swap partitions are type 83?
by Allen Kistler
It's really late to notice this, I know, but F11 anaconda is creating
swap partitions as type 83 instead of as type 82.
I know F11 has discarded the concept that partitions must begin and end
on cylinder boundaries, but has it also discarded the concept that swaps
are a separate partition type from file partitions?
BZ 503457
14 years, 11 months
intel graphics driver slow (was: slightly OT - X performance benchmark)
by David L
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Kevin DeKorte wrote:
> On 06/02/2009 03:37 PM, David L wrote:
>> My f11 system seems extremely slow when running
>> some 2D gtk/cairo apps. Is there a benchmark
>> suite that is yum installable for testing X performance?
<snip>
>>
>
> Personally I find that gtkperf is useful although not an exact science.
> I like to run it with the following options
>
> gtkperf -c 500 -a
>
Thanks Kevin,
That helped confirm my suspicions. Here's my output with
the intel driver on my Intel 82865G:
GtkPerf 0.40 - Starting testing: Tue Jun 2 15:06:29 2009
GtkEntry - time: 0.47
GtkComboBox - time: 6.78
GtkComboBoxEntry - time: 3.31
GtkSpinButton - time: 2.38
GtkProgressBar - time: 1.16
GtkToggleButton - time: 1.50
GtkCheckButton - time: 0.45
GtkRadioButton - time: 1.21
GtkTextView - Add text - time: 3.39
GtkTextView - Scroll - time: 3.55
GtkDrawingArea - Lines - time: 1.76
GtkDrawingArea - Circles - time: 44.60
GtkDrawingArea - Text - time: 15.80
GtkDrawingArea - Pixbufs - time: 1.38
---
Total time: 87.74
Same computer using the vesa driver:
GtkPerf 0.40 - Starting testing: Tue Jun 2 15:19:09 2009
GtkEntry - time: 0.14
GtkComboBox - time: 1.77
GtkComboBoxEntry - time: 1.29
GtkSpinButton - time: 0.30
GtkProgressBar - time: 0.20
GtkToggleButton - time: 0.33
GtkCheckButton - time: 0.12
GtkRadioButton - time: 0.28
GtkTextView - Add text - time: 1.01
GtkTextView - Scroll - time: 0.53
GtkDrawingArea - Lines - time: 0.61
GtkDrawingArea - Circles - time: 1.43
GtkDrawingArea - Text - time: 1.31
GtkDrawingArea - Pixbufs - time: 0.10
---
Total time: 9.42
I was running at a higher resolution using the intel driver,
but it's nearly 10x slower. Is this expected from this
driver? Until very recently it was hanging my system,
so maybe it's still not mature?
Thanks,
David
14 years, 11 months
rawhide report: 20090604 changes
by Fedora compose checker
Compose started at Thu Jun 4 06:15:04 UTC 2009
Summary:
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14 years, 11 months
Re: swap partitions are type 83?
by Allen Kistler
Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Tuesday, June 02 2009, Allen Kistler said:
>
> [snip]
>
>> 1. Has that been a conscious design choice?
>>
>> Well, no, apparently it wasn't. It simply resulted because anaconda
>> switched in F11 to using parted for partitioning. How much anaconda
>> should do vs. how much parted should do is being discussed among the
>> maintainers. The rest of us get to wait and watch.
>
> For clarification, anaconda has been using parted for partitioning for
> eight years. The code just got reworked for the Fedora 11 cycle and the
> swap flag setting got lost in the shuffle
Okay. Sorry if I publicly misinterpreted what I thought I read.
>> 2. Does it introduce inter-operation problems with other distros
>> (i.e., dual-boot, etc.) and non-Fedora apps?
>>
>> On that, no one seems to know for sure, but there is concern
>> that it might. From the comments in the bug, I'd say type 82 is
>> likely to make a return. Whether it does so by F11 GA is another
>> matter.
>
> With a fairly high degree of certainty I can say it won't. There might
> be problems with something like PartitionMagic (I haven't looked at
> their behavior with various odd cases in a couple of years) but the
> Linux world has basically stopped caring since with non-msdos partition
> tables, you don't have any partition ids to key off of.
Won't be problem for other distros? Other apps? Won't come back?
Won't make it into the GA?
Whatever the intent, fdisk still let's you change the type after
installation if you want. If you don't want, that works for swap, too.
(As I said, I hadn't seen any problems.)
I was under the impression that the RAID autostart type mattered,
though. I can easily remember when it was crucial. Hmm... Maybe it's
time to play.
14 years, 11 months
Re: slightly OT - X performance benchmark
by Gianluca Cecchi
My Dell XPS M1330 with nvidia GeForce 8400M GS and 256Mb of ram.
Current F11 x86_64 with nvidia-180.51 from rpmfusion gives:
[gcecchi@tekkafedora ~]$ gtkperf -c 500 -a
GtkPerf 0.40 - Starting testing: Thu Jun 4 10:26:02 2009
GtkEntry - time: 0.16
GtkComboBox - time: 4.75
GtkComboBoxEntry - time: 2.43
GtkSpinButton - time: 0.88
GtkProgressBar - time: 1.03
GtkToggleButton - time: 0.59
GtkCheckButton - time: 0.29
GtkRadioButton - time: 0.47
GtkTextView - Add text - time: 9.63
GtkTextView - Scroll - time: 1.22
GtkDrawingArea - Lines - time: 0.56
GtkDrawingArea - Circles - time: 1.94
GtkDrawingArea - Text - time: 2.18
GtkDrawingArea - Pixbufs - time: 0.36
---
Total time: 26.49
14 years, 11 months
KPackageKit fail
by Valent Turkovic
I'm testing Rawhide with latest updates and KPackageKit fails to do
updates, I get this error log:
http://fpaste.org/paste/13851
It is works for you haven't tested it please do, if it works for you
then ignore this message, if not then reply if you need some more
feedback from me and I will open a new bug report then.
Cheers
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14 years, 11 months
i386 and x86_64 DVD deltaisos available for RC4
by Andre Robatino
The RC4 wiki page is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_11_RC4_Install_Test_Results
There are now i386 and x86_64 DVD deltaisos available for Preview->RC4,
RC2->RC4, and RC3->RC4.
i386 Preview DVD -> i386 RC4 DVD:
http://www.yourfilelink.com/get.php?fid=498068
MD5 bb331ef1dd9eb614e91d5b77898f29a0
size = 235,922,711 bytes (6.4% of full ISO)
i386 RC2 DVD -> i386 RC4 DVD:
http://www.yourfilelink.com/get.php?fid=498070
MD5 49b67416892af028bb482b1b4294f9a6
size = 61,214,471 bytes (1.66% of full ISO)
i386 RC3 DVD -> i386 RC4 DVD:
http://www.yourfilelink.com/get.php?fid=498074
MD5 be837576c9d38e911001d767899b47a6
size = 58,749,253 bytes (1.6% of full ISO)
x86_64 Preview DVD -> x86_64 RC4 DVD:
http://www.yourfilelink.com/get.php?fid=498124
MD5 00a7cc7936981f4e827f4119d2e409d5
size = 242,867,148 bytes (5.7% of full ISO)
x86_64 RC2 DVD -> x86_64 RC4 DVD:
http://www.yourfilelink.com/get.php?fid=498126
MD5 db599907d32f38a49cd353bb246bc173
size = 48,959,423 bytes (1.1% of full ISO)
x86_64 RC3 DVD -> x86_64 RC4 DVD:
http://www.yourfilelink.com/get.php?fid=498129
MD5 1ed07fa2fecdc00969d0341a4ec71f6b
size = 46,891,620 bytes (1.1% of full ISO)
14 years, 11 months
Re: Fedora 11 Test Day survey
by Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 09:21 -0500, King InuYasha wrote:
> 6. If they were planned better, then maybe I would be able to set
> aside time to do them. I would like to participate in future Test
> Days.
You're right that we generally only get the meat of the test cases and
so forth up about 48 hours in advance. However, the actual *schedule* of
events is fixed a lot earlier than that. The F11 schedule was here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days/F11
and most of the days were listed there weeks before they actually
happened. The F12 one is up now:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days/F12
and will be getting populated starting pretty soon. So you do at least
have the opportunity to see what days are coming up in future, though
the test cases and live media may not be available yet.
> 7. Set up a reporting center just for Test Day feedback. Using the
> wiki is definitely not good enough. Additionally, Do not limit the
> test days to people subscribed to the mailing list. Take a page from
> Mozilla's books and announce those test days to the world.
> Unfortunately, to do that, test days need to be planned better.
We do announce them on Planet Fedora also. For a couple of test days in
the F11 cycle, we did wider announcements to general-interest sites, and
this was pretty successful; it's something we'll be doing for F12 too.
However, it's not appropriate for all test days (some are things that
are really specific to a Fedora audience, or even more selective than
that) - we have to pick ones that are both of interest to a general
audience, and that a general audience will be able to participate in
(i.e. can be tested from a live CD with general-purpose hardware).
Thanks for the thoughts!
--
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14 years, 11 months
still having occasional hard desktop lockups
by Robert P. J. Day
i know i've mentioned this before but i'm still having the
occasional desktop lockup where, when i'm trying to, say, just drag a
window, the cursor changes to the 4-way arrow and just *stays* that
way. i can still move the cursor but it's painfully slow and there's
no way to get control of the system back short of power cycling.
IIRC, if i'm on a network, i can still ssh in so the underlying
system is still functioning, but there's no way to break out of X
anymore -- ctrl-alt-bs doesn't work.
is anyone else seeing this? radeon driver.
rday
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