Re: How to increase maximum user cpu usage allowed on a multi core system?

2015-03-11 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 11.03.2015, stan wrote: > I don't see why this is necessary. The system is showing 470% > idle. So the kernel cpu scheduler shouldn't need to limit the job to a > single core maximum usage. I just tried a simple "make" on an 8-core machine. There was exactly one compile process, and it's 10

Re: Raid vs rsync -

2015-03-11 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 10.03.2015, Suvayu Ali wrote: > I would always encourage separate physical disks as backup partitions. > If the OP has flaky power, maybe having them offline when not in use, > would also be a good idea. I second that, this is a very important advice! In addition, use a good lightning protect

helved packard pavilion 500

2015-03-11 Thread Angelo Moreschini
Hi I bout a new computer (Hewett Packard pavilion 500), but I have problems with this computer when I try to install Fedora. The first problem come with the HD: in this computer is mounted only one HD with1TB of capacity, and it is not possible to mount another HD (there is not the physical space

Re: Problem upgrading VLC

2015-03-11 Thread Pál , László
For me the following solved painlessly yum --enablerepo updates-testing update vlc L: 2015-03-10 20:23 GMT+01:00 casimiro barreto : > vlc-core complains about broken dependency (libgpg-error) (looks for > libgpg-error.so.0). libgpg-error is installed (x86_64 and i686) > libgpg-error-devel is in

Re: helved packard pavilion 500

2015-03-11 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 11.03.2015, Angelo Moreschini wrote: > I am not sure if 1 TB is enough for use Windows and Fedora. It is more than enough. > I encountered a problem also trying to run on this computer the > SystemRescueCd Choose an alternative kernel when booting sysresccd. -- users mailing list users@

Re: Problem upgrading VLC

2015-03-11 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 03/11/2015 07:04 AM, Pál, László wrote: > For me the following solved painlessly > > yum --enablerepo updates-testing update vlc > > L: > I do not want to add a testing repo to my stable install... -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587 -- users mailing l

Re: Problem upgrading VLC

2015-03-11 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 08:18:11 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On 03/11/2015 07:04 AM, Pál, László wrote: > > For me the following solved painlessly > > > > yum --enablerepo updates-testing update vlc > > > > L: > > > > I do not want to add a testing repo to my stable install... But that is exac

Re: gnome-shell: slow logins?

2015-03-11 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
On 03/10/2015 01:00 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: Some users experience login delays on 30-60 seconds after entering their username/passwd in gdm (the "last login" time is shown, so it is not an I've found that delays of this nature are often caused by reverse DNS lookup issues. Have a good looksee

Re: How to increase maximum user cpu usage allowed on a multi core system?

2015-03-11 Thread stan
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 13:32:09 +0100 poma wrote: > > 1. You still haven't provided basic information about the processor, >thus 'lscpu' or a similar command. $ lscpu Architecture: x86_64 CPU op-mode(s):32-bit, 64-bit Byte Order:Little Endian CPU(s):6

Re: How to increase maximum user cpu usage allowed on a multi core system?

2015-03-11 Thread stan
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 11:34:25 +0100 Heinz Diehl wrote: > I just tried a simple "make" on an 8-core machine. There was exactly > one compile process, and it's 100% load was distributed over 3 cores. > So nothing wrong with that one. If you run 100% on one core or 100% > distributed over multiple c

Re: How to increase maximum user cpu usage allowed on a multi core system?

2015-03-11 Thread Ian Malone
On 9 March 2015 at 19:03, stan wrote: > I'm running Fedora 21 with a custom compiled kernel, > 3.19.0-1.20150211.fc21.x86_64. > > I have a multi core system with 6 cores. All are recognized by the > kernel. > > But, when I run a compile job with -j6, in order to allow all six cores > to be used,

Re: helved packard pavilion 500

2015-03-11 Thread Rick Stevens
On 03/11/2015 04:38 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 11.03.2015, Angelo Moreschini wrote: I am not sure if 1 TB is enough for use Windows and Fedora. It is more than enough. I agree. On my laptop (750GB hard drive, quad-core Intel, 8G RAM), I run F21 (Xfce) and often run two virtual machines on it

Re: How to increase maximum user cpu usage allowed on a multi core system?

2015-03-11 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 03/11/2015 11:49 AM, stan wrote: > On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 11:34:25 +0100 > Heinz Diehl wrote: >> It's the limiting to one process which causes what you observe. 1 >> process can not get more resources that 100%. The CPU scheduler >> handles how they are distributed. > > I think this is the key.

Re: Raid vs rsync -

2015-03-11 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > Amazon Glacier is fairly inexpensive Google announced Nearline option for Google Cloud Storage, priced similar to Amazon Glacier but with faster retrieval. Storage price is the same, but retrieval is more expensive from the looks of it. Amaz

Re: How to increase maximum user cpu usage allowed on a multi core system?

2015-03-11 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 11.03.2015, stan wrote: > What is the point of -j6 or -j8 if the make > can't spawn additional processes with their own limits, and thus take > advantage of more resources that are available? The point is simply that you can exactly determine how many processes should be used. > What is it t

Re: How to increase maximum user cpu usage allowed on a multi core system?

2015-03-11 Thread poma
On 11.03.2015 16:32, stan wrote: > On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 13:32:09 +0100 > poma wrote: > >>> 1. You still haven't provided basic information about the processor, >>thus 'lscpu' or a similar command. > $ lscpu > Architecture: x86_64 > CPU op-mode(s):32-bit, 64-bit > Byte Order: