Smolt - a better hardware database
Hi. OpenSuse recently adopted Smolt as their hardware database tool. http://lizards.opensuse.org/2008/12/01/smolt-and-opensuse/ Shouldn't Ubuntu follow their example? There have been a few specs about creating a better hardware database for Ubuntu but none of them succeded. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ExtendHwdb https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareDatabaseClientOverhaul https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BetterHardwareDatabase Smolt is much more mature now, it's open, and it's already used by 2 major distros (Fedora, Suse) http://smolts.org/smolt-wiki/Main_Page There is also a patch that adds Ubuntu support http://xyzz.kexik.net/node/12 But it might be outdated by now. Can anyone finally package Smolt for Ubuntu and make Ubuntu use it in place of our old hwdb/hwtest tool? -- ## Przemysław Kulczycki Azrael Nightwalker ## # jabber: azrael[na]jabster.pl | tlen: azrael29a # ### www: http://reksio.ftj.agh.edu.pl/~azrael/ ### -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Command to flush file system cache to prepare for performance testing?
Hi, If grep through all files in a directory twice, then the first time takes a lot longer because the second run will have most of the files available in the in memory file system cache. I want to do some basic performance testing for a scenario involving disk I/O. I'm wondering if there is a command to purge the file system cache, either for a specific directory or file (which would be great) or otherwise purge the whole thing. Basically, to create repeatable perf tests and get consistent results I would like to pin down all the system state so that any changes in numbers will be directly attributable to my code changes. Does anyone know such a command to flush the file system cache? Martin -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Command to flush file system cache to prepare for performance testing?
Olá Martin e a todos. On Tuesday 09 December 2008 22:39:31 Martin Olsson wrote: Does anyone know such a command to flush the file system cache? I just use HDparm sudo hdparm -F -i -I -t -T --verbose /dev/sda Or bonnie++ -- BUGabundo :o) (``-_-´´) http://LinuxNoDEI.BUGabundo.net Linux user #443786GPG key 1024D/A1784EBB My new micro-blog @ http://BUGabundo.net ps. My emails tend to sound authority and aggressive. I'm sorry in advance. I'll try to be more assertive as time goes by... Merry xtmas and Happy New Year http://www.ubuntu-pt.org/static/pictures/ecard.png signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: wiki spam
The Ubuntu wiki is getting spammed again. See my latest comments in the following bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/224971 Something must be done about it. Wikipedia does this much better. -- ## Przemysław Kulczycki Azrael Nightwalker ## # jabber: azrael[na]jabster.pl | tlen: azrael29a # ### www: http://reksio.ftj.agh.edu.pl/~azrael/ ### -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Command to flush file system cache to prepare for performance testing?
Martin Olsson wrote: Hi, If grep through all files in a directory twice, then the first time takes a lot longer because the second run will have most of the files available in the in memory file system cache. I want to do some basic performance testing for a scenario involving disk I/O. I'm wondering if there is a command to purge the file system cache, either for a specific directory or file (which would be great) or otherwise purge the whole thing. Basically, to create repeatable perf tests and get consistent results I would like to pin down all the system state so that any changes in numbers will be directly attributable to my code changes. Does anyone know such a command to flush the file system cache? Martin i think this is what you are after # echo 1 /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches see http://linux-mm.org/Drop_Caches for more info/options sam tygier -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Jaunty UDS schedule?
On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 18:20 +0100, Alexander Sack wrote: On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 07:22:45AM -0800, Martin Pitt wrote: Loïc Martin [2008-12-08 14:10 +0100]: I've been tracking https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDSJaunty to get the discussions schedule for Jaunty UDS That's on http://summit.ubuntu.com . My girl-friend reminded me that she cannot look at that page as she gets redirected to the launchpad login screen. Why do we make this an authenticated page? You need a Launchpad account to have any meaningful participation in Ubuntu: to be a member of its teams, to subscribe to blueprints, to participant in bugs, translations or support, etc. The schedule application needs to know who is attending UDS; to present a personal schedule to each person, it needs to know when that person is attending, what specifications they are subscribed to, what tracks and topics they have expressed interest in, etc. Rather than require people to create yet another account on the schedule application, we use their Launchpad account. Scott -- Scott James Remnant [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
