Hi, friends, I need help, what is wrong in Ubuntu if doesn't read this solution, a dependency? it works in Fedora and Arch Linux... unix.stackexchange.com/questions/132826/…
what can somebody that doesn't know C do, when he runs into a problem with make or configure, when trying to install an app.. Is such a question OK in this chat? Or on the main site (or is it too specific for the main site if it's for a particular app? ) Where should one ask? I imagine such questions should crop up all the time from linux users , when an app isn't in apt-get/aptitude
'@slm as a general question "How can I as a non programmer resolve these errors with make / make install?" Or as a specific question "How can I install arptables in knoppix with the 'make' command?
@barlop That's fine. I asked just such a question the other day. However, the help forum of the software you are trying to install may be a more helpful choice. In particular, bugs should be directed there.
@terdon well, looks like at least one of the reviews is quite through. Another is reasonably detailed. The third is a short para and I've no idea what the guy is talking about.
@Ramesh Not really, but I have done bioinformatics stuff. Like the paper I mention above.
@terdon all, in all, pretty good feedback in a short time. I only submitted on April 27th. Wasn't expecting to hear back for a while yet.
I was actually expecting to be rejected, so much so that I have already reformatted for Bioinformatics. So, now I have to decide whether to resubmit to Bayesian Analysis or send it to Bioinformatics.
First, of course, I'll have to go through the reviews.
Kind of a strange day. I got a request for help wrt one of my earlier projects which practically never happens, as well as this rejection, at basically the same time. Funny timing.
@FaheemMitha, ha ha. I am a CS student only. I am also the system admin in the school, part time job. I love sysadmin job though :) I am actually trying to get into this line only :)
@FaheemMitha, not really. It's just that though I am a CS student I'm more interested in Linux engineer jobs. I do not know the description for such roles but I want to do something that involves Linux :)
I mean, if you are in school, the scope to do research is more. Outside once we get job, I am not sure if I would be having scope to carry on research.
@Ramesh True, but I thought you wanted to be a sysadmin. Being a sysadmin and doing research are totally disjoint activities. You can't do both. I suppose it is possible to do both if you are willing to get no rest or sleep. Otherwise no.
Does anyone know whether it is possible to restrict a program to using say 8GB of memory? Note this program in general runs multiple processes.
That doc says "you will basically want to limit how much memory a certain process can use, " But the program in question spawns a bunch of processes. Will this still work?
I need to test a process for memory management.
I do not have the source, so I need to do all the testing from the OS side.
I want to be able to say something like limitmemory 400k -p <pid>
Is there a way to do this in unix?
Any common unix utility would be excellent.
On Linux systems with kernel >=2.6.36 and util-linux >=2.21, you can use the prlimit command to set a process resource limits:
prlimit --rss=400000 --pid <pid>
It's not clear from the man page whether the limit is extended to spawned processes, but I'm guessing probably not.
I was trying to install mysql using yum install mysql. But I got an error saying yum is waiting on another process with some pid and the file was yumbackend.py.
@FaheemMitha 1) i'm not sure if that will actually work or not. prlimit is just an enhanced version of setrlimit, and setrlimit does not actually limit RSS. 2) that will only limit a single process, not a group of them
I'm not sure of it either. It gave me a pid number 2529 and I did a kill -9 2529 without looking further. After killing, I thought may be I could investigate more on why I got this issue.
Yes, the reviews look quite detailed, and it was fast. can't really ask for much more. a straight accept even with revisions was probably unlikely. and i don't really know anything about bayesian stuff, so i don't know what people in the field consider to be "proper". Of course, that greatly increases the odds of rejection. I submitted to BA precisely because I was hoping for substantial feedback. One is doing this in order to learn, after all.
@FaheemMitha Two of my closest friends had a big party, all the old gang got together, some of us hadn't seen each other in years. It was great. And yes, a lot of music, my hand is still sore.
@FaheemMitha We weren't in Barcelona. Only spent a couple of days there. The party was here: maps.google.com/…
@FaheemMitha No, they said that because we've come up with a new method, they won't publish as an "application note", they need us to benchmark it against other approaches and write a full paper on it. As far as I'm concerned, the work doesn't really deserve that.
If anyone is looking to waste some time check out "Wolverine and the X-men"on youtube. the whole thing is there. superhero cartoons have got a lot more sophisticated in recent years. they used to be really simple things for children.
of course, that could be because the superhero thing is increasingly mainstream. which is a bit of a disturbing phenomenon. i read somewhere that Steven Speilberg and George Lucas are having difficulty getting their latest projects funded because all the money is going on action blockbusters. And those two are hardly intellectuals.
@terdon Might have been. I have a friend who likes Spain. He wanted to live there but it didn't work out. He couldn't find a suitable job, I think.
@terdon have you ever got any job offers via this site? developer/sysadmin, stuff like that?
@FaheemMitha No but that is really not my field. I wouldn't hire me as a sysadmin. I know very little about basic networking. I guess I could do it for a small network, learning as I go, but it's not really something that attracts me that much.
@terdon I read that once someone becomes a Debian Developer they start getting recruiter spam, particularly from Google, for some reason. there was a discussion about this on some debian mailing list.
@terdon Not hard to learn. I think patrick probably wants someone with a couple of functioning brain cells. Professional computer people are often not very bright in my experience.
@terdon Well, I think the important thing is that you don't want to be one.