On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 15:33:14 -0500
et disseminated the following:
> > Could a badly seated NIC on the server could cause another box
> > communicating with it to complain?
> short answer,,, yes, if a persitant or 'hard' mount was used between the 2
> boxes.
Man for awhile there I was really getti
On Sunday 01 February 2004 10:06 am, JoeHill wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 09:52:35 -0600
>
> Tom Brinkman disseminated the following:
> > > Anyway, I put everything back together, and I've been running
> > > mprime for the past 6 -7 hours, no errors, no problems. Could
> > > it be that the improper
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 09:52:35 -0600
Tom Brinkman disseminated the following:
> > Anyway, I put everything back together, and I've been running
> > mprime for the past 6 -7 hours, no errors, no problems. Could
> > it be that the improperly seated NIC was the cause of all the
> > instability? I'm hop
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 09:52:35 -0600
Tom Brinkman disseminated the following:
> > Anyway, I put everything back together, and I've been running
> > mprime for the past 6 -7 hours, no errors, no problems. Could
> > it be that the improperly seated NIC was the cause of all the
> > instability? I'm hop
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 08:33:51 -0600
Tom Brinkman disseminated the following:
> Many times ram errors, specially if the ram has been reliable
> in the past, can be solved by reseating the ram sticks, and/or
> swapping the slots their in. Of course clean the contacts also.
> Rubbing lightly ac
On Thursday 29 January 2004 02:52 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
> However this is going to shock you. AMD appear to sanction a
> maximum die temperature of 90 C, yes I repeat 90C, I know, how
> can anything electrical survive at 90C, beats me and I would
> never allow that on principle, but judge f
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 08:33:51 -0600
Tom Brinkman disseminated the following:
> > However, if it's the memory only, I could eliminate that
> > possibility with memtest, no?
>
> You could start with memtest86, BUT I've seen a lot of times
> that mprime will catch errors that memtest86 passes.
On Thursday 29 January 2004 09:48 am, JoeHill wrote:
> > If it errors, it just puts out a mesg that it stopped on
> > hardware errors. As with any stress test, it's then up to
> > you to sort out if it's cooling, PSU, cpu/cache/ram,
> > motherboard, etc.
>
> Well, if it's the MOBO or CPU, th
Tom Brinkman wrote:
cpu temp 50C
System temp 32C
Both of these will go up about 5C when you just boot into the OS. Under load, that will climb about another 10C or more.
No, it stays the same about 50C on desktop,
the maximum rise is to about 56C on full
load conditions and the cpu usage u
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 10:46:31 +
John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> one compiles , chopped up into sections for each section it's
> compiling and then the make has to be reassembled, the mind boddles at
> the prospect.
Well, it could do it for subdirectories. If you look at big so
On Thursday 29 January 2004 09:48 am, JoeHill wrote:
> However, if it's the memory only, I could eliminate that
> possibility with memtest, no?
Maybe, memtest86 isn't as good a test. Just a place to start. It
doesn't test ram as the name suggests, but the whole system is
involved. It might er
Tom Brinkman wrote:
cpu temp 50C
System temp 32C
Both of these will go up about 5C when you just boot into the OS. Under load, that will climb about another 10C or more.
No it stays the same about 50C , the maximum rise is to about 56C on
full load conditions and the cpu usage up to 90+%,
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 08:41:54 -0600
Tom Brinkman disseminated the following:
> > I'm assuming this 'mprime' would output some diagnostic info on
> > what might be wrong?
>
> If it errors, it just puts out a mesg that it stopped on
> hardware errors. As with any stress test, it's then up to
JoeHill wrote:
On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 12:30:18 -0600
Tom Brinkman disseminated the following:
You're in the directory the binary is in. You need to run
'./mprime -m'And run it as user, not root. The first time
it'll ask you if you want to connect to the mprime server, say n,
it won't ask
On Thursday 29 January 2004 08:06 am, JoeHill wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 12:30:18 -0600
>
> Tom Brinkman disseminated the following:
> > You're in the directory the binary is in. You need to run
> > './mprime -m'And run it as user, not root. The first time
> > it'll ask you if you want to
David E. Fox wrote:
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:50:23 +
John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have 512MB of DDR ram, but sorry I don't understand the rference,
make -j 100
# of parallel compiles: i.e., make -j 4 issues 4 gcc's on files in
parallel. If you have a big source tree,
Tom Brinkman wrote,
Usually the mobo manufacturer makes recommends and non-
recommends. Otherwise use high quality reputable DDR PC one or more label rating above the required (PC2100 for your board).
Lower CAS and ns spec's are much more important than the PC label. Your board require
On Wednesday 28 January 2004 02:42 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
> Tom Brinkman wrote:
> >If your MSI board is Revision 2.0C, it's AMD approved. What
> >PSU and DDR Ram are you usin? If you have lm_sensors running,
> >are the voltages at or a little over spec, and are they
> > steady, specially un
Tom Brinkman wrote:
If your MSI board is Revision 2.0C, it's AMD approved. What
PSU and DDR Ram are you usin? If you have lm_sensors running,
are the voltages at or a little over spec, and are they steady, specially under load (ie, with mprime, 17 running) ?
Yep
BTW, you probly won't be ass
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:50:23 +
John Richard Smith disseminated the following:
> I don't understand the rference, make -j 100
>From the manpage:
-j jobs
Specifies the number of jobs (commands) to run simultaneously. If
there is more than one -j option, the last one
My guess that it might be a bridge or RAM issue.
Do you mean the north bridge / southbridge stuff on my MSI board.
I've written on another message about the memory. I don't mind buy
better if that is what it takes, but don't want to buy unnecessaryily.
Have you tried other memory-intensive thin
Tom Brinkman wrote:
On Monday 26 January 2004 01:53 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
mprime has been running over an hour, decided to end it there
for the moment,
Anyway no apparent problems there.
I don't agree, 1 hour is an indication, IME you pass after
about 8 hours or more, ie, overnite
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 12:12:37 -0600
Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> computer, but since mprime is "nice'd" it will defer to any other
> processes. So for best results, let it go overnite while you're
How useful is that on a fairly active system? Say one running [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and o
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 15:16:49 -0600
Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Mandrake makes my XP 3000+ (overclocked to over 3200+, 171Mhz
> FSB, ram at DDR 419) absolutely *FLY*. Mencoder or Trancode is
(drool)
--
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On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 19:53:46 +
John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Now one might be thinking that this indicates that there is a faulty
> CPU(Athlon 1800)
> but for the fact that W2k and Gordian knot can run my FSB-133 setting
Hmm. Not quite sure. I'd think the bus setting and
On Monday 26 January 2004 01:53 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
> mprime has been running over an hour, decided to end it there
> for the moment,
> Anyway no apparent problems there.
I don't agree, 1 hour is an indication, IME you pass after
about 8 hours or more, ie, overnite.
> So now for bio
Tom Brinkman wrote:
You're in the directory the binary is in. You need to run
'./mprime -m'And run it as user, not root. The first time
it'll ask you if you want to connect to the mprime server, say n, it won't ask again, and the menu will be displayed, choose 17.
OK, I got mprime to ru
On Sunday 25 January 2004 01:48 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
> > You're in the directory the binary is in. You need to run
> >'./mprime -m' And run it as user, not root. The first time
> >it'll ask you if you want to connect to the mprime server, say
> > n, it won't ask again, and the menu w
Tom Brinkman wrote:
On Saturday 24 January 2004 05:56 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
Tom Brinkman wrote:
On Saturday 24 January 2004 09:03 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
I ran the desktop varient of mprime, I couldn't download the
floppy job, which do you use ?
John
ftp://let
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 23:12:47 +
John Richard Smith disseminated the following:
>
I would hereby like to nominate Mr. John Richard Smith for the "Starter of the
Longest, Most Relevant and Informative, Non-Flame War Threads" Award.
Sheesh. Well done, man.
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Regi
On Saturday 24 January 2004 05:56 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
> Tom Brinkman wrote:
> >On Saturday 24 January 2004 09:03 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
> >>I ran the desktop varient of mprime, I couldn't download the
> >>floppy job, which do you use ?
> >>
> >>John
> >
> >ftp://lettuce.edsc.ulst.a
On Saturday 24 January 2004 12:31 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote:
->That said, if the system can't run 'mprime -m', 17 overnite,
->without stopping on hardware error, IMO the system hardware is
->not stable enough for Linux use. If it can run cpuburn for an
->hour its bulletproof. Many Windoze boxes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mprime2212]# mprime -m
bash: mprime: command not found
Probably way off track, but would
# ./mprime -m
be the problem?
Cheers
Anton
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Tom Brinkman wrote:
On Saturday 24 January 2004 09:03 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
I ran the desktop varient of mprime, I couldn't download the
floppy job, which do you use ?
John
ftp://lettuce.edsc.ulst.ac.uk/mirrors/www.mersenne.org/gimps/mprime2212.tar.gz
extract (it creates it's own d
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 15:03:36 +
John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I ran the desktop varient of mprime, I couldn't download the floppy
> job, which do you use ?
It looks to be the same one I use, pretty much, except it's newer
(mprime235.tar.gz). Shouldn't make too much a diff.
On Saturday 24 January 2004 09:03 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
> I ran the desktop varient of mprime, I couldn't download the
> floppy job, which do you use ?
>
> John
ftp://lettuce.edsc.ulst.ac.uk/mirrors/www.mersenne.org/gimps/mprime2212.tar.gz
extract (it creates it's own dir) and run 'mprim
On Friday 23 January 2004 09:44 pm, David E. Fox wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 10:26:31 +
>
> John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I just ran mprime on my machine and got a core dump
> > immediately in the
> >
> > same directory as mprime.
>
> Ouch. That might indicate shoddy hardwa
David E. Fox wrote:
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 10:26:31 +
John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I just ran mprime on my machine and got a core dump immediately in the
same directory as mprime.
Ouch. That might indicate shoddy hardware. Tom can chime in, he's more
knowledgeable about
David E. Fox wrote:
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 10:26:31 +
John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I just ran mprime on my machine and got a core dump immediately in the
same directory as mprime.
Ouch. That might indicate shoddy hardware. Tom can chime in, he's more
knowledgeable about
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 10:26:31 +
John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just ran mprime on my machine and got a core dump immediately in the
>
> same directory as mprime.
Ouch. That might indicate shoddy hardware. Tom can chime in, he's more
knowledgeable about this than I am.
> Jo
David E. Fox wrote:
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 22:34:40 +1300
anton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sure is. I used mencoder for a while but it seems to ask to much from my chip (long story) which promptly overheats and seizes. Which gets me
That seems to be a hardware problem. Have you tried mprime
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 20:37:29 -0800
"David E. Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I've had success with both approaches. mencoder (or if you want
> graphical, there's gmencoder) does produce quality video, although
> I've only used it for DivX and mpeg4 stuff. DVD:rip is fairly easy to
> use, bu
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 22:34:40 +1300
anton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sure is. I used mencoder for a while but it seems to ask to much from
> my
> chip (long story) which promptly overheats and seizes. Which gets me
>
That seems to be a hardware problem. Have you tried mprime and the other
jason pearl wrote:
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:03:02 +
John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
jason pearl wrote:
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 15:39:28 +
John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
True,but this is only for the writer software aspect and I don't
thin
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:03:02 +
John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>jason pearl wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 15:39:28 +
>>John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
True,but this is only for the writer software aspect and I don't
>think >>>it's relevent to my
jason pearl wrote:
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 15:39:28 +
John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
True,but this is only for the writer software aspect and I don't think
it's relevent to my problem as such.
One thing that has ocured to me overnight. What installation are you
running. Is you
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 15:39:28 +
John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>jason pearl wrote:
>
>>>cdrecord device (n,n,n or filename): 0,X,0 has not format n,n,n and
>is >>no file : NOT Ok
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Ok this above is wrong.. change the x... or it will not find uyour
>>drive.. chang
jason pearl wrote:
cdrecord device (n,n,n or filename): 0,X,0 has not format n,n,n and is
no file : NOT Ok
Ok this above is wrong.. change the x... or it will not find uyour
drive.. change it to 0,0,0 :)
True,but this is only for the writer software aspect and I don't think
it's relev
>cdrecord device (n,n,n or filename): 0,X,0 has not format n,n,n and is
>no file : NOT Ok
Ok this above is wrong.. change the x... or it will not find uyour
drive.. change it to 0,0,0 :)
--
jason pearl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
++
"Keep your friends close and your enemies clos
On Sunday 18 January 2004 05:17 am, jason pearl wrote:
>
> here is the address to it.. http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/ you
> can get the mdk version there i think or at the mdk servers.. i
> also have it on my server ftp://jpearl.org or
> http://.jpearl.org/pub/
Better to use a Mandrake ve
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 09:46:52 +
John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>anton wrote:
>
>>
ig you guys like gui you can use DVDRip.. i use it and it works
>great.>>>
>>> Looks like a gui for transcode is that correct ?
>>>
>>
>> Sure is. I used mencoder for a while but it
anton wrote:
ig you guys like gui you can use DVDRip.. i use it and it works great.
Looks like a gui for transcode is that correct ?
Sure is. I used mencoder for a while but it seems to ask to much from
my chip (long story) which promptly overheats and seizes. Which gets
me round to it...
anton wrote:
ig you guys like gui you can use DVDRip.. i use it and it works great.
Looks like a gui for transcode is that correct ?
Sure is. I used mencoder for a while but it seems to ask to much from
my chip (long story) which promptly overheats and seizes. Which gets
me round to it...
ig you guys like gui you can use DVDRip.. i use it and it works great.
Looks like a gui for transcode is that correct ?
Sure is. I used mencoder for a while but it seems to ask to much from my
chip (long story) which promptly overheats and seizes. Which gets me
round to it... mencoder is h
jason pearl wrote:
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 21:36:24 +
John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
ig you guys like gui you can use DVDRip.. i use it and it works great.
Looks like a gui for transcode is that correct ?
John
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Want to buy your
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 21:36:24 +
John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Josenildo Marques wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 13:24, John Richard Smith wrote:
>>
>>
>>>It shouldn't make any difference whether I have scsi-emulation or not
>, >>it's covered either way, with the /dev/dvd ---
Josenildo Marques wrote:
On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 13:24, John Richard Smith wrote:
It shouldn't make any difference whether I have scsi-emulation or not ,
it's covered either way, with the /dev/dvd ---> link to /dev/scd0 ,the
real device, and I need scsi-em for various reasons. I think the next
On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 13:24, John Richard Smith wrote:
> It shouldn't make any difference whether I have scsi-emulation or not ,
> it's covered either way, with the /dev/dvd ---> link to /dev/scd0 ,the
> real device, and I need scsi-em for various reasons. I think the next
> thing to do is to s
On Friday 16 January 2004 04:39 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
> >... or if not, you must have it scsi emulated. Why?
> >
> >
>
> Programmes need it to be.
>
> John
Could be, but I suspect that's at the root of your problem.
Try transcode again with scsi off. As to your comment about my
tra
Tom Brinkman wrote:
On Friday 16 January 2004 02:28 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
Thanks Tom,
Didn't know you were a transcode user.anyway,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ll /dev/dvd
lr-xr-xr-x1 root root9 Jan 16 12:24
/dev/dvd -> /dev/scd0
thats because my true device is /dev/scd
On Friday 16 January 2004 02:28 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
> Thanks Tom,
> Didn't know you were a transcode user.anyway,
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ll /dev/dvd
> lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 9 Jan 16 12:24
> /dev/dvd -> /dev/scd0
>
> thats because my true device is /dev/scd0, and /
Tom Brinkman wrote:
On Thursday 15 January 2004 05:12 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] divx]# transcode -i /dev/dvd/ -x dvd -V -j 16,0
-B 5,0 \
> -Y 40,8 -s 4.47 -U my_movie -y xvid -w 1618
transcode v0.6.12 (C) 2001-2003 Thomas Oestreich, 2003-2004 T.
Bitterberg [transcode] cri
On Thursday 15 January 2004 05:12 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] divx]# transcode -i /dev/dvd/ -x dvd -V -j 16,0
> -B 5,0 \
>
> > -Y 40,8 -s 4.47 -U my_movie -y xvid -w 1618
>
> transcode v0.6.12 (C) 2001-2003 Thomas Oestreich, 2003-2004 T.
> Bitterberg [transcode] critical: inv
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