On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 07:24:15PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Sean Kelly wrote:
On my 5.0-CURRENT kernel built 45 minutes ago, I can bring my system to its
knees by doing
# cat /dev/io
While I understand that this isn't exactly something one would normally be
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 11:35:01PM -0800, Nate Lawson wrote:
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Sean Kelly wrote:
On my 5.0-CURRENT kernel built 45 minutes ago, I can bring my system to its
knees by doing
# cat /dev/io
While I understand that this isn't exactly something one would normally be
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Sean Kelly wrote:
On my 5.0-CURRENT kernel built 45 minutes ago, I can bring my system to its
knees by doing
# cat /dev/io
While I understand that this isn't exactly something one would normally be
doing, is it really something that should bring the system down?
No.
Sean Kelly wrote:
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 11:35:01PM -0800, Nate Lawson wrote:
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Sean Kelly wrote:
On my 5.0-CURRENT kernel built 45 minutes ago, I can bring my system
to its
knees by doing
# cat /dev/io
While I understand that this isn't exactly something one would
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Scott Long wrote:
Many peripheral hardware device do not like having their registers
blindly read (it's quite common for a read operation on a register to
signal an ASIC that it's ok to do a certain action) and will respond
with nasty things like interrupt storms, endless
On my 5.0-CURRENT kernel built 45 minutes ago, I can bring my system to its
knees by doing
# cat /dev/io
While I understand that this isn't exactly something one would normally be
doing, is it really something that should bring the system down?
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Sean Kelly | PGP KeyID: D2E5E296
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Sean Kelly wrote:
On my 5.0-CURRENT kernel built 45 minutes ago, I can bring my system to its
knees by doing
# cat /dev/io
While I understand that this isn't exactly something one would normally be
doing, is it really something that should bring the system down?
