Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-12-29 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Neil Bothwick wrote: > I think what Enrico is getting at is storing the new config files > somewhere else, instead of the original path with the name prefixed > by ._cfg. ACK. > Such a move would break {etc,conf,cfg}-update for no real benefit. > What is the point of including these files in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 01:18:08 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > According to the manpage, this only tells which directories should > > be config-protect'ed. What I need is that these files should be put > > under some prefix (w/ the same hierachy/names) instead of renamed > > to ._cfg*. > > What v

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 00:02 on Thursday 11 November 2010, Enrico Weigelt did opine thusly: > * Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Apparently, though unproven, at 23:37 on Wednesday 10 November 2010, > > Enrico > > > > Weigelt did opine thusly: > > > * Remy Blank wrote: > > > > Put your /etc un

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 23:37 on Wednesday 10 November 2010, Enrico > Weigelt did opine thusly: > > > * Remy Blank wrote: > > > Put your /etc under SVN, or Mercurial, or whatever revision control > > > system du jour. Bonus points if you manage to store file and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:37 on Wednesday 10 November 2010, Enrico Weigelt did opine thusly: > * Remy Blank wrote: > > Put your /etc under SVN, or Mercurial, or whatever revision control > > system du jour. Bonus points if you manage to store file and directory > > permissions in there

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Remy Blank wrote: > Put your /etc under SVN, or Mercurial, or whatever revision control > system du jour. Bonus points if you manage to store file and directory > permissions in there as well. Is there a way to tell portage to conf-protected files under some prefix ? This would allow easy inte

[gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-08 Thread Remy Blank
Mark Knecht wrote: > My worry with etc-update is that I know, for the most part, all the > files I modify when doing an install so I know what to look for when > I'm selecting files to replace myself. However with that tool there's > a point where you might have 20 files that need updating, you loo

[gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/04/2010 09:03 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 11/04/2010 06:43 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: [...] Looking around at VMware's site they recommend changing /etc/sysctl.conf to enable the feature: [...] I can do that but I'm pretty sur

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Am 04.11.2010 20:20, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > Try conf-update, you might like it. It's a good middle-ground, I find. I like cfg-update [*]. I use it with kdiff3, but you can use about any merge tool you like, be it GUI or CLI. Looks quite sophisticated to me. I only worry that it is not being dev

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-04 Thread Adam Carter
> > I will have to try conf-update - its interface sounds nice. > > If you run X, then cfg-update, configured to use meld for the diffing/editing via GUI, is nice and clear.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-04 Thread Stroller
On 4/11/2010, at 7:20pm, Alan McKinnon wrote: > ... > I find conf-update much better than dispatch-conf and etc-update. It's curses- > based and displays the modified files in a tree structure by directory. Very > intuitive display. And it's smart enough to know to just apply changes to > files

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 4 Nov 2010 21:20:25 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> I find conf-update much better than dispatch-conf and etc-update. It's >> curses- based and displays the modified files in a tree structure by >> directory. Very intuitive display.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 4 Nov 2010 21:20:25 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > I find conf-update much better than dispatch-conf and etc-update. It's > curses- based and displays the modified files in a tree structure by > directory. Very intuitive display. And it's smart enough to know to > just apply changes to file

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 21:03 on Thursday 04 November 2010, Mark Knecht did opine thusly: > On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 11/04/2010 06:43 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> Hi, > >>When starting VMware-Player I get the following message: > >> > >> The ho

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 11/04/2010 06:43 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> Hi, >>    When starting VMware-Player I get the following message: >> >> The host's Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled. >> Multiprocessor virtual machines exhibit degraded perfo

[gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/04/2010 06:43 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, When starting VMware-Player I get the following message: The host's Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled. Multiprocessor virtual machines exhibit degraded performance without yield(). Choose 'OK' to enable the sysctl 'kernel.sched_comp