Re: [gentoo-user] nagios - check_nrpe missing

2012-11-25 Thread Mick
On Sunday 25 Nov 2012 06:31:30 Joseph wrote: I gave up on this nagios too hard to set it up and/or find any decent instructions how to set it up correctly :-) I haven't run Nagios on Gentoo either, but it isn't impossible to get it going on any Linux machine. Have you checked the basics -

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xserver update: tilde no longer dead key

2012-11-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 00:01:03 + Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: A seemingly related issued was reported on e-users: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users The thread is titled Problem with Polish Keyboard layout Thanks Alan, I had already kicked

Re: [gentoo-user] nagios - check_nrpe missing

2012-11-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 23:31:30 -0700 Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/24/12 10:18, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Fri, 23 Nov 2012 10:44:59 -0700 Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/23/12 08:40, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thu, 22 Nov 2012 23:04:17 -0700 Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote:

[gentoo-user] SSD configuration

2012-11-25 Thread Jacques Montier
Hi all, I bought a 250Go SSD M4 Crucial , read (of course) Gentoo documentation and installed the drive on my desktop pc (Asus MB, Intel ie7 and 6Go RAM). 1- Everything seems to work perfectly, but i would like to know if my configuration is ok or could be optimized. /tmp and /var/log are on

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD configuration

2012-11-25 Thread Luis Gustavo Vilela de Oliveira
You should look at the BIOS config, if AHCI is enable. 2012/11/25 Jacques Montier jmont...@gmail.com Hi all, I bought a 250Go SSD M4 Crucial , read (of course) Gentoo documentation and installed the drive on my desktop pc (Asus MB, Intel ie7 and 6Go RAM). 1- Everything seems to work

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD configuration

2012-11-25 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 25.11.2012 16:36, schrieb Jacques Montier: Hi all, I bought a 250Go SSD M4 Crucial , read (of course) Gentoo documentation and installed the drive on my desktop pc (Asus MB, Intel ie7 and 6Go RAM). 1- Everything seems to work perfectly, but i would like to know if my configuration is

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD configuration

2012-11-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 25. November 2012, 16:36:06 schrieb Jacques Montier: Hi all, I bought a 250Go SSD M4 Crucial , read (of course) Gentoo documentation and installed the drive on my desktop pc (Asus MB, Intel ie7 and 6Go RAM). 1- Everything seems to work perfectly, but i would like to know if my

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD configuration

2012-11-25 Thread Jacques Montier
Thank you Luis, In BIOS, i switched to AHCI instead of IDE Mode, but the system does not boot. I get kernel panic (No filesystem could mount root...) My kernel configuration : CONFIG_SATA_AHCI=y -- Jacques 2012/11/25 Luis Gustavo Vilela de Oliveira luisgustavo.vil...@gmail.com You should

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD configuration

2012-11-25 Thread Jacques Montier
So i just kept noatime and discard options (for SSD). Thank you Florian, -- Jacques 2012/11/25 Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net Am 25.11.2012 16:36, schrieb Jacques Montier: Hi all, I bought a 250Go SSD M4 Crucial , read (of course) Gentoo documentation and installed the drive

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD configuration

2012-11-25 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 25.11.2012 17:34, schrieb Jacques Montier: 2012/11/25 Luis Gustavo Vilela de Oliveira luisgustavo.vil...@gmail.com mailto:luisgustavo.vil...@gmail.com 2012/11/25 Jacques Montier jmont...@gmail.com mailto:jmont...@gmail.com [...] 2- When booting, BIOS seems to detect the SSD

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD configuration

2012-11-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Jacques Montier writes: I bought a 250Go SSD M4 Crucial , read (of course) Gentoo documentation and installed the drive on my desktop pc (Asus MB, Intel ie7 and 6Go RAM). 1- Everything seems to work perfectly, but i would like to know if my configuration is ok or could be optimized. /tmp and

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD configuration

2012-11-25 Thread Jacques Montier
2012/11/25 Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net Am 25.11.2012 17:34, schrieb Jacques Montier: 2012/11/25 Luis Gustavo Vilela de Oliveira luisgustavo.vil...@gmail.com mailto:luisgustavo.vil...@gmail.com 2012/11/25 Jacques Montier jmont...@gmail.com mailto:jmont...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD configuration

2012-11-25 Thread Jacques Montier
2012/11/25 Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org Jacques Montier writes: I bought a 250Go SSD M4 Crucial , read (of course) Gentoo documentation and installed the drive on my desktop pc (Asus MB, Intel ie7 and 6Go RAM). 1- Everything seems to work perfectly, but i would like to know if my

[gentoo-user] easy Gentoo tricks

2012-11-25 Thread Grant
What are your favorite easy Gentoo tricks? Stuff that makes your system a lot better in some way with only a minimal amount of effort. I just discovered one for xfce4: emerge tumbler No other config. Really cool result. - Grant

[gentoo-user] swap on ssd?

2012-11-25 Thread William Kenworthy
Has anyone tried swap on ssd? - has it killed the drive prematurely? - any other effects? I have a system that is maxed with with 4G ram and tends to use swap heavily at times which slows things down ... so I am thinking a small ssd might help here. Another slower alternative is a usb

Re: [gentoo-user] swap on ssd?

2012-11-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 26. November 2012, 06:46:28 schrieb William Kenworthy: Has anyone tried swap on ssd? - has it killed the drive prematurely? - any other effects? I have a system that is maxed with with 4G ram and tends to use swap heavily at times which slows things down ... so I am thinking a

Re: [gentoo-user] swap on ssd?

2012-11-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 06:46:28 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: Has anyone tried swap on ssd? - has it killed the drive prematurely? - any other effects? Yes, no, improved virtual memory performance. SSDs aren't cheapo SD cards, they are meant to be written to. A storage device that broke if

Re: [gentoo-user] swap on ssd?

2012-11-25 Thread felix
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:02:23AM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Montag, 26. November 2012, 06:46:28 schrieb William Kenworthy: Has anyone tried swap on ssd? - has it killed the drive prematurely? - any other effects? I have a system that is maxed with with 4G ram and tends to

Re: [gentoo-user] swap on ssd?

2012-11-25 Thread William Kenworthy
On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 00:02 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Montag, 26. November 2012, 06:46:28 schrieb William Kenworthy: Has anyone tried swap on ssd? - has it killed the drive prematurely? - any other effects? I have a system that is maxed with with 4G ram and tends to use swap

Re: [gentoo-user] swap on ssd?

2012-11-25 Thread microcai
2012/11/26 William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au: On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 00:02 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Montag, 26. November 2012, 06:46:28 schrieb William Kenworthy: Has anyone tried swap on ssd? - has it killed the drive prematurely? - any other effects? I have a system

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD configuration

2012-11-25 Thread microcai
2012/11/26 Jacques Montier jmont...@gmail.com: 2012/11/25 Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org Jacques Montier writes: I bought a 250Go SSD M4 Crucial , read (of course) Gentoo documentation and installed the drive on my desktop pc (Asus MB, Intel ie7 and 6Go RAM). 1- Everything seems to

Re: [gentoo-user] swap on ssd?

2012-11-25 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 08:29 +0800, microcai wrote: 2012/11/26 William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au: On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 00:02 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Montag, 26. November 2012, 06:46:28 schrieb William Kenworthy: Has anyone tried swap on ssd? - has it killed the drive

Re: [gentoo-user] easy Gentoo tricks

2012-11-25 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 01:53:22PM -0800, Grant wrote What are your favorite easy Gentoo tricks? Stuff that makes your system a lot better in some way with only a minimal amount of effort. I just discovered one for xfce4: emerge tumbler No other config. Really cool result. In

Re: [gentoo-user] easy Gentoo tricks

2012-11-25 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Nov 26, 2012 4:56 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: What are your favorite easy Gentoo tricks? Stuff that makes your system a lot better in some way with only a minimal amount of effort. I personally keep stage '3.5' containing pre-compiled 'must-haves'. And a '3.9' where the world has

Re: [gentoo-user] swap on ssd?

2012-11-25 Thread 微蔡
在 2012年11月26日 星期一 09:08:00,Bill Kenworthy 写道: On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 08:29 +0800, microcai wrote: 2012/11/26 William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au: On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 00:02 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Montag, 26. November 2012, 06:46:28 schrieb William Kenworthy: Has anyone

Re: [gentoo-user] swap on ssd?

2012-11-25 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 26.11.2012 00:18, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 06:46:28 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: Has anyone tried swap on ssd? - has it killed the drive prematurely? - any other effects? Yes, no, improved virtual memory performance. +1 SSDs aren't cheapo SD cards, they are meant

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD configuration

2012-11-25 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 25.11.2012 22:43, Jacques Montier wrote: Each time you sync the portage, you should write on the SSD... Is it a good thing ? It is the best thing since rsync! Really - it is amazing! And about portage: you write in your portage tree not nearly as often as in /home. SSDs don't die as quickly