Re: controlling the load average

1999-10-06 Thread Kevin Puetz
Ah, so it is the same bug that is supposed to be fixed on master now? (earlier message). Good, it will go away soon then. -- ++ |.-'-. Kevin Puetz | | .' _/| `.

Re: controlling the load average

1999-10-06 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Kevin Puetz wrote: > At the and of apt-get upgrade (which installed about 40 packages! yikes!), > it finished normally, but within about 10-15 seconds of that load going > away, my machine began to get choppy again. I managed to get top up (which > took a while!), and saw at the top of

Re: controlling the load average

1999-10-06 Thread Michel Dänzer
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > > > > A lot of programs start update-menus in the background upon > > > installation. If you install (or upgrade) 50 of them, you get 50 running > > > update-menus processes fighting for CPU cycles. > > > > That's not tr

Re: controlling the load average

1999-10-06 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > while (loadavg > threshold) > > sleep(10); > > Are you proposing doing that for all load-intensive applications? I > would object to that. I seem to remember we have a tool that Not for all apps, only f

Re: controlling the load average

1999-10-06 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > while (loadavg > threshold) > sleep(10); Are you proposing doing that for all load-intensive applications? I would object to that. I seem to remember we have a tool that automatically stops a process if the load gets too high, maybe that would be us

Re: controlling the load average

1999-10-06 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > I think the Debian installation tools need something to monitor the load > > average, to prevent systems from [ct]rashing during install. Cfr. sendmail > > which stops processing mail when the load average is abo

Re: controlling the load average

1999-10-06 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > I think the Debian installation tools need something to monitor the load > average, to prevent systems from [ct]rashing during install. Cfr. sendmail > which stops processing mail when the load average is above a specified > threshold. This sounds like you hi

SANE and UMAX scanner on MESH

1999-10-06 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, I am having trouble getting my new UMAX Astra 1220S scanner recognized. It is at ID 6, with a zip drive at ID 5, on a StarMax 3000/160 (pmac 4400 clone). MacOS recognizes it and scans from it just fine- well, if you ignore the frequent crashes and required Adobe Deluxe shipped with the

controlling the load average

1999-10-06 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
I think the Debian installation tools need something to monitor the load average, to prevent systems from [ct]rashing during install. Cfr. sendmail which stops processing mail when the load average is above a specified threshold. Greetings, Geert