Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Plasma session saving

It could also indicate a problem with the power supply failing.  I've seen this a number of times and it often manifest as memory errors when testing the ram.   Any number of things in the computer can fail in ways that may not be so obvious.  Substitution trouble shooting may be needed, i.e.

[gentoo-user] Re: Plasma session saving

On 2023-07-05, Peter Humphrey wrote: > This version of memtest86 ran to completion after going through the whole > 64GB, and stopped with a success message. That's a pretty good sign, but I have seen memory that made it through one complete test pass and failed on subsequent ones. > Over the l

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: QMPlay2 single instance, want multiple.

Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 17/06/2023 08:02, Dale wrote: >> [...] >> --osd-on-seek=no > > Omit the "--" when putting these in mpv.conf. So just write: > > osd-on-seek=no > > > Well, I got it working now.  That does make sense tho.  The "--" part is usually for the command line stuff.  I didn't

[gentoo-user] Re: QMPlay2 single instance, want multiple.

On 17/06/2023 08:02, Dale wrote: [...] --osd-on-seek=no Omit the "--" when putting these in mpv.conf. So just write: osd-on-seek=no

[gentoo-user] Re: QMPlay2 single instance, want multiple.

On 2023-06-18, Matt Connell wrote: > On Sat, 2023-06-17 at 00:02 -0500, Dale wrote: >> Thanks Matt for pointing me in this direction.  As it is, this might >> be a better player for me than QMPlay2 is.  This works as good as >> QMPlay2 and it closes at the end.  I miss gnome-player tho.  Silly >>

[gentoo-user] Re: can't start X as user

if nothing else works, this should: :; chmod 4711 /usr/bin/Xorg that was changed to not be suid some time back, relying instead on things like elogind. but the old way should still work. on gentoo the suid use flag for x11-base/xorg-server would do that at merge time. -JimC -- James Cloos

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't upgrade portage or update/install ebuilds

On Tuesday, 13 June 2023 19:06:33 BST Laurence Perkins wrote: > >From: Mitch D. futurehyp...@gmail.com<mailto:futurehyp...@gmail.com> > >Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2023 9:36 AM > >To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org<mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> > >Subject:

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't upgrade portage or update/install ebuilds

>From: Mitch D. futurehyp...@gmail.com<mailto:futurehyp...@gmail.com> >Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2023 9:36 AM >To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org<mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> >Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't upgrade portage or update/install ebuilds > &

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't upgrade portage or update/install ebuilds

On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 10:38 AM Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2023-06-12, Wol wrote: > > On 09/06/2023 21:16, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> On 2023-06-09, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > >> > >>> If it is only about gemato then temporary disable the rsync-verify flag > >>> which pulls it in. > >>> > >>> # U

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't upgrade portage or update/install ebuilds

On 2023-06-12, Wol wrote: > On 09/06/2023 21:16, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2023-06-09, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: >> >>> If it is only about gemato then temporary disable the rsync-verify flag >>> which pulls it in. >>> >>> # USE="-rsync-verify" emerge sys-apps/portage >> >> The problem I ran int

[gentoo-user] Re: trying to get sd card reader to work

On 2023-06-13, Wols Lists wrote: > On 13/06/2023 03:01, John Blinka wrote: >> Good to know it all works, but if you're sticking a new card in an old >> reader, they may not be compatible. >> >> >> Don’t know what constitutes new/old, but these are <1 year old >> cards. Satisfied with empir

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't upgrade portage or update/install ebuilds

On 09/06/2023 21:16, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2023-06-09, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: If it is only about gemato then temporary disable the rsync-verify flag which pulls it in. # USE="-rsync-verify" emerge sys-apps/portage The problem I ran into is that you never know how many issues there are s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: google-chrome can render pages after update

On Monday, 12 June 2023 17:57:47 BST Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2023-06-12, Michael wrote: > >> It seems to be a variation on this bug which affects only AMD GPUs: > >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/907431 > >> > >> Clearing the GPU driver cache or using the > >> -disable-gpu-driver-bug-workarounds

[gentoo-user] Re: google-chrome can render pages after update

On 2023-06-12, Michael wrote: >> It seems to be a variation on this bug which affects only AMD GPUs: >> >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/907431 >> >> Clearing the GPU driver cache or using the >> -disable-gpu-driver-bug-workarounds option avoids the problem. >> >> In my case, It wasn't a mesa up

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: google-chrome can render pages after update

On Monday, 12 June 2023 17:05:31 BST Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2023-06-12, Grant Edwards wrote: > > I did an update this morning which installed the following: > > aleph ~ # fgrep '>>> emerge ' emerge.log > > > > 1686579407: >>> emerge (1 of 11) dev-util/strace-6.3 to / > > 16865

[gentoo-user] Re: google-chrome can render pages after update

On 2023-06-12, Grant Edwards wrote: > I did an update this morning which installed the following: > > aleph ~ # fgrep '>>> emerge ' emerge.log > > 1686579407: >>> emerge (1 of 11) dev-util/strace-6.3 to / > 1686579455: >>> emerge (2 of 11) dev-libs/nspr-4.35-r2 to / > 1686579470:

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't upgrade portage or update/install ebuilds

On 2023-06-09, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > If it is only about gemato then temporary disable the rsync-verify flag > which pulls it in. > > # USE="-rsync-verify" emerge sys-apps/portage The problem I ran into is that you never know how many issues there are standing in the way of upgrading. The o

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't upgrade portage or update/install ebuilds

On 2023-06-09, Nikolay Pulev wrote: > This is my first reach out to you. I have not update my machine for > a long time How long? > and have no reached a point where I can't install or upgrade > packages. My experience is that if you haven't updated up for more than 6-9 months, the easiest/fas

[gentoo-user] Re: replacement for ddclient?

On 2023-06-09, Grant Edwards wrote: > I agree that having the router/firewall do it is the right way to do it. > > I've currently got the app provided by Dynu working. Interestingly, what the Dynu-provided client does is equivalent to this: #!/bin/bash while true do curl ht

[gentoo-user] Re: replacement for ddclient?

On 2023-06-09, Robin Atwood wrote: > On Mon, 5 Jun 2023 03:11:57 - (UTC) > Grant Edwards wrote: > >> They have a nicely documented API, and the server does support HTTPS, >> so it may be time to write my own DDNS client daemon. > > Doesn't your router have a Dynamic DNS function? Yes (OpenWR

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: replacement for ddclient?

On Fri, 2023-06-09 at 22:38 +0700, Robin Atwood wrote: > > They have a nicely documented API, and the server does support > > HTTPS, > > so it may be time to write my own DDNS client daemon. > > Doesn't your router have a Dynamic DNS function? I stopped using > ddclient years ago because my D-Link

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: replacement for ddclient?

On Mon, 5 Jun 2023 03:11:57 - (UTC) Grant Edwards wrote: > They have a nicely documented API, and the server does support HTTPS, > so it may be time to write my own DDNS client daemon. Doesn't your router have a Dynamic DNS function? I stopped using ddclient years ago because my D-Link route

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bespoke terminal font

Matt, On Tuesday, 2023-06-06 10:31:01 -0400, you wrote: > ... > dev-util/otf2bdf is available in the 4nykey repository. Thanks for the pointer. And also thanks to Grant for providing another pointer. > media-gfx/psftools is in the gentoo repository as far as I can see. You are perfectly righ

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bespoke terminal font

On Monday, 5 June 2023 16:51:51 BST Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2023-06-05, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I use DejaVu mono in KDE Plasma, which does not do this and is much > > easier to Read with the plain 0. I'd like to find a terminal font > > like it. > > This package claims to be able to generate

[gentoo-user] Re: Bespoke terminal font

On 2023-06-06, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: >> ... >> This package claims to be able to generate console fonts (.psfu) from >> TrueType fonts (.ttf) such as DejaVu mono: >> >> https://slackware.uk/~urchlay/repos/ttf-console-fonts/about/ > > This URL mentions three requirements: > > - bdf2psf >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bespoke terminal font

On Tue, 2023-06-06 at 16:02 +0200, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > This URL mentions three requirements: > >   - bdf2psf >   - otf2bdf >   - psftools > > from which only the first  (app-text/bdf2psf)  seems to be  available in > the Gentoo mirror :-( dev-util/otf2bdf is available in the 4nykey reposit

[gentoo-user] Re: dev-libs/nss-3.90

On 06/06/2023 11:44, victor romanchuk wrote: hi, just noticed that night upgrade to [~amd64] dev-libs/nss-3.90 crashed firefox and thunderbird at start: both ABENDing with `illegal instruction' diagnostics. FF rebuild did not change behavior Downgrade to ~dev-libs/nss-3.89.1 cured the issue

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bespoke terminal font

Grant, On Monday, 5 June 2023 16:51:51 BST you wrote: > ... > This package claims to be able to generate console fonts (.psfu) from > TrueType fonts (.ttf) such as DejaVu mono: > > https://slackware.uk/~urchlay/repos/ttf-console-fonts/about/ This URL mentions three requirements: - bdf2ps

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bespoke terminal font

On Monday, 5 June 2023 16:51:51 BST Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2023-06-05, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I use DejaVu mono in KDE Plasma, which does not do this and is much > > easier to Read with the plain 0. I'd like to find a terminal font > > like it. > > This package claims to be able to generate

[gentoo-user] Re: Bespoke terminal font

On 2023-06-05, Peter Humphrey wrote: > I use DejaVu mono in KDE Plasma, which does not do this and is much > easier to Read with the plain 0. I'd like to find a terminal font > like it. This package claims to be able to generate console fonts (.psfu) from TrueType fonts (.ttf) such as DejaVu mon

[gentoo-user] Re: replacement for ddclient?

On 2023-06-04, Grant Edwards wrote: > I've found that my DNS provider offers their own client, and I'm going > to try that. That app seems work nicely except for one thing: it sends the password in cleartext using HTTP. The application doesn't support SSL connections to the server that's used to

[gentoo-user] Re: replacement for ddclient?

On 2023-06-04, Jack wrote: > On 2023.06.04 16:36, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> You're right, I was not running it as user ddclient. >> >> It's not checking to see if the file is owned by the user ddclient, >> it's checking to see if it's owned by the user _running_ >> ddclient. Either the code needs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: replacement for ddclient?

On 2023.06.04 16:36, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2023-06-04, Jack wrote: > I may have an explanation.  How did you run ddclient when you got that > error?  I think its check for ownership is very specific, and if you > just run ddclient from command line as either yourself or root, you are > n

[gentoo-user] Re: replacement for ddclient?

On 2023-06-04, Jack wrote: > I may have an explanation.  How did you run ddclient when you got that > error?  I think its check for ownership is very specific, and if you > just run ddclient from command line as either yourself or root, you are > not the owner (ddclient) of the file.  When run

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: raw tty font size

230526 Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2023-05-26, Philip Webb wrote: >> I can now boot into the embryonic Gentoo system in my new machine, >> which presents a raw TTY, whose font is too large, >> ie there are too few lines on the screen. >> Somewhere, there's a setting for changing this, but I can't fi

[gentoo-user] Re: raw tty font size

On 2023-05-26, Philip Webb wrote: > I can now boot into the embryonic Gentoo system in my new machine, > which presents a raw TTY, whose font is too large, > ie there are too few lines on the screen. > > Somewhere, there's a setting for changing this, but I can't find it. > Can anyone point me to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem compiling Kernel 6.1.27-gentoo-r1 : SOLVED

230520 Michael wrote: > On Saturday, 20 May 2023 10:54:21 BST Nuno Silva wrote: >> On 2023-05-20, Michael wrote: >>> On Saturday, 20 May 2023 07:59:59 BST Philip Webb wrote: I'm trying to install Gentoo in my new machine & have got to the step of compiling a kernel. I used the config

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem compiling Kernel 6.1.27-gentoo-r1

On Saturday, 20 May 2023 10:54:21 BST Nuno Silva wrote: > On 2023-05-20, Michael wrote: > > On Saturday, 20 May 2023 07:59:59 BST Philip Webb wrote: > >> I'm trying to install Gentoo in my new machine > >> & have got to the step of compiling a kernel. > >> I used the config file from my present mac

[gentoo-user] Re: problem compiling Kernel 6.1.27-gentoo-r1

On 2023-05-20, Michael wrote: > On Saturday, 20 May 2023 07:59:59 BST Philip Webb wrote: >> I'm trying to install Gentoo in my new machine >> & have got to the step of compiling a kernel. >> I used the config file from my present machine, did 'make oldconfig' >> & have then done 'make menuconfig'

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] Feature "split-log" in Portage variable "FEATURES"

Dale, On Monday, 2023-05-15 12:58:43 -0500, you wrote: > ... > Would this make using tab completion easier too?  I ask because when I > want to cat a error log file, tab completion gets difficult pretty > quick. At least the first part -- selecting the category directory -- should become easi

[gentoo-user] Re: Activating BMQ CPU Scheduler

On 06/05/2023 17:45, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: Unfortunately it seems that a recent change in the mainline kernel introduced a bit of an incompatibility, which is why the BMQ/PDS patch now turns it off. We're trying to get that incompatibility fixed. Anyway: glad you're up and running now! I ha

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge --sync fails with a python error

On 2023-05-15, Dan Johansson wrote: > On 15.05.23 16:41, Matt Connell wrote: >> On Mon, 2023-05-15 at 16:24 +0200, Dan Johansson wrote: >>> RuntimeError: OpenPGP signature not found on Manifest >> >> It sounds like your sync is hitting a mirror that is currently broken. >> >> Are you using a def

[gentoo-user] Re: Mouse pain

On 15/05/2023 20:16, Wols Lists wrote: I've got a fancy gaming mouse and there is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING beyond the complete basics that is configurable :-( I also have such a mouse, but I have to configure it in Windows (using the "Logitech HUB" software.) Fortunately, the settings are stores on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] Feature "split-log" in Portage variable "FEATURES"

Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Dale, > > On Monday, 2023-05-15 11:35:33 -0500, you wrote: > >> ... >> If you got a minute, what is the reason for split-log?  What exactly >> does it split?  I'm guessing this is new since I don't recall reading >> about it.  > Under Gentoo each package has a name consist

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] Feature "split-log" in Portage variable "FEATURES"

Dale, On Monday, 2023-05-15 11:35:33 -0500, you wrote: > ... > If you got a minute, what is the reason for split-log?  What exactly > does it split?  I'm guessing this is new since I don't recall reading > about it.  Under Gentoo each package has a name consisting of two parts: "category/ name".

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] Feature "split-log" in Portage variable "FEATURES"

Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > On Monday, 2023-05-15 15:39:57 +0200, I myself wrote: > >> ... >>After adding "split-log" to variable >> "FEATURES" in file "make.conf" I updated a single small package, but the >> build log did not turn up anywhere, even though file

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] Feature "split-log" in Portage variable "FEATURES"

On Monday, 2023-05-15 15:39:57 +0200, I myself wrote: > ... >After adding "split-log" to variable > "FEATURES" in file "make.conf" I updated a single small package, but the > build log did not turn up anywhere, even though file "/var/log/emerge. > log" contai

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mouse pain

On 15/05/2023 02:11, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 15/05/2023 03:46, mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: The switches themselves do that when they start to wear out.  I've had it happen to a number of mice/track balls.  Indeed I'll soon be replacing those switches on several track balls an

[gentoo-user] Re: Mouse pain

On 15/05/2023 03:46, mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: The switches themselves do that when they start to wear out.  I've had it happen to a number of mice/track balls.  Indeed I'll soon be replacing those switches on several track balls and I'll use better switches that have the same

[gentoo-user] Re: Activating BMQ CPU Scheduler

On 2023-05-06 14:07, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 03/05/2023 20:11, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: On 2023-05-02 21:19, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/05/2023 09:53, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: [...] BMQ has severe issues. When emerging something while I play a game (either native or through wine-proton

[gentoo-user] Re: Activating BMQ CPU Scheduler

On 03/05/2023 20:11, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: On 2023-05-02 21:19, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/05/2023 09:53, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: [...] BMQ has severe issues. When emerging something while I play a game (either native or through wine-proton,) there's long lag spikes and freezes. Even wo

[gentoo-user] Re: Activating BMQ CPU Scheduler

On 2023-05-02 21:19, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/05/2023 09:53, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: [...] Switched back to the default (called "CFS" I think.) BMQ has severe issues. When emerging something while I play a game (either native or through wine-proton,) there's long lag spikes and freezes.

[gentoo-user] Re: Activating BMQ CPU Scheduler

On 02/05/2023 09:53, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: [...] Switched back to the default (called "CFS" I think.) BMQ has severe issues. When emerging something while I play a game (either native or through wine-proton,) there's long lag spikes and freezes. Even worse, there's bugs like the system comple

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Activating BMQ CPU Scheduler

What scheduler produces the best results on regular desktop systems? mar., 2 mai 2023, 09:54 Holger Hoffstätte a scris: > On 2023-05-01 22:24, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 26/04/2023 23:06, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: > >> On 2023-04-26 18:15, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >>> So I wanted to try th

[gentoo-user] Re: Activating BMQ CPU Scheduler

On 2023-05-01 22:24, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 26/04/2023 23:06, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: On 2023-04-26 18:15, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: So I wanted to try the BMQ scheduler in gentoo-sources. Is just enabling it in the kernel build all that's needed? I did so, booted, and: $ dmesg | grep -i

[gentoo-user] Re: Activating BMQ CPU Scheduler

On 26/04/2023 23:06, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: On 2023-04-26 18:15, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: So I wanted to try the BMQ scheduler in gentoo-sources. Is just enabling it in the kernel build all that's needed? I did so, booted, and:    $ dmesg | grep -i bmq    [    0.100284] sched/bmq: BMQ CPU Sc

[gentoo-user] Re: chromium and dbus...

On 2023-04-28, jul...@jroy.ca wrote: > What login manager and DE/WM are you using? If you're using a WM, > it's your own reponsibility to setup dbus when starting your > session. A DE will do this for you. > > Typically, you can start your WM using `dbus-run-session `, at > least for Wayland. I'm

[gentoo-user] Re: chromium and dbus...

On 2023-04-28, Alan Grimes wrote: > A decenently good OS would provide an IPC mechanism and little else. =| > So basically this is just a hack-layer to get around the inherent fact > that linux is garbage. Then one might wonder why you don't stop using it. -- Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 13.1 and chromium

On 27/04/2023 21:40, Alan Grimes wrote: I rebuilt my system on gcc 13.1. I think the compiler is good but it exposed some bugs in a handful of packages, these are: Tracker bugs are always useful for knowing what will break before you upgrade: https://bugs.gentoo.org/865117

[gentoo-user] Re: file system for new machine

On 2023-04-27, Philip Webb wrote: > I've built & tested the new machine I was planning in 2022 > & am at the point of designing the partitions. > > For many years, I've used Reiserfs, but it is now obsolescent, > so I need to choose an alternative. Reiserfs seemed appropriate > for a system with

[gentoo-user] Re: Activating BMQ CPU Scheduler

On 2023-04-26 18:15, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: So I wanted to try the BMQ scheduler in gentoo-sources. Is just enabling it in the kernel build all that's needed? I did so, booted, and:   $ dmesg | grep -i bmq   [    0.100284] sched/bmq: BMQ CPU Scheduler v6.1-r4 by Alfred Chen. That's all and

[gentoo-user] Re: GSoC Proposal Ranking

Vedant, notifications won't happen until after that date. We have been doing the ranking all week and will submit it before the deadline. On Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 11:33 Vedant Tewari wrote: > Hello, > I hope this email finds you well, I am a current applicant for GSoC 2023, > and I submitted a prop

[gentoo-user] Re: Another day without clues.

On 2023-04-25, Alan Grimes wrote: > Paul Colquhoun wrote: >> On Tuesday, April 25, 2023 4:32:59 A.M. AEST Alan Grimes wrote: >>> Still no clues as to why chromium can't display about:blank from an >>> empty user config folder without spewing hundreds of errors a second. >> How are you starting chr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia-drivers fails to patch

Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 21/04/2023 19:29, Dale wrote: >> I ran into a buggy driver a while back and once I synced and upgraded, >> the old one was gone.  So, I started keeping a local copy just in case. >> Of course, as long as I keep a older driver to fall back on, it won't >> break anymore.

[gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia-drivers fails to patch

On 21/04/2023 19:29, Dale wrote: I ran into a buggy driver a while back and once I synced and upgraded, the old one was gone.  So, I started keeping a local copy just in case. Of course, as long as I keep a older driver to fall back on, it won't break anymore. It will break with kernel and x.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

On 20/04/2023 05:23, Dale wrote: Some 1,100 directories, not sure if directories use inodes or not. "Everything is a file". A directory is just a data file with a certain structure that maps names to inodes. It might still be there somewhere - I can't imagine it's been deleted, just forgot

[gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

On 20/04/2023 13:59, Dale wrote: In place of "find -type..." say "find / -type..." Ahhh, that worked.  I also realized I need to leave off the ' at the beginning and end.  I thought I left those out.  I copy and paste a lot.  lol Btw, if you only want to do this for the root filesystem and ex

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

Am Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 04:29:59AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > >> I wonder.  Is there a way to find out the smallest size file in a > >> directory or sub directory, largest files, then maybe a average file > >> size??? > > The 20 smallest: > > `find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 stat -c '%s %n' | sort -n |

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday, 20 April 2023 10:29:59 BST Dale wrote: >> Frank Steinmetzger wrote: >>> Am Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 06:32:45PM -0500 schrieb Dale: Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > <<>> > > When formatting file systems, I usually lower the number of inodes from > the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

On Thursday, 20 April 2023 10:29:59 BST Dale wrote: > Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Am Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 06:32:45PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > >> Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > >>> <<>> > >>> > >>> When formatting file systems, I usually lower the number of inodes from > >>> the > >>> default value to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday, 19 April 2023 18:59:26 BST Dale wrote: >> Peter Humphrey wrote: >>> On Wednesday, 19 April 2023 09:00:33 BST Nikos Chantziaras wrote: With my HDD: # smartctl -x /dev/sda | grep -i 'sector size' Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 byte

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

eric wrote: > On 4/19/23 21:23, Dale wrote: >> Mark Knecht wrote: >>> >>> > I wonder.  Is there a way to find out the smallest size file in a >>> directory or sub directory, largest files, then maybe a average file >>> size???  I thought about du but given the number of files I have >>> here, it wo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

On Wednesday, 19 April 2023 18:59:26 BST Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Wednesday, 19 April 2023 09:00:33 BST Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> With my HDD: > >># smartctl -x /dev/sda | grep -i 'sector size' > >>Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical > > > > Or, w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 06:32:45PM -0500 schrieb Dale: >> Frank Steinmetzger wrote: >>> <<>> >>> >>> When formatting file systems, I usually lower the number of inodes from the >>> default value to gain storage space. The default is one inode per 16 kB of >>> FS size,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

Am Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 06:09:15PM -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht: > > I wonder. Is there a way to find out the smallest size file in a > directory or sub directory, largest files, then maybe a average file > size??? I thought about du but given the number of files I have here, it > would be a really

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

Am Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 06:32:45PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > <<>> > > > > When formatting file systems, I usually lower the number of inodes from the > > default value to gain storage space. The default is one inode per 16 kB of > > FS size, which gives you 60 million in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

On 4/19/23 21:23, Dale wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: > I wonder.  Is there a way to find out the smallest size file in a directory or sub directory, largest files, then maybe a average file size???  I thought about du but given the number of files I have here, it would be a really HUGE list of f

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

Mark Knecht wrote: > > > I wonder.  Is there a way to find out the smallest size file in a > directory or sub directory, largest files, then maybe a average file > size???  I thought about du but given the number of files I have here, > it would be a really HUGE list of files.  Could take hours or

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

> I wonder. Is there a way to find out the smallest size file in a directory or sub directory, largest files, then maybe a average file size??? I thought about du but given the number of files I have here, it would be a really HUGE list of files. Could take hours or more too. This is what KDE p

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > <<>> > > When formatting file systems, I usually lower the number of inodes from the > default value to gain storage space. The default is one inode per 16 kB of > FS size, which gives you 60 million inodes per TB. In practice, even one > million per TB would be overk

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

Am Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 01:00:33PM -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht: > I think technically they default to the physical block size internally > and the earlier ones, attempting to be more compatible with HDDs, > had 4K blocks. Some of the newer chips now have 16K blocks but > still support 512B Logical

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 12:39 PM Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 19/04/2023 22:26, Dale wrote: > > So for future reference, let it format with the default? I'm also > > curious if when it creates the file system it will notice this and > > adjust automatically. It might. Maybe? > > AFAIK, SSDs w

[gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

On 19/04/2023 22:26, Dale wrote: So for future reference, let it format with the default?  I'm also curious if when it creates the file system it will notice this and adjust automatically. It might.  Maybe? AFAIK, SSDs will internally convert to 4096 in their firmware even if they report a ph

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

Mark Knecht wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 10:59 AM Dale > wrote: > > > > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > On Wednesday, 19 April 2023 09:00:33 BST Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > > > > >> With my HDD: > > >> > > >>    # smartctl -x /dev/sda | grep -i 'sector size' > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 10:59 AM Dale wrote: > > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Wednesday, 19 April 2023 09:00:33 BST Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > > >> With my HDD: > >> > >># smartctl -x /dev/sda | grep -i 'sector size' > >>Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical > > Or, wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday, 19 April 2023 09:00:33 BST Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> With my HDD: >> >># smartctl -x /dev/sda | grep -i 'sector size' >>Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical > Or, with an NVMe drive: > > # smartctl -x /dev/nvme1n1 | grep -A2 'Sup

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 3:35 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Wednesday, 19 April 2023 09:00:33 BST Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > > With my HDD: > > > ># smartctl -x /dev/sda | grep -i 'sector size' > >Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical > > Or, with an NVMe drive: > > #

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

On Wednesday, 19 April 2023 09:00:33 BST Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > With my HDD: > ># smartctl -x /dev/sda | grep -i 'sector size' >Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical Or, with an NVMe drive: # smartctl -x /dev/nvme1n1 | grep -A2 'Supported LBA Sizes' Supported LBA

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 19/04/2023 04:45, Dale wrote: >> Filesystem created:   Sun Apr 15 03:24:56 2012 >> Lifetime writes:  993 GB >> >> That's for the main / partition.  I have /usr on it's own partition tho. >> >> Filesystem created:   Sun Apr 15 03:25:48 2012 >> Lifetime w

[gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

On 19/04/2023 04:45, Dale wrote: Filesystem created:   Sun Apr 15 03:24:56 2012 Lifetime writes:  993 GB That's for the main / partition.  I have /usr on it's own partition tho. Filesystem created:   Sun Apr 15 03:25:48 2012 Lifetime writes:  1063 GB I'd think that / an

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 10:05:27AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > >> Given how I plan to use this drive, that should last a long time.  I'm >> just putting the OS stuff on the drive and I compile on a spinning rust >> drive and use -k to install the built packages on the live sys

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

Mark Knecht wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 2:15 PM Dale > wrote: > > > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 1:02 PM Dale > wrote: > > > > > > > > Someone mentioned 16K block size. > > > > > > I mentioned it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

Wols Lists wrote: > On 18/04/2023 23:13, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: >>> /var/tmp/portage on tmpfs. And on every disk I allocate a swap >>> partition >>> equal to twice the mobo's max memory. Three drives times 64GB times >>> two is a >>> helluva lot of swap. > >> Uhm … why? The moniker of swap = 2×R

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

On 18/04/2023 23:13, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: /var/tmp/portage on tmpfs. And on every disk I allocate a swap partition equal to twice the mobo's max memory. Three drives times 64GB times two is a helluva lot of swap. Uhm … why? The moniker of swap = 2×RAM comes from times when RAM was scarce.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

Am Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 12:18:14AM +0200 schrieb Frank Steinmetzger: > If you use ext4, run `dumpe2fs -h /dev/your-root-partition | grep Lifetime` > to see how much data has been written to that partition since you formatted > it. Just to get an idea of what you are looking at on your setup. Fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

Am Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 10:05:27AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Given how I plan to use this drive, that should last a long time.  I'm > just putting the OS stuff on the drive and I compile on a spinning rust > drive and use -k to install the built packages on the live system.  That > should help minimiz

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

Am Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 09:53:18PM +0100 schrieb Wol: > On 18/04/2023 21:01, Dale wrote: > > > I just use tmpfs for /var/tmp/portage (16GB, I'm on 32GB RAM.) Same. > /var/tmp/portage on tmpfs. And on every disk I allocate a swap partition > equal to twice the mobo's max memory. Three drives time

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 2:15 PM Dale wrote: > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 1:02 PM Dale wrote: > > > > > Someone mentioned 16K block size. > > > I mentioned it but I'm NOT suggesting it. > > It would be the -b option if you were to do it for ext4. > > I'm using the defau

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

Mark Knecht wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 1:02 PM Dale > wrote: > > > > > Someone mentioned 16K block size. > > > I mentioned it but I'm NOT suggesting it. > > It would be the -b option if you were to do it for ext4. > > I'm using the default block size (4k) o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 1:02 PM Dale wrote: > > Someone mentioned 16K block size. I mentioned it but I'm NOT suggesting it. It would be the -b option if you were to do it for ext4. I'm using the default block size (4k) on all my SSDs and M.2's and as I've said a couple of time, I'm going to b

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