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On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Daniel Campbell <zlg@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 05/01/2017 08:01 AM, Jorge Almeida wrote: |
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>> On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 2:46 PM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 4:17 PM, Kai Krakow <hurikhan77@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>>> Am Sun, 30 Apr 2017 10:33:05 -0700 |
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>>>> schrieb Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@×××××.com>: |
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> cgroups are not being pushed in this case. Portage threw up a warning, |
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> letting you know that some features of htop may not be available without |
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> the CONFIG_CGROUPS flag on in the kernel. htop should work to your |
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> liking as it is right now. Go try it out! |
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The point is that a warning should be informative, not ominous. Maybe |
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it comes from some kind of template, as Marc suggests... |
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Gentoo users like to understand their systems, even those of us who |
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are not developer-quality. Saying "enable this, otherwise you're |
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WRONG, and we know what's best for you" is not helpful. |
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> I'm having a little trouble understanding why this particular package |
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Because that's the package where I found this kind of message, |
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otherwise there's nothing special about it. |
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> I've not dabbled in cgroups but they seem very useful to those who need |
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> to manage processes in ways the kernel itself can enforce. Cgroups |
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> merely help htop do its job. |
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> -- |
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Indeed, _to those who need_ |
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Regards |
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Jorge Almeida |
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