Lockups w/ VIA KT133A board

2001-06-12 Thread Gerard Daubar
Hello, (Please CC [EMAIL PROTECTED] as I'm not on the list) I'm getting lockups when I try to use my cd burner (SCSI burner). Using an Asus A7V133 motherboard that uses the VIA KT133A chipset (using an Athlon 1.2ghz). I've scanned the archives and see issues with people using the udma/100 ide

Re: double entries in /proc/dri?

2001-06-12 Thread Patrik Wallstrom
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Larry McVoy wrote: > This is cute: > > $ ls -li /proc > ... >4106 -r--r--r--1 root root0 Jun 12 18:53 dma >4347 dr-xr-xr-x3 root root0 Jun 12 18:53 dri >4347 dr-xr-xr-x3 root root0 Jun 12 18:53 dri >

RE: [PATCH] 2.4.6-pre2 page_launder() improvements

2001-06-12 Thread Alok K. Dhir
Are these page_launder improvements included in 2.4.6-pre3? Linus mentions "VM tuning has also happened" in the announcement - but there doesn't seem to be mention of it in his list of changes from -pre2... Thanks > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: New PCI PM

2001-06-12 Thread Patrick Mochel
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > What is are the guarantees about the order of calls to > pci_driver::suspend and pci_driver::resume? > > Will a driver get calls like > suspend(D3) > suspend(D2) > suspend(D1) Not possible, according to the PCI PM Spec. These

Re: is there a way to export a fat32 file system using nfs?

2001-06-12 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday June 12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Neil Brown wrote: > > >Call fat_iget(i_location). > > If this finds something, check i_logstart. > > If it matches, assume SUCCESS. > > > >Then comes the tricky bit: read the directory entry > >

Re: is there a way to export a fat32 file system using nfs?

2001-06-12 Thread Alexander Viro
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Neil Brown wrote: >Call fat_iget(i_location). > If this finds something, check i_logstart. > If it matches, assume SUCCESS. > >Then comes the tricky bit: read the directory entry > indicated by i_location, check the i_logstart is right, > if it

Re: is there a way to export a fat32 file system using nfs?

2001-06-12 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday June 12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi. I seem to remember that at one time in the 2.2 series I was able > to to export fat32 file systems using nfs, but now it doesn't work > anymore. No, it doesn't. It did in early 2.2 due to some fairly ugly hacks which just had to go. They

New PCI PM

2001-06-12 Thread Jeff Garzik
What is are the guarantees about the order of calls to pci_driver::suspend and pci_driver::resume? Will a driver get calls like suspend(D3) suspend(D2) suspend(D1) or just one suspend call? What effect does the return value have on the rest of the system? On the order

Re: Hour long timeout to ssh/telnet/ftp to down host?

2001-06-12 Thread Rob Landley
>You can tune things by setting the tcp-timeout probably..I don't >know exactly where to set this.. Aha, found it. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syn_retries I am a victim of the exponential retry falloff, it would seem. syn_retries of 1 takes a few seconds, 3 takes less than half a minute, and 5

Re: Hour long timeout to ssh/telnet/ftp to down host?

2001-06-12 Thread Ben Greear
Rob Landley wrote: > > I have scripts that ssh into large numbers of boxes, which are sometimes > down. The timeout for figuring out the box is down is over an hour. This is > just insane. > > Telnet and ftp behave similarly, or at least tthey lasted the 5 minutes I was > willing to wait,

Re: double entries in /proc/dri?

2001-06-12 Thread Robert Love
On 12 Jun 2001 18:56:03 -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: > >4106 -r--r--r--1 root root0 Jun 12 18:53 dma >4347 dr-xr-xr-x3 root root0 Jun 12 18:53 dri >4347 dr-xr-xr-x3 root root0 Jun 12 18:53 dri >4121 dr-xr-xr-x2 root

RE: CLOSE_WAIT bug?

2001-06-12 Thread David Schwartz
> One server socket created and listening, blocking on select(), > once a client connect to that port, there is another thread in server > side issues a close() to the new connection. > After the client close the connection. The connection in server side will > stuck on CLOSE_WAIT forever until

Hour long timeout to ssh/telnet/ftp to down host?

2001-06-12 Thread Rob Landley
I have scripts that ssh into large numbers of boxes, which are sometimes down. The timeout for figuring out the box is down is over an hour. This is just insane. Telnet and ftp behave similarly, or at least tthey lasted the 5 minutes I was willing to wait, anyway. Basically anything that

double entries in /proc/dri?

2001-06-12 Thread Larry McVoy
This is cute: $ ls -li /proc ... 4106 -r--r--r--1 root root0 Jun 12 18:53 dma 4347 dr-xr-xr-x3 root root0 Jun 12 18:53 dri 4347 dr-xr-xr-x3 root root0 Jun 12 18:53 dri 4121 dr-xr-xr-x2 root root0 Jun 12

Re: 2.2.19: eepro100 and cmd_wait issues

2001-06-12 Thread Ben Greear
David Lang wrote: > > I am useing the D-link 4 port card without running into problems > (admittidly I have not been stressing it much yet) I was able to get the D-Link to work in half-duplex (100bt), but not in auto-negotiate or full-duplex mode. (Packets would pass, but there would be huge

No Subject

2001-06-12 Thread Colonel
From: Colonel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ISA Soundblaster problem Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Maintainers list does not contain anyone for 2.4 Soundblaster modules, so perhaps some one on the mailing list is aware of a solution. My ISA Soundblaster 16waveffects

is there a way to export a fat32 file system using nfs?

2001-06-12 Thread John Covici
Hi. I seem to remember that at one time in the 2.2 series I was able to to export fat32 file systems using nfs, but now it doesn't work anymore. If I remember correctly, I get "get: operation not permitted" when trying to export the directory in question. I am using 2.4.5. Any assistance

Linux-2.4.6-pre3

2001-06-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
User-noticeable things: if you are tired of not being able to NFS-export your reiserfs tree, this should make you happy. VM tuning has also happened, with Rik van Riel, Mike Galbraith, Marcelo Tosatti and Andrew Morton all doing various tweaks. Give it a whirl. Linus -

Re: 2.2.19: eepro100 and cmd_wait issues

2001-06-12 Thread David Lang
I am useing the D-link 4 port card without running into problems (admittidly I have not been stressing it much yet) David Lang On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Ben Greear wrote: > Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 17:51:08 -0700 > From: Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Ken Brownfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc:

[PATCH] General race condition with init thread may prematurely free start_kernel

2001-06-12 Thread Hans-Peter Nilsson
(Please CC replies to me, I'm not subscribed to lkml.) I think I've found a bug, local to linux/init/main.c, related to freeing init pages, which seems to be present in 2.4.5. Executive summary: After start_kernel has created the init thread, it needs to proceed to cpu_idle before init pages

Re: Minor "cleanup" patches for 2.4.5-ac kernels

2001-06-12 Thread Jeff Garzik
Michal Jaegermann wrote: > --- linux-2.4.5ac/drivers/pci/quirks.c~ Tue Jun 12 16:31:12 2001 > +++ linux-2.4.5ac/drivers/pci/quirks.c Tue Jun 12 17:13:18 2001 > @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ > #include > #include > #include > +#include > > #undef DEBUG > > There is no problem if SMP is not

Re: 2.2.19: eepro100 and cmd_wait issues

2001-06-12 Thread Ben Greear
Ken Brownfield wrote: > OT: does anyone know what the current state of the Tulip driver is and > if there is good hardware out there? SMC left Tulip and went through at > least two other chipsets, so the only Tulip card I could find as of a > couple of years ago was Digital's. But it was

IRQ problems w/VIA Apollo VP2/97 & NCR 53c875

2001-06-12 Thread Mike Frisch
Summary: IRQ conflict on VIA Apollo VP2/97-based motherboard between dual controllers on NCR 53c875 (Diamond Fireport 40). Kernel version is 2.4.5-ac9. --- cut here --- 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C595/97 [Apollo VP2/97] (rev 04) Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium

Minor "cleanup" patches for 2.4.5-ac kernels

2001-06-12 Thread Michal Jaegermann
Here are some small, but in times important, "gotchas" in current 2.4.5-ac kernels. When compiling SMP 'udelay' in current drivers/pci/quirks.c expands to: __udelay((15), cpu_data[(current->processor)]... and a type for 'current' is not known, at least on alpha, so the following seems to be

Re: Getting A Patch Into The Kernel

2001-06-12 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Craig Lyons wrote: > My name is Craig Lyons and I am the marketing manager at Promise > Technology. We have a question and are hoping you can point us in the > right direction. I think most, if not all, of the things you want to know are described in the following two

Re: [PATCH] symlink.c

2001-06-12 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Quoting John Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > this patch adds a check to make sure memory was allocated, returns an > error code otherwise. autofs4_dentry_ino doesn't allocate memory; it just extracts the fsdata pointer from the dentry structure. If it's returning NULL, then there's something else

Client receives TCP packets but does not ACK

2001-06-12 Thread Robert Kleemann
I have a client server program that opens a tcp connection between two machines. Everything is fine until a certain type of data is sent across the socket at which point the client refuses to ACK and the server continues to resend the packets to no avail. I've verified that the client is

[PATCH] symlink.c

2001-06-12 Thread John Martin
this patch adds a check to make sure memory was allocated, returns an error code otherwise. -john --- fs/autofs4/symlink.c.orig Fri Apr 21 14:41:36 2000 +++ fs/autofs4/symlink.cSun Jun 3 00:43:18 2001 @@ -15,13 +15,15 @@ static int autofs4_readlink(struct dentry *dentry, char

Re: 2.4.5 gcc3 build patch

2001-06-12 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 04:27:33PM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote: > We fixed a bug in cv-qualification checking. > > timer.c:35: conflicting types for `xtime' > include/linux/sched.h:540: previous declaration of `xtime' > > There's no need for the volatile qualification here. One, being a >

[PATCH] nfsfh.c

2001-06-12 Thread John Martin
this seems to be an appropriate place to check this pointer and return an error code if necessary. -john --- linux/fs/nfsd/nfsfh.c.orig Fri Feb 9 11:29:44 2001 +++ linux/fs/nfsd/nfsfh.c Sun Jun 3 01:23:13 2001 @@ -135,6 +135,9 @@ struct list_head *lp; struct dentry

Re: Getting A Patch Into The Kernel

2001-06-12 Thread Rob Landley
On Tuesday 12 June 2001 18:34, Craig Lyons wrote: > We have a patch that fixes this and are wondering if it > is possible to get this patch into the kernel, and if so, how this would be > done? Well, you start by reading this: http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.4/doc/SubmittingPatches.html

2.4.6pre2aa2 [was Re: 2.4.5aa1]

2001-06-12 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
Diff between 2.4.6pre2aa1 and 2.4.6pre2aa2: - Only in 2.4.6pre2aa2/: 00_gcc-30-volatile-xtime-1 Fixes a kernel bug noticed by gcc-3_0-branch from cvs of today. Only in 2.4.6pre2aa2/: 00_sched-rt-fix-1

Re: threading question

2001-06-12 Thread Mike Castle
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 03:25:54PM -0400, Russell Leighton wrote: > Any recommendations for alternate threading packages? Does NSPR use native methods (ie, clone), or just ride on top of pthreads? What about the gnu threading package? mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2.4.5 gcc3 build patch

2001-06-12 Thread Richard Henderson
We fixed a bug in cv-qualification checking. timer.c:35: conflicting types for `xtime' include/linux/sched.h:540: previous declaration of `xtime' There's no need for the volatile qualification here. One, being a struct it doesn't do any good, and two it's protected by xtime_lock. r~ ---

sound driver locking patches

2001-06-12 Thread Frank Davis
Hello all, I have attached sound driver locking patches for: drivers/sound/cs4281/cs4281m.c drivers/sound/i810_audio.c The patches are against 2.4.5-ac13, and address the sound driver locking issue mentioned in the -ac series. Please review. Thanks. Regards, Frank ---

Re: Getting A Patch Into The Kernel

2001-06-12 Thread Robert Love
Hi, this is the correct forum. You can submit the patch here. Merely paste the patch output inline into your email, and make your subject "[PATCH] 2.4.5 FastTrak RAID Whatever Fix" and explain in the email. Note your code must become GPL licensed. I would suggest making the patch against the

[PATCH] Re: Via-rhine in 2.4.5 still requires cold-boot

2001-06-12 Thread Jeff Garzik
Bjorn Wesen wrote: > Just for the record, the via-rhine.c in 2.4.5 still does not work if you > soft-boot the computer (at least one a machine here), MAC address shows up > as 00:00:00:00:00:00 and it fails - but a cold boot (power cable off, no > standby power) makes it work. This patch in

Getting A Patch Into The Kernel

2001-06-12 Thread Craig Lyons
Hello, My name is Craig Lyons and I am the marketing manager at Promise Technology. We have a question and are hoping you can point us in the right direction. In the 2.4 kernel there is support for some of our products (Ultra 66, Ultra 100, etc.). As you may or may not know, our Ultra family of

Via-rhine in 2.4.5 still requires cold-boot

2001-06-12 Thread Bjorn Wesen
Just for the record, the via-rhine.c in 2.4.5 still does not work if you soft-boot the computer (at least one a machine here), MAC address shows up as 00:00:00:00:00:00 and it fails - but a cold boot (power cable off, no standby power) makes it work. I read something that we'd need to reload the

Re: [PATCH] Inode quota allocation loophole (2.2) (fwd)

2001-06-12 Thread Jan Kara
Hello, > Alan pointed out that you're still the maintainer for the 2.2 quota > code, so I'm forwarding this patch to you as well as the earlier 2.4 > patch. The patch seems fine (although I can't quite understand those double - in it :)).

Re: [PATCH] Inode quota allocation loophole (2.4)

2001-06-12 Thread Jan Kara
Hello, > Currently, dquot_initialize() is a no-op if the inode being initialized > isn't a regular file, directory or symlink. This means that calling > DQUOT_ALLOC_INODE() on a named pipe or AF_UNIX socket has no effect (the > same applies to devices, but this is less likely to be a problem

Re: [PATCH 2.4.5-ac12] New Sony Vaio Motion Eye camera driver

2001-06-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Alex Deucher wrote: > > As far as I know they have not been integrated into the Xfree tree. I > believe there were some disagreements about extending the Xv API since > GATOS added some extentions to support the AIW video capture cards. I > suppose someone could try and

Re: [PATCH 2.4.5-ac12] New Sony Vaio Motion Eye camera driver

2001-06-12 Thread egger
On 12 Jun, Alex Deucher wrote: > Also there is some work on a new XvMC interface that would allow for > extended DVD acceleration. Extended DVD acceleration with Motion-Compensation? How? Servus, Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

Functionality of mmap, nopage and remap_page_range

2001-06-12 Thread Steffen Persvold
Hi kernel list readers, I have a question about the functionality of mmap(), vma->vm_ops functions and different vma->vm_flags. Is there any documentation that describes these methods and how they should work (i.e when should mmap() use remap_page_range and when is the vma->vm_ops->no_page

PROBLEM: Reiserfs + 3Ware issue with 2.4.5

2001-06-12 Thread James A. Pattie
1. Reiserfs + 3Ware issue with 2.4.5 2. I'm building a rescue cd based on Timo's Rescue CD v. 0.5.4. I've compiled the 2.4.5 kernel to be a 386, all scsi controllers I might encounter compiled in, software raid, reisersfs compiled in. The only modules are scsi tapes, network cards, nfs and

Re: XFS and Alan kernel tree

2001-06-12 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 11:08:16PM +0200, Daniel Podlejski wrote: > I merge XFS witch Alan tree (2.4.4-ac5). It's seems to be stable. > Patch against Alan tree is avaliable at: Hi Daniel, I've got a KDB patch against a relatively recent 2.4.5-ac6, but are you still continuing your porting effort

Re: es1371 and recent kernels

2001-06-12 Thread Wakko Warner
> > > > My ES1370 has done me good. You might want to try that card. Yes it's a > > > > creative card. It only has a crackle running 22k 8-bit > > > Argh, I had one of those, gave it away because it would hang my alpha > > hard (I'm told the card is pretty nonconformant to the PCI spec). > >

Re: es1371 and recent kernels

2001-06-12 Thread Jeff Garzik
Bob McElrath wrote: > > Wakko Warner wrote: > > > My ES1370 has done me good. You might want to try that card. Yes it's a > > > creative card. It only has a crackle running 22k 8-bit > Argh, I had one of those, gave it away because it would hang my alpha > hard (I'm told the card is pretty

Re: es1371 and recent kernels

2001-06-12 Thread Bob McElrath
Jeff Golds [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > Wakko Warner wrote: > > > > My ES1370 has done me good. You might want to try that card. Yes it's a > > creative card. It only has a crackle running 22k 8-bit > > > > It's probably better because that is the AudioPCI chip from Ensoniq > before

Re: 2.4.6-pre2 VM

2001-06-12 Thread Erik Tews
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 01:17:05AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Alok K. Dhir wrote: > > > Just wondering - has anyone who was having issues with the VM > > subsystem in 2.4.5 and a few versions below tried v2.4.6-pre2? > > Is the problem reduced and/or resolved? > > The

Re: [PATCH 2.4.5-ac12] New Sony Vaio Motion Eye camera driver

2001-06-12 Thread Alex Deucher
As far as I know they have not been integrated into the Xfree tree. I believe there were some disagreements about extending the Xv API since GATOS added some extentions to support the AIW video capture cards. I suppose someone could try and submit a patch again and see if they'll take it.

Re: Clock drift on Transmeta Crusoe

2001-06-12 Thread Michèl Alexandre Salim
--- Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let me guess: vesafb? I am running vesafb, yes... > If problem goes away when you stop using framebuffer > (i.e. go X), then > it is known. but the problem happens in X as well :) > You are lucky. My machine is able to loose 2 minutes > from every

Re: Clock drift on Transmeta Crusoe

2001-06-12 Thread Michèl Alexandre Salim
--- Jonathan Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> clock drift of a few minutes per day. > > That's about 0.1%. It may be relatively large > compared to tolerances of > hardware clocks, but it's realistically tiny. It > certainly compares > favourably with mkLinux on my PowerBook 5300, which

Menuconfig has encountered a possible error...

2001-06-12 Thread M . L .
Hello, if you want more informations, send me a mail or an icq msg. bye, Mat (ICQ# 23832402). === Menuconfig has encountered a possible error in one of the kernel's configuration files and is unable to continue. Here is the error report:

Make fat compile again

2001-06-12 Thread Russell King
The following makes fat/inode.c compile on ARM systems (and probably many others). fat/inode.c uses ffs(), which is defined in asm/bitops.h. ARM uses generic_ffs() which is in turn defined in linux/bitopts.h. (linux/bitops.h includes asm/bitops.h) diff -urN orig/fs/fat/inode.c

Re: es1371 and recent kernels

2001-06-12 Thread Jeff Golds
Wakko Warner wrote: > > My ES1370 has done me good. You might want to try that card. Yes it's a > creative card. It only has a crackle running 22k 8-bit > It's probably better because that is the AudioPCI chip from Ensoniq before Creative bought them. I thought that was a good chip, too.

severe FS corruption with 2.4.6-pre2 + IBM jfs 0.3.4 patch

2001-06-12 Thread David Mansfield
It's probably a JFS issue, but I thought I'd report this in case someone is collecting and correlating filesystem corruption messages (Alan?). Here is my sad story. I have an Athlon 700MHZ, 256mb ram, AIC7XXX w 2/U2W drives system. I've been running JFS on a small partition for a few weeks,

Re: es1371 and recent kernels

2001-06-12 Thread Wakko Warner
> > [please be kind and Cc when replying] > > > > Has someone been able to get es1371 to actually produce anything > > audible with latest kernels? The last version I could use was 2.4.0. > > Then I had some trouble but I attributed them to devfs. Now I've > > removed devfs and still I'm not

Re: rsync hangs on RedHat 2.4.2 or stock 2.4.4

2001-06-12 Thread Rasmus Andersen
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 11:23:02AM -0400, Disconnect wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, David S. Miller did have cause to say: > > > Look everyone, it was determined to be a deadlock because of some > > interaction between how rsync sets up it's communication channels > > with the ssh subprocess,

2.4.5 data corruption

2001-06-12 Thread Larry McVoy
Folks, I believe I have a reproducible test case which corrupts data in 2.4.5. We do nightly, weekly, and monthly backups by copying our entire /home partition on the company file server: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 1.9G 1.7G 123M 93% /

Re: PC keyboard rate/delay

2001-06-12 Thread Guest section DW
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 06:19:49PM +0400, Sergey Tursanov wrote: > In file include/linux/kd.h was declared KDKBDREP ioctl number > But in 2.4.x kernel there is only m68k version for that. > I wrote some code for implement this feature on x86 machines. Yes, it is unfortunate that many ioctls are

Re: from dmesg: kernel BUG at inode.c:486

2001-06-12 Thread Olivier Sessink
Hi all, this is try two, I just read the mailinglist FAQ and used ksymoops to translate the symbols. Today my girlfriend reported all programs that accessed my NFS mounted drive where crashing. Prevously to this, she did a lot of deleting and moving around of files on the NFS drive. I use

Re: threading question

2001-06-12 Thread Christoph Hellwig
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > For heavy threading, try a user-level threads package. Sure, userlevel threading is the best way to get SMP-scalability... -- Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: threading question

2001-06-12 Thread Russell Leighton
Any recommendations for alternate threading packages? Alexander Viro wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Kip Macy wrote: > > > implementation of threads is not an accidental oversight, threads are not > > looked upon favorably by most of the core linux kernel hackers. A quote > > s/threads/POSIX

Re: 2.2.19: eepro100 and cmd_wait issues

2001-06-12 Thread Ken Brownfield
Or you could keep your hardware and try the Intel driver, which seems to work fine. It only works as a module, though. This might also help narrow the issue to a driver vs. card vs. mobo/BIOS/IRQ/APIC/etc issue. Personally, I've found the EtherExpress hardware and eepro100 driver to be

Re: threading question

2001-06-12 Thread Alexander Viro
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Kip Macy wrote: > implementation of threads is not an accidental oversight, threads are not > looked upon favorably by most of the core linux kernel hackers. A quote s/threads/POSIX threads/. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

Re: threading question

2001-06-12 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 01:07:11PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > due to the nature of the problem (a pairwise mutual alignment of n > sequences results in mx. n^2 alignments which can each be done in a > separate thread), I need to create and destroy the threads frequently. > > I

Re: threading question

2001-06-12 Thread Kip Macy
For heavy threading, try a user-level threads package. -Kip On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > due to the nature of the problem (a pairwise mutual alignment of n > sequences results in mx. n^2 alignments which can each be done in a > separate thread), I

Re: threading question

2001-06-12 Thread Kip Macy
This may sound like flamebait, but its not. Linux threads are basically just processes that share the same address space. Their performance is measurably worse than it is on most commercial Unixes and FreeBSD. They are not, or at least two years ago, were not POSIX compliant (they behaved badly

Re: threading question

2001-06-12 Thread ognen
Hello, due to the nature of the problem (a pairwise mutual alignment of n sequences results in mx. n^2 alignments which can each be done in a separate thread), I need to create and destroy the threads frequently. I am not really comfortable with 1.4 - 1.5 speedups since the solution was

Re: threading question

2001-06-12 Thread Christoph Hellwig
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > On dual-CPU machines the speedups are as follows: my version > is 1.88 faster than the sequential one on IRIX, 1.81 times on Solaris, > 1.8 times on OSF/1, 1.43 times on Linux 2.2.x and 1.52 times on Linux 2.4 > kernel. Why are the numbers on Linux

Re: 2.2.19: eepro100 and cmd_wait issues

2001-06-12 Thread Florin Andrei
On 12 Jun 2001 13:00:41 -0500, John Madden wrote: > > kernel: eepro100: cmd_wait for(0x70) timedout with(0x70)! > kernel: eepro100: cmd_wait for(0x10) timedout with(0x10)! I have the same problem, since a long time, with various 2.2 and 2.4 kernels running on a i815 motherboard, with on-board

[BUG] 2.4.4 PCI /proc output

2001-06-12 Thread Grant Grundler
Hi, The /proc/bus/pci/devices data looks correct. /proc/bus/pci/0[01]/* entries look correct. The /proc/bus/pci/0[23]/* entries don't match "devices" data and looks wrong. The host machine is a HP LXR8000 (4x 500Mhz PIII, 2GB RAM, ~8 PCI slots). Eg for 02/6.0 lspci -v says: 02:06.0 Non-VGA

threading question

2001-06-12 Thread ognen
Hello, I am a summer student implementing a multi-threaded version of a very popular bioinformatics tool. So far it compiles and runs without problems (as far as I can tell ;) on Linux 2.2.x, Sun Solaris, SGI IRIX and Compaq OSF/1 running on Alpha. I have ran a lot of timing tests compared to

Re: Disaster under heavy network load on 2.4.x

2001-06-12 Thread David Ford
It looks like you don't have 'lo' configured, i.e. your 127.0.0.1 interface. David Michal Margula wrote: >Hello! > >My friend told me to noticed you about problems I had with 2.4.x line of >kernels. I started up from 2.4.3. Under heavy load I was getting >messages from telnet, ping, nmap "No

Re: Any limitations on bigmem usage?

2001-06-12 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Rob Landley wrote: > Brilliant. You need what, a 6x larger cache just to break even with > the amount of time you're running in-cache? That's going to be hard, since the cache will also need to be faster in order to feed the CPU core. Making a cache both larger AND

2.2.19: eepro100 and cmd_wait issues

2001-06-12 Thread John Madden
I'm having trouble on one machine out of about 20 that run with eepro100's. This one in particular happens to be a dual port. I searched through the archives for this, but I didn't find any definite solutions (one thread, on "2.2.18 and laptop problems," provided a patch that doesn't seem to

Re: Re[2]: PC keyboard rate/delay

2001-06-12 Thread James Simmons
> Because (almost?) all m68k machines don't have PC style keyboard controllers, > so we _had_ to invent some other way to implement it in a portable (across all > m68k machines) way. This stuff is such a mess :-( Sparc has its own routines as well. > > Of course it would be nice if all

Re: Any limitations on bigmem usage?

2001-06-12 Thread Rob Landley
On Tuesday 12 June 2001 12:29, Alan Cox wrote: > If your algorithm can work well with say 2Gb windows on the data and only > change window evey so often (in computing terms) then it should be ok, if > its access is random you need to look at a 64bit box like an Alpha, Sparc64 > or eventually

Re: PATCH: ethtool MII helpers

2001-06-12 Thread Jeff Garzik
Bogdan Costescu wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > - I don't know what the long-term plan is about ethtool vs. MII ioctl's. > If you do plan to replace completely the MII ioctl's, there should be a > way to access _all_ MII registers provided by the PHY, even if you do this > in a

[OT]: Tux vs khttpd? (fwd)

2001-06-12 Thread J Sloan
Hi Roy, IIRC Ingo posted some tux benchmark results on the khttpd mailing list some weeks ago - basically khttpd is not in the same ballpark at this point. cu jjs Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > Hi everyone! > > I tried to send this message to the khttpd group, but got no answer. Can > any of

Re: es1371 and recent kernels

2001-06-12 Thread James Stevenson
Hi yes i can Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 6). IRQ 12. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=12.Max Lat=128. I/O at 0xe800 [0xe83f]. CPU0 0: 17921979 XT-PIC timer 1: 82047 XT-PIC keyboard 2:

CLOSE_WAIT bug?

2001-06-12 Thread eg_nth
Hi all, I suppect that there is bug in both kernel 2.2.19 and 2.4.5. The situation is as follow. One server socket created and listening, blocking on select(), once a client connect to that port, there is another thread in server side issues a close() to the new connection. After the client

Re: PATCH: ethtool MII helpers

2001-06-12 Thread Bogdan Costescu
On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Comments appreciated. Some general comments first, the others are spread through the code. - I don't know what the long-term plan is about ethtool vs. MII ioctl's. If you do plan to replace completely the MII ioctl's, there should be a way to access

Re: Any limitations on bigmem usage?

2001-06-12 Thread Alan Cox
> Specifically, is there anything to prevent me from malloc()ing 6GB of memory, > then accessing that memory as I would any other buffer? FYI, the application X86 has no nice way to address over 4Gb of RAM. You can do paging games with multiple banks and shmat (ie like using DOS expanded ram

Re: [patch] truncate_inode_pages

2001-06-12 Thread Dieter Nützel
Am Dienstag, 12. Juni 2001 14:32 schrieb Daniel Phillips: > On Tuesday 12 June 2001 02:00, you wrote: > > Now with -ac13 and the third try. > > Is it final? > > There have been no further problems reported, but it's Andrew Morton's > patch, his decision. > > -- > Daniel Hello Andrew, have you

Re: es1371 and recent kernels

2001-06-12 Thread Bob McElrath
Pierfrancesco Caci [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > [please be kind and Cc when replying] > > Has someone been able to get es1371 to actually produce anything > audible with latest kernels? The last version I could use was 2.4.0. > Then I had some trouble but I attributed them to devfs. Now I've

Re: es1371 and recent kernels

2001-06-12 Thread Luigi Genoni
It does work very well for me with 2.4.5 and 2.4.6-pre2, both with or without devfs, both if sound support has been statically linked or compiled as module. On 12 Jun 2001, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: > > [please be kind and Cc when replying] > > Has someone been able to get es1371 to actually

es1371 and recent kernels

2001-06-12 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
[please be kind and Cc when replying] Has someone been able to get es1371 to actually produce anything audible with latest kernels? The last version I could use was 2.4.0. Then I had some trouble but I attributed them to devfs. Now I've removed devfs and still I'm not able to play anything.

Re: rsync hangs on RedHat 2.4.2 or stock 2.4.4

2001-06-12 Thread Disconnect
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, David S. Miller did have cause to say: > Look everyone, it was determined to be a deadlock because of some > interaction between how rsync sets up it's communication channels > with the ssh subprocess, readas: userland bug. we're not using ssh. :( --- -BEGIN GEEK

Re: rsync hangs on RedHat 2.4.2 or stock 2.4.4

2001-06-12 Thread Stephen Frost
* David S. Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Russell King writes: > > At the time I suggested it was because of a missing wakeup in 2.4.2 kernels, > > but I was shouted down for using 2.2.15pre13. Since then I've seen these > > reports appear on lkml several times, each time without a

Re: unused shared memory is written into core dump - bug or feature?

2001-06-12 Thread Christoph Rohland
Hi Peter, On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Peter Niemayer wrote: > I just noticed that when I attach some SYSV shared memory segments > to my process and then that process dies from a SIGSEGV that _all_ > the shared memory is dumped into the core file, even if it was never > used and therefore didn't show

Re: rsync hangs on RedHat 2.4.2 or stock 2.4.4

2001-06-12 Thread Russell King
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 02:59:12PM +0100, Jeremy Sanders wrote: > I'm getting numerous rsync (v2.4.6) problems under Linux 2.4.2 (RedHat > 7.1) or stock 2.4.4 on several machines. rsync often hangs copying files > from NFS or local disks to local disks. Strangely the problem is fixed by >

Re: rsync hangs on RedHat 2.4.2 or stock 2.4.4

2001-06-12 Thread Disconnect
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Rasmus Andersen did have cause to say: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 02:59:12PM +0100, Jeremy Sanders wrote: > > I'm getting numerous rsync (v2.4.6) problems under Linux 2.4.2 (RedHat > > 7.1) or stock 2.4.4 on several machines. rsync often hangs copying files > > I could swear

Re: rsync hangs on RedHat 2.4.2 or stock 2.4.4

2001-06-12 Thread Rasmus Andersen
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 02:59:12PM +0100, Jeremy Sanders wrote: > I'm getting numerous rsync (v2.4.6) problems under Linux 2.4.2 (RedHat > 7.1) or stock 2.4.4 on several machines. rsync often hangs copying files > from NFS or local disks to local disks. Strangely the problem is fixed by >

Re: Any limitations on bigmem usage?

2001-06-12 Thread Matt Nelson
Thanks to all that replied. I've never needed to use so much memory before, and was ignorant to how much magic was implemented in the 64G support on IA32. Unfortunately, there's not quite enough magic in there for my needs... now to find an affordable SMP Alpha system Thanks again,

Re: reiserfs problem on SMP

2001-06-12 Thread Chris Mason
On Tuesday, June 12, 2001 05:25:46 PM +0800 Jeff Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Got the following journaling error on 2.4.5 SMP during shutdown ... > Known 2.4.5 problem. Fix below is from Al Viro: -chris diff -Nru a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c --- a/fs/super.cSat Jun 2

unused shared memory is written into core dump - bug or feature?

2001-06-12 Thread Peter Niemayer
Hi everybody, I just noticed that when I attach some SYSV shared memory segments to my process and then that process dies from a SIGSEGV that _all_ the shared memory is dumped into the core file, even if it was never used and therefore didn't show up in any of the memory statistics. One may

rsync hangs on RedHat 2.4.2 or stock 2.4.4

2001-06-12 Thread Jeremy Sanders
I'm getting numerous rsync (v2.4.6) problems under Linux 2.4.2 (RedHat 7.1) or stock 2.4.4 on several machines. rsync often hangs copying files from NFS or local disks to local disks. Strangely the problem is fixed by stracing one of the three rsync threads! I've encountered the problem just

net.agent ?

2001-06-12 Thread sebastien person
Hi, I'm porting a driver on 2.4. , I've done the necessary to get him working, but when I read the logs I found something like this after doing that : insmod my_module ifconfig up my_module >my_module : received ioctl 35585 >/etc/hotplug/net.agent : register event not handled Somebody know

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