Re: 242-ac3 loop bug

2001-02-25 Thread Mario Hermann
Hi! Jonathan Oppenheim wrote: > i have also been having trouble with many cyphers including > blowfish (although twofish and idea worked). the error seems to be the > same in all 2.4.x kernels (i have all the relevant options compiled > as modules eg. loopback and ciphers)) I had the same prob

Re: 242-ac3 loop bug

2001-02-25 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sun, Feb 25 2001, Jonathan Oppenheim wrote: > i have also been having trouble with many cyphers including > blowfish (although twofish and idea worked). the error seems to be the > same in all 2.4.x kernels (i have all the relevant options compiled > as modules eg. loopback and ciphers)) > >

Re: 242-ac3 loop bug

2001-02-25 Thread Jonathan Oppenheim
i have also been having trouble with many cyphers including blowfish (although twofish and idea worked). the error seems to be the same in all 2.4.x kernels (i have all the relevant options compiled as modules eg. loopback and ciphers)) i follow the encryptionhowto, but when i do a losetup -e b

Re: 242-ac3 loop bug

2001-02-24 Thread Mircea Ciocan
Halleluiah ;)!!! Finally, it works as is suposed to do :, the load on my dual PIIIx950 is 0.01 three times and I can mount and umonunt ISOs as much I wish. Thank you very much Jens and all that provided usefull feedback, this patch alone deserves including in an .acX r

Re: 242-ac3 loop bug

2001-02-24 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sat, Feb 24 2001, Mark Swanson wrote: > First, good job on the loop device. It's rock stable for me - except thanks, glad to hear it. > when I try to load the blowfish module which oops the kernel and > crashes the loop device:-) No problem, I just use another cipher. cipher bug or? never th

Re: 242-ac3 loop bug

2001-02-24 Thread Arjan van de Ven
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > First, good job on the loop device. It's rock stable for me - except > when I try to load the blowfish module which oops the kernel and > crashes the loop device:-) No problem, I just use another cipher. > The bug I'm reporting is that when a loop devic

Re: 242-ac3 loop bug

2001-02-24 Thread Doug McNaught
Mark Swanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > --- Doug McNaught <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's just an artifact of the fact that processes in state D > > (uninterruptible sleep) are included in the load average calculation. > > Since the loop thread apparently sits in state D waiting for events

Re: 242-ac3 loop bug

2001-02-24 Thread Mark Swanson
--- Doug McNaught <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Swanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > ps -aux | grep loop > > 1674 tty1 DW< 0:00 [loop0] > > > > The system is doing nothing to the loop filesystem. > > Strange that the process isn't logging any cpu usage time. It's > > definately

Re: 242-ac3 loop bug

2001-02-24 Thread Doug McNaught
Mark Swanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ps -aux | grep loop > 1674 tty1 DW< 0:00 [loop0] > > The system is doing nothing to the loop filesystem. > Strange that the process isn't logging any cpu usage time. It's > definately responsible for the 1.00 load. It's just an artifact of the

242-ac3 loop bug

2001-02-24 Thread Mark Swanson
First, good job on the loop device. It's rock stable for me - except when I try to load the blowfish module which oops the kernel and crashes the loop device:-) No problem, I just use another cipher. The bug I'm reporting is that when a loop device is in use the load of the machine stays at 1.00