In redhat where is the process scheduler located? Does this scheduler
implement round robin?
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On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Brian Gerst wrote:
David Dyck wrote:
I am getting a repeatable oops during the boot up phase,
with linux 2.4.0 test10-pre4
I'm seeing the same oops with test10-pre5.
I don't get the error with 2.4.0-test9.
Even a simple "mount /proc" command
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Anton Blanchard wrote:
I've made a little progress fighting with bdflush. Can you please
try this and see if it helps you? I have still to figure out why,
but here, the first bdflush param _must_ be over 75 and under 90
to avoid zillions of context switches.
2.4.0-test9 consolidated all of the duplicative declarations
of mktime from various include/asm-.../ files into include/linux/time.h.
This was the right thing to do, but a lot of C code includes linux/time.h,
mostly older code, like the libc5 sources. This causes compiles of
the effected
Keith Owens wrote:
I started work on the removal of get/put_module_symbol and immediately
hit problems, these functions are not being used the way we thought.
[...]
Unless somebody can come up with a good reason why they absolutely need
get_module_symbol(), it will be removed.
No harm in
When having 5 proceeses {A, B, C, D ,E}, with run times
A = 10
B = 6
C =2
D = 4
E = 8
Why does round robin do A - E - B - D - C,
why not just use FIFO?
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Hello,
We are developing an advanced networking services loadable module and are
having problems porting it to work on 2.4.x kernels. The driver is supposed
to provide services such as fault tolerance, load balancing and link
aggregation over a team of network adapters. It works OK on 2.2.x
Hi,
Sorry for my stupid question, but I haven't got idea what the problem can be,
and maybe you can help me. See the following fragment of C code:
videobuffer=mmap(0,MAX_VIDEO_PACKET_SIZE,PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,MAP_ANON|MAP_SHARED,-1,0);
if (videobuffer==(void*)-1) {
perror("mmap()");
I have heard about the Andrea's patch to improve VM in kernels 2.2.
Is this
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/patches/v2.2/
2.2.18pre9/VM* ?
Has anybody tried it on post pre9 kernels ?
Thanks.
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Christian Czezatke wrote:
Unfortunately, I had to discover that /proc/mounts does not show all the
mounting options (usrquota, grpquota).
These options are ignored. linux/fs/ext2/super.c from 2.2.18-pre17:
/* Silently ignore the quota options */
else if (!strcmp (this_char,
Hi!
Jeff Garzik wrote:
Christian Czezatke wrote:
Unfortunately, I had to discover that /proc/mounts does not show all the
mounting options (usrquota, grpquota).
These options are ignored. linux/fs/ext2/super.c from 2.2.18-pre17:
But there are _userspace_ tools which check for these
torvalds wrote
It seems that gcc-2.7.2.3 is terminally ill. I'd rather change
Documentation/Changes, and just document the fact.
These kinds of subtle work-arounds for gcc bugs are not really acceptable,
nor is it worthwhile complaining when somebody does development with a gcc
that is _not_
In article
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Benson Chow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I get a bunch of form feeds too but it continues to print a few
characters fine and some that are totally wrong.
The same problem here. I'am using a dual Pentium (GA586-DX) with 2 x 233
MHz PentiumMMX and a PCI USB
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 10:50:29AM -0700, David Lang wrote:
I was thinking about this problem late last week and would like to throw
out a off-the-wall proposal.
for a dedicated server (no end-user logins) how about making a kernel
compile option that removes the 'only root can bind to
Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Andrew Morton wrote:
if the person who sent you the -pre4 patch against module.c
had Cc:'ed this mailing list then your kernel would do
something useful when compiled with gcc-2.7.2.3.
It seems that gcc-2.7.2.3 is terminally ill. I'd rather
"Barry K. Nathan" wrote:
Linus Torvalds wrote:
It seems that gcc-2.7.2.3 is terminally ill. I'd rather change
Documentation/Changes, and just document the fact.
FWIW, here's a patch that does that.
Looks good.
But all the documentation has for years been saying that
2.7.2.3 is the
Hello!
"The Linux 'original' IDE guy' Mark Lord showed Alan what was trying to
bang over everyone's head, without success.
Here is his sample code for cs5530 chipset.
Look at this and comment. I have part of the space setup to complete the
APM extenstion calls. This will get you and
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You don't say what machine this is (i386 I'd assume), plus "depmod -ae"
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Hello,
lock_kernel() is a reentrant spinlock that is meant to protect
all code that's not SMP safe. In 2.2, this is a good part of the
kernel; in 2.4, it's not very much at all. (It's reentrant
because it can be held across calls to schedule(), a normal
spinlock can't and would deadlock the
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--- linux-2.4.0-test10-pre5/./README Sun Oct 15 01:27:35 2000
+++ linux-akpm/./README Wed Oct 25 22:11:26 2000
@@ -161,12 +161,12 @@
COMPILING the kernel:
- - Make sure you have gcc-2.7.2 or newer available. It seems older gcc
-
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Frank Hansen wrote:
Looking at the timestamps, it seems that the packets is dropped mainly
when the disk task calls 'write' in order to flush the buffer to disk.
have you tried enabling dma, unmask irq and 32bit io with hdparm?
(i once had problems with a serial ppp
I got my new AsusA7V motherboard and AMD Thunderbird
booting RedHat5.2/linux2.0.36 with no trouble. (A dusty
old RH5.2 CD was all I had handy at the time) I then
downloaded the 2.2.17 and 2.4.0test8 sources and built
them, only to find that neither would even TRY to boot;
after I see the
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Michael O'Donnell wrote:
Before I spend too many additional brain cells diagnosing
this, can somebody remind me if this happens to be a
well known problem? Several of my other brain cells
think they've seen mention of this problem here, but a
scan of the archives
On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 08:50:15AM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Michael O'Donnell wrote:
Before I spend too many additional brain cells diagnosing
this, can somebody remind me if this happens to be a
well known problem? Several of my other brain cells
think
Andi,
Thanks. Then, I'll work it out in more detail and propose it on
linux-mm as you've suggested.
Maybe I should also try to think of another example where it might be
useful.
Anything that comes to mind ?
Regards
Suparna
Suparna Bhattacharya
Systems Software Group,
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Hi,
I've propably found some bug in MOXA Smartio driver for linux (kernel
version 2.4.0-test9). Module recognizes my C168H/PCI as C104H/PCI and
allows to use only first 4 ports.
Following patch solves the problem:
- --- mxser.c.old Wed Oct
This bug causes nfsd kernel based server to wrongly truncate files while using
offsets over 4G. With patch applied it starts to work right.
~(size_t) 0 is wrong too because size_t on IA32 is mere 32bit and as second
because ~0 is negative I think also causing a remote security issue since users
I've been using
"Linux rhino 2.4.0-test8 #5 Thu Sep 28 20:48:16 EDT 2000 i686 unknown"
successfully until starting yesterday. I've had two complete lockups
while executing a user-space program as root (dselect if it matters,
which is a little more "bursty" network wise).
The first failure
In generic_file_readahead():
unsigned long end_index = inode-i_size PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
unsigned long index = page-index;
...
max_ahead = 0;
...
raend = index;
if (raend end_index)
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote:
I agree with you and Rik that this array needs to go away... but
ripping out the feature is not the answer, IMHO.
Actually, the _real_ answer is to make fs/block_dev.c use the
page cache instead - and
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Rasmus Andersen wrote:
Reading through kernel/sched.c I came across this block (on line 597):
{
cycles_t t, this_slice;
t = get_cycles();
this_slice = t - sched_data-last_schedule;
hi,
kernel 2.4.0test10-pre4
pentium mmx with 64MB ram
if anybody interested in more details i will send .config
last log before freeze:
Kernel BUG at vmscan.c:102!
invalid operand:
CPU: 0
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On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Markus hennig wrote:
hi,
kernel 2.4.0test10-pre4
pentium mmx with 64MB ram
if anybody interested in more details i will send .config
last log before freeze:
Kernel BUG at vmscan.c:102!
invalid operand:
CPU: 0
Hi Markus,
How about trying this patch?
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Joe Harrington wrote:
When having 5 proceeses {A, B, C, D ,E}, with run times
A = 10
B = 6
C =2
D = 4
E = 8
Why does round robin do A - E - B - D - C,
why not just use FIFO?
1. how would the OS know in advance what the run times of
each process is?
2. how would
Hello,
This is my first kernel patch, and I will try to be careful about the ettiqute.
Sorry if I hork it up.
What:
A rework of the magic sysrq code to use a registration system for key events
in the ranges '0-9', 'a-z'; keeping all existing sysrq actions as new,
registered actions, and
Hi,
i have a PPro here with an AMI MegaRAID controller.
System is RedHat 7 + e2fsprogs-1.19, modutils-2.3.19, util-linux-2.10o
2.4.0-test10-pre5 is compiled with gcc 2.7.3.2 and and crashes
when running 'mount -o remount,rw /' during boot.
It also complains that /proc isn't mounted (it is
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
In generic_file_readahead():
unsigned long end_index = inode-i_size PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
unsigned long index = page-index;
...
max_ahead = 0;
...
raend = index;
if
Try 2.4.0-test10-pre5
Markus hennig wrote:
hi,
kernel 2.4.0test10-pre4
pentium mmx with 64MB ram
if anybody interested in more details i will send .config
last log before freeze:
Kernel BUG at vmscan.c:102!
invalid operand:
CPU: 0
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actually inform about the events. The way to do this simply is to limit it
in very clear ways, the most notable one being simply that there is only
one event queue per process (or rather, per "struct files_struct" -
oops,
make that http://bama.ua.edu/~dunna001/sysrq-register-0.7.tar.bz2
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On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 04:12:38PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
With poll(), it was *not a bug* for the user code to drop events; with
your proposed interface, it *is a bug* for the user code to drop events.
I'm just emphasizing this because Simon Kirby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) posted
incorrectly that
8cpu2193| 58 22114 946099 52 39
^
This is pretty insane and is definately a bug which should
be fixed. I'll search the source for "suspicious" changes
and try to come up with a patch you can test.
On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 03:57:39PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
This bug causes nfsd kernel based server to wrongly truncate files
while using offsets over 4G. With patch applied it starts to work right.
Is it correct to limit it in anyway at the server ?
Let the CLIENT to handle the
On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 01:02:46AM -0500, Jonathan Lemon wrote:
Yes, someone pointed me to those today. I would suggest reading
some of the relevant literature before embarking on a design. My
paper discusses some of the issues, and Mogul/Banga make some good
points too.
While an
I see similar messages. The system Oop's when trying to mount /proc during
boot. Have latest mount / modutils etc. This is 2.4.0-test10-pre5
=
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 08059000
printing eip:
Sebastian Benoit wrote:
Hi,
i have a PPro here with an AMI MegaRAID controller.
System is RedHat 7 + e2fsprogs-1.19, modutils-2.3.19, util-linux-2.10o
2.4.0-test10-pre5 is compiled with gcc 2.7.3.2 and and crashes
when running 'mount -o remount,rw /' during boot.
It also complains
Helge Hafting wrote:
With poll(), it was *not a bug* for the user code to drop events; with
your proposed interface, it *is a bug* for the user code to drop events.
I'm just emphasizing this because Simon Kirby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) posted
incorrectly that your interface "has the same
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Martin Mares wrote:
Hello!
"The Linux 'original' IDE guy' Mark Lord showed Alan what was trying to
bang over everyone's head, without success.
Here is his sample code for cs5530 chipset.
Look at this and comment. I have part of the space setup to complete
The problem is resolved. Mucho Gracias from me and a few (probably
hundreds of people in my workplace) who might want to boot 2.3/4 on these
Dell docking stations (actually we own a few thousand of them, i am just
trying to make sure Linux runs fine ;-)
The proper fix, which is i think what
On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 09:09:23AM -0700, Anil kumar wrote:
Hi,
1. Does Linux support this:
Setting RAID options configurations from BIOS
itself.
Linux does not magically put extra software into your BIOS no.
2.I am not able to post messages to linux-raid group.
That's odd.
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This doesn't make much sense to me: Why don't we just reinitialize the timings
as we do when programming the chipset instead of saving/restoring the state?
Also, are you sure BIOSes
On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 12:20:58PM -0400, jamal wrote:
+ child-resource[0,1,2] = dev-bus-resource[0,1,2];
Did C change while I was asleep, or is this statement equivalent to
child-resource[2] = dev-bus-resource[2];
?
Jeff
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Simon Kirby wrote:
While an 'edge-trigger' design is indeed simpler, I feel that it
ends up making the job of the application harder. A simple example
to illustrate the point: what if the application does not choose
to read all the data from an incoming packet? The app now has to
Hi,
After I create a RAID setup on the drives,The
superblock will be generated at the end of the drives.
If I move these drives to other linux system, will
this
system recognise the RAID setup without reconfiguring
the Linux ?
with regards,
Anil
"Brian F. G. Bidulock" wrote:
Frank,
Have you considered checking /proc/net/dev_stat (first entry)
to see whether NET4 is dropping packets due to backlog
maximums? If there is a non-zero entry there, you might try
uping /proc/sys/net/core/netdev_max_backlog from the default
300 and see
On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 11:27:09AM -0400, Simon Kirby wrote:
On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 01:02:46AM -0500, Jonathan Lemon wrote:
Yes, someone pointed me to those today. I would suggest reading
some of the relevant literature before embarking on a design. My
paper discusses some of the
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
OTOH, block-dev readahead makes sense for filesystems where
the packing locality is close to the access pattern BUT NOT
close to anything the page cache would recognise as being
close.
I dunno. The main reason I'd like to get the block devices
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
OTOH, block-dev readahead makes sense for filesystems where
the packing locality is close to the access pattern BUT NOT
close to anything the page cache would recognise as being
close.
I dunno. The
Rik,
Ok, I understand what you're doing now. How is this going to affect
page cache based file systems.
Jeff
Rik van Riel wrote:
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
In generic_file_readahead():
unsigned long end_index = inode-i_size PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
Also try increasing the device queue length
by "ifconfig eth0 txqueuelen 1024". In
doing some testing, we found that if you
are really bursty in sending data, the
device queue will silently drop packets
(free them) and I didnt find any stats
which show the dropped packets.
Increasing the queue
Hi,
We test a smp server (bi-piii) and we have
some problems when the bandwidth is more than 16Mbs:
it crashs.
Is there any way to fix it ?
thanks for help
octave
eth0: card reports no resources
VFS: file-max limit 4096 reached
Kernel panic: VFS: LRU block list corrupted.
Kernel panic: VFS:
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
OTOH, block-dev readahead makes sense for filesystems where
the packing locality is close to the access pattern BUT NOT
close to anything the page cache would recognise as being
close.
I
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
Anyway, below is a patch that implements Al Viro's
readahead fix and one small readahead adjustment
that seems to make sense ...
Rik, doesn't said fix need propagation into your adjustment?
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On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
Anyway, below is a patch that implements Al Viro's
readahead fix and one small readahead adjustment
that seems to make sense ...
Rik, doesn't said fix need propagation into your adjustment?
Your first
Alexander Viro wrote:
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
OTOH, block-dev readahead makes sense for filesystems where
the packing locality is close to the access pattern BUT NOT
close to anything the page cache would
On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 01:42:52PM +0200, Martin Mares wrote:
Hello!
"The Linux 'original' IDE guy' Mark Lord showed Alan what was trying to
bang over everyone's head, without success.
Here is his sample code for cs5530 chipset.
Look at this and comment. I have part of the space
o Pentium IV support.
- Now recognised as i686 instead of i1586.
This seems wrong.
Remember that we are simply following the old pre-Pentium
naming tradition. Since the "Pentium 4" does not use the
old "P6" core (like the Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III,
and Celeron did) it is the
On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 10:59:13AM +0200, Christian Czezatke wrote:
I've recently run across some problems with /proc/mounts on Linux 2.2.17
when trying to get rid of /etc/mtab in favor of /proc/mounts.
Patches that are basically a backport of the 2.4.x implementation of
In serial.c, it appears that unless do_autoconfig() is called through an
ioctl() call, the variable state-type, which is used to index into the
uart_config[] array, is not set, resulting in problems (I'm working with
a mips embedded board). Why not set info-type from sstate-type in
Rik,
I've reviewed the patch. It's affect seems minimal and will not break
NWFS as proposed -- it looks like, however, it will reduce the
performance slightly of EXT2/3 with iozone for read ahead since the
first section of the patch limits the read ahead window size. NWFS uses
it's own read
On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 07:08:48PM +0200, Jamie Lokier wrote:
Simon Kirby wrote:
What applications would do better by postponing some of the reading?
I can't think of any reason off the top of my head why an application
wouldn't want to read everything it can.
Pipelined server.
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
I've reviewed the patch. It's affect seems minimal and will not
break NWFS as proposed -- it looks like, however, it will reduce
the performance slightly of EXT2/3 with iozone for read ahead
since the first section of the patch limits the read
On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 12:23:07PM -0500, Jonathan Lemon wrote:
Consider a program which reads from point A, writes to point B. If
the buffer associated with B fills up, then we don't want to continue
reading from A.
A/B may be network sockets, pipes, or ptys.
Fine, but we can
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First of all, let me quote mount(8):
-
The programs mount and umount maintain a list of currently
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
I can do the proof-of-concept patch (below 10Kb, ext2 + generic code, with
the need to repeat the fs-specific parts for other filesystems) in an
hour. Clearance?
OK, it didn't take an hour. Warning: completely untested, needs
(trivial) changes to
Rik van Riel wrote:
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
I've reviewed the patch. It's affect seems minimal and will not
break NWFS as proposed -- it looks like, however, it will reduce
the performance slightly of EXT2/3 with iozone for read ahead
since the first section of
Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
2.2.18pre15aa1 is here (I will include in the next aa patchkit):
ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/patches/v2.2/2.2.18pre15aa1/PIII-3.bz2
Such patch is been generated by a mix of PIII 2.2.x patch and the PIII 2.4.x
support plus some
Octave,
Andrea fixed a corruption problem which looks exactly what you're
hitting.
Please try
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/people/andrea/patches/v2.2/2.2.18pre17/VM-global-2.2.18pre17-7.bz2
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, octave klaba wrote:
Hi,
We test a smp server (bi-piii) and we have
some problems
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
Rik van Riel wrote:
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
I've reviewed the patch. It's affect seems minimal and will not
break NWFS as proposed -- it looks like, however, it will reduce
the performance slightly of EXT2/3 with iozone
Al,
Thanks. I'll print this one out and post it on the wall for tonight's
debugging session.
:-)
Jeff
Alexander Viro wrote:
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
I can do the proof-of-concept patch (below 10Kb, ext2 + generic code, with
the need to repeat the fs-specific parts
On Tue, Oct 24 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
Are you suggesting the tools be part of the kernel tree? If you are, I
don't think they belong here because they are userland tools like
mkisofs and the like. Nothing really related to the kernel.
No. I'm suggesting they be in the utils area of
Rik van Riel wrote:
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
Rik van Riel wrote:
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
I've reviewed the patch. It's affect seems minimal and will not
break NWFS as proposed -- it looks like, however, it will reduce
the performance
Jens Axboe wrote:
On Tue, Oct 24 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
Are you suggesting the tools be part of the kernel tree? If you are, I
don't think they belong here because they are userland tools like
mkisofs and the like. Nothing really related to the kernel.
No. I'm suggesting
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
o Pentium IV support.
- Now recognised as i686 instead of i1586.
This seems wrong.
It is/was.
This has since been fixed in recent pre-patches for
over a week now.
Dave.
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On Wed Oct 25, 2000 at 08:16:07PM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote:
Your web page misses the loop device info.
Another point of difference is the name of the root device.
/proc/mounts has /dev/root, while /etc/mtab usually has
whatever was listed for / in /etc/fstab.
For some applications
After looking at the various other patches that people posted, I've come
up with this revised version of my original...
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diff -ruN linux-2.4.0test10pre5/Documentation/Changes
linux-2.4.0test10pre5-bkn/Documentation/Changes
---
On Wed Oct 25, 2000 at 11:43:02AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
There is another good reason to ditch /etc/mtab: as a static file, it
And it is supposed to be writable though it lives in /etc. It should live
in /var. Has the LSB ever gotten around to addressing this wart?
This is a pita for
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
Al,
Thanks. I'll print this one out and post it on the wall for tonight's
debugging session.
[snip]
(e.g. generic_commit_write have to mess with i_size value to update the
^^^
Ugh. s/have/doesn't have/,
This text is about how edge-triggered events can work, but they must be
the right kind of edges if they are to be efficient. With suggestions.
Simon Kirby wrote:
What happens at "wait until output is ready for writing then goto 6"?
You mean you would stop the main loop to wait for a single
Simon Kirby wrote:
And you'd need to take the descriptor out of the read() set in the
select() case anyway, so I don't really see what's different.
The difference is that taking a bit out of select()'s bitmap is
basically free. Whereas the equivalent with events is a bind_event()
system call.
On Wed, Oct 25 2000, Tom Holroyd wrote:
Alpha DP264 UP.
Doing a dump to a SCSI MO disk (aic7xxx, Fujitsu Gigamo, ro ext2 fs), and
simultaneously writing a megabyte to a floppy (tar -cf /dev/fd0, "FDC 0 is
a post-1991 82077") produced a ten second freeze. I did this twice and
it's
On Wed Oct 25, 2000 at 12:16:40PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Erik Andersen wrote:
On Wed Oct 25, 2000 at 11:43:02AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
There is another good reason to ditch /etc/mtab: as a static file, it
And it is supposed to be writable though it lives in /etc. It
I am attempting to build everything as modules.
I can compile the works, but depmod -ae gives
loads of errors. Are these bugs or user error?
Thanks,
Miles
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.4.0-test10/kernel/drivers/block/DAC960.o
depmod: devfs_unregister_blkdev
Hi,
I've got a PCI resource conflict on PowerPC Motorola MCP 750 system
while booting 2.4.0-test10. It works happily under 2.2.16 w/o any problems.
messages and lspci for 2.2.16 and 2.4.0-test10 attached.
I'd be grateful on any comments, thanks :)
BTW, Martin, do you know why to complain about
Hi guys,
When running SPEC SFS tests against 2.4.0-test10-pre4 on a 4-way SMP
machine with 6G RAM (highmem+PAE enabled) I got
__alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed.
(probably coming from nfsd, why don't we print eip of the caller there?)
and the machine locked up (but pingable). So I
On Wed, Oct 25 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:
The optimal solution is to make the UDF tools part of the util-linux
package, which will probably happen at some point. I don't really know,
that part is not mine. I might put some work into making this happen,
though.
Andries,
Jens needs a
Andrew Morton wrote:
But all the documentation has for years been saying that
2.7.2.3 is the one true compiler, so we are now in for 12
months worth of bogus oops reports.
This patch will help:
--- linux-2.4.0-test10-pre5/arch/i386/kernel/setup.cTue Oct 24
[...]
+
+#if (__GNUC__ 2)
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 06:47:30PM -0700, Hunt Kent wrote:
Hi,
I am getting these messages during boot. It happens from test9 until
test10-pre5. The last kernel that worked fine was test9-pre7. I have
not tested test9-pre[8-9].
modutils 2.3.16
Calculating module dependencies...
Tigran Aivazian wrote:
Hi guys,
When running SPEC SFS tests against 2.4.0-test10-pre4 on a 4-way SMP
machine with 6G RAM (highmem+PAE enabled) I got
__alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed.
(probably coming from nfsd, why don't we print eip of the caller there?)
and the machine
On Wed Oct 25, 2000 at 02:15:05PM -0600, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
Alexander Viro wrote:
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
Al,
Thanks. I'll print this one out and post it on the wall for tonight's
debugging session.
[snip]
(e.g. generic_commit_write have to
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