Re: [PATCH 1/3] dynticks - implement no idle hz for x86

2005-09-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
ctures can hang whatever makes sense there. That hopefully would result in readable code for both power reduction (laptop) and for the strange things that embedded systems sometimes do. -- bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small comp

Re: [discuss] Re: 2.6.19-rc5: known regressions (v3)

2006-11-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
all in 2.6.19-rc6? I haven't built a kernel since rc2, other things have been taking my time. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Obscure bug of 2004: BASH BUFFER OVERFLOW - if bash is being run by a normal user and is setuid root, with the "vi" line edit mode selected, and the

Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

2007-03-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
than if you weren't doing such a good job most of the time. Ugly stands out more on something beautiful! -- 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 unsub

Re: is RSDL an "unfair" scheduler too?

2007-03-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
.21-rc3 (nbd not working), so the test machine is in use. But it looked as if behavior was not as smooth with KDE. May that thought be useful. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked

Re: is RSDL an "unfair" scheduler too?

2007-03-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
r of having several schedulers, because I don't believe any one can match the behavior goals of all users. -- 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 unsubscri

Re: Pluggable Schedulers (was: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler)

2007-03-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
erage user. -- 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 PRO

Re: [PATCH 0/3] VM throttling: avoid blocking occasional writers

2007-03-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
ow, including my sysctl.conf on a number of systems :-( -- 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-kerne

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
in a while KDE will KLUNK to a halt for 200-300ms doing mundane stuff like redrawing a page, scrolling, etc. I don't see it with GNOME. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked."

Re: is RSDL an "unfair" scheduler too?

2007-03-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
s down. I would like to see more varied testing before any changes are made, unless a simple change would improve consistency of latency. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." -

Re: [linux-pm] [2/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

2007-03-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
ty lay). - Jim -- 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 m

Re: [linux-pm] [2/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

2007-03-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
Jim Gettys wrote: On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 16:33 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: What you say sounds good, assuming that the cost of a sleep is less than the cost of the busy wait. But this may be hardware, the waits may be very small and frequent, and if it's hitting a small hardware window

Re: [PATCH 006 of 6] md: Add support for reshape of a raid6

2007-02-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
(i = 0; i < conf->raid_disks; i++) { in a manner which can be understood without alcoholic fortification? I don't find either hard to read, but you suggestion isn't equivalent, since it increments rather than decrements the index. I admit I probably would write it the same way Neil did... -

Re: 2.6.21-rc1: framebuffer/console boot failure

2007-02-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
Andrew wrote: I have just discovered 2.6.21-rc1 boots with pci=noacpi ... Try setting the resolution and frame rate, video=XXX:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or such. Worked for me. I like pci=noacpi, though ;-) -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from t

Re: [QUESTION] Sata RAID

2007-02-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
you can't do a backup and/or replace and rebuild. If quality control were so good they are likely to fail at the same time it would be so good they would be obsolete before they failed. That urban myth is a good reason to do backups, but a bad reason to avoid RAID. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMA

Re: SMP performance degradation with sysbench

2007-02-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
My supposition is that it currently is NOT working as intended, since disabling SMT scheduling is reported to help. A test with MC on and SMT off would be informative for where to look next. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling o

Re: latencies due to disk writes

2007-02-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
%. That way, the accounting is done at a higher and probably easier to access level. Maybe I'm just talking nonsense, but nonetheless, here are my 2 cents. Best regards, Mark p.s. please CC me as I'm not subscribed to this list. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more t

Re: 2.6.20-rc1: CIFS cheers, NFS4 jeers

2007-02-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
NFS, I did some light testing with 2.6.20-git14 with 190GB of mp3 and mpg files (library of congress folk music) without hangs. Just "did it work" tests, copy 20-30GB to server, do md5 on the data pulled back from the server. Didn't hang, performance testing later. -- Bill Davids

Re: bug in kernel 2.6.21-rc1-git1: conventional floppy drive cannot be mounted without hanging up the whole system

2007-02-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
ven change it. It's just not worth even a miniscule risk.. Thank you. Linus -- 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 li

Re: 2.6.21-rc1: CIFS cheers, NFS4 jeers

2007-02-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
Florin Iucha wrote: On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 09:36:23PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: Florin Iucha wrote: Hello, it's me and my 70 GB of photos again. I have tested both CIFS and NFSv4 clients in kernel 2.6.20-rc1 . CIFS passed with flying colors and NFSv4 stalled after 7 GB

Re: [PATCH] affinity is not defined in non-smp kernels - i386

2007-02-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
rmless to remove. Where is the initialization performed, then? -- 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 &qu

Re: [PATCH] md: Fix for raid6 reshape.

2007-03-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
+ conf->expand_progress = (sector_nr + i) * new_data_disks; Will the (real) fix be in 2.6.21? -- bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscr

Re: Question: 20 microseconds delay

2007-03-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
snowblower, it won't mow your lawn. -- 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: bugs in kernel 2.6.21 (both two release candidates) and kernel 2.6.20

2007-03-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
running. Yours sincerely and thanks for all your efforts Uwe P. S.: I do not think this is a hardware error as I did not have those problems with kernels <= 2.6.19. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the mac

Re: 2.6.20.3 AMD64 oops in CFQ code

2007-04-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
age in my tricks file, but it sounds like a last ditch effort after something get very wrong. -- 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-kerne

Re: Question: half-duplex and full-duplex serial driver

2007-04-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
. The communications program "kermit" can do this, google for the source, or try kermit.columbia.edu first, and read the source to see how they do it. I'm reasonably sure ioctl() is the answer, but that's choice three for your research. -- bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO TMR Associa

Re: [OT] the shortest thread of LKML !

2007-04-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
their own domain of excellence ;-) Good catch, David, you're like a spider on a web waiting for the naive intruder ! Posted several days too early for April Fool... -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machi

Re: was once: Samsung DVD writer.

2007-04-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, BTW: What happened to "FreeBSD User Giacomo" and his Samsung DVD writer ? Any news to report ? A happy ending perchance ? Bill Davidsen: [about filtering dangerous SCSI commands] My suggestion would be to add an ioctl, like SET_SCSI_UNFILTERED, whic

Re: [2.6.21-rc5-git1][KVM] exception on start VM

2007-04-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
Avi Kivity wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Starting a VM for Win98SE: [ debug snip info ] Known issue. It will be a while before we can support the '95 family on Intel as it makes heavy use of real mode. Thanks for the quick answer, I'll investigate other virtualization solutions. Please

Re: [patch] remove artificial software max_loop limit

2007-04-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
explicitly doing something different. Plauger's law of least 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 "

Re: [PATCH resend][CRYPTO]: RSA algorithm patch

2007-04-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
nel, if it's just the crypto module, like aes, anubis or micheal_mic, and is GPL compatible, some people may agree. But if this is an embedded system, and you have the patch, why not just apply it to your kernel and forget mainline? -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have m

Re: Lower HD transfer rate with NCQ enabled?

2007-04-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
works well for you in the general case. -- 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: Performance Stats: Kernel patch

2007-04-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
, not everyone has a good parser. ;-) -- 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: [2.6 patch] the overdue removal of X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO_ACPI

2007-04-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
. Yes, people can take 10-15 minutes to find and read previous discussion, but one or two sentences who generate less concern and noise on the list. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked.&

Re: [PATCH resend][CRYPTO]: RSA algorithm patch

2007-04-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
Indan Zupancic wrote: On Fri, April 6, 2007 23:30, Bill Davidsen wrote: Tasos Parisinos wrote: The main purpose behind the creation of this module was to create the cryptographic infrastructure to develop an in-kernel system of signed modules. Although this functionality

Re: [patch] remove artificial software max_loop limit

2007-04-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 16:33:32 EDT, Bill Davidsen said: Jan Engelhardt wrote: Who cares if the user specifies max_loop=8 but still is able to open up /dev/loop8, loop9, etc.? max_loop=X basically meant (at least to me) "have at least X" l

Re: need help

2007-04-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
. There's no code to ask for input, nor anyway to positively decide which connected terminal is the terminal to ask. -- 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

Re: init's children list is long and slows reaping children.

2007-04-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
be treated as literature, intended to be both read and readable. -- 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 "uns

Re: REISER4 FOR INCLUSION IN THE LINUX KERNEL.

2007-04-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
p ] Until Namesys is stable there's no support team. It's not my impression that there's much support otherwise. -- 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 unsubs

Re: [PATCH] libata: warn if speed limited due to 40-wire cable (v2)

2007-03-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
ery last test made. Since the mode filter is not told what mode will be used but just subtracts modes that are not allowed this should be safe. Far better to have a drive which works slowly than one which works unreliably. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear fro

Re: [PATCH] libata: warn if speed limited due to 40-wire cable (v2)

2007-03-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
Stephen Clark wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Alan Cox wrote: it seems broken to manipulate xfer_mask after returning from the driver's ->mode_filter hook. this patch is more than just a speed-limited warning printk, afaics I actually suggested that order because the only

Re: 2.6.21-rc2-mm1

2007-03-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
works for me" reports. I'll revert to an FC6 kernel before load gets high this morning. -- 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 th

Re: [patch] disable NMI watchdog by default

2007-03-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
icular bootup code. The patch is unintrusive. I'm missing something, what limits this to systems running under kvm? -- 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 unsu

Re: [5/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

2007-03-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
m if the failure was silent. Actually, a lack of nmi would be worse than not booting, it would be a time bomb waiting for a bad moment to hang. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

2007-03-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
for how that can be done. -- 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 m

Re: [PATCH] libata: warn if speed limited due to 40-wire cable (v2)

2007-03-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
Stephen Clark wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Stephen Clark wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Alan Cox wrote: it seems broken to manipulate xfer_mask after returning from the driver's ->mode_filter hook. this patch is more than just a speed-limited warning printk, afaics

Re: Raid 10 Problems?

2007-03-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
eading is worth if if you wind up convinced that the default settings are fine for you. -- 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 lis

Re: [RFC] BadRAM still not ready for inclusion ? (was: Re: Free Linux Driver Development!)

2007-03-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
astic work! ___ Viren-Scan für Ihren PC! Jetzt für jeden. Sofort, online und kostenlos. Gleich testen! http://www.pc-sicherheit.web.de/freescan/?mc=02 -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more t

CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED and similar issues

2007-03-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
ving a display and being able to mount filesystems, even if the kernel is technically running. When there were stable and development kernel series that was not so much of an issue, now that every kernel is an adventure it would be nice to ensure that testing a new kernel is not an irrevo

Re: [2.6.22 patch] the scheduled removal of OBSOLETE_OSS options

2007-03-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
? I'm not objection to the removal of the drivers, just noting that identifying the new drivers can be made easier. -- 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

Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

2007-03-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
. Therefore it should go in -mm and hopefully give the user an option to select which is appropriate. With luck I'll get to shake out that patch in combination with kvm later today. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompeten

Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

2007-03-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
Willy Tarreau wrote: On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 11:18:44AM +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: On Tuesday 06 March 2007 10:05, Bill Davidsen wrote: jos poortvliet wrote: Well, imho his current staircase scheduler already does a better job compared to mainline, but it won't make

Re: [2.6.22 patch] the scheduled removal of OBSOLETE_OSS options

2007-03-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:46:22PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch contains the scheduled removal of the OBSOLETE_OSS options for 2.6.22. If these are drivers for which there are thought to be useful ALSA drivers, would

Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

2007-03-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
.. Linus -- 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: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

2007-03-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
Con Kolivas wrote: On Wednesday 07 March 2007 04:50, Bill Davidsen wrote: With luck I'll get to shake out that patch in combination with kvm later today. Great thanks!. I've appreciated all the feedback so far. I did try, the 2.6.21-rc3-git3 doesn't want to kvm for me, and your patch may

Re: Question: schedule()

2007-03-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
ernel thread more faster?" -- 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 b

Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

2007-03-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote: Please, could you now rethink plugable scheduler as well? Even if one had to be chosen at boot time and couldn't be change thereafter, it would still allow a few new thoughts to be included. No. Really. I absolutely

Re: [PATCH] fix read past end of array in md/linear.c

2007-03-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
ver worked, or if in fact anyone ever took this path. I assume that the value of sz caused the loop exit in all cases, since this has been in the code at least since 2.6.15, oldest thing I have handy. -- bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things

Re: Linux Software RAID 5 Performance Optimizations: 2.6.19.1: (211MB/s read & 195MB/s write)

2007-01-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
of=/dev/null bs=1M count=10240 $ echo 192 > /sys/block/hda/queue/max_sectors_kb $ echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches $ dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null bs=1M count=10240 -- bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers sinc

Re: O_DIRECT question

2007-01-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
Michael Tokarev wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: If I got it right (and please someone tell me if I *really* got it right!), the problem is elsewhere. Suppose you have a filesystem, not at all related to databases and stuff. Your usual root filesystem, with your /etc/ /var and so on directories

Re: Choosing a HyperThreading/SMP/MultiCore kernel ?

2007-01-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 15:18:31 EST, Bill Davidsen said: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:03:49 EST, Lennart Sorensen said: I would expect any distribution should work on these (as long as the kernel they use isn't too old.). Of course if it is a Mac, you

[2.6.20-rc5]KVM - Win98SE won't install

2007-01-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
or things to try, let me know. I did run with -d, nothing written in qemu.log. -- Bill Davidsen He was a full-time professional cat, not some moonlighting ferret or weasel. He knew about these things. Linux version 2.6.20-rc5 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.1 20070105 (Red Hat 4.1.1-51))

Re: allocation failed: out of vmalloc space error treating and VIDEO1394 IOC LISTEN CHANNEL ioctl failed problem

2007-01-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
the problem to see if there's a better solution possible? I've used vmalloc in the past, and not had a problem, but it is a fair question, how do you find out how much space is available? Other than a binary vmalloc/release loop. -- bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO TMR Associate

Re: Initramfs and /sbin/hotplug fun

2007-01-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
something to complete boot, but it could just be a thinko. -- 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

Re: Simple utility to measure disk random access time

2007-01-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
gt; } 69a75 > and this warning: gaimboi:davidsen> ./da /dev/hdb Seeker v2.0, 2007-01-15, http://linux.inet.hr/how_fast_is_your_disk.html Disk too small, size: 0 blocks -- bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 19

Re: "obsolete" versus "deprecated", and a new config option?

2007-01-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
s to imply that they *shouldn't* be using that feature. period. which suggests there should be an easy, one-step way to enforce that absolutely in a build. thoughts? I think it's a good idea, but doing it right may be more work than the benefit justifies. -- bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Inactivity Monitor v1.0

2007-01-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
by an user-level daemon such as acpid, blanking the screen, dimming the lcd-panel light à la mac, etc... Any idea how much power this saves? And for the vast rest of us who do run X, this seems to parallel the work of a well-tuned screensaver. -- bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO TMR Asso

Re: Probably wrong place to ask

2007-01-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
, or is this particular cf known to be a bad bird? I do that with CF and memory stick, what kernel, distribution, etc? I would suspect something in hotplug not noticing. I presume you have tried this from cold boot, so any issues with unplugging and plugging another flash are removed. -- bill

Re: Threading...

2007-01-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
r and with FC5 I can't; so I've got one idle processor all the time. This sounds so unlikely I hesitate to mention it, but you are not, by any chance, running pthreads on one and nptl on the other, are you? -- bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interes

Re: [PROBLEM] Can't start MD devices by using /dev/disk/by-id

2007-02-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
have to go edit the files all over again. -- 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: smp and irq conflict

2007-02-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
Benny Amorsen wrote: "BD" == Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BD> You may be able to move one board to another slot, but looking at BD> the bandwidth I suspect you may need a server motherboard with BD> multiple busses, preferably running at 66MH

Re: AHCI - remove probing of ata2

2007-02-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
ere were nothing at all present, although obviously it could be artifact. -- 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 "

[2.6.20-get13] KVM-12 won't build

2007-02-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
on the KVM website. -- Bill Davidsen He was a full-time professional cat, not some moonlighting ferret or weasel. He knew about these things. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo inf

Excessive dmesg whining in 2.6.20-git13

2007-02-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
snow. If all this whining doesn't indicate a problem, I might suggest eliminating it, since it tends to hide any real problem. compressed dmesg and config attached. -- Bill Davidsen He was a full-time professional cat, not some moonlighting ferret or weasel. He knew about these things

Re: [2.6.20-get13] KVM-12 won't build

2007-02-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joerg Roedel wrote: On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 11:32:13AM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: Goes out with an error message: cc -I /home/davidsen/downloads/kernel.org/linux-2.6.20-git13/include -MMD -MF ./.kvmctl.d -g -c -o kvmctl.o kvmctl.c kvmctl.c:29:2: error: #error libkvm: userspace

Re: [ANNOUNCE] DualFS: File System with Meta-data and Data Separation

2007-02-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
with a lot of files would benefit, when CPU and memory requirements are not a bottleneck. -- 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 li

Re: [ANNOUNCE] DualFS: File System with Meta-data and Data Separation

2007-02-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
Jörn Engel wrote: On Fri, 16 February 2007 18:47:48 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: Actually I am interested in the common case, where the machine is not out of space, or memory, or CPU, but when it is appropriately sized to the workload. Not that I lack interest in corner cases

Re: 2.6.20-mm1 - Oops using Minix 3 file system

2007-02-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
imes by the fact that qemu provides disk images which then (normally) get partitions, I'm not sure you aren't having the same problem. None of which justifies the OOPS, of course, nice kernels don't go down. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the

[RFC] Time for a linux-kvm mailing list?

2007-02-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
in the right place. -- 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: [RFC] Time for a linux-kvm mailing list?

2007-02-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
Avi Kivity wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: There doesn't seem to be a great place for KVM user questions, this is it, and kvm-devel seems a poor place for user questions, while the chat room is real time and depends on the question and the answer being in the same place at the same time. kvm

Re: [ANNOUNCE] DualFS: File System with Meta-data and Data Separation

2007-02-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
it becomes a "jackpot case" and is correct in result but too slow to be useful. -- 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 000 of 6] md: Assorted fixes and features for md for 2.6.21

2007-02-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
with it before testing Neil's NFS stuff. The NFS server test data is on RAID10 ;-) -- 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 b

Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-02-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
. Well, at work i probably have an USB floppy lying around somewhere, but i doubt that it uses floppy.c ;-), -- 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 unsubscrib

Re: [patch] MTD: fix DOC2000/2001/2001PLUS build error

2007-02-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
is something mostly done by advanced user doesn't mean it should be difficult or time-consuming. And why say "should have done" for the SCSI mess, it's correctable, if everyone agrees that you are right (who would dare disagree ;-) then it can be fixed. -- Bill Davidsen <[EM

Re: [patch] MTD: fix DOC2000/2001/2001PLUS build error

2007-02-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
set this page to defaults." Because those starting points will cover a majority of the options. Useful for device drivers as well, particularly network cards and disk controllers, where there are a vast number of choices. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to

Re: [patch] MTD: fix DOC2000/2001/2001PLUS build error

2007-02-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
menuconfig also, from long habit (accessing a remote compile server with slow dialup). -- 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 t

Re: [patch] MTD: fix DOC2000/2001/2001PLUS build error

2007-02-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
ig enable -F ACPI disabling CONFIG_APM $ kconfig disable SCSI CONFIG_USB_STORAGE depends on CONFIG_SCSI $ kconfig disable -f SCSI disabling USB_STORAGE $ make I think depends and select provide this now, the postulated "requires" might make building the trees easier. -- Bill Davidsen

Re: hdparm for lib_pata

2007-02-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
works. Agreed, I've already had problems typing faster than I think, twice, as as I hit ENTER saying "wait, that's a SCSI device" and then "wow, it worked anyway!" Nice job on the whole, but setting transfer modes is desirable, still. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: hdparm for lib_pata

2007-02-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
problem that will end up biting you some other way if you force it back on. I think deciding to turn off DMA which works fine in old kernels qualifies as a "serious driver problem," which is why it should be under user control. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "

Re: [patch] MTD: fix DOC2000/2001/2001PLUS build error

2007-02-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
Matt Mackall wrote: On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 11:04:31AM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: There's no reason we shouldn't be able to do exactly that with config symbols in Kconfig-land. The only difference is that we've got slightly different semantics for our "depend" keyword. Things w

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20] isdn-capi: Use ARRAY_SIZE macro when appropriate

2007-02-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
s : for (i = ARRAY_SIZE(procfsentries); --i >= 0; ) { Long time ago, that produced better code. I did not check recently though. Why would you write "--i >= 0" instead of just "i--"? The size of an array can't be negative. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PR

Re: 2.6.20: Modular fb and logo crash

2007-02-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
;-) I used to see this when loading from a booted system, but not when the modules were in initrd. Don't know if that offers you any help or not. Clearly you want the fb built-in so you see the penguins, anyway. ;-D -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from t

Re: [PATCH 0/3] VM throttling: avoid blocking occasional writers

2007-03-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
Tomoki Sekiyama wrote: Hi, Thanks for your comments. I'm sorry for my late reply. Bill Davidsen wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: >> - I wonder if dirty_limit_ratio is the best name we could choose. >> vm_dirty_blocking_ratio, perhaps? Dunno. >> > I don't like it, bu

Re: [PATCH 0/3] VM throttling: avoid blocking occasional writers

2007-03-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
s required. Regards, -- Tomoki Sekiyama Hitachi, Ltd., Systems Development Laboratory -- 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: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
variation is to give those processes at the head of the queue short Fundamentally, the scheduler cannot do it by itself. You can create cases where the load is precisely identical and one person wants X and another person wants Y. The scheduler cannot know what's important to you. DS -- B

Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
and can't change it, so we need some tweaking for problem Y". And everything is totally fixable - at least as long as people are willing to! Linus -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from

Re: [2.6 patch] the scheduled eepro100 removal

2007-03-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
kmount servers and eepro100 did, but since I'm no longer responsible for those machines I can't retest. Perhaps someone will be able to provide data points. IBM current offerings as of about three years ago, I had a few dozen of them at one time. -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> &

Re: max_loop limit

2007-03-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
could only address 1MB. And having run clients with three users on an XT with just that 640kB and UNIX, I don't think he was wrong about the memory for that time, just the O/S. BTW: anyone got a copy of PC/IX (SysIII for XT) around? I'd love to run that in a VM just for the comparison. -- Bil

Re: max_loop limit

2007-03-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
you need to open it and issue an ioctl. Which is a bloody bad idea, for obvious reasons... Agreed. What would be a right way? Global device ala ptmx/tun/tap? New syscall? Something else? OG. - ] -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from t

Re: [linux-usb-devel] possible USB regression with 2.6.21-rc4: iPod doesn't work

2007-03-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
of that hub. Uh, I think I found the reason for the strange behaviour at shutdown/suspend. When I unload the usblp module, then the iPod is recognized. And that's not the case with 2.6.20? -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompeten

Re: kmalloc() with size zero

2007-03-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
is useful. -- 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 [

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