Re: >128 MB RAM stability problems (again)

2001-07-06 Thread Ronald Bultje
of the computers, look at the CAS/RAS/clock timing settings like two people suggested (thanks :-) ) and hope to be happy and have a stable machine after that. Thanks for this half-solution :-) -- Ronald Bultje - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel&qu

Re: 128 MB RAM stability problems (again)

2001-07-06 Thread Ronald Bultje
settings like two people suggested (thanks :-) ) and hope to be happy and have a stable machine after that. Thanks for this half-solution :-) -- Ronald Bultje - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: >128 MB RAM stability problems (again)

2001-07-05 Thread Ronald Bultje
-8/RH-7.1 installation CDs). -- Ronald Bultje - 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 http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: >128 MB RAM stability problems (again)

2001-07-05 Thread Ronald Bultje
y I bought... they are all 133 MHz SDRAM sticks, some 64 MB, some 128 MB MB manual says it can handle all 64/128 MB sticks... - Anyway, thanks for any advice until now and thanks for listening again, hope to hear more solutions. -- Ronald Bultje - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: 128 MB RAM stability problems (again)

2001-07-05 Thread Ronald Bultje
sticks, some 64 MB, some 128 MB MB manual says it can handle all 64/128 MB sticks... - your solution here :-) Anyway, thanks for any advice until now and thanks for listening again, hope to hear more solutions. -- Ronald Bultje - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux

Re: 128 MB RAM stability problems (again)

2001-07-05 Thread Ronald Bultje
installation CDs). -- Ronald Bultje - 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 http://www.tux.org/lkml/

RE: >128 MB RAM stability problems (again)

2001-07-04 Thread Ronald Bultje
On 04 Jul 2001 17:06:51 -0300, Alessandro Motter Ren wrote: > > Which filesystem are you using on this machine? > []s. ext2 -- Ronald - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

>128 MB RAM stability problems (again)

2001-07-04 Thread Ronald Bultje
win2k is running stable and it's scary to see linux crash while win2k runs stable and smooth. (ps I'm not subscribed to the list - please CC a copy to me when replying) Thanks in advance for any help on this, -- Ronald Bultje - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscri

128 MB RAM stability problems (again)

2001-07-04 Thread Ronald Bultje
is running stable and it's scary to see linux crash while win2k runs stable and smooth. (ps I'm not subscribed to the list - please CC a copy to me when replying) Thanks in advance for any help on this, -- Ronald Bultje - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

RE: 128 MB RAM stability problems (again)

2001-07-04 Thread Ronald Bultje
On 04 Jul 2001 17:06:51 -0300, Alessandro Motter Ren wrote: Which filesystem are you using on this machine? []s. ext2 -- Ronald - 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: a memory-related problem?

2001-06-17 Thread Ronald Bultje
tead of "linux-2.4.4 mem=256M" at the lilo prompt, it does work. Is this a bug in the code that handles options given at startup-time? (I only tried this for 2x128 sticks but I suppose this is the same for 2x64+1x128 sticks - I guess I'm too lazy to try it out). Regards, Ronald Bultj

a memory-related problem?

2001-06-17 Thread Ronald Bultje
distro = RedHat-7.0 (with updates from redhat.com installed) Kernel = 2.4.4 gcc = 2.96 glibc = 2.2 system = p-II 400 MHz, 128 MB swap, 440BX (abit p6b) mainboard memory is (133 MHz) SDRAM memory (running at 100 MHz) [please CC me, I'm currently not subscribed] Regards, Ronald Bultje - To unsubs

a memory-related problem?

2001-06-17 Thread Ronald Bultje
(with updates from redhat.com installed) Kernel = 2.4.4 gcc = 2.96 glibc = 2.2 system = p-II 400 MHz, 128 MB swap, 440BX (abit p6b) mainboard memory is (133 MHz) SDRAM memory (running at 100 MHz) [please CC me, I'm currently not subscribed] Regards, Ronald Bultje - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: a memory-related problem?

2001-06-17 Thread Ronald Bultje
tried this for 2x128 sticks but I suppose this is the same for 2x64+1x128 sticks - I guess I'm too lazy to try it out). Regards, Ronald Bultje - 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

RE: [2.4.5] buz.c won't compile

2001-05-28 Thread Ronald Bultje
>Actually, it broke at 2.4.3. Go look at the first change to buz.c from >that patch. None at all. It didn't break at 2.4.3, it just didn't compile at all anymore in 2.4.3. It was already kind of broken before that. >PS: I really hate it when people break "functional" things in the >"stable"

RE: [2.4.5] buz.c won't compile

2001-05-28 Thread Ronald Bultje
Actually, it broke at 2.4.3. Go look at the first change to buz.c from that patch. None at all. It didn't break at 2.4.3, it just didn't compile at all anymore in 2.4.3. It was already kind of broken before that. PS: I really hate it when people break functional things in the stable tree.

Re: Linux scalability?

2001-05-18 Thread Ronald Bultje
On 18 May 2001 10:30:40 +0200, reiser.angus wrote: > TUX does not exist on 2.2 kernel > They use a RedHat 7.0 with a 2.4 kernel patched by RedHat (with TUX, > zerocopy, etc..) I am pretty sure the C'T article mentioned that TUX did use a 2.2.x kernel - so it does exist. How else could they make

Re: Linux scalability?

2001-05-18 Thread Ronald Bultje
On 18 May 2001 10:12:34 +0200, reiser.angus wrote: > > However, taking a closer look, it turns out, that the above statement > > holds true only for 1 and 2 processor machines. Scalability already > > suffers at 4 processors, and at 8 processors, TUX 2.0 (7500) gets beaten > > by IIS 5.0 (8001),

Re: Linux scalability?

2001-05-18 Thread Ronald Bultje
On 18 May 2001 10:12:34 +0200, reiser.angus wrote: However, taking a closer look, it turns out, that the above statement holds true only for 1 and 2 processor machines. Scalability already suffers at 4 processors, and at 8 processors, TUX 2.0 (7500) gets beaten by IIS 5.0 (8001), and

Re: Linux scalability?

2001-05-18 Thread Ronald Bultje
On 18 May 2001 10:30:40 +0200, reiser.angus wrote: TUX does not exist on 2.2 kernel They use a RedHat 7.0 with a 2.4 kernel patched by RedHat (with TUX, zerocopy, etc..) I am pretty sure the C'T article mentioned that TUX did use a 2.2.x kernel - so it does exist. How else could they make a

something like an oops

2001-05-10 Thread Ronald Bultje
Hello, I get kernel NULL-pointers when I close my video application ('studio') and then, X usually locks. Only way to get back into the machine is ssh'ing and typing 'reboot' (after examining dmesg, of course) or resetting the box. The keyboard/mouse/video-card are locked by X, it seems, there's

something like an oops

2001-05-10 Thread Ronald Bultje
Hello, I get kernel NULL-pointers when I close my video application ('studio') and then, X usually locks. Only way to get back into the machine is ssh'ing and typing 'reboot' (after examining dmesg, of course) or resetting the box. The keyboard/mouse/video-card are locked by X, it seems, there's

Re: Patch to improve readability of sock_rcvlowat() - comments wanted...

2001-05-07 Thread Ronald Bultje
On 2001.05.08 01:04:57 +0200 Jesper Juhl wrote: > > static inline int sock_rcvlowat(struct sock *sk, int waitall, int len) > { > int r = len; > if (!waitall) > r = min(sk->rcvlowat, len); > return max(1,r); > } > return max(1, waitall ? len :

Re: Patch to improve readability of sock_rcvlowat() - comments wanted...

2001-05-07 Thread Ronald Bultje
On 2001.05.08 01:04:57 +0200 Jesper Juhl wrote: static inline int sock_rcvlowat(struct sock *sk, int waitall, int len) { int r = len; if (!waitall) r = min(sk-rcvlowat, len); return max(1,r); } return max(1, waitall ? len : min(sk-rcvlowat,

OT: Alan Cox' response

2001-05-04 Thread Ronald Bultje
On 2001.05.04 03:20:46 +0200 Miles Lane wrote: > Prepared Text of Remarks by Craig Mundie, Microsoft Senior Vice > President > The Commercial Software Model > The New York University Stern School of Business > May 3, 2001 For the people who missed it, Alan Cox' response is at:

OT: Alan Cox' response

2001-05-04 Thread Ronald Bultje
On 2001.05.04 03:20:46 +0200 Miles Lane wrote: Prepared Text of Remarks by Craig Mundie, Microsoft Senior Vice President The Commercial Software Model The New York University Stern School of Business May 3, 2001 For the people who missed it, Alan Cox' response is at:

Re: buz.c of 2.4.4

2001-04-30 Thread Ronald Bultje
if they _used_ the old buz-thing, they'd start bugging you with "how do I fix it?" A broken driver in the kernel basically means a broken kernel - so it'd be better to just remove it I guess... What do you think, Alan? -- Ronald Bultje - To unsubscribe from this list: send the l

Re: buz.c of 2.4.4

2001-04-30 Thread Ronald Bultje
fix it? A broken driver in the kernel basically means a broken kernel - so it'd be better to just remove it I guess... What do you think, Alan? -- Ronald Bultje - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

RE: buz.c of 2.4.4

2001-04-28 Thread Ronald Bultje
ct is optimized for the new driver (though the old one should still work). -- Ronald Bultje - 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 Ple

[PATCH] buz.c compilation problem (missing macro) in 2.4.4

2001-04-28 Thread Ronald Bultje
+ #define KMALLOC_MAXSIZE (128*1024) #define DEBUG(x) /* Debug driver */ #define IDEBUG(x) /* Debug interrupt handler */ Although this driver will probably be replaced by the new one from Serguei Miridonov sooner or later, imho it's best to fix this for the time being... -- Ron

[PATCH] buz.c compilation problem (missing macro) in 2.4.4

2001-04-28 Thread Ronald Bultje
(128*1024) #define DEBUG(x) /* Debug driver */ #define IDEBUG(x) /* Debug interrupt handler */ Although this driver will probably be replaced by the new one from Serguei Miridonov sooner or later, imho it's best to fix this for the time being... -- Ronald Bultje

RE: buz.c of 2.4.4

2001-04-28 Thread Ronald Bultje
for the new driver (though the old one should still work). -- Ronald Bultje - 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 http://www.tux.org

Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-26 Thread Ronald Bultje
s to do this, let him use redhat's RPM manager, "enter your password" with a nice X-window, and press that button "install" - same effect)... You don't need to patch the kernel for this... -- Ronald Bultje - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscrib

Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-26 Thread Ronald Bultje
that button install - same effect)... You don't need to patch the kernel for this... -- Ronald Bultje - 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

Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-25 Thread Ronald Bultje
ns and read the screen. And for pressing the buttons you really don't need anything else than a touchscreen or some (1? 2?) buttons on the PDA... And for using linux as a command-line too on a PDA - we'll need something to make input easier, like Aaron Lehman suggested in another e-mail (keyboard

Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-25 Thread Ronald Bultje
a touchscreen or some (1? 2?) buttons on the PDA... And for using linux as a command-line too on a PDA - we'll need something to make input easier, like Aaron Lehman suggested in another e-mail (keyboard, speach recognition). -- Ronald Bultje - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: kernel oops

2001-04-19 Thread Ronald Bultje
a > drivers have never been loaded and then its interesting. Is the box > stable > with 2.2 ? Yes (i.e. no crashes because of this and never any X-lockup/-crash). I'll try the non-nvidia boot and send a report to nvidia. Ronald Bultje - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &q

kernel oops

2001-04-19 Thread Ronald Bultje
8ee <__free_pages_ok+be/310> f: 68 b9 c7 1e c0push $0xc01ec7b9 Is blackbox broken? Or is this a kernel bug? Or a bug in the nvidia drivers? I hope you can fix it (if it is a kernel bug)... Ronald Bultje - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel&q

kernel oops

2001-04-19 Thread Ronald Bultje
+bc/310 d: 6a 53 push $0x53 Code; c01298ee __free_pages_ok+be/310 f: 68 b9 c7 1e c0push $0xc01ec7b9 Is blackbox broken? Or is this a kernel bug? Or a bug in the nvidia drivers? I hope you can fix it (if it is a kernel bug)... Ronald Bultje

Re: kernel oops

2001-04-19 Thread Ronald Bultje
and then its interesting. Is the box stable with 2.2 ? Yes (i.e. no crashes because of this and never any X-lockup/-crash). I'll try the non-nvidia boot and send a report to nvidia. Ronald Bultje - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of