On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I amtyping this without correcting -- allthe lost characters you see
> (including spaces!) are exactly what the pseudo-tty driver does! This is
> 2.4.1 a it definitely (oh, see "nd" of the ave "and" disappeared? and
> "above" turned into "ave"
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > for crying out loud, even windows tells the users they need to shutdown
> > first and gripes at them if they pull the plug. what users are you trying
> > to protect, ones to clueless to even run windows?
>
> Clueless ? Hardly. Every other appliance in the
Hi,
We have a dual Xeon machine with 4GB of RAM; when running with an SMP
kernel (either the SMP one with RH7 or a freshly compiled 2.4.0-test10) it
is INCREDIBLY slow. e.g. X takes a minute to start the server - I haven't
bothered waiting for anything more. Just from a command line it feels
ve
On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> yes, that someone was me :) It did indeed help to my 4way 6G RAM Xeon --
> the performance improved 40x!. Also, using David's mtrr.patch helped with
> the problem of eepro100 interfaces sometimes not coming up properly (and
> generally, it is nice to s
Hi,
While my friendly dual Xeon machine now appears to be pretty fast, I
notice that the NMI counter is still incrementing like topsy; this
presumably means that there is still something dodgy going on.
A hdparm -t seems to be giving respectable values, so I am not quite sure
where the time/perf
Hi,
I got wondering as to whether the various journaling file system
activities were designed to survive the occasional unclean shutdown or
were designed to allow the user to just pull the plug as a regular means
of shutting down.
Thoughts?
Dave
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On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> Tux2 is explicitly designed to legitimize pulling the plug as a valid
> way of shutting down.
Hmm - that IMHO is a good thing; I'll have to look at Tux2.
> Metadata-only journalling filesystems are not
> designed to be used this way, and even with f
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> Why on earth is this fairly recent motherboard using BIOS-88
> to report available memory? I would have expected E820 here.
> Can you send the dmesg output from 2.4.0 and/or 2.2.19pre7?
Is it one of these motherboards which has an option setting to
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > In an __init function, have some code that will trigger the bug.
> > This can be used to disable Reiserfs if the compiler was bad.
> > Then the admin gets a printk() and the Reiserfs mount fails.
>
> Thats actually quite doable. I'll see about dropping the
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Hans Reiser wrote:
> and if reiserfs is the root partition? You really want to make them reboot to
> the old kernel and recompile rather than making them just recompile?
>
> Stop trying to blame something other than the compiler, it is ridiculous.
Blaming the compiler is one
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