Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox question on Thinkpad laptop

2022-08-20 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 20 August 2022 07:30:01 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > Long-story-short; I run ArcaOS (backwards compatable OS/2 successor) > as a guest on QEMU on my desktop. The Lenovo Thinkpad has the "vmx" cpu > flag, so QEMU is theoretically doable. But the mouse is extremely > flakey, to the point

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox question on Thinkpad laptop

2022-08-20 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 09:05:32AM +0100, Michael wrote > I've noticed the same problem with a MSWindows VM on a laptop, > but only when the screen resolution for the VM is anything other > than full screen on the host. Thanks. That clue finally got me going with QEMU, but there are a few head

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox question on Thinkpad laptop

2022-08-20 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 20 August 2022 18:57:38 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 09:05:32AM +0100, Michael wrote > > > I've noticed the same problem with a MSWindows VM on a laptop, > > but only when the screen resolution for the VM is anything other > > than full screen on the host. > > T

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-20 Thread Dale
Howdy, Related question.  Does encryption slow the read/write speeds of a drive down a fair amount?  This new 10TB drive is maxing out at about 49.51MB/s or so.  I actually copied that from the progress of rsync and a nice sized file.  It's been running over 24 hours now so I'd think buffer and ca

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-20 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 3:15 PM Dale wrote: > > Related question. Does encryption slow the read/write speeds of a drive > down a fair amount? This new 10TB drive is maxing out at about > 49.51MB/s or so. Encryption won't impact the write speeds themselves of course, but it could introduce a CPU

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-20 Thread Grant Taylor
On 8/20/22 1:15 PM, Dale wrote: Howdy, Hi, Related question. Does encryption slow the read/write speeds of a drive down a fair amount? m This new 10TB drive is maxing out at about 49.51MB/s or so. I actually copied that from the progress of rsync and a nice sized file. It's been runnin

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox question on Thinkpad laptop

2022-08-20 Thread Grant Taylor
On 8/20/22 12:30 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: Long-story-short; I run ArcaOS (backwards compatable OS/2 successor) as a guest on QEMU on my desktop. Aside: Is ArcaOS really a different version of OS/2? Or is it still 4.x with patches and updated drivers? I saw extremely little difference, other

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-20 Thread Grant Taylor
Sorry for the duplicate post. I had an email client error that accidentally caused me to hit send on the window I was composing in. On 8/20/22 1:15 PM, Dale wrote: Howdy, Hi, Related question. Does encryption slow the read/write speeds of a drive down a fair amount? My experience has be

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-20 Thread Dale
Grant Taylor wrote: > Sorry for the duplicate post.  I had an email client error that > accidentally caused me to hit send on the window I was composing in. I figured it was something like that.  ;-) > > On 8/20/22 1:15 PM, Dale wrote: >> Howdy, > > Hi, > >> Related question.  Does encryption slo

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox question on Thinkpad laptop

2022-08-20 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 03:46:59PM -0600, Grant Taylor wrote > On 8/20/22 12:30 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: > > Long-story-short; I run ArcaOS (backwards compatable OS/2 successor) > > as a guest on QEMU on my desktop. > > Aside: Is ArcaOS really a different version of OS/2? Or is it still > 4.x wi

[gentoo-user] (G)vim 9.0.0099 won't start

2022-08-20 Thread Philip Webb
Today, I updated to the latest stable Vim 9.0.0099 + GVim same & it refused to open. No problem back with 8.2.4586. Has anyone else encountered this ? Does anyone have a suggestion ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Phili

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-20 Thread William Kenworthy
What are you measuring the speed with - hdparm or rsync or ? hdparm is best for profiling just the harddisk (tallks to the interface and can bypass the cache depending on settings, rsync/cp/?? usually have the whole OS storage chain including encryption affecting throughput.  Encryption itself

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-20 Thread Grant Taylor
On 8/20/22 4:45 PM, Dale wrote: I figured it was something like that. ;-) :-) This drive is not supposed to be SMR. It's a 10TB and according to a site I looked on, none of them are SMR, yet. I found another site that said it was CMR. So, pretty sure it isn't SMR. Nothing is 100% tho.

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-20 Thread Grant Taylor
On 8/20/22 10:22 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: What are you measuring the speed with - hdparm or rsync or ? hdparm is best for profiling just the harddisk (tallks to the interface and can bypass the cache depending on settings, rsync/cp/?? usually have the whole OS storage chain including encry