Re: [Hampshire] constantly flickering LEDs on router: Solved - amid blushes

2009-05-18 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 07:34:30PM +0100, Victor Churchill wrote: > Semi seriously though: I do notice how as new releases come around, if > one has come from a previous release there is probably a tendency to > stick with the familiar way even if there are new easier ways. Oh yes, definit

Re: [Hampshire] constantly flickering LEDs on router: Solved - amid blushes

2009-05-18 Thread Daniel Pope
Steve Kemp wrote: >That's the kind of mistake you only make once .. So that's why the manpage says "Be warned that typing killall _name_ may not have the desired effect on non-Linux systems, especially when done by a privileged user."! Dan -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk

Re: [Hampshire] constantly flickering LEDs on router: Solved - amid blushes

2009-05-18 Thread Steve Kemp
On Mon May 18, 2009 at 19:08:07 +0100, Daniel Pope wrote: > > Someone else would use pkill instead of the lot of it. ;) > > I use killall. What's the difference? On Solaris "pkill" does what you want, if it is available. On Solaris "killall" kills *all* processes. That's the kind of mista

Re: [Hampshire] [hardware] RAID5 - hardware or software, based?

2009-05-18 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 17:06:54 + (+), Andy Smith wrote: > Indeed, unless under very heavy write load I expect software RAID > will be fine. To explain this further, if you do a write on RAID-5, you often have to _read_ the disks first - this can add lots of latency. Personally, I do RAI

Re: [Hampshire] constantly flickering LEDs on router: Solved - amid blushes

2009-05-18 Thread Victor Churchill
2009/5/18 Andy Smith : > Hi Victor, > > On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:35:43AM +0100, Victor Churchill wrote: >> I have had to do such things that many times that I came up with a one liner >> : >> >>  ps -eafw | grep morituri | awk '{print $2}' |  xargs kill >> >> Disclaimers: >> Different people hav

Re: [Hampshire] constantly flickering LEDs on router: Solved - amid blushes

2009-05-18 Thread Victor Churchill
2009/5/18 Daniel Pope : > Andy Smith wrote: >> Someone else would use pkill instead of the lot of it. ;) > > I use killall. What's the difference? > More than one way to do it I suppose. Just looking over the man page there looks like some overlap and some distinct features on each side. -- Plea

Re: [Hampshire] constantly flickering LEDs on router: Solved - amid blushes

2009-05-18 Thread Daniel Pope
Andy Smith wrote: > Someone else would use pkill instead of the lot of it. ;) I use killall. What's the difference? Dan -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --

Re: [Hampshire] constantly flickering LEDs on router: Solved - amid blushes

2009-05-18 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Victor, On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:35:43AM +0100, Victor Churchill wrote: > I have had to do such things that many times that I came up with a one liner : > > ps -eafw | grep morituri | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill > > Disclaimers: > Different people have different favourite 'ps' invocatio

Re: [Hampshire] [hardware] RAID5 - hardware or software, based?

2009-05-18 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Ian, On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 02:00:30PM +0100, Ian Park wrote: > On Mon, 18 May 2009 11:21:14 +0100 Bob Dunlop wrote: > 8<-- > Been running a 4 drive software RAID5 at work for a couple of years now > on a 2.4GHz Intel Core2 pr

[Hampshire] [OT] on the scrounge for SDR SDRAM memory

2009-05-18 Thread Lisi
Has anyone got any of the following memory I can scrounge? Reasonable fee and postage happily paid! 168-pin DIMM Banking: 3 (3 banks of 1) Chipset: Intel 815E Error Detection Support: Non-ECC only Graphics Support: AGP 4X Max Component Density: 256Mb Max Unbuffered SDR SDRAM: 512MB M

Re: [Hampshire] [hardware] RAID5 - hardware or software, based?

2009-05-18 Thread Ian Park
On Mon, 18 May 2009 11:21:14 +0100 Bob Dunlop wrote: 8<-- Been running a 4 drive software RAID5 at work for a couple of years now on a 2.4GHz Intel Core2 processor. The software overhead hasn't been noticeable so I guess you'd hav

[Hampshire] [JOB] Linux Developer and Software Tester

2009-05-18 Thread Imran Chaudhry
SmoothWall are hiring for two tech vacancies: Linux Developer: http://www.smoothwall.net/news/newsitem.php?id=1617 Software Tester: http://www.smoothwall.net/news/newsitem.php?id=1618 -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hamp

Re: [Hampshire] [hardware] RAID5 - hardware or software based?

2009-05-18 Thread Bob Dunlop
On Mon, May 18 at 10:38, Ian Park wrote: > I recently decided to upgrade my main desktop machine from a 2-disk > RAID0 array (2 x 320GB) to a 4-disk RAID5 array (4 x 320GB). I already > have / on a separate 150GB drive, so there are no concerns about trying > to boot from the RAID setup. So far,

[Hampshire] [hardware] RAID5 - hardware or software based?

2009-05-18 Thread Ian Park
I recently decided to upgrade my main desktop machine from a 2-disk RAID0 array (2 x 320GB) to a 4-disk RAID5 array (4 x 320GB). I already have / on a separate 150GB drive, so there are no concerns about trying to boot from the RAID setup. So far, I've taken the cheap route and run all the driv

Re: [Hampshire] constantly flickering LEDs on router: Solved - amid blushes

2009-05-18 Thread Victor Churchill
2009/5/17 >  ps -A | grep ktorrent followed by > kill seems to have cured the problem. I have had to do such things that many times that I came up with a one liner : ps -eafw | grep morituri | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill Disclaimers: Different people have different favourite 'ps' invoc

Re: [Hampshire] constantly flickering LEDs on router: Solved - amidblushes

2009-05-18 Thread Paul Stimpson
Hi, Glad to be of help. You're not an idiot for not realising ktorrent would auto-restart :) TC, Paul. Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device -Original Message- From: hants...@googlemail.com Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 22:27:01 To: Subject: Re: [Hampshire] constantly flickering LEDs