Re: SCSI partitions

2001-01-16 Thread David Lang
in part it is due to the major/minor split which only gives 4 bits for the partition number. if you use devfs or LVM this limit is removed. David Lang On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 11:10:41 -0800 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: multi-queue scheduler update

2001-01-19 Thread David Lang
another thing that would be interesting is what is the overhead on UP or small (2-4 way) SMP machines David Lang On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Mike Kravetz wrote: Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:52:25 -0800 From: Mike Kravetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Andrea Arcangeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Is sendfile all that sexy?

2001-01-22 Thread David Lang
at what data you pass through your proxy. now replay proxying with routing and I would agree with you (but I'll bet this is handled in the kernel IP stack anyway) David Lang - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: Is sendfile all that sexy?

2001-01-22 Thread David Lang
how about always_defragment (or whatever the option is now called) so that your routing box always reassembles packets and then fragments them to the correct size for the next segment? wouldn't this do the job? David Lang On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Val Henson wrote: Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 12:37

SCSI raid controllers

2001-01-22 Thread David Lang
what SCSI raid controllers would you guys reccomend for use under 2.4? there was a question friday about a specific Adaptec one that received no response, I know there is support in the kernel for some from compaq and from IBM, but I don't know how extensive this is and if it is a case of linux

Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

2001-01-27 Thread David Lang
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Frank v Waveren wrote: Why? Why not just zero them, and get both security and compatibility... the problem is that you don't know what they mean, just zeroing them may break things (how will the sender know that you zeroed them). David Lang - To unsubscribe from

Re: ECN: Clearing the air (fwd)

2001-01-28 Thread David Lang
I am behind a raptor firewall and ran the test that David M posted a couple days ago and was able to sucessfully connect to his test machine. so either raptor tolorates ECN (at least in the verion I am running) or the test was not valid. David Lang On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, jamal wrote: Date: Sun

Re: 2.4.x and SMP fails to compile (`current' undefined)

2001-01-31 Thread David Lang
probably not now that SMP athlon boards are supposed to be starting to be available. David Lang On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, David Ford wrote: Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 20:37:02 -0800 From: David Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Stephen Frost [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: LKML [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 2.4.x

Re: 2.4.x and SMP fails to compile (`current' undefined)

2001-01-31 Thread David Lang
about the third story down is one mentioning SMP athlon boards actually starting to show up http://www.aceshardware.com/Spades/list_news.php?category=AMD David Lang On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Tom Leete wrote: Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 05:48:31 -0500 From: Tom Leete [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Peter

Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up

2001-05-18 Thread David Lang
menu to select between precompiled kernels with the correct options (never mind what that will do to the size of the distros to ship so many kernels) David Lang On Fri, 18 May 2001, Charles Cazabon wrote: Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 09:34:14 -0600 From: Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up

2001-05-18 Thread David Lang
. if you select a SCSI controller you MUST select SCSI) part 2. simplifications (i.e. if x86 and printer then x86_printer) tehn have a mode where the part 2 rules are not evaluated to handle the corner cases. David Lang On Fri, 18 May 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote: Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 10:53

Re: Proposal: Linux Kernel Patch Management System

2000-09-13 Thread David Lang
for it. I guess this should wait until Larry makes a comment. David Lang Isn't this "new" patch maintenance system much like bitkeeper? Heh. I'm surprised Larry hasn't jumped into this discussion by now. What we've implemented is a very small subset of the sort of features that

Re: Raid 1/upgrade to 2.2.16

2000-08-29 Thread David Lang
kernel you will need to do a 'make modules' and 'make modules_install' unless you configure the kernel include everything you need for your server and not use modules. David Lang On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Kevin Jones wrote: Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 15:09:01 -0600 From: Kevin Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: CVS for kernel

2000-10-10 Thread David Lang
you may want to check the bitkeeper site, I think I remember hearing that they have a copy of the kernel they keep up to date. David Lang On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, David S. Miller wrote: Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 18:22:49 -0700 From: David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc

Re: bind() - Old/Current behaviour - Change?

2000-10-23 Thread David Lang
allow programs that now need to run as root to bind the port to just run as a normal user from the start. comments? David Lang On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Andrey Savochkin wrote: Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 19:11:46 +0800 From: Andrey Savochkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Cefiar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Linux

Re: [RFC/Patch] Device Registry

2001-03-16 Thread David Lang
Tim, what is it that this is designed to do that devfs doesn't (or can't) do? David Lang On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Tim Jansen wrote: Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 03:10:33 +0100 From: Tim Jansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [RFC/Patch] Device Registry RFC: Linux Device Registry

Re: [sligthly OT] serial console on palm

2001-03-18 Thread David Lang
there is a vt100 terminal emulater available for the palm (I had it, but haven't used it in a while, I may have lost it due to not backing things up properly) David Lang On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote: Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 22:10:20 -0700 (MST) From: Andreas Dilger [EMAIL

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-21 Thread David Lang
David, usually when it turns out that Linux finds hardware problems the underlying cause is that linux makes more effective use of the component, and as such something that was marginal under windows fails under linux as the correct timing is used. David Lang On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, David Riley

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-21 Thread David Lang
working properly under windows, how do you know if the blue screen was caused by a windows bug or a hardware error. David Lang On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, David Riley wrote: Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 16:34:08 -0500 From: David Riley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: David Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: high load poor interactivity on fast thread creation

2000-11-30 Thread David Lang
try the 2.4 test kernels. I had a situation of poor performance with lots of processes and saw a dramatic improvement with the 2.4 kernel. David Lang On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Arnaud Installe wrote: Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 08:14:43 +0100 From: Arnaud Installe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Arnaud

Re: high load poor interactivity on fast thread creation

2000-12-01 Thread David Lang
David Lang On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Arnaud Installe wrote: Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 10:47:45 +0100 From: Arnaud Installe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: David Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: high load poor interactivity on fast thread creation On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 03:00:10PM

2.2.17 poor performace with many processes

2000-11-17 Thread David Lang
tuning paramaters I need to fiddle with? David Lang -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.2 iQEVAwUBOhWd3z7msCGEppcbAQGsQwf6A2AAnSDwtUlftuaHuIaLleu6VKEDVwwI X2cWQfavGQFebLC01KzL9tTyEJwLHaKAhNsoKvOy7FwPFIVaOPafXlSR33tJokAD VC/899S39MTuD1huNP7sdjVfdovqmz7KaIXxqasymiUFlB7woFsxHhfjV0T6VKi4

Re: iptables: stateful inspection?

2000-12-20 Thread David Lang
ow you to do ftp out with no problems. the real point that you need the stateful filtering is on UDP ports. for that again I don't know any way when not doing NAT, but when NAT is enabled it does do basic stateful filtering (but watch out for timeouts) David Lang Yes it does. It's c

Re: Journaling: Surviving or allowing unclean shutdown?

2001-01-04 Thread David Lang
for crying out loud, even windows tells the users they need to shutdown first and gripes at them if they pull the plug. what users are you trying to protect, ones to clueless to even run windows? David Lang On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote: Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 11:14:53 +0100

Re: Journaling: Surviving or allowing unclean shutdown?

2001-01-04 Thread David Lang
on you. David Lang On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, David Woodhouse wrote: Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 17:52:25 + From: David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: David Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Daniel Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED], Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Journaling

Re: Journaling: Surviving or allowing unclean shutdown?

2001-01-04 Thread David Lang
reduce consumption (i.e., standby mode). But unplugging it at the wall doesn't have any detrimental effects - doing that to a PC will. if you change that statement to "usually won't harm it" I agree with you (I have had a VCR eat a tape when this was done) David Lang Being able to c

Re: 2.2.18Pre Lan Performance Rocks!

2000-10-31 Thread David Lang
of the things that makes it so useful is that when you do outgrow what youcan do on a x86 platform you cna move to a more powerful platform without having to change to a different OS. David Lang On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 15:45:45 -0700 From: Jeff V. Merkey [EMAIL

Re: non-gcc linux? (was Re: Where did kgcc go in 2.4.0-test10?)

2000-11-07 Thread David Lang
of the c99 way. nobody is suggesting that the kernel loose functionality to achieve portability, the suggestion was mearly to be portable where possible and clearly mark the places where gcc-isms are used and why. David Lang On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Richard B. Johnson wrote: Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 16:06

Re: Installing kernel 2.4

2000-11-07 Thread David Lang
the autodetect hassle in the first place. David Lang On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 16:10:58 -0700 From: Jeff V. Merkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Martin Josefsson [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tigran Aivazian [EMAIL PROTECTED], Anil kumar [EMAIL

Re: Installing kernel 2.4

2000-11-07 Thread David Lang
for it to be 800K compressed as it is, how do you fit even two of these on a disk. remember it's not just the start of the file that varies based on cachline size, it's the positioning of code and data thoughout the kernel image. David Lang On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: Date: Tue, 07

Re: fpu now a must in kernel

2000-11-08 Thread David Lang
the time you have monkeyed with the FPU. David Lang On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Reto Baettig wrote: Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 10:46:25 -0800 From: Reto Baettig [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: david [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Linux Kernel List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: fpu now a must in kernel When you add

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)

2000-11-10 Thread David Lang
how is that any different then a module? modules that are not included with the kernel source are not guarenteed to work with any other kernel version (including during the stable kernel series) David Lang On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: On Fri, 10 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-10 Thread David Lang
how many CPUs in these high loadave boxes? unless you have a very impressive machine (8+SMP) the defaults should be plenty high. also I thought the QueueLA default was 8 and the RefuseLA was 12 or have they been bumped up since I last examined them (8.8/8.9 timeframes) David Lang On Fri, 10

Re: test11-pre6

2000-11-16 Thread David Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- he flags what he considers 'critical fixes' with the level 1 tag (something about them being level 1 problems or something like that) David Lang On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Erik Andersen wrote: Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 00:30:46 -0700 From: Erik Andersen [EMAIL

Re: linux and high volume web sites

2001-04-28 Thread David Lang
by now (mostly having to do with large number of virtual IP addresses) but the symptoms were the same. David Lang On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, valery wrote: Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 11:01:19 +0200 From: valery [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: linux kernel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: linux and high volume web sites

Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partition limit

2001-04-28 Thread David Lang
a rack of transmeta powered boxes with no moving parts in the rack except possibly fans) David Lang On Sat, 28 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 16:11:47 +0200 (MEST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Wakko Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Rogier Wolff [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: 2.4.4 breaks dhcpcd with Realtek 8139

2001-04-28 Thread David Lang
so that the DHCP request is lost in the switch, a few seconds later when you do it by hand the swich has enabled your port and everything works. David Lang On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Garett Spencley wrote: Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 11:44:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Garett Spencley [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: 2.4.4 fork() problems (maybe)

2001-05-05 Thread David Lang
display for a multi-use win NT box) locks up a few seconds after the mouse it moved. David Lang On Sat, 5 May 2001, Marc Schiffbauer wrote: Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 21:37:44 +0200 From: Marc Schiffbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: linux-kernel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 2.4.4 fork() problems (maybe

Re: 2.2.19: eepro100 and cmd_wait issues

2001-06-12 Thread David Lang
I am useing the D-link 4 port card without running into problems (admittidly I have not been stressing it much yet) David Lang On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Ben Greear wrote: Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 17:51:08 -0700 From: Ben Greear [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ken Brownfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Florin

Is this still the linux-kernel list?

2001-06-13 Thread David Lang
before, don't work your way into a corner and encourage someone to replace you (for one thing the new guy makes mistakes as they are learning things and it's painful for the rest of us :-) David Lang - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: SMP spin-locks

2001-06-14 Thread David Lang
I thought that when you compiled a kernel as UP it replaced the spin-lock macros with versions that are blank. As a result a UP kernel spends no time doing spinlocks at all. that's why a SMP kernel on a UP box is slightly slower, there is more code to be executed David Lang On Thu, 14 Jun

Re: Some experience of linux on a Laptop

2001-06-24 Thread David Lang
that big a problem for desktop/laptop use. with lilo it's easy enough to have multiple kernels configured and boot from whichever one you want. David Lang I'm not on the list so please CC me any responses /John Nilsson

Re: Some experience of linux on a Laptop

2001-06-25 Thread David Lang
that the kernel structures may change on you. David Lang On 24 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: 24 Jun 2001 21:48:20 -0600 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: David Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: John Nilsson [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Some experience of linux on a Laptop David Lang

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac18

2001-06-25 Thread David Lang
Byte? /troll sorry couldn't resist :-) David Lang Microseconds are written µs, or if the µ symbol is unavailable, us. Sorry, this one grates on me... -hpa -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] at work, [EMAIL PROTECTED] in private! Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot. http

Re: Cosmetic JFFS patch.

2001-06-29 Thread David Lang
a boot option to turn on the verbose mode if you want, but don't eliminate it completely. David Lang On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Holger Lubitz wrote: Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 15:43:25 +0200 From: Holger Lubitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: lists.linux.kernel Subject: Re

creeping system useage in 2.4.5

2001-06-29 Thread David Lang
a bug in this proxy. any ideas as to what could be accumulating to slowly tie up the cpu in system mode? David Lang - 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: sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing to do with ECN)

2001-02-02 Thread David Lang
is reading part of the file, or is writing to the file. In both of these cases it seems that the fileserver is back to the write() penalty. does anyone have stats on the types of requests that fileservers are being asked for? David Lang On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Andrew Morton wrote: Date: Fri, 02 Feb

Re: sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing to do with ECN)

2001-02-02 Thread David Lang
Thanks, that info on sendfile makes sense for the fileserver situation. for webservers we will have to see (many/most CGI's look at stuff from the client so I still have doubts as to how much use cacheing will be) David Lang On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, David S. Miller wrote: Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 14

Re: sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing to do with ECN)

2001-02-02 Thread David Lang
right, assuming that there is enough sendfile() benifit to overcome the write() penalty from the stuff that can't be cached or sent from a file. my question was basicly are there enough places where sendfile would actually be used to make it a net gain. David Lang On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, David S

Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait

2001-02-05 Thread David Lang
just have to explicitly add this layer when it makes sense. David Lang On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 20:54:29 + From: Stephen C. Tweedie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED], Stephen C. Tweedie [EMAIL

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Animated framebuffer logo for 2.4.1

2001-02-09 Thread David Lang
remember this will only affect those who use the frambuffer console anyway. I for one never use frambuffer for my servers so it won't affect the important machines anyway :-) and for the desktop market, the idea of a pretty logo with the details a keystroke away is not unreasonable David Lang

Re: [LONG RANT] Re: Linux stifles innovation...

2001-02-19 Thread David Lang
and worth them spending their money there. David Lang On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Nicholas Knight wrote: Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 03:28:56 -0800 From: Nicholas Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LONG RANT] Re: Linux stifles innovation

Re: Linux Kernel IRC Room?

2001-03-28 Thread David Lang
how do you hold a real-time chat with people around the world? the fact that the key people would seldom be on at the same time severly limits it's usefullness. the mailing list does a pretty good job as is. David Lang On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Alexander Valys wrote: Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 20:37

Re: OOM killer???

2001-03-29 Thread David Lang
boxes this would be a _very_ significant additional overhead in memory (think a busy apache server, it forks a bunch of processes, but currently most of that memory is COW and never actually needs to be duplicated) David Lang On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, David Konerding wrote: Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001

Re: linux scheduler limitations?

2001-03-29 Thread David Lang
2.2 or 2.4 kernel? the 2.4 does a MUCH better job of dealing with large numbers of processes. David Lang On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Fabio Riccardi wrote: Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 13:19:05 -0800 From: Fabio Riccardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: linux scheduler limitations

Re: bug database braindump from the kernel summit

2001-04-01 Thread David Lang
On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Larry McVoy wrote: when generating the auto bug reports make sure that the system tells the user exactly what data is being sent. sending a large chunk of unknown data off the machine is a big concern to many people. David Lang - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: bug database braindump from the kernel summit

2001-04-01 Thread David Lang
oops, I was going to quote a section from Larry's mail then decided not to and forgot to delete the header. David Lang On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, David Lang wrote: Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 14:16:57 -0700 (PDT) From: David Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Larry McVoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: bug database braindump from the kernel summit

2001-04-01 Thread David Lang
if we want to get the .config as part of the report then we need to make it part of the kernel in some standard way (the old /proc/config flamewar) it's difficult enough sometimes for the sysadmin of a box to know what kernel is running on it, let alone a bug reporting script. David Lang

Re: bug database braindump from the kernel summit

2001-04-01 Thread David Lang
available. David Lang On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: If a sysadmin (note I don't say "user") has no clue what his kernel config is, or has no clue what kernel is running on his box, then they should be fired before the day is out. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this

Re: bug database braindump from the kernel summit

2001-04-01 Thread David Lang
could be, /sbin/installkernel doesn't exist on my systems David Lang On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 18:34:07 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: David Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Manfred Spraul [EMAIL PROTECTED], Albert D. Cahalan [EMAIL

Re: bug database braindump from the kernel summit

2001-04-01 Thread David Lang
Jeff, my point was that not all systems will have this script. also it won't do you any good if the system you are compiling on is not the same system the kernel will be running on but we are starting the wrong discussion here :-) David Lang On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: On Sun, 1

Re: bug database braindump from the kernel summit

2001-04-01 Thread David Lang
be looking for pirated software, but assuming that the bug report is being sent as root how do you know that it's not sending out your password file if it just send 'stuff' out) David Lang On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Miles Lane wrote: David Lang wrote: On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Larry McVoy wrote: when

Re: bug database braindump from the kernel summit

2001-04-02 Thread David Lang
) not to mentions the ones that allow more values. you could still just list all the config values without including the stuff to the left of the = it would require matching up with the kernel version specific config file to tell what is what but would cut down on the space needed. David Lang proc

Re: /proc/config idea

2001-04-02 Thread David Lang
be compressed to 1K?) make it so that you need a common external tool to use the data and deliver it from the kernel in compressed form and you don't even need to put the decompression routine in the kernel (cat /proc/sys/kernel/config |gunzip config) David Lang On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: Date

Re: /proc/config idea

2001-04-02 Thread David Lang
a module for 2.4.3 will work for any 2.4.3 kernel that supports modules at all (except for the SMP vs UP issue) so it's not the same thing as trying to figure out which if the 2.4.3 kernels matches what you are running. David Lang On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001

Re: Kernel 2.5 Workshop RealVideo streams -- next time, please getbetter audio.

2001-04-16 Thread David Lang
have a couple of these and you would be able to keep one trained on the most common speakers in any given discussion (then you only have the problem of more speakers then mikes, but short of putting enough mikes around to get the entire room you will always have this problem) David Lang On Mon

Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely FairScheduler [CFS]

2007-04-16 Thread David Lang
that the various patches haven't bitrotted. boot time options would be even better, but I understand from previous discussions I've watched that this is performance critical enough that the overhead of this would throw off the results. David Lang - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: ZFS with Linux: An Open Plea

2007-04-17 Thread David Lang
, many people will not release code under a license that lets other people change the terms years later. David Lang

Re: AppArmor FAQ

2007-04-18 Thread David Lang
having to think about the other things on the system. allow people to use each tool for the appropriate task. David Lang On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Rob Meijer wrote: Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:21:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Rob Meijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Karl MacMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: James Morris

Re: AppArmor FAQ

2007-04-18 Thread David Lang
way of doing this, but not the only way. David Lang - 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/

Re: AppArmor FAQ

2007-04-20 Thread David Lang
at confining server applications. this really is a easier task (if it happens to be useful for some desktop apps as well, so much the better) David Lang - 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

Re: [REPORT] cfs-v4 vs sd-0.44

2007-04-24 Thread David Lang
of the wedge.) if you are trying to unwedge a system it may be a good idea to renice all tasks to 0, it could be that a task at +19 is holding a lock that something else is waiting for. David Lang - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: [RFC][PATCH] ChunkFS: fs fission for faster fsck

2007-04-24 Thread David Lang
and what they point to any ability to mark a filesystem as 'clean' and then not have to check it on reboot is a bonus on top of this. David Lang Second, it is not clear how, under assumption of bugs in the file system code (which paper makes at the very beginning), fsck can limit itself only

Re: [RFC][PATCH] ChunkFS: fs fission for faster fsck

2007-04-24 Thread David Lang
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Nikita Danilov wrote: David Lang writes: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Nikita Danilov wrote: Amit Gud writes: Hello, This is an initial implementation of ChunkFS technique, briefly discussed at: http://lwn.net/Articles/190222 and http://cis.ksu.edu/~gud/docs

Re: more than 65535 outbound connections

2007-03-09 Thread David Lang
, and it's ok to let you re-use ports) David Lang - 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/

Re: Pluggable Schedulers (was: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler)

2007-03-09 Thread David Lang
are good at, use a different scheduler, with the very real possibility that a person could get this answer from ALL schedulers, leaving them with nothing good to use. David Lang - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [PATCH][RSDL-mm 0/7] RSDL cpu scheduler for 2.6.21-rc3-mm2

2007-03-12 Thread David Lang
consider more important (and how much more important you consider it), then it's much easier to figure out who to give the CPU to. Con is just asking you to do this (and you already do, by doing a nice -5. but it sounds like you want that to mean more then it currently does) David Lang

Re: [PATCH][RSDL-mm 0/7] RSDL cpu scheduler for 2.6.21-rc3-mm2

2007-03-12 Thread David Lang
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Lee Revell wrote: On 3/12/07, David Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the problem comes when this isn't enough. if you have several CPU hogs on a system, and they are all around the same priority level, how can the scheduler know which one needs the CPU the most for good

Re: Serial console issues.

2007-02-12 Thread David Lang
port David Lang - 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/

Re: [PATCH 0/6] MODSIGN: Kernel module signing

2007-02-15 Thread David Lang
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Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread David Lang
the risk that the lawyer is wrong and a cour may order you to stop distributing the product unless you comply with the GPL. David Lang - 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

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-17 Thread David Lang
V. (Ex. 181 ?50.) this seems to be saying that the boundries of derivitive work as far as copyright goes are much more limited then just about anyone in computer science would define the term David Lang

Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-17 Thread David Lang
, it would at least be predictable. if the nice levels don't have enough of an effect, how much of an effect should a given nice level have? (con has asked this several times, I haven't seen an answer from anyone) David Lang - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: is RSDL an unfair scheduler too?

2007-03-19 Thread David Lang
user. I know that on mine, I don't want the updatedb process that runs as 'nobody' out of cron to have the same percentage of cpu as all the processes running as my userid. David Lang - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH 00/22 take 3] UBI: Unsorted Block Images

2007-03-20 Thread David Lang
not be powers of 2 (128k-128b from his e-mail) _may_ end up being a big enough difference that it's not worth teaching the exising block layer how to deal with, but it's not clear why you are useing this odd size. this is why you are being asked for further explinations. David Lang

Re: [PATCH 00/22 take 3] UBI: Unsorted Block Images

2007-03-21 Thread David Lang
it unnessasary, or when it's read-only so you don't have writes to worry about (or even if it's read-only 99.% of the time so writes are so rare that all the writes in the expected lifetime of the device won't cause problems) David Lang - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux

Re: [PATCH 00/22 take 3] UBI: Unsorted Block Images

2007-03-25 Thread David Lang
could shift to a different block for your table, or retire the flash) David Lang

Re: compressing intermediate files with LZO on the fly

2007-04-07 Thread David Lang
is 30 min) now I just need to find a version of split that can compress it's output files. David Lang - 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

Re: I give up

2007-04-10 Thread David Lang
drivers to the kernel (I don't remember which drivers, he's mentioned them earlier in this thread) David Lang - 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

Re: [PATCH 0/30] Use menuconfig objects

2007-04-10 Thread David Lang
useing menuconfig. David Lang - 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/

Re: If not readdir() then what?

2007-04-11 Thread David Lang
a hash collision with two entries. David Lang - 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/

Re: [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers.

2007-04-12 Thread David Lang
been reliable, and there's pleanty of CPU and ram to handle firewall tasks. besides, sometimes you don't want to trust the closed-source vlan implementations on the switches ;-) David Lang http://innerfire.net/pics/projects/21portfirewall_2.jpg (assigns each port it's ip range and blocks any

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-21 Thread David Lang
law now that says that this isn't the case (although I agree that it's not nearly as broad as it's proponents would like it to be) David Lang - 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

Re: [patch 00/13] Syslets, Threadlets, generic AIO support, v3

2007-03-01 Thread David Lang
of the requests served within a certain time (ms) 50% 70 66% 80 75% 83 80%101 90% 3075 95% 3088 98% 9073 99% 9087 100% 12291 (longest request) David Lang On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 10:54:02AM +0100, Ingo Molnar

Re: [patch 00/13] Syslets, Threadlets, generic AIO support, v3

2007-03-01 Thread David Lang
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 08:56:28AM -0800, David Lang ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: the ab numbers below do not seem that impressive to me, especially for such stripped down server processes. ... client and server are dual opteron 252 with 8G of ram

Re: [patch 00/13] Syslets, Threadlets, generic AIO support, v3

2007-03-01 Thread David Lang
machines using ab: http://tservice.net.ru/~s0mbre/blog/2006/10/08#2006_10_08 is this client avaialble? and what patches need to be added to the kernel to use it? David Lang - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

dynamic linking files slow fork down significantly

2007-03-02 Thread David Lang
to strace, the clone call that's being made is clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0xb7c92c08) David Lang - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: dynamic linking files slow fork down significantly

2007-03-04 Thread David Lang
On Sat, 3 Mar 2007, Eric Dumazet wrote: David Lang a écrit : I have a fork-heavy workload (a proxy that forks per connection, I know it's not the most efficiant design) and I discovered a 2x performance difference between a static and dynamicly linked version of the same program (2200

Re: [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers.

2007-04-03 Thread David Lang
differently then other serial ports on the front panel sure didn't make my life easier in dealing with them. David Lang - 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: [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers.

2007-04-03 Thread David Lang
have one type, or someone else put lables on the box before shipping it to you), and in the other 0.01% of the users, they are running a tool anyway to get the gory details of things so it isn't a big harship for them. David Lang - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux

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