Re: low-level formatting?

2005-08-01 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
Amos Shapira wrote: Hello, Running badblocks -n on my hard drive I found a couple hundred of bad blocks, apparently pretty well concentrated in two areas. I intend to buy a new drive but still trying to make use of this 80Gb Maxtor drive I googled for low level format (the type that asks the

Re: low-level formatting?

2005-08-01 Thread Peter
On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Amos Shapira wrote: Hello, Running badblocks -n on my hard drive I found a couple hundred of bad blocks, apparently pretty well concentrated in two areas. I intend to buy a new drive but still trying to make use of this 80Gb Maxtor drive I googled for low level format

HD overheating

2005-08-01 Thread Erez D
hi my linux box is a PVR using mythtv my big problem is that the HD is overheating (i can fry an egg on it) as i can not really give it better cooling, i wonder if there is a way to make it generate less heat for example by tweaking the kernel or so ( e.g. make it read the whole file to ram, and

Re: NAPI performance ; tg3 and broadcom driver

2005-08-01 Thread Gilboa Davara
Interesting... we're having a similar discussion under the title File I/O within kernel thread On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 11:35 -0400, Rami Rosen wrote: Hi, NAPI (New API) is a technique to improve network performance on Linux. It is not so new (relatively) - first howto is from 16/2/2002. In

Re: HD overheating

2005-08-01 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Erez D wrote: hi my linux box is a PVR using mythtv my big problem is that the HD is overheating (i can fry an egg on it) as i can not really give it better cooling, i wonder if there is a way to make it generate less heat for example by tweaking the kernel or so ( e.g.

Re: Sendmail performance tuning

2005-08-01 Thread Larry Weisberg
Thanks. On 7/31/05, Ira Abramov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Larry Weisberg, from the post of Sun, 31 Jul: Is there a mailing list (other than this list) to post questions about performance tuning of sendmail? Alternatively, is there anyone out I'd google for it, and try sendmail.org

Re: HD overheating

2005-08-01 Thread Erez D
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~==# hdparm -S 240 /dev/sda /dev/sda: setting standby to 240 (20 minutes) HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(setidle1) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~==# On 8/1/05, Matan Ziv-Av [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Erez D wrote: hi my linux box is a PVR using

Re: chumash for lin?

2005-08-01 Thread Moshe Wagner
Although not exactly your plan, since I thought of the gmara as a start, I was planning to do something with Tzurat hadaf (see my thread about it here: http://whatsup.org.il/forum/21609) If anyone can give me a hand on it, it might actually get somewhere (for on my own I am not accomplishing

Re: HD overheating

2005-08-01 Thread Erez D
not scsi, its SATAOn 8/1/05, Matan Ziv-Av [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nOn Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Erez D wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~==# hdparm -S 240 /dev/sda /dev/sda: setting standby to 240 (20 minutes) HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(setidle1) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~==#/dev/sda

Re: NAPI performance ; tg3 and broadcom driver

2005-08-01 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
My question is: 1) does anybody have an experience with this technique ? Yes. what is the threshold (of k packets for a second) from which it became efficinet to use NAPI over usual non-NAPI solutions ? (I am talking about Xeon processor ~2.4 Ghz , but also data on other prcoessors

Re: chumash for lin?

2005-08-01 Thread Aaron
Hmn, so much hebrew in the thread but if I understand correctly the idea is to produce an eletronic version of a daf in its normal visual layout. I didn't read the whole thread but if it involves xml/css/xsl-fo I would be interested. There is a gemara my boys used that colors the various parts

Re: NAPI performance ; tg3 and broadcom driver

2005-08-01 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 02:32:28PM +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: The only problem is that the Broadcom people update their BCM version with newer versions of the chipset form time to time. I've seen several patches to tg3 from broadcom engineers, so hopefully tg3 supports everything as well.

RE: low-level formatting?

2005-08-01 Thread Karasik, Vitaly
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Amos Shapira Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 3:04 AM To: linux-il Subject: low-level formatting? Hello, Running badblocks -n on my hard drive I found a couple hundred of bad blocks, apparently

RE: Apache access problem

2005-08-01 Thread Karasik, Vitaly
That doesn't seem to be the problem: 1 - As far as I know, apache is running as group apache and there's no problem with the group definition (or with any other group definition). [EMAIL PROTECTED] solomon]$ cat /etc/group|grep apache apache:x:78: 2 - I'm talking about one machine

Re: HD overheating

2005-08-01 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Erez D wrote: not scsi, its SATA In that case, look at http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=6367328forum_id=12495 or http://sg.torque.net/sg/sdparm.html Supposedly, the drive does have standby timer, but I don't know of a way to access it from linux.

Re: NAPI performance ; tg3 and broadcom driver

2005-08-01 Thread Rami Rosen
Hi, I've seen several patches to tg3 from broadcom engineers, so hopefully tg3 supports everything as well. Well ,I must admt when I posted the original message, I had looked at the tg3.c only in 2.4.20-8 kernel (since I inteneded then to test only in 2.4.20.* kenels) and I saw in the

Re: NAPI performance ; tg3 and broadcom driver

2005-08-01 Thread Marc A. Volovic
Quoth Rami Rosen: Best thing will probably test also with a new kernel, with both drivers ,tg3.c and the bcm5700, in all scenarios. Admittedly, we have not played with 2.4.x with the tg3 driver, but all tests we did on 2.6.x (x 10) indicate that the tg3 fails to hold its own when hammered by

Re: chumash for lin?

2005-08-01 Thread Aaron
Nice but hebrew is my second language so for me to be involved the language of communication should be english. I have a friend who programs torah stuff for windows I will ask him if he is interested in working on some lin projects, although he thinks about $ so I am not sure. Aaron On Mon,

Re: NAPI performance ; tg3 and broadcom driver

2005-08-01 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Marc A. Volovic wrote: Quoth Rami Rosen: Best thing will probably test also with a new kernel, with both drivers ,tg3.c and the bcm5700, in all scenarios. Admittedly, we have not played with 2.4.x with the tg3 driver, but all tests we did on 2.6.x (x 10) indicate that the tg3 fails to

Re: NAPI performance ; tg3 and broadcom driver

2005-08-01 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 17:50 +0300, Marc A. Volovic wrote: Quoth Rami Rosen: Best thing will probably test also with a new kernel, with both drivers ,tg3.c and the bcm5700, in all scenarios. Admittedly, we have not played with 2.4.x with the tg3 driver, but all tests we did on 2.6.x (x

Re: Apache access problem

2005-08-01 Thread Shlomo Solomon
On Monday 01 August 2005 06:34, Amos Shapira wrote: On 8/1/05, Shlomo Solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That doesn't seem to be the problem: I though you settled on the decision that the problem is the size of the file - could you justtry to create a file of just a little less than 2Gb size

Re: Apache access problem

2005-08-01 Thread Shlomo Solomon
On Monday 01 August 2005 15:52, Karasik, Vitaly wrote: That doesn't seem to be the problem: 1 - As far as I know, apache is running as group apache and there's no problem with the group definition (or with any other group definition). [EMAIL PROTECTED] solomon]$ cat /etc/group|grep

P BOF on AP4

2005-08-01 Thread Gábor Szabó
It's a new item on AP4 and I hope many people will be interested. I am organizing a BOF called Using P languages To Get Your Job Done or in short a P BOF. There will be several Python and Perl ppl and even some Pugs developers. I'd be glad to many people, both those who are interested what are

Re: low-level formatting?

2005-08-01 Thread Amos Shapira
On 8/1/05, Karasik, Vitaly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to e2fsck manpage, you should run fsck -cc (man e2fsck) for marking bad blocks. I haven't tried this. That's not low-level format - what it does is to tell the filesystem code how to avoid bad blocks. But if I want to install, e.g.

RE: low-level formatting?

2005-08-01 Thread Tzahi Fadida
Some years ago I saw a program called spinrite that refreshed the bad sectors of a drive and recovered information from bad blocks (obviously marking it back after the refresh if it really was a bad block). Maybe that is what you want. Other then that, if the drive encounters a bad block it

Re: low-level formatting?

2005-08-01 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 09:01:55AM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: On 8/1/05, Karasik, Vitaly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to e2fsck manpage, you should run fsck -cc (man e2fsck) for marking bad blocks. I haven't tried this. That's not low-level format - what it does is to tell the