Re: [gentoo-user] How to find out to what file(...) writes goes on a idle system...

2014-12-06 Thread Johannes Altmanninger
Hi, meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: In the context of preserving the live of flash media by minimizing the count of unessary writes I want to know which application/daemon/etc is continous writing to that media and which entity (file/pipe/fifo...) is receiving those writes... You could use

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: hibernation

2014-12-06 Thread Mick
On Saturday 06 Dec 2014 07:41:18 J. Roeleveld wrote: Hibernation depends on a myriad of CPU variants, setting and the matching memory issues. (U)efi is a good place to start your long, arduous journey of research [1] ; see S4. Not my experience, suspend-to-disk works quite well. The

Re: [gentoo-user] How to find out to what file(...) writes goes on a idle system...

2014-12-06 Thread Andrew Savchenko
On Sat, 06 Dec 2014 12:01:16 +0100 Johannes Altmanninger wrote: Hi, meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: In the context of preserving the live of flash media by minimizing the count of unessary writes I want to know which application/daemon/etc is continous writing to that media and which

Re: [gentoo-user] How to find out to what file(...) writes goes on a idle system...

2014-12-06 Thread lee
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: Hi, on different systems I see the write stats (/proc/dikstats) to physical existing disks steadily increasing. Looking at the output of lsof I cannot find any file suspicous for receiving those writes. In the context of preserving the live of flash media by

Re: [gentoo-user] urxvt on i3wm as wallpaper

2014-12-06 Thread behrouz khosravi
On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 5:44 AM, lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote: Omit the window decorations? I liked the picture, but actually I am not sure if that's what I want. I want a terminal that is on the background (wallpaper) of the screen, not in the floating mode or something like that. For example

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: hibernation

2014-12-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 6 Dec 2014 11:15:07 +, Mick wrote: It is not just Nvidia. Suspend to disk (hybernation) worked fine on my laptop for years. Then something changed in the kernel and now although it will hybernate, waking up causes all sort of failures and crashes. It is a kernel bug, I found

Re: [gentoo-user] How to find out to what file(...) writes goes on a idle system...

2014-12-06 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sat, Dec 06, 2014 at 12:27:06PM +0100, lee wrote: meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: Hi, on different systems I see the write stats (/proc/dikstats) to physical existing disks steadily increasing. Looking at the output of lsof I cannot find any file suspicous for receiving those

[gentoo-user] Re: How to find out to what file(...) writes goes on a idle system...

2014-12-06 Thread James
meino.cramer at gmx.de writes: on different systems I see the write stats (/proc/dikstats) to physical existing disks steadily increasing. Looking at the output of lsof I cannot find any file suspicous for receiving those writes. Ok so in my experiences you need a (2) pronged approach.

[gentoo-user] emerge --depclean wants to remove active python?

2014-12-06 Thread Jarry
Hi Gentoo-users, I just updated my box (iirc, there was something python-related) but depite of having python 3.4 active, emerge wants to remove it: # eselect python list Available Python interpreters: [1] python2.7 [2] python3.3 [3] python3.4 * # emerge --pretend --depclean

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean wants to remove active python?

2014-12-06 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On 12/06/2014 12:18 PM, Jarry wrote: Hi Gentoo-users, I just updated my box (iirc, there was something python-related) but depite of having python 3.4 active, emerge wants to remove it: # eselect python list Available Python interpreters: [1] python2.7 [2] python3.3 [3]

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean wants to remove active python?

2014-12-06 Thread Jarry
On 06-Dec-14 18:25, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: If 3.4.1 gets removed, I will have to run python-updater and compile all against 3.3. But why? 3.4.1 is stable, so why does Portage want to remove it??? Check out this thread from a day or two ago:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to find out to what file(...) writes goes on a idle system...

2014-12-06 Thread meino . cramer
James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com [14-12-06 18:16]: meino.cramer at gmx.de writes: on different systems I see the write stats (/proc/dikstats) to physical existing disks steadily increasing. Looking at the output of lsof I cannot find any file suspicous for receiving those writes.

[gentoo-user] Re: Openrc-run

2014-12-06 Thread James
Michael Orlitzky mjo at gentoo.org writes: 'man openrc' nor 'man 8 openrc-run' return anything. So, the reason you can't find their man pages is because they don't exist yet. Try `man 8 rc` or `man 8 runscript` instead. Ah. Yea, my googling often takes me places of curiosity that I find

[gentoo-user] Re: How to find out to what file(...) writes goes on a idle system...

2014-12-06 Thread James
meino.cramer at gmx.de writes: (1) Then pursue quantifying with tools just what is causing the writes, strategies for minimization and monitoring as needed. So folks are going down path (1) with you, that is fine. Prong (1) includes all issues related to systemd. Probably embedded

[gentoo-user] Print PDF or PS files

2014-12-06 Thread Joseph
In: XFCE4 home folder menu: Edit - Configure Custom Action I have entered: Print PDF or PS files command: lpr %N However, the above command: lpr %N is only good if the PDF or PS files have standard Letter size format. If a PDF/PS file contains pages that are different sizes or rotated the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to find out to what file(...) writes goes on a idle system...

2014-12-06 Thread meino . cramer
Hi James, ...my board does not use systemd as far as I know...the whole mimic is original gentoo stage3 stuff and Gentoo defaults to openrc/udev and not systemd (or am I wrong?) Cheers Meino James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com [14-12-06 21:16]: meino.cramer at gmx.de writes: (1) Then