Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
hello again ... noone interested? ;-) I understand in a way ... Maybe I have something in the kernel misconfigured ... Right now I get these messages again: [ 1998.118658] hpet1: lost 1 rtc interrupts Should I disable HPET in the BIOS and/or via kernel command line? I never know how to set

Re: [gentoo-user] N failed logins since your last login

2014-06-11 Thread Florian HEGRON
Is there a way to display that 'failed logins' message without using gdm/kdm/xdm? Hello, See that : http://linux.die.net/man/8/faillog I am not on my Gentoo machine so I don't know if the faillog file is really present. With this, you just have to make a script with Bash / faillog / awk.

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread thegeezer
On 05/27/2014 02:03 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I think I have some IO-topic going on ... very likely some mismatch of block sizes ... the hw-raid, then LVM, then the snapshot on top of that ... and a filesystem with properties as target ... oh my. Chosing noop as IO-scheduler helps a bit

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread thegeezer
On 06/11/2014 10:34 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 11.06.2014 11:19, schrieb thegeezer: Hi Stefan, block size / stripe size mismatches only really penalise random io, if you are trying to use dd and have slow speeds this would suggest something else is awry. I don't know the c600 rad

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread thegeezer
On 06/11/2014 11:14 AM, thegeezer wrote: just some extra thoughts *cough* yeah i meant to keep typing! the extra thoughts are that the better way of doing this would be to create up RAID1 physicaldisks1+2 RAID6 physicaldisks3,4,5,6 then put lvm on there as vg01 with two PVs, one on the raid1

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.06.2014 12:14, schrieb thegeezer: Basically 3 RAID-6 hw-raids over 6 SAS hdds. OK so i'm confused again. RAID6 requires minimum of 4 drives. if you have 3 raid6's then you would need 12 drives (coffee hasn't quite activated in me yet so my maths may not be right) or do you have

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread thegeezer
On 06/11/2014 11:34 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 11.06.2014 12:14, schrieb thegeezer: Basically 3 RAID-6 hw-raids over 6 SAS hdds. OK so i'm confused again. RAID6 requires minimum of 4 drives. if you have 3 raid6's then you would need 12 drives (coffee hasn't quite activated in me

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.06.2014 12:41, schrieb thegeezer: everything around 380 MB/s ... only ~350 MB/s for /dev/vg01/winserver_disk0 (which still is nice) OK here is the clue. if the LVs are also showing such fast speed, then please can you show your command that you are trying to run that is so slow ?

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread thegeezer
On 06/11/2014 11:49 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 11.06.2014 12:41, schrieb thegeezer: everything around 380 MB/s ... only ~350 MB/s for /dev/vg01/winserver_disk0 (which still is nice) OK here is the clue. if the LVs are also showing such fast speed, then please can you show your

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread thegeezer
On 06/11/2014 11:49 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 11.06.2014 12:41, schrieb thegeezer: everything around 380 MB/s ... only ~350 MB/s for /dev/vg01/winserver_disk0 (which still is nice) OK here is the clue. if the LVs are also showing such fast speed, then please can you show your

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.06.2014 13:01, schrieb thegeezer: yeah this is very very odd. firstly there should not be such discrepancy between hdparm -t and dd if= secondly you would imagine that the first dd would be cached and so would be faster the second time round please check for the turbo boost disable,

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.06.2014 13:18, schrieb thegeezer: just out of curiosity, what happens if you do # dd if=/dev/vg01/amhold of=/dev/null bs=1M count=100 # dd if=/dev/sdc of=/dev/null bs=1M count=100 booze ~ # dd if=/dev/vg01/amhold of=/dev/null bs=1M count=100 100+0 Datensätze ein 100+0 Datensätze aus

[gentoo-user] [OT] Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU J1800 drivers

2014-06-11 Thread Francisco Ares
Hi, I am trying to install Gentoo on a x64 system with such processor, that, as far as I could understand, is like to have the chipset embedded, so the buses to video, pci express, usb, etc, comes out of the processor chip. The kernel from the 3.10 series were not able to correctly handle this

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU J1800 drivers

2014-06-11 Thread Francisco Ares
P.S.: here is the output of lspci -k 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation ValleyView SSA-CUnit (rev 0c) Subsystem: Biostar Microtech Int'l Corp Device 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation ValleyView Gen7 (rev 0c) Subsystem: Biostar Microtech Int'l Corp

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread thegeezer
On 06/11/2014 12:21 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 11.06.2014 13:18, schrieb thegeezer: just out of curiosity, what happens if you do # dd if=/dev/vg01/amhold of=/dev/null bs=1M count=100 # dd if=/dev/sdc of=/dev/null bs=1M count=100 booze ~ # dd if=/dev/vg01/amhold of=/dev/null

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.06.2014 13:52, schrieb thegeezer: ok baffling. sdc i already said would be slower but not this much slower it certainly should not be slower than the lvm that sits on top of it! i can't see anything in the cgroups that stands out, maybe someone else can give a better voice to this.

Re: [gentoo-user] chown - not permited

2014-06-11 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 10 June 2014 21:33:28 CEST, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/10/14 22:50, the wrote: On 06/10/14 22:37, Joseph wrote: I mount USB stick form camera and I can not change ownership (I'm login as root) drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 32768 Nov 18 2013 DCIM -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4 Nov 21

[gentoo-user] Problem with power management of SATA hard drives

2014-06-11 Thread Ralf
Hi there, I'm using Gentoo ~amd64 on my NAS. This is my setup: Mainboard - Asus E35M1 CPU - AMD E350 HDD - 1x 500GiB WD Caviar Green WD5000AADS (root) HDD - 4x 3TiB WD Caviar Green WD30EZRX (Raid10) As these hard drives are desktop hard drives and not designed for 24/7 purposes, I want to spin

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread thegeezer
On 06/11/2014 01:41 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 11.06.2014 13:52, schrieb thegeezer: ok baffling. sdc i already said would be slower but not this much slower it certainly should not be slower than the lvm that sits on top of it! i can't see anything in the cgroups that stands out,

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with power management of SATA hard drives

2014-06-11 Thread thegeezer
On 06/11/2014 02:12 PM, Ralf wrote: Hi there, I'm using Gentoo ~amd64 on my NAS. This is my setup: Mainboard - Asus E35M1 CPU - AMD E350 HDD - 1x 500GiB WD Caviar Green WD5000AADS (root) HDD - 4x 3TiB WD Caviar Green WD30EZRX (Raid10) As these hard drives are desktop hard drives and not

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.06.2014 15:32, schrieb thegeezer: So my kernel-config seems buggy or I should downgrade to something older? I suspect that in your fully running system somethingelse(tm) is stealing the activity. can you start up with no services enabled and do the test ? hm, yes. although I had

Re: [gentoo-user] chown - not permited

2014-06-11 Thread Joseph
On 06/11/14 11:33, J. Roeleveld wrote: On 10 June 2014 21:33:28 CEST, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/10/14 22:50, the wrote: On 06/10/14 22:37, Joseph wrote: I mount USB stick form camera and I can not change ownership (I'm login as root) drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 32768 Nov 18 2013

Re: [gentoo-user] chown - not permited

2014-06-11 Thread Stroller
On Wed, 11 June 2014, at 2:52 pm, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: ... If you give the filesystem a Label. Then udisks will use that instead of the UUID string. Thanks. What is the best way to edit USB Label? $ apropos label e2label (8) - Change the label on an ext2/ext3/ext4

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with power management of SATA hard drives

2014-06-11 Thread Ralf
On 06/11/2014 03:40 PM, thegeezer wrote: 50 seconds is very small timeout, be wary of spinup/spindown cycles which imho are worse than always spinning. For sure, I know, this was only for testing purposes, to see if it works. I don't want to wait ten minutes, or even an hour to see that it

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.06.2014 15:44, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 11.06.2014 15:32, schrieb thegeezer: So my kernel-config seems buggy or I should downgrade to something older? I suspect that in your fully running system somethingelse(tm) is stealing the activity. can you start up with no services

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread thegeezer
On 06/11/2014 03:15 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 11.06.2014 15:44, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 11.06.2014 15:32, schrieb thegeezer: So my kernel-config seems buggy or I should downgrade to something older? I suspect that in your fully running system somethingelse(tm) is stealing

[gentoo-user] Re: problem with v86d

2014-06-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/06/14 08:14, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. Does anyone have a clue as to why v86d should suddenly start being very cpu intensive on my computer? When I first boot its fine (using either systemd or openrc), but after a while -- maybe a day or two it starts using up lots of cpu and

[gentoo-user] Re: problem with v86d

2014-06-11 Thread James
covici at ccs.covici.com writes: Hi. Does anyone have a clue as to why v86d should suddenly start being very cpu intensive on my computer? When I first boot its fine (using either systemd or openrc), but after a while -- maybe a day or two it starts using up lots of cpu and definitely

Re: [gentoo-user] chown - not permited

2014-06-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 11 Jun 2014 07:52:23 -0600, Joseph wrote: What is the best way to edit USB Label? For the DOS filesystem, mlabel, part of sys-fs/mtools. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 19: Passive aggression signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem with v86d

2014-06-11 Thread covici
James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: covici at ccs.covici.com writes: Hi. Does anyone have a clue as to why v86d should suddenly start being very cpu intensive on my computer? When I first boot its fine (using either systemd or openrc), but after a while -- maybe a day or two it

[gentoo-user] Re: problem with v86d

2014-06-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/06/14 17:49, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Thanks. I have a fairly old kernel for other reasons and I installed v86d in 2011 and it has not changed since. I use udesafb because I want a frame buffer so I can get a lot more than 80x25 in a virtual console. Iget 64x160. I also need

Re: [gentoo-user] chown - not permited

2014-06-11 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 11 Jun 2014 07:52:23 -0600, Joseph wrote: What is the best way to edit USB Label? For the DOS filesystem, mlabel, part of sys-fs/mtools. Or fatlabel, from sys-fs/dosfstools.

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
looks promising: virt-backup dumps and packs a 12 GB image-file within ~145 seconds to a non-compressing btrfs subvolume: a) does a LVM-snapshot b) dd with bs=4M and through pigz to the target file The bigger LV with ~250GB is running right now. The system feels snappier than with the old

Re: [gentoo-user] chown - not permited

2014-06-11 Thread Joseph
On 06/11/14 11:31, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 11 Jun 2014 07:52:23 -0600, Joseph wrote: What is the best way to edit USB Label? For the DOS filesystem, mlabel, part of sys-fs/mtools. Or fatlabel, from

[gentoo-user] Re: problem with v86d

2014-06-11 Thread James
Nikos Chantziaras realnc at gmail.com writes: like that driver. I can't remember what it complained about, but it means no X at all. If you're not booting in EFI mode, then you can use vesafb instead. This doesn't require v86d and doesn't even require an initrd. uvesafb is mostly

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller

2014-06-11 Thread thegeezer
On 06/11/2014 07:57 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: looks promising: awesome. i did have a look through the diff, there are lots of scsi drivers selected, storage (block) cgroups but i think the crucial factor was the HZ was set at 100 previously and 1000 now. i guess it has helped kernel-io

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem with v86d

2014-06-11 Thread covici
James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Nikos Chantziaras realnc at gmail.com writes: like that driver. I can't remember what it complained about, but it means no X at all. If you're not booting in EFI mode, then you can use vesafb instead. This doesn't require v86d and doesn't

[gentoo-user] Re: N failed logins since your last login

2014-06-11 Thread walt
On 06/11/2014 01:56 AM, Florian HEGRON wrote: Is there a way to display that 'failed logins' message without using gdm/kdm/xdm? Hello, See that : http://linux.die.net/man/8/faillog I am not on my Gentoo machine so I don't know if the faillog file is really present. Very good clue,