Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-20 Thread Grant Taylor
On 8/20/22 10:22 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: What are you measuring the speed with - hdparm or rsync or ? hdparm is best for profiling just the harddisk (tallks to the interface and can bypass the cache depending on settings, rsync/cp/?? usually have the whole OS storage chain including

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-20 Thread Grant Taylor
On 8/20/22 4:45 PM, Dale wrote: I figured it was something like that. ;-) :-) This drive is not supposed to be SMR. It's a 10TB and according to a site I looked on, none of them are SMR, yet. I found another site that said it was CMR. So, pretty sure it isn't SMR. Nothing is 100% tho.

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-20 Thread William Kenworthy
What are you measuring the speed with - hdparm or rsync or ? hdparm is best for profiling just the harddisk (tallks to the interface and can bypass the cache depending on settings, rsync/cp/?? usually have the whole OS storage chain including encryption affecting throughput.  Encryption

[gentoo-user] (G)vim 9.0.0099 won't start

2022-08-20 Thread Philip Webb
Today, I updated to the latest stable Vim 9.0.0099 + GVim same & it refused to open. No problem back with 8.2.4586. Has anyone else encountered this ? Does anyone have a suggestion ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___,

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox question on Thinkpad laptop

2022-08-20 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 03:46:59PM -0600, Grant Taylor wrote > On 8/20/22 12:30 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: > > Long-story-short; I run ArcaOS (backwards compatable OS/2 successor) > > as a guest on QEMU on my desktop. > > Aside: Is ArcaOS really a different version of OS/2? Or is it still > 4.x

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-20 Thread Dale
Grant Taylor wrote: > Sorry for the duplicate post.  I had an email client error that > accidentally caused me to hit send on the window I was composing in. I figured it was something like that.  ;-) > > On 8/20/22 1:15 PM, Dale wrote: >> Howdy, > > Hi, > >> Related question.  Does encryption

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-20 Thread Grant Taylor
Sorry for the duplicate post. I had an email client error that accidentally caused me to hit send on the window I was composing in. On 8/20/22 1:15 PM, Dale wrote: Howdy, Hi, Related question. Does encryption slow the read/write speeds of a drive down a fair amount? My experience has

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox question on Thinkpad laptop

2022-08-20 Thread Grant Taylor
On 8/20/22 12:30 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: Long-story-short; I run ArcaOS (backwards compatable OS/2 successor) as a guest on QEMU on my desktop. Aside: Is ArcaOS really a different version of OS/2? Or is it still 4.x with patches and updated drivers? I saw extremely little difference, other

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-20 Thread Grant Taylor
On 8/20/22 1:15 PM, Dale wrote: Howdy, Hi, Related question. Does encryption slow the read/write speeds of a drive down a fair amount? m This new 10TB drive is maxing out at about 49.51MB/s or so. I actually copied that from the progress of rsync and a nice sized file. It's been

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-20 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 3:15 PM Dale wrote: > > Related question. Does encryption slow the read/write speeds of a drive > down a fair amount? This new 10TB drive is maxing out at about > 49.51MB/s or so. Encryption won't impact the write speeds themselves of course, but it could introduce a

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-20 Thread Dale
Howdy, Related question.  Does encryption slow the read/write speeds of a drive down a fair amount?  This new 10TB drive is maxing out at about 49.51MB/s or so.  I actually copied that from the progress of rsync and a nice sized file.  It's been running over 24 hours now so I'd think buffer and

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox question on Thinkpad laptop

2022-08-20 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 20 August 2022 18:57:38 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 09:05:32AM +0100, Michael wrote > > > I've noticed the same problem with a MSWindows VM on a laptop, > > but only when the screen resolution for the VM is anything other > > than full screen on the host. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox question on Thinkpad laptop

2022-08-20 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 09:05:32AM +0100, Michael wrote > I've noticed the same problem with a MSWindows VM on a laptop, > but only when the screen resolution for the VM is anything other > than full screen on the host. Thanks. That clue finally got me going with QEMU, but there are a few

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox question on Thinkpad laptop

2022-08-20 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 20 August 2022 07:30:01 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > Long-story-short; I run ArcaOS (backwards compatable OS/2 successor) > as a guest on QEMU on my desktop. The Lenovo Thinkpad has the "vmx" cpu > flag, so QEMU is theoretically doable. But the mouse is extremely > flakey, to the

[gentoo-user] VirtualBox question on Thinkpad laptop

2022-08-20 Thread Walter Dnes
Long-story-short; I run ArcaOS (backwards compatable OS/2 successor) as a guest on QEMU on my desktop. The Lenovo Thinkpad has the "vmx" cpu flag, so QEMU is theoretically doable. But the mouse is extremely flakey, to the point of unusability, under QEMU on the Thinkpad. I've tried various