Re: [PATCH] APMD on Linux 2.2.18 and include/linux/mc146818rtc.h

2001-02-18 Thread Paul Gortmaker
Marc Esipovich wrote: > > I've noticed this when attempting to build APMD, mc146818rtc.h has > a reference to a spinlock_t while asm/spinlock.h is not included. > > Patch follows: User space does not need to ever see any kernel spinlocks - you will find such a fix for this is

No Subject

2001-02-18 Thread Nitin Dhingra
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"i810_audio: DMA overrun on send" countless times in logs

2001-02-18 Thread Steven Walter
This message pops up in my logs countless times, often accompanied by temporarily freezes of the system, and pops in the sound. It seems to occur more often when under load, i.e. playing a DVD. In fact, they degrade the performance so badly as to make DVDs unwatchable. I would chock this up to

Re: [OT] Re: Money stifles innovation

2001-02-18 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 05:47:10PM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote: > > Actually the problem is lack of morals and bad people who are really evil > > at the core (you wouldnt want them for your neighbor). > Actually, it's because we've made it illegal to

ip_conntrack error under 2.4.1-ac18

2001-02-18 Thread Billy Harvey
I'm getting multiple messages like: Feb 18 23:05:50 rhino kernel: ip_conntrack: maximum limit of 8184 entries exceeded Feb 18 23:05:52 rhino last message repeated 2 times while running nessus, with 100 simultaneous connections set, against a company machine. This is the first time I've

Re: Kernel executation from ROM

2001-02-18 Thread Jaswinder Singh
Dear Sirs, Thanks for your help, I see . The biggest negative point of running kernel from ROM is that ROM speed is slow :( Any how , thanks for your help, Best Regards, Jaswinder. -- These are my opinions not 3Di. - Original Message - From: "Peter Waltenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Kernel timers and jiffie wrap-around

2001-02-18 Thread george anzinger
Jamie wrote: > > Hi ! > > I've been trying to determine the reliability of kernel timers when a box has been >up for a while. Now as everyone is aware (for HZ=100 (default)), when the uptime of >the kernel reaches (approx.) 1.3 years the clock tick count (jiffies) wraps-around. >Now if a

Re: problems with reiserfs + nfs using 2.4.2-pre4

2001-02-18 Thread Neil Brown
On Sunday February 18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > OK, I grabbed these patches and applied them against 2.4.2-pre4 and > recompiled, rebooted. I am now able to use reiserfs with NFS, > basic operations appear to work as expected but I haven't done large amounts > of file IO or lots of

[OT] Re: Money stifles innovation

2001-02-18 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 05:47:10PM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote: > On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 12:57:14AM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote: > > > The XOR patent and the fraudulent enforcement of it is the purest > > > embodiment of everything that is wrong with the

Re: problems with reiserfs + nfs using 2.4.2-pre4

2001-02-18 Thread dek_ml
Neil Brown writes: >On Sunday February 18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I migrated some exported disks over to reiserfs and had no luck when I >> mounted the disk via NFS on another machine. I've noticed many messages >> about reiser and NFS in the archives, but my understanding

RE: /proc/stat missing disk_io info

2001-02-18 Thread Rainer Mager
Not to be pushy or anything but since I received zero responses to this I was wondering what else I can do. I'd be happy to patch the problem myself but I have no idea what the correct value for DK_MAX_MAJOR should be. Anywho, if anyone has any thoughts I'd appreciate them. --Rainer >

Kernel executation from ROM

2001-02-18 Thread Jaswinder Singh
Dear Kernel mailing list , what changes i have to made in kernel so that i can run kernel from ROM, means i keep my kernel in ROM and i execute my kernel from ROM . Thanks , Happy Hacking, Jaswinder. -- These are my opinions not 3Di. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

anyone can tell me 2.4.2 is stable or not?

2001-02-18 Thread Thomas Lau
is it stable for use? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Money stifles innovation [was: Linux stifles innovation.]

2001-02-18 Thread Neil Brown
On Sunday February 18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 12:57:14AM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote: > > > > The XOR patent and the fraudulent enforcement of it is the purest > > > > embodiment of everything that is wrong with the patent system and IP law. > > > On Sun, 18 Feb 2001

Re: Money stifles innovation [was: Linux stifles innovation.]

2001-02-18 Thread brian
> > On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 12:57:14AM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote: > > > The XOR patent and the fraudulent enforcement of it is the purest > > > embodiment of everything that is wrong with the patent system and IP law. > On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > As a person with a some

Re: [PROBLEM] 2.4.1 can't mount ext2 CD-ROM

2001-02-18 Thread Alan Cox
> > But it has to go somewhere, and 2.4 right now is unusable on two of my boxes > > with M/O drives. > > Reads can be pretty easily padded, but writes are a bit harder. Maybe > push it to some helper before the device queue sees it? For 2.4 the > best sd solution is probably to just make it

Re: problems with reiserfs + nfs using 2.4.2-pre4

2001-02-18 Thread Alan Cox
> it had been cleared up. In particular, the Configure.help in 2.4.2-pre4 > says "reiserfs can be used for anything that ext2 can be used for". The configure.help is wrong on that and one other thing. NFS doesnt work without extra patches and big endian boxes dont work with reiserfs currently

Re: Proliant hangs with 2.4 but works with 2.2.

2001-02-18 Thread Alan Cox
> The programs 'gpm', 'kudzu' and 'startx' all hang the server immediately > after they exit (with exit status 0). I cannot pinpoint why the kernel hangs > and would appreciate any help. The only thing I suspect it may be is that it The three of them all touch the mouse. Does dd

Re: [PROBLEM] 2.4.1 can't mount ext2 CD-ROM

2001-02-18 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Feb 19 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > So put 0 and sure anyone can submit I/O on the size that they want. > > Now the driver has to support padding reads, or gathering data to do > > a complete block write. This is silly. Sr should support 512b transfers > > just fine, but only because I added

Re: Money stifles innovation [was: Linux stifles innovation.]

2001-02-18 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 12:57:14AM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote: > > The XOR patent and the fraudulent enforcement of it is the purest > > embodiment of everything that is wrong with the patent system and IP law. > As a person with a some decades of

Re: Linux OS boilerplate

2001-02-18 Thread Alan Cox
> I've been poring over the x86 boot code for a while now and I've been > considering writing a FAQ on the boot process (mostly for my own use, > but maybe others will be interested). This would include all relevant > information on setting up the x86 hardware for a boot (timers, PIC, A20, >

Re: MTU and 2.4.x kernel

2001-02-18 Thread Alan Cox
> Fragmentation does _not_ work on poor internet more. At all. We are implementing an IP stack. Fragmentation works very well thank you, pointing at a few broken sites as an excuse to not do things right isnt very good. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: [PROBLEM] 2.4.1 can't mount ext2 CD-ROM

2001-02-18 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sun, Feb 18 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Strange. The twelve or so CD readers I have here are all > > able to read 512-byte sectors. I am quite willing to believe > > I think most Plextor and Yamaha do, but it's not guaranteed to > be supported. And it definitely won't

sendfile() breakage was Re: SO_SNDTIMEO: 2.4 kernel bugs

2001-02-18 Thread Chris Evans
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Chris Evans wrote: > > BTW, if you have enough fast network, you probably can observe > > that sendfile() is even not interrupted by signals. 8) But this > > is possible to fix at least. BTW the same fix will repair SO_*TIMEO > > partially, i.e. it will timeout after

Re: [PROBLEM] 2.4.1 can't mount ext2 CD-ROM

2001-02-18 Thread Alan Cox
> So put 0 and sure anyone can submit I/O on the size that they want. > Now the driver has to support padding reads, or gathering data to do > a complete block write. This is silly. Sr should support 512b transfers > just fine, but only because I added the necessary _hacks_ to support > it. sd

Re: Linux stifles innovation...

2001-02-18 Thread Gregory S. Youngblood
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 12:00:03PM -0600, Gregory S. Youngblood wrote: > > > I remember being at a computer show in Minneapolis where a small company > > was showing off this mouse that worked on a variety of surfaces without a > > ball. I'm

Re: [patch] smbfs does not support LFS (2.4.1-ac18)

2001-02-18 Thread Alan Cox
> Is it ok to at mount time set it to non-LFS and then later change it to be > something larger? smbfs doesn't actually know what the server and smbmount > negotiates until later, but no smbfs operation can take place before that > anyway. You can change it per superblock later at the moment.

Re: SO_SNDTIMEO: 2.4 kernel bugs

2001-02-18 Thread Chris Evans
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello! > > > Unfortunately, I discovered a bug with SO_SNDTIMEO/sendfile(): > > None of the options apply to sendfile(). It is not socket level > operation. You have to use alarm for it. > > BTW, if you have enough fast network, you probably can

Re: Proliant hangs with 2.4 but works with 2.2.

2001-02-18 Thread Trevor Hemsley
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 23:09:17, "lafanga lafanga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a Compaq Proliant 1600 server which can be hung on demand with all > the 2.4 series kernels I have tried (2.4, 2.4.1 & 2.4.2-pre3). Kernel 2.2.16 > runs perfectly (from a default RH7.0). > > I have ensured

Re: problems with reiserfs + nfs using 2.4.2-pre4

2001-02-18 Thread Neil Brown
On Sunday February 18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > I migrated some exported disks over to reiserfs and had no luck when I > mounted the disk via NFS on another machine. I've noticed many messages > about reiser and NFS in the archives, but my understanding was that > it had been

[UPDATE] Zerocopy BETA 1, against 2.4.2-pre4

2001-02-18 Thread David S. Miller
I'm calling this "BETA 1" because I currently feel that all performance and other issues have been addressed and that the patch is up for serious consideration for inclusion into a future 2.4.x release: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/davem/zerocopy-2.4.2p4-1.diff.gz Besides

problems with reiserfs + nfs using 2.4.2-pre4

2001-02-18 Thread dek_ml
Hi, I migrated some exported disks over to reiserfs and had no luck when I mounted the disk via NFS on another machine. I've noticed many messages about reiser and NFS in the archives, but my understanding was that it had been cleared up. In particular, the Configure.help in 2.4.2-pre4 says

Re: Proliant hangs with 2.4 but works with 2.2.

2001-02-18 Thread lafanga lafanga
There is indeed a PS/2 mouse and it is plugged in. As far as I know its an Intel 440BX chipset since its a 100Mhz bus. >From: Johannes Erdfelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: lafanga lafanga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Proliant hangs with 2.4 but works with 2.2. >Date:

Re: Proliant hangs with 2.4 but works with 2.2.

2001-02-18 Thread Johannes Erdfelt
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001, lafanga lafanga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The programs 'gpm', 'kudzu' and 'startx' all hang the server immediately > after they exit (with exit status 0). I cannot pinpoint why the kernel hangs > and would appreciate any help. The only thing I suspect it may be is that

Re: Linux stifles innovation...

2001-02-18 Thread Jonathan Morton
>> > On the other hand, they make excellent mice. The mouse wheel and >> > the new optical mice are truly innovative and Microsoft should be >> > commended for them. >> > >> The wheel was a nifty idea, but I've seen workstations 15 years old with >> optical mice. It wasn't MS's idea. > >

Re: Beware - kernel Newbie!

2001-02-18 Thread Pedro Diaz Jimenez
Thanks to all, I've just found http://www.linuxnewbie.org to be a good start point Pedro On Sunday 18 February 2001 23:57, Jeff Garzik wrote: > On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Pedro Diaz Jimenez wrote: > > This is an typical mail from an experienced user-land programmer who > > wants to help in kernel

Proliant hangs with 2.4 but works with 2.2.

2001-02-18 Thread lafanga lafanga
I have a Compaq Proliant 1600 server which can be hung on demand with all the 2.4 series kernels I have tried (2.4, 2.4.1 & 2.4.2-pre3). Kernel 2.2.16 runs perfectly (from a default RH7.0). I have ensured that the server meets the necessary requirements for the 2.4 kernels (modutils etc) and

Re: Beware - kernel Newbie!

2001-02-18 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Pedro Diaz Jimenez wrote: > This is an typical mail from an experienced user-land programmer who wants to > help in kernel development ;D. > > I've been lurking for a while in this list and I'm wondering if this is the > right list for asking stupid newbie questions. Is

Re: kernel_thread() & thread starting

2001-02-18 Thread Russell King
Kenn Humborg writes: > When starting bdflush and kupdated, bdflush_init() uses a semaphore to > make sure that the threads have run before continuing. Shouldn't > start_context_thread() do something similar? I think this would be a good idea. Here is a patch to try. Please report back if it

Beware - kernel Newbie!

2001-02-18 Thread Pedro Diaz Jimenez
Hi all, This is an typical mail from an experienced user-land programmer who wants to help in kernel development ;D. I've been lurking for a while in this list and I'm wondering if this is the right list for asking stupid newbie questions. Is it?. If not, do you know one?. Where I can find

Re: Linux stifles innovation...

2001-02-18 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Steve VanDevender wrote: > Andre Hedrick writes: > > Those are not threats they are terms to enforce the License you agreed > > upon the very act of editing the source code that you are using in the > > kernel. > > Get it right, Andre. The mere act of editing a file

Re: Linux stifles innovation...

2001-02-18 Thread Steve VanDevender
Andre Hedrick writes: > Those are not threats they are terms to enforce the License you agreed > upon the very act of editing the source code that you are using in the > kernel. Get it right, Andre. The mere act of editing a file that is part of a GPL-licensed source distribution doesn't

kernel_thread() & thread starting

2001-02-18 Thread Kenn Humborg
In init/main.c, do_basic_setup() we have: start_context_thread(); do_initcalls(); start_context_thread() calls kernel_thread() to start the keventd thread. Then do_initcalls() calls all the init functions and finishes by calling flush_scheduled_tasks(). This function ends up

Re: Linux stifles innovation...

2001-02-18 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Henning P . Schmiedehausen wrote: > Bla, bla, bla. The usual Andre Hedrick rant about how superior you're > to all other, threats and the cited hostility of "open source advocats" > about everyone not their opinion. > > You may be a really talented software developer with

Re: Money stifles innovation [was: Linux stifles innovation.]

2001-02-18 Thread brian
> On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > About a year later I was talking with a group of business owners who had > > also received a similar demand letter. Some paid, some didn't. Those > > who didn't pay were not pursued other than the occasional copy of the > > demand letter. On

Re: AIC7xxx oops with justin gibbs patch on 2.4.1 alpha noritake

2001-02-18 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
>Here's the dmesg when it happened (I took this via serial console which I was >logged in to) >[root@kakarot:/lvm/misc] cp /dev/zero . >(scsi1:A:2:0): data overrun detected in Data-out phase. Tag == 0x33. Someone is sending a request that your drive believes specifies a data transfer to the

Re: Linux OS boilerplate

2001-02-18 Thread TeknoDragon
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Scott Long wrote: > Does there exist an outline (detailed or not) of the boot process from > the point of BIOS bootsector load to when the kernel proper begins > execution? If not would anyone be willing to help me understand > bootsect.S and setup.S enough so that I might

Re: Linux stifles innovation...

2001-02-18 Thread Bob Taylor
In message <96o9uf$j4h$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" write s: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gregory Maxwell) writes: > > >when you said commercial above) drivers for Linux, including the steaming > >pile of garbage your company ships. > > "hostile behaviour of the open source

Re: Linux OS boilerplate

2001-02-18 Thread Rick Hohensee
Have you seen Janet_Reno? ftp://linux01.gwdg.de/pub/cLIeNUX/interim/Janet_Reno.tgz IIRC. Janet is an x86 bootsector that gets into protected mode and can use the AT BIOS in pmode interrupts. It's written with a bunch of m4 macros I call asmacs that I'm currently basing an assembler in Bash on.

PROBLEM: pci bridge fails to wake up from suspend/resume( Inspiron 8000 )

2001-02-18 Thread Morten Stenseth
Hello , i have some problems with my inspiron 8000 running kernler 2.4.1-ac16 and hope someone on this list can help me. the built in network card do not function after a suspend/resume , the only messages i receive is "eepro100: wait_for_cmd_done timeout!" , i belive the problem is in the

Re: Changes to ide-cd for 2.4.1 are broken?

2001-02-18 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sun, Feb 18 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > + /* > > +* If not using Mt Fuji extended media tray reports, > > +* just return TRAY_OPEN since ATAPI doesn't provide > > +* any other way to detect this... > > +

AIC7xxx oops with justin gibbs patch on 2.4.1 alpha noritake

2001-02-18 Thread Wakko Warner
> There is one bug that might affect the Alpha in there. Once you have > patched your kernel, you should change the typedef of bus_addr_t in > drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_osm.h from uint32_t to dma_addr_t: > > typedef uint32_t bus_addr_t > > becomes > > typedef dma_addr_t bus_addr_t > > I

Re: [PROBLEM] 2.4.1 can't mount ext2 CD-ROM

2001-02-18 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sun, Feb 18 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > A value of hardsect_size[] means: this is the smallest size > > the hardware can work with. It is therefore a serious mistake > > just to come with "a good guess". This value is used only > > You are defeating the entire purpose

Re: Linux OS boilerplate

2001-02-18 Thread Jeremy Jackson
Scott Long wrote: > Does there exist an outline (detailed or not) of the boot process from > the point of BIOS bootsector load to when the kernel proper begins > execution? If not would anyone be willing to help me understand > bootsect.S and setup.S enough so that I might write such an outline?

Re: MTU and 2.4.x kernel

2001-02-18 Thread kuznet
Hello! > Please cite an exact RFC reference. Imagine, I found this reference yet. This is rfc1191, of course. 8) in the MSS option. The MSS option should be 40 octets less than the size of the largest datagram the host is able to reassemble (MMS_R, as defined in [1]); in many cases,

Re: Changes to ide-cd for 2.4.1 are broken?

2001-02-18 Thread Andries . Brouwer
From: Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sat, Feb 17 2001, John Fremlin wrote: > Specifically, this part: > > @@ -2324,11 +2309,17 @@ > sense.ascq == 0x04) > return CDS_DISC_OK; > > + > + /* >

Linux OS boilerplate

2001-02-18 Thread Scott Long
I've been poring over the x86 boot code for a while now and I've been considering writing a FAQ on the boot process (mostly for my own use, but maybe others will be interested). This would include all relevant information on setting up the x86 hardware for a boot (timers, PIC, A20, protected

Re: question regarding routing/ethertap

2001-02-18 Thread Jones Olatunji
Hi, I am sorry the might be of the list's normal content. My colleague will be on leave in may this year in states and wish to attend any I.T related conference during that period. Can you please send any info. if you are aware of any for that period. Thanks, Jones Find the best deals on

Re: MTU and 2.4.x kernel

2001-02-18 Thread kuznet
Hello! > This smells bad. Datagram protocol send sizes are only limited by > socket buffer size, nothing more. Fragmentation makes it work. The thread was started from the observation that fragmented frames do _not_ pass through router. See? 8) Path mtu discovery exists exactly to help to

[PATCH] nfsd + scalability

2001-02-18 Thread Mark Hemment
Hi Neil, all, The nfs daemons run holding the global kernel lock. They still hold this lock over calls to file_op's read and write. The file system kernel interface (FSKI) doesn't require the kernel lock to be held over these read/write calls. The nfs daemons do not require that the

Re: XOR [ was: Linux stifles innovation.]

2001-02-18 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
| Since that time, about 1986, I learned that there is a whole cottage | industry of going through old, but not too old, patents and seeing how | they can be misconstrued to apply to current technology, buying the | patent for cheap, and then threatening "infringers". More or less | an extortion

Re: XOR [ was: Linux stifles innovation.]

2001-02-18 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
| Since that time, about 1986, I learned that there is a whole cottage | industry of going through old, but not too old, patents and seeing how | they can be misconstrued to apply to current technology, buying the | patent for cheap, and then threatening "infringers". More or less | an extortion

Re: MTU and 2.4.x kernel

2001-02-18 Thread kuznet
Hello! > Wouldn't it be simpler to just fix the bugs There are no bugs. There is phylosophical discussion about current state of internet communications. Alexey - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: MTU and 2.4.x kernel

2001-02-18 Thread kuznet
Hello! > Message size != MTU. Alan, you misunderstand _sense_ of the problem. Fragmentation does _not_ work on poor internet more. At all. Look at original report. It failed _only_ because his intemediate node failed to forward fragmented packets. Alexey - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: SO_SNDTIMEO: 2.4 kernel bugs

2001-02-18 Thread kuznet
Hello! > .. unless that page was partially written, in which case a short write > count is returned (rather than a timeout error), and the loop goes around > again. sendfile() does not return on partial write and tries to push more until error. On fast link it most likely succeeds, so that it

Re: SO_SNDTIMEO: 2.4 kernel bugs

2001-02-18 Thread Chris Evans
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello! > > > So the actual timeout would be 2 * SO_SNDTIMEO. > > It will timeout if write of some page blocks for SO_SNDTIMEO. .. unless that page was partially written, in which case a short write count is returned (rather than a timeout error),

Re: [PROBLEM] 2.4.1 can't mount ext2 CD-ROM

2001-02-18 Thread Andries . Brouwer
> A value of hardsect_size[] means: this is the smallest size > the hardware can work with. It is therefore a serious mistake > just to come with "a good guess". This value is used only You are defeating the entire purpose of having a hardware sector size independently from

Re: SO_SNDTIMEO: 2.4 kernel bugs

2001-02-18 Thread kuznet
Hello! > So the actual timeout would be 2 * SO_SNDTIMEO. It will timeout if write of some page blocks for SO_SNDTIMEO. If transmission of any page never takes more than SO_SNDTIMEO it never times out. You can think about sendfile() as subroutine doing: for (;;) {

[PATCH] HIGHMEM+buffers

2001-02-18 Thread Mark Hemment
Hi, On a 4GB SMP box, configured with HIGHMEM support, making a 670G (obviously using a volume manager) ext2 file system takes 12minutes (over 10minutes of sys time). One problem is buffer allocations do not use HIGHMEM, but the nr_free_buffer_pages() doesn't take this into account causing

Re: SO_SNDTIMEO: 2.4 kernel bugs

2001-02-18 Thread Chris Evans
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello! > > > Unfortunately, I discovered a bug with SO_SNDTIMEO/sendfile(): > > None of the options apply to sendfile(). It is not socket level > operation. You have to use alarm for it. Hi Alexey, Actually sendfile() _does_ timeout using

Re: Changes to ide-cd for 2.4.1 are broken?

2001-02-18 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sat, Feb 17 2001, John Fremlin wrote: > Specifically, this part: > > @@ -2324,11 +2309,17 @@ > sense.ascq == 0x04) > return CDS_DISC_OK; > > + > + /* > +* If not using Mt Fuji extended media tray reports, > +

Re: [PROBLEM] 2.4.1 can't mount ext2 CD-ROM

2001-02-18 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sun, Feb 18 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Someone has added > /* > * These are good guesses for the time being. > */ > for (i = 0; i < sr_template.dev_max; i++) { > sr_blocksizes[i] = 2048; > sr_hardsizes[i] = 2048; >

Re: Linux stifles innovation...

2001-02-18 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 12:00:03PM -0600, Gregory S. Youngblood wrote: > On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 09:15:08PM -0800, Ben Ford wrote: > > > > > > > > On the other hand, they make excellent mice. The mouse wheel and > > > > the new optical mice

Re: PROBLEM: page_alloc 2.4.1 kernel BUG running java 1.3.0

2001-02-18 Thread Manfred Spraul
Rob Leathley wrote: > > [X] I have been suffering a lot of memory paging related Oops' on the > above PC since upgrading to the 2.2.16 kernel. Most of these problems > are fixed in 2.4.1 appart from the above. These problems don't appear > on a faster machine (e.g. P3 733MHz) so could be

Re: too long mac address for --mac-source netfilter option

2001-02-18 Thread Harald Welte
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 05:40:04PM -0800, Jack Bowling wrote: > I am trying to use the --mac-source option in the netfilter code to better > refine access to my linux box. However, I have run up against something. The > router through which my private subnet work box passes sends a 14-group >

Re: Linux stifles innovation...

2001-02-18 Thread Peter Svensson
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Gregory S. Youngblood wrote: > I remember being at a computer show in Minneapolis where a small company > was showing off this mouse that worked on a variety of surfaces without a > ball. I'm trying to remember if the mouse was optical or used yet another > method of

Re: 2.2.x: TCP lockups with tcp_timestamps

2001-02-18 Thread kuznet
Hello! > Yes. The 5.6.7.8 machine is connected to the Internet via a Linksys > "router" that is also performing masquerade. > > I will be very angry if this turns out to be the culprit. I am afraid it is. It corrupts packets preserving their checksum. Look: > Trace taken from 1.2.3.4

PROBLEM: page_alloc 2.4.1 kernel BUG running java 1.3.0

2001-02-18 Thread Rob Leathley
Here is a bug report in the format requested by linux/REPORTING-BUGS: [1] page_alloc 2.4.1 kernel BUG running java 1.3.0 [2] Running java 1.3.0 e.g. 'java -jar SwingSet2.jar' etc. causes system crashes and on other occasions, problems running other programs (e.g. umount) subsequently. This does

Re: Linux stifles innovation...

2001-02-18 Thread Henning P . Schmiedehausen
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 09:50:17AM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote: [...] > If you do not like that rule, LEAVE! [...] > if I catch you abusing the privildge of use of my work, I will > pursue you in terms defined as actionable. [...] > And you do not have the knowledge or authority to comment on

Re: Linux stifles innovation...

2001-02-18 Thread Gregory S. Youngblood
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 09:15:08PM -0800, Ben Ford wrote: > > > > > > On the other hand, they make excellent mice. The mouse wheel and > > > the new optical mice are truly innovative and Microsoft should be > > > commended for them. > > > > >

Re: Linux stifles innovation...

2001-02-18 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: > >- Innovative new hardware devices are more likely to be based on > >Linux than any Microsoft OS. For example, the TiVO, the coolest > >improvement to television since the VCR. Henning, When you begin to learn that OpenSource is the way

Re: [PROBLEM] 2.4.1 can't mount ext2 CD-ROM

2001-02-18 Thread Andries . Brouwer
From: Jon Forsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I have two ext2 CD-ROMs. One of them I can mount the normal way, the other I can't. Both are ok according to debugfs and e2fsck and if I do 'mount -t ext2 -o loop /dev/cdrom /cdrom' instead, both work. The one that doesn't

Re: reiserfs on 2.4.1,2.4.2-pre (with null bytes patch) breaks mozilla compile

2001-02-18 Thread Frank de Lange
> Minor nit, but I'd rather clear it up now. Which distribution you run > doesn't matter for debugging. What does matter is that we've got known > problems with a given compiler, and that compiler goes by a few different > flavors with the same version number. Since there are known problems, if >

Re: SO_SNDTIMEO: 2.4 kernel bugs

2001-02-18 Thread kuznet
Hello! > Unfortunately, I discovered a bug with SO_SNDTIMEO/sendfile(): None of the options apply to sendfile(). It is not socket level operation. You have to use alarm for it. BTW, if you have enough fast network, you probably can observe that sendfile() is even not interrupted by signals. 8)

Re: aic7xxx (and sym53c8xx) plans

2001-02-18 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
>Have you any idea the breadth of cards and chips that aic7xxx supports? >Sure, Justin's driver does great with your shiny new 7899, but can you >verify that it also drives the 8-year-old EISA AHA-2740 I still have >sitting around (actually retired to the parts pile, but that's beside >the point,

Re: reiserfs on 2.4.1,2.4.2-pre (with null bytes patch) breaksmozilla compile

2001-02-18 Thread Chris Mason
On Sunday, February 18, 2001 03:07:27 AM +0100 Frank de Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And no, I'm not running RedHat 7.x for those who might think so (and > automatically blame everything on it). > Minor nit, but I'd rather clear it up now. Which distribution you run doesn't matter for

Re: reiserfs on 2.4.1,2.4.2-pre (with null bytes patch) breaksmozilla compile

2001-02-18 Thread Chris Mason
On Sunday, February 18, 2001 02:10:50 AM +0100 Frank de Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> At least the patch didn't make it worse. Would anyone care to comment on >> how the elf-dynstr-gc option changes the file access patterns for the >> compile? > > It does not change the file access

Re: Linux stifles innovation...

2001-02-18 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 09:15:08PM -0800, Ben Ford wrote: > > > > On the other hand, they make excellent mice. The mouse wheel and > > the new optical mice are truly innovative and Microsoft should be > > commended for them. > > > The wheel was a nifty idea, but I've seen workstations 15

Free libre internet search engine.

2001-02-18 Thread Roberto Diaz
Hi.. well this is off-topic sorry.. somebody is going to kill me but.. somebody has to make sure about this, Being aware about the new Microsoft "world domination" attempt with its .NET platform and after years watching how the Internet is getting more and more commercial (well this maybe is not

Re: Linux stifles innovation... [way O.T.]

2001-02-18 Thread John Cavan
"Henning P. Schmiedehausen" wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael H. Warfield) writes: > > > Excuse me? A 1 billion dolar investment in Linux is not > >supporting it? > > On their own hardware. Which is really the point and they won't be the only ones. If IBM wants to attract and keep

Re: Linux stifles innovation...

2001-02-18 Thread Stefan Smietanowski
Hi. Thought I'd toss my 0.02sek into the discussion. > > > objective, arent we? > >Nope. Are you claiming to be? > > > > > For example, if there were six different companies that marketed ethernet > > > drivers for the eepro100, you'd have a choice of which one to buy..perhaps > >... Rant

Re: [patch] 2.4.2-pre3: parport_pc init_module bug

2001-02-18 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Grant Grundler wrote: > Philipp Rumpf wrote: > > Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > Looks ok, but I wonder if we should include this list in the docs. > > > These is stuff defined by the PCI spec, and this list could potentially > > > get longer... (opinions either way wanted...) >

Re: [PATCH] a more efficient BUG() macro

2001-02-18 Thread Andi Kleen
Keith Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Would people prefer the C/ASM filename in BUG() messages instead of the > include header? If so I will add it to my todo list for the makefile > rewrite. Of course you can still use __FILE__ and __LINE_ if you > really want to report the error

[PROBLEM] 2.4.1 can't mount ext2 CD-ROM

2001-02-18 Thread Jon Forsberg
I have two ext2 CD-ROMs. One of them I can mount the normal way, the other I can't. Both are ok according to debugfs and e2fsck and if I do 'mount -t ext2 -o loop /dev/cdrom /cdrom' instead, both works. The one that doesn't work have a blocksize of 1024 according to debugfs: Block size = 1024,

[patch] smbfs does not support LFS (2.4.1-ac18)

2001-02-18 Thread Urban Widmark
Hello Unless I misunderstand s_maxbytes it says how large a file can be on the fs. I assume it is enough for a fs to set that and then it knows the vfs will not ask it to go beyond that limit? Is it ok to at mount time set it to non-LFS and then later change it to be something larger? smbfs

Re: [LONG RANT] Re: Linux stifles innovation...

2001-02-18 Thread Russell King
Henning P. Schmiedehausen writes: > The matter with me is: "Vendors AAA ships its hardware product with a > driver for i386/Linux". The driver may be closed source, but at least > there _is_ a driver. Russell now says: "This is bad, because I can't use > the driver for my ARM box. So the vendor

RE: 2.4.1 crashing every other day

2001-02-18 Thread Andre Tomt
> Looks like you were bitten by either the RAID 1 bugs or the elevator bugs. > Try a 2.4.2-pre4 or an 2.4.1-ac18 kernel. Should solve it. Just installed 2.4.2pre4, seems to be stable for now (testing it ATM, running dnetc, several kernel compiles etc.). On 2.4.1 even su segfault'd if the server

Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac7

2001-02-18 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > > > Could you please try the attached patch on top of latest Rik's patch? > > > > Sure thing.. (few minutes later) no change. > > That's because your

Error reading last audio track under ide-scsi emulation.

2001-02-18 Thread Manuel Cepedello Boiso
My system has a IDE ATAPI CD-RW (Matshita CW 7586) and has a serious problem reading the last audio track of an audio CD. Reading the rest of the tracks is Ok, but when trying to rip the last one I get the following error: [With cdda2wav, versions 1.9 and 1.10a13] CDB: 47 00 00 3D 0D 3C 3D

Re: 2.4.1 crashing every other day

2001-02-18 Thread Ingo Molnar
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Mordechai Ovits wrote: > Looks like you were bitten by either the RAID 1 bugs or the elevator > bugs. Try a 2.4.2-pre4 or an 2.4.1-ac18 kernel. Should solve it. the crash does not look like to be even in the neighborhood of RAID1 or elevator (it crashed in __page_alloc()

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