Re: [PLUG] Flickering monitor

2013-02-28 Thread Dale Snell
On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 20:42:37 -0800 John Jason Jordan wrote: >%== snip! ==%< > Conclusions: > > It seems to me that the most likely source of the problem is the > nouveau driver. I say this because it is only menu items and lists > that are flickering, not the ent

Re: [PLUG] DSL modem

2013-02-28 Thread Marvin Kosmal
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 9:17 PM, Ryan Rogerson wrote: > On 13-02-27 05:34 PM, Marvin Kosmal wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 4:58 PM, King Beowulf wrote: >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> On 02/27/2013 04:16 PM, Marvin Kosmal wrote: Hi Everyone I have f

[PLUG] ANNOUNCEMENT: Personal Telco's "Build OpenWrt" Play Day on Sunday

2013-02-28 Thread Russell Senior
Where: https://personaltelco.net/wiki/NodeWorldCup When: Sunday, March 3, 2013, 1:00-5:00 p.m. What: https://personaltelco.net/wiki/PlayDay20130303 The Personal Telco Project uses OpenWrt heavily in devices it uses to build wifi infrastructure around Portland, almost always building the firmware

Re: [PLUG] DSL modem

2013-02-28 Thread Ryan Rogerson
On 13-02-27 05:34 PM, Marvin Kosmal wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 4:58 PM, King Beowulf wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 02/27/2013 04:16 PM, Marvin Kosmal wrote: >>> Hi Everyone >>> >>> I have forgotten everything I should know. >>> >>> I have a TDS Actionted

Re: [PLUG] Flickering monitor

2013-02-28 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Feb 28, 2013 8:51 PM, "John Jason Jordan" wrote: > > At first I thought it was Banshee, because that is what was on the > screen at the time. I could not easily terminate Banshee because of the > difficulty in clicking on things, so I opened a GUI terminal. When the > terminal opened it immedia

[PLUG] Flickering monitor

2013-02-28 Thread John Jason Jordan
This morning I noticed that the ASUS (model # buried someplace) 22" LCD monitor that my desktop computer uses was flickering. It was not the entire monitor, just menu items in programs. If I selected a menu item in the program the flickering would cease while the menu dropdown was displayed. It was

Re: [PLUG] User limits in Linux

2013-02-28 Thread Wayne E. Van Loon Sr.
On 02/28/2013 06:00 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 27 Feb 2013, Daniel Herrington wrote: > >> This just came across from our Sys Admin team: >> * >> "They may be able to increase it [user processes] a little, but probably >> not enough to resolve the problem, which was the case last time we saw

Re: [PLUG] User limits in Linux

2013-02-28 Thread Galen Seitz
On 02/28/13 16:03, Russell Johnson wrote: > > On Feb 28, 2013, at 3:25 PM, Daniel Herrington wrote: > >> Not sure how what the current value is set to, nor by how much they fell >> they can raise it. > >> From 'man 5 limits.conf': > > "All items support the values -1, unlimited or infinity indicat

Re: [PLUG] User limits in Linux

2013-02-28 Thread Russell Johnson
On Feb 28, 2013, at 3:25 PM, Daniel Herrington wrote: > Not sure how what the current value is set to, nor by how much they fell > they can raise it. >From 'man 5 limits.conf': "All items support the values -1, unlimited or infinity indicating no limit, except for priority and nice." There a

Re: [PLUG] User limits in Linux

2013-02-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 28 Feb 2013, Daniel Herrington wrote: > The context is that we have an enterprise job scheduler (like cron, only > enteprrise based instead of local) that is starting processes on this > machine. One of the application groups came back and said they had > processes failing with this error.

Re: [PLUG] User limits in Linux

2013-02-28 Thread Daniel Herrington
Not sure how what the current value is set to, nor by how much they fell they can raise it. The context is that we have an enterprise job scheduler (like cron, only enteprrise based instead of local) that is starting processes on this machine. One of the application groups came back and said they

Re: [PLUG] DSL modem

2013-02-28 Thread Marvin Kosmal
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Aaron Burt wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 04:16:49PM -0800, Marvin Kosmal wrote: >> I need to back the web site up to my home computer while the web guy >> does maintenance on the web box. >> >> I don't know how to configure the TDS box to accept ssh so I can get

Re: [PLUG] User limits in Linux

2013-02-28 Thread Smith, Cathy
What is a "little"? Can you or they be more specific? We set the user limits fairly high in /etc/security/limits.conf for the Oracle Fusion accounts - keep increasing it. Of course, the Fusion application servers have hefty amounts of CPU and memory. Cathy --- Cathy L. Smith IT Engineer Pa

Re: [PLUG] DSL modem

2013-02-28 Thread Aaron Burt
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 04:16:49PM -0800, Marvin Kosmal wrote: > I need to back the web site up to my home computer while the web guy > does maintenance on the web box. > > I don't know how to configure the TDS box to accept ssh so I can get through.. You don't have to. SCP works both ways, as d

Re: [PLUG] User limits in Linux

2013-02-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 27 Feb 2013, Daniel Herrington wrote: > This just came across from our Sys Admin team: > * > "They may be able to increase it [user processes] a little, but probably > not enough to resolve the problem, which was the case last time we saw this > issue. Linux [user processes] cannot be set