Re: Poor ext4 performance questions

2014-11-10 Thread fedora
man tune2fs suomi On 11/11/2014 07:26 AM, George R Goffe wrote: Hi, I have some large ext4 filesystems with large numbers of files in them and performance really sucks. After inactivity, a simple ls takes minutes to complete. I'm pretty sure the drive is now powering itself down due to this

Poor ext4 performance questions

2014-11-10 Thread George R Goffe
Hi, I have some large ext4 filesystems with large numbers of files in them and performance really sucks. After inactivity, a simple ls takes minutes to complete. I'm pretty sure the drive is now powering itself down due to this inactivity. Are there tuning parameters that I could alter that w

Re: Hibernate and lack of docs

2014-11-10 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2014-11-11 at 02:07 +0530, Sudhir Khanger wrote: > I don't think swap size has to be bigger than size of RAM. Arch Linux > has a good note on size of swap partition [1] which links to kernel > documentation[2]. I used to make 4GB of swap partition on a system > with 8GB of RAM on Arch Linux

Re: Hibernate and lack of docs

2014-11-10 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2014-11-10 at 14:30 -0500, Fred Smith wrote: > I DO have sympathy for people who would like to deprecate > hibernate because the hardware situation is a big mess. I would have thought suspend harder to support than hibernate. A dump to disc, and back again, ought to work relatively simply

Re: Configuring a printer on a server without a GUI

2014-11-10 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 11/10/2014 10:15 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I have a server here that has no GUI installed. > > No gnome, xfce, or any other. And I want to install a printer. It is > an HP8610 and I have the url for it. I strangely thought that > system-config-printer would work, but that also requires m

Configuring a printer on a server without a GUI

2014-11-10 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I have a server here that has no GUI installed. No gnome, xfce, or any other. And I want to install a printer. It is an HP8610 and I have the url for it. I strangely thought that system-config-printer would work, but that also requires more than just a text window as I get: # system-confi

Re: Hibernate and lack of docs

2014-11-10 Thread Ding Yi Chen
- Original Message - > On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 4:08 AM, Martín Marqués > wrote: > > 1) I had trouble getting the system to hibernate. There wasn't > > anything clear about the fact that you needed to have a swap bigger > > than the amount of memory you have. Also, it doesn't work if you

Re: terminal spreadsheet - sc fork

2014-11-10 Thread Ding Yi Chen
- Original Message - > Hello there!! > I am working on a terminal spreadsheet based on "sc", but with some adds like > undo/redo.. > you can find it here: > https://github.com/andmarti1424/scim > Any new ideas and/or contribution is always welcome! > Thanks! > Andrés M. > -- > users mai

Re: Evolution 3.10.4 and Fedora 20

2014-11-10 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Mon, 2014-11-10 at 10:10 -0600, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > I had searched the evolution list, but did not see an entry similar to > my problem. Since this problem not only 'freezes' the evolution > display, but also freezes the entire gui, I thought starting here > would > be better. (Sorry abou

Re: What is the deal with rpmfusion nvidia updates?

2014-11-10 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/10/2014 06:53 AM, Neal Becker wrote: Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/09/2014 01:40 AM, Mike Chambers wrote: Try to install the new kernel first, then after, see if the new kmod will update. Speaking from experience, when you update the kernel, the new kmod (if available) is normally drawn in as

Re: Hibernate and lack of docs

2014-11-10 Thread Sudhir Khanger
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 4:08 AM, Martín Marqués wrote: > 1) I had trouble getting the system to hibernate. There wasn't > anything clear about the fact that you needed to have a swap bigger > than the amount of memory you have. Also, it doesn't work if you have > a file as swap (which was the easi

Re: What is the deal with rpmfusion nvidia updates?

2014-11-10 Thread Stephen Morris
On 11/11/2014 01:53 AM, Neal Becker wrote: Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/09/2014 01:40 AM, Mike Chambers wrote: Try to install the new kernel first, then after, see if the new kmod will update. Speaking from experience, when you update the kernel, the new kmod (if available) is normally drawn in as a

Re: Hibernate and lack of docs

2014-11-10 Thread Fred Smith
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 09:42:07AM -0700, Pete Travis wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 11/10/2014 06:36 AM, Martín Marqués wrote: > > 2014-11-09 20:31 GMT-03:00 Pete Travis : > > I had a Dell laptop a which I bought about 4 years ago. I almost > > always suspende

Re: Evolution 3.10.4 and Fedora 20

2014-11-10 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2014-11-10 at 10:10 -0600, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > I had searched the evolution list, but did not see an entry similar to > my problem. Since this problem not only 'freezes' the evolution > display, but also freezes the entire gui, I thought starting here > would > be better. (Sorry abou

Re: Yum whatprovides ??

2014-11-10 Thread Mickey
On 11/09/2014 11:05 PM, Rex Dieter wrote: Mickey wrote: F20/KDE Trying to determine what package provides /Settings/System Settings/Display and Monitor ? kscreen -- Rex Rex, thanks for your reply, I was thinking that kscreen was part of a workspace.rpm i did not realize it was a RPM of

terminal spreadsheet - sc fork

2014-11-10 Thread Andrés Martinelli
Hello there!! I am working on a terminal spreadsheet based on "sc", but with some adds like undo/redo.. you can find it here: https://github.com/andmarti1424/scim Any new ideas and/or contribution is always welcome! Thanks! Andrés M. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubs

Re: Hibernate and lack of docs

2014-11-10 Thread Pete Travis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/10/2014 06:36 AM, Martín Marqués wrote: > 2014-11-09 20:31 GMT-03:00 Pete Travis : >> >> >> Please file a bug[1] against the documentation you're referencing, >> probably the Power Management Guide? That will help the guide >> coordinator ensur

Re: Evolution 3.10.4 and Fedora 20

2014-11-10 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Sun, 2014-11-09 at 19:03 -0600, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > Everyone, > > I have about 6 desktop's running F20 with evolution 3.10.4 that have had > problems related to the desktop gui 'freezing'. I can go to a terminal > interface by hitting F2, and when I toggle back to the gui > it is still n

Re: Evolution 3.10.4 and Fedora 20

2014-11-10 Thread John Mellor
I have also observed this problem, not just in Evolution, but also in Firefox. In my case, the problem appears to be either (a) mail and web pages that contain images or videos that have problematic render engines on Linux, or (b) massive processor overload when web pages that have a large number

Re: What is the deal with rpmfusion nvidia updates?

2014-11-10 Thread Neal Becker
Joe Zeff wrote: > On 11/09/2014 01:40 AM, Mike Chambers wrote: >> Try to install the new kernel first, then after, see if the new kmod >> will update. > > Speaking from experience, when you update the kernel, the new kmod (if > available) is normally drawn in as a dependency. Except when, as I j

MAC privacy trail at IETF

2014-11-10 Thread Robert Moskowitz
This week at IETF, we are running a trial on MAC privacy. Fedora 20 users (like me!) are included in this trial. Basically the concern and goal is ablitity to track a system/user by the mac address; particularly since it is used in constructing the IPv6 address. The trial is explained here:

Re: Hibernate and lack of docs

2014-11-10 Thread Bob Marcan
On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 10:36:27 -0300 Martín Marqués wrote: > 2014-11-09 20:31 GMT-03:00 Pete Travis : > > > About cold boot, well even if the cold boot is fast, there is lots of > things I need to get starting before I start to work (ssh keys, login > to monitoring systems, etc) which make a cold

Re: Hibernate and lack of docs

2014-11-10 Thread Martín Marqués
2014-11-09 20:31 GMT-03:00 Pete Travis : > > > Please file a bug[1] against the documentation you're referencing, > probably the Power Management Guide? That will help the guide > coordinator ensure that the issue is appropriately addressed. Point 1) > seems especially relevant, that much should b

Re: Evolution 3.10.4 and Fedora 20

2014-11-10 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2014-11-09 at 19:03 -0600, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > Everyone, > > I have about 6 desktop's running F20 with evolution 3.10.4 that have had > problems related to the desktop gui 'freezing'. I can go to a terminal > interface by hitting F2, and when I toggle back to the gui > it is still n