Pin an IRQ to a particular CPU

2007-04-26 Thread Phy Prabab
Hello, In an effort to increase over all throughput of my Linux NFS file server, I thought about trying to force an IRQ, for the NIC, to be serviced by a particular CPU. Is this possible? TIA, Phy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

Non continuous VM address space

2007-04-26 Thread Phy Prabab
Hello, I have a question, I have a little application and sbrks and then mmaps to get memory from the system. Originally, this program worked fine because I had assumed that my applications address space would be continuous, each subsequent memory request would "mapped" next to each other, after

Issues with knfsd + solaris clients

2007-03-27 Thread Phy Prabab
. TIA, Phy - Original Message ---- From: Phy Prabab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 12:32:16 PM Subject: Issues with 2.6.21-rc4/5 and slowlaris 8 Hello, I am having some issues with slowlaris 8 sparc and linux 2.6.21-rc4/5 (actually, 2.6.20.x as well

Odd log message associated with NFS

2007-03-27 Thread Phy Prabab
Hello, I am currently running 2.6.21-rc5 and I am seeing quite a bit of this message in my log files: kernel: rpcsvc: received unknown control message:-2144992132/-1 This machine is an dual dual core opteron with 3Ware 9650 (14 disk RAID10), 4G RAM, 64bit kernel, nfsutils-1.0.12 running knfsd.

Re: Opps in 2.6.21-rc4 nfsd

2007-03-25 Thread Phy Prabab
Opps, forgot, this is for 2.6.20.x, guess I'll wait for the updated patch. Thanks! Phy On 3/25/07, Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday March 26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'll try to have a patch for you to try on 2.6.21rc4 shortly. > This patch should remove the Oops, but I hav

Re: Opps in 2.6.21-rc4 nfsd

2007-03-23 Thread Phy Prabab
TED]> wrote: On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 12:24:12PM -0700, Phy Prabab wrote: > Hello, > > I have a recent oopps on a small file server I have running. The > machine in question is a dual, dual core AMD Opteron 2.2GHz w/4G RAM, > 3Ware 9650SE (14 drive RAID 10), using XFS, LVM2 (latest),

issue with 2.6.21-rc4

2007-03-22 Thread Phy Prabab
Hello! I have an interesting message within my log files for a small file server running 2.6.21-rc4. The message is "rpcsvc: received unknown control message:-2144988692/-1" of which there are quite a few. I tried to google around for this but found nothing. Any help from the experts? The mac

test

2007-03-22 Thread Phy Prabab
test - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Opps in 2.6.21-rc4 nfsd

2007-03-22 Thread Phy Prabab
Hello, I have a recent oopps on a small file server I have running. The machine in question is a dual, dual core AMD Opteron 2.2GHz w/4G RAM, 3Ware 9650SE (14 drive RAID 10), using XFS, LVM2 (latest), exported via knfsd. Kernel is 2.6.21-rc4 64b. Here is the bt: Mar 22 12:09:01 rcfs05 kernel:

mmap and swap

2007-03-21 Thread Phy Prabab
Hello, I have a mysterious issue with swapping. I have a 32b machine running 2.4.21.x (RHEE30) w/4G RAM and 8G swap. If I run one application and pause it after having allocated 2.5G and then run another application (or just another instance of the same app) and try to allocate another 2.5G I w

Re: Question about setting affinity in 2.4

2007-02-18 Thread Phy Prabab
/07, Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Phy ! On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 06:02:17PM -0800, Phy Prabab wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am trying to set affinity on a program to make sure I can get the > best use of the cache as possible and to eliminate as much noise as >

Question about setting affinity in 2.4

2007-02-18 Thread Phy Prabab
Hello everyone, I am trying to set affinity on a program to make sure I can get the best use of the cache as possible and to eliminate as much noise as possible with running my program. I have tried unsuccessfully to set affinity using sched_set/getaffinity and the CPU_SET macros. In particular

mail list broken?

2005-09-01 Thread Phy Prabab
Hello, Does anyone know why all of a sudden I have stopped receiving LK mailings? The last email was yesterday mornig around 02.00 US PST. I see the archives are continuing to get mail. hmmm. Any help is appreciated. Start

odd socket behavior

2005-08-29 Thread Phy Prabab
Hello all, I am seeing something odd w/sockets. I have an app that opens and closes network sockets. When the app terminates it releases all fd (sockets) and exists, yet running netstat after the app terminates still shows the sockets as open! Am I doing something wrong or is this something tha