Re: [expert] Intel PRO/DSL 2100 Modem ?

2002-07-26 Thread Todd Lyons
Sevatio wrote on Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 04:17:15PM -0700 : Have any of you been able to get the internal DSL modem from Intel to work under Mandrake? (Intel PRO/DSL 2100 Modem) Hordes of people have asked that on MandrakeExpert. The research that I have done indicates that it is not

[expert] 9.0's kernel?

2002-07-26 Thread Damian G
does anybody know if the final 9.0 release will include a preemptible kernel? i've heard great things about the pre-emptible patch for linux ... and i'm still too stupid to compile my own ;oP Damian -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [expert] 9.0's kernel?

2002-07-26 Thread Todd Lyons
Damian G wrote on Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 08:42:24PM -0300 : does anybody know if the final 9.0 release will include a preemptible kernel? i've heard great things about the pre-emptible patch for linux ... and i'm still I don't know for certain that it will or will not, but I just looked

Re: [expert] 9.0's kernel?

2002-07-26 Thread Damian G
You do realize that using this patch pretty much prevents the machine from being used as a high capacity server. It allow the kernel to be pulled away from unimportant things to take care of really important things like your desktop. Hardly an acceptable compromise on a server. *drools*

Re: [expert] 9.0's kernel?

2002-07-26 Thread nDiScReEt
On Friday 26 July 2002 8:10 pm, Damian G wrote: You do realize that using this patch pretty much prevents the machine from being used as a high capacity server. It allow the kernel to be pulled away from unimportant things to take care of really important things like your desktop.

Re: [expert] 9.0's kernel?

2002-07-26 Thread Chuck Shirley
On Friday 26 July 2002 22:06, nDiScReEt wrote: On Friday 26 July 2002 8:10 pm, Damian G wrote: You do realize that using this patch pretty much prevents the machine from being used as a high capacity server. It allow the kernel to be pulled away from unimportant things to take care of

[expert] Winbind + smbd sucking CPU time

2002-07-26 Thread Hopper
I'm curious if there is any better way to manage winbind and smbd. I've got a server that exhibits what seems to be high CPU usage, even under low connection loads. Using Samba 2.2.3a and the Winbind daemon that ships with Mandrake, I'm seeing a CPU usage of 7-10% for smbd, and approximately

Re: [expert] Winbind + smbd sucking CPU time

2002-07-26 Thread Todd Lyons
Hopper wrote on Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 09:53:11PM -0500 : I'm curious if there is any better way to manage winbind and smbd. I've got a server that exhibits what seems to be high CPU usage, even under low connection loads. Using Samba 2.2.3a and the Winbind daemon that ships with Mandrake, I'm

[expert] Diagnosing server problems

2002-07-26 Thread Hopper
Regarding Samba and Winbind again: I've killed my server. While copying some files to a mapped network drive from a Windows 2000 Pro client to a Mandrake server, using the Windows Explorer, I received the notice that the drive was no longer available. The mapped drives were no longer accessible,

Re: [expert] Winbind + smbd sucking CPU time

2002-07-26 Thread Hopper
- Original Message - Agreed. I help to maintain a samba server that has about 600 users and the load average normally runs about 1.5 to 2.0 (and it's usually that high because Arkeia is sucking files onto a tape drive) pretty much 20 hours a day now. The CPU usage on average is