64-bit linux and 32-bit applications

2007-12-18 Thread Moshe Gorohovsky
Hi list, What is the prevailing opinion about installing and running 32-bit applications and shared libraries on 64-bit Linux operating systems? Do Red Hat based 64-bit operating systems support 32-bit applications and shared libraries, but Debian based 64-bit operating systems do not? -- Moshe

Re: Extra Features of MP3 Drivers

2007-12-18 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Eli, haven't seen you here for quite a long time Most of the cheap MP3 players here in Israel, their software is in ROM without being able to upgrade or program them to something different. The more expensive ones (iRiver, Archos, SanDisk, Apple, etc) do have the ability to be upgraded and rep

Re: [job offer] SysAdmin

2007-12-18 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Gil, On Dec 18, 2007 11:19 PM, Gil Freund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > EPIX Pharmaceutical is looking for a system administrator for the > computational chemistry department. Send CV to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh, you do need someone which has some miminal DNS configuration skills.. Check this ou

Re: [job offer] SysAdmin

2007-12-18 Thread Marc Volovic
Gil, I love you like a brother, but I simply must Translation in body, below: - "Gil Freund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Responsibilities > Strategy & Planning Translation: "Plan and then see the plan go up in smoke" > Work with scientists and software developers in support of exis

[job offer] SysAdmin

2007-12-18 Thread Gil Freund
EPIX Pharmaceutical is looking for a system administrator for the computational chemistry department. Send CV to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description The Unix System Administrator's role is to operate and tune Unix systems, servers, and related components, ensuring high levels of availability and securit

Re: Processing time spent in IRQ handling and what to do about it

2007-12-18 Thread Oron Peled
On Tuesday, 18 בDecember 2007, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: > I am not an expert on this, but what you want might be "NAPI" - a new > network driver infrastructure designed to solve just that. Google a bit > - I do not know exactly when it entered 2.6 (and you did not state your > kernel version) and

Re: Linux memory monitoring compared to MS-Windows

2007-12-18 Thread Oded Arbel
On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 18:36 +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 05:54:56PM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: > > > The real question - as emphasized by all the comments I received - > > is: can I know how much memory the process is accessing (within some > > time period) specifically w

Re: Linux memory monitoring compared to MS-Windows

2007-12-18 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Oded Arbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now (again - according to my understanding) under contention - i.e. when > processes need to use more physical memory then what is available - the > memory manager keeps swapping stuff in and out of memory in an attempt > to satisfy all requests. Under suc

Re: Linux memory monitoring compared to MS-Windows

2007-12-18 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 05:54:56PM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: > The real question - as emphasized by all the comments I received - > is: can I know how much memory the process is accessing (within some > time period) specifically when its more then the total of pages > actually held in physical memo

Re: Processing time spent in IRQ handling and what to do about it

2007-12-18 Thread Oded Arbel
On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 07:48 +0200, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: > On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 02:49:29AM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: > > Running some static benchmarks that should mimic the behavior on real > > load, on identical hardware at the office, I see very little "hard-IRQ" > > time if at all. The m

Re: Processing time spent in IRQ handling and what to do about it

2007-12-18 Thread Oded Arbel
On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 15:21 +0200, Dotan Shavit wrote: > > I don't think that swapping has anything to do with the IRQ behavior I'm > > seeing, > In that case, it probably is network related... > Can you provide more details regarding this? > > Is the Apache server you mentioned located on the s

Re: Linux memory monitoring compared to MS-Windows

2007-12-18 Thread Oded Arbel
On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 17:03 +0200, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > Oren Held wrote: > > There's something in your question I don't understand: > > If a process has 1gb in virtual memory, of which 500mb in physical, > > then this means that it has 500mb in swap. > > No, that is not what it means. > >

Re: Linux memory monitoring compared to MS-Windows

2007-12-18 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Oren Held wrote: There's something in your question I don't understand: If a process has 1gb in virtual memory, of which 500mb in physical, then this means that it has 500mb in swap. No, that is not what it means. Virtual memory amount might be different then physical memory amount due a wh

Extra Features of MP3 Drivers

2007-12-18 Thread Eli Marmor
Hi, I'm not sure if it's off-topic or not, so please excuse me if it is: Although MP3 players comply with standards, so they can work with PCs without installing any driver, most of them come with drivers: Some for Windows, some for Linux, some for both, and some without drivers. My question: Ar

Re: Linux memory monitoring compared to MS-Windows

2007-12-18 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Dec 18, 2007 2:47 PM, Oren Held <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If a process has 1gb in virtual memory, of which 500mb in physical, > then this means that it has 500mb in swap. Or in other words: 500mb that > the > process wanted in physical but couldn't. (isn't that what you asked to > know) BT

Re: Linux memory monitoring compared to MS-Windows

2007-12-18 Thread Oren Held
There's something in your question I don't understand: If a process has 1gb in virtual memory, of which 500mb in physical, then this means that it has 500mb in swap. Or in other words: 500mb that the process wanted in physical but couldn't. (isn't that what you asked to know) Obviously I'm missin

Re: Linux memory monitoring compared to MS-Windows

2007-12-18 Thread Oded Arbel
On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 12:47 +0200, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: > On Dec 18, 2007 2:36 AM, Oded Arbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > how much of that > virtual memory the process actually tries to use but can't get > it all in > physical RAM because other processes are al

Re: Linux memory monitoring compared to MS-Windows

2007-12-18 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Dec 18, 2007 2:36 AM, Oded Arbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > how much of that > virtual memory the process actually tries to use but can't get it all in > physical RAM because other processes are also hogging the memory. Does > such a thing exist in Linux? > To phrase it differently: In the l

Happy Birthday to Perl!

2007-12-18 Thread Shlomi Fish
Perl 1.0 was released on 18 December, 1987. So today is Perl's 20th Birthday: * http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/17/2046212 * http://use.perl.org/~Shlomi+Fish/journal/35129 At work I'm usually working on PHP code, but yesterday I worked exclusively on Perl code, and may have to tweak it