Re: Swap strangeness using 2.4.5pre2aa1

2001-05-23 Thread Rik van Riel
On Thu, 24 May 2001, G. Hugh Song wrote: > My Alpha/LInux UP2000 SMP with 1GB memory is running kernel > The following is the output from "free" > = > total used free sharedbuffers cached

Re: Swap strangeness using 2.4.5pre2aa1

2001-05-23 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 03:16:48AM +0900, G. Hugh Song wrote: > The following is the output from "free" > = > total used free sharedbuffers > cached > Mem: 10231281015640 74

Swap strangeness using 2.4.5pre2aa1

2001-05-23 Thread G. Hugh Song
My Alpha/LInux UP2000 SMP with 1GB memory is running kernel 2.4.5pre2aa1. I have been observing some strangeness with Swap usage quite recently (in fact since 2.4.4). Unfortunately, the kernel was made using gcc-2.95.2-136.alpha.rpm provided by SuSE-7.0. The following is the output from

Re: 2.4.5pre2aa1 panic during boot

2001-05-20 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 01:59:25AM +0900, root wrote: > Andrea told us that he will not care for anything > compiled with gcc-2.95 or version lower than that. I said I don't care about bugreport of alpha kernel crashes if the _alpha_ kernel was compiled with gcc 2.95.*. 2.95 is fine on the x86, b

2.4.5pre2aa1 panic during boot

2001-05-20 Thread root
The attached .config file created a working kernel for 2.4.2. Now, with the one compiled from 2.4.5pre2aa1, it only gives kernel panic during boot with the following message: Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idel task In idle task -- not syncing This happened on LX164 with AlphaBIOS

Re: 2.4.5pre2aa1

2001-05-16 Thread Douglas J. Hunley
On Wednesday 16 May 2001 09:52, Andrea Arcangeli babbled: > > These descriptions are very helpful. Are they available somewhere > personally, I wish all kernel announcements were as nice as this. Kudos to Andrea. -- Douglas J. Hunley (Linux User #174778) http://hunley.homeip.net/ http:/

Re: 2.4.5pre2aa1

2001-05-16 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 08:42:03PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Tue, 15 May 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > Detailed description of 2.4.5pre2aa1 follows. > > > 00_buffer-2 > > > > Reschedule during oom while allocating buffers, still getblk >

Re: 2.4.5pre2aa1

2001-05-15 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > Detailed description of 2.4.5pre2aa1 follows. > 00_buffer-2 > > Reschedule during oom while allocating buffers, still getblk > can deadlock with oom but this will hide it pretty well as > it won't loop

2.4.5pre2aa1

2001-05-15 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
Detailed description of 2.4.5pre2aa1 follows. --- 00_alpha-illegal-irq-1 Be verbose for MAX_ILLEGAL_IRQS times if an invalid irq number is getting run. (debugging) 00_alpha-ksyms-1 Export