3.10.0-rcX vmstat regression

2013-06-10 Thread Shane Shrybman
Hello, x86_64 with 32 bit user space, seen on all 3.10.0-rc's A typical 'vmstat 1' run looks like this: ~$ vmstat 1 procs ---memory-- ---swap-- -io -system-- cpu r b swpd free buff cache si sobibo in cs us sy id wa 0 0 0 3624776 26060

Re: Problem: Blank screen in X after heavy disk access (2.4 only)

2001-01-16 Thread Shane Shrybman
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Rodney M. Jokerst wrote: > Yes, I have the same motherboard / chipset. Thanks for your help! > > Rodney M. Jokerst > > On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Nathan Thompson wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 03:11:01PM -0600, Rodney M. Jokerst wrote: > > > This action causes my screen t

VIA686a test code... reset the latch if count > max

2001-01-04 Thread Shane Shrybman
Hello, I have just been bit by this bug(hardware?) while using the 2.4.0-prerelease kernel. The fix has been included in recent 2.2.19pre kernels and I was wondering if there are plans to include it in 2.4. It requires a reboot to repair so it is a bit of a problem ;) Also, is it a confirmed ha

Re: Possible critical VIA vt82c686a chip bug

2000-10-26 Thread Shane Shrybman
Hi, I have the same problem. On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: [...snip...] > Could you send me your 'lspci -vvxxx' to confirm it's the very same > chip? 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 0686 (rev 21) Subsystem: Unknown device 1106: Contr

Re: VMWare and kswapd

2000-10-23 Thread Shane Shrybman
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Michael Rothwell wrote: > I'm trying out the new VMWare for Linux, and noticed that if I let it > run for a couple of days, I get this: > > Oct 16 15:07:49 cartman kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for > kswapd... [...snip...] I think this a known issue with the 2.2 k

Re: [PATCH] RTL 8139 oops cured

2000-10-15 Thread Shane Shrybman
Hi, On Sun, 15 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...snip...] > What happens if you try the following patch instead? The original > out-of-memory behaviour seems a bit bogus to me. This patch is untested, > but should work. I applied this patch and the box didn't reboot or hang during my simp

Re: [PATCH] RTL 8139 oops cured

2000-10-15 Thread Shane Shrybman
On Sun, 15 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! > > Instead of checking all possible error bits, the RxStatusOK bit should be > checked. I encounter rx_status==0 when I stress my P90, which gives a > negative packet size (-4), and an oops in eth_copy_and_sum. > > Applies to 2.4.0-test10-pre

Re: Updated 2.4 TODO List

2000-10-09 Thread Shane Shrybman
> * RTL 8139 cards sometimes stop responding. Both drivers don't >handle this quite good enough yet. (reported by Rogier Wolff, >tentatively reported as fixed by David Ford.) 2.4.0-test9 Spontaneous reboots under network load with this driver. Sorry, no more