On Mittwoch 06 Mai 2009, Nadav Horesh wrote:
I recently added 4GB to the existing 2GB I had. The BIOS and lshw recognize
the memory configuration (2 dimm of 1G and 2 of 2G), but /prc/meminfo and a
test program I ran recognize 3.2GB.
My system configuration:
cpu: core2 6600
chipset: DP965LT
Duncan wrote:
Consider pointing PORTAGE_TMPDIR at a tmpfs.
The idea is based on the fact that everything portage does in its tmpdir
(/var/tmp by default) is temporary, erased as soon as it's done emerging
that package. Since tmpfs uses swap backed memory, worst-case, it has to
write
On Mittwoch 06 Mai 2009, Mark Haney wrote:
Duncan wrote:
Consider pointing PORTAGE_TMPDIR at a tmpfs.
The idea is based on the fact that everything portage does in its tmpdir
(/var/tmp by default) is temporary, erased as soon as it's done emerging
that package. Since tmpfs uses swap
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Mittwoch 06 Mai 2009, Mark Haney wrote:
Duncan wrote:
Consider pointing PORTAGE_TMPDIR at a tmpfs.
The idea is based on the fact that everything portage does in its tmpdir
(/var/tmp by default) is temporary, erased as soon as it's done emerging
that package.
dumb question but i can't overlook the obvious, are you sure you are
in AMD64 kernel?
2009/5/6 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com:
On Mittwoch 06 Mai 2009, Nadav Horesh wrote:
I recently added 4GB to the existing 2GB I had. The BIOS and lshw recognize
the memory configuration (2
also, try running a memtest, or boot to a live CD distro. it could be
in your kernel that is not allowing it to see above 3gb. Also, how
many video cards you have installed?
2009/5/6 Nadav Horesh nad...@visionsense.com:
I recently added 4GB to the existing 2GB I had. The BIOS and lshw recognize
the memory configuration (2 dimm of 1G and 2 of 2G), but /prc/meminfo and a
test program I ran recognize 3.2GB.
My system configuration:
cpu: core2 6600
chipset:
On Wednesday 06 May 2009 15:43:22 Mark Haney wrote:
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Mittwoch 06 Mai 2009, Mark Haney wrote:
Duncan wrote:
Consider pointing PORTAGE_TMPDIR at a tmpfs.
The idea is based on the fact that everything portage does in its
tmpdir (/var/tmp by default) is
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com posted
200905061337.38907.volkerar...@googlemail.com, excerpted below, on Wed,
06 May 2009 13:37:38 +0200:
On Mittwoch 06 Mai 2009, Nadav Horesh wrote:
I recently added 4GB to the existing 2GB I had. The BIOS and lshw
recognize the memory
Duncan wrote:
Then, look at memory model. Here, with current kernels, I have only one
option, Sparse, evidently limited by my choice of hardware (Processor
family and/or Supported processor vendor options, higher on the page, I'd
guess or perhaps probed from the BIOS). However with older
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com writes:
On Mittwoch 06 Mai 2009, Mark Haney wrote:
Duncan, you talk about tmpfs and I'm suddenly interested in trying this
out. My question is, how much space do you allocate for the tmpfs? I
know it'll fall back to swap if I'm out of space
Sami Näätänen sn...@keijukammari.fi posted
200905061637.59424.sn...@keijukammari.fi, excerpted below, on Wed, 06 May
2009 16:37:59 +0300:
On Wednesday 06 May 2009 15:43:22 Mark Haney wrote:
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Mittwoch 06 Mai 2009, Mark Haney wrote:
Duncan wrote:
Consider
Josh Sled js...@asynchronous.org posted
871vr2z3qb@phoenix.asynchronous.org, excerpted below, on Wed, 06 May
2009 10:49:00 -0400:
I have tmpfs setup with no limit on a 3GB (4GB, really, but it's x86)
no-swap system, and it works very well; OpenOffice and xulrunner-1.9
being the only
Branko Badrljica bran...@avtomatika.com posted
4a01a58c.2040...@avtomatika.com, excerpted below, on Wed, 06 May 2009
16:58:20 +0200:
Duncan wrote:
Then, look at memory model. Here, with current kernels, I have only
one option, Sparse. However [some have the] Flat and Discontiguous
options
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 02:30:52PM +0300, Nadav Horesh wrote:
I recently added 4GB to the existing 2GB I had. The BIOS and lshw recognize
the memory configuration (2 dimm of 1G and 2 of 2G), but /prc/meminfo and a
test program I ran recognize 3.2GB.
My system configuration:
cpu: core2
On Wednesday 06 May 2009 19:39:02 Duncan wrote:
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Third, tmpfs is useful in that it isn't restricted to physical memory,
and can use swap as well, if there's memory pressure and something in
tmpfs to swap out. Thus the worst case as mentioned earlier, that
there's not enough
On Mittwoch 06 Mai 2009, Mark Haney wrote:
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Mittwoch 06 Mai 2009, Mark Haney wrote:
Duncan wrote:
Consider pointing PORTAGE_TMPDIR at a tmpfs.
The idea is based on the fact that everything portage does in its
tmpdir (/var/tmp by default) is temporary,
On Mittwoch 06 Mai 2009, Mark Haney wrote:
Is there a way (with dmesg or something) to determine what my RAM
configuration is without rebooting? I kinda need to know how my 1GB RAM
is laid out so I can buy what I need.
modprobe i2c_piix4 (or whatever your chipset driver is called)
modprobe
On Mittwoch 06 Mai 2009, Branko Badrljica wrote:
Duncan wrote:
Then, look at memory model. Here, with current kernels, I have only one
option, Sparse, evidently limited by my choice of hardware (Processor
family and/or Supported processor vendor options, higher on the page, I'd
guess or
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
well, duncan has some old hardware and likes to turn on a lot of superfluos
options. Don't touch the numa stuff. Don't even enable it if you have 2cores
or intel system.
True. NUMA is for Non Uniform Memory Access systems or roughly the
systems with several
On Wednesday 06 May 2009 14:37:59 Sami Näätänen wrote:
IMHO You shouldn't use tmpfs for the PM temp dir, until you can give that
around 2GB, which shouldn't be more than half of your total memory.
I can't endorse this. I have 4 GB physical RAM on this box, and I have this
line in /etc/fstab:
Branko Badrljica bran...@avtomatika.com posted
4a023791.6090...@avtomatika.com, excerpted below, on Thu, 07 May 2009
03:21:21 +0200:
Dual and quadcore like i7 or Phenom is simple SMP where all nodes see
memory through the same interface.
Modern multisocket i7-based or Opteron is NUMA...
Sami Näätänen sn...@keijukammari.fi posted
200905070157.35952.sn...@keijukammari.fi, excerpted below, on Thu, 07 May
2009 01:57:35 +0300:
The only thing that anoyingly invalidates my io buffers is listening
music. Maybe I should cut the size of my Music library heavily. :)
Unless you're
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