[arch-general] What dirs are good to put in a tmpfs?

Hi, I have 7 GiB of ram but I'm only using 300 MiB, so I thought I would put stuff into it to speed up my system. I installed anything-sync-daemon but I have no idea what to sync. Is there a tool that can tell which dirs are being used the most? I'd rather not guess and benchmark, I don't have the

Re: [arch-general] What dirs are good to put in a tmpfs?

[2013-07-24 21:27:11 -0600] Chris Moline: > I installed anything-sync-daemon but I have no idea what to sync. General question: isn't the effect of that software exactly the same thing as increasing the vm.dirty_expire_centiseconds kernel parameter? Except maybe in the case of a given application

[arch-general] How to safe configs to another path than ~

Hi, how can I safe configurations to another path, instead of using ~? I need this for audio applications, to restore different audio sessions and to get different profiles for some applications. If I run HOME=/home/rocketmouse/alt_profiles/1 xfce4-terminal --maximize by xfce4-terminal the path

Re: [arch-general] How to safe configs to another path than ~

[2013-07-25 10:35:11 +0200] Ralf Mardorf: > If I run > HOME=/home/rocketmouse/alt_profiles/1 xfce4-terminal --maximize > by xfce4-terminal > the path gets completely ignored, all settings still are stored > to /home/rocketmouse and not to the > path /home/rocketmouse/alt_profiles/1. Applications h

[arch-general] Dns zone in ldap ?

Hello, I'm wondering, after some googling, how is the best way in archlinux to manage dns zone and data in openldap directly ? I read about powerdns but the ldap part seems to be unmaintained. So, what is the best way to use ldap with dns on Arch ? Thanks by advance, Olivier.

Re: [arch-general] How to safe configs to another path than ~

Hi Ralf, > how can I safe configurations to another path, instead of using ~? > > I need this for audio applications, to restore different audio sessions > and to get different profiles for some applications. another approach would be to put the config files into a version control system such as

Re: [arch-general] How to safe configs to another path than ~

Cancelled posting On Thu, 2013-07-25 at 18:46 +1000, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > Applications have different means of finding out what the HOME directory > of a given user is. The HOME environment variable is just one of them.

Re: [arch-general] What dirs are good to put in a tmpfs?

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 4:35 AM, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > [2013-07-24 21:27:11 -0600] Chris Moline: >> I installed anything-sync-daemon but I have no idea what to sync. > > General question: isn't the effect of that software exactly the same > thing as increasing the vm.dirty_expire_centiseconds ker

Re: [arch-general] What dirs are good to put in a tmpfs?

On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 21:27:11 -0600 Chris Moline wrote: > Hi, I have 7 GiB of ram but I'm only using 300 MiB, so I thought I > would put stuff into it to speed up my system. A great way to utilize RAM is to run several VMs :) Also I wonder what is your chipset/RAM type, because on a typical deskt

Re: [arch-general] What dirs are good to put in a tmpfs?

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Chris Moline wrote: > I've installed a system monitor and I've found that the only time my > disk io is high is when i'm running deluged. Would my torrents dir be > a good candidate for tmpfs? It's rather larger than my torrents dir > but is it possible to have th

Re: [arch-general] What dirs are good to put in a tmpfs?

Daniel Micay wrote: > There's no need to "guess andbenchmark" because the kernel is already > managing this for you. > A great way to utilize RAM is to run several VMs :) Also I wonder what is your > chipset/RAM type, because on a typical desktop board with modern CPU and RAM > modules, your mem

Re: [arch-general] How to safe configs to another path than ~

On 25.07.2013 11:33, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Cancelled posting > On Thu, 2013-07-25 at 18:46 +1000, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > > Applications have different means of finding out what the > HOME directory > > of a given user is. Th

Re: [arch-general] What dirs are good to put in a tmpfs?

On 24 July 2013 23:27, Chris Moline wrote: > Hi, I have 7 GiB of ram but I'm only using 300 MiB, so I thought I > would put stuff into it to speed up my system. I installed > anything-sync-daemon but I have no idea what to sync. Is there a tool > that can tell which dirs are being used the most? I

Re: [arch-general] What dirs are good to put in a tmpfs?

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 11:34:00AM -0400, Leonid Isaev wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 21:27:11 -0600 > Chris Moline wrote: > > > I installed > > anything-sync-daemon but I have no idea what to sync. Is there a tool > > that can tell which dirs are being used the most? I'd rather not guess > > and

Re: [arch-general] What dirs are good to put in a tmpfs?

[2013-07-25 12:28:59 -0600] Chris Moline: > very slow network connection when I'm running deluged Look up "qos" (quality of service): Linux can be configured to prioritize sending small packets over larger ones. Small packets correspond almost exclusively to interactive connections... -- Gaetan

Re: [arch-general] How to safe configs to another path than ~

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 3:33 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Cancelled posting > On Thu, 2013-07-25 at 18:46 +1000, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > > Applications have different means of finding out what the > HOME directory > > of a give

Re: [arch-general] How to safe configs to another path than ~

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Jörg Tobias Borgert wrote: > On 25.07.2013 11:33, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> Cancelled posting >> On Thu, 2013-07-25 at 18:46 +1000, Gaetan Bisson wrote: >> > Applications have different means of finding out wh

Re: [arch-general] How to safe configs to another path than ~

On Thu, 2013-07-25 at 15:52 -0600, Chris Moline wrote: > How about sudoing to different users? That is what I already do, but I can't have a new user for each audio production. A very old script I'm using for a very long time: xhost + gksudo -u chuser "$*" xhost - exit A way to get configs to /