Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac17

2001-06-22 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Tom Vier wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 09:06:42AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > It's not actually swapping unless you see IO (si/so). It's allocating > > swap space, but won't send pages out to disk unless there's demand. One > > if it's pre-allocation, why does it sho

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac17

2001-06-22 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Tom Vier wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 09:06:42AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > It's not actually swapping unless you see IO (si/so). It's allocating > > swap space, but won't send pages out to disk unless there's demand. One > > if it's pre-allocation, why does it

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac17

2001-06-22 Thread Tom Vier
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 09:06:42AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: > It's not actually swapping unless you see IO (si/so). It's allocating > swap space, but won't send pages out to disk unless there's demand. One if it's pre-allocation, why does it show up as "used"? "reserved" would be a better fi

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac17

2001-06-21 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Tom Vier wrote: > i having some strange vm behavour with -ac17 that didn't happen with -ac14 > (i haven't tried 15 or 16). it starts swapping even when i have hundreds of > megs of free ram. [...] > > vmstat: >procs memoryswap io syst

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac17

2001-06-21 Thread Tom Vier
i having some strange vm behavour with -ac17 that didn't happen with -ac14 (i haven't tried 15 or 16). it starts swapping even when i have hundreds of megs of free ram. another strange thing is that the first time i tried to boot ac17, it machine checked in the palcode. i hit reset and it booted c

Re: Linux-2.4.5-ac17 --- Where is the truncate_inode_pages speedup patch?

2001-06-21 Thread Dieter Nützel
Hello Alan, I use it all the time and it is not pre6 stuff related...:-) Thanks, Dieter --- linux/mm/filemap.cMon May 28 13:31:49 2001 +++ linux/mm/filemap.c Mon Jun 11 23:31:08 2001 @@ -230,17 +230,17 @@ unsigned long offset; page = list_entry(

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac17

2001-06-21 Thread Alan Cox
> anyone working on a bootflag.c for alpha? > > init/main.o: In function `init': > main.c(.text+0x148): undefined reference to `linux_booted_ok' > main.c(.text+0x14c): undefined reference to `linux_booted_ok' > make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 Just #define it to a null function. I don't believe ARC o

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac17

2001-06-21 Thread Gary White (Network Administrator)
On my system, flag problem and boot panic fixed with this version. -- Gary White Network Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet Pathway Voice 601-776-3355Fax 601-776-2314 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body o

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac17

2001-06-21 Thread Tom Vier
anyone working on a bootflag.c for alpha? init/main.o: In function `init': main.c(.text+0x148): undefined reference to `linux_booted_ok' main.c(.text+0x14c): undefined reference to `linux_booted_ok' make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 -- Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA Key id 0x27371A2C - To unsubscri

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac17

2001-06-21 Thread Alan Cox
> between your tree and Linus' please? I haven't seen any ac stuff being > spooled into Linus' tree for a while and the trees seem to be drifting > further apart ... it would be nice if there wasn't much difference > other than the device name and the page cache VFS stuff. I know you're > both hec

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac17

2001-06-21 Thread Craig Schlenter
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 05:38:56PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > [snip] > 2.4.5-ac17 [snip] Hi Alan Sorry to bug you but could you tell us what's up with the synchronisation between your tree and Linus' please? I haven't seen any ac stuff being spooled into Linus' tree for a while and the trees seem

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac17

2001-06-21 Thread Rik van Riel
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > 2.4.5-ac17 > o Swapfile bugfix (Rik van Riel) Written by Stephen Tweedie ... regards, Rik -- Executive summary of a recent Microsoft press release: "we are concerned about the GNU General Public License (GPL)"

Linux 2.4.5-ac17

2001-06-21 Thread Alan Cox
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ Intermediate diffs are available from http://www.bzimage.org 2.4.5-ac17 o Sanity check the BIOS tables for bootflag (me) o Update multicast support by devices doc (R