RE: Kernel cached memory

2005-07-22 Thread John Pearson
Wouldn't having (practically) all your memory used for cache slow down starting a new program? First it would have to free up that space, and then put stuff in that space, taking potentially twice as long. I think there should be a system call for freeing cached memory, for those that do want to do

RE: Problems with reboot/poweroff on SMP machine

2005-07-19 Thread John Pearson
Lately my Dual Xeon server has not been rebooting properly either. When I tell it to reboot I end up having to call the datacenter and tell them to powercycle it because after 10 minutes it wasn't back up. If you need any details, please provide instructions for giving them to you. -Original M

Re: [PATCH] embarassing typo

2005-03-30 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 12:53:28AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote > On Tuesday 29 March 2005 20:40, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > >On Tuesday 29 March 2005 16:58, Michael Tokarev wrote: > >> Well, it's a matter of readability mostly. ?For now at least, when > >> char is always 8 bytes... > > > >Wow, that's o

Re: Can't use SYSFS for "Proprietry" driver modules !!!.

2005-03-30 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 07:15:01AM -0500, linux-os wrote [snip] > > In the United States there is something called "restraint of trade". > Suppose there was a long-time facility or API that got replaced > with one that was highly restrictive. To use the new facility, one > would have to buy a lice