Re: Disk I/O as a bottleneck?

2011-05-09 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 06:29 +0300, Omer Zak wrote: [This E-mail message is bottom-posting contrary to my usual custom.] Thanks :) 1. Kernel version? 2.6.38 added a very small patch that that done wonders to eliminate foreground process scheduling issues that plagued desktop setups since

How to check initrd's contents? (was: Re: Disk I/O as a bottleneck?)

2011-05-09 Thread Omer Zak
Hello Gilboa, On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 09:43 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: 1. Kernel version? Standard Debian Squeeze kernel: $ uname -a Linux c4 2.6.32-5-vserver-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Mar 7 23:14:47 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux I'd consider trying a kernel from debian-testing or rolling your

Re: How to check initrd's contents? (was: Re: Disk I/O as a bottleneck?)

2011-05-09 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 03:18:08PM +0300, Omer Zak wrote: My kernel is configured to have AHCI as a module: CONFIG_SATA_AHCI=m However I understand that it means that this module is needed also in the initrd image. How can I check which modules made it to the initrd image last time it was

Re: How to check initrd's contents? (was: Re: Disk I/O as a bottleneck?)

2011-05-09 Thread Omer Zak
On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 15:30 +0300, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 03:18:08PM +0300, Omer Zak wrote: My kernel is configured to have AHCI as a module: CONFIG_SATA_AHCI=m However I understand that it means that this module is needed also in the initrd image. How can I

Re: How to check initrd's contents? (was: Re: Disk I/O as a bottleneck?)

2011-05-09 Thread guy keren
On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 15:49 +0300, Omer Zak wrote: On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 15:30 +0300, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 03:18:08PM +0300, Omer Zak wrote: My kernel is configured to have AHCI as a module: CONFIG_SATA_AHCI=m However I understand that it means that

Changing non-printing keys in keyboard layout

2011-05-09 Thread Dotan Cohen
Hi all, I'm trying to write a new keyboard layout. I'm testing using Debian Squeeze and Kubuntu 11.04, both with KDE. It is important to solve this issue with a keyboard layout as opposed to playing with xmodmap or scancodes and keycodes because I need to leave the standard US English, Hebrew, and

Re: can't finish update: dpkg hangs installing xulrunner

2011-05-09 Thread Michael Shiloh
I tried removing xulrunner and that worked, so this is no longer an issue. Thanks for your help! On 05/08/2011 09:50 PM, guy keren wrote: try to look back at the file, and see if this futex (0xb775e890) was acquired earlier in the strace output, and not released. these futexes are used to