> the filesystem on the RAID to another results in something like:
>
> i2o/iop0: No handler for event (0x0400)
> i2o/iop0 requires user configuration
That bit is fine. The device is asking you to comfigure it and it also sent
a DDM availability chnage for some reason
> Driver "I2O Block OSM
I have configured a RAID5 volume, partitioned it and created
ext2 on it. I can mount it and everything seems to be ok, but
trying to copy a large (+-500MB) file from one directory on
the filesystem on the RAID to another results in something like:
i2o/iop0: No handler for event (0x0400)
i2o/
Dylan Griffiths wrote:
>
> Hi. While doing some file tranfers to our new server (a Compaq Proliant
> 8way XEON 500 with 4gb ram and an EEPro100 NIC), the box socked solid (no
> oops, no response via network, no response via console). The other hardware
> in the system was a Compaq Smart
Supermount has been integrated into the Mandrake 8 kernel (2.4);
I have been unable to locate the standalone patch for this, however.
Steve Kieu wrote:
>
> --- Sam Halliday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This
> email was delivered to you by The Free
> > Internet,
> > a Business Online Group compa
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 12:11:00AM +0200, Tim Jansen wrote:
> I use a USB keyboard (Macally iKey) and mouse (Logitech iFeel) without
> problems. I also get these messages, but I dont see any performance problem.
> It may help you to enable an option like "Legacy USB keyboard support" in
> your
Hi. While doing some file tranfers to our new server (a Compaq Proliant
8way XEON 500 with 4gb ram and an EEPro100 NIC), the box socked solid (no
oops, no response via network, no response via console). The other hardware
in the system was a Compaq Smart Array 9SMART2 driver). It's runn
Sorry, I have mistyping...
Hi,
I have a two problem...
1)
kernel 2.4.5 has a IP kernel level autoconfiguration problem.
This kernel do not receive IP from dhcp server.
but, kernel 2.4.3 has not any problem about it. <--- this...
2)
make xconfig has stop with following error message
-
[1.] AD1816A Sound Failure Upgrading to Kernel-2.4.5 from Kernel-2.2.19
[2.] I have been successfully running kernel-2.2.19 on an HP Pavilion
8180 system with an AD1816A sound device. When I installed
kernel-2.4.5, the sound system became erratic. It would
ocassionally prod
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 11:17:15AM -0700, Christoph Zens wrote:
>
> > Also, in printk's, you waste run-time memory, and you bloat up the need
> > for the log size. Both of which are _technical_ reasons not to do it.
> >
> > Small is beuatiful.
>
> I totally agree. If you want to use Linux for a
Lew Wolfgang wrote:
> It is something that I read somewhere. If memory serves, Microsoft
> will allow two installs on the same CD-key. Note that this is
> different from the old MS key manager, all you had to do there
> was enter the CD-key. There were no real-time checks on how
> many times
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, David Schwartz wrote:
> > If the
> > CD key is used again they just refuse to send the final key.
>
> Do you have any evidence to support this statement or is it an assumption?
> This is almost never the way such schemes are implemented. The policy is to
> send the final key u
Hi, I am not subscribed to the list. Please CC me on replies.
The VIA686B SouthBridge bug workaround is not activated on motherboards
which have a VIA 82C686B that needs fixing, but not a VIA NorthBridge. For
example, my Asus A7M266 has an AMD 761 NorthBridge, and the table at the end
of linux/
Hi,
I have a two problem...
1)
kernel 2.4.5 has a IP kernel level autoconfiguration problem.
This kernel do not receive IP from dhcp server.
but, kernel 2.4.5 has not any problem about it.
2)
make xconfig has stop with following error message
--
drivers/net/Confi
> If the
> CD key is used again they just refuse to send the final key.
Do you have any evidence to support this statement or is it an assumption?
This is almost never the way such schemes are implemented. The policy is to
send the final key unless there's clear evidence of abuse (such a
On Friday 29 June 2001 22:40, Jeff Dike wrote:
> The bug was UML-specific and specific in such a way that I don't think it's
> possible to find the bug in the native kernel by making analogies from the
> UML bug.
Heh, too bad, there goes that chance to show uml bagging a major kernel bug.
But i
just a fun read:
1. "As of March 17, 1993, the current version of Linux is 0.99 patchlevel 7."
2. "Linux runs only on 386/486 machines with an ISA or EISA bus."
http://www.bombthebox.com/Archive/Linux/
article: Linux - Free Unix Information Sheet.txt
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Hello -
Is there maybe a missing boundary check in cramfs that causes
accesses slightly past (up to 24 or 32K?) the end of a device?
Here's an example of a cramfs image mounted on a loop device
(the same thing happens with other block devices, and when the
kernel itself mounts a partiti
hi,
i have a very nasty bug that is troubling me for months now and it took
me till today to find out whats really causing the crashes and to
reproduce it. before i go on, the bug only appears with MPPP (two isdn
lines) enabled. so what happens is:
i connect to my ISP with MPPP enabled. no probl
On 20010629 Martin Knoblauch wrote:
>Hi,
>
> just something positive for the weekend. With 2.4.5-ac21, the behaviour
>on my laptop (128MB plus twice the sapw) seems a bit more sane. When I
>start new large applications now, the "used" portion of VM actually
>pushes
On Friday 29 June 2001 15:11, Clayton, Mark wrote:
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Paul Fulghum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 4:02 PM
> > To: Pavel Machek; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Schilling, Richard;
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Henning P. Schmiedehausen;
> > [EMAIL PROT
On Thursday 28 June 2001 14:36, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> You know what I hate? Debugging stuff like BIOS-e820, zone messages,
> dentry|buffer|page-cache hash table entries, CPU: Before vendor init,
> CPU: After vendor init, etc etc, PCI: Probing PCI hardware,
> ip_conntrack (256 buckets, 2
>I've recently been laboring over a kernel module that allows other
>kernel modules to send messages and tracing statements. If anyone
>has any input on whether this would be a usefull thing or not
>please let me know. Here is a quick breakdown on how it works.
Here is one raised hand.
>From y
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> 2.4.5-ac20
> o Commence resync with 2.4.6pre5
I updated my laptop to 2.4.5-ac21 today. After reboot, I found a strange
problem: My network card wouldn't initialize properly (eepro100).
Jun 29 21:26:31 vaio kernel: eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.36 $
2000/1
On Friday 29 June 2001 19:27, Jordan Breeding wrote:
> noticed my real problem with the keyboard. The kernel apparently
> expects a PS/2 (AT) keyboard to be plugged in because if there isn't one
> the kernel reports timeouts and seems slower than when there is a PS/2
> keyboard present, my guess
I sent this back in January and previously. I still think they're important.
FWIW, Doug Gilbert thought they were okay.
-matt
--- linux.orig/drivers/scsi/scsi_syms.c Wed Nov 29 18:19:45 2000
+++ linux/drivers/scsi/scsi_syms.c Wed Nov 29 18:18:35 2000
@@ -91,3 +91,10 @@
EXPORT_SYMBOL(scsi_devic
the machines:
I have a firewall running 2.4.5 (stock, no patches)
the boxes are:
1.2GHz athlon 512MB pc133 ram 20G 7200RPM ata100 drive D-link quad nic
2G swap space (swap is never used)
Slackware-current (as of June 1)
syslog set to log in async mode, logs rotated every hour
running FWTK plug-g
Dmitry Meshchaninov wrote:
>
> Hi!
> Judging from recent messages on linux-kernel and from the code which is
> currently in 2.4.x the qlogicfc driver needs to be updated a bit. I have
> done some amount of work on this driver and have sent patches to
> Chris in the past, however I did not rec
Hi!
Judging from recent messages on linux-kernel and from the code which is
currently in 2.4.x the qlogicfc driver needs to be updated a bit. I have
done some amount of work on this driver and have sent patches to
Chris in the past, however I did not receive any comments on my changes.
It look
I've recently been laboring over a kernel module that allows other
kernel modules to send messages
and tracing statements. If anyone has any input on whether this would
be a usefull thing or not
please let me know. Here is a quick breakdown on how it works.
Beware, this is only a BRIEF explainat
Hello
We've installed reiserfs on a logical volume, consisting of 2 60GB hard
drives, and exported it over NFS. Kernel 2.4.6-pre3. In the beginning
everything seemed to be fine. But then a few strange things have happened:
1. I tried running a program on a host, importing the filesystem in
quest
> "David" == David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
David> Jes Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Have you considered the method used by the 8390 Ethernet driver?
>> For each device, add a pointer to the registers and a register
>> shift.
David> And also flags to specify which addres
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> Has anyone else seen a hang like this:
>
> bdflush()
> flush_dirty_buffers()
> ll_rw_block()
> submit_bh(buffer X)
> generic_make_request()
> __make_request()
> create_bounce()
> alloc_bounce_page()
> alloc_page
Andre Hedrick wrote:
> That is a legacy bit from ATA-2 but it is one of those things you cannot
> get rid of :-(
in ANSI X3.279-1996, "AT Attachment Interface with Extensions (ATA-2)",
Approved September 11, 1996 , control register bit 3-7 are reserved.
However ANSI X3.2
Has anyone else seen a hang like this:
bdflush()
flush_dirty_buffers()
ll_rw_block()
submit_bh(buffer X)
generic_make_request()
__make_request()
create_bounce()
alloc_bounce_page()
alloc_page()
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/
Intermediate diffs are available from
http://www.bzimage.org
This is the initial merge with 2.4.6pre - treat this one with care, it may
not be the most reliable 2.4.5ac release ever made
2.4
hi.
i'm using xfs on top of raid, and have noticed some
unusual behavior.
my basic hardware configuration is 850 p3, intel d815eea2
motherboard, 4 ibm drives, 2 promise cards, and a separate
drive on built in ide channel as the root (this was not the
initial configuration, but kind of evolved as
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Chuck Wolber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Does sed tell you who programmed it on startup?
>>
>> Awk?
>>
>> Perl?
>>
>> Groff?
>>
>> Gcc?
>>
>> See a pattern here?
>
>Yeah, the output of these programms are usually parsed by other programs.
>If they barked version i
I've been lurking lkml for a number of years, I follow most of what goes
on here, and I don't pipe up often, but I'm trying to id a new system, and
I'm confused about all of the via chipset problems/issues talked about here
recently.
Simply put, what chipset(s) should I consider for purchase, or
Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > Features I would like in the kernel:
> > 1: Make the whole insmod-rmmod tingie a kernel internal so they could be
> > trigged before rootmount.
>
> Already there. In fact Red Hat uses it for the scsi devices. That is what
> initrd is for.
>
> > 2: Compile time optimization
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> The deadlock happen in the HFS filesystem in hfs_cat_put(), apparently
> (quickly looking at addresses) in spin_lock().
Uh-oh. Looks like hfs_cat_put() grabs some internal spinlock and calls
write_entry(). If it really is what its name impl
>No 'debug=' could then simply cause the kernel to kprint any info from
>drivers/modules that failed to load, else keep schtum.
My idea is that the driver announces itself, and then what it has
found/initialized, in the minimum number of screen lines possible. I'd want
that to be the default, b
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > The biggest improvement would be that users could remain with a version
> > that works for them and NOT be forced to pay more money for the same
> > functionality (watch out for the XP license virus... also known as
> > a logic bomb).
>
> What is XP li
>
>I still have my 3.1 package all boxed up in the basement. I remember
>impatiently waiting for its arrival. What a disappointment it turned
>out to be.
>
>Mark
To say the least. The big thing in the current Windows OS's these days is
FAT 32.
NT 3.1 and NT 3.5 won't even acknowledge this fil
> is it totally hopeless to want to try and get a USB keyboard to work
> as the systems only keyboard and have it work under X
> and also not freeze the whole system when hitting certain keys?
I just tried, and everything works flawlessly here [2.4.6pre5].
In case you see strange things for some
Hi David.
>> Perhaps even a boot flag of some sort to de-activate the
>> printing of the /proc/credits during the kernel boot sequence.
>> Or would the community rather an opt-in scenario...
> KERN_BANNER
Where would you put that in the sequence?
Best wishes from Riley.
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On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 09:00:01PM +0200, Martin Dalecki wrote:
> I ahve a PC box at hand, which ist containing 8 PCI slots.
> Four of them are sitting behind a PCI bridge.
> The error in the new kernel series is that during the
> PCI bus setup if a card is sitting behind the bridge, it
> will be
> -Original Message-
> From: Paul Fulghum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 4:02 PM
> To: Pavel Machek; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Schilling, Richard;
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Henning P. Schmiedehausen;
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: The latest Microsoft FUD. This time from
> Is this accurate? I never knew NT was mach-based. I do not think NT
> 1-3 were actually ever shipped, first was NT 3.5 right?
> Pavel
NT 3.1 was the 1st to ship.
Paul Fulghum [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Microgate Corporation www.microgate.com
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I ahve a PC box at hand, which ist containing 8 PCI slots.
Four of them are sitting behind a PCI bridge.
The error in the new kernel series is that during the
PCI bus setup if a card is sitting behind the bridge, it
will be miracelously detected TWICE. Once in front of the
bridge and once behind t
John Jasen wrote:
> kernels: 2.4.4
>
> drivers used: kernel 8139too
>
> symptoms: the system would hang under heavy network traffic, and need to
> be powercycled backed to life.
fixed in 2.4.6-pre6
--
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Building 1024|
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> Almost always ?
> It seems like gcc is THE ONLY program which gets
> signal 11
> Why the X server doesn't get signal 11 ?
> Why others programs don't get signal 11 ?
...
> Some time ago I installed Linux (Redhat 6.0) on my
> pc (Cx486 8M RAM) and gcc had a lot of signal 11 (a
> couple every hou
Hi,
Suspect the
#define CS46XX_APCI_SUPPORT 1
found in cs46xxpm-24.h is bogus. With it defined I can conflicts between it an
cs46xx.c
with cs46xx_suspend_tlb and cs46xx_resume_tbl
Removed the #define and the module built.
Ed Tomlinson
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Dan Kegel wrote:
> Pseudocode:
>
> sigemptyset(&s);
> sigaddset(SIGUSR1, &s);
> fd=sigopen(&s);
> m=read(fd, buf, n*sizeof(siginfo_t))
> close(fd);
>
> should probably be equivalent to
>
> sigemptyset(&s);
> sigaddset(SIGUSR1, &s);
> struct sigaction newaction, oldaction;
> ne
back when I was doing PC repair (1.x kernel days) I started useing linux
becouse the boot messages gave me so much info about the system (I started
to keep a Slackware boot/root disk set on hand so when faced with a
customer machine I could boot and see what hardware was actually
installed)
make
Phil writes:
> though looking and grepping through the sources I couldn't find a way (via
> fcntl() or whatever) to allow an existing file to get holes.
>
> What I'd like to do is something like
>
> fh=open( ... , O_RDWR);
> lseek(fh, position ,SEEK_START);
> // where position is a multiple
Andre Hedrick wrote:
>
> That is a legacy bit from ATA-2 but it is one of those things you can not
> get rid of :-( even thou things are obsoleted, they are not retired.
> This means that you have to go back into the past to see how it was used,
> silly! I hope you agree to that point.
No,
in A
Hi!
> > I'm unimpressed with what Microsoft calls an operating system and
> > I'm equally unimpressed with what Unix calls an application layer.
> > For the last 10 years, Unix has gotten the OS right and the apps wrong
> > and Microsoft has gotten the apps right and the OS wrong. Seems like
> >
Hi!
> > (i.e. counted). An alternative to queuing (user selectable) is to block
> > interrupt generation at hardware level in kernel space immediately
> > before notification.
> >
> > I'm missing something?
>
> IRQ 9 shared between user space app and disk. IRQ arrives is disabled and
> reported
Hi!
> Hmm. This *is* the company that has at least one guy full-time working on
> merging their changes back into gcc (with the right Copyright
> assignments), and where the guy in question does discuss how to make gcc
> work nice with both Apple's application framework and the GPL clone of
Hi!
> >No. The IRQ might be shared, and you get a slight problem if you just disabled
> >an IRQ needed to make progress for user space to handle the IRQ
>
> Two choices:
>
> - Disallow shared interrupts for usermode drivers.
That's hard... If you your notebook comes with soundcard and ltmodem
Hi!
> I wouldn't be at all suprised if they did. It'd fit in with the history of
> NT. (Version numbers really approximate, I don't have my notes with me.)
>
> NT 1.0: the inherited OS/2 1.x code ported to 32 bit mode, sort of.
>
> NT 2.0: 1.0 didn't work so let's try porting it to the mach
Hi!
> I realize that the Linux kernel supports user
> level drivers (via ioperm, etc). However interrupts
> at user level are not supported, does anyone think
> it would be a good idea to add user level interrupt
> support ? I have a framework for it, but it still
> needs
> a lot of work.
>
> De
Hi!
> PCMCIA/Cardbus controllers typically (always?) support 2 slots, and system
> resources are allocated to support those slots. When you build PCMCIA
> support into your kernel, you are implicitly asking for both slots to be
> supported. I'm wondering if it would be worthwhile to let the
Hi!
Yup. Whole putuser.S is unused. Either it should be killed [as my
patch suggests], or ... well ... it should be used.
Please either apply or say how you'd like this to be fixed.
Pavel
PS: Tested on i386, both make and make modul
Hi!
> > The problem is that the IRQ has to be cleared in
> > kernel space, because otherwise
> > you may deadlock.
> >
>
> I agree, the idea is to clear the IRQ in kernel space
> and then deliver to user level programs interested
...*IF* you know how to clear it. THat differs device-to-device
Chriss wrote:
> I wrote a simple server application and installed it on a linux machine
> in Slovakia, running Mandrake 7.2 (2.2.18).
> That machine loses tcp/ip packages, as it uses a Microwave connection.
> So my server works all the time, and the tcp/ip connections are set to
> TIME_WAIT, but a
> multi-threaded program is not possible under RedHat Linux 7.1 (kernel
> version 2.4.2-2), because loading the core into gdb 5.0 does not show
> the correct crash location.
2.4.2 doesn't support multithreaded core dumps.
The RH errata kernel will generate a dump for each thread as/if/when that
Hi,
> Many new Linux users go through an extended period of dual-booting.
And many users also have to sleep in the same room as their computers (still
live w/ parents or are in college) and the fans bother them, so they turn
them off every night.
Just my 2 eurocents.
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Hi,
We are facing the problem that a post-mortem investigation of a
multi-threaded program is not possible under RedHat Linux 7.1 (kernel
version 2.4.2-2), because loading the core into gdb 5.0 does not show
the correct crash location.
Attached is a test program, linux.c.
This is a producer-cons
I encountered a rather weird problem last night. I was testing out a
USB Type 6 Unix layout keyboard from Sun Microsystems and a USB Crossbow
model mouse from Sun as well. I like the Sun keyboard and mice and am
used to the layout from using it so often at work. I originally thought
that it wou
To any Sparc guru,
This question relates to the effect of instruction alignment on a Sparc's
Prefetch/Dispatch unit.
Just how exactly does the branch prediction bits for instruction pairs in
the I-Cache utilized.
I'm trying to figure out the consequences of an odd word fetch into an
Instruction
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 04:20:59PM +0400, Oleg I. Vdovikin wrote:
> we've a bunch of UP2000/UP2000+ boards (similar to DP264) with 666MHz
> EV67 Alphas (we're building large Alpha cluster). And we're regulary see
> "HWRPB cycle frequency bogus" and the measured value for the speed in the
> ran
> > I wanted to do that using two tun devices.
> > I had hoped to have a routing like this:
> >
> > <-> eth0 <-> tun0 <-> userspace, waiting queue <-> tun1 <-> eth1
>
>yes, that works very well. A userspace app sits on top of the
>tun/tap device and pulls out packets, delays them and reinjects
> " " == J R de Jong writes:
> Hi all, Recently I upgraded from 2.4.4 to 2.4.5, but after that
> I got users complaining about io errors on some mounted NFS
> systems on some files, whenever they tried to stat (ls) or open
> the file. Even after several reboots (other fil
Hi,
with the newest kernel linux-2.4.5ac21 I am not able to activate
the ppp network device an dits options. Regardless what I am doing,
the setting will not be stored into .config...
Any trick to avoid this ?
Thanks for any help in advance!
(PS: I am currently not on the kernel list, pl
> Thats why we have /proc/... To echo things into it.
I don't know of a proc entry that lets the user tell the VM not to cache
as much or use swap in a different manner.
> Several kernel threads are hard to maintain, hard to evolve, hard to
> bugfix, modify patches, etc. Mainly, we should have a
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Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 11:31:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Jasen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Dima Meschaninov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problems with aic7xxx driver 6.1.11
#1) It seems that the new aic7xxx drivers do not detect raid contr
In these cases, both network interface cards fall over under moderate to
heavy traffic.
1) 01:05.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100]
(rev 08)
kernels: 2.2.19 and 2.4.4
drivers used: kernel eepro100 (2.2.19 and 2.4.4) and intel e100 (2.4.4)
symptoms: the system wo
- Received message begins Here -
>
>
> --- Jesse Pollard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > "This is almost always the result of flakiness in
> > your hardware - either
> > > RAM (most likely), or motherboard (less likely).
> > "
> > >
> Yup. It's the problem. It locks, then calls some alloc routines, which
> fills a cache and uses kmalloc with GFP_KERNEL.
Thats quite common. If it can safely sleep there without other deadlocks a
semaphore may be better
> Turning it into GFP_ATOMIC might not be the best idea as the HFS
> files
I was trying to configure 2.4.5-ac21 when I ran into some problems. First
off i noticed this when I went to make menuconfig :
root@fire-eyes:/usr/src/linux # make menuconfig
rm -f include/asm
( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm)
make -C scripts/lxdialog all
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/li
Just to follow up on this situation, I think I've tracked it down
to a problem arising from a combination of SMP, the directory entry
cache, and NFS client code. After several 24-hour runs of 10 copies
of
'find /nfs-mounted-directory -print > /dev/null'
running simultaneously, the kernel sto
hi,
i encountered following err during make menuconfig/net device/10mbitcards
selection.
axel
---
Menuconfig has encountered a possible error in one of the kernel's
configuration files and is unable to continue. Here is the error
report:
Q> scripts/Menuconfig: MCmenu31: command not found
Pl
Alan Cox wrote:
>Holding a spinlock while sleeping is an offence punishable by deadlock..
Right, and it's indeed the problem. But I'm still concerned about
locking since by using that spinlock, the guy who wrote it did
not expect beeing re-entered at this point, and just "cleaning" it
may not be
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Brent D. Norris wrote:
> Recently one more than one subject there have been comments along the
> lines of, "Do x, y and z because it would be great on desktops" and then
> someone else will say "NO! becausing doing x, y, and z will make servers
> run slow." Then as a final n
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> I've had a deadlock twice with 2.4.6pre6 today. It's an SMP kernel
> running on an UP box (a PowerBook Pismo).
>
> The deadlock happen in the HFS filesystem in hfs_cat_put(), apparently
> (quickly looking at addresses) in spin_lock().
>
Please test this:
Inde
You know, this is probably slightly OTm, but I've been getting closer
and closer to what I consider 'happy' for my QLogic megadriver under
Linux- I have just a tad more to deal with in local loop failures (I
spent far too much time working on fabric only)- but I've been happier
with it and need t
At 10:20 AM 6/29/01, you wrote:
>Almost always ?
>It seems like gcc is THE ONLY program which gets
>signal 11
>Why the X server doesn't get signal 11 ?
>Why others programs don't get signal 11 ?
>
>I remember that once Bill Gates was asked about
>crashes in windows and he said: It's a hardware
>p
> manage to get a recent IP-enhanced firmware we could rewrite the missing =
> IP
> code. Half of the job is already done in the source of this driver.
>
> I didn't manage to reach the good person from qlogic. Perhaps someone wou=
> ld
> have better results.
Well lets wait and see what qlogic ha
Le ven, 29 jun 2001 17:09:56, Alan Cox a écrit :
> > From my point of view, this driver is sadly broken. The fun part is
that
> > the qlogic driver is certainly based on this one too (look at the code,
> > the drivers differs not so much).
>
> And if the other one is stable someone should spend
Michael J Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> I have been reading through TCP/IP Illustrated Vol 2 and the linux
> source. I am having a heck of a time finding where it sees a SYN packet
> and check to see if the desitination port is open. In the book it looks
> like it happens in tcp_inpu
XFS supports O_DIRECT on linux, has done for a while.
Steve
> At work I had to sit through a meeting where I heard
> the boss say "If Linux makes Sybase go through the page cache on
> reads, maybe we'll just have to switch to Solaris. That's
> a serious performance problem."
> All I could say
Hi Mike,
Looks like QLogic up-rev'd the driver versions on their website. They have
the source code for both v4.25 and v4.27 posted now and rpm's for v4.25.
Hope that helps.
Heather
> -Original Message-
> From: Mike Black [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 6:53 AM
I've had a deadlock twice with 2.4.6pre6 today. It's an SMP kernel
running on an UP box (a PowerBook Pismo).
The deadlock happen in the HFS filesystem in hfs_cat_put(), apparently
(quickly looking at addresses) in spin_lock().
I don't have the complete backtrace at hand right now, but it basical
> =46rom my point of view, this driver is sadly broken. The fun part is t=
> hat
> the qlogic driver is certainly based on this one too (look at the code,=
> the
> drivers differs not so much).=20
And if the other one is stable someone should spend the time merging the
two.
> IMHO the qlogicfc
On Friday 29 June 2001 15:43, Holger Lubitz wrote:
> A boot parameter for the verbosity would be ok, though. But I'd still
> vote for the default to be pretty verbose. Leave it to the distributors
> to disable it, if they want.
>
> After all - how often does the average linux machine boot? Once a
On Friday 29 June 2001 14:55, Ph. Marek wrote:
> Hmmm, on second thought ... But I'd like it better to have a fcntl for
> hole-making :-)
> Maybe I'll implement this myself.
A far superior interface would be:
ssize_t sys_clear(unsigned int fd, size_t count)
A stub implementation would just
I had the same problem, and some other strange problems, booting with the
'noapic' option solved them ...
(sorry for the late reply, I was still testing the machine... )
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Eugenio Mastroviti wrote:
> This is possibly not the best place to post this message, but if anybody
> co
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 08:17:25AM -0500, Brent D. Norris wrote:
> Instead of forking the kernel or catering only to one group, instead why
> not try this: Using the new CML2 tools and rulesets, make it possible to
> have the kernel configured for the type of job it will be doing? Just
> like CM
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