Re: increased number of cycles

2007-11-18 Thread Wander Winkelhorst
> But for last 4 days the consumed cycles have suddenly increased to > around 35 cycles . I'm using RDTSC instruction to profile the > code.There is no change in code and the kernel version is also the > same .I am assuming that there must be something wrong with hardware. > > Please guide me how

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-11-03 Thread Wander Winkelhorst
On 11/3/07, Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:08:23 -0400 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > IBM's AIX supported file system compression on the JFS filesystem > > years ago. I was able to get up to 30% throughput increases by > > converting the /usr filesystem to compre

Re: Data corruption

2007-08-08 Thread Wander Winkelhorst
On 8/8/07, paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, thank you for your answer, actually I removed 2Gb of physical memory and > the problem gone away .. but my system needs 4Gb. > > I reproduce it under Xen and without xen (on a standard kernel) I can't tell > you how mutch difference I have betwwen

Re: Linux Kernel Story

2007-07-13 Thread Wander Winkelhorst
On 7/12/07, Vijayakumar Subburaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My first mail to lkml. I would like to know what happened to linux kernel from its 1.0. It might be interesting to look at this timeline: http://www.levenez.com/unix/ Which shows when the first linux kernel was released, and a lot mo

Re: VIA C7 / VIA PC-1 (PC2500) anyone?

2007-06-12 Thread Wander Winkelhorst
On 6/12/07, Michael Tokarev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I bought a VIA PC2500 board a few days ago - this new series of their mobos, This beast looks nice - after replacing their cooling system (that had a small fan on it) with larger but fanless, -- it becomes a almost real PC (1500MHz CPU), equ