Crusoe math performance?

2001-05-02 Thread George Bonser
So I am fooling around with one of these things: processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineTMx86 cpu family : 5 model : 4 model name : Transmeta(tm) Crusoe(tm) Processor TM5600 stepping: 3 cpu MHz : 533.348 cache size : 512 KB fdiv_bug: no

Re: Requirement of make oldconfig [was: Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 1.3.1, aka ...]

2001-05-02 Thread John Stoffel
Eric> Giacomo Catenazzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> No. You propmt only one invalid assertion. After you this prompt >> you continue to validate rules and you will maybe prompt for another >> invalid rules. But these invalid rules are generally infrequent. Eric> I may be having problems with your

Compaq Hotplug PCI driver for 2.4.4

2001-05-02 Thread Greg KH
Just to let linux-kernel know: I'm working on the Compaq Hotplug PCI driver. The latest version should work with most Intel motherboards that support Hotplug PCI. The patch is currently available against 2.4.4 at: http://www.kroah.com/linux/hotplug/ Many thanks to Dely Sy at Intel for

Swap space deallocation speed.

2001-05-02 Thread Dave Mielke
Ever since I've upgraded to the 2.2.17-14 i386 kernel as provided by RedHat, I've had several hard crashes. One allowed "/var/log/messages" to be synced, so I was able to capture those details (which are attached to this message as the file "crash.log"). Once, instead of crashing, the system

Re: PROBLEM: 2.4.4 oops, will not boot

2001-05-02 Thread Gordon Sadler
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:51:39PM +1000, Andrew Morton wrote: > Envelope-to: gbsadler@localhost > From: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-ac13 i686) > To: Gordon Sadler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: PROBLEM: 2.4.4 oops, will not boot > >

Re: [OT] Re: Linux NAT questions- (kernel upgrade??)

2001-05-02 Thread J Sloan
"Sim, CT (Chee Tong)" schrieb: > I am using the Red Hat 7, below are my kernel version. I feel Red Hat 7 is > quite new, although RH 7.1 has just come out. How come it still say that my > kernel version is old. Ah, by old is meant the 2.2 version - 7.1 is the first RH release to ship with

Re: X15 alpha release: as fast as TUX but in user space

2001-05-02 Thread Fabio Riccardi
Our intention is to release X15 with an open source license. This will happen as soon as the codebase stabilizes a bit, that is when we go beta (in two - three weeks). At the moment we just don't have the time... The reason why I released the alpha binary version is that several people would

memory and current macro

2001-05-02 Thread peterius
Hi, I've been trying to write a device driver and I've found two problems. First, the current macro. I wanted to get the uid of the calling process but "current->uid" does NOT work it returns some other number. Same with "current->pid" and many others. I figured these numbers

Linux syscall speed -- was X15 rootin-tootin webserver

2001-05-02 Thread Michael Rothwell
According to tests performed at IBM: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-rt1/ Linux's sycalls are a little more than twice as fast as those of Windows 2000. 0.75usec vs 2.0msec. Not too shabby. And this "magic page" idea means it may get faster. -M - To unsubscribe from this

RE: [OT] Re: Linux NAT questions- (kernel upgrade??)

2001-05-02 Thread Sim, CT (Chee Tong)
I am using the Red Hat 7, below are my kernel version. I feel Red Hat 7 is quite new, although RH 7.1 has just come out. How come it still say that my kernel version is old. [root@guava simc]# uname -a Linux guava 2.2.16-22 #1 Tue Aug 22 16:16:55 EDT 2000 i586 unknown [root@guava simc]#

Re: [PATCH][CFT] (updated) ext2 directories in pagecache

2001-05-02 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Thursday 03 May 2001 03:15, you wrote: > Hello Daniel, > This combination against 2.4.4 won't allow directories to be moved. > Ex: mv a b #fails with I/O error. See attached strace. > But with ext2-dir-patch-S4 by itself, mv works as it should. > Later, > Albert Thanks Albert, this was

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.4 breaks VMware

2001-05-02 Thread Gregory T. Norris
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 06:53:49AM +0200, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > An even better solution would be getting vmware 2.0.4 which seems to > be a bit more 2.4-kernel compliant. > It is not yet announced on their web from what I can see but you may > already fetch it from p.ex.

[PATCH] turn device_init() into an initcall

2001-05-02 Thread Alexander Viro
Patch below turns device_init() into initcall. Current tree calls it from fs/partitions/check.c::partitions_setup() - definitely odd place for that stuff. Another thing done by partition_setup() is {init,}rd_load(). I.e. setting the contents of /dev/ram0 from initrd or floppies.

Linux benchmark results

2001-05-02 Thread Carey B. Stortz
I belong to a small group of students at Northern Michigan University who have spent the last 3 months running LMBench on Linux kernels from 2.0.1 to 2.4.0 we have some interesting results at: http://euclid.nmu.edu/~benchmark On our web site we have graphs for what we thought were the important

Re: Compiling kernel

2001-05-02 Thread jlnance
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 06:00:00PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > suppose I am making some change in sched.c and now I want to build my kernel > that reflects the change.. > Is there any way I can avoid answering all the questions when I do make zImage ? > > In short how should I compile the

Re: Build problems 2.4.4 on SPARC

2001-05-02 Thread Pete Zaitcev
> While trying to compile the 2.4.4 kernel on a SPARC-20, I encounter the > following error. > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/mm' > make all_targets > make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/mm' > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/include -Wall

Re: your mail

2001-05-02 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Duc Vianney wrote: > > Has anyone seen performance degradations between 2.2.19 and 2.4.x Yes. The signal handling one is because 2.4.x will save off the full SSE2 state, which means that the signal stack is almost 700 bytes, as compared to <200 before. This is sadly

Re: Complete support for Intel 815 chipset?

2001-05-02 Thread Alan Cox
> This may not matter in terms of performance, but many devices on Intel 815 > chipset machines show up as unknown. Any ideas when (or if) full support > for the 815 is planned? Get a newer lspci if there is one yet. It is simply down to the number/name table in lspci not the kernel what is

Re: [OT] Interrupting select.

2001-05-02 Thread Alan Cox
> > [seriously man sigaction] > Equally seriously .. all signals are unblocked in my code and always [see man signaction] > struct sigaction sa =3D { {sighandler}, {{0}}, SA_RESTART, N= subtle hint> ^^ > - To unsubscribe

Re: [OT] Interrupting select

2001-05-02 Thread Peter T. Breuer
"Mark Hahn wrote:" > > while (1) { > > int res = select(n,rfds,wfds,efds,); > > if (res > 0) > > return res;// data or error is expected > > if (res == 0) { > > return -ETIME; // timeo in

Re: Processes hanging in D state in 2.4.3 - any findings?

2001-05-02 Thread hiren_mehta
Hi List, I saw this in the archive. And I guess, I am also seeing this problem on 2.4.4. But I am not sure. Has this problem of rw_semaphore been fixed in 2.4.4 ? If not any idea, when will this be fixed ? Regards, -hiren (408)970-3062 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: X15 alpha release: as fast as TUX but in user space

2001-05-02 Thread Lincoln Dale
Hi, At 10:50 AM 2/05/2001 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: >i think Zach's phhttpd is an important milestone as well, it's the first >userspace webserver that shows how to use event-based, sigio-based async >networking IO and sendfile() under Linux. (I believe it had some >performance problems related

Re: Logging kernel oops

2001-05-02 Thread Keith Owens
On Wed, 02 May 2001 20:57:16 +0100, "Joseph Mathewson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What is the preferred what of getting debugging information from a kernel >oops? Is my only way connecting a monitor and getting a pencil and paper? >Is there any conceivable way I can get some useful debugging

Re: Linux Cluster using shared scsi

2001-05-02 Thread Doug Ledford
Max TenEyck Woodbury wrote: > > Doug Ledford wrote: > > > > Max TenEyck Woodbury wrote: > >> > >> Umm. Reboot? What do you think this is? Windoze? > > > > It's the *only* way to guarantee that the drive is never touched by more > > than one machine at a time (notice, I've not been talking about

Complete support for Intel 815 chipset?

2001-05-02 Thread Phil Oester
This may not matter in terms of performance, but many devices on Intel 815 chipset machines show up as unknown. Any ideas when (or if) full support for the 815 is planned? -Phil Output of lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82815 815 Chipset Host Bridge and Memory Controller Hub

Re: Linux Kernel Debuggers, KDB or KGDB?

2001-05-02 Thread Keith Owens
On Wed, 2 May 2001 16:06:15 -0500, Paul J Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'd like to know more about your plans to enhance KDB with source level debug >capability. Use a combination of gdb and kdb. kdb to support kernel internals, gdb to take the kdb output and add source level data. It

Re: [OT] Interrupting select.

2001-05-02 Thread Peter T. Breuer
"A month of sundays ago Alan Cox wrote:" > > What IS the magic combination that makes select interruptible > > by honest-to-goodness non-blocked signals! > man > > [seriously man sigaction] Equally seriously .. all signals are unblocked in my code and always have been. The processes receive

Re: Linux Kernel Debuggers, KDB or KGDB?

2001-05-02 Thread Paul J Albrecht
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Keith Owens wrote: > On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 16:17:22 -0500, > Paul J Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Where can I find an analysis of the relative strengths and weaknesses of KDB > >and KGDB for kernel debug? Has the linux community come to any consensus > >regarding the

[OT] automated remote install of Linux from WinNT4

2001-05-02 Thread Torrey Hoffman
Apologies for the off topic post. I have searched Google, Freshmeat and Sourceforge without success, and this is where the smart people are... I need to do an automated, remote installation of Linux on a large number of networked computers running Windows NT 4.0. I can place an executable

Re: [RFC] gcc compile-time assertions

2001-05-02 Thread Andrew Morton
David Howells wrote: > > I've written a patch for gcc to implement compile-time assertions with an eye > to making use of this in the kernel in the future (assuming I can get it to be > accepted into gcc). > Brilliant. It seems that there needs to be a way of detecting the presence of the

Re: [3com905b freeze Alpha SMP 2.4.2] FullDuplex issue ?

2001-05-02 Thread Andrew Morton
"Cabaniols, Sebastien" wrote: > > [ SMP Alpha dies running TCP Rx+Tx ] > Sebastien, I'd be suspecting the 2.4.2/Alpha kernel more than the ethernet driver. Are you able to reproduce this with more recent kernels? - - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

No Subject

2001-05-02 Thread Duc Vianney
Has anyone seen performance degradations between 2.2.19 and 2.4.x when running lmbench? I ran the lmbench benchmark on Linux kernels 2.2.19, 2.4.0, and 2.4.1 and observed performance degradation to be most noticed in signal handling, pipe latency, file deletion, and process creation. Are you

Re: [OT] Interrupting select.

2001-05-02 Thread Alan Cox
> What IS the magic combination that makes select interruptible > by honest-to-goodness non-blocked signals! man [seriously man sigaction] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Build problems 2.4.4 on SPARC

2001-05-02 Thread Marc Evans
Hello - While trying to compile the 2.4.4 kernel on a SPARC-20, I encounter the following error. [1.] One line summary of the problem: kernel 2.4.4 won't compile [2.] Full description of the problem/report: See item 7.7 for details [3.] Keywords (i.e., modules, networking, kernel): kernel

[PATCH][RFT] smbfs bugfixes for 2.4.4

2001-05-02 Thread Urban Widmark
Hello all This patch have been building up for a while, without reaching some undefined level of readiness. I would like some feedback from other smbfs users before submitting this for 2.4.4-something. Particularly from people mounting win9x shares. * win9x will sometimes not give back the

Re: Disk Performance Measurements

2001-05-02 Thread Shaun
> > In regards to diskr/wblk, drive_stat_acct() increments the number of > > sectors/blocks read based n the values in the request being processed by > > add_request(). But add_request() is only called for requests that can't be > > merged with requests currently on the queue. Thus the counters

Re: [OT] Interrupting select.

2001-05-02 Thread Peter T. Breuer
"A month of sundays ago Laramie Leavitt wrote:" > I think that this is slightly off-topic, but I figure that I'll second this one (waaay off topic for the kernel list, but ...) > someone here knows the answer or where to point me to the > answer. Please respond privately so the entire list is

Re: Linux Cluster using shared scsi

2001-05-02 Thread Max TenEyck Woodbury
Doug Ledford wrote: > > Max TenEyck Woodbury wrote: >> >> Umm. Reboot? What do you think this is? Windoze? > > It's the *only* way to guarantee that the drive is never touched by more > than one machine at a time (notice, I've not been talking about a shared > use drive, only one machine in the

[OT] Interrupting select.

2001-05-02 Thread Laramie Leavitt
I think that this is slightly off-topic, but I figure that someone here knows the answer or where to point me to the answer. Please respond privately so the entire list is not spamed by the response. I am writing a threaded network daemon using a thread per connection model (I know, it is not

[PATCH] Bug in kernel/fork.c in 2.4.4 kernel

2001-05-02 Thread Don Dugger
In working on thread core dumps I've stumbled across a minor bug in the generic `fork' code. The problem code is in routine `copy_mm' in `kernel/fork.c': /* Copy the current MM stuff.. */ memcpy(mm, oldmm, sizeof(*mm)); . . . if (retval)

Re: DPT I2O RAID and Linux I2O

2001-05-02 Thread Alan Cox
> If I understand correctly, some vendor would put I2O messaging hardware but > they would use it in a non-standard way ? So, if they dont support the I2O > protocol with their hardware, I will have to do it in another way... > > Is there a simple way to find out if my device support I2O

RE: DPT I2O RAID and Linux I2O

2001-05-02 Thread Patrick Allaire
Its a CompactPCI system from Ziatech. We have 2 computers in it. 1 Master (host) and 1 Slave (local). The master one is a Ziatech 5502 and the slave is a Ziatech 5541. The slave computer is isolated from the pci bus with a non-transparent pci-to-pci bridge : INTEL (DEC) 21554 Basicly I have to

Re: DPT I2O RAID and Linux I2O

2001-05-02 Thread Alan Cox
> The slave computer is isolated from the pci bus with a non-transparent > pci-to-pci bridge : INTEL (DEC) 21554 > > Basicly I have to transmit data between the host and the local system by the > pci bus. Ok thats nothing to do with I2O itself. Some hardware has the messaging layer built into

Re: >2G Files

2001-05-02 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Bill Wendling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > Question: Does Linux support >2G files and, if so, how do I implement > this? It does in 2.4, for details check: http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger SuSE Labs [EMAIL PROTECTED] private [EMAIL

Re: >2G Files

2001-05-02 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Bill Wendling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > Question: Does Linux support >2G files and, if so, how do I implement > this? check this page : http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html > > Thanks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: Logging kernel oops

2001-05-02 Thread Alan Cox
> What is the preferred what of getting debugging information from a kernel > oops? Is my only way connecting a monitor and getting a pencil and paper? > Is there any conceivable way I can get some useful debugging information > (on reset) without plugging in a keyboard/monitor? You can build

Re: xconfig is broken (example ppc 8xx)

2001-05-02 Thread Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
> To show the problem do: > > make xconfig ARCH=ppc > > in the "Platform support" menu "Processor Type" select "8xx" then close > the subminue with "MainMenu" > > now select "Save and Exit" > > This produces the following error messages: > > ERROR - Attempting to write value for unconfigured

RE: DPT I2O RAID and Linux I2O

2001-05-02 Thread Patrick Allaire
If I understand correctly, some vendor would put I2O messaging hardware but they would use it in a non-standard way ? So, if they dont support the I2O protocol with their hardware, I will have to do it in another way... Is there a simple way to find out if my device support I2O protocol ?

Re: >2G Files

2001-05-02 Thread Rasmus Bøg Hansen
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Bill Wendling wrote: > Question: Does Linux support >2G files and, if so, how do I implement > this? With kernel 2.4 it does. You will probably need to compile userspace programs against 2.4 headers to get this functionality in userspace programs too. Rasmus -- -- [

Re: Memory management issues with 2.4.4

2001-05-02 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Jorge Nerin wrote: > Short version: > Under very heavy thrashing (about four hours) the system either lockups > or OOM handler kills a task even when there is swap space left. First of all, please try to reproduce the problem with 2.4.5-pre1. If it still happens with

Re: Kernel doesn't create core for threads

2001-05-02 Thread Don Dugger
Zdenek- Yes, this is a known problem. I sent out a patch last month that fixed this problem. Unfortunately, the patch caused some kernel hangs that I just fixed today. I'm testing the fix now so expect a new patch either this afternoon or tomorrow that will fix this. On Wed, May 02, 2001 at

Re: Problem with map_user_kiobuf() not mapping to physical memory

2001-05-02 Thread Gerd Knorr
> to the driver which performs a map_user_kiobuf() on it, the resulting > kiobuf > structure has all of the pagelist[] physical address entries set to the > same value > and the maplist[] entries set to 0. The devices access to this memory > now > causes system problems. > Is

Re: Both 2.4.4aa2 and 2.4.4aa3 fail to compile

2001-05-02 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 10:24:18AM +0900, Maintaniner on duty wrote: > > With gcc-2.95.2 provided by SuSE-7.0 for Alpha on UP2000 SMP with 2GB memory > > > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 >-fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -mno-fp-regs

Logging kernel oops

2001-05-02 Thread Joseph Mathewson
I get a kernel oops every few days (even weeks if I'm lucky) with kernel 2.4.2 that I suspect are related to my Speedtouch USB ADSL modem. The box in question is monitor and keyboardless unless strictly necessary, and routes the ADSL internet connection to a local network. What is the preferred

>2G Files

2001-05-02 Thread Bill Wendling
Hi all, Question: Does Linux support >2G files and, if so, how do I implement this? Thanks. -- || Bill Wendling[EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: HPNA

2001-05-02 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 02:00:49PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello sorry to interupt ur work, i was a subscriber to the kernel mailing > list before and realise how much traffic you get. > > My friend has a DIAMOND homefree network card using HPNA > i was wondering what hte status of

Kernel doesn't create core for threads

2001-05-02 Thread Zdenek Kabelac
Hello Looks to me like the latest 2.4.5-pre1 is not creating coredump for multithreaded aplications: $ ulimit -a core file size (blocks) unlimited data seg size (kbytes) unlimited file size (blocks) unlimited max locked memory (kbytes) unlimited max memory size (kbytes)

Re: X15 alpha release: as fast as TUX but in user space (fwd)

2001-05-02 Thread Fabio Riccardi
>From my experience system calls are not an issue. What costs a lot is moving data around, since modern CPUs spend most of their time in memory/bus wait cycles... - Fabio Linus Torvalds wrote: > >I think that applies to all really high-performance servers. > > Note that it is definitely not

Re: reiserfs+lndir problem [was: 2.4.4 SMP: spurious EOVERFLOW "Value too large for defined data type"]

2001-05-02 Thread Daniel Elstner
On Tue, 01 May 2001 18:48:51 -0400 Chris Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, can you reproduce with a set of sources other than X? I would leave > glibc alone for now, unless you can reproduce on ext2. No. I tried building kernel 2.4.4 five times in a row - no errors. Also some diff's after

Re: Linux Cluster using shared scsi

2001-05-02 Thread Doug Ledford
Mike Anderson wrote: > > Doug, > > I guess I worded my question poorly. My question was around multi-path > devices in combination with SCSI-2 reserve vs SCSI-3 persistent reserve which > has not always been easy, but is more difficult is you use a name space that > can slip or can have

Kernel Research Results

2001-05-02 Thread Carey B. Stortz
I belong to a small group of students at Northern Michigan University who have spent the last 3 months running LMBench on Linux kernels from 2.0.1 to 2.4.0 we have some interesting results at: http://euclid.nmu.edu/~benchmark If you would like to email our group directly the address is [EMAIL

bug-report: reboot hangs system

2001-05-02 Thread Toshio Spoor
Hi Riley, I am not sure if I should have send this bug-report to you. I hope you don't mind. If you do could you send me the correct email adress. Many thanks in advance. Toshio [1.] One line summary of the problem: Reboot command hangs system. [2.] Full description of the problem/report:

Re: PROBLEM: 2.4.4, 2.4.4-ac1, 2.4.4-ac2, neighbour discovery bug(ipv6)

2001-05-02 Thread poptix
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Cliff Albert wrote: > > When i traceroute6 my 2.4.4 box on my local lan, the 2.4.4 box panic's after about >10 seconds. The traceroute6 completes on the other box. > > 2.4.3-ac14 doesn't experience these problems. Only 2.4.4 (with or without ac{1,2}) >panics > >

Re: PROBLEM: 2.4.4 oops, will not boot

2001-05-02 Thread Gordon Sadler
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:51:39PM +1000, Andrew Morton wrote: > Envelope-to: gbsadler@localhost > From: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-ac13 i686) > To: Gordon Sadler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: PROBLEM: 2.4.4 oops, will not boot > >

Re: Linux Cluster using shared scsi

2001-05-02 Thread Mike Anderson
Doug, I guess I worded my question poorly. My question was around multi-path devices in combination with SCSI-2 reserve vs SCSI-3 persistent reserve which has not always been easy, but is more difficult is you use a name space that can slip or can have multiple entries for the same physical

Re: X15 alpha release: as fast as TUX but in user space (fwd)

2001-05-02 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matti Aarnio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 02:16:43PM -0700, Jim Gettys wrote: >... >> "X is an exercise in avoiding system calls". I think I said this around >> 1984-1985. >> - Jim > >I think that applies to

Re: PROBLEM: 2.4.4{ac2} will not boot

2001-05-02 Thread Gordon Sadler
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 12:28:06PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > Envelope-to: gbsadler@localhost > Subject: Re: PROBLEM: 2.4.4{ac2} will not boot > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gordon Sadler) > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] > From: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > threads that

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Re: isa_read/write not available on ppc - solution suggestions ??

2001-05-02 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>> I would suggest the opposite approach instead: make the PPC just support >> isa_readx/isa_writex instead. > >We can certainly do that, no problem. > >BUT that won't get a token ring pcmcia card working in the newer >powerbooks, such as the titanium G4 powerbook, because the PCI host >bridge

netperf stream scaling; patches that help?

2001-05-02 Thread Nivedita Singhvi
I'm trying to run a simple test on a pair of Linux 2.4.2 PC's that starts up simultaneous netperf tcp stream tests, and find that I cant invoke more that 800 without running into memory allocation failures. This wouldnt be strange except that I find on the same systems, FreeBSD seems to do

Re: Linux Kernel Debuggers, KDB or KGDB?

2001-05-02 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jeff Dike ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > > Is this sufficient to do driver development? TUN/TAP doesn't let me > > > write > > > ethernet drivers inside UML. > > For ISDN not really. For SCSI yes - scsi generic would let you write a > > virtual scsi adapter 'owning' some physical devices > >

Re: serial console problems with 2.4.4

2001-05-02 Thread Fabrice Gautier
On 02 May 2001 10:37:21 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) wrote: > Fabrice Gautier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > So this this probably a sulogin/mingetty problem. They should set the > > CREAD flag in your tty c_cflag. > > > > the patch for busybox repalced the line > >

Re: Kernel build problem (2.4.1)...

2001-05-02 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Daniel Howe wrote: > ld: cannot open binary: No such file or directory Fairly old problem. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel=98478655301837=2 Please check list archives to see if issues have previously been addressed. --

Re: How can do to disable the L1 cache in linux ?

2001-05-02 Thread Mikulas Patocka
> Dear All, > How can do to disable the L1 cache in linux ? > Are there some commands or directives to disable it ?? I wrote this some times ago when playing with caches. Compile cctlmod.c as a module, insert it to kernel, and use con and coff to enable and disable caches. Note that the code

Parport_pc compile errors in 2.4.4

2001-05-02 Thread Hal Duston
All, I have encountered a compile error in 2.4.4. The autoirq and autodma parameters that were added (in 2.4.3-ac2) to parport_pc_init_superio are missing from the else side of the #ifdef CONFIG_PCI I _think_ this patch should fix it. PATCH against 2.4.4 ***

Kernel build problem (2.4.1)...

2001-05-02 Thread Daniel Howe
Greetings, I'm having a problem with my running kernel (2.4.1) - attempting to make a boot floppy. make bzDisk(& make bzImage) give the error below - any ideas? Seems like bootsec is missing. I'm running Debian on x86... thanks much, /daniel make[1]: Leaving directory

Re: X15 alpha release: as fast as TUX but in user space (fwd)

2001-05-02 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 02:16:43PM -0700, Jim Gettys wrote: ... > "X is an exercise in avoiding system calls". I think I said this around > 1984-1985. > - Jim I think that applies to all really high-performance servers. Definitely it applies to ZMailer, which

Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac3

2001-05-02 Thread Michal Jaegermann
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 10:28:35PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > 2.4.4-ac3 Does not compile on Alpha. I have a strange feeling that because of this:-) > o Fix module exception race on Alpha (Andrea Arcangeli) A declaration was forgotten and, comparing with i386

Memory management issues with 2.4.4

2001-05-02 Thread Jorge Nerin
Short version: Under very heavy thrashing (about four hours) the system either lockups or OOM handler kills a task even when there is swap space left. Long version: My system is a dual 2x200MMX in a Gigabyte 586DX with 96Mb and 226Mb of swap this way: [root@quartz ~]# swapon -s Filename

Re: Linux Kernel Debuggers, KDB or KGDB?

2001-05-02 Thread Jeff Dike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > Is this sufficient to do driver development? TUN/TAP doesn't let me > > write > > ethernet drivers inside UML. > For ISDN not really. For SCSI yes - scsi generic would let you write a > virtual scsi adapter 'owning' some physical devices Fine, so go ahead and write

Re: Problems even with 512 block size MOs

2001-05-02 Thread Alan Cox
> Copying a 6.5 MByte file with cp returns nearly immediately on the > commandline, but umount nearly takes forever. Maximum rate detected by > xosview during umount was about 30 kByte. > > I have similar behaviour on another machine and with different disk. However > I don't get any "dmesg"

Re: Linux Cluster using shared scsi

2001-05-02 Thread Doug Ledford
Mike Anderson wrote: > > Doug, > > A question on clarification. > > Is the configuration you are testing have both FC adapters going to the same > port of the storage device (mutli-path) or to different ports of the storage > device (mulit-port)? > > The reason I ask is that I thought if you

Re: Requirement of make oldconfig [was: Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 1.3.1, aka ...]

2001-05-02 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Giacomo Catenazzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > No. You propmt only one invalid assertion. After you this prompt > you continue to validate rules and you will maybe prompt for another > invalid rules. But these invalid rules are generally infrequent. I may be having problems with your English. I

Re: Linux Cluster using shared scsi

2001-05-02 Thread Doug Ledford
Max TenEyck Woodbury wrote: > > Doug Ledford wrote: > > > > ... > > > > If told to hold a reservation, then resend your reservation request once every > > 2 seconds (this actually has very minimal CPU/BUS usage and isn't as big a > > deal as requesting a reservation every 2 seconds might sound).

Problems even with 512 block size MOs

2001-05-02 Thread Uwe Bonnes
Hallo recent 2.4 kernels have incredible bad performance for me when handling MO drives. Going back 2.2 shows better performance. This is my setup: SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 15, function 0 ncr53c8xx: 53c810 detected ncr53c810-0: rev 0x2 on pci bus 0

Re: Linux Cluster using shared scsi

2001-05-02 Thread Max TenEyck Woodbury
Doug Ledford wrote: > > ... > > If told to hold a reservation, then resend your reservation request once every > 2 seconds (this actually has very minimal CPU/BUS usage and isn't as big a > deal as requesting a reservation every 2 seconds might sound). The first time > the reservation is

Re: DISCOVERED! Cause of Athlon/VIA KX133 Instability

2001-05-02 Thread Dan Hollis
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Seth Goldberg wrote: > > > The other thing i was gunna try is to dump my chipset registers using > > > WPCREDIT and WPCRSET and compare them with other people on this list > > why resort to silly windows tools, when lspci under Linux does it for you? > Because lspci does

bug: can't mount -o loop or -t nfs in 2.4.4, 2.4.4-ac2

2001-05-02 Thread Joseph Cheek
2.4.4-pre7 worked fine. situation: mounting a remote nfs share or a loopback local filesystems doesn't work. it doesn't crash the system, the userspace process just hangs on the mount() call. all of these hang: # mount -o loop /my/ext2/image /mnt/ext2 # mount -o loop /my/fat16/image

[OT] Re: Linux NAT questions- (kernel upgrade??)

2001-05-02 Thread J Sloan
"Sim, CT (Chee Tong)" schrieb: > Hi.. I follow your instruction, but I encounter this issue, my kernel need > to be upgrade? MAy I know how to determine the current kernel version uname -a > and > how to upgrade it?? Either upgrade to a distro that includes the new kernel (e.g. latest SuSE or

Re: Linux Cluster using shared scsi

2001-05-02 Thread Mike Anderson
Doug, A question on clarification. Is the configuration you are testing have both FC adapters going to the same port of the storage device (mutli-path) or to different ports of the storage device (mulit-port)? The reason I ask is that I thought if you are using SCSI-2 reserves that the

Re: Wrong free inodes count in kernels 2.0 and 2.2

2001-05-02 Thread Collectively Unconscious
On Wed, 2 May 2001, [iso-8859-1] Samuli Kärkkäinen wrote: > I get repeatably both in 2.0 and 2.2 serieses of kernels the following kind > of errors: > > 2.2 kernels (several, including 2.2.18): > EXT2-fs error (device ide1(22,6)): ext2_check_inodes_bitmap: Wrong free inodes >count in group

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.4-ac3 +IPX -SYSCTL compile fix

2001-05-02 Thread Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Em Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:17:22AM -0400, Pavel Roskin escreveu: > > +#error This file shouldn't be compiled without CONFIG_SYSCTL defined > > Oops, sorry! Unterminated string constant in preprocessor. It should be > > #error This file should not be compiled without CONFIG_SYSCTL defined > >

Re: Linux Kernel Debuggers, KDB or KGDB?

2001-05-02 Thread Alan Cox
> > Everything is there. SCSI and ISDN have the equivalent devices of the > > "lo" driver for the networking layer. Or the equivalent of tun/tap > > devices for the ethernet layer. > > Is this sufficient to do driver development? TUN/TAP doesn't let me write > ethernet drivers inside UML. For

Re: Let init know user wants to shutdown

2001-05-02 Thread John Fremlin
Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > I'm wondering if that veto business is really needed. Why not reject > > > > *all* APM rejectable events, and then let the userspace event handler > > > > send the system to sleep or turn it off? Anybody au fait with the APM > > > > spec? > > > >

Re: Linux Kernel Debuggers, KDB or KGDB?

2001-05-02 Thread Jeff Dike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Everything is there. SCSI and ISDN have the equivalent devices of the > "lo" driver for the networking layer. Or the equivalent of tun/tap > devices for the ethernet layer. Is this sufficient to do driver development? TUN/TAP doesn't let me write ethernet drivers

Wrong free inodes count in kernels 2.0 and 2.2

2001-05-02 Thread Samuli Kärkkäinen
I get repeatably both in 2.0 and 2.2 serieses of kernels the following kind of errors: 2.0 kernels (at least 2.0.39): EXT2-fs error (device 03:04): ext2_check_inodes_bitmap: Wrong free inodes count in group 576, stored = 1956, counted = 1942 EXT2-fs error (device 03:04):

Hello_Linux_Kernel_World()

2001-05-02 Thread Albert Tze
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Re: serial console problems with 2.4.4

2001-05-02 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Fabrice Gautier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 02 May 2001 11:54:11 +0200 > Reto Baettig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi > > > > I just installed 2.4.4 on our alpha SMP boxes (ES40) and now I have > > problems with the serial console: > > I get same kind of problem when upgrading

Re: Linux Cluster using shared scsi

2001-05-02 Thread Eddie Williams
Hi Doug, Great to hear your progress on this. As I had not heard anything about this effort since this time last year I had assumed you put this project on the shelf. I will be happy to test these interfaces when they are ready. Eddie > "Eric Z. Ayers" wrote: > > > > Doug Ledford writes:

Re: 2.4.4 code breaks compile of VMWare network bridging

2001-05-02 Thread LA Walsh
"Mohammad A. Haque" wrote: > This was answered several hours ago. Check the list archives. --- Many thanks -- it was in my neverending backlog -l - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

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