2.4.0-test9-pre1: Memory in use grows rapidly with no application responsible

2000-09-18 Thread Aaron Lehmann
[Disclaimer: I'm a newbie.] I was closely monitoring the memory usage on my system while testing something. I decided to run updatedb to try to make the system less responsive and see if a realtime program would hold up. For no apparent reason, while updatedb was running free(1) reported that the

Re: test9-pre1 hang when loading scsi-ide cdrom

2000-09-18 Thread Frank van de Pol
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 03:20:17PM +0200, Torben Mathiasen wrote: > > > > The problem seems to reside in the ide-scsi driver; if the cdrom (sr_mod) is > > not loaded, I get during initialisation of the ide-scsi module a lockup > > after printing the information about the 1st host (dies after the

cannot boot 2.4.0-test8 and test9-pre1

2000-09-17 Thread Carrer Yuri
bash-2.03# gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-suse-linux/2.95.2/specs gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release) I've compiled both (2.4.0-test8 and test9-pre1) with this version of gcc and it hans on boot on "booting linux..." here is the .config: # # Automatically ge

Re: test9-pre1 hang when loading scsi-ide cdrom

2000-09-17 Thread Torben Mathiasen
On Sun, Sep 17 2000, Frank van de Pol wrote: > On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 07:27:01PM +0200, Frank van de Pol wrote: > > > > Just experienced a (reproducable) hang of the system when loading the > > drivers for my cdrom drives. (ide-cd and ide-scsi). System freezes > > completely; interupts / alt-sys

Re: test9-pre1 hang when loading scsi-ide cdrom

2000-09-17 Thread Frank van de Pol
On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 07:27:01PM +0200, Frank van de Pol wrote: > > Just experienced a (reproducable) hang of the system when loading the > drivers for my cdrom drives. (ide-cd and ide-scsi). System freezes > completely; interupts / alt-sysreq is still working. > > Just before the lockup I get

Re: test9-pre1 hang when loading scsi-ide cdrom

2000-09-16 Thread Frank van de Pol
t is not the function) it should > not matter but it's all I could find :( I'll give it a try. Previous version I tried was test7. Didn't run test8 because it gave some compilation error (which have been fixed in the test9-pre1 :-) > > By the way it works for me and I compile

Re: test9-pre1 hang when loading scsi-ide cdrom

2000-09-16 Thread Kenneth Johansson
Frank van de Pol wrote: > Just experienced a (reproducable) hang of the system when loading the > drivers for my cdrom drives. (ide-cd and ide-scsi). System freezes > completely; interupts / alt-sysreq is still working. > ... > > It appears to me that something breaks during the init/registrati

test9-pre1 hang when loading scsi-ide cdrom

2000-09-16 Thread Frank van de Pol
Just experienced a (reproducable) hang of the system when loading the drivers for my cdrom drives. (ide-cd and ide-scsi). System freezes completely; interupts / alt-sysreq is still working. Just before the lockup I get next message on my console: " scsi1 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE AT

test9-pre1 breaks pcmcia (or PCI?)

2000-09-16 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Hi Martin, I have finally got around to testing your pci.c fix against 2.4.0-test9-pre1. The results are: a) without your fix I see neither the cardbus eth nic nor the ones behined the DEC pci-pci bridge. (I did see the cardbus nic on test8 though) b) with your fix I see all devices behind the

Re: test9-pre1

2000-09-16 Thread Rik van Riel
On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, bert hubert wrote: > On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 07:03:36PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > Ok, the new MM balancing has been getting good reviews, and no longer has > > any known issues. Integrated. We'd have needed to do it sooner or later > > anyway (just see what happene

Re: test9-pre1

2000-09-16 Thread bert hubert
On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 07:03:36PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Ok, the new MM balancing has been getting good reviews, and no longer has > any known issues. Integrated. We'd have needed to do it sooner or later > anyway (just see what happened in 2.2.x), the sooner we do it the less > trauma

[patch-2.4.0-test9-pre1] mm/filemap.c

2000-09-16 Thread Bill Wendling
Share and enjoy! -- || Bill Wendling[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.4.0-test9-pre1/mm/filemap.c Sat Sep 16 02:21:03 2000 +++ linux-2.4.0-test9-pre1-new/mm/filemap.c Sat Sep 16 02:31:54 2000 @@ -193,12 +193,10 @@ repeat: head = &mapping->pages;

test9-pre1

2000-09-15 Thread Linus Torvalds
Ok, the new MM balancing has been getting good reviews, and no longer has any known issues. Integrated. We'd have needed to do it sooner or later anyway (just see what happened in 2.2.x), the sooner we do it the less traumatic it will end up being. Oh, and yeah, there obviously was still a trunc