**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Wed Aug 12 02:59:57 2009 **** ENDING LOGGING AT Wed Aug 12 05:26:18 2009 **** BEGIN LOGGING AT Wed Aug 12 05:28:14 2009 **** ENDING LOGGING AT Wed Aug 12 05:32:06 2009 **** BEGIN LOGGING AT Wed Aug 12 05:34:16 2009 Aug 12 05:55:25 q_continuum, the plug has gigabit ethernet which should always do auto-mdix? Aug 12 05:55:33 so you shouldn't need a crossover cable Aug 12 14:55:21 oh, the mini usb is a debug cable? Aug 12 14:55:30 * pfein should read the directions or something Aug 12 16:12:52 hi, is anyone aware of a torrent downloader that can run on the plug and can be configured through a (hopefully simple) web interface Aug 12 16:46:12 a brief google search suggests torrentflux Aug 12 16:46:17 which I notices is in ubuntu's repos Aug 12 16:46:46 http://lmgtfy.com/?q=bittorrent+web+client Aug 12 16:47:15 Personally I tend to use screen and the ncurses torrent client Aug 12 16:47:17 But whatever works Aug 12 16:50:28 i used to use ctorrent but got advised against it the other day. someone mentioned an alternative (forgot which one, perhaps utorrent) Aug 12 16:50:38 rtorrent? Aug 12 16:50:51 rtorrent could be Aug 12 16:51:01 utorrent is a windows client :) Aug 12 16:51:28 basically I would like to run the client on the plug but have a simple UI running in a browser Aug 12 16:52:31 should be very noobish, e.g. load .torrent file, plug starts to download and once done it exposes the downloaded file over smb or nfs or so, and auto stops seeding e.g. when at ratio 1.0 Aug 12 16:52:53 web based UI could then tell about status and maybe to stop things Aug 12 16:54:20 ctorrent with its cmd line output could be hacked easily to give the output I need, and then I could carve a web ui on top of it Aug 12 16:54:52 (and not too sure if I want to dig into libtorrent (which is the core of rtorrent) Aug 12 16:56:02 just searched for torrentflux, that one could be interesting Aug 12 16:59:42 thanks for the pointer Aug 12 17:20:06 Also things like the official bittorrent client and the BitTornado client have simple commandline client, and can watch directories for torrent files Aug 12 17:20:14 so you cna just drop a .torrent file into a directory and the client picks it up Aug 12 17:55:36 sorry was afk for a while Aug 12 17:55:43 ShadowJK: that indeed looks good Aug 12 17:55:53 is that bittornado or the official client ? Aug 12 17:57:29 well bittornado is based on the official one Aug 12 17:57:39 ok, will check it out Aug 12 17:58:01 an old official version.. dunno what official mainline has done after that Aug 12 22:16:12 Hi, got a question about swapspace on my plug. I have a couple of dmesg errors: "page allocation failure" I quick google tells me it's when applications request memory, and none is left Aug 12 22:17:00 as the Sheevaplug only has what it has, I created a swap file on my USB disk. Will this mean the USB disk will never spin down? Is there any other tricks to increasing memory? Aug 12 22:18:12 isn't a disc partition mounted in RAM by default in the shipping Ubuntu distro? Can I clear this out (rather than rebooting all the time)? Aug 12 22:27:49 the plug has a lot of RAM (for a small embedded device) you should be able to disable services you dont need so that doesnt happen probably without having to use swap Aug 12 22:28:04 cant comment on ubuntu as i dont use it :) Aug 12 22:29:55 But Linux seems to use all the RAM it has (which is a good thing), athough if an unexpected big malloc arrives, it can't seem to handle it without swap file. The problem is, the only place a swapfile can go is on the USB HDD, and I am concerned out the disk never spinning down. Aug 12 22:30:31 you are probably reading top wrong. 90% of people cant read it properly :) Aug 12 22:31:48 but yeah, if it needs to allocate memory it doesnt have... Aug 12 22:32:21 I used free and it told me I had 6MB of memory Aug 12 22:32:31 and I see errors like this in my dmesg Aug 12 22:33:36 again, you are probably not reading free properly, take the number under cached and add it to free Aug 12 22:34:23 http://pastebin.com/m1f4d96b3 Aug 12 22:34:25 this should be purged mostly if vm gets low Aug 12 22:37:41 you can look at tuning options to make it free cached (inode etc) stuff more aggressively Aug 12 22:38:10 honestly i dont know about hd/swap/spindown Aug 12 22:38:12 is that HDD param tuning Aug 12 22:38:14 ? Aug 12 22:38:41 no, you would use sysctl for these. i know they exist but dont know what they are Aug 12 22:38:47 vm.something Aug 12 22:39:12 maybe ubuntu has defaults in sysctl.conf.... Aug 12 22:39:37 OK, thanks i'll check them out. Aug 12 22:40:41 i'll monitor things for a few days. I might shove a spare SD card in and put the swap on there instead, it should last a decent amount of time (hopfully) before it uses up it's write cycles :-) Aug 12 22:41:23 * timtimred has to spend time explaining this to people at work. should write a web page/find one to beat them with :) **** ENDING LOGGING AT Thu Aug 13 01:24:10 2009 **** BEGIN LOGGING AT Thu Aug 13 01:36:14 2009 **** ENDING LOGGING AT Thu Aug 13 01:36:17 2009 **** BEGIN LOGGING AT Thu Aug 13 01:38:14 2009 **** ENDING LOGGING AT Thu Aug 13 02:59:57 2009