Re: [OT] Re: Thrashing WITHOUT swap.

2001-06-26 Thread john slee
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 06:32:16PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote: > On Monday 25 June 2001 18:16, Colonel wrote: > > Had you tried fvwm-1.24r (the original) ? It was designed long ago to > > be lean and fast on the desktop. I know it whips KDE. > > Yes, I did. It's even faster than xfce but the

Re: The latest Microsoft FUD. This time from BillG, himself.

2001-06-26 Thread john slee
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 08:05:41PM +0200, Andreas Bombe wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 02:21:18PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote: > > Name one thing Microsoft actually invented. Other than Microsoft Bob. > > were listed and where they bought or stole it from. The only things > that were really Micr

Re: Is it useful to support user level drivers

2001-06-21 Thread john slee
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 03:58:33PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > At 23:50 +1000 2001-06-21, john slee wrote: > >i believe libgpio uses the existing usb/iee1394/serial/parallel > >interfaces to provide a limited userspace driver capability. > > That only means, howev

Re: Is it useful to support user level drivers

2001-06-21 Thread john slee
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 06:38:09PM +0700, Dmitry A. Fedorov wrote: > kernel module to delivery hardware interrupts to user space > programs. Hardware interrupts (IRQ) are accessible by > character devices /dev/irq[0-15]. Interrupts delivered by > signals and select(2)/poll(2) i believe libgpio us

Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads)

2001-06-20 Thread john slee
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 08:04:42PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: [ ... ] > I asked Linus for this a long time ago and he pointed out that you couldn't > make it work over NFS, at least not nicely. It does seem like that could > be worked around by having a "poll daemon" which knew about all the thi

Re: Just FYI...

2001-05-24 Thread john slee
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 06:02:12PM +0200, Dr. Michael Weller wrote: > It's an interesting experiment actually: Is the linux community powerful > enough to force vendors/people to fix their products and deploy updates to > comply to standards or can they just ignore it. largely the vendors have fi

Re: Background to the argument about CML2 design philosophy

2001-05-22 Thread john slee
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:00:07PM +0200, Urban Widmark wrote: > On Mon, 21 May 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > > the NEW tag). That phase ended almost a month ago. Nobody who has > > actually tried the CML2 tools more recently has reported that the UI > > changes present any difficulty. > >

Re: reiserfs, xfs, ext2, ext3

2001-05-10 Thread john slee
> quite a bit of scope for improvement. Commercial caching systems have > demonstrated thoughput of thousands of requests/s with similar > hardware, but I suspect Tux-ification of Squid will be necessary to not at all, search for X15 in april/may linux-kernel archives. most of the specific impr

Re: Documentation of module parameters.

2001-04-20 Thread john slee
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 03:19:20AM +1000, john slee wrote: > it sounded like a challenge. this might help someone who can't be and it might be even more helpful if it didnt appear with a stupid mimetype. attempt #2 -- "Bobby, jiggle Grandpa's rat so it looks alive, plea

Re: Documentation of module parameters.

2001-04-20 Thread john slee
acting all the data by hand. it spits it out in tab delimited form, as sanely as i could manage in 5 minutes. j. -- "Bobby, jiggle Grandpa's rat so it looks alive, please" -- gary larson #!/bin/sh # john slee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # Sat Apr 21 03:17:55 EST 2001 #

Re: goodbye

2001-04-07 Thread john slee
On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 07:07:20PM -0700, Colonel wrote: > Some ISPs rely on crap software & OS to process email, and have other so you don't use those ISPs > bad habits besides. Censorship usually does more bad than good > (especially since dealing with 80% of the spam is trivial for > procmai

Re: New directions for kernel development

2001-04-01 Thread john slee
On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 01:22:48AM -0800, Richard Gooch wrote: > Linus Torvalds writes: > > Ho, hum. No, he didn't. It's April Wankers^WFools again. we aussies are supposed to have a good sense of humour :P j. -- "Bobby, jiggle Grandpa's rat so it looks alive, please" -- gary larson - To unsu

Re: bug report: select on unconnected sockets

2001-03-31 Thread john slee
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 06:44:20PM +0300, Radu Greab wrote: > Sorry if this is already known: on a RH 7.0 system with kernel 2.4.2 > or 2.4.3, a select on an unconnected socket incorrectly says that the > socket is ready for input and output. Of course, reading from the socket > file descriptor re

Re: Disturbing news..

2001-03-28 Thread john slee
[cc list trimmed] On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 03:10:08PM +0100, Sean Hunter wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 06:08:15AM -0600, Jesse Pollard wrote: > > Sure - very simple. If the execute bit is set on a file, don't allow > > ANY write to the file. This does modify the permission bits slightly > > but

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac23

2001-03-23 Thread john slee
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 12:06:30PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > o Fix i386 #ifdef bug with notsc disable (Anton Blanchard) gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel/2.4.2-ac23/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -mar

Re: system call for process information?

2001-03-13 Thread john slee
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 07:52:41PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > > Bloat removal: being able to run without /proc mounted. > > > > We don't have "kernel speed". We have kernel-mode screwing around > > with text formatting. > > Sounds like you migh

Re: Can't use high IRQs on ISA ethernet card

2001-03-08 Thread john slee
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 02:51:42PM +, Jules Bean wrote: > So, in summary, what seems to me to be happening is that the high IRQs > (9-13, say) appear to be unavailable for use by ISA cards on my > machine, at the moment. The kernel allows ISA cards to claim these > IRQs (and the cards then sh

[patch] clean up inconsistent formatting in MAINTAINERS

2001-02-17 Thread john slee
against 2.4.1: this may seem rather frivolous, but... patch below makes all data lines start with the appropriate letter, a colon, then a tab. previously some entries used (varying amounts of) space characters instead of tabs. --- MAINTAINERS.origSun Feb 18 01:48:03 2001 +++ MAINTAINERS Su

Re: hard lockup (no oops) on vanilla 2.4.2-pre3 with /dev/dsp

2001-02-11 Thread john slee
On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 01:19:02PM +1100, john slee wrote: > On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 07:33:53PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > > Does 2.4.1-ac9 behave ? > > yep, works fine. let me amend this slightly: works fine when not using xfree86 with pci s3virge. guess it wasnt the kernel at

Re: hard lockup (no oops) on vanilla 2.4.2-pre3 with /dev/dsp

2001-02-11 Thread john slee
On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 07:33:53PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > Does 2.4.1-ac9 behave ? hrm. it misbehaved on ac9 now. i'll try a different soundcard and see what happens. is es1370 known to be relatively stable? i have one of those lying about somewhere. i'm fairly sure its not ram at fault, si

Re: hard lockup (no oops) on vanilla 2.4.2-pre3 with /dev/dsp

2001-02-10 Thread john slee
On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 07:33:53PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > > it doesn't happen to me on 2.4.1-pre11 with andrew morton's low > > scheduling latency patch. > > Does 2.4.1-ac9 behave ? yep, works fine. j. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

hard lockup (no oops) on vanilla 2.4.2-pre3 with /dev/dsp

2001-02-10 Thread john slee
'mpg123 foo.mp3' triggers this. doesn't seem to be restricted to mpg123 however. happens with everything using /dev/dsp. it doesn't happen to me on 2.4.1-pre11 with andrew morton's low scheduling latency patch. symptoms are hard lockup, and random noise from speakers. even magic sysrq doesn't

Re: Inadmissible sound dropouts on 2.2.18

2001-02-04 Thread john slee
On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 12:07:28PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The crackling is not dependent on the buffer size you can set up in the C code. > The crackling is dependent on the frequency of the sine. It's clearly audible > (read: annoying) at 10kHz, audible at 1kHz, inaudible at 100Hz. So

Re: Etherworks3 driver now obsolete?

2001-02-03 Thread john slee
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 03:42:48AM -0600, Jeff Garzik wrote: > On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Darren Tucker wrote: > > I decided to try a shiny new 2.4.0 kernel but I couldn't configure the driver > > for my etherworks3 ISA ethernet card (AMD K6III PC hardware). > > > > A bit of grepping showed that it only

Re: Linux 2.4.0ac12

2001-01-29 Thread john slee
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 11:53:54PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ > 2.4.0-ac11 > o Make de4x5 driver work (Nathan Hand) sure this wasn't ewrk3? nathan posted a patch against ewrk3 driver a while back, but not d

Re: Coding Style

2001-01-23 Thread john slee
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 10:07:10AM -0500, Jonathan Earle wrote: > > /* > > * I tend to find standard C comments easier to read. They stand out, > > * especially for multiple lines (although I always try to put the :end: > > * on a separate line for clarity). > > */ > > I like this style for

Re: Weird vmstat reports in 2.2.18

2000-12-21 Thread john slee
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 11:55:37AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm getting some strange reports with vmstat on a dual iPPro running 2.2.18, > it doesnt happen very frequently, but i see it a lot when compiling something > (kernel and mysql specially, not when compiling small stuff), though i

Re: 2.4.0-test11-pre3 [gus_midi.c breakage]

2000-11-12 Thread john slee
On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 07:22:06PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: >- > - pre3: > - Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz: sound and drm driver init fixes and > cleanups this breaks for me, gcc 2.95.2: gus_midi.c:206: parse error before `gus_midi_init' gus_midi.c:207: warning: return-type defaul

test10 dies very early in boot

2000-11-01 Thread john slee
hardware: * abit be6-2 mainboard * 533 celeron (not overclocked) * 192mb sdram * seagate 20gb ide disk (not on ata66 port) compiler: gcc version 2.95.2 2220 (Debian GNU/Linux) it gets as far as uncompressing the kernel and trying to boo

Re: 2.2.18Pre Lan Performance Rocks!

2000-10-30 Thread john slee
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 03:06:25AM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > Ingo, This original thread was regarding Linux vs. NetWare 5.x performance > metrics and responses from Linux folks about how to affect and > improve them, not a diatribe on the features of TUX. while beating netware in certain a

Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler

2000-10-10 Thread john slee
the only reason i suggested this was the init=/bin/bash, 4MB > > RAM, no swap emergency-bootup case. We must not kill init in > > that case - if the current code doesnt then great and none of > > this is needed. perhaps a boot time option oom=0 ? since oom is such a rare ca

Re: Tux2 - evil patents sighted

2000-10-05 Thread john slee
o sounds very similar to [one use for] lvm snapshots. does hp-ux have those too? (linux lvm documentation seems to say it [lvm] was based on a similar hp-ux feature...) j. -- john slee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

Re: Whining about MIME formatted email

2000-09-08 Thread john slee
y* converts everything to rtf. it's, well, yuk? :-( j. -- john slee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/