Re: use of cpus in building

2016-05-25 Thread Justin C. Walker
r-hyperthread activity. I regularly build SageMath on Macs, and usually max out the thread count. There can be issues with this. I've had my systems tie themselves up in what appear to be resource knots, but I've never tracked down the real cause (the apps I use to see what goes on

Re: about fragmentation (of free disk space)

2015-10-14 Thread Justin C. Walker
On Oct 14, 2015, at 13:42 , Dave Horsfall wrote: > On Sun, 11 Oct 2015, Justin C. Walker wrote: > >>> Unix[tm] has been doing that for years (ISTR that it was even in >>> Edition 5); has Apple only just caught up? >> >> The disk/paging/FS code is far bey

Re: about fragmentation (of free disk space)

2015-10-11 Thread Justin C. Walker
On Oct 11, 2015, at 06:59 , Dave Horsfall wrote: > On Sat, 10 Oct 2015, Justin C. Walker wrote: > >> Also, OS X in recent incarnations does a pretty good job of detecting >> when you are streaming a file and doing a lot of prefetching. > > Unix[tm] has been doing that

Re: about fragmentation (of free disk space)

2015-10-10 Thread Justin C. Walker
ng a file and doing a lot of prefetching. Justin PS: A better place to ask this is on the Darwin Kernel mailing list (hosted by Apple). There are disk/FS experts that may be able to give you some pretty good answers. -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon at Large Institute fo

Re: A question about Localhost with Safari

2015-01-04 Thread Justin C. Walker
On Jan 4, 2015, at 16:31 , Brandon Allbery wrote: > On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 7:27 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: > >> On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 7:08 PM, Justin C. Walker wrote: >> >>> To answer another question from earlier in the thread, I believe the >>> "da

Re: A question about Localhost with Safari

2015-01-04 Thread Justin C. Walker
On Jan 4, 2015, at 16:27 , Brandon Allbery wrote: > On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 7:08 PM, Justin C. Walker wrote: > >> To answer another question from earlier in the thread, I believe the >> "database" used by Mac OS X during the early years was a hold-over from >>

Re: A question about Localhost with Safari

2015-01-04 Thread Justin C. Walker
On Jan 4, 2015, at 13:23 , René J.V. Bertin wrote: > On Sunday January 04 2015 13:10:30 Justin C. Walker wrote: > >>> I have no trouble ssh-ing to localhost on my system, but Safari always >>> responds "Can't connect to the Server." >> >>

Re: A question about Localhost with Safari

2015-01-04 Thread Justin C. Walker
ys > responds "Can't connect to the Server." FWIW, i get this on my 10.6.8 system, which is more or less "stock". Also, 'localhost' is defined in my /etc/hosts, as it came from the factory (with two IPv6 addresses and the usual IPv4 address). Justin -- Justin

Re: TeXLive and Web-O-Mints

2013-05-30 Thread Justin C. Walker
t mess up MacPorts > managing my TexLive installation?) Use a web search (e.g., Google). Seems to be the first hit. For general TeX questions, you probably have better luck on the TeXHax list (see <http://www.tug.org> for details). HTH Justin -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon at L

Re: shell command failed

2012-10-24 Thread Justin C. Walker
On Oct 24, 2012, at 10:11 , Brandon Allbery wrote: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Justin C. Walker wrote: > >>> This looks broken to me; "-lcrt1.10.6.o" will expand to a search for >>> "libcrt1.10.6.o.dylib" and "libcrt1.10.6.o.a" i

Re: shell command failed

2012-10-24 Thread Justin C. Walker
o.dylib" and "libcrt1.10.6.o.a" in various directories. Note > addition of prefix and suffixes. (Although I suppose Apple might have done > something interesting yet again to ld on Mountain Lion) AFAICT, 10.8 has only "crt1.*"; "libcrt*" seems really off to m

Re: Is this a bug in RVM or MacPorts?

2012-03-24 Thread Justin C. Walker
not present. The alternative, as mentioned earlier in this thread, is to use, say, ~/.profile, and source it from ~/.bash_profile. HTH Justin -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon at Large Institute for the Absorption of Federal Funds --- If it weren't fo

Re: clamav and bzip2

2012-02-23 Thread Justin C. Walker
list. There are no doubt people who fall on all sides of this issue, but this isn't the forum to do that. Please take this part of the discussion to @macports-flame, and if you think you have a legitimate complaint against Apple, they have various avenues open for that delivery. Justi

Re: Help with Lion's symbolic links

2012-02-06 Thread Justin C. Walker
_link? Is "word" (I assume that's the app you used) "fully 10.7-aware" [whatever that may mean]? Have you tried it with TextEdit? Any other apps? Justin -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon at Large Director Institute for the Enhancement of the Director's income --

Re: Problem building 'surf'

2012-01-21 Thread Justin C. Walker
et to let the maintainer know: > http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets Thanks for your help. I have created this ticket: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/32977> As the ticket says, I built/installed libXmu, and all is good on that front. Justin -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudge

Problem building 'surf'

2012-01-21 Thread Justin C. Walker
log (and other files) if needed. I did a quick check of the archives for the past year but didn't see anything that seemed related. I'm running Mac OS X, 10.6.8, and Xcode 3.2.6. Thanks for any clues or pointers. Justin -- Justin C. Walker Curmudgeon at Large Director Institute for the