Thrash reduction & RE: 2.4.0-test10 Sluggish After Load

2000-11-03 Thread Jonathan George
-Original Message- From: Christoph Rohland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 7:54 AM To: Rik van Riel Cc: Jonathan George; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: 2.4.0-test10 Sluggish After Load Hi Rik, >On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Rik van Riel wr

Thrash reduction RE: 2.4.0-test10 Sluggish After Load

2000-11-03 Thread Jonathan George
-Original Message- From: Christoph Rohland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 7:54 AM To: Rik van Riel Cc: Jonathan George; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: 2.4.0-test10 Sluggish After Load Hi Rik, On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Rik van Riel wrote

RE: 2.4.0-test10 Sluggish After Load

2000-11-01 Thread Jonathan George
-Original Message- From: Rik van Riel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 11:06 AM To: Jonathan George Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: 2.4.0-test10 Sluggish After Load On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Jonathan George wrote: > It might be help

Re: KernelWiki for November: Dia de Muertos

2000-11-01 Thread Jonathan George
Gary, Your post to the kernel mailing list is annoyingly patronizing, and _will_ get you flamed and added to kill files as a result. On the other hand working on kernel documentation is a worthy endeavor, so I would encourage you to try an approach which shows some respect to the people who

RE: 2.4.0-test10 Sluggish After Load

2000-11-01 Thread Jonathan George
Matt, It might be helpful to show the current (post crippled) results of top. Futhermore, a list of allocated ipc resources (share memory, etc.) and open files (lsof) would be nice. --Jonathan-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

RE: 2.4.0-test10 Sluggish After Load

2000-11-01 Thread Jonathan George
Matt, It might be helpful to show the current (post crippled) results of top. Futhermore, a list of allocated ipc resources (share memory, etc.) and open files (lsof) would be nice. --Jonathan-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

Re: KernelWiki for November: Dia de Muertos

2000-11-01 Thread Jonathan George
Gary, Your post to the kernel mailing list is annoyingly patronizing, and _will_ get you flamed and added to kill files as a result. On the other hand working on kernel documentation is a worthy endeavor, so I would encourage you to try an approach which shows some respect to the people who

RE: 2.4.0-test10 Sluggish After Load

2000-11-01 Thread Jonathan George
-Original Message- From: Rik van Riel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 11:06 AM To: Jonathan George Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: 2.4.0-test10 Sluggish After Load On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Jonathan George wrote: It might be helpful

RE: Patch to remove undefined C code

2000-10-16 Thread Jonathan George
>-Original Message- >From: Alexander Viro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] [snip] > >No arguments here, but proposed fixes were remarkably ugly. Example: > >tmp = *p++; >*q = f(tmp, *p++); >return p; > >is equivalent to more idiomatic > >*q = f(p[0], p[1]); >return p+2; > >And example with

RE: Patch to remove undefined C code

2000-10-16 Thread Jonathan George
-Original Message- From: Ben Pfaff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Jonathan George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> This patch has many bogus corrections where new variables were created, but >> the order of evaluation is already unambiguous. >> >> For

Patch to remove undefined C code

2000-10-16 Thread Jonathan George
This patch has many bogus corrections where new variables were created, but the order of evaluation is already unambiguous. For example each comma separated clause in an expression is guaranteed to be completely evaluated before the next comma separated clause Including Assignments. It seems as

Patch to remove undefined C code

2000-10-16 Thread Jonathan George
This patch has many bogus corrections where new variables were created, but the order of evaluation is already unambiguous. For example each comma separated clause in an expression is guaranteed to be completely evaluated before the next comma separated clause Including Assignments. It seems as

RE: Patch to remove undefined C code

2000-10-16 Thread Jonathan George
-Original Message- From: Ben Pfaff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Jonathan George [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This patch has many bogus corrections where new variables were created, but the order of evaluation is already unambiguous. For example each comma separated clause

RE: Patch to remove undefined C code

2000-10-16 Thread Jonathan George
-Original Message- From: Alexander Viro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] [snip] No arguments here, but proposed fixes were remarkably ugly. Example: tmp = *p++; *q = f(tmp, *p++); return p; is equivalent to more idiomatic *q = f(p[0], p[1]); return p+2; And example with copying the string

Re: large memory support for x86

2000-10-12 Thread Jonathan George
>On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Oliver Xymoron wrote: >> On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Kiril Vidimce wrote: >> >> > My primary concern is whether a process can allocate more than 4 GB of >> > memory, rather than just be able to use more than 4 GB of physical >> > memory in the system. >> >> Define allocate.

Re: large memory support for x86

2000-10-12 Thread Jonathan George
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Oliver Xymoron wrote: On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Kiril Vidimce wrote: My primary concern is whether a process can allocate more than 4 GB of memory, rather than just be able to use more than 4 GB of physical memory in the system. Define allocate. There are tricks