Recommendation on video card?

2015-04-24 Thread Petter Adsen
I have an AMD HD5450 card in my desktop, which has been mostly adequate for me, but now it is time to retire it. Can anyone recommend a more recent card that works well with X? I'm using two screens, so I will need at least two outputs - preferably digital. I have been quite happy with AMD, so I'd

Re: reading an empty directory after reboot is very slow

2015-04-24 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-04-23 10:10:54 -0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Vincent Lefevre (vinc...@vinc17.net): > > On 2015-04-22 23:28:46 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > No, I wasn't expecting mutt to use mairix. But I thought you might be > > > using it. Otherwise, why do you index them? > > > > I use mairix

Re: qemu-kvm and glusterfs support

2015-04-24 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello there, On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 07:50:59AM +0300, Risto Paavola wrote: > In Debian Jessie, why qemu-kvm has been compiled without glusterfs network > disk type support? """Until glusterfs packaging is sane I think it's not a good idea to introduce glusterfs support. Also this is not really

Re: reading an empty directory after reboot is very slow

2015-04-24 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-04-23 11:22:11 -0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Vincent Lefevre (vinc...@vinc17.net): > > On 2015-04-23 11:31:27 +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > > > Le quartidi 4 floréal, an CCXXIII, Vincent Lefevre a écrit : > > > > David's test shows that the renamed file is missed. > > > > > > No, i

the correct way to read a big directory? Mutt?

2015-04-24 Thread Vincent Lefevre
I'm starting a new thread since "reading an empty directory after reboot is very slow" is quite long, and the subject has changed a bit. Now that I think I've found the reason, this one may be short. :) My disk is a traditional hard disk, not SSD, and the filesystem is ext3. The problem is the fo

Re: reading an empty directory after reboot is very slow

2015-04-24 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-04-24 09:35:29 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Anyway remember that the main slowness I have is when I retag messages. > I could improve my script to cache the message-id -> filename mapping, > which would make it much faster. But what I like to understand is why > my current script is so m

Re: the correct way to read a big directory? Mutt?

2015-04-24 Thread Nicolas George
Le quintidi 5 floréal, an CCXXIII, Vincent Lefevre a écrit : > Mutt uses a > different order, and after a look at its mh.c source file, I can see > that it sorts the files by inode number (see maildir_delayed_parsing > function). IMHO, this is

"Debian From Scratch" - what _WAS_ it?

2015-04-24 Thread Richard Owlett
In doing some digging for a personal project, I've come across tantalizing references to "Debian From Scratch". Using that as a Google search term gets lots of posts that can be summed up as "it no longer exists". Did it have a homepage of some sort? I'm looking for a URL to feed to the "Wayb

Re: the correct way to read a big directory? Mutt?

2015-04-24 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-04-24 16:12:15 +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > This is the corresponding entry in Mutt's ChangeLog: > > 2005-01-27 18:45:37 Florian Weimer (roessler) Yes, I eventually found this changeset too, by searching for "inode" in Mutt's changelog. > Reading the mailing-lists archives around

Re: "Debian From Scratch" - what _WAS_ it?

2015-04-24 Thread Curt
On 2015-04-24, Richard Owlett wrote: > In doing some digging for a personal project, I've come across > tantalizing references to "Debian From Scratch". Using that as a > Google search term gets lots of posts that can be summed up as > "it no longer exists". > > Did it have a homepage of some s

Re: "Debian From Scratch" - what _WAS_ it?

2015-04-24 Thread Richard Owlett
Curt wrote: On 2015-04-24, Richard Owlett wrote: In doing some digging for a personal project, I've come across tantalizing references to "Debian From Scratch". Using that as a Google search term gets lots of posts that can be summed up as "it no longer exists". Did it have a homepage of some

Re: Recommendation on video card?

2015-04-24 Thread Ric Moore
On 04/24/2015 03:23 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: I have an AMD HD5450 card in my desktop, which has been mostly adequate for me, but now it is time to retire it. Can anyone recommend a more recent card that works well with X? I'm using two screens, so I will need at least two outputs - preferably dig

Difficulty downgrading a mistakenly installed non-stable package

2015-04-24 Thread Kynn Jones
I try to keep my system as close to 100% stable as possible. In spite of this, a version of libp11-kit0 that is ahead of stable "somehow" snuck into my system: $ apt-cache policy libp11-kit0 libp11-kit0: Installed: 0.20.7-1~bpo70+1 Candidate: 0.20.7-1~bpo70+1 Version tab

Re: Difficulty downgrading a mistakenly installed non-stable package

2015-04-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Kynn Jones wrote: > $ apt-cache policy libp11-kit0 > libp11-kit0: > Installed: 0.20.7-1~bpo70+1 > Candidate: 0.20.7-1~bpo70+1 > Version table: > *** 0.20.7-1~bpo70+1 0 > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status > 0.12-3 0 > 500 http://debian.csail.mit

Re: Difficulty downgrading a mistakenly installed non-stable package

2015-04-24 Thread Brian
On Fri 24 Apr 2015 at 12:37:36 -0400, Kynn Jones wrote: > I try to keep my system as close to 100% stable as possible. In spite > of this, a version of libp11-kit0 that is ahead of stable "somehow" > snuck into my system: > > $ apt-cache policy libp11-kit0 > libp11-kit0: > Installe

Re: Difficulty downgrading a mistakenly installed non-stable package

2015-04-24 Thread Brian
On Fri 24 Apr 2015 at 18:50:30 +0100, Brian wrote: > Bug makes interesting reading; especially when it contains #764982 in case anyone was wondering, :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.o

Re: Difficulty downgrading a mistakenly installed non-stable package

2015-04-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Kynn Jones wrote: > I try to keep my system as close to 100% stable as possible. In spite > of this, a version of libp11-kit0 that is ahead of stable "somehow" > snuck into my system: > > $ apt-cache policy libp11-kit0 > libp11-kit0: > Installed: 0.20.7-1~bpo70+1 > Candidate:

Re: Difficulty downgrading a mistakenly installed non-stable package

2015-04-24 Thread Kynn Jones
On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Brian wrote: > On Fri 24 Apr 2015 at 12:37:36 -0400, Kynn Jones wrote: > >> I try to keep my system as close to 100% stable as possible. In spite >> of this, a version of libp11-kit0 that is ahead of stable "somehow" >> snuck into my system: >> >> $ apt-cache

Re: the correct way to read a big directory? Mutt?

2015-04-24 Thread David Wright
Quoting Vincent Lefevre (vinc...@vinc17.net): > [...] > > One can see an obvious difference: grep and my script both read the > files in the directory order (I know that this is the case with my > script, and grep's behavior is identical), which can be regarded as > random due to the use of a has

Re: can't automatically launch lxde

2015-04-24 Thread James
On 04/24/2015 02:47 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 19:00:31 -0400 James wrote: On 04/22/2015 10:42 PM, James wrote: On 04/21/2015 11:46 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 21/04/15 08:21 PM, James wrote: I installed lxde as a gui desktop but I can't get it to run automatically. I need

Re: the correct way to read a big directory? Mutt?

2015-04-24 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-04-24 16:39:51 -0500, David Wright wrote: [...] > And another: it's probably faster to slurp bigger chunks of each file > (with an intelligent guess of the best buffer size) and use a fast > search for \nMessage-ID rather than reading and checking line by line." This is not that simple.

Re: reading an empty directory after reboot is very slow

2015-04-24 Thread David Wright
Quoting Vincent Lefevre (vinc...@vinc17.net): > On 2015-04-23 11:22:11 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Vincent Lefevre (vinc...@vinc17.net): > > > On 2015-04-23 11:31:27 +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > > > > Le quartidi 4 floréal, an CCXXIII, Vincent Lefevre a écrit : > > > > > David's test s

Re: the correct way to read a big directory? Mutt?

2015-04-24 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-04-24 16:39:51 -0500, David Wright wrote: > Well that's a relief. I was getting worried about there being some > "magic" involved when you said you didn't use cacheing. So, looking > back at https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/04/msg01265.html , > > "In which case, if you want to kn

Re: Recommendation on video card?

2015-04-24 Thread Igor Cicimov
On 25/04/2015 2:36 AM, "Ric Moore" wrote: > > On 04/24/2015 03:23 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: >> >> I have an AMD HD5450 card in my desktop, which has been mostly >> adequate for me, but now it is time to retire it. >> I have Radeon HD 6570 (MSI one) in my MythTV Ubuntu-14.04 backend. It is 128-bit 1G

Re: reading an empty directory after reboot is very slow

2015-04-24 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-04-24 19:41:03 -0500, David Wright wrote: > Well, that's what I thought, because of the cacheing. But Nicolas > asked me to try using thousands of files, and so here we are, > ie, your "new test": > > ~ $ for j in `seq 1` ; do mkdir /tmp/testdir/file$j ; done > ~ $ ./a.out /tmp/testdir

Re: the correct way to read a big directory? Mutt?

2015-04-24 Thread David Wright
Quoting Vincent Lefevre (vinc...@vinc17.net): > On 2015-04-24 16:39:51 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > Well that's a relief. I was getting worried about there being some > > "magic" involved when you said you didn't use cacheing. So, looking > > back at https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/04/m

Re: boot-time messages, /init touch not found

2015-04-24 Thread Mike Kupfer
The Wanderer wrote: > If that doesn't help, then I'd advise that you expand the initramfs / > initrd file from under /boot into an empty directory, and see what it > contains. It may very well be missing either bin/touch or some related > thing. Indeed, it's missing bin/touch. Thanks for the det

Re: reading an empty directory after reboot is very slow

2015-04-24 Thread David Wright
Quoting Vincent Lefevre (vinc...@vinc17.net): > On 2015-04-24 19:41:03 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > Well, that's what I thought, because of the cacheing. But Nicolas > > asked me to try using thousands of files, and so here we are, > > ie, your "new test": > > > > ~ $ for j in `seq 1` ; do m

Re: nfs problems

2015-04-24 Thread briand
On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 23:54:45 -0600 Bob Proulx wrote: > bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > however the client side mount commands are apparently wrong because > > I get this: > > > > mount.nfs4: mounting server:/nfs4exports/home/user1 failed, reason given by > > server: > > No such file or director