Re: [patch] rio500 devfs support

2001-06-25 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 05:12:01PM -0500, Gregory T. Norris wrote: > I was thinking of doing some similar updates this evening after work. > Darn it... now I have to find something else to do! :-) > > Going by this morning's comments from Richard Gooch, it sounds like the > > if

Reg Kernel Debugger kgdb

2001-06-25 Thread SATHISH.J
Hi, I couls see http://kgdb.sourceforge.net/ the kgdb for 2.4.5 kernel version. Can I use the same for 2.2.14 kernel which I am using? If so how can I use gdb.bz2 downloaded file. I have this downloaded to my windows machine and have ftp ed to my linux machine to my home directory. Please tell

Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-25 Thread Jocelyn Mayer
> /> > GEM was a gui from Digital Research I believe. / > /> > Geoworks/Geos was a seperate entity. / > /> / > /> Ah, the DR-DOS answer to dosshell/windows. Cool. (I used Dr. Dos > byt never / > /> tried its gui.) / > > Actually I believe GEM predates DR-DOS, and except for being > made by the

ext3-2.4-0.0.8

2001-06-25 Thread Andrew Morton
ext3 patches against kernels 2.4.5, 2.4.6-pre5 and 2.4.5-ac17 are available at http://www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux/ext3/ Almost all testing thus far has been against 2.4.5. Known problems in 0.0.8 are: - A theoretical deadlock with quotas in -ac. This is proving impossible to demonstrate,

Re: [PATCH] wrong disk index in /proc/stat

2001-06-25 Thread Guest section DW
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 09:40:56PM +0200, Martin Wilck wrote: > no one seems to have noticed Don't worry. The set of people who noticed was nonempty. On the other hand, in my tree: static inline unsigned int disk_index (kdev_t dev) { struct gendisk *g = get_gendisk(dev);

Re: VM tuning through fault trace gathering [with actual code]

2001-06-25 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On 25 Jun 2001, John Fremlin wrote: > > Last year I had the idea of tracing the memory accesses of the system > to improve the VM - the traces could be used to test algorithms in > userspace. The difficulty is of course making all memory accesses > fault without destroying system performance.

User space zero copy HOWTO?

2001-06-25 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings! Is there any faq/sample code somewhere showing how to get zero copy tcp/ip with kernel 2.4, and what special hardware if any is required? Any information most appreciated. Kindly cc me directly. Take care, -- Camm Maguire[EMAIL

Re: ac17 "kernel BUG at slab.c:1244!"

2001-06-25 Thread Tachino Nobuhiro
Hello, At Fri, 22 Jun 2001 15:01:43 +, Gav wrote: > > This second one was immediately after rebooting, and hard locked at getty. > > kernel BUG at slab.c:1244! > invalid operand: > CPU:0 > EIP:0010:[] > EFLAGS: 00010082 > eax: 001b ebx: c187f788 ecx: 0001 edx:

[RFC] Early flush: new, improved (updated)

2001-06-25 Thread Daniel Phillips
This is an incremental update to the early flush patch. Changes: - flush_dirty_buffers returns sectors flushed instead of buffers flushed - submitted_sectors now treated as signed for robustness - misc cleanups To do: - Add retired_sectors, redefine queued_sectors in terms of

Re: GCC3.0 Produce REALLY slower code!

2001-06-25 Thread Hacksaw
Well, I haven't gone and looked at every line of assembler, but I'd bet this is a hasty characterization. According to someones recent count there are around 144000 lines of assembler in the 2.4.2 kernel. It seems to me you'd have to jump through a lot of hoops to test this compiler. Then

Difference between get_free_page() and page_cache_alloc() ?

2001-06-25 Thread Ho Chak Hung
Never mind.. I figured it out. __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Difference between get_free_page() and page_cache_alloc() ?

2001-06-25 Thread Ho Chak Hung
get_free_page() returns a pointer to a page while page_cache_alloc returns a pointer to a page struct. Is page_cache_alloc more efficient than get_free_page()? Also, does get_free_page returns a pointer to a contiguous block of physical memory? Thanks

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac18

2001-06-25 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Alan Cox wrote: >>>oLave 1uS gaps in the eepro100 cmd probe, and(Masaru Kawashima) >>> probe for longer on cmd timeout >>> >> >> >>Please, people... S is siemens, not seconds. Seconds is "s" (lower >>case.) The rule is simple: units named after people have their >>symbols, but not

Hang with usb scanner...2.4.5-acx

2001-06-25 Thread Steve Kieu
HI, I got scanner epson perfection 640u. I am not sure if it is a bug or I have to do like that. Basically I have to compile scanner support as module and uhci as well. Whenever I need to scan, just turn on, modprobe ...; it is fine. When no need, remove modules and turn off. BUT if i compile

Re: supermount

2001-06-25 Thread Steve Kieu
--- Sam Halliday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This email was delivered to you by The Free > Internet, > a Business Online Group company. > http://www.thefreeinternet.net I totally aggree, supermount is nice features and it should be integrated into the main kernel stream (just my HO) >

Re: GCC3.0 Produce REALLY slower code!

2001-06-25 Thread Alexander V. Bilichenko
There is not so much code in asm, so it's easy to patch code the most reasonable method is to write parsing program for that Best regards, Alexander mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Let's start the war, said Meggy

Re: Linux and system area networks

2001-06-25 Thread Alan Cox
> OK, how about an Infiniband network with a TCP/IP gateway at the edge? > Have we thought about how Linux servers should use the gateway to talk > to internet hosts? Surely there's no point in running TCP/IP inside > the Infiniband network, so there needs to be some concept of "socket > over

Re: Linux and system area networks

2001-06-25 Thread Alan Cox
> a properly written host based stack works much better in > the face of a changing environment: Faster CPUs, new CPUs > (IA-64), new network protocols (ECN). Besides, it is easy > to "accelerate" a bad network stack, but try to outdo a > well done stack. Putting the stack partly in user spacd

Re: The Joy of Forking

2001-06-25 Thread Shawn Starr
Fork nothing, stop taking stupidity. The kernel SOURCES may be 26MB but that does NOT mean you have to use every driver! Shawn. On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Rick Hohensee wrote: > > > > Rick Hohensee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > 2.4.5 is 26 meg now. It's time to consider forking the kernel. Alan

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac18

2001-06-25 Thread Alan Cox
> > o Lave 1uS gaps in the eepro100 cmd probe, and(Masaru Kawashima) > > probe for longer on cmd timeout > > > > Please, people... S is siemens, not seconds. Seconds is "s" (lower > case.) The rule is simple: units named after people have their > symbols, but not their names,

Re: The Joy of Forking

2001-06-25 Thread Rick Hohensee
> > Rick Hohensee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > 2.4.5 is 26 meg now. It's time to consider forking the kernel. Alan has > > already stuck his tippy-toe is that pool, and his toe is fine. > > Stop that nonsense. Alan Cox has _not_ forked anything, neither has Dave > Miller, or any of the arch

Re: GCC3.0 Produce REALLY slower code!

2001-06-25 Thread Hacksaw
>Here is link to Intel C compiler, that provide really faster code. > >http://developer.intel.com/software/products/compilers/linuxbeta.htm A quote from the site: * Not all of the GNU C language extensions, including the GNU inline assembly format, are currently supported and, due to this, one

Linux-2.4.5-ac16/17/18: floppy driver problem with lilo boot disks?

2001-06-25 Thread Dieter Nützel
Hello, I mount my bootdisk (minix filesystem) with "mount /dev/fd0 /mnt" and copy my new compiled kernel to it. After that I do a "lilo -v -C /mnt/lilo.conf". All following commands which are floppy related (filesystem) fall into the D state. Load goes up by 100 for every D state process. ls

Re: Linux and system area networks

2001-06-25 Thread Roland Dreier
> "Pete" == Pete Zaitcev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Roland> The rough idea is that WSD is a new user space library Roland> that looks at sockets calls and decides if they have to go Roland> through the usual kernel network stack, or if they can be Roland> handed off to a

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac18

2001-06-25 Thread David Lang
On 25 Jun 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Date: 25 Jun 2001 14:08:26 -0700 > From: H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac18 > > Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > By author:Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > o

Re: 2.4.5 and gcc v3 final

2001-06-25 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 01:33:51PM -0400, Horst von Brand wrote: > What gcc objects to is stuff like: > >"This is a nice long string > that just goes on > and on\n" > > which is illegal in C AFAIU. It does not object to: > >"This long string" >"spans several lines, " >

More module conversion...

2001-06-25 Thread James Lamanna
In my quest to convert a module from 2.2 to 2.4, I came across a nice oops (it actually was from their code that I thought I didn't have to touch...). The oops comes when trying to access address 0xd2000, which the code for this robot controller has hardcoded as its "BASE_ADDR" Were the base

Re: Linux and system area networks

2001-06-25 Thread Pete Zaitcev
> I'd like to find out if anyone has thought about how Linux will handle > some of the new network technologies people are starting to push. > Specifically I'm talking about "System Area Networks," that is, things > like Infiniband, as well as TCP/IP offload. Infiniband is doing relatively well,

Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [UPDATE] Directory index for ext2

2001-06-25 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Monday 25 June 2001 21:51, Andreas Dilger wrote: > Daniel writes: > > > > On Wednesday 20 June 2001 16:59, Tony Gale wrote: > > > > > The main problem I have with this is that e2fsck doesn't know how > > > > > to deal with it - at least I haven't found a version that will. > > > > > This makes

Re: EXT2 Filesystem permissions (bug)?

2001-06-25 Thread Shawn Starr
oh ;) I never noticed that info before, then again 2 hours of sleep might be the cause :) On 25 Jun 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > By author:Shawn Starr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > Is this a bug or something thats

Re: [patch] rio500 devfs support

2001-06-25 Thread Gregory T. Norris
I was thinking of doing some similar updates this evening after work. Darn it... now I have to find something else to do! :-) Going by this morning's comments from Richard Gooch, it sounds like the if (rio->devfs == NULL) dbg("probe_rio: device node registration

Re: EXT2 Filesystem permissions (bug)?

2001-06-25 Thread Luigi Genoni
Those are normal unix permissions, and you can use them on every kind of Unix FS, (at less i saw them on jfs, hfs, vxfs, xfs, reiserfs, ext2, ufs). S is suid and sgid without execution bit. T is stiky bit without any execution bit. (I hope my english is correct) Luigi On Mon, 25 Jun 2001,

Re: EXT2 Filesystem permissions (bug)?

2001-06-25 Thread Andreas Dilger
Shawn Star writes: > Is this a bug or something thats undocumented somewhere? > > dT > and > drwSrwSrwT > > are these special bits? I'm not aware of +S and +T ---S-- = setuid (normally shows up as "s" if "x" is also set) --S--- = setgid (normally shows up as "s" if "x" is also

Re: EXT2 Filesystem permissions (bug)?

2001-06-25 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Shawn Starr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Is this a bug or something thats undocumented somewhere? > > dT > and > drwSrwSrwT > > are these special bits? I'm not aware of +S and +T > It's neither a bug nor

EXT2 Filesystem permissions (bug)?

2001-06-25 Thread Shawn Starr
Is this a bug or something thats undocumented somewhere? dT and drwSrwSrwT are these special bits? I'm not aware of +S and +T Shawn. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: 2.4.6pre iptables masquerading seems to kill eth0

2001-06-25 Thread Thomas Weber
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 09:20:26AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > Thomas Weber wrote: > > > > I'm on 2.4.6pre3 + freeswan/ipsec on my gateway now for 5 days. > > It's an old 486/66 32MB with several isdn links, a dsl uplink (with > > iptables masquerading) behind a ne2k clone and a 3c509 to the

Re: sizeof problem in kernel modules

2001-06-25 Thread Horst von Brand
Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > One more tidbit: ISO/IEC 9899:1990 3.14 > > 3.14 object: A region of data storage in the execution environment, > the contents of which can represent values. Except for > bit-fields, objects are composed of contiguous sequences of one or >

Re: VM tuning through fault trace gathering [with actual code]

2001-06-25 Thread John Fremlin
Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 25 Jun 2001, John Fremlin wrote: > > > Last year I had the idea of tracing the memory accesses of the > > system to improve the VM - the traces could be used to test > > algorithms in userspace. The difficulty is of course making all > > memory

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac18

2001-06-25 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > o Lave 1uS gaps in the eepro100 cmd probe, and(Masaru Kawashima) > probe for longer on cmd timeout Please, people... S is siemens, not seconds. Seconds is "s" (lower

[PATCH] skb destructor enhancement idea

2001-06-25 Thread Will
Here is a patch against 2.4.6pre5 that implements a gneric, 'chainable' destructor mechanism for sk_buff structures. It allows for an arbitrary number of ordered destructor calls for skbs. We are currently using this change in a low-level packet monitoring module so we can allocate our own

Re: Oops in iput

2001-06-25 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 08:16:12PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: > > oops in iput - Kernel 2.2.19/i386 + ide-udma patches + ext3 patches (0.0.7a) The ide-udma patches for 2.2 haven't had nearly the testing of the 2.4 ones, and simply can't be trusted as a baseline for debugging other code.

Re: AMD thunderbird oops

2001-06-25 Thread Dan Hollis
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > Random oopses normally indicate faulty board cpu or ram (and the fault may > even just be overheating or dimms not in the sockets cleanly). I doubt its > the board design or model that is the problem, you probably jut have a faulty > component somewhere if

Re: VIA Southbridge bug (Was: Crash on boot (2.4.5))

2001-06-25 Thread David Grant
I'd be interested in testing any fixes for the VIA Southbridge chip. I have an ASUS A7V133. I was having problems with the IDE controller, but I've switched to the on-board Promise IDE and it works fine. I couldn't get rid of the DMA timeout errors with my VIA vt82c686b, even with the latest

Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-25 Thread asmith
Hi again, some old brain-cells got excited with the "good-ol-days" and other names have surfaced like "Superbrain","Sirius" and "Apricot".Sirius was Victor in the USA. If you go done the so-called IBM compatible route then the nearly compatible nightmares will arise and haunt you, your

RE: VIA Southbridge bug (Was: Crash on boot (2.4.5))

2001-06-25 Thread Andy Ward
I'd love to help out with testing (alas, my kernel coding skills aren't up to fixing this kind of problem). Heck, if it trashes my linux install, no biggie... I've got it ghosted to an image elsewhere... Anyone wanting to work on this just drop me an email. -- andyw -Original Message-

Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-25 Thread Erik Mouw
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 10:17:09AM -0400, Rob Landley wrote: > On Monday 25 June 2001 11:13, you wrote: > > 1937 claude shannon A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits," > > > > 1948 claude shannon A mathematical theory of information. > > > > without those you're kind in trouble on

RE: VIA Southbridge bug (Was: Crash on boot (2.4.5))

2001-06-25 Thread Andy Ward
oh really? I have my memory timings set to 133/cas2/6-4-4-4. One wonders... *ponder* I have noticed some general flakyness (hard to pin down) on the system, though... random program crashes, minor visual corruption in X (which fixes itself when you move things around), etc... Anyone want to

Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-25 Thread Rob Landley
On Monday 25 June 2001 13:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > If you're really keen on old mags and manuals I'll go up to attic and look > around. I know there are old SCO Xenix & TCP/IP, as well as Byte and Dr > Dobbs > Ooh! Yes! Very much so. Thanks, Rob The mailing list for this

Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [UPDATE] Directory index for ext2

2001-06-25 Thread Andreas Dilger
Daniel writes: > > > On Wednesday 20 June 2001 16:59, Tony Gale wrote: > > > > The main problem I have with this is that e2fsck doesn't know how to > > > > deal with it - at least I haven't found a version that will. This makes > > > > it rather difficult to use, especially for your root fs. > >

[suggested PATCH]: /dev/guid support

2001-06-25 Thread Martin Wilck
Hello, This is a patch I sent to the Linux-IA64 mailing list some time ago. David Mosberger has suggested that I send it to linux-kernel to get broader feedback. Given support for GUID (UUID) entries in the partition table (as in the EFI partition table on IA-64 systems), and given devfs

Re: user limits for 'security'?

2001-06-25 Thread LA Walsh
I suppose another question related to the first, is 'limit' checking part of the 'standard linux security' that embedded Linux users might find to be a waste of precious code-space? -l -- The above thoughts and| I know I don't know the opinions writings are my own. | of

Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-25 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Landley) wrote on 24.06.01 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Now if somebody here could just point me to a decent reference on A/UX - > Apple's mid-80's version of Unix (for the early macintosh, I believe...) http://www.google.com/search?q=%22%2ba/ux%22 Usually a good idea.

proc_file_read() question

2001-06-25 Thread Martin Wilck
Hi, the "hack" below in proc_file_read() fs/proc/generic.c (2.4.5) irritates me: If I do use "start" for a pointer into a memory area allocated in read_proc, will it be always guaranteed that (start > page)? If no, this will IMO lead to spuriously wrong output. If yes, I'd like to understand

[PATCH] wrong disk index in /proc/stat

2001-06-25 Thread Martin Wilck
Hi, I posted this patch already from my home mail account on June 20 (subject: disk_index weirdness), but no one seems to have noticed - therefore I try again. Those who _have_ noticed the other mail - sorry for bothering). The disk_index routine erroneously adds 2 to the index of disks on the

Re: all processes waiting in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE state

2001-06-25 Thread James Stevenson
Hi again i have a stack now an #0 schedule () at sched.c:536 #1 0x1002f932 in __wait_on_buffer (bh=0x50eb16e4) at buffer.c:157 #2 0x10036f46 in block_read (filp=0x5009787c, buf=0x80c08f0 "¤\201", count=8192, ppos=0x5009789c) at

user limits for 'security'?

2001-06-25 Thread LA Walsh
I've seen some people saying that user-limits are an essential part of a secure system to prevent local DoS attacks. Given that, should a system call like 'fork' return -EPERM if the user has reached their limit? My local manpage (SuSE 7.2 system) says this under fork: ERRORS EAGAIN

Re: MemShared == 0 ?

2001-06-25 Thread Erik Mouw
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 11:21:55AM +0100, Rodrigo Ventura wrote: > /proc> cat version meminfo > Linux version 2.4.6-pre3 (yoda@damasio) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #3 >Mon Jun 18 19:00:11 WEST 2001 > total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: > Mem: 261779456

Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-25 Thread Rob Landley
On Monday 25 June 2001 11:13, you wrote: > 1937 claude shannon A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits," > > 1948 claude shannon A mathematical theory of information. > > without those you're kind in trouble on the computing front... Yeah, I know I've bumped into that name (and

Re: all processes waiting in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE state

2001-06-25 Thread James Stevenson
Hi i have been looking at it a lot over the past few days i seem to be the person who can trigger it easyest. over the past couple of days i have been running with the #define WAITQUEUE_DEBUG 1 no problems seem to have appeared there though and the bug still triggers. On Mon, 25 Jun 2001,

Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-25 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Landley) wrote on 23.06.01 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > on April 2, 1987. (models 50, 60, and 80.) The SAA/SNA push also extended > through the System/370 and AS400 stuff too. (I think 370's the mainframe > and AS400 is the minicomputer, but I'd have to look it up. One

Re: Linux 2.4.6-pre3 breaks ReiserFS mount on boot

2001-06-25 Thread Shawn Starr
Not /dev/hda42, thats odd. From 2.4.5 -> 2.4.6 ReiserFS would refuse to mount the drive on startup. I noticed in pre5 there was a reiserfs fix to something but im not sure if its related or not. My domain is also back so I'm going to resubscribe. Shawn. On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Neil Brown wrote:

problems with my plexwriter 8/4/32A drive..

2001-06-25 Thread JorgP
I am using AMD 1.2Gig w/ 512Meg Ram, MSI 6330-K7ProA motherboard. hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM10.2, ATA DISK drive hdb: IBM-DPTA-372050, ATA DISK drive hdc: ATAPI 52X CDROM, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W8432T, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive base install is Mandrake 8.0 from CD it did not

Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-25 Thread Robert J.Dunlop
Hi, On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 06:27:24PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I first used Unix on a PDP11/44 whilst studying for my Computer Engineering > degree at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. I think they and Queen Margaret > College, London were the first folk running Unix version 6

Oops in iput

2001-06-25 Thread Florian Lohoff
Hi, oops in iput - Kernel 2.2.19/i386 + ide-udma patches + ext3 patches (0.0.7a) Intel BX chipset, SCSI Disks Symbios chipset - The crashing process is the master process of "postfix" an MTA. Just before the crash all processes on that machine started to segfault in nameserver resolution

Re: The latest Microsoft FUD. This time from BillG, himself.

2001-06-25 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 02:21:18PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote: > Name one thing Microsoft actually invented. Other than Microsoft Bob. I remember there being a web page where all of Microsoft's "innovations" were listed and where they bought or stole it from. The only things that were really

Re: Bug in 3c905 driver.

2001-06-25 Thread Martin Dalecki
William Park wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 08:51:28PM +0200, Martin Dalecki wrote: > > Just a note... > > > > This card get's detected twofold by the plain 2.4.5 kernel. > > It get's listed twice under both lspci and during the kernel boot > > sequence on a HP LHr3 system. > > I get only

Linux and system area networks

2001-06-25 Thread Roland Dreier
I'd like to find out if anyone has thought about how Linux will handle some of the new network technologies people are starting to push. Specifically I'm talking about "System Area Networks," that is, things like Infiniband, as well as TCP/IP offload. In the past people have advocated VIA as a

Re: VM tuning through fault trace gathering [with actual code]

2001-06-25 Thread Rik van Riel
On 25 Jun 2001, John Fremlin wrote: > Last year I had the idea of tracing the memory accesses of the system > to improve the VM - the traces could be used to test algorithms in > userspace. The difficulty is of course making all memory accesses > fault without destroying system performance.

Re: Where is check for superuser in TCP port bind.

2001-06-25 Thread Ian Stirling
> > Obviously (to me) this check is in tcp_v4_get_port(). > But, I can't find it, or perhaps it's better hidden than I thought. > Or maybe I'm just very confused. > Any help would be most welcome. The above poster was of course deeply stupid, and could have done with more sleep :) It's in

Re: What are the VM motivations??

2001-06-25 Thread Rik van Riel
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Colonel wrote: > As a physicist, I learned long ago that if you cannot use the back of > an envelope and explain your theory to a secretary, you do not > understand it. It has only been revealed recently where some VM > design information may be hidden, and it's apparently

Re: What are the VM motivations??

2001-06-25 Thread Rik van Riel
On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Colonel wrote: > >May I suggested an algorithm? > > > > - Write down what you think the optimization constraints are. > >(be specific, for example, enumerate all the flavors of page types - > >process code, process data, page cache file data, page cache swap > >

Re: Some experience of linux on a Laptop

2001-06-25 Thread Joseph Pingenot
>From Android on Sunday, 24 June, 2001: >>I have come to the conclusion that linux is NOT suitable for the general >>desktop market. >I have to disagree on this. It runs fine on most PC's, as they use standard >devices. Just say NO to anything proprietary. This includes Toshiba. Makers of such

Re: all processes waiting in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE state

2001-06-25 Thread Rik van Riel
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Jeff Dike wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > Can you give more details? Was there an aic7xxx scsi driver on the > > box? run_task_queue(_disk) should eventually unlock those pages but > > they remain locked. I am trying to narrow it down to fs/buffer code > > or the SCSI

RE: ACPI + Promise IDE = disk corruption :-(((

2001-06-25 Thread Grover, Andrew
Their processor power state code looks dormant at the moment, so they haven't hit this particular issue. They have in the past run into a number of problems, and submitted fixes. The Linux version is getting much wider testing right now. -- Andy PS Just FreeBSD, no Net or OpenBSD just yet. >

Re: [patch] rio500 devfs support

2001-06-25 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 05:52:24PM -0500, Gregory T. Norris wrote: > The attached diff adds devfs support to the rio500 driver, so that > /dev/usb/rio500 gets created automagically. It was generated against > 2.4.5, but probably applies fine against any recent kernel. Comments > are welcome

Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-25 Thread Wayne . Brown
Beehive -- there's a name I haven't heard in a long time! The ones I remember had dual floppy drives and ran CP/M. I last saw one in about 1985. Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 06/25/2001 12:11:01 PM To: William T Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Eric W.

Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-25 Thread asmith
Hi, If you're really keen on old mags and manuals I'll go up to attic and look around. I know there are old SCO Xenix & TCP/IP, as well as Byte and Dr Dobbs On Sun, 24 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Andrew Smith in Edinburgh > Sorry, but I'm hanging on to my old computer manuals. The

Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-25 Thread asmith
Hi, I first used Unix on a PDP11/44 whilst studying for my Computer Engineering degree at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. I think they and Queen Margaret College, London were the first folk running Unix version 6 outside Bell Labs. If anyone knows where Patrick O'Callaghan is now (ask

Re: Bug in 3c905 driver.

2001-06-25 Thread William Park
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 08:51:28PM +0200, Martin Dalecki wrote: > Just a note... > > This card get's detected twofold by the plain 2.4.5 kernel. > It get's listed twice under both lspci and during the kernel boot > sequence on a HP LHr3 system. I get only one message, I have 3c905CX and 2.4.5

Re: Making a module 2.4 compatible

2001-06-25 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Timur Tabi wrote: > ** Reply to message from James Lamanna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, 23 > Jun 2001 22:10:58 -0700 > > > > It would be nice to have it working under 2.4, so is there someplace > > that outlines some of the major things that would have changed so I can > >

supermount

2001-06-25 Thread Sam Halliday
This email was delivered to you by The Free Internet, a Business Online Group company. http://www.thefreeinternet.net --- hello, i am fairly new to linux, i need it's fast number crunching powers for my research... and i have only

Bug in 3c905 driver.

2001-06-25 Thread Martin Dalecki
Just a note... This card get's detected twofold by the plain 2.4.5 kernel. It get's listed twice under both lspci and during the kernel boot sequence on a HP LHr3 system. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: all processes waiting in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE state

2001-06-25 Thread Bulent Abali
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> I am running in to a problem, seemingly a deadlock situation, where >> almost all the processes end up in the TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE state. >> All the process eventually stop responding, including login shell, no >> screen updates, keyboard etc. Can ping and sysrq key

supermount

2001-06-25 Thread Sam Halliday
This email was delivered to you by The Free Internet, a Business Online Group company. http://www.thefreeinternet.net --- hello, i have only been using linux for about a year, i am a physicist and i need its fast number crunching for my

Re: Making a module 2.4 compatible

2001-06-25 Thread Timur Tabi
** Reply to message from James Lamanna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, 23 Jun 2001 22:10:58 -0700 > It would be nice to have it working under 2.4, so is there someplace > that outlines some of the major things that would have changed so I can > update the module accordingly? Unfortunately, no.

Re: SMP+USB still crashes in 2.4.6-pre5

2001-06-25 Thread Jakob Borg
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 01:52:37PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > Just wanted people to know that the same problem I reported about 2.4.4 a > > while back is still present in 2.4.6-pre6 (hard crash when doing "cat > > whatever > /dev/dsp1" where /dev/dsp1 is an external USB audio device, where > >

Re: loop device broken in 2.4.6-pre5

2001-06-25 Thread Rogier Wolff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: Jari Ruusu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > File backed loop device on 4k block size ext2 filesystem: > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=file1 bs=1024 count=10 > 10+0 records in > 10+0 records out > # losetup /dev/loop0 file1 > # dd if=/dev/zero

Re: [OT] Re: Thrashing WITHOUT swap.

2001-06-25 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Monday 25 June 2001 18:16, Colonel wrote: > In clouddancer.list.kernel, you wrote: > >Further to that, I followed Alan's lead and installed xfce. My laptop, > > which was really suffering under Gnome with 64 meg (much more so under > > KDE) is suddenly light on its feet. Not to mention that

Re: Re: AMD thunderbird oops

2001-06-25 Thread Luigi Genoni
Have you considered to change your dimm at all? If they are bugged they should be under warranty. Luigi On Mon, 25 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks, > I have a heat sink and it is huge about 2 inches, plus fan. Plus another 4" fan >in the case. (real nice case). > > I

Re: For comment: draft BIOS use document for the kernel

2001-06-25 Thread Timur Tabi
** Reply to message from Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 23 Jun 2001 14:26:32 -0600 > Pretty decent. It misses a lot of hardware details that we still > depend on the BIOS to reliably setup for us. You're right, it does. I think that information should be added. It's a way for BIOS

Re: Thrashing WITHOUT swap.

2001-06-25 Thread Mike Galbraith
On 25 Jun 2001, Xavier Bestel wrote: > On 24 Jun 2001 22:36:25 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > > recompiled it yet). I have a 140 mb swap partition set up but at the time > > > this happened it was OFF. I was (still am) running X + twm + two xterms > > > > > > top gives me: > > > mem: 62144k av,

Re: Re: AMD thunderbird oops

2001-06-25 Thread joeja
Thanks, I have a heat sink and it is huge about 2 inches, plus fan. Plus another 4" fan in the case. (real nice case). I think it is the memory, as yesterday my gcc was bombing with 'internel compiler error', which is usually a good mem tester. So I started setting mem=64m and

Re: What are the VM motivations??

2001-06-25 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Monday 25 June 2001 17:46, Colonel wrote: > >> POST IT. Give the rest of us some clues and the opportunity to check > >> evaluator's replies. > > > >Well, if you try that strategy you'll find you never get around to posting > > it because you'll be too worried about getting it right. The

Re: [OT] Re: Thrashing WITHOUT swap.

2001-06-25 Thread Colonel
In clouddancer.list.kernel, you wrote: > >Further to that, I followed Alan's lead and installed xfce. My laptop, which >was really suffering under Gnome with 64 meg (much more so under KDE) is >suddenly light on its feet. Not to mention that it built from source in >under 10 minutes and

Re: Kernel 2.4.5 crash

2001-06-25 Thread Colonel
In clouddancer.list.kernel, you wrote: > >Hi all, > >Haven't been on this list for a while, and don't really know if this is the >right place for this message... If not, pls let me know. >... >Hope you guys can do something with this message! Nope. You need to run it thru ksymoops before the

Re: [UPDATE] Directory index for ext2

2001-06-25 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Monday 25 June 2001 11:46, Tony Gale wrote: > After some testing, removing the grsecurity patch seems to have solved > the disappearing-free-space problem. Now just need to find out why. > > On 20 Jun 2001 18:58:43 +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > On Wednesday 20 June 2001 16:59, Tony Gale

Re: 2.4.5-ac12 kernel oops

2001-06-25 Thread Colonel
In clouddancer.list.kernel, you wrote: > >On Mon, 25 Jun 2001 08:15:49 -0700 (PDT), >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colonel) wrote: >>ksymoops 2.4.1 on i686 2.4.5-ac12. Options used >>Warning (compare_maps): mismatch on symbol partition_name , ksyms_base says >c01aad00, System.map says c014cba0.

[OT] Re: Thrashing WITHOUT swap.

2001-06-25 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Monday 25 June 2001 11:21, Helge Hafting wrote: > If it still is too slow - add RAM or run fewer/smaller apps. > Opera is a low-memory alternative to netscape. Avoiding > gnome/kde apps when plain X apps are available is also a good idea > when you're short on memory. Using low resolution

about linux mips ext2fs

2001-06-25 Thread Barry Wu
Hi, all, I want port linux to our mipsel system. The kernel can work and system stop at mount root file system. I download root file system for mipsel from MIPS company. Because our system have no ethernet interface, I have to copy root file system directly to our hard disk. I put hard disk

Re: Making a module 2.4 compatible

2001-06-25 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Hi Horst, In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Seconded! There are a few users of iBCS around here, who _need_ the > functionality and don't get it with 2.4.x (in this case, Red Hat 7.1). Or > is there a replacement for it? Take a look at inux-abi: http://linux-abi.sourceforge.net

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