Re: Turning off ARP in linux-2.4.0

2001-01-24 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: The problem is complex and can't be solved with ifconfig -arp why? The needs for clusters with shared addresses include: 1. block ARP replies for such addresses -arp will do that 2. don't announce these addresses in the ARP probes (can

Re: int. assignment on SMP + ServerWorks chipset

2001-01-24 Thread Petr Matula
Hi Duncan and Randy, I tested Duncan's patch. It works for me with parameters "mpint=5,0,4,9". On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 09:54:23PM -0700, Duncan Laurie wrote: The values to use depend on what your system is configured to use for the USB interrupt. This can be obtained by using the dump_pirq

Re: Bug in ppp_async.c

2001-01-24 Thread David Woodhouse
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: Paul Mackerras writes: I'll bet you're using an old pppd. You need version 2.4.0 of pppd, available from ftp://linuxcare.com.au/pub/ppp/, as documented in the Documentation/Changes file. Even Red Hat 7 only has the 2.3.11 version. That's

Re: Is sendfile all that sexy?

2001-01-24 Thread James Sutherland
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Sasi Peter wrote: On 14 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: The only obvious use for it is file serving, and as high-performance file serving tends to end up as a kernel module in the end anyway (the only hold-out is samba, and that's been discussed too), "sendfile()"

RE: Question: Memory change request

2001-01-24 Thread David Schwartz
mprotect the page(s) you are interested in so you can't write to them and catch SEGV -- when someone attempts to write you can pull apart the stack frame mark the page(s) RO and continue. if you are really stuck i think i have example code to do this somewhere for ia32 (stack frame is

Re: Compatibility issue with 2.2.19pre7

2001-01-24 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 11:51:15PM -0800, Richard Henderson wrote: On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:59:24AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: What I said is that I can write this C code: int x[2], * p = (int *) (((char *) x)+1); main() { *p = 0; } This is

Re: A little patch for i386/kernel/microcode.c (fwd)

2001-01-24 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Jo l'Indien wrote: With a 2.4.1-pre10 kernel, I noticed that /dev/cpu/microcode was created as a file, and note as a node in the devfs. So, I made this very little patch to correct this: [bogus patch deleted] Hi Jocelyn, No, that file is created as a regular file for a

Re: [PATCH] No VIA IDE DMA unless configured

2001-01-24 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 10:46:14PM +0100, Tobias Ringstrom wrote: Linus, please consider this patch for 2.4.1. It makes sure the VIA IDE driver does not enable DMA automatically, unless the user has requested it using "make whateverconfig". /Tobias --- via82cxxx.c.orig Tue Jan 23

Re: display problem with matroxfb

2001-01-24 Thread f5ibh
Hi Petr, Grr. Did not pass through due to DUL blacklist... What is DUL blacklist ? If the problem is with my e-mail address (it is an hamradio address), you can use [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead. Can you try 'video=matrox:init' ? And 'video=matrox:nopan'? Bingo ! 'init' does not work but

Re: Bug in ppp_async.c

2001-01-24 Thread Paul Mackerras
Albert D. Cahalan writes: Even Red Hat 7 only has the 2.3.11 version. The 2.4.xx series is supposed to be stable. If there is any way you could add a compatibility hack, please do so. Stable != backwards compatible to the year dot. ppp-2.4.0 has been out for over 5 months now. Adding the

Re: Compatibility issue with 2.2.19pre7

2001-01-24 Thread Richard Henderson
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 10:02:40AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: I'd love if you could forbid it to compile. Problem is that there's stuff like this all over the place. Plus, just because something is undefined by the standard doesn't mean it's not useful -- it's not possible to write either

Re: Completely offtopic : [OT?] Coding Style

2001-01-24 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Harrold wrote: Then there is reasability. void ThisIsMyDumbassFunctionName if MUCH more difficult to read than void this_is_my_clear_and_easy_function_name This may hold for English (or native English speakers, respectively) but not for other languages

Re: 2.4.0 statd trouble

2001-01-24 Thread Juri Haberland
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: linux-2.4.0 I have quite a lot of these log messages: Jan 23 18:28:52 adglinux1 rpc.statd[1532]: gethostbyname error for adglinux1.hns.com Jan 23 18:28:52 adglinux1 rpc.statd[1532]: STAT_FAIL to adglinux1.hns.com for SM_MON of 139.85.108.141 Jan 23 13:28:52

Re: limit on number of kmapped pages

2001-01-24 Thread David Wragg
"Benjamin C.R. LaHaise" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 24 Jan 2001, David Wragg wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) writes: Why do you need such a large buffer? ext2 doesn't guarantee sustained write bandwidth (in particular, writing a page to an ext2 file can have a high

Re: Compatibility issue with 2.2.19pre7

2001-01-24 Thread Thomas Pornin
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: I know this code has undefined behaviour at _runtime_. But I thought you were obliged to allow it to compile. That was my only point. There is no distinction between compilation and runtime in the standard. Actually, C could be interpreted, or a very

Re: [PATCH] Compile dnotify example w/o glibc 2.2 headers

2001-01-24 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Daniel Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: plugdnotify is cool, check it out/plug If you want to compile the example in Documentation/dnotify.txt and you don't have glibc 2.2 headers installed you have 3 choices: 1) Upgrade to glibc 2.2 2) Hunt for the missing symbols in the 2.4

Coding Style -- test of tabooed headers..

2001-01-24 Thread Matti Aarnio
this message SHOULD NOT make to the list, if I understood majordomo configuration correctly. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Partition IDs in the New World TM

2001-01-24 Thread Andries . Brouwer
Andreas Dilger wrote: It would already be possible to auto-enable any devices with the swap signature by doing the same sort of search mount(8) is doing for LABEL and UUID. That would be a very poor idea. Since different filesystems have signatures in different places, a partition may well

Re: 2.4 disk speed 66% slowdown...

2001-01-24 Thread Barry K. Nathan
Linda Walsh wrote: I think we're on to something. I did gen's of the kernel with [snip] The REAL problem was in disk performance. The apm made no difference: hdparm -t /dev/hda1 /dev/hda3 /dev/hda4 /dev/hda5 /dev/hda7 1) 2.2.17 /dev/hda1: Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 4.76

What that Majordomo testing was about ...

2001-01-24 Thread Matti Aarnio
Ok, I think I have waited enough to be fairly sure that now the thing worked. The first goal was to create configuration which detects the presense of: X-Mailing-List: [EMAIL PROTECTED] header, and blocks it. That should prevent loops in the list when somebody goofs up and sends email out

Re: inode-i_dirty_buffers redundant ?

2001-01-24 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, V Ganesh wrote: now that we have inode-i_mapping-dirty_pages, what do we need inode-i_dirty_buffers for ? I understand the latter was added for the O_SYNC changes before dirty_pages came into the picture. but now both seem to be doing more or less the same thing.

Re: inode-i_dirty_buffers redundant ?

2001-01-24 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 03:25:16PM +0530, V Ganesh wrote: now that we have inode-i_mapping-dirty_pages, what do we need inode-i_dirty_buffers for ? Metadata. Specifically, directory contents and indirection blocks. --Stephen - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Linux 2.4.0ac11

2001-01-24 Thread Alan Cox
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ Slightly delayed because I had take some time out to fall off a horse.. 2.4.0-ac11 o Raid5 corruption fix(Neil Brown) o Add Etrax 'cris' architecture support (Axis) o APIC

Re: monitoring I/O

2001-01-24 Thread Daniel Kobras
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Nicholas Dronen wrote: Check out the disk_io field in /proc/stat. Which unfortunately provides only some pieces of information Michael wants to gather. SCT's sard patches give you much improved statistics that should basically do what you want. I'm not sure of the current

vfat - vfat copying of ~700MB file, so slow!

2001-01-24 Thread Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
Copying between vfat - vfat partitions is so slow. It seems that it's vfat/msdos kernel driver problem because I tried to copy this file between few partitions (all these on the same disc): hda: IBM-DTLA-307030, ATA DISK drive hda: 60036480 sectors (30739 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=3737/255/63,

Re: Compatibility issue with 2.2.19pre7

2001-01-24 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 01:51:49AM -0800, Richard Henderson wrote: On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 10:02:40AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: I'd love if you could forbid it to compile. Problem is that there's stuff like this all over the place. Plus, That's why I thought you were required to make

Re: Firewall netlink question...

2001-01-24 Thread Harald Welte
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 10:26:00AM +, Scaramanga wrote: Yeah, after some quick googling and freshmeating, i came accross a daemon that picked up these QUEUEd packets and multiplexed them to various child processes, which seemed very innefcient, the documentation said something about

Re: more on scheduler benchmarks

2001-01-24 Thread Daniel Phillips
Joe deBlaquiere wrote: Maybe I've been off in the hardware lab for too long, but how about 1. using ioperm to give access to the parallel port. 2. have your program write a byte (thread id % 256 ?) constantly to the port during it's other activity 3. capture the results from another

Re: Firewall netlink question...

2001-01-24 Thread Harald Welte
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 04:28:26AM +, Scaramanga wrote: On 2001.01.22 11:58:26 + Scaramanga wrote: I wonder, would there be any interest/point in my NETLINK module, which provides a backward compatible netlink interface. There are a good few apps out there which rely on it, and

Re: 2.4 and ipmasq modules

2001-01-24 Thread Harald Welte
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 07:47:30AM +, Paul Jakma wrote: uhmm... ICQ seems to work fine through connection tracking for me, so is there a need for a special ip_masq_icq module? Certain features of ICQ, which require direct client to client connections, don't work. Please move further

Re: 2.4 and ipmasq modules

2001-01-24 Thread Harald Welte
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 04:08:43PM -0800, Aaron Lehmann wrote: On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 11:08:00AM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: That option seems to conflict with "ipfwadm (2.0-style) support". Preferably, I'd like to stay with friendly old ipfwadm rather than switching firewalling tools

Re: 2.4 and ipmasq modules

2001-01-24 Thread Harald Welte
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 08:56:33AM -0800, Aaron Lehmann wrote: On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 06:29:34PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: Well, it's NAT'ing it OK. Are you sure you have a rule like the following: iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT ? # iptables -A INPUT

2.4.1-pre7 SMP oops

2001-01-24 Thread Paul Flinders
My Dual 866Mhz PIII died whilst compiling gcc with ksymoops -m /boot/System.map-2.4.1-pre7 ~/oops ksymoops 0.7c on i686 2.4.1-pre7. Options used -V (default) -k /proc/ksyms (default) -l /proc/modules (default) -o /lib/modules/2.4.1-pre7/ (default) -m

Re: kernel BUG at slab.c:1542!(2.4.1-pre9)

2001-01-24 Thread Daniel Phillips
Shawn Starr wrote: This is not a kernel bug, This is a bug in the XFree86 TrueType rendering extention. This has been discussed on the Xpert XFree86 mailing list. There is a fix in the works (depends on the TrueType fonts your using). A BUG is a BUG: kernel BUG at slab.c:1542! The kernel

Re: [NFS] Linux 2.2.18 nfs v3 server bug (was: Incompatible: FreeBSD 4.2 client, Linux 2.2.18 nfsv3 server, read-only export)

2001-01-24 Thread Matthias Andree
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Neil Brown wrote: freebsd-stable removed! reiserfs gone. Who goes next:-? Alan? The bugs, I hope. I stuffed up when I tried to interpret the error, but after much sensible correction, here is a patch. Please try it, and suggest any other errs that should be tested

Re: Big Bada Boom...

2001-01-24 Thread Peter Rival
Yeah, I've been bitten by this quite often. Basically, just edit arch/alpha/kernel/Makefile and remove irq_pyxis.c from the obj-y line. I'm not positive what systems require it exactly, but rawhide isn't one of them. I have a totally separate patch from Andrea that suggests (to my mind) that

Why only Linux uses GCC to compile the source code. please help

2001-01-24 Thread Mahadev K Cholachagudda
Hi to all, Please include mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * in the reply list **as i am not a member of the list**. After i am going through the some part of the linux code, i wrote the following. Please review it and if you have any additions/modifications or comments please let me

Re: kernel BUG at slab.c:1542!(2.4.1-pre9)

2001-01-24 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 01:58:22PM +0100, Daniel Phillips wrote: This is not a kernel bug, This is a bug in the XFree86 TrueType rendering extention. This has been discussed on the Xpert XFree86 mailing list. There is a fix in the works (depends on the TrueType fonts your using). A BUG

Re: Partition IDs in the New World TM

2001-01-24 Thread Andrew Clausen
Glenn McGrath wrote: Andrew Clausen wrote: Bryan Henderson wrote: Incidentally, I just realized that the common name "partition ID" for this value is quite a misnomer. As far as I know, it has never identified the partition, but rather described its contents. Yes, "partition

Re: monitoring I/O

2001-01-24 Thread richardj_moore
I can offer the GKHI we put together to make kernel hooks easy to add an manage. If you know which code paths you need to peek then you can write you monitor as a kernel mod - user mod pair. The kernel mod will accumulate the stats, the user mod will extract and report the stats. See the web

Re: [2.2.18] outgoing connections getting stuck in SYN_SENT

2001-01-24 Thread Mark Longair
Mark Longair [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [..] I'm having a problem where twice a day or so, any new tcp connection it gets stuck in SYN_SENT. Eventually this situation rights itself, but obviously in the meantime many services (e.g. squid, X) are broken. The machine does IP masquerdading with

ACPI trouble with MS-6167 motherboard

2001-01-24 Thread dmeyer
I'm still having ACPI difficulties with Linux-2.4.1-pre10 on my system. Up to (and including) Linux-2.4.0, it worked fine; the kernel reported: Jan 14 22:53:05 jhereg kernel: ACPI: System description tables found Jan 14 22:53:05 jhereg kernel: ACPI: System description tables loaded Jan 14

Re: PATCH: Pass module parameters to built-in drivers

2001-01-24 Thread Paul Gortmaker
Keith Owens wrote: Inconsistent methods for setting the same parameter are bad. I can and will do this cleanly in 2.5. Parameters will be always be keyed by the module name, even if they are compiled in. Adding an inconsistent I'm curious as to what boot argument equivalent you envision

[PATCH]: hgafb crash on MDA only cards

2001-01-24 Thread Paul Gortmaker
Current (2.4.0pre8) hgafb will misdetect MDA only cards and then crash - last message briefly seen before screen clears is hgafb: NULL with 32K of memory detected. A comparison to the detection code in XFree86 shows that hgafb forgets to return failure if the status port doesn't show any

Re: changing mac address of eth alias

2001-01-24 Thread David Weis
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Ben Greear wrote: David Weis wrote: what would be required to make the mac address of aliases changable, specifically for something like vrrp that shares a mac address among machines. Not sure you can do that, but you could use an 802.1Q vlan patch and set up two

Re: No SCSI Ultra 160 with Adaptec Controller

2001-01-24 Thread I Lee Hetherington
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something to note, however: the media transfer rate for those disks is at most ~20MB/sec. Hmm... scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.31/3.2.4 Adaptec AIC-7899 Ultra 160/m SCSI host adapter Vendor: QUANTUM Model:

Re: No SCSI Ultra 160 with Adaptec Controller

2001-01-24 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Tim Sullivan wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, that code is still necessary. There's a new aic7xxx driver by Justin Gibbs at Adaptec which is now being beta tested which corrects this issue. Justin's 6.0.9beta(latest release) hasn't corrected the problem yet.

Re: kernel BUG at slab.c:1542!(2.4.1-pre9)

2001-01-24 Thread Daniel Phillips
Gregory Maxwell wrote: On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 01:58:22PM +0100, Daniel Phillips wrote: This is not a kernel bug, This is a bug in the XFree86 TrueType rendering extention. This has been discussed on the Xpert XFree86 mailing list. There is a fix in the works (depends on the TrueType

Re: Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-01-24 Thread Sasi Peter
(30+ high speed streams from 4 disks does really need some caching). This isn't obvious. Your working may not fit in cache and so the kernel understand it's worthless to swapout stuff to make space to a polluted cache. But your understanding agrees on that the larger chunks for each stream

Re: [2.2.18] outgoing connections getting stuck in SYN_SENT

2001-01-24 Thread Martin Josefsson
On 24 Jan 2001, Mark Longair wrote: Mark Longair [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [..] I'm having a problem where twice a day or so, any new tcp connection it gets stuck in SYN_SENT. Eventually this situation rights itself, but obviously in the meantime many services (e.g. squid, X) are

Re: Is sendfile all that sexy?

2001-01-24 Thread Sasi Peter
AIUI, Jeff Merkey was working on loading "userspace" apps into the kernel to tackle this sort of problem generically. I don't know if he's tried it with Samba - the forking would probably be a problem... I think, that is not what we need. Once Ingo wrote, that since HTTP serving can also

Re: ioremap_nocache problem?

2001-01-24 Thread Timur Tabi
** Reply to message from David Wragg [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 24 Jan 2001 00:50:20 + (x86 processors with PAT and IA64 can set write-combining through page flags. x86 processors with MTRRs but not PAT would need a more elaborate implementation for write-combining.) What is PAT? I

Re: changing mac address of eth alias

2001-01-24 Thread Ben Greear
David Weis wrote: On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Ben Greear wrote: David Weis wrote: what would be required to make the mac address of aliases changable, specifically for something like vrrp that shares a mac address among machines. Not sure you can do that, but you could use an 802.1Q

Re: No SCSI Ultra 160 with Adaptec Controller

2001-01-24 Thread Tim Sullivan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Justin's 6.0.9beta(latest release) hasn't corrected the problem yet. scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.0.9 BETA Adaptec 29160 Ultra160 SCSI adapter aic7892: Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/255 SCBs Vendor: QUANTUM

Re: Firewall netlink question...

2001-01-24 Thread Scaramanga
Hi, eeks... a compressed archie including a binary is not what people on linux-kernel usually want to see whoops, gues who made a bodge of thier makefile :P anyway - thanks for your contribution. Why didn't you submit this for inclusion into netfilter/iptables CVS patch-o-matic ? We

Re: Is sendfile all that sexy?

2001-01-24 Thread James Sutherland
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Sasi Peter wrote: AIUI, Jeff Merkey was working on loading "userspace" apps into the kernel to tackle this sort of problem generically. I don't know if he's tried it with Samba - the forking would probably be a problem... I think, that is not what we need. Once

Re: No SCSI Ultra 160 with Adaptec Controller

2001-01-24 Thread Matt Domsch
/dev/sda: Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.59 seconds =40.25 MB/sec They can do more like 40MB/s, so only two disks could saturate the 80MB/s. Apparently I was misinformed as to the speed of these disks. My apologies for the confusion this caused. -Matt - To unsubscribe

RE: No SCSI Ultra 160 with Adaptec Controller

2001-01-24 Thread John Jasen
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Matthew Jacob wrote: Actually, aren't a number of newer drives getting upwards of 30MB/s? It depends tests I've done here, with scsi/160 and FC on seagate drives, the read/write speeds start at ~35MB/s, and peter off to ~22MB/s. I admit my methodology was crude, but

nividia fb 0.9.0?

2001-01-24 Thread Robert Holmberg
I saw version 0.9.0 of the nvidia fb driver floating around on the nvidia for linux mailing list some time ago. I tried it and liked it, it was A LOT faster and seemingly bug-free. I decided to wait for it to get integrated into the kernel. Time has gone by, the linux-nvidia archives are down and

Re: ioremap_nocache problem?

2001-01-24 Thread David Wragg
Timur Tabi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ** Reply to message from David Wragg [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 24 Jan 2001 00:50:20 + (x86 processors with PAT and IA64 can set write-combining through page flags. x86 processors with MTRRs but not PAT would need a more elaborate implementation for

Re: kernel BUG at slab.c:1542!(2.4.1-pre9)

2001-01-24 Thread Andrew Morton
Daniel Phillips wrote: I don't know much about the history of this bug but it's quite clear it's deliberately inserted: void * kmalloc (size_t size, int flags) if allocation succeeds, exit BUG(); // too big size return NULL; I

Re: nividia fb 0.9.0?

2001-01-24 Thread Jeff Garzik
Robert Holmberg wrote: I saw version 0.9.0 of the nvidia fb driver floating around on the nvidia for linux mailing list some time ago. I tried it and liked it, it was A LOT faster and seemingly bug-free. I decided to wait for it to get integrated into the kernel. Time has gone by, the

S_DEAD

2001-01-24 Thread David Woodhouse
What does IS_DEADDIR give us that (!(inode)-i_nlink) doesn't? -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

2.4 destroys filesystems with VIA IDE driver..

2001-01-24 Thread Orlando Andico
I just read kernel traffic (I'm not subscribed to lk) re: Tobias Ringstrom's FS corruption on 2.4.0. I'm currently using 2.4.0+ReiserFS 3.6.25 on Red Hat 6.2, on a VIA IDE main board (ASUS cuv4x, with the 82c686a south bridge) and I have *not* gotten anything like what Tobias experienced. I

Re: 2.4 disk speed 66% slowdown...

2001-01-24 Thread Benson Chow
Just as a datapoint, my Via IDE chipset (on atb850/kt133) and Promise Ultra66 (on 2xpp200/82440FX/PIIX3) works fine with 2.4.0, getting speeds about correct: Model=IBM-DTLA-307045, FwRev=TX6OA60A [snip. unused info cut] PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0

Driver migration question

2001-01-24 Thread Georg Nikodym
So, rather than repeated ask questions of the form: How do I change X (a 2.2 thingy in my driver) to the blessed form on 2.4.x? I'm wondering if there's a driver in the kernel tree that somebody can point to and say, "This is how drivers should be done." In particular, I'm

Re: 2.4 disk speed 66% slowdown...

2001-01-24 Thread Miles Lane
Benson Chow wrote: Just as a datapoint, my Via IDE chipset (on atb850/kt133) and Promise Ultra66 (on 2xpp200/82440FX/PIIX3) works fine with 2.4.0, getting speeds about correct: snip Model=QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM30, FwRev=A35.0700 [snip. unused info cut] tDMA={min:120,rec:120}, DMA

Re: 2.4.1pre8 slowdown on dbench tests

2001-01-24 Thread Steven Cole
On Tuesday 23 January 2001 13:54, Jens Axboe wrote: Thanks! Could I talk you into doing one last run? pre8 with include/linux/elevator.h having these values set for ELEVATOR_LINUS: Here are two sets of dbench 48 runs with that mod. I can't explain why the second set is faster. The second

Re: limit on number of kmapped pages

2001-01-24 Thread Eric W. Biederman
David Wragg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd still like to know what the basis for the current kmap limit setting is. Mostly at one point kmap_atomic was all there was. It was only the difficulty of implementing copy_from_user with kmap_atomic that convinced people we needed something more. So

AMD Ethernet/Am79C973/Am79C975 (pcnet32/FAST), SEEPROM R/W patch

2001-01-24 Thread Richard B. Johnson
Some are using the AMD Elan-SC520 development board for embedded systems. This board, and probably the production model, contains an AMD Network controller, Am79C973/Am79C975. The Linux 2.4.0 kernel contains a driver, (AMD PCnet32 PCI supprt), pcnet32.c, that will work with this chip.

Re: 2.4.1pre8 slowdown on dbench tests

2001-01-24 Thread Jens Axboe
On Wed, Jan 24 2001, Steven Cole wrote: Thanks! Could I talk you into doing one last run? pre8 with include/linux/elevator.h having these values set for ELEVATOR_LINUS: Here are two sets of dbench 48 runs with that mod. I can't explain why the second set is faster. The second set was

fyi megaraid problems

2001-01-24 Thread Heitzso
don't know if this has been covered/studied datapoints I've run across re the megaraid (scsi raid driver, american megatrends) box: Dell PowerEdge 2300, 2 cpus, 1G RAM hard drive setup as single drive via raid controller RH6.1, compiled 2.2.13, megaraid works! RH7.0 install/upgrade breaks on

NTFS safety and lack thereof - Was: Re: Linux 2.4.0ac11

2001-01-24 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
At 15:05 24/01/01, Cataldo Thomas wrote: On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: 2.4.0-ac11 o Major NTFS updates (Anton Altaparmakov) Is read access safe ? Of course read-only is safe. As long as you mount the partition READ-ONLY nothing can happen to it in

Re: 2.4.1pre8 slowdown on dbench tests

2001-01-24 Thread Steven Cole
On Wednesday 24 January 2001 09:44, Jens Axboe wrote: On Wed, Jan 24 2001, Steven Cole wrote: Thanks! Could I talk you into doing one last run? pre8 with include/linux/elevator.h having these values set for ELEVATOR_LINUS: Here are two sets of dbench 48 runs with that mod. I can't

Re: NTFS safety and lack thereof - Was: Re: Linux 2.4.0ac11

2001-01-24 Thread Timur Tabi
** Reply to message from Anton Altaparmakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 24 Jan 2001 16:54:36 + Is read access safe ? Of course read-only is safe. As long as you mount the partition READ-ONLY nothing can happen to it in any way, your NTFS data is at least safe. Isn't it still

2.4 IDE slowdown (misconfigure)

2001-01-24 Thread LA Walsh
This seems to have fixed the 66% slowdown -- disk speeds w/hdparm. They are reading in the same range. For others -- my problem was that I upgraded from a 2.2.x config -- I thought 'make xconfig' would add additional new params as needed as 'make config' does. Guess I thought wrong. Thanks,

Re: Probably Off-topic Question...

2001-01-24 Thread Steve Underwood
Alan Olsen wrote: This is probably a user-land and/or undocumented thing, but I am not certain where to get the correct info. Does anyone know how to get the screen brightness control to work on a Sony Vaio N505VE? There seems to be some sort of proprietary hook to get it to work that

RE: No SCSI Ultra 160 with Adaptec Controller

2001-01-24 Thread Matthew Jacob
Well, this is all what comes from not spending money on this stuff myself- I guess I just have too many 3 year old drives... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

make mrproper

2001-01-24 Thread John Levon
Idle curiosity, but what does the "mr" in make mrproper stand for ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: NTFS safety and lack thereof - Was: Re: Linux 2.4.0ac11

2001-01-24 Thread mirabilos
Timur Tabi wrote: Isn't it still theoretcially possible for the driver to send commands to the disk controller that cause data to become overwritten, even when it's just supposed to read that data? IMHO the NTFS driver creators weren't bloody newbies and won't do such a bug, even not by

Re: NTFS safety and lack thereof - Was: Re: Linux 2.4.0ac11

2001-01-24 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
At 17:03 24/01/01, Timur Tabi wrote: ** Reply to message from Anton Altaparmakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 24 Jan 2001 16:54:36 + Is read access safe ? Of course read-only is safe. As long as you mount the partition READ-ONLY nothing can happen to it in any way, your NTFS data is at

Re: nividia fb 0.9.0?

2001-01-24 Thread Robert Holmberg
On 2001.01.24 17:44:43 +0200 Jeff Garzik wrote: I just mentioned this to Bakonyi Ferenc [EMAIL PROTECTED], who said that it would be better to roll a new patch without the v4l stuff, and update rivafb. rivafb is apparently stable but the v4l code is not (yet). I can't wait to finally get a

Re: make mrproper

2001-01-24 Thread Joseph Pingenot
From John Levon on Wednesday, 24 January, 2001: Idle curiosity, but what does the "mr" in make mrproper stand for ? My guess is that it is a joke. 'Meister Proper' is the German Mister Clean (the big, bald guy on the same-name cleaning agent bottle). I'm not sure of the spelling, though.

Re: Probably Off-topic Question...

2001-01-24 Thread Mark Smith
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:14:19AM +0800, Steve Underwood wrote: This is probably a user-land and/or undocumented thing, but I am not certain where to get the correct info. Does anyone know how to get the screen brightness control to work on a Sony Vaio N505VE? There seems to be some

Re: make mrproper

2001-01-24 Thread leo . howell
Long ago, about January 24, Joseph wrote: From John Levon on Wednesday, 24 January, 2001: Idle curiosity, but what does the "mr" in make mrproper stand for ? My guess is that it is a joke. 'Meister Proper' is the German Mister Clean (the big, bald guy on the same-name cleaning

MrProper

2001-01-24 Thread mirabilos
Greetings from Germany, and Meister Proper is correct. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Page Attribute Table (PAT) support?

2001-01-24 Thread Timur Tabi
The Page Attribute Table (PAT) is an extension to the x86 page table format that lets you enable Write Combining on a per-page basis. Details can be found in chapter 9.13 of the Intel Architecture Software Developer's Manual, Volume 3 (System Programming). I noticed that 2.4 doesn't support the

Re: Compatibility issue with 2.2.19pre7

2001-01-24 Thread Richard Henderson
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 01:21:44PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: For example you don't know if there's another object that will cast the int pointer back to char pointer before dereferencing. That would get a defined runtime behaviour on all archs. No. The representation of "int*" and

Re: kernel BUG at slab.c:1542!(2.4.1-pre9)

2001-01-24 Thread Shawn Starr
True, It's just odd that we're having the same problem with the X server, so its a double whammy ;) Daniel Phillips wrote: Shawn Starr wrote: This is not a kernel bug, This is a bug in the XFree86 TrueType rendering extention. This has been discussed on the Xpert XFree86 mailing list. There

Re: [preview] Latest AMD VIA IDE drivers with UDMA100 support

2001-01-24 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 02:57:07PM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote: Vojtech, I worry that the dynamic timing that you are calculating could bite you. Well, I know this. But I fear hardcoded timings won't really help here, unles everyone out there

Re: Bug in ppp_async.c

2001-01-24 Thread Dan Egli
I do ppp using 2.4.0 w/ redhat 7 now, no upgrades besides modultils and the kernel : -- Dan Egli -- Network Administrator / President -- Frankenstein Computers -- 801-671-7875 - Original Message - From: "Paul Mackerras" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Albert D. Cahalan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:

Re: kernel BUG at slab.c:1542!(2.4.1-pre9)

2001-01-24 Thread Tim Fletcher
kernel BUG at slab.c:1542! The kernel should never oops, no matter what user space does to it. What ever a none privilaged user space apps does witness: root@localhost# dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/mem -- Tim Fletcher - Network manager .~. /V\ L

Re: kernel BUG at slab.c:1542!(2.4.1-pre9)

2001-01-24 Thread Tim Fletcher
The kernel appears to run fine with this bug() removed. BTW- gimp and a few other apps also manage to trigger it.. You can add sane with an advansys scsi card and various scsi scanners to that list -- Tim Fletcher - Network manager .~. /V\ L I

2.4.1pre10 sr.c compile warning

2001-01-24 Thread Heitzso
fyi while compiling 2.4.1pre10 sr.c compile reports error in get_capabilities() "too few arguments for format" - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [NFS] [CFT] Improved RPC congestion handling for 2.4.0 (and 2.2.18)

2001-01-24 Thread H . J . Lu
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 03:36:38PM -0800, H . J . Lu wrote: On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 12:00:29AM +0100, Trond Myklebust wrote: " " == H J Lu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I got a report which indicates it may not be a good idea, especially for UDP. Suppose you have a lousy LAN or

Re: vfat - vfat copying of ~700MB file, so slow!

2001-01-24 Thread Brad Felmey
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 13:14:31 +0100, you, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote: I/O support = 0 (default 16-bit) hdparm -c1 /dev/hda, or are you running in 16-bit mode on purpose? -- Brad Felmey - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: Big Bada Boom...

2001-01-24 Thread Ivan Kokshaysky
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 08:23:13AM -0500, Peter Rival wrote: Yeah, I've been bitten by this quite often. Basically, just edit arch/alpha/kernel/Makefile and remove irq_pyxis.c from the obj-y line. I'm not positive what systems require it exactly, but rawhide isn't one of them. I have a

Re: vfat - vfat copying of ~700MB file, so slow!

2001-01-24 Thread Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
On/Dnia Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:23:03PM -0600, Brad Felmey wrote/napisa(a) I/O support = 0 (default 16-bit) hdparm -c1 /dev/hda, or are you running in 16-bit mode on purpose? no purpose. Setting this can only speed up all operations a bit but it doesn't change nothing in vfat - vfat

Re: display problem with matroxfb

2001-01-24 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 24 Jan 01 at 10:32, f5ibh wrote: Grr. Did not pass through due to DUL blacklist... What is DUL blacklist ? If the problem is with my e-mail address (it is an hamradio address), you can use [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead. No. Problem is with linux-kernel@... It started blacklisting direct

Re: Page Attribute Table (PAT) support?

2001-01-24 Thread Jeff Hartmann
Timur Tabi wrote: The Page Attribute Table (PAT) is an extension to the x86 page table format that lets you enable Write Combining on a per-page basis. Details can be found in chapter 9.13 of the Intel Architecture Software Developer's Manual, Volume 3 (System Programming). I noticed

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