Re: [uml-user] Big performance loss normal?

2005-01-25 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 23:59, Christian Wicke wrote: > > You don't need extra memory to use tmpfs. > > > > Yes, it speeds up. I have load 4-5-10 (P4, 2.8, 2G RAM, scsi raid5, > > kernel 2.4, skas patch) without it. With tmpfs I've load 0.6-1-2. (in > > daytime). > > I created a new dir /var/loc

Re: [uml-user] Big performance loss normal?

2005-01-25 Thread Christian Wicke
> You don't need extra memory to use tmpfs. > > Yes, it speeds up. I have load 4-5-10 (P4, 2.8, 2G RAM, scsi raid5, > kernel 2.4, skas patch) without it. With tmpfs I've load 0.6-1-2. (in > daytime). I created a new dir /var/local/afprod2/tmp, mounted tmpfs with $ mount -t tmpfs -o mode=1777,size=2

Re: [uml-devel] Re: [uml-user] keyring syscalls

2005-01-25 Thread Henrik Nordstrom
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Michael Halcrow wrote: I am not entirely clear on the function that ``[ 222 ] = sys_ni_syscall,'' at the end of the table in syscalls.h is supposed to serve. This says that syscall number 222 is not implemented, which it isn't on i386 (not defined). Syscalls in UML contstitu

Re: [uml-user] Big performance loss normal?

2005-01-25 Thread Christian Wicke
> More or less... you don't describe your environment, from the host config I > guess it's SKAS however... Do you set TMPDIR to a tmpfs or ramfs mount > point? Without those tricks, any test is pointless. I use SKAS. But I don't set TMPDIR. Do they speed ip UML? I probably need extra host memory f

Re: [uml-user] keyring syscalls

2005-01-25 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 23:46, Michael Halcrow wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 11:37:57PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: > > On Tuesday 25 January 2005 22:54, Michael Halcrow wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 06:39:26PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: > > > > Well, it should be fixed in the -mm tree

[uml-user] 2.6.9-bs6 released

2005-01-25 Thread Blaisorblade
Ok, this is a little but important upgrade on top of 2.6.9-bb4. I hope I can soon release a patch for 2.6.10, but these days I've got to pass some exams at University. I hope I can work on this nonetheless. Changes from -bb4 to -bs5: * restored the MAGIC_SYSRQ config option lost in 2.6.9 vanilla

Re: [uml-user] keyring syscalls

2005-01-25 Thread Michael Halcrow
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 11:37:57PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: > On Tuesday 25 January 2005 22:54, Michael Halcrow wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 06:39:26PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: > Well, it should be fixed in the -mm tree (and probably in 2.6.11-rc2-bk2, I > guess, though it's not tested).

Re: [uml-user] keyring syscalls

2005-01-25 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 22:54, Michael Halcrow wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 06:39:26PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: > > On Thursday 18 November 2004 17:09, Michael Halcrow wrote: > > Ok, please list the new syscalls - I see at least add_key() and > > request_key() too - are these three the onl

Re: [uml-user] keyring syscalls

2005-01-25 Thread Michael Halcrow
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 06:39:26PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: > On Thursday 18 November 2004 17:09, Michael Halcrow wrote: > Ok, please list the new syscalls - I see at least add_key() and > request_key() too - are these three the only ones? I'll build the > patch ASAP when getting your answer. I

[uml-user] Fedora Core 3 uml

2005-01-25 Thread damien hull
Is anyone running UML on Fedora? My current plan is to run Fedora as the host OS and Fedora as the UML. I did a little searching on Google but I didn't find much. Here's how I have my system setup. 1. Fedora Core 3 2. Software RAID 1 and LVM Here's a short list of things I don't understand.

Re: [uml-user] wrong load average calculation [host 2.6.10 +skas, guest 2.6.10]

2005-01-25 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 10:41, Anna Sladek wrote: > Hi, > > I've got some UML hosts (kernel 2.6.10 + skas3-v7) running with a few > UMLs, which all use a guest kernel with this configuration file > http://www.stearns.org/uml/config-2.6.10-rc2-netfilter2004. > > Actually everything seems fine

Re: [uml-user] Big performance loss normal?

2005-01-25 Thread Hegedus Gabor
2005-01-25, k keltezéssel 20:39-kor Christian Wicke ezt írta: > > More or less... you don't describe your environment, from the host config I > > guess it's SKAS however... Do you set TMPDIR to a tmpfs or ramfs mount > > point? Without those tricks, any test is pointless. > I use SKAS. But I don't

Re: [uml-user] IPTABLES in monolitic UML Kernel

2005-01-25 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 16:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, i would like to use Iptables on my UML guest. > When i use : > iptables -L > i have this output: > > ip_tables: version magic '2.6.8-1-686 preempt 686 gcc-3.3' should be > '2.6.9-bb4 gcc-3.3' FATAL: Error inserting ip_tables > (/lib/m

[uml-user] wrong load average calculation [host 2.6.10 +skas, guest 2.6.10]

2005-01-25 Thread Anna Sladek
Hi, I've got some UML hosts (kernel 2.6.10 + skas3-v7) running with a few UMLs, which all use a guest kernel with this configuration file http://www.stearns.org/uml/config-2.6.10-rc2-netfilter2004. Actually everything seems fine, but each UML shows a wrong load average value. It's always the

[uml-user] IPTABLES in monolitic UML Kernel

2005-01-25 Thread uml
Hi, i would like to use Iptables on my UML guest. When i use : iptables -L i have this output:   ip_tables: version magic '2.6.8-1-686 preempt 686 gcc-3.3' should be '2.6.9-bb4 gcc-3.3'FATAL: Error inserting ip_tables (/lib/modules/2.6.8-1-686/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.ko): Invalid

[uml-user] Debugging kernel modules under SKAS with host/guest kernel 2.6.9

2005-01-25 Thread Olivier Smeesters
Hi, I'm using linux kernel 2.6.9 for both the host and the guest. I'm trying to debug a kernel module I'm writing. Unfortunately, the procedures that are described on UML web site are not usable because they refer to structure/field/variable names which are not valid anymore in 2.6.9. As far as