Re: [opensuse] Encrypted file system: disable mount on boot.

2008-01-20 Thread nordi
Carlos E. R. wrote: Use the noauto option where it is due: in '/etc/crypttab'. More info, man crypttab. Unfortunately, that does not work as expected. See bug #351061 [1] for more details and a workaround. Regards nordi [1] https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=351061 -- To unsubscribe

[opensuse] OpenSUSE 10.3 benchmarking revisited

2007-12-03 Thread nordi
the same slowdown or if this is specific to Suse. Regards nordi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] tmp folder cleanup

2007-11-14 Thread nordi
kernel. The only way I know of that is 100.0% FHS compliant (see [1]) is to wipe /tmp at boot time and leave it alone at all other times. This can be configured in /etc/sysconfig/cron as Josef Assad already wrote. Regards nordi [1] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html

Re: [opensuse] Ran out of disk space

2007-11-12 Thread nordi
a few seconds at most. Regards nordi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Seamonkey and fire fox suddenly disapear/end connecting to web sites.

2007-11-05 Thread nordi
, such as konqueror? Regards nordi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Suspicious Update

2007-10-23 Thread nordi
imageshack.us, img-up.net, etc.) and link them in your mails, ok? :) Or maybe just save the file in the correct format: Todd, open your .tiff file in Gimp and save it as .png. The file suddenly shrinks from 845kB to 22kB, without any loss in quality. For more details, see [1]. Regards nordi [1] http

Re: [opensuse] OpenSUSE 10.3 benchmarking: slower than 10.2?

2007-10-18 Thread nordi
gotten no replies to my bug report [1]. Btw, if you have a Bugzilla account you can add yourself to the CC: list and get informed about all changes to this bug. Regards nordi [1] https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=333739 config_103fast.bz2 Description: BZip2 compressed data

Re: [opensuse] OpenSUSE 10.3 benchmarking: slower than 10.2?

2007-10-14 Thread nordi
_increase_ for 10.3 ;) Regards nordi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] OpenSUSE 10.3 benchmarking: slower than 10.2?

2007-10-14 Thread nordi
are without beagle. Don't know for Ian. Regards nordi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] OpenSUSE 10.3 benchmarking: slower than 10.2?

2007-10-14 Thread nordi
why they still score much lower for 10.3 than for 10.0, even though LANG=POSIX is used on both systems. Somehow this does not look right. The kernel in 10.3 seems to be _much_ slower than in 10.0. Maybe someone forgot to activate some optimization in the kernel config? Regards nordi

Re: [opensuse] OpenSUSE 10.3 benchmarking: slower than 10.2?

2007-10-14 Thread nordi
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Re: [opensuse] OpenSUSE 10.3 benchmarking: slower than 10.2?

2007-10-14 Thread nordi
Sure, wouldn't make a lot of sense if I didn't. Same hardware (Pentium M 1.3Ghz), same binaries (as downloaded for unixbench5.0). Also, tests that don't do text manipulation, like grep, don't need to be tested with different locales You are right, just wanted to be _really_ sure. Regards nordi

Re: [opensuse] OpenSUSE 10.3 benchmarking: slower than 10.2?

2007-10-14 Thread nordi
, while grepping with LANG=POSIX worked as expected. On Suse 10.0 I can grep the whole file with UTF-8 in just 0.9 seconds, while on Suse 10.3 it takes 4.7 seconds to grep a small fraction. Anyone else seeing this? Regards nordi trace_slow.bz2 Description: BZip2 compressed data

Re: [opensuse] OpenSUSE 10.3 benchmarking: slower than 10.2?

2007-10-14 Thread nordi
or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_COLLATE to default locale: No such file or directory If you get any messages on stderr, then the locale is not supported. nordi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: [opensuse] OpenSUSE 10.3 benchmarking: slower than 10.2?

2007-10-14 Thread nordi
nordi wrote: Try this: $ LANG=foo $ locale -a /dev/null locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_COLLATE to default locale: No such file or directory If you get any

Re: [opensuse] OpenSUSE 10.3 benchmarking: slower than 10.2?

2007-10-14 Thread nordi
syscalls have been getting slower over time. I'm just amazed _how_ much slower this is. Did the same thing happen for the vanilla kernel? Regards nordi #include stdio.h #include unistd.h #include sys/utsname.h #include sys/types.h #include sys/stat.h int main() { int i; uid_t myuid

Re: [opensuse] OpenSUSE 10.3 benchmarking: slower than 10.2?

2007-10-14 Thread nordi
Forgot to mention that we now have bug #333739, see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=333739 Maybe the Suse kernel-guys know if this is a bug or a feature. nordi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] OpenSUSE 10.3 benchmarking: slower than 10.2?

2007-10-13 Thread nordi
. This is _very_ strange. Usually I would say the benchmark is broken, but the benchmark simply starts a shell script that starts some GNU utilities. There's not much you can break here. Can someone confirm that running in runlevel 1 yields much higher benchmark scores? Puzzled nordi -- To unsubscribe, e

Re: [opensuse] OpenSUSE 10.3 benchmarking: slower than 10.2?

2007-10-13 Thread nordi
the benchmark uses signals for its timing: Is there anything that might send signals in one runlevel and not send them in another? Regards nordi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Partially seeding OpenSUSE 10.3 DVD

2007-10-09 Thread nordi
tracker. It's just that I cannot imagine I am the first one that had this idea... Regards nordi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Partially seeding OpenSUSE 10.3 DVD

2007-10-09 Thread nordi
caching? Use O_DIRECT when opening the file, this should do the job according to man 2 open. In the case of Azureus, the caching is useful in some situations. If you are seeding only one or two 'small' files (~100MB) it means Azureus can run without any disc access after a while. Regards nordi

Re: [opensuse] Partially seeding OpenSUSE 10.3 DVD

2007-10-09 Thread nordi
Randall R Schulz wrote On Tuesday 09 October 2007 10:21, nordi wrote: ... Yes, that is another thing. And it is probably not good for the disc to move around every 2 seconds all day long. You're kidding, right? That's virtually an idle drive. This is a _laptop_, so these disc accesses mean

[opensuse] Partially seeding OpenSUSE 10.3 DVD

2007-10-05 Thread nordi
, all data could come from the fs-cache and the hard disk could be completely silent. Is there a way to do this in Azureus (or any other program)? I googled for a solution, but could not find anything that I can use. Thanks nordi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: [opensuse-factory] Dirty filesystem after Yast update of RC1 and halt + reboot.

2007-09-28 Thread nordi
in the severity drop list? We already have bugs #328870 and #328870. With enhancement request he meant you should set the severity of the bug to Enhancement. Regards nordi - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: [opensuse-factory] Dirty filesystem after Yast update of RC1 and halt + reboot.

2007-09-27 Thread nordi
report because this was annoying me, too. Zypper too should try reloading: I updated my RC1 over the command line and had to start the process around 5 times until it finally had all packages. Regards nordi - To unsubscribe, e

Re: [opensuse] Resizing partitions safely

2007-09-25 Thread nordi
a frontend that uses the same commands. I think that Yast can do this, too. At least I recall shrinking a ReiserFS back when I installed Suse 9.3. Regards nordi [1] http://www.namesys.com/shrink_reiserfs.html -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 RC1 installation confusion

2007-09-24 Thread nordi
] for more details. Joining that list will also help you to stay informed about the betas. Regards nordi [1] http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate/Mailinglists -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse-factory] RC1 i386 Installation

2007-09-23 Thread nordi
to retrieve some files via internet without me pressing a button all the time? Regards nordi - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse-factory] RC1 i386 Installation

2007-09-23 Thread nordi
in xx seconds. This way, a user sitting in front of the system will get a quick reply from the installer and someone that installs over night is also happy. Regards nordi - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

[opensuse-factory] Issues with RC1

2007-09-21 Thread nordi
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Re: [opensuse] howto test swap? [was RAM]

2007-09-20 Thread nordi
thing, because it means that I have sufficient RAM for the things that I am doing. Regards nordi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Preload delays shutting down

2006-01-05 Thread nordi
booting as little as possible you should probably combine that with ionice (man ionice). Regards nordi ___ Goldfishbowl - der große Angelwettbewerb Wer fängt die meisten Punkte? Werfen Sie Ihre Angel aus, und versuchen Sie

AW: [opensuse-optimize] problems with opensuse.linux.co.nz ftp dir

2005-11-15 Thread nordi
this other 'admin'. Regards nordi [1] http://www.slo-fi.de/linux/torrent.html - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

AW: Re: [opensuse-optimize] SUPER optimization flags

2005-11-08 Thread nordi
Linux Magazin recently had a comparison of gcc 4.0 against icc 9.0, where the icc was around 10% faster for bzip2. The effect was smaller or even negative for other software, but at least for _some_ applications you can get considerable speedups using icc. Cheers nordi

Re: [opensuse] Comparing different file systems

2005-10-11 Thread nordi
incorrectly, or whatever. I think it would be really interesting to find the answer to this question. Regards nordi - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Comparing different file systems

2005-10-10 Thread nordi
that the problem is with reiserfs. Exactly! That's also the reason why I'd like other people to make benchmarks of unmodified ReiserFS vs unmodified Ext3. The only other PC I have available for testing is a K6-2 300Mhz, and that would certainly not be representative for your average Suse PC. Cheers nordi

Re: [opensuse] Routing Root's Mail to Another User

2005-10-10 Thread nordi
Andreas Jaeger wrote: (note if you have more than one user, autologin is turned off AFAIK). This is also what the manual says, but it is not what is happening. I filed bug #121923 for this. Regards nordi - To unsubscribe, e

Re: [opensuse] Routing Root's Mail to Another User

2005-10-10 Thread nordi
houghi wrote: I have a solution for this bug. Just turn it off by default. Problem solved. Ducks ;-) People have suggested that before, and that suggestion got rejected. Have a look at bug #117676 for example. Cheers nordi

Re: [opensuse] Routing Root's Mail to Another User

2005-10-10 Thread nordi
try to minimize the number of questions we ask. Regards nordi - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] preload stuff on suse 10 + performance

2005-10-09 Thread nordi
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Re: [opensuse] Routing Root's Mail to Another User

2005-10-09 Thread nordi
is also clever enough to turn off auto login. Regards nordi - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[opensuse] Comparing different file systems

2005-10-09 Thread nordi
this and add your own measurements if you have any. The article is available at http://www.opensuse.org/File_systems, so you can add your own data directly. Cheers nordi - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: [opensuse] Comparing different file systems

2005-10-09 Thread nordi
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Re: [opensuse] Routing Root's Mail to Another User

2005-10-09 Thread nordi
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Re: [opensuse] Routing Root's Mail to Another User

2005-10-09 Thread nordi
you produce a consumer OS like Suse Linux. Not like I wouldn't want a default umask to 077 for Suse and default permissions set to secure instead of easy. But I don't think that will happen any time soon. For usability reasons. Cheers nordi

[opensuse] Installing Suse 10.0 on ReiserFS 4

2005-10-08 Thread nordi
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Re: [opensuse] Installing Suse 10.0 on ReiserFS 4

2005-10-08 Thread nordi
/Novell doesn't support that. What do we learn from this: DO NOT use reiser4 with Suse Linux 10.0. Shred and wipe offer easier ways to get rid of your data. Cheers nordi - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [opensuse] Upgrading OpenSuSE 10.1 Alpha 1

2005-10-05 Thread nordi
). Regards nordi [1] http://ftp4.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1-OSS-alpha1/delta-iso/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Upgrading OpenSuSE 10.1 Alpha 1

2005-10-05 Thread nordi
out those new packages daily - hope we have it soon and will then document it, Now _that_ would be a great thing. I am sure that Audrius is not the only one eagerly waiting for something like that. Cheers nordi - To unsubscribe, e

Re: [opensuse-optimize] Improving bootup time by 11 seconds

2005-10-02 Thread nordi
it be that some strange hardware or a slow dhcp server is the reason for this deviation? I measured the whole thing with network cable unplugged and no extra hardware attached, trying to eliminate any hardware-dependant effects. Regards nordi

Re: [opensuse] Sound not available when a new user session started

2005-09-30 Thread nordi
, the login-sound that KDE plays worked instantly, only amarok needed some help. Cheers nordi - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[opensuse-optimize] Improving bootup time by 11 seconds

2005-09-30 Thread nordi
that you should place in /opt/kde3/share/autostart. When the system starts, it will open a small window that shows the current uptime of the system (first number, ignore the second one). I would really appreciate your feedback! Cheers nordi timer.desktop Description: application/desktop

Re: [opensuse] Re: [opensuse-announce] SUSE Linux 10.1 Alpha1 Au ckland is ready

2005-09-29 Thread nordi
up to date. Cheers nordi [1] http://golem.de/0509/40738.html - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] preload on openSUSE(oS)-10.0-RC1

2005-09-28 Thread nordi
, it sometimes takes a while to update all these files. For 10.1 preloading will be even better than it is now. I'll have a look at that once I have 10.0 installed. Maybe Suse is working on that as well. Cheers nordi [1] http://www.opensuse.org/SUPER_preloading [2] http://www.opensuse.org

Re: [opensuse] Preload HowTo

2005-09-25 Thread nordi
references to somebody elses homedirs in there. The parser should contain something like grep -v /home in two places. Remove that, and it should be just as fast as PePr. Now you could do that with all your apps, or just use PePr and get it done in 1/10 of the time. Regards nordi

Re: [opensuse] Preload HowTo

2005-09-24 Thread nordi
not preloaded, so there is no need to explicitly remove anything. Cheers nordi - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Preload HowTo

2005-09-24 Thread nordi
Since people seem to be interested in the internal workings of preloading, I have written [1]. I'll write a little more later on. Feel free to add stuff yourselves and ask questions. Regards nordi [1] http://www.opensuse.org/SUPER_preloading_internals

Re: [opensuse] Preload HowTo

2005-09-24 Thread nordi
/appspreloader.sh script that does the actual preloading. Append the following line: preload /usr/bin/opera opera This is assuming that the executable of Opera is /usr/bin/opera, and that you stored the filelist under /etc/preload.d/opera. Now didn't I tell you PePr was easier? ;) Regards nordi

Re: [opensuse] Super RC1 install: comments and questions

2005-09-20 Thread nordi
Alexander Antoniades wrote: No amount of clicking 'abort' will stop it. Is there a timeout setting somewhere or an elegant way to handle this? I already filed bug #115534 for this. Cheers nordi - To unsubscribe, e-mail

Re: [opensuse] Installed RC1, two concerns..

2005-09-11 Thread nordi
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Re: [opensuse] Installed RC1, two concerns..

2005-09-11 Thread nordi
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Re: [opensuse] Installed RC1, two concerns..

2005-09-11 Thread nordi
is using it. Preloading just fills the filesystem cache. If you don't use the preloaded apps then your kernel will use this RAM for something else. Cheers nordi - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e

[opensuse-optimize] Removing unnecessary applications

2005-09-02 Thread nordi
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