Re: [ANNOUNCE] DSFS Network Forensic File System for Linux Patches

2005-09-01 Thread Lincoln Dale
jmerkey wrote: It might be helpful for someone to look at these sections of code I had to patch in 2.6.9. I discovered a case where the kernel scheduler will pass NULL for the array argument when I started hitting the extreme upper range > 200MB/S combined disk and lan throughput. This was

Re: [ANNOUNCE] DSFS Network Forensic File System for Linux Patches

2005-09-01 Thread Lincoln Dale
jmerkey wrote: It might be helpful for someone to look at these sections of code I had to patch in 2.6.9. I discovered a case where the kernel scheduler will pass NULL for the array argument when I started hitting the extreme upper range 200MB/S combined disk and lan throughput. This was

Re: sched_yield() makes OpenLDAP slow

2005-08-23 Thread Lincoln Dale
Denis Vlasenko wrote: This is what I would expect if run on an otherwise idle machine. sched_yield just puts you at the back of the line for runnable processes, it doesn't magically cause you to go to sleep somehow. When a kernel build is occurring??? Plus `top` itself It damn well

Re: sched_yield() makes OpenLDAP slow

2005-08-23 Thread Lincoln Dale
Denis Vlasenko wrote: This is what I would expect if run on an otherwise idle machine. sched_yield just puts you at the back of the line for runnable processes, it doesn't magically cause you to go to sleep somehow. When a kernel build is occurring??? Plus `top` itself It damn well

Re: fastboot, diskstat

2005-07-22 Thread Lincoln Dale
Avi Kivity wrote: parallelized initscripts will probably defeat this, though. put all run-once-but-never-run-again scripts into initrd / initramfs? boot into a suspend-to-disk image? i still see the real solution at least for "desktop" machines is to minimize the sheer amount of stuff

Re: fastboot, diskstat

2005-07-22 Thread Lincoln Dale
Avi Kivity wrote: parallelized initscripts will probably defeat this, though. put all run-once-but-never-run-again scripts into initrd / initramfs? evil grin boot into a suspend-to-disk image? i still see the real solution at least for desktop machines is to minimize the sheer amount of

Re: Low file-system performance for 2.6.11 compared to 2.4.26

2005-03-31 Thread Lincoln Dale
At 02:34 AM 1/04/2005, linux-os wrote: For those interested, some file-system tests and a test-tools are attached. in high-performance-I/O-testing i perform regularly, i notice no slowdown in 2.6 compared to 2.4. looking at your test-tools, i would hardly call your workload anywhere near

Re: Low file-system performance for 2.6.11 compared to 2.4.26

2005-03-31 Thread Lincoln Dale
At 02:34 AM 1/04/2005, linux-os wrote: For those interested, some file-system tests and a test-tools are attached. in high-performance-I/O-testing i perform regularly, i notice no slowdown in 2.6 compared to 2.4. looking at your test-tools, i would hardly call your workload anywhere near

Re: qla2xxx fail over support

2005-03-15 Thread Lincoln Dale
At 07:43 AM 16/03/2005, comsatcat wrote: Unfortunantly all the beta drivers seem to have issues working with mcdata switches. I've tried about 10 different versions available from qlogic's ftp and all of them give trace messages and "scheduling while atomic" messages when detecting luns that are

Re: qla2xxx fail over support

2005-03-15 Thread Lincoln Dale
At 07:43 AM 16/03/2005, comsatcat wrote: Unfortunantly all the beta drivers seem to have issues working with mcdata switches. I've tried about 10 different versions available from qlogic's ftp and all of them give trace messages and scheduling while atomic messages when detecting luns that are

Re: Drive performance bottleneck

2005-02-04 Thread Lincoln Dale
At 08:32 PM 4/02/2005, Andrew Morton wrote: Something funny is happening here - it looks like there's plenty of CPU capacity left over. [..] Could you monitor the CPU load during the various tests? If the `dd' workload isn't pegging the CPU then it could be that there's something wrong with the

Re: Drive performance bottleneck

2005-02-04 Thread Lincoln Dale
At 08:32 PM 4/02/2005, Andrew Morton wrote: Something funny is happening here - it looks like there's plenty of CPU capacity left over. [..] Could you monitor the CPU load during the various tests? If the `dd' workload isn't pegging the CPU then it could be that there's something wrong with the

Re: ALSA HELP: Crackling and popping noises with via82xx

2005-02-01 Thread Lincoln Dale
At 01:34 PM 2/02/2005, Timothy Miller wrote: I've mentioned this problem before. It seemed to go away around the 2.6.8 timeframe, but when I started using 2.6.9, it came back. I'm using 2.6.10, and it's still happening. almost identical system here, other than i'm using an ASUS A7V600

Re: ALSA HELP: Crackling and popping noises with via82xx

2005-02-01 Thread Lincoln Dale
At 01:34 PM 2/02/2005, Timothy Miller wrote: I've mentioned this problem before. It seemed to go away around the 2.6.8 timeframe, but when I started using 2.6.9, it came back. I'm using 2.6.10, and it's still happening. almost identical system here, other than i'm using an ASUS A7V600

Re: X15 alpha release: as fast as TUX but in user space

2001-05-02 Thread Lincoln Dale
Hi, At 10:50 AM 2/05/2001 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: >i think Zach's phhttpd is an important milestone as well, it's the first >userspace webserver that shows how to use event-based, sigio-based async >networking IO and sendfile() under Linux. (I believe it had some >performance problems related

Re: X15 alpha release: as fast as TUX but in user space

2001-05-02 Thread Lincoln Dale
Hi, At 10:50 AM 2/05/2001 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: i think Zach's phhttpd is an important milestone as well, it's the first userspace webserver that shows how to use event-based, sigio-based async networking IO and sendfile() under Linux. (I believe it had some performance problems related to

Re: Incoming TCP TOS: A simple question, I would have thought...

2001-03-06 Thread Lincoln Dale
getsockopt(fd, SOL_IP, IP_TOS, .. cheers, lincoln. At 03:00 PM 7/03/2001 +1100, David Luyer wrote: >I've scrolled through various code in net/ipv4, and I can't see how to query >the TOS of an incoming TCP stream (or at the least, the TOS of the SYN which >initiated the connection). >

Re: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD?

2001-03-01 Thread Lincoln Dale
At 07:03 PM 1/03/2001 +0300, Hans Reiser wrote: > > > They know that iMimic's polymix performance on Linux 2.2.* is half > what it is on > > > BSD. Has the Linux 2.4 networking code caught up to BSD? > > > > > > Can I tell them not to worry about the Linux networking code > strangling their >

Re: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD?

2001-03-01 Thread Lincoln Dale
At 07:03 PM 1/03/2001 +0300, Hans Reiser wrote: They know that iMimic's polymix performance on Linux 2.2.* is half what it is on BSD. Has the Linux 2.4 networking code caught up to BSD? Can I tell them not to worry about the Linux networking code strangling their webcache

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 >

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: hotmail not dealing with ECN

2001-01-25 Thread Lincoln Dale
Hi, At 01:06 AM 25/01/2001 -0800, David S. Miller wrote: >Juri Haberland writes: > > Forget it. I mailed them and this is the answer: > > > > "As ECN is not a widely used internet standard, and as Cisco does not > > have a stable OS for their routers that accepts ECN, anyone attempting > >

Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

2001-01-25 Thread Lincoln Dale
Hi, At 01:06 AM 25/01/2001 -0800, David S. Miller wrote: Juri Haberland writes: Forget it. I mailed them and this is the answer: "As ECN is not a widely used internet standard, and as Cisco does not have a stable OS for their routers that accepts ECN, anyone attempting to access

Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: Is sendfile all that sexy? (fwd)]]

2001-01-20 Thread Lincoln Dale
hi, At 04:56 PM 20/01/2001 +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dean gaudet)  wrote on 18.01.01 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > i'm pretty sure the actual use of pipelining is pretty disappointing. > the work i did in apache preceded the widespread use of HTTP/1.1 and we What widespread

Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: Is sendfile all that sexy? (fwd)]]

2001-01-20 Thread Lincoln Dale
hi, At 04:56 PM 20/01/2001 +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dean gaudet) wrote on 18.01.01 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: i'm pretty sure the actual use of pipelining is pretty disappointing. the work i did in apache preceded the widespread use of HTTP/1.1 and we What widespread use of

Re: path MTU bug still there?

2000-12-31 Thread Lincoln Dale
Hi, At 05:28 PM 31/12/2000 +0200, Jussi Hamalainen wrote: >On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > > > When the linux box does TCP to the outside it'll use the MTU of > > the tunnel (default route is the tunnel) and thus works perfectly > > (since TCP MSS will be set low enough to fit

Re: path MTU bug still there?

2000-12-31 Thread Lincoln Dale
Hi, At 05:28 PM 31/12/2000 +0200, Jussi Hamalainen wrote: On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: When the linux box does TCP to the outside it'll use the MTU of the tunnel (default route is the tunnel) and thus works perfectly (since TCP MSS will be set low enough to fit into the

Re: Linux's implementation of poll() not scalable?

2000-10-24 Thread Lincoln Dale
At 10:39 PM 23/10/2000 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: >First, let's see what is so nice about "select()" and "poll()". They do >have one _huge_ advantage, which is why you want to fall back on poll() >once the RT signal interface stops working. What is that? RT methods are bad if they consume too

Re: Linux's implementation of poll() not scalable?

2000-10-24 Thread Lincoln Dale
At 10:39 PM 23/10/2000 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: First, let's see what is so nice about "select()" and "poll()". They do have one _huge_ advantage, which is why you want to fall back on poll() once the RT signal interface stops working. What is that? RT methods are bad if they consume too

RE: TRACED] Re: "Tux" is the wrong logo for Linux

2000-10-19 Thread Lincoln Dale
At 02:09 PM 19/10/2000 -0400, Mark Haney wrote: > > Feel free to send complaints to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and get his account > > yanked for abuse of mailing lists. > >http://www.ilan.net/contact.htm for a nice list of addresses to send >complaints to. the original email came from 216.27.3.45. a

RE: TRACED] Re: Tux is the wrong logo for Linux

2000-10-19 Thread Lincoln Dale
At 02:09 PM 19/10/2000 -0400, Mark Haney wrote: Feel free to send complaints to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and get his account yanked for abuse of mailing lists. http://www.ilan.net/contact.htm for a nice list of addresses to send complaints to. the original email came from 216.27.3.45. a quick grep

Re: ECN & cisco firewall

2000-09-10 Thread Lincoln Dale
fix will be forthcoming in a future interim release. back to linux kernel issues, cheers, lincoln. -- Lincoln Dale Content Services Business Unit [EMAIL PROTECTED] cisco Systems, Inc. | | |||| +1 (408) 525-1

Re: ECN cisco firewall

2000-09-10 Thread Lincoln Dale
in a future interim release. back to linux kernel issues, cheers, lincoln. -- Lincoln Dale Content Services Business Unit [EMAIL PROTECTED] cisco Systems, Inc. | | |||| +1 (408) 525-1274

Re: zero-copy TCP

2000-09-03 Thread Lincoln Dale
awful right now, but i hope these can be cleaned up over time. network cards which offload the IP & TCP checksum calculation isn't even required; provided the incoming checksum is preserved, the original pseudo TCP header can be "reversed out" without having to re-read the entir

Re: zero-copy TCP

2000-09-03 Thread Lincoln Dale
. network cards which offload the IP TCP checksum calculation isn't even required; provided the incoming checksum is preserved, the original pseudo TCP header can be "reversed out" without having to re-read the entire packet payloads again. cheers, lincoln. -- Lincoln Dale

Re: thread rant

2000-09-01 Thread Lincoln Dale
real problem with threads are that it is too easy to write bad code using them. caveat emptor. cheers, lincoln. -- Lincoln Dale Content Services Business Unit [EMAIL PROTECTED] cisco Systems, Inc. | | ||