Re: [gentoo-user] How to find out to what file(...) writes goes on a idle system...

2014-12-06 Thread Johannes Altmanninger
Hi, meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: > In the context of preserving the live of flash media by minimizing > the count of unessary writes I want to know which > application/daemon/etc is continous writing to that media and which > """entity""" (file/pipe/fifo...) is receiving those writes... You could

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: hibernation

2014-12-06 Thread Mick
On Saturday 06 Dec 2014 07:41:18 J. Roeleveld wrote: > > Hibernation depends on a myriad of CPU variants, setting and the matching > > memory issues. (U)efi is a good place to start your long, arduous journey > > of research [1] ; see S4. > > Not my experience, suspend-to-disk works quite well. Th

Re: [gentoo-user] How to find out to what file(...) writes goes on a idle system...

2014-12-06 Thread Andrew Savchenko
On Sat, 06 Dec 2014 12:01:16 +0100 Johannes Altmanninger wrote: > Hi, > > meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: > > > In the context of preserving the live of flash media by minimizing > > the count of unessary writes I want to know which > > application/daemon/etc is continous writing to that media and wh

Re: [gentoo-user] How to find out to what file(...) writes goes on a idle system...

2014-12-06 Thread lee
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: > Hi, > > on different systems I see the write stats (/proc/dikstats) to > physical existing disks steadily increasing. > Looking at the output of lsof I cannot find any file suspicous > for receiving those writes. > > In the context of preserving the live of flash med

Re: [gentoo-user] urxvt on i3wm as wallpaper

2014-12-06 Thread behrouz khosravi
On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 5:44 AM, lee wrote: > > > Omit the window decorations? > I liked the picture, but actually I am not sure if that's what I want. I want a terminal that is on the background (wallpaper) of the screen, not in the floating mode or something like that. For example like the conk

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: hibernation

2014-12-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 6 Dec 2014 11:15:07 +, Mick wrote: > It is not just Nvidia. Suspend to disk (hybernation) worked fine on my > laptop for years. Then something changed in the kernel and now > although it will hybernate, waking up causes all sort of failures and > crashes. It is a kernel bug, I found

Re: [gentoo-user] How to find out to what file(...) writes goes on a idle system...

2014-12-06 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sat, Dec 06, 2014 at 12:27:06PM +0100, lee wrote: > meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: > > > Hi, > > > > on different systems I see the write stats (/proc/dikstats) to > > physical existing disks steadily increasing. > > Looking at the output of lsof I cannot find any file suspicous > > for receiving

[gentoo-user] Re: How to find out to what file(...) writes goes on a idle system...

2014-12-06 Thread James
gmx.de> writes: > on different systems I see the write stats (/proc/dikstats) to > physical existing disks steadily increasing. > Looking at the output of lsof I cannot find any file suspicous > for receiving those writes. Ok so in my experiences you need a (2) pronged approach. (1) Then pur

[gentoo-user] "emerge --depclean" wants to remove active python?

2014-12-06 Thread Jarry
Hi Gentoo-users, I just updated my box (iirc, there was something python-related) but depite of having python 3.4 active, emerge wants to remove it: # eselect python list Available Python interpreters: [1] python2.7 [2] python3.3 [3] python3.4 * # emerge --pretend --depclean Calcula

Re: [gentoo-user] "emerge --depclean" wants to remove active python?

2014-12-06 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On 12/06/2014 12:18 PM, Jarry wrote: > Hi Gentoo-users, > > I just updated my box (iirc, there was something python-related) > but depite of having python 3.4 active, emerge wants to remove it: > > # eselect python list > Available Python interpreters: > [1] python2.7 > [2] python3.3 > [

Re: [gentoo-user] "emerge --depclean" wants to remove active python?

2014-12-06 Thread Jarry
On 06-Dec-14 18:25, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: If 3.4.1 gets removed, I will have to run python-updater and compile all against 3.3. But why? 3.4.1 is stable, so why does Portage want to remove it??? Check out this thread from a day or two ago: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/2791

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to find out to what file(...) writes goes on a idle system...

2014-12-06 Thread meino . cramer
James [14-12-06 18:16]: > gmx.de> writes: > > > > on different systems I see the write stats (/proc/dikstats) to > > physical existing disks steadily increasing. > > Looking at the output of lsof I cannot find any file suspicous > > for receiving those writes. > > Ok so in my experiences you

[gentoo-user] Re: Openrc-run

2014-12-06 Thread James
Michael Orlitzky gentoo.org> writes: > > 'man openrc' nor 'man 8 openrc-run' return anything. > So, the reason you can't find their man pages is because they don't > exist yet. Try `man 8 rc` or `man 8 runscript` instead. Ah. Yea, my googling often takes me places of curiosity that I find all

[gentoo-user] Re: How to find out to what file(...) writes goes on a idle system...

2014-12-06 Thread James
gmx.de> writes: > > (1) Then pursue quantifying with tools just what is causing the > > writes, strategies for minimization and monitoring as needed. > > So folks are going down path (1) with you, that is fine. Prong (1) includes all issues related to systemd. Probably embedded experience wi

[gentoo-user] Print PDF or PS files

2014-12-06 Thread Joseph
In: XFCE4 home folder menu: Edit -> Configure Custom Action I have entered: Print PDF or PS files command: lpr %N However, the above command: lpr %N is only good if the PDF or PS files have standard Letter size format. If a PDF/PS file contains pages that are different sizes or rotated the outpu

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to find out to what file(...) writes goes on a idle system...

2014-12-06 Thread meino . cramer
Hi James, ...my board does not use systemd as far as I know...the whole mimic is original gentoo stage3 stuff and Gentoo defaults to openrc/udev and not systemd (or am I wrong?) Cheers Meino James [14-12-06 21:16]: > gmx.de> writes: > > > > > (1) Then pursue quantifying with tools just wh