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Today's Topics:

1. Re: Delayed Shutdown (Peter Hemmings)
2. Re: What is with swap? (Ioan Loosley)
3. Free to a good home (Allen Coates)


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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2016 16:01:42 +0000
From: Peter Hemmings <peternsomerset@virginmedia.com>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] Delayed Shutdown
Message-ID: <56EEC966.6000302@virginmedia.com>
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Sorry for delay,

On 18/03/16 15:59, Amias Channer wrote:
> Hello Peter,
>
> whilst skype is a terrible program it won't be stopping your shutdown
> process as it never runs with enough to privileges to do that. The
> systemd message suggests it is a program you have run yourself from
> terminal session. My guess is virtualbox or mariadb. journalctl
> -boot=-1 shows logs from the last boot.

I had to use --boot=-1 and there are a lot of errors, too many to list!

This is not constant and I am trying to find a link to what I am doing
to give me a clue.
I have been trying to understand Wordpress a bit more in case I am asked
to administer a local site (again), and thought it might be something
to do with mariaDB. but I can see it closing down so I assume it is not
that!?

I used to be able to see what servers were running (with a GUI) but
can't seem to find it any more on fc23.

What I want is a simple way to log the process that will not close!?

Its not harming anything but is annoying when Linux starts to take
longer than windoze to shutdown.
>
> Cheers
> Amias

Regards
--
Peter H



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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2016 17:04:36 +0000
From: Ioan Loosley <legit.ioangogo@gmail.com>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] What is with swap?
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Swap is still important HTH Max, Some one called Alan Pope tried it and it
ended badly

Under finds of the fortnight and the IRC channel one
https://www.linuxvoice.com/podcast-season-4-episode-5/

On 16 March 2016 at 22:29, Max Brooks <psykx.out@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd start with getting rid of swap completely, and seeing if that helps.
> My understanding is that it's not needed any more on modern systems.
> Especially if it's fetching from swap on the hdd rather than loading from
> the ssd.
>
> HTH Max
>
> Sent from my iPhone, please excuse any typos.
>
> > On 16 Mar 2016, at 22:20, Andrew <andrewsoltau@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I have what seems to be a swap problem which I do not understand. 8gb of
> ram. Running up to date mint mate 17. Main drive is ssd so I put the swap
> on a hdd which also holds the main data. Once I have a load of firefox
> windows running the system gets incredibly sluggish, and when I check on
> the system monitor swap is being used, always a very small amount. But the
> usage of the ram never goes over 4.something out of 7.7 gb. I have set
> swappiness to 0. Is the cure - masses more ram? - cunning system hack? -
> use a different browser? - none of the above?
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2016 22:59:04 +0000
From: Allen Coates <lug-7@cidercounty.org.uk>
To: bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: [bristol] Free to a good home
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Free to a good home:

Nine assorted graphics cards (Rage 2 and similar). Can bring them to
the next meeting if you want.




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