On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 06:11:48PM +0200, you [André Dahlqvist] claimed:
> Rodrigo Ventura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > - it could be a memory problem, but if it were, lots of kernel
> > oops were expected, right?
>
> This certainly sounds like a memory problem. I experienced almost the same
"McHarry, John" wrote:
>
> I am trying to compile the 2.2.19 kernel one one machine for installation
> on another. I believe I need to do more than just copy over bzImage and
> modify lilo.conf, but I don't know what. Is there documentation somewhere
> on how to do this? Thanks.
This is eno
So long as what locks are used for, and when to use them remains a
black art, tuning for large system scalability will be limited to
people with the time to puzzle out if a lock is truly being used
correctly or they are, in fact, staring at a bug.
In an effort to assist both scalability and kerne
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 05:23:48PM -0400, Ed Connell wrote:
> If I run, for example, linuxthreads/Examples/ex1 (one thread prints 'a',
>one prints 'b') it will run fine. If I run it from a shell script
>(bash or ksh) with exec ex1
> it almost always hangs. When I do a "ps" I see the ori
richard offer wrote:
>
> In arch/i386/kernel/ptrace.c there is the following code ...
>
> ret = -EPERM;
> if (pid == 1) /* you may not mess with init */
> goto out_tsk;
>
> What is the rationale for this ? Is this a real security decision or
> an implem
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>richard offer wrote:
>>
>> In arch/i386/kernel/ptrace.c there is the following code ...
>>
>> ret = -EPERM;
>> if (pid == 1) /* you may not mess with init */
>> goto out_tsk;
>>
Hi,
2.4.5 keeps thinking I can change a CDROM 20 times a second or so.
System :
Compaq Armada 7360 DMT
Relevant stuff from dmesg :
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on
> setuid(2) differs from the OpenBSD setuid(2)
> Either I am non compos or the thing is very wrong.
> The docs (man-pages-1.35) say ...
Yes, setuid() has a behaviour that varies a bit from system to system.
Moreover, it has varied in the history of Linux. The manpage may have
been correct when it
Hi,
Please someone tell me what is the function of filldir() function. I
could not understand it from the code. Just give me an outline of what it
will do.
Thanks in advance,
Regards,
sathish.j
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> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> you write:
> >
> > Hi all!
> >
> > I think it's possible to hang the kernel useing isic 0.05
> > (www.packetfactory.net/Projects/ISIC/), when there's a unclean match
> > in iptables rules.
> Thanks for the bug report. I've just done an audit of the unclean
> cod
Hello,
I have following problems/questions I could not find answer from the
kernel source code:
- cs5530.c does not initialize hwif->speedproc hook. This means that
hdparm -X does not call routine for chipset registers reprogramming.
Did I miss something?
- how chipset/disk initialization is su
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 08:04:42PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
[ ... ]
> I asked Linus for this a long time ago and he pointed out that you couldn't
> make it work over NFS, at least not nicely. It does seem like that could
> be worked around by having a "poll daemon" which knew about all the thi
Hi!
We've number of UP2000+ boards (they just like DP264 in common). These
boards has 2 PCI hoses, both has 3 PCI slots - one 32bits (IdSel=9) & two
64bits (IdSel=7,8) (6 slots in total).
Recently we've tried to install 3c985b 64-bit card and observe the
following: this card works just fi
Hello
I am looking into buying a QDI Kinetiz 7E-A motherboard with the VIA
Apollo KT-133 chipset (famous vt82c686b south bridge). From the March
thread "Re: Linux 2.4.2ac12 (vt82c686 info)"
(http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0103.1/0013.html)
it looks like Vojtech Pavlik's VIA dr
Wondering something..
I ran insmod to bring up ip_tables.o and I received the following error:
/lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: unresolved
symbol nf_unregister_sockopt
/lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: unresolved
symbol nf_register_sockopt
This is
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 09:00:47AM +, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
> Just the fact that some people use Java (or any other language) does
> not mean, that they don't care about "performance, system-design or
> any elegance whatsoever" [2].
However, the very concept of Java encourages not
Hi!
> > > Roger> It does if you are running on a laptop. Then you do not want
> > > Roger> the pages go out all the time. Disk has gone too sleep, needs
> > > Roger> to start to write a few pages, stays idle for a while, goes to
> > > Roger> sleep, a few more pages, ...
> > > That could be handle
Hello
I suppose that you allready know it
I have installed gcc v3 released Jun 18 and i tried to compile the
kernel and i got
these errors
in make dep i got several warnings that look like this
/usr/src/linux-2.4.5/include/asm/checksum.h:161:17: warning: multi-line
string literals are deprecated
Hi,
Solution is simple:
change line 540 from "extern struct timeval xtime;"
to "extern volatile struct timeval xtime;"
and have fun :)
---
avi
Kissandrakis S. George wrote:
> Hello
> I suppose that you allready know it
> I have installed gcc v3 released Jun 18 and i tried to compile the
> kern
Hi,
I was using ash from SuSE 7.1 (ash-0.2-294)
I patched ash's input.c with
fcntl(fd, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC); in setinputd. This fixed the problem.
Then I found that there is version 0.3.5-11 (on the debian site) with this fix already
included.
Thanks for your help.
Ralph Jones
On Tu
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 10:18:10PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Well if they are relying on having a lot of stack available then those
> places are buggy. Once the softirq is made pending it can run at any
it's not about having lots of stack available, it's about avoiding
recursion.
Andrea
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Have you also compiled modules for ipchains and ipfwadm support??
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Ted Gervais wrote:
> Wondering something..
> I ran insmod to bring up ip_tables.o and I received the following error:
>
> /lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: unresolved
> symbol nf_unreg
Hi!
Has this bug been fixed and if so in which version ?
Jun 20 00:15:14 zapp kernel: kernel BUG at inode.c:486!
Jun 20 00:15:14 zapp kernel: invalid operand:
Jun 20 00:15:14 zapp kernel: CPU:0
Jun 20 00:15:14 zapp kernel: EIP:0010:[clear_inode+51/256]
Jun 20 00:15:14 zapp kernel: E
Diff between 2.4.6pre3aa1 and 2.4.6pre3aa2:
Only in 2.4.6pre3aa2: 00_alpha-numa-initrd-1
Release initrd memory from right numa node.
(recommended)
Only in 2.4.6pre3aa2: 00_alpha-srm-2.4.6-pre1-1
Access the srm variables via /proc/srm_environment.
Patch posted t
Justin,
Your patch works for me. printk "Temporary Resource Shortage"
has to go, or may be you can make it a debug option.
Here is the cleaned up patch for 2.4.5-ac15 with TAILQ
macros replaced with LIST macros. Thanks for the help.
Bulent
--- aic7xxx_linux.c.save Mon Jun 18 20:25:35 2001
At 03:12 PM 6/19/01 -0600, Richard Gooch wrote:
>New FAQ entry: http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s7-21
>
>Yeah, it's probably a bit harsh :-)
It's also incomplete, in my view, to the point of being misleading.
Part of the reason I'm reacting so harshly to this FAQ entry is that it
flies in the face of
On Wednesday 20 June 2001 06:39, Richard Gooch wrote:
> Daniel Phillips writes:
> > I never realized how much I didn't like the good old 5 second delay
> > between saving an edit and actually getting it written to disk until
> > it went away. Now the question is, did I lose any performance in
> >
Diff between 2.2.20pre3aa1 and 2.2.20pre5aa1:
Only in 2.2.20pre3aa1: 00_newboot-2.2.20-pre2-1.diff.gz
Merged in 2.2.20pre5.
Only in 2.2.20pre3aa1: 00_mips-irix-dumpable-1
Not needed anymore with the do_coredump() common code.
Only in 2.2.20pre3aa1: 00_parent-timeslice-loss-fix
The main problem I have with this is that e2fsck doesn't know how to
deal with it - at least I haven't found a version that will. This makes
it rather difficult to use, especially for your root fs.
And, since I used it, and have since stopped using it, I have a problem
in what all my disk free s
At 18:31 -0500 2001-06-19, Timur Tabi wrote:
>Not quite. What makes OS/2's threads superior is that the OS multitasks
>threads, not processes. So I can create a time-critical thread in my process,
>and it will have priority over ALL threads in ALL processes.
In contrast to Linux, which does exa
Aaron Lehmann wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 09:00:47AM +, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
> > Just the fact that some people use Java (or any other language) does
> > not mean, that they don't care about "performance, system-design or
> > any elegance whatsoever" [2].
>
> However, the
On ftp.kernel.org under kernel/people/aeb two files
03-2.4.6pre3-remove-real_devices and 04-2.4.6pre3-remove-max_p
that remove the fields real_devices and max_p from a struct gendisk
(and initialize such structs with the field: syntax).
The patches could be applied today, except that probably the
On Tuesday 19 June 2001 06:24 pm, Nathan D. Fabian wrote:
> The following diff tries to improve on the efficiency of try_to_unuse().
> It removes the potential O(|swap_map|^2) business and makes it linear time.
> I'm not sure what this means in terms of overall change, but Linus seemed
> interest
> But that foregoes the point that the code is far more complex and harder to
> make 'obviously correct', a concept that *does* translate well to userspace.
One point is that 'obviously correct' is much harder to 'prove' for
threads (or processes with shared memory) than you might think.
With a
I've not read the specs yet! intel web site is unreachable for me at the moment (It's
two days now I can't connect ARGHH!!) :(.
If you have a copy, could you please send me?
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Ben Greear wrote:
> System-design and elegance are easy to get
> in Java, and in fact are independent of language. Good c code will beat
> Java in most cases, performance wise, but lately the difference has become
> small enough not to matter for most applications.
Rather a sweeping statement.
Rounding up, it may be worth repeating what I think Alan said some months
ago:
Threads are processes that share more
And if we just keep bearing that out to everybody a lot of the myths will go
away. I would suggest that the pthreads manpages get this attitude.
Regards,
ber
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 03:59:58PM +0100, Tony Gale wrote:
>
> The main problem I have with this is that e2fsck doesn't know how to
> deal with it - at least I haven't found a version that will. This makes
> it rather difficult to use, especially for your root fs.
Getting e2fsck to deal with dir
Hello-
Hopefully this isn't redundant, I haven't checked the latest -ac or -pre
releases. I just noticed on my 2.4.5 box that I have two /proc/dri/ directory
entries (I've got both on-board and AGP video in the box and both are trying
to register entries).
Yes, code that tries to register the sa
Daniel Phillips writes:
> On Wednesday 20 June 2001 06:39, Richard Gooch wrote:
> > Starting I/O immediately if there is no load sounds nice. However,
> > what about the other case, when the disc is already spun down (and
> > hence there's no I/O load either)? I want the system to avoid doing
> >
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, bert hubert wrote:
> Rounding up, it may be worth repeating what I think Alan said some months
> ago:
>
> Threads are processes that share more
... and for absolute majority of programmers additional shared objects mean
additional fsckup sources. I do
On Wednesday 20 June 2001 07:25, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 09:00:47AM +, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
> > Just the fact that some people use Java (or any other language) does
> > not mean, that they don't care about "performance, system-design or
> > any elegance whats
Hi, I have an Abit KT7 with the Apollo Chip. The board works fine with
all my hardware. I enabled the suport for the VIA chip and eveything was
done. I experienced no crashes for far, only my X locks up once every 3
months that's all. Buy the board, it's really great.
TIM
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On Tuesday 19 June 2001 12:46, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > > Roger> It does if you are running on a laptop. Then you do not want
> > > > Roger> the pages go out all the time. Disk has gone too sleep, needs
> > > > Roger> to start to write a few pages, stays idle for a while, goes to
> > > > Roger> s
On Tuesday 19 June 2001 19:31, Timur Tabi wrote:
> Amen. This is one of the reasons why I also prefer OS/2 over Linux.
Preferred.
OS/2's day has come and gone. IBM killed it with a stupid diversion into the
power PC version between 1993 and 1995. By the time Windows 95 was released,
MS had
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 08:12:29AM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 09:00:47AM +, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
> > > Just the fact that some people use Java (or any other language) does
> > > not mean, that they don't care about "performance, syst
On Wednesday 20 June 2001 10:35, Mike Porter wrote:
> > But that foregoes the point that the code is far more complex and harder
> > to make 'obviously correct', a concept that *does* translate well to
> > userspace.
>
> One point is that 'obviously correct' is much harder to 'prove' for
> threads
On Wednesday 20 June 2001 16:59, Tony Gale wrote:
> The main problem I have with this is that e2fsck doesn't know how to
> deal with it - at least I haven't found a version that will. This makes
> it rather difficult to use, especially for your root fs.
Good, the file format isn't finalized, this
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Luigi Genoni wrote:
> Have you also compiled modules for ipchains and ipfwadm support??
Yes. Is this a mistake??
>
>
> On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Ted Gervais wrote:
>
> > Wondering something..
> > I ran insmod to bring up ip_tables.o and I received the following error:
> >
>
Kernel 2.4.5ac16 is running on several UP machines here, but the first
SMP machine I compiled it for fails early in boot. I cleaned out the
source tree and recompiled, in case I'd botched the first try, but got
the same result. Procedure for compilation was to patch, copy .config
from the runnin
Hi All,
I'm trying to write a driver for a PCI card and would like to use the
bigmem patch. My development system is running 2.2.17-21mdk (Mandrake
7.2), but as soon as I make a call to kmap() I get unresolved symbols
bigmem_start, kmap_prot and kmap_pte. They ARE in System.map, but not
/proc/
On Wednesday 20 June 2001 18:02, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 03:59:58PM +0100, Tony Gale wrote:
> > The main problem I have with this is that e2fsck doesn't know how to
> > deal with it - at least I haven't found a version that will. This makes
> > it rather difficult to use, esp
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> BTW, with nominal 100,000 erases you have to write 10 terabytes
> to your 100 meg flash disk before you'll see it start to
> degrade.
That assumes you write out full blocks. If you flush after
every byte written you'll hit the limit a lot sooner ;)
On Wednesday 20 June 2001 12:53, Larry McVoy wrote:
> We couldn't believe that Java was really that bad so our GUI guy, Aaron
> Kushner, sat down and rewrote the revision history browser in Java.
> On a 500 node graph, the Java tool was up to 85MB. The tk tool doing
> the same thing was 5MB. No
Rob Landley wrote:
> The same arguments were made 30 years ago about writing the OS in a high
> level language like C rather than in raw assembly. And back in the days of
> the sub-1-mhz CPU, that really meant something.
And then those days we are still writing lot's of ASM in kernels...
> I d
I would take exception with the following statements in the FAQ:
"However, the Linux scheduler is designed to work well with a small
number of running threads. Best results are obtained when the number
of running theads equals the number of processors."
I agree that the Linux scheduler is design
On Wednesday 20 June 2001 19:32, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > BTW, with nominal 100,000 erases you have to write 10 terabytes
> > to your 100 meg flash disk before you'll see it start to
> > degrade.
>
> That assumes you write out full blocks. If you flush
hi all,
this is an odd one. i think it's technically a feature
but might be perceived instead as a "bug". anyway, i've
got a pair of Ultra100 Maxtor 52049h4 20GB drives, on a
Promise Ultra 100 (PDC20267) controller.
the drives were popped in with the jumper on for the
4096 cylinder limit f
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 08:21:30PM +1000, john slee wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 08:04:42PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > I asked Linus for this a long time ago and he pointed out that you couldn't
> > make it work over NFS, at least not nicely. It does seem like that could
> > be worked arou
[1.] One line summary of the problem:
crash - apparently on IP traffic. Maybe related to iptables?
[2.] Full description of the problem/report:
nothing special happened. The box was running for one day. I have no clue
what caused this crash. The box acts as stateful packet filter. When
run
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, george anzinger wrote:
> > around we _will_ get problems. Kernel UP programming is not different
> > from SMP one. It is multithreaded. And amount of genuine SMP bugs is
> > very small compared to ones that had been there on UP since way back.
> > And yes, programming threa
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 02:00:44PM -0400, Josh Fryman wrote:
> this is an odd one. i think it's technically a feature
> but might be perceived instead as a "bug". anyway, i've
> got a pair of Ultra100 Maxtor 52049h4 20GB drives, on a
> Promise Ultra 100 (PDC20267) controller.
>
> the drives
> Threads are processes that share more
BTW is not possible to implement threads as subset of process ?
Like thread list pointed to from task_struct. It'd contain
thread_structs plus another scheduler's data.
The thread could be much smaller than process.
Probably there is an
> "Mike" == Mike Kravetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Mike> Note that in the 2 and 4 CPU cases, the run queue length is
Mike> aprox 2x the number of CPUs and the scheduler seems to
Mike> perform reasonably well with respect to locking. In the 8
Mike> CPU case, the number of ta
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> However, the very concept of Java encourages not caring about
> "performance, system-design or any elegance whatsoever". If you cared
> about any of those things you would compile to native code (it exists
Native code does not help performance much and
I picked up a network card that claims to use the "most reliable Realtek
LAN chip". The big chip is labelled "LAN-8139" so naturally I tried the
8139too driver. It doesn't find the device. I'm wondering if maybe it's
just something in the device ID tables. Here's some info:
# lspci -vv
[sn
Martin Dalecki wrote:>
> Rob Landley wrote:
>
> > Or if you like the idea of a JIT, think about transmeta writing a code
> > morphing layer that takes java bytecodes. Ditch the VM and have the
> > processor do it in-cache.
>
> Blah blah blah. The performance of the Transmeta CPU SUCKS ROCKS. N
Hi!
It's hard not to reply to this kind of message but there is so much
"anti-thread hype" here that someone obviously has to stand up to it.
This reply isn't aimed just at Larry but at all the anti-thread-rant
people with 0 threads == 0 problems attitude.
On Tuesday 19 June 2001 18:09, Larry Mc
Walter Hofmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It hung when I tried to close a browser window after reading the
> text in it for quite some time. No swapping was going on.
I've just seen this as well (for the first time) with -ac15. I was
playing music with madplay at the time, and then did a "fin
Rodrigo Ventura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> BTW, I have a question: Can the availability of dual-CPU boards for intel
> and amd processors, rather then tri- or quadra-CPU boards, be explained with
> the fact that the performance degrades significantly for three or more CPUs?
> Or is there a te
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Walter Hofmann wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Walter Hofmann wrote:
>
> > I had already two crashes with ac15. The system was still ping-able, but
> > login over the network didn't work anymore.
> >
> > The first crash happened after I started xosview and noticed that the
> > s
Mike Harrold wrote:
> So what? Crusoe isn't designed for use in supercomputers. It's designed
> for use in laptops where the user is running an email reader, a web
> browser, a word processor, and where the user couldn't give a cr*p about
> performance as long as it isn't noticeable (20% *isn't* f
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 04:55:10PM -0400, Tom Diehl wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > Other than making sure you configure it for the box it will eventually run
> > on - nope you have it all sorted. If you use modules you'll want to install
> > the modules on the target machine
Don't forget the linux-kernel favorite, "Debuggers are for bad
programmers".
} Here are more from the same basket you obviously got the first quote from:
}
}
} Virtual memory is only for unskilled programmers who don't know how to use
} overlays.
} --
> > On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Ted Gervais wrote:
> >
> > > Wondering something..
> > > I ran insmod to bring up ip_tables.o and I received the following
>error:
> > >
> > > /lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: unresolved
> > > symbol nf_unregister_sockopt
> > > /lib/modules/2.4.5
> This [code morphing and binary tranlation]
> was set off to provide compensation for the biggest hurdle
> of VLIW design - insane code size and partially huge memmory
> bus bandwidth designs due to this. (Why do you think the itanim
> sucks on integer performance?)
First, Merced does not suck
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Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkm
> Btw: can the aplication somehow ask the tcp/ip stack what was
> actualy acked?
> (ie. how many bytes were acked).
No, and you shouldn't want to know. Even if the other end ACKed the data,
that doesn't mean that the application on the other end didn't crash. So it
won't tell you what yo
Quoting Daniel Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I originally intended to implement a sliding flush delay based on disk
> load.
> This turned out to be a lot of work for a hard-to-discern benefit. So
> the
> current approach has just two delays: .1 second and whatever the bdflush
>
> delay is
> Nobody is arguing that having more than one thread of execution in an
> application is a bad idea. On an SMP machine, having the same number of
> processes/threads as there are CPUs is a requirement to get the scaling
> if that app is all you are running. That's fine. But on a uniprocessor,
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 08:12:29AM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> When was the last time you wrote a large cross-platform GUI that just
> worked on other platforms, without any additional tweaking, after you
> developed it on your Linux machine?
I'd say that would be the last time I wrote something i
Has the IP_ALIAS functionality been replaced by something else in the
2.4.x kernels?
Documentation/networking/alias.txt seems to imply that it still does, but
the string IP_ALIAS does not exist anywhere else in the entire source
tree. (Unless you count the default configs for non-i86 architectur
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Jonathan Brugge wrote:
> > > > Wondering something..
> > > > I ran insmod to bring up ip_tables.o and I received the following
> >error:
> > > >
> > > > /lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: unresolved
> > > > symbol nf_unregister_sockopt
> > > > /lib/mod
Rob Landley writes:
> My only real gripe with Linux's threads right now [...] is
> that ps and top and such aren't thread aware and don't group them
> right.
>
> I'm told they added some kind of "threadgroup" field to processes
> that allows top and ps and such to get the display right. I haven'
I 've tested the User Mode Linux a few times ago, and it gave me an
idea: given the fact that we had a GCC which
produce bytecode from C, it would be possible to produce a port of
linux(a new directory "jvm" in the arch dir) which
would run in a Java Virtual Machine. (after some inquiries such c
2.4.5-ac16 patch applied to clean 2.4.5 tree. 2.4.5-ac15 boots
with no problem.
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 3).
PnP: PNP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00fc2b0
PnP: PNP BIOS version 1.0, entry at f:c2e0, d
On 20 Jun 2001, Miles Lane wrote:
> http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5092935,00.html
Yes, he sure knows how to bring Linux to the attention
of people ;)
Rik
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>I 've tested the User Mode Linux a few times ago, and it gave me an
>idea: given the fact that we had a GCC which
>produce bytecode from C, it would be possible to produce a port of
>linux(a new directory "jvm" in the arch dir) which
>would run in a Java Virtual Machine. (after some inquiries
I got it to freeze in console (two generic find / -type f / type d), one
process allocating and writing 0 to 192mb
machine responds to pings, switching VTs works
(256 physical, 512 swap)
Mem-info
Free pages: 1524kB (0kB High)
( Active: 39586, inactive_dirty: 18590, inactive_clean: 0, free: 381
Hello.
PCMCIA/Cardbus controllers typically (always?) support 2 slots, and system
resources are allocated to support those slots. When you build PCMCIA
support into your kernel, you are implicitly asking for both slots to be
supported. I'm wondering if it would be worthwhile to let the user
I found the problem...
IP_ALIAS is no longer needed in the config. I screwed up the init script
configs for it so it did not work as expected.
The documentation does not reflect that the alias behaviour is on by
default.
I will submit a patch for the docs that reflects this so others will not
On Wednesday 20 June 2001 22:58, Tom Sightler wrote:
> Quoting Daniel Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > I originally intended to implement a sliding flush delay based on disk
> > load.
> > This turned out to be a lot of work for a hard-to-discern benefit. So
> > the
> > current approach has just
try to delete those two modules, and repit
depmod -a
then try to load the modules.
ipchain and ipfwadm modules do have symbols inside that are confusing
depmode/modprobe dor dependency of actual netfilter modules.
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Ted Gervais wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Luigi Genoni wrot
At 08:48 PM 6/20/01 +0200, Martin Devera wrote:
>BTW is not possible to implement threads as subset of process ?
>Like thread list pointed to from task_struct. It'd contain
>thread_structs plus another scheduler's data.
>The thread could be much smaller than process.
>
>Probably there is another p
I thought one only refers to LWPs when talking about kernel level threads
not user-space ones?
Ognen
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Stephen Satchell wrote:
> By the way, I'm surprised no one has mentioned that a synonym for "thread"
> is "lightweight process".
>
> Satch
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Ognen Duzlevski
Plant Biotech
Hello,
> Please someone tell me what is the function of filldir() function. I
> could not understand it from the code. Just give me an outline of what it
> will do.
This function is used in foo_readdir() (ie. ext2_readdir()). Purpose
of this function is to copy given data to buffer supplied b
On Wednesday 20 June 2001 23:33, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On 20 Jun 2001, Miles Lane wrote:
> > http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5092935,00.html
>
> Yes, he sure knows how to bring Linux to the attention
> of people ;)
Not to mention the GPL, which I can guarantee you, before today my m
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Justin Guyett wrote:
> I got it to freeze in console (two generic find / -type f / type d), one
> process allocating and writing 0 to 192mb
>
> machine responds to pings, switching VTs works
>
> (256 physical, 512 swap)
happened again (vt1 and 2 echo but shells are unrespons
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 03:18:58PM -0700, David Schwartz wrote:
> As I said, you don't want to use one thread for each client. You use, say,
> 10 threads for the 16,000 clients. That way, if an occasional client
> ambushes a thread (say by reading a file off an NFS server or by using some
>
On Wednesday 20 June 2001 15:27, Mike Harrold wrote:
> Martin Dalecki wrote:>
>
> > Blah blah blah. The performance of the Transmeta CPU SUCKS ROCKS. No
> > matter
> > what they try to make you beleve. A venerable classical desing like
> > the Geode outperforms them in any terms. There is simple s
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