On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 11:50:12AM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999
> From: Keith Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: 2.4.0-test8/pre6 OOPS on load of sb.o
> In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 08 Sep 2000 10:15:13 +0930."
>
On 7 Sep 00 at 21:12, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> >Hi,
> > I already asked this about week ago... But today I was informed
> >that [EMAIL PROTECTED] received oopses below too. It really looks
> >like that vmmon does something wrong, but I cannot find anyth
> obpainintheass: haven't you anti-debugger-religion folks been claiming
> that if you don't have a debugger you're forced to "think about the code
> to find the correct fix"? so, like, why are you guessing right now? :)
dean, that is another man behind the curtain we are supposed to ignore
wh
Timur,
> Well, if it really is just his hobby, then he shouldn't be chanting the "World
> Domination" mantra. Either Linux belongs to Linus, in which case it's
> irrelevant outside his personal world, or it is a tool for all computer users.
> If Linus really doesn't care who uses his OS, then he
From: "Horst von Brand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> "J. Dow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> [...]
>
> > The point is that WITH a debugger you have to take that step as well.
> > A person without the self discipline to do that is still a child and should
> > not be in this business. The debugger gives
Hi
this patch does:
- it moke use of the same locking for partial & complete pages, the
old version did busy-waiting in the case that the partial page was
locked.
- rewrites truncate_inodes_pages() using 2 auxiliar functions:
* truncate_partial_page() that truncates a partial page
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000 23:39:11 -0300,
Cesar Eduardo Barros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>My modules.dep has the following lines:
>
>/lib/modules/2.4.0-test8-pre1/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_nat_ftp.o:
>/lib/modules/2.4.0-test8-pre1/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_nat.o \
>/lib/modules/2.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] will reach us faster. i've cc: it
-d
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Connecting to 204.201.36.164...
> elijah.nodomainname.net FTP server (Version wu-2.5.0(1) Wed Aug 25
> 14:13:56 EDT
>
> has a /pub/linux/kernel/people/alan that is out of date (latest is
> 2.2.15pre)
>
> and,
>
>
[Tigran]
> > I like this one even better:
> >
> > "Little children, keep yourselves from idols" -- St John, Ist century.
[rgooch]
> Hm. Does that apply also to all the statues of saints, the virgin
> mother and all those crosses with Jesus that you find in churches,
> hanging off people's nec
Linus,
I gave the whole Social Darwinsim argument you raised with the parable of
the rabbits and the wolves relative to a kernel debugger in Linux considerable
thought, and I guess that darwinism never did handle events well like 6 mile
diameter meteors striking the earth at 165,000 miles per h
Connecting to 204.201.36.164...
elijah.nodomainname.net FTP server (Version wu-2.5.0(1) Wed Aug 25
14:13:56 EDT
has a /pub/linux/kernel/people/alan that is out of date (latest is
2.2.15pre)
and,
Connecting to 198.186.203.38...
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000 23:39:11 -0300,
Cesar Eduardo Barros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>My modules.dep has the following lines:
>
>/lib/modules/2.4.0-test8-pre1/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_nat_ftp.o:
>/lib/modules/2.4.0-test8-pre1/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_nat.o \
>/lib/modules/2.
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
>Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 23:49:57 MET-1
>From: Petr Vandrovec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
>Subject: 2.4.0-test7, and filemap_write_page...
>
>Hi,
> I alrea
On 8 Sep 2000, Juan J. Quintela wrote:
>Could we make it _easy_ to put all the
>modules/System.map/bzImage/ in boot/ and make it easy to do
>a tar of that directory and make easy to install that dir in another
>machine (perhaps puting a tiny Makefile/script there to do that).
Well, one can certai
My modules.dep has the following lines:
/lib/modules/2.4.0-test8-pre1/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_nat_ftp.o:
/lib/modules/2.4.0-test8-pre1/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_nat.o \
/lib/modules/2.4.0-test8-pre1/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipchains.o \
/lib/modules/2.4.0-test8-p
mberglund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Horst von Brand wrote:
> > > range.) What's the point in making processors faster if everyone just
> > > wastes the increase being "correct and simple"?
> > Because people-time is much more expensive than computer-time this days?
> > [BTW
You can ran into problems using schedule_timeout() in a block device request
function under 2.4.
This can be demonstrated by starting some I/O intensive tasks to your block
device and running sync in another task. Eventually the block layer will
lock up.
This can be fixed by creating a kernel
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 12:41:52PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> ISA is a dead hardware technology and therefore how it works is pretty
> much fixed in stone.
>
> Perhaps some older MIPS machines supporting ISA could benefit from
> an API similar to the PCI dma stuff, as Alan mentioned. But t
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 12:36:51PM -0700, Kanoj Sarcar wrote:
> >Except for the x86 36bit abortion do we need a long long paddr_t on any
> >32bit platform ?
> >
> > Sparc32, mips32...
> >
>
> Not for Indys on mips32. Is there a mips32 port on another machine
> (currently in Linux, or po
Hi,
Here is another set of output from ksymoops as advised.
Thanks,
Sheldon.
ksymoops 2.3.4 on i686 2.4.0-test8. Options used
-V (default)
-k /proc/ksyms (default)
-l /proc/modules (default)
-o /lib/modules/2.4.0-test8/ (default)
-m /boot/System.map-2.4.0-test8 (defa
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Richard Henderson wrote:
>Perhaps. But that's not to say no future compiler won't.
I sure agree. That was my original concern w/o looking/knowing how smart
the current compiler was infact.
Andrea
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On Thu, 7 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello!
> > I believe that the DoS is that the path through the kernel turns out to be
> > long and that a lot of these packets will bring a machine to its knees.
>
> It is not longer than path for any other kind of packet.
> In the reported case it is
Eric, sorry for the late reply.
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Eric Youngdale wrote:
>The oddness is this. We were observing stalls in the processing of
>commands that was traced to the fact that the queue had remained plugged
>for an excessive amount of time. The stalls last for about 5 seconds or
>
On 2000-09-07 22:39:55 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Andrea VM patches will be included in 2.2.18.
>
> We'll see
Something between bigmem and his big VM changes makes reiserfs
uncompilable. I stay with the stock VM and its only under significant
load that it falls over and starts messing with the
> "keith" == Keith Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi
keith> Agreed, and the kbuild team is already looking at a complete Makefile
keith> redesign for kernel 2.5. The latest makefile wishlist is in
keith> ftp://ftp.ocs.com.au/pub/makefile-wishlist-2.5-3.gz, all sensible
keith> comments ap
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Horst von Brand wrote:
> > range.) What's the point in making processors faster if everyone just
> > wastes the increase being "correct and simple"?
>
> Because people-time is much more expensive than computer-time this days?
> [BTW, shaving off a few miliseconds in loading
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 12:34:24AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> >No it's not. We know how big the dummy_lock structure is, and
> >so might "know" that it doesn't overlap with something else.
>
> I guess Alexey point is that the current compiler doesn't notice that.
Perhaps. But that's not
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000 10:15:13 +0930,
"Sheldon Easterbrook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm still getting this, except I've changed from RedHat 6.2 to Debian 2.2.
>Sep 8 08:50:36 Defiant kernel: EIP:=
>0010:[fat:__insmod_fat_S.bss_L2240+26305/51066103]=0A=
Please do not use quoted-printable to
"David S. Miller" wrote:
>
>Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 17:35:22 -0700
>From: Jun Sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Do we know exactly what userland apps/libs use ifmap? Maybe the
>damage is not so bad, so that we can fix this problem without
>making it look worse.
>
> It's a well esta
> Im using 2.2.18pre with XFree 4.0 , AGP, DRM and a USB keyboard and mouse.
> It all works. One keyboard not multiple tho.
>
> They dont seem to support the automatic change of keyboard mapping with the
> USB events though
I see they use their own drives and don't use the /dev/event interface
Hi,
I'm still getting this, except I've changed from RedHat 6.2 to Debian 2.2.
Cheers,
Sheldon.
PS I am not on the list.
ksymoops 2.3.4 on i686 2.4.0-test8. Options used
-V (default)
-k /proc/ksyms (default)
-l /proc/modules (default)
-o /lib/modules/2.4.0-test8/ (defaul
> Points taken. Given that I withdraw the need for console support and / or
> used two seperate video cards, does it make it more feasible?
IMNSHO X servers should move as far away from dependency on /dev/ttyX as
it can do. The X server should use /dev/event, /dev/fb, and /dev/drm.
You can't to
Cody,
The 2.2.x kernel with Andre UDMA patch can support up to 4 Promises cards.
If the onboard IDE is disabled, then you can have 5 Promises cards.
Jeff
ASL Inc.
At 06:09 PM 9/7/00 -0600, Aryeh \"Cody\" Sherr wrote:
>
>Will the 2.2 kernel support 2 Promise 66 Ultra cards? The UDMA faq states
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 17:35:22 -0700
From: Jun Sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Do we know exactly what userland apps/libs use ifmap? Maybe the
damage is not so bad, so that we can fix this problem without
making it look worse.
It's a well established fixed kernel API, any app whatsoever
"David S. Miller" wrote:
>
>Date:Thu, 07 Sep 2000 14:36:02 -0700
>From: Jun Sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Here is a small patch which is needed on non-i386 platforms.
>
> The layout of this structure is exported to userspace
> applications, thus you cannot simply just change th
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000 19:14:26 -0500,
Michael Elizabeth Chastain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Yeah. Long transition, plus user education (which never works, dontcha
>> know), plus probably a helper tool akin to checkconfig.
>
>I think it would help to have a well documented "module writers kit".
>
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000 18:58:01 -0400 (EDT),
Ricky Beam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>What you point at and what's in the kernel tree still isn't complete. And
>it's still a load of hackish crap. Rules.make is still an enormous pile
>of goo -- highly condition and hard to follow. (Not that it's ever
On 08 Sep 2000 01:40:55 +0200,
"Juan J. Quintela" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> "kenneth" == Kenneth Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>hi
>
>I only can guess that you are using a wrong System.map for
>doing the ksymoops. __mon_yday is an array, not a function,
>
> Yeah. Long transition, plus user education (which never works, dontcha
> know), plus probably a helper tool akin to checkconfig.
I think it would help to have a well documented "module writers kit".
(Maybe there is one and I'm not aware of it).
mec> I'm all in favor of 'if ( CONFIG_BAR )', bu
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000 16:22:10 -0400 (EDT),
Ricky Beam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote:
>>Oh? That would be a bug. Which modules does it fail to see?
>
>ALL of them. Everything is under subdirs of kernel which depmod isn't
>scanning. (pcmcia is the
Will the 2.2 kernel support 2 Promise 66 Ultra cards? The UDMA faq states
that 2 33 Ultra cards will not work. Is this still true for the 2.2.12
kernel? Will the 2.4 support 2 cards?
Thanks for your time,
Cody Sherr
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On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Andi Kleen wrote:
:If Linux stopped sending ACKs for out of order packets your machine would
:be pretty much unusable over lossy links (because fast retransmit would
:not work properly anymore) But that of course can be used
:to cause your machine to send at least an outgoing
[mec]
> In the .config file, the problem is that the Makefiles source .config
> and then do a lot of "ifdef CONFIG_FOO" tests. There are about 300
> instances of this in 2.4.0-test-7.
Separate issue. We're not talking about emitting n symbols to .config,
or at least I'm not. In this thread.
> "kenneth" == Kenneth Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
hi
I only can guess that you are using a wrong System.map for
doing the ksymoops. __mon_yday is an array, not a function,
the backtrace don't make sense.
Later, Juan "waiting for a nice backtrace" :)))
ke
I don't know. It may well be that by the time Linux is seriously in
contention for cc-NUMA, the number of architectures will be seriously
reduced, in much the same way that the number of architectures for general
purpose computers got shook out in the '80s and '90s. In that case, my dire
warning
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 02:18:22AM +0300, George Athanassopoulos wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> :I forgot to add: Alexey is of course right in that it doesn't help you
> :at all. You cannot defend against packet floods, and with an active TCP
> :you can be always tricked into
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Andi Kleen wrote:
:I forgot to add: Alexey is of course right in that it doesn't help you
:at all. You cannot defend against packet floods, and with an active TCP
:you can be always tricked into bouncing packets without load limit
:(e.g. just by sending out of order packets fo
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On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Urban Widmark wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
> > oldconfig always ask about CONFIG_SMB_NLS_REMOTE in case it
> > was set CONFIG_SMB_NLS_REMOTE="" in the previous config.
> >
> > This is expected?
>
> It's certainly annoying, especially for people b
> And how much did RedHat pay you to do it?
Legitimate question.
Answer: zero. I wrote it long before I started working for Red Hat.
> Oh, I know more than you think I do.
No, judging by your posts, you don't.
Michael
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On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 04:47:42PM -0600, Richard Gooch wrote:
> Can someone post why this has broken and why a fix is (I presume)
> difficult? I'll have to look at this myself if no-one else fixes it by
> the time the other issues are fixed :-(
In the old CardBus API, when a new CardBus card wa
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I've done an implementation of some of the Win32 "system calls" in a kernel
>module in an attempt to speed up Wine.
Hmm.. I have this feeling that it would be much nicer to just implement
the NT system calls directly.
W
Hi
I have found that we run botton handlers (in schedule()) when
we are in the middle of an interrupt. I think that is illegal, and
moved the test to the beginning of the function. In the case that the
running of the bottom handlers before the test is on purpose, could
somebody put a c
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote:
>> However, NO ONE has taken the time (I'm talking weeks of doing nothing
>> but screwing with Makefiles) to completely rewrite the build system.
>
>I have done exactly that.
And how much did RedHat pay you to do it?
>And I gave you the URL.
Jamie Lokier wrote:
> World Domination is my hobby too :-)
Now, that is THE T-shirt! What should be added? A flock of penguins
in an attack mode. :-)
--mj
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Please read the F
Andrew Morton writes:
> "Claude LeFrancois (LMC)" wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for the info. I can run the script manually to get the NIC on the
> > network. But, by the mean time before a permanent fix, would it be a good
> > idea to apply the change I did to allow at least correct initilization for
>
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Richard Henderson wrote:
>No it's not. We know how big the dummy_lock structure is, and
>so might "know" that it doesn't overlap with something else.
I guess Alexey point is that the current compiler doesn't notice that.
Andrea
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On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> oldconfig always ask about CONFIG_SMB_NLS_REMOTE in case it
> was set CONFIG_SMB_NLS_REMOTE="" in the previous config.
>
> This is expected?
It's certainly annoying, especially for people building packages (At
least the rpms specs I have looked at)
"Claude LeFrancois (LMC)" wrote:
>
> Thanks for the info. I can run the script manually to get the NIC on the
> network. But, by the mean time before a permanent fix, would it be a good
> idea to apply the change I did to allow at least correct initilization for
> eth0 ?
Hi, Claude.
Your sugges
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 12:21:40AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> You do not even need patches for it. You can do it as well with a TBF
> filter in the qdisc and a u32 filter that selects RSTs (it is even a
> standard example in iproute2)
>
> Another way that may work is to set the send buffer of t
Hi out there!
I was really impressed when I first started to copy 1000 mails from my
linux-kernel mail folder to the archive/linux-kernel folder in netscape.
While under 2.2.16 it you could count the along with the first dozen
messages being transferred, 2.2.17 lets netscape do a jump start and
r
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 10:51:50PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> static unsigned long last_time;
>
> if(jiffies-last_time < HZ/10)
> return;
> last_time = jiffies;
>
> which will then limit to one RST per 10th sec
You do not even need patches for it. You can do it as
> XFree86 can use multiple keybaords. I don't think XF4.0 still supports USB
> keyboards. Give them another 6 months or a year. By then they should
Im using 2.2.18pre with XFree 4.0 , AGP, DRM and a USB keyboard and mouse.
It all works. One keyboard not multiple tho.
They dont seem to support th
In the .config file, the problem is that the Makefiles source .config and
then do a lot of "ifdef CONFIG_FOO" tests. There are about 300 instances
of this in 2.4.0-test-7.
In include/linux/autoconf.h, the problem is in the *.c (and *.h and *.S)
files that do a lot of "#ifdef CONFIG_BAR" and "#if
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Dave Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>My company is currently working on a linux network driver (I'm sorry,
>but I can't disclose which company or the nature of the driver right
>now). However, recent discussions on this list have made me grow
>concerned about
> should we just eat it and shut up (because that's the way TCP works and it
> will not change)?
It is part of the protocol requirement
> I haven't used iptables yet but I think they can handle packets with various
> bits sets (including RST), unlike ipfw. But, is there any way with ipta
Date:Thu, 07 Sep 2000 14:36:02 -0700
From: Jun Sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Here is a small patch which is needed on non-i386 platforms.
The layout of this structure is exported to userspace
applications, thus you cannot simply just change the
type in this structure to get the change
> Here is a small patch which is needed on non-i386 platforms.
Which is wrong
> ifmap.base_addr is mainly used to initialize net_device base_addr, which
> is already a u_long.
>
> This change does not increase the memory size for struct ifmap.
But does change the field offsets
> In the same s
Hi,
I already asked this about week ago... But today I was informed
that [EMAIL PROTECTED] received oopses below too. It really looks
like that vmmon does something wrong, but I cannot find anything.
Does anybody here have any idea how could happen that there is
page which has page->mapping =
> Andrea VM patches will be included in 2.2.18.
We'll see
> They are not included yet because Alan does not want two untested changes
> together in the same kernel (2.2.18pre3 has ext2 patches).
Right now I dont want to mix VM changes with the ext2 fixups and the large
amount of driver work.
Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
> Back in May I wrote a quite estensive documentation about all the
> possible/best ways to debug the Linux Kernel for a talk/tranining that I
> did in San Jose in May. I find now the time to clean it up and to upload
> since I think it could result useful to everybody d
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:By any _formal_ criteria there is no DoS here. You reply with one packet
:to each incoming packet and do not hold any state. Where is DoS?
Maybe I did not make clear where the DoS is. Well my machine DOES NOT
hang. But the NIC is busy replying tho
But would it be possible to apply a sort of "Linux Server Tuning Best
Practices" method to items not unlike NUMA, but more specific to say,
webserver and file serving?
(this is a project i am working on, finding kernel and apache tuning
guidelines for maximum File/Web serving speed w/ the 2.4 k
Linus,
Here is a small patch which is needed on non-i386 platforms.
base_addr in ifmap allows one to specify as a kernel boot argument the
base io addr of the net device. It is currently defined as u_short.
However, on a non-i386 platforms, this addr can be greater than what
u_short can repre
I get this on only one of my machines but it's probably not that stange
as they really don't have much in common other than being i386
compatible.
Could old errors on the filesystem produce this error?? I have only run
fsck under t8p6.
The last one is incomplete but the kernel had inserted part
FWIW, large system scalability, especially NUMA is not tractable with a 'one
size (algorithm) fits all' approach, and can be a significant test of the
degree of modularity in your system. Different relative costs of access to
the different levels of the memory hierarchy and different models of ca
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Urban Widmark wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, G. Hugh Song wrote:
>
> > if [ "$CONFIG_JOLIET" = "y" -o "$CONFIG_FAT_FS" != "n" \
> > -o "$CONFIG_NTFS_FS" != "n" -o "$CONFIG_NCPFS_NLS" = "y" \
> > -o "$CONFIG_SMB_FS" != n ]; then
>
> n vs "n" is my error.
>
> H
> If indeed this is a violation of the GPL, is there any way around this
> by releasing only the source code (even though it isn't GPL'd)? I
> mean, the compiled binary code does contain GPL'd code, but the source
> code does not. Is it OK to distribute this?
>
> So, I'm asking the experts here
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 09:51:26PM +0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> dummy_lock trick is equivalent to "memory" clobber.
No it's not. We know how big the dummy_lock structure is, and
so might "know" that it doesn't overlap with something else.
r~
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> However, NO ONE has taken the time (I'm talking weeks of doing nothing
> but screwing with Makefiles) to completely rewrite the build system.
I have done exactly that.
And I gave you the URL. You want to read it, or you want to keep whining
that "NO ONE" is doing the work I am pointing you di
On Thu, Sep 07 2000, Jens Axboe wrote:
> request_queue_t *q = blk_get_queue(dev);
> generic_unplug_device(q);
>
> And that would be it. This is already exported and I use it in a
Aghr, it's exported in my tree only I see... Oh well, as I wrote I
don't see any harm in actually exporti
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, 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.
Andrea VM patches will be included in 2.
On Thu, Sep 07 2000, Eric Youngdale wrote:
> This brings me to another point. We probably want some generic
> interfaces in ll_rw_blk to unplug individual queues, where you can either
> specify either the actual queue a kdev_t. Some of the places, (such as
> __wait_on_buffer()) it might make
Ricky Beam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
[...]
> It's attitudes like that that have made Microsoft products a laughing stock.
> A millisecond here and there adds up over time. In case you've forgotten,
> Linux _used_ to run very well on 386 and 486 systems (in the 25 to 50 MHz
> range.) What's the
Also sprach dean gaudet:
} On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Bill Wendling wrote:
} > Don't be stupid.
}
} dude, i gave at least three hints that i was joking up there. stupid
} would be if i claimed that it was obvious that a debugger would have
} helped this situation. instead all i'm claiming is that it's
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> He did claim that a change is in the works, that I assume may
> address my concerns.
Yes there is and the suggested on by me was to pickup the mirror and jbox
the extra capacity. Thus the rebuild uses part of the larger drive and
the remainder regis
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote:
>> Well, there's butt-loads of ugly Makefile shit all over the place. It
>> isn't going away.
>
>Some of it went away when Keith Owens rewrote modules-install.
Some, but not all. Some of the things necessary/desired for the kernel
build requ
> It is. Not unplugging the queue results in higher throughput
> when running a benchmark load, but seems to really harm
> system throughput (and cause stalls) in /real/ loads.
>
> This is most likely due to the fact that in most real life
> loads we have to write data and metadata all over the pl
Bryan Sparks at Lineo has given TRG an unlimited distribution license
for DR-DOS which is what we will provide for the DOS loadable versions
of MANOS freely from our website. Lineo also distributes free DR-DOS.
At present, I am putting the MANOS debugger into Linux proper without
DOS but ext2
up and to upload
> since I think it could result useful to everybody dealing with kernel
> developement.
>
>
>ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/andrea/talks/english/2000/kdebug-may-2000-2907.tar.gz
>
> It addresses
> MCORE/LKCD/KDB/KGDB/NMI-watchdog/TRACER/IKD/
.
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/andrea/talks/english/2000/kdebug-may-2000-2907.tar.gz
It addresses
MCORE/LKCD/KDB/KGDB/NMI-watchdog/TRACER/IKD/PRINTK/BUG/OOPS/KMSGDUMP and
many other issues (simptom/realbug as well).
They were the digital slides for the talk, so while writing them I
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Henry Worth wrote:
>
> With all the talk of improving Linux's scalability to
> large-scale SMP and ccNUMA platforms -- including efforts
> at several HW companies and now OSDL forming to throw
> hardware at the effort -- is there any move afoot to
> coordinate these effort
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 03:23:07PM -0400, Admin Mailing Lists wrote:
>
> On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
>
> >
> > Actually, the solution I think would be to use the MSDOS loader to boot
> > linux. I will look at grabbing the ELF code in Linux and loading Linux
> > from MSDOS -- if t
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
>
> Actually, the solution I think would be to use the MSDOS loader to boot
> linux. I will look at grabbing the ELF code in Linux and loading Linux
> from MSDOS -- if this can be accomplished you're there -- with an added
> benfit. When I am debuggin
} Can somebody please tell me, who is currently maintaining
} arch/ppc?
}
} The link
}
} http://www.ppc.kernel.org/
}
} in the MAINTAINERS file is dead.
}
} Regards, Till
It's unmaintained right now. The www.ppc.kernel.org site is gone.
Take a look at www.fsmlabs.com/linuxppcbk.html for the
Hi,
Is the following fix clean or are there better solutions?
There is a race condition in the Linux X.25 protocol stack. The stack
has an x25_kick() function which dequeues as many skb´s from
sk->write_queue as the send windows allows and sends them downwards.
This kick function is called fro
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Eric Youngdale wrote:
> The oddness is this. We were observing stalls in the
> processing of commands that was traced to the fact that the
> queue had remained plugged for an excessive amount of time.
> The stalls last for about 5 seconds or so.
Which is the default sl
Can somebody please tell me, who is currently maintaining
arch/ppc?
The link
http://www.ppc.kernel.org/
in the MAINTAINERS file is dead.
Regards, Till
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Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Henry Worth wrote:
>
>
> > Or is it all, whatever there may be of it, taking
> > place offline?
>
> Most of the times I've talked about this topic it
> was in person with other developers at various
> conferences.
>
Ugh, no wonder I never see this. Gue
Thanks for the info. I can run the script manually to get the NIC on the
network. But, by the mean time before a permanent fix, would it be a good
idea to apply the change I did to allow at least correct initilization for
eth0 ?
Claude.
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