2.4.6-pre6 ext3 message

2001-07-01 Thread Mike Black
2.4.6-pre6 and ext3-2.4-0.0.8-246p5 (had to to hand patch a little). This message popped up on an idle system -- there were no "odd" cronjobs scheduled around this time. Nobody was logged on. System had been up for a little over a day...first time seeing any messages like this. The source

2.4.6-pre6 ext3 message

2001-07-01 Thread Mike Black
2.4.6-pre6 and ext3-2.4-0.0.8-246p5 (had to to hand patch a little). This message popped up on an idle system -- there were no odd cronjobs scheduled around this time. Nobody was logged on. System had been up for a little over a day...first time seeing any messages like this. The source

Qlogic Fiber Channel

2001-06-29 Thread Mike Black
I have been running successfully with qla2x00src-4.15Beta.tgz for several months now over several kernel versions up to 2.4.5. When I tested 2.4.6-pre6 I decided to use the qlogicfc driver -- BAD MISTAKE!!! #1 - My system had crashed (for a different reason) and when the raid5 was resyncing and

Qlogic Fiber Channel

2001-06-29 Thread Mike Black
I have been running successfully with qla2x00src-4.15Beta.tgz for several months now over several kernel versions up to 2.4.5. When I tested 2.4.6-pre6 I decided to use the qlogicfc driver -- BAD MISTAKE!!! #1 - My system had crashed (for a different reason) and when the raid5 was resyncing and

Re: Client receives TCP packets but does not ACK

2001-06-16 Thread Mike Black
OK guys -- how much money are you willing to be that TCP is guaranteed?? Since you don't want to talk OSI that's OK -- that's just to educate some people. Try this: (this is what I ran into years ago and had to argue to death). #1 Client1 has tcp connection to Server1. Both machines are setup

Re: Client receives TCP packets but does not ACK

2001-06-16 Thread Mike Black
OK guys -- how much money are you willing to be that TCP is guaranteed?? Since you don't want to talk OSI that's OK -- that's just to educate some people. Try this: (this is what I ran into years ago and had to argue to death). #1 Client1 has tcp connection to Server1. Both machines are setup

Re: Client receives TCP packets but does not ACK

2001-06-15 Thread Mike Black
den, Folkert van" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mike Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 8:53 AM Subject: RE: Client receives TCP packets but does not ACK > TCP is NOT a guaranteed protocol -- you can't just blast data from on

Re: Client receives TCP packets but does not ACK

2001-06-15 Thread Mike Black
Here's the end of my run -- I assume this means my config works OK? I'm on a dual PIII/600 linux-2.4.6-pre3 -- ran it all on the local host. received msg#90, name pad1, 1 blocks, 12 total bytes received msg#91, name pad1, 1 blocks, 12 total bytes received msg#92, name class

Re: Client receives TCP packets but does not ACK

2001-06-15 Thread Mike Black
Here's the end of my run -- I assume this means my config works OK? I'm on a dual PIII/600 linux-2.4.6-pre3 -- ran it all on the local host. received msg#90, name pad1, 1 blocks, 12 total bytes received msg#91, name pad1, 1 blocks, 12 total bytes received msg#92, name class

Re: Client receives TCP packets but does not ACK

2001-06-15 Thread Mike Black
] To: Mike Black [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 8:53 AM Subject: RE: Client receives TCP packets but does not ACK TCP is NOT a guaranteed protocol -- you can't just blast data from one port to another and expect it to work. Isn't it? Are you really sure about

2..4.5-pre5 bad fsck

2001-05-24 Thread Mike Black
2.4.2 works fine. 2.4.5-pre5 won't get past fsck of /dev/md0 -- locks up towards the end. I'm running the same kernel on two other machine (different motherboards though) I'm using gcc-3.0 and glibc-2.2.3 /dev/md0 is a dual-IDE RAID1 (2nd drive is currently disabled) md0 : active raid1 hda1[0]

2..4.5-pre5 bad fsck

2001-05-24 Thread Mike Black
2.4.2 works fine. 2.4.5-pre5 won't get past fsck of /dev/md0 -- locks up towards the end. I'm running the same kernel on two other machine (different motherboards though) I'm using gcc-3.0 and glibc-2.2.3 /dev/md0 is a dual-IDE RAID1 (2nd drive is currently disabled) md0 : active raid1 hda1[0]

Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac3, asm problem in asm-i386/rwsem.h using gcc 3.0 CVS

2001-05-03 Thread Mike Black
Looks like if you remove the "inline" from the function definition this compiles OK. Michael D. Black Principal Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] 321-676-2923,x203 http://www.csihq.com Computer Science Innovations http://www.csihq.com/~mike My home page FAX

Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac3, asm problem in asm-i386/rwsem.h using gcc 3.0 CVS

2001-05-03 Thread Mike Black
Looks like if you remove the inline from the function definition this compiles OK. Michael D. Black Principal Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] 321-676-2923,x203 http://www.csihq.com Computer Science Innovations http://www.csihq.com/~mike My home page FAX

Re: scsi vs ide performance on fsync's

2001-03-06 Thread Mike Black
Write caching is the culprit for the performance diff: On IDE: time xlog /blah.dat fsync 0.000u 0.190s 0:01.72 11.0% 0+0k 0+0io 91pf+0w # hdparm -W 0 /dev/hda /dev/hda: setting drive write-caching to 0 (off) # time xlog /blah.dat fsync 0.000u 0.220s 0:50.60 0.4% 0+0k 0+0io 91pf+0w #

Re: scsi vs ide performance on fsync's

2001-03-06 Thread Mike Black
Write caching is the culprit for the performance diff: On IDE: time xlog /blah.dat fsync 0.000u 0.190s 0:01.72 11.0% 0+0k 0+0io 91pf+0w # hdparm -W 0 /dev/hda /dev/hda: setting drive write-caching to 0 (off) # time xlog /blah.dat fsync 0.000u 0.220s 0:50.60 0.4% 0+0k 0+0io 91pf+0w #

IDE timeouts 2.4.1

2001-02-01 Thread Mike Black
Happens every night on both hda and hdc -- no sure yet what triggers it but it is repeatable. Has happened since I've installed this machine with all the 2.4.x series. Jan 31 00:34:16 kernel: hdc: timeout waiting for DMA Jan 31 00:34:16 kernel: ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout

IDE timeouts 2.4.1

2001-02-01 Thread Mike Black
Happens every night on both hda and hdc -- no sure yet what triggers it but it is repeatable. Has happened since I've installed this machine with all the 2.4.x series. Jan 31 00:34:16 kernel: hdc: timeout waiting for DMA Jan 31 00:34:16 kernel: ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout

Largefile support in 2.4

2001-01-24 Thread Mike Black
How do normal users get to create/maintain large files (i.e. >2G) in Linux 2.4 on i386? The root user can make filesize unlimited but a non-root user cannot. They come up with the same limits in both tcsh and bash (i.e. filesize 1048576 kbytes or 0x4000) I can't seem to find where this

RAID1 resync oops on 2.4.0.ac11 (was ac10)

2001-01-24 Thread Mike Black
ac10 oopsed but now ac11 oopses in a new place at the end of a RAID1 resync operation when I tried to "more /proc/mdstat" Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0038 printing EIP: c01ba0f Oops: CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[] Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386

Largefile support in 2.4

2001-01-24 Thread Mike Black
How do normal users get to create/maintain large files (i.e. 2G) in Linux 2.4 on i386? The root user can make filesize unlimited but a non-root user cannot. They come up with the same limits in both tcsh and bash (i.e. filesize 1048576 kbytes or 0x4000) I can't seem to find where this

RAID1 resync oops on 2.4.0.ac11 (was ac10)

2001-01-24 Thread Mike Black
ac10 oopsed but now ac11 oopses in a new place at the end of a RAID1 resync operation when I tried to "more /proc/mdstat" Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0038 printing EIP: c01ba0f Oops: CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[c01ba0af] Using defaults from ksymoops -t

RAID oops 2.4.0ac10

2001-01-22 Thread Mike Black
At the end of rebuilding a RAID1 mirror set: Oops: CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[] Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386 EFLAGS: 0010286 eax: ebx: f7ab284c ecx: edx: 0002 esi: f7a6ef60 edi: ebp: f7a63300 esp: f7a71ed8 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process

RAID oops 2.4.0ac10

2001-01-22 Thread Mike Black
At the end of rebuilding a RAID1 mirror set: Oops: CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[c01ba01f] Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386 EFLAGS: 0010286 eax: ebx: f7ab284c ecx: edx: 0002 esi: f7a6ef60 edi: ebp: f7a63300 esp: f7a71ed8 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018

swap size

2001-01-11 Thread Mike Black
Now that bigmem and bigfiles are supported in 2.4.0 what's the maximum swap size now? I couldn't seem to find any reference to it. Michael D. Black Principal Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] 321-676-2923,x203 http://www.csihq.com Computer Science

swap size

2001-01-11 Thread Mike Black
Now that bigmem and bigfiles are supported in 2.4.0 what's the maximum swap size now? I couldn't seem to find any reference to it. Michael D. Black Principal Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] 321-676-2923,x203 http://www.csihq.com Computer Science

2.4.0,2.2.18 and epic100 broke

2001-01-10 Thread Mike Black
FYI -- the epic100 SMC EtherPower II card does NOT work in SMP mode on 2.4.0 (or 2.2.18 either). Donald Becker's most recent version hasn't been forward-ported to 2.4 and the 2.2.17 drivers won't compile either. The SMC card DOES work in non-SMP machines. So...I'm putting in a 3com905 until

2.4.0,2.2.18 and epic100 broke

2001-01-10 Thread Mike Black
FYI -- the epic100 SMC EtherPower II card does NOT work in SMP mode on 2.4.0 (or 2.2.18 either). Donald Becker's most recent version hasn't been forward-ported to 2.4 and the 2.2.17 drivers won't compile either. The SMC card DOES work in non-SMP machines. So...I'm putting in a 3com905 until

Oops on 2.4.0-prerelease-ac5

2001-01-04 Thread Mike Black
2.4.0-prerelease-ac5 Happens during boot right after the RAID checksumming speed is calculated I don't have CONFIG_HIGHMEM This is booting from floppy to a RAID5 system: md3 : active raid5 sdc1[2] sdb1[1] sda1[0] 97691008 blocks level 5, 32k chunk, algorithm 0 [3/3] [UUU] Compiler is: gcc

Oops on 2.4.0-prerelease-ac5

2001-01-04 Thread Mike Black
2.4.0-prerelease-ac5 Happens during boot right after the RAID checksumming speed is calculated I don't have CONFIG_HIGHMEM This is booting from floppy to a RAID5 system: md3 : active raid5 sdc1[2] sdb1[1] sda1[0] 97691008 blocks level 5, 32k chunk, algorithm 0 [3/3] [UUU] Compiler is: gcc

2.2.18aa2 weird problem

2000-12-19 Thread Mike Black
I've got three machines -- two are identical motherboards. I've been using the same kernel binary on all three machines for over a year thru all the upgrades since 2.2.15 (16, 17, and now 18aa2). Now that I've compiled 2.2.18aa2 it only works on two of the machines. Both of these use RAID1/IDE

2.2.18aa2 weird problem

2000-12-19 Thread Mike Black
I've got three machines -- two are identical motherboards. I've been using the same kernel binary on all three machines for over a year thru all the upgrades since 2.2.15 (16, 17, and now 18aa2). Now that I've compiled 2.2.18aa2 it only works on two of the machines. Both of these use RAID1/IDE

2.2.18 signal.h

2000-12-15 Thread Mike Black
include/linux/signal.h There's a couple like this -- isn't this case statement upside down??? extern inline void siginitset(sigset_t *set, unsigned long mask) { set->sig[0] = mask; switch (_NSIG_WORDS) { default: memset(>sig[1], 0,

2.2.18 signal.h

2000-12-15 Thread Mike Black
include/linux/signal.h There's a couple like this -- isn't this case statement upside down??? extern inline void siginitset(sigset_t *set, unsigned long mask) { set-sig[0] = mask; switch (_NSIG_WORDS) { default: memset(set-sig[1], 0,

Fw: SMP proc/stat wrong?

2000-11-22 Thread Mike Black
On my dual-SMP system: cpu 15706258 0 4077925 308293017 cpu0 7877393 0 2034458 154126749 cpu1 7828865 0 2043467 154166268 On my other dual-SMP with only one CPU in it: cpu 7364 0 5108 992193 cpu0 7364 0 5108 992193 On my non-SMP system: cpu 16922 0 8096 968425 cpu0 16922 0 8096 968425 All

Fw: SMP proc/stat wrong?

2000-11-22 Thread Mike Black
On my dual-SMP system: cpu 15706258 0 4077925 308293017 cpu0 7877393 0 2034458 154126749 cpu1 7828865 0 2043467 154166268 On my other dual-SMP with only one CPU in it: cpu 7364 0 5108 992193 cpu0 7364 0 5108 992193 On my non-SMP system: cpu 16922 0 8096 968425 cpu0 16922 0 8096 968425 All

Re: Compiler warnings

2000-09-07 Thread Mike Black
I just found out that gcc-2.96 won't compile glibc-2.1.93 or glibc-2.1.2 or glibc-2.1.3 successfully whereas gcc-2.95.2 will. It bombs in a couple of places. I just downgraded my machine to 2.95.2 to prove the point. Guess I'll wait for gcc-3.0. Michael

Re: Compiler warnings

2000-09-07 Thread Mike Black
I just found out that gcc-2.96 won't compile glibc-2.1.93 or glibc-2.1.2 or glibc-2.1.3 successfully whereas gcc-2.95.2 will. It bombs in a couple of places. I just downgraded my machine to 2.95.2 to prove the point. Guess I'll wait for gcc-3.0. Michael