Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how did i get ~/26H1MJ8.txt?

2019-10-20 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
thanks. that's it probably (gcc upgrade). (didn't record the date, deleted it on spot, but i did a gcc upgrade recently) rgrds, cm. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Sunday, October 20, 2019 9:10 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 20/10/2019 12:57, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > > > today, i

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory manager

2019-10-20 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: > On Sunday, 20 October 2019 16:03:42 BST Dale wrote: >> Here's the >> thing about using swap on my rig, once it does, the system gets >> extremely slow. Even switching desktops can take a minute or longer. >> Other than trying to get to what is eating up memory and killing it, the >>

[gentoo-user] Re: how did i get ~/26H1MJ8.txt?

2019-10-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 20/10/2019 12:57, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: today, i did `ls -a ~` and found the file in title. its content is here: https://gist.github.com/2eb82a8e31a3e560abd28a2c8102865f any idea what is this?  and how did i get it? (i started to worry that it might be related to the sks key server

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory manager

2019-10-20 Thread Mick
On Sunday, 20 October 2019 16:03:42 BST Dale wrote: > Here's the > thing about using swap on my rig, once it does, the system gets > extremely slow. Even switching desktops can take a minute or longer. > Other than trying to get to what is eating up memory and killing it, the > system is

Re: [gentoo-user] how did i get ~/26H1MJ8.txt?

2019-10-20 Thread Grant Taylor
On 10/20/19 3:57 AM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: any idea what is this?  and how did i get it? At quick glance, it looks like a script to upgrade GCC across otherwise not quite as compatible versions as possible. Nothing in it concerns me. Warning: I am relying on my uncaffeinated memory,

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

2019-10-20 Thread Daniel Frey
On 10/19/19 8:09 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory manager

2019-10-20 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: > On Sunday, 20 October 2019 12:59:03 BST Wols Lists wrote: > >> Well, I do all my emerges on tmpfs, so if things like LO, firefox et al >> need maybe 10GB, I need at least that available ... (that said, 16GB ram >> could probably do it without needing swap :-) > Anecdotal evidence

[gentoo-user] OCR for music (OMR)

2019-10-20 Thread Mick
Hi All, I'm on the lookout for an application which can convert musical notation from scanned bitmap copies/pdf files to midi files. Apparently there are some apps in the Apple store, but I have not yet found anything in portage. Do you have experience using any tools for this purpose? Are

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory manager

2019-10-20 Thread Mick
On Sunday, 20 October 2019 12:59:03 BST Wols Lists wrote: > Well, I do all my emerges on tmpfs, so if things like LO, firefox et al > need maybe 10GB, I need at least that available ... (that said, 16GB ram > could probably do it without needing swap :-) Anecdotal evidence suggests 16G RAM may

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory manager

2019-10-20 Thread Wols Lists
On 20/10/19 10:59, Mick wrote: > On Sunday, 20 October 2019 00:35:56 BST Wol's lists wrote: > >> The original swap algorithm NEEDED twice ram as swap. And when Linus >> ripped out all the "optimisation", the vanilla kernels only needed to >> touch swap, and if they didn't have twice ram they

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory manager

2019-10-20 Thread Mick
On Sunday, 20 October 2019 00:35:56 BST Wol's lists wrote: > The original swap algorithm NEEDED twice ram as swap. And when Linus > ripped out all the "optimisation", the vanilla kernels only needed to > touch swap, and if they didn't have twice ram they would crash. Was this also the time when

[gentoo-user] how did i get ~/26H1MJ8.txt?

2019-10-20 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
today, i did `ls -a ~` and found the file in title. its content is here: https://gist.github.com/2eb82a8e31a3e560abd28a2c8102865f any idea what is this? and how did i get it? (i started to worry that it might be related to the sks key server poisoning. specially that i get no gpg warnings.