Alex Schuster wrote:
Dale writes:
Some of the widget thingys. What's with the big eyeballs anyway?
They watch :)
No, there's no other purpose. I have at least one instance of XEyes on
my desktop since I found this little application in 1992 when I first
started using a Sun
On Wednesday 27 July 2011 16:35:13 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:52:53 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
I wonder how effective tmpfs is for PORTAGE_TMPDIR as the builds
that need a lot of disk space can often require a fair bit of
memory too, and tmpfs is using it all.
In
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:16:35 -0500, Dale wrote:
Speaking of tmpfs, I should have re-emerged OOo on tmpfs. It filled up
/var and died, just a few minutes before it would have finished. Oh
well, I'll make /var bigger next time. Maybe a couple more Gbs. I put
that http-replicator on here
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:30 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:58:28 -0500, Dale wrote:
I have 16Gbs here. It's not like I'm going to run out or anything. I
can
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:16:35 -0500, Dale wrote:
Speaking of tmpfs, I should have re-emerged OOo on tmpfs. It filled up
/var and died, just a few minutes before it would have finished. Oh
well, I'll make /var bigger next time. Maybe a couple more Gbs. I put
that
Dale writes:
Alex Schuster wrote:
Dale writes:
Alex Schuster wrote:
I don't use tmpfs any more, as 8G of RAM is barely enough to run
KDE here.
I run KDE here and it uses less than 1Gbs all the time. Most of the
time it hovers around 1Gb with a lot of junk open. If your used
Alex Schuster wrote:
I made some screenshots [*] after I started with an empty .kde4 directory
one week ago. They show what is started automatically when I log into KDE,
well, except for the last desktop where I fired up a browser for online
banking.
Desktop 1: Administration stuff. A Konsole
Dale writes:
Alex Schuster wrote:
http://www.wonkology.org/comp/desktop/2011-07-24/desktop6.png
You might want to remove that one. Look closely at the bank screen.
That's okay, this is not really my account number, although very close :)
But even if it were, I guess it wouldn't be too
On Thursday 28 July 2011 19:14:07 Alex Schuster wrote:
Desktop 4: Remote. I go here when I administrate remote systems, via ssh
in a Konsole, RDesktop, or NX. The folder views have shortcuts to start
NX/Rdesktop/VPN sessions, or Dophins opening FTP locations and such.
Is that Bow Fell
On Thursday 28 July 2011 20:06:09 Alex Schuster wrote:
I'll wait a little and then upgrade to 4.7, and then I'll decide if I stay
with it. If not, the question would be what to use instead, I would miss
so many things.
Me too. I'm sure you wouldn't like gnome: it has far too much of the
Alex Schuster wrote:
Dale writes:
Alex Schuster wrote:
http://www.wonkology.org/comp/desktop/2011-07-24/desktop6.png
You might want to remove that one. Look closely at the bank screen.
That's okay, this is not really my account number, although very close :)
But even if
Michael Mol wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:58:28 -0500, Dale wrote:
I have 16Gbs here. It's not like I'm going to run out or anything. I can
put half on tmpfs and still have 8Gbs left.
On Thursday 28 Jul 2011 14:38:01 Dale wrote:
How do you tell KDE that you want a widget thingy on one desktop and not all
of them?
Settings - workspace behavior - Virtual Desktops - Tick diffrent widgets
for each desktop
in earlier kde versions when they were trying to figure out what to do
Peter Humphrey writes:
On Thursday 28 July 2011 19:14:07 Alex Schuster wrote:
Desktop 4: Remote. I go here when I administrate remote systems, via ssh
in a Konsole, RDesktop, or NX. The folder views have shortcuts to start
NX/Rdesktop/VPN sessions, or Dophins opening FTP locations and such.
On Thursday, 28 July 2011 22:27:48 Alex Schuster did opine thusly:
Probably not. The image file name is citrusdal.jpg, this is the name
of a small town in South Aftica as Wikipedia tells me.
It's a nice town. In season, you can buy the most fantastic oranges
there that you ever tasted.
--
On Thursday 28 July 2011 21:27:48 Alex Schuster wrote:
I would need many more desktops then. How many do you have?
Mostly I have six, but when I'm in a major redevelopment phase of my web
site that goes up to eight.
So you also use activities? I don't, and I think they don't suit me as I
Dale writes:
Alex Schuster wrote:
Dale writes:
Alex Schuster wrote:
http://www.wonkology.org/comp/desktop/2011-07-24/desktop6.png
You might want to remove that one. Look closely at the bank screen.
That's okay, this is not really my account number, although very close :)
But
On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 15:10 -0500, Dale wrote:
Michael Mol wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:58:28 -0500, Dale wrote:
I have 16Gbs here. It's not like I'm going to run out or
Depending on your available ram and swap space, you might want to mount
/var/tmp/portage as tmpfs. My fstab entry shows
none/var/tmp/portagetmpfs size=10g,nr_inodes=1m
I have 4GB ram, and the speed benefit especially for open/libre-office is quite
impressive.
The
On Wednesday 27 Jul 2011 08:24:37 Alexander Puchmayr wrote:
Depending on your available ram and swap space, you might want to mount
/var/tmp/portage as tmpfs. My fstab entry shows
none/var/tmp/portagetmpfs
size=10g,nr_inodes=1m
I have 4GB ram, and the speed
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wednesday 27 Jul 2011 08:24:37 Alexander Puchmayr wrote:
Depending on your available ram and swap space, you might want to mount
/var/tmp/portage as tmpfs. My fstab entry shows
none /var/tmp/portage
On Wednesday 27 July 2011 14:29:12 Michael Mol wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
What will libreoffice do if /var/tmp/portage is a tmpfs? Start
swapping like mad?
No; the tmpfs runs out of space, and the build fails. Had that happen
with
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Peter Humphrey
pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote:
On Wednesday 27 July 2011 14:29:12 Michael Mol wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
What will libreoffice do if /var/tmp/portage is a tmpfs? Start
swapping like mad?
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:41:33 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Doesn't do that here. When tmpfs is full it starts being swapped out to
the swap partition. Perhaps you didn't have any swap at the time.
The default size for a tmpfs filesystem is half the physical RAM, unless
you specify more as a
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:41:33 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Doesn't do that here. When tmpfs is full it starts being swapped out to
the swap partition. Perhaps you didn't have any swap at the time.
The default size for a tmpfs filesystem is half the physical RAM,
On Wednesday 27 July 2011 15:40:03 Neil Bothwick did opine thusly:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:41:33 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Doesn't do that here. When tmpfs is full it starts being swapped
out to the swap partition. Perhaps you didn't have any swap at
the time.
The default size for a
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:41:33 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Doesn't do that here. When tmpfs is full it starts being swapped out to
the swap partition. Perhaps you didn't have any swap at the time.
The default size for a
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wednesday 27 July 2011 15:40:03 Neil Bothwick did opine thusly:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:41:33 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Doesn't do that here. When tmpfs is full it starts being swapped
out to the swap
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:52:53 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
I wonder how effective tmpfs is for PORTAGE_TMPDIR as the builds
that need a lot of disk space can often require a fair bit of
memory too, and tmpfs is using it all.
In this last week someone reported doing actually measurements
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:52:53 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
I wonder how effective tmpfs is for PORTAGE_TMPDIR as the builds
that need a lot of disk space can often require a fair bit of
memory too, and tmpfs is using it all.
In this last week someone reported
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:58:28 -0500, Dale wrote:
I wonder how effective tmpfs is for PORTAGE_TMPDIR as the builds
that need a lot of disk space can often require a fair bit of
memory too, and tmpfs is using it all.
In this last week someone reported doing actually measurements
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:58:28 -0500, Dale wrote:
I wonder how effective tmpfs is for PORTAGE_TMPDIR as the builds
that need a lot of disk space can often require a fair bit of
memory too, and tmpfs is using it all.
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:58:28 -0500, Dale wrote:
I wonder how effective tmpfs is for PORTAGE_TMPDIR as the builds
that need a lot of disk space can often require a fair bit of
memory too, and tmpfs is using it all.
In this last week someone reported doing
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:58:28 -0500, Dale wrote:
I have 16Gbs here. It's not like I'm going to run out or anything. I can
put half on tmpfs and still have 8Gbs left. That is more than enough to
compile
Michael Mol wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:58:28 -0500, Dale wrote:
I have 16Gbs here. It's not like I'm going to run out or anything. I can
put half on tmpfs and still have 8Gbs left.
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Michael Mol wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:58:28 -0500, Dale wrote:
I have 16Gbs here. It's not like I'm going to run out or
Joshua Murphy wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Michael Mol wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.comwrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:58:28 -0500, Dale wrote:
I
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:54:22 -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
It makes sense because the ramdisk is using memory that would
otherwise be used for compilation and filesystem caches.
tmpfs isn't implemented as a ramdisk, it's implemented as a thin layer
on top of the filesystem cache.
That's
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:07:30 -0500, Dale wrote:
It makes sense because the ramdisk is using memory that would
otherwise be used for compilation and filesystem caches.
I have 16Gbs here. It's not like I'm going to run out or anything. I
can put half on tmpfs and still have 8Gbs left.
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:07:30 -0500, Dale wrote:
It makes sense because the ramdisk is using memory that would
otherwise be used for compilation and filesystem caches.
I have 16Gbs here. It's not like I'm going to run out or anything. I
can put half on
Dale writes:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
I wasn't thinking of systems with that much memory. Like you, I'd expect
your system to be faster, even if not by much, using tmpfs.
That's what I was expecting too. It is confusing for sure.
Years ago, I used tmpfs, and it was slightly faster, but on
Alex Schuster wrote:
Dale writes:
That's what I was expecting too. It is confusing for sure.
Years ago, I used tmpfs, and it was slightly faster, but on average only
few seconds in an hou-long emerge.
I don't use tmpfs any more, as 8G of RAM is barely enough to run KDe here.
I
Dale wrote:
I run KDE here and it uses less than 1Gbs all the time. Most of the
time it hovers around 1Gb with a lot of junk open. If your used 8Gbs,
you got a lot running or something. o_O
That should read less than 2 Gbs all the time. I hit the wrong
button. lol
Dale
:-) :-)
Dale writes:
Alex Schuster wrote:
I don't use tmpfs any more, as 8G of RAM is barely enough to run KDe
here.
I run KDE here and it uses less than 1Gbs all the time. Most of the
time it hovers around 1Gb with a lot of junk open. If your used 8Gbs,
you got a lot running or something.
Alex Schuster wrote:
Dale writes:
Alex Schuster wrote:
I don't use tmpfs any more, as 8G of RAM is barely enough to run KDe
here.
I run KDE here and it uses less than 1Gbs all the time. Most of the
time it hovers around 1Gb with a lot of junk open. If your used 8Gbs,
After some deliberation I've started emerging libreoffice. It gave the usual
office suite warnings at the beginning that there isn't enough space in /var
(I have 5.8G and it was asking for more than 7G+).
Half way through the emerge I noticed that I have only 74M left and is going
down fast!
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:02:34AM +0100, Mick wrote:
After some deliberation I've started emerging libreoffice. It gave the usual
office suite warnings at the beginning that there isn't enough space in /var
(I have 5.8G and it was asking for more than 7G+).
Half way through the emerge I
On Monday 25 Jul 2011 11:24:33 YoYo Siska wrote:
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:02:34AM +0100, Mick wrote:
After some deliberation I've started emerging libreoffice. It gave the
usual office suite warnings at the beginning that there isn't enough
space in /var (I have 5.8G and it was asking
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
After some deliberation I've started emerging libreoffice. It gave the
usual
office suite warnings at the beginning that there isn't enough space in
/var
(I have 5.8G and it was asking for more than 7G+).
Half way
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:40:55AM +0100, Mick wrote:
On Monday 25 Jul 2011 11:24:33 YoYo Siska wrote:
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:02:34AM +0100, Mick wrote:
After some deliberation I've started emerging libreoffice. It gave the
usual office suite warnings at the beginning that there
On Monday 25 Jul 2011 12:18:34 YoYo Siska wrote:
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:40:55AM +0100, Mick wrote:
I never understood properly how the mount --bind/rbind works. I
understand that the original partition content becomes visible on a
second partition, but I'm not at all sure what happens
On Monday 25 July 2011 11:02:34 Mick did opine thusly:
After some deliberation I've started emerging libreoffice. It gave
the usual office suite warnings at the beginning that there isn't
enough space in /var (I have 5.8G and it was asking for more than
7G+).
Half way through the emerge I
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