[uml-devel] UML freezes at hdd-intensive processes

2005-03-03 Thread Oliver Baltz
Hi @all,

my UML hangs while intensive processes that use the HDD. For example:
rgrep, upgrade,...

UML-Hostsystem: 2.4.27-1-386, Intel ICH5 SATA 150-Controller
UML: 2.4.26-3um-1

Any ideas?







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[uml-devel] UML freezes at hdd-intensive processes

2005-03-03 Thread Oliver Baltz
Hi @all,

my UML hangs while intensive processes that use the HDD. For example:
rgrep, upgrade,...

UML-Hostsystem: 2.4.27-1-386, Intel ICH5 SATA 150-Controller
UML: 2.4.26-3um-1

Any ideas?











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[uml-devel] Re: uml_switch security fixing

2005-03-03 Thread Nuutti Kotivuori
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Suggestions?

FWIW, we have gone off using switch daemon entirely. We are using
simply preallocated tap devices, connected to bridges via normal Linux
bridging controls. Works cleaner and faster, more places to dump the
traffic from and it allows normal linux traffic queueing and
firewalling to be used to limit transfers between machines.

All physical networks and virtual network (networks not connected to
any physical interfaces) are implemented as bridges.

The only problem was the tap device queue hang (SIGIO problem), which
was resolved with the one queue option (and hopefully fixed in UML or
mainline kernel later).

-- Naked



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Re: [uml-devel] UML freezes at hdd-intensive processes

2005-03-03 Thread Rob Landley
On Thursday 03 March 2005 05:41 am, Oliver Baltz wrote:
> Hi @all,
>
> my UML hangs while intensive processes that use the HDD. For example:
> rgrep, upgrade,...
>
> UML-Hostsystem: 2.4.27-1-386, Intel ICH5 SATA 150-Controller
> UML: 2.4.26-3um-1
>
> Any ideas?

I haven't seen this on 2.6, but I think the first question is what kind of 
filesystem are you using?  Hostfs?  NFS?  UBD mount?

Rob


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Re: [uml-devel] Triage on the pending patches

2005-03-03 Thread Jeff Dike
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> Well, just in case your job was too easy, here's one more.  Using the
> "quiet" option shows a couple of lines being printed out by printf
> that should be printed out by printk (so they'll _shut_up_ when you
> ask it to). 

Those are printfs for a reason.  Early boot mesages (before the kernel is
actually running) won't be seen if they are printk-d and the thing crashes
before the console is initialized.  The messages will be stuck in the printk
buffer, and you will be none the wiser.

So, they can be made quiet if you really want, but that's not the way.

Jeff



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Re: [uml-devel] Triage on the pending patches

2005-03-03 Thread Rob Landley
On Thursday 03 March 2005 01:43 pm, Jeff Dike wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > Well, just in case your job was too easy, here's one more.  Using the
> > "quiet" option shows a couple of lines being printed out by printf
> > that should be printed out by printk (so they'll _shut_up_ when you
> > ask it to).
>
> Those are printfs for a reason.  Early boot mesages (before the kernel is
> actually running) won't be seen if they are printk-d and the thing crashes
> before the console is initialized.  The messages will be stuck in the
> printk buffer, and you will be none the wiser.
>
> So, they can be made quiet if you really want, but that's not the way.

I suspected there was a reason, nice to know what it is.  It would be nice if 
they could be made quiet, because I'm in the process of doing a gross hack to 
run an independent process wrapped in UML.

Basically, my nefarious scheme is to add the squashfs patch to UML, append a 
squashfs image to the end of the  UML executable, and have a cpio ramfs init 
script search through /proc/self/exe for the 32 bytes that were at the start 
of the squashfs (which includes a 4 byte magic signature thingy) to determine 
offset to pass to "losetup -o $OFFSET /dev/loop0 /proc/self/exe", and then 
mount /dev/loop0 / and run the executable I want out of that filesystem.

And there's a cheap and dirty way to get a self contained program running 
under UML.  (I hope to actually have an example working this evening using 
2.6.11.)

The down side is that UML (even with the quiet option) just won't shut up 
about its init stuff.  Hence me looking into cleaning that up...

>   Jeff

Rob


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