Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-12-29 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: I think what Enrico is getting at is storing the new config files somewhere else, instead of the original path with the name prefixed by ._cfg. ACK. Such a move would break {etc,conf,cfg}-update for no real benefit. What is the point of including

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Remy Blank remy.bl...@pobox.com wrote: Put your /etc under SVN, or Mercurial, or whatever revision control system du jour. Bonus points if you manage to store file and directory permissions in there as well. Is there a way to tell portage to conf-protected files under some prefix ? This

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:37 on Wednesday 10 November 2010, Enrico Weigelt did opine thusly: * Remy Blank remy.bl...@pobox.com wrote: Put your /etc under SVN, or Mercurial, or whatever revision control system du jour. Bonus points if you manage to store file and directory

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 23:37 on Wednesday 10 November 2010, Enrico Weigelt did opine thusly: * Remy Blank remy.bl...@pobox.com wrote: Put your /etc under SVN, or Mercurial, or whatever revision control system du jour. Bonus

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 00:02 on Thursday 11 November 2010, Enrico Weigelt did opine thusly: * Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 23:37 on Wednesday 10 November 2010, Enrico Weigelt did opine thusly: * Remy Blank remy.bl...@pobox.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 01:18:08 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: According to the manpage, this only tells which directories should be config-protect'ed. What I need is that these files should be put under some prefix (w/ the same hierachy/names) instead of renamed to ._cfg*. What version of

[gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-08 Thread Remy Blank
Mark Knecht wrote: My worry with etc-update is that I know, for the most part, all the files I modify when doing an install so I know what to look for when I'm selecting files to replace myself. However with that tool there's a point where you might have 20 files that need updating, you look

[gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/04/2010 06:43 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, When starting VMware-Player I get the following message: The host's Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled. Multiprocessor virtual machines exhibit degraded performance without yield(). Choose 'OK' to enable the sysctl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 11/04/2010 06:43 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi,    When starting VMware-Player I get the following message: The host's Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled. Multiprocessor virtual machines exhibit degraded

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 21:03 on Thursday 04 November 2010, Mark Knecht did opine thusly: On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 11/04/2010 06:43 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, When starting VMware-Player I get the following message: The

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 4 Nov 2010 21:20:25 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I find conf-update much better than dispatch-conf and etc-update. It's curses- based and displays the modified files in a tree structure by directory. Very intuitive display. And it's smart enough to know to just apply changes to files

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 4 Nov 2010 21:20:25 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I find conf-update much better than dispatch-conf and etc-update. It's curses- based and displays the modified files in a tree structure by directory. Very

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-04 Thread Stroller
On 4/11/2010, at 7:20pm, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... I find conf-update much better than dispatch-conf and etc-update. It's curses- based and displays the modified files in a tree structure by directory. Very intuitive display. And it's smart enough to know to just apply changes to files that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-04 Thread Adam Carter
I will have to try conf-update - its interface sounds nice. If you run X, then cfg-update, configured to use meld for the diffing/editing via GUI, is nice and clear.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Am 04.11.2010 20:20, schrieb Alan McKinnon: Try conf-update, you might like it. It's a good middle-ground, I find. I like cfg-update [*]. I use it with kdiff3, but you can use about any merge tool you like, be it GUI or CLI. Looks quite sophisticated to me. I only worry that it is not being

[gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/04/2010 09:03 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 11/04/2010 06:43 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: [...] Looking around at VMware's site they recommend changing /etc/sysctl.conf to enable the feature: [...] I can do that