Re: [lfs-dev] kvm performance

2013-09-23 Thread Stuart Stegall
I ran binutils only with -smp 1 and I get a like 180% runtime. I suspect it's some sort of threading management issue in KVM Go n-éirí leat, Stuart On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Pierre Labastie wrote: > > Le 23/09/2013 18:10, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : > > > >> On the pdf o

Re: [lfs-dev] kvm performance

2013-09-23 Thread Stuart Stegall
I use virtio with the cache set to none on KVM. I get 57s on Host (16 threads, 64GB RAM, single SSD storage, using -j4) and 69s in a VM (4 threads, 8GB RAM, virtio is on the same SSD formated ext2, using -j4). Not sure if these metrics are helpful for anyone or not, but there you go. Go n-éirí l

Re: Thinking forward LFS-7.0

2011-03-18 Thread Stuart Stegall
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Ilya Kaliman wrote: >> Also, last time I checked (23.1.1), GNU Emacs was 32-bit only, and >> there were no plans of porting it to x86_64. Which I found unusual, >> given that it is one of the most ported pieces of software in the world. > > On my pure x86_64 system

Re: 6.16 gcc omit-frame pointer

2010-12-01 Thread Stuart Stegall
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Gilles Espinasse wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "David Jensen" > To: > Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 9:01 PM > Subject: Re: 6.16 gcc omit-frame pointer > > >> On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:38:06 -0600 >> Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> >> > David Jensen wrot

Re: 6.16 gcc omit-frame pointer

2010-11-30 Thread Stuart Stegall
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:09 AM, David Jensen wrote: > Note: Section 5.10, “GCC-4.5.1 - Pass 2” does not use a case statement > for the frame-pointer. Problematic for x86_64?  Perhaps both sections > should be: > > case `uname -m` in >  i?86 | x86_64) sed -i 's/^T_CFLAGS =$/& -fomit-frame-pointer

Re: Segmentation fault in sort with Coreutils-8.7

2010-11-24 Thread Stuart Stegall
x86, arm, ppc64, and x86_64 all work without a problem here - x86 and x86_64 are both built from current SVN - arm and ppc64 are 6.7 + coreutils-8.7. On 11/24/10, DJ Lucas wrote: > Guys, getting a segfault in sort using large input set. The behavior > changed to always use the number of processor

Re: Broken link on GRUB page

2010-07-19 Thread Stuart Stegall
Yesterday I got some strange errors from www.gnu.org while looking at some Docs hosted there. It looked like perhaps someone was doing some maintenance. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Sysvinit --> Upstart?

2010-07-06 Thread Stuart Stegall
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Andrew Benton wrote: > On 06/07/10 21:25, Sebastian Plotz wrote: >> My idea was, that we're using the scripts for an unspecified time. After >> that, they may be replaced with event based jobs. >> >> Another point is, that the event based jobs are shorter than the >

Re: Sysvinit --> Upstart?

2010-07-06 Thread Stuart Stegall
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Sebastian Plotz wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 06.07.2010, 13:38 -0500 schrieb Stuart Stegall: [SNIP] >> Fedora is dropping upstart for systemd.  openSUSE is waiting on FC14 >> and how well systemd works before proceeding with upstart/systemd. >> T

Re: Sysklogd --> syslog-ng?

2010-07-06 Thread Stuart Stegall
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Sebastian Plotz wrote: > What about changing from Sysklogd to syslog-ng? > > - syslog-ng is under active development > - sysklogd is quiet old (last version released in 2007) > - we just need to run one daemon (instead of syslogd and klogd) > > -- > http://linuxfrom

Re: Sysvinit --> Upstart?

2010-07-06 Thread Stuart Stegall
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Robert Xu wrote: > On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 13:50, Sebastian Plotz wrote: >> I just want to start a discussion, if it would be meaningful to replace >> Sysvinit with Upstart ... >> >> Here are some points for discussion: >> >> 1. The bootscripts can still be used (li

Re: Sysvinit --> Upstart?

2010-07-06 Thread Stuart Stegall
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Sebastian Plotz wrote: > I just want to start a discussion, if it would be meaningful to replace > Sysvinit with Upstart ... > > Here are some points for discussion: > > 1. The bootscripts can still be used (like Ubuntu did). > 2. The LFS user will learn something

Re: Explanation about grub's search command in chapter 8.4 of lfs book is wrong

2010-06-30 Thread Stuart Stegall
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Andrew Benton wrote: >> On 30/06/10 19:33, Stuart Stegall wrote: >>> Seems like it should be the simplest way possible.  Personally I don't >>> like the grub-mkconfig - has failed to work for me a few times, an

Re: Explanation about grub's search command in chapter 8.4 of lfs book is wrong

2010-06-30 Thread Stuart Stegall
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Sebastian Plotz wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 30.06.2010, 13:44 +0100 schrieb Andrew Benton: >> But it won't boot very far. The kernel won't be able to mount its root >> partition unless you manually edit the grub.cfg or compile the kernel >> with an initramfs >> >> A

Re: MPFR 3.0.0

2010-06-24 Thread Stuart Stegall
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > HouHongxun wrote: >> On 2010å¹´06月24æ—¥ 00:04, Stuart Stegall wrote: >>> I noticed that MPFR 3.0.0 was added to the Development Book.  Two >>> things I noticed about this: >>> >>> 1. There are 1

MPFR 3.0.0

2010-06-23 Thread Stuart Stegall
I noticed that MPFR 3.0.0 was added to the Development Book. Two things I noticed about this: 1. There are 156 tests now (that's with the patch mentioned in 2 ..) 2. There's a patch for MPFR 3.0.0: http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-current/patch01 The patch is necessary as there's a problem with the rele