For any one still interested in the side track that is cpus vs cores the distinction is made clear in /proc/cpuinfo where "physical id" identifies each physical CPU, "core id" identifies each physical CPU core and "processor" identifies each individual CPU thread.

So it's both possible and easy to track each individual stats if one wants to. And yes there is a difference between two single threaded CPU:s and one dual core CPU if you are a programmer but that is possible even more beyond the topic of this thread.

The kernel separates all this for good reason and things like the scheduler threats them differently.

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Quoting: BeamboomI'm honestly surprised at many of the responses here. It looks like you haven't really been in touch with the IT world in at least ten years?

It's fair enough to be sceptical, I can totally relate to that, but over the last 5-6 years there's been significant policy changes in how Microsoft has approached open source in general and Linux in particular. So much so that it's made nonstop headlines in the IT press. Hence my surprise.

Their dedication is of a very wide nature and involves a lot of areas. Examples are aplenty: Linux version of Visual Studio Code (and a bloody good editor it is too) and MSSQL server, investment in time and money on the Linux Foundation, cooperation with both Canonical and Redhat on running their distros on Azure and Windows 10, change to supporting GIT over their own versioning system, I mean... I could go on and on. The list really is extensive. This is just how it is.

I'm an old man myself, and by God I tell you I've swore and cursed over their name many a times. I was there in the 90s and early 2000 when they did nothing but to inject and pollute every single open standard protocol on the whole god damn internet, shitty implementations where their friggin' trademark! Not to mention their CEOs and their attitude towards Linux.

But this is not the case today. Yes, they are a corporation and yes they have an agenda, but so do every other commercial company, also those who for a long time has proven to support Linux. Open source and corporations can coexist and benefit from each other - they have, for a very long time already. The Linux kernel would not have been what it is today had it not been for contributions from the big, commercial actors out there. Corporations have been depending on Linux for decades already - and Linux depend on them too.

There are no impenetrable walls between Linux and the corporate world, other than amongst evangelists and - yes I dare say it - fanatics.

One question here is if this is really a policy change in Microsoft or if they are more or less forced to go this way to stay relevant in the Enterprise/Cloud environment where they want to grow. I hardly think that the their expectation was that the majority of instances on Azure should be Linux servers when they first launched the service, and the very fact that this is so probably scares them somewhat.

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Quoting: razing32the CoC Linux added seems to value politics over code quality.

Please stop listening to the trolls. There is nothing in the CoC that says that you must accept code from people, all it dictates is the way you reply when you e.g reject a patch. There is no coup going on in the Kernel either, it's not the foundation that says that Linus is taking a sabbatical, it's Linus himself.

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: F.UltraThe database is probably not corrupted due to queries (sqlite is a very robust engine) but when the game crashes in the middle of a write. So the first crash is not due to sqlite but every one after that is since the first crash corrupts the database.

An sqlite database can usually survive even a crash, as all transactions are basically atomic under the hood with automatic recovery from the journal. But of course there are other ways to corrupt the db if you really try, like messing with the file directly, or messing up directory access so that sqlite can't create its journal and then crashing.

And you can be on a filesystem or HDD where fsync() does not do what was intended.

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Quoting: liamdaweUpdate: It seems I've found others also having the same issue: https://forum.planet-nomads.com/threads/2777-EXTREME-PRIORITY-Crash-the-game-when-you-start-a-new-game-or-try-to-start-saving [External Link]

Seems to happen across Ubuntu, Mint, Arch and possibly others. I found their working database file for saved games, seems to get malformed at somepoint, which seems to be the issue. The root cause though...no idea unless I saw what queries they're doing.

The database is probably not corrupted due to queries (sqlite is a very robust engine) but when the game crashes in the middle of a write. So the first crash is not due to sqlite but every one after that is since the first crash corrupts the database.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: GuestBorderlands 2 great DLC's are on sale too, check it out:
Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep
Captain Scarlett and her Pirate's Booty

Only problem with that game is that it's a huge time sink. Considered buying the Pre Sequal but too afraid of how it will eat away from my other activities :)

My complete play time till now (GOTY edition completed) is of about 2 days (48 hours), and now i've got 2 more DLC's that will take another 20 hours of playtime.
BL2 is the funnies game i've ever played!

PS:
I don't own the presequel, because it seems it was not done by gearbox guys, so it has not the same humor. i'll pass.

122 hours in so far, have completed the story on normal (so 2 more passes if one want to go all the way to ultimate vault hunter) but not all DLC:s yet (since some have just too hard raid bosses for people that play single like me).

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Quoting: GuestBorderlands 2 great DLC's are on sale too, check it out:
Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep
Captain Scarlett and her Pirate's Booty

Only problem with that game is that it's a huge time sink. Considered buying the Pre Sequal but too afraid of how it will eat away from my other activities :)

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Quoting: YoRHa-2B

Quoting: F.UltraSo I take it that DXVK is now DX11 feature complete, this is incredible news!

Not quite, Stream Output is still a big feature that's missing.

Ok so that is not part of the feature level then I suppose? (Or the Wikipedia page is wrong on 11_1 being the highest feature level for DX11).

Anyway, you are far to humble ;)

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Direct3D Feature Level 11_1 is now supported.

So I take it that DXVK is now DX11 feature complete, this is incredible news!

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Quoting: Leopard

Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: Patola

Quoting: jensAs far as I know they announce as soon as they are allowed to. You know what an NDA is?

I will tell you what it is not: it is no excuse from criticisms.

Then you should criticize the one forcing Feral to sign the NDA and not Feral who have no choice what so ever in the matter (other than not signing a NDA and thus not porting the game either).

I think that would be an intentional decision comes from Feral.

Remember they announced Batman Arkham Knight for Mac / Linux and got cancelled?

No the requirement to sign a NDA comes from the publisher. Feral and Linux is the very very small dog in this play so there is just no way that they approach a big publisher like Square with not only the crazy notion of doing a Linux port but also require that Square would sign a NDA not telling any body that Feral is porting a specific game.

It's the publishers that require such a NDA, as for exactly why we can only speculate but considering all the other insane stuff that some publishers are up to I'm not 100% sure that there exists what we would call a logical reason.

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