Re: 8% of the Internet unreachable!

2000-09-10 Thread Evan Jeffrey
> Dax Kelson wrote: > > Survey shows 8.3% of websites unreachable from an ECN capable client. > > Notable unreachable sites: > > > > www.amazon.com, www.ibm.com, www.sun.com, www.apple.com, > > > I'm running 2.4.0-test8 and I was able to reach all four of the above sites > using kppp 2.0pre18.

Re: /proc/sys/vm/freepages not writable.

2000-09-17 Thread Evan Jeffrey
> > 1. The inactive_target is 1 second worth of allocations, minus > >the amount of frees in 1 second, averaged over a minute > > So it cannot take load bursts. That's ok for a default, but for special loads > it would be good if there was a way for the administrator to overwrite that, > sim

Re: Linux's implementation of poll() not scalable?

2000-10-24 Thread Evan Jeffrey
> Multiple event queues are bad, because it completely breaks the notion of > even-driven programming. How do you want to listen to them all? You can't. > You can only listen to one event queue at a time - unless you create some You can listen to one event queue per thread. Maybe in the case pe

Re: Persistent module storage [was Linux 2.4 Status / TODO page]

2000-11-06 Thread Evan Jeffrey
> On Mon, 06 Nov 2000, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > > No. You have to reset the hardware fully each time you load the module. > > Although you _expect_ it to be in the state in which you left it, you can't > > > be sure of that. > > If a reset is needed, I think it should come explicitly fr