Re: Missing ACKs with Linux 2.2/2.4?

2000-11-10 Thread David S. Miller
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 10:13:21 + (GMT) From: Ben Mansell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This is a resend of the data sent on line 8 of the trace: 10:10:15.845002 cobalt-box.echo > hydra.3700: P 1:1449(1448) ack 1449 win 31856 (DF) It looks like hydra didn't ACK this data, so the serv

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)

2000-11-10 Thread Christoph Rohland
Hi Ingo, On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Larry McVoy wrote: > >> smart about that stuff, are least it seems so to me; he seems to be >> well aware that 99.% of the hardware in the world isn't big >> iron and never will be, so something approximating 99% of the

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)

2000-11-10 Thread Christoph Rohland
Hi Michael, On Thu, 09 Nov 2000, Michael Rothwell wrote: > Christoph Rohland wrote: >> And then I don't see the value of Linux anymore. > > Same as before -- freedom and low cost. The primary advantae of > Linux over other OSes is the GPL. And you would loose exactly these two points for high e

Re: No tcp connection establishment with 2.4

2000-11-10 Thread Michele Iacobellis
Thanks, it seems to work ! -- # Eng. Michele Iacobellis # R&D - Linux Impresa # [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/

Re: No tcp connection establishment with 2.4

2000-11-10 Thread Michele Iacobellis
Thanks, it seems to work ! -- # Eng. Michele Iacobellis # R&D - Linux Impresa # [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/

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre21

2000-11-10 Thread willy tarreau
> Anything which isnt a strict bug fix or previously > agreed is now 2.2.19 material. Alan, do you consider it as a bugfix if I tell you that we can't get anymore oops with the new bonding code, even in SMP ? I've had reports of it working very well, and faster, for a long time now and the link

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre21

2000-11-10 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 10:28:46AM +0100, willy tarreau wrote: From the patch source: +CONFIG_BONDING + Say 'Y' or 'M' if you wish to be able to 'bond' multiple Ethernet + Channels together. This is called 'Etherchannel' by Cisco, + 'Trunking' by Sun, and 'Bonding' in Linux. I thin

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre21

2000-11-10 Thread Constantine Gavrilov
Matti Aarnio wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 10:28:46AM +0100, willy tarreau wrote: > > From the patch source: > > +CONFIG_BONDING > + Say 'Y' or 'M' if you wish to be able to 'bond' multiple Ethernet > + Channels together. This is called 'Etherchannel' by Cisco, > + 'Trunking' by Sun,

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre21

2000-11-10 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 11:57:45AM +0200, Constantine Gavrilov wrote: > > Cisco Trademark is EtherChannel -- there the capitalization > > is important. We could call it ETHERNETCHANNEL (and even > > "Etherchannel" or "ETHERCHANNEL") get away with it clean. > > ... > > > R

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre21

2000-11-10 Thread Constantine Gavrilov
willy tarreau wrote: > > > Anything which isnt a strict bug fix or previously > > agreed is now 2.2.19 material. > > Alan, do you consider it as a bugfix if I tell you > that > we can't get anymore oops with the new bonding code, > even in SMP ? > > I've had reports of it working very well, and

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre21

2000-11-10 Thread Constantine Gavrilov
Matti Aarnio wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 11:57:45AM +0200, Constantine Gavrilov wrote: > > > Cisco Trademark is EtherChannel -- there the capitalization > > > is important. We could call it ETHERNETCHANNEL (and even > > > "Etherchannel" or "ETHERCHANNEL") get away

Re: Reserve VM for root (was: Re: Looking for better VM)

2000-11-10 Thread Andrey Savochkin
Hello, On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 06:30:32PM +0100, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote: > BTW, I wanted to take a look at the frequently mentioned beancounter patch, > here is the current state, > http://www.asp-linux.com/en/products/ubpatch.shtml > "Sorry, due to growing expenses for support of publ

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre21

2000-11-10 Thread willy tarreau
> However, it has not been tested enough that I may bet > by head on saying there are no known issues. I won't say there are no issues, but I'd say there are no KNOWN issues. > This is because I did not have access to all > hardware that was needed to complete the tests in > time. I know that,

Re: [BUG] /proc//stat access stalls badly for swapping process,2.4.0-test10

2000-11-10 Thread Mike Galbraith
> I understood the above well enough to be very interested in seeing what > happens with flush IO restricted. > > -Mike > > [try_to_free_pages()->swap_out()/shm_swap().. can fight over who gets > to shrink the best candidate's footprint?] > > Thanks! The results: pre2+semaphore real

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre21

2000-11-10 Thread willy tarreau
> > > is important. We could call it ETHERNETCHANNEL (and even > > > "Etherchannel" or "ETHERCHANNEL") get away with it clean. > > > ... > > > /Matti Aarnio > Anything but "EtherChannel" -- trademark people Ok, Matti. Let's keep "Etherchannel" as you proposed and as it

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)

2000-11-10 Thread Martin Dalecki
Alexander Viro wrote: > > On 9 Nov 2000, Mike Coleman wrote: > > > Alexander Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > RMS had repeatedly demonstrated what he's worth as a designer > > > and programmer. Way below zero. You may like or dislike his ideology, > > > but when it comes to technical stuf

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre21

2000-11-10 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 12:22:04PM +0200, Constantine Gavrilov wrote: > Gee, we do not call it EtherChannel, we say CISCO calls it > EtherChannel. Where is the infringment here? Are people that paranoid > or it is just me who is not getting it? You missed my original point. I don

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre21

2000-11-10 Thread Arnaud S . Launay
Le Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 03:07:21AM +, Alan Cox a écrit: > Anything which isnt a strict bug fix or previously agreed is now 2.2.19 > material. Compiling 2.2.18pre21 without sysctl gives an error at linkage: kernel/kernel.o(__ksymtab+0x608): undefined reference to `sysctl_jiffies' trivial patc

Re: PCI-PCI bridges mess in 2.4.x

2000-11-10 Thread Sean Hunter
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 04:31:24PM -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote: > On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 11:33:47AM -0500, Wakko Warner wrote: > > > It was posted to lkml, so no link (except if you want to dig through > > > lkml mail archives). > > > > It booted but then it oops'ed before userland I belive.

Re: Comming to Share??? (re: Subcribe)

2000-11-10 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote: >Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 13:09:40 -0800 (PST) >From: Andre Hedrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Scot Slager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Subject: Comming to Share??? (re: Subcribe) > > >Hello Scot, > >Is

Re: test11-pre2

2000-11-10 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: >> - David Miller: sparc64 updates, make sparc32 boot again >> - Davdi Millner: spel "synchronous" correctly >Spell "David Miller" correctly. 8). I believe that was a taste of Linus's good sense of humor there Jeff. ;o) I got a good kick out o

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre21

2000-11-10 Thread willy tarreau
> I don't like to call it BONDING. > "Bonding" is something where two (or more) channels > carry data in between two participating systems. > Like Multilink-PPP, and ISDN Channel Bonding. Often > indeed data goes out somehow inter-leaved on the > physical links. (Like ISDN Channel Bonding suppli

[PATCH] NIC drivers check_region() removal continues

2000-11-10 Thread Andrey Panin
Hi all, new net drivers patchset (against 2.4.0-test11-pre1) attached. Modifications: check_region() removal, passing dev->name to request_region() & request_irq() etc. Drivers affected: 3c501.c, 3c503.c, 3c505.c, 82596.c, eth16i.c, hp.c, hp-plus.c, ibmlana.c, ne2.c, seeq8005.c, smc-mca.c, sm

compiling 2.4.0-test10 kernel

2000-11-10 Thread Corisen
hi, i'm currently running RH7, with 2.2.16-22 kernel, gcc 2.96 on a Sharp Actius 250 notebook. i've manged to successfully compile 2.4.0-test10 kernel. however, upon startup there are some failed/error messages: 1. finding module dependencies: depmod *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.0-

[PATCH] 2.2.18pre21 : Megaraid

2000-11-10 Thread willy tarreau
Alan, I've patched the megaraid driver with these 2 lines taken from RH7.0 2.2.16-22 kernel, and now my netraid no longer hangs at boot. I don't know if this can induce side effects, but it works again here. Regards, Willy ___ Do You Yah

PATCH: Pcmcia/Cardbus/xircom_tulip in 2.4.0-test10.

2000-11-10 Thread Ballabio_Dario
In order to have the xircom_tulip pcmcia cardbus working again with recent kernels, it is necessary to specify: ifconfig eth0 -multicast Moreover if the card is configured by itself into the kernel (i.e. with the default ne2000 pcmcia support removed), the enclosed patch is required as well.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)

2000-11-10 Thread richardj_moore
>> Why? I think the IBM GKHI code would be of tremendous value. It would > > And we already refuse to support those kernels - your point being? > > Making this "commonplace" is a nightmare. Go away with that. How is so? Richard Moore - RAS Project Lead - Linux Technology Centre (PIS

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)

2000-11-10 Thread richardj_moore
>> extensions using the GKHI would not be breaking the license agreement, I >> don't think. There's lots of binary modules right now -- VMWare, Aureal > sound card drivers, etc. > >All of which just cause large numbers of bugs to go in the bitbucket because >nobody can tell whose the problem i

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)

2000-11-10 Thread richardj_moore
> Yes, and that's why I am opposing here: Technically you are right, but > proposing that enterprise Linux should go this way is inviting binary > only modules due to the lax handling of modules. Not so sure it does. If a kernel module wants to make use of GKHI then it will have to 1) include

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)

2000-11-10 Thread richardj_moore
> That being said, the real problem with the GKHI is that as Al said, it > does expose internal kernel interfaces --- and the Linux kernel > development community as a whole refuses to be bound by such interfaces, > sometimes even during a stable kernel series. I'm not sure that GKHI exposes a

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)

2000-11-10 Thread richardj_moore
> The problem with the hooks et.al. is very simple - they promote every > bloody implementation detail to exposed API. Surely not, having the kernel source does that. The alternative to the hook is embed a patch in the kernel source. What proveds greater exposure to internals: hooks of s

Error Compiling linux-2.4.0-test11pre2 on rh7 (kgcc) system

2000-11-10 Thread Chris Chabot
I got this error below, while trying to do my standard kernel compile. i changed the makefile to use kgcc, and every compile upto 2.4.0-test10 & 2.4.0-test11 pre 1 worked fine (same .config).. The system is a clean redhat 7.0 (amd 1ghz, adaptec scsi, nvidia geforce2, sblive, ibm 10k rpm hd,asus mb

Oops on 2.2.17 (and 2.2.18pre20)

2000-11-10 Thread Magnus Naeslund\(b\)
Hello i got me several nasty oopses on my heavily loaded webserver. [1.] One line summary of the problem: I get a oops that seems to generate more oops. My logs are full of them bastards. I hate them. GRRR. [2.] Full description of the problem/report: I recently upgraded my box to 1GB of mem,

[PATCH] media/radio hit 2

2000-11-10 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
should be less controversial... [Russell forgive me insinuating these drivers unmantained...] Regards -- Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 240t11p1-radio-2.diff.gz

2.2.18pre20, VM messages

2000-11-10 Thread f5ibh
Hi ! VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for tail.. ^ ... or something else Randomly, I got this message on the console. When this appends, I'm flooded with this message and cannot do anything with the console. --- Regard

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)

2000-11-10 Thread Alexander Viro
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > The problem with the hooks et.al. is very simple - they promote every > > bloody implementation detail to exposed API. > > Surely not, having the kernel source does that. The alternative to the hook > is embed a patch in the kernel

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)

2000-11-10 Thread Michael Rothwell
Alexander "see figure 1" Viro wrote: > Sorry. You don't "embed" the patch. You either get it accepted or not. > Or you fork the tree and then it's officially None Of My Problems(tm). Sounds like a good idea. -M - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the bo

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)

2000-11-10 Thread David Lang
how is that any different then a module? modules that are not included with the kernel source are not guarenteed to work with any other kernel version (including during the stable kernel series) David Lang On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: > On Fri, 10 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)

2000-11-10 Thread Alexander Viro
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Michael Rothwell wrote: > > Sorry. You don't "embed" the patch. You either get it accepted or not. > > Or you fork the tree and then it's officially None Of My Problems(tm). > > Sounds like a good idea. It's not a good idea, it's an obvious fact. Oh, you mean forking the

[PATCH] Re: [test11-pre2] rrunner.c compiler error

2000-11-10 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > rrunner.c : In function 'rr_ioctl' > > rrunner.c:1558: label 'out' used but not defined > > make[2]: *** [rrunner.o] Error 1 > > My fault. Swap that 1158 line pair > > error = -EPERM; > goto out; > > with > ret

[bug] kernel panic related to reiserfs, 2.4.0-test11-pre1 and 3.6.18

2000-11-10 Thread David Ford
Over the last three weeks my box has been locking up w/ a black screen of death. This time I had kdb patched in and got the following: Entering kdb (current=0xcf906000, pid 16808) Panic: invalid operand due to panic @ 0xc0163d7a eax = 0x001a ebx = 0xcf907d8c ecx = 0xcf906000 edx = 0xcd3cde00

Re: [bug] kernel panic related to reiserfs, 2.4.0-test11-pre1 and 3.6.18

2000-11-10 Thread Michael Rothwell
David Ford wrote: > With kdb, after the panic happens, I can hit 'sr s' then 'g', it will > OOPS (process sendmail) then continue. Without kdb, I am SOL and have > to hit the power button. sysrq won't react. Debugger good. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kerne

Re: [PATCH] Re: [test11-pre2] rrunner.c compiler error

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff Garzik
Blah. Puke. Ug. Not your changes, Bart... which are ok, but incomplete. Here is the complete bugfix. There are two places where error conditions are not fully handled, and 'out_spin' can kfree(image), saving some code. The worst bug of the list... if the firmware copy_from_user failed w

Re: [PATCH] NIC drivers check_region() removal continues

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff Garzik
Andrey Panin wrote: > > Hi all, > > new net drivers patchset (against 2.4.0-test11-pre1) attached. > > Modifications: check_region() removal, passing dev->name to > request_region() & request_irq() etc. > > Drivers affected: 3c501.c, 3c503.c, 3c505.c, 82596.c, eth16i.c, hp.c, > hp-plus.c, ibml

APIC errors w/ 2.4.0-test11-pre2

2000-11-10 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
Hi, after booting a 2.4.0 (any testx-release I've tried so far, including test11-pre2) on a Dual-Pentium III box, the system works ok, but the console gets filled with APIC error on CPU0: 08(08) every couple of seconds, occasionally some lines in between say APIC error on CPU0: 08(02) and API

[PATCH] oom_nice

2000-11-10 Thread Chris Swiedler
Here's an updated version of the "oom_nice" patch. It allows a sysadmin to set the "oom niceness" for processes, either by PID or by process name. The oom niceness value factors into the badness() function called by Rik's OOM killer. Negative values decrease the chance that the process will be kil

Re: [PATCH] oom_nice

2000-11-10 Thread Alexander Viro
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Chris Swiedler wrote: > Here's an updated version of the "oom_nice" patch. It allows a sysadmin to > set the "oom niceness" for processes, either by PID or by process name. The > oom niceness value factors into the badness() function called by Rik's > OOM killer. Negative v

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)

2000-11-10 Thread Matti Aarnio
I have been wondering what all of the furor has been about... Initially I thought that it is "a way to load in a module which defines its own syscalls, etc.." and/or "we want to sell binary images which can activate some hooks" but having just read the GKHI READM

threads

2000-11-10 Thread M.Kiran Babu
sir, i got some doubts in kernel programming. i am using linux 6.1 version. i want to use threads in kernel.is it possible to use pthreads in kernel. there is one more function kernel_thread. can i use that function. if i use that function how to get synchonization. inmany files it was used. but

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)

2000-11-10 Thread Michael Rothwell
Matti Aarnio wrote: > On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 04:35:33PM -0500, Michael Rothwell wrote: > > Sounds great; unfortunately, the core group has spoken out against a > > modular kernel. > > Really ? > > $ /sbin/lsmod > Module Size Used by > [...] > soundcore 43

Re: [reiserfs-list] [bug] kernel panic related to reiserfs,2.4.0-test11-pre1 and 3.6.18

2000-11-10 Thread Chris Mason
On Friday, November 10, 2000 06:15:40 -0800 David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Over the last three weeks my box has been locking up w/ a black screen > of death. This time I had kdb patched in and got the following: > > Entering kdb (current=0xcf906000, pid 16808) Panic: invalid operand

[2.2.18pre17 OOPS Report] Linux' musical taste (ide-cdrom / autofs related) (Repost)

2000-11-10 Thread Henning P. Schmiedehausen
[ Ok, so my first mail seems to never have it made to the list. :-( ] Hi, the following situation: Intel Celeron 667, 128 MB RAM, 440BX-based board (ASUS CUBX) IBM 30 GB Disk and TEAC CDROM on ide0 LS120 Floppy and a Mitsumi CDROM on ide1 (see boot messages below for details) Once upon a tim

Re: threads

2000-11-10 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 08:33:29PM +0530, M.Kiran Babu wrote: > sir, > i got some doubts in kernel > programming. i am using linux 6.1 version. i want to use threads in Linux kernel versions are now running up to 2.4.0*, what is that 6.1 ? Some distribution ? Which ? Wh

Re: PATCH: Pcmcia/Cardbus/xircom_tulip in 2.4.0-test10.

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff Garzik
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In order to have the xircom_tulip pcmcia cardbus working again with > recent kernels, it is necessary to specify: > > ifconfig eth0 -multicast > > Moreover if the card is configured by itself into the kernel > (i.e. with the default ne2000 pcmcia support removed), >

Re: [2.2.18pre17 OOPS Report] Linux' musical taste (ide-cdrom / autofs related) (Repost)

2000-11-10 Thread Jens Axboe
On Fri, Nov 10 2000, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: [snip] > Running 2.2.18pre17 completely modular built + 20001027 IDE patch from > kernel.org + Andreas' 2.2.18pre17aa1 patch + some more but I think not > related patches. Complete Kernel SRPMS and RPMS on request. :-) > The Mitsumi CDROM is u

Re: compiling 2.4.0-test10 kernel

2000-11-10 Thread Georg Nikodym
> "C" == Corisen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: C> hi, i'm currently running RH7, with 2.2.16-22 kernel, gcc 2.96 on C> a Sharp Actius 250 notebook. C> i've manged to successfully compile 2.4.0-test10 kernel. however, C> upon startup there are some failed/error messages: C> 1. finding mod

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)

2000-11-10 Thread Theodore Y. Ts'o
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:Fri, 10 Nov 2000 11:41:09 + It has the potential to to make patches easier to re-work for different kernel versions, and to enable development maintence and fixing of the patch to be done independently of a kernel build. And it also has the

Where is it written?

2000-11-10 Thread George Anzinger
I thought this would be simple, but... Could someone point me at the info on calling conventions to be used with x86 processors. I need this to write asm code correctly and I suspect that it is a bit more formal than the various comments I have found in the sources. Is it, perhaps an Intel doc?

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)

2000-11-10 Thread Christoph Rohland
Hi Theodore, On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > P.S. There are some such RAS features which I wouldn't be surprised > there being interest in having integrated into the kernel directly > post-2.4, with no need to put in "kernel hooks" for that particular > feature. A good example of

Re: Patch generation

2000-11-10 Thread George Anzinger
Dan Aloni wrote: > > On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Ivan Passos wrote: > > > Where in the src tree can I find (or what is) the command to generate a > > patch file from two Linux kernel src trees, one being the original and the > > other being the newly changed one?? > > The syntex looks like this one: >

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)

2000-11-10 Thread Andi Kleen
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 11:24:28AM -0500, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > Right. So what you're saying is that GKHI is adding complexity to the > kernel to make it easier for peopel to put in non-standard patches which > exposes non-standard interfaces which will lead to kernels not supported > by the

Re: test11-pre2

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 06:10:40AM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote: > On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > >> - David Miller: sparc64 updates, make sparc32 boot again > >> - Davdi Millner: spel "synchronous" correctly > >Spell "David Miller" correctly. 8). > > I believe that was a

Re: [BUG] /proc//stat access stalls badly for swapping process,2.4.0-test10

2000-11-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> (This schenario, btw, is much harder to trigger on SMP than on UP. And >> it's completely separate from the issue of simple disk bandwidth issues >> which can obviously cause no end of stalls on anything that needs t

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)

2000-11-10 Thread richardj_moore
> Right. So what you're saying is that GKHI is adding complexity to the > kernel to make it easier for peopel to put in non-standard patches which > exposes non-standard interfaces which will lead to kernels not supported > by the Linux Kernel Development Community. Right? I don't think I me

RE: PATCH: Pcmcia/Cardbus/xircom_tulip in 2.4.0-test10.

2000-11-10 Thread Ballabio_Dario
I just tested test11-pre2 and there is no improvement. I still need to issue the ifconfig eth0 -multicast and just after it the xircom_tulip card begins to work. -db -Original Message- From: Jeff Garzik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 5:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: test11-pre2 compile error undefined reference to `bust_spinlocks' WHAT?!

2000-11-10 Thread George Anzinger
The notion of releasing a spin lock by initializing it seems IMHO, on the face of it, way off. Firstly the protected area is no longer protected which could lead to undefined errors/ crashes and secondly, any future use of spinlocks to control preemption could have a lot of trouble with this, pri

2.4.0-test11pre2-ac1 and previous problem

2000-11-10 Thread Paweł Kot
Hello, I've following error with 2.4.0-test{9|10|pre11pre1-ac1|pre11pre2-ac1}: NMI Watchdog detected LOCKUP on CPU3, registers: And then the machine hangs. No response at all. Always CPU3 is mentioned. The machine is: The latest Intel motherboard for 4xCPU (ISP4040) 4xPentium III 700 (Xeon) 4G

Re: compiling 2.4.0-test10 kernel

2000-11-10 Thread Keith Owens
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000 11:23:29 -0500 (EST), "Georg Nikodym" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > C> i've manged to successfully compile 2.4.0-test10 kernel. however, > C> upon startup there are some failed/error messages: > C> 1. finding module dependencies: depmod *** Unresolved symbols in > C> /lib/modul

Re: 2.4.0-test11pre2-ac1 and previous problem

2000-11-10 Thread Rik van Riel
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, [iso-8859-2] Pawe³ Kot wrote: > NMI Watchdog detected LOCKUP on CPU3, registers: > What can be wrong? You forgot to read the REPORTING-BUGS file. You told us everything except the really important information ... the backtrace from the info printed by the NMI Oopser... re

Re: test11-pre2 compile error undefined reference to `bust_spinlocks' WHAT?!

2000-11-10 Thread Keith Owens
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000 09:15:54 -0800, George Anzinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The notion of releasing a spin lock by initializing it seems IMHO, on >the face of it, way off. Normally it would be, but these are NMI and panic messages. The system is pretty dead at that point, getting the messag

Re: 2.4.0-test11pre2-ac1 and previous problem

2000-11-10 Thread Paweł Kot
> On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, [iso-8859-2] Paweł Kot wrote: > > > NMI Watchdog detected LOCKUP on CPU3, registers: > > > What can be wrong? > > You forgot to read the REPORTING-BUGS file. > > You told us everything except the really > important information ... the backtrace from > the info printed by th

intel etherpro100 on 2.2.18p21 vs 2.2.18p17

2000-11-10 Thread michael
We have several Supermicro 370DL3 boards (scsi, built into epro100, dual pentium iii) - which are giving the following ethernet card error on 2.2.18p21, but not on 2.2.18p17. This error has happened on 3 out of 4 boards with this configuration. Oct 18 12:17:34 db1 kernel: eth0: card reports no R

Re: [Fwd: CPU detection revamp (Request for comments)]

2000-11-10 Thread davej
Hi hpa, First test, the AMD K6-2. Before your patch.. cpu family : 5 model : 8 stepping: 12 After.. cpu family : 5 model : 8 stepping: 4 Line 1826 of setup.c c->x86_mask = tfms & 7; Shoul

Re: patch: atapi dvd-ram support

2000-11-10 Thread Hisaaki Shibata
> Or you could try the 2.4 version, as I said originally the 2.2 patch > hasn't been tested at all. It would be nice to know if that works > for you, as I may have screwed up the backport a bit. I tested on 2.4-test10 + dvd-ram-240t10p5.diff.bz2 + dvdram-ro_fix.diff env. It occured oops too :-(.

Re: [Fwd: CPU detection revamp (Request for comments)]

2000-11-10 Thread H. Peter Anvin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi hpa, > > First test, the AMD K6-2. > > Before your patch.. > cpu family : 5 > model : 8 > stepping: 12 > > After.. > > cpu family : 5 > model : 8 > stepping: 4 > > L

crash @ 64 day's of uptime

2000-11-10 Thread Robbert Muller
Hi one of the productions server has crashed about 62 day's ago. on a 2.2.16 kernel At that time i consider it a random thing. But the old test server running the same kernel has crashed a week ago. The weard part is there both sparc netra and both crashed at 64 day's uptime some inspections of o

Re: compiling 2.4.0-test10 kernel

2000-11-10 Thread Georg Nikodym
> "KO" == Keith Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: KO> On Fri, 10 Nov 2000 11:23:29 -0500 (EST), "Georg Nikodym" KO> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: C> i've manged to successfully compile 2.4.0-test10 kernel. however, C> upon startup there are some failed/error messages: C> 1. finding module d

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)

2000-11-10 Thread Matt D. Robinson
Christoph Rohland wrote: > > Hi Theodore, > > On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > > P.S. There are some such RAS features which I wouldn't be surprised > > there being interest in having integrated into the kernel directly > > post-2.4, with no need to put in "kernel hooks" for that

Re: compiling 2.4.0-test10 kernel

2000-11-10 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
At 18:25 10/11/2000, Georg Nikodym wrote: >OK, but I guess my question wasn't very clear. I have a kernel tree, >I add a printk to maestro.c and make modules. I cannot load the >module until I rebuild and reinstall everything. Is there a way to >avoid this headache, or, stated differently: Wha

[Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
The sendmail folks are claiming that the TCPIP stack in Linux is broken, which is what they claim is causing problems on sendmail on Linux platforms. Before anyone says, "don't use that piece of shit sendmail, use qmail instead", perhaps we should look at this problem and refute these statements

Re: [Fwd: CPU detection revamp (Request for comments)]

2000-11-10 Thread Brian Gerst
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi hpa, > > First test, the AMD K6-2. > > Also, look at the feature flags: > before: > flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mmx 3dnow > > after: > features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 pge mmx syscall 3dnow > > Note, I lost MTRR

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread William F. Maton
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > The sendmail folks are claiming that the TCPIP stack in Linux is broken, > which is what they claim is causing problems on sendmail on Linux > platforms. Before anyone says, "don't use that piece of shit sendmail, > use qmail instead", perhaps we s

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
"William F. Maton" wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > > > The sendmail folks are claiming that the TCPIP stack in Linux is broken, > > which is what they claim is causing problems on sendmail on Linux > > platforms. Before anyone says, "don't use that piece of shit se

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Richard A Nelson wrote: > > Any `real` reason you're still at 8.9.3? Current is 8.11.1 > > If you send me a note of the type that fails, (to [EMAIL PROTECTED]), > it'll get received on both a 2.2.18-21/8.11.1 and 2.4.0-test10/8.11.2.Beta0 8.11.1 has problems talking to older sendmails and q

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Horst von Brand
"Jeff V. Merkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SAID: > "William F. Maton" wrote: [...] > > What about sendmail 8.11.1? Is the problem there too? > Yes. Plus 8.11.1 has problems talking to older sendmails sine it uses > encryption. I've been using sendmail-8.11.1 (no encryption) to talk to MTAs all ove

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Horst von Brand wrote: > > "Jeff V. Merkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SAID: > > "William F. Maton" wrote: > > [...] > > > > What about sendmail 8.11.1? Is the problem there too? > > > Yes. Plus 8.11.1 has problems talking to older sendmails sine it uses > > encryption. > > I've been using sendm

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Send me an email from it with an attachment > 1MB, and I will forward back to you when (and if) It gets delivered before next week. :-) Jeff Richard A Nelson wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > "William F. Maton" wrote: > > > > > > What about sendmail 8.11.1? Is the

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Since I posted this on LKML, Claus over at sendmail.org seems more motivated to track it down. (since it might appear on the front page of Linux today). I would love your assistance Richard. It could be a local problem since smrsh also seems to be f_cked up as well, but I am seeing the same t

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread William F. Maton
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Richard A Nelson wrote: > On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > "William F. Maton" wrote: > > > > > > What about sendmail 8.11.1? Is the problem there too? > > > > Yes. Plus 8.11.1 has problems talking to older sendmails sine it uses > > encryption. > > Eh?!? T

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre21

2000-11-10 Thread Thomas Davis
Matti Aarnio wrote: > Beowulf systems have "bonding" in use for parallel Ethernet > links in between two machines, however THAT is not EtherChannel > compatible thing! > Maybe we should adopt's sun naming then, and call it 'Trunking'. This is the same driver that Beowulf

Re: test11-pre2

2000-11-10 Thread Rafal Maszkowski
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 05:52:29PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > - pre2: > - David Miller: sparc64 updates, make sparc32 boot again Thanks for working on it but I am getting still: boot: 11.2 Uncompressing image... PROMLIB: obio_ranges 5 bootmem_init: Scan sp_banks, init_bootmem(spfn[1f5]

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Claus is sloging into the box and we will be trying to track this down. If it is a problem in the Linux TCPIP stack, we'll post a report later this afternoon as to where it looks like the problem is. Jeff "Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: > > Since I posted this on LKML, Claus over at sendmail.org s

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Horst von Brand
"Jeff V. Merkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Horst von Brand wrote: [...] > > I've been using sendmail-8.11.1 (no encryption) to talk to MTAs all over > Turn on encryption, and try sending attachements > 1MB and tell me if > you see any problems, like emails sitting in /var/spool/mqueue for a d

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, William F. Maton wrote: > On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > > > The sendmail folks are claiming that the TCPIP stack in Linux is broken, > > which is what they claim is causing problems on sendmail on Linux > > platforms. Before anyone says, "don't use that

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 11:45:39AM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > > > [..] Issuing the command "sendmail -v > > > > > -q" does not flush the mail queue. [..] So first thing to do is to check that in /etc/sendmail.cf this line is commented out this way: #O HostStatusDirectory=... (if you bu

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
"Richard B. Johnson" wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, William F. Maton wrote: > > > On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > > > > > > The sendmail folks are claiming that the TCPIP stack in Linux is broken, > > > which is what they claim is causing problems on sendmail on Linux > > > p

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Andrea, All done. It's already setup this way. Jeff Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 11:45:39AM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > > > > [..] Issuing the command "sendmail -v > > > > > > -q" does not flush the mail queue. [..] > > So first thing to do is to check that in

Re: PCI-PCI bridges mess in 2.4.x

2000-11-10 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: > On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 09:37:41PM +0100, Gerard Roudier wrote: > > Hmmm... > > The PCI spec. says that Limit registers define the top addresses > > _inclusive_. > > Correct. > > > The spec. does not seem to imagine that a Limit register lower tha

Re: Patch generation

2000-11-10 Thread Dan Aloni
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, George Anzinger wrote: > > 4 kernel trees, one after make dep ; make bzImage, and all taking together > > just 193MB, instead of about 400MB... hard links, gotta love'em. > > Ok, this is cool, but suppose I have the same file linked to all these > and want to change it in al

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Tim Walberg
On 11/10/2000 16:30 -0300, Horst von Brand wrote: >> "Jeff V. Merkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> > Horst von Brand wrote: >> >> [...] >> >> > > I've been using sendmail-8.11.1 (no encryption) to talk to MTAs all over >> >> > Turn on encryption, and try

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