Re: Linux 2.2.18pre1

2000-09-01 Thread Bill Rugolsky Jr.
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 12:05:03PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > People would appreciate lots of things but stability happens to come first. > Thats why its primarily focussed on driver stuff not on revamping the > internals. Right now Im not happy with the nfsv3 stuff I last looked at and > it seems

Re: v2.4.0test9 NFSv3 server woes Linux-->Solaris

2000-10-05 Thread Bill Rugolsky Jr.
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:58:39PM +0200, David Weinehall wrote: > Using the NFSv3 server in the v2.4.0test9 kernel (I haven't tested any > earlier v2.3.xx or v2.4.0testx kernels) I'm having problems with > (for instance) compile glib. > > The setups I've tried are: > > wsize = rsize = 1kB > Lin

Re: Disturbing news..

2001-03-28 Thread Bill Rugolsky Jr.
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 04:32:44PM +0200, Romano Giannetti wrote: > But with the new VFS semantics, wouldn't be possible for a MUA to make a > thing like the following: > > spawn a process with a private namespace. Here a minimun subset of the > "real" tree (maybe all / except /dev) is mounted r

Re: i8042 access timings

2005-02-12 Thread Bill Rugolsky Jr.
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 05:37:14PM +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 11:34:31AM -0500, Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote: > > I have a Digital HiNote collecting dust which had this keyboard problem > > with the RH 6.x 2.2.x boot disk kernels, IIRC. I can test if you

Re: i8042 access timings

2005-02-13 Thread Bill Rugolsky Jr.
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 09:22:46AM +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > And I suppose it was running just fine without the patch as well? Correct. > The question was whether the patch helps, or whether it is not needed. If you look again at the patch I posted, it only borrowed a few lines of the pat

Re: i8042 access timings

2005-01-27 Thread Bill Rugolsky Jr.
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 03:14:36PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > Myths are not really involved here. The IBM PC hardware specifications > are fairly well defined and the various bits of "we glued a 2Mhz part > onto the bus" stuff is all well documented. Nowdays its more complex > because most kbc's aren

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-03 Thread Bill Rugolsky Jr.
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 02:15:06AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > If we were to get serious with maintenance of 2.6.x.y streams then that is > a 100% productisation activity. It's a very useful activity, and there is > demand for it. But it is a very different activity. And a lot of this > discus

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-03 Thread Bill Rugolsky Jr.
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 02:33:58PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > If you accelerate the merging process, you're lowering the review process. > The only answer to get regressions fixed up as quickly as possible > (because prevention is nigh on impossible at the current rate, so > any faster is just abs

[RFC][PATCH] /proc//rlimit

2005-01-18 Thread Bill Rugolsky Jr.
This patch against 2.6.11-rc1-bk6 adds /proc//rlimit to export per-process resource limit settings. It was written to help analyze daemon core dump size settings, but may be more generally useful. Tested on 2.6.10. Sample output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # cat /proc/$$/rlimit cpu unlim

Re: [RFC][PATCH] consolidate arch specific resource.h headers

2005-01-18 Thread Bill Rugolsky Jr.
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 04:10:56PM -0800, Chris Wright wrote: > +#define INIT_RLIMITS \ > +{\ > + { RLIM_INFINITY, RLIM_INFINITY }, \ > + { RLIM_INFINITY, RLIM_INFINITY }, \ > +

Re: [RFC][PATCH] /proc//rlimit

2005-01-19 Thread Bill Rugolsky Jr.
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 11:38:03AM -0800, Chris Wright wrote: > * Jan Knutar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > A "cool feature" would be if you could do > > echo nofile 8192 8192 >/proc/`pidof thatserverproess`/rlimit > > :-) > > This is security sensitive, and is currently only expected to be change

Re: [RFC][PATCH] /proc//rlimit

2005-01-20 Thread Bill Rugolsky Jr.
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 03:43:58PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > It would be nice if you could make it "value-per-file". That way, > it could become writable in future. If "max nice level" ever becomes rlimit, > this would be very usefull. Agreed, though write support present difficulties. My prin

Re: [patch, 2.6.11-rc2] sched: /proc/sys/kernel/rt_cpu_limit tunable

2005-01-25 Thread Bill Rugolsky Jr.
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 02:03:02PM -0800, Chris Wright wrote: > * Ingo Molnar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > did that thread go into technical details? There are some rlimit users > > that might not be prepared to see the rlimit change under them. The > > RT_CPU_RATIO one ought to be safe, but gene

Re: [RFC] LZO1X de/compression support

2007-05-19 Thread Bill Rugolsky Jr.
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 11:14:57PM +0200, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > I'm certainly missing something but what are the advantages of this > code (over current gzip etc.), and what will be using it? Richard's patchset added it to the crypto library and wired it into the JFFS2 file system. We recentl

Re: [Feature Request?] Inline compression of process core dumps

2007-04-12 Thread Bill Rugolsky Jr.
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 11:52:38AM -0400, Christopher S. Aker wrote: > I've been trying to find a method for compressing process core dumps > before they hit disk. > > I ask because we've got some fairly large UML processes (1GB for some), > and we're trying to capture dumps to help Jeff debug a

Re: [Feature Request?] Inline compression of process core dumps

2007-04-12 Thread Bill Rugolsky Jr.
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 05:28:45PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > There are userspace solutions to this problem: allowing the > > uncompressed core dump to spin out to disk and then coming in afterwards > > and doing the compression, or maybe even a compressed filesystem where > > the core dumps la