[gentoo-user] NPTL, PIC and SMP?

2004-02-05 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Has anybody tried building their Gentoo (~x86) system using NPTL, PIC and SMP? I have a hyperthreaded P4 3.06 system and I run it using an SMP (2.6.1) kernel. I rebuilt my system using NPTL and PIC and at first things would go very quickly. However, every time I have tried this, at some

Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL, PIC and SMP?

2004-02-05 Thread Glenn Johnson
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 08:25:34AM -0600, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: Has anybody tried building their Gentoo (~x86) system using NPTL, PIC and SMP? Yes. I have a hyperthreaded P4 3.06 system and I run it using an SMP (2.6.1) kernel. I also have an HT P4. I rebuilt my system using NPTL

RE: [gentoo-user] NPTL help

2004-02-03 Thread Wayne Oliver
- -Original Message- - From: Norberto Bensa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sent: 02 February 2004 22:54 - - Andrew Farmer wrote: - Well, if it's so secret, why are you sending it to a - public mailing list? - It looks sort of silly, you know, to have a disclaimer - longer than the -

[gentoo-user] NPTL help

2004-02-02 Thread Wayne Oliver
Hi All I have been running the 2.6.x kernels for sometime now. I decided to give nptl a try. The machine is a P3 933 with 256Mb RAM running mm-sources(2.6.1) I emerged linux-headers... and then emerge glibc but I get an Error stating from memory You have the nptl use flag set but your kernel or

RE: [gentoo-user] NPTL help

2004-02-02 Thread Wayne Oliver
- -Original Message- - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sent: 02 February 2004 20:14 - snip disclaimer / WTF can do about company policy ??? It's not like I add the disclaimer to everyone of my mails. anyways thanks for the help. Wayne -- This message may

Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL help

2004-02-02 Thread Frank J. Mattia
are you using ~x86. also, what version of glibc did you compile? Wayne Oliver wrote: Hi All I have been running the 2.6.x kernels for sometime now. I decided to give nptl a try. The machine is a P3 933 with 256Mb RAM running mm-sources(2.6.1) I emerged linux-headers... and then emerge glibc

Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL help

2004-02-02 Thread Ken Wolcott
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Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL -- disable for binary applications?

2004-01-04 Thread jkw
On Dec 30, 2003, at 7:17 AM, Craig Cavanaugh wrote: I use a couple of precompiled applications that refuse to function with NPTL compiled into glibc.  Are there any tricks / environment settings to work around the problem while still having NPTL compiled in?  Most of the applications are

Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL -- disable for binary applications?

2004-01-04 Thread Craig Cavanaugh
On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 03:16, jkw wrote: On Dec 30, 2003, at 7:17 AM, Craig Cavanaugh wrote: I use a couple of precompiled applications that refuse to function with NPTL compiled into glibc. Are there any tricks / environment settings to work around the problem while still having NPTL

[gentoo-user] NPTL -- disable for binary applications?

2003-12-30 Thread Craig Cavanaugh
I use a couple of precompiled applications that refuse to function with NPTL compiled into glibc. Are there any tricks / environment settings to work around the problem while still having NPTL compiled in? Most of the applications are closed source engineering applications and it looks like it

Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL -- how to start using it?

2003-12-18 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 07:13:53AM -0500, Jerry McBride wrote: On Sunday 14 December 2003 10:07 pm, N. Owen Gunden wrote: As I understand it, here's what I need to do: - Install kernel 2.6.0-test11 - Set the nptl USE flag - emerge glibc (2.3.2 ok?) - emerge wine I read somewhere

Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL -- how to start using it?

2003-12-16 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 01:38:18AM -0500, N. Owen Gunden wrote: I followed this procedure, but it hasn't been working out. Problems I'm experiencing now include: - The nvidia kernel module doesn't work (freezes during initialization) - wine segfaults - mplayer segfaults Note that I did

Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL -- how to start using it?

2003-12-16 Thread Craig Cavanaugh
Owen, Out of curiosity, is GLX still operational with NPTL enabled. I completely rebuild my system from scratch without NPTL in order to get operational. The source of the problem may have been elsewhere, but I believe that there is a warning in the glibc ebuild saying that GLX will not

Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL -- how to start using it?

2003-12-16 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
N. Owen Gunden wrote: Well, I finally found the answer to my problems. I needed to re-emerge nvidia-glx (that's right--nvidia-glx, *not* nvidia-kernel!). mplayer works, wine works, xmms works. Though I'm not overly impressed with wine's performance. It's slower than it was on 2.4 without

Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL -- how to start using it?

2003-12-16 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 04:52:49AM -0500, Craig Cavanaugh wrote: Out of curiosity, is GLX still operational with NPTL enabled. I completely rebuild my system from scratch without NPTL in order to get operational. The source of the problem may have been elsewhere, but I believe that there is

Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL -- how to start using it?

2003-12-15 Thread Tom Wesley
On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 03:30, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Monday 15 December 2003 12:07, N. Owen Gunden wrote: I'd like to start using NPTL for at least wine, with hopes of seeing performance enhancement. As I understand it, here's what I need to do: - Install kernel 2.6.0-test11 - Set

Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL -- how to start using it?

2003-12-15 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 07:52:56AM +, Tom Wesley wrote: This method worked for me perfectly over the weekend, although I re-emerged everything as I changed my cflags too... Are you using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86? Can you tell me your exact versions of glibc, gcc, and kernel? Thanks, Owen --

Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL -- how to start using it?

2003-12-15 Thread Tom Wesley
On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 08:11, N. Owen Gunden wrote: On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 07:52:56AM +, Tom Wesley wrote: This method worked for me perfectly over the weekend, although I re-emerged everything as I changed my cflags too... Are you using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86? Can you tell me your

Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL -- how to start using it?

2003-12-15 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 08:30:18AM +, Tom Wesley wrote: * sys-libs/glibc Latest version available: 2.3.3_pre20031212 Latest version installed: 2.3.2-r9 * sys-devel/gcc Latest version available: 3.3.2-r4 Latest version installed: 3.3.2-r3 *

Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL -- how to start using it?

2003-12-15 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 14 December 2003 10:07 pm, N. Owen Gunden wrote: I'd like to start using NPTL for at least wine, with hopes of seeing performance enhancement. As I understand it, here's what I need to do: - Install kernel 2.6.0-test11 - Set the nptl USE flag - emerge glibc (2.3.2 ok?) - emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL -- how to start using it?

2003-12-15 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
N. Owen Gunden wrote: I followed this procedure, but it hasn't been working out. Problems I'm experiencing now include: - The nvidia kernel module doesn't work (freezes during initialization) - wine segfaults - mplayer segfaults Note that I did these things carefully with testing

[gentoo-user] NPTL -- how to start using it?

2003-12-14 Thread N. Owen Gunden
I'd like to start using NPTL for at least wine, with hopes of seeing performance enhancement. As I understand it, here's what I need to do: - Install kernel 2.6.0-test11 - Set the nptl USE flag - emerge glibc (2.3.2 ok?) - emerge wine I read somewhere that I should use GCC 3.3 (I'm using

Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL -- how to start using it?

2003-12-14 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Monday 15 December 2003 12:07, N. Owen Gunden wrote: I'd like to start using NPTL for at least wine, with hopes of seeing performance enhancement. As I understand it, here's what I need to do: - Install kernel 2.6.0-test11 - Set the nptl USE flag - emerge glibc (2.3.2 ok?) - emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL -- how to start using it?

2003-12-14 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 10:07:15PM -0500, N. Owen Gunden wrote: As I understand it, here's what I need to do: - Install kernel 2.6.0-test11 - Set the nptl USE flag - emerge glibc (2.3.2 ok?) - emerge wine I followed this procedure, but it hasn't been working out. Problems I'm experiencing

Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL -- how to start using it?

2003-12-14 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Monday 15 December 2003 15:38, N. Owen Gunden wrote: On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 10:07:15PM -0500, N. Owen Gunden wrote: As I understand it, here's what I need to do: - Install kernel 2.6.0-test11 - Set the nptl USE flag - emerge glibc (2.3.2 ok?) - emerge wine I followed this

RE: [gentoo-user] NPTL documentation

2003-12-01 Thread Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower)
it yet. -Nathan -Original Message- From: Scharf Yuval [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 3:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] NPTL documentation Hello, After installing NPTL, i.e. emerging glibc with USE=nptl I don't have the man pages

RE: [gentoo-user] NPTL documentation

2003-12-01 Thread Scharf Yuval
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 3:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] NPTL documentation Hello, After installing NPTL, i.e. emerging glibc with USE=nptl I don't have the man pages of the pthread_* calls. So I'm looking for documentation of NPTL. I've

[gentoo-user] NPTL documentation

2003-11-24 Thread Scharf Yuval
Hello, After installing NPTL, i.e. emerging glibc with USE=nptl I don't have the man pages of the pthread_* calls. So I'm looking for documentation of NPTL. I've searched the Internet but didn't find. Can some one tell me where I'll find the data I'm looking for? Thanks, Yuval Scharf --

[gentoo-user] NPTL first blush

2003-10-28 Thread Jerry McBride
I've just upgraded my first laptop with a newer glibc sporting both the nptl and pic USE switches. Thought I'd share what I've learned so far... If you haven't noticed, this is Gentoo and so far things feel marginally better as far as performance goes. Everything runs as before, perhaps just

Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL first blush

2003-10-28 Thread Javier Villavicencio
Jerry McBride wrote: I've just upgraded my first laptop with a newer glibc sporting both the nptl and pic USE switches. Thought I'd share what I've learned so far... If you haven't noticed, this is Gentoo and so far things feel marginally better as far as performance goes. Everything runs as

Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL first blush

2003-10-28 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 28 October 2003 08:02 am, Javier Villavicencio wrote: ---snip--- About mysql, this is because the way the configure script looks for threads, it checks for the word Linuxthreads inside pthread.h (wtf!) so, if you add this to the .h you'll get mysql to compile -and work- fine with

Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL

2003-10-15 Thread Peter Lord
Jason Stubbs wrote, On 10/15/2003 04:09 AM There are several glibc versions that are hard-masked but the latest straight ~x86 version contains working nptl. I believe the hard-masked contains later versions of nptl that have been shown to have serious bugs. The latest ~x86 version of glibc

[gentoo-user] NPTL

2003-10-14 Thread Peter Lord
Hi All, I would like to try out the NPTL thread package with Gentoo, but I have some questions :- 1. Anyone know of a NPTL FAQ ? 2. From the forums, it looks like I need 2.5 or 2.6 kernel. Is this right ? I thought redhat 9 was using 2.4 with NPTL 3. I also use a couple of other

Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL

2003-10-14 Thread Spider
begin quote On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 09:46:00 +0100 Peter Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I would like to try out the NPTL thread package with Gentoo, but I have some questions :- 1. Anyone know of a NPTL FAQ ? I think google has a few... 2. From the forums, it looks like I

Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL

2003-10-14 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 02:34, Spider wrote: begin quote On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 09:46:00 +0100 Peter Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I would like to try out the NPTL thread package with Gentoo, but I have some questions :- 2. From the forums, it looks like I need 2.5

[gentoo-user] NPTL

2003-07-04 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
I installed a minimal GENTOO system (no X, etc.) with USE=nptl -X -gtk -gnome -alsa ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 starting from stage1 and installed the Linux 2.5.74-mm1 kernel. So far, so good. A phenomenon I experience quite often is that the IO-Wait value in top goes up to 99% and