time in the future during make for 2.4.0

2001-01-28 Thread Thomas Molina
I seem to recall a discussion on faster processors causing timing problems during a kernel make, but I'm unable to find it in the kernel archives. I've now upgraded to an Athlon 900 MHz processor and an ASUS A7V motherboard and have started seeing this. It shows up as the following messages

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Kernel Janitor's TODO list

2001-01-28 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Manfred Spraul wrote: And one more point for the Janitor's list: Get rid of superflous irqsave()/irqrestore()'s - in 90% of the cases either spin_lock_irq() or spin_lock() is sufficient. That's both faster and better readable. spin_lock_irq(): you know that the

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

2001-01-28 Thread Chris Mason
On Sunday, January 28, 2001 02:29:09 PM +1100 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Q: Release of 2.4.1

2001-01-28 Thread mirabilos
Does 2.4.1 when released, include e.g. Jens' loop patch? Because it seems stable and loop else were buggy. So for others if there are. mirabilos -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12+custom(^=href;C-style-comments) GO/S dx@ s--: a--- C++ UL P--- L++$(-^lang) E/joe W+(++) N?

Re: Linux-2.4.1-pre11

2001-01-28 Thread Dieter Nützel
I just uploaded it to kernel.org, and I expect that I'll do the final 2.4.1 tomorrow, before leaving for NY and LinuxWorld. Please test that the pre-kernel works for you.. Hello Linus, can we please see Andrew's latest ACPI fixes ([Acpi] ACPI source release updated: 1-25-2001) in 2.4.1

Re: Renaming lost+found

2001-01-28 Thread Chris Mason
On Friday, January 26, 2001 01:19:49 PM -0500 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. reiserfsck creates it. -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: [OT] Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

2001-01-28 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 01:57:53PM +0100, Dominik Kubla wrote: On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 11:35:43PM -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote: ... An attack against an Xray system is much more likely to come from inside the companies network. ... We are not talking about attacks here, we are talking

Re: Poor SCSI drive performance on SMP machine, 2.2.16

2001-01-28 Thread Bruce Harada
Hm. As a point of comparison, I use a similar system to yours (full SCSI, though, no IDE) and I can copy a 100MB file from disk-to-disk, or on the same disk, in around 13 seconds. Where are you copying to the SCSI drive from - the same drive, an IDE disk, CDROM? If IDE, what are its particulars?

Re: Q: Release of 2.4.1

2001-01-28 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sun, Jan 28 2001, mirabilos wrote: Does 2.4.1 when released, include e.g. Jens' loop patch? No, I haven't submitted it yet due to the massive restructering. Plus, it also touches other parts than loop itself. Because it seems stable and loop else were buggy. So for others if there are.

Re: ECN: Clearing the air (fwd)

2001-01-28 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 01:29:52PM +, James Sutherland wrote: There is nothing silly with the decision, davem is simply a modern day internet hero. No. If it were something essential, perhaps, but it's just a minor performance tweak to cut packet loss over congested links. It's not

Re: Kernel 2.4.0 loop device still hangs

2001-01-28 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sun, Jan 28 2001, Andreas Franck wrote: Hi Jens, I've tested your patch quite as heavy as it gets: I created 5 files of each 100 MB, set up 5 loop devices and made a RAID5 array out of them, putting ext2 on it and running a bonnie loop with 350 MB test size over it for the night.

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

2001-01-28 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 02:37:48PM +0100, Felix von Leitner wrote: Thus spake Andrew Morton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Conclusions: For a NIC which cannot do scatter/gather/checksums, the zerocopy patch makes no change in throughput in all case. For a NIC which can do

Re: ECN: Clearing the air (fwd)

2001-01-28 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 06:04:17AM -0800, Ben Ford wrote: James Sutherland wrote: [snip] those firewalls should be updated to allow ECN-enabled packets through. However, to break connectivity to such sites deliberately just because they are not supporting an *experimental* extension to

Choosing Linux NICs (was: Re: sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing to do with ECN))

2001-01-28 Thread Felix von Leitner
Thus spake Felix von Leitner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): What is missing here is a good authoritative web ressource that tells people which NIC to buy. I started one now. It's at http://www.fefe.de/linuxeth/, but there is not much content yet. Please contribute! Felix - To unsubscribe from this

Re: time in the future during make for 2.4.0

2001-01-28 Thread Mikael Pettersson
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 12:27:46 -0600 (CST), Thomas Molina wrote: I seem to recall a discussion on faster processors causing timing problems during a kernel make, but I'm unable to find it in the kernel archives. I've now upgraded to an Athlon 900 MHz processor and an ASUS A7V motherboard and have

Re: time in the future during make for 2.4.0

2001-01-28 Thread phil
I had this problem when I was upgrading my kernel, and happened to do it during the daylight savings time roll-back. Confused the heck out of me for a while. Anyways, you can try 'touching' all your files, and do a 'make clean' then try again. If it doesn't complain about a long arg list, you

Re: ECN: Clearing the air (fwd)

2001-01-28 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 02:09:19PM +, James Sutherland wrote: On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Ben Ford wrote: Do keep in mind, we aren't breaking connectivity, they are. Let me guess: you're a lawyer? :-) This is a very strange definition: if someone makes a change such that their machine can

Re: Poor SCSI drive performance on SMP machine, 2.2.16

2001-01-28 Thread paradox3
I did this: date dd if=/dev/zero of=TESTFILE bs=1024 count=102400 date sync date and I gave the time differences from the first to the last timestamp. Regards, Para-dox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Original Message - From: "Bruce Harada" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "paradox3" [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Poor SCSI drive performance on SMP machine, 2.2.16

2001-01-28 Thread paradox3
Sorry, forget this last email. Here is hdparm output. hdparm

Re: ECN: Clearing the air (fwd)

2001-01-28 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 05:11:20PM +, James Sutherland wrote: [snip] The simplest thing in this chaos is to fix the firewall because it is in violation to begin with. It is not in violation, and you can't fix it: it's not yours. [snip] It's too bad we end up defining protocols using

linux-kernel´Ô¾È³çÇϼ¼¿ä?

2001-01-28 Thread OnLine Korea
Title: ¢Ä ¿À´ÃÀÇ À¯¸Ó ÇѸ¶µð ¢Å "Dad, I don't want to go to school today.," said the boy. "Why not, son?" "Well, one of the chickens on the school farm died last week and we had chicken soup for lunch the next day. And three days ago one of the pigs died and we had roast pork

Re: ECN: Clearing the air (fwd)

2001-01-28 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 01:08:40PM -0500, jamal wrote: On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Rogier Wolff wrote: A sufficiently paranoid firewall should block requests that he doesn't fully understand. ECN was in this category, so old firewalls are "right" to block these. (Sending an 'RST' is not

tulip autonegotiation patch

2001-01-28 Thread Stephen Degler
Hi, This one-liner fixes a subtle 21143 autonegotiation problem for me on a Zynx quad card. The driver would claim to negotiate 100-FD, but would report late collisions and bad transmit throughput. The driver still allows packets to be transmitted during autonegotiation, but that only drops a

dos-partition mount bug

2001-01-28 Thread Andreas Huppert
Hi, The following bug-report concerns all linux-versions (inclusive 2.2.18) I have had to do with! I have been trying to mount the dos-partition /dev/hdb1 on /dos/d for three years and it fails: My /etc/fstab is: /dev/hda3 / ext2 defaults 0 1 /dev/hdb2 /downloads ext2 defaults 0 1 /proc

Re: dos-partition mount bug

2001-01-28 Thread mirabilos
I suggest type # fdisk -l /dev/hdb Maybe it's FAT32 where the others are FAT16? Try SCANDISK(tm)... If you're familiar with FAT, you also could use DEBUG, the Norton Utilities etc. to look for a failure in the filesystem. For FAT16 it's easy. Bootsector, 2xFAT, root dir, data blocks Send us a

PCI IRQ routing problem in 2.4.0

2001-01-28 Thread Robert Siemer
Hi Martin! While moving from 2.4.0-test9 to 2.4.0 I got the following problem: Linux thinks my usb controller is on IRQ 12 instead of IRQ 9. The 'BIOS box' (on boot) still states that usb is on IRQ 9. Under test9 pci-irq-behaviour was okay for me, but with 2.4.0 I cant load the usb-modules (the

Re: time in the future during make for 2.4.0

2001-01-28 Thread Thomas Molina
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had this problem when I was upgrading my kernel, and happened to do it during the daylight savings time roll-back. Confused the heck out of me for a while. Anyways, you can try 'touching' all your files, and do a 'make clean' then try again.

Re: [PATCH] doc update/fixes for sysrq.txt

2001-01-28 Thread Jeremy M. Dolan
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 11:35:50 +, David Ford wrote: AFAIK, this hasn't ever been true. I have never had to specifically enable it at run time. I was suspicious of that in the old doc but thought I'd leave it in... Should have asked for feedback on it, but you caught it anyway, thanks!

[PATCH] aci.c and related files reworked for 2.4.0

2001-01-28 Thread Robert Siemer
Hi Thomas an linux-sound (: ! I made up a new patch for the aci.c and related files. It's for miroSOUND sound cards. It applies cleanly against 2.4.0, but problems can occur when not compiled as modules. - I will work on this issue, but my box has problems booting completely into 2.4.0 (PCI

ISAPnP Buglet in 2.4.0

2001-01-28 Thread Steven Walter
Problem in a nutshell: The module for my soundcard (cs4232.o) won't load until after a "cat /proc/isapnp" has been run. I'm guessing (though not sure) that this isn't the intended behavior. ISAPnP is compiled into the kernel, and detects the card correctly during boot, as evidenced by the

ECN fixes for Cisco gear

2001-01-28 Thread Dax Kelson
In Sept of 2000, I did a survey of 30,000 websites and found that 8% of them were unreachable from an ECN capable client. Two major culprits were identified, the Cisco PIX and Local Director. To Cisco's credit, fixes were released quickly. Here is a message I sent with info about the Cisco

Re: Renaming lost+found

2001-01-28 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] By author:Thunder from the hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel 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

Re: Renaming lost+found

2001-01-28 Thread Mo McKinlay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Today, H. Peter Anvin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello people... the original question was: can lost+found be *renamed*, i.e. does the tools (e2fsck c) use "/lost+found" by name, or by inode? As far as I know it always uses the same inode

Re: ECN fixes for Cisco gear

2001-01-28 Thread Lincoln Dale
Hi, At 02:33 PM 28/01/2001 -0700, Dax Kelson wrote: Here is the fix for PIX: (see http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/Support/Bugtool/onebug.pl?bugid=CSCds23698) Bud ID: CSCds23698 Headline: PIX sends RSET in response to tcp connections with ECN bits set Product: PIX Component:

Re: Linux-2.4.1-pre11

2001-01-28 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Dieter Ntzel wrote: I just uploaded it to kernel.org, and I expect that I'll do the final 2.4.1 tomorrow, before leaving for NY and LinuxWorld. Please test that the pre-kernel works for you.. Hello Linus, can we please see Andrew's latest ACPI fixes ([Acpi]

[PATCH] enabling LKM for custom beeper

2001-01-28 Thread Christian W. Zuckschwerdt
Hi Linus, Alan, this patch has proven to be stable an useable. It hasn't changed since 2.2.13. The patch affects kd_mksound and kd_nosound which are responsible for generating sound. The default behaviour won't be changed but it's now possible for a LKM to hook into these calls and change the

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

2001-01-28 Thread Shawn Starr
Will this patch work with the low-latency patch? I have a few other patches in this kernel (one fixing the ps hang issue). Andrew Morton wrote: 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

Re: Q: Release of 2.4.1

2001-01-28 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article 01a301c0895e$b142cc90$[EMAIL PROTECTED], mirabilos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does 2.4.1 when released, include e.g. Jens' loop patch? Because it seems stable and loop else were buggy. Only if Jens sends it to me in a timely fashion (which by now means "real soon").

Support for 802.11 cards?

2001-01-28 Thread Mike Pontillo
Hello, I was wondering what 802.11 PCI cards anyone knows of that run under Linux-2.4. (or 2.2 for that matter) I have looked at Documentation/Configure.help and done a quick grep of all the documentation for "802.11" without much luck. I can't seem to find anything related to

Re: Support for 802.11 cards?

2001-01-28 Thread John Jasen
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Mike Pontillo wrote: I was wondering what 802.11 PCI cards anyone knows of that run under Linux-2.4. (or 2.2 for that matter) I _think_ a good many of the 802.11 wireless ISA and PCI cards are just bus to PCMCIA adapters, so it would be a question of whether or not

ECN connectivity surveys

2001-01-28 Thread Dax Kelson
For test methodology and results go to this website, about 1/3 the way down you'll see the ECN bullet point. http://www.aciri.org/tbit/ Dax Kelson Guru Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the

Re: Linux-2.4.1-pre11

2001-01-28 Thread Derek Wildstar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Dieter Ntzel wrote: I just uploaded it to kernel.org, and I expect that I'll do the final 2.4.1 tomorrow, before leaving for NY and LinuxWorld. Please test that the

Ram disk problems in 2.4.0ac12

2001-01-28 Thread Keith Owens
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001 17:46:12 -0800 (PST), "Sergey Kubushin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Modules still don't load: === Cut === ide-mod.o: Can't handle sections of type 32131 ide-probe-mod.o: Can't handle sections of type 256950710 ide-disk.o: Can't handle sections of type 688840897 ext2.o: Can't

Moving from kernel 2.2 to 2.4

2001-01-28 Thread Alec Smith
I understand a large portion of the kernel 2.4 networking code was updated and/or completely replaced. Under 2.2 I have ipchains configured to do basic masquerading for my local LAN. Is there a straightforward guide which describes how to do masquerading and firewalling with 2.4 after moving

raiserfs, 2.4.1preX and nfs

2001-01-28 Thread CaT
I'm tempted to use raiserfs on a 45gig raid partition because I don't want to grow old and die before it finishes fscking. The main hassle is that that partition will be NFSed out and in the past there have been mutterings of rfs hacing hassles with nfs. Have these been sorted? Is there anything

My appologies

2001-01-28 Thread Thunder from the hill
Hi, all, My mailer (NS4.76/Linux 2.4.0-test10) has corrupted some messages and send them at least twice. I apologize for that, please don't be worried. Thunder --- Woah... I did a "cat /boot/vmlinuz /dev/audio" - and I think I heard god... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Moving from kernel 2.2 to 2.4

2001-01-28 Thread John Jasen
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Alec Smith wrote: I understand a large portion of the kernel 2.4 networking code was updated and/or completely replaced. Under 2.2 I have ipchains configured to do basic masquerading for my local LAN. Is there a straightforward guide which describes how to do

Re: Linux-2.4.1-pre11

2001-01-28 Thread Drew Bertola
Andrew's latest ACPI fixes (acpica-linux-2125 patched against 2.4.0) compile fine here and don't hang on my Vaio after loading tables. That's a start. I'll play around some more. Jeff Garzik writes: Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Dieter Ntzel wrote: I just uploaded it to

Re: Poor SCSI drive performance on SMP machine, 2.2.16

2001-01-28 Thread paradox3
It sounds to me like you have a SCSI bus problem. Have you checked termination? Cable quality? Cable lengths? Forgive me, I'm rather ignorant of SCSI hardware.All that I have is a cable (appears to be good quality, came with motherboard) about 60 centimeters long going from the motherboard

Kernel 2.4.1pre11 - Compile bug - Function prototype change?

2001-01-28 Thread Shawn Starr
in include/linux/mm.h: -extern void zap_page_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address, unsigned long size, int actions); +extern void zap_page_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address, unsigned long size) The function has changed and breaks memory.c ? memory.c:352:

Re: Support for 802.11 cards?

2001-01-28 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 05:07:33PM -0500, John Jasen wrote: On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Mike Pontillo wrote: I was wondering what 802.11 PCI cards anyone knows of that run under Linux-2.4. (or 2.2 for that matter) I _think_ a good many of the 802.11 wireless ISA and PCI cards are just bus

[IGNORE] Re: Kernel 2.4.1pre11 - Compile bug - Function prototype change?

2001-01-28 Thread Shawn Starr
Nevermind, the low-latency patch changed this function.. ignore Shawn Starr wrote: in include/linux/mm.h: -extern void zap_page_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address, unsigned long size, int actions); +extern void zap_page_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,

Re: Linux-2.4.1-pre11

2001-01-28 Thread Drew Bertola
Drew Bertola writes: Andrew's latest ACPI fixes (acpica-linux-2125 patched against 2.4.0) compile fine here and don't hang on my Vaio after loading tables. That's a start. I'll play around some more. Unfortunately, pcmcia modules fail to load. I can't understand the interaction.

Re: Poor SCSI drive performance on SMP machine, 2.2.16

2001-01-28 Thread Johan Kullstam
"paradox3" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I did this: date dd if=/dev/zero of=TESTFILE bs=1024 count=102400 date sync date and I gave the time differences from the first to the last timestamp. hmm. i ran this on my old ppro200 with adaptec 2940uw and ibm DDRS-39130W drive.

linux-2.4.1-pre11

2001-01-28 Thread Louis Garcia
I am getting messages everytime I use the network from my RH7 + kernel-2.4.1-pre11 system: modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-10 I have checked my .config and can't find that modules. This does not happen with 2.4.0 kernel, only with the latest pre series maybe pre7 on. Lou -

Re: Linux-2.4.1-pre11

2001-01-28 Thread Drew Bertola
Drew Bertola writes: Drew Bertola writes: Andrew's latest ACPI fixes (acpica-linux-2125 patched against 2.4.0) compile fine here and don't hang on my Vaio after loading tables. That's a start. I'll play around some more. Unfortunately, pcmcia modules fail to load. I can't

Re: ECN: Clearing the air (fwd)

2001-01-28 Thread Jamie Lokier
Gregory Maxwell wrote: There is nothing silly with the decision, davem is simply a modern day internet hero. No. If it were something essential, perhaps, but it's just a minor performance tweak to cut packet loss over congested links. It's not IPv6. It's not PMTU. It's not even

D state after applying ps hang patch

2001-01-28 Thread David Ford
kernel 2.4.0-ac12 # ps -eo user,pid,args,wchan|egrep "imap|update|procmail" root 7 [kupdate]get_request_wait david 627 imapdget_request_wait david 752 procmail -f linu down david 761 procmail -f linu down david 799 procmail -f linu down david

Re: linux-2.4.1-pre11

2001-01-28 Thread Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Em Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 06:55:25PM -0500, Louis Garcia escreveu: I am getting messages everytime I use the network from my RH7 + kernel-2.4.1-pre11 system: modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-10 I have checked my .config and can't find that modules. This does not happen

Re: display problem with matroxfb

2001-01-28 Thread Petr Vandrovec
you do not have to specify vesa,pixclock,hslen and vslen, as you leave them on defaults. Talking of defaults for matroxfb, would you consider limiting the fv: value default to something reasonable that'll work on all monitors? It took me several recompiles/reboots to get a setting that

Re: D state after applying ps hang patch

2001-01-28 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Jan 29 2001, David Ford wrote: kernel 2.4.0-ac12 # ps -eo user,pid,args,wchan|egrep "imap|update|procmail" root 7 [kupdate]get_request_wait david 627 imapdget_request_wait david 752 procmail -f linu down david 761 procmail -f linu down

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

2001-01-28 Thread Shawn Starr
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I've backed out of the low-latency patch but kept the timepegs patch in. I've applied your reiserfs low-latency patch on a stock 2.4.1-pre11 kernel. Let's see what happens :) Shawn. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: problem exporting symbols from a lkm

2001-01-28 Thread Keith Owens
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 19:16:06 +0100, SR (c) 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my /proc/ksyms shows that the exported symbols from 8390.o are different from the other symbols because they have "_R__ver_" in front of them. FAQ http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s8-8 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: Linux-2.4.1-pre11

2001-01-28 Thread David D.W. Downey
Hi Linus, Sorry to bother you. I'm trying to find where you uploaded linux-2.4.1-pre11. I was on ftp.kernel.org and ftp.us.kernel.org and could not find it in the /pub/linux/kernel/v2.4 or /pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/test-kernels/ directories. Is it somewhere different? Also, Alan, I

Re: Linux-2.4.1-pre11

2001-01-28 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 04:55:51PM -0800, David D.W. Downey wrote: Hi Linus, Sorry to bother you. I'm trying to find where you uploaded linux-2.4.1-pre11. I was on ftp.kernel.org and ftp.us.kernel.org and could not find it in the /pub/linux/kernel/v2.4 or

PDC20265, disk corruption and NMI watchdog...

2001-01-28 Thread Petr Vandrovec
Short story: Hi Andre, why on Earth ide_delay_50ms uses jiffies instead of mdelay(50) ?! It is invoked with interrupts disabled, causing NMI watchdog detected on my system, leading to complete crash of system. Long story: At home I have Asus A7V motherboard with 1G Athlon, and onboard

Re: Linux-2.4.1-pre11

2001-01-28 Thread David D.W. Downey
Patch was in /pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/test/patch-2.4.1-pre11.gz I'm on ftp.kernel.org right this second in /pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ There is only a test-kernels/ subdir there, not a test/ test-kernels/ does not contain the patch. David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Linux-2.4.1-pre11

2001-01-28 Thread David D.W. Downey
Nevermind. I found it. It's actually residing in /pub/linux/kernel/testing/ and NOT in /pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ or it's subdirs. David D.W. Downey - 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: Linux-2.4.1-pre11

2001-01-28 Thread Michael H. Warfield
Damn... So much for typing too fast... Screwed it up... On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 07:59:47PM -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote: On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 04:55:51PM -0800, David D.W. Downey wrote: Hi Linus, Sorry to bother you. I'm trying to find where you uploaded

Re: Linux-2.4.1-pre11

2001-01-28 Thread Luc de Louw
Hi Linus On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: I just uploaded it to kernel.org, and I expect that I'll do the final 2.4.1 tomorrow, before leaving for NY and LinuxWorld. Please test that the pre-kernel works for you.. yes, it works :-) The main noticeable things in pre11 are

Re: Linux-2.4.1-pre11

2001-01-28 Thread Bob Chiodini
How about: http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/testing/patch-2.4.1-pre11.gz Bob... "David D.W. Downey" wrote: Patch was in /pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/test/patch-2.4.1-pre11.gz I'm on ftp.kernel.org right this second in /pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ There is only a test-kernels/

Re: Linux-2.4.1-pre11

2001-01-28 Thread Derek Wildstar
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Derek Wildstar wrote: OK, tried the patch and it worked, don't remember the exact errors with the .tar.gz, there were 7 or so undefined references. ACPI soft-hangs one step before (after looking at the non-debug source it may be the same place) it did last time, right

Re: PDC20265, disk corruption and NMI watchdog...

2001-01-28 Thread Andre Hedrick
Everything but a kernel version :-( On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Petr Vandrovec wrote: Short story: Hi Andre, why on Earth ide_delay_50ms uses jiffies instead of mdelay(50) ?! It is invoked with interrupts disabled, causing NMI watchdog detected on my system, leading to complete crash of

Re: Linux-2.4.1-pre11

2001-01-28 Thread Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Em Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 08:10:41PM -0500, Michael H. Warfield escreveu: Damn... So much for typing too fast... Screwed it up... t fast 8) Patch was in /pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/test/patch-2.4.1-pre11.gz Patch was in /pub/linux/kernel/test/patch-2.4.1-pre11.gz

RE: [patch] smbfs cache rewrite - 2nd try

2001-01-28 Thread Rainer Mager
This is working great for me so far. I've now got my full 1G RAM and samba seems to be working fine. Woohoo! One more oops dead. Put it in the official kernel. Put it in the official kernel. Put it in the err, excuse me. I was chanting again. --Rainer -Original Message- From:

Re: display problem with matroxfb

2001-01-28 Thread Trevor Hemsley
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001 00:30:34, Petr Vandrovec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you do not have to specify vesa,pixclock,hslen and vslen, as you leave them on defaults. Talking of defaults for matroxfb, would you consider limiting the fv: value default to something reasonable that'll work

Re: Support for 802.11 cards?

2001-01-28 Thread Anton Blanchard
Hi, Last I knew (straight from the Lucent people), the ISA bridge card worked fine and the PCI card did NOT work at all. I've since confirmed that, first hand, myself (I currently have the ISA bridge in operation) on the 2.2 kernels. The ISA bridge also works on the 2.4 kernels

Re: linux-2.4.1-pre11

2001-01-28 Thread Louis Garcia
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: Em Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 06:55:25PM -0500, Louis Garcia escreveu: I am getting messages everytime I use the network from my RH7 + kernel-2.4.1-pre11 system: modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-10 I have checked my .config and can't find that

Re: Linux-2.4.1-pre11

2001-01-28 Thread Dieter Nützel
Am Sonntag, 28. Januar 2001 22:46 schrieb Linus Torvalds: On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Dieter Ntzel wrote: I just uploaded it to kernel.org, and I expect that I'll do the final 2.4.1 tomorrow, before leaving for NY and LinuxWorld. Please test that the pre-kernel works for you.. Hello Linus,

Re: [PATCH] devfsd, compiling on glibc22x

2001-01-28 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Ulrich Drepper writes: 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. This isn't a HURD feature. This isn't even a

[META] proposal to set up digestifier for linux-kernel

2001-01-28 Thread Romain Kang
After a hiatus from linux-kernel, I find that the lack of a digest on the new server is a nuisance. I'm thinking of setting up a Majordomo digestifier, with the caveat that non-plaintext messages may have some displaced bits. Would there be an interest in this? Romain Kang

Re: PDC20265, disk corruption and NMI watchdog...

2001-01-28 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On Mon, Jan 28, 2001 at 17:36 Andre Hedrick wrote: Everything but a kernel version :-( Sorry. Corruption happens since I have this motherboard just before christmas - something about 2.4.0-test13-pre2. It was not so massive as today - with 2.4.0-ac10 (before it just died, today it damaged hdh

Re: Linux-2.4.1-pre11

2001-01-28 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, David D.W. Downey wrote: I was on ftp.kernel.org and ftp.us.kernel.org and could not find it in the /pub/linux/kernel/v2.4 or /pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/test-kernels/ directories. Is it somewhere different? All my "current" test-patches are always under

[PATCH] Making Cyrix III boot

2001-01-28 Thread Ingo Oeser
Hi, On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 10:31:52AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: I just uploaded it to kernel.org, and I expect that I'll do the final 2.4.1 tomorrow, before leaving for NY and LinuxWorld. Please test that the pre-kernel works for you.. The Cyrix III of my employer doesn't boot without

Re: [PATCH] dynamic IP support for 2.4.0 (SIOCKILLADDR)

2001-01-28 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
John Fremlin writes: 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

Re: troubles with devfs ?

2001-01-28 Thread Ingo Oeser
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 06:21:52PM +0100, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: This happens on a freshly booted 2.4.0 macine, with devfs and devfsd running. I got the oops by doing # cd /dev # ls -las (segmentation fault) The first oops causes the death of devfsd. No such problems here and

Re: D state after applying ps hang patch

2001-01-28 Thread David Ford
The one LInus posted plus his addendum for the ll_rw_blk. http://blue-labs.org/patches/ps-hang.patch -d Jens Axboe wrote: On Mon, Jan 29 2001, David Ford wrote: kernel 2.4.0-ac12 # ps -eo user,pid,args,wchan|egrep "imap|update|procmail" root 7 [kupdate]get_request_wait

Re: ECN: Clearing the air (fwd)

2001-01-28 Thread David Lang
I am behind a raptor firewall and ran the test that David M posted a couple days ago and was able to sucessfully connect to his test machine. so either raptor tolorates ECN (at least in the verion I am running) or the test was not valid. David Lang On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, jamal wrote: Date:

Re: Linux-2.4.1-pre11 / ll_rw_b watermark metric?

2001-01-28 Thread Dieter Nützel
I have pre11 running with Andrea's suggested fix. high_queued_sectors = total_ram / 3; low_queued_sectors = high_queued_sectors / 2; if (low_queued_sectors 0) low_queued_sectors = total_ram / 2; /* * for big RAM machines (= 384MB), use

Re: D state after applying ps hang patch

2001-01-28 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sun, Jan 28 2001, David Ford wrote: The one LInus posted plus his addendum for the ll_rw_blk. http://blue-labs.org/patches/ps-hang.patch You merged it wrong, Linus suggested to remove the entire if (!list_empty(q-request_freelist[rw])) {

Re: Linux-2.4.1-pre11

2001-01-28 Thread Jeff Garzik
Drew Bertola wrote: Drew Bertola writes: Andrew's latest ACPI fixes (acpica-linux-2125 patched against 2.4.0) compile fine here and don't hang on my Vaio after loading tables. That's a start. I'll play around some more. Unfortunately, pcmcia modules fail to load. I can't

Re: D state after applying ps hang patch

2001-01-28 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Jan 29 2001, Jens Axboe wrote: Try this ll_rw_blk.c change instead, on top of pre11. Include Linus' mm fixes of course. On top of ac12 I mean, pre11 already has a different (but functional) change. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: Linux-2.4.1-pre11 / ll_rw_b watermark metric?

2001-01-28 Thread Dieter Nützel
Am Montag, 29. Januar 2001 04:46 schrieb Jens Axboe: On Mon, Jan 29 2001, Dieter Ntzel wrote: I have pre11 running with Andrea's suggested fix. high_queued_sectors = total_ram / 3; low_queued_sectors = high_queued_sectors / 2; if (low_queued_sectors 0)

[SLUG] Re: Linux Disk Performance/File IO per process

2001-01-28 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Jan 29 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, I work for a company that develops a systems and performance management product for Unix (as well as PC and TANDEM) called PROGNOSIS. Currently we support AIX, HP, Solaris, UnixWare, IRIX, and Linux. I've hit a bit of a wall trying to

Re: PCI IRQ routing problem in 2.4.0

2001-01-28 Thread Robert Siemer
From: Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] Another one.. Robert, can you get the dump_pirq script from the pcmcia_cs package and send the output to us? ...it seems to reflect my settings in the bios: Interrupt routing table found at address 0xf0a50: Version 1.0, size 0x0080 Interrupt

Re: PCI IRQ routing problem in 2.4.0

2001-01-28 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Robert Siemer wrote: From: Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] Another one.. Robert, can you get the dump_pirq script from the pcmcia_cs package and send the output to us? ...it seems to reflect my settings in the bios: No, but that's really interesting..

Re: Linux Disk Performance/File IO per process

2001-01-28 Thread Chris Evans
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, I work for a company that develops a systems and performance management product for Unix (as well as PC and TANDEM) called PROGNOSIS. Currently we support AIX, HP, Solaris, UnixWare, IRIX, and Linux. I've hit a bit of a wall trying to

Re: Poor SCSI drive performance on SMP machine, 2.2.16

2001-01-28 Thread paradox3
Here is the output from dmesg. How do I tell if it is improperly terminated? Thanks, Para-dox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Original Message - From: "Michael Brown" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 11:12 PM Subject: Re: Poor SCSI drive performance on SMP

Re: PCI IRQ routing problem in 2.4.0 (SiS results)

2001-01-28 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
| Your "link" values are in the range 1-4. Which makes perfect sense, but | that's absolutely _not_ what the Linux SiS routing code expects (the code | seems to expect them to be ASCII 'A' - 'D'). | It looks very much like "pirq_sis_get()" and "pirq_sis_set()" in | arch/i386/kernel/pci-irq.c are

Re: PCI IRQ routing problem in 2.4.0 (SiS results)

2001-01-28 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
| Your "link" values are in the range 1-4. Which makes perfect sense, but | that's absolutely _not_ what the Linux SiS routing code expects (the code | seems to expect them to be ASCII 'A' - 'D'). | It looks very much like "pirq_sis_get()" and "pirq_sis_set()" in | arch/i386/kernel/pci-irq.c are

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