Re: howto get a melodic system beep?

2008-01-11 Thread Toon van der Pas
On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 11:25:49PM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Hi folks, > > Is there a way to replace the system beep by something more > melodic? > > I remember some 10 years ago there was a patch for the kernel > to call an external "beep daemon" playing an audio file instead > (no kidding). B

Re: tuning/tweaking VM settings for low memory (preventing OOM)

2007-01-13 Thread Toon van der Pas
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 03:30:27PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 02:16:01PM +0100, Toon van der Pas wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 08:22:18AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > > > > > > > Which makes me think that we aren't writing b

Re: tuning/tweaking VM settings for low memory (preventing OOM)

2007-01-13 Thread Toon van der Pas
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 08:22:18AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > > > Which makes me think that we aren't writing back fast enough. If I > > mount the drive "sync" the issue clearly goes away. > > > > It appears from an strace we are doing ftruncate64(5, 178257920) when > > we OOM. > > > >

Two versions of the truth (Documentation/{filesystems/proc.txt,sysctl/vm.txt}

2007-01-13 Thread Toon van der Pas
Hi, I was looking for a description of the kernel parameter page-cluster and found two versions that appear to be very different to me. (see the two text fragments below) The first one talks about the clusting of pages on a page fault, when pages need to be read into memory. The second one talks

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc3] DAC960: kmalloc->kzalloc/Casting cleanups

2007-01-08 Thread Toon van der Pas
On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 03:17:25PM +0200, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote: > Hi all, > I'm not able to find the DAC960 block driver maintainer. > If someones knows please reply :). After Leonard Zubkoff unfortunately died in a helicopter accident Dave Olien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did some great work on the dr

Re: bkbits.net is down

2005-04-12 Thread Toon van der Pas
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 05:19:34PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Marcin Dalecki wrote: > > On 2005-04-12, at 04:17, Larry McVoy wrote whatever... > > > > Excuse me, but: who gives a damn shit? > > Lots of people do; those who use bitkeeper, and even people (like me) who > don'

Re: cciss CSMI via sysfs for 2.6

2005-02-19 Thread Toon van der Pas
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 10:45:12AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > +static ssize_t cciss_phyinfo_show(struct device *dev, char *buf) > +{ > + ctlr_info_t *h = dev->driver_data; > + unsigned long flags; > + CommandList_struct *c; > + CSMI_SAS_PHY_INFO_BUFFER iocommand; > + CSMI

Re: Suggestion for CD filesystem for Backups

2005-02-07 Thread Toon van der Pas
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 01:18:19AM -0400, Ali Bayazit wrote: > > On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 17:16 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Iau, 2004-09-23 at 00:04, Judith und Mirko Kloppstech wrote: > > > Why not write a file system on top of ISO9660 which uses the rest of the > > > CD to write error correction

Re: chvt issue

2005-01-24 Thread Toon van der Pas
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 09:14:49AM +0100, Andries Brouwer wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 01:34:56AM +0100, Alessandro Sappia wrote: > > > I was reading vt driver > > and I saw > > /* > > * To have permissions to do most of the vt ioctls, we either have > > * to be the o