Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX

2008-01-23 Thread Martin Knoblauch
- Original Message > From: Alasdair G Kergon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Martin Knoblauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Mel Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > Fengguang Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Mike Snitzer <[EMAIL PRO

Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX

2008-01-22 Thread Martin Knoblauch
- Original Message > From: Alasdair G Kergon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Martin Knoblauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Mel Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > Fengguang Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Mike Snitzer <[EMAIL PRO

Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX

2008-01-22 Thread Martin Knoblauch
-- Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www: http://www.knobisoft.de - Original Message > From: Alasdair G Kergon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Martin Knoblauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Linus Torva

Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX

2008-01-19 Thread Martin Knoblauch
- Original Message > From: Mike Snitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Mel Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Martin Knoblauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > Fengguang Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL P

Re: [PATCH] writeback: speed up writeback of big dirty files

2008-01-19 Thread Martin Knoblauch
Original Message > From: Fengguang Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Mike Snitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Martin Knoblauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Ingo M

Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX

2008-01-18 Thread Martin Knoblauch
e near the value one would expect, while the numbers are perfect without Mel's patch as in rc1-rc5. To bad I did not see this earlier. Maybe we could have found a solution for .24. At least, rc1-rc5 have shown that the CCISS system can do well. Now the question is which part of the system doe

Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX

2008-01-18 Thread Martin Knoblauch
- Original Message > From: Mel Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Martin Knoblauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Fengguang Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Mike Snitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Peter > Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Ingo M

Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX

2008-01-17 Thread Martin Knoblauch
- Original Message > From: Mel Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Martin Knoblauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Fengguang Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Mike Snitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Peter > Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Ingo M

Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX

2008-01-17 Thread Martin Knoblauch
- Original Message > From: Mike Snitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Martin Knoblauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Fengguang Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > li

Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX

2008-01-17 Thread Martin Knoblauch
- Original Message > From: Martin Knoblauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Fengguang Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Mike Snitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > li

Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX

2008-01-17 Thread Martin Knoblauch
- Original Message > From: Fengguang Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Martin Knoblauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Mike Snitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > li

Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX

2008-01-16 Thread Martin Knoblauch
- Original Message > From: Fengguang Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Martin Knoblauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Mike Snitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > li

Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX

2008-01-16 Thread Martin Knoblauch
- Original Message > From: Mike Snitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Fengguang Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Ingo Molnar > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Linus Torvalds <[EMA

Re: Strange NFS write performance Linux->Solaris-10/VXFS, maybe VW related

2008-01-14 Thread Martin Knoblauch
- Original Message > From: Martin Knoblauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Chris Snook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; spam trap <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2007 12:11:08 PM > Subject: Re:

Re: [PATCH 00/11] writeback bug fixes and simplifications

2008-01-11 Thread Martin Knoblauch
- Original Message > From: WU Fengguang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Hans-Peter Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Sascha Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, January 9, 2008 4:33:32

Re: Strange NFS write performance Linux->Solaris-10/VXFS, maybe VW related

2007-12-29 Thread Martin Knoblauch
- Original Message > From: Chris Snook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Martin Knoblauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 7:45:13 PM > Subject: Re: Strange NFS write performance Linux->Solari

Re: Strange NFS write performance Linux->Solaris-10/VXFS, maybe VW related

2007-12-29 Thread Martin Knoblauch
- Original Message > From: Chris Snook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Martin Knoblauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 7:45:13 PM > Subject: Re: Strange NFS write performance Linux->Solari

Strange NFS write performance Linux->Solaris-10/VXFS, maybe VW related

2007-12-28 Thread Martin Knoblauch
y about the spamtrap name :-) ------ Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www: http://www.knobisoft.de -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROT

What is the unit of "nr_writeback"?

2007-12-04 Thread Martin Knoblauch
Hi, forgive the stupid question. What is the unit of "nr_writeback"? One would usually assume a rate, but looking at the code I see it added together with nr_dirty and nr_unstable, somehow defeating the assumption. Cheers Martin ---

Re: Stack warning from 2.6.24-rc

2007-12-04 Thread Martin Knoblauch
- Original Message > From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Martin Knoblauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Sent: Tuesday, December 4, 2007 12:52:23 PM > Subject: Re: Stack warning from 2.6.24-rc > > > * Martin Knoblauch

Re: iozone write 50% regression in kernel 2.6.24-rc1

2007-11-12 Thread Martin Knoblauch
- Original Message > From: "Zhang, Yanmin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Martin Knoblauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; LKML > Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 1:45:57 AM > Subject: Re: iozone write 50% regression in kernel 2.6.24-rc1 &

Re: iozone write 50% regression in kernel 2.6.24-rc1

2007-11-09 Thread Martin Knoblauch
- Original Message > From: "Zhang, Yanmin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: LKML > Sent: Friday, November 9, 2007 10:47:52 AM > Subject: iozone write 50% regression in kernel 2.6.24-rc1 > > Comparing with 2.6.23, iozone sequential write/rewrite (512M) has > 50% > regre

Re: 2.6.24-rc1: First impressions

2007-10-29 Thread Martin Knoblauch
- Original Message > From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 9:33:40 PM > Subject: Re:

Re: 2.6.24-rc1: First impressions

2007-10-29 Thread Martin Knoblauch
- Original Message > From: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL > PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday,

2.6.24-rc1: First impressions

2007-10-26 Thread Martin Knoblauch
end Martin ------ Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www: http://www.knobisoft.de - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More maj

Re: [PATCH 0/5] sluggish writeback fixes

2007-10-03 Thread Martin Knoblauch
ists-7.patch > writeback-fix-periodic-superblock-dirty-inode-flushing.patch > > Regards, > Fengguang Hi Fenguang, now that Peters stuff seems to make it into mainline, do you think your fixes should go in as well? Would definitely help to broaden the tester base. Definitely by one ver

Re: per BDI dirty limit (was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24)

2007-10-03 Thread Martin Knoblauch
gt; Opinions? > Hi Peter, my only opinion is that it is great to see that stuff moving into mainline. If it really goes in, there will be one more very interested rc-tester :-) Cheers Martin -- Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de

Re: huge improvement with per-device dirty throttling

2007-09-06 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Martin Knoblauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Leroy van Logchem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 01:05:13PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > >> Ok perhaps the new adaptive dirty limits h

Re: huge improvement with per-device dirty throttling

2007-09-05 Thread Martin Knoblauch
pretty well describes the CCISS controller in the DL380g4. Could you elaborate why that is a problematic case? Cheers Martin -- Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www: http://www.knobisoft.de - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in th

Re: huge improvement with per-device dirty throttling

2007-09-04 Thread Martin Knoblauch
t helps in some situations, I did some tests today with 2.6.22.6+bdi-v9 (Peter was so kind) which seem to indicate that it hurts NFS writes. Anyone seen similar effects? Otherwise I would just second your request. It definitely helps the problematic performance of my CCISS based RAID5 volum

RFC: [PATCH] Small patch on top of per device dirty throttling -v9

2007-09-03 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 08:59 -0700, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > > --- Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 05:49 -0700, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > > > > > >

Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression

2007-09-03 Thread Martin Knoblauch
uffer and to syslog. If the sysadmin is not competent enough to notice, to bad. Cheers Martin -- Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www: http://www.knobisoft.de - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubsc

Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression

2007-08-31 Thread Martin Knoblauch
s to dmesh and syslog (apparently the NFS client is able to detect them :-). Do this regardless of the "nosharecache" option. This way admins will at least be made aware of the situation. - In a year or so we can talk about making the default safe. With proper advertising. Just my € 0.02. Cheers Martin -

Re: Understanding I/O behaviour - next try

2007-08-30 Thread Martin Knoblauch
depth since init: 197 Max # commands on controller since init: 198 Max SG entries since init: 31 Sequential access devices: 0 Cheers Martin -- Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www: http://www.knobisoft.de - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsu

Re: Understanding I/O behaviour - next try

2007-08-30 Thread Martin Knoblauch
out. At least with the "6i", you do not want to disable the WBC :-) Performance really goes down the toilet for all cases. Do you still have a pointer to that bulletin? Cheers Martin -- Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT

RE: regression of autofs for current git?

2007-08-30 Thread Martin Knoblauch
d be great if the new behaviour could be globally changed at run- (or boot-) time. It will be some time until the new mount option makes it into the distros. Cheers Martin PS: Sorry, but I likely killed the CC list ------ Martin Knoblauch email: k

Re: Understanding I/O behaviour - next try

2007-08-29 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 08/28/2007 11:53 AM, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > > > > The basic setup is a dual x86_64 box with 8 GB of memory. The > DL380 > > has a HW RAID5, made from 4x72GB disks and about 100 MB write > cache. > > T

Re: Understanding I/O behaviour - next try

2007-08-29 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28 2007, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > > Keywords: I/O, bdi-v9, cfs > > > > Try limiting the queue depth on the cciss device, some of those are > notoriously bad at starving commands. Something like the bel

Re: Understanding I/O behaviour - next try

2007-08-29 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Fengguang Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 01:15:45AM -0700, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > > > > --- Fengguang Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > You are apparently running into the sluggish kupdate-style > writeback &

Re: Understanding I/O behaviour - next try

2007-08-29 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Fengguang Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 08:53:07AM -0700, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > [...] > > The basic setup is a dual x86_64 box with 8 GB of memory. The > DL380 > > has a HW RAID5, made from 4x72GB disks and about 100 MB write > cac

Understanding I/O behaviour - next try

2007-08-28 Thread Martin Knoblauch
y case, view this as a report for one specific loadcase that does not behave very well. It seems there are ways to make things better (sync, per device throttling, ...), but nothing "perfect yet. Use once does seem to be a problem. Cheers Martin --

RE: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v9

2007-08-24 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 08:59 -0700, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > > --- Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 05:49 -0700, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > > > > > >

RE: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v9

2007-08-23 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 05:49 -0700, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > > > Peter, > > > > any chance to get a rollup against 2.6.22-stable? > > > > The 2.6.23 series may not be usable for me due to the > >

RE: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v9

2007-08-16 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 05:49 -0700, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > > > Peter, > > > > any chance to get a rollup against 2.6.22-stable? > > > > The 2.6.23 series may not be usable for me due to the > >

RE: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v9

2007-08-16 Thread Martin Knoblauch
for NFS (the new default will massively disturb the user-space automounter). Cheers Martin -- Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www: http://www.knobisoft.de - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the bod

Re: [PATCH 00/17] per device dirty throttling -v7

2007-07-18 Thread Martin Knoblauch
some testing of several problem cases. just curious - what are the plans towards inclusion in mainline? Cheers Martin -- Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www: http://www.knobisoft.de - To unsubscribe from this list: se

Re: Understanding I/O behaviour

2007-07-09 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 05/07/07, Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 05/07/07, Martin Knoblauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > > I'd suspect you can't get both at 100%. > &

Re: Understanding I/O behaviour

2007-07-06 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Daniel J Blueman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5 Jul, 16:50, Martin Knoblauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > for a customer we are operating a rackful of HP/DL380/G4 boxes > that > > have given us some problems with system responsive

Re: Understanding I/O behaviour

2007-07-06 Thread Martin Knoblauch
) have /proc/sys/vm/swappiness=2 >4) run Peter Zijlstra: per dirty device throttling patch on the > top of 2.6.21.5: >http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0706.1/2776.html Brice, any of them sufficient, or all together nedded? Just to avoid confusion. Cheers Martin -

Re: Understanding I/O behaviour

2007-07-06 Thread Martin Knoblauch
Martin Knoblauch wrote: >--- Robert Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> Try playing with reducing /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio and see how that >> helps. This workload will fill up memory with dirty data very >> quickly, >> and it seems like system

Re: Understanding I/O behaviour

2007-07-06 Thread Martin Knoblauch
of data from one NFS mounted FS to another NFS mounted FS. No disk involved there. Memory fills with page-cache until it reaches a ceeling and then for some time responsiveness is really really bad. I am just now playing with the dirty_* stuff. Maybe it helps. Cheers Martin -----

Re: Understanding I/O behaviour

2007-07-06 Thread Martin Knoblauch
e lower limit is? "0" seems acceptabel, but does it actually imply "write out immediatelly"? Another problem, the VM parameters are not really well dociúmented in their behaviour and interdependence. Cheers Martin -- Ma

Re: Understanding I/O behaviour

2007-07-06 Thread Martin Knoblauch
e (NOOP and DeadLine seem to be equally OK). CFQ gives less (about 10-15%) throughput except for the kernel with the cfs cpu scheduler, where CFQ is on par with the other IO schedulers. Thanks Martin -- Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobiso

Understanding I/O behaviour

2007-07-05 Thread Martin Knoblauch
a) any idea why disabling HT improves throughput, except for the cfs kernels? For plain 2.6.22 the difference is quite substantial b) any ideas how to optimize the settings of the /proc/sys/vm/ parameters? The documentation is a bit thin here. Thanks in advance Martin --

RE: Linux 2.6.22-rc7

2007-07-03 Thread Martin Knoblauch
d responsiveness under I/O related load. Cheers Martin ------ Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www: http://www.knobisoft.de - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: How to detect multi-core and/or HT-enabled CPUs in 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernels

2006-12-27 Thread Martin Knoblauch
r :-) Cheers Martin PS: I have likely killed the CC this time. Sorry. -- Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www: http://www.knobisoft.de - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAI

Re: How to detect multi-core and/or HT-enabled CPUs in 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernels

2006-12-27 Thread Martin Knoblauch
"HT as implemented on XEONs did not help a lot for HPC workloads in the past" Cheers Martin ------ Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www: http://www.knobisoft.de - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &quo

Re: How to detect multi-core and/or HT-enabled CPUs in 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernels

2006-12-27 Thread Martin Knoblauch
least in the past HT as implemented on XEONs did help a lot. Running two CPU+memory-bandwith intensive processes on the same physical CPU would at best result in a 50/50 performance split. So, knowing how many "real" CPUs are in a system is interesting to us. Other workloads (like lots of j

Re: How to detect multi-core and/or HT-enabled CPUs in 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernels

2006-12-27 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 06:16 -0800, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > > Hi, (please CC on replies, thanks) > > > > for the ganglia project (http://ganglia.sourceforge.net/) we are > > trying to find a heuristics to det

How to detect multi-core and/or HT-enabled CPUs in 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernels

2006-12-27 Thread Martin Knoblauch
d work for 2.4 based systems. Does anybody recall when the "physical id", "core id" and "cpu cores" were added to /proc/cpuinfo ? Cheers Martin -- Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www: http://www

Re: Binary Drivers

2006-12-26 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Trent Waddington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/26/06, Martin Knoblauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Oh, if only for Christmas - stop this stupid car comparisons. They > are > > just that - utter nonsense. > > > > And now lets sto

Re: Binary Drivers

2006-12-26 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- James C Georgas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2006-26-12 at 03:20 -0800, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > > On 12/25/06, David Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > If I bought the car from the manufacturer, it also must > > > include

Re: Binary Drivers

2006-12-26 Thread Martin Knoblauch
s? What an utter nonsense (sorry). So, lets stop the stupid car comparisons. They are no being funny any more. Martin ------ Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www: http://www.knobisoft.de - To unsubscribe from this list: send

RE: Binary Drivers

2006-12-26 Thread Martin Knoblauch
s over something, then you are not selling it >in the normal sense. You are selling a subset of the rights to it, >and the buy must be told what rights he is getting and what rights >he is not getting. They are not keeping any right from you. They are just not being helpful. And now lets stop the car nonsense :-) Martin ---

Re: [2.6.19] NFS: server error: fileid changed

2006-12-15 Thread Martin Knoblauch
curious: how is the fsid related to mounted filesystems? What does "0:25" stand for? Cheers Martin -- Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www: http://www.knobisoft.de - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &quo

Re: [2.6.19] NFS: server error: fileid changed

2006-12-11 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 15:44 -0800, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > > So far, we are only seeing it on amd-mounted filesystems, not on > > static NFS mounts. Unfortunatelly, it is difficult to avoid "amd" > in > &

Re: [2.6.19] NFS: server error: fileid changed

2006-12-11 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 08:09 -0800, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > > Hi, [please CC me, as I am not subscribed] > > > > after updating a RHEL4 box (EM64T based) to a plain 2.6.19 kernel, > we > > are seeing

[2.6.19] NFS: server error: fileid changed

2006-12-11 Thread Martin Knoblauch
340.324520] fsid 0:25: expected fileid 0x15f5d7c, got 0x11c9001 Thanks Martin ------ Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www: http://www.knobisoft.de - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel&qu

File-locking problems with RHEL4 kernel (2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp) under high load

2006-11-27 Thread Martin Knoblauch
ated. Cheers Martin ---------- Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www: http://www.knobisoft.de - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at ht

Re: [Hdaps-devel] RE: Head parking (was: IBM HDAPS things are looking up)

2005-07-07 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Erik Mouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 11:45:38AM -0700, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > > If IBM would provide a CD image (bootable ISO) containing FW for > all > > supported drives - that would be great. No need for the "other OS" >

Re: [Hdaps-devel] RE: Head parking (was: IBM HDAPS things are looking up)

2005-07-07 Thread Martin Knoblauch
ms version 7.1 of the upgrade floppy has the "BA" firmware that I had on my disk in the beginning (not parking the heads). Cheers Martin ------ Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www: http://www.knobisoft.de - To unsubscrib

Re: [Hdaps-devel] RE: Head parking (was: IBM HDAPS things are looking up)

2005-07-07 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Dave Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 10:14 -0700, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > > Basically I saw that the only difference between me and Pekka was > the > > FW (discounting the different CPU speed and Kernel version). I > googled > > ar

RE: Head parking (was: IBM HDAPS things are looking up)

2005-07-07 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Alejandro Bonilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On 7/7/05, Martin Knoblauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Interesting. Same Notebook, same drive. The program say "not

Re: Head parking (was: IBM HDAPS things are looking up)

2005-07-07 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/7/05, Martin Knoblauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Interesting. Same Notebook, same drive. The program say "not > parked" > > :-( This is on FC2 with a pretty much vanilla 2.6.9 kernel. > >

Re: Head parking (was: IBM HDAPS things are looking up)

2005-07-07 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Martin, don't trim the cc! > sorry about that, but I did not have the CC at time of reply. I read LKLM from the archives and respond by cut and paste. Martin ---------- Martin

Head parking (was: IBM HDAPS things are looking up)

2005-07-07 Thread Martin Knoblauch
6 T13 1410D revision 3a: * signifies the current active mode [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]# ./park /dev/hda head not parked 4c [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]# Cheers Martin -- Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www: http://www.knob

VM behaviour under 2.4.5-ac21

2001-06-29 Thread Martin Knoblauch
till using swap, but the effects on interactivity are much lighter. So, if this is a preview of 2.4.6 bahaviour, there may be a light at the end of the tunnel. Have a good weekend Martin -- ------ Martin Knoblauch |emai

Re: Announcing Journaled File System (JFS) release 1.0.0 available

2001-06-29 Thread Martin Knoblauch
; scale beyond practical limit Is this scaling only for size, or also for performance (many disks on many controllers) like XFS (at least on SGI iron)? Thanks Martin -- ------ Martin Knoblauch |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Te

Re: Cosmetic JFFS patch.

2001-06-29 Thread Martin Knoblauch
>Olaf Hering wrote: >> kde.o. 2.5? > >Good idea! Graphics needs to be in the kernel to be fast. Windows >proved that. thought SGI proved that :-) Martin -- ------ Martin Knoblauch |email: [EMAIL P

Re: VM Requirement Document - v0.0

2001-06-28 Thread Martin Knoblauch
Helge Hafting wrote: > > Martin Knoblauch wrote: > > > > > maybe more specific: If the hit-rate is low and the cache is already > > 70+% of the systems memory, the chances maybe slim that more cache is > > going to improve the hit-rate. > > >

Re: VM Requirement Document - v0.0

2001-06-27 Thread Martin Knoblauch
Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > > > I do not care much whether the cache is using 99% of the systems memory > > or 50%. As long as there is free memory, using it for cache is great. I > > care a lot if the cache takes down inter

ReiserFS patches vs. 2.4.5-ac series

2001-06-27 Thread Martin Knoblauch
ls against ac18 and ac19 (earlier ones also I would guess). Are some of the knfsd/quota fixes already in -ac? Thanks Martin -- ------ Martin Knoblauch |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TeraPort GmbH|Phone: +49-89-510857

Re: VM Requirement Document - v0.0

2001-06-27 Thread Martin Knoblauch
lize/analyze the efficiency of the VM system. Martin -- ------ Martin Knoblauch |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TeraPort GmbH|Phone: +49-89-510857-309 C+ITS|Fax:+49-89-510857-111 http:

Re: [Patch] Output of L1,L2 and L3 cache sizes to /proc/cpuinfo

2001-05-22 Thread Martin Knoblauch
"H. Peter Anvin" wrote: > > "Martin.Knoblauch" wrote: > > > > After some checking, I could have made the answer a bit less terse: > > > > - it would require that the kernel is compiled with cpuid [module] > > support > > - not everybody may want enable this, just for getting one or two > >

Re: [Patch] Output of L1,L2 and L3 cache sizes to /proc/cpuinfo

2001-05-22 Thread Martin Knoblauch
Tomas Telensky wrote: > > On 21 May 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > By author:"Martin.Knoblauch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > while trying to enhance a small hardware inventory script, I found that