null pointer dereference in ibmtr

2001-05-10 Thread SodaPop
When inserting the ibmtr.o module in any of the 2.4 series kernels, I get a null pointer crash. Latest try was 2.4.4. Ksymoops: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 7a18 c012861e *pde = Oops: CPU:0 EIP:0010:[] Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-

Re: Oscillations in disk write compaction, poor interactive performance

2001-04-17 Thread SodaPop
On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > It also seems that in the 2.4 kernels, we can get into a sort of > > oscillation mode, where we can have long periods of disk activity > > where nothing can get done - the low points, where only 2-3 writes > > per second can occur, so completel

Oscillations in disk write compaction, poor interactive performance

2001-04-12 Thread SodaPop
Subject: Oscillations in disk write compaction The following data sets are the output of a small program that reads a random 4k block from a large data file, makes a trivial alteration to the block, and writes the block back into the file (in place). In all three cases the file is larger than t

[QUESTION] 2.4.x nice level

2001-04-04 Thread SodaPop
I too have noticed that nicing processes does not work nearly as effectively as I'd like it to. I run on an underpowered machine, and have had to stop running things such as seti because it steals too much cpu time, even when maximally niced. As an example, I can run mpg123 and a kernel build co

Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init

2001-03-23 Thread SodaPop
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Martin Dalecki wrote: > SodaPop wrote: > > > > Rik, is there any way we could get a /proc entry for this, so that one > > could do something like: > > I will respond; NO there is no way for security reasons this is not a > good idea. > > &

Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init

2001-03-23 Thread SodaPop
Rik, is there any way we could get a /proc entry for this, so that one could do something like: cat /proc/oom-kill-scores | sort +3 to get a process list (similar to ps) with a field for the current oom scores? It would likely be very useful to be able to dump the current scores and see what wi

Re: Only 10 MB/sec with via 82c686b - FIXED

2001-03-23 Thread SodaPop
Thanks Alan, but no dice. Most of the stuff on the board is autodetect anyway, but even after a reset it exhibited the same behaviour. Windows, however, continues to run fine. It's not properly set up with all the various drivers installed though, so its probably running with the equivalent of

Re: Only 10 MB/sec with via 82c686b - FIXED

2001-03-22 Thread SodaPop
PROTECTED] wrote: > On 20 Mar, SodaPop wrote: > > > I have an IWill KK-266R motherboard with an athlon-c 1200 > > processor in it, and for the life of me I can't get more than > > 10 MB/sec through the on-board ide controller. Yes, all the > > appropriate support is

Re: Only 10 MB/sec with via 82c686b - FIXED

2001-03-22 Thread SodaPop
66 motherboards have bios problems, it may be a good idea to upgrade the bios. -dennis T On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 20 Mar, SodaPop wrote: > > > I have an IWill KK-266R motherboard with an athlon-c 1200 > > processor in it, and for the life of me I can

Only 10 MB/sec with via 82c686b chipset?

2001-03-20 Thread SodaPop
Only 10 MB/sec with via 82c686b chipset? I have an IWill KK-266R motherboard with an athlon-c 1200 processor in it, and for the life of me I can't get more than 10 MB/sec through the on-board ide controller. Yes, all the appropriate support is turned on in the kernel to enable dma and specific c