Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation sought for external disk

2014-01-02 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 01/01/2014 11:07:22 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: My home desktop has had a seagate external 750GB drive ST3750640cbrk for a number of years and the disk is starting to fail. The system gets only modest usage. It is powered on about 1/2 the time and the disk often goes significant periods

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS static ports - driving me crazy...

2014-01-02 Thread Tanstaafl
No one? Another reboot, and had to open up OUTGOING port 57212 this time. Why are the static ports I'm assigning not being used? On 2013-12-31 8:11 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2013-12-31 7:30 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: I've made the following changes

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS static ports - driving me crazy...

2014-01-02 Thread William Kenworthy
Try this: # /etc/conf.d/nfs # If you wish to set the port numbers for lockd, # please see /etc/sysctl.conf # Optional services to include in default `/etc/init.d/nfs start` # For NFSv4 users, you'll want to add rpc.idmapd here. NFS_NEEDED_SERVICES=rpc.idmapd # Number of servers to be started

[gentoo-user] PHP 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5

2014-01-02 Thread Tanstaafl
Hi all, I have a VM running in the cloud that has an old web/php app (10+ years old, believe it or not), that still runs fine on apache 2.2.25, but I pinned php to 5.3 some time ago. Does anyone see any big potential gotchas (major changes) with php 5.4, or even 5.5, if I were to upgrade

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS static ports - driving me crazy...

2014-01-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2014-01-02 7:38 AM, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: Try this: # /etc/conf.d/nfs Thanks Bill, I will... But what do I need to restart to test the changes? I'd rather not have to reboot every time... Is it just rpcbind? Or do I need to restart nfs/nfsmmount too? Others?

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS static ports - driving me crazy...

2014-01-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2014-01-02 7:48 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2014-01-02 7:38 AM, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: Try this: # /etc/conf.d/nfs Thanks Bill, I will... But what do I need to restart to test the changes? I'd rather not have to reboot every time... Is it just

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5

2014-01-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 02/01/2014 14:46, Tanstaafl wrote: Hi all, I have a VM running in the cloud that has an old web/php app (10+ years old, believe it or not), that still runs fine on apache 2.2.25, but I pinned php to 5.3 some time ago. Does anyone see any big potential gotchas (major changes) with php

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5

2014-01-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2014-01-02 8:15 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/01/2014 14:46, Tanstaafl wrote: Hi all, I have a VM running in the cloud that has an old web/php app (10+ years old, believe it or not), that still runs fine on apache 2.2.25, but I pinned php to 5.3 some time ago. Does

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5

2014-01-02 Thread covici
You can have more than one Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 02/01/2014 14:46, Tanstaafl wrote: Hi all, I have a VM running in the cloud that has an old web/php app (10+ years old, believe it or not), that still runs fine on apache 2.2.25, but I pinned php to 5.3 some

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5

2014-01-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 02/01/2014 15:36, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2014-01-02 8:15 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/01/2014 14:46, Tanstaafl wrote: Hi all, I have a VM running in the cloud that has an old web/php app (10+ years old, believe it or not), that still runs fine on apache 2.2.25, but

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5

2014-01-02 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 01/02/2014 07:46 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: Hi all, I have a VM running in the cloud that has an old web/php app (10+ years old, believe it or not), that still runs fine on apache 2.2.25, but I pinned php to 5.3 some time ago. Does anyone see any big potential gotchas (major changes) with

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation sought for external disk

2014-01-02 Thread gottlieb
On Thu, Jan 02 2014, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 01/01/2014 11:07:22 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: My home desktop has had a seagate external 750GB drive ST3750640cbrk for a number of years and the disk is starting to fail. The system gets only modest usage. It is powered on about 1/2 the

[gentoo-user] Re: PHP 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5

2014-01-02 Thread James
Tanstaafl tanstaafl at libertytrek.org writes: I have a VM running in the cloud that has an old web/php app (10+ years old, believe it or not), that still runs fine on apache 2.2.25, but I pinned php to 5.3 some time ago. googling for vulnerabilities in php 5.3 yeilded many interesting

[gentoo-user] coolest mp3 player?

2014-01-02 Thread james
Well, I have not kept up on mp3/wav/audio fil portable players, so your input as to a Gentoo friendly device is welcome. A miniture video screen is not necessary, and keeping costs down is desired. Google for this said device leaves me with this scant choices: Sandisk has the Sansa Clip + Cowon

Re: [gentoo-user] coolest mp3 player?

2014-01-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 2 Jan 2014 17:16:22 + (UTC), james wrote: Well, I have not kept up on mp3/wav/audio fil portable players, so your input as to a Gentoo friendly device is welcome. A miniture video screen is not necessary, and keeping costs down is desired. Google for this said device leaves me

Re: [gentoo-user] coolest mp3 player?

2014-01-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 02.01.2014 18:16, schrieb james: Well, I have not kept up on mp3/wav/audio fil portable players, so your input as to a Gentoo friendly device is welcome. A miniture video screen is not necessary, and keeping costs down is desired. Google for this said device leaves me with this scant

[gentoo-user] how to use my SSD the right way ;-)

2014-01-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
I am running both my desktop and laptop on SSDs for years now. I think I got the basic things right: proper alignment of partitions, scheduler, TRIM (fstrim) ... you know. Today I received my new and shiny Samsung 840 EVO and migrated my desktop to it (writing this very email running Gentoo on

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use my SSD the right way ;-)

2014-01-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 03/01/2014 00:14, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I am running both my desktop and laptop on SSDs for years now. I think I got the basic things right: proper alignment of partitions, scheduler, TRIM (fstrim) ... you know. Today I received my new and shiny Samsung 840 EVO and migrated my

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use my SSD the right way ;-)

2014-01-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 02.01.2014 23:17, schrieb Alan McKinnon: Before you test other fs's, do you use BFQ? What IO scheduler do you use? for SSD(s): noop for HDD(s): cfq both triggered/set via udev-rules

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use my SSD the right way ;-)

2014-01-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 03/01/2014 00:23, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 02.01.2014 23:17, schrieb Alan McKinnon: Before you test other fs's, do you use BFQ? What IO scheduler do you use? for SSD(s): noop for HDD(s): cfq both triggered/set via udev-rules Give BFQ a try, set USE=experimental in

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use my SSD the right way ;-)

2014-01-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 02.01.2014 23:39, schrieb Alan McKinnon: Give BFQ a try, set USE=experimental in *-sources to patch the source euses -sf experimental giove further info and links thanks for the hint ... edited USE-flags and re-emerging sources ... BFQ only for the SSDs ?

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use my SSD the right way ;-)

2014-01-02 Thread Anton Shumskyi
Hi, there is a native queuing at my INTEL SSD 64GB, so i'v set noop scheduler via udev rules. And it's kind a luggish when deleting a lot files like kernel sources (at ext4,xfs,btrfs, FS makes no difference, some cheap hardware stuff)​. Will test some day another scheduler like deadline on top of

[gentoo-user] Preparing a shared USB stick

2014-01-02 Thread Chris Stankevitz
Hello, Please consider a USB stick that is unformatted but is to be used by multiple people/machines. Ideally your instructions will work for all people/os/WM, but if necessary please assume that everyone is running gnome under linux 1. How should I prepare this device so that it can be plugged

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use my SSD the right way ;-)

2014-01-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 02.01.2014 23:59, schrieb Anton Shumskyi: And the best guide is at Arch wiki=) As always=) https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Solid_State_Drives been there before ;-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Preparing a shared USB stick

2014-01-02 Thread Mateusz Kowalczyk
On 02/01/14 23:02, Chris Stankevitz wrote: Hello, Please consider a USB stick that is unformatted but is to be used by multiple people/machines. Ideally your instructions will work for all people/os/WM, but if necessary please assume that everyone is running gnome under linux Well, if it

Re: [gentoo-user] coolest mp3 player?

2014-01-02 Thread v_2e
Hello! On Thu, 2 Jan 2014 17:16:22 + (UTC) james wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Well, I have not kept up on mp3/wav/audio fil portable players, so your input as to a Gentoo friendly device is welcome. A miniture video screen is not necessary, and keeping costs down is desired. Google

[gentoo-user] Re: how to use my SSD the right way ;-)

2014-01-02 Thread Holger Hoffstätte
On Fri, 03 Jan 2014 00:59:29 +0200, Anton Shumskyi wrote: Hi, there is a native queuing at my INTEL SSD 64GB, so i'v set noop scheduler via udev rules. And it's kind a luggish when deleting a lot files like kernel sources (at ext4,xfs,btrfs, FS makes no difference, some cheap That's the

[gentoo-user] Re: recommendation sought for external disk

2014-01-02 Thread walt
On 01/01/2014 03:28 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Wed, Jan 01 2014, walt wrote: On 01/01/2014 02:07 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: My home desktop has had a seagate external 750GB drive ST3750640cbrk for a number of years and the disk is starting to fail. Maybe I'm weird or something but

Re: [gentoo-user] Preparing a shared USB stick

2014-01-02 Thread Francisco Ares
2014/1/2 Mateusz Kowalczyk fuuze...@fuuzetsu.co.uk On 02/01/14 23:02, Chris Stankevitz wrote: Hello, Please consider a USB stick that is unformatted but is to be used by multiple people/machines. Ideally your instructions will work for all people/os/WM, but if necessary please assume

Re: [gentoo-user] Preparing a shared USB stick

2014-01-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 03/01/2014 01:02, Chris Stankevitz wrote: Hello, Please consider a USB stick that is unformatted but is to be used by multiple people/machines. Ideally your instructions will work for all people/os/WM, but if necessary please assume that everyone is running gnome under linux 1. How

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use my SSD the right way ;-)

2014-01-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 03/01/2014 00:46, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 02.01.2014 23:39, schrieb Alan McKinnon: Give BFQ a try, set USE=experimental in *-sources to patch the source euses -sf experimental giove further info and links thanks for the hint ... edited USE-flags and re-emerging sources ...

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use my SSD the right way ;-)

2014-01-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.01.2014 07:52, schrieb Alan McKinnon: On 03/01/2014 00:46, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: BFQ only for the SSDs ? Yes. The scheduler knows how to deal with SSDs while keeping everything responsive even under load. BFQ seems a good fit for your workcase - desktop/laptop. For those,

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use my SSD the right way ;-)

2014-01-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 03/01/2014 09:25, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 03.01.2014 07:52, schrieb Alan McKinnon: On 03/01/2014 00:46, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: BFQ only for the SSDs ? Yes. The scheduler knows how to deal with SSDs while keeping everything responsive even under load. BFQ seems a good fit for

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use my SSD the right way ;-)

2014-01-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.01.2014 08:34, schrieb Alan McKinnon: BFQ for both is the recommendation. But do try it both ways to see how it performs and compare. sure, thanks. So I edit my udev-rules (and could leave them away and simply compile bfq in as default if needed).