Re: Poor SCSI drive performance on SMP machine, 2.2.16

2001-01-27 Thread Andre Hedrick
WOOHOO, first report where I win one against the ever losing battle against SCSIparadox3, you made my evening... Also please add to the sign on I95 exit 2... ""Welcome to Maine", 'now you can go home, now'" Caution Moose will attempt to mate with cars carrying canoes in the winter. Cheers

Poor SCSI drive performance on SMP machine, 2.2.16

2001-01-27 Thread paradox3
I have an SMP machine (dual PII 400s) running 2.2.16 with one 10,000 RPM IBM 10 GB SCSI drive (AIC 7890 on motherboard, using aic7xxx.o), and four various IDE drives. The SCSI drive performs the worst. In tests of writing 100 MB and sync'ing, one of my IDE drives takes 31 seconds. The SCSI drive (

Re: [PATCH] devfsd, compiling on glibc22x

2001-01-27 Thread Ulrich Drepper
Pierre Rousselet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > for me : > make CFLAGS='-O2 -I. -D_GNU_SOURCE' > compiles without any patch. is it correct ? Yes. RTLD_NEXT is not in any standard, it's an extension available via -D_GNU_SOURCE. -- ---. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake

Re: [PATCH] devfsd, compiling on glibc22x

2001-01-27 Thread Pierre Rousselet
David Ford wrote: > > This patch is simple, defines RTLD_NEXT if not previously defined. > > --- devfsd.c.orig Sat Jan 27 18:14:19 2001 > +++ devfsd.cSat Jan 27 18:15:46 2001 > @@ -165,6 +165,7 @@ > Last updated by Richard Gooch 3-JUL-2000: Added "-C > /etc/modules.devfs" >w

Re: ps hang in 241-pre10

2001-01-27 Thread Shawn Starr
Patch appears to work, for i in [0-9]*; do echo $i; cat $i/stat > /dev/null; done completes successfully with xmms running in "real-time" priority. Shawn. Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > > > On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > > > > >

Re: vfat <-> vfat copying of ~700MB file, so slow!

2001-01-27 Thread Ion Badulescu
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001 18:41:37 +0100, Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > >> > Copying between vfat <-> vfat partitions is so slow. It seems >> > that it's vfat/msdos kernel driver problem because I tried to copy >> >> I reported this years ago, with a 700 kB file on a floppy and >> a

Re: broken Cyrix 486 cpuinfo in 2.4.0 [patch]

2001-01-27 Thread Vince Weaver
OK, I have fixed the problem I reported earlier. The following patch makes my Cyrix 486-66 report with the same results as on 2.2.x. If no one finds any problems with it, I'll send it on to Linus. Vince --- ./arch/i386/kernel/setup.c.orig Sat Jan 27 21:05:03 2001 +++ ./arch/i386/kernel/se

Re: ps hang in 241-pre10

2001-01-27 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > > > On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > > > > > > This is the smoking gun here, I bet, but I'd like to make sure I see the > > > > whole thing. I don't see _why_ we'd have deadloc

Re: ps hang in 241-pre10

2001-01-27 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > > > > This is the smoking gun here, I bet, but I'd like to make sure I see the > > > whole thing. I don't see _why_ we'd have deadlocked on __wait_on_page(), > > > but I think this is the threa

Re: Knowing what options a kernel was compiled with

2001-01-27 Thread Keith Owens
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 00:13:48 -0500, "Matthew Pitts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Some distributions DO include the config. It may be located >in the /boot dir with a name CONFIG-2.2.10 or similar. I >know that Caldera 2.3 shiped that way(2.4 may also). If you >have the install CDROM, the kernel so

Re: sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing to do with ECN)

2001-01-27 Thread Andrew Morton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello! > > > 2.4.1-pre10+zercopy, using read()/write(): 38.1% CPU > > write() on zc card is worse than normal write() by definition. > It generates split buffers. yes. The figures below show this. Disabling SG+checksums speeds up write() and send(). > Split

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Re: Knowing what options a kernel was compiled with

2001-01-27 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Matthew and Keith, Thank you to both of you for your input, info, and quick responses. I just wanted to make shure there weren't tricks still in the bag that I hadn't learned about in this area. I'll look for the config file. Jacob Anawalt Matthew Pitts wrote: > On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 16:06:57 +1

Re: Knowing what options a kernel was compiled with

2001-01-27 Thread Matthew Pitts
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 16:06:57 +1100 Keith Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 22:21:41 -0700, > Jacob Anawalt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Is there a way to know what options a running kernel was > compiled with, > >if you dont have access to the source or configure files > it

Re: Knowing what options a kernel was compiled with

2001-01-27 Thread Keith Owens
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 22:21:41 -0700, Jacob Anawalt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is there a way to know what options a running kernel was compiled with, >if you dont have access to the source or configure files it was compiled >off of? No. You have to insist that whoever distributes the kernel bin

Knowing what options a kernel was compiled with

2001-01-27 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Is there a way to know what options a running kernel was compiled with, if you dont have access to the source or configure files it was compiled off of? In particular, I am trying to discover if 'advanced router' and 'equal cost multi path' options are compiled into RH7 kernel-2.2.16-22. I would

Re: ps hang in 241-pre10

2001-01-27 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > > This is the smoking gun here, I bet, but I'd like to make sure I see the > > whole thing. I don't see _why_ we'd have deadlocked on __wait_on_page(), > > but I think this is the thread that hangs on to the mm semaphore. > > I was able to repr

[OT] Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

2001-01-27 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 02:10:25AM +0100, Dominik Kubla wrote: > On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 07:11:59PM -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > > It's this kind of ignorance that makes the internet a less secure and stable > > place. > > You have obviously absolutely no idea what you are talking about. Perio

Re: ps hang in 241-pre10

2001-01-27 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
(ugh, sorry about last mail) On 27 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Unfortunately klogd reads /procerg. > > > >So the following is a painstakingly slow hand translation, I'll only print > >the D state entries unless

Re: Kernel 2.4.x and 2.4.1-preX - Higher latency then 2.2.xkernels?

2001-01-27 Thread Shawn Starr
It should also be noted, that while using GCC and other tasks, the latency has returned to 2.2 levels from my point. Before. If you want to me to do any testing I can do that. I applied the timepegs patch: Kernel timepegs enabled. See http://www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux/ Shawn. > > > > Andre

Re: 2.4.1-pre10 deadlock (Re: ps hang in 241-pre10)

2001-01-27 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Sat, Jan 27 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > What was the trace of this? Just curious, the below case outlined by > > > Linus should be pretty generic, but I'd still like to know what > > > can lead to this condition. > > > > It was posted on linux-k

Re: ps hang in 241-pre10

2001-01-27 Thread Håvard Kvålen
> Does anybody have a clue about what is different with xmms? > > Does it use KNI if it can, for example? We used to have a problem > with KNI+Athlons, for example. No, it doesn't. > It might also be that it's threading-related, and that XMMS is one > of the few things that uses threads. Things

RE: hotmail not dealing with ECN

2001-01-27 Thread David Schwartz
> On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 02:18:31PM -0800, David Schwartz wrote: > > > Firewalling should be implemented on the hosts, perhaps with > > > centralized > > > policy management. In such a situation, there would be no > > > reason to filter > > > on funny IP options. > > That's madness. If you hav

Re: Kernel 2.4.x and 2.4.1-preX - Higher latency then 2.2.xkernels?

2001-01-27 Thread Andrew Morton
Shawn Starr wrote: > > Andrew, the patch HAS made a difference. For example, while untaring >glibc-2.2.1.tar.gz the > system was not sluggish (mouse movements in X) etc. > > Seems to be a go for latency improvements on this system. hmm.. OK, thanks. Chris, this seems to be a worthwhile impro

Re: uptime for 2.2.13 on x86

2001-01-27 Thread Adam
> What happens the day the machine hits 497 days uptime? see http://www.eax.com/about/ for brief explanation of this. I'm sure others can add more but it should answer your question. -- Adam http://www.eax.com The Supreme Headquarters of the 32 bit registers - To unsubscribe from this l

Re: Kernel 2.4.x and 2.4.1-preX - Higher latency then 2.2.xkernels?

2001-01-27 Thread Shawn Starr
Andrew, the patch HAS made a difference. For example, while untaring glibc-2.2.1.tar.gz the system was not sluggish (mouse movements in X) etc. Seems to be a go for latency improvements on this system. Shawn Starr wrote: > Applying now. > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Shawn, > > > > I've pretty

Re: Kernel 2.4.0 loop device still hangs

2001-01-27 Thread Mark Bratcher
Jens Axboe wrote: [snip] > > First of all, I'm all man (not up for debate) so it's Jens not Jen :-) > [snip] Doh! I beg your pardon. I must be blind. 8-) 8-) Mark - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read

Re: Kernel 2.4.0 loop device still hangs

2001-01-27 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sat, Jan 27 2001, Mark Bratcher wrote: > Hey all, > > I applied the patch "loop-3", from Jen Axboe's 2.4.1-pre10 version, to > my 2.4.0 kernel as Jen had suggested we try for the loop device hang > problem. > > This patch appears to have gotten rid of the problem (at least after > testing it

uptime for 2.2.13 on x86

2001-01-27 Thread Wakko Warner
What happens the day the machine hits 497 days uptime? -- Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals - 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/

[PATCH] devfsd, compiling on glibc22x

2001-01-27 Thread David Ford
This patch is simple, defines RTLD_NEXT if not previously defined. --- devfsd.c.orig Sat Jan 27 18:14:19 2001 +++ devfsd.cSat Jan 27 18:15:46 2001 @@ -165,6 +165,7 @@ Last updated by Richard Gooch 3-JUL-2000: Added "-C /etc/modules.devfs" when calling modprobe(8). Fail if a co

Re: 2.4 Cpu usuage (display oddities more than anything)

2001-01-27 Thread Linda Walsh
Some oddities w/kapmd(2.4.0)... If I sit in X and do nothing other than run top or "vmstat 5", I get down to as low as 60% idle and 40% in system -- with kapmd getting 'charged' for the 40%. Then I go and run 'freeamp' and the CPU usage goes to 100% idle, presumably because kapmd never gets call

Re: 2.4.1-pre10 deadlock (Re: ps hang in 241-pre10)

2001-01-27 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sat, Jan 27 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > What was the trace of this? Just curious, the below case outlined by > > Linus should be pretty generic, but I'd still like to know what > > can lead to this condition. > > It was posted on linux-kernel - I don't save the dang things because I > have

Re: ECN: Clearing the air

2001-01-27 Thread jamal
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 07:23:51PM -0500, jamal wrote: > > suggested blocking ECN. Article at: > > >http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?focus=ids&content=/focus/ids/articles/portscan.html > > the site is now ATM -- can someone briefly expla

Re: 2.4.1-pre10 deadlock (Re: ps hang in 241-pre10)

2001-01-27 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > > So what happens is that somebody takes a page fault (and gets the mm > > lock), tries to read something in, and never gets anything back, thus > > leaving the MM locked. > > What was the trace of this? Just curious, the below case outlined by > Li

Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

2001-01-27 Thread Dax Kelson
Jamie Lokier said once upon a time (Fri, 26 Jan 2001): > Does ECN provide perceived benefits to the node using it? Why are you even making suggestions when you haven't even read the RFC? It seems that knowing what ECN is would be prerequisite to engaging in discussion about it. Dax - To unsub

Re: ps hang in 241-pre10

2001-01-27 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Unfortunately klogd reads /procerg. > >So the following is a painstakingly slow hand translation, I'll only print >the D state entries unless someone asks otherwise. You seem to be pretty much able to reproduce this at wi

Re: ps hang in 241-pre10

2001-01-27 Thread Shawn Starr
yes, I should also mention I have also a SoundBlaster 32AWE (0MB on the daughterboard). J Sloan wrote: > OK, here's the details you asked about: > > Soundblaster Awe 32 sound card > Voodoo 3 pci video card > Running Xfree86-4.0.0 (rpms from 3dfx.com) > Playing unreal tournament, no special game

Re: routing between different subnets on same if.

2001-01-27 Thread Paul Jakma
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > What about /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/*/rp_filter ? Should be zero > for the 192.* interface(s), I think. > i already have that enabled for security purposes helaas. > Mike. regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP

Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

2001-01-27 Thread Rusty Russell
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > I thought that most firewalls were supposed to be insanely paranoid. > Perhaps it would be considered a possible covert data channel, as > farfecthed as that may sound. If they were `insanely paranoid' they wouldn't just be doing packet filtering. The

Re: SMP Athlon...(a quiet question)

2001-01-27 Thread Tom Leete
Andre Hedrick wrote: > > ER, they work but must compile as PII/Celeron :-( > A bunch of memcpy header stuff fails to compile > current is one of the left overs in some cases. > > I will dive deeper in monday, just wanting some feed back first. > > Cheers, > > Andre Hedrick > Linux ATA Deve

Re: ps hang in 241-pre10

2001-01-27 Thread J Sloan
OK, here's the details you asked about: Soundblaster Awe 32 sound card Voodoo 3 pci video card Running Xfree86-4.0.0 (rpms from 3dfx.com) Playing unreal tournament, no special game options, just 800x600 graphics @ 16 bits. To recap, the symptoms (hung ps, etc) occurred on kernel 2.4.1-pre8 + low

Re: Oops accessing file on 2048 bytes/sector vfat MO in 2.4.0

2001-01-27 Thread Daniel Kobras
Moi! On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Stefan Meyknecht wrote: > I receive a Kernel oops while copying a file from MO-drive (vfat) with > 2048 bytes sector size. There is no problen with ext2 formatted MOs. > > I think it happens because the function pointer cfv_file_read of the > struct cvf_format is initi

Re: ps hang in 241-pre10

2001-01-27 Thread David Ford
It is important to note that when I hit the magic key and rebooted (SUB), a split second before it rebooted, a stalled 'lspci' snapped back to life and printed out my expected data. -d -- There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. Thomas Jefferson

Re: ps hang in 241-pre10

2001-01-27 Thread David Ford
On 2.4.0-ac12, I played music for about 30 minutes without any problems. I started up an mpeg in xmms and it locked in short order. I'm sure now that it has something to do with the graphics. What DGA or other config options do you have enabled for your game? What video and sound card? I ha

Re: ps hang in 241-pre10

2001-01-27 Thread David Ford
Unfortunately klogd reads /procerg. So the following is a painstakingly slow hand translation, I'll only print the D state entries unless someone asks otherwise. Prior to this: XMMS is running playing star wars mpeg. (regular user) (frozen) TOP is running (regular user) (frozen)

broken Cyrix 486 cpuinfo in 2.4.0

2001-01-27 Thread Vince Weaver
Hello, finally got around to upgrading my old cyrix 486-66 box to 2.4.0 [compiled it locally for the first time since the 2.1.1xx series. It took about 3.5 hours to compile the kernel. make dep took 30 minutes. make menuconfig was almost so slow as to be unusable]. In any case, the CPU is in

Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

2001-01-27 Thread David Lang
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Frank v Waveren wrote: > Why? Why not just zero them, and get both security and compatibility... > the problem is that you don't know what they mean, just zeroing them may break things (how will the sender know that you zeroed them). David Lang - To unsubscribe from this

SMP Athlon...(a quiet question)

2001-01-27 Thread Andre Hedrick
ER, they work but must compile as PII/Celeron :-( A bunch of memcpy header stuff fails to compile current is one of the left overs in some cases. I will dive deeper in monday, just wanting some feed back first. Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: s

Re: VM breakdown, 2.4.0 family

2001-01-27 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, David Ford wrote: > I have Marcelo's patch. It isn't applicable because I am purposely not enabling any > swap. The problem is the system gets down to about 7 megs of buffers free and within > three seconds has become functionally dead. Zero response on any user input/ou

Re: kernel boot problems

2001-01-27 Thread Andre Hedrick
Maybe try enabling ATA/IDE driver as the configuration at compile time has changed. Using an old 2.2 '.config' will fail to enable the subsystem. However using a 2.4'.config' on a 2.2 compile will generally succeed in 90% of the flags. Cheers, On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Derek Benson wrote: > Ryan>

Re: ps hang in 241-pre10

2001-01-27 Thread Aaron Lehmann
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 04:42:45PM -0800, J Sloan wrote: > But at least the sound card was in use, FWIW - Not for me. My xmms was sitting idle when it froze. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ

Re: ps hang in 241-pre10

2001-01-27 Thread J Sloan
Sorry, there was no xmms involved here - The behavior occurred while playing unreal tournament. But at least the sound card was in use, FWIW - jjs David Ford wrote: > We've narrowed it down to "we're all running xmms" when it happend. > > -d > > J Sloan wrote: > > > Just for the record, the s

Re: ps hang in 241-pre10

2001-01-27 Thread David Ford
Linus Torvalds wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > >We've narrowed it down to "we're all running xmms" when it happend. > > Does anybody have a clue about what is different with xmms? Not sure. > Does it use KNI if it can, for example? We use

Re: patch for 2.4.0 disable printk

2001-01-27 Thread Andrew Morton
Stefani Seibold wrote: > > Second, i had change the macro so it calls now a inline funciton > printk_inline which always return 0. So it should be now compatibel to the > standard printk funciton. A #define is better. You see, even if printk is a null inline function, printk("foo"); w

Re: ps hang in 241-pre10

2001-01-27 Thread Shawn Starr
This system is the following: AcerOPEN AP53/AX Motherboard, Intel Pentium 200Mhz w/o MMX (1996-1997) Chipsets: 430HX, PIIX3 (EIDE) 64MB RAM EDO 60ns (Kingston brand) Linus Torvalds wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > >We've narrowed it down

Re: VM breakdown, 2.4.0 family

2001-01-27 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, David Ford wrote: > Since the testN series and up through ac12, I experience total loss of > control when memory is nearly exhausted. > > I start with 256M and eat it up with programs until there is only about > 7 megs left, no swap. From that point all user processes stal

Re: ECN: Clearing the air

2001-01-27 Thread jamal
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, jamal wrote: > > - ECN does not break things. It's brain damaged firewalls, Intrusion > detection systems, and load balancers that should be shot. > One intrusion detection "expert" was quoted suggesting the blocking of ECN > bits should be blocked because "nmap uses them"

Re: ps hang in 241-pre10

2001-01-27 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >We've narrowed it down to "we're all running xmms" when it happend. Does anybody have a clue about what is different with xmms? Does it use KNI if it can, for example? We used to have a problem with KNI+Athlons, for exampl

Re: Renaming lost+found

2001-01-27 Thread Thunder from the hill
> A file-system without a lost+found directory is like love without sex. You mean, possible but leaving you unsatisfied? Well, I think a file system without a lost+found is a lot worse. Thunder --- Woah... I did a "cat /boot/vmlinuz >> /dev/audio" - and I think I heard god... - To unsubscribe f

Re: Probably Off-topic Question...

2001-01-27 Thread Thunder from the hill
Mark Smith wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 11:02:05AM -0700, Thunder from the hill wrote: > > > > > my vaio F-series used to sleep correctly under RH6.1. it now hangs > > > > > forever making the sleep mode much less useful. > > > i just push the sleep button. it used to work under RH6.1. u

ECN: Clearing the air (fwd)

2001-01-27 Thread jamal
Just proves i am not on lk -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 19:05:38 -0500 (EST) From: jamal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ECN: Clearing the air On Fri, 26 Jan 2001 15:29:51 +, James Sutherland wrote: > Except you can

Re: kernel boot problems

2001-01-27 Thread Derek Benson
Ryan> Hello all, Hi Ryan> I was wondering if someone might be able to help me. I have Ryan> just compiled my kernel and set it up on a floppy to boot off a Ryan> disk. I have it then use an image file to uncompress and get Ryan> the filesystem off ,etc. Well when it boots it says it has

Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

2001-01-27 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 11:09:27PM +, James Sutherland wrote: > On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, David Schwartz wrote: > > > > > > Firewalling should be implemented on the hosts, perhaps with centralized > > > policy management. In such a situation, there would be no reason to filter > > > on funny IP o

Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

2001-01-27 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 02:18:31PM -0800, David Schwartz wrote: > > Firewalling should be implemented on the hosts, perhaps with centralized > > policy management. In such a situation, there would be no reason to filter > > on funny IP options. > > That's madness. If you have to implement y

Re: ps hang in 241-pre10

2001-01-27 Thread David Ford
At the time I had temporary access to my notebook and had a mismatched System.map file :S -d Linus Torvalds wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I can quickly and easily duplicate it on my notebook by playing music or > >mpegs in xmms. It may take

Re: CBQ simply doesn't work

2001-01-27 Thread patrick . mourlhon
> #!/bin/bash > /sbin/insmod cls_fw > /sbin/insmod sch_prio > /sbin/insmod sch_cbq > /sbin/insmod cls__u32 myne here is cls_u32 > insmod: a module named sch_cbq already exists > insmod: cls__u32: no module by that name found but i use 2.4... and i just feel your classifier cannot work anymore..

Re: ps hang in 241-pre10

2001-01-27 Thread David Ford
We've narrowed it down to "we're all running xmms" when it happend. -d J Sloan wrote: > Just for the record, the system where I saw the problem > has only ext2 - -- There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. Thomas Jefferson The good thing about

Re: VM breakdown, 2.4.0 family

2001-01-27 Thread David Ford
I have Marcelo's patch. It isn't applicable because I am purposely not enabling any swap. The problem is the system gets down to about 7 megs of buffers free and within three seconds has become functionally dead. Zero response on any user input/output device save the magic key. The system will

Re: routing between different subnets on same if.

2001-01-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Jakma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > >> Did you enable forwarding with echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward ? >> > >yes. the machine already routes correctly between the 2 subnets and >the internet which is o

RE: hotmail not dealing with ECN

2001-01-27 Thread James Sutherland
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, David Schwartz wrote: > > > Firewalling should be implemented on the hosts, perhaps with centralized > > policy management. In such a situation, there would be no reason to filter > > on funny IP options. > > That's madness. If you have to implement your firewalling o

CBQ simply doesn't work

2001-01-27 Thread clock
I can't get the CBQ running on 2.2.17. Alexey look like he doesn't reply to his mails. I made one more man to check it over me. We both can't find a problem. The file with config info is attached. Eager for any idea Clock This is an excerpt from the kernel configuration: [*] QoS and

[PATCH] dynamic IP support for 2.4.0 (SIOCKILLADDR)

2001-01-27 Thread John Fremlin
When the IP address of an interface changes, TCP connections with the old source address are useless. Applications are not notified of this and time out ordinarily, just as if nothing had happened. This is behaviour isn't very helpful when you have a dynamic IP and know you're probably not going t

Re: Looking for comparison data on network stack prowess

2001-01-27 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
David Ford writes: > I'm looking for some authoritative comparisons and discussions of the > current network stacks in *BSD and Linux. I.e. NET4 in Linux and > whatever is most current in *BSD. > > _PLEASE_ no flaming, no causing flamewar, nadda. > > I am writing an article for Linux.com and I

Re: patch for 2.4.0 disable printk

2001-01-27 Thread Stefani Seibold
Hi guys, thanks for the feedback. This is now the second try of my disable printk patch. First i moved the option for disabling the prinbtk messages form the menu character devices to kernel hacking. Second, i had change the macro so it calls now a inline funciton printk_inline which always

RE: hotmail not dealing with ECN

2001-01-27 Thread David Schwartz
> Firewalling should be implemented on the hosts, perhaps with centralized > policy management. In such a situation, there would be no reason to filter > on funny IP options. That's madness. If you have to implement your firewalling on every host, what do you do when someone wants to run

Re: routing between different subnets on same if.

2001-01-27 Thread Paul Jakma
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > Did you enable forwarding with echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward ? > yes. the machine already routes correctly between the 2 subnets and the internet which is on a seperate interface. i also disabled /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/send_redir

Re: routing between different subnets on same if.

2001-01-27 Thread Paul Jakma
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > did you install routed on the linux machine ? no i have my routes statically set, but that wouldn't make a difference. Routed just adds/deletes entries from the kernel table as neccessary and lets the kernel do the forwarding as neccessary. so it'd

Re: kernel boot problems

2001-01-27 Thread Joe deBlaquiere
A few things come to mind: 1. Is your init statically linked or linked with shared libraries? If it's shared, do you have all the shared objects on your disk image in a place where they can be found (/lib, I hope)? You might try linking it statically (but stripped) just to make sure. 2. Is it

Re: es1371 freezes 2.4.0 hard

2001-01-27 Thread David Bustos
Quoth Jeff Garzik on Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 09:22:45AM -0500: [...] > But removing pci_enable_device is incorrect; it merely avoids what > appears to be a bug with your Via irq routing. Would it be possible for > you to edit linux/arch/i386/kernel/pci-i386.h, and change the line near > the top from

Re: Linux Post codes during runtime, possibly OT

2001-01-27 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Rogier Wolff wrote: > > You seem to state that if you want POST codes, you should find a > different port, modify the code, test the hell out of it, and then > submit the patch. > > That is NOT the right way to go about this: Port 0x80 is RESERVED for > POST usage, that's why it's always free. I

Re: [UPDATE] Zerocopy patches, against 2.4.1-pre10

2001-01-27 Thread Ion Badulescu
Hi Alexey, On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > fits the new Linux model a bit better, as it has one descriptor per > > packet, not one per fragment (like the current implementation). > > Yes. Absence of such mode with acenic is big pain in ass. And, at least for the starfire, using

Re: ps hang in 241-pre10

2001-01-27 Thread Aaron Lehmann
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 04:33:42AM -0500, Shawn Starr wrote: > Yes, I have ReiserFS as well...hrm... I don't. - 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: Renaming lost+found

2001-01-27 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On 01/26/01 01:19 PM James Lewis Nance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> FWIW IBM's JFS file system does not have a lost+found directory. I dont >> remember if reiserfs does or not. > > Actually it does. > > From one of my rs/6000's sitting here, with a pretty much defa

Re: Linux Post codes during runtime, possibly OT

2001-01-27 Thread Rogier Wolff
H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Rogier Wolff wrote: > > H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > It output garbage to the 80h port in order to enforce I/O delays. > > > It's one of the safe ports to issue outs to. > > Yes, because it is reserved for POST codes. You can get "POST > > debugging cards" that simply have

check_dis(c|k)_change(|d): duplicated code

2001-01-27 Thread Yann Droneaud
I was looking up linux code to find why /proc/partitions report 'hdc' instead of 'ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd' example: major minor #blocks name 8 01048575 scsi/host0/bus0/target6/lun0/disc 3 03140928 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc 3 1 4000 ide

Re: Linux Post codes during runtime, possibly OT

2001-01-27 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Rogier Wolff wrote: > > H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > By author:"Ian S. Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > > > I'm curious. Why does Linux make that friendly 98/9a/88 looking > > > postcode pattern when it's running? DOS

Re: Renaming lost+found

2001-01-27 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 06:05:54PM -0200, Rodrigo Barbosa (aka morcego) wrote: > > I think JFS indeed doesn't have it. And ReiserFS doesn't too. This > should be common place for journaling filesystems. No, it's nothing to do with journaling or not. Even journaling filesystems can suffer

Re: the remount problem [2.4.0] kind of solved [patch]

2001-01-27 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Wichert Akkerman writes: > Previously Goswin Brederlow wrote: >> Maybe the kernel coud swap in the deleted libraries and keep it in >> memory or real swap from then on instead of blocking the fs. > > No, you have no idea how large the file might grow and you need to > keep that data somewhere. G

Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

2001-01-27 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 08:58:51PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote: [snip] > > I think that older Checkpoint firewalls (perhaps current?) zeroed out SACK > > on 'hide nat'ed connections. This causes unreasonable stalls for users on > > SACK enabled clients. Not cool. > > If both SACK and SACK_PERMITTED

Re: SBF queueing?

2001-01-27 Thread kuznet
Hello! > Has anyone decided to code a SFB (Stochastic Fair Blue) queue implementation > for Linux? I did not hear anything about this. > (http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~wuchang/blue/). The paper for it shows it > performing very well in comparison to RED. Yes, the algorithm looks interesting. Ale

Re: hdd: set_drive_speed_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekCompleteError }

2001-01-27 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Sat, Jan 27 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > I've been getting this during the boot sequence for quite some time now. > > > They don't seem to impact the functionality of the drive any though. Just > > > another extra-verbose kernel message I should ig

Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

2001-01-27 Thread Jamie Lokier
Gregory Maxwell wrote: > > Why? Why not just zero them, and get both security and compatibility... > > Eeek! NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO! > For ECN that would have worked, but that doesn't mean that something > couldn't have been implimented there that wouldn't have worked that way.. > > I think

kernel boot problems

2001-01-27 Thread Ryan Hairyes
Hello all, I was wondering if someone might be able to help me. I have just compiled my kernel and set it up on a floppy to boot off a disk. I have it then use an image file to uncompress and get the filesystem off ,etc. Well when it boots it says it has uncompressed the filesystem image and th

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Re: routing between different subnets on same if.

2001-01-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Paul Jakma wrote: > >> On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> > Hi Paul, >> > >> > I just think you might look for aliasing on your linux box. >> >> i have the aliasing, the aliased machine can ping IP'

Re: hdd: set_drive_speed_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekCompleteError }

2001-01-27 Thread Jacob Luna Lundberg
I gave it a whirl. Sadly, no change. On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Jens Axboe wrote: > My gut tells me that this is the 'get last written' command, and even > with the quiet flag we get the IDE error status printed. Could you > try and add > > goto use_toc; > > add the top of drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c

Re: SBF queueing?

2001-01-27 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 07:52:32PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Gregory! > You might have a look on linux/Documentation/networking/policy-routing.txt > I think this was down by Alexey Kuznetov Thanks for the quick reply. But that's not exactly what I was looking for. I was trying to find

Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

2001-01-27 Thread Frank v Waveren
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 02:20:32PM -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > > Why? Why not just zero them, and get both security and compatibility... > Eeek! NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO! > For ECN that would have worked, but that doesn't mean that something > couldn't have been implimented there that would

Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

2001-01-27 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 07:18:09PM +0100, Frank v Waveren wrote: > On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 04:10:48AM +, David Wagner wrote: > > Practice being really, really paranoid. Think: You're designing a > > firewall; you've got some reserved bits, currently unused; any future code > > that uses them

Re: ps hang in 241-pre10

2001-01-27 Thread J Sloan
Just for the record, the system where I saw the problem has only ext2 - jjs Shawn Starr wrote: > Yes, I have ReiserFS as well...hrm... > > David Ford wrote: > > > I can quickly and easily duplicate it on my notebook by playing music or > > mpegs in xmms. It may take a few minutes but it's guar

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