Re: [RFC] what should 'uptime' be on suspend?

2007-07-21 Thread Bill Davidsen
reported makes no sense at all. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 - 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

Re: 2.6.22-git13 crash

2007-07-21 Thread Bill Davidsen
Gabriel C wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: built from 2.6.22-git9 config, used oldconfig. Crashes so early it doesn't seem to get to the network card. config: www.tmr.com/~davidsen/config-2.6.22-git13.gz screen dump: www.tmr.com/~davidsen/dump-2.6.22-git13.jpg Not much info, and probably

Final glitch1 report WRT cfs

2007-07-21 Thread Bill Davidsen
in the older version, I'm going to put my efforts into other characterizations. The test source will remain on the server, but I'm won't do more with it unless someone finds it useful. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from

Re: [RFC] what should 'uptime' be on suspend?

2007-07-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
Ken Moffat wrote: On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 09:54:37AM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: So is setting it to a random number considered correct behavior? Any of the first three values I mentioned would make sense, but the value I see is neither time since resume, time since power-on to do

Re: [RFH] Partion table recovery

2007-07-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
rarely use. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 - 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

Re: [RFH] Partition table recovery

2007-07-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
level extendeds). How can I politely say this code really needs comments? To quote the late R. W. Benway, If it was hard to write it should be hard to understand. (regarding code in FORTRAN II on punched cards, ca 1965) Rene. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing

Re: sk98lin for 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - 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

Re: sk98lin for 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
cases, and there's no log or oops data to help. The sky2 driver is since nearly 2 years in the kernel and Stephen is usually quite good at handling bugs. Where does sky2 come in? Does this mean the the recent suggestion to just change to skge and stop complaining is also wrong? -- Bill

Re: [patch v3 1/1] md: Software Raid autodetect dev list not array

2007-08-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
labeled with such a keyword (at least in the list of git trees I saw). I suspect you wait for 2.5.23 release, or send it to AKPM for inclusion in an -mm kernel. That's probably desirable, anyway. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small

Re: [PATCH 1/2] NBD: set uninitialized devices to size 0

2007-08-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
marked both these as 2.6.24 material. If you think that was incorrect, please shout out. I have the feeling that I mentioned nbd issues several releases ago, but never got to getting more info on reproducing them. I try not to submit bugs I can't reproduce, oftem they're my fault :-( -- Bill

Re: CFS review

2007-08-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
. Without __update_curr it's absolutely smooth from the start. I posted a LOT of stuff using the glitch1 script, and finally found a set of tuning values which make the test script run smooth. See back posts, I don't have them here. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from

Re: CFS review

2007-08-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
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Re: CFS review

2007-08-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is another way to show the problem visually under X (vesa-driver), by starting 3 gears simultaneously, which after laying them out side-by-side need some settling time before smoothing out. Without __update_curr it's

Re: file system for solid state disks

2007-08-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
(if it isn't already), perhaps you will be able to design allowing for that capability to be easily added. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: request for Linux kernel related project ideas

2007-08-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
* problem. that's just part of the academic process. I agree that pick something interesting, useful or not is a part of the academic process, but I would never imply that it was a desirable thing. Asking for areas where work would be useful seems like valid research to me. -- Bill Davidsen

Re: [2/4] 2.6.23-rc4: known regressions

2007-08-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
, or maybe the user interface for ALSA is broken right now? Is it planned to leave Linux audio in this state? -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
justification for the suggestion. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: speeding up swapoff

2007-08-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
pages in swap disappear when the process is killed. So, I don't think there are any swap-related performance issues on the shutdown path. Thanks. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot

Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

2007-08-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
as if we could live a bit longer. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

2007-08-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
astonishment. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

2007-08-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
updated? I can understand backup tools using mtime/ctime for incremental backups (like tar + Amanda, etc), but I'm having trouble figuring out why someone would want to use atime for that. Programs which migrate unused files or delete them are the usual cases. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

2007-08-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
it. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - 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

Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

2007-08-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
updates would certainly be one, less frequent updates of dirty inodes, whatever. But if a user wants to give up standards compliance it should be a deliberate choice, not something which the average user will not understand or learn to do. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear

Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

2007-08-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
Jeff Garzik wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Being standards compliant is not an argument it's a design goal, a requirement. Standards compliance is like pregant, you are or you're Linux history says different. There was always the final 1% of compliance that required silliness we really did

Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

2007-08-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
of noatime is allowing drives to spin down via inactivity. If something does get done in the area of less but non-zero atime tracking, perhaps that could be taken into account. I have to check what laptop_mode actually does, since my laptops are old installs. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

2007-08-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
with that. ;-) Your point well taken, not the intent of the patch, but it may indicate where a performance bottleneck happens as well. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

2007-08-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
good first step, even if the default isn't changed today. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Re: rtc max frequency setting

2007-08-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
both values (my 2.6.15, was where I looked), so maybe the rtc went away. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux

Re: Problems with USB disk

2007-08-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
I have to wade through. New cable, separate power, doesn't do it under 2.6.20-* Fedora or 2.6.21.x kernel.org kernels. I'll check the dmesg next time it happens, but I doubt a kernel version change would heal the hardware issues you mention. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have

Re: Noatime vs relatime

2007-08-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/ -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Colored kernel output (run2) + `Subject:' usage

2007-10-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
somewhat funny. I think by the time you get up enough to be running ill-advised commands from shell, you are past early boot. Your comments about scrollback not working right if you break it are hopefully an attempt at humor. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from

Re: solved: 2.6.23 fglrx s2ram

2007-10-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
violates some law you should report it to the appropriate authorities rather than posting it here, otherwise you should probably should not use the term illegal casually. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations

Re: Linux 2.6.23

2007-10-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
will just run. If I find anything interesting I'll report. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Re: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Colored kernel output (run2) + `Subject:' usage

2007-10-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
, *after boot*, would allow all this flexibility, although I still think it's too late to change. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
and mainline before N+1 release. Measuring releases or your own value against perfection is thankless! -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
a reasonable commitment to the people doing the work. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Re: suspend2 merge (was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: CFS and suspend2: hang in atomic copy)

2007-04-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
have forgotten some things. Honestly, I like this laptop when it works flawlessly, so I don't see many reasons to try *susp* again. I'll do it when I'm bored, just not today. Actually on some old laptops I just use the apm command, with -s (or -S, I forget by now), and that works. -- Bill Davidsen

Re: suspend2 merge (was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: CFS and suspend2: hang in atomic copy)

2007-04-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
is a problem certainly defines the difference between them, the populist give them what they want and the elitist let's them make do with what I think they should have. I do respect Pavel for all the stuff he has done and is doing, I wish I could have found a nicer way to say that. -- Bill

Re: [REPORT] First glitch1 results, 2.6.21-rc7-git6-CFSv5 + SD 0.46

2007-04-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
Con Kolivas wrote: On Friday 27 April 2007 08:00, Bill Davidsen wrote: Ingo Molnar wrote: * Ed Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SD 0.46 1-2 FPS cfs v5 nice -19 219-233 FPS cfs v5 nice 0 1000-1996 cfs v5 nice -10 60-65 FPS the problem

Re: Reasons to merge suspend2.

2007-04-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
consistent. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v6

2007-04-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
getting ready to boot and test the x86_64 version. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote: If the result is fixing things which then don't get fixed in mainline, as Adrian notes That whole premise is flawed. The *rule* for the stable tree is that things don't get merged into the stable tree unless they are fixed

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
my time on maintaining regression lists for 2.6.22 - and maintaining such lists is not something special noone else could do equally well. And the next kernel will go out with no list to warn users, and no to-do list for -stable. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
, as was true with threading changes. Bad reliability is the reward for bad code, but if a kernel change makes that obvious some people think it's a regression. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked

Re: Back to the future.

2007-04-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
has addressed them. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: suspend2 merge (was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: CFS and suspend2: hang in atomic copy)

2007-04-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
wake up. It's *technically* doable, but it's just a pain to do right now) And timer somehow so cron jobs could still run. Ideal for critical but rarely used machines like fallover servers, the user documentation download site, or similar. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more

Re: Best CONFIG_HZ value for scheduler testing?

2007-04-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
are at 1000, that's just my default and I didn't bother to change it. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: [GIT PATCH] UIO patches for 2.6.21

2007-04-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
tainted or not? Does this open another multi-month flame war around GPL, BSD, NDA, source available but not GPL, and all the other things we talked to death about inserting non-GPL modules? -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
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/ -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting

Re: 2.6.11-rc3: intel8x0 alsa outputs no sound

2005-02-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
the rate locks at 48000 instead 44100 as requested. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: 2.6.11-rc2 TCP ignores PMTU ICMP (Re: Linux 2.6.11-rc2)

2005-01-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
iphdr *)((*pskb)-data + iphdroff); - hdr = (struct tcphdr *)((*pskb)-data + iph-ihl*4); + hdr = (struct tcphdr *)((*pskb)-data + hdroff); if (maniptype == IP_NAT_MANIP_SRC) { /* Get rid of src ip and src pt */ -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put

Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume (was: Re: [ACPI] Samsung P35, S3, black screen (radeon))

2005-02-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
always that dependable. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 - 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

Re: [ANNOUNCE] iswraid (ICHxR ataraid sub-driver) for 2.4.29

2005-02-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
to be a valud operation to me. New crypto feels more like adding a whole new device. Opinion offered for clarification only, I don't feel strongly on this or crypto, but I do identify because I have hardware with a 2.4 driver and I can't use it unless I give up 2.6. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: ide-scsi is deprecated for cd burning! Use ide-cd and give dev=/dev/hdX as device

2005-02-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
than that. I don't consider this correct behaviour, but at least I know how to get by it for iso-9660 CDs. For other formats which don't allow determination of data set size except by the contents of the data, this works poorly. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret

Re: ide-scsi is deprecated for cd burning! Use ide-cd and give dev=/dev/hdX as device

2005-02-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
, then dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2k count={size} of=my_file to pull the image. As noted elsewhere this doesn't work if the image isn't iso-9660. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - To unsubscribe from

Re: ide-scsi is deprecated for cd burning! Use ide-cd and give dev=/dev/hdX as device

2005-02-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
are greatly exaggerated. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: possible leak in kernel 2.6.10-ac12

2005-02-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
to network activity. You might find more information there, subject contains NOT BIO if it helps. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: ide-scsi is deprecated for cd burning! Use ide-cd and give dev=/dev/hdX as device

2005-02-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
Kiniger, Karl (GE Healthcare) wrote: On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 05:58:05PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:42:21 +0100, Kiniger, Karl (GE Healthcare) said: Have you tested the ISO on some *OTHER* hardware? The impression I got was that the cd was *burned

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
high interest area, like real time premption, it might get done sooner ;-) -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
for the future even before 2.5 started. At the time I didn't expect to have to use the system call. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: Updating hard disk firmware parking hard disk

2005-07-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
active protection system that IBM offers under windows for its laptops, that will park the disk when it detects that e.g. the laptop is falling off a table. Does that imply that we have software to detect falling off a table? -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Interbench v0.20 - Interactivity benchmark

2005-07-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
units) then the effect of faster CPU would be shown. And the total power of all attached CPUs should be taken into account, using HT or SMP does have an effect of feel. Disk tests should be at a fixed rate, not all you can do. That's NOT realistic. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
David Lang wrote: On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Bill Davidsen wrote: How serious is the 1/HZ = sane problem, and more to the point how many programs get the HZ value with a system call as opposed to including a header or building it in? I know some of my older programs use header files

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
don't think it can be done in reasonable time? I can see this needing very careful thought on SMP. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
happy. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 - 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

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
that assumes that these are not the same users, which clearly isn't true in all cases. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Interbench v0.20 - Interactivity benchmark

2005-07-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
Con Kolivas wrote: On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 03:54, Bill Davidsen wrote: Con Kolivas wrote: On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 21:57, David Lang wrote: for audio and video this would seem to be a fairly simple scaleing factor (or just doing a fixed amount of work rather then a fixed percentage

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Interbench v0.20 - Interactivity benchmark

2005-07-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Disk tests should be at a fixed rate, not all you can do. That's NOT realistic. Not true; what you suggest is another thing to check entirely, and that would be a valid benchmark too. What I'm

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
catch invalid values far better, allow other values to be either implemented as best as is possible if desired, and NOT ignore invalid values if they didn't match these predefined strings. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers

Re: Kernel doesn't free Cached Memory

2005-07-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
? Don't have swap? -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: Kernel cached memory

2005-07-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
, so that when system memory is full I pay the overhead of TWO disk i/o's, one to finally write the data to the disk and one to read my program back in. If free software is about choice, I wish there was more in the area of how memory is used. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret

Re: Kernel cached memory

2005-07-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Paolo Ornati wrote: On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 12:47:50 -0400 Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And IMHO Linux is *way* too willing to evicy clean pages of my programs to use as disk buffer, so that when system memory is full I pay the overhead of TWO disk i/o's, one to finally write

Variable ticks

2005-07-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
, better sleep resolution, I don't want to leave out any important issues, or be asked a question (like how to handle polling devices) when I have no idea what people are thinking in an area. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until

Re: 2.6.13-rc3 Battery times at 100/250/1000 Hz = Zero difference

2005-07-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
relevant information. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: [PATCH] Re: itimer oddness in 2.6.12

2005-07-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - 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

Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc3a] i386: inline restore_fpu

2005-07-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
the following (totally untested) should make it be non-lazy. It's going to slow down normal task switches, but might speed up the restoring FP context all the time case. Chuck? This should work fine with or without your inline thing. Does it make any difference? -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL

Re: PROBLEM: IDE Zip drive doesn't work under 2.6.12

2005-07-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
on 2.6, 2.4 sees it okay on same hardware I haven't tried on the most recent kernels, but ZIP seemed to work nicely with ide-scsi in earlier 2.6. You might want to try that as a data point if nothing else. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things

Re: kernel 2.6 speed

2005-07-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
, people who need accuracy above all could use 866 (or whatever tick rate near that was the lowest error). -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Power consumption HZ250 vs. HZ1000

2005-07-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
, but to satisfy the people who think USB precludes power saving you could make the test. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux

Re: xor as a lazy comparison

2005-07-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
not use x += x as well. If you want to multiple by two, do it. Wasn't there a CPU where multiple was faster than add? Doesn't matter, let the compiler make the optimizations so you don't have to. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until

Re: Problem with Asus P4C800-DX and P4 -Northwood-

2005-07-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
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Re: Variable ticks

2005-07-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
that DMA wakes the CPU from C3 and let it ride, I don't want to skip it, but neither do I need to go into detail. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - To unsubscribe from this list: send

ACPI oddity

2005-07-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
and/or HT machines, but all of the HT machines running 2.6 are behind a hard firewall except one. It's running the ASUS P4P800 board which is why I looked, BIOS 1086. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment

Re: elvtune with 2.6 kernels (under FC3)

2005-07-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
with values in /sys/block/{device}/queue or wherever you have your sysfs mounted. Not a great user interface, but at least you can play. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me

Re: ACPI oddity

2005-07-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
that /sys/devices/system uses today. Whatever, it's cosmetic and there seem to be more important problems with APIC than /proc vs. /sys. Thanks for the clarification. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment

Re: Problem with Asus P4C800-DX and P4 -Northwood-

2005-07-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
Andreas Baer wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: One other oddment about this motherboard, Forgive if I have over-snipped this trying to make it relevant... Andreas Baer wrote: Willy Tarreau wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:10:08PM +0200, Andreas Baer wrote: There clearly

Re: 2.6.13-rc3 Battery times at 100/250/1000 Hz = Zero difference

2005-07-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
discussion of this, but in many cases it would result in a saving, perhaps fairly large. Some environmental benefit as well, of course. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - To unsubscribe from

Re: Kernel cached memory

2005-07-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
program is read back in. If the pages are dirty, then there's the delay while they are written. It's exactly the benefit from having cached pages which is lost. I would love more control in this area, but short of maintaining a patch I don't see it happening. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL

Re: topology api confusion

2005-07-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
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Re: Variable ticks

2005-07-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
not be blocked for low power, only for suspend. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Mercurial v0.1 - a minimal scalable distributed SCM

2005-04-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
better. I admit that some of my own toys have never seen the light of day because I am unable to invest the time to handle those points. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - To unsubscribe

Re: enforcing DB immutability

2005-04-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
. And they are lots safer, since you can't wind up with them pointing to a non-existent file, get them in circular loops, etc. Okay, YOU probably wouldn't, but believe me semi-competent users regularly these things. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put

Re: speedstep-centrino on dothan

2005-07-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently, the speedstep-centrino support has built-in frequency/voltage pairs only for Banias CPUs. For Dothan CPUs, these tables are read from BIOS ACPI. But ACPI encoding may not be available or not reliable, so why shouldn't we provide built-in tables for Dothan

Re: ide-cd and bad sectors

2005-07-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
matthieu castet wrote: Hi Alan, Alan Cox wrote: On Sad, 2005-07-02 at 15:14, matthieu castet wrote: Also I was wondering if all the sector that ide-cd failed to read are bad sector, or if ide-cd failed to put the drive in a consistent state for reading the next sector after corrupted one.

Re: [git patches] IDE update

2005-07-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
Ondrej Zary wrote: Jens Axboe wrote: On Tue, Jul 05 2005, Ondrej Zary wrote: André Tomt wrote: Al Boldi wrote: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: { On 7/4/05, Al Boldi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hdparm -tT gives 38mb/s in 2.4.31 Cat /dev/hda /dev/null gives 2% user 33% sys 65% idle

Re: [Paranoia] program cdparanoia not setting count and/or reply_len properly

2005-07-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
) by someone then paranoia can get rid of the egregious hack. I've expanded the recipients list, perhaps we'll get a status on (a) if the fix Alan has will cause correct error reporting, and (b) when it can be put in mainline. The paranoia can clean up its act. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [git patches] IDE update

2005-07-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
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Re: Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-final-V0.7.50-45

2005-07-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
used anymore, the kermit program is still a capable terminal interface, and includes logging. For those who don't like telnet or minicom, here's another program to dislike. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979

Re: Linux 2.6.11.2

2005-03-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. - 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

Re: Linux 2.6.11.2

2005-03-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
it is desirable to have both. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

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