bkbits.net is down

2005-04-11 Thread Larry McVoy
Seems to have crashed, we don't know the cause yet. Is there anyone who is dependent on this tonight? If so I'll drive down and fix it (yeah, very lame of us, we moved it to a different rack which was too far away from our remote power so I can't power cycle it remotely. Our bad.) Let me know,

BKCVS updated

2005-03-27 Thread Larry McVoy
The machine that did the updates was down for a couple of days, I just brought it back up and did a manual update. Both kernels are up to date with the head of the bk trees on bkbits.net. -- --- Larry McVoylm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com - To unsubscribe

Re: BKCVS broken ?

2005-03-19 Thread Larry McVoy
It should be fixed now, I'm running a full tree compare to validate that. -- --- Larry McVoylm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: BKCVS broken ?

2005-03-18 Thread Larry McVoy
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 10:00:49AM +0100, Stelian Pop wrote: > On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 10:38:53PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote: > > > Hey, it's open source, I'm hoping that people will take that code and > > evolve it do whatever they need. We're willing to do what

Re: BKCVS broken ?

2005-03-17 Thread Larry McVoy
On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 10:50:40PM -0700, Erik Andersen wrote: > On Thu Mar 17, 2005 at 04:10:53PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote: > > I got swamped, I'll look at this after dinner. But you might take a look > > at this: http://www.bitkeeper.com/press/2005-03-17.html which is

Re: BKCVS broken ?

2005-03-17 Thread Larry McVoy
wamping us. Don't worry about the license, it's a joke. BSD license OK with everyone? -- --- Larry McVoylm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: BKCVS broken ?

2005-03-17 Thread Larry McVoy
Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /bk-cvsexport/src/UPDATE Read from remote host master.kernel.org: Connection timed out On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 03:45:22PM +0100, Stelian Pop wrote: > The current bkcvs export is broken, several recent changesets are > missing from it. -- --- Larry M

[BK] cvs export

2005-03-01 Thread Larry McVoy
xport tree something you can use to get your job done in an efficient way. (Apologies if there are typos, it's been a long week) -- --- Larry McVoylm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-k

Re: bkbits.net down?

2005-03-01 Thread Larry McVoy
t; Hello. > > *.bkbits.net (port 8080) seems to reply with no data. > And "bk pull" on linux-2.5 also fails. > Is this scheduled? > > Thank you. > > --yoshfuji -- --- Larry McVoylm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com - To unsubscribe

Re: BKCVS still updated?

2005-02-26 Thread Larry McVoy
On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 12:49:53PM +0100, Stelian Pop wrote: > On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 10:02:18AM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote: > > > > He should be back now, maybe he can tell us more about what happened ? > > > > We had a nameserver problem and the machine dedicated to

Re: BKCVS still updated?

2005-02-25 Thread Larry McVoy
> He should be back now, maybe he can tell us more about what happened ? We had a nameserver problem and the machine dedicated to this didn't get updated with a new resolve.conf. It's fixed now and updating, probably be there in an hour. -- --- Larry McVoylm at

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Larry McVoy
ecides to go elsewhere, we are stuck. So don't do the > crippled version if it hurts Linus. > > -- Steve > -- --- Larry McVoylm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the b

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Larry McVoy
we'd certainly be willing to flip to your way on a case by case basis. -- --- Larry McVoylm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More major

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Larry McVoy
s valuable I can look into putting it up on bkbits.net. -- --- Larry McVoylm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com - 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: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Larry McVoy
e could care less, they just want checkin/checkout. -- --- Larry McVoylm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com - 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: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Larry McVoy
00 of these a day for more than a year. It's around one per minute. We either fix the license or leave it as is, we're not able to do side agreements with everyone that asks. -- --- Larry McVoylm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com - To unsubscribe from thi

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Larry McVoy
-company.com, not my-workstation.my-company.com). http://www.bitkeeper.com/domains.html is a listing of the domains which have used bk-3.2.3 in the last 4 months. It's slightly less than the claimed 2,200 because we looked only at the bk-3.2.3 usage. -- --- Larry McVoy

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Larry McVoy
peated outrage over the restrictions isn't any more fun for me than it is for you. Any answer, however, has to take our issues into consideration as well as yours. -- --- Larry McVoylm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com - To unsubscribe from this list: se

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Larry McVoy
ssell Miller wrote: > It is certainly Larry's choice to license his software any way he chooses. > > It is my choice whether or not to use it. Yup, it is. Always has been even for the kernel because of our hard work to make sure of that. We respect your choices, please respect ours. --

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Larry McVoy
a blanket do-not-reverse-engineer no matter who you are. We tried to be specific so that we were restricting the tiny subset of the world that wants to hack SCM, not everyone else. Because that's different than standard language we get screamed at. What you aren't figuring out

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Larry McVoy
nd the obligations of those terms. That payment may be unacceptable to you, which is your choice. -- --- Larry McVoylm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Larry McVoy
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 10:08:20AM -0500, Jeff Sipek wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 01:08:58PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 18:08:02 -0800, Larry McVoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > is to clarify the non-compete stuff. We

[BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-13 Thread Larry McVoy
d here, we really like kernel hackers, but if you don't want to that's cool too). -- --- Larry McVoylm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL P

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-11 Thread Larry McVoy
em you wouldn't care, you already have the CVS tree, it has 96% of the deltas that the BK tree has. 96%. So you are trying to tell us all that you need the last 4% of the deltas so you can create a *different* system than BK? Come on, gimme a break already, you aren't fooling anyone. -- ---

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-11 Thread Larry McVoy
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 10:56:02AM -0800, none given wrote: > On Fri, February 11, 2005 11:18 am, Larry McVoy said: > >The mails have started flowing in saying "I don't agree with Alexandre > >and please don't pull the plug" so a point of clarification. We ha

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-11 Thread Larry McVoy
to help you. > If you have consensus that it isn't helping then we'll shut it down. > > On the other hand, if you can't achieve that consensus then perhaps you > might consider broadening your definition of "help" to include something > other than "

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-11 Thread Larry McVoy
t possible to create a useful tree. You are also right that figuring out the merges is a pain. So what? We never said that we'd figure out how to do all this well and then teach you how to do it well. -- --- Larry McVoylm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-11 Thread Larry McVoy
we'll shut it down. On the other hand, if you can't achieve that consensus then perhaps you might consider broadening your definition of "help" to include something other than "more GPLed source". -- --- Larry McVoylm at bitmover.com htt

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-10 Thread Larry McVoy
;s true, we don't. What you aren't admitting is that we have done a lot of good for your community, we continue to provide the tools, the support, the infrastructure, and we do it in spite of it not being a very good business decision. If we get no credit in your mind for all of

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-09 Thread Larry McVoy
, while hard, have some very satisfying mathematical qualities and that's really fun coming from the kernel background where things are far less deterministic. You can actually write proofs about how things work for a change. -- --- Larry McVoylm at bitmover.com http://

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-09 Thread Larry McVoy
e a board that would promptly fire me if I did. OK, that's it for me, I have to go work on slides for a talk so have the big fun, I'm signing off on this thread. Cheers, -- --- Larry McVoylm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com - To unsubscribe from this li

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-09 Thread Larry McVoy
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 03:13:48PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > Are you saying that it is now OK to write scripts that would bit bang > on > the bkbits http interface to fetch patches/comments with the purpose > of > populating an alternate scm? Andreas tried that a while ago but you > threatened

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-09 Thread Larry McVoy
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 12:17:48PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Larry McVoy wrote: > > You know, you could change all this. Instead of complaining that we > > are somehow hurting you, which virtually 100% of the readers know is > > nonsense, you

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-09 Thread Larry McVoy
rying to tell us to change our license. The point you missed was that that's the same as me telling you to change the GPL for my benefit. -- --- Larry McVoylm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ke

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-08 Thread Larry McVoy
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 03:47:49AM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Larry McVoy wrote: > > > Nice, Roman. All I need is a cooperating third party who is willing to > > give me your code under a different (albeit invalid) license. > > S

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-08 Thread Larry McVoy
Roman. All I need is a cooperating third party who is willing to give me your code under a different (albeit invalid) license. -- --- Larry McVoylm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kerne

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-08 Thread Larry McVoy
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 06:17:30PM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Larry McVoy wrote: > > > I think you are dreaming. You've gone from wanting enough information > > to supposedly debug your source tree to being explicit about wanting

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-08 Thread Larry McVoy
ce, I can't help that, but it is technically challenging, far more so than most people realize and that makes it fun. If we get a new hire from the kernel list I'll stick the changeset markers into the CVS tree so you can group the patches, I can see where that might be helpful f

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-08 Thread Larry McVoy
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 04:43:44PM +0100, Stelian Pop wrote: > On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 03:38:41PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 08:38:48PM +0100, Stelian Pop wrote: > > > > Nope: he digs the bk-commit mailing list archives. > > > >

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-08 Thread Larry McVoy
o create a competing system. That skates you right up agains the license restrictions but those restrictions are simply not a problem for people who are just trying to get their job done. -- --- Larry McVoylm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com - To unsubscribe from

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-08 Thread Larry McVoy
Sigh. Roman, I started to write a reply but in reading over the thread I realized you are just grinding your ax and have nothing new to say. Sorry, go bother someone else, I'm busy. -- --- Larry McVoylm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com - To unsubscribe from

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-06 Thread Larry McVoy
lp. What is that you say? It's hard? It's way harder if we don't give you a roadmap? Well gosh darn, that must really suck for you. I'm really sorry that you can't figure it out without our help but that's sort of the whole point, isn't it? -- --- Larry McVoy

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-06 Thread Larry McVoy
ble that you find yourself at something of a disadvantage because of that choice. And the disadvantage is very slight as has been shown. You can argue all you want about the amount of disadvantage but it is your choice that has placed you in that position. -- --- Larry McVoylm at bi

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-05 Thread Larry McVoy
; and we could generate the missing branches based on them. Does that mean you don't need anything from us? -- --- Larry McVoylm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the b

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-04 Thread Larry McVoy
it belonged you could split the coarse commit into the sub patches which happened on the collapsed branch. You wouldn't get 100% of the information but you'd have 96% of it in a way that could be used for debugging, which is what I suspect you are after. If that's not good en

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-04 Thread Larry McVoy
when we do this we'll reexport the 2.4 and 2.5 histories from scratch so you get the info going backwards in time. So, do you think you can sign up the usual suspects to being happy with this answer? And do you mind spelling out exactly what it is that you think is being offered so there

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-04 Thread Larry McVoy
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 02:01:27PM +0100, Stelian Pop wrote: > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 02:28:54PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote: > > > > > CVS BitKeeper [*] > > > > Deltas 235,956 280,212 > > > > > > Indee

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-03 Thread Larry McVoy
ion, it was a choice that I made because I wanted to help Linus. And it worked. That ought to have some value in your eyes. Maybe enough to respect our terms. -- --- Larry McVoylm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-03 Thread Larry McVoy
> As Peter said, once every 6 hours is fine. Or even more often, what > the heck, as I said in a previous post I don't think an incremental > export is that much costly. It could be done at the same time as > the -bkX patches... I'll see what I can do. > Speaking from the out-BK point of view, wh

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-03 Thread Larry McVoy
hine to run it on. (Larry: is > it a matter of memory or of CPU or both? If nothing else we should > have the old kernel.org server, dual P3/1133 with 6 GB RAM, coming > free soon.) > > Please let me know if there is something that should be put on > kernel.org; we can hos

Re: kernel CVS troubles with cvsps

2005-01-26 Thread Larry McVoy
ed that it is simpler > > to write a shell script to generate the diffs rather than modifying > > cvsps). > > Thanks for the confirmation. To me this hour difference looks like a bug > in bkcvs. It would be nice to get it fixed so we don't have to > workaround i

[ia64] compile error

2005-01-21 Thread Larry McVoy
Just pulled. In file included from arch/ia64/mm/discontig.c:23: include/linux/nodemask.h: In function `__first_unset_node': include/linux/nodemask.h:246: warning: passing arg 1 of `__find_next_zero_bit' discards qualifiers from pointer target type arch/ia64/mm/discontig.c: In function `find_perno

Re: Make pipe data structure be a circular list of pages, rather than

2005-01-19 Thread Larry McVoy
t/file/pipe/whatever) and lets you call into that object to move some data. See how more generic that is? Pipes are just one source/sink but everything else needs to play as well. How are you going to implement a socket sending data to a file without the VM nonsense and the

Re: [Lmbench-users] Re: pipe performance regression on ia64

2005-01-19 Thread Larry McVoy
CPU and they fight one will get moved. But it shouldn't right away, leave it there and let things settle a bit. If someone coded up this policy and tried it I think that it would go a long way towards making the LMbench timings more stable. I could be wrong but it would be

Re: Make pipe data structure be a circular list of pages, rather than

2005-01-19 Thread Larry McVoy
utting ftp into the kernel, not a good idea. -- --- Larry McVoylm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com - 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.

Re: [Lmbench-users] Re: pipe performance regression on ia64

2005-01-18 Thread Larry McVoy
only */ > sched_setaffinity(0, sizeof(long), &affinity); > > but I don't know what other OS's do, so it's obviously not portable ] > > Hmm? > > Linus > ___ > Lmbench-users mailing

Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads)

2001-06-24 Thread Larry McVoy
n adding some delay loops in Linux so it too can be slow. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info a

Re: Threads are processes that share more

2001-06-24 Thread Larry McVoy
red. The IRIX stuff is disgusting, you really don't want anything to do with sproc().It _sounds_ like they are the same but they aren't - for example, with sproc you get your very own TLB miss handler. Doesn't that sound special? -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com

Re: The latest Microsoft FUD. This time from BillG, himself.

2001-06-20 Thread Larry McVoy
ut the fact of the matter is that you all scream that and then go do your slides for your Linux talks in PowerPoint. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the b

Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads)

2001-06-20 Thread Larry McVoy
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 08:21:30PM +1000, john slee wrote: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 08:04:42PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: > > I asked Linus for this a long time ago and he pointed out that you couldn't > > make it work over NFS, at least not nicely. It does seem like that

Re: [OT] Threads, inelegance, and Java

2001-06-20 Thread Larry McVoy
ts for tk, in fact, we are using straight tk, no extensions. So, yeah, we have done what you think we haven't done, and we've tried the Java way, we aren't making this stuff up. We run into Java fanatics all the time and when we start asking "so what toolkits do you use"

Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads)

2001-06-19 Thread Larry McVoy
line. The only problem with that is that Microsoft can't design an OS interface to save their lives, so maybe Linux _should_ do it first. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-k

Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads)

2001-06-19 Thread Larry McVoy
. It pains me to believe that people like this exist but there they are. What can you do? As Confucius says "If I hold up three corners of a square and the student does not hold up the fourth, I do not bother to go over the point again". -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com

Re: Alan Cox quote?

2001-06-19 Thread Larry McVoy
reads if I absolutely have to do so and even then if there are more than there are CPUs I'm probably making a mistake", if they get that message, that's a good thing, IMHO. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe

Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads)

2001-06-19 Thread Larry McVoy
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 10:36:00AM -0700, Jonathan Lundell wrote: > At 9:09 AM -0700 2001-06-19, Larry McVoy wrote: > >Don't you think it is funny that Sun doesn't publish numbers comparing > >their thread performance to process performance? Sure, you can find > >

Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads)

2001-06-19 Thread Larry McVoy
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 10:20:37AM -0700, Mike Castle wrote: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 09:09:56AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: > > Another one that I can't believe I forgot is from Rob Pike: > > > > "If you think you need threads then your processes are to

Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads)

2001-06-19 Thread Larry McVoy
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 05:26:09PM +0100, Matthew Kirkwood wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Larry McVoy wrote: > > > ``Think of it this way: threads are like salt, not like pasta. You > > like salt, I like salt, we all like salt. But we eat more pasta.'' > &g

Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads)

2001-06-19 Thread Larry McVoy
ss performance? Sure, you can find context switch benchmarks where they have user level switching going on but those are a red herring. The real numbers you want are the kernel level context switches and those are just as expensive as the process context switch numbers. -- --- Larry McVoy

2.4.5 corruption (again)

2001-06-19 Thread Larry McVoy
OK, my corruption is back and this time I'm saving the data. Al, send some email when you are around, we can talk about access to the data. I'm tarring up both good & bad right now. I've looked at a few files and they look "shifted". extra junk original file less sizeof(extra

Re: Linux/PPC maintainer changing

2001-06-19 Thread Larry McVoy
ch better because of Cort & the PPC team. I think the job that Cort did is a tough job for anyone to do, it involves a lot of different people and personalities and it is a pretty much thankless job. Anyway, the beer is on me next time we meet, Cort. Thanks. -- --- Larry McVoy

Re: 2.4.5 data corruption

2001-06-15 Thread Larry McVoy
eating a file with dd... For what it is worth, after having three failures in a row, now it isn't happening. My test case is/was my nightly backup. If it happens again, I'll save the corrupted data so we can do more digging. I'm kicking myself for not having done it the first

double entries in /proc/dri?

2001-06-12 Thread Larry McVoy
This is cute: $ ls -li /proc ... 4106 -r--r--r--1 root root0 Jun 12 18:53 dma 4347 dr-xr-xr-x3 root root0 Jun 12 18:53 dri 4347 dr-xr-xr-x3 root root0 Jun 12 18:53 dri 4121 dr-xr-xr-x2 root root0 Jun 12 1

2.4.5 data corruption

2001-06-12 Thread Larry McVoy
Folks, I believe I have a reproducible test case which corrupts data in 2.4.5. We do nightly, weekly, and monthly backups by copying our entire /home partition on the company file server: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 1.9G 1.7G 123M 93% / /dev/hd

Re: [patch]: ide dma timeout retry in pio

2001-05-28 Thread Larry McVoy
n't seem to get fixed. We seem to get lots of chip sets almost working and then move on to the next one. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body o

Re: Fwd: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan*fw.h

2001-05-25 Thread Larry McVoy
it's about putting unenforceable things into contracts. It's also about the concept of boundaries - if you think that that concept is not a legal one then why aren't all programs which are run on top of a GPLed kernel then GPLed? -- --- Larry McVoy lm at b

Re: Fwd: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan*fw.h

2001-05-25 Thread Larry McVoy
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 03:30:20PM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote: > On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 11:30:38AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: > > By running the software covered by this license, you agree to > > become my personal slave and you will be obligated to bring > > m

Re: Fwd: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan*fw.h

2001-05-25 Thread Larry McVoy
aka interface), replace it with completely different code, and get substantially the same behaviour. A device driver is a good example. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsub

Re: Getting FS access events

2001-05-14 Thread Larry McVoy
bootup. > You know, the mark of intelligence is realizing when you're making the > same mistake over and over and over again, and not hitting your head in > the wall five hundred times before you understand that it's not a clever > thing to do. > > Please show some int

Re: Getting FS access events

2001-05-13 Thread Larry McVoy
e big I/O == good. Work through the numbers and it starts to look like you'd never want to do less than a 1MB I/O, probably not less than a 4MB I/O. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "

more 3ware issues

2001-05-12 Thread Larry McVoy
I have a few more data points on the 3ware 6410 card in case anyone else is looking at this. As I said before, this is a nicely designed card, I like it, kudos to the 3ware folks. Combinations which work for me: ASUS A7V and K7V motherboards, K7@1Ghz, 3c905, 1GB - 1.5GB ram. Works like a champ

Re: Nasty Requirements for non-GPL Linux Kernel Modules?

2001-05-09 Thread Larry McVoy
e issues and I think I do understand them, but that's still my opinion and I can still be wrong. If you really want to know where you stand, it'll cost you around $15K and that, in my opinion, is fine. If it isn't worth $15K to protect your code then it is worth so little to you that

Re: Wow! Is memory ever cheap!

2001-05-08 Thread Larry McVoy
f checking elsewhere does any good, the processor can be corrupting your data and never know it. If SUN was so stupid as to remove this, then it is a dramatically different place. I heard that there was a bug in the cache controller, I never heard that they had removed ECC. If you really want to kno

Re: Wow! Is memory ever cheap!

2001-05-07 Thread Larry McVoy
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:33:57PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Larry McVoy wrote: > > > Because your original post was "yeah, Bitkeeper is a memory hog but you > > > can get really cheap non-ECC RAM so just stuff your system with crappy > > > RAM and be hap

Re: Wow! Is memory ever cheap!

2001-05-07 Thread Larry McVoy
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:21:28PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Larry McVoy wrote: > > What does BitKeeper have to do with this conversation? > > Because your original post was "yeah, Bitkeeper is a memory hog but you > can get really cheap non-ECC RAM so just stuff

Re: Wow! Is memory ever cheap!

2001-05-07 Thread Larry McVoy
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:01:50PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Larry McVoy wrote: > > > Isn't this pretty much saying "if you're willing to dedicate your > > > system to running nothing but Bitkeeper, you can run it really fast?" > > > > A)

Re: Wow! Is memory ever cheap!

2001-05-07 Thread Larry McVoy
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:47:34AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > By author: Larry McVoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 02:20:43PM +1200, Chris Wedgwood wrote: >

Re: Wow! Is memory ever cheap!

2001-05-05 Thread Larry McVoy
In other words, anything is much much better than nothing. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More major

Wow! Is memory ever cheap!

2001-05-05 Thread Larry McVoy
C905B 100bTX (rev 48). Ethernet controller: 3Com 3C905B 100bTX (rev 48). Ethernet controller: 3Com 3C905B 100bTX (rev 48). RAID storage controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 18). VGA compatible controller: Matrox Matrox G200 AGP (rev 1). -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmove

Re: 3ware 6410 RAID 10 performance?

2001-05-04 Thread Larry McVoy
sult); u64 usecs_spent(void); void touch(char *buf, int size); #if defined(hpux) || defined(__hpux) int getpagesize(); #endif #endif /* _TIMING_H */ /* * a timing utilities library * * Requires 64bit integers to work. * * %W% %@% * * Copyright (c) 1994-1998 Larry McVoy. *

Re: 3ware 6410 RAID 10 performance?

2001-05-04 Thread Larry McVoy
mod, mount, and then run again, I get exactly the same behavior as above. This starts to sound like some resource in the kernel or the card are getting used up and removing the card frees them. Has anyone seen this besides me? On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 01:12:39PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: &

Re: 3ware 6410 RAID 10 performance?

2001-05-04 Thread Larry McVoy
but the performance still sucks. Unmounting and remounting the drive does not help. Any ideas? On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 01:01:03PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: > I'm looking for people who know about the 3ware 6410 driver. I've got one > of these and sometimes it goes fast and some

3ware 6410 RAID 10 performance?

2001-05-04 Thread Larry McVoy
herboard 4 WD 40GB 7200 drives on one 3ware 6410 matrox g200 AGP -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo i

Re: ANNOUNCE New Open Source X server

2001-04-18 Thread Larry McVoy
.\" Take this out and a Unix Demon will dog your steps from now until .\" the time_t's wrap around. .sp You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this l

Re: Kernel 2.5 Workshop RealVideo streams -- next time, please get better audio.

2001-04-16 Thread Larry McVoy
n in the audience said or need to go to a > "hand raising/acknowledgement" to create a pause > during which the microphone could be redirected. Yeah, but that is still way way way faster than walking across the room to hand someone a mike. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at

Re: Kernel 2.5 Workshop RealVideo streams -- next time, please get better audio.

2001-04-16 Thread Larry McVoy
cussion on a > classical music performance stage. They usually > have about ten or twenty suspended microphones over > the stage. Then, you'd just need to mix the audio. As one of the guys who was passing the mike around, I am a fan of the directional mike. If you have eve

bug database braindump from the kernel summit

2001-04-01 Thread Larry McVoy
Folks, since bug tracking is the next thing we are attacking here at BitMover, I have a great deal of interest in the bug tracking discussion which happened last night at the summit. We already have a prototyped bug tracking system which we are integrating into BitKeeper, but as usual, it isn't g

Re: [OT?] Coding Style

2001-01-23 Thread Larry McVoy
s" represents a class of related functions. They all tend to take a point to an instance of that "class". So then you can read the code and see the "classes" in the names. And, this way, I can piss off both the anti underscore and the anti mixed case people a

Re: [OT?] Coding Style

2001-01-22 Thread Larry McVoy
ther words, the prefix implies the structure name. Early versions of the C compiler had all structure fields (I mean _all_) in one name space so this wasn't style, it was required. I must say that it makes code more readable. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://

Re: [OT?] Coding Style

2001-01-22 Thread Larry McVoy
p working when the comment becomes incorrect. It's incredibly frustrating to read a comment, believe you understand what is going on, only to find out that the comment and the code no longer match. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To u

Re: Is sendfile all that sexy?

2001-01-18 Thread Larry McVoy
x27;s the set of ideas. I'm ashamed to admit that I don't really know how close kiobufs are to this. I am interested in hearing what you all think, but especially what the people think who have been playing around with kiobufs and sendfile. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

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