Re: [gentoo-user] Portage performance dropped considerably

Am 26.01.2014 17:15, schrieb hasufell: > On 01/26/2014 05:06 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: >> Downsides: >> - emerging pypy takes forever and uses a lot of memory >> - userfetch and userpriv don't work >> > > > It also regularly causes segfaults. > &

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage performance dropped considerably

e probably not very helpful as I have 289 overlays active. That means portage regularly requires more than a Gig memory for dependency calculation. Downsides: - emerging pypy takes forever and uses a lot of memory - userfetch and userpriv don't work Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] g++ -fnothrow-opt

Am 22.01.2014 18:42, schrieb Florian Philipp: > Hi list! > > I'm wondering if anyone tried setting -fnothrow-opt as a CXX_FLAG in > make.conf? > > It makes C++ throw() statements behave like C++11 nothrow. This could > have measurable performance benefits and will

[gentoo-user] g++ -fnothrow-opt

antee, terminate() will be called instead of unexpected(). However, neither function is allowed to do anything but terminate the program. So all you possibly lose is a meaningful error message just before the program crashes. So, what do you think? Safe to enable by default? Thanks in advance! Fl

Re: [gentoo-user] look for a file type + sort

; Sorry, I'm ashamed >> I didn't know about this feature. Does it also handle spaces correctly? >> > > I'm not sure how the internals work. As best as I can guess, it > constructs the argv directly so spaces shouldn't be an issue. Spaces are > an issue when t

Re: [gentoo-user] look for a file type + sort

-sort=time $(find /home/joseph -iname "*.jpg") >>> >>> got: >>> ls: invalid option -- '/' >> >> The exact same command (changing joseph with canek) works for me, >> except in directories/filenames with spaces, as expected. Do you have >> an alias for ls? What does find /home/joseph -iname "*.jpg" returns? >> >> Regards. >> -- >> Canek Peláez Valdés > > Hi, > > This one should work: > > find /home/joseph/ -iname "*.pdf" -exec ls -l --sort=time {} + > > Regards, > > JC > This won't work if there are too many files because find will eventually start ls multiple times. Try this instead: find /path -iname '*.pdf' -printf '%T@\t%Tc\t%p\n' | sort -nr | cut -f 2- Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Two RTCs - how to choose in dependence of existence to eth0

, > mcc > I'm slightly confused. Do you need to use rtc0 at all? You can simply configure your kernel to use rtc1 with CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS_DEVICE. And for the hwclock init script you could add "-f /dev/rtc1" to the options. What else is there to do? Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] more on SSD: swap

that's the idea of reducing swappiness to 1 or 0, anyway. > Also think about using zswap or frontswap. Both work well despite still being in staging in current kernels. Zswap will be stabilized in kernel 3.11, I think. Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem recommendation for external media storage

s the only box that could use them... > Isn't group id 100 defined as the users group on most Linuxen nowadays? chgrp 100 $mount && chmod 2777 $mount should work reasonably well. Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] File system meta-data indexer / checker

ething to record file-system > meta-data. Maybe a "meta-backup" solution... :) ) > > Ciprian. > Do you mean something like `cp --attributes-only`? Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Dolphin's nfs:// kioslave transfers files slowly

that implement those protocols, much > like how XBMC uses libnfs, KDE just doesn't use the libnfs project to do it] > Try watching it in Wireshark and compare a normal NFS mount vs. Dolphin. Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Delays while building Libre Office.

make is eating 200M memory and uses 100% CPU, not mkdir. I guess the script is just buggy. Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Partitions - last questions...

Am 24.04.2013 18:12, schrieb Tanstaafl: > On 2013-04-24 11:31 AM, Florian Philipp wrote: >> Am 24.04.2013 17:12, schrieb Tanstaafl: >>> Ok, but - does it make sense to add the noexec option to /var/tmp? Is it >>> possible that there are other apps that need exec ca

Re: [gentoo-user] Partitions - last questions...

Am 24.04.2013 17:12, schrieb Tanstaafl: > On 2013-04-24 8:48 AM, Florian Philipp wrote: >>> One thing I'm trying to do is make the system as secure as >>> possible at the filesystem level, and I've read that making /tmp >>> and /var/tmp separate partitions

Re: [gentoo-user] Partitions - last questions...

Am 24.04.2013 12:48, schrieb Tanstaafl: > On 2013-04-23 1:59 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:34:38 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: >> >>>> So - first, is 5G way too big for the two /tmp dirs? I have lots of >>>> space, but hate waste >

Re: [gentoo-user] Partitions - last questions...

gt; Is it recommended to incorporate scripts to perform dumps of the dbs, or > is the lvm snapshot reliable enough for backing these up in their raw > state? > Restoring from lvm snapshot is like restoring after a black out or similar crash. Having proper dumps is always a good idea. > Thanks as always for comments/suggestions/criticisms... > Hope this helps, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM stucking!

gin on the terminal and then use startx? Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] ext4 inline data

rrent stable e2fsprogs (especially e2fsck) handle this? Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] IO latency issues

Am 10.03.2013 13:48, schrieb Florian Philipp: > Am 10.03.2013 00:53, schrieb cosmoslx lin:> >> 2013/3/10 Volker Armin Hemmann > <mailto:volkerar...@googlemail.com>> >> >> Am 09.03.2013 19:15, schrieb Florian Philipp: >> > Hi list! >>

Re: [gentoo-user] IO latency issues

Am 10.03.2013 00:53, schrieb cosmoslx lin:> > 2013/3/10 Volker Armin Hemmann <mailto:volkerar...@googlemail.com>> > > Am 09.03.2013 19:15, schrieb Florian Philipp: > > Hi list! > > > > Whenever I do sequential IO for a long stretch of ti

[gentoo-user] IO latency issues

d won't be. Can anyone tell me what is causing this behavior? Throughput is good, by the way. That's why I don't suspect a driver issue. Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/hosts include file?

ernal DNS server > operates; anything it knows, it responds to. Everything else, it forwards.) > dnsmasq also works like this and is probably easier to set up. FWIW it also supports include files. Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} RAM & apache MaxClients (rock & a hard place)

vy lifting for you. (And far better than having >> your own singular caching server would. I've worked at a CDN, and what >> they accomplish is pretty slick.) >> >> >> > > To optimize the caching potential, there are a few tricks. There's an older tech talk about that from a Yahoo guy [1]. Google's advices are also worth reading [2] and for a quick and dirty solution, look at [3]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTHvs3V8DBA [2] https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/best-practices/caching?hl=de [3] http://fennb.com/microcaching-speed-your-app-up-250x-with-no-n BTW: What's the current status of MPM Worker or Event and PHP? Does it work? Does it help? Hope this helps, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: wrong ram?

ngs work better, even if they are below SPD. Also look at the voltages (most BIOSes show them). If they are considerably off, this could affect your RAM. A bad power supply is always a suspect when something breaks. Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing static IP remotely...

en >> session don't die...and there's no waiting for a scheduled job. >> > > Yeah, screen or tmux is the way to go. > `nohup` would work too, right? Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] hwclock: command not found

t; > it is working OK; why isn't it working from the crontab? > I've noticed that cron doesn't have /sbin and /usr/sbin in PATH. Try using the absolute path to hwclock. Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device ?

normal circumstances. Example: `free -m` total used free -/+ buffers/cache: 4717 3053 So in my case I'm probably fine with a 3GB tmpfs while still avoiding excessive swapping. Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do with /var/run?

Am 16.02.2013 21:08, schrieb Grant: > I guess the simplest approach is: > 1. drop into single user runlevel (`rc single`) > 2. move the remnants from /var/run to /run > 3. symlink /var/run to /run > 4. reboot or go back to default runlevel (`rc default`) /run is a tmpf

Re: [gentoo-user] unmerge sys-fs/udev-171-r9

, yes. > > Regards. > The more important question is: Why does it block? udev is not slotted. An update shouldn't block itself. Something's not right here. Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do with /var/run?

> - Grant > Flameeyes was faster: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=451764 There is a blocker bug for the migration: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332633 Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] New USE flags for lvm2?

Am 10.02.2013 20:07, schrieb Tanstaafl: > On 2013-02-10 1:47 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: >> Am 10.02.2013 19:37, schrieb Tanstaafl: >>> I'm pretty sure that lvm2 was NOT built with either of these, but is >>> there a way to to tell what USE flags were used for the

Re: [gentoo-user] New USE flags for lvm2?

used for the currently > installed package? > I guess you remember wrongly: Symbol LocationMeaning *suffix transition to or from the enabled state %suffix newly added or removed Read /var/db/pkg/sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.88/IUSE to find out what was enabled. Rega

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do with /var/run?

Am 10.02.2013 19:01, schrieb cov...@ccs.covici.com: > Florian Philipp wrote: > >> Am 10.02.2013 17:46, schrieb cov...@ccs.covici.com: >>> Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> >>>> On 10/02/2013 17:29, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: >>>>> I had

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do with /var/run?

Am 10.02.2013 18:56, schrieb Neil Bothwick: > On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 17:56:45 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: > >> I guess the simplest approach is: >> 1. drop into single user runlevel (`rc single`) >> 2. move the remnants from /var/run to /run >> 3. symlink /var/run t

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do with /var/run?

pts from packages in the official tree, something you wrote yourself or some third-party package? In the first case, check if the problem persists (I bet it's fixed now) and file a bug report. In the second case, the best approach is to patch your scripts to use the `checkpath` command (see `man runscript`) to ensure that the expected paths exist. Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do with /var/run?

un to /run 4. reboot or go back to default runlevel (`rc default`) Hope this helps, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do with /var/run?

Am 10.02.2013 14:14, schrieb Michael Mol: > On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: >> On 10/02/2013 13:49, Michael Mol wrote: >>> On Feb 10, 2013 3:29 AM, "Florian Philipp" wrote: >>>> >>>> Am 10.02.2013 06:11, schrieb Gran

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH UseDNS without IPv6?

Am 09.02.2013 20:58, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > On 09/02/2013 20:22, Florian Philipp wrote: >> Hi list! >> >> I have an issue with SSH. It's a variation of the old "Set 'UseDNS no' >> to avoid delays with faulty DNS records" theme. >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do with /var/run?

we see this message whenever a package is updated that in the old version installed to /var/run and now has migrated to /run. Even if I'm wrong, there is nothing to be done. /var/run is intended to be a symlink to /run. If it is, then all is fine. Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] SSH UseDNS without IPv6?

o I really have to deactivate DNS lookups? Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] udev-197 USE=kmod

Am 27.01.2013 22:01, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: > On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 4:30 AM, Florian Philipp > wrote: >> Am 27.01.2013 03:24, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: >>> On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Florian Philipp >>> wrote: >>>> Hi list! >>

Re: [gentoo-user] udev-197 USE=kmod

Am 27.01.2013 12:33, schrieb Matthias Hanft: > Florian Philipp wrote: >> >> Is it really a drop-in? I was under the impression that for example >> `modprobe -l` is not implemented (mentioned in a comment on the eudev >> fork on LWN). I guess that's outdated as well

Re: [gentoo-user] udev-197: what to do

d it is not in the news item. > I wondered about this as well but at least on my systems, /usr/lib/udev is already gone. I guess all packages were rev-bumped to fix it. BTW: A fast way to express `equery belongs -n /usr/lib/udev | xargs emerge -pv` is simply `emerge -pv1 /usr/lib/udev`

Re: [gentoo-user] udev-197 USE=kmod

Am 27.01.2013 03:24, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: > On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Florian Philipp > wrote: >> Hi list! >> >> Quick question: If I deactivate the kmod use flag in udev and keep >> sys-apps/module-init-tools, does udev still load modules or is km

[gentoo-user] udev-197 USE=kmod

Hi list! Quick question: If I deactivate the kmod use flag in udev and keep sys-apps/module-init-tools, does udev still load modules or is kmod a required flag for that? Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boost version problem

Am 25.01.2013 20:02, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > On 24/01/13 21:15, Florian Philipp wrote: >> Am 24.01.2013 18:57, schrieb Jacques Montier: >>> 2013/1/24 microcai >> <mailto:micro...@fedoraproject.org>> >> [...] >>> >>>> >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boost version problem

Am 24.01.2013 20:15, schrieb Florian Philipp: > Am 24.01.2013 18:57, schrieb Jacques Montier: >> >> >> 2013/1/24 microcai > <mailto:micro...@fedoraproject.org>> > [...] >> >>>> >> >>>> Libreoffice-4.0 needs boost >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boost version problem

Am 24.01.2013 18:57, schrieb Jacques Montier: > > > 2013/1/24 microcai > [...] > > Libreoffice-4.0 needs boost > 1.49 (so works with > boost-1.52.0-r5) and > Nightshade LSS (for planetarium but not in portage) needs boost > <

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I update *every* ebuild?

ny other ebuilds there is update > available... > > So how can I update really *every* ebuild? > > Jarry > That's because nasm is only a build-dependency. Portage will update it when it is required for building the next time. Use "--with-bdeps y" to change that. Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Questions

Am 24.01.2013 00:27, schrieb Silvio Siefke: > Hello, > > On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:48:49 +0100 > Florian Philipp wrote: [...] >> What kind of workload do we talk about? Properly "niced" and "ioniced" >> compile jobs? Is the freeze temporary? > > If

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Questions

hat need. > > Please read "Linux Kernel in a Nutshell". You can: > > "emerge -av app-doc/linux-kernel-in-a-nutshell" > > and also read it online: http://www.kroah.com/lkn/ > +1 Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] cairo USE flags

Am 19.01.2013 12:36, schrieb Daniel Troeder: > Am 19.01.2013 11:49, schrieb Florian Philipp: >> Hi list! >> >> I've noticed that there is probably a lot of performance to be gained >> from activating backend acceleration in cairo. It's just that I have no

[gentoo-user] cairo USE flags

e or can I activate them all and cairo will sort it out? What does the qt4 use flag do? Is it just a language binding? Does anyone know a simple benchmark for cairo? Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Xlib tutorial

for suggestion. Well I don't want to depend on GTK or Qt. > > Thanks > > Pat > Is this for an embedded platform? Because otherwise, for the sake of your own sanity and the usability of your application, don't do this! At least use some lightweight GUI toolkit like xforms or tk. PS: Please don't top-post if you can avoid it. Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: blanking disk of linux appliance

nary ones. The easiest way I know to generate such a sequence is `tr '\000' '\377' < /dev/zero | dd of=...`. Or you can just allocate /blah and then `shred` it. > - rm /blah If you have swap, you should clear that, too. Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] How to list NOT installed packages which depend on certain package?

> > but nothing was found... > > Thank you very much in advance for any help! > > best regards, > mcc > > > > Try `eix --depend dev-libs/boost`. The results might not match your particular USE flags or other factors. Read `man eix` for details. Also, that are only dir

Re: [gentoo-user] pgo not selected for firefox 18

#x27;t have problems because you haven't used stable GCC. pgo was broken in gcc-4.5 since firefox-16 See https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=439244 Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of old gcc?

Am 10.01.2013 19:39, schrieb Jarry: > On 10-Jan-13 19:21, Florian Philipp wrote: >> Am 10.01.2013 19:06, schrieb Paul Hartman: >>> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Jarry wrote: >>>> >>>> I just updated gcc from 4.5.4 to 4.6.3, switched compiler

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of old gcc?

> You can use "emerge -C gcc:4.5" to remove only that slot's version of gcc. > Even better: emerge -av --depclean gcc:4.5 This will unmerge the gcc slot if and only if there is no dependency. My guess is you have sys-devel/gcc:4.5 in your world file and not just sys-devel/gcc and that's the reason why depclean won't clean it up. Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Fighting bit rot

Am 08.01.2013 20:53, schrieb Grant Edwards: > On 2013-01-08, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> On Jan 8, 2013 11:20 PM, "Florian Philipp" wrote: >>> >> >> -- snip -- >> >>> >>> Hmm, good idea, albeit similar to the `md5sum -c`. Eithe

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Fighting bit rot

Am 08.01.2013 18:35, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > Am Dienstag, 8. Januar 2013, 08:27:51 schrieb Florian Philipp: >> Am 08.01.2013 00:20, schrieb Alan McKinnon: >>> On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:11:35 +0100 >>> >>> Florian Philipp wrote: >>>> Hi list!

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Fighting bit rot

Am 08.01.2013 18:41, schrieb Pandu Poluan: > > On Jan 8, 2013 11:20 PM, "Florian Philipp" <mailto:li...@binarywings.net>> wrote: >> > > -- snip -- > [...] >> >> When you have completely static content, md5sum, rsync and friends are >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Fighting bit rot

Am 08.01.2013 16:42, schrieb Michael Mol: > On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Grant Edwards > wrote: >> On 2013-01-08, Florian Philipp wrote: >>> Am 08.01.2013 00:20, schrieb Alan McKinnon: >>>> On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:11:35 +0100 >>>> Florian Philipp

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Fighting bit rot

Am 08.01.2013 08:55, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > On Tue, 08 Jan 2013 08:27:51 +0100 > Florian Philipp wrote: > [...] >> >> As I said above, the point is that I need to detect the error as long >> as I still have a valid backup. Professional archive solutions do >>

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Fighting bit rot

Am 08.01.2013 00:20, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:11:35 +0100 > Florian Philipp wrote: > >> Hi list! >> >> I have a use case where I am seriously concerned about bit rot [1] >> and I thought it might be a good idea to start looking for i

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Fighting bit rot

Am 07.01.2013 22:33, schrieb Michael Mol: > On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: >> Hi list! >> >> I have a use case where I am seriously concerned about bit rot [1] and I >> thought it might be a good idea to start looking for it in my own >> p

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Fighting bit rot

Am 07.01.2013 22:07, schrieb Paul Hartman: > On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: >> Hi list! >> >> I have a use case where I am seriously concerned about bit rot [1] and I >> thought it might be a good idea to start looking for it in my own >>

[gentoo-user] OT: Fighting bit rot

suitable thing seems to be app-admin/tripwire but that application also looks like overkill. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_rot Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Multi monitor and fullscreen games

Am 02.01.2013 06:25, schrieb Sebastian Beßler: > On 01.01.2013 16:13, Florian Philipp wrote: > >> With that, fullscreen applications work for me. Some still deactivate >> the second display or change the resolution but otherwise it works just >> fine. > > I tried

Re: [gentoo-user] Multi monitor and fullscreen games

xorg.conf. I still have the xinerama USE flag enabled globally as it adds multi-monitor awareness to some applications. With that, fullscreen applications work for me. Some still deactivate the second display or change the resolution but otherwise it works just fine. Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

Am 26.12.2012 02:11, schrieb fe...@crowfix.com: > On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 01:11:04PM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: > >> The best way to find out what's wrong is to bisect the kernel, i.e. >> finding the exact commit that caused the issue to appear. >> >> htt

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

Am 25.12.2012 18:15, schrieb Dale: > Florian Philipp wrote: >> Am 25.12.2012 16:41, schrieb Mark Knecht: >>> Hi, >>>Merry Christmas to all. >>> >>>Upgrading an external USB2 drive at home this Christmas morning to >>> 1TB for more vid

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

g files there is no advantage in using smaller blocks. In fact, it could come back to bite you as it limits file sizes. I guess it also increases fsck times. Another issue I noticed is that it can cause terrible performance if the block size is smaller than the physical block size of the device. mke2fs warns when it detects this. Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

erations are faster, too. XFS would be the traditional large-file choice but since the arrival of Ext4, I don't see a point in putting up with its quirks anymore. Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

nfortunately, there have been 1545 commits between 3.6 and 3.7. With blind bisection you need 39 kernels to find the issue. Maybe `git log` can give you a hint which commits might be relevant. Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] building app fails with QT3 requirements

ou have enabled USE="qt3support". If that doesn't work and you cannot patch the app, there are several overlays that contain a slotted Qt-3: gentoo-taiwan, n4g, soor Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about optimal mplayer settings

USE flags or in /proc/cpuinfo > That should be USE="mmxext". No clue what's its name in cpuinfo but since you are running something newer than a P3 it should be a safe bet. PS: Have to tried mplayer2? It's mostly compatible but offers no mencoder support but you can i

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual or Quad CPU complications?

the memory attached to that socket >> > (CPU) not to mention you lose those cores ;) >> >> Sure but it sounds like if my system only has one CPU socket, > CONFIG_NUMA should be disabled. > > I read this in make menuconfig: > > "The kernel will try to allocate memory used by a CPU on the local > memory controller of the CPU and add some more NUMA awareness to the > kernel. For 64-bit this is recommended if the system is Intel Core > i7 (or later), AMD Opteron, or EM64T NUMA." > > To be sure I have this right, I should disable CONFIG_NUMA on any system > with a single physical CPU, even if it's an AMD Opteron? > > - Grant Disable it. You only have one memory controller. There is nothing the kernel could do wrong without. Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual or Quad CPU complications?

; as in XPS laptop? There are no NUMA laptops. Despite all the stuff about terminology, we are basically talking about multi-socket systems. Things with mainboards like these [1] as opposed to these [2]. [1] http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131378 [2] http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131725 Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about new USE flags for xf86-video-intel

> stopped displaying anything after this update. As a quick fix I > removed the xorg.conf file completely to get a desktop back. This was > a couple of weeks ago. Removing xorg.conf worked on both machines and > I haven't gone back to figure out what happened and how to best > address it. > If you don't miss features I say good riddance to xorg.conf. Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 compatibility with modern cpus

I > had never seen before for every ATA drive and some I don't have, all > the way up to ATA13 before I rebooted it again. I haven't got it to > boot even this far since, so I can't regenerate that error. There > was a 5 second or so delay between these errors, making

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dedicated server or cloud server?

r availability > compared to dedicated? > > - Grant I'd be grateful if anyone can point me at a well conducted study on that topic. Until then I just say that my anecdotal evidence shows the opposite: My cheap-ass virtual server has an uptime of 492 days with only minor, previously an

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dedicated server or cloud server?

g. a service that could get a lot of new users very fast or is only really active for short time spans. Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual or Quad CPU complications?

Am 13.12.2012 07:23, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 22:12:18 -0800 > Grant wrote: > >> I've only ever used systems with a single CPU. I'm looking for a new >> host for a dedicated server (suggestions?) and it looks like I'll >> probably choose a machine with two or four CPUs. What

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Atom: architecture, distcc, crossdev and compile flags

Am 12.12.2012 10:40, schrieb Neil Bothwick: > On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 09:16:58 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: > >> I personally see no reason for encrypting root as there is nothing of >> interest in there. > > No passwords in /etc? The main reason I encrypt / is that wicd

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Atom: architecture, distcc, crossdev and compile flags

Am 12.12.2012 02:40, schrieb Frank Steinmetzger: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 09:20:55PM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: > >>> * From my observations, the benefit of 64 bit over 32 is much smaller for an >>> Atom than it is for my Core2. Am I right to assume thus that the

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Atom: architecture, distcc, crossdev and compile flags

t.com/testdrive/performance/mazesolver/default.html http://www.webkit.org/perf/sunspider/sunspider.html http://peacekeeper.futuremark.com/run.action There is also a Qt render benchmark http://code.google.com/p/qtperf/ Check out app-admin/eselect-qtgraphicssystem and see how they compare in appearance and numbers. Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Localmount starts before LVM

pends: > > depend() > { > need fsck > use lvm modules mtab > after lvm modules > keyword -jail -openvz -prefix -vserver -lxc > } > > -- > Nilesh Govindrajan > http://nileshgr.com > Please provide `/sbin/rc-update show`. Have you tried toggling rc_depend_strict? Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Will ARM take over the world?

nodes, but you cannot fool Amdahl's law. And even where you can parallelize nearly 100%, you risk high latency [2, 3]. [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/496400/ [2] http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~jignesh/publ/nonwimpy.pdf [3] http://research.google.com/pubs/archive/36448.pdf Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ext4 problem and disk access

and mounting /unmounting > /dev/sda5 ; i haven't seen any difference... > > thank you Nikos, > > -- > Jacques > Try lsof instead to find processes accessing files. You can also try iotop. PS: Please don't top-post. Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] broadcom-sta and the 3.6.x kernel

kernel updates more chips work with the in-kernel driver (brcmsmac). But the config option is well hidden (you need to enable BCMA to even see it). Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] intel HD graphics 4000 and viewing DVDs

Am 28.07.2012 10:22, schrieb Florian Philipp: > Am 27.07.2012 22:57, schrieb Michael Mol: >> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Florian Philipp >> wrote: >>> Am 27.07.2012 22:22, schrieb Michael Mol: >>>> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Allan Gottlieb wr

Re: [gentoo-user] Debug memory leaks in X server

Am 26.11.2012 10:56, schrieb Florian Philipp: > Hi list! > > I have a suspicion that viewing certain PDFs in okular causes X server > to leak memory. Currently it is using 1.8 GB after 3 days uptime. Has > anyone else observed that? Is there a way to inspect X server&#

[gentoo-user] Debug memory leaks in X server

Hi list! I have a suspicion that viewing certain PDFs in okular causes X server to leak memory. Currently it is using 1.8 GB after 3 days uptime. Has anyone else observed that? Is there a way to inspect X server's memory usage? Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: Op

Re: [gentoo-user] easy Gentoo tricks

Am 26.11.2012 09:49, schrieb George Karagiannidis: > On 11/26/2012 10:38 AM, Florian Philipp wrote: >> Am 25.11.2012 22:53, schrieb Grant: >>> What are your favorite easy Gentoo tricks? Stuff that makes your system >>> a lot better in some way with only a minima

Re: [gentoo-user] easy Gentoo tricks

ook (terrible SSD, 512MB RAM) is something you can probably not do with any other distribution. Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] swap on ssd?

herwise be swapped. You still need swap but less often. Enable FRONTSWAP CRYPTO CONFIG_STAGING CONFIG_ZCACHE then add "zcache" to your boot parameters. Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD configuration

and Jaques. Put your answers below the quoted messages (like I did). Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD configuration

xt4 > defaults,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 For home, auto_da_alloc trades a little performance for additional security against stupid applications that forget to fsync(). > /dev/sdb8 /mnt/disk_virt ext4 > defaults,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg - RADEON vs VESA

; > (II) [KMS] drm report modesetting isn't supported. [...] Have you changed the kernel as well? Enable CONFIG_DRM_RADEON and CONFIG_DRM_RADEON_KMS if you have not. Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

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