Time  Nick  Message
10:23 kados use lib '/build/koha';
21:43 rach  hi
21:05 rach  hey
20:46 kados hey rach
20:39 rach  howdy
20:37 chris excellent :)
20:36 kados and leaves the last two issued alone
20:36 kados hehe :-)
20:35 kados it cleans up issues real nicely
20:35 kados I just found a script I forgot I wrote
20:24 chris not sure if it does anymore
20:24 chris well it did .. on the moredetail.pl page
20:24 chris yep it does i think
20:18 kados does Koha query issues to find the last person who borrowed an item?
20:18 kados before I run this
20:14 chris better safe than sorry :)
20:14 kados that's what I did last time ;-)
20:14 kados right
20:14 chris maybe
20:14 chris cos null is less
20:14 chris and returndate is NOT NULL
20:14 kados does that query look right to you?
20:14 chris sweet
20:13 kados I've got a backup of the whole db and the issues table
20:13 kados scary ... I think last time I did this I mucked it up
20:13 kados issues
20:13 kados delete from issuse where returndate < "2005-04-01";
20:12 chris :)
20:12 kados that's more like it ;-)
20:12 kados  26326
20:12 chris the % might be throwing it off
20:11 chris  select count(*) from issues where returndate > "2005-04-01"
20:11 chris id try
20:11 kados that seems like an awful lot
20:11 kados 459336
20:11 kados select count(*) from issues where returndate > "2005-04%";
20:11 kados huh ... something doesn't look right here:
20:08 chris i figure slashdot wouldnt use them if they were slow
20:08 chris yep
20:07 kados It'd be great if there was even just a 10% increase in speed
20:07 kados yea ...
20:06 chris the more i hear, the better they sound :)
20:06 kados right
20:05 chris so instead of having to find the new value each time, it has that in ram already
20:05 kados ahh that makes sense
20:05 chris yeah it writes on inserts
20:04 kados ahh ... so it does eventually write it to the table?
20:04 chris cos it doesnt have to check the table each time
20:04 chris basically means inserts are faster
20:04 chris but update the table when it needs to
20:04 chris so it keeps a counter in ram
20:04 chris InnoDB  increments the counter by one and assigns the new value to the column.
20:02 chris that should be ok
19:58 kados http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/innodb-auto-increment-column.html
19:58 kados hum ... handling of autoimcrement seems problematic unless I'm mis-reading
19:49 kados that's what I'm thinking
19:49 chris that buffer pool can only be good
19:49 chris nice
19:48 kados  Fully integrated with MySQL Server, the InnoDB storage engine maintains its own buffer pool for caching data and indexes in main memory. InnoDB stores its tables and indexes in a tablespace, which may consist of several files (or raw disk partitions). This is different from, for example, MyISAM tables where each table is stored using separate files. InnoDB tables can be of any size even on operating systems where file size is limited to 2GB
19:48 kados huh:
19:48 kados Slashdot.org runs on InnoDB
19:48 kados yea ... I'm going to give it a shot this weekend on a test machine
19:47 chris certainly worth trying
19:47 chris hmm that might make for a nice speed increase
19:47 kados I didn't realize myisam did read locking
19:46 kados InnoDB does locking on the row level and also provides an Oracle-style consistent non-locking read in SELECT statements. These features increase multi-user concurrency and performance
17:52 kados more friendly than ever ;-)
17:52 chris sweet
17:51 kados and it takes me to a bio
17:51 kados so I hit wikipedia
17:51 kados only two titles ... and nothing ABOUT isaac asimov
17:51 kados Click
17:51 kados it says 'did you mean: Isaac Asimov?"
17:51 kados I type in 'isac asimov'
17:50 kados so this is pretty cool
17:34 chris heh
17:34 kados oops ;-)
17:33 kados msg chris one broken link
15:45 shaun gtg, bye
15:40 kados in fact, it's probably the only way to do it well
15:38 shaun (thats what i was suggesting would be easier...)
15:37 kados then copy over your database
15:37 kados in that case you should install it using installer.pl
15:37 kados ahh ... so you don't have koha installed currently
15:35 shaun because I don't have the database on my hd atm, and need all of the perl modules (i have copied and pasted from nfs, not installed via installer.pl)
15:35 Ben   bye
15:35 Ben   gtg
15:34 Ben   or pointed out, e.g. *sarcastic* would it be easier to reinstall your OS?
15:34 Ben   (shaun and I are not good with sarcasm unless it is conveyed in some physical way)
15:33 kados you've already got Koha installed ... why would it be faster to re-install it?
15:29 shaun ???
15:29 kados re-installed ;-)
15:29 kados would it be easier if you installed your OS?
15:26 shaun why not?
15:25 kados nope
15:24 shaun would it be easier to do a fresh install of koha, and then copy the database across?
15:20 kados shaun: so first delete /var/lib/mysql/Koha
15:20 kados shaun: man scp
15:19 shaun what does scp -r do? | i do want to overwrite, this box's koha is currently unpopulated
15:19 kados then you will probably need to muck about with permissions a bit
15:19 kados unless you want to
15:19 kados (so you don't overwrite existing db ;-)
15:18 kados scp -r Koha /var/lib/mysql/Koha2
15:18 kados if Koha's there
15:18 kados cd /mnt/hdb7/var/lib/mysql
15:17 kados right so
15:17 shaun second hard drive mounted on /mnt/hdb7, which is mirrored on nfs, mounted on this box...
15:16 kados the import the resulting file into your new system
15:16 kados and run mysqldump
15:16 kados otherwise you'll need to boot of the other system
15:16 kados to your new system and it should work
15:15 kados you can copy over /var/lib/mysql/Koha
15:15 kados provided they were running the same version of mysql
15:15 kados shaun: you'll need to mount your second hard drive
15:13 shaun I already have all of the koha files (/usr/local/koha), and the httpd and mysql config, but not data, are identical
15:11 shaun but that still leaves out the mysql *data* - the two systems are separate, and mysqldump will not find the database, afaik - it is in a different daemon etc
15:10 shaun basically, it has two systems on two hard drives on one server (hda: default, production stuff, hdb: the new one that i plugged and played, which used to be in this box, serving koha)
15:10 kados grab conf files (like httpd.conf, my.cnf, etc) and you should be good to go
15:09 kados targzip your /var/www/ directory (or wherever your web files are)
15:09 Ben   they just took avantage of its amazingness to make their own design
15:09 Ben   shaun, ubuntu definitely use plone
15:09 kados right ... so you can just mysqldump all your databases
15:08 shaun o soz, you did... the production server is hosting all websites, no koha
15:08 kados mysqldump should take care of it
15:08 Ben   there was a version of gentoo which used anaconda..
15:08 kados shaun: yea ... i think I already responded no?
15:07 shaun kados: any ideas for the mysql thing?
15:05 shaun *stands up for gnome* try the optimisations.
15:04 Ben   am I the only one here who experiences mental experiences of texture when using widgets?
15:03 Ben   it is still unresponsive
15:03 shaun ben: same as me - you should not be experiencing any problems, imo
15:02 shaun i find that xfce's file manager is *stupid*
15:02 Ben   512mb ddram with an athlon xp 2400+
15:02 shaun ben: what ram and proc do you have?
15:02 shaun also: i turned off bluecurve and used clearlooks instead
15:01 kados I use xfce
15:01 Ben   I used kde, it is rather more responsive in the widget dept than gnome, but still, bluntly, a piece of bloated crap
15:01 shaun *that*
15:00 shaun ever used kde? you won't like tht :D
15:00 shaun before that, applications and actions loaded instantly
15:00 kados ntsysv is a nice util for this
15:00 shaun after rebuilding the gnome rpms (took about 2 hours) with arch-specific optimisations (for athlon-xp, -O2 etc), gnome is more responsive than ever
15:00 kados try not starting services you don't need
14:59 kados have you optimized it at all?
14:59 Ben   and it makes the system feel soft & squidgy
14:59 Ben   clicking applications means a few microseconds more to wait than clicking start
14:59 Ben   shaun, gnome in general is unresponsive
14:58 Ben   I am not a complete retard, I nearly installed gentoo once, but for some reason grub wouldn't load
14:58 shaun ben: what's slow about it once it's booted?
14:58 kados right ... you'll need to do that too
14:58 shaun in /boot/grub/grub.conf is the line from which one must remove rhgb (talk like yoda one must for sentence structure)
14:58 Ben   I know what ubuntu is...
14:58 kados k
14:58 Ben   I know
14:58 kados ubuntu is a linux distro ... it's pretty nice
14:57 kados xfce is a really fast desktop
14:57 Ben   to boot
14:57 Ben   any opinions on Ubuntu?
14:57 kados use xfce
14:57 Ben   I do wish to retain the graphical stuff, but I don't want it to be as slow
14:57 kados shaun: the graphical boot doesn't load
14:57 kados shaun: huh ... that's the way all my systems are setup
14:56 shaun (good old redhat, always unique...)
14:56 Ben   I tried copying the firefox application data folder across, but it just screws up chrome
14:56 shaun kados: it isn't like that - doing that defeats the object, as the system will boot, load the graphical boot, and then return to the white on black terminal
14:56 Ben   hmm
14:55 kados that's pretty easy too ;-)
14:55 Ben   If I reboot into fc3, I will need to reinstall all of my firefox extensions and transfer over my bookmarks, history & settings somehow
14:55 kados shaun: do you mean just the Koha database?
14:54 shaun the problem is that my server is running fc2, with a totally different data system (its my production server)
14:54 kados id:3:initdefault:
14:54 kados to
14:54 kados id:5:initdefault:
14:54 kados change
14:54 kados Ben: go to /etc/inittab
14:53 kados to transfer it you might want to gzip it up
14:53 Ben   will do.. brb
14:53 Ben   but really I am no good at linux use
14:53 shaun ben: remove "rhgb" from boot
14:52 kados mysql Koha < koha.sql
14:52 kados shaun: then on the new machine
14:52 Ben   I tried, with the services
14:52 kados Ben: you can change that ;-)
14:52 kados mysqldump -uroot -pyourpassword --add-drop-table Koha > koha.sql
14:52 Ben   booting takes about as long as windows does, and then it loads the graphical booter
14:51 shaun how do?
14:51 kados so ... transferring the database is pretty easy
14:51 shaun | ben, find me a package for which there is not some form of fc3 rpm...
14:51 kados right
14:51 Ben   plus it is unstable and very slow
14:51 shaun that is: without booting up on the old hd and doing a dump?
14:51 Ben   how common are the packages? for example, installing software is a nightmare on fc3, for which not much software is packaged
14:50 shaun well, my hard drive which had my koha installation on is on another box - is it possible to transfer the entire mysql system (obviously, I have /usr/local/koha sorted) over to this box, running the same version of mysql?
14:50 kados i guess it's main feature is really robust packaging
14:49 kados what's it like?
14:49 Ben   what is debian like, btw?
14:49 kados what's your question?
14:48 shaun is anyone here good with mysql?
13:57 shaun chances are you're not reading this, but... thanks, rach
13:56 shaun hi again *staying with 2.6.10 for a while...*
12:37 shaun brb, loading up new kernel...
12:34 shaun (was that about performance or redhat stuff?
12:34 owen  Nothing in particular
12:31 shaun hi all (what was the significant topic yesterday again?)