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DaekdroomYou know there's something terrible going on when the crash notifying application notifies itself crashed.00:26
penguin42haha yes00:27
* penguin42 worries that someone has just tagged my bugreport that I added a patch to with the patch tag even though the patch and the description both have BIG hairy warnings in00:28
h00kDaekdroom: I had a lot of things crashing the other day until I installed python-gobject00:40
yofelpenguin42: which bug?01:02
penguin42yofel: bug 60568601:02
ubottuLaunchpad bug 605686 in linux (Ubuntu) "[maverick] nointremap needed - Blocked an interrupt request due to source-id verificiation failure" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/60568601:02
penguin42yofel: I mean it's correct it does have a patch on, and it works - but it does need someone who has a clue about the code they're working with - it sounded a promising idea and seems to work, but heck modern interrupt handling is black magic01:03
yofelpenguin42: oh that, that's brians 'search for patches in ubuntu bugs' script that automatically ads the patch tag and subscibes either the reviewers team or in this case jFo01:04
penguin42ah ok01:04
penguin42it should obvious to anyone who reviews it :-)01:04
yofeldon't worry, JFo will know what to do with it01:05
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penguin42yofel: So I'm trying to remember the story from yesterdays classrom stuff - what happens if a bug is fixed in a version is in debian but we're passed the date when we pull stuff from debian?01:21
yofelif we're not at final freeze yet you could file a sync/merge request01:22
penguin42yofel - see bug 60408701:24
ubottuLaunchpad bug 604087 in iscsitarget (Ubuntu) "iscsitarget fails with can't create a target 2 0" [Undecided,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/60408701:24
penguin42hmm, and disk read performance is a LOT better on maverick in kvm01:26
penguin42hmm, time for bed01:38
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rsouthardHello all. Probably a common question...In A2 how do i get my install to default to KDE instead of the netbook remix interface?03:58
holsteinyou can choose at login04:00
holsteinwhat WM you want to use04:00
holsteinyou need to install KDE though04:00
* holstein doesnt know what A2 is04:01
holsteinyou might want to try #ubuntu-mobile04:01
rsouthardi am using KDE. A2=alpha204:01
holsteinAH04:01
holsteinyeah, im not sure then04:02
holsteini had NBR going04:02
rsouthardbut ubuntu is also doing the same thing on another box. seems like they made the default UI the netbook interface. Not sure why, but it looks like hell on a large display.04:02
holsteinand i installed other WM's04:02
holsteinand just chose at loing04:02
holsteinlogin*04:02
James147rsouthard: then its not at the location i suggested?04:02
James147holstein: its not a window manager, its the desktop display,04:03
rsouthardi can choose at login but when i choose gnome or kde it still defaults to the netbook ui04:03
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rsouthardprobably some setting somewhere. checked out several files in /etc/ with grep and nothing matched a rather broad regex.04:04
holsteinwhatever you kids are calling them these days ;)04:04
James147rsouthard: look at "system settings > Workspace"04:04
rsouthardi will check it04:04
James147not on maverick... yet ;) but I am on kde 4.5 and have a (greyed out option as i dont ahve the netbook interface installed) to change workspace type there04:05
rsouthardSweet. That was it. Thx James:147. Much appreciated.04:06
rsoutharddidnt know that option was there. must be new to 4.9.x04:06
rsouthard* 4.4.8.x04:06
James147rsouthard: its new... i mean moved in 4.5 at some point... before RC1 i think.... but it was there in 4.4.x, just in a wieard place04:08
James147and not usable unless you had plasma-netbook and plasma-desktop install which was almost noone04:09
DanaGhttps://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/foundations-m-uefi-support05:39
DanaGinteresting... my EFI breaks quite horribly if I use grub-efi-amd64 to boot a 32-bit kernel.05:39
dupondjenouveau / Xorg broken ?05:59
DanaGOnce the UEFI images come out, I'll reinstall my Maverick partition to 64-bit.06:23
DrHalananyone else sometimes is not able to leftklick?12:29
* penguin42 hasn't had any leftclick problems12:29
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penguin42Is it just me or is sound muted/low each time I login?15:04
BUGabundo_remoteyep15:05
BUGabundo_remoteI have no sound on boot15:05
BUGabundo_remoteits been like that's almost all cycl15:05
penguin42BUGabundo_remote: And it's just a matter of unmuting it and turning it up and it seems happy?15:06
zakscottme too15:06
BUGabundo_remotecrimsun_ said he was going to workon that15:06
BUGabundo_remotebut I haven't seen much of him around, so I assume work busy15:06
BUGabundo_remotepenguin42: yes15:06
Daekdroompenguin42, that's a papercut bug still15:06
penguin42is there a bugid?15:06
BUGabundo_remoteno15:07
BUGabundo_remoteI never file audio bugs, unless told so15:07
DaekdroomWhy not? O.o15:07
BUGabundo_remotemost of them are very HW specific15:07
penguin42BUGabundo_remote: This feels more generic I guess15:07
BUGabundo_remoteand if crimsun_ is not around, its no use to file them15:07
BUGabundo_remotepenguin42: if it does affect a larger number of users, yes15:07
BUGabundo_remoteI hadn't that perception15:08
penguin42the flickering pointer/metacity problem is more of an issue for me15:08
BUGabundo_remoteno idea what that is15:08
DaekdroomI haven't had any problems with metacity.15:08
BUGabundo_remoteI just have GTK bug15:08
DaekdroomCompiz, on the other hand, keeps crashing.15:08
penguin42Daekdroom: I get a flickering cursor15:08
BUGabundo_remotewhere it makes *everyrthing* painfully SLOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW15:09
BUGabundo_remotehad to give up on FreeNX, cause it was unusable15:09
penguin42Daekdroom: And in .xsession-errors Window manager warning: Got a request to focus 0x2401051 (dg@major: ) with a timestamp of 0.  This shouldn't happen!15:09
BUGabundo_remotecompiz is fine for me15:09
penguin42BUGabundo_remote: Do you have any droppings in .xsession-errors?15:09
DaekdroomI have a RAM usage problem that I still have to report.15:09
DaekdroomxD15:09
BUGabundo_remotemy xsessions seems pretty clear15:10
DaekdroomAs a matter of fact, I'll look for it in Launchpad.15:10
penguin42anyone managed to get f-spot to import ?15:11
joaopintoBUGabundo_remote, you should report audio bugs, most regular users don't know how to do it properly15:12
BUGabundo_remotejoaopinto: LOL15:12
BUGabundo_remotejoaopinto: search for "open" audio bugs I have filed15:12
BUGabundo_remoteand you will get why I stop doing it, without being asked by an audio team member15:13
DaekdroomI once filed a pulseaudio bug that lasted through two versions.15:13
BUGabundo_remotepff15:13
DaekdroomIt got "magically" fixed. The bug I think it's still open xD15:13
penguin42is that all?15:13
BUGabundo_remoteI have bugs open from 200615:13
BUGabundo_remotelol15:13
BUGabundo_remoteEOL15:13
BUGabundo_remoteheck, I filed a dupe of an OOo bug from 200315:14
DaekdroomSo, I found bug 56927315:14
ubottuLaunchpad bug 569273 in indicator-application (Ubuntu Lucid) "memory leak in gnome-power-manager on lucid" [Undecided,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/56927315:14
Daekdroomtoo bad I have no clue if my memory leak is caused by power manager.15:14
penguin42Daekdroom: What symptoms are you seeing?15:15
BUGabundo_remote!valgrind Daekdroom15:15
BUGabundo_remote!valgrind | Daekdroom15:15
DaekdroomSometimes after boot, I'll see RAM usage as high as 700MB without any program open..15:15
DaekdroomWhen it's usually down to 200-ish15:15
DaekdroomKilling X doesn't solve it.15:15
DaekdroomI'm trying to spot a pattern so I can file a bug.15:16
joaopintoDaekdroom, you can see the memory usage on processes, unless it's a driver leak you can identify the leaking app15:16
Daekdroomjoaopinto, and if I can't see anything using too much memory, should I assume it's the kernel?15:16
yofelgrr, kvm hates me15:17
zakscottubottu, botsnack15:17
ubottuYum! Err, I mean, APT!15:17
penguin42hmm I've seen another bug like that, but I'll need to find it15:17
yofelit has that mouse pointer integration turned on here, just that it doesn't work out of the box, I have to let it catch and release the mouse focus like a dozen times until I can use the mouse in the VM15:17
penguin42yofel: Not seen that, although I've found removing the vmware mouse driver can help15:18
yofelhm, don't have vmware installed, only virtualbox15:18
yofelmaybe even that's too much15:19
zakscottwhy dont i have permission to see bug 602091?15:19
ubottuBug 602091 on http://launchpad.net/bugs/602091 is private15:19
zakscottah15:19
penguin42Daekdroom: You might want to look at bug 59884915:20
ubottuLaunchpad bug 598849 in dpkg (Ubuntu) "After reboot after update, alot more memory is used" [Undecided,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/59884915:20
penguin42Daekdroom: Although, to me I feel that what's really happening here is that ureadahead or something else is happening on 1st boot and getting a lot of memory cached, not sure if it's actually in use15:22
yofelzakscott: now you can see bug 60209115:26
ubottuLaunchpad bug 602091 in aptdaemon (Ubuntu) "aptd crashed with AttributeError in _emit_acquire_item()" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/60209115:26
yofelpenguin42: here it is in use, but I also suspect ureadahead (in use as: drop_caches doesn't have any effect, memory stays used)15:27
yofelDaekdroom: ^15:27
zakscottthanks yofel15:28
yofeland for me it gets up to like 900MiB on x86 and ~1.3GiB on x86_6415:28
penguin42yofel: An interesting thing to try would be to write something that actually tried to use lots of memory (not jus tmalloc it) and see if it pushed it out15:28
DaekdroomI confirmed it but won't post anything on the bug given how I haven't spotted a dpkg pattern.15:29
yofelwell, maybe we should just go ahead and reassign that to ureadahead, but I'm not sure there, every time I get it I have an unusual long fsck run in my bootchart too15:29
Daekdroomhold on hold on!15:30
DaekdroomI have to check something..15:30
penguin42yofel: Yeh it's either kernel or something 1st boot related, I doubt it's actually dpkg15:30
yofelmaybe plymouth hogs memory due to fsck messages?15:30
yofelno idea15:31
penguin42yofel: You should be able to see that in a ps though15:31
DaekdroomGoing to check if it's related to booting after using NTFS through Windows 7 xD15:31
zakscotti just removed bootchart entirely15:31
yofelno ntfs here..15:31
yofelwell, it can't be bootchart, or it would happen every time, not just once15:32
penguin42yofel: Well, if the boot takes longer for some reason....15:35
yofelyeah, but 6-800 MiB difference is too much for bootchart.. unless it has some heavy leak15:36
zakscotthmm im getting OoM error on boot also15:38
zakscott"[    2.844791] Out of memory: kill process 309 (plymouthd) score 39 or a child"15:38
zakscott"[    2.848100] ureadahead invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd0, order=0, oom_adj=0"15:39
zakscott"[    2.872798] Out of memory: kill process 308 (ureadahead) score 37 or a child"15:40
penguin42I wonder if you're all seeing this one: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ureadahead/+bug/50171515:45
ubottuLaunchpad bug 501715 in ureadahead (Ubuntu Maverick) "Kernel trace buffer should be cleared and size restored after profiling" [High,Triaged]15:45
zakscottright before the plymouthd oom it says i have 0 swap space15:45
DaekdroomGiven how I have no clue what ureadahead is..15:46
DaekdroomAnyway, I doubt it's dpkg.15:46
penguin42Daekdroom: I think the idea is to record the files normally used during boot, so that on future boots it can bring all those files back in right at the beginning15:46
DaekdroomIt struck me in 4 ubuntu boots in a row.15:46
Daekdroom2 were following a windows 7 reboot, 2 were following a ubuntu reboot.15:47
penguin42Daekdroom: But to do that it means on boots after an update it has to do a profile to see what needs to be loaded15:47
yofelpenguin42: seems to be that bug15:50
rippsshould I let pm-utils remove pm-utils-powersave-policy?15:51
DaekdroomI let it do it. I think pm-utils-powersave-policy needs a rebuild15:51
* yofel goes patching maverick ureadahead15:51
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yofel^^16:01
DaekdroomI wonder when they're going to give the sound indicator proper Last/Pause/Next buttons :|16:03
ZykoticK9Daekdroom, mine has the new button?16:10
DaekdroomZykoticK9, so does mine, but it's awfully done.16:11
DaekdroomC'mon, it doesn't even have a Play button if you pause the song :|16:11
DaekdroomIt's just a static image.16:11
ZykoticK9Daekdroom, i'm not talking about the > buttons there where there origionally - they are proper buttons now16:11
DaekdroomZykoticK9, uh.. are they?16:12
DaekdroomLet me find a screenshot of how they look in here.16:12
ZykoticK9Daekdroom, i'm in my 10.04 install right now so can't screenshot for you unless i reboot - but I'll see if yours are the same if you can post quickly - i'm leaving in a very little while16:13
DaekdroomZykoticK9, I don't even need to post a screenshot of my own, I found it16:14
DaekdroomZykoticK9, http://andregondim.eti.br/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/sommavericknovo1.png16:14
ZykoticK9Daekdroom, oh sorry - ya that's what my button look like as well16:14
zakscottwait, you guys have a sound applet? :(16:14
Daekdroomzakscott, ubuntu default's?16:14
Daekdroom*ubuntu's default16:14
zakscottnever had it, and its not under "add to panel"16:15
Daekdroomzakscott, it's part of indicator applet16:15
ZykoticK9zakscott, that's the new volume control in 10.1016:15
penguin42ZykoticK9: New in 10.10? I still have something that looks the same as 10.0416:16
zakscottahh gotcha, i actually removed that before.. my mistake16:16
Daekdroompenguin42, open rhythmbox and play a song16:16
penguin42ah, I don't use rhythmbox16:16
ZykoticK9penguin42, mine looks like the screenshot Daekdroom posted16:16
DaekdroomBanshee doesn't integrate with it.16:16
zakscottsame16:16
DaekdroomExaile? Lol, not even with indicator applet16:16
zakscottwhat music player do you use penguin42?16:16
DaekdroomZykoticK9, anyway, I'd find it awesome if it used the same buttons Rhythmbox do, so it could blend well with any theme.16:18
penguin42zakscott: Exaile16:19
zakscottgood find, ill have to try it out later16:20
DaekdroomIt looks a lot like Amarok16:20
* Daekdroom didn't like Exaile16:21
penguin42Daekdroom: It's a bit basic16:21
DaekdroomExactly.16:22
penguin42Daekdroom: It does work though and it's quite hackable which is nice16:22
yofelok, ureadahead patched, built, installed, all updates installed -> me goes rebooting...16:23
dholbachLast day of https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek starting in 34 minutes in #ubuntu-classroom16:27
Daekdroomlibdns64 became deprecated, I guess that means I should remove it16:27
yofelyay, ureadahead patch seems to work :D16:40
yofelif someone else wants to try it: https://edge.launchpad.net/~yofel/+archive/test-ppa/+sourcepub/1238189/+listing-archive-extra16:44
penguin42yofel: They're using a pretty evil trick - IMHO that tracing mechanism was intended for debugging where the person doing it might sanely choose a buffer size and know they are using some ram while they do the debug or performance analysis16:44
yoasifi can't seem to find the maverick daily alternate install cd17:43
yoasifit isnt here http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily/current/17:44
yoasifany ideas?17:44
charlie-tcaThere are no images today17:44
catweazlewait some days, to many bugs yet17:44
charlie-tcaWe have hope they may be back tomorrow17:44
yoasifhow can i just get the latest one that is available?17:45
charlie-tcaTry the daily-live/current17:45
charlie-tcaIt is from the 14th17:45
jussi__is there a kde/text equivalent of update-manager-core? Installing half of gnome isnt really what I want to do...17:45
yoasifactually i can just use the alpha17:46
yoasif(want to try out btrfs)17:46
penguin42jussi_: Yeh if you look on the maverick-alpha-2 thing it tells you how to do a server update17:47
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gnomefreakanyone else notice nvidia isnt working with 2.6.35-7-generic #12?18:04
yofelgnomefreak: it was working fine here, what about -8 ?18:07
dupondjeproblems ? :)18:08
gnomefreakyofel: not sure yet. updateing kernel now18:08
gnomefreaks/updateing/updating18:09
dupondjewhat was the bug exactly gnomefreak  ?18:11
dupondjecause I'm having issues also atm18:11
gnomefreakdupondje: ? nvidia doesnt work (non-free drivers)18:11
gnomefreaknot sure what more info i can give that would explain it anymore18:11
dupondjeerror ?18:12
dupondjecause nouveau here is also broken ...18:12
gnomefreakdupondje: no error doesnt run. nouveau works here (im using it now)18:12
dupondjeweird :)18:13
gnomefreaki cant get a TTY so i had no choice. i prefer TTY to low graphics18:13
dupondjehttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libdrm/+bug/606244 => this is what I have18:13
ubottuLaunchpad bug 606244 in libdrm (Ubuntu) "X doesn't find a screen and is not starting due a race condition" [Undecided,New]18:13
gnomefreakmaybe -8 will fix the issues18:13
dupondjerunning -8 here18:14
dupondjeeven ps aux seem to lock here now :s18:15
dupondjecan't even reboot18:15
gnomefreakdupondje: you cant get a terminal?18:15
dupondjeI can, but reboot doesn't reboot :s its locked18:15
gnomefreakhint sudo reboot will reboot your system18:16
gnomefreakah18:16
gnomefreakpush the little botton on the tower?18:16
dupondjewell yea have to :(18:16
gnomefreaks/botton/button  my typing sucks badly today18:17
* gnomefreak prtty much been gone for 3ish weeks well 2 or 318:17
zakscotthow was your vacation?18:18
dupondjeok back in track :)18:20
gnomefreakdupondje: reboot fixed you?18:20
gnomefreakwell fixed your system at least18:21
dupondjerm /var/lib/ureadahead/pack18:21
dupondjesudo reboot18:21
dupondje:)18:21
gnomefreakah18:22
Daekdroomsudo reboot is a command? O.o18:22
* Daekdroom has always used sudo shutdown -r now18:22
gnomefreaksudo reboot is a command18:22
gnomefreakone shuts sytem down the other reboots system ;)18:22
Daekdroomshutdown -r now reboots.18:23
* gnomefreak be back need a smoke18:23
gnomefreakoh18:23
zakscottsudo reboot now works too18:23
dupondjegnomefreak: also have plymouthd crash ?18:24
charlie-tcaActually, shutdown -P does a full shutdown, shutdown -r does a reboot18:24
Daekdroomdupondje, do you also have high memory usage problems involving ureadahead18:24
Daekdroom?18:24
gnomefreakdupondje: none of my splashes work and yes plymouth is crashing see bug 598035 for plymouth and bug 551746 for gnome-splash18:32
ubottuLaunchpad bug 598035 in plymouth (Ubuntu) "Plymouth does not work" [Undecided,Incomplete] https://launchpad.net/bugs/59803518:32
ubottuLaunchpad bug 551746 in gnome-art (Ubuntu) "Failing to using a gnome splash image" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/55174618:32
gnomefreakLP is slow :(18:33
dupondjegnomefreak: my plymoutd crashes here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/60639318:33
dupondje:)18:33
ubottuLaunchpad bug 606393 in linux (Ubuntu) "BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000003c0" [Undecided,New]18:33
gnomefreakno i dont get that18:34
* gnomefreak needs to add a boot option but i dont recall how to do that. anyone help :/18:35
dupondjevi /boot/grub/grub.cfg ?18:36
gnomefreakdupondje: will see if i can18:39
gnomefreakdupondje: im not seeing a place for it.18:40
yofelgnomefreak: edit /etc/default/grub ?18:41
yofelor just add it at boot time?18:42
gnomefreakyofel: i guess i can add 'plymouth:debug=file:/var/log/plymouth-debug.log'  anywhere? problem i dont see anything about plymouth in the file18:45
yofeldepends where you need  to add that, if plymouth reads that from the kernel command line then add it to quiet splash18:46
gnomefreakyofel: see steve's last comment on bug 598035 he doesnt say anything other than add it to boot options18:47
ubottuLaunchpad bug 598035 in plymouth (Ubuntu) "Plymouth does not work" [Undecided,Incomplete] https://launchpad.net/bugs/59803518:47
yofelI would say add it to the kernel command line18:48
gnomefreakGRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"?18:49
yofelyes18:49
penguin42Anyone seen any suggestions on the thing about having to remove the grub graphics parameters?18:49
gnomefreakseparate it using , or just add another "....."18:50
yofel"quiet splash plymouth:debug..."18:51
gnomefreakyofel: ok thanks i will add it18:52
gnomefreakbe back these updates are going to take forever and its like watching paint dry18:58
geserpenguin42: what do you mean with "grub graphics parameter"?19:16
penguin42geser: I need to remove the   load_video   and set gfxpayload=keep19:35
geserpenguin42: isn't setting gfxpayload=text enough in your case? for that 'echo "GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=text" >> /etc/grub/default' is enough to disable19:37
penguin42geser: Yes it probably is19:38
geserif you regenerate the grub config afterwards (update-grub) you should have "set gfxpayload=text" in your grub config19:39
geserdid you file a bug that gfxpayload=keep doesn't work for you19:39
penguin42geser: No, I thought it was a known - I certainly saw a comment somewhere about it19:41
geserpenguin42: ATI graphic card?19:42
penguin42yeh, it's probably bug 60561419:42
ubottuLaunchpad bug 605614 in linux (Ubuntu) "[ATI] GPU lockup with gfxpayload=keep" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/60561419:42
geseryep19:42
gnomefreakwell nvidia works now but still no luck with plymouth log19:48
CyberkillaCookies21:26
CyberkillaSo... RGBA Window Decorations... Will GNOME/Ubuntu ever get them? KDE, OS X, and Windows 7 have lovely smooth window edges. It would be nice if Mutter (dubbed Metacity 3) was planning to implement it. I don't think that it's "feature creep". It seems like a fundamental to a modern desktop experience now, especially considering that the default GNOME theme, Clearlooks, and Ubuntu's default, feature rounded corners.21:29
CyberkillaI've been hearing about the client-side decorations, and how they're a terrible thing. I'm not specifically referring to that at all, however. I'm talking about a proper window decorator that knows that an alpha channel is :-P21:33
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dupondjedamn I love quad core to build kernels :)22:29
penguin42dupondje: Yeh they're nice :-)) Now if only there were about 50 zillion less modules22:30
* penguin42 gently wonders how to push an xfwm patch I submitted nearly a year ago22:34
penguin42does anyone else see 'You have old & broken userspace please consider updating mesa"22:41
dupondjewhere do you see that ?22:42
Daekdroompenguin42, I read in #radeon earlier today that it should be ignored and that it's leftovers from old code.22:42
penguin42dupondje: dmesg22:42
penguin42Daekdroom: Ah ok22:42
penguin42(not that my 3d is happy, but it's the 1st time I've run without edgers for a while - so it might be normal)22:43
DaekdroomNo edgers? Blasphemy :O22:43
penguin42Daekdroom: Yeh, I thought I should try maverick without it first22:43
DaekdroomI did, but back then it still had 7.8.1 Mesa :|22:44
Volkodavdupondje: your 3rd and 4th most likely are idling most of the time since software is always playing catch up with hardware22:44
DaekdroomI can't live with that.22:44
dupondjeVolkodav: well gcc is quite good @ 4 threads :)22:45
penguin42Daekdroom: I've got a couple of bugs though at the moment; the 1st is a constant stream of errors in metacity logs about focus and timestamps; but I've tried doing xfwm --replace and X is still getting battered at 50% cpu for no apparent reason22:45
penguin42dupondje: I normally give it a few more than 4 on a quad core; I've got DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=parallel=10 in my .bashrc22:46
dupondjemm :) should try22:46
dupondjeanyway its build now22:46
Volkodavdupondje: half the time it does not know when to kick the other 2 - that's for sure22:46
penguin42dupondje: Just make sure you have plenty of ram and /tmp22:48
Volkodavdupondje: multithreading facility should be programmed to be able to use the four cores at a time22:48
VolkodavVery few software products can do that currently22:48
Volkodavgcc included22:49
penguin42Volkodav: make -j  manages very nicely :-))22:49
dupondjebrb :)22:49
Volkodavpenguin42: Did you trace the cores usage ?22:50
penguin42Volkodav: Just letting top show my % free on each one22:51
virtualdwhat's the status of btrfs in maverick?22:51
penguin42Volkodav: make -j on a large package can easily use 4 cores most of the time22:51
Volkodavvirtuald: +122:51
virtualdaha, deferred22:52
Volkodavpenguin42: when that happens and ....say your first 2 CPU's get to 20-30% usage what are the other 2 doing ?22:52
penguin42Volkodav: It's unusual for that to happen; it would be more normal to find all 4 doing 10-15% - I'm talking about getting all 4 to 100%22:53
penguin42(of course it depends how long how you're averaging over)22:54
VolkodavI find that hard to believe penguin4222:54
penguin42Volkodav: Have you got a quad core to try it on?22:54
Volkodavyes I do22:54
yofelI do think that 4 seperate gcc processes should each use a core full time, well, nearly22:55
penguin42Volkodav: OK, grab yourself a big package to build, say a kernel - and set DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=parallel=8   and build the package22:55
penguin42yofel: Yeh22:55
Volkodavand the usage is core 1 - 60-70 5 core 2 -50-60  core 3 -20-15 core 4 - 10-522:55
DaekdroomI have a dual core and I never have more than 2 threads on a multithread program because it makes everything irresponsive xD22:56
Volkodavdefine big penguin4222:56
penguin42yofel: And that's actually why I run with more than 4, you end up with some processes waiting for disk etc - so give the OS 8 processes to schedule and it might be able to keep 4 cores busy22:56
penguin42Volkodav: Kernel will do22:56
yofelwell, depends on how mch memory gcc needs and on the cache/memory speeds too...22:56
Volkodavyofel hi long time no see22:56
yofelhey22:57
Volkodavhow's that test on SSD ? TRIM works on mine I found out22:57
VolkodavDaekdroom: that provesmy point22:57
penguin42Volkodav: I've got a standard git copy of the kernel source; did make defconfig  and then just done  make -j 10 at the top - I'm seeing less than 1% idle on all the cores22:58
DaekdroomVolkodav, as a matter of fact, it doesn't.22:58
yofelwell, it works on mine too, well somehow. Hdparm says that the first few sectors are kept with data, but all other sectors do end up with zeroes22:58
Volkodavwhat version of hdparm yofel ?22:58
penguin42Volkodav: I've got 8GB of RAM that helps mind you, so it's managing a make -j 10 without swapping22:59
penguin42and there we are - built22:59
VolkodavAnd some SSD's need 4-6 hours idling before the TRIM kicks in22:59
yofelVolkodav: well, whatever we have in maverick, I didn't check this for over 2 weeks now though22:59
Volkodavpenguin42: most people got rid of swap these days22:59
penguin42Volkodav: Yeh but I'm still one of the weird guys who reckons swap lets you lose the RAM better23:00
Volkodavon modern hardware anyway23:00
yofelwhat I noticed when compiling though, is that sometimes the CPU will be at 100%, but not at full speed, I guess it doesn't get the data from memory fast enough23:00
penguin42yofel: What do you mean by full speed?23:00
Volkodavwhat is your memory yofel ?23:01
Daekdroomyofel, powermanagement still clocks it down?23:01
yofeland I am one of the rare persons that has no problem to fill up 6GiB RAM and needs swap :P23:01
yofelDaekdroom: could be, didn't worry about it much23:01
penguin42yofel: If it's waiting for RAM it'll show as the CPU being busy, I don't think it will clock down for that - it'll only be clocking down if it'seither too hot or if the kernel doesn't have enough to schedule23:02
yofelhm, well, it did it for *some* reason, it wasn't too hot though23:02
penguin42yofel: Then it's waiting for {disk, swap, something}23:03
penguin42or you just aren't trying hard enough to keep it busy :-)23:03
yofelit wasn't disk, that's for sure23:03
Volkodavyofel - what is your swapiness set to ?23:04
penguin421m48s for a make bzImage (with -j 10)23:04
penguin42(and that's with X eating 50% of one cpu for no good reason)23:04
Volkodavcat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness23:05
yofelVolkodav: on my SSD system 0, others 6023:05
yofelI don't really get what effect that has so I don't change it23:05
Volkodavsame here on SSD and I bit into 1 mb from 4 gig over a week of pretty heavy usage23:06
Volkodavit does make a difference on my box at least23:06
SephorahHey there23:23
SephorahI've just download the alpha 2 live dvd but I got troubles when trying to install it on my computer. The partitioner just allow me to install it on my usb device (used for the boot) and not on my hard disk23:23
penguin42Sephorah: Odd, how is the hard drive connected - normal SATA?23:25
SephorahYup23:26
penguin42Sephorah: Can you get the output of dmesg somewhere we can see it - e.g. a pastebin and possibly the contents of /proc/partitions?23:26
SephorahWhen I choose "Default" after the boot, I got a console with initramfs so I have to choose "Install" from the menu but the problem I just told occurs23:27
SephorahI'm currently using Windows23:27
SephorahI used a 16GB usb key and Unetbootin23:27
penguin42ah, I've only ever done it off a CD - if it's dropping you to the initramfs on the install image then there is something wrong with that install image23:28
penguin42hmm actually23:29
SephorahDo you know any other way to boot the maverick-dvd-i386.iso on my usb key under windows?23:29
Volkodavyes23:29
Volkodavhow is your usb formatted ?23:30
SephorahFAT3223:30
Volkodavdo the full install on it with linux fs ext3 or 423:31
Volkodavand it will work23:31
SephorahI'm gonna try the CD image before23:32
Volkodavmakes sense too23:32
Sephorahbecause it's less than 4GB23:32
Sephorahand I heard that 4GB+ images can cause trouble23:32
Volkodavtrue23:32
Andre_Gondimafter a reboot my gnome is freezing after login screen23:32
Volkodavmake sure you get the flag bootable though23:32
Volkodavif doing FAT3223:33
SephorahUnetbooting do that23:33
Andre_GondimI needed to go to other terminnal session to enter here, does anyone know how to solve it?23:33
Sephorahbut I'll check with my gparted live cd23:33
Volkodavgood luck Sephorah23:33
Sephorahthanks23:33
Sephorahas a huge ubuntu fan, I *MUST* succeed that :D23:34
Volkodav:)23:34
SephorahI just tried OpenSuSE new 11.3 system this afternoon. All my devices were recognized with their new kernel so I want to check Maverick23:35
penguin42can someone explain dput to me ? What is the 'package.changes' ? Is it a diff - if so how does it know what package it's a diff to?23:35
VolkodavSephorah: it's not comparing apples and apples23:37
SephorahLol :P23:37
SephorahI know that23:37
Volkodavmaverick is too early stage23:38
Volkodavsuse is a release23:38
SephorahI got a RT3090 wifi chipset that was completly fucked up with the latest "stable" kernel23:38
VolkodavI used suse back in 9.xx version23:38
Volkodavyears ago,,,,23:39
DaekdroomHow's maverick doing when it comes to rootless X?23:39
penguin42Daekdroom: Can you explain what you mean by rootless X?23:41
Daekdroompenguin42, X.org running without root privileges.23:42
penguin42oh, that root23:42
penguin42still seems to be running as root on here23:42
SephorahNow rebooting23:44
SephorahMy usb key is ready23:44
SephorahGonna try :)23:44
Sephorahsee you23:44
SephorahSame problem...23:50
Sephorahbut this time I immediatly got the initramfs console23:50
Sephorahsaying that there's an "error inserting ramzswap (.....stwap.ko)" because of "unknown symbole in module" blablabla "no init found"23:51
Sephorahpenguin42: Volkodav23:51
penguin42see I don't know the install from usb tricks; a nice blank cd-rw would solve your problem (if it fits!)23:52
SephorahI don't have that23:53
SephorahI'm using a netbook23:53
penguin42ah I see23:53
SephorahMaybe I should just install Ubuntu lucid (that works) and update manually the kernel ?23:55
Sephorahlike this http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.35-rc1-lucid/23:56
penguin42someone will know the right magic to use with a usb stick23:58
SephorahLol23:58
Daekdroompenguin42, CD-RWs are evil!23:59
DaekdroomToo many read errors. That can't happen with a system install CD23:59
penguin42Daekdroom: Then please, help Sephorah!23:59
DaekdroomI don't even own a single pendrive.23:59
Sephorah:(23:59

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