Re: Lost O_NONBLOCK (Bug?)

2001-04-13 Thread Philippe Troin
Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've run into the following weird behavior on my system with 2.4.0. I have the following code: Apt I guess ? It has a very strange behavior when backgrounded... if (fork() == 0) { int Flags,dummy; if ((Flags =

sk-state_chage is not called for listening sockets

2001-04-13 Thread Pete Zaitcev
Hello: Suppose for a moment, that I have an in-kernel daemon, listening on a TCP socket, and that the said daemon is interested to know when connection becomes established. To that end it puts something into sk-state_change. However, when connection is established, state_chenge is not called (in

Process (mozilla) in 'D' state (down_w)

2001-04-13 Thread Athanasius
Seems like anytime I first startup mozilla I end up with something like: ps afx | grep mozilla 680 ttyp6S 0:00 | \_ grep mozilla 660 tty1 S 0:00 \_ /bin/sh /other2/mozilla/run-mozilla.sh 664 tty1 S 0:01 \_

bug in kernel 2.2.19

2001-04-13 Thread Jan Gregor
Hi Kernel 2.2.19 downloaded from www.kernel.org sometimes when I boot from lilo reports after "uncompressing linux ..." and blank line shows "crc error" and halts. I looked at the sources and found that this means that uncompressed kernel has bad crc. I tried compile it under debian potato (gcc

Re: SCSI Tape Corruption - update

2001-04-13 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Still experimenting with my SDT-9000... tried connecting it to another controller (2940AU in place of 2904, sorry but I've only Adaptec stuff :). Same problem. Tried with another tape (even with an old DDS-2 tape). Same. Even tried another

Re: SCSI Tape Corruption - update

2001-04-13 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that the tape is written incorrectly. I wrote some large file (300MB) and read it back four time. The read copies are all the same. They differ from the original only in 32 consecutive

Re: Linux-Kernel Archive: No 100 HZ timer !

2001-04-13 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Andre Hedrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, george anzinger wrote: Actually we could do the same thing they did for errno, i.e. #define jiffies get_jiffies() extern unsigned get_jiffies(void); No, not really. HZ still defines the units of jiffies and most all

I need help ! (COMPAQ Proliant 6500 hangs, 2.4.3 kernel)

2001-04-13 Thread Mario Mikocevic
Hi, well, it happened again ! Just before complete hang I gathered some data - (sorry for being it long) [root@ls203 /root]# hwclock --show Thu Apr 12 20:13:20 2001 0.089248 seconds [root@ls203 /root]# [root@ls203 /root]# [root@ls203 /root]# date Thu Apr 12 19:34:32 CEST 2001 [root@ls203

Re: Request for Configure.help entries for newly added config options.

2001-04-13 Thread Russell King
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 01:54:13PM -0600, Steven Cole wrote: CONFIG_CPU_ARM610 CONFIG_CPU_ARM710 CONFIG_CPU_ARM720T CONFIG_CPU_ARM920T CONFIG_CPU_SA110 The last patch I sent Alan (-ac3 iirc) had the relevent entries in for these. -- Russell King

Re: union mounting?

2001-04-13 Thread Ingo Oeser
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 01:31:46PM -0400, David L. Parsley wrote: real pretty. If you've got union mounting patches for testing, I'd be interested. ;-) /me is interested, too. And yes, I have nearly the same problem ;-) Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag

Data-corruption bug in VIA chipsets

2001-04-13 Thread Dennis Bjorklund
Here might be one of the resons for the trouble with VIA chipsets: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/18267.html Some DMA error corrupting data, sounds like a really nasty bug. The information is minimal on that page. I just bought one of these babies and I should probably return it

Re: Help with Fasttrack/100 Raid on Linux

2001-04-13 Thread Paul Flinders
Andre Hedrick wrote: Sorry, but http://www.linux-ide.org/ clearly states that nothing below a given line supports hardware/bios-soft raid. Promise are clearly being less than helpful here and that is not your fault. However as far as I can see everyone who has a FastTrak which is "stuck" in

Re: Linux-Kernel Archive: No 100 HZ timer !

2001-04-13 Thread george anzinger
"Eric W. Biederman" wrote: Andre Hedrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, george anzinger wrote: Actually we could do the same thing they did for errno, i.e. #define jiffies get_jiffies() extern unsigned get_jiffies(void); No, not really. HZ still defines

Re: new aic7xxx driver problems

2001-04-13 Thread Giuliano Pochini
Can you elaborate on what you had to modify ? I just added AHC_ULTRA to the features of 7850 AHC_AIC7850_FE= AHC_SPIOCAP|AHC_AUTOPAUSE|AHC_TARGETMODE|AHC_ULTRA, What's the PCI id of the card you are using ? I'm not at home. If I remember right, it reported exactly the ID of

Re: Asynchronous IO

2001-04-13 Thread Dan Maas
IIRC the problem with implementing asynchronous *disk* I/O in Linux today is that the filesystem code assumes synchronous I/O operations that block the whole process/thread. So implementing "real" asynch I/O (without the overhead of creating a process context for each operation) would require

Re: No 100 HZ timer!

2001-04-13 Thread george anzinger
Ben Greear wrote: Bret Indrelee wrote: On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, george anzinger wrote: Bret Indrelee wrote: On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, george anzinger wrote: Bret Indrelee wrote: Keep all timers in a sorted double-linked list. Do the insert intelligently, adding it from

MO-Drive under 2.4.3

2001-04-13 Thread Detlev Offenbach
Hi out there, I have a problem using my MO-Drive under kernel 2.4.3. I have several disks formated with a VFAT filesystem. Under kernel 2.2.19 everything works fine. Under kernel 2.4.3 I cannot write anything to the disk without hanging the complete system so that I have to use the reset

Re: Bug report: tcp staled when send-q != 0, timers == 0.

2001-04-13 Thread Eugene B. Berdnikov
Hello. On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 11:09:35PM +0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW if that cursed socket is still alive, try to make the experiment with filling window on it. It must stuck, or my theory is completely wrong. Filling the socket via writing to pty (controlled by sshd), I found

Re: Linux-Kernel Archive: No 100 HZ timer !

2001-04-13 Thread David Schleef
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 09:04:28PM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote: On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, george anzinger wrote: Actually we could do the same thing they did for errno, i.e. #define jiffies get_jiffies() extern unsigned get_jiffies(void); No, not really. HZ still defines the units of

Re: 8139too.c and 2.4.4-pre1 kernel burp

2001-04-13 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
jeff garzik wrote: Frank Jacobberger wrote: Jeff, I noticed the following on boot with 2.4.4-pre1: kernel: eth0: Too much work at interrupt, IntrStatus=0x0001. What is this saying to me :) How often does this

Re: 8139too.c and 2.4.4-pre1 kernel burp

2001-04-13 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
Jrn Nettingsmeier wrote: i'm seeing this, too. forgot to mention: i'm running 2.4.4-pre2 here. problem persists. -- Jrn Nettingsmeier home://Kurfrstenstr.49.45138.Essen.Germany phone://+49.201.491621 http://www.folkwang-hochschule.de/~nettings/ http://www.linuxdj.com/audio/lad/ -

compile error when including /kernel/fs.h

2001-04-13 Thread vivid_liou
Hi, All I am tring to read a device driver . at first everyting is fine, when I include kernel/fs.h , a series parse error appears. error disappear because of header files of linux, Does anyone meet the same question , or know how to solve it ? Thanks a lot - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: bug in kernel 2.2.19

2001-04-13 Thread José Luis Domingo López
On Friday, 13 April 2001, at 08:56:23 +0200, Jan Gregor wrote: Hi Kernel 2.2.19 downloaded from www.kernel.org sometimes when I boot from lilo reports after "uncompressing linux ..." and blank line shows "crc error" and halts. [...] Same behavior here, as I reported some days ago on this

Re: Data-corruption bug in VIA chipsets

2001-04-13 Thread Ingo Oeser
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 10:00:32AM +0200, Dennis Bjorklund wrote: Here might be one of the resons for the trouble with VIA chipsets: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/18267.html Some DMA error corrupting data, sounds like a really nasty bug. The information is minimal on that page.

aic7xxx: first mount always fails

2001-04-13 Thread David Santinoli
The first attempt at mounting a disc in my Traxdata CDR drive after boot always fails. From the second on, everything works flawlessly. Current setup is 2.2.18 kernel + 6.1.11-2.2.18 patch, but I've been experiencing this behaviour since I bought the adapter (around 2.2.12 or so). aic7xxx gets

[CHECKER] security rules?

2001-04-13 Thread Dawson Engler
We're looking at making a set of security checkers. Does anyone have suggestions for good things to go after in addition to the usual copy_*_user and buffer overrun bugs? For example, are there any documents that describe the rules for when/how 'capable' is supposed to be used? Thanks for any

kmem_cache

2001-04-13 Thread Sébastien GATTI
Hi all, I have problems with slab management: While trying to unload a module and destroying cache memory that was previously allocated (kmem_cache_destroy routine), I get the following message: "can't free all objects..." Then I will get a Oops if I try to reload the module... How can I be

PROBLEM: Can't mount 2048 hardware sectors SCSI disk

2001-04-13 Thread Yokota Hiroshi
[1.] One line summary of the problem: Can't mount 2048 hardware sectors SCSI disk on 2.4 kernel. [2.] Full description of the problem/report: I have SCSI optical disk drive. It's supports 512 and 2048 bytes hardware sectors media. In 2.2.19 kernel, I can use both 512/2048 hardware sectors

Re: PROBLEM: Can't mount 2048 hardware sectors SCSI disk

2001-04-13 Thread Jurgen Kramer
Hi, I reported the same problem a while ago. The suggestion was to stick to 2.2.19 for the time being. 2048 byte/sector support is broken in 2.4. Yokota Hiroshi wrote: [1.] One line summary of the problem: Can't mount 2048 hardware sectors SCSI disk on 2.4 kernel. [2.] Full description of

Re: No 100 HZ timer!

2001-04-13 Thread Jamie Lokier
george anzinger wrote: Wouldn't a heap be a good data structure for a list of timers? Insertion is log(n) and finding the one with the least time is O(1), ie pop off the front It can be implemented in an array which should help cache coherency and all those other things they talked

Re: badly punctuated parameter list in `#define' (2.4.3-ac5 and 2.4.4 -pre2)

2001-04-13 Thread Jamie Lokier
Christoph Hellwig wrote: So the /* old gcc */ part should probably be enabled based on a define for the old compiler. The right ifdef seems to be: #if __GNUC__ == 2 __GNUC_MINOR__ 95 The current GCC supports the old syntax and will do so for a while yet, so perhaps this is not

No one wants to help me :-(

2001-04-13 Thread Mircea Damian
Hello, I was expecting to receive some replies to my last desperate messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg35446.html http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg36591.html My machine is dyeing in add_timer(). It seems to happen only on SMP

SW-RAID0 Performance problems

2001-04-13 Thread Andreas Peter
Hi, I've successfully set up SW-RAID0 with Kernel 2.4.3 and Raidtools 0.9. I did this to increase the performance of my HD, but nothig happens. The hdparm results: hdparm -t /dev/md0 : 20.25 MB/sec hdparm -t /dev/hda : 20.51 MB/sec hdaprm -t /dev/hdc : 20.71 MB/sec I thougt the performnace of

Re: [CHECKER] security rules?

2001-04-13 Thread Chris Evans
Hi Dawson, Excellent project. Can I suggest that you check for signedness issues? A typical signature of a signedness problem is: int i = get_from_userspace_somehow(); /* Sanity check i */ if (i MAX_LEN_FOR_I) goto bad_bad_out; /* Bug here!! i can be negative! */ I suspect you find a lot

Re: Linux-Kernel Archive: No 100 HZ timer !

2001-04-13 Thread Mark Salisbury
I think it makes the most sense to keep jiffie as a simple unsigned int. If we leave drivers, and other code as is they can deal with single word (32 bit) values and get reasonable results. If we make HZ too high (say 10,000 to get micro second resolution) we will start limiting the max

Re: natsemi.c (Netgear FA311 card) probmlems??

2001-04-13 Thread Joseph Carter
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 09:32:36PM -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: There are some improvements in the latest 2.4 test patch, 2.4.3-pre8. I would be very interested in hearing feedback on that. I finally got two test cards, FA311 and FA312, so I can work on it a bit too. Okay, I finally

Re: Linux-Kernel Archive: No 100 HZ timer !

2001-04-13 Thread Alan Cox
Great HZ always defines units of jiffies, but that is worthless if there is not a ruleset that tells me a value to divide by to return it to a specific quantity of time. HZ obviously. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: Yacc in 2.4.3 causes kernel compile to fail (aicasm_gram.y)

2001-04-13 Thread Alan Cox
The Makefile system is expecting the YACC variable to be defined; a straightforward workaround is then to define: export YACC="`which bison` -y" Umm [root@irongate linux.ac]# which yacc /usr/bin/yacc /usr/bin/which: no bison in (/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin)

Re: badly punctuated parameter list in `#define' (2.4.3-ac5 and 2.4.4 -pre2)

2001-04-13 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 12:39:39PM +0200, Jamie Lokier wrote: Christoph Hellwig wrote: So the /* old gcc */ part should probably be enabled based on a define for the old compiler. The right ifdef seems to be: #if __GNUC__ == 2 __GNUC_MINOR__ 95 The current GCC supports the old

Re: Linux-Kernel Archive: No 100 HZ timer !

2001-04-13 Thread Michael Raymond
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 08:20:56AM -0400, Mark Salisbury wrote: inner loop, i.e. interrupt timer code should never have to convert from some real time value into number of decrementer ticks in order to set up the next interrupt as that requires devides (and 64 bit ones at that) in a tickless

Re: loop problems continue in 2.4.3

2001-04-13 Thread Jens Axboe
On Wed, Apr 11 2001, Ian Eure wrote: i get this message when it panics: -- snip -- loop: setting 534781920 bs for 07:86 Kernel panic: Invalid blocksize passed to set_blocksize -- snip -- Ahm, how are you setting your loop device up? The above is completely bogus. -- Jens Axboe - To

Re: POSIX 52 53? 54

2001-04-13 Thread Mark Salisbury
these are covered in IEEE P100.13, D9 September 1997 AD212. it is available from IEEE for a "nominal" fee. they are 4 defined subsets of POSIX that are deemed appropriate for real-time systems. unfortunately, the sub in subset is a small delta from the full set. the subsets are:

[PATCH] Unisys pc keyboard new keys patch, kernel 2.4.3

2001-04-13 Thread Jan Dvorak
Hi, i recently met with a new (Unisys) keyboard, which have (among 'normal' windows keys) 3 more keys on top of arrows, labeled by pictures as halfsun, halfmoon, and power switch. Following patch adds 'support' for them (or at least gets rid of 'unknown scancode' messages), but beacuse i am new

Re: MO-Drive under 2.4.3

2001-04-13 Thread Alan Cox
I have a problem using my MO-Drive under kernel 2.4.3. I have several disks formated with a VFAT filesystem. Under kernel 2.2.19 everything works fine. Under kernel 2.4.3 I cannot write anything to the disk without hanging the complete system so that I have to use the reset button. For

Re: Data-corruption bug in VIA chipsets

2001-04-13 Thread Alan Cox
Here might be one of the resons for the trouble with VIA chipsets: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/18267.html Some DMA error corrupting data, sounds like a really nasty bug. The information is minimal on that page. What annoys me is that we've known about the problem for _ages_.

Re: Data-corruption bug in VIA chipsets

2001-04-13 Thread Alan Cox
These are the things, that one of the German links[1] suggest (translated only, because I'm not the IDE guy ;-)): - PCI Delay Transaction = 0 (off) (Register 0x70, Bit 1) - PCI Master Read Caching = 0 (off) (Register 0x70, Bit 2) - PCI Latency = 0 (values between 0 and 32

Re: [BUG] ide-tape is readonly here

2001-04-13 Thread Mike Dresser
back down to 2.2.19, and you'll find you can read your tapes. From what Andre explains, the HP Colorado 7/14 and 10/20 aren't completely compliant with standards. If you run 2.2.19 and the ide patches, you'll have the same problems. On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Ed Tomlinson wrote: Hi, Upgraded to

Re: Data-corruption bug in VIA chipsets

2001-04-13 Thread Doug McNaught
Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here might be one of the resons for the trouble with VIA chipsets: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/18267.html Some DMA error corrupting data, sounds like a really nasty bug. The information is minimal on that page. What annoys me is that

Re: Data-corruption bug in VIA chipsets

2001-04-13 Thread Alan Cox
Is this problem likely to affect 2.2.X? I have a VIA-based board on order (Tyan Trinity) and I don't plan to run 2.4 on it anytime soon (it's upgrading a stock RH6.2 box). Am I safe if I stay in PIO mode? I have received exactly zero reports of 2.2 problems, and as the 2.2 maintainer I

Re: [PATCH] Re: memory usage - dentry_cacheg

2001-04-13 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Friday 13 April 2001 00:45, Ed Tomlinson wrote: On Thursday 12 April 2001 22:03, Alexander Viro wrote: If you are talking about "unused" from the slab POV - _ouch_. Looks like extremely bad fragmentation ;-/ It's surprising, and if that's thte case I'd like to see more details. From

Re: [BUG] 8139too 'too much work at interrupt'

2001-04-13 Thread Ed Tomlinson
Forgot to mention that reverting to the driver too the version in ac3 cures the problem I am seeing. Ed On Friday 13 April 2001 00:50, Ed Tomlinson wrote: Upgraded to ac5 tonight. It stalled shortly after start a program to suck news. Looking at a serial console I see hundreds of the above

Re: Alpha process table hang

2001-04-13 Thread Bob McElrath
Alan Cox [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: (But since the X server shouldn't have the ability to corrupt the kernel's process list, there has to be a problem in the kernel somewhere) The X server has enough priviledge to corrupt anything. Its unlikely to and I do agree they two are likely to

Re: k 2.4.2; usb; handspring-visor

2001-04-13 Thread John Madden
Have you tried using the normal UHCI driver, instead of the UHCI Alternate Driver (JE)? I know the "alternate" one is default from Linus, but it's incompatible with the usb-visor driver. The maintainer said he'd patch the docs to clear up the confusion, but it hasn't shown up in the

Re: kernel crash

2001-04-13 Thread nak
Ok, I see this has started to interfere with the bug tracking process so I'll kill it now (I seriously thought it was already dead). Yep it was an april fools joke. for the record: 2 offers for help; 1 post asking me if I mounted a scratch monkey( heh); 1 email begging me to abandon

pci SDSL card

2001-04-13 Thread Gabriel Rocha
does anyone know of a linux supported, pci SDSL card? I see a couple that are windows based, but nothing on those and linux...thanks in advance. --gabe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Problem with k7 optimizations in 2.4.x?

2001-04-13 Thread Moses Mcknight
Hi, I don't know if this is a problem with my hardware setup or config settings or what, but whenever I try to run a 2.4.x kernel on my machine with k7 optimizations the computer will never fully boot and seems to give random errors about being "unable to handle kernel NULL pointer

Re: Data-corruption bug in VIA chipsets

2001-04-13 Thread Doug McNaught
Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is this problem likely to affect 2.2.X? I have a VIA-based board on order (Tyan Trinity) and I don't plan to run 2.4 on it anytime soon (it's upgrading a stock RH6.2 box). Am I safe if I stay in PIO mode? I have received exactly zero reports of

Re: Problem with k7 optimizations in 2.4.x?

2001-04-13 Thread Disconnect
Several of us on the list had the same/similar problems. AFAIK the only fix at this point is to run w/ no more than K6 optimizations. Check the archives for - Only 10 MB/sec with via 82c686b (towards the end of the thread) - thunderbird 1.2G + kk266 + 2.4.x oops It seems to be something wierd

Re: 2.4.3-ac3 XIRCOM_CB only working as module

2001-04-13 Thread Stephen Torri
I have built this as a module due to the RedHat system I use (to be consistent). I found that the xircom_cb driver works fine as a module except for when using dhcp for dynamic ip address. If I set the ip address of the network card to a static ip number it work fine. Yet if I choose to use the

Re: POSIX 52 53? 54

2001-04-13 Thread yodaiken
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 08:46:14AM -0400, Mark Salisbury wrote: these are covered in IEEE P100.13, D9 September 1997 AD212. it is available from IEEE for a "nominal" fee. they are 4 defined subsets of POSIX that are deemed appropriate for real-time systems. unfortunately, the sub in

Re: Problem with k7 optimizations in 2.4.x?

2001-04-13 Thread Alan Cox
settings or what, but whenever I try to run a 2.4.x kernel on my machine with k7 optimizations the computer will never fully boot and seems to give random errors about being "unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address " and other errors. I run the K7

Happy news for the speed freaks

2001-04-13 Thread esr
I have found the bottleneck in the CML2 configurator's startup time and nailed it. On my laptop, the time to read in and commit the i386 defconfig has dropped from 12 seconds to less than 2. This fix will be in the next release; expect it late today or tomorrow. -- a

Re: SW-RAID0 Performance problems

2001-04-13 Thread Andreas Peter
Mark Hahn schrieb: hdparm -t /dev/md0 : 20.25 MB/sec hdparm -t /dev/hda : 20.51 MB/sec hdaprm -t /dev/hdc : 20.71 MB/sec md0 is composed of partitions located where on hda and hdc? also, what's your CPU? This is my raidtab file: raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level

Re: Problem with k7 optimizations in 2.4.x?

2001-04-13 Thread Disconnect
On the iwill mobo? (I haven't heard of this problem on other motherboards.) I'll grab the latest -ac today and give it a try this evening. (Just for reference, the system is the Iwill kk266, 1.2G tbird, 512M pc133, ata66 drive - everything has AMD-approved stickers and nothing is overclocked.)

Re: Linux-Kernel Archive: No 100 HZ timer !

2001-04-13 Thread george anzinger
Mark Salisbury wrote: I think it makes the most sense to keep jiffie as a simple unsigned int. If we leave drivers, and other code as is they can deal with single word (32 bit) values and get reasonable results. If we make HZ too high (say 10,000 to get micro second resolution) we

Re: SCSI Tape Corruption - update 2

2001-04-13 Thread Nate Eldredge
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, the 2.2 distributed with Mandrake 7.2 works fine ... :) Hmmm... 32 CONSECUTIVE bytes are a very peculiar error. What can it be? Still experimenting... I once ran into a problem with 32-byte errors appearing in files, and later, in memory. I eventually

Re: SW-RAID0 Performance problems

2001-04-13 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 01:47:30PM +0200, Andreas Peter wrote: Hi, I've successfully set up SW-RAID0 with Kernel 2.4.3 and Raidtools 0.9. I did this to increase the performance of my HD, but nothig happens. The hdparm results: hdparm -t /dev/md0 : 20.25 MB/sec hdparm -t /dev/hda : 20.51

Re: SW-RAID0 Performance problems

2001-04-13 Thread David Rees
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 05:36:55PM +0200, Andreas Peter wrote: Mark Hahn schrieb: hdparm -t /dev/md0 : 20.25 MB/sec hdparm -t /dev/hda : 20.51 MB/sec hdaprm -t /dev/hdc : 20.71 MB/sec md0 is composed of partitions located where on hda and hdc? also, what's your CPU? This is my

Re: No 100 HZ timer!

2001-04-13 Thread george anzinger
Jamie Lokier wrote: george anzinger wrote: Wouldn't a heap be a good data structure for a list of timers? Insertion is log(n) and finding the one with the least time is O(1), ie pop off the front It can be implemented in an array which should help cache coherency and all

Re: Problem with k7 optimizations in 2.4.x?

2001-04-13 Thread Alan Cox
On the iwill mobo? (I haven't heard of this problem on other motherboards.) Im not using an Iwill board. I'm using an AMD751/756 based board and an old 'Uncle Fester' reference board. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: No 100 HZ timer!

2001-04-13 Thread Horst von Brand
Ben Greear [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [...] Wouldn't a heap be a good data structure for a list of timers? Insertion is log(n) and finding the one with the least time is O(1), ie pop off the front It can be implemented in an array which should help cache coherency and all those other

Re: SW-RAID0 Performance problems

2001-04-13 Thread Andreas Peter
Am Freitag, 13. April 2001 18:07 schrieb David Rees: Cconfig and setup looks OK. What happens if your run hdparm -t /dev/hda and /dev/hdc at the same time? Good idea! The performance is only ~11MB/sec per disk There is a bottleneck somewhere... Andreas -- Andreas Peter *** [EMAIL

Re: SW-RAID0 Performance problems

2001-04-13 Thread Andreas Peter
Am Freitag, 13. April 2001 18:01 schrieb Jakob stergaard: I can't say much about this... It looks like your setup is perfectly allright, and the performance *should* go up. Instead it looks like you get a small performance drop from using the RAID. Most odd. Do you have more controllers

Re: linux 2.4.3-ac5

2001-04-13 Thread mirabilos
Dear kernel gurus, I cannot compile since -ac4 or -ac5 with same config, but it is _not_ related to the problems reported earlier (rwsem and OLD_GCC). It is a rwsem problem though, but look: --8x---snip gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/glc/build/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2

Re: PATCH(?): linux-2.4.4-pre2: fork should run child first

2001-04-13 Thread Hubertus Franke
First you are wrong by assuming that setting current-counter=0 will guarantee that the child runs first. In an SMP it only means that this might initiate another recalculate and could run from there in parallel with the child. Actually quickly looking at the source code here. You don't have to

Re: No one wants to help me :-(

2001-04-13 Thread Manfred Spraul
I was expecting to receive some replies to my last desperate messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg35446.html http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg36591.html If you don't receive an answer, then it either indicates that the bug is too

Re: No one wants to help me :-(

2001-04-13 Thread Manfred Spraul
I was expecting to receive some replies to my last desperate messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg35446.html"http://www.mail-archive.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg35446.html [EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg36591.html"http://www.mail-archive.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg36591.html Maybe someone can see which is the

Re: SW-RAID0 Performance problems

2001-04-13 Thread Tim Moore
David Rees wrote: What happens if your run hdparm -t /dev/hda and /dev/hdc at the same time? Try 'hdparm -tT' with simultaneous /dev/hda3 and /dev/hdc3. This gives you a baseline on the actual partitions involved. rgds, tim. -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: No one wants to help me :-(

2001-04-13 Thread Brian Gerst
Mircea Damian wrote: Hello, I was expecting to receive some replies to my last desperate messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg35446.html http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg36591.html My machine is dyeing in add_timer(). It seems

device driver questions

2001-04-13 Thread Friedrich Steven E CONT CNIN
I'm running RedHat 7.0.91 (Wolverine) Kernel 2.4.1-0.1.9 I'm writing a device driver for Industry Pak modules that plug into an Industry Pak carrier which plugs into the PCI bus. I'm currently using an Acromag APC8620 carrier which can take up to five IP modules. The IP modules I'm using are

Re: Help with Fasttrack/100 Raid on Linux

2001-04-13 Thread Arjan van de Ven
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Andre Hedrick wrote: However as far as I can see everyone who has a FastTrak which is "stuck" in RAID mode[1] would be happy if it worked as a normal IDE controller in Linux, which is (usually?) not the case - eg on the MSI board where only the first

Re: Yacc in 2.4.3 causes kernel compile to fail (aicasm_gram.y)

2001-04-13 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: 061f01c0c3d8$c34e8870$[EMAIL PROTECTED] By author:"David E. Weekly" [EMAIL PROTECTED] In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel This is the first time I remember seeing a Yacc file in the Linux kernel source code, but I'm young and stupid. Since the default Makefile mapping for .y

Re: device driver questions

2001-04-13 Thread Alan Cox
My device shows up in /proc/iomem even before I load my device driver, indicating that the pci subsystem mapped it into the kernel pages. But bar0 Actually the addresses you see there are physical bus addresses not neccessarily and on x86 quite likely not actually mapped. Why didn't the pci

[PATCH- new driver] Maxi Radio FM 2 driver (GemTek)

2001-04-13 Thread Fabien CHEVALIER
Hi, I've wrote this driver for my Maxi Radio Fm 2 card. I hope it can be usefull for somebody. This card uses a GemTek chip, but the GemTek driver wasn't working very well : the card was left uninitialized, and so it didn't mute. I didn't wrote a patch for the GemTek driver because the

usb-uhci.c problems in latest kernels?

2001-04-13 Thread Nicholas Petreley
I'm using kernel 2.4.3 and 2.4.3-ac5, mobo is ASUS A7V with BIOS 1007. I use usb-uhci. I've been getting a ton of these messages (below) lately when I move my MS optical mouse. Sometimes it settles down and stops for a long while, but I can make the messages start up again simply by lifting

RE: device driver questions

2001-04-13 Thread Friedrich Steven E CONT CNIN
a couple questions below... -Original Message- From: Alan Cox Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 14:47 To: Friedrich Steven E CONT CNIN Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: device driver questions My device shows up

2.4.3 and Alpha

2001-04-13 Thread Steffen Persvold
Hi, Any particular reasons why a stock 2.4.3 kernel doesn't have mm.h and pgalloc.h in sync on Alpha. This is what I get : # make boot gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/redhat/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -mno-fp-regs -ffixed-8 -mcpu=ev5

Re: Lost O_NONBLOCK (Bug?)

2001-04-13 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 12 Apr 2001, Philippe Troin wrote: Apt I guess ? It has a very strange behavior when backgrounded... Not really, just want it tries to run dpkg it hangs. The last read was after the process was forgrounded. The read waits forever, the non-block flag seems to have gone missing. It is

Re: 8139too: defunct threads

2001-04-13 Thread Rod Stewart
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Andrew Morton wrote: Rod Stewart wrote: On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Andrew Morton wrote: Rod Stewart wrote: Hello, Using the 8139too driver, 0.9.15c, we have noticed that we get a defunct thread for each device we have; if the driver is built into the

Re: [RFC] Ext2 Directory Index - File Structure

2001-04-13 Thread Daniel Phillips
Jamie Lokier wrote: Daniel Phillips wrote: ls already can't handle the directories I'm working with on a regular basis. It's broken and needs to be fixed. A merge sort using log n temporary files is not hard to write. ls -U | sort should do the trick. Um, yep. Now ls should do

Re: Ext2 Directory Index - File Structure

2001-04-13 Thread Daniel Phillips
Andreas Dilger wrote: Daniel writes: Are you going to go to a COMPAT flag before final release? This is pretty much needed for e2fsck to be able to detect/correct indexes. I will if I know what the exact semantics are. I have only an approximate idea of how this works and I'd

Re: problem with the timers ?!? (was: No one wants to help me)

2001-04-13 Thread Andrew Morton
Doru Petrescu wrote: also I don't understand how a race condition can occour since all functions that play with the lists has a spin_lock() arround them. Maybe is not someting wrong in the timers, maybe some other part of the kernel is doing the bad thing. Yes. All it takes is this:

Re: PATCH(?): linux-2.4.4-pre2: fork should run child first

2001-04-13 Thread John Fremlin
"Adam J. Richter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] It turned out that the particular unix-like system on which these benchmarks were taken had a version of fork that did not run the child first. As it was explained to me then, most of the time, the child process from a fork will do

Re: new aic7xxx driver problems

2001-04-13 Thread Giuliano Pochini
What's the PCI id of the card you are using? Bus 1, device 3, function 0: Class 0100: PCI device 9004:5078 (rev 3). IRQ 24. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=4.Max Lat=4. I/O at 0x1800 [0x18ff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x80881000 [0x80881fff].

Re: No 100 HZ timer!

2001-04-13 Thread george anzinger
Horst von Brand wrote: Ben Greear [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [...] Wouldn't a heap be a good data structure for a list of timers? Insertion is log(n) and finding the one with the least time is O(1), ie pop off the front It can be implemented in an array which should help cache

Re: 2.4.3 and Alpha

2001-04-13 Thread Alan Cox
`pmd_alloc' /usr/src/redhat/linux/include/linux/mm.h:412: previous declaration of `pmd_alloc' make: *** [init/main.o] Error 1 2.4.1 compiled fine, and as far as I can see, some changes has been made to mm.h since then. I think these changes was followed up by i386, ppc, s390 and

Re: No one wants to help me :-(

2001-04-13 Thread george anzinger
Brian Gerst wrote: Mircea Damian wrote: Hello, I was expecting to receive some replies to my last desperate messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg35446.html http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg36591.html My machine is

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac5

2001-04-13 Thread Scott Prader
* Alan Cox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) uttered: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ one of the problems i've been having so far with the 2.4.3 series is the fact that USB appears to be futzed. It just doesn't want to work right. Also, I compile a lot of things as modules and

I can eject a mounted CD

2001-04-13 Thread Giuliano Pochini
My fstab: /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,ro 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdmac hfs noauto,user,ro 0 0 I insert an apple cd (hfs) and mount /mnt/cdmac If I type eject /mnt/cdrom the cd momes out but df shows it's

Re: Help with Fasttrack/100 Raid on Linux

2001-04-13 Thread Erik van Asselt
That would be great! finally someone is coming to the rescue do you have the source files or are you going to work from scratch? Erik Arjan van de Ven schreef: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Andre Hedrick wrote: However as far as I can see everyone who has a FastTrak which

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