Re: [luau] kernel advice

2003-11-15 Thread Warren Togami
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 00:01, Jimen Ching wrote: On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Charles Lockhart wrote: Undoubtedly it's my own ignorance causing me problems, so I was wondering where I could look to understand the system they use. Is their a how-to or something like it available? I've read some

Re: [luau] kernel advice

2003-11-15 Thread Charles Lockhart
I'm not entirely sure, but I think both of the above have kernel preemption patched and enabled. Yeah, ok, I now understand SRPMS much better, and after going through the 2.4.20-8 and the 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl SRPMS, I do see a lot of stuff in there that seems to indicate that RML's preemptive

Re: [luau] kernel advice

2003-11-14 Thread Charles Lockhart
my obtusity overwhelms. I should have thought of this, thanks Jimen. -Charles Jimen Ching wrote: Most distributions have patches over the vanilla kernel. They usually distribute the patch with their kernel. Perhaps you can look through the patch set and spot something that might expose the

Re: [luau] kernel advice

2003-11-14 Thread Charles Lockhart
I'm trying FC1 out on a couple of computers, but I keep coming up with little errors, though I honestly don't know if they're FC1 issues or independent software issues, but I'm trying to find out. Some are java related. Some wierd problems with threads. But, I was running jre 1.3x, and from

Re: [luau] kernel advice

2003-11-14 Thread Charles Lockhart
I tried this on RH9, got the same problem. So, either it's a java bug, or something I've done wrong. Of course, it couldn't be me, so it must be a java bug. I'll see if I can write an example. -Charles Charles Lockhart wrote: Now I've bumped up to jre 1.42, and the thread problems have

Request for help with java (spawned from Re: [luau] kernel advice)

2003-11-14 Thread Charles Lockhart
I recently upgraded from jre 1.3.x to jre 1.4.2 (prompted by an upgrade to FC1). Found a problem with my code and the upgraded jre, and was hoping maybe somebody else could confirm that I'm crazy and totally screwing up. According to the docs, setting the selected item in a Choice widget

Re: [luau] kernel advice

2003-11-14 Thread Charles Lockhart
Can you (or anybody) recommend a place to find more information about these kernel source rpms? I keep searching around, but not finding the stuff I need. It's honestly confusing. I've successfully patched the vanilla kernel plenty of times using other patches, and I think I pretty much

Re: [luau] kernel advice

2003-11-14 Thread Charles Lockhart
Can you (or anybody) recommend a place to find more information about these kernel source rpms? I keep searching around, but not finding the stuff I need. It's honestly confusing. I've successfully patched the vanilla kernel plenty of times using other patches, and I think I pretty much

Re: [luau] kernel advice

2003-11-14 Thread Jimen Ching
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Charles Lockhart wrote: Undoubtedly it's my own ignorance causing me problems, so I was wondering where I could look to understand the system they use. Is their a how-to or something like it available? I've read some documentation about making rpms, but it didn't fill in

Re: [luau] kernel advice

2003-11-13 Thread Jimen Ching
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Charles Lockhart wrote: Unfortunately, it seems that the system is flaky when running the vanilla kernel (patched or not). It runs fine and goes for extended periods of time running the rh kernel, but if you run the vanilla kernel, sometimes you'll come back after 30 minutes