Re: HP DV9540 laptop AMD64 with nVidia G8400M graphic card will not start in X mode

2007-08-24 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Freitag 24 August 2007 schrieb Niels Larsen: On Friday 24 August 2007 02:35:29 Chris Ahlstrom wrote: At last I installed a driver direct from nvidia's site, following their instructions: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_100.14.11.html It worked, and I got kde up and

Re: Opinions on ext3 vs XFS vs reiserfs for LAMP server

2007-08-24 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 12:48:29AM +0200, Michael wrote: I just tweaked all ext3 partitions to something like /dev/sda10 / ext3noatime,nodiratime,errors=remount-ro 0 1 to see what will happen. (The option data=writeback caused boot trouble) So far, anything unchanged but

Re: Opinions on ext3 vs XFS vs reiserfs for LAMP server

2007-08-24 Thread Jim Crilly
On 08/23/07 04:07:46PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Jim Crilly [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 08/23/07 10:03:24AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem of zeroing files of XFS still exists, however its not some mythical type of corruption. You'll only see it on files recently

Re: Opinions on ext3 vs XFS vs reiserfs for LAMP server

2007-08-24 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 09:47:13PM -0500, Neil Gunton wrote: Eh? I've been using replication for years now. It works out of the box, rock solid, and nothing special on the backend at all. Master produces binary log, which is replayed on the slave(s). Nothing questionable about it, it's used

Re: AMD64 X2 questions

2007-08-24 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 01:04:16AM +0200, Michael wrote: Do you know if the kernel tries to balance load really equally ? For my 2core AMD64 it seems cpu0 has to be about 70% before cpu1 gets involved. Another idea is, i always see cpu0 is the most busy one. But wouldn't switching the

Re: AMD64 X2 questions

2007-08-24 Thread Jim Crilly
On 08/24/07 01:04:16AM +0200, Michael wrote: Lennart, probably don't have any good reason to. The scheduler does a great job Do you know if the kernel tries to balance load really equally ? For my 2core AMD64 it seems cpu0 has to be about 70% before cpu1 gets involved. Another idea

Re: HP DV9540 laptop AMD64 with nVidia G8400M graphic card will not start in X mode

2007-08-24 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 02:53:49AM +0200, Niels Larsen wrote: On Friday 24 August 2007 02:35:29 Chris Ahlstrom wrote: At last I installed a driver direct from nvidia's site, following their instructions: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_100.14.11.html You really don't

Re: HP DV9540 laptop AMD64 with nVidia G8400M graphic card will not start in X mode

2007-08-24 Thread Chris Ahlstrom
* Lennart Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-08-24 09:33:27 -0400]: On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 02:53:49AM +0200, Niels Larsen wrote: On Friday 24 August 2007 02:35:29 Chris Ahlstrom wrote: At last I installed a driver direct from nvidia's site, following their instructions:

Re: AMD64 X2 questions

2007-08-24 Thread Chris Ahlstrom
* Lennart Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-08-24 09:27:34 -0400]: In fact if you have three processes to run and in total they need 90% of one cpu, then it is better to run it all on one cpu and let the other one go to power saving mode rather than running half the load on each. That does

Re: HP DV9540 laptop AMD64 with nVidia G8400M graphic card will not start in X mode

2007-08-24 Thread Chris Ahlstrom
* Hans-J. Ullrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-08-24 08:27:20 +0200]: Am Freitag 24 August 2007 schrieb Niels Larsen: On Friday 24 August 2007 02:35:29 Chris Ahlstrom wrote: At last I installed a driver direct from nvidia's site, following their instructions:

Re: HP DV9540 laptop AMD64 with nVidia G8400M graphic card will not start in X mode

2007-08-24 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 10:14:13AM -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote: The one or two times I've tried to use Debian procedures to update the kernel, it worked okay. But I've also had trouble with it, especially when adding drivers to the mix. I much prefer doing it all myself and understanding

Re: HP DV9540 laptop AMD64 with nVidia G8400M graphic card will not start in X mode

2007-08-24 Thread Chris Ahlstrom
* Lennart Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-08-24 10:20:13 -0400]: On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 10:14:13AM -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote: I much prefer doing it all myself and understanding where to put every file. I used to do my own kernels. I stopped bothering around 2.6.0 since debian's

Re: Opinions on ext3 vs XFS vs reiserfs for LAMP server

2007-08-24 Thread michael
Quoting Jim Crilly [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I tested the exact same thing again but waited 60 seconds after saving the file, and then yanked the power out. Upon a boot up, the file was intact and the save worked. So you still have about a 60 second window of newly written files and a power loss for

Re: Opinions on ext3 vs XFS vs reiserfs for LAMP server

2007-08-24 Thread Stefano Rivera
Hi michael (2007.08.24_17:10:24_+0200) limited of its mechanics, but since XFS will never journal data, only meta-data, then won't there always be the chance that a file can get corrupted on a timely power loss? A file can get corrupted, but hopefully not the file metadata (i.e. the

Re: Opinions on ext3 vs XFS vs reiserfs for LAMP server

2007-08-24 Thread Jo Shields
On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 08:10 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Jim Crilly [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I tested the exact same thing again but waited 60 seconds after saving the file, and then yanked the power out. Upon a boot up, the file was intact and the save worked. So you still have

Re: Opinions on ext3 vs XFS vs reiserfs for LAMP server

2007-08-24 Thread Jim Crilly
On 08/24/07 08:10:24AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Jim Crilly [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I tested the exact same thing again but waited 60 seconds after saving the file, and then yanked the power out. Upon a boot up, the file was intact and the save worked. So you still have about a 60

Re: HP DV9540 laptop AMD64 with nVidia G8400M graphic card will not start in X mode

2007-08-24 Thread Ivan Paganini
I've installed a amd64 lenny system, and installed just afterwards the nvidia 100 driver directly from the nvidia installer, with the 2.6.21-2-amd64 kernel. Not a single glitch, everything working fine... and lightning fast! Ivan 2007/8/24, Chris Ahlstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED]: * Lennart Sorensen

Re: HP DV9540 laptop AMD64 with nVidia G8400M graphic card will not start in X mode

2007-08-24 Thread Jo Shields
On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 17:09 -0300, Ivan Paganini wrote: I've installed a amd64 lenny system, and installed just afterwards the nvidia 100 driver directly from the nvidia installer, with the 2.6.21-2-amd64 kernel. Not a single glitch, everything working fine... and lightning fast! It works