Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, Seamonkey to if I can, and memory limits.

2024-08-23 Thread Matt Jolly
> Thing is, not sure I use cgroups either, unless it is on by default.   o_OCgroups (control groups) are a kernel feature, SystemD just provides a convenient interface for them if you're using it. They form the basis of containerisation iirc.Bit of info on Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, Seamonkey to if I can, and memory limits.

2024-08-23 Thread Dale
Matt Jolly wrote: > Hi, > > Cgroups are the answer. If you're on systemd you could try making a > `slice` for Firefox that might look a bit like this: > > /etc/systemd/system/user-firefox.slice > > ``` > [Unit] > Description=Firefox Slice > Before=slices.target > > [Slice] > MemoryAccounting=true >

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, Seamonkey to if I can, and memory limits.

2024-08-23 Thread Matt Jolly
Hi,Cgroups are the answer. If you're on systemd you could try making a `slice` for Firefox that might look a bit like this:/etc/systemd/system/user-firefox.slice```[Unit]Description=Firefox SliceBefore=slices.target[Slice]MemoryAccounting=trueMemoryLimit=512M```Then you can run ```systemctl daemon-

[gentoo-user] Re: Do I need firmware for an integrated graphics unit?

2024-08-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2024-08-23, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >>> That's a separate graphics card, isn't it? I'm trying to use the >>> integrated graphics processor on my Ryzen 7900. > >> No, it's integrated into the Ryzen 5 3400G. > > Sorry, I didn't recognise the chip number. Is it a laptop chip rather > than a deskto

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, Seamonkey to if I can, and memory limits.

2024-08-23 Thread Wol
On 23/08/2024 19:38, Dale wrote: Any ideas on how to limit Firefox memory usage?  Wouldn't mind if I could use it for other programs too. cgroups? Dunno how they work, but it's something they're supposed to do ... Cheers, Wol

Re: [gentoo-user] New machine: Contents of display are offset around 2 inches from the left hand side.

2024-08-23 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Dale. On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 13:44:36 -0500, Dale wrote: > Jack wrote: > > On 2024.08.23 12:21, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > >> I'm a bit fed up with all of this.  It's a new machine, but the > >> motherboard, an MSI B650 Tomahawk Wifi, has been around a fair while and > >> bugs in its BIOS oug

Re: [gentoo-user] New machine: Contents of display are offset around 2 inches from the left hand side.

2024-08-23 Thread Dale
Jack wrote: > On 2024.08.23 12:21, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> I'm a bit fed up with all of this.  It's a new machine, but the >> motherboard, an MSI B650 Tomahawk Wifi, has been around a fair while and >> bugs in its BIOS ought to have been fixed by now. > > Just because the latest available BIOS mig

[gentoo-user] Firefox, Seamonkey to if I can, and memory limits.

2024-08-23 Thread Dale
Howdy, A video on my TV the other day started spitting and stuttering.  At first, I thought the video was bad.  I was going to make a note to replace it then skip to the next video.  Then I realized that one of my Firefox profiles went memory hungry and was using all of my 64GBs of ram.  I don't h

Re: [gentoo-user] New machine: Contents of display are offset around 2 inches from the left hand side.

2024-08-23 Thread Jack
On 2024.08.23 12:21, Alan Mackenzie wrote: I'm a bit fed up with all of this. It's a new machine, but the motherboard, an MSI B650 Tomahawk Wifi, has been around a fair while and bugs in its BIOS ought to have been fixed by now. Just because the latest available BIOS might have fixed a prob

Re: [gentoo-user] New machine: Contents of display are offset around 2 inches from the left hand side.

2024-08-23 Thread Dale
Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Michael. > > On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 22:44:47 +0100, Michael wrote: >> On Thursday, 22 August 2024 17:54:19 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: >>> Hello, Gentoo. >>> Thanks to everybody who helped me get my video going in the other thread. >>> I've now got a more puzzling prob

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need firmware for an integrated graphics unit?

2024-08-23 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Wol. On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 10:42:54 +0100, Wol wrote: > On 22/08/2024 17:37, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Yes, 6.6.47 has become the new stable Gentoo kernel, and I've now > > updated my old machine, and this worked without problem. This was > > mainly to test that nothing RAID-wise had gon

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do I need firmware for an integrated graphics unit?

2024-08-23 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Grant. On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 13:02:43 -, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2024-08-21, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 00:30:25 -, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> On 2024-08-20, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > >> > I've just treated myself to a new machine based on a Ryzen 9 7900 >

Re: [gentoo-user] New machine: Contents of display are offset around 2 inches from the left hand side.

2024-08-23 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Michael. On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 22:44:47 +0100, Michael wrote: > On Thursday, 22 August 2024 17:54:19 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hello, Gentoo. > > Thanks to everybody who helped me get my video going in the other thread. > > I've now got a more puzzling problem: Every time I boot up

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need firmware for an integrated graphics unit?

2024-08-23 Thread Wol
On 22/08/2024 17:37, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Yes, 6.6.47 has become the new stable Gentoo kernel, and I've now updated my old machine, and this worked without problem. This was mainly to test that nothing RAID-wise had gone missing in the kernel. It hadn't What version of mdraid? 0.97? or 1.x?