Re: Weird vmstat -s stats

2003-07-06 Thread David Schultz
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2003-Jul-05 18:55:43 -0400, Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Farid Hajji wrote: > >[ ... ] > >>Shouldn't such counters be at least 64 bit wide? > > > >You betcha. :-) The problem is that a 32-bit CPU, like the Intel x86 > >family, can't in

Re: SCSI backup error

2003-07-06 Thread Lefteris Tsintjelis
Doug White wrote: > > The driver could quirk around it, but you'd best contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > for instructions on how to proceed. But please verify your interconnect is > 100% solid -- 99.99% of SCSI problems are due to interconnect issues, and > justin doesn't have a lot of time to chase tho

Re: msdosfs bug?

2003-07-06 Thread David Schultz
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003, Andrey Sverdlichenko wrote: > Hello. > > After running this program with msdosfs mounted in /mnt, I got a > file with some garbage in skipped space. Is it a bug in my local > installation/hardware or real kernel bug? [...] > pos = lseek(handle, 1024 * 16 - 100, SEEK_SE

Re: Kernel core dump in recent 4.8-STABLE

2003-07-06 Thread Mark Knight
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes That commit broke kernel modules depending on the layout of struct proc. Since recompiling the kernel module isn't an option for third party binary modules, the new p_fdtol variable should be moved to the end of struct proc. Problem solved,

Re: Weird vmstat -s stats

2003-07-06 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2003-Jul-05 18:55:43 -0400, Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Farid Hajji wrote: >[ ... ] >>Shouldn't such counters be at least 64 bit wide? > >You betcha. :-) The problem is that a 32-bit CPU, like the Intel x86 >family, can't increment a 64-bit counter atomicly. This isn't absolutel

Re: Weird vmstat -s stats

2003-07-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Farid Hajji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > "vmstat -s" shows on one of my boxes (uptime: 26 days): > > > > > > -1597015721 total name lookups > > > cache hits (101% pos + 0% neg) system 0% per-directory > > > deletions 0%, falsehits 0%, toolong 0% > > > > > > Weird. I'll hav

Re: Latest -STABLE detects my DLT drive as a CD-ROM

2003-07-06 Thread Doug White
On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 18:30, Doug White wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Jul 2003, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > > > > sa0: Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device > > > > > > Why are the firmware versions different? > > I noticed tha

Re: SCSI backup error

2003-07-06 Thread Doug White
On Sat, 5 Jul 2003, Lefteris Tsintjelis wrote: > Termination and termination power is OK in both buses. I strongly > believe that it could be the firmware. It is an old and unmaintaned > board with a build in SCSI bus so no chance for a firmware upgrade, > checked that one already. I will probably