's difficult to do (eg looked at some ARM microcontrollers,
which still have several usec of interrupt latency - even with no OS,
still likely cant use timers and interrupts.).
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The church sav
h were very rare back in 2.2 days,
dont think there was a unified way to report these events to
userspace either.
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hi imel,
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> problem is you guys are to unix-centric, try to be user-centric a little.
with all respect: the problem is that you do not listen.
as people keep trying to point out to you:
- you can have your single-user centric user environment (no lo
u
consider the lobbying that went on to try persuade l-k that LVM
should go in.
> Cheers, Andreas
obHiddenCode: lm-sensors... used to use this a long time ago.
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On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, christophe barbe wrote:
> From me, a POV without technical reasons is not a philosical one
> but more certainly an historical one.
there may be (and indeed probably are) good technical reasons, however
i am not well enough informed to say what they are.
> Process that will b
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, christophe barbe wrote:
> The sleep should certainly be interruptible and I that's what I
> said to the GFS guy. But what the reason to increment the load
> average for each D process ?
from a philosical POV: they are processes that will be runnable as
soon as the kernel retu
should be)
Try hdparm -u on all your IDE disks... should improve things.
> Later,
> Tom
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oesn't start then i still have a fully functional /dev.
but anyway... there seems to be loads of scope to do lots of
different things with devfsd, plus NIS support. :)
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ld be forgotten for good and all.
:)
> Szaka
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mode, cause linux
does not have the accounting to cover it...
solution according to more knowledgable folks than i, sysadmin, is
better accounting so that vm_enough_memory can be more accurate
rather than developing an all-seeing oom_killer().
> Andries
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On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote:
> About the "use resource limits!". Yes, this is one solution. The
> *expensive* solution (admin time, worse resource utilization, etc).
traditional user limits have worse resource utilisation? think what
kind of utilisation a guaranteed allocation
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Guest section DW wrote:
> But yes, I am complaining because Linux by default is unreliable.
no, your distribution is unreliable by default.
> I strongly prefer a system that is reliable by default,
> and I'll leave it to others to run it in an unreliable mode.
currently, s
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Ansari wrote:
> Hi !!
>
> I am configuring Bind 9 on Redhat 7 but unable to start the named.
> Here is my /var/log message log:
you have a config problem i think.
> Feb 20 09:49:58 ns2 named[2005]: loading zones: no ttl
you need to put:
$TTL
at the beginning of each zon
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Henning P . Schmiedehausen wrote:
> So, is it legal to put changes to a twin licensed driver in the Linux
> kernel tree back into the same driver in the BSD tree?
IANAL, but AIUI:
if the changes are made the copyright holder then they may do whatever
they want. (release the
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> If the above procmail filter doesn't work (untested) let me know
> and I will MAKE it work. Windows users - tough luck - procmail
> is open source - hire someone to port it...
and even windows users can filter properly. netscape allows you to add
cus
replying to myself..
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Paul Jakma wrote:
> why put in mga specific code?
last time i asked why 2x74x hardware iommu wasn't supported i was told
something along the lines of cause generic kernel driver interfaces
wouldn't support it. so support for the alpha h
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Alex Deucher wrote:
> There is preliminary support for pcigart in the dri tree. I believe
> some people have had some success with it.
but there doesn't need to be. DEC 2x17x Alpha chipsets have an IOMMU
for hardware scatter-gather support. (ie generic agpgart for the PCI
bu
ce this
second pipe patch.
will give it whirl. thanks neil.
> NeilBrown
>
>
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ecific issues. IME if you have a good
network connection and you don't need IRIX to be diskless hanging off
a Linux NFS server then NFSv3 works extremely well.
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On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> You can do:
> if [ "$CC" = gcc ]; then
> echo 'inline void f(unsigned int n){int
>i,j=-1;for(i=0;i<10&&j<0;i++)if((1UL< > test.c
> gcc -O2 -o test test.c
> if ./test; then echo "*** Please don't use this compiler to compile kernel"; fi
> rm -f t
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> What about /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/*/rp_filter ? Should be zero
> for the 192.* interface(s), I think.
>
i already have that enabled for security purposes helaas.
> Mike.
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don't, but i don't see what i'm supposed to do with the 'ip' command?
different scope or realm? or ... ??
> Mike.
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it'd make no difference.
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i'm trying to get linux to do routing between 2 different subnets that
are on the same physical interface, because windows hosts don't seem
to accept the redirects.
how do i do it? how do i get linux to fully route between these
subnets on behalf of clients? turn send_redirects off doesn't work,
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Russell King wrote:
> Evidence: I recently had a bad 128MB SDRAM which *always* failed at byte
> address 0x220068,
and X is likely to be the biggest process by far on a box, so
statistically will be the process that hits this bad byte the most.
no?
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x27;m half in the middle of porting ip_masq_icq,
> but it's one hideously ugly kludge after another. Such is life.
>
uhmm... ICQ seems to work fine through connection tracking for me, so
is there a need for a special ip_masq_icq module?
> d
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for users.
> Cheers, Andreas
>
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On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> You should also get the LVM user tools from CVS (with TAG LVM_0-9-patches)
> to solve this problem. There will hopefully be a new LVM release soon.
any word on when the kernel fixes are going to linus?
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On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Ian Stirling wrote:
> The PCI bus can move around 130MB/sec,
in bursts yes, but sustained data bandwidth of PCI is a lot lower,
maybe 30 to 50MB/s. And you won't get sustained RAID performance >
sustained PCI performance.
> Anyway, in clarification, Rik mentioned that two r
first symbol
Code; 0007 Before first symbol
7: 68 7f 03 00 00push $0x37f
Code; 000c Before first symbol
c: 68 a2 f9 1d c0push $0xc01df9a2
Code; 0011 Before first symbol
11: 68 05 f7 00 00 push $0xf705
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s is the gnome mixer, as is asmixer. (ie everything to
do with esd or /dev/sound). soon as i SIGSTOP the playing app all the
other apps come back to life.
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all apps that are holding any /dev/sound/ devices open become
unresponive. xmms, asmixer, mpg123, esd, etc.. etc..
> Nils
>
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hi,
i think somethings gone wrong with via82cxxx_audio. Playing anything
through it seems to cause massive latency in apps like xmms, esd,
asmixer, etc.. anything to do with playing or mixer levels suddenly
takes a minute or more to respond.
It didn't always do this, and when it started happenin
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> No idea on the sensors stuff
i'll go nag them again. :)
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keeping it as obscure as possible... (i remember someone posted to
l-k that they'd started a sensors project, and had code for the LM80.
he wasn't at all aware of lm_sensors!).
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isolated in some god forsaken CVS server rather than submit their
code to Linus.
fscking shame.
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On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Steve Hill wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, PaulJakma wrote:
>
> > how? symlink to /dev/ttyS0, or with console=ttyS0 boot option?
>
> console=ttyS0
>
> Nope, /dev/console *does* block.
very weird.. the reason i replied to you, even though i have no direct
experience of serial con
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Steve Hill wrote:
>
> I'm building boxes with the console set to /dev/ttyS0.
how? symlink to /dev/ttyS0, or with console=ttyS0 boot option?
> However, I can't
> guarantee that there will always be a term plugged into the serial
> port. If there is no term on the port, event
On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Intel PXE uses tftp to download boot images and discards IP packets with
> > the DF bit set; so a tftpd server on 2.4 with the default
>
> Then Intel PXE is buggy and you should go spank whoever provided
> it as well as doing the workarounds. Supporting rec
On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, Phil Randal wrote:
> Ah, have you tried cleaning the tape heads?
>
the drive gets a run of a cleaning tape on a weekly basis.
> far more frequently than you'd expect. I've found it needs
> two cleaning tape passes to clear this one.
>
uhmmm ok. I've now done multiple
Ooops.. yes.. that info might have been useful. :)
The box is a Compaq PL3000. Chipset is the onboard Sym 53c876, driven
by the ncr53c8xx driver. Drive is external.
Kernel is RH6.2 default 2.2.14-5.0smp.
On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
>
> Hello Paul , Could you add
there a known problem with SCSI tape drives? or with HP DDS-3
drives? What does the kernel error message mean? (it's all 0's so not
much i guess). What is a "Data Phase error"?
thanks in advance,
Paul Jakma.
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[paulj@berkman paulj]$ rpm -q redhat-release
redhat-release-6.2-1
you don't have a cleaner coming in every 64 days do you? :)
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On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Michael Rothwell wrote:
> Well, then, problem solved.
>
:)
> > afaik linus allows binary modules in most cases.
>
> And since an "Advanced Linux Kernel Project" wouldn't be a Linus kernel,
> what then? Would they have the same discretion as Linus? Would Linus'
> exception
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Michael Rothwell wrote:
> Why? I think the IBM GKHI code would be of tremendous value. It would
> make the kernel much more flexible, and for users, much more friendly.
> No more patch-and-recompile to add a filesystem or whatever. There's no
> reason to hamstring their effort
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> Its called modules.conf. It has all these nice preload directives in it
cool..
doesn't seem to be documented though in modutils 2.3.17. what exactly
does it do?
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On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> Which is part of what persistent module data lets you do. And without having
> to mess with dont_screw_with_mixer (which if you get it wrong btw can be
> fatal and hang the hardware)
>
the sound card case for persistent modules is contentious i think.
wha
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> No. You should initialise the hardware completely when the driver is
> reloaded.
and it is. just that 'mixer levels' are subjective - different users
have different tastes. in what way does:
- init to mute
- user set to liking
fail people?
(sound
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> If the sound card is only used some of the time or setup and then used
> for TV its nice to get the 60K + 128K DMA buffer back when you dont need it
> especially on a low end box
>
so unload it then - aiui most soundcards will continue passing through
the T
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> * Sound module is autoloaded again, default to zero levels.
so you use the 'post-install' option of modules.conf to run your
mixer-level setting script.
> This time it is _NOT_ fine. User is rightly pissed off :)
>
even better: is there any
om is fixed then ide-scsi should work too?
>
> Yup
how far down the TODO list is it? (to this user anyway it's
important).
thanks for the answers jens,
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On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> Less Critical:
> Does autofs4 work yet
has been apparently working fine for me for a while on 2.4test and
2.2+patch. (while==not noticed any major problems in last couple of
months)
> Alan
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driver. As you noted, pure ATAPI drive will
> work just fine.
>
so once the scsi cdrom is fixed then ide-scsi should work too?
> rmmod ide-scsi ; insmod ide-cd
> mount, etc
> rmmod ide-cd ; insmod ide-scsi
> burn
>
didn't think this was possible. will try that. thanks
sion: 02
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: CREATIVE Model: CD2422E MC102 Rev: 1.02
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
please contact me if you need further debugging info.
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#x27;:
netfilter.c:545: `NF_MAX_HOOKS' undeclared (first use in this
function)
make[3]: *** [netfilter.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/misc/src/linux/net/core'
make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/misc/src/linux/net/core'
make[1]: *** [_subdir_co
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Frank Hansen wrote:
> Looking at the timestamps, it seems that the packets is dropped mainly
> when the disk task calls 'write' in order to flush the buffer to disk.
>
have you tried enabling dma, unmask irq and 32bit io with hdparm?
(i once had problems with a serial ppp
ok...
looks like a patch went wrong at some point. (or i forgot to remove a
patch from Trond from a little while ago).
apologies,
Paul Jakma.
On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, Mark Hahn wrote:
> > i've gotten the following message the last 2 times i've tried to
> > compile the
ctory `/misc/src/linux-2.4.0/fs/nfs'
make[1]: *** [_modsubdir_nfs] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/misc/src/linux-2.4.0/fs'
make: *** [_mod_fs] Error 2
does anyone know what this could be? (i've done a make mrproper).
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> For my own system : I don't care. But I can imagine that there are people
> out there that do care about these kind of issues.
>
but the point is that though most cards hold firmware on a PROM, a few
hold the firmware in the driver.
firmware in PROM, firmware in driver... what's the differen
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Bruce A. Locke wrote:
> I wasn't aware PAM settings affected daemons started up during boottime
> but I will check into it, thank you.
>
daemons generally don't need to be PAM aware (unless they deal with
authorising things). The script that launches it however (if started
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Bruce A. Locke wrote:
>
> Your making the deadly assumption that all applications behave themselves
> exactly the same all the time. Oops... netscape decided to freak out and
> take up all your memory... guess its the admins fault. Oops... some
> mod_perl script decided to
o the designer of the router floppy to get his stuff
right.
the one thing that is clear from the many OOM flamewars is that no
OOM reaper algorithm will satisfy 100% of conditions 100% of the
time. So all Rik can do is optimise for the common case.
(roll on beancounting and proper resource limiti
lity, and wait for 2.4 to get stable.
we await 2.219pre1 with much curiosity. :)
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On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > ..so it should be at least as well tested as the USB backport in 2.2.18preX,
> > if not more so? Or so is implied. :)
>
> This is the big clue most people are missing
>
> 2.2.17- USB devices do not work
> 2.2.18- USB
but a vast improvement.
anyway... i've gone hoarse now. better stop. :)
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On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> Shrug. So you want me to make it worse by shipping unproven code in a way
> I can't test it ?
>
the code is in 2.4 and has been tested there though. the patches are a
backport of the 2.4 code.
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On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> I hear that the new NFS patch is "better and more stable" etc. but no
> details.
hard to give details as i havn't used unpatched linux 2.2 nfs in a
very long time. best evidence from me is anecdotal: linux 2.4 / 2.2
nfs patches works perfectly for me (li
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> escape Linux 2.2.xx NFS. This is kind of serious, you know?
yep. it is serious. we've been begging for knfsd to be updated to the
most /current/ code for quite a while a now. I searched the archives
and i found a post of mine asking alan to conside
omers.
> contrary to his development philosophy, so it's probably a
> complete waste of my time.
>
linux kernel hackers do the worrying about 'goodness'
but there is *nothing* that stops commerce adding tweaks to help with
support issues! (RedHat/SuSE/etc kernels are heavi
rd kernel is pure.
you're happy cause your field reps in the event of a crash can tell
you "this exact bit here was fubar'ed." whereupon you may apply the
Ingo/Al/Linus/David patented MKDB method.
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On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, David Luyer wrote:
> So if I want it to work I most likely need to make the ARP request ignore
> the higher level bindings of the socket.
>
or just set a route pointing net d.e.f to ethX.
> David.
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On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Matthew Kirkwood wrote:
> Someone has sent a dodgy message to bugtraq. Delete
> the mailbox or open it in an editor and look for the
> header line that's a lot longer than the others.
>
that wasn't enough for me. i ended up deleting most of the emails to
bugtraq from sep 1
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> The mailbox corruption thread is at least partly due to a pine bug that is
> triggered by a bugtraq posting.
>
confirmed: it is due to multi-line X-Keyword headers (as contained in
a recent posting to bugtraq). The bug is in wu c-client, used by pine
think i have fs corruption. (the bugtraq folder is
on nfs on a 2.2 server).
Perhaps rather than fs corruption, your problem (and mine) is that
someone sent a bogey message to bugtraq?
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On 1 Sep 2000, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Does including knfsd v3 break v2? Is not NFS v3 a compile-time option? I
> would not object if it was tagged "EXPERIMENTAL".
it is. asui the NFS patches are bugfixes/improvements on the existing
stock V2 knfsd, and the feature add v3 is pretty much indepe
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> I'd love to have raid 0.90, nfsv3 and the new ide stuff in but I
> cannot see a path for that without breaking a supposedly stable
> product for other people which is simply not acceptable.
>
raid i can understand considering it's a 'no way back' thing. the
; you don't any more, so they actaully improve compatability).
>
cool. another reason to include the patches.
> NeilBrown
>
>
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On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Robert Greimel wrote:
> It would be nice if "make modules_install" would automatically copy System.map
> to /lib/modules// .
>
as well as .config to /lib/modules//config.
(i had to meant to write .config not System.map originally as that is
what the thread is about... doh!
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Paul Jakma wrote:
> May i suggest the following:
>
> cp System.map /boot/System.map-
or even better cp to /lib/modules// and fix the tools to look
there if they don't do already.
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