LA Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
The hard rule will always be that to cover all pathological cases swap
must be greater than RAM. Because in the worse case all RAM will be
in thes swap cache. That this is more than just the worse case in 2.4
is
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 03:39:04PM -0700, James Simmons wrote:
It would be nice if we had
1) A seperate serial directory under drivers.
2) A nice structure that input devices and the tty layer can use. It is
just a waste to go threw the tty layer for input devices. It
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 09:57:25PM +0200, Erik Mouw wrote:
Is it possible by any means to isolate any given process, so that
it'll be unable to crash system.
You just gave a nice description what an OS kernel should do :)
* Sigh * :-)
Please, supply ANY suggestions.
My ideas:
Hi all
I need to know some basic facts about interprocess
communication. I have a process A which is waiting for some other process B.
When B is executed, it has to wake up A and do some work with A. How to do
this. I think it will be better to use signals.
1 How to use
On 7 Jun 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Mike Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 6 Jun 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Mike Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you could confirm this by calling swapoff sometime other than at
reboot time. That might help. Say by
Derek Glidden wrote:
Helge Hafting wrote:
The drive is inactive because it isn't needed, the machine is
running loops on data in memory. And it is unresponsive because
nothing else is scheduled, maybe swapoff is easier to implement
I don't quite get what you're saying. If the
Hello,
I have experienced similar problems to
http://lists.kernelnotes.de/linux-kernel/Week-of-Mon-20010430/002158.html
When I send _anything_ to /dev/dsp, I get continuous high-pitched beeping
(nothing remotely resembling what the sound card should be doing).
I'm running 2.4.5 kernel with
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Linus Torvalds) writes:
Somebody interested in trying the above add? And looking for other more
obvious bandaid fixes. It won't fix swapoff per se, but it might make
it bearable and bring it to the 2.2.x levels.
At little bit. The one really bad behavior of not letting
Mike Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 7 Jun 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Does this improve the swapoff speed or just allow other programs to
run at the same time? If it is still slow under that kind of load it
would be interesting to know what is taking up all time.
If it
On 7 Jun 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Linus Torvalds) writes:
Somebody interested in trying the above add? And looking for other more
obvious bandaid fixes. It won't fix swapoff per se, but it might make
it bearable and bring it to the 2.2.x levels.
At little
On 7 Jun 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Mike Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 7 Jun 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Does this improve the swapoff speed or just allow other programs to
run at the same time? If it is still slow under that kind of load it
would be interesting
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Tom Sightler wrote:
At home where I have a 10Mb half-duplex hub connection all of the drivers work
properly.
All right, that's expected.
At work where I have a 10/100Mb full-duplex switch connection the drivers work
exactly as I described before:
2.4.4-ac11 -- mostly
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 7 Jun 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
No - I suspect that we're not actually doing all that much IO at all, and
the real reason for the lock-up is just that the current algorithm is so
bad that when it starts to act exponentially worse it really
Hello All!
Kelvins good idea in general - it is always positive ;-)
0.01*K fits in 16 bits and gives reasonable range.
but may be something like K6 could be a option? (to allow use of shifts
instead of muls/divs). It would be much more easier to extract int part.
Thanks for your help guys.
I cannot get a newly compiled 2.4.4 kernel to boot.
Fails at:
Loading linux ...
Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting kernel.
then it hangs
It was a combination of VGA console support and incorrect processor type as
you suggested.
Cheers,
Clive
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On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Derek Glidden
On Thursday 07 June 2001 12:03, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
And my current understanding is that allowing proprietary
reimplementations of the VM, VFS, and core networking, is not one of
the things which is allowed.
...is wanted (by you and
Le 05-Jun-2001, Andrew Morton écrivait :
Some video cards have a PCI cheat-mode in which they keep
the PCI bus busy until they are ready to accept new
commands, rather forcing a retry. Figures of up to
twenty milliseconds have been mentioned. Your X server
*may* support the `PCIRetry'
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On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 09:57:25PM +0200, Erik Mouw wrote:
Is it possible by any means to isolate any given process, so that
it'll be unable to crash system.
You just gave a nice description what an OS kernel should do :)
* Sigh *
Hi,
Changes:
- merge 2.4.6-pre1 zone changes for zone-dma32-6
- correct qlogicfc can_dma_32 flag (Arjan van de Ven)
Arjan also reported that the kernel doesn't boot on a machine with 8GB
of RAM, I'm suspecting the zone-dma32-6 changes. If someone has access
to such a machine, please try it.
Sorry if this is off topic. I've searched the archives and found
references to
what I'm looking for but the URL's take me nowhere. The references I'm
referring to
are for pset patches that will enable me to lock down a processor in an
smp env.
Lock down meaning I need to be able to lock out all
Hi,
I'd like to hook into the end_io reporting chain by replacing the b_end_io
function pointer by an own end_io
function that restores the original values and calls the previous end_io
function after io.
Unfortunatly if the previous function was end_buffer_io_async it unlocks
the bh-b_page
Hello,
a friend of mine has developed the CacheFS for Linux. His work
is a prototype read-only implementation for Linux 2.2.11 or so. I am
thinking about adapting (or partly rewriting) his work for Linux 2.4.
But before I'll start working, I'd like to ask you for comments on the
Alexander Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 7 Jun 2001, Florian Weimer wrote:
Matthias Urlichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Select is defined as to return, with the appropriate bit set, if/when
a nonblocking read/write on the file descriptor won't block. You'd get
EBADF in this
Hi,
this happend with 2.4.5-ac9 with serial console on i386.
Full boot log and config can be found here:
http://www.penguinppc.org/~olaf/bugs/245-ac9/
ksymoops 2.4.1 on i686 2.4.6-pre1. Options used
-v /usr/src/OLAF/linux-2.4.5-ac9/vmlinux (specified)
-K (specified)
-L
I am writing a transparent-proxy-like application, that needs to be able to
bind a TCP socket with a non-local address (i.e., the proxy contacts the
origin-server, in the local network, pretending to be the original client.
The reply will get back to the proxy because it acts as the default
O.k. I think I'm ready to nominate the dead swap pages for the big
2.4.x VM bug award. So we are burning cpu cycles in sys_swapoff
instead of being IO bound? Just wanting to understand this the cheap
way :)
There's no IO being done whatsoever (that I can see with only a blinky).
I can
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 08:40:06AM -0500, Jesse Pollard wrote:
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Byt how should I restrict him open socket and send some data (my IP,
for example) somewhere ??
I believe that Netfilter will do this for you. Look at:
Owner match support
Ben Castricum wrote:
I use amp to play my mp3s and it seem to stop functioning since 2.4.3. I
captured the kernel messages from the module :
--- 2.4.2 ---
Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.01, 14:04:06 Jun 4 2001
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:1f.5
PCI: The same IRQ used for device
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 03:28:36PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
I believe that Netfilter will do this for you.
a) that'll require 2.4.x
b) that'll require 2.4.x recompilation
c) that will definitely not solve all the problems arise
thanks, anyway
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On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 01:00:15PM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001 22:42:53 +0200, Remi Turk wrote:
Try the patch below. Reboot. Run 'apm -S' (or --standby) at the
console. Did you see output from both send_event and apic_pm_callback?
If so, repeat by pressing your
Marcelo As suggested by Linus, I've cleaned the reapswap code to be
Marcelo contained inside an inline function. (yes, the if statement
Marcelo is really ugly)
Shouldn't the swap_count(page) == 1 check be earlier in the if
statement, so we can fall through more quickly if there is no work to
be
Why not make it in Celsius ? Is more easy to read it this way.
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Philips wrote:
Hello All!
Kelvins good idea in general - it is always positive ;-)
0.01*K fits in 16 bits and gives reasonable range.
but may be something like K6 could be a option?
Hi kernel-list-readers!
We just had a problem when running some formatting-utils on
a large amount of disks synchronously: We got a NULL-pointer
violation when accessig blk_size[major] for our major number.
Further research showed, that grok_partitions was running at
that time, which has been
Hi!
As the linux-ftape mailing list is gone I'm asking you guys.
Can someone tell me how to adapt the ftape driver that I can use it
under kernel 2.4.x (x = 5)? I'm not that into kernel hacking that
I know what changed from 2.2.x to 2.4.x. Below is the output of make.
BTW why wasn't the newer
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
There are cetain scenario's where you can't avoid virtual mem =
min(RAM,swap). Which is what I was trying to say, (bad formula). What
happens is that pages get referenced evenly enough and quickly enough
that you simply cannot reuse the on disk pages. Basically in
On 7 Jun 2001, Florian Weimer wrote:
There's a subtle difference: For malloc(), libc has a mutex (or
whatever), but for open(), socket() etc., no locking is performed, and
many libc functions create (and destroy) descriptors imlicitely.
So? You don't have to close() descriptors you had
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Bulent Abali wrote:
I happened to saw this one with debugger attached serial port.
The system was alive. I think I was watching the free page count and
it was decreasing very slowly may be couple pages per second. Bigger
the swap usage longer it takes to do swapoff.
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, John Stoffel wrote:
Shouldn't the swap_count(page) == 1 check be earlier in the if
statement, so we can fall through more quickly if there is no work to
be done? A small optimization, but putting the common cases first
will help.
I don't think so: the out-of-line
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 01:37:50PM +0200, Jan Kasprzak wrote:
The goal is to speed-up reading of potentially slow filesystems
(NFS, maybe even CD-based ones) by the local on-disk cache in the same way
IRIX or Solaris CacheFS works. I would expect this to be used on clusters
of computers
Miles Lane wrote:
So please, if you have new facts that you want to offer that
will help us characterize and understand these VM issues better
or discover new problems, feel free to share them. But if you
just want to rant, I, for one, would rather you didn't.
*sigh*
Not to prolong an
I can't connect() to my own link-local address.
connect just hangs.
Before some wise guy now tells me I should be connecting to ::1 instead:
oh, really! ;) The application is npush/npoll from my ncp program
suite, which can be found at http://www.fefe.de/ncp/.
Basically, the sender sends UDP
Hello guys!
Currently my scsi disc is only reporting errors!
In the adaptect scsi bios I tried the verify media
option and it worked fine. The output from the Linux
kernel is more than worse!
Can you tell me what's wrong in my system ?
I will monitor the mailing list the next hours, if
the
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:57:51AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
/etc/hosts (or anywhere). As a tesult, startx hung starting X server; it was
not possible to switch to alpha console or kill X server. I pressed reset
and after reboot looked into /var/log/XFree86*log - and
A PIII with 64MB ram, 256MB swap became extremely sluggish. While still
inside X11 the caps-lock LED responded only after about 10 seconds. Disk
LED was continuously on. Impossible to connect from another system (just too
slow) but the box still responded to ICMP echo.
I played a bit with magic
LA Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Now for whatever reason, since 2.4, I consistently use at least
a few Mb of swap -- stands at 5Meg now. Weird -- but I notice things
like nscd running 7 copies that take 72M. Seems like overkill for
a laptop.
So the question becomes why you are
Nico Schottelius wrote:
Hello guys!
Currently my scsi disc is only reporting errors!
In the adaptect scsi bios I tried the verify media
option and it worked fine. The output from the Linux
kernel is more than worse!
Can you tell me what's wrong in my system ?
I will monitor the
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 03:20:03PM +0300, L. K. wrote:
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Philips wrote:
Kelvins good idea in general - it is always positive ;-)
0.01*K fits in 16 bits and gives reasonable range.
but may be something like K6 could be a option? (to allow use of shifts
Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A problem with this is that normal paging-in is allowed to page other
things out as well. But you can't have that when swap is about to
be turned off. My guess is that swapoff functionality was perceived to
be so seldom used that they didn't bother
I ported it over to my tree. I will have to figure out how to incorporate
the input serial stuff without breaking all the input drivers we have. In
CVS we have alot of them. This will make life so much easier since all I
will have to do is change one file for changes I make to the tty
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 06:22:59PM +0200, Nico Schottelius wrote:
0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 127304
SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 802
[valid=0] Info fld=0x0, Current
Hello World,
This little patch enables the workaround for the ISA DMA bug on ALi15x3
chipsets with the PCI-ISA bridge.
CHANGES:
Changed file: $KERNELROOT/drivers/pci/quirks.c
There is a DMA bug in the PCI-ISA host bridge of the ALi15x3 chipset.
The use of this DMA causes a hang.
The OSS and
Stephen C. Tweedie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:57:51AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
/etc/hosts (or anywhere). As a tesult, startx hung starting X server; it was
not possible to switch to alpha console or kill X server. I pressed reset
and after reboot
this happend with 2.4.5-ac9 with serial console on i386.
Full boot log and config can be found here:
http://www.penguinppc.org/~olaf/bugs/245-ac9/
I can't seem to download those files. It complains they are not gz files.
Could you send me those files. Thanks!
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Khalid Aziz wrote:
Try
http://resourcemanagement.unixsolutions.hp.com/WaRM/schedpolicy.html.
It may do what you want.
I see references to this site http://isunix.it.ilstu.edu/~thockin/pset/.
try http://www.hockin.org/~thockin/pset
unfortunately, not ported to 2.4.x yet - should be
Here's a patch I wrote to allow ftape to compile against 2.4.something.
It still works with 2.4.5. I'm not sure if it works entirely (it seems
to), but it compiles and seems to work. Enjoy!
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 05:12:31PM +0200, Friedrich Lobenstock wrote:
Hi!
As the linux-ftape mailing
I have an HP Netserver 1000r (dual Pentium 3) with a HP NetRAID-1M card
running Linux 2.4.4 with the megaraid driver included in 2.4.4 that has
twice now experienced kernel panics related to file system damage which
appear to be caused by the megaraid driver going mad and scribbling randomly
on
Guest section DW wrote:
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 06:22:59PM +0200, Nico Schottelius wrote:
0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 127304
SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 802
[valid=0]
On Thursday, 07 June 2001, at 09:23:42 +0200,
Helge Hafting wrote:
Derek Glidden wrote:
Helge Hafting wrote:
[...]
The machine froze 10 seconds or so at the end of the minute, I can
imagine that biting with bigger swap.
Same behavior here with a Pentium III 600, 128 MB RAM and 128 MB
0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 127304
SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 802
[valid=0] Info fld=0x0, Current sd08:01: sns = 70 b
ASC=47 ASCQ= 0
Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x0b
Nico Schottelius wrote:
There is in fact no terminator, the scsi disc should terminate the bus
itself. It is directly connected to the onboard aix7880 scsi controller.
I will use another cable in about half an hour (when my friend arrives..)
Thanks for the hint!
Nico
I would suggest
Quoting Ion Badulescu [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
2.4.4-ac11 -- mostly works fine -- minor problems awaking from sleep
Can you run some performance testing with this driver, though? The
speed
of ftp transfers in both directions would be a good measure. The
reason
I'm asking is because we saw
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote:
On 6 Jun 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Mike Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you could confirm this by calling swapoff sometime other than at
reboot time. That might help. Say by running top on the console.
The thing goes
I am chasing around in circles with an issue where buffers pointing at
highmem pages are getting put onto the buffer free list, and later on
causing oops in ext2 when it gets assigned them for metadata via getblk.
Say one thread is performing a truncate on an inode and is currently in
On 07 Jun 2001 11:49:47 -0400, Derek Glidden wrote:
Miles Lane wrote:
So please, if you have new facts that you want to offer that
will help us characterize and understand these VM issues better
or discover new problems, feel free to share them. But if you
just want to rant, I, for
As suggested by Linus, I've cleaned the reapswap code to be contained
inside an inline function. (yes, the if statement is really ugly)
I can't seem to find the patch which adds this behaviour to the background
scanning. Can someone point me to it?
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Jonathan Morton wrote:
As suggested by Linus, I've cleaned the reapswap code to be contained
inside an inline function. (yes, the if statement is really ugly)
I can't seem to find the patch which adds this behaviour to the background
scanning.
I've just sent Linus
I know somewhere there is a menuconfig item corresponding to
CONFIG_IP_NF_COMPAT_IPCHAINS, and that selecting various other iptables
options can make this item disappear and no longer be selectable. But I
have fished all over, have set config to give devel and incomplete
items, tried turning on
Ahem...
David S. Miller wrote:
This allows people to make proprietary implementations of TCP under
Linux. And we don't want this just as we don't want to add a way to
allow someone to do a proprietary Linux VM.
*Sigh* and thence begin the proprietary-vs-OpenSource flame wars again.
_Any_ open
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote:
On 6 Jun 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Mike Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you could confirm this by calling swapoff sometime other than at
reboot time. That might help.
As suggested by Linus, I've cleaned the reapswap code to be contained
inside an inline function. (yes, the if statement is really ugly)
I can't seem to find the patch which adds this behaviour to the background
scanning.
I've just sent Linus a patch to free swap cache pages at the time we
Hi all!
The problem is solved, if I disconnect the hp streamer
from the bus. I wonder why there is a problem.
The aic7880 has two busses:
ultra/ ultrawide.
The ibm hard disk is connected to the uw port and is terminated.
No other uw device is attached.
The hp streamer is also lonely on the
Tim Hockin wrote:
Khalid Aziz wrote:
Try
http://resourcemanagement.unixsolutions.hp.com/WaRM/schedpolicy.html.
It may do what you want.
I see references to this site http://isunix.it.ilstu.edu/~thockin/pset/.
try http://www.hockin.org/~thockin/pset
unfortunately, not ported
D. Stimits wrote:
I know somewhere there is a menuconfig item corresponding to
CONFIG_IP_NF_COMPAT_IPCHAINS, and that selecting various other iptables
options can make this item disappear and no longer be selectable. But I
have fished all over, have set config to give devel and incomplete
Nico Schottelius wrote:
Hi all!
The problem is solved, if I disconnect the hp streamer
from the bus. I wonder why there is a problem.
The aic7880 has two busses:
ultra/ ultrawide.
The ibm hard disk is connected to the uw port and is terminated.
No other uw device is attached.
Khalid Aziz wrote:
Nico Schottelius wrote:
Hi all!
The problem is solved, if I disconnect the hp streamer
from the bus. I wonder why there is a problem.
The aic7880 has two busses:
ultra/ ultrawide.
The ibm hard disk is connected to the uw port and is terminated.
No other
Attached is a patch against kernel 2.4.6-pre1 which includes fixes for
via audio. It -should- patch against kernel 2.4.3 or later, though.
I'm interested in feedback from people having via audio problems, if
this patch fixes them. I am of course also interested in general
testing, to ensure I
Hi Linus,
Who did this change to refill_inactive_scan() in 2.4.6-pre1 ?
/*
* When we are background aging, we try to increase the page aging
* information in the system.
*/
if (!target)
maxscan = nr_active_pages 4;
This is going
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Tom Sightler wrote:
Transferring files between the eepro100 machine running 2.4.2-ac11 and my
laptop produced a result of 2.24MB/s for sending and 2.13MB/s recieving the
file.
Transfering files between the Alteon Gigabit machine running 2.2.19 and my
laptop resulted
This is for the people who has been experiencing the lockups while running
swapoff.
Please test. (against 2.4.6-pre1)
--- linux.orig/mm/swapfile.c Wed Jun 6 18:16:45 2001
+++ linux/mm/swapfile.c Thu Jun 7 16:06:11 2001
@@ -345,6 +345,8 @@
/*
* Find a swap page in use
Let A be a process and B its child. When another process, let's call
it C, does ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH) on B, wait4(pid of B, ...) will always
return ECHILD when invoked from A after B has been attached to C because
wait4() does not take children traced by other processes into account.
The problem
Forgot one comment..
This is going to make all pages have age 0 on an idle system after some
time (the old code from Rik which has been replaced by this code tried to
avoid that)
There's another reason why I think the patch may be ok even without any
added logic: not only does it
While you guys are in there hacking, perhaps consider adding metrics
which allows you to tell exactly when certain cases and conditions are
hit.
page_aged_while_sleeping_in_page_lauder++
Statistics like this are cheap to use in runtime and should provide
concrete information rather than
This is going to make all pages have age 0 on an idle system after some
time (the old code from Rik which has been replaced by this code tried to
avoid that)
There's another reason why I think the patch may be ok even without any
added logic: not only does it simplify the code and remove a
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
Negative temperatures do not really exist.
Are you really sure about this ?
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Marcello writes:
Who did this change to refill_inactive_scan() in 2.4.6-pre1 ?
/*
* When we are background aging, we try to increase the page aging
* information in the system.
*/
if (!target)
maxscan = nr_active_pages 4;
A
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
Forgot one comment..
This is going to make all pages have age 0 on an idle system after some
time (the old code from Rik which has been replaced by this code tried to
avoid that)
There's another reason why I think the patch may be ok
L. K. writes:
Why not make it in Celsius ? Is more easy to read it this way.
No, because then the software must handle negative numbers for
cooled computers. CentiKelvin is fine. Do C=cK/100-273.15 if you
really must... but you still have a number that is useless to
a human. Humans need a
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
Who did this change to refill_inactive_scan() in 2.4.6-pre1 ?
I think it was Andreas Dilger..
/*
* When we are background aging, we try to increase the page aging
* information in the system.
*/
if
On Thursday 07 June 2001 13:00, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Shane Nay wrote:
(Oh, BTW, I really appreciate the work that people have done on the VM,
but folks that are just talking..., well, think clearly before you impact
other people that are writing code.)
If all the
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Shane Nay wrote:
(Oh, BTW, I really appreciate the work that people have done on the VM, but
folks that are just talking..., well, think clearly before you impact other
people that are writing code.)
If all the people talking were reporting results we would be really
From: Marcelo Tosatti [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The problem is that we _cannot_ base ourselves simply on practical results
from a _limited_ amount of workloads. Also remember the tests we (at least
I do) are benchmarks which try to use all resources all the time upon
completion.
Isn't this the point
Linus writes:
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
Who did this change to refill_inactive_scan() in 2.4.6-pre1 ?
I think it was Andreas Dilger..
Definitely NOT. I don't touch MM stuff. I do filesystems and LVM only.
Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger \ If a man ate a pound of
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Bulent Abali wrote:
I tested your patch against 2.4.5. It works. No more lockups. Without
the
patch it took 14 minutes 51 seconds to complete swapoff (this is to recover
1.5GB of
swap space). During this time the system was frozen. No keyboard, no
screen, etc.
Uh, last I checked on my linux based embedded device I didn't want to swap to
flash. Hmm.., now why was that..., oh, that's right, it's *much* more
expensive than memory, oh yes, and it actually gets FRIED when you write to a
block more than 100k times. Oh, what was that other thing..., oh
It was posted by L. K. where I now add my 0.02 EUR...
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
Negative temperatures do not really exist.
Are you really sure about this ?
I am. I made Abitur (german degree after 13yrs of school)
with physics being an important course, and there can not
Hi,
Kelvins good idea in general - it is always positive ;-)
0.01*K fits in 16 bits and gives reasonable range.
but may be something like K6 could be a option? (to allow use of shifts
instead of muls/divs). It would be much more easier to extract int part.
just my 2 eurocents.
Why
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Shane Nay wrote:
On Thursday 07 June 2001 13:00, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Shane Nay wrote:
(Oh, BTW, I really appreciate the work that people have done on the VM,
but folks that are just talking..., well, think clearly before you impact
other
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
LA Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Now for whatever reason, since 2.4, I consistently use at least
a few Mb of swap -- stands at 5Meg now. Weird -- but I notice things
like nscd running 7 copies that take 72M. Seems like overkill for
a laptop.
So the
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