Michael wrote:
> On Wednesday, 2 April 2025 05:04:12 British Summer Time Dale wrote:
>> Michael wrote:
>>> The second page, relevant to AMD CPUs, points to the particular microcode
>>> blob you'd need to use for your CPU:
>>>
>>> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/AMD_microcode
>>>
>>> It explains the he
Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> Am Sun, Mar 23, 2025 at 04:41:58PM -0500 schrieb Dale:
>
>> Michael wrote:
>>> On Sunday, 23 March 2025 01:48:01 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote:
Michael wrote:
> Finally, consider TRIM being run on a cron job, or better use something
> like the SSDcronTRIM s
> On Mar 23, 2025, at 15:41, Dale wrote:
>
> It looks like /var changes more than root does. I kinda wish I just
> could run it on the whole m.2 stick and it do its thing regardless of
> mount point. From the looks of the man page tho, that isn't a option.
fstrim is a filesystem-level oper
Michael wrote:
> On Tuesday, 1 April 2025 14:03:06 British Summer Time Dale wrote:
>> Michael wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 1 April 2025 11:12:44 British Summer Time Dale wrote:
Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Tuesday, 1 April 2025 01:44:18 British Summer Time Dale wrote:
>> ... I have /usr on the
Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Tuesday, 1 April 2025 01:44:18 British Summer Time Dale wrote:
>
>> ... I have /usr on the same partition as / this time around.
>> Do I need a init thingy still or can I ditch that thing? I do have /var
>> on a separate partition, if that matters.
> I have /var on a s
On Wednesday, 2 April 2025 04:33:01 British Summer Time Dale wrote:
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> >> I guess I'll have to keep the init thingy. Now I know.
> >
> > I don't see why, Dale. I don't use one and my case is similar to yours.
> > When I said I used one for microcode loading, I meant that the microcode
> >
On Wednesday, 2 April 2025 05:04:12 British Summer Time Dale wrote:
> Michael wrote:
> > The second page, relevant to AMD CPUs, points to the particular microcode
> > blob you'd need to use for your CPU:
> >
> > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/AMD_microcode
> >
> > It explains the hexadecimal numbe
Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> Am Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 07:44:18PM -0500 schrieb Dale:
>
>>> $ journalctl -fu fstrim
>>> Mär 31 23:03:26 q systemd[1]: Starting Discard unused blocks on filesystems
>>> from /etc/fstab...
>>> Mär 31 23:06:27 q fstrim[4946]: /mnt/windows: 62.6 GiB (67195392000 bytes)
>>
Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Tuesday, 1 April 2025 13:56:31 British Summer Time Dale wrote:
>> Peter Humphrey wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 1 April 2025 11:12:44 British Summer Time Dale wrote:
Is there somewhere I can look or some command I can run to see if I load
any microcode that it needs to
Am Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 07:44:18PM -0500 schrieb Dale:
> > $ journalctl -fu fstrim
> > Mär 31 23:03:26 q systemd[1]: Starting Discard unused blocks on filesystems
> > from /etc/fstab...
> > Mär 31 23:06:27 q fstrim[4946]: /mnt/windows: 62.6 GiB (67195392000 bytes)
> > trimmed on /dev/nvme0n1p3
>
Am Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 08:03:06AM -0500 schrieb Dale:
> > The microcode blobs are not in /usr, but in /lib/firmware; e.g.:
> >
> > $ ls /lib/firmware/amd-ucode/
> > microcode_amd.bin microcode_amd_fam16h.bin microcode_amd_fam19h.bin
> > microcode_amd_fam15h.bin microcode_amd_fam17h.bin
Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Tuesday, 1 April 2025 11:12:44 British Summer Time Dale wrote:
>
>> Is there somewhere I can look or some command I can run to see if I load
>> any microcode that it needs to access while booting but before /var is
>> mounted? Why isn't the microcode put in /usr or somet
On Tuesday, 1 April 2025 14:03:06 British Summer Time Dale wrote:
> Michael wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 1 April 2025 11:12:44 British Summer Time Dale wrote:
> >> Peter Humphrey wrote:
> >>> On Tuesday, 1 April 2025 01:44:18 British Summer Time Dale wrote:
> ... I have /usr on the same partition as
On Tuesday, 1 April 2025 13:56:31 British Summer Time Dale wrote:
> Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 1 April 2025 11:12:44 British Summer Time Dale wrote:
> >> Is there somewhere I can look or some command I can run to see if I load
> >> any microcode that it needs to access while booting but
Michael wrote:
> On Tuesday, 1 April 2025 11:12:44 British Summer Time Dale wrote:
>> Peter Humphrey wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 1 April 2025 01:44:18 British Summer Time Dale wrote:
... I have /usr on the same partition as / this time around.
Do I need a init thingy still or can I ditch that
On Tuesday, 1 April 2025 11:12:44 British Summer Time Dale wrote:
> Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 1 April 2025 01:44:18 British Summer Time Dale wrote:
> >> ... I have /usr on the same partition as / this time around.
> >> Do I need a init thingy still or can I ditch that thing? I do have
On Tuesday, 1 April 2025 11:12:44 British Summer Time Dale wrote:
> Is there somewhere I can look or some command I can run to see if I load
> any microcode that it needs to access while booting but before /var is
> mounted? Why isn't the microcode put in /usr or something anyway?
See https://w
On Tuesday, 1 April 2025 01:44:18 British Summer Time Dale wrote:
> ... I have /usr on the same partition as / this time around.
> Do I need a init thingy still or can I ditch that thing? I do have /var
> on a separate partition, if that matters.
I have /var on a separate partition on some mac
Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> Am Sun, Mar 23, 2025 at 06:24:49PM -0500 schrieb Dale:
>
I ran fstrim on my root and var partitions and got this.
root@Gentoo-1 / # fstrim -v /
/: 13.7 GiB (14676369408 bytes) trimmed
root@Gentoo-1 / # fstrim -v /var
/var: 43.9 GiB (47
Am Sun, Mar 23, 2025 at 06:24:49PM -0500 schrieb Dale:
> >> I ran fstrim on my root and var partitions and got this.
> >>
> >>
> >> root@Gentoo-1 / # fstrim -v /
> >> /: 13.7 GiB (14676369408 bytes) trimmed
> >> root@Gentoo-1 / # fstrim -v /var
> >> /var: 43.9 GiB (47162359808 bytes) trimmed
> >>
Am Sun, Mar 23, 2025 at 04:41:58PM -0500 schrieb Dale:
> Michael wrote:
> > On Sunday, 23 March 2025 01:48:01 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote:
> >> Michael wrote:
> >>> Finally, consider TRIM being run on a cron job, or better use something
> >>> like the SSDcronTRIM script once a month to decide a
Michael wrote:
> On Sunday, 23 March 2025 01:48:01 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote:
>> Michael wrote:
>>> Finally, consider TRIM being run on a cron job, or better use something
>>> like the SSDcronTRIM script once a month to decide and execute fstrim if
>>> needed.
> [snip ...]
>
>> The only thing
Am Sat, Mar 22, 2025 at 09:37:37PM + schrieb Michael:
> On Saturday, 22 March 2025 18:50:48 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote:
> > Howdy,
> >
> > As most know from other threads, I have a couple external m.2 NVME SSD
> > drives thingys. As of today, I now have a Crucial 480GB and 1TB and a
> >
On Sunday, 23 March 2025 01:48:01 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote:
> Michael wrote:
> > Finally, consider TRIM being run on a cron job, or better use something
> > like the SSDcronTRIM script once a month to decide and execute fstrim if
> > needed.
[snip ...]
> The only thing on SSD is the OS itse
Le 23/03/25 à 08:01, Dale a tapoté :
> netfab wrote:
> > Le 22/03/25 à 21:37, Michael a tapoté :
> >> You probably want to alter the cache path for your browser from the
> >> SSD drive to your RAM (tmpfs), especially if you have a lot of RAM.
> > For firefox, you may want to disable cache-on-disk a
netfab wrote:
> Le 22/03/25 à 21:37, Michael a tapoté :
>> You probably want to alter the cache path for your browser from the
>> SSD drive to your RAM (tmpfs), especially if you have a lot of RAM.
> For firefox, you may want to disable cache-on-disk and enable
> cache-on-memory instead of setting-
Le 22/03/25 à 21:37, Michael a tapoté :
> You probably want to alter the cache path for your browser from the
> SSD drive to your RAM (tmpfs), especially if you have a lot of RAM.
For firefox, you may want to disable cache-on-disk and enable
cache-on-memory instead of setting-up the tmpfs stuff.
Hi,
On 23/3/25 07:37, Michael wrote:
You probably want to alter the cache path for your browser from the SSD drive
to your RAM (tmpfs), especially if you have a lot of RAM. Consider the same
for any configurable applications which are caching heavily.
Also, if you use swap, then use zswap to r
Michael wrote:
> On Saturday, 22 March 2025 18:50:48 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> As most know from other threads, I have a couple external m.2 NVME SSD
>> drives thingys. As of today, I now have a Crucial 480GB and 1TB and a
>> Samsung 1TB drive. I also have a Samsung 1TB m.2
On Sat, Mar 22, 2025 at 11:51 AM Dale wrote:
>
> Howdy,
>
> As most know from other threads, I have a couple external m.2 NVME SSD
> drives thingys. As of today, I now have a Crucial 480GB and 1TB and a
> Samsung 1TB drive. I also have a Samsung 1TB m.2 in my main rig for the
> OS. I read some
On Saturday, 22 March 2025 18:50:48 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> As most know from other threads, I have a couple external m.2 NVME SSD
> drives thingys. As of today, I now have a Crucial 480GB and 1TB and a
> Samsung 1TB drive. I also have a Samsung 1TB m.2 in my main rig for th
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