Re: process table fills with DN state when nfs connection is lost

2001-06-11 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 06:44:56PM -0700, Lucca wrote: > Not incorrect, but you might experiment with soft mounts, which will rapidly > timeout and die with io-errors rather than hanging. Gombas also replied with such information. I didn't know that this was causing it. I changed the (default

Re: process table fills with DN state when nfs connection is lost

2001-06-11 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 06:44:56PM -0700, Lucca wrote: Not incorrect, but you might experiment with soft mounts, which will rapidly timeout and die with io-errors rather than hanging. Gombas also replied with such information. I didn't know that this was causing it. I changed the (default

Re: process table fills with DN state when nfs connection is lost

2001-06-10 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 10:34:28PM +, Roeland Th. Jansen wrote: > I have a network with a different linux system hat exports a few dirs to > this system. oops, this is 2.4.5. but happened before as well. -- Grobbebol's Home | Don't give in to spammers. -o

process table fills with DN state when nfs connection is lost

2001-06-10 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
hi * I have a network with a different linux system hat exports a few dirs to this system. what happens is this : the other system reboots into windows o the nfs connection gets lost. however, what happens is that now the process table starts to fill with cron initiated mrtg calls and all get

process table fills with DN state when nfs connection is lost

2001-06-10 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
hi * I have a network with a different linux system hat exports a few dirs to this system. what happens is this : the other system reboots into windows o the nfs connection gets lost. however, what happens is that now the process table starts to fill with cron initiated mrtg calls and all get

Re: process table fills with DN state when nfs connection is lost

2001-06-10 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 10:34:28PM +, Roeland Th. Jansen wrote: I have a network with a different linux system hat exports a few dirs to this system. oops, this is 2.4.5. but happened before as well. -- Grobbebol's Home | Don't give in to spammers. -o) http

Re: ethernet still quits

2001-06-01 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:45:46PM +, Danny ter Haar wrote: > >the current 'ac' patches or a previous version on > >http://sf.net/projects/gkernel/ temporarily. > > also on : > www.bzimage.org/kernel-patches/v2.4/alan/v2.4.5/ > > 8139_too_work.c (62kB) > > And also there: > >

ethernet still quits

2001-06-01 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
2.4.5 : when quote some xfers have taken place, the realtek card dies here. Jun 1 14:58:12 grobbebol kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Jun 1 14:58:12 grobbebol kernel: eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x3, ISR=0x3, t=1303. Jun 1 14:58:14 grobbebol kernel: NETDEV

ethernet still quits

2001-06-01 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
2.4.5 : when quote some xfers have taken place, the realtek card dies here. Jun 1 14:58:12 grobbebol kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Jun 1 14:58:12 grobbebol kernel: eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x3, ISR=0x3, t=1303. Jun 1 14:58:14 grobbebol kernel: NETDEV

Re: ethernet still quits

2001-06-01 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:45:46PM +, Danny ter Haar wrote: the current 'ac' patches or a previous version on http://sf.net/projects/gkernel/ temporarily. also on : www.bzimage.org/kernel-patches/v2.4/alan/v2.4.5/ 8139_too_work.c (62kB) And also there:

2.4.4 and VC display lost

2001-05-26 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
I have mentioned this weird behaviour under 2.4.3 as well. if I use X for some time, I alwasy switch and forth between the (IMHO) idel CLI and sometimes switch back to the clumsy GUI. now, what happens is that sometimes, after I switch from X back to a VC, the display gets black and stays that

2.4.4 and VC display lost

2001-05-26 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
I have mentioned this weird behaviour under 2.4.3 as well. if I use X for some time, I alwasy switch and forth between the (IMHO) idel CLI and sometimes switch back to the clumsy GUI. now, what happens is that sometimes, after I switch from X back to a VC, the display gets black and stays that

ECN bits and ZyXEL routers.

2001-05-09 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
the reference to zyxel (from Jeff G ?) : >ZyXEL P681 -> firmware v2.50(T.05)b6 | 03/28/2001) btw: it is already offically release version 2.50(T.05)| 04/13/2001 and the ECN issue is fixed. I have asked if the developers would ake actoin on the other routers/firewalls as well to fix the

ECN bits and ZyXEL routers.

2001-05-09 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
the reference to zyxel (from Jeff G ?) : ZyXEL P681 - firmware v2.50(T.05)b6 | 03/28/2001) btw: it is already offically release version 2.50(T.05)| 04/13/2001 and the ECN issue is fixed. I have asked if the developers would ake actoin on the other routers/firewalls as well to fix the ECN

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac9

2001-04-18 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 10:26:26PM -0400, Byron Stanoszek wrote: > I've seen this on my Dell P3 700 machine several times. Seems to happen at odd > intervals after I use my CD burner, but that just might be coincidental. But I have seen this related to the cd burner as well. it's not a via board

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac9

2001-04-18 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 10:26:26PM -0400, Byron Stanoszek wrote: I've seen this on my Dell P3 700 machine several times. Seems to happen at odd intervals after I use my CD burner, but that just might be coincidental. But I have seen this related to the cd burner as well. it's not a via board

2.4.2 ac2x & 2.4.3. loss of VC displays

2001-04-08 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
hi all regently I see weird things with X. XFree86 Version 4.0.2 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6400) Release Date: 18 December 2000 (II) NV: driver for NVIDIA chipsets: RIVA128, RIVATNT, RIVATNT2, RIVATNT2 (Ultra), RIVATNT2 (Vanta), RIVATNT2 M64,

2.4.2 ac2x 2.4.3. loss of VC displays

2001-04-08 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
hi all regently I see weird things with X. XFree86 Version 4.0.2 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6400) Release Date: 18 December 2000 (II) NV: driver for NVIDIA chipsets: RIVA128, RIVATNT, RIVATNT2, RIVATNT2 (Ultra), RIVATNT2 (Vanta), RIVATNT2 M64,

max ip_conntrack entries

2001-03-21 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
is there a way to dynamically change the limit : kernel: ip_conntrack: maximum limit of 16384 entries exceeded ? grepping in the documentation didn't tell much here. either a newssus scan or a weird ftp server I tried to connect to, caused the table to fill pretty fast and all other

max ip_conntrack entries

2001-03-21 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
is there a way to dynamically change the limit : kernel: ip_conntrack: maximum limit of 16384 entries exceeded ? grepping in the documentation didn't tell much here. either a newssus scan or a weird ftp server I tried to connect to, caused the table to fill pretty fast and all other

Re: Microsoft begining to open source Windows 2000?

2001-03-08 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 10:01:57AM -0500, Venkatesh Ramamurthy wrote: > Please check out this article. Looks like microsoft know open source is the > thing of the future. I would consider that it is a begining step for full > blown GPL > >

Re: Microsoft begining to open source Windows 2000?

2001-03-08 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 10:01:57AM -0500, Venkatesh Ramamurthy wrote: Please check out this article. Looks like microsoft know open source is the thing of the future. I would consider that it is a begining step for full blown GPL

Re: apic patches (with MIS counter)

2001-03-02 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:14:11PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Roeland Th. Jansen wrote: > > if you like, I can start banging the machine on it's head now. > > Please do. I believe the code is safe to be included in 2.4.3, but if > any problem

Re: apic patches (with MIS counter)

2001-03-02 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:14:11PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Roeland Th. Jansen wrote: if you like, I can start banging the machine on it's head now. Please do. I believe the code is safe to be included in 2.4.3, but if any problem is going to pop up, it'd

Re: apic patches (with MIS counter)

2001-02-26 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:14:11PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > It is already present in 2.4.2-ac3. Yep, I just noticed it. there was a backlog from here to tokyo. > There is a small performance impact at every interrupt -- the code that > checks for mismatches incurs it. It's just a

apic patches (with MIS counter)

2001-02-26 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
Maciej, with the patch you sent (with MIS counter code) : CPU0 CPU1 0: 50644222 50826974IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 239631 233690IO-APIC-edge keyboard 2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade 3: 344151 345715IO-APIC-edge serial 4:

apic patches (with MIS counter)

2001-02-26 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
Maciej, with the patch you sent (with MIS counter code) : CPU0 CPU1 0: 50644222 50826974IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 239631 233690IO-APIC-edge keyboard 2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade 3: 344151 345715IO-APIC-edge serial 4:

Re: apic patches (with MIS counter)

2001-02-26 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:14:11PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: It is already present in 2.4.2-ac3. Yep, I just noticed it. there was a backlog from here to tokyo. There is a small performance impact at every interrupt -- the code that checks for mismatches incurs it. It's just a few

Re: Linux stifles innovation...

2001-02-17 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 12:46:30PM +, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: > >1- GPL code is the opposite of crap > > No. A license doesn't automatically make good code. true but at least with GPL, people can work on crap GPL code and make it good. that's an option you don't have with closed

Re: Linux stifles innovation...

2001-02-17 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 12:46:30PM +, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: 1- GPL code is the opposite of crap No. A license doesn't automatically make good code. true but at least with GPL, people can work on crap GPL code and make it good. that's an option you don't have with closed

Re: 8139 full duplex?

2001-02-16 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 10:40:53AM +0100, Rogier Wolff wrote: > Why would it completely "not work"? experience maybe. telnet works just fine. a copy would end in a _very_ slow transfer. and if I say slow, I mean a few kbytes/sec. depends on the number of colls as well. besides, what gains are

Re: [OTP] SMP board recommendations?

2001-02-16 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 04:38:37PM -0800, David D.W. Downey wrote: > I've tried the Abit VP6 and the MSI 6321 (694D Pro). Both give me the APIC > errors with system lockups on heavy I/O using the 2.4.1-ac1# and the > 2.4.2-pre# kernels. (The ac-## line doesn't die ANYWHERE near as often as > the

Re: 8139 full duplex?

2001-02-16 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 10:40:53AM +0100, Rogier Wolff wrote: Why would it completely "not work"? experience maybe. telnet works just fine. a copy would end in a _very_ slow transfer. and if I say slow, I mean a few kbytes/sec. depends on the number of colls as well. besides, what gains are

Re: [OTP] SMP board recommendations?

2001-02-16 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 04:38:37PM -0800, David D.W. Downey wrote: I've tried the Abit VP6 and the MSI 6321 (694D Pro). Both give me the APIC errors with system lockups on heavy I/O using the 2.4.1-ac1# and the 2.4.2-pre# kernels. (The ac-## line doesn't die ANYWHERE near as often as the

Re: [patch] 2.4.1, 2.4.2-pre3: APIC lockups

2001-02-14 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 05:30:57PM +, Roeland Th. Jansen wrote: > other observations -- approx 6000 ints from the ne2k card/sec. > MIS shows approx 1% that goes wrong with a ping flood. oops. had to count both CPU0 and CPU1's interrupts. after 23 minutes : CPU0 CP

Re: [patch] 2.4.1, 2.4.2-pre3: APIC lockups

2001-02-14 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 09:13:10PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > Please test it extensively, as much as you can, before I submit it for > inclusion. If you ever get "Aieee!!! Remote IRR still set after unlock!" > message, please report it to me immediately -- it means the code failed.

Re: [patch] 2.4.1, 2.4.2-pre3: APIC lockups

2001-02-14 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 09:13:10PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: Please test it extensively, as much as you can, before I submit it for inclusion. If you ever get "Aieee!!! Remote IRR still set after unlock!" message, please report it to me immediately -- it means the code failed. ok,

Re: [patch] 2.4.1, 2.4.2-pre3: APIC lockups

2001-02-14 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 05:30:57PM +, Roeland Th. Jansen wrote: other observations -- approx 6000 ints from the ne2k card/sec. MIS shows approx 1% that goes wrong with a ping flood. oops. had to count both CPU0 and CPU1's interrupts. after 23 minutes : CPU0 CPU1 19

oops 2.4.1 (sound)

2001-02-12 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
I was busy with X, sound, bcast2000 and slab : Feb 12 20:46:57 grobbebol kernel: audio: Buffer error 3 (fe01bf00,16384), (fe00ff00, -16777216) Feb 12 20:46:58 grobbebol kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address c100 Feb 12 20:46:58 grobbebol kernel: printing eip:

oops 2.4.1 (sound)

2001-02-12 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
I was busy with X, sound, bcast2000 and slab : Feb 12 20:46:57 grobbebol kernel: audio: Buffer error 3 (fe01bf00,16384), (fe00ff00, -16777216) Feb 12 20:46:58 grobbebol kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address c100 Feb 12 20:46:58 grobbebol kernel: printing eip:

Re: hard lockup (no oops) on vanilla 2.4.2-pre3 with /dev/dsp

2001-02-11 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 10:20:33PM +1100, john slee wrote: > i'm fairly sure its not ram at fault, since nothing else is acting > strangely, and it only crops up when i use /dev/dsp. > > anything else i can try to narrow it down? this is just a home > workstation, so i can try practically

Re: hard lockup (no oops) on vanilla 2.4.2-pre3 with /dev/dsp

2001-02-11 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 10:20:33PM +1100, john slee wrote: i'm fairly sure its not ram at fault, since nothing else is acting strangely, and it only crops up when i use /dev/dsp. anything else i can try to narrow it down? this is just a home workstation, so i can try practically anything

Re: hard crashes 2.4.0/1 with NE2K stuff

2001-02-05 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 08:49:47PM +0100, Frank de Lange wrote: > Same here (although I just changed #if 1 to #if 0 to disable focus processor > support), the net stays up and the chops are gone. so did I (change the 1 into 0). just didn't cut/paste it enough... -- Grobbebol's Home

Re: hard crashes 2.4.0/1 with NE2K stuff

2001-02-05 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 06:26:52PM +, Roeland Th. Jansen wrote: > > I'll report further. an Maciej -- thanks for your work ! with the extra patch in arch/i386/kernel/apic.c: #else /* Disable focus processor (bit==1) */ value |= (1<<9); #endif used, eth0 (ne2k)

Re: hard crashes 2.4.0/1 with NE2K stuff

2001-02-05 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 02:52:16PM +0100, Frank de Lange wrote: > I'm currently running 2.4.1 with Maciej's patch-2.4.0-io_apic-4. Additionally, > I disabled focus_processor in apic.c to get rid of some network delays. Flood > pings both from and to this system do not cause any problems, other

Re: hard crashes 2.4.0/1 with NE2K stuff

2001-02-05 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 02:52:16PM +0100, Frank de Lange wrote: I'm currently running 2.4.1 with Maciej's patch-2.4.0-io_apic-4. Additionally, I disabled focus_processor in apic.c to get rid of some network delays. Flood pings both from and to this system do not cause any problems, other than

Re: hard crashes 2.4.0/1 with NE2K stuff

2001-02-05 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 06:26:52PM +, Roeland Th. Jansen wrote: I'll report further. an Maciej -- thanks for your work ! with the extra patch in arch/i386/kernel/apic.c: #else /* Disable focus processor (bit==1) */ value |= (19); #endif used, eth0 (ne2k) doesn't die

Re: hard crashes 2.4.0/1 with NE2K stuff

2001-02-05 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 08:49:47PM +0100, Frank de Lange wrote: Same here (although I just changed #if 1 to #if 0 to disable focus processor support), the net stays up and the chops are gone. so did I (change the 1 into 0). just didn't cut/paste it enough... -- Grobbebol's Home

Re: hard crashes 2.4.0/1 with NE2K stuff

2001-02-03 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 09:42:30PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > Could you please apply the following patch, wait for a lockup, then hit > SysRq+A (you need to have CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ enabled) and send me the > resulting output? You need to include debug messages, so I recommend to > use

Re: hard crashes 2.4.0/1 with NE2K stuff

2001-02-03 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 09:42:30PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: Could you please apply the following patch, wait for a lockup, then hit SysRq+A (you need to have CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ enabled) and send me the resulting output? You need to include debug messages, so I recommend to use

Re: hard crashes 2.4.0/1 with NE2K stuff

2001-02-02 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 02:52:16PM +0100, Frank de Lange wrote: > I'm currently running 2.4.1 with Maciej's patch-2.4.0-io_apic-4. Additionally, > I disabled focus_processor in apic.c to get rid of some network delays. Flood > pings both from and to this system do not cause any problems, other

Re: esp causing crashes..

2001-02-02 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 03:44:07AM -0600, Mark Orr wrote: > Well that surely shouldnt happen...I use minicom all the time (I still > call BBSes), and havent had any crashes. I can quit/disconnect, or > quit/stay connected and it works okay. I've even got it set up to > use 23bps, which is

Re: hard crashes 2.4.0/1 with NE2K stuff

2001-02-02 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 12:13:45AM +, Alan Cox wrote: > > the used board BP6 (abit), apics enabled. non-overclocked. card is a > > > > 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. > > RTL-8029(AS) > > Try 2.4.1ac - that should fix it ok, it doesn't crash (the first test)

Re: hard crashes 2.4.0/1 with NE2K stuff

2001-02-02 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 12:13:45AM +, Alan Cox wrote: > > the used board BP6 (abit), apics enabled. non-overclocked. card is a > > > > 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. > > RTL-8029(AS) > > Try 2.4.1ac - that should fix it ok, downloading the -ac1 patch; I'll

Re: hard crashes 2.4.0/1 with NE2K stuff

2001-02-02 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 12:13:45AM +, Alan Cox wrote: the used board BP6 (abit), apics enabled. non-overclocked. card is a 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS) Try 2.4.1ac - that should fix it ok, downloading the -ac1 patch; I'll report. --

Re: hard crashes 2.4.0/1 with NE2K stuff

2001-02-02 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 12:13:45AM +, Alan Cox wrote: the used board BP6 (abit), apics enabled. non-overclocked. card is a 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS) Try 2.4.1ac - that should fix it ok, it doesn't crash (the first test) but the

Re: esp causing crashes..

2001-02-02 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 03:44:07AM -0600, Mark Orr wrote: Well that surely shouldnt happen...I use minicom all the time (I still call BBSes), and havent had any crashes. I can quit/disconnect, or quit/stay connected and it works okay. I've even got it set up to use 23bps, which is the

Re: hard crashes 2.4.0/1 with NE2K stuff

2001-02-02 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 02:52:16PM +0100, Frank de Lange wrote: I'm currently running 2.4.1 with Maciej's patch-2.4.0-io_apic-4. Additionally, I disabled focus_processor in apic.c to get rid of some network delays. Flood pings both from and to this system do not cause any problems, other than

hard crashes 2.4.0/1 with NE2K stuff

2001-02-01 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
2.4.1. rebuilt here and with a floodping towards my machine causes a hard crash where nothing works anymore. just before it happens : Feb 1 13:07:24 grobbebol kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Feb 1 13:07:24 grobbebol kernel: eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x3,

Re: esp causing crashes..

2001-02-01 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 03:38:28PM -0600, Mark Orr wrote: > I dont like to be the sort of person who, when people report problems, > fires back "it works fine here!"...but...just as a point of reference, > I have a Hayes ESP too -- it's connected to a 56k modem. I havent > had any crashes or

Re: esp causing crashes..

2001-02-01 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 03:38:28PM -0600, Mark Orr wrote: I dont like to be the sort of person who, when people report problems, fires back "it works fine here!"...but...just as a point of reference, I have a Hayes ESP too -- it's connected to a 56k modem. I havent had any crashes or hangs

hard crashes 2.4.0/1 with NE2K stuff

2001-02-01 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
2.4.1. rebuilt here and with a floodping towards my machine causes a hard crash where nothing works anymore. just before it happens : Feb 1 13:07:24 grobbebol kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Feb 1 13:07:24 grobbebol kernel: eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x3,

esp causing crashes..

2001-01-29 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
[mike -- included you for refs only] recently I started to dive into a problem that causes 2.2.x and 2.4.x to crash at shutdown and when minicom/mgetty is used. e.g. shutdown almost always crashed the system; if a fax is received, 3 out of 4 faxes ok, but also crashes system. I tried to contact

esp causing crashes..

2001-01-29 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
[mike -- included you for refs only] recently I started to dive into a problem that causes 2.2.x and 2.4.x to crash at shutdown and when minicom/mgetty is used. e.g. shutdown almost always crashed the system; if a fax is received, 3 out of 4 faxes ok, but also crashes system. I tried to contact

Re: .br blacklisted ?

2001-01-17 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 03:11:52AM -0500, John O'Donnell wrote: > Please tell me I just didn't just see this message??!?!?!?! > Please??!?!?!? What are you doing? > I mean no one person here any disrespect - please do the same. you just got paid for what you did I guess. if you block a whole

Re: .br blacklisted ?

2001-01-17 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 03:11:52AM -0500, John O'Donnell wrote: Please tell me I just didn't just see this message??!?!?!?! Please??!?!?!? What are you doing? I mean no one person here any disrespect - please do the same. you just got paid for what you did I guess. if you block a whole TLD,

Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, har

2001-01-15 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 06:45:06PM +, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > I think that on BP6 hardware there is no way around except using 'noapic', > or passing board through Abit replacement program. There is only two bit > checksum which guards 8 or 22 data bits. I have no idea how frequent two >

Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardware

2001-01-15 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 12:04:21PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Ok, so it's tentatively the IOAPIC disable/enable code. But it could > obviously be something that just interacts with it, including just a > timing issue (ie the _real_ bug might just be bad behaviour when > changing IO-APIC

Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardware

2001-01-15 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 12:04:21PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: Ok, so it's tentatively the IOAPIC disable/enable code. But it could obviously be something that just interacts with it, including just a timing issue (ie the _real_ bug might just be bad behaviour when changing IO-APIC state at

Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, har

2001-01-15 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 06:45:06PM +, Petr Vandrovec wrote: I think that on BP6 hardware there is no way around except using 'noapic', or passing board through Abit replacement program. There is only two bit checksum which guards 8 or 22 data bits. I have no idea how frequent two bits

Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardware related?

2001-01-13 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 09:03:49PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > well, some time ago i had an ne2k card in an SMP system as well, and found > this very problem. Disabling/enabling focus-cpu appeared to make a > difference, but later on i made experiments that show that in both cases > the hang

Re: APIC ERRor on CPU0: 00(02) ...

2001-01-13 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 02:27:07PM -0800, Dr. Kelsey Hudson wrote: > > This is due to your piece of trash motherboard. The reason that the older > kernel didn't catch these errors is because (IIRC) it wasn't looking for > them; they were there even then. The BP6 is a low-end mainboard and was >

Re: APIC ERRor on CPU0: 00(02) ...

2001-01-13 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 02:27:07PM -0800, Dr. Kelsey Hudson wrote: This is due to your piece of trash motherboard. The reason that the older kernel didn't catch these errors is because (IIRC) it wasn't looking for them; they were there even then. The BP6 is a low-end mainboard and was

Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardware related?

2001-01-13 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 09:03:49PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: well, some time ago i had an ne2k card in an SMP system as well, and found this very problem. Disabling/enabling focus-cpu appeared to make a difference, but later on i made experiments that show that in both cases the hang happens.

Re: Linux-2.4.x patch submission policy

2001-01-10 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 06:40:21PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: > I wasn't aware Andrea switched the way he stored his patches > lately ;) he's doing that for quite some time now (for suse's kernels too) and that works pretty well :-) > OTOH, the advantage of having a big patch means that it's >

Re: Linux-2.4.x patch submission policy

2001-01-10 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 06:40:21PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: I wasn't aware Andrea switched the way he stored his patches lately ;) he's doing that for quite some time now (for suse's kernels too) and that works pretty well :-) OTOH, the advantage of having a big patch means that it's

udf again ?

2000-12-29 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
I recall I have asked this before but now in order to get udf working under 2.2.19pre*, I mailed the developers/maintainers about a fix. Dave wrote : >I forwarded your email to the development list: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Hopefully there's a fix. I dunno, I'm still on 2.2.16. >As far as

udf again ?

2000-12-29 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
I recall I have asked this before but now in order to get udf working under 2.2.19pre*, I mailed the developers/maintainers about a fix. Dave wrote : I forwarded your email to the development list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hopefully there's a fix. I dunno, I'm still on 2.2.16. As far as including

2.2.19pre3 clock timer config lost ?

2000-12-24 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
never seen this before. I run 2.2.19pre3 on a BP6. No OC, no vmware. just the kernel wilt lm-sensors stuff patched in. I found that the kernel was somewhat sluggish now and then, and this morning, this popped up in the logs : Dec 24 02:05:05 grobbebol kernel: probable hardware bug: clock

2.2.19pre3 clock timer config lost ?

2000-12-24 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
never seen this before. I run 2.2.19pre3 on a BP6. No OC, no vmware. just the kernel wilt lm-sensors stuff patched in. I found that the kernel was somewhat sluggish now and then, and this morning, this popped up in the logs : Dec 24 02:05:05 grobbebol kernel: probable hardware bug: clock

Re: vm 2.2.18 (stock kernel) process hara-kiri's

2000-12-22 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 12:29:23AM +, Alan Cox wrote: > > I thought the 2.2.18 vm would be better :-)... nver have seen so much > > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for... messages. > > Try 2.2.19pre2 or higher ok, will monitor this. uname -a now : Linux grobbebol 2.2.19pre3 #1 SMP Fri Dec

Re: vm 2.2.18 (stock kernel) process hara-kiri's

2000-12-22 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 12:29:23AM +, Alan Cox wrote: I thought the 2.2.18 vm would be better :-)... nver have seen so much VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for... messages. Try 2.2.19pre2 or higher ok, will monitor this. uname -a now : Linux grobbebol 2.2.19pre3 #1 SMP Fri Dec 22

vm 2.2.18 (stock kernel) process hara-kiri's

2000-12-21 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
I thought the 2.2.18 vm would be better :-)... nver have seen so much VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for... messages. at first the system froze for several seconds. an emer sync worked just fine so I waited.. Dec 22 00:06:10 grobbebol kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for telnet...

vm 2.2.18 (stock kernel) process hara-kiri's

2000-12-21 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
I thought the 2.2.18 vm would be better :-)... nver have seen so much VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for... messages. at first the system froze for several seconds. an emer sync worked just fine so I waited.. Dec 22 00:06:10 grobbebol kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for telnet...

Re: 2.4.0-testx fr0kedness?

2000-10-21 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 07:37:36PM -0400, Jason Slagle wrote: > I'm SMP here 2 Celeron 300A's at 450 in an Abit BP6. 256M of RAM, all > SCSI. > > These bad? They worked well under 2.2 but who knows under 2.4 1) clock the system to specs -- overclocking could kill the stuff 2) there are

Re: 2.4.0-testx fr0kedness?

2000-10-21 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 07:37:36PM -0400, Jason Slagle wrote: I'm SMP here 2 Celeron 300A's at 450 in an Abit BP6. 256M of RAM, all SCSI. These bad? They worked well under 2.2 but who knows under 2.4 1) clock the system to specs -- overclocking could kill the stuff 2) there are batches

Re: [PATCH] 2.2.18pre13: Small patches from Andrea

2000-10-03 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 10:29:50PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > Im intentionally avoiding these right now. The 2.2.18 kernel has a very large > amount of updates to drivers/extra functionality. I don't want to mix any of > that with core internal changes of any kind. The VM fixes in paticular look >

Re: [PATCH] 2.2.18pre13: Small patches from Andrea

2000-10-03 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 10:29:50PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: Im intentionally avoiding these right now. The 2.2.18 kernel has a very large amount of updates to drivers/extra functionality. I don't want to mix any of that with core internal changes of any kind. The VM fixes in paticular look good

Re: 2.2.18pre2aa2 and patches for 2.2.18pre3

2000-09-10 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 11:26:56PM +1100, Matthew Hawkins wrote: > I'd like to advocate the inclusion of the majority of these patches of > Andrea's. I've been patching most of them in for a while now simply > because I've found my SMP system much more stable and useable. I also takled with

Re: 2.2.18pre2aa2 and patches for 2.2.18pre3

2000-09-10 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 11:26:56PM +1100, Matthew Hawkins wrote: I'd like to advocate the inclusion of the majority of these patches of Andrea's. I've been patching most of them in for a while now simply because I've found my SMP system much more stable and useable. I also takled with