Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo

2018-08-07 Thread Martin Drescher
That > If you set a root password in d-i (as it asks you to), it doesn't > install sudo. If you try to set a blank root password, it locks the root > account, installs sudo and sets up the user you created with sudo > access. is new to me, I never knew! And I think it is good approach. Does one

As seen above: use of su vs sudo

2018-08-07 Thread Martin Drescher
Hi members, I'm a little... lets say thoughtful, about the use of 'su' discussed at some points in this list. I have a strong opinion about su, which is, avoid it whenever it is possible and use 'sudo' instead. This is the case in close to a 100% in all cases I can think of. This opinion is

Re: Question about /proc/loadavg

2018-08-02 Thread Martin Drescher
Hi Andy, Am 02.08.2018 um 13:01 schrieb Andy Smith: > Hi Martin, > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 09:31:42AM +0200, Martin Drescher wrote: [...] >> 4.9. It is not a real problem, that Debian is running well. > > It is likely that the kernel's idea of what is a "runnable&qu

Re: Question about /proc/loadavg

2018-07-31 Thread Martin Drescher
[...] > Hi Martin, > > can you show real data from /proc/loadavg output? Which column do you > compare? I' talking about the 1/5/15 minute numbers. > I wouldn't worry about difference in /proc/loadavg because everything is > different between RHEL/CentOS 6 and Debian 9 - kernel, Apache version,

Question about /proc/loadavg

2018-07-31 Thread Martin Drescher
Hi ML members, I have a question about how the numbers compute which I get from /proc/loadavg. I'm running a bunch of HTTP servers, most of them running a RHEL 6, which is a kernel version 2.6. All patches applied, so that Meltdown and Spectre stuff should be included. Some of the servers where