[gentoo-user] Re: aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
The 05/09/12, Dale wrote: > Michael Mol wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Wed, 05 Sep 2012 07:52:45 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> > > I might also add, I see no speed improvements in putting portages > > work directory on tmpfs. I have tested this a few ti

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:54:51 -0500, Dale wrote: > > I might also add, I see no speed improvements in putting portages > > work directory on tmpfs. I have tested this a few times and the > > difference in compile times is just not there. > Probably because with 16GB everything s

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 05 September 2012 21:46:59 Dale wrote: > So, I find it funny that they make a tool that really isn't needed very > much. :/ Call it belt-and-braces if you like. (That's UK braces, which I think are US suspenders.) -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] dm-crypt + ext4 = where will the journal go?

2012-09-05 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 05.09.2012 20:18, schrieb "Roland Häder": >> dracut and genkernel will both set up initrd. > Okay, thank you. :) > > Now I hang with this: > > --- Emerging (1 of 203) dev-db/oracle-instantclient-basic-10.2.0.3-r1 > * Fetching files in the back

[gentoo-user] Fix for getting libxml2 compiled!

2012-09-05 Thread Roland Häder
Hi all, I finally got libxml2 compiled, first I had to do this: # emerge expat # emerge python # cd /usr/portage/dev-lang/python/ # emerge python-2.7.3-r2.ebuild # cd - This makes sure that libexpat is there. Now the package is still not compiling because of a missing .so file, see this: # cd

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Dale wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Dale wrote: >>> >>> I have to say that here, it is not a whole lot of fragmentation but it >>> does seem a bit faster afterwards. I guess it depends on what is >>> fragmented and such. I sometim

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Dale wrote: >> >> I have to say that here, it is not a whole lot of fragmentation but it >> does seem a bit faster afterwards. I guess it depends on what is >> fragmented and such. I sometimes wonder if it defrags itself. Even >> when I watc

[gentoo-user] Kleopatra-4.4.11.1 segfaults

2012-09-05 Thread Mick
I just noticed that Kleopatra segfaults. Before I start rebuilding blindly, this is what it shows on the terminal: == $ kleopatra Statup timing: 0 ms elapsed: Command line args created QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: >> On Wednesday 05 September 2012 13:02:01 Dale wrote: >> >>> I find that after a big update, like KDE, it helps to defrag /usr. >> Interesting. I've just run sudo e4defrag -c /usr and got a fragmentation >> of zero. That's after

Aw: Re: Re: [gentoo-user] dm-crypt + ext4 = where will the journal go?

2012-09-05 Thread Roland Häder
> dracut and genkernel will both set up initrd. Okay, thank you. :) Now I hang with this: --- >>> Emerging (1 of 203) dev-db/oracle-instantclient-basic-10.2.0.3-r1 * Fetching files in the background. To view fetch progress, run * `tail -f /var/log/emerge-

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday 05 September 2012 13:02:01 Dale wrote: > >> I find that after a big update, like KDE, it helps to defrag /usr. > Interesting. I've just run sudo e4defrag -c /usr and got a fragmentation > of zero. That's after upgrading KDE last week. > > Then I ran it on all t

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Dale
Michael Mol wrote: > On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Wed, 05 Sep 2012 07:52:45 -0500, Dale wrote: >> > I might also add, I see no speed improvements in putting portages > work directory on tmpfs. I have tested this a few times and the > difference in compil

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:30:24 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > man mount explains it all, but the option you want is size, which > > defaults to 50%. I use 80% which is what gives the somewhat odd size > > of 13GB. This is based on physical RAM, but tmpfs will use swap if > > there is not eno

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Mittwoch, 5. September 2012, 09:23:58 schrieb Neil Bothwick: > On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 20:42:56 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > > What is the best line for /etc/fstab ? The only example I have is : > > 'tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0' > > > > This doesn't seem to limit the size in a

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel examples supporting RAID[4,5,6,10,...]?

2012-09-05 Thread Michael Hampicke
> Last thing you need to do is pass the domdadm kernel parameter in your > bootloader. With grub to you just edit /etc/default/grub > > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="domdadm" I meant grub2

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] dm-crypt + ext4 = where will the journal go?

2012-09-05 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 12:04 PM, "Roland Häder" wrote: > To add my 2¢: > All you need is build initram and pass it as a argument to pre configured > kernel (with needed encryption and hash algorithms built in) > > Initram scripts are on github here > https://github.com/tokiclover/mkinitramfs-ll >

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel examples supporting RAID[4,5,6,10,...]?

2012-09-05 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 05.09.2012 17:39, schrieb Mark Knecht: > Hi, >I'm sort of glazing over & falling asleep trying to understand the > Gentoo genkernel Wiki page. This is not critical time-wise. I'm just > curious about what genkernel could do in terms of creating a kernel & > an initramfs for a root partition

Aw: Re: [gentoo-user] dm-crypt + ext4 = where will the journal go?

2012-09-05 Thread Roland Häder
To add my 2¢:All you need is build initram and pass it as a argument to pre configured kernel (with needed encryption and hash algorithms built in) Initram scripts are on github here https://github.com/tokiclover/mkinitramfs-ll Can I also use dracut? Or won't it setup initrd? I I didn't setup LVM

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel examples supporting RAID[4,5,6,10,...]?

2012-09-05 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >I'm sort of glazing over & falling asleep trying to understand the > Gentoo genkernel Wiki page. This is not critical time-wise. I'm just > curious about what genkernel could do in terms of creating a kernel & > an initramfs for a root

[gentoo-user] genkernel examples supporting RAID[4,5,6,10,...]?

2012-09-05 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm sort of glazing over & falling asleep trying to understand the Gentoo genkernel Wiki page. This is not critical time-wise. I'm just curious about what genkernel could do in terms of creating a kernel & an initramfs for a root partition on RAID > 1 and metadata > 0.9. I've done this in th

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 05.09.2012 14:55, schrieb Adam Carter: >>> I might also add, I see no speed improvements in putting portages work >>> directory on tmpfs. I have tested this a few times and the difference >>> in compile times is just not there. >> >> Probably because with 16GB everything stays cached anyway. >

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 05 Sep 2012 07:52:45 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> >> I might also add, I see no speed improvements in putting portages >> >> work directory on tmpfs. I have tested this a few times and the >> >> difference in compile times is just not the

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 05 Sep 2012 07:52:45 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> I might also add, I see no speed improvements in putting portages > >> work directory on tmpfs. I have tested this a few times and the > >> difference in compile times is just not there. > > Probably because with 16GB everything stays cached

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 05 September 2012 13:02:01 Dale wrote: > I find that after a big update, like KDE, it helps to defrag /usr. Interesting. I've just run sudo e4defrag -c /usr and got a fragmentation of zero. That's after upgrading KDE last week. Then I ran it on all the nine ext4 partitions here and

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Adam Carter
>> I might also add, I see no speed improvements in putting portages work >> directory on tmpfs. I have tested this a few times and the difference >> in compile times is just not there. > > Probably because with 16GB everything stays cached anyway. Would it still be useful to use tmpfs if you wan

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 05 Sep 2012 06:07:13 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> I might also add, I see no speed improvements in putting portages work >> directory on tmpfs. I have tested this a few times and the difference >> in compile times is just not there. > Probably because with 16GB everythin

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 05 Sep 2012 06:07:13 -0500, Dale wrote: > I might also add, I see no speed improvements in putting portages work > directory on tmpfs. I have tested this a few times and the difference > in compile times is just not there. Probably because with 16GB everything stays cached anyway. --

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday 05 September 2012 12:07:13 Dale wrote: > >> I might also add, I see no speed improvements in putting portages >> work directory on tmpfs. I have tested this a few times and the >> difference in compile times is just not there. > Yes, I'd forgotten that. I just

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 05 September 2012 12:07:13 Dale wrote: > I might also add, I see no speed improvements in putting portages > work directory on tmpfs. I have tested this a few times and the > difference in compile times is just not there. Yes, I'd forgotten that. I just haven't got round to changing

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday 05 September 2012 10:02:49 Philip Webb wrote: >> 120905 Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 20:42:56 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: What is the best line for /etc/fstab ? The only example I have is > : 'tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=17

Re: [gentoo-user] Weather thingy using up my network, ALL THE TIME.

2012-09-05 Thread Dale
Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 08:56:27PM -0500, Dale wrote: > >> Well, I removed it but it seemed it was still there somewhere. I found >> out a while back that sometimes a little applet whatyoumacallit can get >> stuck behind another one. Yep, I actually seen that once a wh

Re: [gentoo-user] Weather thingy using up my network, ALL THE TIME.

2012-09-05 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 08:56:27PM -0500, Dale wrote: > Well, I removed it but it seemed it was still there somewhere. I found > out a while back that sometimes a little applet whatyoumacallit can get > stuck behind another one. Yep, I actually seen that once a while back. > I added a applet an

Re: [gentoo-user] GSSIAPIKeyExchange is not supportd on OpenSSH_5.9p1

2012-09-05 Thread Eray Aslan
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Ali Gholami wrote: > .ssh/config: Bad configuration option: GSSAPIKeyExchange That config option needs a separate patch which has been around for ages but upstream OpenSSH maintainers are being an arse^H^H^H^H uncooperative. Sadly, Gentoo decided not to ship it a

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 05:02:49 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > > 'man mount' explains it all ... > > Well, it outlines it (smile). :-) I'll rephrase that: 'man mount' explains it all, for small values of all. > > ... but the option you want is size, which defaults to 50 % . > > That looks ok :

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 05 September 2012 10:02:49 Philip Webb wrote: > 120905 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 20:42:56 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > >> What is the best line for /etc/fstab ? The only example I have is : > >> 'tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0' > >> > >> This doe

[gentoo-user] GSSIAPIKeyExchange is not supportd on OpenSSH_5.9p1

2012-09-05 Thread Ali Gholami
Hi everyone, I have installed latest version of Kerberos Heimdal 5.1.2 with openssh version 5.9p1 but when I try to login to a remote host using ssh I get an error: - .ssh/config: Bad configuration option: GSSAPIKeyExchange - Any thoughts how to fix this error? Thanks in advance! Ali

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Philip Webb
120905 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 20:42:56 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> What is the best line for /etc/fstab ? The only example I have is : >> 'tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0' >> This doesn't seem to limit the size in any way. > 'man mount' explains it all ... W

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 20:42:56 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > What is the best line for /etc/fstab ? The only example I have is : > > 'tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0' > > This doesn't seem to limit the size in any way. man mount explains it all, but the option you want is size, w