Alex Schuster wrote:
Dale writes:
Some of the widget thingys. What's with the big eyeballs anyway?
They watch :)
No, there's no other purpose. I have at least one instance of XEyes on
my desktop since I found this little application in 1992 when I first
started using a Sun
On Wednesday 27 July 2011 16:35:13 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:52:53 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
I wonder how effective tmpfs is for PORTAGE_TMPDIR as the builds
that need a lot of disk space can often require a fair bit of
memory too, and tmpfs is using it all.
In
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:16:35 -0500, Dale wrote:
Speaking of tmpfs, I should have re-emerged OOo on tmpfs. It filled up
/var and died, just a few minutes before it would have finished. Oh
well, I'll make /var bigger next time. Maybe a couple more Gbs. I put
that http-replicator on here
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:30 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:58:28 -0500, Dale wrote:
I have 16Gbs here. It's not like I'm going to run out or anything. I
can
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:16:35 -0500, Dale wrote:
Speaking of tmpfs, I should have re-emerged OOo on tmpfs. It filled up
/var and died, just a few minutes before it would have finished. Oh
well, I'll make /var bigger next time. Maybe a couple more Gbs. I put
that
Dale writes:
Alex Schuster wrote:
Dale writes:
Alex Schuster wrote:
I don't use tmpfs any more, as 8G of RAM is barely enough to run
KDE here.
I run KDE here and it uses less than 1Gbs all the time. Most of the
time it hovers around 1Gb with a lot of junk open. If your used
Alex Schuster wrote:
I made some screenshots [*] after I started with an empty .kde4 directory
one week ago. They show what is started automatically when I log into KDE,
well, except for the last desktop where I fired up a browser for online
banking.
Desktop 1: Administration stuff. A Konsole
Dale writes:
Alex Schuster wrote:
http://www.wonkology.org/comp/desktop/2011-07-24/desktop6.png
You might want to remove that one. Look closely at the bank screen.
That's okay, this is not really my account number, although very close :)
But even if it were, I guess it wouldn't be too
On Thursday 28 July 2011 19:14:07 Alex Schuster wrote:
Desktop 4: Remote. I go here when I administrate remote systems, via ssh
in a Konsole, RDesktop, or NX. The folder views have shortcuts to start
NX/Rdesktop/VPN sessions, or Dophins opening FTP locations and such.
Is that Bow Fell
On Thursday 28 July 2011 20:06:09 Alex Schuster wrote:
I'll wait a little and then upgrade to 4.7, and then I'll decide if I stay
with it. If not, the question would be what to use instead, I would miss
so many things.
Me too. I'm sure you wouldn't like gnome: it has far too much of the
Alex Schuster wrote:
Dale writes:
Alex Schuster wrote:
http://www.wonkology.org/comp/desktop/2011-07-24/desktop6.png
You might want to remove that one. Look closely at the bank screen.
That's okay, this is not really my account number, although very close :)
But even if
Michael Mol wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:58:28 -0500, Dale wrote:
I have 16Gbs here. It's not like I'm going to run out or anything. I can
put half on tmpfs and still have 8Gbs left.
On Thursday 28 Jul 2011 14:38:01 Dale wrote:
How do you tell KDE that you want a widget thingy on one desktop and not all
of them?
Settings - workspace behavior - Virtual Desktops - Tick diffrent widgets
for each desktop
in earlier kde versions when they were trying to figure out what to do
Peter Humphrey writes:
On Thursday 28 July 2011 19:14:07 Alex Schuster wrote:
Desktop 4: Remote. I go here when I administrate remote systems, via ssh
in a Konsole, RDesktop, or NX. The folder views have shortcuts to start
NX/Rdesktop/VPN sessions, or Dophins opening FTP locations and such.
On Thursday, 28 July 2011 22:27:48 Alex Schuster did opine thusly:
Probably not. The image file name is citrusdal.jpg, this is the name
of a small town in South Aftica as Wikipedia tells me.
It's a nice town. In season, you can buy the most fantastic oranges
there that you ever tasted.
--
On Thursday 28 July 2011 21:27:48 Alex Schuster wrote:
I would need many more desktops then. How many do you have?
Mostly I have six, but when I'm in a major redevelopment phase of my web
site that goes up to eight.
So you also use activities? I don't, and I think they don't suit me as I
Dale writes:
Alex Schuster wrote:
Dale writes:
Alex Schuster wrote:
http://www.wonkology.org/comp/desktop/2011-07-24/desktop6.png
You might want to remove that one. Look closely at the bank screen.
That's okay, this is not really my account number, although very close :)
But
On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 15:10 -0500, Dale wrote:
Michael Mol wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:58:28 -0500, Dale wrote:
I have 16Gbs here. It's not like I'm going to run out or
Depending on your available ram and swap space, you might want to mount
/var/tmp/portage as tmpfs. My fstab entry shows
none/var/tmp/portagetmpfs size=10g,nr_inodes=1m
I have 4GB ram, and the speed benefit especially for open/libre-office is quite
impressive.
The
On Wednesday 27 Jul 2011 08:24:37 Alexander Puchmayr wrote:
Depending on your available ram and swap space, you might want to mount
/var/tmp/portage as tmpfs. My fstab entry shows
none/var/tmp/portagetmpfs
size=10g,nr_inodes=1m
I have 4GB ram, and the speed
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wednesday 27 Jul 2011 08:24:37 Alexander Puchmayr wrote:
Depending on your available ram and swap space, you might want to mount
/var/tmp/portage as tmpfs. My fstab entry shows
none /var/tmp/portage
On Wednesday 27 July 2011 14:29:12 Michael Mol wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
What will libreoffice do if /var/tmp/portage is a tmpfs? Start
swapping like mad?
No; the tmpfs runs out of space, and the build fails. Had that happen
with
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Peter Humphrey
pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote:
On Wednesday 27 July 2011 14:29:12 Michael Mol wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
What will libreoffice do if /var/tmp/portage is a tmpfs? Start
swapping like mad?
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:41:33 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Doesn't do that here. When tmpfs is full it starts being swapped out to
the swap partition. Perhaps you didn't have any swap at the time.
The default size for a tmpfs filesystem is half the physical RAM, unless
you specify more as a
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:41:33 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Doesn't do that here. When tmpfs is full it starts being swapped out to
the swap partition. Perhaps you didn't have any swap at the time.
The default size for a tmpfs filesystem is half the physical RAM,
On Wednesday 27 July 2011 15:40:03 Neil Bothwick did opine thusly:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:41:33 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Doesn't do that here. When tmpfs is full it starts being swapped
out to the swap partition. Perhaps you didn't have any swap at
the time.
The default size for a
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:41:33 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Doesn't do that here. When tmpfs is full it starts being swapped out to
the swap partition. Perhaps you didn't have any swap at the time.
The default size for a
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wednesday 27 July 2011 15:40:03 Neil Bothwick did opine thusly:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:41:33 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Doesn't do that here. When tmpfs is full it starts being swapped
out to the swap
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:52:53 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
I wonder how effective tmpfs is for PORTAGE_TMPDIR as the builds
that need a lot of disk space can often require a fair bit of
memory too, and tmpfs is using it all.
In this last week someone reported doing actually measurements
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:52:53 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
I wonder how effective tmpfs is for PORTAGE_TMPDIR as the builds
that need a lot of disk space can often require a fair bit of
memory too, and tmpfs is using it all.
In this last week someone reported
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:58:28 -0500, Dale wrote:
I wonder how effective tmpfs is for PORTAGE_TMPDIR as the builds
that need a lot of disk space can often require a fair bit of
memory too, and tmpfs is using it all.
In this last week someone reported doing actually measurements
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:58:28 -0500, Dale wrote:
I wonder how effective tmpfs is for PORTAGE_TMPDIR as the builds
that need a lot of disk space can often require a fair bit of
memory too, and tmpfs is using it all.
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:58:28 -0500, Dale wrote:
I wonder how effective tmpfs is for PORTAGE_TMPDIR as the builds
that need a lot of disk space can often require a fair bit of
memory too, and tmpfs is using it all.
In this last week someone reported doing
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:58:28 -0500, Dale wrote:
I have 16Gbs here. It's not like I'm going to run out or anything. I can
put half on tmpfs and still have 8Gbs left. That is more than enough to
compile
Michael Mol wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:58:28 -0500, Dale wrote:
I have 16Gbs here. It's not like I'm going to run out or anything. I can
put half on tmpfs and still have 8Gbs left.
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Michael Mol wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:58:28 -0500, Dale wrote:
I have 16Gbs here. It's not like I'm going to run out or
Joshua Murphy wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Michael Mol wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.comwrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:58:28 -0500, Dale wrote:
I
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:54:22 -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
It makes sense because the ramdisk is using memory that would
otherwise be used for compilation and filesystem caches.
tmpfs isn't implemented as a ramdisk, it's implemented as a thin layer
on top of the filesystem cache.
That's
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:07:30 -0500, Dale wrote:
It makes sense because the ramdisk is using memory that would
otherwise be used for compilation and filesystem caches.
I have 16Gbs here. It's not like I'm going to run out or anything. I
can put half on tmpfs and still have 8Gbs left.
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:07:30 -0500, Dale wrote:
It makes sense because the ramdisk is using memory that would
otherwise be used for compilation and filesystem caches.
I have 16Gbs here. It's not like I'm going to run out or anything. I
can put half on
Dale writes:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
I wasn't thinking of systems with that much memory. Like you, I'd expect
your system to be faster, even if not by much, using tmpfs.
That's what I was expecting too. It is confusing for sure.
Years ago, I used tmpfs, and it was slightly faster, but on
Alex Schuster wrote:
Dale writes:
That's what I was expecting too. It is confusing for sure.
Years ago, I used tmpfs, and it was slightly faster, but on average only
few seconds in an hou-long emerge.
I don't use tmpfs any more, as 8G of RAM is barely enough to run KDe here.
I
Dale wrote:
I run KDE here and it uses less than 1Gbs all the time. Most of the
time it hovers around 1Gb with a lot of junk open. If your used 8Gbs,
you got a lot running or something. o_O
That should read less than 2 Gbs all the time. I hit the wrong
button. lol
Dale
:-) :-)
Dale writes:
Alex Schuster wrote:
I don't use tmpfs any more, as 8G of RAM is barely enough to run KDe
here.
I run KDE here and it uses less than 1Gbs all the time. Most of the
time it hovers around 1Gb with a lot of junk open. If your used 8Gbs,
you got a lot running or something.
Alex Schuster wrote:
Dale writes:
Alex Schuster wrote:
I don't use tmpfs any more, as 8G of RAM is barely enough to run KDe
here.
I run KDE here and it uses less than 1Gbs all the time. Most of the
time it hovers around 1Gb with a lot of junk open. If your used 8Gbs,
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:02:34AM +0100, Mick wrote:
After some deliberation I've started emerging libreoffice. It gave the usual
office suite warnings at the beginning that there isn't enough space in /var
(I have 5.8G and it was asking for more than 7G+).
Half way through the emerge I
On Monday 25 Jul 2011 11:24:33 YoYo Siska wrote:
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:02:34AM +0100, Mick wrote:
After some deliberation I've started emerging libreoffice. It gave the
usual office suite warnings at the beginning that there isn't enough
space in /var (I have 5.8G and it was asking
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
After some deliberation I've started emerging libreoffice. It gave the
usual
office suite warnings at the beginning that there isn't enough space in
/var
(I have 5.8G and it was asking for more than 7G+).
Half way
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:40:55AM +0100, Mick wrote:
On Monday 25 Jul 2011 11:24:33 YoYo Siska wrote:
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:02:34AM +0100, Mick wrote:
After some deliberation I've started emerging libreoffice. It gave the
usual office suite warnings at the beginning that there
On Monday 25 Jul 2011 12:18:34 YoYo Siska wrote:
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:40:55AM +0100, Mick wrote:
I never understood properly how the mount --bind/rbind works. I
understand that the original partition content becomes visible on a
second partition, but I'm not at all sure what happens
On Monday 25 July 2011 11:02:34 Mick did opine thusly:
After some deliberation I've started emerging libreoffice. It gave
the usual office suite warnings at the beginning that there isn't
enough space in /var (I have 5.8G and it was asking for more than
7G+).
Half way through the emerge I
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