Re: [2.4.3] PPP errors

2001-04-03 Thread Jean Paul Sartre
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Manfred H. Winter wrote: > Apr 4 02:05:21 marvin pppd[1227]: Couldn't set tty to PPP discipline: Invalid a > rgument > Apr 4 02:05:21 marvin pppd[1227]: Exit. Did you load the 'ppp_async.o' module? Regards, Cesar Suga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To

Re: How to make ramdisk based system?

2001-04-03 Thread lintux
Just like Steffen Grunewald, an infinite number of monkeys can type this: > I'm trying to figure out how to make a primaryly ram-disk based > Linux system (which should then be able to access "real" storage, > but that is really the last step). > initrd???

Re: 2048 byte/sector problems with kernel 2.4

2001-04-03 Thread John William
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Harvey Fishman wrote: >On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > >> > I also tried it with 2.2.18 there it works but it seems to be >utterly >> > slow. I'm using kernel 2.4.2(XFS version to be precise). >> >>M/O disks are slow. At a minimum make sure you are using a physical

Re: a quest for a better scheduler

2001-04-03 Thread Fabio Riccardi
I was actually suspecting that the extra lines in your patch were there for a reason :) A few questions: What is the real impact of a (slight) change in scheduling semantics? Under which situation one should notice a difference? As you state in your papers the global decision comes with a

RE: Can't boot with the 2.4.3 kernel.

2001-04-03 Thread Juha Saarinen
:: I configured and build it, and all looked OK. Did you select the right CPU type in the configuration? -- Juha - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Can't boot with the 2.4.3 kernel.

2001-04-03 Thread Amir Hardon
Hello all, I'm using slackware 7.1 with the 2.2.16 kernel, And I'm trying to install the 2.4.3 kernel. I configured and build it, and all looked OK. But when I'm trying to load the new kernel from LILO, It uncompressing the kernel, then says Ok, now booting the kernel gives some dots, and the it

Re: a quest for a better scheduler

2001-04-03 Thread Mike Kravetz
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 05:18:03PM -0700, Fabio Riccardi wrote: > > I have measured the HP and not the "scalability" patch because the two do more > or less the same thing and give me the same performance advantages, but the > former is a lot simpler and I could port it with no effort on any

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac2

2001-04-03 Thread Danny ter Haar
In article <9ae3qj$pc9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, I wrote: >It's still done manually, and now with the 2.4.3 series we >have to adjust the scripts a bit. Scripts adjusted, time for some sleep ;-) Danny -- Holland Hosting www.hoho.nl [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac2

2001-04-03 Thread Danny ter Haar
Miles Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >You still have the URL for www.bzimage.org in this announcement, >but there are no incremental patches there for either 2.4.3-ac1 >or 2.4.3-ac2. They're made as i type ;-) It's still done manually, and now with the 2.4.3 series we have to adjust the

Multicast tunneling in 2.4

2001-04-03 Thread Dave Bailey
I am trying to set up a tunnel from my linux machine to the MBone. My kernel (2.4.2) supports multicasting and advanced routing: CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y CONFIG_IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER=y CONFIG_IP_MROUTE=y I have read http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Multicast-HOWTO.html and

Re: 2.4.3 freeze under heavy writing + open rxvt

2001-04-03 Thread John Jasen
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Simon Kirby wrote: > Three times now I've had 2.4.3 freeze on my dual CPU box while doing a > "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdc bs=1024k" (a drive to be RMA'd :)). I got > bored and opened an rxvt, and as the machine was swapping in (I assume), > everything froze. The mouse

Re: 2.4.3 freeze under heavy writing + open rxvt

2001-04-03 Thread Alan Cox
> Three times now I've had 2.4.3 freeze on my dual CPU box while doing a > "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdc bs=1024k" (a drive to be RMA'd :)). I got Does it happen if you boot with < 900Mb of ram ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

2.4.3 freeze under heavy writing + open rxvt

2001-04-03 Thread Simon Kirby
Three times now I've had 2.4.3 freeze on my dual CPU box while doing a "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdc bs=1024k" (a drive to be RMA'd :)). I got bored and opened an rxvt, and as the machine was swapping in (I assume), everything froze. The mouse still moved for about 5 seconds before the freeze,

Re: nfsd vfs.c does not seems to fsync() with file overwrite, whenit have to.

2001-04-03 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday April 3, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > NB> Whenever you write to a file you change the inode - by changing the > NB> modify time at least. Look at generic_file_write in mm/filemap.c. > NB> Notice the code: > NB>if (count) { > NB> remove_suid(inode); > inode-> i_ctime =

Re: BTTV problems in 2.4.3

2001-04-03 Thread Marcus Wegner
diff -urN linux-2.4.3/arch/i386/kernel/pci-pc.c linux/arch/i386/kernel/pci-pc.c --- linux-2.4.3/arch/i386/kernel/pci-pc.c Sat Mar 31 00:12:41 2001 +++ linux/arch/i386/kernel/pci-pc.c Thu Mar 29 05:00:04 2001 @@ -1035,7 +1035,7 @@ { PCI_FIXUP_HEADER,

ack() and end() in hw_irq_controller

2001-04-03 Thread Jun Sun
I am trying to adopt the new irq.c under arch/i386/kernel to a MIPS board and hopefully to MIPS common code in general. This is in the anticipation that the irq.c file will be moved to common kernel directory in 2.5. While the rest look pretty self-explanatory, I do have a couple of questions

Re: a quest for a better scheduler

2001-04-03 Thread Christopher Smith
--On Tuesday, April 03, 2001 18:17:30 -0700 Fabio Riccardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > Indeed, I'm using RT sigio/sigwait event scheduling, bare clone threads > and zero-copy io. Fabio, I'm working on a similar solution, although I'm experimenting with SGI's KAIO patch to

Re: goodbye

2001-04-03 Thread Michael Peddemors
This would be a shame, as he has been a valuable resource.. Why has the list become more restrictive? I think that this is one list where we have to keep the ability to post from individuals separate from the need to make sure that their ISP or company is compliant to a set a of rules.. The

Re: a quest for a better scheduler

2001-04-03 Thread Fabio Riccardi
Alan Cox wrote: > > for the "normal case" performance see my other message. > > I did - and with a lot of interest thanks! :) > > I agree that a better threading model would surely help in a web server, but to > > me this is not an excuse to live up with a broken scheduler. > > The problem has

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac2

2001-04-03 Thread Miles Lane
Hi Alan, You still have the URL for www.bzimage.org in this announcement, but there are no incremental patches there for either 2.4.3-ac1 or 2.4.3-ac2. Miles Alan Cox wrote: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ > > Intermediate diffs are

Re: Sandisk flashcard reader on 2.4.2. It works. Sort of.

2001-04-03 Thread Stefan Linnemann
On Tuesday 03 April 2001 19:16, Tim Waugh wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 02:08:13AM +0200, Stefan Linnemann wrote: > > the necessary features. I copied .config from the 2.2.17, superficially > > checked the config, and remade and rebooted. > > This was where I noted, that the parport,

Linux 2.4.3-ac2

2001-04-03 Thread Alan Cox
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ Intermediate diffs are available from http://www.bzimage.org (Note that the cmsfs port to 2.4 is a work in progress) 2.4.3-ac2 o Add the VIA C3 to the mtrr/setup code (Dave

Re: a quest for a better scheduler

2001-04-03 Thread Alan Cox
> for the "normal case" performance see my other message. I did - and with a lot of interest > I agree that a better threading model would surely help in a web server, but to > me this is not an excuse to live up with a broken scheduler. The problem has always been - alternative scheduler,

Re: a quest for a better scheduler

2001-04-03 Thread Fabio Riccardi
Alan, for the "normal case" performance see my other message. I agree that a better threading model would surely help in a web server, but to me this is not an excuse to live up with a broken scheduler. The X15 server I'm working on now is a sort of user-space TUX, it uses only 8 threads per

[2.4.3] PPP errors

2001-04-03 Thread Manfred H. Winter
Hi! I still get from time to time the following errors when trying to use ppp: Apr 4 02:05:21 marvin pppd[1227]: Plugin /usr/lib/passwordfd.so loaded. Apr 4 02:05:21 marvin pppd[1227]: pppd 2.4.0 started by mahowi, uid 500 Apr 4 02:05:21 marvin pppd[1227]: Perms of /dev/ttyS0 are ok, no

Re: memory size detection problem on 2.3.16+ and 2.4.x

2001-04-03 Thread Alan Cox
> the bios will set the carry flag on the return from the call should > there be an error. However, the BIOS on my PC doesnt do this- infact > it seems to simply return from the call without changing any registers. Your BIOS is faulty. No new suprises. > meme801: > + xorl%edx, %edx

Re: a quest for a better scheduler

2001-04-03 Thread Fabio Riccardi
Dear all, I've spent my afternoon running some benchmarks to see if MQ patches would degrade performance in the "normal case". To measure performance I've used the latest lmbench and I have mesured the kernel compile times on a dual pentium III box runing at 1GHz with an 133MHz bus. Results

Linux 2.2.19 release notes

2001-04-03 Thread Alan Cox
The master copy of this file is at http://www.linux.org.uk. Check there for updates and errata Linux 2.2.19 Release Notes Platforms:Alpha, M68K, PowerPC, S/390, Sparc, X86 Introduction Linux 2.2.19 is the latest update to the Linux kernel tree. The out of the box tree

RE: md driver doesn't notice disk going out

2001-04-03 Thread Michael S. Fischer
I forgot to say, we're running kernel 2.4.3 + Sistina LVM patch 0.9.1b6. > -Original Message- > From: Michael S. Fischer > Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 5:09 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: md driver doesn't notice disk going out > > > Hello, > > We're

md driver doesn't notice disk going out

2001-04-03 Thread Michael S. Fischer
Hello, We're testing lvm over md (RAID 1) for a database application. Part of our tests include simulating failure. So, we pulled the power on one of the drives, and the kernel reported... hdd: status error: status=0x00 { } hdd: drive not ready for command ... ide1: reset timed-out,

memory size detection problem on 2.3.16+ and 2.4.x

2001-04-03 Thread Michael Miller
Hi, summary: e801 memory size detection call failure, but bios doesnt set carry flag on error and hence get an incorrect memory size. Since the 2.3.16 kernel, my PC has been unable to run any newer kernels (>2.3.16 or 2.4.x) without using the mem=64M command line parameter. This was when the

Kernel v2.4.3 segfault on any network send

2001-04-03 Thread pi
Please cc me the messages, i'm not subscribed... Hey, I just upgraded to kernel 2.4.3 on a k6 (233 mhz) with the processor type set accordingly, all the proper drivers compiled in and I get this big disgusting error message (my friend said that means i f***ed up) Sorry I don't have it, but

Digital DS21143 in Compaq & kernel 2.4.2

2001-04-03 Thread Olaf Woudenberg
Hi, I tried to install redhat 7.0 on a compaq presario 5685 with onboard networkcard. According to the linux-kernel this card needs drivers for the Digital DS21143 card. But when loaded, this card wouldn't work. So i tried a diverent version of the kernel by trying to install redhat rawhide. The

Re: Larger dev_t

2001-04-03 Thread Tim Wright
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 02:20:24PM +0200, Ingo Oeser wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 01:06:33PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > Device numbers/names have to be constant in order to detect > > disk layout changes across boots. > > Names stay constant, but why the NUMBERS? The names should stay >

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.3 and SysRq over serial console

2001-04-03 Thread Tom Rini
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:07:44PM +0100, Russell King wrote: > On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 04:38:08PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > > Hello all. Without the attached patch, SysRq doesn't work over a serial > > console here. Has anyone else seen this problem? > > It is handled at the serial port driver

Re: uninteruptable sleep

2001-04-03 Thread Trevor Nichols
> Did you compile sysrq into your kernel? I haven't yet. I'll enable it and see if I can trigger it next time I reboot again. > ps -eo pid,stat,pcpu,nwchan,wchan=WIDE-WCHAN-COLUMN -o args 1230 D 0.0 105cc1 down_write_failed /home/data/mozilla/obj/dist/bin/mozilla-bin Hopefully that

Re: Question about SysRq

2001-04-03 Thread Andreas Dilger
You write: > Can you anyhow find something in your logs/console/serial console messages > like 13.13.2000 kernel : Sysrq: Emergency Sync (this should be present - is > written within keyboard handler, not after shedule) and what's next logs ? > We could determine, if the bdflush thread got

Re: 2048 byte/sector problems with kernel 2.4

2001-04-03 Thread Harvey Fishman
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > I also tried it with 2.2.18 there it works but it seems to be utterly > > slow. I'm using kernel 2.4.2(XFS version to be precise). > > M/O disks are slow. At a minimum make sure you are using a physical block size > of 2048 bytes when using 2048 byte

Re: a quest for a better scheduler

2001-04-03 Thread Mike Kravetz
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 08:47:52PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > this restriction (independence of the priority from the previous process) > is a fundamentally bad property, scheduling is nonlinear and affinity > decisions depend on the previous context. [i had a priority-queue SMP > scheduler

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.3 and SysRq over serial console

2001-04-03 Thread Tom Rini
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:07:44PM +0100, Russell King wrote: > On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 04:38:08PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > > Hello all. Without the attached patch, SysRq doesn't work over a serial > > console here. Has anyone else seen this problem? > > It is handled at the serial port driver

Repeatable hang in 2.4.3 with 4 ide drives.

2001-04-03 Thread Rob Landley
I'm trying to make 3 copies of a 40 gig IBM deskstar IDE drive. I've got red hat 7 booted into single user mode, doing the following: cat /dev/hda | count | tee /dev/hdb | tee /dev/hdc > /dev/hdd The copy seems to work fine if I never let the console blank. I copied 2 gigs worth of data (at

Re: [SOLVED]Re: 2.2.19 && ppa: total lockup. No problem with 2.2.17

2001-04-03 Thread Juan
Tim Waugh escribió: > > On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 01:59:39AM +0200, Juan Piernas Canovas wrote: > > > Yes!!!. It works. I am happy now :-) > > Unfortunately, the problem isn't solved, merely worked around. We > need to figure out why this is happening in the first place. :-( > > To recap, the

Re: Question about SysRq

2001-04-03 Thread Boris Pisarcik
Unfortunately, > the only one that responds is sysrq-b, which boots the box without > syncing or unmounting the disks. Not only does that piss me off but it's > led to some fs corruption as well (which pisses me off even more). sysrq-b > is the *only* combination I can get working when this

Re: Goodbye

2001-04-03 Thread Ion Badulescu
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001 16:56:57 -0500, Matthew Fredrickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have decided to leave lkml because everybody else is doing it too. I have decided to switch to Windows because everybody else is doing it too. Oh, wait.. wrong mailing list. It's not hosted on aol.com. :-)

Re: ReiserFS? How reliable is it? Is this the future?

2001-04-03 Thread Shawn Starr
I've had 0, Ziltch problems with ReiserFS at the moment. It's solid for me. On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Hi folks, > > If I get the DVD stuff working, then I won't need NT anymore, i.e. > I will have an empty disk. > > What is your impression about ReiserFS? Does it work? Is it

Re: Minor 2.4.3 Adaptec Driver Problems

2001-04-03 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
>Volume labels dont help for all cases. Its a bug in the 6.1.5 adaptec driver >which (to save Justin pointing it out) is fixed in 6.1.8 Actually, there is a component of this related to link order which is fixed in the upcoming 6.1.9 driver release. The 7895, channel B primary issue, is fixed

Goodbye

2001-04-03 Thread Matthew Fredrickson
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Re: 2048 byte/sector problems with kernel 2.4

2001-04-03 Thread Alan Cox
> MO disks which have normal 512 bytes/sector it all works flawlessly but > as soon > as a put in a 1.3GB disk which uses the 2048 bytes/sector format it all > goes > wrong. As soon as I write something to the disk by issuing a cp command It will. Linux 2.4.x still hasn't had the scsi disk block

Re: Minor 2.4.3 Adaptec Driver Problems

2001-04-03 Thread Alan Cox
> > I just got 2.4.3 up a running (on Abit BP6 Dual Celeron ) and > > it reorderd my SCSI id's. Take a look. I don't like that my ZIP drive > > becomes sda because if I ever remove it then I'll @#$% my harddrive dev > > mappings again and have to change them again. Adaptec Driver 6.1.5 > > :-( >

2048 byte/sector problems with kernel 2.4

2001-04-03 Thread Jurgen Kramer
Hi, I recently acquired a 1.3GB MO drive. When I use small (230MB and 540MB) MO disks which have normal 512 bytes/sector it all works flawlessly but as soon as a put in a 1.3GB disk which uses the 2048 bytes/sector format it all goes wrong. As soon as I write something to the disk by issuing a

2.4.3 irq routing conflict (VIA chipset)

2001-04-03 Thread Tim Pepper
I know there was a thread on this previously and I was thinking it had been resolved (or was that only for a specific mobo mfg?). When I finally got my VIA chipset machine up to date with a 2.4.3 kernel I noticed the following on boot up: PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0a.0 IRQ

Fwd: Re: [PATCH][RFC] appling preasure to icache and dcache

2001-04-03 Thread Ed Tomlinson
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] appling preasure to icache and dcache Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 17:22:10 -0400 From: Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: l On Tuesday 03 April 2001 11:03, Benjamin Redelings I wrote: > Hi, I'm glad

Re: /proc/config idea

2001-04-03 Thread Ben Ford
J . A . Magallon wrote: > On 04.03 Ben Ford wrote: > >> J . A . Magallon wrote: >> >>> If this has not been done for System.map, that is a much more important >>> info for debug and oops, and the de facto standard is to put it aside >>> kernel with some standadr naming, lets use the same

Re: Minor 2.4.3 Adaptec Driver Problems

2001-04-03 Thread Ben Ford
Giuliano Pochini wrote: >> I just got 2.4.3 up a running (on Abit BP6 Dual Celeron ) and >> it reorderd my SCSI id's. Take a look. I don't like that my ZIP drive >> becomes sda because if I ever remove it then I'll @#$% my harddrive dev >> mappings again and have to change them again. Adaptec

Re: 2.4.2,3 nbd problem, works OK in 2.4.2-ac20,28

2001-04-03 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 04:16:04PM +0400, Vladimir Serov wrote: > Unfortunately the details of handling these requests aren't clear for me > and it's not simple to use Alan Cox patches on ARM cause there not > supported by Russell King and other people in ARM community (I mean no > patches again

Linux 2.4.3ac1

2001-04-03 Thread Alan Cox
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ Intermediate diffs are available from http://www.bzimage.org (Note that the cmsfs port to 2.4 is a work in progress) The 2.4.3ac1 release is intended simply as a synchronization point and

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.3 and SysRq over serial console

2001-04-03 Thread Russell King
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 04:38:08PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > Hello all. Without the attached patch, SysRq doesn't work over a serial > console here. Has anyone else seen this problem? It is handled at the serial port driver level, not the tty level. You need to turn on CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE

Re: [BUG] smbfs: caching problems

2001-04-03 Thread Urban Widmark
On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Xuan Baldauf wrote: > Hello, > > there is something wrong with smbfs caching which makes my > applications fail. The behaviour happens with > linux-2.4.3-pre4 and linux-2.4.3-final. Any version you know it doesn't happen with? (including 2.2 versions) > Consider following

Re: NFS client code slow in 2.4.3

2001-04-03 Thread Trond Myklebust
> " " == Caleb Epstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 02:56:15PM -0400, Caleb Epstein wrote: >> I am having problems with timeouts and generaly throughput in >> the 2.4.3 NFS client side code which are not present in the >> 2.4.2 kernel running in the

Re: a quest for a better scheduler

2001-04-03 Thread Ingo Molnar
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Mike Kravetz wrote: > [...] Currently, in this implementation we only deviate from the > current scheduler in a small number of cases where tasks get a boost > due to having the same memory map. thread-thread-affinity pretty much makes it impossible to use a priority queue.

Re: MLPPP in kernels 2.2.x w/ PPP v2.4.1

2001-04-03 Thread Koral Ilgun
Oops, I forgot to add the most important part from README.linux: ... The 2.2 series kernels contain an older version of the kernel PPP driver, one which doesn't support multilink. If you want multilink, you need to run the latest 2.4 series kernel. The kernel PPP driver was completely

Re: RFC: configuring net interfaces

2001-04-03 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Francois Romieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I think we should separate two things there: > > - the place (files) where SIOCxxx values are defined > > - the way we use ioctl call. > > (1) and (2) may be related: > no sub-ioctl (2) + scattered files (1) = *ouch* Sure. > Variant: >

Re: MLPPP in kernels 2.2.x w/ PPP v2.4.1

2001-04-03 Thread Koral Ilgun
These are excerpts from ppp 2.4.1 README.linux file: ... The Linux PPP implementation includes both kernel and user-level parts. This package contains the user-level part, which consists of the PPP daemon (pppd) and associated utilities. In the past this package has contained updated kernel

Re: /proc/config idea

2001-04-03 Thread Mike Castle
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:12:18PM +0200, J . A . Magallon wrote: > Just like the Alan Cox for 2.4 or Andrea Arcangeli for 2.2. Lets say you > have 2.4.2-ac27. For each of your compiles, set EXTRAVERSION to -ac27-bf1, > -ac27-bf2, etc. Your files will be: Some patches, such as the RAID patches,

Re: Promise 20267 "working" but no UDMA

2001-04-03 Thread Juhani Rautiainen
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote: > At 04:57 PM 4/3/01, you wrote: > >I have no choice since the motherboard has the chip on-board and with > >FastTrack BIOS. > > Ahh. I understand. > > I didn't know these MBs had the FastTrak BIOS built in; I was assuming you > were using the PCI

Re: a quest for a better scheduler

2001-04-03 Thread Mike Kravetz
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 10:55:12AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > you can easily make the scheduler fast in the many-processes case by > sacrificing functionality in the much more realistic, few-processes case. > None of the patch i've seen so far maintained the current scheduler's >

Re: /proc/config idea

2001-04-03 Thread Alan Cox
> That would be great and all, but can you tell me how to do it when I > have 3 or 4 different compiles of the same kernel version? Each compile you do already gets assigned a version #, if thats not enough then add your own id string - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: /proc/config idea

2001-04-03 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 04.03 Ben Ford wrote: > J . A . Magallon wrote: > > > > If this has not been done for System.map, that is a much more important > > info for debug and oops, and the de facto standard is to put it aside > > kernel with some standadr naming, lets use the same method for config. > > > That

Re: NFS client code slow in 2.4.3

2001-04-03 Thread Caleb Epstein
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 02:56:15PM -0400, Caleb Epstein wrote: > I am having problems with timeouts and generaly throughput in > the 2.4.3 NFS client side code which are not present in the 2.4.2 > kernel running in the same configuraiton on the same hardware. The > machines are on a 100

Re: Contacts within AMD? AMD-756 USB host-controller blacklisted due to

2001-04-03 Thread Alan Cox
> David Brownell recently added this check to the usb-ohci driver > since noone has gotten information from AMD for the workaround, > which is rumored to exist, for this bug. > > Do any of you have contacts within AMD who might be able to > get an explanation of the workaround to David Brownell?

NFS client code slow in 2.4.3

2001-04-03 Thread Caleb Epstein
I am having problems with timeouts and generaly throughput in the 2.4.3 NFS client side code which are not present in the 2.4.2 kernel running in the same configuraiton on the same hardware. The machines are on a 100 Mbit switched local network with

Re: /proc/config idea

2001-04-03 Thread Ben Ford
J . A . Magallon wrote: > On 04.03 David Lang wrote: > >> if the distro/sysadmin _always_ installs the kernel the 'right way' then >> the difference isn't nessasarily that large, but if you want reliability >> on any system it may be worth loosing a page or so of memory (hasn't >> someone said

Re: Hangs under 2.4.2-ac{18,19,24} that do not happen under -ac12.

2001-04-03 Thread Paul Cassella
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Paul Cassella wrote: > Hangs under 2.4.2-ac{18,19,24} that do not happen under -ac12. I've been running -ac27 for over 5 days, and it's been fine, so this seems to have been fixed. -- Paul Cassella - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

Contacts within AMD? AMD-756 USB host-controller blacklisted due to erratum #4.

2001-04-03 Thread Miles Lane
Running 2.4.2-ac28, I get the following error: usb-ohci.c: 00:07.4 (Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-756 [Viper] USB): blacklisted, erratum #4 David Brownell recently added this check to the usb-ohci driver since noone has gotten information from AMD for the workaround, which is rumored to

Re: ReiserFS? How reliable is it? Is this the future?

2001-04-03 Thread jury gerold
I use reiserfs on a) P3(450) machine 440BX/ZX Chipset 82371AB PIIX4 IDE UDMA33 b) athlon(1100) VIA KT133 something IDE UDMA33 On both of them i have spurious small file garbage problems during compiling. There was no situation with real trouble, no permanent damage, restarting the job solved

Re: pcnet32 (maybe more) hosed in 2.4.3

2001-04-03 Thread Ralf Baechle
Carsten, seems your pcnet32 changes which made it into 2.4.3 are causing trouble on i386 machines. Can you try to solve that problem? On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 03:58:11PM +0200, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote: > On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Scott G. Miller wrote: > > > Linux 2.4.3, Debian Woody. 2.4.2

gigabit bonding

2001-04-03 Thread john knox
hi - I have 2 dell power edge 6300 boxes, each with 4 processors and 2 intel 717037 ethernet cards running rh 6.2, kernel 2.2.14-6.1.1smp. I have installed the latest intel nic driver that I could find - v3.0.7. The machines are identical except for the scsi controllers. On one machine, I

Re: uninteruptable sleep

2001-04-03 Thread J Sloan
Trevor Nichols wrote: > > Its a kernel bug if it gets stuck like this. You need to provide more info > > though - what file system, what devices, how much memory. Also ps can give you > > the wait address of a process stuck in 'D' state which is valuable for debug > > ps xl: > F UID PID

MLPPP in kernels 2.2.x w/ PPP v2.4.1

2001-04-03 Thread Ivan Passos
Hello, everyone, The quick question: if I install PPP 2.4.1 in a Linux box w/ kernel 2.2.x, will I have support to MLPPP?? Now, the explanation for my doubt. I've seen several (actually 3) different MLPPP implementations for older versions of PPP/pppd (namely 2.3.5 and 2.3.11). I'd like to

Re: The 53c400a

2001-04-03 Thread Alan Cox
> a) my 53c400 card must be initialized first by DOS driver to be detected by Linux >kernel Ok I've not needed that for mine. Must be a variant init function is used on yours. > b) The scanner initialization lasts about 4 minutes. And scanning is very slow > even if I increase the kernel

Re: The 53c400a

2001-04-03 Thread clock
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 10:15:28PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > Not in the near future. Never mind. I realized three things: a) my 53c400 card must be initialized first by DOS driver to be detected by Linux kernel b) The scanner initialization lasts about 4 minutes. And scanning is very slow even

Re: 2.4.3 SMP: nfs stale handle, fb dualhead hardlock, G400/450 misnaming

2001-04-03 Thread Petr Vandrovec
Elmer Joandi wrote: > 2. Hard lockup: > G450, I set con2fb, switch consoles some times and there it comes. > swithc between X and single console is OK. Did you boot with 'video=scrollback:0' ? You must ;-) > 3. seems that I have G450 and linux shows it as G400. >

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [lkml]Re: [lkml]Re: Matrox G400 Dualhead

2001-04-03 Thread Petr Vandrovec
James Simmons wrote: > >A very neat trick. X can now be ended correctly. Unfortunately, any > >scrolling on any VT afterwards gives me a corrupted screen - parts of > >the screen from other VT's are inserted below, or over the cursor > >position, and at 'half-line' intervals. In typing this

Re: what is pci=biosirq

2001-04-03 Thread Petr Vandrovec
xcp wrote: > Here is the output of lspci -vx -s 0:f.0 > > 00:0f.0 IDE interface: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5229 IDE (rev c1) > (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP]) > Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32 > I/O ports at b000 [size=16] > 00: b9 10 29 52 05 00 80 02 c1 8a 01

Re: Sandisk flashcard reader on 2.4.2. It works. Sort of.

2001-04-03 Thread Tim Waugh
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 02:08:13AM +0200, Stefan Linnemann wrote: > the necessary features. I copied .config from the 2.2.17, superficially > checked the config, and remade and rebooted. > > This was where I noted, that the parport, paride, epat and pd modules didn't > get installed as

Re: Strange problems with 2.4.3.

2001-04-03 Thread Andrew Morton
German Gomez Garcia wrote: > > ... > eth1: transmit timed out, tx_status 82 status e605. > diagnostics: net 04d8 media 8880 dma 00ba. > eth1: Interrupt posted but not delivered IRQ blocked by another device? If this happens immediately after startup then possibly the PCI initialisation has

Re: EATA driver with DPT SmartRAID V

2001-04-03 Thread Denis Perchine
On Wednesday 04 April 2001 00:10, Alan Cox wrote: > > Is there any other way to make it working under 2.4.x? Only working > > drivers are up to 2.2.16. I tried to compile them for 2.2.17 from RH 6.2 > > updates, but they hang up PC. > > DPT (now Adaptec) posted beta drivers for the card. I've

Re: ACPI: S1 working for someone?

2001-04-03 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! (beware: I wrongly used vger.rutgers.edu in to, so some care is required to reply to previous message) > Hi! > > Does S1 going back from S1 work for you? As soon as hit power button > in S1, machine powers off... It should just continue where it > started. 2.4.3 on toshiba satelite

Re: EATA driver with DPT SmartRAID V

2001-04-03 Thread Alan Cox
> Is there any other way to make it working under 2.4.x? Only working drivers > are up to 2.2.16. I tried to compile them for 2.2.17 from RH 6.2 updates, but > they hang up PC. DPT (now Adaptec) posted beta drivers for the card. I've asked them to make a few more changes for me but their

Re: bug database braindump from the kernel summit

2001-04-03 Thread Miles Lane
Oliver Xymoron wrote: > > On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Tom Leete wrote: > > > Oliver Xymoron wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > > > > > On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, David Lang wrote: > > > > > if we want to get the .config as part of the report then we need to make > > > > > it part

Re: Larger dev_t

2001-04-03 Thread Richard Gooch
Alan Cox writes: > > However, a large number of people run devfs on small to large systems, > > and these "races" aren't causing problems. People tell me it's quite > > They dont have users actively trying to exploit them. I don't > consider it a big problem for development trees though. devfs

How to make ramdisk based system?

2001-04-03 Thread Steffen Grunewald
Please forgive me that this is not exactly a kernel question. I'm trying to figure out how to make a primaryly ram-disk based Linux system (which should then be able to access "real" storage, but that is really the last step). Could some kind soul please point me to a HOWTO or cookbook how to

Re: EATA driver with DPT SmartRAID V

2001-04-03 Thread Denis Perchine
On Tuesday 03 April 2001 23:59, Alan Cox wrote: > > Bus 1, device 1, function 0: > > PCI bridge: Distributed Processing Technology PCI Bridge (rev 2). > > Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=3. > > Bus 1, device 1, function 1: > > I2O: Distributed Processing Technology

Re: Larger dev_t

2001-04-03 Thread Richard Gooch
Alexander Viro writes: > > > On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Richard Gooch wrote: > > > However, a large number of people run devfs on small to large systems, > > and these "races" aren't causing problems. People tell me it's quite > > stable. I run devfs on my systems, and not once have I had a problem >

Re: EATA driver with DPT SmartRAID V

2001-04-03 Thread Alan Cox
> Bus 1, device 1, function 0: > PCI bridge: Distributed Processing Technology PCI Bridge (rev 2). > Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=3. > Bus 1, device 1, function 1: > I2O: Distributed Processing Technology SmartRAID V Controller (rev 2). This card isnt supported

Re: ReiserFS? How reliable is it? Is this the future?

2001-04-03 Thread Alan Cox
> The bad (2.2 kernels) > > * Nothing I can think of Security exploit according to bugtraq, but Im pretty sure it wont take Chris Mason and friends long to fix that. > The bad (2.4.x kernels): > > * Some corruption problems with various 2.4.x kernels, but > people are reporting ext2 problems,

ACPI: S1 working for someone?

2001-04-03 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Does S1 going back from S1 work for you? As soon as hit power button in S1, machine powers off... It should just continue where it started. 2.4.3 on toshiba satelite 4030cdt. Pavel -- The best software in life is free (not

Re: Larger dev_t

2001-04-03 Thread Alan Cox
> However, a large number of people run devfs on small to large systems, > and these "races" aren't causing problems. People tell me it's quite They dont have users actively trying to exploit them. I don't consider it a big problem for development trees though. devfs has a maintainer at least

Re: uninteruptable sleep

2001-04-03 Thread Manfred Spraul
> ps xl: > F UID PID PPID PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TTY TIME COMMAND > 040 1000 1230 1 9 0 24320 4 down_w D ? 0:00 > /home/data/mozilla/obj/dist/bin/mozi > down_w Perhaps down_write_failed()? 2.4.3 converted the mmap semaphore to a rw-sem. Did you compile sysrq into your kernel? Then

Re: [SOLVED]Re: 2.2.19 && ppa: total lockup. No problem with 2.2.17

2001-04-03 Thread Tim Waugh
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 01:59:39AM +0200, Juan Piernas Canovas wrote: > Yes!!!. It works. I am happy now :-) Unfortunately, the problem isn't solved, merely worked around. We need to figure out why this is happening in the first place. To recap, the system hangs completely when you load the

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