Category: linux
Motorokr e6 and synchronization on Linux
Although this good looking, nice PDA phone run Linux OS, the sync SW (PhoneTools) does not seem to be available for linux. I now have the idea of MultiSync (http://multisync.sourceforge.net/)with evolution and syncml plugins .. I need to have a local USB networksetup and that should work … The local USB works nice but well…
The vm.swappiness Parameter in Linux 2.6 Kernels
The vm.swappiness parameter for Linux 2.6 kernels is based on a scalefrom 0 to 100. The default is 60 and it is known to serve Oracle RDBMSrelated workloads statistically the best. The swappiness definedby this parameter, is for a raw and general priority paging. This isabout prioritizing the page-out of pages from anonymous vs. file-backedmemory….
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Building kernel source tree from *.src.rpm
kernel-source package provides patch applied source code: rpm2cpio kernel-source-2.4.21-27.0.2.1.7.EL.i386.rpm | cpio -idmv The src rpm does provide the base source and patches:rpm -i kernel-2.4.21-27.0.2.1.7.EL.src.rpm />> This installs the base kernel and the *.patch separatelycd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/rpmbuild -bp kernel-2.4.ora-27.1.7.EL.spec If Architecture is not included: i386rpmbuild -bp –target i686 kernel-2.4.ora-27.1.7.EL.spec />> This installs the patches and provides the…