[9fans] 9front issue: power shutdown

2017-08-21 Thread V. M. (Mark) Haas
All - I am running "latest and greatest" 9front file/auth/CPU server on an HP/Compaq NW8440 laptop. It is set up to multiboot along with CentOS Linux. Linux runs, but after a short time, the machine will power down without warning. Running Linux, it does not do this. It will run for days or wee

Re: [9fans] 9front issue: power shutdown

2017-08-21 Thread hiro
try running memtest for half a day, and then try saturating CPU in linux and see if it runs stable there at least.

Re: [9fans] 9front issue: power shutdown

2017-08-21 Thread cinap_lenrek
might be due to 9front not doing any power management at all. maybe theres even a watchdog set by the bios to shut the machine down after some time if acpi hasnt been taken over by the OS to prevent it from melting down spinning at the bios prompt (bios doesnt do interrupts, so they poll everything

Re: [9fans] kerTeX update: m3D for 3D images with MetaPost

2017-08-21 Thread Iruatã Souza
On 08/17/2017 06:47 AM, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > Hello, > > I have updated kerTeX. The most visible change for user is the > possibility to use Anthony Phan's m3D macros for MetaPost allowing > 3D figures (this is a package, so it is m...@mp.sh package and not > included in the core distribut