Re: VM Requirement Document - v0.0

2001-06-26 Thread Stefan Hoffmeister
: On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 18:42:56 -0300 (BRST), Rik van Riel wrote: >On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, John Stoffel wrote: > >> Or that we're doing big sequential reads of file(s) which are >> larger than memory, in which case expanding the cache size buys >> us nothing, and can actually hurt us alot. > >That's

Re: Linux thread problem

2001-05-10 Thread Stefan Hoffmeister
: On Thu, 10 May 2001 02:19:41 -0700, sachin kitnawat wrote: > I am porting an Threading Application from Hp-UX 11.0 >to Red Hat Linux 6.2. There is a system call pthread_condattr_setpshared >and pthread_mutex_setpshared in HP-UX which is not available on Linux. Newer glibc versions (2.2

Re: bug in redhat gcc 2.96

2001-05-09 Thread Stefan Hoffmeister
: On Wed, 9 May 2001 11:09:14 +0200 (CEST), Tobias Ringstrom wrote: >On Wed, 9 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote: >> > Any suggestions for a way to cope with this? We have a >> > customer who's system fails due to this. >> >> You can build 2.4 quite sanely with egcs-1.1.2 (aka kgcc) > >Since there is no

ptrace, debugging threads, zombies

2001-05-06 Thread Stefan Hoffmeister
Hi, in http://boudicca.tux.org/hypermail/linux-kernel/2000week51/0423.html Mark Kettenis writes However, the "zombie problem" is caused by the way ptrace() interacts with clone()/exit()/wait(), which I consider to be a kernel bug. What apparently happens is that even though a thread ha

NIC + PCI busmaster problems? (2.2, 2.4) - Was: Re: 8139too driver broken? (2.4-test12)

2000-12-28 Thread Stefan Hoffmeister
: On Sat, 23 Dec 2000 18:50:53 +0100, Stefan Hoffmeister wrote: >: On Fri, 22 Dec 2000 18:34:46 + (GMT), Alan Cox wrote: > >>2.2.18 might help and also as an '8139too' driver rewrite which may work > >Advancing further to a 2.4-test12 kernel (with the late

Re: 8139too driver broken? (2.4-test12) - Was: Re: rtl8139 driver broken? (2.2.16)

2000-12-25 Thread Stefan Hoffmeister
: On Sat, 23 Dec 2000 18:50:53 +0100, Stefan Hoffmeister wrote: >The rather major problem that >remains is performance. In case someone is interested... Windows 2000 SP1 now has the Realtek 8139 (Celeron 433, 192 MB, pure SCSI); drivers as shipped with W2K. Using a 40 MB test file over

8139too driver broken? (2.4-test12) - Was: Re: rtl8139 driver broken? (2.2.16)

2000-12-23 Thread Stefan Hoffmeister
: On Fri, 22 Dec 2000 18:34:46 + (GMT), Alan Cox wrote: >2.2.18 might help and also as an '8139too' driver rewrite which may work Advancing further to a 2.4-test12 kernel (with the latest available 8139too driver - 0.9.12) improves the situation even further, but doesn't solve it. I still

Re: rtl8139 driver broken? (2.2.16)

2000-12-22 Thread Stefan Hoffmeister
: On Fri, 22 Dec 2000 18:34:46 + (GMT), Alan Cox wrote: >> Questions: >> * Is the rtl8139 driver broken? > >Somewhat, especially in kernels that old We do live on Internet time, I know, but has it gotten that fast that the latest distributions ship with kernels "that old" ;-) >2.2.18 might

rtl8139 driver broken? (2.2.16)

2000-12-22 Thread Stefan Hoffmeister
[please CC replies; I am not on the list] I have a 2.2.16 kernel on an HP Omnibook 800 CT with docking station. That docking station contains an Allied Telesyn 2500TX NIC, identified by lspci as "Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139 (rev 10)". Versions 1.07 (RedHat 7.0) and 1.08 (SuSE 7.0) e

Mobile IBM disk drive power settings?

2000-11-28 Thread Stefan Hoffmeister
Is there any support for the mobile IBM disk drive Advanced Battery Life Extender power settings in Linux? http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/powerbooster Power Booster allows any computer running Windows 95/98 and an IBM ATAPI 4 mobile disk drive to directly control advanced power managemen