Re: [Server-devel] Samba's alloc_mmap and mem pressure on the XS - tinkerers?

2008-06-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Martin Langhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Opening post cross-posted to devel@ but please reply only to server-devel@ :-) Argh. Getting old and stuff. I seem to be losing my memory - it was alloc_mmap. After this correction, let's go back to server-devel@ :-) T

Re: [Server-devel] Samba's Talloc and mem pressure on the XS - tinkerers?

2008-06-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:27 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > reading the talloc guide (referred to by the url you gave) i don't > understand how you can just just "drop in" talloc as a malloc replacement -- > it doesn't seem like the API matches up anywhere. it's also not > clear what the advan

Re: [Server-devel] Samba's Talloc and mem pressure on the XS - tinkerers?

2008-06-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Martin Langhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Couple weeks ago we had Tridge @ 1CC and while jg and I cried about > memory pressure on XO and XS, he suggested we try talloc, and monitor > actual memory usage with the newfangled smaps. Key links: http://talloc.samba

[Server-devel] Samba's Talloc and mem pressure on the XS - tinkerers?

2008-06-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
Opening post cross-posted to devel@ but please reply only to server-devel@ :-) Couple weeks ago we had Tridge @ 1CC and while jg and I cried about memory pressure on XO and XS, he suggested we try talloc, and monitor actual memory usage with the newfangled smaps. This is something I'm very keen o

Re: [Server-devel] Laptop XS working

2008-06-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Phill Hardstaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good stuff David, we have been playing with the server here, and without the > active antennas it is not that simple, we had do quite a bit of playing > around to get things to work with a normal access point but we got t

Re: [Server-devel] Laptop XS working

2008-06-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 4:14 PM, David Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I got them collaborating (at the same time accessing Internet - so via the > server) without even registering. How could that be? But I will do so. XOs are smart enough to collaborate even without the XS, and in this case

[Server-devel] [PATCH] postproces.py: tighter homedir pattern matching

2008-06-30 Thread martin . langhoff
From: Martin Langhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> using startswith is tighter, less ambiguous than a RE. Thanks to Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for the idea. --- server/postprocess.py |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/server/postprocess.py b/server/postprocess

[Server-devel] [PATCH] postprocess.py gets _actually_ fleshed out- and incrontab tweaks

2008-06-30 Thread martin . langhoff
From: Martin Langhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Take two on the patch posted earlier. 2 of the 3 files got dropped. To recap postprocess.py now provides hardlined, timestamped directories, and maintains a symlink pointing to the latest transferred directory. the timestamped directories are maintainte

[Server-devel] [PATCH] ds-backup client - exit with HTTP error codes when appropriate

2008-06-30 Thread martin . langhoff
From: Martin Langhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> So callers can potentially do something smart with them. Thanks to Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for the idea. --- client/ds_backup.py |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/client/ds_backup.py b/client/ds_backup.py

Re: [Server-devel] Wikiserver on XS

2008-06-30 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, > I tried setting up a Wiktionary server on a shared server that our > pilots have access to and it was a major pain in the ass. After 3 > days I couldn't get it to work. I had a lot of trouble downloading > and importing the images, perhaps Chris Ball's wikislices gets this > r

Re: [Server-devel] Can't get XS to do nameserver/resolv.conf properly, unable to access URLs

2008-06-30 Thread Tony Pearson
Martin, I got the name serving (DNS client) working. Basically I had to grep my entire /etc for instances of "random.xs.laptop.org" and change that to the correct value for our ISP provider. It seems that "service network restart" doesn't re-read the updated /etc/resolv.conf, and so rebooting