Re: [gentoo-user] Portage improved
On Sunday 3 November 2024 12:56:05 GMT Wols Lists wrote: > On 31/10/2024 11:56, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > the load steadies out at about > > 4, with several more in merge-wait. This is with i24 l30 in make.conf. > > How many cores does your CPU have. I've found that load is an > approximation to "how many cores are running at 100%". 24, which is why I have -i24 -l30 in make.conf. The machine also has 6GB RAM. -- Regards, Peter.
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage improved
On Sunday 3 November 2024 23:18:37 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 3 November 2024 12:56:05 GMT Wols Lists wrote: > > On 31/10/2024 11:56, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > the load steadies out at about > > > 4, with several more in merge-wait. This is with i24 l30 in make.conf. > > > > How many cores does your CPU have. I've found that load is an > > approximation to "how many cores are running at 100%". > > 24, which is why I have -i24 -l30 in make.conf. The machine also has 6GB > RAM. Er... 64GB. -- Regards, Peter.
Re: [gentoo-user] format usb as ext4
On 24/10/2024 04:01, Mitchell Dorrell wrote: I have no idea whether you can skip the partition table and still be usable with computers running Windows or Mac OS or with embedded systems like home printers or commercial photo kiosks. Seeing as it's removable media I would expect most of those to have problems if you DID have a partition table. It's linux that's unusual in being happy with a partition table on removable media. Cheers, Wol
Re: [gentoo-user] Renaming files with those pesky picture type characters.
On 29/10/2024 15:18, Dale wrote: Some of the other characters I run into look like this. As I understand it, these are typically characters your display doesn't know how to display. Eg Unicode for which it doesn't have a glyph. Or (unlikely nowadays) 8-bit Latin characters when all you've got is 7-bit Ascii. Bear in mind as far as linux is concerned, a file name is a string of bytes ending in null, with a couple of forbidden characters eg "/". So if your shell or whatever doesn't know how to display the bytes, that's what it does. Cheers, Wol
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and clang
On 01/11/2024 17:50, Michael wrote: Thanks! From what I read briefly, I understand clang is recommended upstream and therefore was set as a default flag. However, a rust Vs rust-bin version clash can occur and since FF patched their code to work with gcc, setting clang as the default compiler is no longer considered necessary - at least this is the present status. On my system, clang is explicitly disabled. This was thanks to Firefox and Thunderbird repeatedly failing to compile, which is apparently a problem with clang and older CPUs. Cheers, Wol
Re: [gentoo-user] format usb as ext4
On 04/11/2024 02:11, Matt Jolly wrote: Hi, On 4/11/24 09:35, Wol wrote: Seeing as it's removable media I would expect most of those to have problems if you DID have a partition table. It's linux that's unusual in being happy with a partition table on removable media. That is not the case at all. Without a partition table how would other OSes handle, say, a USB thumbdrive with multiple partitions? I wasn't aware they could... Various *nixes are the systems that don't mind if you just bang a filesystem directly onto a storage device. Windows would (and does) have a conniption if this is attempted. I know linux doesn't care - has never cared, but historically you did NOT have partition tables on removable media. Floppy disks didn't have partition tables. I'm not aware of early SD cards or USB sticks having partition tables. It's only relatively recently with "huge" media sticks that partition tables on removable media have become a thing. If you wanted to boot a Windows install from a USB stick, I'm used to just dd'ing the CD iso (shows how long ago that was) to the stick. Certainly in the early days, istr Windows being unable to find a partition table on a USB stick. Cheers, Wol
Re: [gentoo-user] format usb as ext4
Hi, On 4/11/24 09:35, Wol wrote: Seeing as it's removable media I would expect most of those to have problems if you DID have a partition table. It's linux that's unusual in being happy with a partition table on removable media. That is not the case at all. Without a partition table how would other OSes handle, say, a USB thumbdrive with multiple partitions? Various *nixes are the systems that don't mind if you just bang a filesystem directly onto a storage device. Windows would (and does) have a conniption if this is attempted. Regards, Matt
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage improved
On 31/10/2024 11:56, Peter Humphrey wrote: the load steadies out at about 4, with several more in merge-wait. This is with i24 l30 in make.conf. How many cores does your CPU have. I've found that load is an approximation to "how many cores are running at 100%". It's very noticeable running xosview, that as soon as load goes above 4 on my 4-core system, response goes through the floor. Which is probably because a large chunk of CPU time suddenly gets diverted to scheduling and task switching, rather than doing useful work. Cheers, Wol
