Re: [gentoo-user] Controlling emerges

On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 6:03 PM Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday, 18 September 2023 14:48:46 BST Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 3:44 PM Peter Humphrey > > > > wrote: > > > It may be less complex than you think, Jack. I envisage a package being > > > marked > > > as solitary,

Re: [gentoo-user] Computer case for new build

Am Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 12:17:20AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Howdy, > […] > I've found a few cases that peak my interest depending on which way I go > with this.  One I found that has a lot of hard drive space and would > make a descent NAS box, the Fractal Design Node 804.  It's a cube shaped > thing

Re: [gentoo-user] Controlling emerges

On Monday, 18 September 2023 13:59:03 BST Jack wrote: > On 9/18/23 08:00, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > We've had a few discussions here on how to balance the parameters to > > emerge > > to make the most of the resources available. Here's another idea: > > > > One the one hand,

Re: [gentoo-user] Controlling emerges

On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 3:44 PM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > It may be less complex than you think, Jack. I envisage a package being > marked > as solitary, and when portage reaches that package, it waits until all > current > jobs have finished, then it starts the solitary package with the >

Re: [gentoo-user] Controlling emerges

On Monday, 18 September 2023 14:48:46 BST Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 3:44 PM Peter Humphrey > > wrote: > > It may be less complex than you think, Jack. I envisage a package being > > marked > > as solitary, and when portage reaches that package, it waits until all > > current

Re: [gentoo-user] Invalid opcode after kernel update

On 9/17/23 18:03, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hello, Fernando. On Sun, Sep 17, 2023 at 17:49:22 -0400, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: A few months ago after updating my kernel I started getting an invalid opcode error during boot on the init process on my initramfs which I did rebuilt. Switching to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Computer case for new build

Am Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 07:16:17AM -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 6:13 AM Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > > > Am Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 12:17:20AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > > > […] > > > The downside, only micro ATX and > > > mini ITX mobo. This is a serious down vote here. > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Controlling emerges

On 9/18/23 08:00, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, We've had a few discussions here on how to balance the parameters to emerge to make the most of the resources available. Here's another idea: One the one hand, big jobs should be able to use the maximum CPU performance and RAM capacity, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Computer case for new build

On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 6:13 AM Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Am Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 12:17:20AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > > […] > > The downside, only micro ATX and > > mini ITX mobo. This is a serious down vote here. > > Why is that bad? µATX comes with up to four PCIe slots. Even for ten drives,

[gentoo-user] Controlling emerges

Hello list, We've had a few discussions here on how to balance the parameters to emerge to make the most of the resources available. Here's another idea: One the one hand, big jobs should be able to use the maximum CPU performance and RAM capacity, but on the other we don't want to flood the

Re: [gentoo-user] Certain packages refuse to use binary from build save, the -k thing.

Am Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 11:44:03PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Howdy, Hi instead of going berserk mode and wasting kWh on rebuilding “just in case it might help”, why not try and dig a little deeper. > A couple of my video players are not playing videos correctly. Whicch players? > I've > rebuilt

Re: [gentoo-user] Controlling emerges

Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 6:03 PM Peter Humphrey > wrote: > > On Monday, 18 September 2023 14:48:46 BST Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 3:44 PM Peter Humphrey > mailto:pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk>> > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Invalid opcode after kernel update

On 9/18/23 14:52, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: On 9/18/23 11:04, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: On 9/17/23 18:03, Alan Mackenzie wrote: I will try to run it on gdb to find out which instruction is triggering the fault. Thanks, Fernando The crash is happening on AVX2 instructions. My CPU is

Re: [gentoo-user] Computer case for new build

Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 12:17:20AM -0500 schrieb Dale: >> Howdy, >> […] >> I've found a few cases that peak my interest depending on which way I go >> with this.  One I found that has a lot of hard drive space and would >> make a descent NAS box, the Fractal Design Node

Re: [gentoo-user] Controlling emerges

On Monday, 18 September 2023 17:13:04 BST Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 6:03 PM Peter Humphrey > > wrote: > > On Monday, 18 September 2023 14:48:46 BST Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 3:44 PM Peter Humphrey > > > > > > wrote: > > > > It may be less complex

Re: [gentoo-user] Computer case for new build

On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 9:02 AM Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Am Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 07:16:17AM -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman: > > > On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 6:13 AM Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > > > > > Am Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 12:17:20AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > > > because a NIC is going to need a

RE: [gentoo-user] Controlling emerges

> From: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com > Sent: Monday, September 18, 2023 9:13 AM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Controlling emerges > > > > On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 6:03 PM Peter Humphrey

Re: [gentoo-user] Certain packages refuse to use binary from build save, the -k thing.

Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 11:44:03PM -0500 schrieb Dale: >> Howdy, > Hi > > instead of going berserk mode and wasting kWh on rebuilding “just in case it > might help”, why not try and dig a little deeper. > >> A couple of my video players are not playing videos

Re: [gentoo-user] Controlling emerges

On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 12:13 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > If webkit-gtk is the only big package, have you considered: > > emerge -1v webkit-gtk && emerge -avuND @world? > > > What you have is not a portage problem. It is a orthodox parallelism > problem, and I think you are thinking your

Re: [gentoo-user] Invalid opcode after kernel update

On 9/18/23 11:04, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: On 9/17/23 18:03, Alan Mackenzie wrote: I will try to run it on gdb to find out which instruction is triggering the fault. Thanks, Fernando The crash is happening on AVX2 instructions. My CPU is Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8809G CPU @ 3.10GHz and it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Computer case for new build

Am Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 02:20:56PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > >> […] > >> The downside, only micro ATX and > >> mini ITX mobo.  This is a serious down vote here. > > Why is that bad? µATX comes with up to four PCIe slots. Even for ten > > drives, > > you only need one SATA expander (with four or six

Re: [gentoo-user] Controlling emerges

On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 12:13 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Whether you just let emerge do it's thing or try get it to do big packages on > their own, everything is still going to use the same number of cpu cycles > overall and you will save nothing. That is true of CPU, but not RAM. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Computer case for new build

Am Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 02:59:22PM -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman: > > I have a four-bay NAS with server board (ASRock Rack E3C224D2I), actually my > > last surviving Gentoo system. ;-) With IPMI-Chip (which alone takes several > > watts), 16 GiB DDR3-ECC, an i3-4170 and 4×6 TB, it draws around

Re: [gentoo-user] Invalid opcode after kernel update

Am Montag, 18. September 2023, 20:52:27 CEST schrieb Fernando Rodriguez: > On 9/18/23 11:04, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > On 9/17/23 18:03, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > I will try to run it on gdb to find out which instruction is triggering > > the fault. > > > > Thanks, > > Fernando > > The crash

[gentoo-user] Password questions, looking for opinions. cryptsetup question too.

Howdy, As some know, I encrypt a lot of stuff here.  I use passwords that I can recall but no one could ever guess.  I don't use things that someone may figure out like pet's name or anything like that.  I use a couple sites to see just how good my passwords are.  I try to get into the millions

Re: [gentoo-user] Computer case for new build

Am Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 06:40:52PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > >> I tend to need quite a few PCIe slots.  I like to have my own video > >> card.  I never liked the built in ones. > > You’re just asking to be asked. ;-) Why don’t you like them? (I fear I may > > have asked that before). > > > > I get

Re: [gentoo-user] Controlling emerges

per package env variables? https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/package.env BillK

Re: [gentoo-user] Computer case for new build

Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 02:20:56PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > […] The downside, only micro ATX and mini ITX mobo.  This is a serious down vote here. >>> Why is that bad? µATX comes with up to four PCIe slots. Even for ten >>> drives, >>> you only need one