March 29, 2010, 1:36 pm
In the past few months, there have been a number of things going on. I want to share those with the readers:
- New Document: http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors-rsync.xml The tools-portage team has made app-portage/mirrorselect use this document to help users select rsync mirrors in a similar fashion as distfile mirrors. Additionally, I have a bug open to include this page in docs and/or the homepage.
- http://mirrorstats.gentoo.org – tracks community distfile mirrors for freshness. This page has been around before, but now it supports rsync and IPv6 as well.
- http://mirrorstats.gentoo.org/rsync – tracks community gentoo-portage mirrors for freshness. This page is brand new. There was an old implementation but it wasn’t kept up to date as we added new mirrors.
- New mirror-admin team member, Mark (Halcy0n).
Coming up next: Better IPv6 support, including new rotations for IPv6 only and mixed rotations.
March 26, 2010, 4:26 pm
I never really liked Google ads. I just had them here in the hope that it would pay for a domain registration or two.
- 15 months of Google Adsense
- 41,464 Page Impressions
- 56 clicks
- $23 dollars of ‘revenue’
- 56,553 views according to site stats.
So, that is enough. Since I don’t like ads on my site, they are now gone. 
March 23, 2010, 3:43 pm
Target Audience: Gentoo Linux developers or people otherwise interested in trying out Gentoo Prefix on a Gentoo Linux host.
The most often asked questions I hear are either: What is Gentoo Prefix about? or How is this Gentoo Prefix change going to work on normal Gentoo Linux hosts? As such, I have taken the time to put together a small, concise instruction document, here. If you have 20 minutes and 600M of free disk space, I encourage you to try out Gentoo Prefix on your Gentoo Linux host. This way, you can find out “what Gentoo Prefix is about” for yourself instead of just listening to us.
Resources:
March 5, 2010, 11:28 am
You have probably seen the Host Virtual advertisements on the sidebar of gentoo.org website.
I ran into a weird clocksource issue on my VPS that I haven’t seen elsewhere. This issue was that my time would progressively get worse and worse and eventually NTP could not keep up because the clock was so far out of date. This happened on a pretty quick interval, about 1-2 days until I had to manually reset it. I opened up a support case with Host Virtual and the suggestion was to change the kernel’s clocksource to jiffies, from tsc, or vice versa. (or use a newer kernel, but I was already at the latest 2.6.32.x kernel at the time) My kernel’s clocksource was at the default and I had to research the issue some more because I haven’t heard of this before.
In the kernel’s Documentation directory, I found some info. (Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt). There is quite some details in there, but the summary is that the default clocksource was ‘tsc’ on x86. I changed my kernel’s clocksource by the clocksource=jiffies kernel parameter. Rebooted the virtual machine and NTP has been able to keep time since.
I don’t really know the difference here and don’t care to research much more. It is fixed and maybe this info will help someone else someday.
