Posted by: மோகன் on: June 18, 2008
I use Fedora 9 with KDE4. Recently I have noticed that the system’s hard disk is continuously being accessed. Some times it leads to slow system response.
So I wanted to know which process writes continuously. With my colleague’s help I used SystemTap
probe syscall.write {
printf(“%s=====> %s\n”,execname(),argstr);
}
And run this script by
stap -vv write.stp
Partial output from the script [...]
Posted by: மோகன் on: June 12, 2008
Apple has acquired PA Semi low power (consumption) PowerPC chip manufacturer recently. Now the news says that these chips will be used in their ipods, iphones.
Still its not sure that whether Apple will use these chips in its desktops and laptops in future or not.
OSNews article
Comments from Steve Jobs
Posted by: மோகன் on: June 2, 2008
I moved to Fedora 9 a couple of weeks ago. I use KDE4 as my desktop.
I am happy with F9 & KDE4.
But there are some issues:
NetworkManager – Same problem of connecting to wireless networks – It asks me the wireless key 5-6 times to connect. I don’t know how to fix this.
Plasma – Most of [...]