i2c-i801 vs. ACPI driver to access SMBUS

Hi all, I have a small issue with the i2c-i801 driver. It does not register the i2c adaptor due to an ACPI resource conflict: [11074.459747] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0xf000-0xf01f conflicts with OpRegion 0xf000-0xf00f (\_SB_.PCI0.SBUS.SMBI) (201

Re: kworkers for dm-crypt locked to CPU core 0?

Hi Andi, On 25/03/13 11:32, Andi Kleen wrote: > Christian Schmidt writes: >> >> Is there a way I can make the scheduler put those on multiple cores? > > Submit the IO from multiple cores. Don't use dd. The dd processes run on multiple cores. I do understand that

kworkers for dm-crypt locked to CPU core 0?

Hi everyone, I am trying to troubleshoot some strange performance issues I am seeing on a machine of mine. Said machine had 10 drives mapped via separate dm-crypt instances. The aggregate (read) throughput seems to hover around 120-130MB/s (looking at iostat -x -d) when running an instance of dd i

Re: Help needed: Partitioned software raid > 2TB

Hi Andi, Andi Kleen wrote: > Christian Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Where is the inherent limit? The partitioning software, or partitioning >> all by itself? > > DOS style partitioning don't support more than 2TB. You either need > to use EFI pa

Help needed: Partitioned software raid > 2TB

Hi everyone, I added a drive to a linux software RAID-5 last night. Now that worked fine... until I changed the partition table. Disk /dev/md_d5: 2499.9 GB, 240978560 bytes 2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 610349360 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes Device Boot Start

Memory consumption on linux

Hi all, I could not find good documentation anywhere on the memory usage of linux, or rather, how to interpret the output of the various tools dealing with memory consumption. First of, generally - there's resident, virtual and shared memory for each process, and global buffers/cache. Global cac

How to format a disk in an USB-Floppy-drive

Dear all, How do I actually low-level format a floppy disk in an USB-Floppy-Disk-Drive? I tried as with usual drives, using fdformat: [~]>fdformat /dev/sdd Could not determine current format type: Invalid argument But setting the format failed as well: [~]>setfdprm -p /dev/sdd 1440/1440 ioct