high-speed disk I/O is CPU-bound?

Hello, I have a few relatively high-end systems with hardware RAIDs which are being used for recording systems, and I'm trying to get a better understanding of contiguous write performance. The hardware that I've tested with includes two high-end ...

Message posted on the May 10th, 2013 - 10:10 AM ET

Google Chrome: Google’s web browser

Yet another Internet browser! Some will say why do we need it? What can it offer that Internet Explorer already doesn’t… as it is still widely used. What more practical features could it have that Firefox doesn’t with all its multi-platform ...

Review published on the October 23rd, 2008 - 3:15 AM ET

Is there any interest in moving from a 32 to 64 bit OS

Migrating from a 32 bit to 64 bit operating system is possible when you have an Intel64 (EM64T) or AMD64 processor with a powerful configuration. But what is the point? That’s a real question that is asked! For the users, the Microsoft Windows 64 ...

Review published on the April 15th, 2008 - 5:41 PM ET

device tree not the answer in the ARM world [was: Re: running Debian on a Cubieboard]

this message came up on debian-arm and i figured that it is worthwhile endeavouring to get across to people why device tree cannot and will not ever be the solution it was believed to be, in the ARM world. [just a quick note to david who asked this ...

Message posted on the May 5th, 2013 - 8:30 AM ET

A question concerning Ubuntu Linux and a new PC

Greetings fellow sufferers I'm going to buy a new laptop so I can transfer all my development stuff to a single device, it will be Ubuntu powered of course. My current dev box dual boots with Windows 7, my new laptop will be all Linux :-) I can ...

Message posted on the April 3rd, 2013 - 4:31 AM ET

Partimage: Would it be possible to add EXT4 support..?? (Wheezy x64)

i have a question about Partimage: Would it be possible to add EXT4 support..?? (Wheezy x64) this way i can make a full backup of my system without re-installing everything... Thank you Description Partimage: ...

Message posted on the March 30th, 2013 - 2:50 AM ET

Partimage: Would it be possible to add EXT4 support..?? (Wheezy x64)

i have a question about Partimage: Would it be possible to add EXT4 support..?? (Wheezy x64) this way i can make a full backup of my system without re-installing everything... Thank you Description Partimage: ...

Message posted on the March 30th, 2013 - 2:50 AM ET

need advice on remote installation of Debian

i am living in a remote country and our main branch is in US where hosting is very expensive. it is almost costing us $4000K for a kind of setup we need therefore being a small company we decided to build our own hosting platform for our virtualized ...

Message posted on the March 25th, 2013 - 5:20 AM ET

What does ISA/PCI really mean to ARM architecture?

Hi, list I know this might be a very basic question. But I really don't clear at it. Can a peripheral chip that claims to be ISA or PCI device be used in a ARM based embedded system? For these kind of chips, I only concern about the planar kind ...

Message posted on the December 27th, 2012 - 3:30 AM ET

How to Setup (my) Partitions for Kubuntu

Hello, I want to setup a fresh Kubuntu on my laptop. However I'm a complete linux beginner, so I have some basic question regarding partitions (and setup). From my Windows setup I'm used to the following partitions: 1. system 2. programs 3. user ...

Message posted on the December 15th, 2012 - 10:17 AM ET

[PATCH 00/52] RFC: Unified NUMA balancing tree, v1

Now that the code in numa/core is settling down nicely, I thought I'd address a growing testing/contribution problem that has become a problem over the last two weeks: the 'balacenuma' tree by Mel Gorman was drifting away from numa/core (or, ...

Message posted on the December 2nd, 2012 - 1:50 PM ET

[PATCH 0/8] zynq COMMON_CLK support

This patchset implements COMMON_CLK support for the zynq. At this point, only the basic fundamental clocks are modelled, and only passively; for rate calculation. of_clk bindings are implemented to allow specifying clock/peripheral relationships ...

Message posted on the October 31st, 2012 - 6:20 PM ET

new execve/kernel_thread design

[apologies for enormous Cc; I've talked to some of you in private mail and after being politely asked to explain WTF was all that thing for and how was it supposed to work, well...] Below is an attempt to describe how kernel threads work now. I'm ...

Message posted on the October 16th, 2012 - 6:40 PM ET

[RFC] cgroup TODOs

Hello, guys. Here's the write-up I promised last week about what I think are the problems in cgroup and what the current plans are. First of all, it's a mess. Shame on me. Shame on you. Shame on all of us for allowing this mess. Let's all ...

Message posted on the September 13th, 2012 - 5:00 PM ET

basic linux question