Re: K8 upgrade path?

2004-11-13 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi, On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 04:18:21PM +0200, Ira Abramov wrote: Howdie people... Three months ago I changed my dual-P2/350 to an Athlon K7/900. apperently this was a bad move since I can see absolutely no improvement in speed (probably since I cut the L2 cache in half). That's weird. I

Re: K8 upgrade path?

2004-11-13 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Yedidyah Bar-David, from the post of Sat, 13 Nov: Three months ago I changed my dual-P2/350 to an Athlon K7/900. apperently this was a bad move since I can see absolutely no improvement in speed (probably since I cut the L2 cache in half). That's weird. I have a feeling I read

Re: K8 upgrade path?

2004-11-13 Thread Lior Kaplan
Maybe this will help you: http://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html Quoting Yedidyah Bar-David, from the post of Sat, 13 Nov: Three months ago I changed my dual-P2/350 to an Athlon K7/900. apperently this was a bad move since I can see absolutely no

kernel compilation

2004-11-13 Thread Kfir Lavi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm trying to compile kernel 2.6.8-1 with debian kernel-package. I think i'm missing libraries. Can someone please point me of the libs or paths i need to add. tnx kfir -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux)

Re: kernel compilation

2004-11-13 Thread Shaul Karl
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 04:03:47PM +0200, Kfir Lavi wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm trying to compile kernel 2.6.8-1 with debian kernel-package. I think i'm missing libraries. Can someone please point me of the libs or paths i need to add. Where did you

Re: K8 upgrade path?

2004-11-13 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 02:16:46PM +0200, Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Yedidyah Bar-David, from the post of Sat, 13 Nov: Although I must say no improvement is a bit weird. Do you mean in general, day-to-day, non-timed work, or in specific CPU-intensive things you do? The first. This

Re: kernel compilation

2004-11-13 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Saturday 13 November 2004 16:03, Kfir Lavi wrote: Hi, I'm trying to compile kernel 2.6.8-1 with debian kernel-package. I think i'm missing libraries. Can someone please point me of the libs or paths i need to add. Hi Kfir! sys/types.h, sys/stat.h, unistd.h, etc. are all standard UNIX C

Re: K8 upgrade path?

2004-11-13 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 03:33:17PM +0200, Lior Kaplan wrote: Maybe this will help you: http://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html Note that this page talks about the pure (64bit only) version. It also mentions the multiarch project, which is the future (their

Re: kernel compilation

2004-11-13 Thread Yury Chursa
Kfir Lavi wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm trying to compile kernel 2.6.8-1 with debian kernel-package. I think i'm missing libraries. Can someone please point me of the libs or paths i need to add. tnx kfir -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4

Re: kernel compilation

2004-11-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Hi On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 04:03:47PM +0200, Kfir Lavi wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm trying to compile kernel 2.6.8-1 with debian kernel-package. I think i'm missing libraries. Can someone please point me of the libs or paths i need to add. /usr/bin/make

Re: 2.6.9 and cdrecord (was: Re: K8 upgrade path?)

2004-11-13 Thread amos
Ira Abramov wrote: on to my next project now... figure out why kernel 2.6.9 killed cdrecord and how to fix it. sayonara for now. I stayed away from 2.6.8 because of warnings about this but have a 2.6.9 compiled and ready for my next reboot (to upgrade from 2.6.7). I though they fixed it for 2.6.9

Re: kernel compilation

2004-11-13 Thread amos
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_contents to the rescue! Or better yet (IMHO) - apt-file search. http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=sys%2Ftypes.hsearchmode=searchfilescase=sensitiveversion=unstablearch=i386 apt-file search sys/types.h

Re: K8 upgrade path?

2004-11-13 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Yedidyah Bar-David, from the post of Sat, 13 Nov: The things you do currently depend a lot on other things, like disk speed etc. I surf in tabs. when I middle-click a link, there's a pretty long freeze while the mozilla allocates the memory for the new tab, draws the tab, starts

Re: K8 upgrade path?

2004-11-13 Thread Omer Zak
On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 22:38, Ira Abramov wrote: I surf in tabs. when I middle-click a link, there's a pretty long freeze while the mozilla allocates the memory for the new tab, draws the tab, starts twirling the download graphic, and finally the window is responsive to the mouse cursor again.

Re: K8 upgrade path?

2004-11-13 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 10:38:22PM +0200, Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Yedidyah Bar-David, from the post of Sat, 13 Nov: The things you do currently depend a lot on other things, like disk speed etc. I intended to add, in the previous mail, that the new things you intend to do, video-related,

Re: kernel compilation

2004-11-13 Thread Shachar Shemesh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tzafrir Cohen wrote: http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_contents to the rescue! Or better yet (IMHO) - apt-file search. http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=sys%2Ftypes.hsearchmode=searchfilescase=sensitiveversion=unstablearch=i386

Re: K8 upgrade path?

2004-11-13 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Omer Zak, from the post of Sat, 13 Nov: Did you check whether your machine uses swap file? In my laptop, which ran Gnome in 128MB, I had similar behavior until I added extra 256MB. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:

Re: K8 upgrade path?

2004-11-13 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Yedidyah Bar-David, from the post of Sat, 13 Nov: I surf in tabs. when I middle-click a link, there's a pretty long freeze while the mozilla allocates the memory for the new tab, draws the tab, starts twirling the download graphic, and finally the window is responsive to the

Re: kernel compilation

2004-11-13 Thread Kfir Lavi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Solved! I needed to install the packages: libc6-dev kernel-heders libncurses5-dev Thanks to all the people that helped me. kfir On Saturday 13 November 2004 16:03, Kfir Lavi wrote: Hi, I'm trying to compile kernel 2.6.8-1 with debian

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Re: K8 upgrade path?

2004-11-13 Thread Christoph Bugel
Ira Abramov wrote: maybe I have a general problem with memory management? it sometimes also takes 5-6 seconds for vim to allocate and run when forked (usually from within mutt...) I once had a slow loading vim, and fixed it by with vim -X. Didn't have anything to do with memory though.