On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:19:21AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
Paul, who will probably end up using FreeBSD since its hardware RAID
(HPT370) and video (Matrox G450 dual) is apparently better...
vinum in mirror mode is not supposed to be that good (apparently it does
no integrity checking of
Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm trying to duplicate an FS from an oldish 5,400rpm 6GB IDE drive to a new
7,200rpm 61GB IDE drive using the usual cp -ax / /mnt. But it's
unbelievably slow -- vmstat 2 is reporting bi/bo around 300!
What does hdparm have to say?
--
Dave
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:27:07AM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:19:21AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
Paul, who will probably end up using FreeBSD since its hardware RAID
(HPT370) and video (Matrox G450 dual) is apparently better...
vinum in mirror mode is
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:19:28AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
What does hdparm have to say?
Ah yes, thanks, I remember that from 1997, the last time I used it :-)
I switched DMA on both drives (hdparm -d1), and interrupts went down,
transfer rate went up and all was good. Now, why do I have
On Thu, 31 May 2001, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm trying to duplicate an FS from an oldish 5,400rpm 6GB IDE drive to a new
7,200rpm 61GB IDE drive using the usual cp -ax / /mnt. But it's
unbelievably slow -- vmstat 2 is reporting bi/bo around 300!
Robin Szemeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
another tip is to mount the two IDE devices on seperate controllers ..
seems to improve things sometimes.
Oh Lord, yes. More busses than London General. No, really.
--
Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 02:32:58PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
whistles for quick HD access turned to 'off' .. I tripled the transfer
rate on my slaptop by turning DMA and other stuff on ... and it didn;t
explode like the manpage said it might.
I caved and upgraded to 2.4.5, something I
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 08:12:30AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
OK, getting more esoteric now -- is anyone running dual monitors? I
finally got my G450 running with KDE2 but the window manager doesn't add
decoration to the windows on the 2ndary monitor, i.e. I can't move
windows and they
On Thu, 31 May 2001, Paul Makepeace wrote:
OK, getting more esoteric now -- is anyone running dual monitors? I
finally got my G450 running with KDE2 but the window manager doesn't add
decoration to the windows on the 2ndary monitor, i.e. I can't move
windows and they don't get mouse focus.
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 04:26:14PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
You might need to run a 2nd copy of kwin, like this:
% kwin -- display :0.1
(--display)
Try that and see if it works...
Yes! Thanks. Now to get it to start like that on its own... It's very
weird re-learning X after
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 04:41:11PM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote:
Are you using xinerama (i.e. so your monitors are spliced together into
one display?)
No, it's KDE2 which seems to split them into separate desktops. The
mouse moves between them as though they're one but I can't drag windows
back
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 08:42:50AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 04:26:14PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
You might need to run a 2nd copy of kwin, like this:
% kwin -- display :0.1
(--display)
Sorry, saw that after I posted... Why don't spell checkers
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 08:47:28AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 04:41:11PM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote:
Are you using xinerama (i.e. so your monitors are spliced together into
one display?)
No, it's KDE2 which seems to split them into separate desktops. The
mouse
Dominic Mitchell wrote:
I'd like to tell you how to get the flash plugin working, but I couldn't
because it's a Linux .so and can't be linked in to my FreeBSD konqueror. :-(
There's an OpenSource version written by Olivier Debon. It's not as good
as the official one but it's better than a
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 04:55:12PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
The monitor layout should be controllable from the XF86Config file.
Somehow. I haven't tried this though. RTFM.
I have,
Section ServerLayout
Identifier Default Layout
Screen Primary
On Thu, 31 May 2001, Paul Makepeace wrote:
I have,
Section ServerLayout Identifier Default Layout Screen Primary
Screen Secondary LeftOf Primary InputDevice Generic Keyboard
InputDevice Configured Mouse EndSection
Look, look, bad Text::Autoformat setup. I suck. Anyway..
And I have
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 05:41:45PM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote:
On Thu, 31 May 2001, Paul Makepeace wrote:
Section ServerLayout Identifier Default Layout Screen Primary
Screen Secondary LeftOf Primary InputDevice Generic Keyboard
InputDevice Configured Mouse EndSection
Look, look, bad
On 31/05/2001 at 17:41 +0100, Mark Fowler wrote:
You really only have to change LeftOf and RightOf to switch the monitors
around (which I did last time I moved desk as I went from having one
monitor to the left of the primary console monitor to having one monitor
to the right.)
You can't do
On Thu, 31 May 2001, Paul Makepeace wrote:
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 04:41:11PM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote:
Are you using xinerama (i.e. so your monitors are spliced together into
one display?)
No, it's KDE2 which seems to split them into separate desktops. The
mouse moves between them as
KDE2's Konqueror browser is really, really impressive. Wow! Seems
quicker and less crashy than Mozilla. Now if only it played Flash
and Quicktime movies...
Mine does flash...
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