On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 03:30:48AM +, Tyler wrote:
> In the meantime, how does one check for bad blocks and bad ram? I have
> the pre-installed fsck running every 30th boot, and so far no errors
> have ever been reported.
>
Check the man page for the filesystem-specific fscker (honest, I'
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 22:12:26 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 01/26/07 21:30, Tyler wrote:
[...]
> > In the meantime, how does one check for bad blocks and bad ram? I have
> > the pre-installed fsck running every 30th boot, and so far no errors
> > have ever been reported.
>
> That's how you c
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On 01/26/07 21:30, Tyler wrote:
> Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
>> On Friday 26 January 2007 16:55, Tyler wrote:
>>> Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
[snip]
> In the meantime, how does one check for bad blocks and bad ram? I have
> the pre-installed fsck runnin
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
> On Friday 26 January 2007 16:55, Tyler wrote:
>> Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
>>
>>> Is
>>> dma enabled for the hard drive?
>> How do I check? what is this?
>>
Ok, checked it out and dma is enabled as required.
> ok. Now if you disable X completely, do you experience an
On Friday 26 January 2007 16:55, Tyler wrote:
> Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
>
> > Is
> > dma enabled for the hard drive?
>
> How do I check? what is this?
>
Others have told you how to check for this. If dma is not enabled on your hard
drive, it can explain why the computer is so slow! Please turn
Tyler writes:
> Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
>> Is dma enabled for the hard drive?
> How do I check?
# hdparm /dev/hda | grep using_dma
using_dma= 1 (on)
> what is this?
# man hdparm
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On 01/26/07 15:55, Tyler wrote:
> Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
[snip]
>> Is dma enabled for the hard drive?
>
> How do I check? what is this?
Direct Memory Access. It lets data be xfered directly (go figure!)
between RAM and the peripheral, without it
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
Is this sarge/Etch/sid?
Etch, upgraded a few days ago
Just make sure that X is configured properly. Are you
using the correct driver? Are there any warnings in /var/log/Xorg.0.log?
As far as I can tell everything is fine. I've got the i810 driver as
required fo
On Friday 26 January 2007 12:26, Tyler wrote:
> When the machine starts responding again I open top and find that xorg
> and gv (which I'm viewing the image in) use near 100% of my CPU when I
> resize the image, and xorg is using 70% of my memory. I imagine during
> freezes more of the memory is b
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
is the disk activity during this operation? if so you're probably
doing some massive swapping, in which case, yes memory will help.
Yes, the disk light is on the whole time. I've also had similar, but
unreproducible problems at other times (ie. not consistent wrt a
Ron Johnson wrote:
How much swap does your system use when processing the image?
If it uses more than a few MB of swap, then you need more RAM.
Otherwise, you need a faster CPU.
Well, it was using much more than a few MB of swap, so perhaps I will
upgrade the RAM. However, my immediate prob
Vibhav Sharma wrote:
if you are working with large images ... why don't you use gimp.
Thanks. I was definitely using the wrong tool. I can open and zoom the
images no problem in gimp. I had tried that before but couldn't get it
to read the files at all. I played with the settings again and go
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 05:26:41PM +, Tyler wrote:
>
> I'm working with some fairly large image files on my Thinkpad R60 with
> 512MB ram, running etch and fluxbox. On occassion the whole system
> freezes for a minute or more after I zoom in or out. When this happens I
> can usually get the
Tyler wrote:
I'm working with some fairly large image files on my Thinkpad R60 with
512MB ram, running etch and fluxbox. On occassion the whole system
freezes for a minute or more after I zoom in or out. When this happens
I can usually get the mouse pointer to move, but often nothing else
re
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On 01/26/07 11:26, Tyler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This isn't strictly a debian issue, but if anyone has good advice it
> will be you folks!
>
> I'm working with some fairly large image files on my Thinkpad R60 with
> 512MB ram, running etch and fluxbox. On o
Hi,
This isn't strictly a debian issue, but if anyone has good advice it
will be you folks!
I'm working with some fairly large image files on my Thinkpad R60 with
512MB ram, running etch and fluxbox. On occassion the whole system
freezes for a minute or more after I zoom in or out. When this
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