Re: alpha iommu fixes

2001-05-21 Thread Peter Rival
Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 04:04:28AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > > How many physical PCI slots on a Tsunami system? (I know the > > on tsunamis probably not many, but on a Typhoon (the one in the es40 > that is the 4-way extension) I don't know, but certainly the box

Re: alpha iommu fixes

2001-05-21 Thread Peter Rival
Andrea Arcangeli wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 04:04:28AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: How many physical PCI slots on a Tsunami system? (I know the on tsunamis probably not many, but on a Typhoon (the one in the es40 that is the 4-way extension) I don't know, but certainly the box is

Re: [OT] Re: Linux scalability?

2001-05-18 Thread Peter Rival
"David S. Miller" wrote: > Peter Rival writes: > > Really? I just checked and it's still there from what I see. We're talking > > about the Dell 8450/700 w/ IIS & SWC 3.0 result, right? I'm hoping that > > they're deemed NC, but I don't see it yet... >

Re: [OT] Re: Linux scalability?

2001-05-18 Thread Peter Rival
"David S. Miller" wrote: > J Sloan writes: > > Microsoft finally managed to get a better result using > > an all-out, "bet the farm", "benchmark buster" setup > > with a special web cache in front of iis. > > I haven't heard anyone talk about the fact that their 8-cpu numbers > got

Re: [OT] Re: Linux scalability?

2001-05-18 Thread Peter Rival
David S. Miller wrote: Peter Rival writes: Really? I just checked and it's still there from what I see. We're talking about the Dell 8450/700 w/ IIS SWC 3.0 result, right? I'm hoping that they're deemed NC, but I don't see it yet... Sorry, they are there in the table, but marked

Re: [OT] Re: Linux scalability?

2001-05-18 Thread Peter Rival
David S. Miller wrote: J Sloan writes: Microsoft finally managed to get a better result using an all-out, bet the farm, benchmark buster setup with a special web cache in front of iis. I haven't heard anyone talk about the fact that their 8-cpu numbers got disqualified and aren't

Re: [PATCH] CPU hot swap for 2.4.3 + s390 support

2001-05-05 Thread Peter Rival
Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 10:43:27AM -0400, Peter Rival wrote: > > Has anyone looked into memory hot swap/hot add support? > > Adding memory probably isn't going to be too hard... but taking > existing memory off line is tricky. You have to find som

Re: [PATCH] CPU hot swap for 2.4.3 + s390 support

2001-05-05 Thread Peter Rival
Has anyone looked into memory hot swap/hot add support? Especially with systems with Chipkill coming out, this would be great to support... - Pete Anton Blanchard wrote: > Hi, > > You can find a new version of the hot swap cpu patch at: > >

Re: [PATCH] CPU hot swap for 2.4.3 + s390 support

2001-05-05 Thread Peter Rival
Has anyone looked into memory hot swap/hot add support? Especially with systems with Chipkill coming out, this would be great to support... - Pete Anton Blanchard wrote: Hi, You can find a new version of the hot swap cpu patch at: http://samba.org/~anton/patches/cpu_hotswap-2.4.3-patch

Re: [PATCH] CPU hot swap for 2.4.3 + s390 support

2001-05-05 Thread Peter Rival
Chris Wedgwood wrote: On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 10:43:27AM -0400, Peter Rival wrote: Has anyone looked into memory hot swap/hot add support? Adding memory probably isn't going to be too hard... but taking existing memory off line is tricky. You have to find some way of finding all

Re: Alpha "process table hang"

2001-04-11 Thread Peter Rival
Hmpf. Haven't seen this at all on any of the Alphas that I'm running. What exact system are you seeing this on, and what are you running when it happens? - Pete Bob McElrath wrote: > Peter Rival [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > You wouldn't happen to have khttpd loaded as a module,

Re: Alpha "process table hang"

2001-04-11 Thread Peter Rival
You wouldn't happen to have khttpd loaded as a module, would you? I've seen this type of problem caused by that before... - Pete Bob McElrath wrote: > I've been experiencing a particular kind of hang for many versions > (since 2.3.99 days, recently seen with 2.4.1, 2.4.2, and 2.4.2-ac4) on >

Re: Alpha process table hang

2001-04-11 Thread Peter Rival
You wouldn't happen to have khttpd loaded as a module, would you? I've seen this type of problem caused by that before... - Pete Bob McElrath wrote: I've been experiencing a particular kind of hang for many versions (since 2.3.99 days, recently seen with 2.4.1, 2.4.2, and 2.4.2-ac4) on

Re: Alpha process table hang

2001-04-11 Thread Peter Rival
Hmpf. Haven't seen this at all on any of the Alphas that I'm running. What exact system are you seeing this on, and what are you running when it happens? - Pete Bob McElrath wrote: Peter Rival [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: You wouldn't happen to have khttpd loaded as a module, would you

Re: scsi_scan problem.

2001-03-16 Thread Peter Rival
Doug, could you check how this patch works if you have the qla2x00 installed in an Alpha box? I'm hoping this is part of the source of my problems, but I'm not positive. (I'd do it, but my system is running benchmarks for the next several days.) Thanks! - Pete Doug Ledford wrote: >

Re: scsi_scan problem.

2001-03-16 Thread Peter Rival
Doug, could you check how this patch works if you have the qla2x00 installed in an Alpha box? I'm hoping this is part of the source of my problems, but I'm not positive. (I'd do it, but my system is running benchmarks for the next several days.) Thanks! - Pete Doug Ledford wrote: Ishikawa

Re: Big Bada Boom...

2001-01-24 Thread Peter Rival
Yeah, I've been bitten by this quite often. Basically, just edit arch/alpha/kernel/Makefile and remove irq_pyxis.c from the obj-y line. I'm not positive what systems require it exactly, but rawhide isn't one of them. I have a totally separate patch from Andrea that suggests (to my mind) that

Re: Big Bada Boom...

2001-01-24 Thread Peter Rival
Yeah, I've been bitten by this quite often. Basically, just edit arch/alpha/kernel/Makefile and remove irq_pyxis.c from the obj-y line. I'm not positive what systems require it exactly, but rawhide isn't one of them. I have a totally separate patch from Andrea that suggests (to my mind) that

Re: QLogicFC problems with 2.4.x?

2000-12-19 Thread Peter Rival
_PC+0xf040> fc81ba80 Aiee, killing interrupt handler Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task! 2 warnings issued. Results may not be reliable. Peter Rival wrote: > Hi, > > I was just lent a QLogic ISP2200 FC adapter and have been having a > bear o

Re: QLogicFC problems with 2.4.x?

2000-12-19 Thread Peter Rival
handler Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task! 2 warnings issued. Results may not be reliable. Peter Rival wrote: Hi, I was just lent a QLogic ISP2200 FC adapter and have been having a bear of a time trying to get it to work on my Alpha ES40 and GS80. I've tried both

QLogicFC problems with 2.4.x?

2000-12-18 Thread Peter Rival
Hi, I was just lent a QLogic ISP2200 FC adapter and have been having a bear of a time trying to get it to work on my Alpha ES40 and GS80. I've tried both the qlogicfc (with standard kernel) and qla2x00 (from QLogic and Compaq) driver both built-in and as modules but neither of them are

QLogicFC problems with 2.4.x?

2000-12-18 Thread Peter Rival
Hi, I was just lent a QLogic ISP2200 FC adapter and have been having a bear of a time trying to get it to work on my Alpha ES40 and GS80. I've tried both the qlogicfc (with standard kernel) and qla2x00 (from QLogic and Compaq) driver both built-in and as modules but neither of them are

Re: Alpha SCSI error on 2.4.0-test11

2000-11-30 Thread Peter Rival
Hi Phil, Phillip Ezolt wrote: > Hi All, > > Qlogic SCSI support seems broken on 2.4.0-test11 on a Miata (Digital Personal >WorkStation 600au). > > When starting up, we get a machine check after initialing the qlogic SCSI code. > > Using the Alpha kgdb, we figured out that the code is dying

Re: Alpha SCSI error on 2.4.0-test11

2000-11-30 Thread Peter Rival
Hi Phil, Phillip Ezolt wrote: Hi All, Qlogic SCSI support seems broken on 2.4.0-test11 on a Miata (Digital Personal WorkStation 600au). When starting up, we get a machine check after initialing the qlogic SCSI code. Using the Alpha kgdb, we figured out that the code is dying in

Re: SparcLinux on Sun E10000

2000-09-27 Thread Peter Rival
bert hubert wrote: > On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 05:28:49PM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote: > > > Memory: 23824288k available (1352k kernel code, 240k data, 72k init) >[f800,0012ffc9a000] > > This must be some kind of record. > Sorry...check the post I made a few hours ago. Unless I

Linux boots on Wildfire^WGS320!

2000-09-27 Thread Peter Rival
Hi all, Well, I'm finally getting around to sending out this announcement. As can be seen on www.alphanews.net, we've managed to boot Linux on an AlphaServer GS320. The only caveats are that one of the CPUs was out of the system at the time (hence 31 CPUs, not 32), and that we haven't yet

Linux boots on Wildfire^WGS320!

2000-09-27 Thread Peter Rival
Hi all, Well, I'm finally getting around to sending out this announcement. As can be seen on www.alphanews.net, we've managed to boot Linux on an AlphaServer GS320. The only caveats are that one of the CPUs was out of the system at the time (hence 31 CPUs, not 32), and that we haven't yet

Re: SparcLinux on Sun E10000

2000-09-27 Thread Peter Rival
bert hubert wrote: On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 05:28:49PM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote: Memory: 23824288k available (1352k kernel code, 240k data, 72k init) [f800,0012ffc9a000] This must be some kind of record. Sorry...check the post I made a few hours ago. Unless I count

Re: Scalability Efforts

2000-09-07 Thread Peter Rival
Rik van Riel wrote: > On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Henry Worth wrote: > > > > Or is it all, whatever there may be of it, taking > > place offline? > > Most of the times I've talked about this topic it > was in person with other developers at various > conferences. > Ugh, no wonder I never see this.

Re: Scalability Efforts

2000-09-07 Thread Peter Rival
Rik van Riel wrote: On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Henry Worth wrote: snip Or is it all, whatever there may be of it, taking place offline? Most of the times I've talked about this topic it was in person with other developers at various conferences. Ugh, no wonder I never see this. Guess it's

Re: Rik van Riel's VM patch

2000-09-03 Thread Peter Rival
"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: > Someone tell Rik to get his hands on a copy of AIMS-7 and start > benchmarking his VM so when the SCO Unix numbers hit the street, we've > got a rebuttal and fix dates to tell folks. > That's going to be tough - AIM as a company is out of business (just go to