPV6 adoption should do their best to shut up the internet hippies who constantly rant and rave about how NAT is evil. Don't let the cause get distracted by that unrelated issue. Focus on the core issue. I completely agree divide and conquer tactics. You are being over

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-01 Thread Dale
same in users point of view with sys-fs/udev, except sys-fs/eudev is constantly out of date and the code forwarding from upstream is not very reliable process. Futhermore sys-fs/udev is not 'old' but it's the new one and will be the default for OpenRC for long as OpenRC is in Portage. I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-01 Thread Samuli Suominen
udev-171. It's otherwise same in users point of view with sys-fs/udev, except sys-fs/eudev is constantly out of date and the code forwarding from upstream is not very reliable process. Futhermore sys-fs/udev is not 'old' but it's the new one and will be the default for OpenRC for long as OpenRC

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-01 Thread Samuli Suominen
... :) nope, you just believed all the FUD there has been out there. i've said it many times, and i'll say it again: the only real different is USE=rule-generator and that's it and sys-fs/eudev is constantly out of date and haven't developed any features of their own so why follow

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-01 Thread William Kenworthy
- I have maybe 15 machines and vm's running eudev, no udev ... :) nope, you just believed all the FUD there has been out there. i've said it many times, and i'll say it again: the only real different is USE=rule-generator and that's it and sys-fs/eudev is constantly out of date and haven't

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-01 Thread Samuli Suominen
apply also to sys-fs/eudev and they have even more in their github ticketing system. And sys-fs/udev maintainers have to constantly monitor sys-fs/eudev so it doesn't fall too much behind, which adds double work unnecessarily. They don't keep it up-to-date on their own without prodding. Really

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-03 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 02:42:36AM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote nope, you just believed all the FUD there has been out there. i've said it many times, and i'll say it again: the only real different is USE=rule-generator and that's it and sys-fs/eudev is constantly out of date and haven't

Re: [gentoo-user] separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-09-29 Thread Tanstaafl
to resize / or /boot before. I have had to resize /usr, /var and /home several times tho. THAT is the reason. Ok, but... everything I've read and personal experience over the years shows that space required for /usr should not change much, especially constantly grow over time (like requirements

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: s6 et al

2013-10-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
sources are tinkered with, almost constantly to infinity.. You'd be wise to post to the gentoo-embedded group, where those learking in the shadows (memory crevaces) have lots of experiences with a multitude of embedded ventures. Most embedded ventures end up on the waste heap; they made

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: s6 et al

2013-10-03 Thread Dragostin Yanev
with embedded *nix is that the kernel sources are tinkered with, almost constantly to infinity.. You'd be wise to post to the gentoo-embedded group, where those learking in the shadows (memory crevaces) have lots of experiences with a multitude of embedded ventures. Most embedded

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg-server crashing constantly

2014-02-13 Thread Joseph
On 02/12/14 23:26, Willie Matthews wrote: On 02/12/2014 09:22 PM, Joseph wrote: I'm running xorg-server-1.13.4-r1 and XFCE using slim as login Whenever I start tree applications like: two Firefox and try to open Thunderbird or Thunderbird + Firefox and try to open another instance of Firefox

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Xorg-server crashing constantly

2014-02-13 Thread Willie Matthews
On 02/13/2014 06:17 AM, Joseph wrote: On 02/12/14 23:26, Willie Matthews wrote: On 02/12/2014 09:22 PM, Joseph wrote: I'm running xorg-server-1.13.4-r1 and XFCE using slim as login Whenever I start tree applications like: two Firefox and try to open Thunderbird or Thunderbird + Firefox and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fwd:How about the gentoo server or cluster in production environment?

2014-02-26 Thread Poison BL.
looking because I use modules to trim down how much of iptables is constantly loaded on my router for rules there I don't use and the only other places I have Gentoo are my multitude of laptops, where the versatility of building and loading a module to test out yet another toy someone has on hand around

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Tanstaafl
, and you may even be right. The problem is, average users really don't have a way to prove this to themselves, all we see is the wailing and gnashing of teeth as stuff constantly *breaks* that *never* broke before.

Re: [gentoo-user] python-updater constantly rebuilds one same package

2014-08-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 14/08/2014 18:09, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Сергей protsero...@gmail.com wrote: I have looked at dev-libs/libgamin-0.1.10-r4 and dev-libs/libgamin-0.1.10-r5 ebuilds and compared them. dev-libs/libgamin-0.1.10-r5 has PYTHON_TARGETS=python2_7 (r4 had no

Re: [gentoo-user] python-updater constantly rebuilds one same package

2014-08-14 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 14/08/2014 18:09, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Сергей protsero...@gmail.com wrote: I have looked at dev-libs/libgamin-0.1.10-r4 and dev-libs/libgamin-0.1.10-r5 ebuilds and compared them.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 1TB 2.5in drive recommendation

2014-09-14 Thread J. Roeleveld
recently 24/7 as mail and web server with buld in UPS (battery) until the screen and keyboard died. A laptop is not designed to run 24/7 and neither are the batteries reliable after being constantly charged 24/7. Did you ever test the ups functionality? The Samsung disk is still alive and well

[gentoo-user] Re: File system testing

2014-09-17 Thread James
why if anyone is actually interested. Acutally, from my research and my goal (one really big scientific simulation running constantly). Many folks are recommending to skip Hadoop/HDFS all together and go straight to mesos/spark. RDD (in-memory) cluster calculations are at the heart of my needs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Something firewall-ish

2014-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 05:46:17 AM meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: »Q« boxc...@gmx.net [14-12-16 05:28]: On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 05:02:40 +0100 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: actually the thing is: There is a plugin called NoScript which constantly accesses secure.informaction.com, which

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Get off my lawn?

2015-01-22 Thread Rich Freeman
embedded standards. The main issue is battery use, which is mostly about ensuring that your software isn't constantly waking up the CPU. If systemd is well-behaved in this regard I'd expect it to work on a phone just fine. The thing is that most devices that couldn't run systemd would probably

Re: [gentoo-user] I don't seem to have a system log. Help, please!

2015-02-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
-ng? The Gentoo installation guide didn't mention, or even hint at, such being necessary. Clearly, I'm missing something obvious here. What is it? Thanks in advance for the help. Gentoo defaults to calling it /var/log/messages (it's also constantly tailed on vt12, just in case you need

Re: [gentoo-user] I don't seem to have a system log. Help, please!

2015-02-09 Thread Alan Mackenzie
to calling it /var/log/messages Yes. :-) (it's also constantly tailed on vt12, just in case you need to see what's going on it right now) I didn't know that. Wow! Is this something relatively new, or has it always been there? -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com -- Alan Mackenzie

Re: [gentoo-user] NSA SELinux kernel support

2015-01-04 Thread Erik Mackdanz
. Inevitably, there will always be some program I want to use with no existing policy, and I'll constantly have this problem. I realized that my personal workstation is a place I like to try lots of software (don't we all like that about Linux?), and SELinux can be a big wet blanket on the fun at any

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc-systemd command comparison

2015-03-16 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 7:47 PM, Daniel Frey djqf...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, I've now converted two systems to systemd and so far haven't had too much issues with systemd itself, other than me constantly forgetting commands. Is there a nice table or chart somewhere that lists openrc

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc-systemd command comparison

2015-03-17 Thread Bob Wya
...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, I've now converted two systems to systemd and so far haven't had too much issues with systemd itself, other than me constantly forgetting commands. Is there a nice table or chart somewhere that lists openrc commands with equivalent systemd commands

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I block incomming tor-traffic?

2015-06-06 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 7:04 AM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Gentoo-users, my web-server gets constantly abused by users which appear to be using tor-network (ip-lookup of source addresses always points to tor-exit.watever). How can I block this tor-traffic completely? I know I can

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [WAS: keyboard stops working] Recent kernels block the loading of non-GPL kernel modules

2015-08-19 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
if the law says it is. The letter of the law is constantly changing. I'll grant that your argument is more inline with the letter of the law because the law wasn't written with this specific case in mind. But the FSF's argument is more inline with it's spirit. Until a court decides one way

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge world looking grim

2015-08-24 Thread wraeth
of this complexity at least annually. I couldn't tell you when I installed my stage3 on this box, but it was a LONG time ago and I'm constantly cleaning up /etc cruft from things being moved around. I would not rush to just reinstall a gentoo box unless you get really stuck, or this is part

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge world looking grim

2015-08-24 Thread Rich Freeman
, but it was a LONG time ago and I'm constantly cleaning up /etc cruft from things being moved around. I would not rush to just reinstall a gentoo box unless you get really stuck, or this is part of a configuration management workflow (which I fully encourage - there is something to be said for blowing away

Re: [gentoo-user] want to upgrade 50 month old installation

2015-08-04 Thread Daniel Frey
of a fit and refused to do anything. There were so many changes with core things (like udev, python, perl, and numerous others) that it just crapped out. I found that I had to do it in little pieces at a time and portage got in my way constantly. I wish there was a setting to just forcibly compile

Re: [gentoo-user] basic grub question

2016-06-15 Thread covici
Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 08:42:45 -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > > > > But the manual and the html pages constantly talk about the grub > > > > command or rather the grub interactive command, and they usuall

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT?]: CH340 working/not working with ESP286 Node MCU

2016-07-09 Thread James
you want the latest data on hwids, install:: 'sys-apps/hwids-' > I have a 990FX chipset MB that is constantly ID as a 880 chipset board. > No info on 990FX chipsets found in the hardware ID's database. > The kernel keeps applying a 880 chipset workaround for the PCI bus, > e

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT?]: CH340 working/not working with ESP286 Node MCU

2016-07-10 Thread Meino . Cramer
ooking at the ebuild for 'pci-utils' we see:: > > RDEPEND="${DEPEND} > sys-apps/hwids > > So if you want the latest data on hwids, install:: > 'sys-apps/hwids-' > > > I have a 990FX chipset MB that is constantly ID as a 880 chipset board. > > No info on

[gentoo-user] prevent 'openoffice-bin' rebuild

2017-02-27 Thread thelma
I have in: /etc/revdep-rebuild/99revdep-rebuild ... SEARCH_DIRS_MASK="/usr/lib64/openoffice" But my openoffice-bin constantly rebuilds. Is there a way to prevent it besides switching to non bin ver.? !!! existing preserved libs: >>> package: dev-libs/libbsd-0.8.3 * - /us

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage vs Qt

2016-12-17 Thread Kai Krakow
y > to do what I've just described. It can happen with other sets of > pkgs. > > Yes, I did do 'backtrack==30'. > > Before I send in a bug, does anyone else have useful comments ? I constantly see the same conflict and haven't nailed it down exactly right now. It seems to happen

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage vs Qt

2016-12-17 Thread Mick
le to resolve this kind of conflict for itself. > > If not, then at least it should advise users intelligently > > to do what I've just described. It can happen with other sets of > > pkgs. > > > > Yes, I did do 'backtrack==30'. > > > > Before I send in a bu

Re: [gentoo-user] At last! A Qt5 version of KMail-2 - but here be dragons!

2016-12-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
nglish English is a funny language, almost unique. It absorbs new words and grammars from the local language like the Borg. And some of us (myself included) want to keep the rules the same even though they are constantly changing from new input :-) How do you think "sheep" got to be both

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: "New to aliexpress" pop up - how to block it?

2017-07-16 Thread R0b0t1
Mac and Windows. > > Since this virus pops up an advertisement of constantly changing > goods and is page filling I am sure I am not suffering from this. > > If anyone out there has solved this problem without disabling > the possibility to /buy/ something on aliexpress PLEASE HELP >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: "New to aliexpress" pop up - how to block it?

2017-07-16 Thread tuxic
[beep] popup, but I only get informations how to > > remove a certain kind of adware virus from Mac and Windows. > > > > Since this virus pops up an advertisement of constantly changing > > goods and is page filling I am sure I am not suffering from this. > > > > If

[gentoo-user] Re: replacement for ftp?

2017-05-14 Thread Kai Krakow
stick to my internet connection. My USB stick doesn't do 48 MByte/s, more like 5-10. And don't even ask when writing data. Even my rusty hard disk (read: not SSD) has a hard time writing away a big download with constantly high download rate. But I guess that a good internet connection shoul

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Opinions on DVR/PVR backend?

2018-01-26 Thread Rich Freeman
one right you can do things like have captions only for foreign language phrases (works great in Star Trek Discovery). If the subtitles aren't set up the way it expects then you find yourself constantly turning them on/off when the show contains extensive use of foreign/fictional languages. I s

Re: [gentoo-user] Cellphone VFAT datestamps versus linux datestamps

2018-08-28 Thread Walter Dnes
ctional FM radio. For an antenna it needs to have ear/head phones plugged into "the jack they didn't have the courage to remove". * no Google Garbage constantly running in the background, so the battery lasts 10 or 11 days on standby. * the option to take any available usable frequ

Re: [gentoo-user] How long does "Verifying /usr/portage" take?

2018-07-06 Thread Rich Freeman
hashes of every directory inside, and so on. So, with git most of the hash validation is happening constantly just by virtue of everything being content-hashed, and the only extra layer with the gpg signature is to sign the top level of the whole tree. Now, on the flip side, some of those git operati

Re: [gentoo-user] Haskell hell

2018-10-05 Thread John Covici
; Unfortunately this brings me into the haskell dependency hell. For two > days I am constantly adding keywords for one more package, emerging it, > doing haskell-updater, doing emerge @preserved-rebuild and starting over > again. > > It seems that no single package in thatoverlay, that i

RE: [gentoo-user] How to compress lots of tarballs

2021-09-28 Thread Laurence Perkins
Hi, > > > >> I have an external USB-3 drive with various system backups. There are > >> 350 .tar files (not .tar.gz etc.), amounting to 2.5TB. I was sure I > >> wouldn't need to compress them, so I didn't, but now I think I'm > >> going to have to. Is th

[gentoo-user] Re: Iphone and transferring image files, pics and videos.

2021-09-28 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2021-09-28, Laurence Perkins wrote: > I know a few people who use iPhones with Linux. They've got more patience than I... > It can usually be made to work with some trouble, but Apple > constantly tries to lock out third party access, so it requires > regular updates and tweakin

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compress lots of tarballs

2021-09-26 Thread Ramon Fischer
dn't need to compress them, so I didn't, but now I think I'm going to have to. Is there a reasonably efficient way to do this? I have 500GB spare space on /dev/sda, and the machine runs constantly. Pick your favorite of gzip, bzip2, xz or lzip (I recommend lzip) and then: mount USB-3 /mnt; cd /mnt

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compress lots of tarballs

2021-09-26 Thread Ramon Fischer
t   text/plain 382 Hello list, Hi, I have an external USB-3 drive with various system backups. There are 350 .tar files (not .tar.gz etc.), amounting to 2.5TB. I was sure I wouldn't need to compress them, so I didn't, but now I think I'm going to have to. Is there a reasonably efficient way

Re: [gentoo-user] Synchronous writes over the network.

2021-12-23 Thread Rich Freeman
mething and read it back constantly then wear isn't an issue. Just googled the Samsung Evo 870 and they're rated to 600x their capacity in writes, for example. If you write 600TB to the 1TB version of the drive, then it is likely to fail on you not too long after. Sure, it is a lot better than it use

Re: [gentoo-user] Kicad and complications from hdf5 and vtk USE flags. Not package specific tho.

2022-02-17 Thread Miles Malone
Now for your own sanity you might consider stopping adding things globally constantly, and using app-portage/flaggie to sanely manage them per-package... Cause there's far more use flags that make sense per-package than make sense globally. I used to manage them all largely globally like ten

[gentoo-user] Re: How to run X11 apps remotely?

2022-03-22 Thread Grant Edwards
ine and have its window show up locally. > > You can adjust the size of the Xvnc's display so that it's the size of > just the application in question. You also don't need the full desktop > to display on that screen. OK, I've done that, but it's a little awkward to have to constantly a

Re: [gentoo-user] TrueNAS not helping me now.

2023-09-06 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
r equivalent in ZFS land. ;-) ZFS is more meant for static setups, not constantly changing disk loadouts of varying disk sizes. -- Grüße | Greetings | Salut | Qapla’ Please do not share anything from, with or about me on any social network. The boss is a human just like everyone else, he just

Re: [gentoo-user] OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help

2023-10-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
your network interface. -- Neil Bothwick Snacktrek, n.: The peculiar habit, when searching for a snack, of constantly returning to the refrigerator in hopes that something new will have materialized. pgpuCGFIFmuIi.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

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

2022-08-28 Thread Rich Freeman
sking how to automatically restart a dead service. Systemd has support for that built-in, and there are also options for non-systemd, but you're going to be constantly having restarts and it might not even run for much time at all depending on how bad the problem is. It is always best to tame m

[gentoo-user] Don't be like stupid me!

2024-02-10 Thread Alan Mackenzie
is. Thankfully, I had Emacs open, with all the files modified since Sunday in buffers. So, I laboriously worked through Emacs's buffer list, saving those ones I'd since changed. I lost all my timestamps on the files, and lost all my Emacs backup files (things ending in ~ which Emacs constantly

[gentoo-user] Re: Suggestions for backup scheme?

2024-01-30 Thread Grant Edwards
possible. The > result is that all those snapshots don't take up much space, unless > your files are constantly changing.

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo as a production server - insecure?

2009-02-16 Thread James
mechanism). Prolly (I like this term so much, I borrowed it from another gentooer...) what you will discover is other admins do not like your Gentoo tendencies, because it's not their idea (just a hunch) My experience is when you constantly flesh_out a system and constantly update stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem choice for NVMe SSD

2016-01-23 Thread Rich Freeman
ay. You should still ensure it is aligned, but not much will happen if it isn't I'd think. For something like ext4 where blocks are constantly overwritten I'd think that poor alignment is going to really hurt your performance. Btrfs might be somewhere in-between - it doesn't overwrite data in p

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia users: please sign petition for open/free drivers

2008-01-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
, the less you can do is to be honest, and not blame anyone else while you are the only guilty. believe me, all the guys constantly whining around on nvnews have shown nvidia already that there are people who care about this. This is not about old or new hardware, this is about getting a free

Re: [gentoo-user] Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

2009-01-20 Thread Paul Hartman
deny anyone until an hour has passed, despite the fact I'm using the daemon which constantly monitors the log file... by which time hundreds or thousands of attempts can be made. Maybe that's a configuration issue on my denyhosts setup, but shouldn't sshd be blocking them in the first place

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Constant Load 1.00+ on new Toshiba laptop

2009-02-18 Thread Beau Henderson
done :-) 2. Some app is blocking hard on IO I guess #2 - something waits for IO, it is not available, so immediately goes back to sleep waiting for it's next time slice. This happens many times a second and averaged over a minute looks like the cpu is constantly busy. Thus, no real extra cpu

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Another USE question

2009-05-27 Thread Stroller
by constantly scrolling right and left. It doesn't work for me, and probably for the majority of others neither. oh yeah, scrolling for a tenth of a second is so much slower than feeding equery or euse and then open make.conf, type, check that you did not forget something When you

[gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help?

2006-02-16 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
and have been running the computer with the lid open. But then again, just a few minutes ago, I had the shutdown while compiling K3B while running KDE and Azureus. Since then I've put up ksensors to check the temperature constantly. It's showing a pretty neat 35C right now, running Azureus

[gentoo-user] Problems with the GLI on the x86 2006.0 LiveCD

2006-03-01 Thread Kevin
. So I'm booting the LiveCD at the grub prompt with this command: gentoo-nofb nohotplug Happily, in spite of this, my NIC is being detected and the correct (tulip) module is being loaded for it automatically. However, the curses-based GLI is failing on me constantly at the stage where I manually

Re: [gentoo-user] [extremly, wildly, obscenely OT] Is there a Linux system without GNU userlands?

2008-08-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
is not so easy to create. A new kernel is not so hard to do. The problem are the drivers - and all the quirks. It is one thing to write a little task scheduler for your little pet project, but if it crashs constantly it becomes a bitch to fight through all the errata. But at the beginning a simple

Re: [gentoo-user] [extremly, wildly, obscenely OT] Is there a Linux system without GNU userlands?

2008-08-11 Thread b.n.
the Powershell, as an example. A new kernel is not so hard to do. The problem are the drivers - and all the quirks. It is one thing to write a little task scheduler for your little pet project, but if it crashs constantly it becomes a bitch to fight through all the errata. But at the beginning

Re: [gentoo-user] [extremly, wildly, obscenely OT] Is there a Linux system without GNU userlands?

2008-08-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
task scheduler for your little pet project, but if it crashs constantly it becomes a bitch to fight through all the errata. But at the beginning a simple kernel is much easier to do than stuff that runs on it (simple is the important work. A non-simple kernel is very hard). Well, I've never

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-Sources/Vanilla-Sources/Video 4 Linux

2008-09-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 29 September 2008, Jon Hardcastle wrote: On Monday 29 September 2008, Jon Hardcastle wrote: Hi, i have spent the weekend trying to get my new Hauppage USB tv stick to work under linux. I have been constantly perplexed by references

Re: [gentoo-user] ftp transfer dies

2008-10-21 Thread Robert Bridge
-grade deals. It would reboot itself constantly when it was under any kind of load. I replaced it with a $50 router with DD-WRT and things have been fine ever since. Might not have anything to do with your problem, but I figured I'd mention it. Check your router logs to see if it's having any

Re: [gentoo-user] ftp transfer dies

2008-10-21 Thread Mick
router. It was one of those $29.99 consumer-grade deals. It would reboot itself constantly when it was under any kind of load. I replaced it with a $50 router with DD-WRT and things have been fine ever since. Might not have anything to do with your problem, but I figured I'd mention

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with nautilus

2005-05-16 Thread Ognjen Bezanov
can say that nautilus was a bit buggy IMHO, but I was using gnome 2.6. Regards, -AR On 5/16/05, Ognjen Bezanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using gnome with gentoo, but i have a major bug with nautilus which results in it constantly crashing. Whatever I click on a file nautilus crases

[gentoo-user] SMTPS not working after upgrade 4.43 to 4.50

2005-06-14 Thread Daevid Vincent
(daevid.com), but can't send to anywhere else as relay not permitted [which is expected] If i check the SSL box for outgoing SMTP (like i has always been), then mail never leaves outlook. it just constantly tries to send. i can send mail using 'pine' from the server to anywhere. i don't see any messages

Re: [gentoo-user] X freezes locks up, constantly

2005-11-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Phill MV schreef: Every now and then, usually while doing something related to firefox ( mozilla-firefox-1.0.7-r2) but it's also happened when someone sent me a file over MSN in gaim (gaim-1.5.0), my copy of xorg-x11-6.8.2-r4 will lock up and refuse all interaction. All windows stop

Re: [gentoo-user] X freezes locks up, constantly

2005-11-08 Thread Phill MV
That's a pretty defeatist way of looking at it :P. FIrefox seems to work just fine on every other X running desktop, including a fellow Gentoo'er friend of mind; Not to mention that simply stop using the application cos X has a bug is, well, far out. I'll go ahead with the mass recompile, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting /dev from udev ... [oops]

2007-04-10 Thread Dan Farrell
especially true for hardware when you run gentoo. But software changes quickly, unlike hardware, and is constantly improving. You don't necessarily get bells and whistles, you get bug fixes and performance enhancements as well. Bells and whistles can be left out of the kernel easily enough. I guess

RE: [gentoo-user] Port Tracer Program Needed

2006-03-14 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
Hans -- Thank you, I realize that I can make it blink with network traffic, the problem is that basically all the ports on the switches have traffic running constantly on them, so I need to find a way to make it distinctive enough so it can be picked out from the rest of the noise. I will try

RE: [gentoo-user] Port Tracer Program Needed

2006-03-14 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
traffic, the problem is that basically all the ports on the switches have traffic running constantly on them, so I need to find a way to make it distinctive enough so it can be picked out from the rest of the noise. Save the following script as floodping.sh, and try it, you should be able

Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3

2006-04-29 Thread Jannis Achstetter
already have modular xorg, and I'm getting fed-up with constantly-locking-up-ati-drivers. Also, what options do you have set in your xorg.conf file? Maybe even post your whole radeon Device section, if its small :) that would help me out a bit, I think. so far, I don't have dri (the Load dri

RE: [gentoo-user] A couple projects on my laptop

2006-05-09 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
with the gateway bios, as all my gateway gentoo machines do it, and none respond to the commands in xorg.conf. Thanks for the tip on minicom -- I will look into that one for sure -- I use SSH constantly, I need this connection only for switches and UPS serial port connections -- they are a last backup in case

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