Keyboard problem with Ubuntu and gnome on remote X

2009-03-02 Thread geoffrey mendelson
I just installed Ubuntu LTS 8.04.2 server and upgraded it to a desktop. However, the computer only has a text capabable monitor (640x480) on it. I changed gdm.conf to allow external connections and connect to it from a BSD system (MacOS X 10.5). When I connect with X Windows, I get a login

Kernel memory management problem

2009-03-02 Thread Alexander Indenbaum
Guys/Girls/Dudes, I'm working with embedded Linux box powered by 2.4 kernel ( I know :) we are in process of switching to 2.6 ) with 1G physical memory, no swap defined and some slow flash storage mounted. We noticed that if we copy large media file ( 1.4G ) to flash storage filesystem, using

Re: Kernel memory management problem

2009-03-02 Thread guy keren
if you don't care about the speed of copying the data and of slowing down the disk media consderably during this copying, try to change the copy program, so it will use the O_DIRECT flag when opening the file (and then you'll need to make sure the buffers you pass to write() are aligned to

Windows-free laptop in Israel - possible after all

2009-03-02 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Hi everybody, I decided that some of you might be interested to know that I got myself a new laptop a few days ago. The reason for your possible interest will be not just being good friends of mine (though some of you undoubtedly are), but the fact that the laptop came without Windows Vista

Re: Kernel memory management problem

2009-03-02 Thread Valery Reznic
--- On Mon, 3/2/09, Alexander Indenbaum alexander.indenb...@gmail.com wrote: We noticed that if we copy large media file ( 1.4G ) to flash storage filesystem, using wget/sftp/whatever kernel grabs almost all the available physical memory and buffers are not released even after

Re: Windows-free laptop in Israel - possible after all

2009-03-02 Thread sammy ominsky
On 02/03/2009, at 13:24, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Well, it turns out that there is at least one importer who does that. They are http://www.memory4less.co.il, I haven't bought a laptop from them, but I'll second the recommendation of them as a retailer. I purchased some oddball RAM from

Re: Kernel memory management problem

2009-03-02 Thread Alexander Indenbaum
Valery, See answer inline. On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Valery Reznic valery_rez...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Mon, 3/2/09, Alexander Indenbaum alexander.indenb...@gmail.com wrote: We noticed that if we copy large media file ( 1.4G ) to flash storage filesystem, using wget/sftp/whatever

Re: Windows-free laptop in Israel - possible after all

2009-03-02 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hi, - It is good to hear about it! - I urge everybody else who has a similar experience with buying Windows-free laptops in Israel with other stores to report in this mailing list. - I believe that the Linux users community in Israel has some power; and I believe that eventually this might

Re: Kernel memory management problem

2009-03-02 Thread Alexander Indenbaum
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:16 PM, guy keren c...@actcom.co.il wrote: if you don't care about the speed of copying the data and of slowing down the disk media consderably during this copying, try to change the copy program, so it will use the O_DIRECT flag when opening the file (and then you'll

Re: Kernel memory management problem

2009-03-02 Thread Valery Reznic
--- On Mon, 3/2/09, Alexander Indenbaum alexander.indenb...@gmail.com wrote: From: Alexander Indenbaum alexander.indenb...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Kernel memory management problem To: guy keren c...@actcom.co.il Cc: linux-il. linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Date: Monday, March 2, 2009, 4:24 PM On

Re: Kernel memory management problem

2009-03-02 Thread Alexander Indenbaum
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Valery Reznic valery_rez...@yahoo.com wrote: Unfortunately this is real problem: if you do something like while(true) { transfer } then application crashes and burns in hell :) Are you sure that culprit is kernel ? May be transfer part has memory leak ? Did

Re: Kernel memory management problem

2009-03-02 Thread Alexander Indenbaum
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Valery Reznic valery_rez...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Mon, 3/2/09, Alexander Indenbaum alexander.indenb...@gmail.com wrote: From: Alexander Indenbaum alexander.indenb...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Kernel memory management problem To: guy keren c...@actcom.co.il Cc:

Re: Kernel memory management problem

2009-03-02 Thread Valery Reznic
Unfortunately this is real problem: if you do something like while(true) { transfer } then application crashes and burns in hell :) Are you sure that culprit is kernel ? May be transfer part has memory leak ? Did you try to run it under valgrind ? or run top ? Nondeterministically -

Re: Kernel memory management problem

2009-03-02 Thread Alexander Indenbaum
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Valery Reznic valery_rez...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Mon, 3/2/09, Alexander Indenbaum alexander.indenb...@gmail.com wrote: From: Alexander Indenbaum alexander.indenb...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Kernel memory management problem To: valery_rez...@yahoo.com Cc:

Re: Kernel memory management problem

2009-03-02 Thread Valery Reznic
--- On Mon, 3/2/09, Alexander Indenbaum alexander.indenb...@gmail.com wrote: From: Alexander Indenbaum alexander.indenb...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Kernel memory management problem To: valery_rez...@yahoo.com Cc: linux-il. linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Date: Monday, March 2, 2009, 4:45 PM On

Re: Windows-free laptop in Israel - possible after all

2009-03-02 Thread Saba Moshe
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 16:23:45 +0200 From: Dan Shimshoni danshi...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Windows-free laptop in Israel - possible after all To: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Message-ID: 2d2a24500903020623h364d175fvc0e1f788adfde...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi,

Re: Kernel memory management problem

2009-03-02 Thread guy keren
Alexander Indenbaum wrote: On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Valery Reznic valery_rez...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Mon, 3/2/09, Alexander Indenbaum alexander.indenb...@gmail.com wrote: From: Alexander Indenbaum alexander.indenb...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Kernel memory management problem To: guy