ross a variety of OSes?
Would the recent caching difficulties of the 2.4.* series have handled such
a technique in a reasonable fashion?
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On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 03:48:09PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
> These flags would be really handy. We already have the raw device for
> sequential reading of e.g. CDROM and DVD devices.
Not going to help 99% of the applications out there.
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7;s. Actually, the server was the only RT, the rest
were some other model that was basically a PS/2 (286) that booted DOS, then
booted the other same chip that the RT used that was on a daughter card.
AOS was basically IBM's version of BSD. Academic Operating System.
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by using some
> infrequently used code that was swapped to a busy disk), your server will
> keep on humming.
This same approach can easily be used by multiple processes.
I don't see what is gained by using threads over processes for such an
architecture.
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On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 10:23:47PM -0400, John Weber wrote:
> On a related note... is System.map also necessary? Anyone care to explain
Debugging. ksymoops and klogd can both make use of it.
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On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 06:30:54PM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> Yeah, and we are young and prolific too, so you better watch out! :)
Prolific != competent.
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application, say some app with a dedicated server, 73MB isn't the end
> of the world (though I suppose it was at the time...).
How much would 73MB of cache cost? How much would it cost to get that much
on the CPU?
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filesystem with root permissions
> enabled...any security bells going off?
Why would you need to have nfs root access?
You're reading from the nfs mount, not writing to it.
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On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 10:37:12AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 10:20:37AM -0700, Mike Castle wrote:
> > Also, I could never actually find the "too fat" quote anywhere.
>
> I can personally vouch for the too fat comment, I've heard him say i
o smell bad."
Also, I could never actually find the "too fat" quote anywhere. Best I
could find was one of Pike's papers on the plan9 site. Best that I can
tell is that both of these quotes are Urban Legends.
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ing.
For curiosities sake, at what point would this technique result in a
thundering herd issue? Does it happen near the level at which the number of
schedulable entities equal the number of processors or does it have to be
much greater than that?
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On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 03:25:54PM -0400, Russell Leighton wrote:
> Any recommendations for alternate threading packages?
Does NSPR use native methods (ie, clone), or just ride on top of pthreads?
What about the gnu threading package?
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ead. From the
Use a temp fd_set and assignment.
fd_set readset;
readset=set_to_watch
select(n, readset, NULL, NULL, timeout);
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On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:44:39PM -0700, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
> Lots. Maybe we oughta have /proc/sysconf/... (there's no reason
> sysconf() can't be a library reading /proc).
You don't mount proc?
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On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 11:30:05PM +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> The problem is only there if you specify a directory for the linked to
> component.
>
> [marcus@wine /tmp]$ strace -f ln -s fupp/berk xxx
Is it only a directory, or the length?
ln -s fupp_berk xxx
for instance.
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The comment seems to indicate that if retval is 0, then FD_ISSET will be
false.
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On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 03:15:04PM -0400, Ricky Beam wrote:
> PS: I really hate it when people break "functional" things in the "stable"
> tree. (functional and stable are both open to debate.)
I was under the impression that it really wasn't function
y.
But generally you don't want to.
Use a user mode application to feed you the data instead.
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On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 11:33:20PM -0700, Ben Ford wrote:
> Not only that, but Alan said that somebody is rewriting it in C.
I'll believe it when I see it.
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oing on! You!
(randomly points to a process) take a seat! You're not running for a
while!" and the process gets totatlly swapped out for a "while," not even
scheduled?
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eing forced to deal
> with installing/upgrading it just for CML2.
Some don't like installing/upgrading the following just for a kernel:
gcc
binutils
modutils
mount
Not to mention netfilter.
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* configure: added -V for version number option.
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, that will *ONLY* be set during make
USERVERSION=foo.
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We are all of us living
n (by definition) with a later
kernel version?
We're going to have hundreds of people complaining about this. Not just
one or two.
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http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0104.0/0233.html
http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0104.1/0231.html
That is, the change in how nice is recalculated.
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rs or special testers might want should use
something other than the CONFIG_ namespace.
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Also, I'd seen several posts about similar issues in the linux-kernel
archive, but no documented solution. Certainly nothing so simple as
"enable the stupid thing in BIOS." So for archival sake... here it is.
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On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 02:21:42AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Try echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn
> If it helps complain to the sites that their firewall is broken.
It's certain that this refers only to the site firewall?
I had to do this to get to www.ibm.com. :-<
mr
Perhaps a mechanism a user space program can use to communicate to the kernel
(ala arpd/kerneld message queues, or something like klogd). Then a more
general user space tool could be used that would do policy appropriate
stuff, ending with init 0.
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ore issues than I have normally with this cheesey motherboard :-].
At least the long long computation bug on non i686 compilations is fixed
with 2.95.3.
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D patches, sets up EXTRAVERSION to a specific
value.
I do with the make file also had a USERVERSION that would be hands off for
anyone but the builder.
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G_USB_SERIAL_EMPEG=m
CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_FTDI_SIO=m
CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_VISOR=m
CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_KEYSPAN_PDA=m
CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_KEYSPAN=m
CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_KEYSPAN_USA28=y
CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_KEYSPAN_USA28X=y
CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_KEYSPAN_USA19=y
CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_KEYSPAN_USA18X=y
CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_KEYSPAN
re to be able to build against a later kernel
version than you're running on, and determine at run time what features may
or may not be there, so one could have a 2.4.2 kernel handy to build libc
against while still running a 2.2.18 kernel. Theoretically.)
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On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 11:09:39PM -0600, Matt Stegman wrote:
> Is there any kernel patch that would allow Linux to properly recognize,
> and execute gzipped executables?
What's wrong with using gzexe?
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would make more since to be consistent with that.
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nd monitor with free
every once in a while. If you never hit swap, then reduce it or eliminate
it. If you are constantly running over 1/3 of it or so, might consider
upping it a little bit.
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On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 09:52:02PM +0100, Igmar Palsenberg wrote:
> I use lstat to check if a config file is a symlink, and if it is, it
> refuses to open it.
Nice race condition.
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some how involved in ORBit and GNOME? Or just a big
supporter? :->
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We are
7;s? I don't remember seeing
anything come across this list.
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On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 04:47:09PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> tmp = *p++;
> *q = f(tmp, *p++);
> return p;
>
> is equivalent to more idiomatic
>
> *q = f(p[0], p[1]);
> return p+2;
Which gets better assembler out of various versions of gcc?
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On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 04:31:07PM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> Do to limits in personal bandwidth and other projects that need to get
> done, I can no longer keep up the back port of the ATA code.
Bummer.
The 2.2.17 ide code doesn't work for me.
I used to use 2.2.15pre15 with ide. With 2.2.1
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 07:57:38PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> So basically the situation is that people prefer to switch the whole
> OS as opposed to applying a kernel patch?
Or multiple kernel patches.
NFS.
RAID.
IDE.
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