kernel stack on i386

2004-03-24 Thread Stuart_Hayes
I have noticed that the kernel stack space in Linux is very small-- only 5300-odd bytes with the x86_64 kernel that I'm using right now. I have run into problems with this, most notably with the deeply- nested and recursive ACPI "driver" code. When I mentioned enlarging the kernel stack on the

RE: two Ethernet cards in the same machine with xover cable..... [bcc]

2004-03-24 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 08:30 AM 3/24/2004 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ray/Chuck, Thanks for all your help. Let me try a new approach, I have been vague on the details because I thought my problem was very simple..here is a detailed decryption of my problem... I have developed a network driver for a custom fi

Re: switching to debian (... and installing the NVIDIA GeForce4)

2004-03-24 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 06:47 PM 3/24/2004 +0530, joy wrote: Ray Olszewski wrote: I haven't myself switched to the 2.6.x kernel series yet, but I have seen reports warning of problems with some external add-in modules, including the nvidia drivers ... showing up as high CPU loads caused, I think, by context switchi

RE: two Ethernet cards in the same machine with xover cable..... [bcc]

2004-03-24 Thread RANDAZZO
Ray/Chuck, Thanks for all your help. Let me try a new approach, I have been vague on the details because I thought my problem was very simple..here is a detailed decryption of my problem... I have developed a network driver for a custom fibre channel card. Though the physical interface is F

Re: switching to debian (... and installing the NVIDIA GeForce4)

2004-03-24 Thread joy
Ray Olszewski wrote: I haven't myself switched to the 2.6.x kernel series yet, but I have seen reports warning of problems with some external add-in modules, including the nvidia drivers ... showing up as high CPU loads caused, I think, by context switching not being handled efficiently. (Also

Re: switching to debian (... and installing the NVIDIA GeForce4)

2004-03-24 Thread joy
pa3gcu wrote: I dont want to sound like a wet blanket, however i have a machine here running a 2.6 kernel, be aware there are issues with the nvidia video drivers, or at least i have some. I too had some problems in the beginning, but I believe APIC support on uniprocessor systems breaks the