Re: apparently, i don't know seq_files as well as i thought

2009-09-04 Thread Pei Lin
http://tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.6/html/x861.html http://lwn.net/Articles/22355/ BRs Lin 2009/9/3 Robert P. J. Day : > >  was in the midst of writing my final installment of newbie column > for how to use /proc sequence files for debugging, and suddenly i'm > not convinced i know every detail about t

[OOT] Link to my Linux.com "Uncover the meaning of top's statistics"

2009-09-04 Thread Mulyadi Santosa
Dear member of the list First of all, sorry for this OOT posting. Please kindly visit my article at this URL http://linux.com/learn/tutorials/42048-uncover-the-meaning-of-tops-statistics. And if you have time, perhaps you can write down your feedback. To avoid further OOT, please directly sen

Re: decoding kernel oops

2009-09-04 Thread Mulyadi Santosa
Hi... On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Manish Katiyar wrote: > thanks a lot.. now if I go back and read the post again, it is much > more clear. BTW probably a stupid question, why does the op code in > char string generates back the assembly ?? Hmm well that's because that hex chars are the repr

Re: for swap only? /proc/sys/vm/pages_cluster

2009-09-04 Thread Ed Cashin
Mulyadi Santosa writes: > On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:51 PM, Ed Cashin wrote: >> The way I read the Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt and >> mm/swapfile.c in 2.6.16.62, it looks like /proc/sys/vm/pages_cluster >> has nothing to do with non-swap paging but is only used in swapfile.c. >> >> So in a s

Re: decoding kernel oops

2009-09-04 Thread Manish Katiyar
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 6:45 AM, Mulyadi Santosa wrote: > On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Manish Katiyar wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I was going through this post >> http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2008/1/8/546623 and >> couldn't understand the steps around the below paragraph. >> >> " >> and

Re: for swap only? /proc/sys/vm/pages_cluster

2009-09-04 Thread Mulyadi Santosa
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:51 PM, Ed Cashin wrote: > The way I read the Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt and > mm/swapfile.c in 2.6.16.62, it looks like /proc/sys/vm/pages_cluster > has nothing to do with non-swap paging but is only used in swapfile.c. > > So in a system without any swap in use, ch

for swap only? /proc/sys/vm/pages_cluster

2009-09-04 Thread Ed Cashin
The way I read the Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt and mm/swapfile.c in 2.6.16.62, it looks like /proc/sys/vm/pages_cluster has nothing to do with non-swap paging but is only used in swapfile.c. So in a system without any swap in use, changing the setting would have no effect. Is that correct?

Re: Signal problem

2009-09-04 Thread Peter Teoh
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Manish Katiyar wrote: > On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:40 AM, vinit dhatrak wrote: >> >> >> On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:29 AM, Laurentziu Dascalu >> wrote: >>> >>> 2009/9/3 Kent Tu : >>> > Is this what you are looking for? >>> > http://linux.die.net/man/2/signal >>> > >>>

Re: FS block size and Architecture Dependency

2009-09-04 Thread Greg Freemyer
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Rishi Agrawal wrote: > Hello All, > > I found this paragraph while understanding file systems. > > " > I assume that you are setting this up with ext3 and hence my answer ties to > this. If your filesystem is different, you should say so. > > Note: *In ext3, an 8K bl

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2009-09-04 Thread Bian Jiang
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Subscription problem

2009-09-04 Thread Niamathullah sharief
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FS block size and Architecture Dependency

2009-09-04 Thread Rishi Agrawal
Hello All, I found this paragraph while understanding file systems. " I assume that you are setting this up with ext3 and hence my answer ties to this. If your filesystem is different, you should say so. Note: *In ext3, an 8K block size on the fs is only possible if you use Itanium and other 8K

Re: Fwd: disable_irq in ndo_poll_controller

2009-09-04 Thread JiSheng Zhang
Hi Michael, 2009/9/4 Michael Blizek : >> >> 3.program nicard's register >> > >> > My guess without knowing or having looked at the driver is that it might >> > tell the device to stop sending interrupts. Instead the device may be >> > polled >> > if there is work to do. This reduces the load if