Re: [arch-general] virtual memory exhausted

2011-07-29 Thread Mauro Santos
On 29-07-2011 23:55, Jorge Almeida wrote: > Agreed. But how is one supposed to know how to choose sane values? For the "max user processes" what I've seen is that you want to set it a little over the maximum number of tasks you expect to run (the number that top reports) so there is some protectio

Re: [arch-general] virtual memory exhausted

2011-07-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Mauro Santos wrote: > > Are you sure you haven't personalized that? Yes. For a good reason: what little I knew about ulimit (from Gentoo) was forgotten, and it only came to mind now that I was bitten. 'ulimit -v' says unlimited > here and I haven't changed that

Re: [arch-general] virtual memory exhausted

2011-07-29 Thread Mauro Santos
On 29-07-2011 22:50, Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Byron Clark > wrote: >> On 07/29/11 at 05:28pm, Jorge Almeida wrote: > >>> # ulimit -a >>> virtual memory (kbytes, -v) 58593 >> >> You might need more than ~57MB of address space to run the compilation. >> >

Re: [arch-general] virtual memory exhausted

2011-07-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Byron Clark wrote: > On 07/29/11 at 05:28pm, Jorge Almeida wrote: >> #  ulimit -a >> virtual memory          (kbytes, -v) 58593 > > You might need more than ~57MB of address space to run the compilation. > Yes, although I have no idea of what values would be righ

Re: [arch-general] virtual memory exhausted

2011-07-29 Thread Byron Clark
On 07/29/11 at 05:28pm, Jorge Almeida wrote: > I'm not sure this is an Arch issue, but I can't figure out what else can be. > > I'm trying to compile non-Arch stuff in an arch host. I tried Binutils > (of LFS) and Buildroot (of uclibc). Both failed with the "virtual > memory exhausted: Cannot allo

Re: [arch-general] virtual memory exhausted

2011-07-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Jan Steffens wrote: > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Jorge Almeida wrote: >> I'm not sure this is an Arch issue, but I can't figure out what else can be. >> >> I'm trying to compile non-Arch stuff in an arch host. I tried Binutils >> (of LFS) and Buildroot (of

Re: [arch-general] virtual memory exhausted

2011-07-29 Thread Jan Steffens
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Jorge Almeida wrote: > I'm not sure this is an Arch issue, but I can't figure out what else can be. > > I'm trying to compile non-Arch stuff in an arch host. I tried Binutils > (of LFS) and Buildroot (of uclibc). Both failed with the "virtual > memory exhausted: Ca

Re: [arch-general] quiet kernel parameter

2011-07-29 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Meyithi wrote: > It appears that the quiet kernel parameter also sets a quiet flag in > Syslinux as well, which is doing something horrible to early framebuffers. >  As to the original question, it seems that "quiet" and "loglevel=4" are > identical indeed, unless

Re: [arch-general] quiet kernel parameter

2011-07-29 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 3:43 AM, Meyithi wrote: > > It appears that the quiet kernel parameter also sets a quiet flag in > Syslinux as well, which is doing something horrible to early framebuffers. >  As to the original question, it seems that "quiet" and "loglevel=4" are > identical indeed, unles

Re: [arch-general] virtual memory exhausted

2011-07-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr. wrote: >> > > what exactly are you trying to compile.. maybe that's your problem > > As I said, Binutils (for building a Linux From Scratch system). But I also tried to compile Buildroot, which is totally unrelated with LFS. That's why I thi

Re: [arch-general] virtual memory exhausted

2011-07-29 Thread Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr.
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Jorge Almeida wrote: > I'm not sure this is an Arch issue, but I can't figure out what else can > be. > > I'm trying to compile non-Arch stuff in an arch host. I tried Binutils > (of LFS) and Buildroot (of uclibc). Both failed with the "virtual > memory exhausted

[arch-general] virtual memory exhausted

2011-07-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
I'm not sure this is an Arch issue, but I can't figure out what else can be. I'm trying to compile non-Arch stuff in an arch host. I tried Binutils (of LFS) and Buildroot (of uclibc). Both failed with the "virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory" error. The computer is a one-user workstat

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] KDE 4.7 hits [testing]

2011-07-29 Thread Andrea Scarpino
On Friday, July 29, 2011 03:31:45 PM Kirill Churin wrote: > Are there any way to disable OpenGL ES in Kwin? > > As told in https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=967057, OpenGL > compositing doesn't work with current NVidia and ATI blobs :( kdebase-workspace 4.7.0-2 in [testing] doesn't have

Re: [arch-general] Atheros WiFi only working after reboot from windows

2011-07-29 Thread Vic Demuzere
I tried setting the netcfg profile as David C. Rankin suggested, also tried "ifconfig wlan0 down" before starting the network. Tried reloading the ath9k module, nothing helped. It still only works when I have used the WiFi connection on windows first, then reboot to Arch. I've found an ath9k mail

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] KDE 4.7 hits [testing]

2011-07-29 Thread Kirill Churin
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 5:26 AM, Andrea Scarpino wrote: > Hi arKers, > KDE 4.7 has been released[1] and our packages are ready in [testing]. > > As you already know KDE is (slowly) moving to GIT. With this > transition some KDE module has been splitted into subprojects, and the > remaining modules

Re: [arch-general] quiet kernel parameter

2011-07-29 Thread Meyithi
This appears to be down to Syslinux, specifically a change introduced in 3.74 http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/Syslinux_3_Changelog#Changes_in_3.74 Suppress the Loading ... message if "quiet" is specified on the kernel > command line. and the fix that we already knew is to use loglevel=

Re: [arch-general] KDE 4.7 hits [testing]

2011-07-29 Thread Divan Santana
On Thu, 28 Jul 2011, 12:05:39 SAST, Marc Deop wrote: > On Thursday 28 July 2011 01:26:01 Andrea Scarpino wrote: > > Hi arKers, > > KDE 4.7 has been released[1] and our packages are ready in [testing]. > > > > As you already know KDE is (slowly) moving to GIT. With this > > transition some KDE mo