Re: Processing time spent in IRQ handling and what to do about it

2007-12-19 Thread Dotan Shavit
On Tuesday 18 December 2007, Oded Arbel wrote: I can see that a lot of time is spent in the hard-IRQ region - sometimes more then all other regions together. Lets look for more hints... - Anything interesting in the logs (during boot and after) ? - Lets plug out all the hardware you can:

Re: 64-bit linux and 32-bit applications

2007-12-19 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Dec 19, 2007 9:32 AM, Moshe Gorohovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the prevailing opinion about installing and running 32-bit applications and shared libraries on 64-bit Linux operating systems? It's a perfectly okay thing to do. Naturally it's a waste of memory (cause you end up

Re: Processing time spent in IRQ handling and what to do about it

2007-12-19 Thread Aviv Greenberg
Can you send an output of cat /proc/interrupts ? Is there any device sharing the IRQ line with the network interface? Bnx2 has NAPI support. The recent changes you saw recently are not related, they are improvements to the NAPI machanism (to support multiple device queues, not specific to bnx2)

Perl 5.10 has been released

2007-12-19 Thread Gabor Szabo
Hi, Not only was yesterday the 20th birthday of Perl and it was also the release date of Perl 5.10 the latest version of Perl. There are many new features in the language such as * switch statement * say * state to create static ... err, I mean state variables * defined-or // * Smart Match

Re: 64-bit linux and 32-bit applications

2007-12-19 Thread Micha
Sorry, reply to list doesn't work with linux-il for some reason (at least with sylpheed claws) re-posting to the list ... On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:31:42 +0200 Ilya Konstantinov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 19, 2007 9:32 AM, Moshe Gorohovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the prevailing

Re: Processing time spent in IRQ handling and what to do about it

2007-12-19 Thread Rami Rosen
Hi, You cannot turn it on/off. The driver may support this optional API or not. If it supports it, it's the driver sole decision when it's better to use polling/interrupt-per-packet according it its hardware specifics. I doubt whether this is exactly so for all NICS, as one might understand

Re: 64-bit linux and 32-bit applications

2007-12-19 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Dec 19, 2007 4:33 PM, Moshe Gorohovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to install 32-bit vlc, mplayer and xine on 64-bit CentOS system. Will I need to install 32-bit versions of all dependencies, 32-bit libxine, libavcodec, etc.? Yes. yum should do it for you, assuming it has the proper

Re: 64-bit linux and 32-bit applications

2007-12-19 Thread Moshe Gorohovsky
Hi list, Thanks for your replies. I want to install 32-bit vlc, mplayer and xine on 64-bit CentOS system. Will I need to install 32-bit versions of all dependencies, 32-bit libxine, libavcodec, etc.? Will these 32-bit libraries work if I already installed 64-bit libavcodec? Ilya Konstantinov