Re: [gentoo-user] One hard drive much slower for some reason.

2010-06-02 Thread KH
Am 03.06.2010 06:46, schrieb Dale: > > As for the lifetimes in the report, good question. I think that drives > is doing some weird stuff. It can travel back and forth in time but is > slow for no apparent good reason. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > Hi Dale, you just made me smile. Thank's. kh

Re: [gentoo-user] One hard drive much slower for some reason.

2010-06-02 Thread Dale
Arttu V. wrote: On 6/2/10, Dale wrote: smoker-new ~ # smartctl -l selftest /dev/hdb smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Self-test log structure revision

Re: [gentoo-user] How to verify stable system after fsck corrections

2010-06-02 Thread Jake Moe
On 02/06/10 14:53, Dale wrote: > Jake Moe wrote: >> On 01/06/10 21:04, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:46:33 +1000, Jake Moe wrote: >>> >>> >>> My question is: is there a way that Portage can compare what's currently on the hard disk with what it installed, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix question about auth and blocklists...

2010-06-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-05-27 1:06 PM, Brandon Vargo wrote: > You mentioned in your first mail that you use Dovecot. The easiest > way to setup SASL for Postfix is to have Postfix authenticate > against Dovecot, +1, with one caveat - it doesn't work in client mode, only server mode... > I also recommend adding t

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix question about auth and blocklists...

2010-06-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-05-26 3:32 PM, Brandon Vargo wrote: > On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 15:40 +0100, Steve wrote: >> On a gentoo mailserver, I'm running Postfix 2.6.5 - and, having followed >> some howto or other, quite a long time ago, I have this section at the >> end of my main.cf: >> The problem arises elsewhere

Re: [gentoo-user] Maximizing memory with 32bit

2010-06-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 2 Jun 2010 17:48:28 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > > If your graphics card uses up the rest of the memory, moving up to > > 64bit won't help either. > > Shouldn't I have 4GB minus the amount of graphics memory then, instead > of 3G minus that? Some BIOSes only show a maximum of 3GB with

Re: [gentoo-user] One hard drive much slower for some reason.

2010-06-02 Thread Arttu V.
On 6/2/10, Dale wrote: > smoker-new ~ # smartctl -l selftest /dev/hdb > smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen > Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ > > === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === > SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 > N

Re: [gentoo-user] Maximizing memory with 32bit

2010-06-02 Thread Alex Schuster
J. Roeleveld writes: > > > Probably your graphicscard uses the rest of the memory. > > > > Oh, thanks! Did not think about this. It's an ATI Radeon HD4300 > > onboard card, so I guess this must be the cause. Seems like I will > > have to do the migration to 64bit then. > Wonko, > > If your grap

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging bluefish

2010-06-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 02 June 2010 15:12:50 Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > Maybe you should try harder next time. > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/321721 Maybe. I did search for the error text. -- Rgds Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Maximizing memory with 32bit

2010-06-02 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 02 June 2010 16:00:02 Alex Schuster wrote: > Johannes Kimmel writes: > > On 06/02/2010 03:27 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > But: free -m shows only 2787 MB of total memory. I know I cannot use > > > all the 4G, but shouldn't there be at least 3GB or even a little > > > more available?

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging bluefish

2010-06-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > While playing around with "equery check" as mentioned here the other > day, I found myself remerging BlueFish. It fails with an error: FWIW I'm using ~amd64 and get the exact same failure when trying to compile bluefish-2.0.0 I guess you ne

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging bluefish

2010-06-02 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
> but got the same error. I haven't come across this problem before, and > Google and Bugzilla don't help. I had run emerge -e world only last > night. > > Anyone here have any clues? Maybe you should try harder next time. http://bugs.gentoo.org/321721 -- Daniel Pielmeier

Re: [gentoo-user] One hard drive much slower for some reason.

2010-06-02 Thread Dale
Arttu V. wrote: On 6/1/10, Dale wrote: /dev/hdb: Commands/features: Enabled Supported: *SMART feature set Maybe the problem is not external (cabling, jumpers etc), but internal? Anything interesting in smartctl's report? I did a test a few weeks ago

[gentoo-user] Problem emerging bluefish

2010-06-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, While playing around with "equery check" as mentioned here the other day, I found myself remerging BlueFish. It fails with an error: [...] CREATED bluefish.xml Making all in images Making all in man Making all in po grep: ./LINGUAS: No such file or directory grep: ./LINGUAS: No such

Re: [gentoo-user] Maximizing memory with 32bit

2010-06-02 Thread Johannes Kimmel
On 06/02/2010 03:27 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: Hi there! I have 4GB of RAM, but the system is swapping A LOT. I think I will have to go to 64 bit, but I need some time for that, and I need to use the system in the meantime. But: free -m shows only 2787 MB of total memory. I know I cannot use all

Re: [gentoo-user] One hard drive much slower for some reason.

2010-06-02 Thread Arttu V.
On 6/1/10, Dale wrote: > /dev/hdb: > Commands/features: > Enabled Supported: > *SMART feature set Maybe the problem is not external (cabling, jumpers etc), but internal? Anything interesting in smartctl's report? -- Arttu V.

[gentoo-user] Maximizing memory with 32bit

2010-06-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I have 4GB of RAM, but the system is swapping A LOT. I think I will have to go to 64 bit, but I need some time for that, and I need to use the system in the meantime. But: free -m shows only 2787 MB of total memory. I know I cannot use all the 4G, but shouldn't there be at least 3GB

Re: [gentoo-user] Maximizing memory with 32bit

2010-06-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Johannes Kimmel writes: > On 06/02/2010 03:27 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > > But: free -m shows only 2787 MB of total memory. I know I cannot use > > all the 4G, but shouldn't there be at least 3GB or even a little > > more available? What is your output of free -m? [...] > Probably your graphicsc

Re: [gentoo-user] One hard drive much slower for some reason.

2010-06-02 Thread Dale
YoYo Siska wrote: On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 04:26:55AM -0500, Dale wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Dale wrote: I am in the process of moving my OS from drive to drive and thought I would test to see which drive is the fastest. I got some strange

Re: [gentoo-user] One hard drive much slower for some reason.

2010-06-02 Thread YoYo Siska
On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 04:26:55AM -0500, Dale wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Dale wrote: >> >>> I am in the process of moving my OS from drive to drive and thought I would >>> test to see which drive is the fastest. I got some strange results when I >>> test