Re: int. assignment on SMP + ServerWorks chipset

2001-01-17 Thread Petr Matula
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 01:33:42PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Did you also remove the two lines that disabled pirq routing if an IO-APIC > was enabled? Yesterday not, today yes. But it's the same. > > Kernel with these changes can't detect my SCSI drive. It prints these messages > > in

Documenting stat(2)

2001-01-17 Thread dmeyer
In article <9463fj$gsq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > Basically, the _only_ think you should depend on is that st_size > contains: > - for regular files, the size of the file in bytes > - for symlinks, the length of the symlink. I don't think this is right - for a symlink, stat should return

cddrive problem in Toshiba Laptop with 2.4.0-test11 kernel

2001-01-17 Thread archan
I have compiled 2.4.0-test11 kernel for my Toshiba Laptop. Everything works fine except the CDdrive. When I am trying to mount a iso-cd, it is giving the following error _isofs_bmap: block >= EOF (1633681408, 2048) I am attaching the Makefile for the compiled kernel and dmesg output in

[ANNOUNCE] Dynamic Probes 1.3 released

2001-01-17 Thread bsuparna
We've just released version 1.3 of the Dynamic Probes facility. This has 2.4.0 and 2.2.18 support and some bug fixes, including Andi Kleen's suggestions for fixing the races in handling of swapped out COW pages. For more information on DProbes see the dprobes homepage at

Re: Documenting stat(2)

2001-01-17 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eric S. Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >* For a socket or FIFO (S_IFSOCK, S_IFIFO) it reports the count of bytes >waiting to be read. Don't depend on it. That's pretty much implementation-defined: use the FIONREAD ioctl to fetch available info from pipes,

Patches

2001-01-17 Thread Alan Cox
Please send patches for -ac kernels to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for the time being Thanks Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: PROBLEM: 128M memory OK, but with 192M sound card es1391 trouble

2001-01-17 Thread Josh Myer
You're probably just hearing electrical noise from the memory buss; try moving the 128 stick to the slot you put the 64 in (if you can) and run that way -- you'll probably hear it there too. I get something similiar to this with my SB Live (!... damn marketroids) on a BP6 with 192MB as well. In

Documenting stat(2)

2001-01-17 Thread Eric S. Raymond
I'm trying to pin down and document the behavior of the size field in stat(2) on Linux and under various stat emulations on Windows and the Mac. What I find out will be documented where it will do some good (in particular I'll send a stat.2 man page patch to Andries Brouwer). Here is what I

Re: kmalloc() of 4MB causes "kernel BUG at slab.c:1542!"

2001-01-17 Thread Hans Grobler
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Rick Richardson wrote: > Problem: kmalloc() of 4M causes kernel message "kernel BUG at slab.c:1542" This BUG() has been been removed in the later -ac patches as it was meant to be a temporary debugging help during the -test3 slab.c changes. This does not however remove the

Adaptec SCSI RAID ASR-2100S

2001-01-17 Thread Claudio Martins
Hi I would like to know if there is any support in the 2.4.x kernels for Adaptec SCSI RAID ASR-2100S cards. It seems that one can download a driver or patch from Adaptec website for 2.2.x kernels... Can someone point me for any patch or driver available for the 2.4 series? Thanks in

Re: VIA chipset discussion

2001-01-17 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Jan 17 2001, David D.W. Downey wrote: > > Could those that were involved in the VIA chipset discussion email me > privately at [EMAIL PROTECTED]? Just to add a datapoint to the discussion, I'm using a VIA chipset here (in fact, it's an Asus A7V board with a Duron), a

Re: Overriding BIOS settings with kernel 2.4.0

2001-01-17 Thread Matt Kemner
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bandit> I'm telling you all this because my BIOS keeps assigning shared bandit> interrupts between the Geforce-TVCapture and NE2000-USB Hubs. Look in your mainboard manual I think you'll find that the PCI/AGP slots you are using for these

oops report (2.4.1-pre7)

2001-01-17 Thread Markus Berndt
My hardware: AMD Athlon K7 550 Shuttle AI61 (AMD750 based main board) Diamond A200 Graphics card (Savage4 based) Aopen Realtec 8139 based ethernet card The Oops happens every time I do a cold boot. Most of the time, a warm start (pressing the reset button) makes the machine boot

Re: Is sendfile all that sexy?

2001-01-17 Thread Olivier Galibert
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 11:32:35AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > However, for socket->socket, we would not have such an advantage. A > socket->socket sendfile() would not avoid any copies the way the > networking is done today. That _may_ change, of course. But it might > not. And I'd rather

(2.4.0->2.4.1-pre8) config problem with PCMCIA causing link error

2001-01-17 Thread Derek Wildstar
With 2.4.0 thru 2.4.1-pre8 (could possibly be sooner than 2.4.0) PCMCIA_CONFIG_NETCARD is getting defined with CONFIG_PCMCIA, even when no PCMCIA net cards are selected: 458 # PCMCIA network device support 459 # 460 CONFIG_NET_PCMCIA=y 461 # CONFIG_PCMCIA_NETCARD is not set

Re: What happened to your kernel changelogs?

2001-01-17 Thread Linus Torvalds
Current half-assed changelog: 2.4.1-pre8: - Don't drop a megabyte off the old-style memory size detection - remember to UnlockPage() in ramfs_writepage() - 3c59x driver update from Andrew Morton - egcs-1.1.2 miscompiles depca: workaround by Andrew Morton - dmfe.c module init fix: Andrew

Re: Subtle MM bug

2001-01-17 Thread Rik van Riel
On 17 Jan 2001, Zlatko Calusic wrote: > Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Second test: kernel compile make -j32 (empirically this puts the > > > VM under load, but not excessively!) > > > > > > 2.2.17 -> make -j32 392.49s user 47.87s system 168% cpu 4:21.13 total > > > 2.4.0 ->

Re: Relative CPU time limit

2001-01-17 Thread Rik van Riel
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Xuan Baldauf wrote: > is it possible with linux2.4 to limit the relative CPU time > per process or per UID? The (more complex) userbeans patches are IMHO something that should wait for 2.5, but I will be "porting" my fair share scheduler to 2.4 RSN. The fair share

Re: What happened to your kernel changelogs?

2001-01-17 Thread Rik van Riel
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Tobias Ringstrom wrote: > I liked them a lot, and I bet I'm not alone. Are they gone for > good, or have you just ceased writing them for test kernels? I like them a lot too. Without the changelogs Linus is just a "black box" which outputs random patches. With a good

Re: Subtle MM bug

2001-01-17 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >> I looked at it a year or two ago myself, and came to the >> conclusion that I don't want to blow up our page table size by a >> factor of three or more, so I'm not personally

Re: File System Corruption with 2.2.18

2001-01-17 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Tim Fletcher wrote: > > Well that is useless test them because you can not test things completely. > > I ment that if the partiton has no persient data on it then the test can > be run (the test wipes all data on the partition out during the test, > right?) with no loss of

Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1

2001-01-17 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > /* > * a simple page,offset,legth tuple like Linus wants it > */ > struct kiobuf2 { > struct page * page; /* The page itself */ > u_int16_t offset; /* Offset to start of valid data */ > u_int16_t

Re: named streams, extended attributes, and posix

2001-01-17 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Mo McKinlay] > We went through this last time around. What happens to directories > with streams? Yeah, I agree, 'file/stream' is lousy syntax as well. If it weren't for the possibility of having streams on directories, it would almost be acceptible. I still don't know which (':' or '/') is

Re: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order?

2001-01-17 Thread Tim Fletcher
> > I have a mirrored boot drive in a pair of firewalls / routers and to test > > before I put them into service I pulled hda and the machine booted fine > > from hdc and baring winging about the missing disk (all the drives are > > mirrored) carried on as normal. A fresh disk was put and rebuilt

Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1

2001-01-17 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 01:05:43AM +1100, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > Simple. Because I stated before that I DON'T even want the > > networking to use kiobufs in lower layers. My whole argument is > > to pass a kiovec into the fileop instead of a

Re: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order?

2001-01-17 Thread Andreas Dilger
Tim Fletcher writes: > You can already do this, just specify /dev/md0 as the device to install > onto, and lilo does the rest > > > This would potentially allow you to boot from the second drive if the > > first one fails, assuming the kernel does UUID or LABEL resolution for > > the root

Re: Subtle MM bug

2001-01-17 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote: > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > (This is why I worked so hard at getting the PageDirty semantics right in > > the last two months or so - and why I released 2.4.0 when I did. Getting > > PageDirty right was the big step to make all of the VM stuff possible

Re: VM subsystem bug in 2.4.0 ?

2001-01-17 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote: > Call it 'pinned'... the pinned list would have pages with use > count = 2 or more. A page gets off the pinned list when its use > count goes to 1 in put_page. I don't even want to start thinking about how this would screw up the (already fragile)

Re: File System Corruption with 2.2.18

2001-01-17 Thread Tim Fletcher
> > > maybe but why? > > > > Because it stores no data, hence the wiping out of it is no problem? > > Well that is useless test them because you can not test things completely. I ment that if the partiton has no persient data on it then the test can be run (the test wipes all data on the

Re: Subtle MM bug

2001-01-17 Thread Rik van Riel
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I looked at it a year or two ago myself, and came to the > conclusion that I don't want to blow up our page table size by a > factor of three or more, so I'm not personally interested any > more. Maybe somebody else comes up with a better way to do

Re: Subtle MM bug

2001-01-17 Thread Rik van Riel
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 10:46:07AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > My impression with the MM stuff is that everyone except linux is > > trying hard to clone BSD instead of thinking through the issues > > ourselves. > > I wasn't even thinking

Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1

2001-01-17 Thread Rik van Riel
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Simple. Because I stated before that I DON'T even want the > networking to use kiobufs in lower layers. My whole argument is > to pass a kiovec into the fileop instead of a page, because it > makes sense for other drivers to use multiple pages,

Re: mmap()/VM problem in 2.4.0

2001-01-17 Thread Rik van Riel
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Vlad Bolkhovitine wrote: > You can see, mmap() read performance dropped significantly as > well as read() one raised. Plus, "interactivity" of 2.4.0 system > was much worse during mmap'ed test, than using read() > (everything was quite smooth here). 2.4.0-test7 was badly >

Re: File System Corruption with 2.2.18

2001-01-17 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Tim Fletcher wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > Cute. Can it be run on say a swap partition? > > > > maybe but why? > > Because it stores no data, hence the wiping out of it is no problem? Well that is useless test them because you can not test things completely. Andre Hedrick

RE: Oops with 4GB memory setting in 2.4.0 stable

2001-01-17 Thread Urban Widmark
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Rainer Mager wrote: > Here is a newly parsed oops, this time using the /var/log/ksymoops method > mentioned by Keith Owens. Does this look better? Yes, and it sort of matches the other oops someone sent. Thanks. I have a changed version now, based on the ncpfs directory

Re: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order?

2001-01-17 Thread Tim Fletcher
> What _would_ be interesting, and still not affect the boot loader proper, > is to allow specifying multiple boot devices in /etc/lilo.conf (for e.g. > RAID 1 setups), and then /sbin/lilo would put a boot sector on each such > drive. You can already do this, just specify /dev/md0 as the device

RE: Oops with 4GB memory setting in 2.4.0 stable

2001-01-17 Thread Rainer Mager
> smb_rename suggests mv, but the process is ls ... er? What commands where > you running on smbfs when it crashed? > > Could this be a symbol mismatch? Keith Owens suggested a less manual way > to get module symbol output. Do you get the same results using that? Here is a newly parsed oops,

Re: File System Corruption with 2.2.18

2001-01-17 Thread Tim Fletcher
> > Hi! > > > > Cute. Can it be run on say a swap partition? > > maybe but why? Because it stores no data, hence the wiping out of it is no problem? -- Tim Fletcher - Network manager .~. /V\ L I N U X [EMAIL PROTECTED]// \\

Re: console spin_lock

2001-01-17 Thread James Simmons
> heh. > > I'm actually planning on grabbing console_lock and thoroughly strangling > it Ha Ha!! > - Use a semaphore for serialisation. I think this would be the best solution as well. > - For printk in interrupt context, grab the > semaphore (yes, you can do this). Don't forget about

Re: eth1: Transmit timed out, status 0000, PHY status 0000 (fwd)

2001-01-17 Thread Mike A. Harris
Hi Phil, I've forwarded it for you, however you likely didn't realize hat lkml is an "open" mailing list, ie: you don't need to be a subscriber to post. This is so that non-members can file bug reports, and send spam, etc.. ;o) Take care.

Re: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order?

2001-01-17 Thread Andreas Dilger
David Balazic writes: > Andreas Dilger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > > In the end I re-wrote most of the patch, so > > that we resolve ROOT_DEV before calling mount_root(), just to be a bit > > more consistent. I will release a new patch for 2.2.18 and 2.4.0 after > > David Balazic has a look at

Re: PROBLEM: 128M memory OK, but with 192M sound card es1391 trouble

2001-01-17 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 2001.01.18 Joel Franco Guzmán wrote: > 1. 128M memory OK, but with 192M the sound card generate a noise while > use the DSP. .. > the problem: The sound card generates a toc.. toc.. toc .. toc...while > playing a sound using the DSP of the soundcard. Two "tocs"/sec > aproxiumadetely. > > >

Re: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order?

2001-01-17 Thread Russell King
Andreas Dilger writes: > Same thing, really. You have to poke each drive to get the serial > number. What if they are IDE or SCSI or FCAL or RAID array? Probably > reading a block from a disk is safer than trying to find the drive > serial number. If you apply the "read block from disk"

VIA VT82C686 serial port over 115200

2001-01-17 Thread Juhani Rautiainen
I've made little kernel module which enables high speed modes (230Kb and 460Kb) with VIA VT82C686* southbridge equipped motherboards. I've been using module with ISDN-TA and haven't had any problems. If you want to try module it's available at http://www.kati.fi/viahss/viahss-0.9.tar.gz. Some

Ibcs2 or abi for kernel 2.4

2001-01-17 Thread snpe
Hello, Is there ibcs2 or abi for kernel 2.4.x ? regards haris peco [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [OT]: Linux v.2.4.0 and Netscape 4.76?

2001-01-17 Thread David Ford
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I can be a little more specific on this point. Netscape with > kernel 2.4.0 _does_ connect/download at a few local (New Zealand) > web sites (maybe 10% of those I've tried). I can't download > from _any_ distant site. It doesn't die, it just doesn't function >

PROBLEM: 128M memory OK, but with 192M sound card es1391 trouble

2001-01-17 Thread Joel Franco Guzmán
No se si entiendes español (por causa del .ch) pero lo escribo en mi pesimo ingles. Bug Report -- 1. 128M memory OK, but with 192M the sound card generate a noise while use the DSP. 2. i got the problem when I just put more 64M memory to the my machine. With 128M the problem is not

Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: Is sendfile all that sexy? (fwd)]]

2001-01-17 Thread Jonathan Walther
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- They have it because they heard Linux had it and they wanted to do well in the next round of Mindcraft-like benchmarks. (sendfile() that is) Jonathan On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > (I also had one person point out that BSD's have the notion of

Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: Is sendfile all that sexy? (fwd)]]

2001-01-17 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Rick Jones wrote: > > > > (a) make sure that system call latency is low enough that there really > > aren't any major reasons to avoid system calls. They're just function > > calls - they may be a bit heavier than most functions, of course, but > > people

[rasmus@jaquet.dk: [PATCH] make drivers/scsi/sun3x_esp.c check request_irq's return value (240p3)]

2001-01-17 Thread Rasmus Andersen
(Ooops. Forgot to cc linux-kernel.) - Forwarded message from Rasmus Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Hi. The following patch makes drivers/scsi/sun3x_esp.c check the return value of request_irq. Comments? --- linux-ac9/drivers/scsi/sun3x_esp.c~ Thu Jan 4 22:00:55 2001 +++

Re: File System Corruption with 2.2.18

2001-01-17 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > Hi! > > Cute. Can it be run on say a swap partition? maybe but why? Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at

Re: VIA chipset discussion

2001-01-17 Thread Pete Toscano
well, i know there's a problem with the via apollo pro 133a chipset, smp, apic, and usb. it looks like the usb driver (usb-uhci) doesn't receive any interrupts if apic is enabled. if you disable apic from the lilo prompt with "noapic", then it'll all work (of course, without apic). according

Re: [DISCUSSION]: 2.4.1-pre8: Detection of CD-ROM/CD-R/CD-RW drives Part #2

2001-01-17 Thread Shawn Starr
2.2.18 and below: Jan 5 16:56:54 coredump kernel: hdc: YAMAHA CRW2100E, ATAPI CDROM drive Jan 5 16:56:54 coredump kernel: hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 8192kB Cache, (U)DMA 2.4.x: Jan 15 19:43:05 coredump kernel: hdc: YAMAHA CRW2100E, ATAPI CDROM drive Jan 15 19:43:06 coredump kernel:

[PATCH] make drivers/scsi/sgiwd93.c check some more return codes (240p3)

2001-01-17 Thread Rasmus Andersen
Hi. The following patch makes drivers/scsi/sgiwd93.c check the return code from request_irq and get_free_pages. It also removes a line already done a bit higher up (the dma_cache_wback_inv one). Please comment. --- linux-ac9/drivers/scsi/sgiwd93.c.orgSun Jan 14 21:33:29 2001 +++

Re: oops in 2.4.1-pre8

2001-01-17 Thread Urban Widmark
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Scott A. Sibert wrote: > I'm consistently getting an oops when accessing any smbfs mount whether > running 'ls' inside the smbfs mount or hitting TAB for filename > completion of a directory in an smbfs mount. I have another machine > (dual P2/300 w/320MB memory) that does

[DISCUSSION]: 2.4.1-pre8: Detection of CD-ROM/CD-R/CD-RW drives

2001-01-17 Thread Shawn Starr
In 2.4.1-pre8, this info appears in dmesg: SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices Vendor: YAMAHAModel: CRW2100E Rev: 1.0H Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 hdc: YAMAHA CRW2100E, ATAPI

[PATCH] make drivers/scsi/mvme147.c care about (some) return codes (240p3)

2001-01-17 Thread Rasmus Andersen
Hi. (I have not been able to find a maintainer for this code.) The following patch makes drivers/scsi/mvme147.c check the return code from request_irq and scsi_register. It applies cleanly against 240p3 and ac9. Please comment. --- linux/drivers/scsi/mvme147.cTue Nov 28 02:57:34

Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: Is sendfile all that sexy? (fwd)]]

2001-01-17 Thread Rick Jones
Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Rick Jones wrote: > > > > > The fact that I understand _why_ it is done that way doesn't mean that I > > > don't think it's a hack. It doesn't allow you to sendfile multiple files > > > etc without having nagle boundaries, and the header/trailer

[PATCH] make drivers/scsi/dec_esp.c check request_irq return code (240p3)

2001-01-17 Thread Rasmus Andersen
Hi. (I have not been able to find a maintainer for this code.) This patch makes drivers/scsi/dec_esp.c check the return code of request_irq. It applies cleanly against 240p3 and ac9. In the search_tc_slot loop I made it continue the search on failure for one slot. Would this be correct?

[PATCH] make drivers/scsi/blz1230.c check request_irq return (240p3)

2001-01-17 Thread Rasmus Andersen
Hi. The following patch makes drivers/scsi/blz1230.c check request_irq's return code. It applies cleanly against 240p3 and ac9. It also swaps two lines in an existing error path (esp_deallocate/ scsi_unregister) since this seems wrong. Comments? --- linux-ac9/drivers/scsi/blz1230.c.org

VIA chipset discussion

2001-01-17 Thread David D.W. Downey
Could those that were involved in the VIA chipset discussion email me privately at [EMAIL PROTECTED]? I'm truly interested in solving this issue. I personally think it's more than just the chipset causing the problems. I'm looking for members of the list that are using the kernel support for

Re: Mainboard with Serverworks HE Chipset

2001-01-17 Thread Matthias Schniedermeyer
> > Now my problem. > > > > The Graphic-Card is a Geforce 2, Xfree is 4.02 (compiled under 2.2.17). > > > > When i start X, everything is fine. When i go back to text-console and > > wait "some time" and then switch back to X the computer locks solid and i > > have to press the Big-Red Button.

Re: 2.4.0 + iproute2

2001-01-17 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
> The underlying problem is of course that all those sanity checks should > be done in user space, not in the kernel. > > (See also ftp://icaftp.epfl.ch/pub/people/almesber/slides/tmp-tc.ps.gz > The bitching starts on slide 11, some ideas for fixing the problem on > slide 16, but heed the

Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: Is sendfile all that sexy? (fwd)]]

2001-01-17 Thread Dan Kegel
Dean Gaudet wrote: > consider the case where you're responding to a pair of pipelined HTTP/1.1 > requests. with the HPUX and BSD sendfile() APIs you end up forcing a > packet boundary between the two responses. this is likely to result in > one small packet on the wire after each response. >

oops in 2.4.1-pre8

2001-01-17 Thread Scott A. Sibert
Hello. I've got a Dell Precision 420 (dual P3/800 w/1gb RDRAM). I'm consistently getting an oops when accessing any smbfs mount whether running 'ls' inside the smbfs mount or hitting TAB for filename completion of a directory in an smbfs mount. I have another machine (dual P2/300 w/320MB

Re: detecting bounced mails

2001-01-17 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Rajiv Majumdar wrote: > > > Sorry..the topic does not fit here. But wanted to know, how can we check > validity of an email id "in advance" You can't. Only think you can check is a valid domain that will in theory accept mail, no way to check if it really dilivers. > so

Re: int. assignment on SMP + ServerWorks chipset

2001-01-17 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Petr Matula wrote: > > I did the changes above to 2.4.0 source. Did you also remove the two lines that disabled pirq routing if an IO-APIC was enabled? > Kernel with these changes can't detect my SCSI drive. It prints these messages > in cycle: Which SCSI adapter is

PCMCIA problem loading ide-floppy from ide_cs

2001-01-17 Thread Paul Bristow
Hi, I am trying to understand the new PCMCIA configuration. So far I am trying to use the kernel PCMCIA driver. The yenta_socket driver is working fine. Using 2.4.0, and cardmgr 3.1.23 When I insert my Iomega Clik drive, cardmgr correctly identifies it as an ATA Fixed Disk and loads

Re: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order?

2001-01-17 Thread Dr. Kelsey Hudson
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Werner Almesberger wrote: > "no", because you don't have to do it in the kernel. You can mount by > uuid or label. For the root FS, you do this from an initrd. Problem > solved. > > The only cases when you really need to know the name of a disk is when > - doing disk-level

Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: Is sendfile all that sexy? (fwd)]]

2001-01-17 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Rick Jones wrote: > > > The fact that I understand _why_ it is done that way doesn't mean that I > > don't think it's a hack. It doesn't allow you to sendfile multiple files > > etc without having nagle boundaries, and the header/trailer stuff really > > isn't a generic

Re: 2.4.0 + iproute2

2001-01-17 Thread Andi Kleen
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 06:04:33PM +0100, Werner Almesberger wrote: > (See also ftp://icaftp.epfl.ch/pub/people/almesber/slides/tmp-tc.ps.gz > The bitching starts on slide 11, some ideas for fixing the problem on > slide 16, but heed the warning on slide 15.) Thanks for the pointer. > >

Re: [PATCH] PCI-Devices and ServerWorks chipset

2001-01-17 Thread Dan Hollis
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Martin Mares wrote: > > I don't have the ServerWorks chipset documentation at hand, but I think your > > patch is wrong -- it doesn't make any sense to scan a bus _range_. The registers > > 0x44 and 0x45 are probably ID's of two

Re: [QUESTION]: Applying patches ontop of patches (2.4.1pre7 to2.4.1pre8)

2001-01-17 Thread Shawn Starr
Thanks to everyone who replied :) Sven Koch wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Shawn Starr wrote: > > > What is the best way to apply a patch on top of a patch already applied? > > > > For example, with original sources 2.4.0 i applied 2.4.1pre7 but now > > that pre8 is out, how do i apply those new

TOD clock slows on active 2.4 NFS client

2001-01-17 Thread Tom Eastep
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Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: Is sendfile all that sexy? (fwd)]]

2001-01-17 Thread Rick Jones
> > Hmm, I would think that nagle would only come into play if those files > > were each less than MSS and there were no intervening application level > > reply/request messages for each. > > actually the problem isn't nagle... nagle needs to be turned off for > efficient servers anyhow.

Re: APIC errors

2001-01-17 Thread Dr. Kelsey Hudson
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Dominik Kubla wrote: > Just switched to 2.4.0-ac9 (+crypto patches) on our Dual-Pentium MMX > webserver yesterday. Works fine so far, except i keep seeing those > APIC erros (about 14 in 12 hrs) indicating receive, send and CS errors. Make sure your system is free of

PROBLEM: 2.4.0/smp damaged my filesystems (raid-ext2/ext2)

2001-01-17 Thread Oliver Teuber
[1.] One line summary of the problem: Linux 2.4.0 ate my filesystems ... [2.] Full description of the problem/report: after an uptime of about 10 days i wasnt able to start a program because no shared library could be loaded. i could rescue my logfiles: Jan 5 15:15:47 olibox kernel:

Re: [QUESTION]: Applying patches ontop of patches (2.4.1pre7 to 2.4.1pre8)

2001-01-17 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 09:32:30PM +0100, Sven Koch wrote: > reverse the patch for 2.4.1pre7 > > for example: cd /usr/src/linux ; zcat 2.4.1pre7.gz | patch -p1 -R > > after that apply pre8 You can also use interdiff: $ interdiff 2.4.1pre7 2.4.1pre8 | patch -p1 It's mostly reliable. Tim. */

Re: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order?

2001-01-17 Thread Werner Almesberger
Matti Aarnio wrote: > 2.4.0 with devfs mounted at boot time into /dev/ Or /proc/partitions, which - according to the mount(8) man page - has been around since 2.1.116. So we're not exactly talking crazy upgrade paths here. > This new style (which contains, hopefully, physical PCI location)

Re: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order?

2001-01-17 Thread Andreas Dilger
Werner, you write: > Venkatesh Ramamurthy wrote: > > [Venkatesh Ramamurthy] The LILO boot loader and the LILO command > > line utility should be changed for this. There are some issues when we have > > Grr, I was just waiting for this ... > > See sections 2.6 and 3.5 of >

Re: [QUESTION]: Applying patches ontop of patches (2.4.1pre7 to 2.4.1pre8)

2001-01-17 Thread Brian Gerst
Shawn Starr wrote: > > What is the best way to apply a patch on top of a patch already applied? > > For example, with original sources 2.4.0 i applied 2.4.1pre7 but now > that pre8 is out, how do i apply those new patches without having to > delete the whole linux dir and untar 2.4.0 again just

Re: kmalloc() of 4MB causes "kernel BUG at slab.c:1542!"

2001-01-17 Thread Timur Tabi
** Reply to message from Brian Pomerantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 17 Jan 2001 12:17:19 -0800 > The most you can kmalloc() is 128KB unless this has changed in the 2.4 > kernel which I doubt. If you want a region of memory that large, use > vmalloc(). Of course, this doesn't guarantee a

Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: Is sendfile all that sexy? (fwd)]]

2001-01-17 Thread dean gaudet
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Rick Jones wrote: > > The fact that I understand _why_ it is done that way doesn't mean that I > > don't think it's a hack. It doesn't allow you to sendfile multiple files > > etc without having nagle boundaries, and the header/trailer stuff really > > isn't a generic

Re: Relative CPU time limit

2001-01-17 Thread Xuan Baldauf
Padraig Brady wrote: > man setrlimit (or ulimit) > This is per user though, and only related > to user accounting really as you can only > set a limit on the number of CPU seconds > used. Yet this is _not_ what I want, especially not for server processes. :-) > > > I would also really like

Linux 2.0.4 has FS corruption (not IDE)

2001-01-17 Thread Richard B. Johnson
I lost my root file-system last night to massive corruption occurring while doing a automatic `tar` backup to tape. Some corruption probably occurred while the ATIME was being updated because most of the tape was good. Basically, e2fsck could not recognize a valid file system. `od /dev/sdc1`

Re: [QUESTION]: Applying patches ontop of patches (2.4.1pre7 to2.4.1pre8)

2001-01-17 Thread Sven Koch
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Shawn Starr wrote: > What is the best way to apply a patch on top of a patch already applied? > > For example, with original sources 2.4.0 i applied 2.4.1pre7 but now > that pre8 is out, how do i apply those new patches without having to > delete the whole linux dir and

Re: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order?

2001-01-17 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 08:22:22PM +0100, Werner Almesberger wrote: > The only cases when you really need to know the name of a disk is when > - doing disk-level management, e.g. partitioning or creating file >systems (*) > - adding a swap partition (sigh) > - telling your boot loader

[QUESTION]: Applying patches ontop of patches (2.4.1pre7 to 2.4.1pre8)

2001-01-17 Thread Shawn Starr
What is the best way to apply a patch on top of a patch already applied? For example, with original sources 2.4.0 i applied 2.4.1pre7 but now that pre8 is out, how do i apply those new patches without having to delete the whole linux dir and untar 2.4.0 again just to apply pre8? thanks, Shawn

Re: kmalloc() of 4MB causes "kernel BUG at slab.c:1542!"

2001-01-17 Thread Brian Pomerantz
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 01:54:20PM -0600, Rick Richardson wrote: > > [please cc me on any responses] > > Environment: 2.4.0 released, Pentium III with 256MB's of RAM. > Problem: kmalloc() of 4M causes kernel message "kernel BUG at slab.c:1542" > The most you can kmalloc() is 128KB unless

[OOPS] with 2.2.18

2001-01-17 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
Hello, Below is a decoded oops from a standard 2.2.18 kernel. If you need any additional info, please let me know. Regards, Udo. ksymoops 2.3.5 on i686 2.2.18. Options used -V (default) -k /proc/ksyms (default) -l /proc/modules (default) -o /lib/modules/2.2.18/ (default)

Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: Is sendfile all that sexy? (fwd)]]

2001-01-17 Thread Rick Jones
> The fact that I understand _why_ it is done that way doesn't mean that I > don't think it's a hack. It doesn't allow you to sendfile multiple files > etc without having nagle boundaries, and the header/trailer stuff really > isn't a generic solution. Hmm, I would think that nagle would only

Strange QoS problem

2001-01-17 Thread Marian Jancar
Im trying to create bounded class with two bouded childs, each one having more than half bandwidth of their parent, whoose bandwidth they should share, which sadly doesnt happen, when I tcpspray through both childs in the same time, each one uses its full bandwidth, what is of course togeather

kmalloc() of 4MB causes "kernel BUG at slab.c:1542!"

2001-01-17 Thread Rick Richardson
[please cc me on any responses] Environment: 2.4.0 released, Pentium III with 256MB's of RAM. Problem: kmalloc() of 4M causes kernel message "kernel BUG at slab.c:1542" Here is the dmesg output: kernel BUG at slab.c:1542! invalid operand: CPU:0 EIP:0010:[] EFLAGS:

Re: set_page_dirty/page_launder deadlock

2001-01-17 Thread Chris Mason
On Sunday, January 14, 2001 10:56:10 AM -0800 Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Marcelo Tosatti writes: >> > >> > While taking a look at page_launder()... >> >> ... >> >> > set_page_dirty() may lock the pagecache_lock which means potential >> > deadlock since we have the

Re: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order?

2001-01-17 Thread Werner Almesberger
Venkatesh Ramamurthy wrote: > [Venkatesh Ramamurthy] The LILO boot loader and the LILO command > line utility should be changed for this. There are some issues when we have Grr, I was just waiting for this ... See sections 2.6 and 3.5 of

Strange mm problem??

2001-01-17 Thread hgp-linux
I'm having a crazy mm problem with the new 2.4.0 kernel. I've got a device in which I do DMA i/o from user space. I have a dd which allocs mem (for use as a DMA staging area) and then I use remap_page_range() to map it into user land (via the mmap() interface). I was using __get_dma_pages(),

Re: Is sendfile all that sexy?

2001-01-17 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ben Mansell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 14 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >> And no, I don't actually hink that sendfile() is all that hot. It was >> _very_ easy to implement, and can be considered a 5-minute hack to give >> a feature that fit very well in

Re: .br blacklisted ?

2001-01-17 Thread John O'Donnell
Roeland Th. Jansen wrote: > On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 03:11:52AM -0500, John O'Donnell wrote: > >> Please tell me I just didn't just see this message??!?!?!?! >> Please??!?!?!? What are you doing? >> I mean no one person here any disrespect - please do the same. > > > you just got paid for

Re: Is sendfile all that sexy?

2001-01-17 Thread dean gaudet
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, David L. Parsley wrote: > Felix von Leitner wrote: > > > close (0); > > > close (1); > > > close (2); > > > open ("/dev/console", O_RDWR); > > > dup (); > > > dup (); > > > > So it's not actually part of POSIX, it's just to get around fixing > > legacy code? ;-)

Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: Is sendfile all that sexy? (fwd)]]

2001-01-17 Thread Linus Torvalds
Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > : >Agreed -- the hard-coded Nagle algorithm makes no sense these days. > : > : The fact I dislike about the HP-UX implementation is that it is so > : _obviously_ stupid. > : > : And I have to say that I absolutely despise the BSD people. They did > :

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