Re: Stop Hard Drive fromn Thrashing

On 22/04/16 16:25, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > My hard drive keeps running and I would like to know what is happening. > Google does not seem to be too friendly. > > Any pointers in the right direction will be much appreciated. sudo apt-get install iotop sudo iotop -o (will show applications

Re: Debian Desktop Environment

I prefer xfce but why just comes down to preference, it feels cleaner, faster and simpler, but that's just me Only way to find out is to give them all a go (at least on livecd) Privacy is the same across all, although gnome3 has some extra gui for some preferences for wiping temp files i think,

Re: Debian Desktop Environment

I prefer xfce but why just comes down to preference, it feels cleaner, faster and simpler, but that's just me Only way to find out is to give them all a go (at least on livecd) Privacy is the same across all, although gnome3 has some extra gui for some preferences for wiping temp files i think,

Re: Tracking down memory leaks

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 18/10/15 20:53, Don Armstrong wrote: > a plugin or add-on which is buggy I second that. I have this issue with a bug in a thunderbird plugin, goes crazy and eats the memory. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2

Re: Tracking down memory leaks

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 13/10/15 15:26, Marc Shapiro wrote: > So how do I tell what is using up the memory and not freeing it up? > Is there a way to free that memory without having to reboot? ps -eo pid --sort rss | tail -1 | xargs sudo strace -fp would show what the

Re: Tracking down memory leaks

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 13/10/15 15:26, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Is there a way to free that memory without having to reboot? yep, typically when your machine goes super slow due to memory you can always drop to a tty ps and kill the process which will bring your machine

Re: How to make apt-transport-https accept security.debian.org bad certificate?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 20/10/15 00:55, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: > Are you sure that "/etc/hosts" can be used for that?. As far as I > know "/etc/hosts" is used to locally assign the IP addresses to > domain names, for domain name resolution, instead of, or

Re: How to make apt-transport-https accept security.debian.org bad certificate?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 20/10/15 09:01, Michael Jones wrote: > no peer certificate available correction, needed sni, will re-test mike@mike-laptop3:~$ openssl s_client -showcerts -connect debian.org:443 -servername security.debian.org ...;.f.x... 0030 -

Re: How to make apt-transport-https accept security.debian.org bad certificate?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 20/10/15 09:06, Michael Jones wrote: > On 20/10/15 09:01, Michael Jones wrote: >>> no peer certificate available > correction, needed sni, will re-test > > mike@mike-laptop3:~$ openssl s_client -showcerts -connect > de

Re: How to make apt-transport-https accept security.debian.org bad certificate?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 - Forwarded Message clicked reply, not reply list... On 20/10/15 00:15, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: > My question is: How can I make "apt-get" accept the certificate > anyway, but only _this_ certificate or other certificates

re: Networking performance script

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, I've written a new script to promote the correct use of kernel options and queue disciplines for improving network performance in Linux. I'm keen for feeback technical or not. https://github.com/mikejonesey/net-check Kind Regards, Mike

Re: Hung on reboot/shutdown

On 15 Oct 2015 1:00 am, "Anton Byshovets" wrote: > > Hello. > I have a problem with reboot/shutdown. If i try to reboot or shutdown > (reboot, shutdown -r now, systemctl reboot --force, sync && reboot -f, > etc ...) the system was hang. I tried to catch this bug in logs, but

Re: Antivirus for Debian

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 21/08/15 12:55, Frédéric Marchal wrote: On Friday 21 August 2015 11:28:43 Diogene Laerce wrote: Could anyone here, honest, as we all are I know, guarantee at 100% that the OP won't ever have any virus issue on his Debian system ? No.

Re: Antivirus for Debian

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, another reason for av is PCI compliance (yes you are targeting software for windows mainly). In a large company I worked for previously a user recieved a mail with some pics, downloaded and clicked around which ended up with their pc, and

Re: Skype substitutes for current Debian?

New version socks, no audio due to the removal of alsa support On 19 Aug 2014 16:15, Andrew McGlashan andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au wrote: On 20/08/2014 12:22 AM, Ralph Katz wrote: Steve Gibson reports, Secure browser connections can be intercepted and decrypted... Worth a look: