**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Mon Nov 30 13:17:41 2009 Nov 30 15:32:07 Hello Nov 30 15:32:31 anyone successfull building and running mainline u-boot? Nov 30 20:17:48 hi Nov 30 20:18:41 i've just ordered for a Sheevaplug and i'm like a child :) can't wait... Nov 30 20:19:34 do you know if Netbsd 5.0.1 or OpenBSD 4.6 is supported ? Nov 30 20:21:55 Comete: don't think so, it needs a special kernel, doesn't it? Nov 30 20:35:58 Comete: there is a thread somewhere about netbsd which suggests the kernel doesn't work, it came up whne I googled Nov 30 20:36:19 freebsd allegedly works according to the wiki Nov 30 20:42:01 i don't like freebsd Nov 30 20:42:56 Comete: it's that or Linux right now, unless you want to be a NetBSD/OpenBSD/InsertNameOfBSD developer :) Nov 30 20:42:58 it's a really cool OS but lacks some good tools to manage packages easily Nov 30 20:43:44 depends on the Linux Nov 30 20:43:53 unless you mean FreeBSD Nov 30 20:44:08 PhotoJim: i talk about FreeBSD Nov 30 20:44:51 PhotoJim: Linux is nice for desktop but i want to use the Sheevaplug as a server Nov 30 20:49:31 Linux is excellent at serving, actually. Nov 30 20:49:37 Install it without a GUI. Nov 30 20:54:27 PhotoJim: yes but the only distro i like has no ARM support. Nov 30 20:54:42 * PhotoJim shrugs Nov 30 20:54:50 lots of distros work on it... and more are coming Nov 30 20:54:58 so you'll either have to pick one that works now, or wait Nov 30 20:55:10 Debian and Ubuntu work... Slackware works. I believe Fedora works. Nov 30 20:55:22 I use Debian on mine, I didn't do a lot of research into alternatives. Nov 30 20:55:45 i will run slackware if NetBSD current development version doesn't work Nov 30 20:56:39 PhotoJim: do you boot your OS on a SD card ? Nov 30 20:57:35 No, I use a hard disk via USB. Nov 30 20:57:43 I use my Sheeva as an offsite backup device, so I needed a big disk anyway. Nov 30 21:38:32 thanks for the answers Nov 30 21:38:37 bye ! Nov 30 22:42:04 * morfic wishes it was tomorrow night already Nov 30 23:26:33 hi, Debian base seems to want to use rsyslogd, which is consuming vast amounts of memory on my Sheevaplug, for something that provides a trivial function. Is there a better replacement, or a way of making rsyslogd leaner? 30MB of memory for an event logger on an embedded system is not great Nov 30 23:27:19 I read that I can use ulimit to restrice how much memory rsyslog can use, but I don't know how to use it, and the man page is confusing. Nov 30 23:49:00 when things exceed their ulimit they get killed Nov 30 23:50:43 Is there a better syslog that rsync, that just does the minimum? Nov 30 23:51:19 rsync isn't a syslog daemon Nov 30 23:51:39 rsyslog on my fullblown debian server seems to only be 1952 kbyte anyway.. Nov 30 23:52:11 still more than double "syslog"'s 700kbyte on my ubuntu plug Nov 30 23:52:44 sorry, rsyslog, not sure why I typed rsync, it's late Nov 30 23:53:43 it's not so much the size on flash, but the memory usage. It's using 30MB of memory, and it's only a event logger, most of which I don't log anyway, to prevent it wearing out my flash Nov 30 23:53:53 Yes I quoted memory use Nov 30 23:59:39 3x threads using 8MB each: http://pastebin.com/m3667fa25 Dec 01 00:00:02 same as here http://kb.monitorware.com/memory-requirements-for-rsyslog-t8892.html#p15187 Dec 01 00:01:33 but it doesn't say HOW they reduced the stack memory usaging using ulimt :-( and my Linux skills are not good enough (or my googling ones) Dec 01 00:01:40 how big is the RSS? Dec 01 00:06:54 the stack pages are going to be allocate-on-first-use anyway, so the 8M per stack mmap isn't going to actually consume 8M unless the threads actually use 8M stack.. Dec 01 00:08:26 RSS? Dec 01 00:11:24 the RSS column in 'ps aux' or 'top' output Dec 01 00:15:26 is ps aux showing RSS as Kb? Dec 01 00:15:30 as it shows 27296 Dec 01 00:22:48 1008 root 40 0 27420 1344 940 S 0.0 0.3 0:25.01 rsyslogd Dec 01 00:22:53 1.3MB for me. **** ENDING LOGGING AT Tue Dec 01 02:59:58 2009