Bug#496917: definitely present in Lenny

2009-06-25 Thread Philipp Hübner
Hi,

this bug is definitely present in up2date Lenny.

I have several machines running kvm, and they all have this problem.
Guests at high load get stuck and cause 100% cpu load on as many
cores/cpus in the host as have been assigned to the guest virtually.

Using a newer kernel like 2.6.29 in the guest didn't change anything.

I didn't try 2.6.29 on the host because for some reason kvm could not
assign more than 3,5 Gb RAM to a guest then, while this works with 2.6.26=
=2E

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Re: Raising minimum CPU requirement for i386 kernel

2009-05-25 Thread Philipp Hübner
Hi,

Bastian Blank schrieb:
 This means that Debian will get uninstallable on the following CPUs:
 - Intel i486,
 - Intel Pentium (MMX),
 - AMD K5,
 - AMD K6(-2, -3),

Many schools are using LTSP on Debian (Edu) and have this hardware as
their thinclients.

Would be a shame if all those schools using free software cannot use the
next release (and following) because their hardware is no longer supported.
And I'm talking of really large numbers here worldwide.

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Re: automatic loading of kernel modules

2008-10-07 Thread Philipp Hübner
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Hello,

dann frazier schrieb:
 On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 07:06:21PM +0200, Philipp H?bner wrote:
 The kernel's bnx2 module is under
 /lib/modules/2.6.18-6-xen-amd64/kernel/drivers/net.

 If I place the new module (same name: bnx2) e.g. under
 /lib/modules/2.6.18-6-xen-amd64/kernel/drivers/misc,
 how do I tell the kernel to load this module instead of the old one?
 
 I believe you can place override modules under:
   /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/updates
 and they will be preferred. You can also create custom search paths -
 see depmod.conf(5) for details.

That's what I was looking for. I used a custom path and it's working
perfect!

Thank you very much!

Best wishes,
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automatic loading of kernel modules

2008-10-06 Thread Philipp Hübner
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Hello,

I've got a question concerning automatic loading of kernel modules.

This is my scenario:
I'm using kernel 2.6.18 for xen, which ships the module bnx2 for the
broadcom network card.
Unfortunately this driver has a bug and doesn't work in bridging mode.

I have compiled the new driver from broadcom, now here's my question:

How do I make sure this new module gets loaded instead of the old one?
So far I've overwritten the kernel module with my own one, but that is
not a nice solution.

The kernel's bnx2 module is under
/lib/modules/2.6.18-6-xen-amd64/kernel/drivers/net.

If I place the new module (same name: bnx2) e.g. under
/lib/modules/2.6.18-6-xen-amd64/kernel/drivers/misc,
how do I tell the kernel to load this module instead of the old one?

Kind regards,
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