[PATCH] test9: another vm lockup bug - squashed

2000-10-04 Thread Roger Larsson
Hi, This is applicable on Riels latest addition. (freepages v. zone->"limit") That is probably not needed, and you should be able to change your limits with this patch. This patch adds equality check in several comparisons. It is strictly only the one in __alloc_pages_limit that is needed, it

Re: Tux2 - evil patents sighted

2000-10-04 Thread Daniel Phillips
Eirik Fuller wrote: > Is that really your email address? No, but my email address can easily be contructed putting together my last name and innominate.de. > I work at Network Appliance. I hate patents. I can't find anything in > your position on patents that I disagree with. I tried to be

Re: [PATCH v2.4.x] Yet Another Boot Logo

2000-10-04 Thread jmcmullan
Gábor Lénárt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IMHO, 2 lines are not enough. It should be costumizable setting. It'll be in the next patch. (in a day or so) > (If you're crazy enough :) you can use settings to set X,Y offset and > X,Y size of window for "text", and you can get illusion to

Happy 9th Anniversary, Linux !

2000-10-04 Thread apexx
On Oct-05-1991, Linux was announced to the world. It has been nine long years since, and look what Linux has turned out to be? Congratulations on your 9th Anniversary, Linux ! Many thanks to all those who have contributed to the development of Linux ! Lee - To unsubscribe from this list:

Phase tree algorithm defined

2000-10-04 Thread Daniel Phillips
I have finally produced something resembling a formal definition of the phase tree algorithm. As you will see, this algorithm is somewhat subtle, and not easy to express in clear simple terms. But I think that I have in fact expressed it clearly in simply. If I have not, I wish very much to be

Re: aaaah! complete lockup 2.4.0-test9 SPARC32

2000-10-04 Thread Anton Blanchard
> I just had my box completely lock up under 2.4.0-test9. I had insmodded > the dbri.o audio driver, which for some reason was refusing to work, at > all. So I rmmodded it, and at that point, the screen flickered once and > wham, complete lockup, nothing responds at all, no network, no SysRQ, >

Re: kapmd cpu usage

2000-10-04 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Rik writes: > On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Stephen Rothwell wrote: >> Seriously, the kapmd is doing the job of yje idle loop. The >> processor is almost always asleep, but the time just gets >> accounted to kapmd. > > I have the idea we should really fix this dirty accounting > thing and properly

Re: linux-2.4.0-test9

2000-10-04 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
David S. Miller writes: > These items are specifically placed into the data section, not the > BSS, because these alignment games are not possible in the BSS. That would mean the BSS needs support alignment games. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

Re: 2.4.0-test9 module sd.o didn't get installed

2000-10-04 Thread Douglas Gilbert
Lee Mitchell wrote: > Compiled 2.4.0-test9 with an aic7xxx card (all scsi stuff compiled as > modules). > > make modules_install did not install the module sd.o as i found out when > rebooting. The scsi disk (sd) module has been named "sd_mod.o" for some time but in July this year in the

2.4.0-test9 ipv6 module refcount problem?

2000-10-04 Thread Brendan Cully
known bug? xanadu:/home/brendan# modprobe ipv6 xanadu:/home/brendan# cat /proc/modules ipv6 142240 -1 es1370 26192 1 (autoclean) r128 70848 1 nfsd 67344 8 (autoclean) xanadu:/home/brendan# -- Don't make Godzilla mad!

Would you help me ...?

2000-10-04 Thread qinghua huang
Dear: My kernel is 2.2.5-15. I am studying buffer.c . And I can not understand the relation or difference between generic_readpage() and getblk(). When I read a data file through a process they both are called . But I don't understand their order,relation,difference. Would

What I miss for test9? dead network

2000-10-04 Thread Bill West
Booting up 2.4.0-test9 results in my network being unusable due to routes not being setup right. Booting back test7 or 8 and its back to normal. I don't see anything in the Changes file that referances anything I need to upgrade and everything on my system is either at the level required or

aaaah! complete lockup 2.4.0-test9 SPARC32

2000-10-04 Thread Dr. Kelsey Hudson
I just had my box completely lock up under 2.4.0-test9. I had insmodded the dbri.o audio driver, which for some reason was refusing to work, at all. So I rmmodded it, and at that point, the screen flickered once and wham, complete lockup, nothing responds at all, no network, no SysRQ,

{PATCH] Re: wasting time on page fault

2000-10-04 Thread Brian Gerst
Mikulas Patocka wrote: > > Hi. > > arch/i386/kernel/entry.S > xchgl %eax, ORIG_EAX(%esp) # orig_eax (get the error code. ) > movl %esp,%edx > xchgl %ecx, ES(%esp)# get the address and save es. > pushl %eax # push the error

Re: May I ask you some question

2000-10-04 Thread David Riley
> Huang QingHua wrote: > > Dear: > May I ask you some question? > 1.I try to make a filesystem. But if my block size have to be 1M > ,then what should I do ? Or is it possible? I'm not sure why you'd want a block size of 1M, most block sizes tend to be between 512 bytes and 4K. >

Re: TODO list for new VM (oct 2000)

2000-10-04 Thread Matthew Dillon
:On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote: :> On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: :> :> > Why do you apparently ignore the fact that page-out write-back :> > performance is horribly crappy because it always starts out :> > doing synchronous writes? :> :> Because it is fixed in the patch I

May I ask you some question

2000-10-04 Thread Huang QingHua
Dear:     May I ask you some question?     1.I try to make a  filesystem. But if my block size have to be 1M ,then what should I do ? Or is it possible?     2.When to reading  a  hardware page from disk and when to read a block from disk? Is there a order between them? just for a

Re: linux-2.4.0-test9

2000-10-04 Thread David S. Miller
Date:Tue, 3 Oct 2000 09:43:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - pre8: - initialize to zero -> put it in the .bss instead Can the person who made these changes in tcp_ipv4.c talk to me? That particular instance screwed up all the cache line games I

Re: Weightless process class

2000-10-04 Thread David Feuer
It dost seem to me that even when the process is not in the kernel, it could hold other sorts of fs locks. Also, what if the process is caught in a signal handler? Couldn't you end up being unable to kill the thing in an overactive system? -- This message has been brought to you by the

patch installation

2000-10-04 Thread Anil kumar
Hi, I am installing a RAID patch to my present kernel which is 2.2.12. This is the procedure I am following: 1.I get the patch file in /usr/src/linux 2. #patch -p1 < patchfilename After this is done it asks me something like this: Already available . creating a patch file /usr/src/

Re: Weightless process class

2000-10-04 Thread Rik van Riel
On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Matti Aarnio wrote: > On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 06:16:57PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: [priority inversion] > > We don't need that. > > > > We just need one boolean per thread ... is it holding a kernel > > lock or not? > > The BKL or *any* (kernel) lock ? > >

Re: Weightless process class

2000-10-04 Thread Nigel Gamble
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, LA Walsh wrote: > > > I had another thought regarding resource scheduling -- has the > > idea of a "weightless" process been brought up? > > Yes, look for "idle priority", etc.. > It also turned out to have some problems ... > > >

Re: execve replacement.

2000-10-04 Thread David Wagner
Abel Muñoz Alcaraz wrote: > I have replaced the execve() kernel [syscall] > with my own implementation but it doesn't work well. In Linux, hooking into sys_call_table[] is a pretty painful way to interpose on system calls. Unfortunately, there's no other way to do it (in Linux) that I know

[PATCH] Support for CS89x0 based PCMCIA cards

2000-10-04 Thread p2
Hi, Oops. I forgot the patch. Peter. diff -u --new-file -x *.o -x .* linux.old/drivers/net/pcmcia/Config.in linux/drivers/net/pcmcia/Config.in --- linux.old/drivers/net/pcmcia/Config.in Sun Aug 13 19:21:20 2000 +++ linux/drivers/net/pcmcia/Config.in Sun Sep 24 19:02:19 2000 @@ -15,6

Re: VM in v2.4.0test9

2000-10-04 Thread David Weinehall
Ok, those two patches (well, I applied both, so I can't decide which was the triggering factor) makes the system able to deplete the swap before hanging. Thus, things are fine, right?! I just hope that we can get a decent OOM-killer now. Two other considerations, which I remember have been

CDROM/STREAMS ioctl conflicts

2000-10-04 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, I encountered an ioctl conflict when attempting detect to STREAMS support in glibc 2.1.94 via a configure script test. The [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list suggested that I post the bug report I posted there to this list. It is listed below. Ossama Othman wrote: > > Hi, > > Conflicts

Re: PIIX4-ide still not working in 2.4-test9...

2000-10-04 Thread David Ford
Time to bug Andre :) -d Bruno Boettcher wrote: > On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 01:53:34AM -0700, David Ford wrote: > > When you enable PIIXn support in the IDE section, make sure you DISABLE PIIXn > > tuning which is the very next line. > ok i even tryed with a freshly downloaded complete 2.4-test9

[PATCH] Support for CS89x0 based PCMCIA cards

2000-10-04 Thread p2
Hi *, Attached you will find a patch which adds support for CS89x0 base PCMCIA cards such as the IBM EtherJet. The code is based on the existing CS89x0 driver. Tests where done on an IBM A20m with the IBM EtherJet card. Future improvements include better integration with the non PCMCIA CS89x0

ppa driver failure in 2.4.0-test8 (fwd)

2000-10-04 Thread Matthew Gabeler-Lee
I sent this to the maintainer of the ppa driver some time ago, and have received no response. Please CC me on replies, I'm not on the list. -- -Matt SNAPPY REPARTEE: What you'd say if you had another chance. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000

Re: Weightless process class

2000-10-04 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 06:16:57PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > --- > > > One way would be to set a flag "I'm holding a lock" and when > > > it releases the lock(s), deschedule it? > > > > There is a well-known name for this -- priority inversion. > > > > Implement the whole

[linux-fbdev] Re: [PATCH] console palette fix

2000-10-04 Thread James Simmons
Here is patch to fix console palettes for the 2.2.X kernels. Its against 2.2.17. --- console.c.orig Wed Oct 4 22:23:34 2000 +++ console.c Wed Oct 4 22:28:50 2000 @@ -575,10 +575,13 @@ } if (redraw) { + int update; + set_origin(currcons);

Re: IDE problems 2.4.0-t9p8 and later

2000-10-04 Thread Andre Hedrick
I did not change it and I have yet to get a good reason from the person who did. I have explained why it was wrong to change, but I guess things will have to start crashing again when Linus accepts changes that I never looked at or discussed. Take it up with ManDrake Linux folks, it was there

IDE problems 2.4.0-t9p8 and later

2000-10-04 Thread Martin Diehl
Hi, the following change from t9p7->t9p8 in ide-pci.c - if ((dev->class & ~(0xfa)) != ((PCI_CLASS_STORAGE_IDE << 8) | 5)) { + if ((dev->class & ~(0xff)) != (PCI_CLASS_STORAGE_IDE << 8)) { causes a lot of trouble to me. Seems to be the same thing, which has already been reported to l-k,

Integrating Andre IDE patch into 2.2.18/19 kernel

2000-10-04 Thread Jeff Nguyen
Hi Alan. I hope you will consider to integrate Andre IDE patche into the 2.2.18 or 2.2.19 kernel. For Linux to become a successful desktop platform, it needs better IDE support. Andre has done a tremendous job in getting the IDE driver support for so many chipsets such as Promise, CMD, VIA, and

Re: Weightless process class

2000-10-04 Thread Rik van Riel
On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Matti Aarnio wrote: > On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 12:49:43PM -0700, LA Walsh wrote: > > > One problem here is that you might end up with a weightless > > > process having grabbed a superblock lock, after which a > > > normal priority CPU hog kicks in and starves the weightless > >

Re: acquiring resources shared or exclusive

2000-10-04 Thread Andreas Dilger
Jerry Kelley writes: > I have a rudimentary question as I'm new to the Linux kernel. Is there a > resource that can be acquired shared so that multiple threads can read data > from a protected region and not block each other? It seems that the > semaphore in the Linux kernel is only exclusively

Re: Weightless process class

2000-10-04 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 12:49:43PM -0700, LA Walsh wrote: > > One problem here is that you might end up with a weightless > > process having grabbed a superblock lock, after which a > > normal priority CPU hog kicks in and starves the weightless > > process. > --- > One way would be to set

Re: instability after increasing file-max and inode-max

2000-10-04 Thread Adam McKenna
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 11:55:02PM +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote: > On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 09:28:41PM +0200, Magnus Naeslund wrote: > > From: "Adam McKenna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > [SNAP] > > > > This is what i have in one of our webservers (dual p3 512MB) configuration > > (in rc.local): >

Re: VM in v2.4.0test9

2000-10-04 Thread Roger Larsson
Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Roger Larsson wrote: > > Rik van Riel wrote: > > > On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > > > > > > > First, you have MORE free memory than freepages.high. In this > > > > > > case I really don't see why __alloc_pages() wouldn't give the > > > >

Re: instability after increasing file-max and inode-max

2000-10-04 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 09:28:41PM +0200, Magnus Naeslund wrote: > From: "Adam McKenna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [SNAP] > > This is what i have in one of our webservers (dual p3 512MB) configuration > (in rc.local): > > echo "65536" > /proc/sys/fs/file-max > echo "262144" >

Re: Weightless process class

2000-10-04 Thread Rik van Riel
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Nathan Paul Simons wrote: > On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 04:16:22PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > > Do we have something like an in_kernel(proc) macro ??? > > "user_mode()" in include/asm/ptrace.h? But that only checks to > see if the regs struct you passed it are from a kernel

Re: Weightless process class

2000-10-04 Thread Nathan Paul Simons
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 04:16:22PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > Do we have something like an in_kernel(proc) macro ??? "user_mode()" in include/asm/ptrace.h? But that only checks to see if the regs struct you passed it are from a kernel thread or not. No checks to see if the process has any

Re: VM in v2.4.0test9

2000-10-04 Thread Rik van Riel
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Roger Larsson wrote: > Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > > > > > First, you have MORE free memory than freepages.high. In this > > > > > case I really don't see why __alloc_pages() wouldn't give the > > > > > memory to your processes >

RE: Weightless process class

2000-10-04 Thread LA Walsh
> One problem here is that you might end up with a weightless > process having grabbed a superblock lock, after which a > normal priority CPU hog kicks in and starves the weightless > process. --- One way would be to set a flag "I'm holding a lock" and when it releases the lock(s),

Re: VM in v2.4.0test9

2000-10-04 Thread Roger Larsson
Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > > > First, you have MORE free memory than freepages.high. In this > > > > case I really don't see why __alloc_pages() wouldn't give the > > > > memory to your processes > > > > > > Hmm... > > > Can't it be a zone

RE: asm-i386/uaccess.h changes: bug or feature?

2000-10-04 Thread Chris Swiedler
To clarify: you're getting missing-symbol errors (not duplicate-symbols)? I believe that the "return" versions of these macros have been deprecated. There's an effort going on to replace these functions with a standard "put_user(); return;" pair. People think that having a macro which returns

Re: asm-i386/uaccess.h changes: bug or feature?

2000-10-04 Thread Brian Gerst
Wes McRae wrote: > > Hello > > Background: compiling lm_sensors 2.5.2 on RedHat 7.0 running 2.4.0-test8 > kernel. (vanilla intel system) > > Attempting to compile the sensor package gave symbol errors regarding > the xxx_ret symbols (copying to/from user space, putting/getting. These >

Re: instability after increasing file-max and inode-max

2000-10-04 Thread Magnus Naeslund
From: "Adam McKenna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hello, I have a system here that was up for over 100 days, using kernel > 2.2.15. We are running Oracle 8i on it. The middle of last week, we ran out > of file handles, so I increased /proc/sys/fs/file-max to 16384 and > /proc/sys/fs/inode-max to

Re: PIIX4-ide still not working in 2.4-test9...

2000-10-04 Thread Horst von Brand
Bruno Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 01:53:34AM -0700, David Ford wrote: > > When you enable PIIXn support in the IDE section, make sure you DISABLE PIIXn > > tuning which is the very next line. > ok i even tryed with a freshly downloaded complete 2.4-test9

Re: 2.4.0-test9 on SPARC64: Undefined symbols in modules

2000-10-04 Thread Horst von Brand
Anton Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Lots of: > > > > __atomic_add > > __atomic_sub > > __test_and_set_bit > > __test_and_clear_bit > > > > (This machine is the result of transplanting the disks with RH 6.2 + > > updates + local hacks from a SPARC, so this might be an artifact; but I >

Re: Weightless process class

2000-10-04 Thread Rik van Riel
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, LA Walsh wrote: > I had another thought regarding resource scheduling -- has the > idea of a "weightless" process been brought up? Yes, look for "idle priority", etc.. It also turned out to have some problems ... > Weightless means it doesn't count toward 'load' and the

Re: asm-i386/uaccess.h changes: bug or feature?

2000-10-04 Thread Arjan van de Ven
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Attempting to compile the sensor package gave symbol errors regarding > the xxx_ret symbols (copying to/from user space, putting/getting. These > have been removed from uaccess.h in recent kernels. These were present > in 2.2.16 and at least some

asm-i386/uaccess.h changes: bug or feature?

2000-10-04 Thread Wes McRae
Hello Background: compiling lm_sensors 2.5.2 on RedHat 7.0 running 2.4.0-test8 kernel. (vanilla intel system) Attempting to compile the sensor package gave symbol errors regarding the xxx_ret symbols (copying to/from user space, putting/getting. These have been removed from uaccess.h in

Re: Benchmark results for elv_test (2.4.0-test9 and back).

2000-10-04 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Grab NWFS at vger.timpanogas.org. It has a really good ASYNCH I/O abstraction in kernel that is pluggable and will allow very agressive testing of the elevator code in 2.4.0. Check the file BLOCK.C for the 2.4 support and ASYNC.C. Theres a nice way to pump ons of AIO requests into Linux with

Re: Benchmark results for elv_test (2.4.0-test9 and back).

2000-10-04 Thread J. Robert von Behren
Greetings, Robert. Looking over your test program, I don't think you are actually testing the elevator algorithm at all. There are a couple of key flaws: * The reads and writes are synchronous, so the elevator algorithm at _most_ gets to effect the blocks within a single read or

instability after increasing file-max and inode-max

2000-10-04 Thread Adam McKenna
Hello, I have a system here that was up for over 100 days, using kernel 2.2.15. We are running Oracle 8i on it. The middle of last week, we ran out of file handles, so I increased /proc/sys/fs/file-max to 16384 and /proc/sys/fs/inode-max to 16384. This appears to have caused instability, as

Weightless process class

2000-10-04 Thread LA Walsh
I had another thought regarding resource scheduling -- has the idea of a "weightless" process been brought up? Weightless means it doesn't count toward 'load' and the class strictly has lowest priority in the system and gets *no* CPU unless there are "idle" cycles. So even a process niced to

Re: test9-pre9 lockups using pine

2000-10-04 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > I frequently experience lockups since test9-pre7. It usually > > happens when leaving pine. Pine asks if the deleted messages > > should be purged. Say yes and everything freezes up. > > > #

Re: 2.4.0-test9 module sd.o didn't get installed

2000-10-04 Thread Lee Mitchell
doh! forget it, my fault, didn't notice the filename changed. Lee Mitchell www.spamtastic.demon.co.uk [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Lee Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Linux Kernel development list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 6:25 PM Subject:

Re: linux-2.4.0-test9

2000-10-04 Thread Akira YOSHIYAMA
Hi all, I've tried Linux-2.4.0-test[7-9] kernel on my laptop, and got a trouble with them. When yenta_socket and apm driver are installed, system hangs. Each driver works fine without another one. Why? Thanks, A.Yoshiyama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> p.s. My Laptop: NEC LaVie NX (Japan local

Re: cannot connect to linuxtoday.com 80 with test9-pre9

2000-10-04 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 09:34:18AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > Is there something wrong with the tcp stack? > > More with their firewall. But try > > echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn Wow. I suddenly can access lots of hosts again. And we

2.4.0-test9 module sd.o didn't get installed

2000-10-04 Thread Lee Mitchell
Compiled 2.4.0-test9 with an aic7xxx card (all scsi stuff compiled as modules). make modules_install did not install the module sd.o as i found out when rebooting. copying the file manually from the kernel source tree fixed it. Lee Mitchell www.spamtastic.demon.co.uk [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To

[PATCH] acpi: release on failure

2000-10-04 Thread Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Hi, Please consider applying. Jeff, if you think something is missing, please tell me. - Arnaldo --- linux-2.4.0-test9/arch/i386/kernel/acpi.c Tue Oct 3 12:38:06 2000 +++ linux-2.4.0-test9.acme/arch/i386/kernel/acpi.c Wed Oct 4 09:48:59 2000 @@ -27,6

Re: 32-bit pid_t / security

2000-10-04 Thread Michael van den broek
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Michael van den broek wrote: > > > > > > > On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Brett Frankenberger wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > S/390 folks run 70,000 sessions active within

RE: 2.4.0-test9: USB-Mouse half recognized

2000-10-04 Thread Dunlap, Randy
> From: Jan Niehusmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 04:15:54PM +0200, Meino Christian > Cramer wrote: > > I tried it both: uhci and usb.uhci: > > Same behaviour for both: Boot into runlevel 2. do a cat on > > /dev/input/mouse0 and move the mouse: OK, some glibberish

Re: Incomplete Adaptec 29160 support!?

2000-10-04 Thread Nathan Paul Simons
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 02:49:34AM -0500, Dave Madsen wrote: > Based on what I've been able to find out on the net, it > appears that the support of the Adaptec 29160 is not complete > (optimal?), but because the card works in a degraded mode with the > current driver, there haven't been many

Re: 32-bit pid_t / security

2000-10-04 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Mark Hahn wrote: > > Linux 2.2.17 only allows 255 processes at any one time. Is this a > ... > > Can't fork any more after 255 processes > > ulimit -u > > getting back OT, current entry-level PCs (duron/600) can easily > do 7000 fork/wait pairs per second. Maybe I have a

Re: 32-bit pid_t / security

2000-10-04 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Michael van den broek wrote: > > > On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > > On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Brett Frankenberger wrote: > > > > > > > > > > S/390 folks run 70,000 sessions active within the same 60 second period off > > > > one big box. Not on Linux (yet

Re: VM in v2.4.0test9

2000-10-04 Thread Rik van Riel
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Roger Larsson wrote: > Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, David Weinehall wrote: > > > > > Running the included program on a clean v2.4.0test9 kernel I can > > > hang the computer practically in no time. > > > > > What seems most strange is that the doesn't even get

Re: VM in v2.4.0test9

2000-10-04 Thread Roger Larsson
Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, David Weinehall wrote: > > > Running the included program on a clean v2.4.0test9 kernel I can > > hang the computer practically in no time. > > > What seems most strange is that the doesn't even get depleated. > > The machine still answers to SysRq

Re: cannot connect to linuxtoday.com 80 with test9-pre9

2000-10-04 Thread Andi Kleen
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 09:34:18AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > Is there something wrong with the tcp stack? More with their firewall. But try echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

Re: 32-bit pid_t / security

2000-10-04 Thread Mark Hahn
> Linux 2.2.17 only allows 255 processes at any one time. Is this a ... > Can't fork any more after 255 processes ulimit -u getting back OT, current entry-level PCs (duron/600) can easily do 7000 fork/wait pairs per second. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

cannot connect to linuxtoday.com 80 with test9-pre9

2000-10-04 Thread Christoph Lameter
Is there something wrong with the tcp stack? bash-2.04$ ping linuxtoday.com PING linuxtoday.com (63.236.72.248) from 216.59.82.89 : 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 63.236.72.248: icmp_seq=0 ttl=244 time=103.7 ms 64 bytes from 63.236.72.248: icmp_seq=1 ttl=244 time=104.3 ms --- linuxtoday.com ping

Re: 32-bit pid_t / security

2000-10-04 Thread Michael van den broek
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Brett Frankenberger wrote: > > > > > > > S/390 folks run 70,000 sessions active within the same 60 second period off > > > one big box. Not on Linux (yet ;)) but its worth bearing in mind. > > > > Linux 2.2.17 only allows

Re: Request for net guru help: waitqueue oops

2000-10-04 Thread Hans Grobler
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Petko Manolov wrote: > > The timer routines (there are 4) are used to switch hardware states and > > must therefore be mutually exclusive with respect to the interrupt handler. > > There are no bottom halves used in this driver. Andrew Morton suggested > > that the problem

Re: Proposing patches for Linux 2.2.1[89] ...

2000-10-04 Thread David Weinehall
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 06:15:14PM +0200, Richard Ems wrote: > It's great that the NFS patches got into 2.2.18, but why only the client > and not the server patches? Having clients capable of NFSv3 but no > servers doesn't make much sense IMHO! How shall I test the NFSv3 > patches whitout servers

2.4.0-test9 load problem

2000-10-04 Thread Adrian Reber
Hi I have a Dual Pentium III 500 Mhz machine. It has 1GB of memory, an internal amimegaraid controller, two additional scsi ultra-wide controller sym53c875E (using sym53c8xx.o) and acenic gigabit ethernet card. I'm patching every kernel to use vlan (802.1Q) and reiserfs. Currently a 2.4.0-test4

Re: VM in v2.4.0test9

2000-10-04 Thread Ying Chen/Almaden/IBM
I'd second that this is most likely a VM related problem. Last few days I sent you an example that I would make system hang simply by doing a mkfs on 90 GB file system. This happens when low 1GB memory is used up (but I still have high 1GB available). I think David probably ran into the same

Proposing patches for Linux 2.2.1[89] ...

2000-10-04 Thread Richard Ems
It's great that the NFS patches got into 2.2.18, but why only the client and not the server patches? Having clients capable of NFSv3 but no servers doesn't make much sense IMHO! How shall I test the NFSv3 patches whitout servers capable of NFSv3! It would be great to see Dave Higgen's patches get

Re: VM in v2.4.0test9

2000-10-04 Thread David Weinehall
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 01:01:21PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, David Weinehall wrote: > > > Running the included program on a clean v2.4.0test9 kernel I can > > hang the computer practically in no time. > > > What seems most strange is that the doesn't even get depleated. >

esound over tcp problem with linux-2.4.0-test[89]

2000-10-04 Thread John M. Flinchbaugh
Package: esound Version: 0.2.19 i've emailed various people about this already, but i've figured out a couple new things. basically, when i added ram to my linux-2.4.0-test8 box taking it from 96M to 192M of ram. esd over tcpip started popping, hesitating, distorting. if i limit the memory at

Re: VM in v2.4.0test9

2000-10-04 Thread Rik van Riel
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, David Weinehall wrote: > Running the included program on a clean v2.4.0test9 kernel I can > hang the computer practically in no time. > What seems most strange is that the doesn't even get depleated. > The machine still answers to SysRq and ping, but nothing else. Looking

Re: VM in v2.4.0test9

2000-10-04 Thread Rik van Riel
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, David Weinehall wrote: > On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 12:31:13PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, David Weinehall wrote: > > > > > Running the included program on a clean v2.4.0test9 kernel I can > > > hang the computer practically in no time. The only other > >

Re: 2.4.0-test9-pre8 on SPARC build failure

2000-10-04 Thread Dr. Kelsey Hudson
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > This does tell nothing if the pcibios thing is fixed or not, because you > most probably did not configure PCI on your sparc32 (why would you do that, > when you don't have a JavaStation?). > So you have to either look at the code or configure PCI in...

Re: 32-bit pid_t / security

2000-10-04 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Brett Frankenberger wrote: > > > > S/390 folks run 70,000 sessions active within the same 60 second period off > > one big box. Not on Linux (yet ;)) but its worth bearing in mind. > Linux 2.2.17 only allows 255 processes at any one time. Is this a 'feature'. If so, there

Re: execve replacement.

2000-10-04 Thread Daniel Phillips
John Levon wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, [iso-8859-1] Abel Muñoz Alcaraz wrote: > > > I need that somebody says to my module when a user application has started > > or finished, and what is its name and pid. > > > you do not need to trace system calls then. Provide a misc char device, > and

Re: Would you please help me?

2000-10-04 Thread Rik van Riel
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Huang QingHua wrote: > When I am studying source code.I can not understand the > relation between "reading a page from" and "reading a block from > disk". A "page" is the hardware VM page size (usually 4kB or 8 kB) A "block" is usually the size in which the filesystem

Re: VM in v2.4.0test9

2000-10-04 Thread Rik van Riel
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Chris Evans wrote: > On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > Handling out-of-memory in a clean and predictable way is the > > next thing on the feature list. I'll add it RSN (I'm reasonably > > sure now that the current VM features are stable ... time for > > OOM

Re: kapmd cpu usage

2000-10-04 Thread Rik van Riel
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Geoffrey Gallaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > in 2.4.0-test9, kampd is taking up between 70% and 80% of cpu usage on my > > Good! > > Seriously, the kapmd is doing the job of yje idle loop. The > processor is almost always asleep, but the time

[ot] Re: MIME QP encoded good/bad ...

2000-10-04 Thread Daniel Phillips
Matti Aarnio wrote: > Least of the wonders being increasing number of EBCDIC systems appearing in the net. EBCDIC code: Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code - a platypus if there ever was one. Code - I thought I already knew that Interchange - So there's a code that doesn't?

Re: VM in v2.4.0test9

2000-10-04 Thread Chris Evans
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote: > Handling out-of-memory in a clean and predictable way is the > next thing on the feature list. I'll add it RSN (I'm reasonably > sure now that the current VM features are stable ... time for > OOM handling). Stable is good. But before moving on,

Re: VM in v2.4.0test9

2000-10-04 Thread David Weinehall
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 12:31:13PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, David Weinehall wrote: > > > Running the included program on a clean v2.4.0test9 kernel I can > > hang the computer practically in no time. The only other > > [OUT OF MEMORY PROGRAM] > > > runnning

Re: PIIX4-ide still not working in 2.4-test9...

2000-10-04 Thread Bruno Boettcher
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 01:53:34AM -0700, David Ford wrote: > When you enable PIIXn support in the IDE section, make sure you DISABLE PIIXn > tuning which is the very next line. ok i even tryed with a freshly downloaded complete 2.4-test9 tree. nothing to do: just before init comes, i get:

Re: VM in v2.4.0test9

2000-10-04 Thread Rik van Riel
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, David Weinehall wrote: > Running the included program on a clean v2.4.0test9 kernel I can > hang the computer practically in no time. The only other [OUT OF MEMORY PROGRAM] > runnning process that can be of interest is dnetc. Running the > same on a v2.2.xx kernel

Re: wasting time on page fault

2000-10-04 Thread Brian Gerst
Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 11:00:41AM -0400, Brian Gerst wrote: > > Mikulas Patocka wrote: > > > > > > Hi. > > > > > > arch/i386/kernel/entry.S > > > xchgl %eax, ORIG_EAX(%esp) # orig_eax (get the error code. ) > > > movl %esp,%edx > > > xchgl

Re: 2.4.0-test9 on SPARC64: Undefined symbols in modules

2000-10-04 Thread Anton Blanchard
> Lots of: > > __atomic_add > __atomic_sub > __test_and_set_bit > __test_and_clear_bit > > (This machine is the result of transplanting the disks with RH 6.2 + > updates + local hacks from a SPARC, so this might be an artifact; but I > don't think so). I am not seeing it here. Are the symbols

Re: Status of ReiserFS + Journalling

2000-10-04 Thread Daniel Phillips
Andi Kleen wrote: > On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 01:42:46AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > You should ask the reiserfs mailing list for outstanding problems. As > > far as LVM is concerned, I don't think there is a problem, but watch out > > for software RAID 5 and journalling filesystems (reiser

RE: execve replacement.

2000-10-04 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Hi Abel, 1. John Levon already told you that if the syscalls sleep and your module is unloaded then they will return nowhere. Just put MOD_INC_USE_COUNT and MOD_DEC_USE_COUNT in my_kill/my_exit/my_execve as he suggested. 2. your module won't work on mips architecture but you probably know this

Re: wasting time on page fault

2000-10-04 Thread Andi Kleen
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 11:00:41AM -0400, Brian Gerst wrote: > Mikulas Patocka wrote: > > > > Hi. > > > > arch/i386/kernel/entry.S > > xchgl %eax, ORIG_EAX(%esp) # orig_eax (get the error code. ) > > movl %esp,%edx > > xchgl %ecx, ES(%esp)# get the

Re: execve replacement.

2000-10-04 Thread John Levon
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Brian Gerst wrote: > John Levon wrote: > > anyway, you can just put refcounts in your hijacked system calls; that is > > the safe way to do it, and doesn't require any kernel patches, just extra > > cost in the intercepted system calls. > > > > e.g. : > > > >

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