Post #11,437
10/3/01 10:16:44 AM
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2.4.10 == much happiness
I've noticed a sharp performance increase going from 2.4.8 to 2.4.10.
Peter Shill For Hire [link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal]
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Post #11,439
10/3/01 10:29:58 AM
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What was changed?
Regards,
-scott anderson
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Post #11,440
10/3/01 10:31:20 AM
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Re: What was changed?
The VM is much better and swaps in a much more sane manner.
Peter Shill For Hire [link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal]
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Post #11,441
10/3/01 10:33:48 AM
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Ah.
So that improvement was for the peons with less than half a Gig of RAM...
Regards,
-scott anderson
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Post #11,495
10/3/01 1:55:29 PM
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I'll give it a shot, report back
Got to compile a new kernel for this laptop. Not patching in ReiserFS will be nice...
-- Karsten M. Self [link|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com|kmself@ix.netcom.com] What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?
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Post #11,567
10/3/01 5:07:40 PM
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Speaking of Reiser FS
I'm using it now. SuSE has it as an install-time option, which is key IMO. I don't have the disk space (yet) to be copying partitions around for the sake of changing the file system.
Regards,
-scott anderson
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Post #11,570
10/3/01 5:15:21 PM
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I'll be leaping to ext3
When the time arrives (i.e. the next major version of Red Hat).
I don't have the means to backup and restore at the moment, and the roll-on, roll-off nature of ext3 appeals to me.
Peter Shill For Hire [link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal]
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Post #11,573
10/3/01 5:18:48 PM
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Yes, I like that about ext3 as well.
Also, I read a benchmark test that IBM did. ext3 came out consistently worse, however, than the alternatives (XFS, Reiser, JFS).
Regards,
-scott anderson
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Post #11,574
10/3/01 5:20:22 PM
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Call me cynical
But I don't think that this here PC is going to see the kind of use that is likely to stress any filesystem to the point where performance is that much of an issue.
If it was a server, then of course things would be different.
Peter Shill For Hire [link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal]
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Post #11,575
10/3/01 5:21:40 PM
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Yours, maybe.
But I stress my PC's file system on a daily basis: find+grep, transfers, you name it.
Regards,
-scott anderson
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Post #11,576
10/3/01 5:24:16 PM
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Actually
It's not performance that I'm after at all - it's recoverability from when Jo comes in, finds the PC booted into Linux, decides she wants to read her email (she has it all set up on the Windows side of things) and hits "reset".
Peter Shill For Hire [link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal]
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Post #11,577
10/3/01 5:30:32 PM
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Heh.
That too. I'm more worried about power outages, though. My son is pretty well trained at this point.
Regards,
-scott anderson
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Post #11,610
10/3/01 7:36:50 PM
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Ya gotta slap the bitch around a bit next time she does that
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Post #11,612
10/3/01 7:40:45 PM
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!?
Peter Shill For Hire [link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal]
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Post #11,630
10/3/01 8:26:04 PM
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Fuckin' obvious, innit?
What you said, [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=11576|...when Jo comes in, finds the PC booted into Linux, decides she wants to read her email (she has it all set up on the Windows side of things) and hits "reset".] -- How the fuck can you tolerate that?!? (From a putatively adult and reasonably intelligent person, I take it -- or are you dating a retard?) That's just no way to behave with a computer! What should also have been fuckin' obvious is that I meant, not necessarily *literally* slapping her around, but give her a fucking strong talking-to: "That's just no way to behave with a computer!" Just show her how to shut it down -- you usually run Linux with a GUI on, don't you? So it isn't even all that different from how you do it in Windows -- in an orderly fashion. And then you can tell her, "*This* is how to behave with a computer!"
Christian R. Conrad The Man Who Knows Fucking Everything
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Post #11,686
10/4/01 1:38:23 AM
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Sigh.
What is a person supposed to do when faced with the XScreensaver password box?
(Not that YOU've ever seen that in person - *snigger*)
Peter Shill For Hire [link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal]
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Post #11,692
10/4/01 3:01:01 AM
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<ctrl><alt><backspace> - <ctrl><alt><del>
-- Karsten M. Self [link|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com|kmself@ix.netcom.com] What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?
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Post #11,703
10/4/01 5:51:31 AM
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:muah
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Post #11,877
10/5/01 1:39:43 AM
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Hrm.
I would be happier if that *didn't* just kill the X server and drop you back to the GDM chooser...
Some kind of "You are about to kill this session and lose all unsaved work, type in the user's password or the root password" box would be useful.
The day some serious HCI work gets done on GNOME (and there already has been one serious usability study, conducted by Sun) the better. KDE hasn't even had that - they're "thinking about it", apparently.
Peter Shill For Hire [link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal]
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Post #11,848
10/4/01 10:21:23 PM
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Type in the correct password, of course.
Or she hasn't been trusted with that, go find who locked it and make it unlock it.
Wade.
"All around me are nothing but fakes Come with me on the biggest fake of all!"
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