Re: [ilugd] Update on lug-delhi.org companion site

2005-05-29 Thread John Joseph
Hi Sandip Hi Sandip Good work --- Sandip Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone! > > The "unofficial" ILUGD companion site lug-delhi.org > has been > reorganised. As you can see from > http://www.lug-delhi.org, the site has > a new look with three distinct s

Re: [ilugd] Optimum usage of my RAM

2005-05-29 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ankit Malik wrote: >> >> >> I have read an article which said something similar, but nothing much >> changed. I tried decreasing swappiness to 10, but experienced little >> changes. > > > > hmmm...Maku can you elaborate how you got the job done??

Re: [ilugd] Optimum usage of my RAM

2005-05-29 Thread Raj Shekhar
Ankit Malik wrote: > > Another *drastic* soln. might be removing swap??? I have a question...what > happens if I dont have swap space and i run out of ram? does the system > hangs/locks or it waits for space to be emptied out? > I think if you run out of memory, a process called OOM-killer will

Re: [ilugd] Optimum usage of my RAM

2005-05-29 Thread Raj Shekhar
Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Ankit Malik wrote: >>>Another drastic soln. might be removing swap??? I have a question...what >>>happens if I dont have swap space and i run out of ram? does the system >>>hangs/locks or it waits for space to be emptied out? >>> > > > Not having swap isn't a good idea

Re: [ilugd] Optimum usage of my RAM

2005-05-29 Thread Mayank Jain
On 5/30/05, Raj Shekhar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think if you run out of memory, a process called OOM-killer will get > started and killoff the process that is taking up the most amount of > memory. Exactly! Something similar seemd to have happened when emerge stopped & X crashed. -- regar

Re: [ilugd] Optimum usage of my RAM

2005-05-29 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Raj Shekhar wrote: >> Not having swap isn't a good idea IMO. >> You should have swap for idle programs to be stored there. > > > Not necessarily true. If you want to have all your processes to stay in > memory, for example when you are running a we

[ilugd] which image of NIC (gerenated from rom-o-matix) should be burn for a NIC

2005-05-29 Thread thomas
I have installed PXES 1.0 on FC3. Nodes have NIC 8139b. Nodes are booting successfully with image (.zdsk) copied on floppies. Now I wish to generate rom image from rom-o-matix.com for this card (Vendor ID- 10EC,PCI ID- 8139) so that I can burn on EEPROM. But I am not able to figure out which image

Re: [ilugd] Optimum usage of my RAM

2005-05-29 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: >>> > > > If OOM killer kills off random processes, I'd say it to be the most shitty > piece of code. > The idea behind OOM killer is that it is better of killing on or two of your processes (based on certain parameters) than having the whole server crash because the ke

Re: [ilugd] CVS related issue

2005-05-29 Thread Bhaskar Dutta
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >>> On Saturday 28 May 2005 12:20, AS said: > Hi all, > I have been using CVS for version control and for > a particular repository I am able to grant read or write permissions > to different users depending upon their CVS logins. >