Re: ext2 on flash memory

2007-06-14 Thread Jan Knutar
On Wednesday 13 June 2007 16:48, DervishD wrote: > But anyway the memory should last long. Even cheap flash memories > with poor wear leveling (if any at all) usually long last. Given that > I won't be writing continuously, wear shouldn't be a problem. I'm > going to use this as a backup copy

Re: ext2 on flash memory

2007-06-14 Thread Jan Knutar
On Wednesday 13 June 2007 16:48, DervishD wrote: But anyway the memory should last long. Even cheap flash memories with poor wear leveling (if any at all) usually long last. Given that I won't be writing continuously, wear shouldn't be a problem. I'm going to use this as a backup copy of

Re: Memory consumption on linux

2007-05-01 Thread Jan Knutar
On Tuesday 01 May 2007 22:31, Christian Schmidt wrote: > And, how does process memory relate to system memory? Usually the sum > of the resident memory (ps -o rss) is way off from the used memory > displayed by free. RSS has all the shared pages in it too. > where you can see discrepancies in

Re: Memory consumption on linux

2007-05-01 Thread Jan Knutar
On Tuesday 01 May 2007 22:31, Christian Schmidt wrote: And, how does process memory relate to system memory? Usually the sum of the resident memory (ps -o rss) is way off from the used memory displayed by free. RSS has all the shared pages in it too. where you can see discrepancies in

Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS]

2007-04-19 Thread Jan Knutar
On Thursday 19 April 2007 18:18, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You can certainly script it with -geometry. But it is the wrong > > application for this matter, because you benchmark X more than > > glxgears itself. What would be better is something like a line

Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS]

2007-04-19 Thread Jan Knutar
On Thursday 19 April 2007 18:18, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Willy Tarreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can certainly script it with -geometry. But it is the wrong application for this matter, because you benchmark X more than glxgears itself. What would be better is something like a line

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Jan Knutar
On Thursday 15 February 2007 16:37, Benny Amorsen wrote: > > "JDL" == Jan De Luyck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > writes: > > JDL> I think a nice example of that might be the Linksys WRT54G > JDL> routers. > > They don't ship with Linux anymore, except the WRT54GL. Apparently > switching was

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Jan Knutar
On Thursday 15 February 2007 16:37, Benny Amorsen wrote: JDL == Jan De Luyck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JDL I think a nice example of that might be the Linksys WRT54G JDL routers. They don't ship with Linux anymore, except the WRT54GL. Apparently switching was worth it to save 2MB flash.

Re: Power consumption HZ100, HZ250, HZ1000: new numbers

2005-08-01 Thread Jan Knutar
On Monday 01 August 2005 09:19, Stefan Seyfried wrote: > > Any idea what their official recommendation for people running apps that > > require the 1ms sleep resolution is? Something along the lines of "Get > > bent"? > > MPlayer is using /dev/rtc and was running smooth for me since the good >

Re: Power consumption HZ100, HZ250, HZ1000: new numbers

2005-08-01 Thread Jan Knutar
On Monday 01 August 2005 09:19, Stefan Seyfried wrote: Any idea what their official recommendation for people running apps that require the 1ms sleep resolution is? Something along the lines of Get bent? MPlayer is using /dev/rtc and was running smooth for me since the good old 2.4

Re: ide-cd and bad sectors

2005-07-05 Thread Jan Knutar
On Saturday 02 July 2005 17:14, matthieu castet wrote: > IIRC on 2.4 kernel there wasn't such problem, I even managed to recover > some damaged disk... Oh on some 2.4 the kernel would retry each sector so many times that recovering undamaged sectors from a CD would have taken longer than the

Re: ide-cd and bad sectors

2005-07-05 Thread Jan Knutar
On Saturday 02 July 2005 17:14, matthieu castet wrote: IIRC on 2.4 kernel there wasn't such problem, I even managed to recover some damaged disk... Oh on some 2.4 the kernel would retry each sector so many times that recovering undamaged sectors from a CD would have taken longer than the MTBF

Re: Getting the page size of currently running kernel

2005-02-19 Thread Jan Knutar
On Sunday 20 February 2005 05:01, Scott Bronson wrote: > Is there any way to get a running kernel to tell you the size of its pages? > > Why: I'm writing a quick Perl hack to monitor the memory usage of the TCP > stack over time. Easy enough: /proc/net/sockstat gives the current value of >

Re: Getting the page size of currently running kernel

2005-02-19 Thread Jan Knutar
On Sunday 20 February 2005 05:01, Scott Bronson wrote: Is there any way to get a running kernel to tell you the size of its pages? Why: I'm writing a quick Perl hack to monitor the memory usage of the TCP stack over time. Easy enough: /proc/net/sockstat gives the current value of

Re: Reading Bad DVD Under 2.6.10 freezes the box.

2005-02-10 Thread Jan Knutar
On Monday 07 February 2005 16:46, linux-os wrote: > Basically, when you start getting the kernel error messages on > linux-2.4.22, you can ^C out and everything will quiet down. Not in my experience. > With Linux-2.6.10, nothing entered from the keyboard will > do anything. Since the Caps-Lock

Re: Reading Bad DVD Under 2.6.10 freezes the box.

2005-02-10 Thread Jan Knutar
On Monday 07 February 2005 16:46, linux-os wrote: Basically, when you start getting the kernel error messages on linux-2.4.22, you can ^C out and everything will quiet down. Not in my experience. With Linux-2.6.10, nothing entered from the keyboard will do anything. Since the Caps-Lock key

Impossible to renice threaded NPTL programs on 2.6.10

2005-01-28 Thread Jan Knutar
For those times when a threaded program runs amok, and I still have some hope that it will eventually stop being a pig, but would like to actually use my computer in the meanwhile, the idea of renicing this runaway program to nice 19 comes to mind. Except, it doesn't actually work. Only the main

Impossible to renice threaded NPTL programs on 2.6.10

2005-01-28 Thread Jan Knutar
For those times when a threaded program runs amok, and I still have some hope that it will eventually stop being a pig, but would like to actually use my computer in the meanwhile, the idea of renicing this runaway program to nice 19 comes to mind. Except, it doesn't actually work. Only the main

Re: [RFC][PATCH] /proc//rlimit

2005-01-19 Thread Jan Knutar
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 22:44, Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote: > This patch against 2.6.11-rc1-bk6 adds /proc//rlimit to export > per-process resource limit settings. It was written to help analyze > daemon core dump size settings, but may be more generally useful. > Tested on 2.6.10. Sample output:

Re: [RFC][PATCH] /proc/pid/rlimit

2005-01-19 Thread Jan Knutar
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 22:44, Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote: This patch against 2.6.11-rc1-bk6 adds /proc/pid/rlimit to export per-process resource limit settings. It was written to help analyze daemon core dump size settings, but may be more generally useful. Tested on 2.6.10. Sample output:

Re: Linux 2.4.29-rc2

2005-01-15 Thread Jan Knutar
On Saturday 15 January 2005 22:50, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Do a grep for EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL in the 2.4.29-rc2 sources. I noticed this as well... > It seems for some reason people didn't scream in older 2.4 releases that > already had the same problem in several places. I always ASSUMED it was

Re: Poor responsiveness during disk I/O

2005-01-15 Thread Jan Knutar
On Friday 14 January 2005 23:57, Shaun Jackman wrote: > Linux 2.6.8.1 A "vmstat 1" output during high load would be nice... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: Poor responsiveness during disk I/O

2005-01-15 Thread Jan Knutar
On Friday 14 January 2005 23:57, Shaun Jackman wrote: Linux 2.6.8.1 A vmstat 1 output during high load would be nice... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: Linux 2.4.29-rc2

2005-01-15 Thread Jan Knutar
On Saturday 15 January 2005 22:50, Adrian Bunk wrote: Do a grep for EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL in the 2.4.29-rc2 sources. I noticed this as well... It seems for some reason people didn't scream in older 2.4 releases that already had the same problem in several places. I always ASSUMED it was