Re: [gentoo-user] system lag with gentoo-sources-2.6.35-r2

2010-08-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 22 August 2010 21:04:56 Robert Bridge wrote: Well, the fix is in the line for 2.6.36 IIRC, so wouldn't be in an 2.6.35 kernel. That said, the problem supposedly being fixed goes back well before 2.6.34, so if that kernel works, it suggests that it is a different issue you are

Re: [gentoo-user] system lag with gentoo-sources-2.6.35-r2

2010-08-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Alan Warren bluemoonsh...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am having some system performance issues with this kernel release. I have a SMP machine (dual xeon nehalem 8 core / 16 threads) with 24gb non-ecc memory. On occasion (seems random so far) my system feels

Re: [gentoo-user] system lag with gentoo-sources-2.6.35-r2

2010-08-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Alan Warren bluemoonsh...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am having some system performance issues with this kernel release. I have a SMP machine (dual xeon nehalem 8 core / 16 threads) with 24gb non-ecc memory. On occasion (seems random so far) my system feels

Re: [gentoo-user] system lag with gentoo-sources-2.6.35-r2

2010-08-23 Thread Alan Warren
Thanks Mark, I'll look into that config option, and try again with top open. In this case I was doing a home backup to a 1TB WD Caviar black formatted as ext3. I also have a raid0 with 2 other non-WD sata drives, and a single WD velociraptor I can test with. It also doesn't sound too far off

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable fcron logging

2010-08-23 Thread Stroller
On 22 Aug 2010, at 22:39, Alex Schuster wrote: Stroller writes: The script with which you reply is missing the sleep 60 loop. No, it's only the script that outputs the drive's state. It's called by ~/.kde4/Autostart/hdstate: #!/bin/bash while : do /usr/local/sbin/hdstate

[gentoo-user] Reducing repeated checkings

2010-08-23 Thread Al
Some thoughts of the day With multicore machines compilation itself is relativly fast. The bigger part of time meanwhile is spend for the system check before compilation. Each program das it again and 90% of the checks check the same stuff. I wounder if efforts have been made to reduce this

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing repeated checkings

2010-08-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 21:27 on Monday 23 August 2010, Al did opine thusly: Some thoughts of the day With multicore machines compilation itself is relativly fast. The bigger part of time meanwhile is spend for the system check before compilation. Each program das it again and 90%

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing repeated checkings

2010-08-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Al oss.el...@googlemail.com wrote: Some thoughts of the day With multicore machines compilation itself is relativly fast. The bigger part of time meanwhile is spend for the system check before compilation. Each  program das it again and 90% of the checks check

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing repeated checkings

2010-08-23 Thread Al
I wounder if efforts have been made to reduce this repeated checks. Al cmake. Didn't know that, Time to study the build tools, even if I am not a C-coder. It really does decrease the amount of time in the configure step - witness KDE4. Then promptly causes a huge rash of other

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable fcron logging

2010-08-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Stroller writes: On 22 Aug 2010, at 22:39, Alex Schuster wrote: Stroller writes: The script with which you reply is missing the sleep 60 loop. No, it's only the script that outputs the drive's state. It's called by ~/.kde4/Autostart/hdstate: #!/bin/bash while : do

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable fcron logging

2010-08-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: Apparently, though unproven, at 15:25 on Saturday 21 August 2010, Alex Schuster did opine thusly: There is a nolog option for fcrontab, but I still get this output every minute: That will tell fcron not to log stuff. It will not tell other apps to not stuff Right.

[gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I had to replace an 4:3 Westinghouse monitor this weekend. I got a new ASUS VH242H, which is very wide. But Xorg is still running 1280x1024, instead of the monitor's normal 1920x1080, according to xorg logs because of lack of video memory (using the ATI on the motherboard). I can make the

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-23 Thread Bill Longman
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: I had to replace an 4:3 Westinghouse monitor this weekend. I got a new ASUS VH242H, which is very wide. But Xorg is still running 1280x1024, instead of the monitor's normal 1920x1080, according to xorg logs because of

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-23 Thread Adam Carter
I guess I've gotta look for a video card, but all I have is PCIX slots, so I don't want to put a lot of money into it (I'll be upgrading the mobo when finances permit -- which is not right now.) newer 3.3-volt PCI cards will work in a PCI-X slot - from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI-X.

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-23 Thread dennisonic
On 24/08/10 03:38, Bill Longman wrote: On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com mailto:kogor...@gmail.com wrote: I had to replace an 4:3 Westinghouse monitor this weekend. I got a new ASUS VH242H, which is very wide. But Xorg is still running

[gentoo-user] failed reiserfs partition - help!

2010-08-23 Thread James
All, I'm in desperate need of some help recovering a reiserfs partition that went awry for some unknown reason. A quick list of events: - purchased brand new WD My Passport drive -- 320GB, 2.5GB - cleared partition table with a dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX bs=5M count=10 - created one single

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 8:58 PM, denniso...@gmail.com wrote: On 24/08/10 03:38, Bill Longman wrote: On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.comwrote: I had to replace an 4:3 Westinghouse monitor this weekend. I got a new ASUS VH242H, which is very wide. But Xorg

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-23 Thread d . fedorov
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 8:58 PM, denniso...@gmail.com wrote: On 24/08/10 03:38, Bill Longman wrote: On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.comwrote: I had to replace an 4:3 Westinghouse monitor this weekend. I got a new ASUS VH242H, which is very wide. But

Re: [gentoo-user] failed reiserfs partition - help!

2010-08-23 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 04:57 +, James wrote: [...] try www.namesys.com/support.html, and for $25 the author of fsck, or a colleague if he is out, will step you through it all. Did you try that? ;) It's probably a bad disk and you need to take it back... Not sure why you had to