Re: [gentoo-user] Any utility to forcibly freeze or swap out a specific pid?

2018-07-03 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Tue, 03 Jul 2018, Walter Dnes wrote: > Thanks; this could be interesting. Run "ps x", grep for specific >commands in the output, read the pid at the start of the line, and >autofreeze those processes.. Use 'pgrep [-u UID/USERNAME] pattern' or adjust ps output to only display what

Re: [gentoo-user] Any utility to forcibly freeze or swap out a specific pid?

2018-07-02 Thread Walter Dnes
Thanks; this could be interesting. Run "ps x", grep for specific commands in the output, read the pid at the start of the line, and autofreeze those processes.. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Any utility to forcibly freeze or swap out a specific pid?

2018-07-02 Thread Walter Dnes
I just noticed something "interesting". I don't know if it's strictly gnumeric under ICEWM, or if it's more generic. Open several gnumeric spreadsheets. Do not minimize, but open one over top of the other. Run "top" in an xterm in that same workspace...

Re: [gentoo-user] Any utility to forcibly freeze or swap out a specific pid?

2018-07-02 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 9:40 PM Andrew Udvare wrote: > > YMMV on what processes will actually work properly after a SIGCONT. If > anything a process does is not re-entrant, then you could have very > unpredictable things happen including corruption of data. > If a process corrupts data of any

Re: [gentoo-user] Any utility to forcibly freeze or swap out a specific pid?

2018-07-02 Thread HÃ¥kon Alstadheim
Den 02. juli 2018 11:34, skrev Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov: >> kill -s SIGSTOP >> kill -s SIGCONT > Although, such a "freezing" doesn't free any RAM :-/ > > > It will allow the process to be swapped out without provoking thrashing. Should work, plugins might give you some grief though.

Re: [gentoo-user] Any utility to forcibly freeze or swap out a specific pid?

2018-07-02 Thread Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov
> kill -s SIGSTOP > kill -s SIGCONT Although, such a "freezing" doesn't free any RAM :-/

Re: [gentoo-user] Any utility to forcibly freeze or swap out a specific pid?

2018-07-01 Thread Andrew Udvare
On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 9:16 PM Walter Dnes wrote: > > There are some programs that I would much rather keep open, versus > shutting down and restarting all over again. But keeping them all open > uses resources, especially on a 10-year-old CORE2 with 3 gigabytes of > RAM (The thing refuses to

[gentoo-user] Any utility to forcibly freeze or swap out a specific pid?

2018-07-01 Thread Walter Dnes
If you run the command... ps axo %cpu,%mem,pid,cmd | grep -v "^.CPU" | sort -nr | head -n 10 ...you'll get a list of processes sorted by cpu and memory consumption. In my case, I get... [d531][waltdnes][~] ps axo %cpu,%mem,pid,cmd | grep -v "^.CPU" | sort -nr | head -n 10 43.6 12.4 13976

[gentoo-user] What utility do you use to sync user files?

2012-12-02 Thread Randy Westlund
I've been using rsync to sync binary files, shell scripts, my workspace, and random user files under my home directory across multiple machines. I'm using one server as the master copy, which makes daily incremental backups of my files to a separate disk with rsync. At the moment, I have my sync

Re: [gentoo-user] What utility do you use to sync user files?

2012-12-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Randy Westlund rwest...@gmail.com wrote: I've been using rsync to sync binary files, shell scripts, my workspace, and random user files under my home directory across multiple machines. I'm using one server as the master copy, which makes daily incremental

Re: [gentoo-user] What utility do you use to sync user files?

2012-12-02 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 12:21:40PM -0500, Randy Westlund wrote: I've been using rsync to sync binary files, shell scripts, my workspace, and random user files under my home directory across multiple machines. I'm using one server as the master copy, which makes daily incremental backups of my

Re: [gentoo-user] What utility do you use to sync user files?

2012-12-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
As soon as you said svn I got the idea you want revisions of files you send to storage, which is a fine idea. Backups are fine, but if you have to work at the granularity of yesterday or maybe the day before it can become cumbersome. To my mind the first question to answer is how do you want to

Re: [gentoo-user] What utility do you use to sync user files?

2012-12-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 2 Dec 2012 12:21:40 -0500, Randy Westlund wrote: What utilities do you guys use? Is there a better way to do this? It would be nice to move everything to the background, but I've already clobbered a few files by calling this in the wrong order net-misc/unison Think of it as a

Re: [gentoo-user] What utility do you use to sync user files?

2012-12-02 Thread Dustin C. Hatch
On 12/2/2012 14:33, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 2 Dec 2012 12:21:40 -0500, Randy Westlund wrote: What utilities do you guys use? Is there a better way to do this? It would be nice to move everything to the background, but I've already clobbered a few files by calling this in the wrong order

Re: [gentoo-user] What utility do you use to sync user files?

2012-12-02 Thread Randy Westlund
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Dustin C. Hatch admiraln...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/2/2012 14:33, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 2 Dec 2012 12:21:40 -0500, Randy Westlund wrote: What utilities do you guys use? Is there a better way to do this? It would be nice to move everything to the

Re: [gentoo-user] What utility do you use to sync user files?

2012-12-02 Thread Joseph
Here is a good example on using rsync http://rsync.samba.org/examples.html I've modified the first one for 7-days incremental backup. -- Joseph On 12/02/12 12:21, Randy Westlund wrote: I've been using rsync to sync binary files, shell scripts, my workspace, and random user files under my

[gentoo-user] at utility

2006-04-13 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
Hello list, I have the at utility described in my man pages but can't find it and don't know what package it came from; if it is indeed in my system. Does anyone know? Thanks, -- Valmor Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.12.5 i686)

Re: [gentoo-user] at utility

2006-04-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 13 April 2006 17:45, de Almeida, Valmor F. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] at utility': I have the at utility described in my man pages but can't find it and don't know what package it came from; if it is indeed in my system. Does anyone know? U sys-process/at [GPL-2

Re: [gentoo-user] at utility

2006-04-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 06:45:29PM -0400, Penguin Lover de Almeida, Valmor F. squawked: I have the at utility described in my man pages but can't find it and don't know what package it came from; if it is indeed in my system. Does anyone know? sys-process/at W -- Smart man + Smart woman =

Re: [gentoo-user] at utility

2006-04-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 06:21:26PM -0500, Penguin Lover Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. squawked: U sys-process/at [GPL-2]: Queues jobs for later execution Possibly? I also have the man pages but not the app. I wonder why they are in separate packages. That is bizarre. I have the program