SFLC year end report request for donations

2007-11-13 Thread Dennis Kibbe
Scroll about have way down for a summary of what the Software Freedom Law Center has accomplished in it's third year of existence. Worth reading especially if you're not familiar with their work. -Dennisk Forwarded Message From: Eben Moglen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: Kernel memory

2007-11-13 Thread JD Austin
Shawn Badger wrote: I am having this on going problem with my sever running out of low memory, or that is at least what my support company is saying. The question I pose the group is how can I tell how much memory is left in the low memory area that the kernel uses and what is using it? I

Re: Kernel memory

2007-11-13 Thread Shawn Badger
Yes, kind of like DOS, apparently the kernel does use this low memory for a process handling area as well as buffer storage for TCP and other traffic. I also found a new command that I didn't know of before call slabtop. it shows you the top items using slab. I haven't totally figured out what

Re: Kernel memory

2007-11-13 Thread Kevin Brown
It is 2.6 32bit, from what I understand the 64 bit kernel handles things a lot different at this level though. No where near as bad as DOS. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6930 http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-linux-slab-allocator/

Re: sad day on PLUG

2007-11-13 Thread Dan Lund
As usual, it also depends on the genre of the tech industry, also. Unix positions are plentiful at certain times of the year due to budgeting reasons, while Windows administration can come and go depending on the fluxuations of administrators... tech sup is a seasonal thing. On Nov 13, 2007 9:40

Re: Kernel memory

2007-11-13 Thread Kevin Faulkner
you might want to try updating to 2.6.22, I believe that it uses a new allocator called SLUB Shawn Badger wrote: Thanks for the links Kevin. They help me understand what the hell I am looking at allot better. The kerneltrap.org http://kerneltrap.org link seems to be something kind of similar

RE: another compiz question

2007-11-13 Thread Cary Mabe
First of all, let me say thank you for all the help. I got it all working!!! did a fresh install of compiz, removing all the parts and dependencies first. then I made sure that xgl was running. Opened a command prompt and did compiz --replace, and there ya go! just to make sure the

Re: Kernel memory

2007-11-13 Thread Shawn Badger
Unfortunately I am tied to 2.6.5 as well as 32 bit. The 32 bit is an application problem and the kernel is Suse Enterprise 9. On Nov 13, 2007 12:19 PM, Kevin Faulkner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you might want to try updating to 2.6.22, I believe that it uses a new allocator called SLUB

OT: Marker board on wheels locally?

2007-11-13 Thread Alan Dayley
I want to purchase a double-sided marker board on wheels. (I was surprised at the cost!) Something like this (watch the line wrap): http://www.schooloutfitters.com/catalog/product_info/cPath/CAT3_CAT131/pfam_id/PFAM80/products_id/PRO452 You'd think a metro area the size of Phoenix would have a

Re: OT: how to set up a newsletter mailing list

2007-11-13 Thread Dan Lund
I believe there's an RFC standard of like 500 in the To and CC line for internet email, or something outrageously large like that. I read it a long time ago, I know it was in the hundreds. --Dan On Nov 13, 2007 9:44 PM, Josef Lowder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Augie. May I ask, to how

Re: sad day on PLUG

2007-11-13 Thread Jorge Delacruz
Unfortunately, I am not. Sorry. --- der.hans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 11. Nov, 2007 schwätzte Jorge Delacruz so: I'm working on a system (server with PXE boot and kickstart) that simplifies the below process to: 1. Buy new Optiplex from Dell 2. Open box, unpack computer 3.