2.4.3 fails to boot with initrd - solved

2001-04-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
newer modutils is needed. Even for people who build their own initrd files, this is NOT obvious! -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel&

Documentation glitch in 2.4

2001-04-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
with all the other "get it here info." -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sched_yield proposals/rationale

2007-04-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
Mark Lord wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Bill Davidsen And having gotten same, are you going to code up what appears to be a solution, based on this feedback? The feedback was helpful in verifying whether there are any arguments against my approach. The real proof is in the pudding

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Kill off legacy power management stuff.

2007-04-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
on that in a while, I'm just supplying one reason since you wondered. -- 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: [PATCH][RFC] Kill off legacy power management stuff.

2007-04-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote: Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: [appropriate CCs added] On Friday, 13 April 2007 02:33, Robert P. J. Day wrote: just something i threw together, not in final form, but it represents tossing the legacy PM stuff

Re: Kaffeine problem with CFS

2007-04-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
to try some tests on a uniprocessor, though, I have been running everything on either SMP or HT CPUs. But so far it looks fine. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot

Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS]

2007-04-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
, and if that's hard on compiles or the file transfer, so be it. Con doesn't want to compromise his goals, I agree but want to have an option if I don't share them. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked

Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS]

2007-04-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
tried this, perhaps they would report what they saw. People are talking about smoothness, but not how many pages per second come out of their overloaded web server. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations

Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS]

2007-04-21 Thread Bill Davidsen
. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http

Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS]

2007-04-21 Thread Bill Davidsen
, then do sub authorization to the database application. euid may be an issue there as well. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS]

2007-04-21 Thread Bill Davidsen
POVs) is the real challenge. yeah. Ingo -- 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

[RFC] another scheduler beater

2007-04-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
The small attached script does a nice job of showing animation glitches in the glxgears animation. I have run one set of tests, and will have several more tomorrow. I'm off to a poker game, and would like to let people draw their own conclusions. Based on just this script as load I would say

[REPORT] First glitch1 results, 2.6.21-rc7-git6-CFSv5

2007-04-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
I am not sure a binary attachment will go thru, I will move to the web ste if not. GL2.6.21-rc7-git6-CFSv5_nice0_jump Description: Binary data GL2.6.21-rc7-git6-CFSv5_nice0_nojump Description: Binary data GL2.6.21-rc7-git6-CFSv5_nice19_nojump Description: Binary data

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 PROTECTED] More majordomo info

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
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 body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

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
) conf-hash_spacing = sz; After looking at that code, I have to wonder how this ever 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

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

2007-02-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
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 in the body of a message to [EMAIL

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 66MHz 64bit. I don't think BD

Re: AHCI - remove probing of ata2

2007-02-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
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 unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

[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 info at http

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
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 list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

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
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 bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations

[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 to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

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] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

2007-03-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
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 unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: is RSDL an unfair scheduler too?

2007-03-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
. 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. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: is RSDL an unfair scheduler too?

2007-03-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
goes way up again. This is NOT an easy problem! I think Con has done a good job, I think in most cases (heresy) the current mainline scheduler does a pretty good job. I'm in favor of having several schedulers, because I don't believe any one can match the behavior goals of all users. -- Bill

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

2007-03-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
some B perform worse. Thus multiple schedulers are a possible solution. They don't need to be available as runtime choices, boot time selection would still allow reasonable testing. I can see myself using a compile time option and building multiple kernels, but not the average user. -- Bill

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

2007-03-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
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-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED

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. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe

Re: is RSDL an unfair scheduler too?

2007-03-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
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. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from

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

2007-03-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
). - 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 message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

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 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, but I dislike it less than

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

2007-03-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
, -- 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 in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED

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 Associates, Inc Doing

Re: [OT] the shortest thread of LKML !

2007-04-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
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 machinations of the wicked

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, which can only

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
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 unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

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

2007-04-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
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 more to fear from the bungling

Re: Lower HD transfer rate with NCQ enabled?

2007-04-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
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 in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

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 in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: [2.6 patch] the overdue removal of X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO_ACPI

2007-04-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
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. - from Slashdot

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 loops ready

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 unsubscribe from

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

2007-04-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
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 unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: REISER4 FOR INCLUSION IN THE LINUX KERNEL.

2007-04-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
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 unsubscribe from this list: send

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

2007-04-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
is the random *leftovers* from all the other stuff. It's *not* about processes. Never has been, and never will be. I proposed struct task_shared_ctx but you ducked :) Descriptive, correct, I like it! -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent

Re: Performance Stats: Kernel patch

2007-04-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
counting stats for dead threads) -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

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

2007-04-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
. Invites undefined behavior. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Add a norecovery option to ext3/4?

2007-04-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
garbage, and isn't likely to suffer terminal damage. I wonder what happens if the device is really read-only and the o/s tries to replay the journal as part of a r/o mount? I suspect the system will refuse totally with an i/o error, not what you want. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have

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

2007-04-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
Eric W. Biederman wrote: Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As long as the original parent is preserved for getppid(). There are programs out there which communicate between the parent and child with signals, and if the original parent dies, it undesirable to have the child getppid

Re: sched_yield proposals/rationale

2007-04-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
with a company which seemed to have a whole part of purchasing dedicated to buying same. :-( -- 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

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

2007-02-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
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 in the body of a message to [EMAIL

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 body of a message

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

2007-02-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
-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... -- bill davidsen

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 the bungling

Re: [QUESTION] Sata RAID

2007-02-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear

Re: SMP performance degradation with sysbench

2007-02-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
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 of the incompetent than from the machinations

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 to fear from

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 Davidsen [EMAIL

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
.. 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 list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

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
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 unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

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

2007-03-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
= (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 unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: Question: 20 microseconds delay

2007-03-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
, 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 in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: bugs in kernel 2.6.21 (both two release candidates) and kernel 2.6.20

2007-03-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
. 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 machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send

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

2007-03-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
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 from the bungling

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 way the printk

Re: 2.6.21-rc2-mm1

2007-03-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
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 this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Re: [patch] disable NMI watchdog by default

2007-03-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
particular 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 unsubscribe from

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

2007-03-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
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. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux

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 message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

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 I

Re: Raid 10 Problems?

2007-03-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
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 list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

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

2007-03-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
! http://www.pc-sicherheit.web.de/freescan/?mc=02 -- 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

CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED and similar issues

2007-03-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
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 irrevocable step. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL

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 unsubscribe from this list

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 incompetent than from

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: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
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 -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
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 the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot

Re: [2.6 patch] the scheduled eepro100 removal

2007-03-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
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] We have more to fear

Re: max_loop limit

2007-03-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
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. -- Bill Davidsen

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 the bungling of the incompetent

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 incompetent than from

Re: kmalloc() with size zero

2007-03-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
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[2.6.21-rc5-git1][KVM] exception on start VM

2007-03-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
Starting a VM for Win98SE: posidon:root /usr/local/kvm-15/bin/qemu -m 128 -hda Win98SE-2.kvm exception 13 (0) rax f000ff53 rbx rcx 005a rdx 000e rsi 001100c4 rdi 0002a002 rsp 00086650 rbp 667a r8

Re: [2.6 patch] the scheduled eepro100 removal

2007-03-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
need to support old hardware. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http

Re: 2.6.20.3 AMD64 oops in CFQ code

2007-04-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
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-kernel in the body

Re: [PATCH][RFC] fast file mapping for loop

2008-01-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
. - It cannot be used with the loop encryption stuff. dm-crypt should be used instead, on top of loop (which, I think, is even the recommended way to do this today, so not a big deal). -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from

Re: [RFC][PATCH] per-task I/O throttling

2008-01-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
to make it fully tunable, it could have a default by UID or GID. Usful on machines shared by students or managers. -- 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

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