Why the niceness is not always taken into account ?

2013-04-16 Thread Alexandre Laurent
Hello, I have some questions about nice and programs scheduling. My machines have an 8 cores CPU. I am using an CPU intensive test, using OpenMP and running on the 8 cores for the experiments. When I am running my test it is taking around 12s. If I am starting at the same time two instances of

Re: Why the niceness is not always taken into account ?

2013-04-16 Thread Kristof Provost
On 2013-04-16 10:35:05 (+0200), Alexandre Laurent alexandre.laur...@uvsq.fr wrote: My problem is that in some cases it is not working at all. It works fine if I am running both programs in the same instance of the terminal, or from a script (so, same instance of interpreter). But this is not

SNORT/SURICATA LEARNing

2013-04-16 Thread Robert Clove
Dear All, I want to learn the snort and suricata whats the best way to learn it. I have read the architecture. Now i want to go into the code Whats the best way plz tell Thanks ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org

Re: SNORT/SURICATA LEARNing

2013-04-16 Thread Greg Freemyer
Robert Clove cloverob...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, I want to learn the snort and suricata whats the best way to learn it. I have read the architecture. Now i want to go into the code Whats the best way plz tell Thanks The first thing i would do is find a relevant mailing list. This isn't

Re: SNORT/SURICATA LEARNing

2013-04-16 Thread Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Robert Clove cloverob...@gmail.comwrote: Dear All, I want to learn the snort and suricata whats the best way to learn it. See there are ample tutorials out there if you want to configure snort for particular box. If you want to get into learning about how to

YAFFS2 not part of Linux Kernel

2013-04-16 Thread Pietro Paolini
Hello all, reading docs and browsing internet I read that YAFFS2 is not merged in the Linux Kernel and that we should add it as a patch, the date is not write on that documents and I just tried to search YAFFS2 on the latest linux kernel source without relevant results. Then after a look on

Re: Why the niceness is not always taken into account ?

2013-04-16 Thread Alexandre Laurent
On the computer where I am testing, I have nothing related to cgroups. Here a 'ps aux' in case I am missing something. USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 0.0 0.0 10652 836 ? Ss avril09 0:03 init [2] root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S avril09 0:00 [kthreadd] root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0

Re: Why the niceness is not always taken into account ?

2013-04-16 Thread michi1
Hi! On 10:35 Tue 16 Apr , Alexandre Laurent wrote: ... I am running the same test, but connecting twice on the remote machine (one connection by test instance). I am using exactly the same commands than during the others experiments. But, by using two SSH instances, the niceness will

Re: YAFFS2 not part of Linux Kernel

2013-04-16 Thread Greg Freemyer
Pietro Paolini pulsarpie...@aol.com wrote: Hello all, reading docs and browsing internet I read that YAFFS2 is not merged in the Linux Kernel and that we should add it as a patch, the date is not write on that documents and I just tried to search YAFFS2 on the latest linux kernel source

Re: Why the niceness is not always taken into account ?

2013-04-16 Thread Kristof Provost
On 2013-04-16 17:38:50 (+0200), Alexandre Laurent alexandre.laur...@uvsq.fr wrote: On the computer where I am testing, I have nothing related to cgroups. Here a 'ps aux' in case I am missing something. cgroups wouldn't actually show up in the process list. Check mount to see if anyone mounts

Module needs to lookup its own symbols at runtime.

2013-04-16 Thread Neil Baylis
I have a kernel loadable module that needs to be able to lookup its own symbols at runtime. I.e., given a string that represents the name of the symbol, the module needs to find the address. Preferably, this should work for symbols that are not marked 'EXPORT_SYMBOL' as well as those that are. I

Re: Module needs to lookup its own symbols at runtime.

2013-04-16 Thread devendra.aaru
user space tool to look up symbol name is very easier than kernel module, just grep in /proc/kallsyms will be sufficient On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 11:26 PM, Neil Baylis neil.bay...@gmail.com wrote: I have a kernel loadable module that needs to be able to lookup its own symbols at runtime. I.e.,

Re: Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2013-04-16 Thread rush
Is it normal that somebody uses this kernelnewbies e-mail as its  private address?@Deepak, if you're reading this, please could you change settings in linkedin? 17.04.2013, 00:10, "Kumar Sukhani via LinkedIn" mem...@linkedin.com:    Deepak, Kumar Sukhani wants to connect with you on

So I want to get some kernel routine called....

2013-04-16 Thread Arlie Stephens
Hi Folks, It's that BSD engineer again, trying to do something in linux and unable to see the _linux_ way to do it ;-) I have some kernel routine I'd like to get called, with the decision to call it made in user space. Obviously I could do this by making it into a full blown system call, but

Re: YAFFS2 not part of Linux Kernel

2013-04-16 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
Hi! On Die, 2013-04-16 at 17:23 +0200, Pietro Paolini wrote: [...] On the website they said is under the GPL license and I don't understand, why is not merged in the Linux Kernel directly ? You should ask the yaffs2 people about that as they are the only ones who can actually answer it .

Re: So I want to get some kernel routine called....

2013-04-16 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:33:17 -0700, Arlie Stephens said: I have some kernel routine I'd like to get called, with the decision to call it made in user space. The proper answer here is *highly* dependent on exactly what this routine has to do once it's called. Can you explain the problem the

Build error in linux-3.8.7

2013-04-16 Thread Giridhara RP (grp)
Hi, I am new to linux kernel buidling. I have download 3.8.7 latest (stable) kernel from https://www.kernel.org/. I want build kernel for X86_64. 1. make x86_64_defconfig (this created .config file) 2. make Make failed with below error, please help me in resolving this. CC

Re: Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2013-04-16 Thread Leon Romanovsky
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 11:14 PM, rush deb...@irush.su wrote: Is it normal that somebody uses this kernelnewbies e-mail as its private address? I believe he answered YES for the linkedin proposal if it can send email to whole address book. @Deepak, if you're reading this, please could you