Re: How to optimize a RAM-only (swapless) system?

2010-12-22 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 2:52 AM, Von Fugal wrote: > It really should sit as an in-between swap and memory place. Recently > "swapped" pages should go straight to compcache, evicting pages if > necessary *from* compcache to disk. That would be ideal. I don't know if > the kernel devs would ever wan

Re: Gitting Backwards

2010-12-22 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 21:44:33 -0700 AJ ONeal wrote: > Is that the anwser you were hoping for? It did exactly what I needed; thanks. -- Charles Curley /"\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing?

Re: Bind9 or DNSMasq

2010-12-22 Thread Nicholas Leippe
Or you could use djbdns which makes it extremely trivial, with no possible syntax gotchas that can totally bite you. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

Re: Bind9 or DNSMasq

2010-12-22 Thread Tarrant
On 12/22/10 9:23 PM, Make Compile wrote: > I've decided to have BIND as DNS server. How can i achieve to have slave dns > server? > I'm running debian lenny as master bind dns i wanted to have slave dns for > the backup in case master is down. tnx The easiest way to find that out is to google.

Re: Bind9 or DNSMasq

2010-12-22 Thread Make Compile
I've decided to have BIND as DNS server. How can i achieve to have slave dns server? I'm running debian lenny as master bind dns i wanted to have slave dns for the backup in case master is down. tnx --- On Tue, 12/21/10, plug-requ...@plug.org wrote: From: plug-requ...@plug.org Subject: PLUG D

Re: How to optimize a RAM-only (swapless) system?

2010-12-22 Thread Von Fugal
> There has been research into heuristics that allow one to get the best > of compressed ram and disk based swap device, providing performance > that is never worse than disk swap (minus 2% overhead or so). Also > simply compressing the pages being swapped out could be useful for > reducing the nu

Re: How to optimize a RAM-only (swapless) system?

2010-12-22 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 1:26 AM, Von Fugal wrote: >> One thing I have found quite useful is compcache. This allows you to >> use compressed ram a swap-device. It doesn't need a physical disk and >> has zero latency so it avoids many of the disadvantages of physical >> swap devices. It tends to giv

Re: [OT] Gumstix Hobby Project

2010-12-22 Thread AJ ONeal
Thanks, I don't know why he didn't post that in response to my posting mine. I would have probably just used his. AJ ONeal On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Brad Midgley wrote: > AJ > > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 9:01 AM, AJ ONeal wrote: > > P.S. I just use openembedded. > > fwiw, I really like

Re: How to optimize a RAM-only (swapless) system?

2010-12-22 Thread Von Fugal
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 1:35 AM, AJ ONeal wrote: > > The bugs I've already been bitten by is that if you have no swap the kernel > > will default to sending the oom (out-of-memory) killer on any random process > > One thing I have found quite useful is compcache. This allows you to > use compr

Re: [OT] Gumstix Hobby Project

2010-12-22 Thread Brad Midgley
AJ On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 9:01 AM, AJ ONeal wrote: > P.S. I just use openembedded. fwiw, I really like sakoman's self-hosting dev environment. cross compiling is a pain. http://www.sakoman.com/category/7-gnome-daily-builds-r12.html I tinkered with the idea of a telephony/media center that coul

Re: [OT] [RANT] Gitting Backwards

2010-12-22 Thread AJ ONeal
Don't make me do it my presents are at stake. AJ Sent from my Google Android On Dec 22, 2010 9:31 AM, "Aaron Toponce" wrote: > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 09:11:53AM -0700, Stuart Jansen wrote: >> Sorry, I've gotta agree with AJ here. All the cool kids are using github >> these days. If you're not u

Re: [OT] [RANT] Gitting Backwards

2010-12-22 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 09:11:53AM -0700, Stuart Jansen wrote: > Sorry, I've gotta agree with AJ here. All the cool kids are using github > these days. If you're not using github, you're either lame or dead. > Either way, you might as well not exist. You remind me a lot of my dad. When we would go

Re: [OT] [RANT] Gitting Backwards

2010-12-22 Thread AJ ONeal
Santa promised to get me something other than coal this year as long as I abstain from philosophical rants. AJ ONeal On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Tod Hansmann wrote: > Um, I think you're misinterpreting what he's saying... He didn't say > most of the world didn't use git. He said most of

Re: [OT] [RANT] Gitting Backwards

2010-12-22 Thread Stuart Jansen
On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 18:14 -0700, Tod Hansmann wrote: > (I also have no idea what site you're referring to. As far as I know, > it could be Launchpad, BerliOS, github, or possibly even Codeplex, but > none of those make Google Code not worth mentioning. I think you might > be putting too much

Re: How to optimize a RAM-only (swapless) system?

2010-12-22 Thread AJ ONeal
Are there any other ideas for what I might do with sysctl, the kernel config, or things I can change it /etc? AJ ONeal On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:35 AM, AJ ONeal wrote: > The bugs I've already been bitten by is that if you have no swap the kernel > will default to sending the oom (out-of-memor

Re: How to optimize a RAM-only (swapless) system?

2010-12-22 Thread AJ ONeal
Thank you very much! This looks very interesting. I'll keep it in mind. AJ ONeal On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 5:28 AM, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 1:35 AM, AJ ONeal wrote: > > The bugs I've already been bitten by is that if you have no swap the > kernel > > will default to

Re: [OT] Gumstix Hobby Project

2010-12-22 Thread AJ ONeal
P.S. I just use openembedded. I've created scripts to download and setup sakoman's latest builds. I've also created my own image recipes: https://github.com/fastr/gumstix-utils AJ ONeal On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:59 AM, AJ ONeal wrote: > One of the projects I'm working with has a lot of open

Re: [OT] Gumstix Hobby Project

2010-12-22 Thread AJ ONeal
One of the projects I'm working with has a lot of open source components is a media server. I plan to market it, but I'd like to find a way to make a fun group project out of it. i.e. one of the things that I want is that if you plug in an ipod or camera it slurps the data automatically. I do co

Re: How to optimize a RAM-only (swapless) system?

2010-12-22 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 1:35 AM, AJ ONeal wrote: > The bugs I've already been bitten by is that if you have no swap the kernel > will default to sending the oom (out-of-memory) killer on any random process One thing I have found quite useful is compcache. This allows you to use compressed ram a s