Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo, CPU, memory and a m.2 thingy. This work together?

2024-06-05 Thread Mark Knecht
work, or how well it would work, but for roughly $60 it might give you a path to the silly number of hard drives you want to run. ;-) In my case I'm looking at this same card, but loaded with a neural network processor running Tensorflow Lite. Anyway, I thought you might be interested. Cheers, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo, CPU, memory and a m.2 thingy. This work together?

2024-06-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 3:12 PM Dale wrote: > Holy crap. That is amazing. As you say, just one out of all of them and it is a bad chip, whether it is buggy or just plain dead. I was expecting more like close to or into the billions. I was not expecting that. Can you imagine if a chip had to

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo, CPU, memory and a m.2 thingy. This work together?

2024-06-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 2:24 PM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 2:04 PM Dale wrote: > > > Well, there is a lot to be said about moving what used to be external to internal. It does result in faster moves for pretty much everything. Moving data fr

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo, CPU, memory and a m.2 thingy. This work together?

2024-06-04 Thread Mark Knecht
untu so I reported it on Github and it was fixed today. Worked out nicely. Best wishes, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo, CPU, memory and a m.2 thingy. This work together?

2024-06-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 1:27 PM Dale wrote: > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 11:35 AM Dale wrote: Is the new way taking out what used to be called a northbridge or southbridge chip or both chips? Not exactly taking out but rather repartitioning.

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo, CPU, memory and a m.2 thingy. This work together?

2024-06-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 11:35 AM Dale wrote: > > I'm thinking one good HBA will handle the current set of drives and give > decent speed at that in the Fractal case when the new mobo ends up > there. The Fractal can handle 20 that I can count easily. There's 4 in > the bottom, 11 in a tall stack

Re: [gentoo-user] python 3.12 update

2024-06-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 9:14 AM Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 11:40 AM Joost Roeleveld wrote: > > > > Those steps do not just work. > > The news item actually specifically states that portage will "just do > > the update" if you have not set any python_targets stuff. > > I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: preparing /dev/sda1 for gentoo install x86 handbook

2024-06-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Jun 1, 2024 at 1:16 PM Wol wrote: > I've got news for you, there are quite a few weirdos on the list, but it > adds spice! > Ah! I feel so at home! Thanks Wol!

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Off Topic - UPnP servers

2024-05-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, May 25, 2024 at 3:14 PM Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2024-05-24, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > The unit showed up today and was a breeze to set up and get running > > at a basic level. The device requires an app on my phone. > > That sets of an alarm for me.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Off Topic - UPnP servers

2024-05-24 Thread Mark Knecht
might be a great solution to not having to turn the server on and having media available 24/7. Cheers, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Off Topic - UPnP servers

2024-05-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 8:26 AM Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2024-05-24, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > I'm a Plex user for video and have also ripped my CD > > collection. Plex plays audio fine to TVs that have a Plex app but > > apparently sometimes doesn't work wel

[gentoo-user] Off Topic - UPnP servers

2024-05-23 Thread Mark Knecht
Media Server 8. ReadyMedia – MiniDLNA Media Server 9. Rygel – Home Media Solution Anyone have any first hand experience? Thanks, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] PCIe version 2, 3 etc and how to know which a card is.

2024-05-20 Thread Mark Knecht
> You could be right. I did find one interesting post in my google search, one person updated their BIOS and fixed the issue. Pretty sure mine is up to date. Given the age of the mobo, I doubt they even think of releasing a new BIOS for that old thing. > > Anyway, I found a card with a Marvel

Re: [gentoo-user] PCIe version 2, 3 etc and how to know which a card is.

2024-05-20 Thread Mark Knecht
machine then you may find out that there is a problem, such as the network controller not showing up. As the network controller is likely in the motherboard chipset it is possible that a PCI Express network adapter will do better, but that's sort of hunt and peck. Best wishes, good luck and happy hunting, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] mtp cannot create directories on SD card on cellphone

2024-05-15 Thread Mark Knecht
Wish I could be more helpful but this has been a problem on my systems ever since I started using Linux 25-30 years ago and I struggle with it maybe once a year. Good luck, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] mtp cannot create directories on SD card on cellphone

2024-05-15 Thread Mark Knecht
t I'd really like to solve the core problem. Any ideas? Have you checked that the directory where you are attempting to do this is one that your account owns? I generally have to su - to root, create a directory at the top level, change it so that I own it and have rwx permissions, and then exit root. After that I can do what I want. HTH, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive and PWDIS or pin 3 power disable/reset.

2024-05-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 6:35 PM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > > > > > I've looked for a adapter. I couldn't find one. That's why I connected to a old rig that had a set of molex cables I could use. Luckily I had a molex to sata adapter. Do you know what they are called

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive and PWDIS or pin 3 power disable/reset.

2024-05-09 Thread Mark Knecht
> > > I've looked for a adapter. I couldn't find one. That's why I connected to a old rig that had a set of molex cables I could use. Luckily I had a molex to sata adapter. Do you know what they are called so I know what to search for? I'd buy a dozen or so just to have extras laying around.

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive and PWDIS or pin 3 power disable/reset.

2024-05-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 4:31 PM Dale wrote: > > Dale wrote: > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 2:12 PM Dale wrote: > > > Can someone tell me how to know when a drive has PWDIS and when it > > doesn't? Is there some term for it that

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive and PWDIS or pin 3 power disable/reset.

2024-05-09 Thread Mark Knecht
st filter would be don't buy a SATA 3.3 drive for an old PC. I have done NO online research to take this with less than a grain of salt. Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

2024-04-27 Thread Mark Knecht
ggest trying gparted as it pretty much does everything I've ever needed. It's minimally graphical, can changes the partition type and boot flags. This is just one of a billion pages you might look at: https://linuxiac.com/how-to-use-gparted-to-create-and-resize-partitions/ Wishing you the best of luck, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] How to synchronise between 2 locations

2024-03-27 Thread Mark Knecht
on this? > > Also, both servers are connected using a slow VPN link, which is why I can't > simply access files on the remote server. > > -- > Joost > > How synchronized? For instance, does it need to handle identicals where a file is on both sides but has been moved? - Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: how does excel find commas within fields of a csv file?

2024-02-28 Thread Mark Knecht
will be >> double-quoted, and the quotes are stripped on import. > > > Thanks - looks like quoting is the answer. It might not be something you want to deal with but pretty much every Python data analysis and machine learning package has functions for reading and writing CSV files. - Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

2024-02-28 Thread Mark Knecht
gure you ran a command to gather that info or there is a source of all > the possibilities. > > I'd like to give that a shot. Might help with my occasional issue. > > Dale > > :-) :-) If you're just looking for what's connected to what port then xrandr will tell you that. To get to Paul's equation you would need to figure out the ordering yourself I think HTH, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to set up drive with many Linux distros?

2024-02-26 Thread Mark Knecht
ve last in the list. If no USB devices are plugged in it would default to your system drive. If a flash drive is plugged in it should find its ID and boot that first. I do not know if, for instance, you had 20 different drives listed in your BIOS whether it would be a lot slower to boot but you could test that yourself. Good luck, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

2024-02-25 Thread Mark Knecht
tros here recently, as well as Win 10 & 11 and none of them have had problems like you are describing. Best of luck, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to set up drive with many Linux distros?

2024-02-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 12:52 PM Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2024-02-23, Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 11:59 AM Grant Edwards < grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> The simple solution is to give up on multi-booting a doz

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to set up drive with many Linux distros?

2024-02-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 11:59 AM Grant Edwards wrote: > > > The simple solution is to give up on multi-booting a dozen different > distros on a single disk and buy a pocketful of USB 3 thumb drives. > Given performance does drop a bit and there can be issues with allocating hardware, why not use

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suggestions for backup scheme?

2024-02-02 Thread Mark Knecht
rue-NAS? It is Open ZFS based and does support snapshots. HTH, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD microcode error?

2024-01-28 Thread Mark Knecht
r is true A reasonable next step is to run some sort of longer term memory test, memtest 86, memtest64 or something else of your choice. Good luck, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] chrome-remote-desktop

2024-01-24 Thread Mark Knecht
t run Gentoo anymore but for Kubuntu-to-Kubuntu and Kubuntu-to-Raspberry Pi/Stellarmate which is Debian based I use VNC Viewer which works fine for my needs. If you don't figure this one out you might try that. The instructions for setting it up were at RealVNC's web site. Good luck & HTH, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dual Booting - selection from command line

2024-01-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 9:58 AM wrote: > > On 1/10/24 15:14, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 2:38 PM > wrote: > > Thank you, yes that work perfectly > > "efibootmgr -n " is one time entry for one reboot; to set it perma

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dual Booting - selection from command line

2024-01-10 Thread Mark Knecht
tems I accomplish this using efibootmgr and a simple batch file. The machine always boots Linux by default but from within Linux I can tell it to reboot into Windows mark@science2:~$ sudo efibootmgr BootCurrent: 0003 Timeout: 1 seconds BootOrder: 0003, Boot* Windows Boot Manager Boot0003* ubunt

Re: [gentoo-user] Dolphin and side pain not updating when mounting drives

2024-01-09 Thread Mark Knecht
ing my config didn't fix that. Anyway, best wishes for both the New Year and for solving your issue. Cheers, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Dolphin and side pain not updating when mounting drives

2024-01-09 Thread Mark Knecht
the subdirectory nothing seems to make the arrow go away which, to me, is inconsistent. In the settings area I see there is a way to report usage issues in the Configure Dolphin section. I am using version 23.08.1 HTH, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Open source network monitoring / intrusion detection recommendations?

2023-12-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 4:38 PM Paul Colquhoun wrote: > > On Thursday, December 21, 2023 8:53:05 A.M. AEDT Mark Knecht wrote: > > Hi, > >I have a couple of older, by today's standards not very powerful, > > laptops and I was considering setting up some sort of netw

[gentoo-user] Open source network monitoring / intrusion detection recommendations?

2023-12-20 Thread Mark Knecht
of stuff in the home environment? The network has Linux, Windows, Chromebox and Android devices along with a number of smart TV's. Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Cheers, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Something not right with LVM, I think.

2023-10-30 Thread Mark Knecht
s/sat3510bu2e_datasheet.pdf https://www.newegg.com/rosewill-rx304-apu3-35b/p/N82E16817182316 If those specs are the right ones the enclosures are not identical. Good luck, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help

2023-10-17 Thread Mark Knecht
or you. - Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help

2023-10-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 11:07 AM Dale wrote: > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 9:41 AM Dale wrote: > > > > > Well, the 770T now has Gentoo on it. As usual, my fresh built kernel > > booted the very first time without error and every

Re: [gentoo-user] OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help

2023-10-17 Thread Mark Knecht
deep technical knowledge of the group, but I just don't have time or patience to iron out issues with applications when Gentoo isn't a supported distro. Still, for something like a NAS box it makes sense if everything you run is sour\ce code coming from the Gentoo code stores. Cheers, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help

2023-10-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 9:56 AM Dale wrote: > Mark, the command nmcli you listed isn't installed on this machine as it > uses netplan. It seems netplan is new so maybe it is a little buggy > right now. I read that if I have netplan, I shouldn't install other > network managers

Re: [gentoo-user] OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help

2023-10-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 12:52 AM Dale wrote: > > Howdy, > > I finally got through with my backup restore. I had shutdown the NAS > box with Ubuntu on it since I was done with it. I wanted to do some > updates and check some other stuff, still learning how Ubuntu works, so > I rebooted it. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting output of a program running in background after a crash

2023-10-13 Thread Mark Knecht
> I'm planning on my new rig having the Ryzen 5900X. Is the 5950 better? While I've kinda picked that one, I'm open to ideas if it is faster and I can afford it. As it is, I'm looking at between $300 and $350 for the 5900. My last CPU cost a little over $100. > I'm not going to say one is

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting output of a program running in background after a crash

2023-10-13 Thread Mark Knecht
xts512b 215.0 MiB/s 213.0 MiB/s > root@nas:~# > > > > Is that about what you would expect? Fireball is on a 970 mobo. It's > slightly newer. I think the 770T is about 2 years older, maybe 3. > THis was just for kicks because I think somewhere, this thread or som

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting output of a program running in background after a crash

2023-10-08 Thread Mark Knecht
rminal output so you can review it while the process is running or after it has finished. I do not know how to reliably get access to your process if it's really still running. Someone else here can probably give you better instructions on that. HTH, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 6.1.53-gentoo-r1 kernel not booting

2023-10-07 Thread Mark Knecht
might not work and it didn't. You went back to an earlier kernel and it does work. I don't think you shared what NVidia card is in this machine, and I don't think you shared what version of NVidia drivers worked with the old kernel and what version didn't work with the new kernel? - Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 6.1.53-gentoo-r1 kernel not booting

2023-10-07 Thread Mark Knecht
post a link > here? I'd like to follow this to see if anything helps me with my > issue, although it is different, it may have a similar solution. > > Dale > > :-) :-) Have you triple checked the NVidia site to make sure your new kernel is actually supported by the driver you're building. Sometimes they are delayed by a bit. HTH, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching from desktop to desktop without function keys.

2023-09-30 Thread Mark Knecht
without having to remember which desktop they are on. Hope you find the answer you're looking for. Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Network throughput from main Gentoo rig to NAS box.

2023-09-23 Thread Mark Knecht
g iotop AND btop on both ends would give some clues on timing. Is the time when gkrellm is idle due to the host disk not responding or the target getting flooded with too much data? - Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Network throughput from main Gentoo rig to NAS box.

2023-09-23 Thread Mark Knecht
sure that 10.0.0.7 is the address of the NAS box? Do you have a /etc/hosts file to keep the names straight? HTH, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Network throughput from main Gentoo rig to NAS box.

2023-09-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 6:41 AM Dale wrote: > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 5:05 AM Dale wrote: > > > If you need more info, let me know. If you know the command, that might > > help too. Just in case it is a command I'm not familiar w

Re: [gentoo-user] Network throughput from main Gentoo rig to NAS box.

2023-09-23 Thread Mark Knecht
ber to Ctrl-C the server side when you're done. HTH, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the point of baloo?

2023-09-17 Thread Mark Knecht
the moment. > > > >> I tried to kill it and it appears to have just restarted. Is there a use > >> flag I can use to just get rid of it completely? > > > > Do you mean use-flag "semantic-desktop" ? > > > > (I have disabled it in my make.conf) > &

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the point of baloo?

2023-09-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Sep 17, 2023 at 10:46 AM Wols Lists wrote: > > It always annoys me, but baloo seems to be being an absolute nightmare > at the moment. > > Iirc, it's "the file indexer for KDE" - in other words it knackers your > response time reading all the files, wastes disk space building an > index,

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone used openmediavault with LVM?

2023-09-12 Thread Mark Knecht
You could try 'sudo su -' . I don't know, but it's worth a try. > > -- > Regards, > Peter. If root has a password set then su - is sufficient for Kubuntu. I expect in Dale's case sudo su - gets him to root and then he can set the password and be done with sudo. - Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] TrueNAS not helping me now.

2023-09-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Sep 6, 2023 at 12:33 PM Dale wrote: > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > > > > > I have two drives and it sees them as one larger drive. No RAID or > > > anything. At least not that I know of anyway. To be honest, I know > > > very littl

Re: [gentoo-user] TrueNAS not helping me now.

2023-09-06 Thread Mark Knecht
-) But learn about and use RAID or you're dancing on the head of a pin for reliability. Cheers, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] TrueNAS not helping me now.

2023-09-06 Thread Mark Knecht
use LVM but it's supported. If you want to manage your server with a graphics front end look into NetData. The free version gives me pretty much everything I liked about the TrueNAS front end and it's HTML based so I can view the server from any of my machines. Best of luck, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] TrueNAS not helping me now.

2023-09-06 Thread Mark Knecht
p the current kernel as a fallback in case something goes wrong. Adding a new program is generally a one command process, such as: sudo apt install nfs-kernel-server See this page for instructions on getting NFS installed and working: https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/service-nfs NOTE: Ubuntu is systemd so you may or may not like that Good luck whatever you do. Cheers, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Is distfile partial mirror with failover possible?

2023-09-04 Thread Mark Knecht
ur response or you'll be down voted for responding in HTML. I hate it also, but this list is easily one of my favorites and I'm no longer a Gentoo user. Best wishes, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] he's baaaaaaack :-D

2023-08-31 Thread Mark Knecht
tor where I'm a sysadmin and general know-it-all-busy-body working with ICT stuff, so happy to make your acquaintance. > > -- > Alan McKinnon > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > Nice to see an old friend back here. Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Plasma session saving

2023-07-01 Thread Mark Knecht
found is to delete my user config files and start over. As a test, create a new user, log in using KDE and see if that user saves state the way your account used to. If it does then Google for the files you need to get rid of and treat your account like a new user. HTH, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel driver for: Intel Corporation I211 Gigabit Network Connection

2023-06-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 1:44 PM wrote: > > On 6/30/23 14:13, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 1:01 PM > wrote: > > > > On 6/30/23 13:03, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > > I have a motherboar

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel driver for: Intel Corporation I211 Gigabit Network Connection

2023-06-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 1:01 PM wrote: > On 6/30/23 13:03, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > I have a motherboard that I think is using incorrect network driver. > > > > lspci -knn |grep net -A 4 > > 04:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation I211 Gigabit > Network Connection

Re: [gentoo-user] some help with wayland

2023-06-09 Thread Mark Dymek
wayland in my opinion is still many years off from being stable. i don’t know why gnome and kde switched to it as default. i have lots of issues with it currently on arch install. my advice would be switch back to xorg. hopefully the freedesktop people can get their stuff together and fix this

Re: [gentoo-user] Bespoke terminal font

2023-06-05 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jun 5, 2023 at 10:31 AM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jun 5, 2023 at 9:43 AM Matt Connell wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2023-06-05 at 08:54 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > There's a terminal font called 'hack' that doesn't have anything > > > insi

Re: [gentoo-user] Bespoke terminal font

2023-06-05 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jun 5, 2023 at 9:43 AM Matt Connell wrote: > > On Mon, 2023-06-05 at 08:54 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > There's a terminal font called 'hack' that doesn't have anything > > inside the zero. > > Is this the right one? > > https://github.com/source-foundry/Hac

Re: [gentoo-user] Bespoke terminal font

2023-06-05 Thread Mark Knecht
that > would allow me to make my own? > > -- > Regards, > Peter. > There's a terminal font called 'hack' that doesn't have anything inside the zero. No idea whether it addresses any other issues. Sorry about the eyesight issues. I'm starting to deal with a bit of that myself. Good luck, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] using Wifi in a new machine

2023-05-31 Thread Mark Dymek
are you installing gentoo or is this on a running system? because the minimal installer only uses wpa_supplicant i couldn’t get wi-fi to work when i was installing gentoo. once i had everything installed though it worked. On Wed, May 31, 2023, at 12:30 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > Thanks to

Re: [gentoo-user] raw tty font size

2023-05-26 Thread Mark Dymek
set font ……. On Fri, May 26, 2023, at 5:27 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > I can now boot into the embryonic Gentoo system in my new machine, > which presents a raw TTY, whose font is too large, > ie there are too few lines on the screen. > > Somewhere, there's a setting for changing this, but I can't

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage load control

2023-05-12 Thread Mark Knecht
I have a cgroup with 10 processors in it, can I start emerge in the host environment and then just transfer the emerge process ID to a cgroup that I've set up for this purpose? Isn't that what cgroups is supposed to be used for? Anyway, just thoughts. Good luck, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage load control

2023-05-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 9:59 AM Jack wrote: > > On 2023.05.12 12:23, Mark Knecht wrote: > [snip .] > >One interesting point is that the first Gentoo page I found to > > look at the emerge man page shows LOAD as the value provided > > to the --load-avera

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage load control

2023-05-12 Thread Mark Knecht
ore machine, with LOAD=40, he's telling emerge it's ok to use more cores than his machine has. Is that consistent with your (or others) understanding? I think the mistake is one of those easy to make ones where the human things 40% (hence 40) and the machine things 40% (hence 0.4) Cheers, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage load control

2023-05-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 7:27 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Friday, 12 May 2023 15:13:08 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > > > My opinion: load-average probably works, but we are misunderstanding > > the documentation. > > That's what bothers me the most - that I ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage load control

2023-05-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 6:46 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Friday, 12 May 2023 00:08:03 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 3:07 PM Peter Humphrey > > > > wrote: > > > On Thursday, 11 May 2023 17:18:17 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage load control

2023-05-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 3:07 PM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Thursday, 11 May 2023 17:18:17 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > > The ''problem' is this can easily hit 100% of the cores you have in the > > machine if not sensibly set. (You choose what's 'sensible') > > Once again,

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage load control

2023-05-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 9:03 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Thursday, 11 May 2023 15:58:20 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > > Going further, this page states: > > > > "The load average value is the same as displayed by top or uptime, and for > > an N-core system, a

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage load control

2023-05-11 Thread Mark Knecht
" So, how many cores does your system have? For a 16 core system, if you want 40% load, you only want to spawn 16 * 0.4 jobs so you'd set that value to 6.4 On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 6:45 AM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 6:34 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage load control

2023-05-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 6:34 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Monday, 8 May 2023 11:20:45 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > Maybe you should take this to bgo where it can be flagged for the portage > > devs to look at, just keep us posted on the outcome. > > So far, I've just been asked whether I

Re: [gentoo-user] text output from the kernel during boot is not showing

2023-04-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 2:31 PM wrote: > > On 4/24/23 14:39, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at 11:56 AM > wrote: > # Append parameters to the linux kernel command line for non-recovery entries > #GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=""

Re: [gentoo-user] text output from the kernel during boot is not showing

2023-04-24 Thread Mark Knecht
your system and look at GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" If that's there then remove the word 'quiet' and run sudo update-grub or whatever is appropriate for your system to set up the change. HTH, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-drivers fails to patch

2023-04-20 Thread Mark Knecht
141.03. Just looks weird... I think the other day someone - maybe Thelma? - had a problem where there was something left over in some 'patch' directory. Possibly you have something like that going on? You know I don't run Gentoo, right? ;-) Cheers, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

2023-04-19 Thread Mark Knecht
> I wonder. Is there a way to find out the smallest size file in a directory or sub directory, largest files, then maybe a average file size??? I thought about du but given the number of files I have here, it would be a really HUGE list of files. Could take hours or more too. This is what KDE

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

2023-04-19 Thread Mark Knecht
block size is smaller than the physical block size on the storage element then simplistically you have the risk of write amplification. What I know I'm not sure about is how inodes factor into this. For instance: mark@science2:~$ ls -i 35790149 000_NOT_BACKED_UP 33320794 All_Files.txt 7840

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

2023-04-19 Thread Mark Knecht
gt; :) > > > > When I run that command, sdd is my SDD drive, ironic I know. Anyway, it > doesn't show block sizes. It returns nothing. > > root@fireball / # smartctl -x /dev/sdd | grep -A2 'Supported LBA Sizes' > root@fireball / # Note that all of these technologies, HD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

2023-04-19 Thread Mark Knecht
be a possible solution for Gentoo users who want a faster scratch pad for system updates. Even this second rate hardware has been reliable and it pretty fast: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09K4YXN33 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08ZB6YVPW mark@science2:~$ sudo hdparm -tT /dev/nvme2n1 /dev/

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

2023-04-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 2:15 PM Dale wrote: > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 1:02 PM Dale wrote: > > > > > Someone mentioned 16K block size. > > > I mentioned it but I'm NOT suggesting it. > > It would be the -b opt

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

2023-04-18 Thread Mark Knecht
going to blast past the 5 year warranty time long before I write too many terabytes. Keep it simple. - Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

2023-04-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 7:53 AM Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 16/04/2023 01:47, Dale wrote: > > Anything else that makes these special? Any tips or tricks? > > Only three things. > > 1. Make sure the fstrim service is active (should run every week by > default, at least with systemd,

Re: [gentoo-user] Can some config files be automatically protected from etc-update?

2023-04-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 2:08 PM Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Am Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 12:28:01PM -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht: > > > In my experience with all distros I go outside the distro for this > > sort of issue. Put a copy somewhere, white a little script that > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Can some config files be automatically protected from etc-update?

2023-04-17 Thread Mark Knecht
; does a diff on the files you feel are important enough and run >> a cron job hourly that looks for any differences. >> >> HTH, >> Mark > Absolutely really. It's not only about whether that option works today but whether it keeps working in the future, assuming it r

Re: [gentoo-user] Can some config files be automatically protected from etc-update?

2023-04-17 Thread Mark Knecht
nd run a cron job hourly that looks for any differences. HTH, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

2023-04-17 Thread Mark Knecht
ing ext4 or some other FS to 16K really helps the write amplification issue but it makes sense to me to match the file system blocks to the underlying flash block size. Real speed testing would be required to ensure reading 16K blocks doesn't slow him down though. Just a thought, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] updating /boot directory EFI

2023-04-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 10:11 AM Michael wrote: > > On Monday, 17 April 2023 17:52:25 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > > > One thing I haven't decoded is why Windows is and Kubuntu is 0003. > > See below ... > > > > I now better understand Mitch D.'s point that the

Re: [gentoo-user] updating /boot directory EFI

2023-04-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 8:18 AM Michael wrote: > > On Monday, 17 April 2023 14:31:08 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > > 2) The more complicated view with GUIDs and such: > > > > mark@science2:~$ efibootmgr -v > > BootCurrent: 0003 > > Timeout: 1 seconds > >

Re: [gentoo-user] updating /boot directory EFI

2023-04-17 Thread Mark Knecht
ut I appreciate > people who multiboot daily/frequently, or need to boot LiveISOs off the disk > may find GRUB and friends to be a more suitable solution. > > My needs are quite simple but efibootmgr, set up by the Kubuntu install on a separate M.2 from the Windows install the machine came w

Re: [gentoo-user] Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

2023-04-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 3:18 PM Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Am Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 01:22:32PM -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht: > > Frank, > >Thank you for the in-depth explanation. > > > >I need to do some study before commenting further other than to say &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

2023-04-16 Thread Mark Knecht
Frank, Thank you for the in-depth explanation. I need to do some study before commenting further other than to say so far I'm finding different comments depending on whether it's an SSD or an M.2 drive. Much appreciated, Mark On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 11:08 AM Frank Steinmetzger wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

2023-04-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 11:54 AM Dale wrote: > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > <<< SNIP >>> > > I guess I don't understand why you would put Knoppix in the boot > > partition vs somewhere else. Is this for some sort of recovery > > process you're co

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