On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 06:05:05PM +1000, Keith Owens wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 23:16:27 -0600,
> Steven Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >This has happened twice, now, though I don't believe its completely
> >reproduceable. What happens is an Oops, which drops me into kdb. I've
> >been i
Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, David Konerding wrote:
>
> > It's a bug in Linux 2.4.2, fixed in later versions.
> > Regression/quality control testing would have caught this, but the
> > developers usually just break things and wait for people to complain
> > as their "Regression" t
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 02:54:55AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote:
> > - trying to kill a task that is permanently in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE
> >will probably deadlock the machine [or the random OOM killer will
> >kill the box].
>
> This could in
Alan Cox wrote:
> > It's a bug in Linux 2.4.2, fixed in later versions. Regression/quality control
> > testing would
> > have caught this, but the developers usually just break things and wait for people
> > to complain
> > as their "Regression" testers.
>
> Hardly. We knew it was broken since w
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> http://bazar.conectiva.com.br/~acme/TODO
BTW, I don't know if you're already interacting, but it seems to me that
there are a lot of things on your list that look as if the MC project at
Stanford ("CHECKER") could provide automated tests for them.
- Werner
--
> On 03.27 Thomas Foerster wrote:
>>
>> But suddenly the box was offline. One technical assistant from our ISP tried
>> to reboot
>> our server (he couldn't tell me if there had been any messages on the screen),
>> but the
>> system always hangs on
>>
>> Freeing unused kernel memory: xxk freed
>>
Does it hang forever ?
I've noticed that my kernel (2.4.2) stalls for several minutes with the same
message but suddenly after that the login prompt appears (anything between,
like configurations and services starting messages, are gone). We've been
able to track it down to a change we did to /et
I have 2 ideas:
* glibc corrupted
* did you downgrade the cpu?
RH 7.0 automatically installs glibc for a Pentium Pro or later if that
cpu is present during install.
If you then move the hd into a computer with an AMD K6, it won't boot.
I'd run
#rpm -Va
and check if some unusual files are modif
> Does it hang forever ?
Yes :(
> I've noticed that my kernel (2.4.2) stalls for several minutes with the same
> message but suddenly after that the login prompt appears (anything between,
> like configurations and services starting messages, are gone). We've been
> able to track it down to a ch
> On Sun, 25 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Aha - after your previous explosion I had concluded that working
on *dev_t was useless, but it seems we are still talking.
>> [a large name space is useful since it allows new types of usage]
> Fine.
> You'e now forced every piece of code that need
Studierende der Universitaet des Saarlandes wrote:
>
> I have 2 ideas:
> * glibc corrupted
> * did you downgrade the cpu?
These happen frequently to me (when compiling and installing a
new glibc)
But in this case you would have other messages (IIRC something
like
respawn too fast).
Thus the prob
Just a quick bug-report:
One of our machines just started spewing:
Out of Memory: Killed process 117 (sendmail).
Out of Memory: Killed process 117 (sendmail).
Out of Memory: Killed process 117 (sendmail).
Out of Memory: Killed process 117 (sendmail).
Out of Memory: Killed process 117 (sendmail
>> I have 2 ideas:
>> * glibc corrupted
>> * did you downgrade the cpu?
>
>These happen frequently to me (when compiling and installing a
>new glibc)
>But in this case you would have other messages (IIRC something
>like
>respawn too fast).
>Thus the problem is not this!
How about running memtest8
Hi!
Sorry for the "private" message... I'm testing some machines
(real and virtual) under 2.4.3pre8, that have a AMD PCNET32
ethernet driver. This cards works PERFECTLY under 2.2.x, but if
I compile 2.4.x, I get a error on pcnet32.c about a function
not defined: is_valid_etherdevice().
Hi all!
Since I upgraded my Alpha-Server (digital alpha/ 21164A 366 MHz, system type
alcor, 128 MB RAM) to Kernel version 2.4.2 (from 2.4.0) (2.4 gives it a real
performance boost, well done!), i notice system freezes. They happened four
times during the last 2 days and i think it happens when a
Hello,
ISSUE: very slow (factor 100) 4-way 16GByte server, with 2.4.2
DESCR: we have a Maxdata 4-way Xeon, with 16GByte RAM. If we compile a kernel (2.4.0
or 2.4.2 up to ac25) that uses all 16 GByte RAM the machine gets very slow. For
example network Bandwidth of 100MBit Ethernet is about 1-50k
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Dinesh Nagpure wrote:
> Hello all,
> I am trying to use the LAPIC timer to generate interrupt for some kernel
> profiling work I am doing...but the timer ISR isnt invoking atallhere is
> what I have done
>
Have you seen Vincent Oberle's APIC timers module ? There
Hi,
for me, vanilla 2.4.3-pre8 refuses to load NIC-modules (8390,ne2k-pci) due
to unresolved symbol: ether_setup
might be related to latest changes at drivers/net/net_init.c
from /proc/ksyms I get:
c024dc8c kbd_ledfunc_Rfa67cc5f
c01ebf8c keyboard_tasklet_R28aa0faa
c024dc84 sysrq_power_off_R0c2
Hi all,
i decided to make a test for the 2.4 kernel on my old hardware (Gigabyte
EISA/VLB with an AMD 486 DX4 133). The kernel boots fine but there is one
strange thing: The system clock slows down under load, after a make
dep in the linux src directory it is about 2 minutes behind. This appears
Hi,
Something not so obvious (at least for me ;-) seems to be broken in
userland. Could narrow it down to triggers like failing sed, for example
(from /etc/rc.d/init.d/usb)
PKLVL=`sed 's/^\(.\).*/\1/' < /proc/sys/kernel/printk`
Another probably related thing happens when rc.sysinit sed's from
Hi,
I am doing some testing on IBM Lanstreamer MCA tokenring adapter on
IBM PS/2 server-9595. Inserting the driver ( as module) it is perfect. But
when I do an ifconfig tr0 up then I get an kernel panic and Oops message is
printed out . It occures when the function interruptible_sleep_on_t
>Out of Memory: Killed process 117 (sendmail).
>
>What we did to run it out of memory, I don't know. But I do know that
>it shouldn't be killing one process more than once... (the process
>should not exist after one try...)
This is a known bug in the Out-of-Memory handler, where it does not count
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, David Konerding wrote:
> No, the point is that the linux developers should regression test
> their code BEFORE releasing it to the public as a version like
> "2.4.2".
I take it you're volunteering ?
Rik
--
Virtual memory is like a game you can't win;
However, without VM the
The system is a Compaq XP1000 ( 667Mhz Alpha processor ). The
ON-motherboard IDE controller ( there is only one ) originally just had
a cdrom attached. When I got the system I added a 30gig maxtor drive.
There is no second controller ( ergo no /dev/hdc * /dev/hdd ) builtin,
so the IDE system was p
Hi,
I know, that this is a FAQ and the Promise RAID controller card is not
yet usable as a RAID board under Linux 2.x but is there a way to use
the controller just like the UltraATA 100 controller?
I know, that "input high == UltraATA core, input low = RAID core"
according to Andre Hedrick but I
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Robert Suetterlin wrote:
> ISSUE: very slow (factor 100) 4-way 16GByte server, with 2.4.2
Last time we saw this issue on the list it turned out that the
machine had wrong MTRR settings and setup a significant part of
its memory non-cachable.
For a 16-way machine, 100 times
Hi Alex,
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Alex Riesen wrote:
> just hit by tmpfs on 2.4.2-ac20
>
> mount -t tmpfs mnt
> dd if=/dev/zero mnt/tmpfile
>
> resulted in hardly slowed system and lockup,
> and not in "No space left on device", as expected.
Use mount option "size". The default is unlimited...
Gr
I am having oops reported from my slackware-current install with the 2.4.3-pre7 kernel
I can't seem to find the actual oops txt in any of my logs.
So, here's what I have.
>From my logs:
gpm [122]: Oops() invoked from gpm.c [962]
gpm [122]: /dev/mouse: no such file or directory
I have devfs ena
David Konerding wrote:
> And this is described in what release notes? It worked just fine on Red Hat 7.0's
>2.4
> kernel oh wait, I see that they fixed it before they released it.
And hmm..gee .. did they bother contributing back the code?
--
Keith Owens wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > CONFIG_8139TOO_TUNE_TWISTER
> > (And wouldn't it be nice to be able to get the same functionality
> > which module options give us when using a statically linked driver?)
>
> On my todo list for 2.5. MODULE_PARM will be promoted to
> module_name.parm
So, the problem is on different hardware and kernel versions.
1. looks like VT switch with multiple X copies running hangs on
certain conditions
2. More critical: Matrox G400 dualhead AGP 16M hangs immediately with
fb.
Tested computers:
1. Tyan 230 SMP Dual PIII 667Mhz , 512MB
2.
Jonathan Morton wrote:
>
> >Out of Memory: Killed process 117 (sendmail).
> >
> >What we did to run it out of memory, I don't know. But I do know that
> >it shouldn't be killing one process more than once... (the process
> >should not exist after one try...)
>
> This is a known bug in the Out-of
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 12:13:32AM -0800, David Konerding wrote:
> No, the point is that the linux developers should regression test their
> code BEFORE
> releasing it to the public as a version like "2.4.2". When I see a
> version like "2.4.2", I have an expectation that all the stupid little
>
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 08:26:53 -0500,
Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Making MODULE_PARM work when compiled in will be nice, but I see two
>flaws right off:
>
>* passing multiple module parms is wasteful, because the module prefix
>must be repeated for each argument. That strains cmdline l
Eric Buddington wrote:
>
> 2.4.2-ac23 nfsroot on a 386SX/20 with 6Mb RAM
>
> On boot to single user, 'ls' and 'ls -l' work fine.
>
> After mounting /proc, 'ls' still works, but 'ls -l' fails
> with SIGILL after reading /etc/timezone (so says strace).
>
> Unmounting /proc fixes the problem. Unmo
I recently built a 2.4.3-pre8 Kernel, because 2.4.2 couldn't properly
configure the AMI MegaRaid 428 card on the box. (The MegaRaid card
works fine under 2.2.13 and 2.4.3-pre8 on the same system).
When attempting to 'modprobe -v pcnet32' on 2.4.3-pre8 I get the
following results:
homer:/home
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 09:09:24AM -0500, Brian Gerst wrote:
> >
> > The problems are varied enough that I suspect bad hardware, but would
> > flaky RAM cause such similar failures repeatedly? And is there a way
> > to test RAM explicitly?
> >
> > Any tips appreciated, either to me ([EMAIL PROTE
>Plase change to 100 to 500 - this would make it consistant with
>the useradd command, which starts adding new users at the UID 500
Depends on which distribution you're using. In my experience, almost all
the really important stuff happens below 100. In any case, the
OOM-kill-selection algorith
Eric Buddington wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 09:09:24AM -0500, Brian Gerst wrote:
> > >
> > > The problems are varied enough that I suspect bad hardware, but would
> > > flaky RAM cause such similar failures repeatedly? And is there a way
> > > to test RAM explicitly?
> > >
> > > Any tips a
Can I just confirm that I'm seeing the same thing.
I'm using a pcengines compact flash adapter which has
a master/slave jumper, and this seems to confirm what
I thought, I.E. slaves are OK. Note I also had trouble where
HD was master and flashdisk was slave, where again the
CF was silently ignored
From: "Thomas Foerster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> But suddenly the box was offline. One technical assistant from our ISP
tried to reboot
> our server (he couldn't tell me if there had been any messages on the
screen), but the
> system always hangs on
>
> Freeing unused kernel memory: xxk freed
I have
On Monday, March 26, 2001 06:57:37 PM -0800 Christoph Lameter
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Chris Mason wrote:
>> On Monday, March 26, 2001 03:21:29 PM -0800 Christoph Lameter
>> > On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Chris Mason wrote:
>> >> On Saturday, March 24, 2001 11:56:08 AM -0800 Ch
The current kernel ( 2.4.2-ac26 or 2.4.3-pre8 ) has
arch/i386/kernel/apm.c version 1.14 while version 1.15
is available as a patch to 2.3.99-pre7-1 ( read :
it was available for ages ) at http://linuxcare.com.au/apm/
The newer version has among other things support for
the APM_IOC_REJECT ioctl
Function taked from: linux/mm/memory.c
void clear_page_tables(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long first, int nr) {
pgd_t * page_dir = mm->pgd;
if (page_dir && page_dir != swapper_pg_dir) {
page_dir += first;
do {
free_one_pg
Stephen Clouse wrote:
> We run Oracle on a development box here, and it's always the first to get the
> axe (non-root process using 70-80 MB VM). ...
> It would be nice to give immunity to certain uids, ...
It would seem to me that the new capabilities stuff _could_ be the answer.
Basically, al
Apparently, linux-smp is rather dead, so I'll repost it here.
Paul
-- Forwarded message --
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 12:40:23 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Paul Wouters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SMP bugs (2.4.0-ac11, 2.4.1) with traces from the serial console (fwd)
I've tried 2.4.2-ac26 to test the new xircom_cb driver but I have had to
reboot on 2.4.3-pre7 as some processes got stuck on D state.
The processes were large apps: once nautilus and once mozilla.
I couldn't get any other information.
Pau
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>> >> Of course, I realised that. Actually, what the code does is take an
>> >> initial badness factor (the memory usage), then divide it using goodness
>> >> factors (some based on time, some purely arbitrary), both of which can be
>> >> considered dimensionless. Also, at the end, the absolute
Martin Dalecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Plase change to 100 to 500 - this would make it consistant with
>the useradd command, which starts adding new users at the UID 500
It's probably best to keep it somewhere <500, so that one can have "static" (<500)
UIDs of either flavor: OOM-killable o
> relative ages. The major flaw in my code is that a sufficiently
> long-lived
> process becomes virtually immortal, even if it happens to spring a serious
> leak after this time - the flaw in yours is that system processes
I think this could easily be fixed if you'd 'chop off' the runtime at a
In 2.2.19 CONFIG_RTL8139 depends on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL. The RTL8139
driver is not labelled as experimental. Is this an error?
- Greg
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Greg Ingram wrote:
>
> In 2.2.19 CONFIG_RTL8139 depends on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL. The RTL8139
> driver is not labelled as experimental. Is this an error?
Yeah, add '(EXPERIMENTAL)' to the text. Send a patch to Alan if you
want...
--
Jeff Garzik | May you have warm words on a cold evenin
Hello again! We're in luck! The oops happened again, and this time,
the full oops dump appeared on the screen, which I have copied below:
=
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6e617274
current->tss
Say you have several PCI graphics cards in a system but only have vgacon
running. Is their away to determine which PCI card vgacon is running on?
MS: (n) 1. A debilitating and surprisingly widespread affliction that
renders the sufferer barely able to perform the simplest task. 2. A disease.
J
> It's even worse that these are obvious, simple bugs (like the "NFS doesn't
> work over reiserfs
> because somebody changed the VFS layer and didn't fix any filesystems but
> ext2" that I reported a while ago) which would have been caught by a
> little testing.
Again people knew about this. It w
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I know, that this is a FAQ and the Promise RAID controller card is not
> yet usable as a RAID board under Linux 2.x but is there a way to use
> the controller just like the UltraATA 100 controller?
It is not a raid board ... it is
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Chris Mason wrote:
> On Monday, March 26, 2001 06:57:37 PM -0800 Christoph Lameter
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Chris Mason wrote:
> >> On Monday, March 26, 2001 03:21:29 PM -0800 Christoph Lameter
> >> > On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Chris Mason wrote:
> >> >>
> Freeing unused kernel memory: xxk freed
>
> So we took the box home and tried to boot it from a bootdisk (generated as we
>installed the box,
> redhat 7.0). The SAME problem occurs ...
>
> Freeing unused kernel memory: xxk freed
>
> The system hangs (i've tried 2.2.18 AND 2.4.2-ac20, 2.2.16
Hi,
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 05:21:46PM -0500, Richard Jerrell wrote:
> 2.4.1 has a memory leak (temporary) where anonymous memory pages that have
> been moved into the swap cache will stick around after their vma has been
> unmapped by the owning process. These pages are not free'd in free_pte()
Santiago Romero wrote:
> Sorry for the "private" message... I'm testing some machines
> (real and virtual) under 2.4.3pre8, that have a AMD PCNET32
> ethernet driver. This cards works PERFECTLY under 2.2.x, but if
> I compile 2.4.x, I get a error on pcnet32.c about a function
> not defined: i
Hi.
I try to develop driver that has to catch all incomming traffic and proceed
it.
I use register_firewall() function that registers three functions:
in_check, out_check, forward_check.
There is call to register_firewall in my driver's init_module().
So, in in_check() I receive packet and give
Because in laptops, the primary use of CFA.
Laptops using CFA do not have slaves.
Andre Hedrick
Linux ATA Development
ASL Kernel Development
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Michel Wilson wrote:
>
> > relative ages. The major flaw in my code is that a sufficiently
> > long-lived
> > process becomes virtually immortal, even if it happens to spring a serious
> > leak after this time - the flaw in yours is that system processes
>
> I think this could easily be fixed i
Jonathan Morton wrote:
>
> Oh and BTW, I think Bit/sqr(seconds) is a perfectly acceptable unit for
> "badness". Think about it - it increases with pigginess and decreases with
> longevity. I really don't see a problem with it per se.
Right it's not a problem pre se, but as you already explain
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Greg Ingram wrote:
> >
> > In 2.2.19 CONFIG_RTL8139 depends on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL. The RTL8139
> > driver is not labelled as experimental. Is this an error?
>
> Yeah, add '(EXPERIMENTAL)' to the text. Send a patch to Alan if you
> want...
Okay. I
Hi,
The following patch introduces the idea of vmtime. vmtime is time as the
vm percieves it. Its advanced by memory pressure, which in the end, works
out to be the page allocation & reclaim rate. With this figure I attempt to solve
two problems.
First I slow down the background page scann
Hi,
Just a build problem report.
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.3-pre8/include -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer
-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2
-march=athlon -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -include
/usr/src/linux-2.4.3-pre8/include/linux/modversions.h
Em Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 10:43:21AM +0200, Werner Almesberger escreveu:
> Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > http://bazar.conectiva.com.br/~acme/TODO
>
> BTW, I don't know if you're already interacting, but it seems to me that
> there are a lot of things on your list that look as if the MC projec
>> relative ages. The major flaw in my code is that a sufficiently
>> long-lived
>> process becomes virtually immortal, even if it happens to spring a serious
>> leak after this time - the flaw in yours is that system processes
>
>I think this could easily be fixed if you'd 'chop off' the runtime
#define PCI_VENDOR_ID_CONTAQ0x1080
#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_CONTAQ_82C599 0x0600
#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_CONTAQ_82C693 0xc693
* linux/drivers/block/cy82c693.c Version 0.34Dec. 13, 1999
*
* Copyright (C) 1998-99 Andreas S. Krebs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Maintainer
* Cop
On Tuesday, March 27, 2001 08:21:07 AM -0800 Christoph Lameter
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> <-debugreiserfs, 2000->
> reiserfsprogs 3.x.0h
> 9454 is free in true bitmap
>
> ===
> LEAF NODE (9454) conta
OK the following assumes CF never have slaves which is just wrong.
The CF should be logically treated as an IDE harddisk. So the fix is
probably have a kernel parameter that causes the following check to
be skipped?
/*
* Prevent long system lockup probing later for non-existant
* slave driv
Ion Badulescu wrote:
> Are you being deliberately insulting, "L", or are you one of those users
> who bitch and scream for features they *need* at *any cost*, and who
> have never even opened up the book for Computer Architecture 101?
---
Sorry, I was borderline insulting. I'm getting pre
Because 'real' ATA devices use a signature map the detects presense of
master slave during execute diagnostics. This is done in the BIOS.
CFA does no report this correctly and waiting for a 31 second time out is
not acceptable. If you have a complain take it to CFA commitee and have
them fix it
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Chris Mason wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 27, 2001 08:21:07 AM -0800 Christoph Lameter
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> > <-debugreiserfs, 2000->
> > reiserfsprogs 3.x.0h
> > 9454 is free in true bitmap
> >
> >
I disagree, 2.4.x is "stable" and as such we need as many people to use
the kernels to see whats wrong with them. 2.4 *DOES* Work, I've had very
small problems (ok, the thread hanging issue was a big one) but other then
that It's been solid.
It depends on the hardware.
Shawn.
On Tue, 27 Mar 2
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 03:24:16PM +0200, Martin Dalecki wrote:
> > @@ -93,6 +95,10 @@
> > p->uid == 0 || p->euid == 0)
> > points /= 4;
> >
> > + /* Much the same goes for processes with low UIDs */
> > + if(p->uid < 100 || p->euid < 10
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Michel Wilson wrote:
> > relative ages. The major flaw in my code is that a sufficiently
> > long-lived
> > process becomes virtually immortal, even if it happens to spring a serious
> > leak after this time - the flaw in yours is that system processes
>
> I think this could
On Tuesday, March 27, 2001 09:50:17 AM -0800 Christoph Lameter
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Ok, notice how entry 2 and 3 are the same file name? That is a big part
>> of your problem, and it should never happen with the normal kernel code.
>> The two lines that show up as (BROKEN) mean the
Hi.
I've created a video4linux driver for the Lifeview Flycam Supra Webcam.
It should be pretty common in Sweden at least since it was bundled with an ISP-package.
It uses the Winbond's w9966cf parport Webcam interface chip and the Phillips saa7111
ccd-control chip.
(The w9966cf interface chip c
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 07:41:15PM -0700, TimO wrote:
> 0x378: possible IRQ conflict! [Don't know why it always reports
> this]
I've been sending Linus a patch to remove this bogus warning for the
last few pre-patches.
> 0x378: ECP settings irq= dma= other means>
[...]
> With no options i
Hello,
this is my very first mail into this list. If, please answer also to my mail
address <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. I have the following question and could
not find any info about this matter in the web - maybe someone knows a link:
Porting the framebuffer driver i810fb to 2.4 I succeded loading
John,
First of all let me thank you for pointing to Vincent Oberle's APIC timer
module, I am trying to understand how the timer is hooked in it. BTW
forgive my ignorance but what is oprofile? the reason I am trying to hook
perfctr is, well let me tell you what I am trying to do here, I want t
>If we use my OOM killer API, this patch would be a module and
>could have module parameters to select that.
>
>Johnathan: I URGE you to apply my patch before adding OOM killer
> stuff. What's wrong with it, that you cannot use it? ;-)
>
>It is easy to add configurables to a module and play with
How do you activate the walk around you describe
to allow the detection of the slave? hda=ataflash?
Is this sort of stuff documented anywhere?
For those interested you also mention it here:
http://lists.sourceforge.net/archives//linux-usb-devel/2000-August/000929.html
This describes the other co
"Mohammad A. Haque" wrote:
> David Konerding wrote:
>
> > And this is described in what release notes? It worked just fine on Red Hat 7.0's
>2.4
> > kernel oh wait, I see that they fixed it before they released it.
>
> And hmm..gee .. did they bother contributing back the code?
Based on th
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Let me repeat: there is no such code. In user space dev_t already is
> 64 bits, whether you like it or not. We cannot go back to libc5.
Now you're back to the argument that "glibc is bloated, so we might as
well be too".
The fact is, that I don'
David Balazic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The newer version has among other things support for
> the APM_IOC_REJECT ioctl which is useful for example
> when implementing "run /sbin/shutdown -h when the power
> button is pressed".
>
> While isn't this merged into the official kernel ?
The mai
./linux/drivers/ide/ide.c
* "hdx=flash" : allows for more than one ata_flash disk to be
* registered. In most cases, only one device
* will be present.
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Padraig Brady wrote:
> How do you activate the wal
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 09:15:08AM -0800, LA Walsh wrote:
> Now lets look at the sites want to process terabytes of
> data -- perhaps files systems up into the Pentabyte range. Often I
> can see these being large multi-node (think 16-1024 clusters as
> are in use today for large super-clus
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Chris Mason wrote:
> Just to make sure I understand, you had the exact same errors before
> running fsck? Same files could not be deleted?
Correct.
> > I think this is a problem with the reiserfs code in the kernel. I never
> > ran reiserfsck before this problem surfaced. T
On Tuesday, March 27, 2001 11:14:57 AM -0800 Christoph Lameter
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Chris Mason wrote:
>
>> Just to make sure I understand, you had the exact same errors before
>> running fsck? Same files could not be deleted?
> Correct.
>
>> > I think this is a
Ingo Oeser wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 03:24:16PM +0200, Martin Dalecki wrote:
> > > @@ -93,6 +95,10 @@
> > > p->uid == 0 || p->euid == 0)
> > > points /= 4;
> > >
> > > + /* Much the same goes for processes with low UIDs */
> > > +
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, James Simmons wrote:
>
> Say you have several PCI graphics cards in a system but only have vgacon
> running. Is their away to determine which PCI card vgacon is running on?
The enabled one :-)
I don't see a general solution.
You can know if an AGP card's vga portion is ena
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, J Sloan wrote:
> "Mohammad A. Haque" wrote:
>
> > David Konerding wrote:
> >
> > > And this is described in what release notes? It worked just fine on Red Hat
>7.0's 2.4
> > > kernel oh wait, I see that they fixed it before they released it.
> >
> > And hmm..gee .. d
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 09:17:48 -0800 (PST), Andre Hedrick wrote:
>not acceptable. If you have a complain take it to CFA commitee and have
>them fix it.
Well my only real complaints are that 1) It was done silently.. 2) I could not
override it
w/o a code mod. Both of which are contrary to what
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> [Linus Torvalds]
>> You'e now forced every piece of code that needs a dev_t
>> to carry along the overhead of having a 64-bit field
>
> Let me repeat: there is no such code. In user space dev_t already is
> 64 bits, whether you like it or not. We cannot go back to libc
LA Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Ion Badulescu wrote:
> > Compile option or not, 64-bit arithmetic is unacceptable on IA32. The
> > introduction of LFS was bad enough, we don't need yet another proof that
> > IA32 sucks. Especially when there *are* better alternatives.
> ===
> So if it is a
This is my opinion on the issue. Short summary: "I'm sick of the
administrative burden associated with keeping dev_t dense."
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> And let's take a look at /dev. Do a "ls -l /dev" and think about it. Every
> device needs a unique number. Do you ever envision seeing that "ls
The following patchlet solves it:
--- linux-2.4.3pre8.orig/net/ipx/af_ipx.c Mon Mar 26 13:17:08 2001
+++ linux/net/ipx/af_ipx.c Mon Mar 26 13:14:52 2001
@@ -1542,7 +1542,7 @@
ipx_offset = intrfc->if_ipx_off
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