Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem (slow hard drive?)

2005-04-04 Thread Graham Murray
Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > swap is incredibly slow on linux. As soon as you are hitting swap, your box > is > dead slow. It is not just swap which causes the system to become slow. I find that it does the same when running 'emerge sync' and vmstat shows no or only very l

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange errors when posting to gentoo-user

2005-03-29 Thread Graham Murray
Steven Susbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes. The mail server at gaznet.co.uk is obviously not delivering > messages to ndc38841 for some reason. Because of this, it's sending a > message to the original sender of the message (AKA, anyone that posts to > the list). > > Very annoying. I hop

Re: [gentoo-user] strip

2005-03-28 Thread Graham Murray
"A. Khattri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You can switch off the stripping by setting the nostrip variable in the > FEATURES variable in /etc/make.conf. The problem with that is that it is global. Setting 'nostrip' is something that is probably wanted on a per-package basis more often than as a

Re: [gentoo-user] New features in 2005.0?

2005-03-28 Thread Graham Murray
Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When did you last sync? :) Yesterday evening (GMT). /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask still shows >=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6 and >=sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] fix your client, please

2005-03-28 Thread Graham Murray
Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why? Isn't the point of replying to a mailing list to send the response > to the sender, which is the list? Yes, which is why the correct response for the mailing list software is to send replies to the list and not to the author of the message being r

Re: [gentoo-user] New features in 2005.0?

2005-03-28 Thread Graham Murray
Eugene Rosenzweig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > *2005.0 summary for Linux geeks:* Gentoo Linux 2005.0 now defaults to > using kernel 2.6, and uses udev by default. Firefox 1.0.1 is included. Does this mean that we will soon see the 2.6 gentoo-sources packages un-masked and systems migrated to t

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] fix your client, please

2005-03-28 Thread Graham Murray
Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think the problem is "reply all". Even your message was "To: > @robin.gentoo.org", with "Reply-to: @gentoo.org", so if I had hit > reply-all in thunderbird instead of reply, two copies would have gone out. > > My guess is mail clients are doing the rig

[gentoo-user] emerge sync 'flaky'

2005-03-26 Thread Graham Murray
There have been several threads in the forums and several bugs opened and closed about emerge sync failing with I/O errors/timeouts. Yet despite all this the problem still keeps recurring. It can be fine for weeks at a time, then it comes back again for anything up to a couple of days where emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with nptl

2005-02-12 Thread Graham Murray
Philip Lawatsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I just installed a system from stage 1 with the nptl use flag (but didnt > specify nptlonly). > > Everything went fine, but if I now try > > LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.20 getconf GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION > > I do get a > getconf: error while loading s

Re: [gentoo-user] special note at the end of 2.6.10 changelog

2005-01-07 Thread Graham Murray
Marc Ballarin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > AFAICT this is only an issue for kernel code. And as the kernel build process sets the CFLAGS itself, is not something which the user (as opposed to the kernel developer) should worry about. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list