Bug#736146: ITP: libnftnl -- nftables low-level userspace library

2014-01-20 Thread Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Arturo Borrero Gonzalez * Package name: libnftnl Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Pablo Neira Ayuso * URL : http://www.netfilter.org * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C Description : nftables low-level userspac

Re: mupdf (was: xpdf removed from testing?)

2014-01-20 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 4:34 AM, Jens Oliver John wrote: >> $ apt-cache show mupdf >> MuPDF is a lightweight PDF viewer and toolkit written in portable C. >> (...) > > The mupdf PDF reader is supposed to be minimal and makes on me the impression > of > being more a reference implementation using

Re: Bug#735927: general: X *always* crashes when ram is full

2014-01-20 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Roger Leigh contributed: > With an SSD, you really > don't want /tmp or swap on it; Why?, due to limited write cycles? As long as it is a modern SSD (years) or one of the old ones one with a sandforce controller (OpenBSD dev let me know about that) then it has a good 20%

Re: mupdf (was: xpdf removed from testing?)

2014-01-20 Thread Sebastian Ramacher
On 2014-01-20 12:54:30, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 4:34 AM, Jens Oliver John wrote: > >> $ apt-cache show mupdf > >> MuPDF is a lightweight PDF viewer and toolkit written in portable C. > >> (...) > > > > The mupdf PDF reader is supposed to be minimal and makes on me the >

Re: mass-filing bug reports to use dh-autoreconf during the build

2014-01-20 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 16 January 2014 17:25, Matthias Klose wrote: > Last year, I started to file bug reports for the arm64 port, which required > new > versions of the config.sub and config.guess scripts. All of these can be > fixed > by using the autotools-dev package for the update. Now, another port requires

Re: RFH: logcheck

2014-01-20 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
X-I-am-subscribed: no X-CC-me-please: yes On 11/12/13 15:55, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > I am tagging logcheck as RFH because it seems that it could > need some love. > The PTS says: > The BTS contains patches fixing 36 bugs, consider including or untagging > them. > > And no upload has been done

Re: mass-filing bug reports to use dh-autoreconf during the build

2014-01-20 Thread Matthias Klose
Am 20.01.2014 14:09, schrieb Dimitri John Ledkov: > On 16 January 2014 17:25, Matthias Klose wrote: >> Last year, I started to file bug reports for the arm64 port, which required >> new >> versions of the config.sub and config.guess scripts. All of these can be >> fixed >> by using the autotool

Re: Bug#735927: general: X *always* crashes when ram is full

2014-01-20 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 12:29:28PM +, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > previously on this list Roger Leigh contributed: > > > With an SSD, you really > > don't want /tmp or swap on it; > > Why?, due to limited write cycles? That's one reason, but the one I was thinking of was the shocking performance

Re: Bug#735927: general: X *always* crashes when ram is full

2014-01-20 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 14:30:24 + Roger Leigh wrote: > This is a system with 8 cores @4GHz, 16GiB RAM, > over 16GiB swap, so should be pretty performant, yet /tmp on an > SSD made it crawl and freeze continually. Interesting, have a look if it states the write access time spec in the datasheet (

Re: Bug#735927: general: X *always* crashes when ram is full

2014-01-20 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 01/20/2014 09:56 AM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 14:30:24 + Roger Leigh wrote: > >> This is a system with 8 cores @4GHz, 16GiB RAM, over 16GiB swap, so >> should be pretty performant, yet /tmp on an SSD made it crawl and >> f

SSDs have extra "unused" space??? (was: Re: Bug#735927: general: X *always* crashes when ram is full

2014-01-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Kevin, On Montag, 20. Januar 2014, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > As long as it is a modern SSD (years) or one of the old ones one with a > sandforce controller (OpenBSD dev let me know about that) then it has a > good 20% extra space above it's listed gigabytes reserved unusable for > wear levelling

Re: SSDs have extra "unused" space???

2014-01-20 Thread Sven Hartge
Holger Levsen wrote: > On Montag, 20. Januar 2014, Kevin Chadwick wrote: >> As long as it is a modern SSD (years) or one of the old ones one with >> a sandforce controller (OpenBSD dev let me know about that) then it >> has a good 20% extra space above it's listed gigabytes reserved >> unusable f

Re: SSDs have extra "unused" space???

2014-01-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Sven, On Montag, 20. Januar 2014, Sven Hartge wrote: > Have a look at this article from Anandtech.com: > http://www.anandtech.com/show/6489/playing-with-op [...] > There are numbers for other SSDs in that article. wow, thanks! cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a dig

Re: Better pdiff handling for apt

2014-01-20 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 04:13:34PM +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: > On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 07:34:07PM +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: > > So, I guess merging both could cross a lot of points of your list and > > be relatively easily feed into unstable for proper field-testing. > > (a upload of

Re: Bug#735927: general: X *always* crashes when ram is full

2014-01-20 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 10:46:50AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 01/20/2014 09:56 AM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > > On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 14:30:24 + Roger Leigh wrote: > > > >> This is a system with 8 cores @4GHz, 16GiB RAM, over 16GiB swap

Re: Bug#735927: general: X *always* crashes when ram is full

2014-01-20 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 01/20/2014 02:43 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: > It would be interesting to have further data from users who could try > running with /tmp on the rootfs SSD and on a tmpfs (with or without > the swap on the SSD). My swap, /tmp, /boot, /usr, and / are

Re: SSDs have extra "unused" space??? (was: Re: Bug#735927: general: X *always* crashes when ram is full

2014-01-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 1:22 AM, Holger Levsen wrote: > wait, what? Do you have any vendor statements to support this 20% extra space? Flash is basically probabilistic storage and you need extra space to ensure that the probability your data is stored remains high, and a (possibly trustworthy) co

Bug#736217: ITP: gstreamer-vaapi -- VA-API plugins for GStreamer

2014-01-20 Thread Vincent Cheng
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Vincent Cheng * Package name: gstreamer-vaapi Version : 0.5.7 Upstream Author : Gwenole Beauchesne * URL : http://gitorious.org/vaapi/gstreamer-vaapi * License : LGPL-2.1+ Programming Lang: C Description : VA-API