Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac7

2001-02-18 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > > > Could you please try the attached patch on top of latest Rik's patch? > > > > Sure thing.. (few minutes later) no change. > > That's because your probl

Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac7

2001-02-13 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > Could you please try the attached patch on top of latest Rik's patch? > > Sure thing.. (few minutes later) no change. That's because your problem requires a change to the balancing between swap_out() an

Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac7

2001-02-12 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > > On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > > > > > > > Something else I see while watching

Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac7

2001-02-12 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > > > > > Something else I see while watching it run: MUCH more swapout than > > > > swapin. Does that

Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac7

2001-02-11 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > > > Something else I see while watching it run: MUCH more swapout than > > > swapin. Does that mean we're sending pages to swap only to find out > > > that

Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac7

2001-02-11 Thread Rik van Riel
On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > Something else I see while watching it run: MUCH more swapout than > > swapin. Does that mean we're sending pages to swap only to find out > > that we never need them again? > > (numbers might be more

Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac7

2001-02-11 Thread Rik van Riel
On Sun, 11 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > > > o Rebalance the 2.4.1 VM (Rik van Riel) > > This change makes my box swap madly under load. It appears to be > > keeping more cache around than is really needed, and

Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac7

2001-02-11 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > Something else I see while watching it run: MUCH more swapout than > swapin. Does that mean we're sending pages to swap only to find out > that we never need them again? (numbers might be more descriptive) user : 0:07:21.70 54.3% page in :

Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac7

2001-02-10 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > > On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > > > > > > > This change makes my box swap madly under load

Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac7

2001-02-10 Thread davej
On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > o Rebalance the 2.4.1 VM (Rik van Riel) > This change makes my box swap madly under load. It appears to be > keeping more cache around than is really needed, and therefore > having to resort to swap instead. The result is

Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac7

2001-02-10 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Rik , As an aside to the below conversation . Is there a URL/doc/... that gives basic tuning examples for various types workloads ? Tia , JimL On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: ...snip... > > It's still reluctant to shrink cache. I'm hitting I/O saturati

Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac7

2001-02-10 Thread Rik van Riel
On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > > > > > This change makes my box swap madly under load. > > > > > > Swapped out pages were not being counte

Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac7

2001-02-10 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > > > This change makes my box swap madly under load. > > > > Swapped out pages were not being counted in the flushing limitation. > > > > Could you try the

Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac7

2001-02-10 Thread Rik van Riel
On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > This change makes my box swap madly under load. > > Swapped out pages were not being counted in the flushing limitation. > > Could you try the following patch? Marcelo's patch should do the trick wr

Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac7

2001-02-10 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > Hi Rik, > > This change makes my box swap madly under load. It appears to be > keeping more cache around than is really needed, and therefore > having to resort to swap instead. The result is MUCH more I/O than > previous kernels while doing the sa

Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac7

2001-02-10 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ > > > > 2.4.1-ac7 > > o Rebalance the 2.4.1 VM (Rik van Riel) > > | This should make things feel a lot faster especially

Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac7

2001-02-09 Thread Rik van Riel
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > I just tested ac8. > > If I run this test, the system gets really slow. It takes about > a second between the time I press a key, and the time it appears > on the screen. The load goes way up. Everything seems to block. I'm sorry, but ... what test ?

Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac7

2001-02-08 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 08:12:39PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ > > > > 2.4.1-ac7 > > o Rebalance the 2.4.1 VM (Rik van Riel) > > | This should make things feel a l

Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac7

2001-02-08 Thread Rik van Riel
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Torben Mathiasen wrote: > On Thu, Feb 08 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ > > > > > > 2.4.1-ac7 > > > o Rebalance the 2.4.1 VM (Rik van Riel) > > > |

Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac7

2001-02-08 Thread Torben Mathiasen
On Thu, Feb 08 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ > > > > 2.4.1-ac7 > > o Rebalance the 2.4.1 VM (Rik van Riel) > > | This should make things feel a lot faster especially

Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac7

2001-02-08 Thread Rik van Riel
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ > > 2.4.1-ac7 > o Rebalance the 2.4.1 VM (Rik van Riel) > | This should make things feel a lot faster especially > | on small boxes .. feedback to Rik I'd

Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac7

2001-02-08 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Doug Ledford wrote: > Thanks, I hoped it would ;-) It's amazing what happens when you have a bcopy > in assembly that's missing the source address initialization :-( Yes! The output from the description of my SCSI hds when the driver initialised was highly amusing (containing

Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac7

2001-02-08 Thread Doug Ledford
Tigran Aivazian wrote: > > two mistakes: > > a) [EMAIL PROTECTED], not veritas.com! (it was pine, not me -- default > domain etc :) > > b) it was ac6 which fixed it, not ac7 (but I am running ac7) > > On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > > > Doug, > > > > I confirm that ac7 fixed all

Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac7

2001-02-08 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
At 19:33 08/02/01, Tigran Aivazian wrote: >On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > > I confirm that ac7 fixed all the aic7xxx problems on my machine. me,too (-: AHA2940UW dual channel adapter (on board a SMP Tyan Thunder Pro 100 GX440 mobo). -ac5 crashed on boot at SCSI init. -ac6 unteste

Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac7

2001-02-08 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Doug, I confirm that ac7 fixed all the aic7xxx problems on my machine. Thanks, Tigran - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac7

2001-02-08 Thread Tigran Aivazian
two mistakes: a) [EMAIL PROTECTED], not veritas.com! (it was pine, not me -- default domain etc :) b) it was ac6 which fixed it, not ac7 (but I am running ac7) On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > Doug, > > I confirm that ac7 fixed all the aic7xxx problems on my machine. > > Thanks,

Linux 2.4.1-ac7

2001-02-08 Thread Alan Cox
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