Re: [newbie] 9.1 X server startup/shutdown slow - ReiserFS?

2003-09-06 Thread Guy Rouillier
Guy Rouillier wrote:
(Not quoting anyone so I can pull the discussion back where I need it...)

Ok, so I *should* be okay with ReiserFS on my root partition and ext2 on 
/boot.  So how do I go about figuring out why KDE takes forever to start 
up X (and never puts up the desktop icons) and gnome can't seem to shut 
it down (logout five times, eventually (60+ seconds later) I get the 
logout dialog)?  I've looked in ~/.xsession-errors and /var/log/X.log.0 
(whatever the name is - not on that machine at the moment) and I don't 
see anything obvious.)  I have no trouble running X apps once I'm in.
Well, I seem to have found a way to make it happy.  Under KDE, for some 
reason, it installed itself with desktop icons unchecked.  I checked 
this, it immediately showed two icons.  Now when I startx into KDE, it 
no longer shows the clock icon for a couple minutes.  To fix gnome, I 
(1) disabled acpi and (2) turned off auto detection of my Ethernet 
connection.  Don't know which one did the trick, but now when I select 
the logout menu item, I immediately get the log out dialog.  Who knows.

One last question.  When my keyboard is idle, I hear disk activity about 
every 10 seconds.  Is this normal with ReiserFS?  I don't remember 
hearing this with ext2.

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Re: [newbie] 9.1 X server startup/shutdown slow - ReiserFS?

2003-09-06 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 16:34, Guy Rouillier wrote:
 Guy Rouillier wrote:
  (Not quoting anyone so I can pull the discussion back where I need it...)
  
  Ok, so I *should* be okay with ReiserFS on my root partition and ext2 on 
  /boot.  So how do I go about figuring out why KDE takes forever to start 
  up X (and never puts up the desktop icons) and gnome can't seem to shut 
  it down (logout five times, eventually (60+ seconds later) I get the 
  logout dialog)?  I've looked in ~/.xsession-errors and /var/log/X.log.0 
  (whatever the name is - not on that machine at the moment) and I don't 
  see anything obvious.)  I have no trouble running X apps once I'm in.
 
 Well, I seem to have found a way to make it happy.  Under KDE, for some 
 reason, it installed itself with desktop icons unchecked.  I checked 
 this, it immediately showed two icons.  Now when I startx into KDE, it 
 no longer shows the clock icon for a couple minutes.  To fix gnome, I 
 (1) disabled acpi and (2) turned off auto detection of my Ethernet 
 connection.  Don't know which one did the trick, but now when I select 
 the logout menu item, I immediately get the log out dialog.  Who knows.
 
 One last question.  When my keyboard is idle, I hear disk activity about 
 every 10 seconds.  Is this normal with ReiserFS?  I don't remember 
 hearing this with ext2.

Are you logging in as root - because KDE and Gnome will default to NO
icons - very bare - the idea being that no one should be operating the
system as root anyways...

...just wondering...

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Re: [newbie] 9.1 X server startup/shutdown slow - ReiserFS?

2003-09-06 Thread Guy Rouillier
Stephen Kuhn wrote:
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 16:34, Guy Rouillier wrote:

Guy Rouillier wrote:

(Not quoting anyone so I can pull the discussion back where I need it...)

Ok, so I *should* be okay with ReiserFS on my root partition and ext2 on 
/boot.  So how do I go about figuring out why KDE takes forever to start 
up X (and never puts up the desktop icons) and gnome can't seem to shut 
it down (logout five times, eventually (60+ seconds later) I get the 
logout dialog)?  I've looked in ~/.xsession-errors and /var/log/X.log.0 
(whatever the name is - not on that machine at the moment) and I don't 
see anything obvious.)  I have no trouble running X apps once I'm in.
Well, I seem to have found a way to make it happy.  Under KDE, for some 
reason, it installed itself with desktop icons unchecked.  I checked 
this, it immediately showed two icons.  Now when I startx into KDE, it 
no longer shows the clock icon for a couple minutes.  To fix gnome, I 
(1) disabled acpi and (2) turned off auto detection of my Ethernet 
connection.  Don't know which one did the trick, but now when I select 
the logout menu item, I immediately get the log out dialog.  Who knows.

One last question.  When my keyboard is idle, I hear disk activity about 
every 10 seconds.  Is this normal with ReiserFS?  I don't remember 
hearing this with ext2.


Are you logging in as root - because KDE and Gnome will default to NO
icons - very bare - the idea being that no one should be operating the
system as root anyways...
...just wondering...
Yes I was (for setup purposes.)  Gnome actually was showing icons, KDE 
wasn't.  If KDE elects not to show icons, it shouldn't then get hung up 
if they aren't there.  Oh, well, everything seems to be fine now (and 
no, I do not log in as root to do normal work.)
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Re: [newbie] 9.1 X server startup/shutdown slow - ReiserFS?

2003-09-03 Thread Stormjumper
the reason is mainly for system recovery IIRC.

reiser fs support was marked as experimental in kernels, and some kernels
may not be compiled with reiser fs.

by comparison, it's hard to imagine anyone not compiling support for ext2
into any general purpose kernel, esp those used for the floppy disk system
recovery distributions and such.

also, IIRC, all(most?) ext3 partitions are simply read as ext2 if the kernel
doesn't support ext3. so using as ext3 is quite safe as well, in term of
kernel support.

hope this helps.
- Original Message - 
From: Tony S. Sykes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 00:43
Subject: RE: [newbie] 9.1 X server startup/shutdown slow - ReiserFS?


 I am curious if it is for performance or stability? I remember Civileme
 from the list and he obviously has a lot of insight into the file
 system. So please Anne for future reference if you could find it for me.

 Many Thanks,

 Tony.

 -Original Message-
 From: Anne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 5:16 PM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: [newbie] 9.1 X server startup/shutdown slow - ReiserFS?


 On Tuesday 02 Sep 2003 4:37 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote:
  On Tuesday September 2 2003 09:23 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote:
   Tom,
  
   What is the reason you make /boot ext3? I do everything reiserfs
   is this wrong?
  
   Thanks,
  
   Tony.
 
  Because Civileme told me too ;)  If you don't know, Civileme
  was a Mandrake employee who use to be a regular on this list. His
  job was QA, and as part of that he did extensive file system
  testing. He recommended XFS or ReiserFS, but cautioned that /boot
  should be on an ext3 partition.  I never did understand exactly why
  tho, I just trusted his advice.

 I'd go one further.  Based on what Civileme said, my /boot is ext2.  I
 think I may have the original post, if it helps, but it would take a
 bit of digging.

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Re: [newbie] 9.1 X server startup/shutdown slow - ReiserFS?

2003-09-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday September 2 2003 11:41 am, Guy Rouillier wrote:
 I didn't think it relevant but I do indeed have a separate
 partition for /boot that is 100 MB, formatted ext2.  I have a
 single swap partition that is 500 MB.  That should be okay,
 right?

100 MB for boot's a bit much, but it's fine. See Charles' post 
that /boot can be ReiserFS, ext2,3 /boot is still needed for XFS. 
Charles' advice is always to be trusted too.

   I use 500mb /swap with 500mb ram, but actually only at least a 
250mb /swap is needed. Even when video encoding or recoding 700 to 
800 mb movies, I don't get into /swap hardly at all if ever.
[tom /tom] $ free -m
total   used   free sharedbuffers cached
Mem: 502458 43  0 83125
-/+ buffers/cache:  250252
Swap:509  0509
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Re: [newbie] 9.1 X server startup/shutdown slow - ReiserFS?

2003-09-03 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 10:33:46 -0500
Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 an you're 
 still here ;)

Yea, keep spending more and more time with cooker and what 'little' of I
of development so am not able the devote the amount of attention to
newbie as I did in the past.
Still read most of the post but usually let others handle them.


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Re: [newbie] 9.1 X server startup/shutdown slow - ReiserFS?

2003-09-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 03 Sep 2003 4:27 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote:
 On Tuesday September 2 2003 11:16 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
   Because Civileme told me too ;)  If you don't know,
   Civileme was a Mandrake employee who use to be a regular on
   this list. His job was QA, and as part of that he did extensive
   file system testing. He recommended XFS or ReiserFS, but
   cautioned that /boot should be on an ext3 partition.  I never
   did understand exactly why tho, I just trusted his advice.
 
  I'd go one further.  Based on what Civileme said, my /boot is
  ext2.  I think I may have the original post, if it helps, but it
  would take a bit of digging.

   ext3 is ext2, just with a journal tacked on.

I presume that /boot is a pretty static partition, so doesn't need the 
journal, though can't see that it would harm it either.  

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Re: [newbie] 9.1 X server startup/shutdown slow - ReiserFS?

2003-09-03 Thread Charlie M.
September 2, 2003 12:27 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
 On Tuesday 02 Sep 2003 5:43 pm, Tony S. Sykes wrote:
  I am curious if it is for performance or stability? I remember
  Civileme from the list and he obviously has a lot of insight into
  the file system. So please Anne for future reference if you could
  find it for me.

 Tony, I am ashamed to say that my filing system has let me down.  I
 can't find it at the moment.  I'll post it when it turns up.  Sorry

 Anne

This may be a good place to start Anne:

http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/LinuxFilesystems?skin=print

Plus it's a Wiki! g

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Re: [newbie] 9.1 X server startup/shutdown slow - ReiserFS?

2003-09-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 03 Sep 2003 6:08 pm, Charlie M. wrote:
 
  Tony, I am ashamed to say that my filing system has let me down. 
  I can't find it at the moment.  I'll post it when it turns up. 
  Sorry
 
  Anne

 This may be a good place to start Anne:

 http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/LinuxFilesystems?skin=print

Thanks, Charlie

 Plus it's a Wiki! g

Touche'

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Re: [newbie] 9.1 X server startup/shutdown slow - ReiserFS?

2003-09-03 Thread Guy Rouillier
(Not quoting anyone so I can pull the discussion back where I need it...)

Ok, so I *should* be okay with ReiserFS on my root partition and ext2 on 
/boot.  So how do I go about figuring out why KDE takes forever to start 
up X (and never puts up the desktop icons) and gnome can't seem to shut 
it down (logout five times, eventually (60+ seconds later) I get the 
logout dialog)?  I've looked in ~/.xsession-errors and /var/log/X.log.0 
(whatever the name is - not on that machine at the moment) and I don't 
see anything obvious.)  I have no trouble running X apps once I'm in.


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[newbie] 9.1 X server startup/shutdown slow - ReiserFS?

2003-09-02 Thread Guy Rouillier
System Commander trashed my hard disk when I attempted to resize my 
Win2K NTFS partition, so I'm forced to reinstall everything, including 
Linux on that same drive.  This time around, I decided to try out 
ReiserFS as my root file system.  During setup, I configured boot 
options, but after doing so, the installation program never returned.  I 
rebooted and used drakxconf to install my X server.  When I start up X 
in KDE, it starts up very slowly, and actually never puts up the desktop 
icons.  The cursor remains a clock for several *minutes*, but the system 
is not locked.  I can log off of KDE (back to the boot up terminal 
session) without a problem.  If I start up gnome, it starts up okay, 
including all the desktop icons.  But when I try to log off, it won't. 
I try to log off about 5 times in a row.  Eventually, something will get 
it to put up the log off dialog.

Could this be ReiserFS doing this?  Should I switch back to ext2?  I 
played around with XFS in a different installation on this same 
hardware, and it didn't appear to have any issues (other than the fact 
that it defaults to read-only.)  Thanks for all advice.
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Re: [newbie] 9.1 X server startup/shutdown slow - ReiserFS?

2003-09-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday September 1 2003 09:19 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote:
 System Commander trashed my hard disk when I attempted to resize
 my Win2K NTFS partition, so I'm forced to reinstall everything,
 including Linux on that same drive.  This time around, I decided
 to try out ReiserFS as my root file system.  During setup, I
 configured boot options, but after doing so, the installation
 program never returned.  I rebooted and used drakxconf to install
 my X server.  When I start up X in KDE, it starts up very slowly,
 and actually never puts up the desktop icons.  The cursor remains
 a clock for several *minutes*, but the system is not locked.  I
 can log off of KDE (back to the boot up terminal session) without
 a problem.  If I start up gnome, it starts up okay, including all
 the desktop icons.  But when I try to log off, it won't. I try to
 log off about 5 times in a row.  Eventually, something will get
 it to put up the log off dialog.

 Could this be ReiserFS doing this?  Should I switch back to ext2?
  I played around with XFS in a different installation on this
 same hardware, and it didn't appear to have any issues (other
 than the fact that it defaults to read-only.)  Thanks for all
 advice.

 I'd try another install.  This time make /boot a separate 
partition, ext3.  Make your other partitions ReiserFS. I've been 
usin ReiserFS since 7.2 beta's never a problem.  If you opt for 
XFS, still make an ext3 /boot partition, 20 to 50 mb.
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RE: [newbie] 9.1 X server startup/shutdown slow - ReiserFS?

2003-09-02 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Tom,

What is the reason you make /boot ext3? I do everything reiserfs is this
wrong?

Thanks,

Tony.

-Original Message-
From: Tom Brinkman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 2:22 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] 9.1 X server startup/shutdown slow - ReiserFS?


On Monday September 1 2003 09:19 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote:
 System Commander trashed my hard disk when I attempted to resize
 my Win2K NTFS partition, so I'm forced to reinstall everything,
 including Linux on that same drive.  This time around, I decided
 to try out ReiserFS as my root file system.  During setup, I
 configured boot options, but after doing so, the installation
 program never returned.  I rebooted and used drakxconf to install
 my X server.  When I start up X in KDE, it starts up very slowly,
 and actually never puts up the desktop icons.  The cursor remains
 a clock for several *minutes*, but the system is not locked.  I
 can log off of KDE (back to the boot up terminal session) without
 a problem.  If I start up gnome, it starts up okay, including all
 the desktop icons.  But when I try to log off, it won't. I try to
 log off about 5 times in a row.  Eventually, something will get
 it to put up the log off dialog.

 Could this be ReiserFS doing this?  Should I switch back to ext2?
  I played around with XFS in a different installation on this
 same hardware, and it didn't appear to have any issues (other
 than the fact that it defaults to read-only.)  Thanks for all
 advice.

 I'd try another install.  This time make /boot a separate 
partition, ext3.  Make your other partitions ReiserFS. I've been 
usin ReiserFS since 7.2 beta's never a problem.  If you opt for 
XFS, still make an ext3 /boot partition, 20 to 50 mb.
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Re: [newbie] 9.1 X server startup/shutdown slow - ReiserFS?

2003-09-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 02 Sep 2003 4:37 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote:
 On Tuesday September 2 2003 09:23 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote:
  Tom,
 
  What is the reason you make /boot ext3? I do everything reiserfs
  is this wrong?
 
  Thanks,
 
  Tony.

 Because Civileme told me too ;)  If you don't know, Civileme
 was a Mandrake employee who use to be a regular on this list. His
 job was QA, and as part of that he did extensive file system
 testing. He recommended XFS or ReiserFS, but cautioned that /boot
 should be on an ext3 partition.  I never did understand exactly why
 tho, I just trusted his advice.

I'd go one further.  Based on what Civileme said, my /boot is ext2.  I 
think I may have the original post, if it helps, but it would take a 
bit of digging.

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RE: [newbie] 9.1 X server startup/shutdown slow - ReiserFS?

2003-09-02 Thread Tony S. Sykes
I am curious if it is for performance or stability? I remember Civileme
from the list and he obviously has a lot of insight into the file
system. So please Anne for future reference if you could find it for me.

Many Thanks,

Tony.

-Original Message-
From: Anne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 5:16 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] 9.1 X server startup/shutdown slow - ReiserFS?


On Tuesday 02 Sep 2003 4:37 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote:
 On Tuesday September 2 2003 09:23 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote:
  Tom,
 
  What is the reason you make /boot ext3? I do everything reiserfs
  is this wrong?
 
  Thanks,
 
  Tony.

 Because Civileme told me too ;)  If you don't know, Civileme
 was a Mandrake employee who use to be a regular on this list. His
 job was QA, and as part of that he did extensive file system
 testing. He recommended XFS or ReiserFS, but cautioned that /boot
 should be on an ext3 partition.  I never did understand exactly why
 tho, I just trusted his advice.

I'd go one further.  Based on what Civileme said, my /boot is ext2.  I 
think I may have the original post, if it helps, but it would take a 
bit of digging.

Anne
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Re: [newbie] 9.1 X server startup/shutdown slow - ReiserFS?

2003-09-02 Thread Guy Rouillier
Tom Brinkman wrote:

On Tuesday September 2 2003 09:23 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote:

Tom,

What is the reason you make /boot ext3? I do everything reiserfs
is this wrong?
Thanks,

Tony.


Because Civileme told me too ;)  If you don't know, Civileme was 
a Mandrake employee who use to be a regular on this list. His job 
was QA, and as part of that he did extensive file system testing.
He recommended XFS or ReiserFS, but cautioned that /boot should be 
on an ext3 partition.  I never did understand exactly why tho, I 
just trusted his advice. 
Strange, your original reply hasn't got through to me yet, but Tony's 
reply to it and your reply to him did.  So I'm replying here...

I didn't think it relevant but I do indeed have a separate partition for 
 /boot that is 100 MB, formatted ext2.  I have a single swap partition 
that is 500 MB.  That should be okay, right?





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Re: [newbie] 9.1 X server startup/shutdown slow - ReiserFS?

2003-09-02 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 10:37:44 -0500
Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Because Civileme told me too ;)  If you don't know, Civileme was 
 a Mandrake employee who use to be a regular on this list. His job 
 was QA, and as part of that he did extensive file system testing.
 He recommended XFS or ReiserFS, but cautioned that /boot should be 
 on an ext3 partition.  I never did understand exactly why tho, I 
 just trusted his advice. 


That advise is now out-dated as it applies to ReiserFS.
It is now perfectly safe and acceptable for /boot to be ReiserFS.
I have 6 systems all partitioned fully as ReiserFS and have never
encountered any problem as related to the fs.

In the case of XFS, ext2 or 3 should still be used for /boot.


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Re: [newbie] 9.1 X server startup/shutdown slow - ReiserFS?

2003-09-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 02 Sep 2003 5:43 pm, Tony S. Sykes wrote:
 I am curious if it is for performance or stability? I remember
 Civileme from the list and he obviously has a lot of insight into
 the file system. So please Anne for future reference if you could
 find it for me.

Tony, I am ashamed to say that my filing system has let me down.  I 
can't find it at the moment.  I'll post it when it turns up.  Sorry

Anne
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RE: [newbie] 9.1 X server startup/shutdown slow - ReiserFS?

2003-09-02 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 12:43, Tony S. Sykes wrote:
 I am curious if it is for performance or stability? I remember Civileme
 from the list and he obviously has a lot of insight into the file
 system. So please Anne for future reference if you could find it for me.
 
 Many Thanks,
 
 Tony.
iirc, it had to do with reiser being a module to the Kernel at the time.




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 Subject: Re: [newbie] 9.1 X server startup/shutdown slow - ReiserFS?
 
 
 On Tuesday 02 Sep 2003 4:37 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote:
  On Tuesday September 2 2003 09:23 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote:
   Tom,
  
   What is the reason you make /boot ext3? I do everything reiserfs
   is this wrong?
  
   Thanks,
  
   Tony.
 
  Because Civileme told me too ;)  If you don't know, Civileme
  was a Mandrake employee who use to be a regular on this list. His
  job was QA, and as part of that he did extensive file system
  testing. He recommended XFS or ReiserFS, but cautioned that /boot
  should be on an ext3 partition.  I never did understand exactly why
  tho, I just trusted his advice.
 
 I'd go one further.  Based on what Civileme said, my /boot is ext2.  I 
 think I may have the original post, if it helps, but it would take a 
 bit of digging.
 
 Anne
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