Re: [gentoo-user] Rasp-Pi-4 Gentoo servers

2020-02-29 Thread William Kenworthy
On 29/2/20 11:31 pm, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 10:17 AM Daniel Frey wrote: >> Yes, I'm aware linux does VLANs... I set up netifrc to do this (I >> already have some "smart" switches set up - not full layer 3.) I thought >> about running containers but if I ever have to do

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on a cell?

2020-02-29 Thread antlists
On 29/02/2020 17:40, james wrote: is if the US government returns to the fundamental christian value system, that made our country great. Greed, un-bridled, is changing the quality of our lives, regardless of your personal belief systems. Our country? I think you mean YOUR country. And seen

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on a cell?

2020-02-29 Thread james
On 2/29/20 4:44 AM, Wols Lists wrote: On 26/02/20 03:10, james wrote: I'm just not convinced that our USA government continuing to "sell bandwidth rights", is constitutional? Problem is, if bandwidth is "opened to all" the reality in the past would have been a free-for-all leading to a major

[gentoo-user] Re: Confirm subscription to gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

2020-02-29 Thread Josh
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[gentoo-user] Re: Confirm unsubscribe from gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

2020-02-29 Thread Josh
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: webrsync {SOLVED}

2020-02-29 Thread Dale
Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 9:49 AM Dale wrote: >> I have noticed the OOM killing the wrong thing as well. In a way, how >> does it know what it should kill really??? After all, the process using >> the most memory may not be the problem but another one, or more, could. >> I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: webrsync {SOLVED}

2020-02-29 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 9:49 AM Dale wrote: > > I have noticed the OOM killing the wrong thing as well. In a way, how > does it know what it should kill really??? After all, the process using > the most memory may not be the problem but another one, or more, could. > I guess in most cases the

Re: [gentoo-user] Rasp-Pi-4 Gentoo servers

2020-02-29 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 10:17 AM Daniel Frey wrote: > > Yes, I'm aware linux does VLANs... I set up netifrc to do this (I > already have some "smart" switches set up - not full layer 3.) I thought > about running containers but if I ever have to do something like > emergency maintenance on my

Re: [gentoo-user] Rasp-Pi-4 Gentoo servers

2020-02-29 Thread Daniel Frey
On 2/28/20 5:38 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 8:11 PM Daniel Frey wrote: Thanks for the detail, I've just ordered an RPi4B to mess around with. It would be helpful to move DNS etc off my home server as I'm trying to separate everything into VLANs. Keep in mind that Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: webrsync {SOLVED}

2020-02-29 Thread Dale
Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 9:13 AM Dale wrote: >> Runaway processes is one reason I expanded my memory to 32GBs. It gives >> me more wiggle room for portage to be on tmpfs. >> > That is my other issue. 99% of the time the OOM killer is preferred > when this happens versus

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: webrsync {SOLVED}

2020-02-29 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 29 February 2020 14:30:26 GMT Robert Bridge wrote: > > On 29 Feb 2020, at 13:57, Rich Freeman wrote: > > > > Maybe something has changed in the last few years and swap is actually > > useful, but I'm skeptical. I always tend to end up with GB of free > > RAM and a churning hard

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: webrsync {SOLVED}

2020-02-29 Thread Robert Bridge
> On 29 Feb 2020, at 13:57, Rich Freeman wrote: > > Maybe something has changed in the last few years and swap is actually > useful, but I'm skeptical. I always tend to end up with GB of free > RAM and a churning hard drive when I enable it. On SSD I'm sure it > will perform better, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: webrsync {SOLVED}

2020-02-29 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 9:13 AM Dale wrote: > > Runaway processes is one reason I expanded my memory to 32GBs. It gives > me more wiggle room for portage to be on tmpfs. > That is my other issue. 99% of the time the OOM killer is preferred when this happens versus having the system just grind

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: webrsync {SOLVED}

2020-02-29 Thread Dale
Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 4:33 AM Wols Lists wrote: >> I just have a massive swap space, and /var/tmp/portage is a tmpfs. So >> everything gets a fast tmpfs build, and it spills into swap as required >> (hopefully almost never). >> > I can articulate a bunch of reasons that on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: webrsync {SOLVED}

2020-02-29 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 4:33 AM Wols Lists wrote: > > I just have a massive swap space, and /var/tmp/portage is a tmpfs. So > everything gets a fast tmpfs build, and it spills into swap as required > (hopefully almost never). > I can articulate a bunch of reasons that on paper say that this is

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on a cell?

2020-02-29 Thread Wols Lists
On 26/02/20 03:10, james wrote: > I'm just not convinced that our USA government continuing to "sell > bandwidth rights", is constitutional? Problem is, if bandwidth is "opened to all" the reality in the past would have been a free-for-all leading to a major tragedy of the commons. Much like

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: webrsync {SOLVED}

2020-02-29 Thread Wols Lists
On 24/02/20 08:30, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 23 Feb 2020 18:59:27 -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > >> In a desperate act to satisfy the ever increasing build space >> requirements for firefox and its kin, I'd symlinked /var/tmp/portage to >> a subdirectory of /usr/portage. And webrsync does