Re: PovRAY - Where are you?

2007-04-26 Thread simon wise
I can remember using PovRAY to do benchmark testing back just before the AMD64 port became part of the regular Debian platform set. Anyone know why it isn't available now. for licensing reasons (it's license is too restrictive for Debian 'main') it's in 'non-free' rather than 'main'

[D-I] Updating kernel udebs to 2.6.20

2007-04-26 Thread Frans Pop
Hello D-I porters, Most architectures should now be able to switch to 2.6.20 for D-I (except for arm, hppa and m68k). i386 and amd64 have already been switched. Over the past two weeks Joey has done the needed work for i386 and amd64 (and necessary updates in kernel-wedge), but we've waited

Re: googleearth

2007-04-26 Thread Michael
Is somebody successfully running it in chroot ? (Debian unstable) Thiago Nolasco [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I dont guess so, but you must get it, the debian package is for all arch ... m°

Re: run away processes.

2007-04-26 Thread Michael
C Wakefield [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've been experiencing a few different application run away processes of late and I'm wondering if there is a way to prevent _any_ process to hog system resources? But there shouldn't be any 'run away' processes in the first hand (what do you mean by run

Re: performance problems with amd64

2007-04-26 Thread avishai
So do you run powernowd? Or have you tried disabling Cool Quiet in the bios? -Pascal I'm not sure what is powernowd or the 'Cool Quiet' setting in the bios: I'll look into those once I get back home. As for your other question, the same computer was running without these problems about a

Re: googleearth

2007-04-26 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Donnerstag 26 April 2007 schrieb Michael: Is somebody successfully running it in chroot ? (Debian unstable) Thiago Nolasco [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I dont guess so, but you must get it, the debian package is for all arch ... m° Hi ! I managed to run it native. Just install the Debian

Re: PovRAY - Where are you?

2007-04-26 Thread Héctor González Jaime
Quoting simon wise [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I can remember using PovRAY to do benchmark testing back just before the AMD64 port became part of the regular Debian platform set. Anyone know why it isn't available now. for licensing reasons (it's license is too restrictive for Debian 'main') it's

Re: run away processes.

2007-04-26 Thread chris wakefield
On Thursday 26 April 2007 04:32, Michael wrote: But there shouldn't be any 'run away' processes in the first hand (what do you mean by run away?). Granted you're running some special stuff - but i'm curious what is it, then? Hi M. Run away, as in I have to CNTLALTF1 to get a console to kill the

Re: run away processes.

2007-04-26 Thread Brad Sawatzky
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, chris wakefield wrote: On Thursday 26 April 2007 04:32, Michael wrote: But there shouldn't be any 'run away' processes in the first hand (what do you mean by run away?). Granted you're running some special stuff - but i'm curious what is it, then? Run away, as in I

Re: run away processes.

2007-04-26 Thread C Wakefield
On Thursday 26 April 2007 18:41, Brad Sawatzky wrote: Perhaps one of these would help mitigate your problem:   % apt-cache search renice   and - Auto Nice Daemon   bsdutils - Basic utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite   reniced - renice running processes based on regular expressions   schedutils -