Re: >128 MB RAM stability problems (again)

2001-07-04 Thread J Sloan
Ronald Bultje wrote: > I'm kind of astounded now, WHY can't linux-2.4.x run on ANY machine in > my house with more than 128 MB RAM?!? Can someone please point out to me > that he's actually running kernel-2.4.x on a machine with more than 128 > MB RAM and that he's NOT having severe stability

Re: 128 MB RAM stability problems (again)

2001-07-04 Thread J Sloan
Ronald Bultje wrote: I'm kind of astounded now, WHY can't linux-2.4.x run on ANY machine in my house with more than 128 MB RAM?!? Can someone please point out to me that he's actually running kernel-2.4.x on a machine with more than 128 MB RAM and that he's NOT having severe stability

[OT] Re: ipchains

2001-06-18 Thread J Sloan
Ted Gervais wrote: > I just ran into something odd. To me anyways, it was odd. > I just installed and brought up kernel 2.4.5 and my ipchains failed. > So I upgraded to the latest (that I could find) ipchains-1.3.10, and > that also fails. > > Has anyone got any version of ipchains to work with

[OT] Re: ipchains

2001-06-18 Thread J Sloan
Ted Gervais wrote: I just ran into something odd. To me anyways, it was odd. I just installed and brought up kernel 2.4.5 and my ipchains failed. So I upgraded to the latest (that I could find) ipchains-1.3.10, and that also fails. Has anyone got any version of ipchains to work with the

[OT] Re: Snowhite and the Seven Dwarfs - The REAL story!

2001-06-15 Thread J Sloan
Tobias Ringstrom wrote: > Ah... the joy of reading mail using non-MS software, on a non-MS OS... > > Hahaha, indeed! Indeed, since: Jun 15 15:39:03 mirai sendmail[21499]: f5FMd2t21499: from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=33547, class=-60, nrcpts=1, msgid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, bodytype=7BIT,

[OT] Re: Snowhite and the Seven Dwarfs - The REAL story!

2001-06-15 Thread J Sloan
Tobias Ringstrom wrote: Ah... the joy of reading mail using non-MS software, on a non-MS OS... Hahaha, indeed! Indeed, since: Jun 15 15:39:03 mirai sendmail[21499]: f5FMd2t21499: from=[EMAIL PROTECTED], size=33547, class=-60, nrcpts=1, msgid=[EMAIL PROTECTED], bodytype=7BIT, proto=ESMTP,

[OT] Re: inetd missing

2001-06-13 Thread J Sloan
Blesson Paul wrote: > hi > I just brought a CD of RedHat 7. Unfortunately I > couldn't find the inetd rpm. wheather it is missing or it is in any other > name It's xinetd - BTW You might think about RH 7.1 since 7.0 was the end of the line for the legacy 2.2. kernel - cu

[OT] Re: inetd missing

2001-06-13 Thread J Sloan
Blesson Paul wrote: hi I just brought a CD of RedHat 7. Unfortunately I couldn't find the inetd rpm. wheather it is missing or it is in any other name It's xinetd - BTW You might think about RH 7.1 since 7.0 was the end of the line for the legacy 2.2. kernel - cu

[OT]: Tux vs khttpd? (fwd)

2001-06-12 Thread J Sloan
Hi Roy, IIRC Ingo posted some tux benchmark results on the khttpd mailing list some weeks ago - basically khttpd is not in the same ballpark at this point. cu jjs Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > Hi everyone! > > I tried to send this message to the khttpd group, but got no answer. Can > any of

[OT]: Tux vs khttpd? (fwd)

2001-06-12 Thread J Sloan
Hi Roy, IIRC Ingo posted some tux benchmark results on the khttpd mailing list some weeks ago - basically khttpd is not in the same ballpark at this point. cu jjs Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: Hi everyone! I tried to send this message to the khttpd group, but got no answer. Can any of you

Re: [OT] Re: Linux scalability?

2001-05-18 Thread J Sloan
Peter Rival wrote: > "David S. Miller" wrote: > > > J Sloan writes: > > > Microsoft finally managed to get a better result using > > > an all-out, "bet the farm", "benchmark buster" setup > > > with a special web cach

[OT] Re: Linux scalability?

2001-05-18 Thread J Sloan
Ronald Bultje wrote: > On 18 May 2001 10:12:34 +0200, reiser.angus wrote: > > > However, taking a closer look, it turns out, that the above statement > > > holds true only for 1 and 2 processor machines. Scalability already > > > suffers at 4 processors, and at 8 processors, TUX 2.0 (7500) gets

[OT] Re: Linux scalability?

2001-05-18 Thread J Sloan
Ronald Bultje wrote: On 18 May 2001 10:12:34 +0200, reiser.angus wrote: However, taking a closer look, it turns out, that the above statement holds true only for 1 and 2 processor machines. Scalability already suffers at 4 processors, and at 8 processors, TUX 2.0 (7500) gets beaten

Re: [OT] Re: Linux scalability?

2001-05-18 Thread J Sloan
Peter Rival wrote: David S. Miller wrote: J Sloan writes: Microsoft finally managed to get a better result using an all-out, bet the farm, benchmark buster setup with a special web cache in front of iis. I haven't heard anyone talk about the fact that their 8-cpu numbers

Re: Inodes

2001-05-14 Thread J Sloan
Blesson Paul wrote: > Hi > This is an another doubt related to VFS. I want to know > wheather all files are assigned their inode number at the mounting time itself > or inodes are assigned to files upon accessing only er.. inode numbers are assigned at file creation time.

Re: Inodes

2001-05-14 Thread J Sloan
Blesson Paul wrote: Hi This is an another doubt related to VFS. I want to know wheather all files are assigned their inode number at the mounting time itself or inodes are assigned to files upon accessing only er.. inode numbers are assigned at file creation time. cu

Re: 2.4.4 fork() problems (maybe)

2001-05-05 Thread J Sloan
Marc Schiffbauer wrote: > use 2.4.5-pre1 instead, Linus has undone the fork()-change for some > reason ;-) > 2.4.5-pre1 has it's own problems - Probably better to use 2.4.4-ac5 instead. cu jjs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

Re: 2.4.4 fork() problems (maybe)

2001-05-05 Thread J Sloan
Marc Schiffbauer wrote: use 2.4.5-pre1 instead, Linus has undone the fork()-change for some reason ;-) 2.4.5-pre1 has it's own problems - Probably better to use 2.4.4-ac5 instead. cu jjs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to

Re: [OT] Re: Linux NAT questions- (kernel upgrade??)

2001-05-02 Thread J Sloan
"Sim, CT (Chee Tong)" schrieb: > I am using the Red Hat 7, below are my kernel version. I feel Red Hat 7 is > quite new, although RH 7.1 has just come out. How come it still say that my > kernel version is old. Ah, by old is meant the 2.2 version - 7.1 is the first RH release to ship with

[OT] Re: Linux NAT questions- (kernel upgrade??)

2001-05-02 Thread J Sloan
"Sim, CT (Chee Tong)" schrieb: > Hi.. I follow your instruction, but I encounter this issue, my kernel need > to be upgrade? MAy I know how to determine the current kernel version uname -a > and > how to upgrade it?? Either upgrade to a distro that includes the new kernel (e.g. latest SuSE or

[OT] Re: Linux NAT questions- (kernel upgrade??)

2001-05-02 Thread J Sloan
Sim, CT (Chee Tong) schrieb: Hi.. I follow your instruction, but I encounter this issue, my kernel need to be upgrade? MAy I know how to determine the current kernel version uname -a and how to upgrade it?? Either upgrade to a distro that includes the new kernel (e.g. latest SuSE or Red

Re: [OT] Re: Linux NAT questions- (kernel upgrade??)

2001-05-02 Thread J Sloan
Sim, CT (Chee Tong) schrieb: I am using the Red Hat 7, below are my kernel version. I feel Red Hat 7 is quite new, although RH 7.1 has just come out. How come it still say that my kernel version is old. Ah, by old is meant the 2.2 version - 7.1 is the first RH release to ship with kernel

Re: 2.4.4: Kernel crash, possibly tcp related

2001-04-30 Thread J Sloan
"David S. Miller" schrieb: > I'm having a devil of a time finding the tcpblast sources on the > net, can you point me to where I can get them? The one reference > I saw to get the original sources was: > > ftp://ftp.xlink.net/pub/network/tcpblast.shar.gz > > But even that directory no longer

Re: 2.4.4: Kernel crash, possibly tcp related

2001-04-30 Thread J Sloan
David S. Miller schrieb: I'm having a devil of a time finding the tcpblast sources on the net, can you point me to where I can get them? The one reference I saw to get the original sources was: ftp://ftp.xlink.net/pub/network/tcpblast.shar.gz But even that directory no longer exists.

Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-24 Thread J Sloan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi, > > a friend of my asked me on how to make linux easier to use > for personal/casual win user. > > > from that, i also found out that it is very awkward to type > username and password every time i use my computer. > so here's a patch. Neet hack, but maybe the

Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-24 Thread J Sloan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, a friend of my asked me on how to make linux easier to use for personal/casual win user. from that, i also found out that it is very awkward to type username and password every time i use my computer. so here's a patch. Neet hack, but maybe the kernel isn't

Re: performance degradation on -ac tree

2001-04-22 Thread J Sloan
There is a bit more clarity on the performance degradation issue now - In fact the degradation only appears when using iptables. It's just that sometime shortly after 2.4.2, the hit imposed by iptables got worse. For instance: netperf results without iptables with iptables

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac12 unresolved symbol rwsem...

2001-04-22 Thread J Sloan
Alan Cox wrote: > > > Using /lib/modules/2.4.3-ac12/kernel/drivers/char/drm/radeon.o > > > /lib/modules/2.4.3-ac12/kernel/drivers/char/drm/radeon.o: unresolved > > > symbol rwsem_up_write_wake > > > /lib/modules/2.4.3-ac12/kernel/drivers/char/drm/radeon.o: unresolved > > > symbol

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac12 unresolved symbol rwsem...

2001-04-22 Thread J Sloan
Alan Cox wrote: Using /lib/modules/2.4.3-ac12/kernel/drivers/char/drm/radeon.o /lib/modules/2.4.3-ac12/kernel/drivers/char/drm/radeon.o: unresolved symbol rwsem_up_write_wake /lib/modules/2.4.3-ac12/kernel/drivers/char/drm/radeon.o: unresolved symbol rwsem_down_write_failed

Re: performance degradation on -ac tree

2001-04-22 Thread J Sloan
There is a bit more clarity on the performance degradation issue now - In fact the degradation only appears when using iptables. It's just that sometime shortly after 2.4.2, the hit imposed by iptables got worse. For instance: netperf results without iptables with iptables

Re: performance degradation on -ac tree

2001-04-17 Thread J Sloan
Hi all, I've been lurking for some time now, unsure of whether I had some special issues in my own setup, but seeing these others come forward has emboldened me to speak out as well. I am running a RH 7.0 box with all updates and then some, and generally trying each new 2.4 pre patch or -ac

[OT] Re: Your response is requested

2001-04-17 Thread J Sloan
John Jasen wrote: > On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Disconnect wrote: > > > (Sending to LKML just so nobody else flips out) > > > > OK it wasn't just us. Lemme reassure the admins I just forwarded it to ;) > > > > It seems to list the hostname of whoever receives it (neat trick). > > sendmail, by default,

[OT] Re: Your response is requested

2001-04-17 Thread J Sloan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear Friend: > > YOU CAN make over a half million dollars every 4 to 5 months from > your home for a one time investment of only twenty five U.S. > Dollars. This did not originate from toyota.com - The spammer simply used that domain as the "from" hostname. We are

[OT] Re: Your response is requested

2001-04-17 Thread J Sloan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Friend: YOU CAN make over a half million dollars every 4 to 5 months from your home for a one time investment of only twenty five U.S. Dollars. This did not originate from toyota.com - The spammer simply used that domain as the "from" hostname. We are careful

[OT] Re: Your response is requested

2001-04-17 Thread J Sloan
John Jasen wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Disconnect wrote: (Sending to LKML just so nobody else flips out) OK it wasn't just us. Lemme reassure the admins I just forwarded it to ;) It seems to list the hostname of whoever receives it (neat trick). sendmail, by default, appends its

Re: performance degradation on -ac tree

2001-04-17 Thread J Sloan
Hi all, I've been lurking for some time now, unsure of whether I had some special issues in my own setup, but seeing these others come forward has emboldened me to speak out as well. I am running a RH 7.0 box with all updates and then some, and generally trying each new 2.4 pre patch or -ac

Re: loopback mount won't umount on 2.2.12

2001-04-04 Thread J Sloan
Khyron wrote: > Okay, I've seen various references to problems with loopback > mounts under (early) 2.2.x kernels. But I don't see any reference > to a solution (ie. how to umount the stupid thing). > > My situation is that I have mounted a CD image on a machine > for use in kickstart builds.

Re: loopback mount won't umount on 2.2.12

2001-04-04 Thread J Sloan
Khyron wrote: Okay, I've seen various references to problems with loopback mounts under (early) 2.2.x kernels. But I don't see any reference to a solution (ie. how to umount the stupid thing). My situation is that I have mounted a CD image on a machine for use in kickstart builds. The

Re: uninteruptable sleep

2001-04-03 Thread J Sloan
Trevor Nichols wrote: > > Its a kernel bug if it gets stuck like this. You need to provide more info > > though - what file system, what devices, how much memory. Also ps can give you > > the wait address of a process stuck in 'D' state which is valuable for debug > > ps xl: > F UID PID

Re: uninteruptable sleep

2001-04-03 Thread J Sloan
Trevor Nichols wrote: Its a kernel bug if it gets stuck like this. You need to provide more info though - what file system, what devices, how much memory. Also ps can give you the wait address of a process stuck in 'D' state which is valuable for debug ps xl: F UID PID PPID PRI

Re: Can't find modules after moving to 2.4.2

2001-03-28 Thread J Sloan
Make sure you have up to date modutils package. Current version is 2.4.5 - later, jjs Marcus Ramos wrote: > Hello, > > I've moved from kernel 2.2.16 to 2.4.2 (RH7) and its boots OK, except > for the fact that none of the modules in "/etc/modules.conf" are loaded > anymore (although modules

Re: Can't find modules after moving to 2.4.2

2001-03-28 Thread J Sloan
Make sure you have up to date modutils package. Current version is 2.4.5 - later, jjs Marcus Ramos wrote: Hello, I've moved from kernel 2.2.16 to 2.4.2 (RH7) and its boots OK, except for the fact that none of the modules in "/etc/modules.conf" are loaded anymore (although modules were

Re: "mount -o loop" lockup issue

2001-03-27 Thread J Sloan
"Mohammad A. Haque" wrote: > David Konerding wrote: > > > And this is described in what release notes? It worked just fine on Red Hat 7.0's >2.4 > > kernel oh wait, I see that they fixed it before they released it. > > And hmm..gee .. did they bother contributing back the code? Based on

Re: mount -o loop lockup issue

2001-03-27 Thread J Sloan
"Mohammad A. Haque" wrote: David Konerding wrote: And this is described in what release notes? It worked just fine on Red Hat 7.0's 2.4 kernel oh wait, I see that they fixed it before they released it. And hmm..gee .. did they bother contributing back the code? Based on their

Re: Sound issues with m805lr motheboard

2001-03-22 Thread J Sloan
"Brent D. Norris" wrote: > > That seems strange. What is realserver failing with ? > > It isn't so much failing as it hangs. It might be interesting to strace the realserver startup both under 2.2 and 2.4 - cu Jup - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

Re: Hang when using loop device

2001-03-20 Thread J Sloan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > Recently my ext2 partition out of space so I have made a regular file > > in the FAT32 partition and format it as ext2 partiton and mount it as > > loop device.However,occasionaly when I extract a large tar to the loop device.. > > The

Re: Hang when using loop device

2001-03-20 Thread J Sloan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, Recently my ext2 partition out of space so I have made a regular file in the FAT32 partition and format it as ext2 partiton and mount it as loop device.However,occasionaly when I extract a large tar to the loop device.. The computer will

Re: [Fwd: Problem with file => 2GB]

2001-03-19 Thread J Sloan
Andreas Dilger wrote: > There is a bug in 2.4.2 with the loop device, which is fixed in -ac series. Also fixed in 2.4.3-pre series. cu Jup - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: [Fwd: Problem with file = 2GB]

2001-03-19 Thread J Sloan
Andreas Dilger wrote: There is a bug in 2.4.2 with the loop device, which is fixed in -ac series. Also fixed in 2.4.3-pre series. cu Jup - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: How to optimize routing performance

2001-03-15 Thread J Sloan
Gregory Maxwell wrote: > The scheduler schedules tasks not interrupts. Unless it manages to thrash the > cache, the scheduler can not affect routing performance. OK, thanks for the clarification - I need to get into the source. cu Jup - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: How to optimize routing performance

2001-03-15 Thread J Sloan
Rik van Riel wrote: > On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, J Sloan wrote: > > > Fun, yes, and perhaps not directly related, however > > under high load, where the sheer numbet of interrupts > > per second begins to overwhelm the kernel, might it > > not be relevant? &

Re: How to optimize routing performance

2001-03-15 Thread J Sloan
Rik van Riel wrote: > On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, J Sloan wrote: > > > There are some scheduler patches that are not part of the > > main kernel tree at this point (mostly since they have yet to > > be optimized for the common case) which make quite a big > > differenc

Re: How to optimize routing performance

2001-03-15 Thread J Sloan
Just my .02 - There are some scheduler patches that are not part of the main kernel tree at this point (mostly since they have yet to be optimized for the common case) which make quite a big difference under heavy load - you might want to check out: http://lse.sourceforge.net/scheduling/

Re: How to optimize routing performance

2001-03-15 Thread J Sloan
Just my .02 - There are some scheduler patches that are not part of the main kernel tree at this point (mostly since they have yet to be optimized for the common case) which make quite a big difference under heavy load - you might want to check out: http://lse.sourceforge.net/scheduling/

Re: How to optimize routing performance

2001-03-15 Thread J Sloan
Rik van Riel wrote: On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, J Sloan wrote: There are some scheduler patches that are not part of the main kernel tree at this point (mostly since they have yet to be optimized for the common case) which make quite a big difference under heavy load - you might want to check

Re: How to optimize routing performance

2001-03-15 Thread J Sloan
Rik van Riel wrote: On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, J Sloan wrote: Fun, yes, and perhaps not directly related, however under high load, where the sheer numbet of interrupts per second begins to overwhelm the kernel, might it not be relevant? No. Or are you saying that the bottleneck

Re: How to optimize routing performance

2001-03-15 Thread J Sloan
Gregory Maxwell wrote: The scheduler schedules tasks not interrupts. Unless it manages to thrash the cache, the scheduler can not affect routing performance. OK, thanks for the clarification - I need to get into the source. cu Jup - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: Kernel 2.4.1 on RHL 6.2

2001-03-10 Thread J Sloan
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > Note! You only have to have those symlinks on broken systems such > as Redhat. This is silly, Red Hat works fine for a great many people. He probably removed the original kernel-devel package, which contained the links above, so they would have to be remade. >

Re: Kernel 2.4.1 on RHL 6.2

2001-03-10 Thread J Sloan
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: Note! You only have to have those symlinks on broken systems such as Redhat. This is silly, Red Hat works fine for a great many people. He probably removed the original kernel-devel package, which contained the links above, so they would have to be remade.

Re: Linux on the Unisys ES7000 and CMP2 machines?

2001-03-04 Thread J Sloan
Miles Lane wrote: > http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_0-1003-200-5007472.html > > Hi, > > I noticed that this article mentions that Unisys has > no plans to port Linux to it's "cellular multiprocessor" > machines. So, I am wondering if anyone is working > on this independantly. > > These systems

Re: Linux on the Unisys ES7000 and CMP2 machines?

2001-03-04 Thread J Sloan
Miles Lane wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_0-1003-200-5007472.html Hi, I noticed that this article mentions that Unisys has no plans to port Linux to it's "cellular multiprocessor" machines. So, I am wondering if anyone is working on this independantly. These systems seems to

Re: 2.4.2ac8 lost char devices

2001-03-01 Thread J Sloan
Mark Hahn wrote: > > > > > > Well, somethig has broken in ac8, because I lost my PS/2 mouse and > > > > > me too . > > No luck. same here - > it seems to be the mdelay(2) added to pc_keyb.c in -ac6. -ac7 is fine here, but when I boot -ac8, there's no ps/2 mouse. jjs - To unsubscribe from

Re: 2.4.x very unstable on 8-way IBM 8500R

2001-03-01 Thread J Sloan
"Dr. Kelsey Hudson" wrote: > Under redhat 7 you should use kgcc to compile the kernel, since gcc2.96 is > inherently broken(*). Or upgrade to the current Red Hat 7 gcc, which works quite well. jjs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: 2.4.x very unstable on 8-way IBM 8500R

2001-03-01 Thread J Sloan
"Dr. Kelsey Hudson" wrote: Under redhat 7 you should use kgcc to compile the kernel, since gcc2.96 is inherently broken(*). Or upgrade to the current Red Hat 7 gcc, which works quite well. jjs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

Re: 2.4.2ac8 lost char devices

2001-03-01 Thread J Sloan
Mark Hahn wrote: Well, somethig has broken in ac8, because I lost my PS/2 mouse and me too /aol. No luck. same here - it seems to be the mdelay(2) added to pc_keyb.c in -ac6. -ac7 is fine here, but when I boot -ac8, there's no ps/2 mouse. jjs - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: [2.4.2-ac5] X (4.0.1) crashes

2001-02-27 Thread J Sloan
"Manfred H. Winter" wrote: > I'm going back to vanilla 2.4.2 for now. Is there another way to get > loop to work? Working fine here: 2.4.2 + Axboe's loop patch + Morton's low latency patch jjs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

Re: [2.4.2-ac5] X (4.0.1) crashes

2001-02-27 Thread J Sloan
"Manfred H. Winter" wrote: I'm going back to vanilla 2.4.2 for now. Is there another way to get loop to work? Working fine here: 2.4.2 + Axboe's loop patch + Morton's low latency patch jjs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: problem with mount -o loop

2001-02-23 Thread J Sloan
Tim Tim wrote: > I made iso-image from cd with > dd if=/dev/hdd of=/image.iso > and mount it with > mount -o loop /image.iso /mnt/cdrom > under Linux-2.4.2-pre1 it is working > but under Linux-2.4.2 do not > Please help me to understand why If it was working it was by sheer luck - You need

Re: 3c509 + sb16 bug

2001-02-23 Thread J Sloan
Perhaps it's cold comfort, but I found long ago that 3c509 and SB don't mix too well, at least in Linux. ISA devices are somewhat dumb, switching one of the cards for a PCI version does the trick here. SB128, SBlive work fine, or you might want to go to a 10/100 pci ethernet card. Just my $.02

Re: 3c509 + sb16 bug

2001-02-23 Thread J Sloan
Perhaps it's cold comfort, but I found long ago that 3c509 and SB don't mix too well, at least in Linux. ISA devices are somewhat dumb, switching one of the cards for a PCI version does the trick here. SB128, SBlive work fine, or you might want to go to a 10/100 pci ethernet card. Just my $.02

Re: problem with mount -o loop

2001-02-23 Thread J Sloan
Tim Tim wrote: I made iso-image from cd with dd if=/dev/hdd of=/image.iso and mount it with mount -o loop /image.iso /mnt/cdrom under Linux-2.4.2-pre1 it is working but under Linux-2.4.2 do not Please help me to understand why If it was working it was by sheer luck - You need the

Re: 2.4.2 seems to break loopback and/or mount

2001-02-22 Thread J Sloan
Red Hat 7.x running nicely on a number of machines here w/ no problem, with all apologies to the Red Hat bashers - The real problem is loopback is broken, and the fix still needs to be merged. In the meantime, Jens Axboe's loop patches will make it work -

Re: 2.4.2 seems to break loopback and/or mount

2001-02-22 Thread J Sloan
Red Hat 7.x running nicely on a number of machines here w/ no problem, with all apologies to the Red Hat bashers - The real problem is loopback is broken, and the fix still needs to be merged. In the meantime, Jens Axboe's loop patches will make it work -

Re: Mucho timeouts on USB

2001-02-09 Thread J Sloan
I'm seeing a similar usb timeout message here with an HP 5200C usb scanner, e.g: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout My config: AMD-K6 450 on ASUS P5 mb 256 MB RAM, Ali chipset Red Hat 7.0 updated, kernel 2.4.1-ac8 jjs John Cavan wrote:

Re: Mucho timeouts on USB

2001-02-09 Thread J Sloan
I'm seeing a similar usb timeout message here with an HP 5200C usb scanner, e.g: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout My config: AMD-K6 450 on ASUS P5 mb 256 MB RAM, Ali chipset Red Hat 7.0 updated, kernel 2.4.1-ac8 jjs John Cavan wrote:

ibmtr.o does not like 2.4 [Was: IBM Model 350 does not like 2.4]

2001-02-06 Thread J Sloan
Hi, Just to follow up on my own post, the problem is way down in the network driver layer, specifically in the ibmtr driver - it seems to be happy with 2.2, and barfs with 2.4 - for now I replaced it with an IBM pci card (olympic driver) and 2.4 is now solid on the machine that had serious

ibmtr.o does not like 2.4 [Was: IBM Model 350 does not like 2.4]

2001-02-06 Thread J Sloan
Hi, Just to follow up on my own post, the problem is way down in the network driver layer, specifically in the ibmtr driver - it seems to be happy with 2.2, and barfs with 2.4 - for now I replaced it with an IBM pci card (olympic driver) and 2.4 is now solid on the machine that had serious

IBM Model 350 does not like 2.4

2001-02-05 Thread J J Sloan
Hi All, I have 10 systems running 2.4 that are rock solid, but I have 1 system that has problems with 2.4. The box had run perfectly for 46 days with 2.2.19pre2, and today I installed 2.4.1-ac3 to see how it would go. It seemed to run fine for a few minutes, then the old problem reasserted

IBM Model 350 does not like 2.4

2001-02-05 Thread J J Sloan
Hi All, I have 10 systems running 2.4 that are rock solid, but I have 1 system that has problems with 2.4. The box had run perfectly for 46 days with 2.2.19pre2, and today I installed 2.4.1-ac3 to see how it would go. It seemed to run fine for a few minutes, then the old problem reasserted

A buglet with LVM-0.9.1

2001-02-01 Thread J Sloan
Hi, I discovered that lvm seems to have a problem with compaq raid controllers - the partitions don't have the normal names like /dev/sda1, but instead names like /dev/ida/c0d0p1 - lvm seems to works OK, but lvmdiskscan freaks... lvmdiskscan works normally on other systems, which have

Re: NT soon to surpass Linux in specweb99 performance?

2001-02-01 Thread J Sloan
Gregory Maxwell wrote: > Looks like TUX caught MS's attention: > http://www.spec.org/osg/web99/results/res2000q4/web99-20001211-00082.html > > Anyone know if their method of achieveing this is as flexible as TUX, or is > their "SWC 3.0" simply mean 'spec web cheat' and involve implimenting the >

Re: NT soon to surpass Linux in specweb99 performance?

2001-02-01 Thread J Sloan
Gregory Maxwell wrote: Looks like TUX caught MS's attention: http://www.spec.org/osg/web99/results/res2000q4/web99-20001211-00082.html Anyone know if their method of achieveing this is as flexible as TUX, or is their "SWC 3.0" simply mean 'spec web cheat' and involve implimenting the

A buglet with LVM-0.9.1

2001-02-01 Thread J Sloan
Hi, I discovered that lvm seems to have a problem with compaq raid controllers - the partitions don't have the normal names like /dev/sda1, but instead names like /dev/ida/c0d0p1 - lvm seems to works OK, but lvmdiskscan freaks... lvmdiskscan works normally on other systems, which have

Re: ps hang in 241-pre10

2001-01-27 Thread J Sloan
OK, here's the details you asked about: Soundblaster Awe 32 sound card Voodoo 3 pci video card Running Xfree86-4.0.0 (rpms from 3dfx.com) Playing unreal tournament, no special game options, just 800x600 graphics @ 16 bits. To recap, the symptoms (hung ps, etc) occurred on kernel 2.4.1-pre8 +

Re: ps hang in 241-pre10

2001-01-27 Thread J Sloan
Sorry, there was no xmms involved here - The behavior occurred while playing unreal tournament. But at least the sound card was in use, FWIW - jjs David Ford wrote: > We've narrowed it down to "we're all running xmms" when it happend. > > -d > > J Sloan wrote:

Re: ps hang in 241-pre10

2001-01-27 Thread J Sloan
Just for the record, the system where I saw the problem has only ext2 - jjs Shawn Starr wrote: > Yes, I have ReiserFS as well...hrm... > > David Ford wrote: > > > I can quickly and easily duplicate it on my notebook by playing music or > > mpegs in xmms. It may take a few minutes but it's

Re: ps hang in 241-pre10

2001-01-27 Thread J Sloan
Just for the record, the system where I saw the problem has only ext2 - jjs Shawn Starr wrote: Yes, I have ReiserFS as well...hrm... David Ford wrote: I can quickly and easily duplicate it on my notebook by playing music or mpegs in xmms. It may take a few minutes but it's guaranteed.

Re: ps hang in 241-pre10

2001-01-27 Thread J Sloan
Sorry, there was no xmms involved here - The behavior occurred while playing unreal tournament. But at least the sound card was in use, FWIW - jjs David Ford wrote: We've narrowed it down to "we're all running xmms" when it happend. -d J Sloan wrote: Just for the record,

Re: ps hang in 241-pre10

2001-01-27 Thread J Sloan
OK, here's the details you asked about: Soundblaster Awe 32 sound card Voodoo 3 pci video card Running Xfree86-4.0.0 (rpms from 3dfx.com) Playing unreal tournament, no special game options, just 800x600 graphics @ 16 bits. To recap, the symptoms (hung ps, etc) occurred on kernel 2.4.1-pre8 +

Re: ps hang in 241-pre10

2001-01-26 Thread J Sloan
OK, It's official now, I didn't know if it was some weird hardware fluke or something, but one of the computers here exhibited the same problem - The system in question is a Pentium II 400, scsi only (aic7xxx), running 2.4.1-pre8 plus Andrew Morton's low latency patches. The user was playing

Re: ps hang in 241-pre10

2001-01-26 Thread J Sloan
OK, It's official now, I didn't know if it was some weird hardware fluke or something, but one of the computers here exhibited the same problem - The system in question is a Pentium II 400, scsi only (aic7xxx), running 2.4.1-pre8 plus Andrew Morton's low latency patches. The user was playing

Re: Total loss with 2.4.0 (release) (win98 not honoring partitioning)

2001-01-23 Thread J Sloan
Jason Venner wrote: > Windows 98 and possibly followons doesn't quite honor 'b' type > partitions in the extended area of the disk, particularily if you are > past the 8gig boundary and the partitions in question are over 2gig. > The above numbers are NOT hard boundaries, I have only seen this

Re: Total loss with 2.4.0 (release) (win98 not honoring partitioning)

2001-01-23 Thread J Sloan
Jason Venner wrote: Windows 98 and possibly followons doesn't quite honor 'b' type partitions in the extended area of the disk, particularily if you are past the 8gig boundary and the partitions in question are over 2gig. The above numbers are NOT hard boundaries, I have only seen this on 2

Re: [linux-audio-dev] low-latency scheduling patch for 2.4.0

2001-01-21 Thread J Sloan
Nigel Gamble wrote: > Yes, I most emphatically do disagree with Victor! IRIX is used for > mission-critical audio applications - recording as well playback - and > other low-latency applications. The same OS scales to large numbers of > CPUs. And it has the best desktop interactive response

Re: [linux-audio-dev] low-latency scheduling patch for 2.4.0

2001-01-21 Thread J Sloan
Nigel Gamble wrote: Yes, I most emphatically do disagree with Victor! IRIX is used for mission-critical audio applications - recording as well playback - and other low-latency applications. The same OS scales to large numbers of CPUs. And it has the best desktop interactive response of

[OT] Re: 2.4 and ipmasq modules

2001-01-20 Thread J Sloan
Aaron Lehmann wrote: It was great to see that 2.4.0 reintroduced ipfwadm support! I had no need for ipchains and ended up using the wrapper around it that emulated ipfwadm. However, 2.[02].x used to have "special IP masquerading modules" such as ip_masq_ftp.o, ip_masq_quake.o, etc. I can't find

[OT] Re: 2.4 and ipmasq modules

2001-01-20 Thread J Sloan
Aaron Lehmann wrote: It was great to see that 2.4.0 reintroduced ipfwadm support! I had no need for ipchains and ended up using the wrapper around it that emulated ipfwadm. However, 2.[02].x used to have "special IP masquerading modules" such as ip_masq_ftp.o, ip_masq_quake.o, etc. I can't find

Re: Problem with networking in 2.4.0

2001-01-17 Thread J Sloan
Try this shot in the dark: echo "0" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn jjs snpe wrote: > Hello, > > I have got 2 Linux machine with kernel 2.4.0 i kernel 2.2.18. > I am in Belgrade , Yugoslavia and I can't access to any hosts : > > for example, www.linux.co.yu (Island), www.skyrr.is,

[OT]: Linux v.2.4.0 and Netscape 4.76?

2001-01-17 Thread J Sloan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The problem: symptoms > > It concerns the behaviour of Netscape after upgrading from kernel > 2.2.16 to 2.4.0. With the new kernel Netscape locates and connects to > a URL, and sometimes begins to download, but then it just sits there > indefinitely (without

[OT]: Linux v.2.4.0 and Netscape 4.76?

2001-01-17 Thread J Sloan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem: symptoms It concerns the behaviour of Netscape after upgrading from kernel 2.2.16 to 2.4.0. With the new kernel Netscape locates and connects to a URL, and sometimes begins to download, but then it just sits there indefinitely (without downloading any

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