[gentoo-user] Re: gigabyte mobo latency

2014-10-18 Thread James
thegeezer thegeezer.net> writes: > there is a little more here > http://gentoo-en.vfose.ru/wiki/Improve_responsiveness_with_cgroups > which will allow you to script creating a cgroup with the processID of > an interactive shell, that you can start from to help save hunting down > all the threads

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 3.17.1-r1

2014-10-18 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 8:21 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > > (2) There's been a sudden masking of 3.17.0 in favor of 3.17.1-r1 , > now successfully running my machine. > Yup - the changelog mentions filesystem corruption issues but not which, and I'm too lazy to check the patches. :) However, anybod

[gentoo-user] Kernel 3.17.1-r1

2014-10-18 Thread Philip Webb
2 more kernel problems, both solved fairly quickly. (1) Somehow, presumably in 'make menuconfig' for 3.17.0 , the real-time-clock option got unchecked, resulting in a "can't find hardware clock" error at start/shutdown. Perhaps it's a bug in menuconfig or perhaps the option got moved around ; si

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gigabyte mobo latency

2014-10-18 Thread thegeezer
On 18/10/14 22:51, James wrote: > thegeezer thegeezer.net> writes: > > >>> So. Is there a make.conf setting or elsewhere to make the >>> terminal session response times, in the browsers (seamonkey, firefox) >>> faster? >>> the typing latency in the browser windows). >>> ideas? >> two things

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: XFCE weather plugin does not work

2014-10-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 21:50:11 +0100, David W Noon wrote: > > You can use unpack or prepare. The difference is that the former > > runs immediately before the prepare function in the ebuild, the > > latter immediately after. Not only does it save manifesting the > > ebuild each time you modify it, i

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 3.17.0

2014-10-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 18/10/2014 23:09, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > What do they do for us lucky chaps? ;-) Read the supplied descriptions in your choice of "make *config" options > > On October 18, 2014 1:33:18 PM GMT+02:00, Alan McKinnon > wrote: > > On 18/10/2014 06:17, Philip Webb wrote: > >

[gentoo-user] Re: gigabyte mobo latency

2014-10-18 Thread James
thegeezer thegeezer.net> writes: > > So. Is there a make.conf setting or elsewhere to make the > > terminal session response times, in the browsers (seamonkey, firefox) > > faster? > > the typing latency in the browser windows). > > ideas? > two things you might like to look into: 1. cg

[gentoo-user] Re: gigabyte mobo latency

2014-10-18 Thread James
Volker Armin Hemmann googlemail.com> writes: > I am sure there are some plugins to enable js on a per-page basis for > firefox. If konqueror can do it... Short term I'll uses this. Long term, I need to learn more about cgroups and tuning for my clustering ambitions. thx, James

Re: [gentoo-user] gigabyte mobo latency

2014-10-18 Thread thegeezer
On 18/10/14 16:49, James wrote: > Hello, > > > OK, so I run a minimalist DE (LXDE) and htop to monitor > system performance. The mobo has an fx8350 with 8 cores > (currently set at 4GHz (unclocked). The system rarily > uses over 8/32 gig of it's ram. So the resources are not > even close to exhaust

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 3.17.0

2014-10-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 18.10.2014 um 06:17 schrieb Philip Webb: > I just installed Kernel 3.17.0 (gentoo-sources) > & noticed there are specific options for Gentoo right at the beginning. > Are we really privileged to have our own place in kernel-land > or have these been added by the Gentoo devs ? > and that is why

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 3.17.0

2014-10-18 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
What do they do for us lucky chaps? ;-) On October 18, 2014 1:33:18 PM GMT+02:00, Alan McKinnon wrote: >On 18/10/2014 06:17, Philip Webb wrote: >> I just installed Kernel 3.17.0 (gentoo-sources) >> & noticed there are specific options for Gentoo right at the >beginning. >> Are we really privile

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: An alternative keyboard layout is lost

2014-10-18 Thread Matti Nykyri
> On Oct 18, 2014, at 21:04, Gevisz wrote: > > On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 13:10:15 +0300 > gevisz wrote: > >> I have found out that my problem with xfce4 keyboard plugin >> reduces to the fact that now I cannot choose Russian Winkeys >> alternative keyboard: there is no such option in the correspondi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: XFCE weather plugin does not work

2014-10-18 Thread David W Noon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 21:18:36 +0100, Neil Bothwick (n...@digimed.co.uk) wrote about "Re: [gentoo-user] Re: XFCE weather plugin does not work" (in <20141018211836.63981...@digimed.co.uk>): > On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 17:18:34 +0100, David W Noon wrote: > >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gigabyte mobo latency

2014-10-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 22:24:43 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > I am sure there are some plugins to enable js on a per-page basis for > firefox. If konqueror can do it... There are several for Chromium, I think the favourite for FF is noscript. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 17: Clea

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gigabyte mobo latency

2014-10-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 18.10.2014 um 21:27 schrieb Philip Webb: > 141018 James wrote: >> Volker Armin Hemmann googlemail.com> writes: >>> Some websites load & run MB of javascript which bogs down everything. >>> Nothing you can do about that except turning of js. >> Well, that was it on the performance (typing latenc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: XFCE weather plugin does not work

2014-10-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 17:18:34 +0100, David W Noon wrote: > >> I have not done this relying on the promise by Greg Kubaryk > >> that the ebuild is epatch_user enabled. > > That can be a bit variable. I still put the epatch_user command in > explicitly, just to be certain. You don't need to mo

Re: [gentoo-user] XFCE weather plugin does not work

2014-10-18 Thread Gevisz
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 20:07:22 +0100 David W Noon wrote: > On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 20:58:40 +0300, Gevisz (gev...@gmail.com) wrote > about "Re: [gentoo-user] Re: XFCE weather plugin does not work" (in > <5442aa74.8212980a.2836.7...@mx.google.com>): > > > On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 17:18:34 +0100 > > David W

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gigabyte mobo latency

2014-10-18 Thread Philip Webb
141018 James wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann googlemail.com> writes: >> Some websites load & run MB of javascript which bogs down everything. >> Nothing you can do about that except turning of js. > Well, that was it on the performance (typing latency). > I had to diable javascript, terminate + save

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Routing Problems

2014-10-18 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On 10/18/2014 02:13 PM, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > > I have no idea what's going on. I think what I'm gonna do is install my > old router behind the new router and plug in all my device to that one > and see if it works, because I absolutely need my desktop and server to > be able to reach each oth

Re: [gentoo-user] XFCE weather plugin does not work

2014-10-18 Thread David W Noon
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 20:58:40 +0300, Gevisz (gev...@gmail.com) wrote about "Re: [gentoo-user] Re: XFCE weather plugin does not work" (in <5442aa74.8212980a.2836.7...@mx.google.com>): > On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 17:18:34 +0100 > David W Noon wrote: [snip] >> You're welcome. The Xfce developers did the h

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Routing Problems

2014-10-18 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On 10/18/2014 12:37 PM, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 18 Oct 2014 16:38:52 Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: >> On 10/18/2014 04:06 AM, Mick wrote: >>> What do the router logs say? >> DD-WRT is not very informative. It only has system-type stuff in >> /var/log/messages, nothing LAN-related. > As James suggested

[gentoo-user] Re: An alternative keyboard layout is lost

2014-10-18 Thread Gevisz
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 13:10:15 +0300 gevisz wrote: > I have found out that my problem with xfce4 keyboard plugin > reduces to the fact that now I cannot choose Russian Winkeys > alternative keyboard: there is no such option in the corresponding > keyboard layout settings. So, I have to choose Oseti

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: XFCE weather plugin does not work

2014-10-18 Thread Gevisz
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 17:18:34 +0100 David W Noon wrote: > On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 10:03:10 +0300, Gevisz (gev...@gmail.com) wrote > about "Re: [gentoo-user] Re: XFCE weather plugin does not work" (in > <544210d1.22a0700a.56bc.5...@mx.google.com>): > > On 18/10/14 08:03, Gevisz wrote: > [snip] > >> I

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Routing Problems

2014-10-18 Thread wabenbau
Am Samstag, 18.10.2014 um 11:38 schrieb Alec Ten Harmsel : > > On 10/18/2014 04:06 AM, Mick wrote: > > Can you give some additional information on the network topology? > > > > Are we talking about LAN/WAN? Same subnet? VLAN? DMZ? > > It's a LAN. Just a simple TP-Link router setup to do DHCP.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Routing Problems

2014-10-18 Thread Mick
On Saturday 18 Oct 2014 16:38:52 Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > On 10/18/2014 04:06 AM, Mick wrote: > > What do the router logs say? > > DD-WRT is not very informative. It only has system-type stuff in > /var/log/messages, nothing LAN-related. As James suggested, if you have SSH or telnet access to t

[gentoo-user] Re: gigabyte mobo latency

2014-10-18 Thread James
Volker Armin Hemmann googlemail.com> writes: > idea: have a look at the websites you visit. Some load&run megabytes of > javascript which bogs down everything. Nothing you can do about that > except turning of js. Well, that was it on the performance (typing latency). Still I find this very di

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: XFCE weather plugin does not work

2014-10-18 Thread David W Noon
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 10:03:10 +0300, Gevisz (gev...@gmail.com) wrote about "Re: [gentoo-user] Re: XFCE weather plugin does not work" (in <544210d1.22a0700a.56bc.5...@mx.google.com>): On 18/10/14 08:03, Gevisz wrote: [snip] >> I have unpacked your patches to /etc/portage/patches as described here: >

Re: [gentoo-user] gigabyte mobo latency

2014-10-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 18.10.2014 um 17:49 schrieb James: > Hello, > > > OK, so I run a minimalist DE (LXDE) and htop to monitor > system performance. The mobo has an fx8350 with 8 cores > (currently set at 4GHz (unclocked). The system rarily > uses over 8/32 gig of it's ram. So the resources are not > even close to e

[gentoo-user] gigabyte mobo latency

2014-10-18 Thread James
Hello, OK, so I run a minimalist DE (LXDE) and htop to monitor system performance. The mobo has an fx8350 with 8 cores (currently set at 4GHz (unclocked). The system rarily uses over 8/32 gig of it's ram. So the resources are not even close to exhausted. cpus mostly idle. I do keep (2) browsers

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Routing Problems

2014-10-18 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On 10/18/2014 04:06 AM, Mick wrote: > Can you give some additional information on the network topology? > > Are we talking about LAN/WAN? Same subnet? VLAN? DMZ? It's a LAN. Just a simple TP-Link router setup to do DHCP. No VLAN, no DMZ, only one subnet 192.168.0.0/24. It's at my apartment, so

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to set up HP printer with foo2zjs

2014-10-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 14:02:28 +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > cups + hplip is pretty robust. I can't quell my curiousity as to > > why you would not want to use that solution, paticualrly for an > > HP printer? > > Mostly because I want a minimal system. I have cups already which KDE > can

[gentoo-user] Re: Trying to set up HP printer with foo2zjs

2014-10-18 Thread James
Frank Steinmetzger gmx.de> writes: > > cups + hplip is pretty robust. > Mostly because I want a minimal system. I have cups already which KDE can > use, I don’t need (or want) another tool that does the same job and that > has a lot of GUI stuff that my printer doesn’t support anyway (scanner

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Routing Problems

2014-10-18 Thread James
Alec Ten Harmsel alectenharmsel.com> writes: > This is not Gentoo-specific, but one of my roommates just replaced our > router with a DD-WRT routers. For the most part, everything is great and > I love it. There's one problem, that may or may not be cause by said new > router. Between my desktop

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to set up HP printer with foo2zjs

2014-10-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 03:02:59AM +, James wrote: > Frank Steinmetzger gmx.de> writes: > > > > I am trying to set up an HP LaserJet 1000 printer with foo2zjs. I had been > > using hplip in the past (which did work), but for several (mostly non- > > techical) reasons, I don’t want to use tha

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 3.17.0

2014-10-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 18/10/2014 06:17, Philip Webb wrote: > I just installed Kernel 3.17.0 (gentoo-sources) > & noticed there are specific options for Gentoo right at the beginning. > Are we really privileged to have our own place in kernel-land > or have these been added by the Gentoo devs ? > The latter. They'v

[gentoo-user] Re: An alternative keyboard layout is lost

2014-10-18 Thread gevisz
2014-10-18 11:34 GMT+03:00 gevisz : > This is the continuation from the thread > "XFCE weather plugin does not work" > > 2014-10-18 10:03 GMT+03:00 Gevisz : >> On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 23:37:16 +0100 >> David W Noon wrote: >> >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> On Fri, 17 Oct

Re: [gentoo-user] An alternative keyboard layout is lost

2014-10-18 Thread Gevisz
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 10:12:29 +0100 Mick wrote: > On Saturday 18 Oct 2014 09:34:53 gevisz wrote: > > This is the continuation from the thread > > "XFCE weather plugin does not work" > > > > 2014-10-18 10:03 GMT+03:00 Gevisz : > > > On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 23:37:16 +0100 > > > > > > David W Noon wro

Re: [gentoo-user] An alternative keyboard layout is lost

2014-10-18 Thread Mick
On Saturday 18 Oct 2014 09:34:53 gevisz wrote: > This is the continuation from the thread > "XFCE weather plugin does not work" > > 2014-10-18 10:03 GMT+03:00 Gevisz : > > On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 23:37:16 +0100 > > > > David W Noon wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >>

[gentoo-user] An alternative keyboard layout is lost

2014-10-18 Thread gevisz
This is the continuation from the thread "XFCE weather plugin does not work" 2014-10-18 10:03 GMT+03:00 Gevisz : > On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 23:37:16 +0100 > David W Noon wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 22:33:45 +0100, Neil Bothwick (n...@digimed.c

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: XFCE weather plugin does not work

2014-10-18 Thread Stroller
On Sat, 18 October 2014, at 8:03 am, Gevisz wrote: > > I have unpacked your patches to /etc/portage/patches as described here: > http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/patches > and then run # emerge xfce4-weather-plugin > > After restarting xfce4, the weather-plugin started to work. Thank y

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Routing Problems

2014-10-18 Thread Mick
On Saturday 18 Oct 2014 04:45:21 Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > Hey guys, > > This is not Gentoo-specific, but one of my roommates just replaced our > router with a DD-WRT routers. For the most part, everything is great and > I love it. There's one problem, that may or may not be cause by said new > ro

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: XFCE weather plugin does not work

2014-10-18 Thread Gevisz
On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 23:37:16 +0100 David W Noon wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 22:33:45 +0100, Neil Bothwick (n...@digimed.co.uk) > wrote about "Re: [gentoo-user] Re: XFCE weather plugin does not work" > (in <20141017223345.16c96...@digimed.co.uk