Re: [gentoo-user] Rusty problems

2021-04-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 23:05:35 +0100, antlists wrote: > > There have been several tests posted over the years that show that > > using a tmpfs for TMPDIR doesn't give as much of a gain as you would > > expect. With NVMe drives, the difference is likely to be even > > smaller. > > But that's not

Re: [gentoo-user] Rusty problems

2021-04-28 Thread antlists
On 28/04/2021 13:03, Neil Bothwick wrote: There have been several tests posted over the years that show that using a tmpfs for TMPDIR doesn't give as much of a gain as you would expect. With NVMe drives, the difference is likely to be even smaller. But that's not the only reason for a tmpfs. I

Re: [FIXED] Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple instances of Dolphin automagically appear upon login

2021-04-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 7:06 AM Andrew Lowe wrote: > > On 25/4/21 11:34 pm, Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 7:12 AM Andrew Lowe wrote: > >> > >> Hi all, > >> A reworking of the subject line from my earlier post regarding > > pods of > >> Dolphins... > > [snip] > ... >

[FIXED] Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple instances of Dolphin automagically appear upon login

2021-04-28 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 25/4/21 11:34 pm, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 7:12 AM Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, A reworking of the subject line from my earlier post regarding pods of Dolphins... [snip] ... ... [snip] To me it's suggestive of something messed up in a config file. What

Re: [gentoo-user] why resizing newsboat's terminal won't show more text?

2021-04-28 Thread caveman رَجُلُ الْكَهْفِ 穴居人
yes, both use urxvt. gentoo's is x11-terms/rxvt-unicode-9.22-r8::gentoo enabled use flags: 256-color blink font-styles gdk-pixbuf mousewheel perl startup-notification unicode3 utmp wtmp xft not enabled use flags: -24-bit-color -fading-colors -iso14755 -sgrmouse

[gentoo-user] why resizing newsboat's terminal won't show more text?

2021-04-28 Thread caveman رَجُلُ الْكَهْفِ 穴居人
hi. when i open newsboat in a small window, it fills it with text, and eats the remaining text as expected (so that there is a single news item per line. fine). but: 1. on arch linux's package, when i enlarge the window, more text automatically shows. nice. 2. on gentoo linux's

Re: [gentoo-user] Rusty problems

2021-04-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 11:12:33 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > I use rust-bin now, so this isn't an issue for me, but my laptop has > > only 8GB and this is how I have it set for chromium: > > > % cat /etc/portage/env/disk-tmpdir.conf > > PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/mnt/scratch" > > > % cat

Re: [gentoo-user] Rusty problems

2021-04-28 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Neil. On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 00:09:12 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 20:53:11 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Help! What am I supposed to do? I've got 16 Gb RAM (I'm _not_ going to > > use the word "only" here), and wondering just how big a chunk a ram disk > > can

[gentoo-user] Machine hangs up with out of memory

2021-04-28 Thread Kai Peter
Hi, I have an issue with a machine where I'm not able to detect the real root cause. It hangs up totally. It seems like it was running out of memory - but why? Hopefully somebody can give me some insight. As far I can see right now, it hangs up a few hours after an `emerge --update --newuse

Re: [gentoo-user] why resizing newsboat's terminal won't show more text?

2021-04-28 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 28 April 2021 10:04:19 BST caveman رَجُلُ الْكَهْفِ 穴居人 wrote: > hi. when i open newsboat in a small window, it > fills it with text, and eats the remaining text > as expected (so that there is a single news item > per line. fine). > > but: > 1. on arch linux's package, when i

Re: [gentoo-user] Rusty problems

2021-04-28 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 28 April 2021 09:58:57 BST Wols Lists wrote: > On 27/04/21 23:00, Michael wrote: > > There's three options, I can think of: > > > > 1. Use dev-lang/rust-bin, as Matt suggested above. > > > > 2. Buy more RAM, or use a surrogate PC with more RAM to cross-compile it. > > > > 3. Use a

Re: [gentoo-user] Rusty problems

2021-04-28 Thread Wols Lists
On 27/04/21 23:00, Michael wrote: > There's three options, I can think of: > > 1. Use dev-lang/rust-bin, as Matt suggested above. > > 2. Buy more RAM, or use a surrogate PC with more RAM to cross-compile it. > > 3. Use a partition with enough space on it to bind mount /var/tmp/portage, > for

Re: [gentoo-user] Rusty problems

2021-04-28 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 28/4/21 3:04 pm, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Tuesday, April 27, 2021 10:53:11 PM CEST Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hello, Gentoo. I'm having problems building rust. [snip] ... ... [snip] Hope this helps, Joost I fall into the same camp as Matt. My machine uses Rust only for the Mozilla

Re: [gentoo-user] Rusty problems

2021-04-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday, April 27, 2021 10:53:11 PM CEST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Gentoo. > > I'm having problems building rust. > > I build everything in a ram disk, and last night my 13 Gb ram disk > proved too small to build rust in. So I increased its size to 14 Gb, > and tried again this evening.