Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 23:49 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 28 January 2008, Kasper Sandberg wrote: > [...] > > > >I can invalidate this theory... > >i helped a guy on irc debug this problem, and he had ati. I tried having > >him stop using fglrx, and go to

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 11:35 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 28 January 2008, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > >Gene Heskett writes: > > > On Monday 28 January 2008, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > >On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 09:17 +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > > > >> 1. Wrong mailing list; use

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 11:35 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 28 January 2008, Mikael Pettersson wrote: Gene Heskett writes: On Monday 28 January 2008, Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 09:17 +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote: 1. Wrong mailing list; use linux-ide (@vger)

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 23:49 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 28 January 2008, Kasper Sandberg wrote: [...] snip I can invalidate this theory... i helped a guy on irc debug this problem, and he had ati. I tried having him stop using fglrx, and go to r300.. same problem, and same problem

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-27 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 21:22 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greeting; > > None were logged during the time I was running an -rc7 or -rc8. > > The previous hits on this resulted in the udma speed being downgraded > till it was actually running in pio just before the freeze that > required the

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-27 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 21:22 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: Greeting; snip None were logged during the time I was running an -rc7 or -rc8. The previous hits on this resulted in the udma speed being downgraded till it was actually running in pio just before the freeze that required the

Re: [possible regression] 2.6.22 reiserfs/libata sporadically hangs on resume from hibernation

2007-09-02 Thread Kasper Sandberg
Sorry for top posting, but this is MAYBE a related matter, i am not sure. the thing is, i am running with libata and reiserfs on a raid5 with 6 disks, and after i changed to libata it has worked excellently (before it used to give DMA errors and then go boom). however now i sometimes, if theres

Re: [possible regression] 2.6.22 reiserfs/libata sporadically hangs on resume from hibernation

2007-09-02 Thread Kasper Sandberg
Sorry for top posting, but this is MAYBE a related matter, i am not sure. the thing is, i am running with libata and reiserfs on a raid5 with 6 disks, and after i changed to libata it has worked excellently (before it used to give DMA errors and then go boom). however now i sometimes, if theres

Re: SD still better than CFS for 3d ?(was Re: 2.6.23-rc1)

2007-08-01 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 10:57 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 01:46 +0200, Kasper Sandberg wrote: > > > > > could perhaps be filesystem related, i have my maildir(extremely > > > large) o

Re: SD still better than CFS for 3d ?(was Re: 2.6.23-rc1)

2007-08-01 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 10:57 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 01:46 +0200, Kasper Sandberg wrote: could perhaps be filesystem related, i have my maildir(extremely large) on reiserfs, and /home on xfs. what my mail client

Re: SD still better than CFS for 3d ?(was Re: 2.6.23-rc1)

2007-07-30 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 19:06 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Kasper Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Im still not so keen about this, Ingo never did get CFS to match SD in > > smoothness for 3d applications, where my test subjects are quake(s), > > worl

Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-30 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 17:04 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > hi Kasper, > > * Kasper Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Im still not so keen about this, Ingo never did get CFS to match SD in > > smoothness for 3d applications, where my test subjects are quake(

Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-30 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 17:04 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: hi Kasper, * Kasper Sandberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im still not so keen about this, Ingo never did get CFS to match SD in smoothness for 3d applications, where my test subjects are quake(s), world of warcraft via wine, unreal

Re: SD still better than CFS for 3d ?(was Re: 2.6.23-rc1)

2007-07-30 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 19:06 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Kasper Sandberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im still not so keen about this, Ingo never did get CFS to match SD in smoothness for 3d applications, where my test subjects are quake(s), world of warcraft via wine, unreal tournament 2004

Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-28 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 01:41 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Hi, > > I never tried Con's patchset, for two reasons: > I tried his 2.4 patches ones, and I never saw any improvements. So when > people > were reporting huge improvements with his SD scheduler, I compared that with > the

Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-28 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 10:50 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Kasper Sandberg wrote: > > > > First off, i've personally run tests on many more machines than my own, > > i've had lots of people try on their machines, and i've seen totally > > unre

Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-28 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 19:35 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Kasper Sandberg wrote: > > > > Im still not so keen about this, Ingo never did get CFS to match SD in > > smoothness for 3d applications, where my test subjects are quake(s), > > worl

Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-28 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 19:35 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Kasper Sandberg wrote: Im still not so keen about this, Ingo never did get CFS to match SD in smoothness for 3d applications, where my test subjects are quake(s), world of warcraft via wine, unreal tournament

Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-28 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 10:50 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Kasper Sandberg wrote: First off, i've personally run tests on many more machines than my own, i've had lots of people try on their machines, and i've seen totally unrelated posts to lkml, plus i've seen

Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-28 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 01:41 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Hi, I never tried Con's patchset, for two reasons: I tried his 2.4 patches ones, and I never saw any improvements. So when people were reporting huge improvements with his SD scheduler, I compared that with the reports of

Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-27 Thread Kasper Sandberg
(sorry for repost, but there seemed to have been some troubles..) On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 14:04 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Ok, right on time, two weeks afetr 2.6.22, there's a 2.6.23-rc1 out there. > > And it has a *ton* of changes as usual for the merge window, way too much > for me to be

SD still better than CFS for 3d (was Re: 2.6.23-rc1)

2007-07-27 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 14:04 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Ok, right on time, two weeks afetr 2.6.22, there's a 2.6.23-rc1 out there. > > And it has a *ton* of changes as usual for the merge window, way too much > for me to be able to post even just the shortlog or diffstat on the > mailing

SD still better than CFS for 3d (was Re: 2.6.23-rc1)

2007-07-27 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 14:04 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: Ok, right on time, two weeks afetr 2.6.22, there's a 2.6.23-rc1 out there. And it has a *ton* of changes as usual for the merge window, way too much for me to be able to post even just the shortlog or diffstat on the mailing list

Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-27 Thread Kasper Sandberg
(sorry for repost, but there seemed to have been some troubles..) On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 14:04 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: Ok, right on time, two weeks afetr 2.6.22, there's a 2.6.23-rc1 out there. And it has a *ton* of changes as usual for the merge window, way too much for me to be able

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v11

2007-05-10 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 18:59 +0200, Christian wrote: > Hello lkml, hello Ingo! > > I've been using CFS-v10 for a few days and I must say that I'm verry > impressed ;-) > > Desktop performance without any manual renicing is excellent, even with > make -j20. Gaming performance is at least on par

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v11

2007-05-10 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 18:59 +0200, Christian wrote: Hello lkml, hello Ingo! I've been using CFS-v10 for a few days and I must say that I'm verry impressed ;-) Desktop performance without any manual renicing is excellent, even with make -j20. Gaming performance is at least on par with SD

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v11

2007-05-09 Thread Kasper Sandberg
Hello Ingo. Sorry it has taken this long, but i've been quite busy with work. Here are my results with v11 for smoothness. under slight load (spamasassin nice 19'ed), its now doing okay in smoothness, almost as good as SD. but under harder load such as pressing a link in a browser while 3d(at

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v11

2007-05-09 Thread Kasper Sandberg
Hello Ingo. Sorry it has taken this long, but i've been quite busy with work. Here are my results with v11 for smoothness. under slight load (spamasassin nice 19'ed), its now doing okay in smoothness, almost as good as SD. but under harder load such as pressing a link in a browser while 3d(at

Re: 3d smoothness (was: Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v6)

2007-04-30 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 22:17 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Kasper Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This patch makes things much worse, [...] > > yeah, the small patch i sent to you in private mail was indeed buggy, > please disregard it. It also hardlocked

3d smoothness (was: Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v6)

2007-04-30 Thread Kasper Sandberg
aft, the audio skips. I believe this to be a problem in wine, however, in sd it actually does not skip. On the desktop however, the audio issues were totally fixed in v7.. mvh. Kasper Sandberg - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

3d smoothness (was: Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v6)

2007-04-30 Thread Kasper Sandberg
this to be a problem in wine, however, in sd it actually does not skip. On the desktop however, the audio issues were totally fixed in v7.. mvh. Kasper Sandberg - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: 3d smoothness (was: Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v6)

2007-04-30 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 22:17 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Kasper Sandberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch makes things much worse, [...] yeah, the small patch i sent to you in private mail was indeed buggy, please disregard it. It also hardlocked my box :) but it was worth a shot

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v6

2007-04-29 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 08:42 -0700, Ray Lee wrote: > On 4/29/07, Kasper Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 08:59 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > well, there are several reports of CFS being significantly better than > > > SD on a number

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v6

2007-04-29 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 14:13 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 14:00 +0200, Kasper Sandberg wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 13:11 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 12:30:54PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > > > Contr

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v6

2007-04-29 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 13:11 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 12:30:54PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Contrarily to most people, I don't see them as competitors. I see SD as > a first step with a low risk of regression, and CFS as an ultimate > solution relying on a more

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v6

2007-04-29 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 12:30 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Willy, > As a sidenote: I really wonder if anybody noticed yet, that the whole > CFS / SD comparison is so ridiculous, that it is not even funny anymore. > CFS modifies the scheduler and nothing else, SD fiddles all over the > kernel in

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v6

2007-04-29 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 08:59 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't know if Mike still has problems with SD, but there are now > > several interesting reports of SD giving better feedback than CFS on > > real work. In my experience, CFS seems

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v6

2007-04-29 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 08:59 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Willy Tarreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know if Mike still has problems with SD, but there are now several interesting reports of SD giving better feedback than CFS on real work. In my experience, CFS seems smoother on

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v6

2007-04-29 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 12:30 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: Willy, snip As a sidenote: I really wonder if anybody noticed yet, that the whole CFS / SD comparison is so ridiculous, that it is not even funny anymore. CFS modifies the scheduler and nothing else, SD fiddles all over the kernel in

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v6

2007-04-29 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 13:11 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 12:30:54PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: snip Contrarily to most people, I don't see them as competitors. I see SD as a first step with a low risk of regression, and CFS as an ultimate solution relying on a more

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v6

2007-04-29 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 14:13 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 14:00 +0200, Kasper Sandberg wrote: On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 13:11 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 12:30:54PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: snip Contrarily to most people, I don't see them

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v6

2007-04-29 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 08:42 -0700, Ray Lee wrote: On 4/29/07, Kasper Sandberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 08:59 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: well, there are several reports of CFS being significantly better than SD on a number of workloads - and i know of only two reports

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v6

2007-04-28 Thread Kasper Sandberg
it will skip for 200 ms and then hurry to display the 35 frames. This means it does get the workload done, but not in a very plesant matter, and its here i see SD as being in such a high league that its really impossible to describe the results with any other word than Perfect. mvh. Kasper Sandberg

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v6

2007-04-28 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 13:55 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > update for lkml readers: this is some really 'catastrophic' condition > > triggering on your box. Here ogg123 just never skips on an older 750 > > MHz box, which is 4-5 times slower than your

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v6

2007-04-28 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 13:55 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: update for lkml readers: this is some really 'catastrophic' condition triggering on your box. Here ogg123 just never skips on an older 750 MHz box, which is 4-5 times slower than your 2GHz box -

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v6

2007-04-28 Thread Kasper Sandberg
it will skip for 200 ms and then hurry to display the 35 frames. This means it does get the workload done, but not in a very plesant matter, and its here i see SD as being in such a high league that its really impossible to describe the results with any other word than Perfect. mvh. Kasper Sandberg

Re: "REPORT: sd-0.46 vs cfs-v6 vs mainline 2.6.21-rc7 Beryl + Video + Audio"

2007-04-27 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 21:01 -0700, hechacker1 wrote: > Overall: > SD-0.46 is my new choice for scheduler. When not under load everything > run's better or similarly to cfs or mainline. Under load however it > shows the most responsiveness. > > Occasionally I had complete mouse freezes with cfs

Re: REPORT: sd-0.46 vs cfs-v6 vs mainline 2.6.21-rc7 Beryl + Video + Audio

2007-04-27 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 21:01 -0700, hechacker1 wrote: snip Overall: SD-0.46 is my new choice for scheduler. When not under load everything run's better or similarly to cfs or mainline. Under load however it shows the most responsiveness. Occasionally I had complete mouse freezes with cfs

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v6

2007-04-26 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 10:41 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Compared to mainline? I still think this is a 100% keeper for desktop users > like me. Here its alot worse, just playing an ogg with ogg123 even without anything reniced (X is 0), just pressing a link in konqueror can make audio skip

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v6

2007-04-26 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 10:41 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: snip Compared to mainline? I still think this is a 100% keeper for desktop users like me. Here its alot worse, just playing an ogg with ogg123 even without anything reniced (X is 0), just pressing a link in konqueror can make audio skip

Re: ZFS with Linux: An Open Plea

2007-04-15 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 04:57 -0400, David R. Litwin wrote: > On 15/04/07, Kasper Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 19:18 -0400, David R. Litwin wrote: > > > By the way, forget about this FUSE business. I don't know why they're > > botherin

Re: ZFS with Linux: An Open Plea

2007-04-15 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 04:57 -0400, David R. Litwin wrote: On 15/04/07, Kasper Sandberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 19:18 -0400, David R. Litwin wrote: By the way, forget about this FUSE business. I don't know why they're bothering: It's not real, it's slow

Re: ZFS with Linux: An Open Plea

2007-04-14 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 19:18 -0400, David R. Litwin wrote: > Before I go on, let me appologise. I don't really know what I hope to > accomplish, beyond trying to garner thoughts (and support?) for the topic. > > Essentially: I want to use Linux and ZFS. I don't particularly care about >

Re: ZFS with Linux: An Open Plea

2007-04-14 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 19:18 -0400, David R. Litwin wrote: Before I go on, let me appologise. I don't really know what I hope to accomplish, beyond trying to garner thoughts (and support?) for the topic. Essentially: I want to use Linux and ZFS. I don't particularly care about licences or

Re: race condition in dm-crypt?

2007-03-24 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 21:41 +0100, Christoph Maier wrote: > Jan C. Nordholz wrote: > > I think I'm experiencing a race condition: Irregularly my kernel runs > > into an Oops when it tries to initialize my crypt containers. > > FYI, there are similiar reports on the net, going as far back as May

Re: race condition in dm-crypt?

2007-03-24 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 21:41 +0100, Christoph Maier wrote: Jan C. Nordholz wrote: I think I'm experiencing a race condition: Irregularly my kernel runs into an Oops when it tries to initialize my crypt containers. FYI, there are similiar reports on the net, going as far back as May 2006:

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-21 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 16:47 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Kasper Sandberg wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 08:38 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > >> On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 08:22 +0100, Radoslaw Szkodzinski wrote: > >> > >>> I'd recon KDE regresses

Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-21 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 08:16 -0700, Ray Lee wrote: > On 3/20/07, Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've droppped it from my machine -- interactive response is much > > more important for my primary machine right now. > > Help out with a data point? Are you running KDE as well? If you are, >

Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-21 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 08:16 -0700, Ray Lee wrote: On 3/20/07, Mark Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've droppped it from my machine -- interactive response is much more important for my primary machine right now. Help out with a data point? Are you running KDE as well? If you are, then it

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-21 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 16:47 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: Kasper Sandberg wrote: On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 08:38 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 08:22 +0100, Radoslaw Szkodzinski wrote: I'd recon KDE regresses because of kioslaves waiting on a pipe (communication

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-18 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 08:38 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 08:22 +0100, Radoslaw Szkodzinski wrote: > > > I'd recon KDE regresses because of kioslaves waiting on a pipe > > (communication with the app they're doing IO for) and then expiring. > > That's why splitting IO from

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-18 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 08:38 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 08:22 +0100, Radoslaw Szkodzinski wrote: I'd recon KDE regresses because of kioslaves waiting on a pipe (communication with the app they're doing IO for) and then expiring. That's why splitting IO from an app

Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-17 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 07:17 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 23:55 +0300, Al Boldi wrote: > > > Mike, I'm not saying RSDL is perfect, but v0.31 is by far better than > > mainline. Try this easy test: > > > > startx with the vesa driver > > run reflect from the mesa5.0-demos

Re: is RSDL an "unfair" scheduler too?

2007-03-17 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 21:13 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Con Kolivas wrote: > > Now for something constructive... by any chance is Mike running KDE > instead of GNOME? I only had a short time to play because I had to look > at another problem in 2.6.21-rc3 (nbd not working), so the test

Re: is RSDL an unfair scheduler too?

2007-03-17 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 21:13 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: Con Kolivas wrote: snip Now for something constructive... by any chance is Mike running KDE instead of GNOME? I only had a short time to play because I had to look at another problem in 2.6.21-rc3 (nbd not working), so the test

Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-17 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 07:17 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 23:55 +0300, Al Boldi wrote: Mike, I'm not saying RSDL is perfect, but v0.31 is by far better than mainline. Try this easy test: startx with the vesa driver run reflect from the mesa5.0-demos load 5

Re: [PATCH 00/18] Make common x86 arch area for i386 and x86_64 - Take 2

2007-03-15 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 01:08 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > [Hopefully fixed email client to make it to the list this time] > [This series has changed by using git-diff -M] > Seems appropriate, but I really don't care what it's called. One thing about > this name, is that typing arch/x86 doesn't

Re: [PATCH 00/18] Make common x86 arch area for i386 and x86_64 - Take 2

2007-03-15 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 01:08 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: [Hopefully fixed email client to make it to the list this time] [This series has changed by using git-diff -M] snip Seems appropriate, but I really don't care what it's called. One thing about this name, is that typing arch/x86Tab

Re: [PATCH][RSDL-mm 0/7] RSDL cpu scheduler for 2.6.21-rc3-mm2

2007-03-12 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 21:34 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: > On Monday 12 March 2007 20:38, Xavier Bestel wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 20:22 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: > > > On Monday 12 March 2007 19:55, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > > Hmm. So... anything that's client/server is going to suffer

Re: [PATCH][RSDL-mm 0/7] RSDL cpu scheduler for 2.6.21-rc3-mm2

2007-03-12 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 21:34 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: On Monday 12 March 2007 20:38, Xavier Bestel wrote: On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 20:22 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: On Monday 12 March 2007 19:55, Mike Galbraith wrote: Hmm. So... anything that's client/server is going to suffer horribly

Re: PROBLEM: writting files > 100 MB in FAT32

2007-01-18 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 11:22 +0200, Condor wrote: > Hello, > > [1.] Files if > 100 MB saving in USB memory stick 4 GB with FAT32. While > saving all files is broken. im sorry, i do not understand this. you are saying that if you copy files larger than 100mb into drive, all files die? > [2.] I

Re: PROBLEM: writting files 100 MB in FAT32

2007-01-18 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 11:22 +0200, Condor wrote: Hello, [1.] Files if 100 MB saving in USB memory stick 4 GB with FAT32. While saving all files is broken. im sorry, i do not understand this. you are saying that if you copy files larger than 100mb into drive, all files die? [2.] I have USB

Re: Gaming Interface

2007-01-09 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 17:08 +1000, Trent Waddington wrote: > On 1/9/07, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And remember Picasa as a success story for Wine - exactly because a port > > would have required too much effort for developers that were busy with > > other things. > > I understand

Re: Gaming Interface

2007-01-09 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 08:14 +0100, Dirk wrote: > Jan Dittmer wrote: > > Dirk wrote: > >> Alright. I came to discuss an idea I had because I realized that > >> installing Windows and running Linux in VMware is the only _fun_ way to > >> play "real" Games and have Linux at the same time. > >> > >>

Re: Gaming Interface

2007-01-09 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 08:22 +0100, Dirk wrote: > Kasper Sandberg wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 16:36 +0100, Dirk wrote: > >> Helge Hafting wrote: > >>> Dirk wrote: > >>>> Jay Vaughan wrote: > >>>> > >>>>>

Re: Gaming Interface

2007-01-09 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 08:22 +0100, Dirk wrote: Kasper Sandberg wrote: On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 16:36 +0100, Dirk wrote: Helge Hafting wrote: Dirk wrote: Jay Vaughan wrote: At 13:13 +0100 8/1/07, Dirk wrote: Trent Waddington wrote: Call me crazy, but game manufacturers want

Re: Gaming Interface

2007-01-09 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 08:14 +0100, Dirk wrote: Jan Dittmer wrote: Dirk wrote: Alright. I came to discuss an idea I had because I realized that installing Windows and running Linux in VMware is the only _fun_ way to play real Games and have Linux at the same time. And everyone who

Re: Gaming Interface

2007-01-09 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 17:08 +1000, Trent Waddington wrote: On 1/9/07, Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And remember Picasa as a success story for Wine - exactly because a port would have required too much effort for developers that were busy with other things. I understand what

Re: Gaming Interface

2007-01-08 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 16:36 +0100, Dirk wrote: > Helge Hafting wrote: > > Dirk wrote: > >> Jay Vaughan wrote: > >> > >>> At 13:13 +0100 8/1/07, Dirk wrote: > >>> > Trent Waddington wrote: > > Call me crazy, but game manufacturers want directx right? You aint > > running

Re: Gaming Interface

2007-01-08 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 16:36 +0100, Dirk wrote: Helge Hafting wrote: Dirk wrote: Jay Vaughan wrote: At 13:13 +0100 8/1/07, Dirk wrote: Trent Waddington wrote: Call me crazy, but game manufacturers want directx right? You aint running that in the kernel. They want

Re: libata error handling

2007-01-07 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 20:28 +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > On 1/6/07, Kasper Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 13:01 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > > > Kasper Sandberg wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 12:21 -0600, R

Re: libata error handling

2007-01-07 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 20:28 +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: On 1/6/07, Kasper Sandberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 13:01 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: Kasper Sandberg wrote: On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 12:21 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: Kasper Sandberg wrote

Re: libata error handling

2007-01-06 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 13:01 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > Kasper Sandberg wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 12:21 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > >> Kasper Sandberg wrote: > >>> i have heard that libata has much better error handling (this is what > >

Re: libata error handling

2007-01-06 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 12:21 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > Kasper Sandberg wrote: > > i have heard that libata has much better error handling (this is what > > made me try it), and from initial observations, that appears to be very > > true, however, im wondering, is the

libata error handling

2007-01-06 Thread Kasper Sandberg
extremely verbose information from libata? for example if it corrects errors? cause i'd really like to know if it still happens, and if i perhaps get corruption as before, even though not severe. Regards, Kasper Sandberg - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-k

libata error handling

2007-01-06 Thread Kasper Sandberg
extremely verbose information from libata? for example if it corrects errors? cause i'd really like to know if it still happens, and if i perhaps get corruption as before, even though not severe. Regards, Kasper Sandberg - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: libata error handling

2007-01-06 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 12:21 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: Kasper Sandberg wrote: i have heard that libata has much better error handling (this is what made me try it), and from initial observations, that appears to be very true, however, im wondering, is there something i can do to get

Re: libata error handling

2007-01-06 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 13:01 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: Kasper Sandberg wrote: On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 12:21 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: Kasper Sandberg wrote: i have heard that libata has much better error handling (this is what made me try it), and from initial observations

Re: BUG, 2.6.20-rc3 raid autodetection

2007-01-04 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 23:05 +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > On 1/4/07, Kasper Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 22:06 +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > On 1/4/07, Kasper Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > &

Re: BUG, 2.6.20-rc3 raid autodetection

2007-01-04 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 20:07 +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > On 1/4/07, Kasper Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello. > > > > i just attempted to test .20-rc3-git4 on a box, which has 6 drives in > > raid5. it uses raid autodetection, and 2 ide

BUG, 2.6.20-rc3 raid autodetection

2007-01-04 Thread Kasper Sandberg
://sh.nu/p/8002 second bug: notice on these pastes the lines at bottom, the keyboard stuff, these are repeated constantly, and caps/scrolllock button on keyboard is blinking. mvh. Kasper Sandberg - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

BUG, 2.6.20-rc3 raid autodetection

2007-01-04 Thread Kasper Sandberg
://sh.nu/p/8002 second bug: notice on these pastes the lines at bottom, the keyboard stuff, these are repeated constantly, and caps/scrolllock button on keyboard is blinking. mvh. Kasper Sandberg - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: BUG, 2.6.20-rc3 raid autodetection

2007-01-04 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 20:07 +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: On 1/4/07, Kasper Sandberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. i just attempted to test .20-rc3-git4 on a box, which has 6 drives in raid5. it uses raid autodetection, and 2 ide controllers (via and promise 20269

Re: BUG, 2.6.20-rc3 raid autodetection

2007-01-04 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 23:05 +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: On 1/4/07, Kasper Sandberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 22:06 +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: On 1/4/07, Kasper Sandberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 21:07 +0100, Bartlomiej

Re: BUG? atleast >=2.6.19-rc5, x86 chroot on x86_64

2006-12-13 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 02:50 -0500, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 05:39:43 +0100, Kasper Sandberg wrote: > > > do you think it may be a bug in the kernel? the stuff with wine that > > gets thrown in the kernel

Re: BUG? atleast =2.6.19-rc5, x86 chroot on x86_64

2006-12-13 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 02:50 -0500, Chuck Ebbert wrote: In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 05:39:43 +0100, Kasper Sandberg wrote: do you think it may be a bug in the kernel? the stuff with wine that gets thrown in the kernel messages? Let's just say the behavior has

Re: BUG? atleast >=2.6.19-rc5, x86 chroot on x86_64

2006-12-12 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 03:27 -0500, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 13:58:00 +0100, Kasper Sandberg wrote: > > > > Kasper, what problems (other that the annoying message) are you having? > > if it had only been the m

Re: BUG? atleast =2.6.19-rc5, x86 chroot on x86_64

2006-12-12 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 03:27 -0500, Chuck Ebbert wrote: In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 13:58:00 +0100, Kasper Sandberg wrote: Kasper, what problems (other that the annoying message) are you having? if it had only been the messages i wouldnt have complained

Re: BUG? atleast >=2.6.19-rc5, x86 chroot on x86_64

2006-12-06 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 22:29 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > and i am very very sure its because of this, i can run with the kernel > > (atleast with rc5 i had that long) for 10 days, and then chroot in, run > > the 32bit apps, and within hours of using, hardlock. > > Early AMD K8 platforms had a

Re: BUG? atleast >=2.6.19-rc5, x86 chroot on x86_64

2006-12-06 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 16:48 +, David Howells wrote: > Kasper Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > What do you mean by "hardlock"? Do you mean the application has to be > > > killed, > > > or do you mean the kernel is stuck and the

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