Re: [gentoo-user] System freezes during compiles

2013-03-21 Thread Carlos Hendson
On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 16:27 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: I had a virtual server that kept crashing/rebooting during compiles of large packages such as php. It ended up being because it was running out of memory. Added another 1GB of swap space and it has been happy ever since. Thanks Paul.

Re: [gentoo-user] System freezes during compiles

2013-03-21 Thread Carlos Hendson
On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 06:45 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: You got your answer. 8gig and no swap is NOT ENOUGHT. It's a strong indicator, which is going to be corrected. I am slightly confused by the resulting behaviour however. I was of the impression oomkiller would start to kill

Re: [gentoo-user] smartctl and external hard drives

2013-03-21 Thread J. Roeleveld
cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: I have a couple of external hard drives -- one is a 1.5t disk which has failed and the other is a brand new Seagate 3t disk -- both in USB enclosures one a Roseweil USB 3 and the other one a Startech USB 3. When I run smartctl against them, the newer one gives a

Re: [gentoo-user] System freezes during compiles

2013-03-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Oom Killer is Not instant, can take a long time or get stuck or kills something vital. ... Am 21.03.2013 07:52 schrieb Carlos Hendson skyc...@gmx.net: On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 06:45 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: You got your answer. 8gig and no swap is NOT ENOUGHT. It's a strong indicator,

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: parental control software

2013-03-21 Thread James
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: I'm looking for software that can be used to control a child's usage of the computer (not Internet filtering). At the very least it should be able to control length of login sessions and when the child is able to login. Ideally it would also be

Re: [gentoo-user] smartctl and external hard drives

2013-03-21 Thread covici
J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: I have a couple of external hard drives -- one is a 1.5t disk which has failed and the other is a brand new Seagate 3t disk -- both in USB enclosures one a Roseweil USB 3 and the other one a Startech USB 3. When I run

[gentoo-user] Re: System freezes during compiles

2013-03-21 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-03-20, Carlos Hendson skyc...@gmx.net wrote: Looking at the difference between the output of smartctl for before and during the test, there has been an increase in errors detected for ID #195 Before test: 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 001 001 000Old_age Always -

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Time-lock USB stick

2013-03-21 Thread Kevin Chadwick
We discussed using a simple RC timer to cut power to the device after a certain amount of uptime, but if I pointed out that if we were spend the time going to that trouble, we may as well go whole-hog and add built-in encryption and make money off the thing. I think the grab-data-and-eject

[gentoo-user] Back to openrc from systemd

2013-03-21 Thread João Matos
Hi list, do you know some guide to switch form systemd to openrc, or keep both? I googled and I didn't find. The motivation is that I'm studing many server stuff, and I'm tired of search for alternatives to systemd (that is really good). I also set up some servers, using openrc on them, so,

Re: [gentoo-user] Back to openrc from systemd

2013-03-21 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 7:45 PM, João Matos jaon...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list, do you know some guide to switch form systemd to openrc, or keep both? I googled and I didn't find. The motivation is that I'm studing many server stuff, and I'm tired of search for alternatives to systemd (that