Re: [gentoo-user] About interpreting output of df -h

2010-12-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 01:37:26 +, Stroller wrote: > > Are you using baselayout 1 or 2? ISTR this came with BL2. > > Ooooh, I assumed the cool kids weren't seeing it because we use > labels. ;) I thought the cool kids used LVM :) I've just checked and two boxes that use BL1 don't do this, onl

Re: [gentoo-user] About interpreting output of df -h

2010-12-03 Thread Stroller
On 3/12/2010, at 8:20am, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 01:37:26 +, Stroller wrote: > >>> Are you using baselayout 1 or 2? ISTR this came with BL2. >> >> Ooooh, I assumed the cool kids weren't seeing it because we use >> labels. ;) > > I thought the cool kids used LVM :) The c

[gentoo-user] XEN and Gentoo questions

2010-12-03 Thread Konstantinos Agouros
Hi, I am considering a bit of virtualization and started playing with XEN. I have three questions: I use a 64bit system with probably mostly 64bit guests. Am I right that I do not need the -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs CFLAG and can clone real machines? My test system didn't show any performance hangs.

[gentoo-user] VirtualBox question

2010-12-03 Thread Konstantinos Agouros
Hi, I read in an earlier posting that to get VRDP Support I need VirtualBox-Bin instead of -OSE is this correct? Konstantin -- Dipl-Inf. Konstantin Agouros aka Elwood Blues. Internet: elw...@agouros.de Altersheimerstr. 1, 81545 Muenchen, Germany. Tel +49 89 69370185 -

[gentoo-user] Re: How to build a static application binary?

2010-12-03 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-12-03, Jacob Todd wrote: > Gotta love gcc! It's not gcc's fault. I use gcc on other platforms to create static binaries and don't see any noticable overhead. > If you want real static binaries on a unix-ish os, use plan 9. Except that's not what I want. I want a static binary on Linu

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to build a static application binary?

2010-12-03 Thread Jacob Todd
Iirc there a bug in glibc that makes it almost impossible to create static binaries with it. I can't look the the sources of that info atm, but it be easily found with google. Do the other platforms you use gcc to build static binaries with use a different libc? On Dec 3, 2010 11:14 AM, "Grant Edwa

Re: [gentoo-user] How to build a static application binary?

2010-12-03 Thread David W Noon
On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 03:10:02 +0100, Grant Edwards wrote about [gentoo-user] How to build a static application binary?: >It seems that "gcc -static" was broken sometime in the last few years. > >This used to produce reasonable results: > >-tiny.c-

[gentoo-user] 'netstat -lp' oddities

2010-12-03 Thread Grant
I ran 'netstat -lp' on a system of mine and found a couple of strange things. tcp0 0 1.2.3.4.st:https *:* LISTEN 2929/apache2 udp0 0 1.2.3.4.stat:ntp *:* 3203/ntpd 1.2.3.4 is not the IP address that actually appeared, but I don't recognize the one

[gentoo-user] AMD Phenom X6 + Linux + "Turbo Core" ???

2010-12-03 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I googled this and found some other people asking the same question... But I didn't find the answer. I am using linux kernel 2.6.36.1 vanilla to run on a AMD Phenom X6 1090T/ASUS Crosshair IV Formula system. I enabled "ondemand" CPU frequency scaling givernor in the kernel and "Cool'n' Quie

Re: [gentoo-user] Should mysql crash sometimes?

2010-12-03 Thread Grant
I'm told I need to run mysqld with --skip-grant-tables.  I'm used to using Gentoo's mysql initscript.  Should 'mysqld --skip-grant-tables' work? >>> >>> You can add it to /etc/mysql/my.cnf and restart. Remove it and restart again >>> when you've finished. >>> >>> kashani >> >> That w

Re: [gentoo-user] 'netstat -lp' oddities

2010-12-03 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 11:14:01 -0800 Grant wrote: > I ran 'netstat -lp' on a system of mine and found a couple of strange > things. > > tcp0 0 1.2.3.4.st:https *:* LISTEN > 2929/apache2 > udp0 0 1.2.3.4.stat:ntp *:* > 3203/ntpd > > 1.2.3.4 is not t

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox question

2010-12-03 Thread Mick
On Friday 03 December 2010 15:06:44 Konstantinos Agouros wrote: > Hi, > > I read in an earlier posting that to get VRDP Support I need VirtualBox-Bin > instead of -OSE is this correct? > > Konstantin Yes, according to this page: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Editions -- Regards, Mick signat

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD Phenom X6 + Linux + "Turbo Core" ???

2010-12-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 03 December 2010, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > I googled this and found some other people asking the same question... > But I didn't find the answer. > > I am using linux kernel 2.6.36.1 vanilla to run on a AMD Phenom X6 > 1090T/ASUS Crosshair IV Formula system. > > I enabled "

Re: [gentoo-user] 'netstat -lp' oddities

2010-12-03 Thread Grant
>> I ran 'netstat -lp' on a system of mine and found a couple of strange >> things. >> >> tcp        0      0 1.2.3.4.st:https *:*                     LISTEN >>   2929/apache2 >> udp        0      0 1.2.3.4.stat:ntp *:* >>   3203/ntpd >> >> 1.2.3.4 is not the IP address that actually appeared, but

Re: [gentoo-user] 'netstat -lp' oddities

2010-12-03 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 13:18:54 -0800 Grant wrote: > Ah, so much better. Thank you. Still getting those "warning, got > bogus unix line." lines instead of UNIX sockets though. Google shows that this message is caused by netstat when "some unix domain socket is changing while being viewed", which r

[gentoo-user] Re: How to build a static application binary?

2010-12-03 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-12-03, Jacob Todd wrote: > On Dec 3, 2010 11:14 AM, "Grant Edwards" wrote: >> On 2010-12-03, Jacob Todd wrote: >> >>> Gotta love gcc! >> >> It's not gcc's fault. > > Iirc there a bug in glibc that makes it almost impossible to create > static binaries with it. Yes, that's my understand

[gentoo-user] Re: How to build a static application binary?

2010-12-03 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-12-03, David W Noon wrote: > What you are seeing is a lot of glibc routines being included by the > linkage editor. These handle all sorts of conditions that will > likely never occur in your program. > > Try using a smaller C library, like uclibc or klibc. They might not > work as well

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to build a static application binary?

2010-12-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 00:37 on Saturday 04 December 2010, Grant Edwards did opine thusly: > On 2010-12-03, David W Noon wrote: > > What you are seeing is a lot of glibc routines being included by the > > linkage editor. These handle all sorts of conditions that will > > likely never o

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD Phenom X6 + Linux + "Turbo Core" ???

2010-12-03 Thread meino . cramer
Volker Armin Hemmann [10-12-04 01:24]: > On Friday 03 December 2010, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I googled this and found some other people asking the same question... > > But I didn't find the answer. > > > > I am using linux kernel 2.6.36.1 vanilla to run on a AMD Phenom X6 > >

[gentoo-user] cgroupd really do work!

2010-12-03 Thread William Kenworthy
Re the discussion on cgroups on the 24/25 november - on my old AMD barton 2500+ desktop - in the past a load of anything more than 5 made it very painful to use. Add in running windows in a qemu vm at the same time (all in 1.5G ram) and its almost unusable as an interactive desktop. Now, with Flo

[gentoo-user] Re: CPU socket and picking a heat sink.

2010-12-03 Thread masterprometheus
Dale wrote: > Hi, > > Doing some research on building me a new rig. I have ran into sort of a > hick up. The socket types are confusing me here. This is the mobo that > I *might* be getting. > > http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=prodmbspec&maincat_no=1&cat2_no=171&cat3_no=&prod_no=1856 >

Re: [gentoo-user] cgroupd really do work!

2010-12-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 4:41 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: > Re the discussion on cgroups on the 24/25 november - on my old AMD > barton 2500+ desktop - in the past a load of anything more than 5 made > it very painful to use.  Add in running windows in a qemu vm at the same > time (all in 1.5G ram)

Re: [gentoo-user] 'netstat -lp' oddities

2010-12-03 Thread Grant
>> Ah, so much better.  Thank you.  Still getting those "warning, got >> bogus unix line." lines instead of UNIX sockets though. > > Google shows that this message is caused by netstat when "some unix domain > socket is changing while being viewed", which really isn't much help. > > But: are you us

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CPU socket and picking a heat sink.

2010-12-03 Thread Dale
masterprometheus wrote: Dale wrote: Hi, Doing some research on building me a new rig. I have ran into sort of a hick up. The socket types are confusing me here. This is the mobo that I *might* be getting. http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=prodmbspec&main

Re: [gentoo-user] cgroupd really do work!

2010-12-03 Thread William Kenworthy
On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 17:20 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 4:41 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: > > Re the discussion on cgroups on the 24/25 november - on my old AMD > > barton 2500+ desktop - in the past a load of anything more than 5 made > > it very painful to use. Add in run

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CPU socket and picking a heat sink.

2010-12-03 Thread John Campbell
On 12/03/2010 05:38 PM, Dale wrote: > masterprometheus wrote: > > Thanks for confirming that the coolers will fit. I did some googling > but it just wasn't making sense to me yet. I found a site later on that > said most coolers used different "adapters" to work with different > sockets if neede

[gentoo-user] Re: How to build a static application binary?

2010-12-03 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-12-03, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 00:37 on Saturday 04 December 2010, Grant > Edwards did opine thusly: > >> On 2010-12-03, David W Noon wrote: >> > What you are seeing is a lot of glibc routines being included by the >> > linkage editor. These handle all sor