[it really is text/plain :P] dual port onboard 82546EB checksum errors

2007-04-19 Thread David Ford
I have a rackmount server that has a dual port onboard 82546EB card. I've googled and seen this card apparently active with other users but I seem to only get checksum errors. [0.194129] Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.3.15-k2-NAPI [0.194234] Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel

[it really is text/plain :P] dual port onboard 82546EB checksum errors

2007-04-19 Thread David Ford
I have a rackmount server that has a dual port onboard 82546EB card. I've googled and seen this card apparently active with other users but I seem to only get checksum errors. [0.194129] Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.3.15-k2-NAPI [0.194234] Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel

Forcedeth issues, loss of connectivity. ASUS M2N32-SLI-D w/ AMD64

2007-01-25 Thread David Ford
(please CC me when replying) I just got a motherboard with the dual nic marvell chipset onboard. Splendid board save for the driver issue I'm having :) I'm currently using 2.6.19-gentoo-r4 which doesn't have any forcedeth patch applied, a vanilla kernel seems to give the same results. This

Forcedeth issues, loss of connectivity. ASUS M2N32-SLI-D w/ AMD64

2007-01-25 Thread David Ford
(please CC me when replying) I just got a motherboard with the dual nic marvell chipset onboard. Splendid board save for the driver issue I'm having :) I'm currently using 2.6.19-gentoo-r4 which doesn't have any forcedeth patch applied, a vanilla kernel seems to give the same results. This

quick question; did usb hid change from .12 to .13-rc3 on x86_64?

2005-07-28 Thread David Ford
I've a quick question before I start digging through patches between .12 and .13-rc3, /dev/input/mice (usb mice) stopped yielding data. dmesg indicates removal/re-insertion of the device but no driver registers and nothing comes from /dev/input/mice. I have rc-3 on other machines and the

quick question; did usb hid change from .12 to .13-rc3 on x86_64?

2005-07-28 Thread David Ford
I've a quick question before I start digging through patches between .12 and .13-rc3, /dev/input/mice (usb mice) stopped yielding data. dmesg indicates removal/re-insertion of the device but no driver registers and nothing comes from /dev/input/mice. I have rc-3 on other machines and the

ALSA bugs with 2.6.12-rc1

2005-04-04 Thread David Ford
It seems that 2.6.12-rc1 introduced an ALSA bug generating an oops for a null pointer. codec_semaphore: semaphore is not ready [0x1][0x300300] codec_read 0: semaphore is not ready for register 0x2c Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address printing eip:

ALSA bugs with 2.6.12-rc1

2005-04-04 Thread David Ford
It seems that 2.6.12-rc1 introduced an ALSA bug generating an oops for a null pointer. codec_semaphore: semaphore is not ready [0x1][0x300300] codec_read 0: semaphore is not ready for register 0x2c Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address printing eip:

Re: ALPS tapping disabled. WHY?

2005-03-01 Thread David Ford
I would also appreciate the return of good resolution. Blocky mouse startup moves make graphic editing rather difficult. No mouse movement until I have moved my finger a significant distance then the mouse all of a sudden jumps a dozen pixels before it "smoothly" glides along. I would also

Re: ALPS tapping disabled. WHY?

2005-03-01 Thread David Ford
I would also appreciate the return of good resolution. Blocky mouse startup moves make graphic editing rather difficult. No mouse movement until I have moved my finger a significant distance then the mouse all of a sudden jumps a dozen pixels before it smoothly glides along. I would also

Re: OT: Why is usb data many times the cpu hog that firewire is?

2005-02-24 Thread David Ford
use a minimum resolution until you detect motion then switch to high resolution. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at

Re: OT: Why is usb data many times the cpu hog that firewire is?

2005-02-24 Thread David Ford
use a minimum resolution until you detect motion then switch to high resolution. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at

Re: Touchpad problems with 2.6.11-rc2

2005-02-02 Thread David Ford
What does one need to do to: a) put tapping back in, and b) fix the severe jerkiness with small movements Thanks - 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: Touchpad problems with 2.6.11-rc2

2005-02-02 Thread David Ford
What does one need to do to: a) put tapping back in, and b) fix the severe jerkiness with small movements Thanks - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Linux 2.6.11-rc2

2005-01-25 Thread David Ford
PMTU bug -- or better said, bad firewall admin who blocks all ICMP. http://blue-labs.org/clue/mtu-mss.php -david David Brownell wrote: I'm seeing a problem with TCP as accessed through KMail (SuSE 9.2, x86_64). But oddly enough, only for sending mail, not reading it; and not through other

Re: Linux 2.6.11-rc2

2005-01-25 Thread David Ford
PMTU bug -- or better said, bad firewall admin who blocks all ICMP. http://blue-labs.org/clue/mtu-mss.php -david David Brownell wrote: I'm seeing a problem with TCP as accessed through KMail (SuSE 9.2, x86_64). But oddly enough, only for sending mail, not reading it; and not through other

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: 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 buffer

Re: missing sysrq

2001-06-08 Thread David Ford
BTW, you ONLY need to echo 1 > /proc../sysrq if you use a distribution that puts a 0 there on init. By default the kernel initializes with '1'. David >>>I compiled it, and the sysrq is definitely in the config. No doubt at >>>all. I also use make mrproper and config again before dep and

Re: missing sysrq

2001-06-08 Thread David Ford
BTW, you ONLY need to echo 1 /proc../sysrq if you use a distribution that puts a 0 there on init. By default the kernel initializes with '1'. David I compiled it, and the sysrq is definitely in the config. No doubt at all. I also use make mrproper and config again before dep and actual

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac9

2001-06-05 Thread David Ford
Quite positive it's the right map file. I used -m and specified the exact file. David Jeff Garzik wrote: >David Ford wrote: > >> >>EIP; c01269f9<= >>Trace; c01b1021 >>Trace; c01b1c43 >>Trace; c01b2643 >>Trace; c0137fc0 <__emul

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac9

2001-06-05 Thread David Ford
2.4.5-ac8 has a brokenness about it. sshd stalled in [down] with the following, subsequent sshd attempts which needed a tty resulted in D state the same as the first: invalid operand: CPU:0 EIP:0010:[] Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386 EFLAGS: 00010086 eax:

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac9

2001-06-05 Thread David Ford
2.4.5-ac8 has a brokenness about it. sshd stalled in [down] with the following, subsequent sshd attempts which needed a tty resulted in D state the same as the first: invalid operand: CPU:0 EIP:0010:[c01269f9] Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386 EFLAGS: 00010086

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac9

2001-06-05 Thread David Ford
Quite positive it's the right map file. I used -m and specified the exact file. David Jeff Garzik wrote: David Ford wrote: EIP; c01269f9 proc_getdata+4d/154 = Trace; c01b1021 read_eeprom+131/1a8 Trace; c01b1c43 rtl8139_tx_timeout+143/148 Trace; c01b2643 rtl8139_interrupt+5f/170 Trace

Re: Selectively refusing TCP connections

2001-05-24 Thread David Ford
Is there an example somewhere of this? David >You can push a BPF (LPF) filter expression onto a LISTEN socket that checks >every incoming packet using SO_ATTACH_FILTER. > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Selectively refusing TCP connections

2001-05-24 Thread David Ford
Is there an example somewhere of this? David You can push a BPF (LPF) filter expression onto a LISTEN socket that checks every incoming packet using SO_ATTACH_FILTER. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: [PATCH] drivers/telephony/phonedev.c (brings this code up to date with Quicknet CVS)

2001-05-13 Thread David Ford
Alrighty. That eliminates the patch. I'll rewrite the ixj.c according to this. ixj.c will be a large patch due to the numerous revisions, I don't know how well it can be broken up into small pieces. Do you want small pieces still? The ChangeLog shows all the fixes for the revisions.

Re: [PATCH] drivers/telephony/phonedev.c (brings this code up to date with Quicknet CVS)

2001-05-13 Thread David Ford
Alrighty. That eliminates the patch. I'll rewrite the ixj.c according to this. ixj.c will be a large patch due to the numerous revisions, I don't know how well it can be broken up into small pieces. Do you want small pieces still? The ChangeLog shows all the fixes for the revisions.

[PATCH] drivers/telephony/phonedev.c (brings this code up to date with Quicknet CVS)

2001-05-12 Thread David Ford
works with unit!=PHONE_UNIT_ANY + * + * May 12 2001 David Ford, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + * brought kernel version up to date with CVS, minor changes */ +#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < 0x020400 +#include +#endif #include #include #include @@ -23,13 +29,16 @@ #inc

[PATCH] drivers/telephony/phonedev.c (brings this code up to date with Quicknet CVS)

2001-05-12 Thread David Ford
with unit!=PHONE_UNIT_ANY + * + * May 12 2001 David Ford, [EMAIL PROTECTED] + * brought kernel version up to date with CVS, minor changes */ +#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE 0x020400 +#include linux/config.h +#endif #include linux/version.h #include linux/module.h #include linux

Re: ECN: Volunteers needed

2001-05-11 Thread David Ford
I simply crontab an ECN off period for five minutes every hour and flush the mail queue. David. Holger Lubitz wrote: >"H. Peter Anvin" wrote: > >>I suspect that the main way to get this thing fixed is to make sure >>ECN is enabled on the server side; for example, we have turned on ECN >>on

Re: ECN: Volunteers needed

2001-05-11 Thread David Ford
I simply crontab an ECN off period for five minutes every hour and flush the mail queue. David. Holger Lubitz wrote: H. Peter Anvin wrote: I suspect that the main way to get this thing fixed is to make sure ECN is enabled on the server side; for example, we have turned on ECN on kernel.org.

Another report of mozilla in D state, related to the 'uninterruptible sleep' thread

2001-04-04 Thread David Ford
Second time around, I didn't evoke any interest the first time. I reported it back on Mar/27. It is still an almost daily problem requiring a reboot. Mozilla gets stuck in down_write_failed. This time I'm sure it's not reiser's fault. # uname -r 2.4.3-pre8 mozilla-bin D C781849C 0

Another report of mozilla in D state, related to the 'uninterruptible sleep' thread

2001-04-04 Thread David Ford
Second time around, I didn't evoke any interest the first time. I reported it back on Mar/27. It is still an almost daily problem requiring a reboot. Mozilla gets stuck in down_write_failed. This time I'm sure it's not reiser's fault. # uname -r 2.4.3-pre8 mozilla-bin D C781849C 0

sysrq-t followup to possible reiserfs bug

2001-03-27 Thread David Ford
Ok, here's the trace, this time it didn't die on me. mozilla-bin D CDC1779C 0 6530 1(NOTLB) 6533 Call Trace: [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [scsi_queue_next_request+62/248] [__scsi_end_request+327/340]

Bug in reiserfs? 2.4.3-pre6

2001-03-27 Thread David Ford
Lately I've been having to reboot every few days due to D state processes, always mozilla so far. When I exit mozilla it doesn't always cleanly shutdown, sometimes processes are left behind. I'll post what I have and if I'm lucky I'll follow up with a backtrace on the pids. Last time I tried a

Bug in reiserfs? 2.4.3-pre6

2001-03-27 Thread David Ford
Lately I've been having to reboot every few days due to D state processes, always mozilla so far. When I exit mozilla it doesn't always cleanly shutdown, sometimes processes are left behind. I'll post what I have and if I'm lucky I'll follow up with a backtrace on the pids. Last time I tried a

sysrq-t followup to possible reiserfs bug

2001-03-27 Thread David Ford
Ok, here's the trace, this time it didn't die on me. mozilla-bin D CDC1779C 0 6530 1(NOTLB) 6533 Call Trace: [ff00] [ff00] [ff00] [e000] [e000] [e000] [e000] [e000] [e000] [e000] [e000] [e000] [e000]

Re: Linux should better cope with power failure

2001-03-24 Thread David Ford
Otto Wyss wrote: > > No, the correct answer is if you want a reliable recovery then run your disks > > in non write buffered mode. I.e. turn on sync in fstab. > > > You probably haven't tried to use sync or you would have noticed the > performace penalty. I think nobody really considers sync an

Re: Linux should better cope with power failure

2001-03-24 Thread David Ford
Otto Wyss wrote: No, the correct answer is if you want a reliable recovery then run your disks in non write buffered mode. I.e. turn on sync in fstab. You probably haven't tried to use sync or you would have noticed the performace penalty. I think nobody really considers sync an

Re: Linux should better cope with power failure

2001-03-23 Thread David Ford
Otto Wyss wrote: > > I had a similar experience: > > X crashed , hosing the console , so I could not initiate > > a proper shutdown. > > > > Here I must note that the response you got on linux-kernel is > > shameful. > > > Thanks, but I expected it a little bit. All around Linux is centered >

Re: Linux should better cope with power failure

2001-03-23 Thread David Ford
Otto Wyss wrote: I had a similar experience: X crashed , hosing the console , so I could not initiate a proper shutdown. Here I must note that the response you got on linux-kernel is shameful. Thanks, but I expected it a little bit. All around Linux is centered around getting the

Re: esound (esd), 2.4.[12] chopped up sound -- solved

2001-03-20 Thread David Ford
a) not all drivers are created equal b) esd should check the return value anyway -d Doug Ledford wrote: > David Ford wrote: > > > > Actually you probably upgraded to a non-broken version of esd. Stock esd -still- > > writes to the socket without regard to return valu

Re: esound (esd), 2.4.[12] chopped up sound -- solved

2001-03-20 Thread David Ford
Actually you probably upgraded to a non-broken version of esd. Stock esd -still- writes to the socket without regard to return value. If the write only accepted 2098 of 4096 bytes, the residual bytes are lost, esd will write the next packet at 4097, not 2099. esd is incredibly bad about err

Re: esound (esd), 2.4.[12] chopped up sound -- solved

2001-03-20 Thread David Ford
Actually you probably upgraded to a non-broken version of esd. Stock esd -still- writes to the socket without regard to return value. If the write only accepted 2098 of 4096 bytes, the residual bytes are lost, esd will write the next packet at 4097, not 2099. esd is incredibly bad about err

Re: esound (esd), 2.4.[12] chopped up sound -- solved

2001-03-20 Thread David Ford
a) not all drivers are created equal b) esd should check the return value anyway -d Doug Ledford wrote: David Ford wrote: Actually you probably upgraded to a non-broken version of esd. Stock esd -still- writes to the socket without regard to return value. If the write only accepted

curious messages

2001-03-12 Thread David Ford
2.4.2-ac4 Undo partial loss 208.179.59.2/5432 c1 l1 ss2/2 p1 Undo loss 208.179.59.2/5432 c2 l0 ss2/2 p0 Undo loss 208.179.59.2/25 c2 l0 ss2/2 p0 Undo partial loss 208.179.59.2/22 c1 l3 ss2/2 p3 Undo loss 208.179.59.2/143 c2 l0 ss2/3 p0 simple debug messages, or is someone (andy/dave) interested

curious bug

2001-03-12 Thread David Ford
2.4.3-pre3 richh12557 0.0 0.7 5096 1704 pts/10 D04:32 0:00 ./egg idaho richh12558 0.0 0.0 00 pts/10 Z04:32 0:00 [egg ] richh12560 0.0 0.7 5096 1704 pts/10 S04:32 0:00 ./egg idaho # ps -eo args,wchan|grep egg ./egg idaho down [egg ]

curious bug

2001-03-12 Thread David Ford
2.4.3-pre3 richh12557 0.0 0.7 5096 1704 pts/10 D04:32 0:00 ./egg idaho richh12558 0.0 0.0 00 pts/10 Z04:32 0:00 [egg defunct] richh12560 0.0 0.7 5096 1704 pts/10 S04:32 0:00 ./egg idaho # ps -eo args,wchan|grep egg ./egg idaho down [egg

curious messages

2001-03-12 Thread David Ford
2.4.2-ac4 Undo partial loss 208.179.59.2/5432 c1 l1 ss2/2 p1 Undo loss 208.179.59.2/5432 c2 l0 ss2/2 p0 Undo loss 208.179.59.2/25 c2 l0 ss2/2 p0 Undo partial loss 208.179.59.2/22 c1 l3 ss2/2 p3 Undo loss 208.179.59.2/143 c2 l0 ss2/3 p0 simple debug messages, or is someone (andy/dave) interested

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: Apparent instability of reiserfs on 2.4.1

2001-02-10 Thread David Ford
Alan Cox wrote: >> I run Reiser on all but /boot, and it seems to enjoy corrupting my >> mbox'es randomly. >> Using the old-style Reiser FS format, 2.4.2-pre1, Evolution, on a CMD640 >> chipset with the fixes enabled. >> This also occurs in some log files, but I put it down to syslogd >>

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: Apparent instability of reiserfs on 2.4.1

2001-02-10 Thread David Ford
Alan Cox wrote: I run Reiser on all but /boot, and it seems to enjoy corrupting my mbox'es randomly. Using the old-style Reiser FS format, 2.4.2-pre1, Evolution, on a CMD640 chipset with the fixes enabled. This also occurs in some log files, but I put it down to syslogd crashing or

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: VM brokenness, possibly related to reiserfs

2001-02-03 Thread David Ford
Chris Mason wrote: > > On Thursday, February 01, 2001 02:16:43 PM -0200 Rik van Riel ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> About the system hanging completely, I wonder if it goes >> away by pressing sysrq-S (sync all disks). If it does, >> maybe Reiserfs was blocking all the pages in the inactive

Re: [reiserfs-list] ReiserFS Oops (2.4.1, deterministic, symlink related)

2001-02-03 Thread David Ford
How about a simple patch to the top level makefile that checks the gcc version then prints a distinct message ..'this compiler hasn't been approved for compiling the kernel', sleeping for one second, then continuing on. This solution doesn't stop compiling and makes a visible indicator without

Re: [reiserfs-list] ReiserFS Oops (2.4.1, deterministic, symlink related)

2001-02-03 Thread David Ford
How about a simple patch to the top level makefile that checks the gcc version then prints a distinct message ..'this compiler hasn't been approved for compiling the kernel', sleeping for one second, then continuing on. This solution doesn't stop compiling and makes a visible indicator without

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: VM brokenness, possibly related to reiserfs

2001-02-03 Thread David Ford
Chris Mason wrote: On Thursday, February 01, 2001 02:16:43 PM -0200 Rik van Riel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: About the system hanging completely, I wonder if it goes away by pressing sysrq-S (sync all disks). If it does, maybe Reiserfs was blocking all the pages in the inactive list from

Re: 2.4.1 - can't read root fs (devfs maybe?)

2001-02-02 Thread David Ford
> image=/boot/bzImage > label=linux > append="root=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 vga=3845" root=/dev/ide/host will work the same as root=/dev/hda... in pre-devfs -d -- There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. Thomas Jefferson The

Re: 2.4.1 - can't read root fs (devfs maybe?)

2001-02-02 Thread David Ford
image=/boot/bzImage label=linux append="root=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 vga=3845" root=/dev/ide/host will work the same as root=/dev/hda... in pre-devfs -d -- There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. Thomas Jefferson The

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: VM brokenness, possibly related to reiserfs

2001-02-01 Thread David Ford
My apologies...my internic data isn't updated, http://208.179.0.18/VM/ -d -- There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. Thomas Jefferson The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. Andrew S. Tanenbaum - To

Re: 2.4.1 - can't read root fs (devfs maybe?)

2001-02-01 Thread David Ford
"Michael J. Dikkema" wrote: > I went from 2.4.0 to 2.4.1 and was surprised that either the root > filesystem wasn't mounted, or it couldn't be read. I'm using devfs.. I'm > thinking there might have been a change with regards to the devfs > tree.. is the legacy /dev/hda1 still

Re: 2.4.1 - can't read root fs (devfs maybe?)

2001-02-01 Thread David Ford
John Jasen wrote: > On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > > [Michael J. Dikkema] > > > > I went from 2.4.0 to 2.4.1 and was surprised that either the root > > > > filesystem wasn't mounted, or it couldn't be read. I'm using devfs.. I'm > > > > thinking there might have been a change

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: VM brokenness, possibly related to reiserfs

2001-02-01 Thread David Ford
Chris Mason wrote: > Sorry, can't seem to resolve stuph.org. What is kreiserfsd doing during when the >system is waiting for more ram? With JOURNAL_MAX_BATCH set to 100, kreiserfsd will >end up responsible for sending log blocks/metadata to disk and freeing the pinned >buffers. > > -chris

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: VM brokenness, possibly related to reiserfs

2001-02-01 Thread David Ford
My apologies...my internic data isn't updated, http://208.179.0.18/VM/ -d -- There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. Thomas Jefferson The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. Andrew S. Tanenbaum - To

Re: VM brokenness, possibly related to reiserfs

2001-02-01 Thread David Ford
t; Gather this is with no swap space allocated... And the question is why does > the oom handler not get triggered? > > Ed Tomlinson > > David Ford wrote: > > > (Chris, changing JOURNAL_MAX_BATCH from 900 to 100 didn't affect > > anything). > > > > Ok, havi

Re: VM brokenness, possibly related to reiserfs

2001-02-01 Thread David Ford
this is with no swap space allocated... And the question is why does the oom handler not get triggered? Ed Tomlinson David Ford wrote: (Chris, changing JOURNAL_MAX_BATCH from 900 to 100 didn't affect anything). Ok, having approached this slightly more intelligently here are [better] results

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: VM brokenness, possibly related to reiserfs

2001-02-01 Thread David Ford
My apologies...my internic data isn't updated, http://208.179.0.18/VM/ -d -- There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. Thomas Jefferson The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. Andrew S. Tanenbaum - To

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: VM brokenness, possibly related to reiserfs

2001-02-01 Thread David Ford
Chris Mason wrote: Sorry, can't seem to resolve stuph.org. What is kreiserfsd doing during when the system is waiting for more ram? With JOURNAL_MAX_BATCH set to 100, kreiserfsd will end up responsible for sending log blocks/metadata to disk and freeing the pinned buffers. -chris

Re: 2.4.1 - can't read root fs (devfs maybe?)

2001-02-01 Thread David Ford
John Jasen wrote: On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Peter Samuelson wrote: [Michael J. Dikkema] I went from 2.4.0 to 2.4.1 and was surprised that either the root filesystem wasn't mounted, or it couldn't be read. I'm using devfs.. I'm thinking there might have been a change with regards to

Re: 2.4.1 - can't read root fs (devfs maybe?)

2001-02-01 Thread David Ford
"Michael J. Dikkema" wrote: I went from 2.4.0 to 2.4.1 and was surprised that either the root filesystem wasn't mounted, or it couldn't be read. I'm using devfs.. I'm thinking there might have been a change with regards to the devfs tree.. is the legacy /dev/hda1 still

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: VM brokenness, possibly related to reiserfs

2001-02-01 Thread David Ford
My apologies...my internic data isn't updated, http://208.179.0.18/VM/ -d -- There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. Thomas Jefferson The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. Andrew S. Tanenbaum - To

VM brokenness, possibly related to reiserfs

2001-01-31 Thread David Ford
(Chris, changing JOURNAL_MAX_BATCH from 900 to 100 didn't affect anything). Ok, having approached this slightly more intelligently here are [better] results. The dumps are large so they are located at http://stuph.org/VM/. Here's the story. I boot and startx, I load xmms and netscape to eat

Re: [PATCH/REQ] Increase kmsg buffer from 16K to 32K, kernel/printk.c

2001-01-31 Thread David Ford
"Maciej W. Rozycki" wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > Does Linus or anyone object to raising the ksmg buffer from 16K to 32K? > > > 4/5 systems I have now overflow the buffer during boot before init is > > > even launched. > > > > Thats just an indication that 2.4.x is

Re: [PATCH] doc update/fixes for sysrq.txt

2001-01-31 Thread David Ford
Alan Cox wrote: > > > AFAIK, this hasn't ever been true. I have never had to specifically > > > enable it at run time. > > > > I was suspicious of that in the old doc but thought I'd leave it in... > > Should have asked for feedback on it, but you caught it anyway, thanks! > > > > Here's a

Re: [PATCH] doc update/fixes for sysrq.txt

2001-01-31 Thread David Ford
Alan Cox wrote: AFAIK, this hasn't ever been true. I have never had to specifically enable it at run time. I was suspicious of that in the old doc but thought I'd leave it in... Should have asked for feedback on it, but you caught it anyway, thanks! Here's a patch against the

Re: [PATCH/REQ] Increase kmsg buffer from 16K to 32K, kernel/printk.c

2001-01-31 Thread David Ford
"Maciej W. Rozycki" wrote: On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: Does Linus or anyone object to raising the ksmg buffer from 16K to 32K? 4/5 systems I have now overflow the buffer during boot before init is even launched. Thats just an indication that 2.4.x is currently printking

VM brokenness, possibly related to reiserfs

2001-01-31 Thread David Ford
(Chris, changing JOURNAL_MAX_BATCH from 900 to 100 didn't affect anything). Ok, having approached this slightly more intelligently here are [better] results. The dumps are large so they are located at http://stuph.org/VM/. Here's the story. I boot and startx, I load xmms and netscape to eat

Re: 2.4.x and SMP fails to compile (`current' undefined)

2001-01-30 Thread David Ford
Mhm. Is it worth the effort to make a dependancy on the CPU type for SMP? -d Stephen Frost wrote: > * David Ford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > A person just brought up a problem in #kernelnewbies, building an SMP > > kernel doesn't work very well, current is undefined. I

2.4.x and SMP fails to compile (`current' undefined)

2001-01-30 Thread David Ford
A person just brought up a problem in #kernelnewbies, building an SMP kernel doesn't work very well, current is undefined. I don't have more time to debug it but I'll strip the config and put it up at http://stuph.org/smp-config -d -- There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of

2.4.x and SMP fails to compile (`current' undefined)

2001-01-30 Thread David Ford
A person just brought up a problem in #kernelnewbies, building an SMP kernel doesn't work very well, current is undefined. I don't have more time to debug it but I'll strip the config and put it up at http://stuph.org/smp-config -d -- There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of

Re: 2.4.x and SMP fails to compile (`current' undefined)

2001-01-30 Thread David Ford
Mhm. Is it worth the effort to make a dependancy on the CPU type for SMP? /idle questions -d Stephen Frost wrote: * David Ford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: A person just brought up a problem in #kernelnewbies, building an SMP kernel doesn't work very well, current is undefined. I don't

Re: [PATCH] doc update/fixes for sysrq.txt

2001-01-29 Thread David Ford
Jonathan Earle wrote: > > On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 11:35:50 +, David Ford wrote: > > > AFAIK, this hasn't ever been true. I have never had to specifically > > > enable it at run time. > > > > I was suspicious of that in the old doc but thought I'd

Re: [PATCH] doc update/fixes for sysrq.txt

2001-01-29 Thread David Ford
Jonathan Earle wrote: On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 11:35:50 +, David Ford wrote: AFAIK, this hasn't ever been true. I have never had to specifically enable it at run time. I was suspicious of that in the old doc but thought I'd leave it in... Should have asked for feedback

Re: D state after applying ps hang patch

2001-01-28 Thread David Ford
The one LInus posted plus his addendum for the ll_rw_blk. http://blue-labs.org/patches/ps-hang.patch -d Jens Axboe wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29 2001, David Ford wrote: > > kernel 2.4.0-ac12 > > > > # ps -eo user,pid,args,wchan|egrep "imap|update|procmail&qu

D state after applying ps hang patch

2001-01-28 Thread David Ford
kernel 2.4.0-ac12 # ps -eo user,pid,args,wchan|egrep "imap|update|procmail" root 7 [kupdate]get_request_wait david 627 imapdget_request_wait david 752 procmail -f linu down david 761 procmail -f linu down david 799 procmail -f linu down david

Re: [PATCH] doc update/fixes for sysrq.txt

2001-01-28 Thread David Ford
"Jeremy M. Dolan" wrote: > +Note that previous versions disabled sysrq by default, and you were required > +to specifically enable it at run-time. That is not the case any longer. AFAIK, this hasn't ever been true. I have never had to specifically enable it at run time. There are certain

Re: [PATCH] devfsd, compiling on glibc22x

2001-01-28 Thread David Ford
Ulrich Drepper wrote: > Pierre Rousselet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > for me : > > make CFLAGS='-O2 -I. -D_GNU_SOURCE' > > compiles without any patch. is it correct ? > > Yes. RTLD_NEXT is not in any standard, it's an extension available > via -D_GNU_SOURCE. Ok, how about we all tag

Re: [PATCH] devfsd, compiling on glibc22x

2001-01-28 Thread David Ford
Ulrich Drepper wrote: Pierre Rousselet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: for me : make CFLAGS='-O2 -I. -D_GNU_SOURCE' compiles without any patch. is it correct ? Yes. RTLD_NEXT is not in any standard, it's an extension available via -D_GNU_SOURCE. Ok, how about we all tag Richard until he

Re: [PATCH] doc update/fixes for sysrq.txt

2001-01-28 Thread David Ford
"Jeremy M. Dolan" wrote: +Note that previous versions disabled sysrq by default, and you were required +to specifically enable it at run-time. That is not the case any longer. AFAIK, this hasn't ever been true. I have never had to specifically enable it at run time. There are certain

D state after applying ps hang patch

2001-01-28 Thread David Ford
kernel 2.4.0-ac12 # ps -eo user,pid,args,wchan|egrep "imap|update|procmail" root 7 [kupdate]get_request_wait david 627 imapdget_request_wait david 752 procmail -f linu down david 761 procmail -f linu down david 799 procmail -f linu down david

Re: D state after applying ps hang patch

2001-01-28 Thread David Ford
The one LInus posted plus his addendum for the ll_rw_blk. http://blue-labs.org/patches/ps-hang.patch -d Jens Axboe wrote: On Mon, Jan 29 2001, David Ford wrote: kernel 2.4.0-ac12 # ps -eo user,pid,args,wchan|egrep "imap|update|procmail" root 7 [kupdate]get_re

[PATCH] devfsd, compiling on glibc22x

2001-01-27 Thread David Ford
e(8). Fail if a configuration line has EXECUTE modprobe. +Updated by David Ford 27-JAN-2001: Added RTLD_NEXT define */ #include @@ -221,6 +222,10 @@ #define AC_MKNEWCOMPAT 8 #define AC_RMOLDCOMPAT 9 #define AC_RMNEWCOMPAT 10 + +#ifndef RTLD_NEXT

Re: ps hang in 241-pre10

2001-01-27 Thread David Ford
It is important to note that when I hit the magic key and rebooted (SUB), a split second before it rebooted, a stalled 'lspci' snapped back to life and printed out my expected data. -d -- There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. Thomas Jefferson

Re: ps hang in 241-pre10

2001-01-27 Thread David Ford
have an ATI Rage LT Pro AGP-133 according to lspci. -d J Sloan wrote: > Sorry, there was no xmms involved here - > > The behavior occurred while playing unreal tournament. > > But at least the sound card was in use, FWIW - > > jjs > > David Ford wrote: > > >

Re: ps hang in 241-pre10

2001-01-27 Thread David Ford
Unfortunately klogd reads /procerg. So the following is a painstakingly slow hand translation, I'll only print the D state entries unless someone asks otherwise. Prior to this: XMMS is running playing star wars mpeg. (regular user) (frozen) TOP is running (regular user) (frozen)

Re: ps hang in 241-pre10

2001-01-27 Thread David Ford
Linus Torvalds wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > >We've narrowed it down to "we're all running xmms" when it happend. > > Does anybody have a clue about what is different with xmms? Not sure.

Re: ps hang in 241-pre10

2001-01-27 Thread David Ford
At the time I had temporary access to my notebook and had a mismatched System.map file :S -d Linus Torvalds wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I can quickly and easily duplicate it on my notebook by playing music or > >

Re: ps hang in 241-pre10

2001-01-27 Thread David Ford
We've narrowed it down to "we're all running xmms" when it happend. -d J Sloan wrote: > Just for the record, the system where I saw the problem > has only ext2 - -- There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. Thomas Jefferson The good thing about

Re: VM breakdown, 2.4.0 family

2001-01-27 Thread David Ford
will then grind the harddrive solid for about 25-30 minutes then everything will go silent. The brokenness is that the OOM code never activates. -d Ed Tomlinson wrote: > David Ford Wrote: > > >Since the testN series and up through ac12, I experience total loss of > >control whe

Re: [PATCH/REQ] Increase kmsg buffer from 16K to 32K, kernel/printk.c

2001-01-27 Thread David Ford
Ion Badulescu wrote: > On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 08:01:14 +0000, David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does Linus or anyone object to raising the ksmg buffer from 16K to 32K? > > 4/5 systems I have now overflow the buffer during boot before init is > > even launched.

Looking for comparison data on network stack prowess

2001-01-27 Thread David Ford
I'm looking for some authoritative comparisons and discussions of the current network stacks in *BSD and Linux. I.e. NET4 in Linux and whatever is most current in *BSD. _PLEASE_ no flaming, no causing flamewar, nadda. I am writing an article for Linux.com and I am attempting to debunk

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