Re: [OT] speeding boot process (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release)

2005-02-17 Thread jlnance
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 08:17:25PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > from user space to presenting a login prompt that's way too long. My > distro (Debian) runs all the init scripts one at a time, and GDM is the > last thing that gets run. There is just no reason for this. We should > start X and

Re: [OT] speeding boot process (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release)

2005-02-17 Thread jlnance
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 08:17:25PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: from user space to presenting a login prompt that's way too long. My distro (Debian) runs all the init scripts one at a time, and GDM is the last thing that gets run. There is just no reason for this. We should start X and

Re: Request for comments

2001-07-19 Thread jlnance
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 06:44:52PM +0300, Cornel Ciocirlan wrote: > What this would do is keep a "cache" of all the "flows" that are passing > through the system; a flow is defined as the set of packets that have the > same headers - or header fields. For example we could choose "ip source, > ip

Re: Request for comments

2001-07-19 Thread jlnance
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 06:44:52PM +0300, Cornel Ciocirlan wrote: What this would do is keep a cache of all the flows that are passing through the system; a flow is defined as the set of packets that have the same headers - or header fields. For example we could choose ip source, ip

Re: RFC: modules and 2.5

2001-07-03 Thread jlnance
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 01:13:45AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > A couple things that would be nice for 2.5 is > - let MOD_INC_USE_COUNT work even when module is built into kernel, and > - let THIS_MODULE exist and be valid even when module is built into > kernel I have something similar that I

Re: RFC: modules and 2.5

2001-07-03 Thread jlnance
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 01:13:45AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: A couple things that would be nice for 2.5 is - let MOD_INC_USE_COUNT work even when module is built into kernel, and - let THIS_MODULE exist and be valid even when module is built into kernel I have something similar that I have

Re: [patch] Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac6

2001-06-08 Thread jlnance
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 08:31:46PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: > > Exactly. However, there are situations when you have only two options: > > rewrite from scratch or use -taso. Netscape vs. mozilla is a good example. :-) > > Why can't mozilla be

Re: [patch] Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac6

2001-06-08 Thread jlnance
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 08:31:46PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: Exactly. However, there are situations when you have only two options: rewrite from scratch or use -taso. Netscape vs. mozilla is a good example. :-) Why can't mozilla be fixed?

Highmem Bigmem question

2001-06-01 Thread jlnance
Hello All, This is probably an FAQ, but I read the FAQ and its not in there. I have a machine with 2G of memory. I compiled the kernel with the 4G memory option. How much address space should each process be able to address? Does this change if I use the 64G option? I'm after 2.4

Highmem Bigmem question

2001-06-01 Thread jlnance
Hello All, This is probably an FAQ, but I read the FAQ and its not in there. I have a machine with 2G of memory. I compiled the kernel with the 4G memory option. How much address space should each process be able to address? Does this change if I use the 64G option? I'm after 2.4

Re: reiserfs, xfs, ext2, ext3

2001-05-09 Thread jlnance
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 04:19:53PM -0700, Dan Hollis wrote: > On Thu, 10 May 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > It would be great to see a table of ReiserFS/XFS/Ext2+index performance > > results. Well, to make it really fair it should be Ext3+index so I'd > > better add 'backport the patch to

Re: reiserfs, xfs, ext2, ext3

2001-05-09 Thread jlnance
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 04:19:53PM -0700, Dan Hollis wrote: On Thu, 10 May 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote: It would be great to see a table of ReiserFS/XFS/Ext2+index performance results. Well, to make it really fair it should be Ext3+index so I'd better add 'backport the patch to 2.2' or

Re: Compiling kernel

2001-05-02 Thread jlnance
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 06:00:00PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > suppose I am making some change in sched.c and now I want to build my kernel > that reflects the change.. > Is there any way I can avoid answering all the questions when I do make zImage ? > > In short how should I compile the

Re: Compiling kernel

2001-05-02 Thread jlnance
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 06:00:00PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: suppose I am making some change in sched.c and now I want to build my kernel that reflects the change.. Is there any way I can avoid answering all the questions when I do make zImage ? In short how should I compile the