Re: Time to refresh my hardware

2019-10-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 10/9/19 8:53 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Actually I did manage to get a laptop, from linuxlaptops, with a spinning HD this year. They do still exist. That's not what I meant. Almost all laptops still come with spinning drives, but I've been replacing them with SSDs. The laptop drives are

Re: Slow....And STILL Slow!?....

2019-10-09 Thread Eddie O'Connor
Didn't think to check it...but I will and will post the results here. FWIWthe stocks are 8GB each...DDR 3...1600Mhz... On Thu, Oct 10, 2019, 12:58 AM fedora wrote: > Did you check to see if the new RAM has been accepted by the system? > > vmstat, top? > > suomi > > On 10/10/2019 05.52, Eddie

Re: Slow....And STILL Slow!?....

2019-10-09 Thread fedora
Did you check to see if the new RAM has been accepted by the system? vmstat, top? suomi On 10/10/2019 05.52, Eddie O'Connor wrote: So, after upgrading the RAM in my Lenovo ThinkPad T-420 I thought I'd get faster performance. But even with two 8GB sticks?it's running even SLOWER?! Is there

Re: Time to refresh my hardware

2019-10-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/10/19 11:53 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: And Nvidia's proprietary driver is another thing I'd rather not deal with. it seems that most vendors ship new Nvidia chipsets that x.org lists as not supported. May I ask where that list is located? -- If simple questions can be answered with a s

Re: Time to refresh my hardware

2019-10-09 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Samuel Sieb writes: On 10/9/19 7:08 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: My C++ compiles are getting longer. It's time to get new hardware, but I'm having some difficulty finding Fedora-friendly hardware, that's slightly above average grade, such as dual CPU and spinning rust (I haven't gotten quite

Slow....And STILL Slow!?....

2019-10-09 Thread Eddie O'Connor
So, after upgrading the RAM in my Lenovo ThinkPad T-420 I thought I'd get faster performance. But even with two 8GB sticks?it's running even SLOWER?! Is there something I've done wrong? It's got a 320GB 7200RPM hard driveand it's running F30. Funny thing is? .before the upgrade it had j

Re: Time to refresh my hardware

2019-10-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 10/9/19 7:08 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: My C++ compiles are getting longer. It's time to get new hardware, but I'm having some difficulty finding Fedora-friendly hardware, that's slightly above average grade, such as dual CPU and spinning rust (I haven't gotten quite aboard the SSD train, wi

Time to refresh my hardware

2019-10-09 Thread Sam Varshavchik
My C++ compiles are getting longer. It's time to get new hardware, but I'm having some difficulty finding Fedora-friendly hardware, that's slightly above average grade, such as dual CPU and spinning rust (I haven't gotten quite aboard the SSD train, with its built-in expiration date). Tips

Re: The net.core.netdev_rss_key and insecure settings.

2019-10-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/10/19 2:50 AM, Cătălin George Feștilă wrote: What is net.core.netdev_rss_key? Can be this default setting an insecure issue? You can see it with this command: [root@desk mythcat]# sysctl -a --pattern 'net.core.netdev_rss_key' netdev_rss_key -- RSS (Receive Side Scaling) enabl

Re: f30 :: ip6tables take 1.463s to load

2019-10-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2019-10-09 at 18:55 +, Cătălin George Feștilă wrote: > you have 2.070s (firmware) + 5.323s (loader) why ? > my output is this: > Startup finished in 2.902s (kernel) + 4.839s (initrd) + 31.351s (userspace) = > 39.093s > multi-user.target reached after 29.356s in userspace If you repl

Re: CUPS forcing single-sided printing

2019-10-09 Thread Paul Allen Newell
Tim: I am running Centos 7 and have weirdness with my HP printer. My original printer, which worked single and double sided perfectly with the pre-installed hplip, died and I had to get a new printer whose driver was unknown to hplip on Centos 7. I am away from my system so I have to rely on

Re: f30 :: ip6tables take 1.463s to load

2019-10-09 Thread Adrian Sevcenco
On 10/9/19 9:55 PM, Cătălin George Feștilă wrote: you have 2.070s (firmware) + 5.323s (loader) why ? uefi system on my legacy desktop appears like yours (i have 8s in nut-driver) : root@hal: ~ # systemd-analyze Startup finished in 1.346s (kernel) + 1.245s (initrd) + 11.026s (userspace) = 13.6

Re: f30 :: ip6tables take 1.463s to load

2019-10-09 Thread Cătălin George Feștilă
you have 2.070s (firmware) + 5.323s (loader) why ? my output is this: Startup finished in 2.902s (kernel) + 4.839s (initrd) + 31.351s (userspace) = 39.093s multi-user.target reached after 29.356s in userspace ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedo

The net.core.netdev_rss_key and insecure settings.

2019-10-09 Thread Cătălin George Feștilă
What is net.core.netdev_rss_key? Can be this default setting an insecure issue? You can see it with this command: [root@desk mythcat]# sysctl -a --pattern 'net.core.netdev_rss_key' ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe sen

CUPS forcing single-sided printing

2019-10-09 Thread Tim via users
Hi, I have a LAN using CentOS and Fedora installations (currently its CentOS 7 on the server). At times it insists on doing double-sided printing, and will not let me choose single-side. Erratically the option is either unavailable (the drop down menu is not clickable, and says "not available");

f30 :: ip6tables take 1.463s to load

2019-10-09 Thread Adrian Sevcenco
Hi! Does anyone have any idea why there is such situation: [root@localhost ~]# systemd-analyze blame | grep tables 1.463s ip6tables.service 217ms iptables.service This is on a new nvme laptop but the same behavior is present on any other systems that i have (but annoying on