Re: Cross-building environments

2008-01-19 Thread David Fokkema
On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 11:53 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 01:22:40PM +0100, David Fokkema wrote: Wow, I'll have to sort through all those options... Since I want debian packages, I'll have to check which ones are already being used, which ones are against debian

Re: Cross-building environments

2008-01-18 Thread David Fokkema
Hi Kevin, On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 12:41 +0100, Kevin Price wrote: Hi Dave! David Fokkema schrieb: Basically, I just want to build a slightly patched mysql-server-5.0 for my nslu2 running etch.arm without having to compile it on my slug. A few What might be a quick and easy solution

Re: Cross-building environments

2008-01-18 Thread David Fokkema
Hey Josh, On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 21:59 -0600, Josh Valdez wrote: Hey David! I was able to compile MySQL on a slug without problems. The key is you have to set a compile flag to use less memory. Here are the compile flags I used: CFLAGS=-O3 -marm CXX=gcc CXXFLAGS=-O3 -marm

Cross-building environments

2008-01-16 Thread David Fokkema
Hi list, I'm having troubles with MySQL on standard arm etch and was thinking about cross-compiling the package (building natively on an nslu2 didn't really work out... the thing ran out of memory) for testing purposes. However, there seem to be various ways to do this... I'm probably mixing up a

Re: Dieing MySQL server (minimal script)

2008-01-06 Thread David Fokkema
/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=458350 I hope it will be fixed soon! David Josh On Jan 5, 2008 7:00 AM, David Fokkema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi group, Can you confirm this (mysql-server-5.0 version 5.0.32-Debian_7etch3): Welcome

Dieing MySQL server (minimal script)

2008-01-05 Thread David Fokkema
Hi group, Can you confirm this (mysql-server-5.0 version 5.0.32-Debian_7etch3): Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 1 Server version: 5.0.32-Debian_7etch3 Debian etch distribution Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.

Re: more ram/swap on leisner, please?

2008-01-03 Thread David Fokkema
On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 21:32 +0100, Lennert Buytenhek wrote: On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 02:17:46PM -0600, Bill Gatliff wrote: Ok, I've set up a 5GB swap over NBD. If the system reboots, it won't automagically reattach it. The kernel is NOT running the nbd swap patch, so I don't know if

MySQL problems since update

2007-12-31 Thread David Fokkema
Hi group, Since the MySQL update to 5.0.32-7etch3 my wordpress installation is broken. It appears that certain queries kill the server (signal 11, SEGV). Downgrading to 5.0.32-7etch1 fixes everything. I manually confirmed that the failing wordpress queries kill the server (using mysql-client). I

Re: Apache, PHP and Mysql on NSLU2

2007-06-25 Thread David Fokkema
and causing the system to just giveup. Glad you caught it! I'm wondering: are your strange ScreenSize.pm errors gone now? Were they memory related or just some quirk from your previous install? David On 6/23/07, David Fokkema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 15:24 -0400, Aaron Klein

Re: Apache, PHP and Mysql on NSLU2

2007-06-25 Thread David Fokkema
that the errors about 'uninitialized value in pattern' had something todo with low memory... Lucky you found it! David On 6/25/07, David Fokkema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 20:29 -0400, Aaron Klein wrote: I wanted to reply to the list the resolution or at least what I think

Re: Swap not enabled?

2007-06-24 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 10:15 -0400, Aaron Klein wrote: How can I tell if my system will use the swap space? Im running out of ram and my system really starts to crawl and I never see anything used as far as swap using the top command. Just do `swapon -s`. That will tell you if you use a swap

Re: Swap not enabled?

2007-06-24 Thread David Fokkema
by heart? David On 6/24/07, David Fokkema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 10:15 -0400, Aaron Klein wrote: How can I tell if my system will use the swap space? Im running out of ram and my system really starts to crawl and I never see anything used as far as swap using

Re: Swap not enabled?

2007-06-24 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 22:02 +0200, David Fokkema wrote: On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 15:46 -0400, Aaron Klein wrote: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # file system mount point type options dump pass proc/proc procdefaults0 0 UUID

Fat slug available? WAS: Re: Swap not enabled?

2007-06-24 Thread David Fokkema
Then mount it by label. My fstab had this: LABEL=Swap none swap sw 0 0 Yes, that's what the wiki says! Steve David Fokkema wrote: On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 15:46 -0400, Aaron Klein wrote: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # file system mount point type options

Re: Apache, PHP and Mysql on NSLU2

2007-06-23 Thread David Fokkema
this (http://www.slug-firmware.net/) page: the debian/nslu2 one or the Experimental Unstable Unsupported Alpha Release? I hope it's the former one, ;-) I really like the latter one, but as it says, it's experimental, unstable, unsupported and alpha, ;-)) Luck, David On 6/22/07, David

Re: Apache, PHP and Mysql on NSLU2

2007-06-23 Thread David Fokkema
On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 17:07 -0400, Aaron Klein wrote: I belive I know why the mysql install is bombing out. Apparently its trying to install the x11-common package as it says its a dependancy of mysql-server. I suspect it bombs out since the slug has no video output device. Any idea how to

Re: Apache, PHP and Mysql on NSLU2

2007-06-23 Thread David Fokkema
available) pn mysql-server-5 none (no description available) Ok, same versions I have and the ii tells you it is correctly installed. So debconf didn't totally freak out. me thinking... David On 6/23/07, David Fokkema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, no. That's to your first

Re: Apache, PHP and Mysql on NSLU2

2007-06-22 Thread David Fokkema
On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 22:07 -0400, Aaron Klein wrote: Has anyone gotten the treo of web apps installed and working on the NSLU2? Maybe its not possible to get Mysql working due to the limited memory. I have gotten apache running but its verion 1.3.X I seem to Sure! But as you say, memory is

Re: Apache, PHP and Mysql on NSLU2

2007-06-22 Thread David Fokkema
On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 14:02 -0400, Aaron Klein wrote: I have lighttpd and php5 now working properly as I can see the phpinfo page I made but I have difficulty with mysql installing. I have been trying and I am getting the same message I have been getting for a few days now. I mess around

Re: Some thoughts on the ARM build daemons

2007-06-03 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 17:27 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: David Fokkema a écrit : On Sat, 2007-06-02 at 15:37 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Lennert Buytenhek a écrit : If you never fix machines when they break, having 7 machines is better than having 2 machines, because if you lose 1 out

Re: Some thoughts on the ARM build daemons

2007-06-02 Thread David Fokkema
On Sat, 2007-06-02 at 15:37 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Lennert Buytenhek a écrit : If you never fix machines when they break, having 7 machines is better than having 2 machines, because if you lose 1 out of 2 machines you lose half of your build capacity, whereas if you lose 1 out of 7

Re: Slow downloads: NSLU2

2007-05-31 Thread David Fokkema
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 17:41 +0930, Rod Whitby wrote: Bob Cox wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Fokkema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, well, well! On checking, I noticed that my CPU is ~70% idle. Measuring bandwidth with iperf results in 3.5 Mbit/s. I misread that last time

Re: Slow downloads: NSLU2

2007-05-31 Thread David Fokkema
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 09:38 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 11:23:03AM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: I know. However, it would be nice to get around 30 Mb/s, which is less than 10% of it. When I 'dd', I get around 7 Mb/s with CPU at ~ 80% which is almost entirely spent

Re: Slow downloads: NSLU2

2007-05-30 Thread David Fokkema
On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 16:39 +0100, Bob Cox wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mattias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tis 2007-05-29 klockan 20:37 +0200 skrev David Fokkema: Hi, Basically, I have no idea, but: If you download large files (say, packages) from a fast site (say

Re: Slow downloads: NSLU2

2007-05-30 Thread David Fokkema
On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 23:52 +0200, Mikael Rudberg wrote: I get approx 5.6 MB/s read and 3.7 MB/S write on my etch-slug with samba but i guess it also comes down to the performance of the external drive. I don't know. I only get about 8 Mb/s when I 'dd' from my slug to the hard drive

Re: Slow downloads: NSLU2

2007-05-29 Thread David Fokkema
Hi, Basically, I have no idea, but: If you download large files (say, packages) from a fast site (say, a debian server near you), what transfer rates do you get? On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 20:15 +0200, Mattias wrote: When I copy files from a client to the nslu I've noticed the max speed is

Re: alternative Webserver as Apache

2007-05-22 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 08:15 +0100, Jon Ervine wrote: On Tuesday 22 May 2007 07:53:29 Dirk Schleicher wrote: Hello there, I looking for a small alternative of a webserver with php and mysql for my slug. What can I use instead of Apache? But it has to be compatible to mentioned above.

Re: alternative Webserver as Apache

2007-05-22 Thread David Fokkema
to reduce your mysql memory size, among other things... David /Mikael David Fokkema wrote: On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 08:15 +0100, Jon Ervine wrote: On Tuesday 22 May 2007 07:53:29 Dirk Schleicher wrote: Hello there, I looking for a small alternative of a webserver with php

NSLU2 usb connection speed

2007-05-17 Thread David Fokkema
Hi group, I'm a bit confused. I can't seem to find any good information, not on the NSLU2-linux wiki and not using google, although I might be missing something obvious... The usb2 port should be capable of high-speed communications and my usb disk is capable of 30+ Mb/s transfer rates when I

Re: Web CMS on NSLU2

2007-04-07 Thread David Fokkema
Hi, On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 17:06 +0200, Mikael Rudberg wrote: Hi I've just put joomla 1.0.12 and mysql 5.0 on one of my NSLU2 everythijng is working however the speed of the web server is way to slow in my opinion. Not so surprisingly considering it only has 32 MB of memory. So my

Re: NFS server delays on NSLU2

2007-03-29 Thread David Fokkema
On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 11:19 +0200, Marcus Better wrote: Hi, I'm running an NFSv4 server on my slug with kernel 2.6.18-4-ixp4xx, using GSSAPI authentication and with autofs on the client. In general it works, but I often experience delays when (auto)mounting partitions. For example, doing

Re: Some packages, like unrar, aren't build for arm?

2007-03-14 Thread David Fokkema
On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 17:19 +, Martin Guy wrote: 2007/3/9, Lennart Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 08:03:50PM +0100, David Fokkema wrote: I noticed that unrar-nonfree isn't available for arm. Looking up the developer's page and checking the buildd logs I noticed

Re: Some packages, like unrar, aren't build for arm?

2007-03-14 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 12:52 +0900, Kenshi Muto wrote: At Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:40:38 +0900, Kenshi Muto wrote: Yes, unrar isn't listed on our autobuild database. Only maintainer can ask it to non-free buildd team via the method[0], if he thinks unrar is autobuildable. Correction: Ah,

Some packages, like unrar, aren't build for arm?

2007-03-09 Thread David Fokkema
Hi group, I noticed that unrar-nonfree isn't available for arm. Looking up the developer's page and checking the buildd logs I noticed an 'n/a' next to 'arm'. How can I find out what the reason for this exclusion is? Is it some binary code which only runs on i386?? Thanks, David -- To

Re: NSLU2 Debian SID

2007-03-05 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 15:23 -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Jeremy Brown wrote: I've had my nslu2 for years am putting Debian sid unstable from http://www.unslung.org/ at the bottom of the web page. Here another website that tells about this release: http://wiki.debian.org/ArmEabiPort .. I

Re: armel kernels..

2007-02-24 Thread David Fokkema
On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 16:40 -0500, Joey Hess wrote: A little while ago Lennert and I built some armel kernel packages, and I think someone reported one of them didn't work. In fact, it turns out most had not been built with eabi support due to a snafu. This is now corrected with the current

Re: Softfloat on ARM?

2007-02-14 Thread David Fokkema
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 09:11 +, Laz wrote: On Tuesday 13 February 2007 21:47, Joey Hess wrote: Laz wrote: Someone mentioned on this list back in January that they would build an armel kernel package: did this ever happen? Can't see one in http://armel-debs.applieddata.net/debian but

Re: Softfloat on ARM?

2007-02-14 Thread David Fokkema
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 12:26 +0100, Lennert Buytenhek wrote: On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:20:19PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: I also cross-compiled the kernel on a x86 laptop (1.5 GHz) and that took me about half an hour. First, I though that it wasn't working right (I Note that you need

Compiling custom kernel

2007-02-13 Thread David Fokkema
Hi group, I wanted to try out the eabi chroot, but that generated an illegal instruction. Of course, I forgot to compile a new kernel. I'm doing that right now, but I'm wondering about what to do with it. Due to the recent change to apex (well, maybe not so recent) the information on the net is

Re: Compiling custom kernel

2007-02-13 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 11:33 +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * David Fokkema [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-02-13 12:24]: right now, but I'm wondering about what to do with it. Due to the recent change to apex (well, maybe not so recent) the information on the net is somewhat conflicting. Do I need

Re: Compiling custom kernel

2007-02-13 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 11:53 +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * David Fokkema [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-02-13 12:46]: Great! Thanks. Followup question: say I'd like to boot the debian supplied kernel again: do I need to reinstall or is a dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.18-3-ixp4xx enough

Re: Softfloat on ARM?

2007-02-13 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 13:20 +, Martin Guy wrote: Yes, I gathered something like that from the wiki. I just kinda hoped that for just one application it was possible to link it to something like -lsoftm instead of -lm. No, current ARM Debian uses a different storage format for floating

Re: Softfloat on ARM?

2007-02-13 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 16:23 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 10:07:39PM +0100, David Fokkema wrote: simple. Maybe I can write a new pnmscale or modify it in some way. Like pnmscalefixed? ;-) Er... yes, something along those lines... feeling stupid I _was_ going to look

Re: ImageMagick / NetPBM performance

2007-02-12 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 08:28:24PM +, Martin Guy wrote: If so, he could try the EABI port, which gives a significant floating point performance boost. About a factor of 11 increase in FP speed in fact. Install Debian armel and help them complete it - see the links in the first line of

Softfloat on ARM?

2007-02-12 Thread David Fokkema
Hi group, Regarding floating point operations in ImageMagick / NetPBM there were suggestions to try out the EABI port. Right now, that seems a bit painful. However, on the Debian EABI port page in the wiki it says that the current way of working (oldabi) is about ten times slower than a program

Re: Softfloat on ARM?

2007-02-12 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 15:53 +0100, Lennert Buytenhek wrote: On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 03:51:39PM +0100, David Fokkema wrote: Regarding floating point operations in ImageMagick / NetPBM there were suggestions to try out the EABI port. Right now, that seems a bit painful. Why

Re: Softfloat on ARM?

2007-02-12 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 16:42 +, Wookey wrote: On 2007-02-12 15:51 +0100, David Fokkema wrote: Hi group, Regarding floating point operations in ImageMagick / NetPBM there were suggestions to try out the EABI port. Right now, that seems a bit painful. However, on the Debian EABI port

ImageMagick / NetPBM performance

2007-02-11 Thread David Fokkema
Hi group, I recently installed debian on an NSLU2 and I'm encountering the following problem. ImageMagick (and NetPBM) are extremely slow when resizing photo's. Of course, I know I can't expect to much of it, but on my desktop (Intel Pentium 4 2.8 Ghz) convert finishes in about 0.696 s of user