Re: Question: Status of VIA chipsets and 2.2 kernels

2001-05-09 Thread Robert Cohen
> Asus A7A266 (ALI chipset) > > On Wed, 9 May 2001, Robert Cohen wrote: > > > What with all the various problem reports flying around for via > > chipsets, Ive lost track of the state of play as regards via > > northbridges and south bridges. > > I am thinking o

Re: Question: Status of VIA chipsets and 2.2 kernels

2001-05-09 Thread Robert Cohen
the P3 machine with the Apollo pro chipset is using the 686B southbridge and might share the DMA problems. Anyone know if this is a problem? -- Robert Cohen Unix Support TLTSU Australian National University Ph: 612 58389 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kerne

Question: Status of VIA chipsets and 2.2 kernels

2001-05-09 Thread Robert Cohen
transfers between channels. Some reports say these only occur with Western digital disks. The 2 athlon boards listed include an onboard promise IDE controller. So I should be OK if I use this for disks, right? Any other problems I should know about? -- Robert Cohen Unix Support TLTSU Australian

Question: Status of VIA chipsets and 2.2 kernels

2001-05-09 Thread Robert Cohen
transfers between channels. Some reports say these only occur with Western digital disks. The 2 athlon boards listed include an onboard promise IDE controller. So I should be OK if I use this for disks, right? Any other problems I should know about? -- Robert Cohen Unix Support TLTSU Australian

Re: Question: Status of VIA chipsets and 2.2 kernels

2001-05-09 Thread Robert Cohen
problems. Anyone know if this is a problem? -- Robert Cohen Unix Support TLTSU Australian National University Ph: 612 58389 - 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

Re: Question: Status of VIA chipsets and 2.2 kernels

2001-05-09 Thread Robert Cohen
) On Wed, 9 May 2001, Robert Cohen wrote: What with all the various problem reports flying around for via chipsets, Ive lost track of the state of play as regards via northbridges and south bridges. I am thinking of buying a machine with a via chipset and I wan't to know I'm wary of using

Linux and 802.IQ

2000-11-17 Thread Robert Cohen
is Linux 802.IQ compliant? Is Linux 2.2 or just 2.4. How long has 802.IQ been around and how widespread is it. Is Solaris compliant. How about NT/ Win 2000. Robert Cohen TLTSU, Australian National University. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" i

Linux and 802.IQ

2000-11-17 Thread Robert Cohen
is Linux 802.IQ compliant? Is Linux 2.2 or just 2.4. How long has 802.IQ been around and how widespread is it. Is Solaris compliant. How about NT/ Win 2000. Robert Cohen TLTSU, Australian National University. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" i

[Bench] Slow tiotest read in Kernel 2.2.16+

2000-10-09 Thread Robert Cohen
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[Bench] Slow tiotest read in Kernel 2.2.16+

2000-10-09 Thread Robert Cohen
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Re: Benchmark results for elv_test

2000-10-06 Thread Robert Cohen
not clear if performance problems found are in the kernel or in the unusual libraries used. Robert Cohen Australian National University J. Robert von Behren ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) write >Looking over your test program, I don't think you are actually testing >the elevator algorithm

Re: Benchmark results for elv_test

2000-10-06 Thread Robert Cohen
not clear if performance problems found are in the kernel or in the unusual libraries used. Robert Cohen Australian National University J. Robert von Behren ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) write Looking over your test program, I don't think you are actually testing the elevator algorithm at all. There are a couple

Benchmark results for elv_test (2.4.0-test9 and back).

2000-10-04 Thread Robert Cohen
reading, 240 megs read at 6.86 megs/sec Kernel 2.0.39 robert@testmac25 src]$ ./elv_test 8 30 files created, 240 megs written at 8.35 megs/sec finished writing 240 megs written at 7.43 megs per sec finished reading, 240 megs read at 3.88 megs/sec -- Robert Cohen Unix Support, TLTSU Australian

Benchmark results for elv_test (2.4.0-test9 and back).

2000-10-04 Thread Robert Cohen
reading, 240 megs read at 6.86 megs/sec Kernel 2.0.39 robert@testmac25 src]$ ./elv_test 8 30 files created, 240 megs written at 8.35 megs/sec finished writing 240 megs written at 7.43 megs per sec finished reading, 240 megs read at 3.88 megs/sec -- Robert Cohen Unix Support, TLTSU Australian

Re: [Demo program]: Poor elevator performance in 2.4.0-test9pre6

2000-09-26 Thread Robert Cohen
the files. So they were being created without user write permission.. I dont know why it worked under 2.4.0. Maybe a kernel bug :-). Anyway, a new version is available now at http://tltsu.anu.edu.au/~robert/elv_test.c Robert Cohen TLTSU, Unix support Australian National University

Re: [Demo program]: Poor elevator performance in 2.4.0-test9pre6

2000-09-26 Thread Robert Cohen
the files. So they were being created without user write permission.. I dont know why it worked under 2.4.0. Maybe a kernel bug :-). Anyway, a new version is available now at http://tltsu.anu.edu.au/~robert/elv_test.c Robert Cohen TLTSU, Unix support Australian National University

[Demo program]: Poor elevator performance in 2.4.0-test9pre6

2000-09-25 Thread Robert Cohen
ed benchmark thats slowing things down. As I understand it, the elevator should be dealing with the interleaved nature of the writes. This seems to be working ok for reads, but it doesnt seem to be working properly for writes. The source can be found at http://tltsu.anu.edu.au/~robert/elv_test.

[Demo program]: Poor elevator performance in 2.4.0-test9pre6

2000-09-25 Thread Robert Cohen
slowing things down. As I understand it, the elevator should be dealing with the interleaved nature of the writes. This seems to be working ok for reads, but it doesnt seem to be working properly for writes. The source can be found at http://tltsu.anu.edu.au/~robert/elv_test.c -- Robert Cohen TLTSU

Re: Terrible elevator performance in Linux 2.4.0-test8

2000-09-18 Thread Robert Cohen
From: Andrea Arcangeli ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Date: Thu Sep 14 2000 - 09:30:52 EST On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 07:40:12PM +1000, Robert Cohen wrote: >> With kernel version 2.4.0-test1-ac22, I saw adequate performance. >In 2.4.0-test1-ac22 there were a latency-driven elevator (the on

Re: Terrible elevator performance in Linux 2.4.0-test8

2000-09-18 Thread Robert Cohen
From: Andrea Arcangeli ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Date: Thu Sep 14 2000 - 09:30:52 EST On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 07:40:12PM +1000, Robert Cohen wrote: With kernel version 2.4.0-test1-ac22, I saw adequate performance. In 2.4.0-test1-ac22 there were a latency-driven elevator (the one we have now

Terrible elevator performance in kernel 2.4.0-test8

2000-09-14 Thread Robert Cohen
2.4.0-test, the max_bombs value has been eliminated so I can't change it. I was hoping that that meant that the algorithm had been improved. Unfortunately, the benchmarks don't show any improvement. -- Robert Cohen Unix Support, TLTSU Australian National University - To unsubscribe from this list: sen

Terrible elevator performance in kernel 2.4.0-test8

2000-09-14 Thread Robert Cohen
2.4.0-test, the max_bombs value has been eliminated so I can't change it. I was hoping that that meant that the algorithm had been improved. Unfortunately, the benchmarks don't show any improvement. -- Robert Cohen Unix Support, TLTSU Australian National University - To unsubscribe from this list: sen