**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Tue Mar 20 02:59:57 2007 Mar 20 07:07:42 I am a new owner of a slug and right away threw debian on it, one thing i noticed is that the machine seems very slow, most of the time not even transfering data a t more than 6MB/s is this normal or did i do something wrong? (And yes I overclocked it to 266) Mar 20 07:21:51 sounds about right Mar 20 07:22:06 is it over smb? Mar 20 07:22:30 and are you transferring to it via ethernet or wireless? Mar 20 07:25:31 it is wired through a gigabit hub to a macmini (that i know can sand/recieve at over 20MB/s to other computers connected to that hub) Mar 20 07:25:46 not always is it smb sometimes it is FTP Mar 20 07:28:23 yeah well slugs arent quick Mar 20 07:28:30 also when this is happening gkrellmd (which causes less than 1% cpu and less than 1K/s overhead) it shows that the cpu is pegged Mar 20 07:30:23 kb1ibt: that's perfectly normal Mar 20 07:31:01 if you were running Big-Endian you may get a bit more performance, but nothing above ~8MB/s Mar 20 07:32:52 blaster8: what else does the endian-ness effect? Mar 20 07:33:38 Network traffic is BE, and the NSLU2 can offload some of the work on BE Mar 20 07:34:10 you can DMA the network payload out of the RAM rather than through the CPU Mar 20 07:34:28 but on LE, the network payload must be byteswapped by the CPU first, negating this benefit Mar 20 07:37:27 So if i wanted to go BE and still go Debian i would have to switch to OpenDebianSlug? Mar 20 07:41:02 it won't be a massive benefit Mar 20 07:41:27 I'd stick with stock Debian and take the hit, simply because it's convenient and well supported Mar 20 07:44:33 it was just a little annoying the other night since i was transfering 200GB from one machine to the the slug, and i got so sick of it that i unplugged the drive from inside the external enclosure and connected it to the IDE bus of the machine i was transfering the data from Mar 20 07:44:58 well, it is a low-end device Mar 20 07:45:14 but most NAS are not optimised for speed Mar 20 07:45:49 $300 Thecus would be a step-up in speed, but obviously much more expensive Mar 20 07:47:09 if i was going to spend 300+ i would save up a little more and just get another macmini and have it be headless Mar 20 07:47:22 exactly Mar 20 07:50:19 also is there a reason why the ready/status light is blinking green-orange? it is a 2 blink pattern that repeats itself? Mar 20 07:53:13 ooh Mar 20 07:53:25 that means LED handling isn't working perfectly Mar 20 08:13:35 blaster8: i actually found that the led blinking might be perfectly normal: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-nslu2-utils/trunk/debian/README.Debian?op=file Mar 20 08:13:58 aah, ok Mar 20 08:14:03 they're doing something fancy Mar 20 08:14:24 blinking colours leds traditionally meant that the kernel LED driver hadn't taken over Mar 20 08:16:07 yyea cause the ethernet and the Disk LEDs seemed normal it was just the ready/status led that was odd Mar 20 08:26:49 thanks all for your help Mar 20 09:26:11 Hi, I've been running OpenSlug 3.10beta for a while now, and want to move to a newer version. What version should I go for? SlugOS? Debian? UcSlugC? Gentoo? or should I just stick with what I have? Mar 20 09:26:54 Hi Mar 20 09:27:34 Is it safe to upgrade to linux-image-2.6.18-4-ixp4xx? Do I have to do something else before rebooting? Mar 20 14:19:39 sql non valida Mar 20 15:35:48 Who can pick up missing dependencies for package 'weechat'? or should i be in another channel... Mar 20 15:40:31 weechat depends on ncursesw, but also on gnutls,libtasn1 and libgcrypt Mar 20 23:31:20 hi all, anyone here running spamassassin on their SLUg? Mar 21 01:19:23 let's say I want to build nano from the oe environment provided by the Makemaster file. how's that done ? **** BEGIN LOGGING AT Wed Mar 21 02:24:18 2007 **** ENDING LOGGING AT Wed Mar 21 02:59:56 2007