Re: Processing time spent in IRQ handling and what to do about it

2007-12-20 Thread Oded Arbel
On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 09:58 +0200, Dotan Shavit wrote: On Tuesday 18 December 2007, Oded Arbel wrote: I can see that a lot of time is spent in the hard-IRQ region - sometimes more then all other regions together. Lets look for more hints... - Anything interesting in the logs (during

Re: Processing time spent in IRQ handling and what to do about it

2007-12-20 Thread Oded Arbel
On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 10:34 +0200, Aviv Greenberg wrote: Can you send an output of cat /proc/interrupts ? Is there any device sharing the IRQ line with the network interface? On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 22:14 +0200, Oron Peled wrote: 6. Why guess? watch -n10 -d cat /proc/interrupts

missing /home

2007-12-20 Thread shlomo solomon
I have a strange problem. When I try to login with any user, except for root, I get an error message saying that the userś home directory doesn´t exist. I verified that this is NOT true. All home directories seem to be intact. I GOOGLED and found a suggestion that /etc/passwd could, for some

Re: missing /home

2007-12-20 Thread Ori Idan
It seems as if for some reason the /home partition was not mounted when you tried to log it. -- Ori Idan On Dec 20, 2007 9:52 PM, shlomo solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a strange problem. When I try to login with any user, except for root, I get an error message saying that the

Re: missing /home

2007-12-20 Thread Alon Altman
Check the permissions on /home and /home/user. The user must have +x on /home and +rx on /home/user. Try to su to the user and check if you can access its home directory. On 12/20/07, shlomo solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a strange problem. When I try to login with any user, except

Re: missing /home

2007-12-20 Thread shlomo solomon
No, as I already wrote, all the home directories are OK. I should have specifically written that when I login as root, I can cd to them all. I also tried creating a new user and after verifying that the new user AND home directory were created, I couldn login as the new user either. I have some

Re: missing /home

2007-12-20 Thread shlomo solomon
On Dec 20, 2007 10:36 PM, Alon Altman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check the permissions on /home and /home/user. The user must have +x on /home and +rx on /home/user. Try to su to the user and check if you can access its home directory. Already tried that - permissons are correct. As far as su,

Re: missing /home

2007-12-20 Thread Alon Altman
Even if you can cd to the directories as root does not mean that you can read/write there as user. Please supply the output of ls -la /home (as root). Alon On 12/20/07, shlomo solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, as I already wrote, all the home directories are OK. I should have

Re: Processing time spent in IRQ handling and what to do about it

2007-12-20 Thread Oron Peled
On Thursday, 20 בDecember 2007, Oded Arbel wrote: I haven't calculated diffs exactly yet, but on first glance it looks like eth0 interrupts are happening at about 150 a second while cciss0 interrupts are happening at about 20 per second. Well, ~150 interrupts/seconds is very low interrupt rate

Re: missing /home

2007-12-20 Thread shlomo solomon
On Dec 20, 2007 11:01 PM, Alon Altman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even if you can cd to the directories as root does not mean that you can read/write there as user. Please supply the output of ls -la /home (as root). Alon At the moment, I´m using a rescue partition on the same box. So I

yjobs.co.il-for-Mozilla Filter

2007-12-20 Thread Shlomi Fish
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Re: missing /home

2007-12-20 Thread Alon Altman
Another reason kde could fail to write is lack of disk space. Is /home full or close to full? Alon On 12/20/07, shlomo solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 20, 2007 11:01 PM, Alon Altman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even if you can cd to the directories as root does not mean that you can

Re: missing /home

2007-12-20 Thread Alon Altman
On 12/20/07, shlomo solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 20, 2007 11:01 PM, Alon Altman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even if you can cd to the directories as root does not mean that you can read/write there as user. Please supply the output of ls -la /home (as root). Alon At the

Re: yjobs.co.il-for-Mozilla Filter

2007-12-20 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 20/12/2007, Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! Well, this is also a way to make sites compatible with Firefox and other Mozilla-based browsers. :-) If you are job hunting and want to use http://www.yjobs.co.il/ and would prefer to use Firefox, then look no further than:

Re: Processing time spent in IRQ handling and what to do about it

2007-12-20 Thread Constantine Shulyupin
And my word to this never ending story: You may use get_cycles (http://lxr.linux.no/linux/include/asm-i386/tsc.h#L19) to measure time (cycles) in interrupts. Read more here: http://www.linuxdriver.co.il/ldd3/linuxdrive3-CHP-7-SECT-1.html -- Constantine Shulyupin Freelance Embedded Linux

Re: missing /home

2007-12-20 Thread shlomo solomon
On Dec 20, 2007 11:36 PM, Alon Altman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another reason kde could fail to write is lack of disk space. Is /home full or close to full? No - over 20 Gb free on /home. BTW - itś not a KDE problem. I can login from a console (Ctl-Alt-1) either.

Re: missing /home

2007-12-20 Thread shlomo solomon
On Dec 20, 2007 11:50 PM, shlomo solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 20, 2007 11:36 PM, Alon Altman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another reason kde could fail to write is lack of disk space. Is /home full or close to full? No - over 20 Gb free on /home. BTW - itś not a KDE problem. I can

Re: missing /home

2007-12-20 Thread Omer Zak
When checking for free disk space, check also inodes (by df -i). According to past experience, when a partition runs out of inodes, sometimes the system manages to continue to work and erratically fail (when processes need to create new files without deleting others beforehand). Another shot in

boot messages

2007-12-20 Thread shlomo solomon
When I boot, I see hundreds of messages flying off the screen faster than I can read them - some of them error messages. Alot, BUT NOT ALL, of the messages can be seen with dmesg, but there are many messages that I can´t see there or in the logs (unless, of course there are additional logs I