Re: Page swap

2002-11-07 Thread Calin Szonyi
- Original Message - From: Mike Ni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 21:16:26 -0800 (PST) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Page swap > Folks, > > I am having performance issue with one of the > application. It looks like it is running low on the > memory. > > In addition to ad

Re: Page swap

2002-11-07 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 09:16 PM 11/7/02 -0800, Mike Ni wrote: Folks, I am having performance issue with one of the application. It looks like it is running low on the memory. In addition to add new memory to the system, is there anything can be done while we are waiting for the memory upgrade? Possibly any number

Page swap

2002-11-07 Thread Mike Ni
Folks, I am having performance issue with one of the application. It looks like it is running low on the memory. In addition to add new memory to the system, is there anything can be done while we are waiting for the memory upgrade? Thanks in advance MIke _

Re: RPM version of Alien around?

2002-11-07 Thread Jose
On Thursday 07 November 2002 12:37 am, David Jones wrote: > A friend has the newest release of Mandrake installed on > his Fujitsu Lifebook. He has a need to install a closed- > source app that's available only in DEB form. Apparently > the GUI Mandrake app installer doesn't understand DEB > form.

Re: Tkdesk Segmentation Fault

2002-11-07 Thread Peter
There your are. ]$ gdb tkdesk ./core.1875 This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux"..."/usr/local/bin/tkdesk": not in executable format: File format not recognized Core was generated by `tkdesksh /usr/local/bin/tkdesk'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. -#0 0x0816e640

Re: RPM version of Alien around?

2002-11-07 Thread Arthur Othieno
Hello there David, Alien RPMs are at www.rpmfind.net. I just cross-checked it out a while back, just to make sure, and it looks like their search feature is down temporarily. The link to the index of "A" packages is: http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/AByName.html , that should "save" you some o

Re: Write to Windows partition from linux as ordinary user

2002-11-07 Thread Elias Athanasopoulos
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 01:46:56PM -0800, Abhijit Vijay wrote: > I have a Windows 98 partition mounted on linux. The > directory, /win98 on which I have done the mount is > owned by me, as an ordinary user. However, I find that > I cannot write to the partition except as root. Is > there any way ou

RPM version of Alien around?

2002-11-07 Thread David Jones
A friend has the newest release of Mandrake installed on his Fujitsu Lifebook. He has a need to install a closed- source app that's available only in DEB form. Apparently the GUI Mandrake app installer doesn't understand DEB form. I suggested he use Alien to convert it to RPM. Unfortunately, Al

Re: Tkdesk Segmentation Fault

2002-11-07 Thread Elias Athanasopoulos
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 02:58:57PM +0800, Peter wrote: > > % ulimit -c 100 > > Rerun TkDesk and let it crash. You should have a core file now. > > $ tkdesk > Segmentation fault (core dumped) > > except it's nowhere to be found. Wait, here it is now with ending numbers: > core.1298 > One of

Re: CD-ROM settings and hardware resources...

2002-11-07 Thread Calin Szonyi
- Original Message - From: Bryan Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 24 Oct 2002 09:24:26 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: CD-ROM settings and hardware resources... > Shows how much I know about basic system design... > > In fact, I was shocked to learn last night that ext2 uses

Re: Write to Windows partition from linux as ordinary user

2002-11-07 Thread Paul Furness
That's a pretty good solution. It _does_ mean that you can only write to that partition as root or the specified user. This may be a disadvantage for you, I don't know. You could add "noauto" to the fstab entry, if you like. That means that the partition is not mounted by default. If you want to m