Re: very poor ext3 write performance on big filesystems?

2008-02-20 Thread David Rees
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 2:57 AM, Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But GNU tar does not handle acls and xattrs. So back to rsync/cp/mv. Huh? The version of tar on my Fedora 8 desktop (tar-1.17-7) does. Just add the --xattrs option (which turns on --acls and --selinux). -Dave -- To unsu

Re: random wedges with 2.6.25-rc*

2008-02-19 Thread David Rees
On Feb 19, 2008 10:10 AM, Pierre Ossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Somewhere post 2.6.24, the kernel started getting very > temperamentful. I experience random hangs and wedges very often. FWIW, on my Fedora 8 Dell Vostro 1000 notebook, ever since updating to kernel 2.6.23.15-137 I am getting fr

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread David Rees
On 8/27/07, Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now that I'm looking at the kernel bugzilla .. If you set the kernel > version to 2.6.22 and set the "Regression" check box you could denote > the fact that it's a regression in that kernel version .. > > I don't know if this URL is going to co

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread David Rees
On 8/26/07, Michal Piotrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bugzilla sucks when it comes to tracking things. There is > a regression field, but there are no difference between > 2.6.22 and 2.6.23 regression. Here's how to use Bugzilla to track regressions between different kernel versions: Create

Re: Postgrey experiment at VGER

2006-12-13 Thread David Rees
On 12/13/06, Giacomo A. Catenazzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So a challange to the kernel hackers: build a mail filtering/proxy system, a' la BSD. I don't remember the specification and features, but IIRC the netfilter is not enough to do the graylisting (but pf was). Someone has some hints what

Re: temperature standard - global config option?

2001-06-07 Thread David Rees
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 03:20:03PM +0300, L. K. wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Philips wrote: > > > Kelvins good idea in general - it is always positive ;-) > > > > 0.01*K fits in 16 bits and gives reasonable range. > > > > but may be something like K<<6 could be a option? (to allow u

Re: Network Performance Testing Summary

2001-06-05 Thread David Rees
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 02:52:03AM +, John William wrote: > > The curse of the HP Vectra XU 5/90 strikes again! > > What is interesting is that I tried the NetGear FA310, FA311, 3COM 3cSOHO > and 3C905C-TX cards and both the receive and transmit speeds (measured with > both iperf and netpe

Re: 2.4.5 VM

2001-06-01 Thread David Rees
I don't know myself, (it sounds like other bigmem problems), but setting up a 2GB swap file is easy enough to test. :-) -Dave On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 10:29:39AM +0200, Marcin Kowalski wrote: > > I found this post of interest. I have 1.1 Gig of RAM but only 800mb of > Swap as I expect NOT to us

Re: 2.4.5 still breaks dhcpcd with 8139too

2001-05-29 Thread David Rees
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 01:05:04AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > I've got one of the two problems fixed here at the test lab, and am > working on the second. Hopefully this week I'll have this sorted out, > and a driver for you guys to test. Sounds great, let me know when you have it sorted out

2.4.5 still breaks dhcpcd with 8139too

2001-05-29 Thread David Rees
Hi, dhcpcd is still broken in 2.4.5 when using the stock 8139too driver as referenced in this thread: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=9884722973&w=2&r=1 Going back to the 8139too driver in 2.4.3 fixes it. I see that Alan has reverted back to the 2.4.3 driver for his ac-series for other reas

Re: Dying disk and filesystem choice.

2001-05-24 Thread David Rees
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 09:53:45AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote: > > No, reiserfs does have badblock support > > You just have to get it as a separate patch from us because it was written after > code freeze. Any chance that you'll be putting them on www.namesys.com for easy download? -Dave -

Re: SW-RAID0 Performance problems

2001-04-13 Thread David Rees
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 06:28:20PM +0200, Andreas Peter wrote: > Am Freitag, 13. April 2001 18:07 schrieb David Rees: > > > Cconfig and setup looks OK. > > > > What happens if your run hdparm -t /dev/hda and /dev/hdc at the same time? > > Good idea! > The perfo

Re: SW-RAID0 Performance problems

2001-04-13 Thread David Rees
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 05:36:55PM +0200, Andreas Peter wrote: > Mark Hahn schrieb: > > > hdparm -t /dev/md0 : 20.25 MB/sec > > > hdparm -t /dev/hda : 20.51 MB/sec > > > hdaprm -t /dev/hdc : 20.71 MB/sec > > > > md0 is composed of partitions located where on hda and hdc? > > also, what's your CPU?

Re: 2.2.18, Intel i815 chipset and DMA

2001-03-09 Thread David Rees
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 05:21:36PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > > I've got a Gateway here with a Intel 815 chipset running 2.2.18. Inside > > it's a PIII 733 with 512MB and a Quantum lct15 drive. > > The UDMA100 on the i810/815 is supported by 2.4 > > > turn it on? The drive should be capable of 1

Re: 2.2.18, Intel i815 chipset and DMA

2001-03-09 Thread David Rees
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 12:12:07PM -0500, Mark Hahn wrote: > > I've got a Gateway here with a Intel 815 chipset running 2.2.18. Inside > > why? 2.2 is obsolete, and will not receive new drivers. Hmm, so the Intel 815 and DMA doesn't mix with 2.2.x? What about Andre's IDE patches? > > The pro

2.2.18, Intel i815 chipset and DMA

2001-03-09 Thread David Rees
I've got a Gateway here with a Intel 815 chipset running 2.2.18. Inside it's a PIII 733 with 512MB and a Quantum lct15 drive. The problem is that the IDE driver doesn't recognize the IDE conroller, so DMA isn't enabled leading to some poor drive performance. Here's the relevant sections from ls

Re: [NFS] Re: :Redhat [Bug 30944] - Kernel 2.4.0 and Kernel 2.2.18:with some programs

2001-03-07 Thread David Rees
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > Unfortunately the missing files in directory listings from SGI Irix > > 6.5.9f NFS servers still persists with the 2.4 kernel - we used the > > kernel 2.4.0 kernel that came with the Redhat 7.1beta > > uname -a tells Linux test-ah1 2.4.0-0.99.11 #1 Wed Jan

Re: [UPDATE] zerocopy patch against 2.4.2-pre2

2001-02-13 Thread David Rees
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 12:27:10AM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote: > > It's getting very lonely testing this stuff. It would be useful if > someone else could help out - at least running the bw_tcp tests. It's > pretty simple: > > bw_tcp -s ; bw_tcp 0 OK, here's my bw_tcp results on a K6-2 45

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: Apparent instability of reiserfs on 2.4.1

2001-02-07 Thread David Rees
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 10:47:09AM -0500, Chris Mason wrote: > > Ok, how about we list the known bugs: > > zeros in log files, apparently only between bytes 2048 and 4096 (not > reproduced yet). Could this bug be related to the reported corruption that people with new VIA chipsets have been als

Re: 2.4.1-pre10 -> 2.4.1 klogd at 100% CPU ; 2.4.0 OK

2001-01-31 Thread David Rees
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 06:00:09PM +, Padraig Brady wrote: > Chris Hanson wrote: > > >Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 17:48:50 + > >From: Padraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >Are you using the 3c59x driver? > > > > Yes. > > Can we sort this out once and for all? There are a few

Re: klogd is acting strange with 2.4

2001-01-30 Thread David Rees
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 08:53:59AM -0800, David Rees wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 09:30:36AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > celeron 433 intel i810. 320MB ram. > > > > Before 2.2.18. Now I've tested with both > > 2.4.1-pre12 and 2.4.1. 2.4 kernel k

Re: klogd is acting strange with 2.4

2001-01-30 Thread David Rees
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 09:30:36AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > celeron 433 intel i810. 320MB ram. > > Before 2.2.18. Now I've tested with both > 2.4.1-pre12 and 2.4.1. 2.4 kernel klogd is > always using 99% cpu. What gives? > > I've three other less powerful boxes running > 2.4.x kerne

2.4.1-pre10 -> 2.4.1 klogd at 100% CPU ; 2.4.0 OK

2001-01-30 Thread David Rees
I've been trying different 2.4.1-pre kernels trying to find one that doesn't end up with klogd pegging the CPU. 2.4.0 is OK, but 2.4.1-pre10 to 2.4.1 all leave klogd sitting at 100% CPU. The machine in question is a Gateway E-3200, a basic PIII-500 running RH 7.0 with all the latest updates a

[PATCH] Invalid Netfilter URL in Documentation/Changes in 2.4.0

2001-01-09 Thread David Rees
The link to http://www.samba.org/netfilter/iptables-1.1.1.tar.bz2 is invalid in 2.4.0, this patch simply removes the link. -Dave --- linux/Documentation/Changes.origMon Jan 1 10:00:04 2001 +++ linux/Documentation/Changes Tue Jan 9 09:37:20 2001 @@ -336,7 +336,6 @@ Netfilter - o

Re: 2.2.18pre17: usb-uhci verbosity

2000-10-22 Thread David Rees
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 08:59:00PM -0400, Martin Hicks wrote: > > I moved from 2.2.18pre15 to 2.2.18pre17 and now I get the following > usb-uhci stuff being spewed to my terminal: > > Oct 20 20:54:19 plato kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 704 > Oct 20 20:54:20 plato kernel: usb-uh

Re: 2.2.18pre16 and USB_UHCI_ALT

2000-10-19 Thread David Rees
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 11:02:27PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > I'll give the usb-uhci driver in 2.2.18pre17 another shot tonight. > > Let me know how it goes. Same thing. Now I only have my Intellimouse plugged into the USB port. The messages seem to start appearing when gpm starts up... Oct

Re: 2.2.18pre16 and USB_UHCI_ALT

2000-10-18 Thread David Rees
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 11:02:27PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 10:47:16PM -0700, David Rees wrote: > > > > This is on a Tyan Trinity 1598 Socket 7 motherboard. No hubs of any sort. > > No external hubs? Then why is the hub driver seeing both a 2 por

Re: 2.2.18pre16 and USB_UHCI_ALT

2000-10-18 Thread David Rees
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 10:51:05PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 08:21:53AM -0700, David Rees wrote: > > > > Nothing else odd changed. Here's the boot sequence and messages which > > repeated endlessly after booting 2.2.18pre16 with the usb-uhci dri

Re: 2.2.18pre16 and USB_UHCI_ALT

2000-10-18 Thread David Rees
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 01:46:46PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 10:49:56PM -0700, David Rees wrote: > > > > Well, the real interesting part is that I was using the usb-uhci.c driver > > in 2.2.18pre15, and now in 2.2.18pre16 it stopped working for my mouse

Re: 2.2.18pre16 and USB_UHCI_ALT

2000-10-16 Thread David Rees
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 01:32:01PM -0400, Johannes Erdfelt wrote: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2000, David Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In 2.2.18pre16 an alternative USB_UHCI driver under the option > > CONFIG_USB_UHCI_ALT was added. Only this one works for me, and > > C

2.2.18pre16 and USB_UHCI_ALT

2000-10-16 Thread David Rees
In 2.2.18pre16 an alternative USB_UHCI driver under the option CONFIG_USB_UHCI_ALT was added. Only this one works for me, and CONFIG_USB_UHCI throws up 50 messages a second like this one: Oct 16 00:12:22 spoke kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 188 and leaves my mouse in an unusabl

Re: Problems with Tulip driver in 2.2 and 2.4

2000-10-16 Thread David Rees
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 08:16:53AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > I've noticed this behavior for a few kernel revisions now, up to and > > including 2.2.17. It would be nice to get this bug worked out before > > 2.2.18. > > I dont think that is likely to happen. Every time someone touches the tulip

Re: Problems with Tulip driver in 2.2 and 2.4

2000-10-15 Thread David Rees
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 06:25:34PM -0700, J. S. Connell wrote: > Any time I disconnect and then reconnect the ethernet cable from my Netgear > FA310TX cards, the card appears to not notice and doesn't reestablish the > link. Under 2.2.17pre4, the link light comes on, but until I do ifconfig > eth

Re: Newer motherboards / CPU's / hardware with Linux

2000-10-07 Thread David Rees
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 02:10:31PM -0400, Mark Hahn wrote: > > kernel proper and working. If it *IS* ready now, what sort of > > Athlon hardware is recommended for a developmental machine? > > I HIGHLY recommend duron/thunderbird, KT133, PC133, UDMA machines; > they work very well with modern (2

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre12

2000-09-30 Thread David Rees
On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 12:52:07AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > o USB build bug fix (Arjan van de Ven) It looks like the wrong USB build bug fix got included into 2.2.18pre12. Jeff Garzik and Greg KH commented that because the uhci_init function uses initcalls, t

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre11

2000-09-28 Thread David Rees
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 09:39:22AM -0700, Dunlap, Randy wrote: > > Yes, that looks like 2.4.0-test9 now, except that it should > be done for ohci also, although you don't need it for your > config. Right, but it doesn't look like the usb-ohci driver uses initcalls like the other functions. I co

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre11

2000-09-28 Thread David Rees
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 04:13:24AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > > I'm getting this compile time error on 2.2.18pre11: > > > > > drivers/usb/usbdrv.o: In function `usb_init': > > > drivers/usb/usbdr

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre11

2000-09-28 Thread David Rees
Thanks, This does the trick. -Dave On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 09:23:29AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > I'm getting this compile time error on 2.2.18pre11: > > > drivers/usb/usbdrv.o: In function `usb_init': > > drivers/usb/usbdrv.o(.text+0x6deb): u

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre11

2000-09-28 Thread David Rees
I'm getting this compile time error on 2.2.18pre11: drivers/usb/usbdrv.o: In function `usb_init': drivers/usb/usbdrv.o(.text+0x6deb): undefined reference to `uhci_init' Complete .config is located at http://spoke.nols.com/~drees/config-2.2.18pre11 USB related config is below. -Dave # # USB sup