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Download and install intel-compiler-source_8.0-3_all.deb. Alternatively, you can add the following line to your sources.list

deb http://www.physik.tu-cottbus.de/~george/debian unstable/$(ARCH)/ deb http://www.physik.tu-cottbus.de/~george/debian unstable/all/ deb-src http://www.physik.tu-cottbus.de/~george/debian unstable/source/

Then go to http://www.intel.com/software/products/compilers/ and download the C++ and Fortran compilers, together with the corresponding licences. If you choose to save the tar files (l_cc_p_8.0.055.tar.gz and l_fc_p_8.0.034.tar.gz) in a directory other than /usr/src, don't forget point the environment variable TARDIR to that directory before going on:

export TARDIR=/dir/where/tarballs/have/been/saved

Then change the directory to /usr/src and unpack the intel-compiler archive:

cd /usr/src tar xzvf intel-compiler-8.0.tar.gz

Go to the newly created directory intel-compiler-8.0 and issue

dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -rfakeroot

SuSEconfig --module gtk2 SuSEconfig --module gconf2 SuSEconfig --module pango

What they actually do ... later :-).

postsuper -d MESSAGEID

Get a list of the installed hardware on an alpha system running Tru64. The first option would be sms, or the SysMan Station. This is a graphical tool and I hate GUI's for such basic things. Our friend from now on is hwmgr (see man hwmgr):

bash-2.04# hwmgr -view hierarchy HWID: hardware component hierarchy ----------------------------------------------------------- 1: platform COMPAQ Professional Workstation XP1000 2: cpu CPU0 5: bus pci1 6: connection pci1slot3 12: network tu0 8: connection pci1slot6 13: scsi_adapter isp0 14: scsi_bus scsi0 47: disk bus-0-targ-0-lun-0 dsk0 10: connection pci1slot8 15: bus pci2 16: connection pci2slot9 20: scsi_adapter itpsa0 21: scsi_bus scsi1 23: bus pci0 24: connection pci0slot7 28: unconfigured_hardware Unconfigured-device-(<NULL>)-at-pci0slot307 29: bus isa0 30: connection isa0slot0 49: keyboard keyboard0 50: pointer mouse0 33: connection isa0slot2 34: serial_port tty00 35: connection isa0slot3 36: serial_port tty01 37: connection isa0slot4 38: parallel_port lp0 39: connection isa0slot5 40: fdi_controller fdi0 41: disk fdi0-unit-0 floppy0 51: connection isa0slot7 52: legacy_driver Legacy-driver-(mmsess0) 42: ide_adapter ata0 43: scsi_bus scsi2 48: disk bus-2-targ-0-lun-0 cdrom0 44: bus ata1 45: scsi_bus scsi3 53: connection pci0slot12 22: graphics_controller comet0 bash-2.04#

I was looking for the name of the second SCSI controller, as I wanted it for a Linux box:

bash-2.04# hwmgr -get attribute -id 20 20: name = itpsa0 category = scsi_adapter registration_time = Mon Dec 9 14:40:39 2002 user_name = (null) (settable) location = (null) (settable) software_module = (null) state = available state_previous = unknown state_change_time = none event_count = 0 last_event_time = none sim_vendor_id = Tru64 ITPSA hba_vendor_id = Symbios 53C895 bash-2.04#

20 is the HWID of the device, the number on the left column of the previous listing.

Allow users to induce a crash dump when system 'hangs' by setting a systune variable "power_button_changed_to_crash_dump" to 1.

mkfs -t xfs -f -l size=32768b /dev/xxx
mount -t xfs -o logbufs=4,logbsize=32768 /dev/xxx /mount_point

The first will make the on disk log bigger which helps metadata intensive loads not become purely log bound - every request for log space ends up having to flush metadata to disk. The mount options allow more log writes to be in progress at once.

These should help XFS performance, but I have not tried it:

echo 5000 > /proc/sys/vm/pagebuf/flush_int

For more details go here.