On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Neil Parker wrote:
On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Linux Rocks ! wrote:
my cpuinfo didnt seem to have anything pertinant to page size, however others
might... cpuinfo seems a lot less relevent than meminfo... Why would
cpuinfo be included, but not meminfo?
I dunno. Maybe that
Horst wrote:
So how do we report this to be corrected ?
(I didn't find a ref to the author)
On Debian:
% dpkg -S /usr/share/man/man8/mkswap.8.gz
util-linux: /usr/share/man/man8/mkswap.8.gz
So the package is util-linux. In the
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Linux Rocks ! wrote:
Redhat... sigh... Ill say it again... Yet another reason to not use redhat.
It's not Redhat's fault. The exact same wording appears in the Swackware
mkswap(8) man page. Redhat (and Slackware, and who knows how many other
distributions) probably just
On Wednesday 01 January 2003 02:10 am, Neil Parker wrote:
: On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Linux Rocks ! wrote:
: Redhat... sigh... Ill say it again... Yet another reason to not use
: redhat.
:
: It's not Redhat's fault. The exact same wording appears in the Swackware
: mkswap(8) man page. Redhat (and
On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Linux Rocks ! wrote:
my cpuinfo didnt seem to have anything pertinant to page size, however others
might... cpuinfo seems a lot less relevent than meminfo... Why would
cpuinfo be included, but not meminfo?
I dunno. Maybe that part of the man was written long ago when the
swapoff -a
On 12/31/02 09am, Dexter Graphic wrote:
I just tried copying my partitions one at a time with DMA support turned
on and there were no DMA errors reported. You may recall that when I copied
the entire drive at once (dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=1k) with DMA turned
on I got DMA
as Ralph said -- or, since I remember you having several HDs, could use
swapoff /dev/hdx* andswapon /dev/hdy*
selectively by looking at 'cat /proc/swaps' or 'swapon -s'.
Look at mkswap to create a swap partion or file on another drive.
Q to all: is the old vs. new swap style issue still
Thanks Hurst and Ralph, I'll give these ideas a try. -Dex
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Behalf Of Horst
Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 12:28
as Ralph said -- or, since I remember you having several HDs, could use
swapoff /dev/hdx* andswapon /dev/hdy*
selectively by looking at 'cat
cat /proc/cpuinfo should tell you about your CPU.
cat /proc/meminfo should tell you about your memory. (including info about
swap)
Jamie
On Tuesday 31 December 2002 12:27 pm, Horst wrote:
: as Ralph said -- or, since I remember you having several HDs, could use
: swapoff /dev/hdx* and
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Linux Rocks ! wrote:
cat /proc/cpuinfo should tell you about your CPU.
cat /proc/meminfo should tell you about your memory. (including info about
swap)
Jamie
Sounds more than reasonable (and works :-)
- I don't know why I blindly trusted the man pages ( RH 8.0
Redhat... sigh... Ill say it again... Yet another reason to not use redhat.
Jamie
On Tuesday 31 December 2002 05:00 pm, Horst wrote:
: On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Linux Rocks ! wrote:
: cat /proc/cpuinfo should tell you about your CPU.
: cat /proc/meminfo should tell you about your memory.
Kbob wrote:
I can't answer all your questions, but I can tell you how
to learn what DMA mode Linux is using. Use the dmesg command
to display your console boot messages, and search for UDMA
in those messages. For example, I see this on tivopc.
[bmiller@tivopc latest]$ dmesg | grep ^hd.:
I recently tried backing up my hard disk using Red Hat 8.0
instead of Debian 3.0 just to see if there were any settings
or optimizations that made any difference in the time it took.
What I found out was that dd would crash (after about 20
minutes) without reporting any errors and with all
I can't answer all your questions, but I can tell you how
to learn what DMA mode Linux is using. Use the dmesg command
to display your console boot messages, and search for UDMA
in those messages. For example, I see this on tivopc.
[bmiller@tivopc latest]$ dmesg | grep ^hd.:
hda: QUANTUM
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