Re: Patch RFC: Promise SATA300 TX4 hardware bug workaround.

2007-11-19 Thread Søren Schmidt
Hi All! I'd like to get the final verdict of the attached patch and if it fixes the problem or not. Please test and report, its a bit urgent if it need to get into R7 :) -Søren ? promise-fix2 ? promise-fix3 Index: ata-chipset.c

Re: Patch RFC: Promise SATA300 TX4 hardware bug workaround.

2007-11-19 Thread Ulf Lilleengen
On man, nov 19, 2007 at 09:02:33 +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: Hi All! I'd like to get the final verdict of the attached patch and if it fixes the problem or not. Please test and report, its a bit urgent if it need to get into R7 :) Hi! I'm sorry I wasn't able to test this earlier, but

Re: How to get filename of an open file descriptor

2007-11-19 Thread Robert Watson
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007, Skip Ford wrote: 1) procstat_args() doesn't use a local variable and the buffer doesn't get cleared between calls: $ procstat -a 797 PID ARGS 797 audacious $ procstat -a 795 797 PID ARGS 795 xterm -xtsessionID 11c0a801030001185368263000768 797 audacious essionID

peak mbuf stat missing ... and needed ...

2007-11-19 Thread Juri Mianovich
I am sorry to repost, but I cannot get any answer on this from -net or -questions ... is there any answer to getting this stat ? (see below) - FreeBSD 4.x, netstat -m: 70/4336/26624 mbufs in use (current/peak/max) Never any doubt - if peak=max, I hit the limit. Super useful.

Re: Patch RFC: Promise SATA300 TX4 hardware bug workaround.

2007-11-19 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Le Monday 19 November 2007, Søren Schmidt a écrit : Hi All! I'd like to get the final verdict of the attached patch and if it fixes the problem or not. Please test and report, its a bit urgent if it need to get into R7 :) -Søren Hello SoS, From what I read, it seems that the last

Re: amrd disk performance drop after running under high load

2007-11-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
Alexey Popov wrote: Hi. Panagiotis Christias wrote: In the good case you are getting a much higher interrupt rate but with the data you provided I can't tell where from. You need to run vmstat -i at regular intervals (e.g. every 10 seconds for a minute) during the good and bad times, since it

Hooking a kernelmodule-function into a timer interrupt

2007-11-19 Thread Michiel Overtoom
I'm interfacing an analog-digital converter to the parallel port and I'm able to make it work from userland using the ppio driver. But now I want to move the conversion software into a loadable kernel module, and have the conversion routine called many times per second, for example 1000 times