On Sun, 28 Aug 2022 13:25:45 -0700
Michael Ewan wrote:
> Kill -9 cannot be handled in the program, it kills
> the program immediately leaving open files, memory allocations, swap space,
> and all kinds of other stuff like child processes laying around.
kill -9 aka SIGKILL is almost always a ba
On Sun, 28 Aug 2022 01:23:08 -0700
Russell Senior wrote:
> Uh, I'd take issue with "poorly designed". Maybe misunderstood.
I don't mean the page cache is a bad idea. I mean that "MemFree" should be
called
something like "MemInactive" and "MemAvailable" should be called "MemFree" in
/proc/memin
On Mon, 29 Aug 2022 17:49:42 -0700
John Jason Jordan dijo:
>The font (four .ttf files) resides in ~/.fonts. But it turns out that
>none of the fonts in that folder appear in applications, e.g., LO
>Writer. Looking at the results of 'fc-cache -fv' I find the line:
>
> /home/jjj/.local/share/
Having completed the dist-upgrade from Xubuntu 20.04.x to 22.04.1 I am
in the process of tidying up. And over the years I have collected way
too many fonts, installed by programs whose developers think it's OK to
pollute their users' computers. For the past couple of hours I have
nuked about a thir
