IDE DMA under 2.4?

2001-04-12 Thread Ian Soboroff
ed single-user, i get about 6MB/s without DMA (under 2.4), and about 17MB/s with (under 2.2). tia, and sorry if it's a faq i couldn't dig up, ian -- Ian Soboroff [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of MD Baltimore County http://www.cs.umbc.

2.4.2ac7 success story, one question

2001-03-06 Thread Ian Soboroff
ache, why do i have ~55MB swapped? i'm not sure how to see exactly how much of that swap is really being used or how often things move in and out of swap, though. ian -- Ian Soboroff [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of MD Baltimore County ht

devfs vs. devpts

2001-03-16 Thread Ian Soboroff
has anyone else had problems under 2.4.x creating entries in /dev/pts? ian -- Ian Soboroff [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of MD Baltimore County http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~ian - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

/proc/config idea

2001-04-02 Thread Ian Soboroff
py in /boot, like System.map) and also know if they were the right ones. the one problem that comes to mind right now is modules, which needn't correspond to a full kernel .config. anyway, my $0.02. ian -- Ian Soboroff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Univer

ide hotplug and 2.4.1

2001-02-01 Thread Ian Soboroff
o a 'rmmod ide-probe; modprobe ide-probe' which had a pretty good success rate. i'm hoping maybe the 2.4.x hotplug features have made this obsolete. (plugging up the floppy drive always works, because PC floppy controllers are too dumb to care if they actually have a drive att