Re: [gentoo-user] Memory manager

2019-10-19 Thread Wol's lists
On 19/10/2019 16:24, Mick wrote: On Saturday, 19 October 2019 14:11:26 bstmad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: Do systems run different memory management when swap is on versus no swap? The answer to this question is an unqualified yes, although you do not define your meaning of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: syslog-ng 10s pause during startup

2019-10-19 Thread Bill Kenworthy
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Re: [gentoo-user] Memory manager

2019-10-19 Thread Mick
On Saturday, 19 October 2019 14:11:26 BST mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: > Do systems run different memory management when swap is on versus no swap? The answer to this question is an unqualified yes, although you do not define your meaning of "different memory management". The

[gentoo-user] Re: syslog-ng 10s pause during startup

2019-10-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-10-19, Daniel Frey wrote: > On 10/18/19 5:47 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2019-10-18, Daniel Frey wrote: >> >>> It is waiting for entropy to build. >> >> Interesting -- what does syslog-ng need entropy for? >> >>> Moving mouse or typing on keyboard will speed it up but I have >>>

[gentoo-user] Re: New monitor & wine ==> crash

2019-10-19 Thread Hartmut Figge
Mick: Thanks, Mick. >I'm not the right person to advise on this problem because I have very limited >experience with Nvidia cards and even less with WINE. Nevertheless, the >(generic) way I would go about it would be to try an HDMI cable first in case >the higher bitrate makes any difference

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: syslog-ng 10s pause during startup

2019-10-19 Thread Daniel Frey
On 10/18/19 5:47 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2019-10-18, Daniel Frey wrote: It is waiting for entropy to build. Interesting -- what does syslog-ng need entropy for? Moving mouse or typing on keyboard will speed it up but I have machines only controlled by IR so this was not helpful.

[gentoo-user] Memory manager

2019-10-19 Thread mad.scientist.at.large
Do systems run different memory management when swap is on versus no swap?  I know that in the past it was recommended to have at least a small swap so the system used a better memory manager.  Wondering specifically if I should set up a small ram drive for swap just to get better memory

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor & wine ==> crash

2019-10-19 Thread Mick
On Saturday, 19 October 2019 09:11:17 BST Hartmut Figge wrote: > Greetings, > > I am somewhat desperate. Before I obtained a new monitor, my installed > games on wine worked fine. Now many of them crash at startup. Most of > them run still fine under wine-vanilla-4.0.1 but not under >

[gentoo-user] New monitor & wine ==> crash

2019-10-19 Thread Hartmut Figge
Greetings, I am somewhat desperate. Before I obtained a new monitor, my installed games on wine worked fine. Now many of them crash at startup. Most of them run still fine under wine-vanilla-4.0.1 but not under wine-vanilla-4.17. After some tinkering I found a hint when using