Simple question regarding loop devices.

2005-02-05 Thread Justin Piszcz
Why are there only 7-8 loop devices available? What options do I have if I want to mount, say, 100 isos? Thanks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Re: Simple question regarding loop devices.

2005-02-05 Thread Justin Piszcz
Ahh, very nice, thanks! On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Randy.Dunlap wrote: Justin Piszcz wrote: Why are there only 7-8 loop devices available? What options do I have if I want to mount, say, 100 isos? Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt say: max_loop= [LOOP] Maximum number of loopback devices that can

Mysterious Lag With SATA Maxtor 250GB 7200RPM 16MB Cache Under Linux using NFSv3 UDP

2005-01-17 Thread Justin Piszcz
When writing to or from the drive via NFS, after 1GB or 2GB, it "feels" like the system slows to a crawl, the mouse gets very slow, almost like one is burning a CD at 52X under PIO mode. I originally had this disk in my main system with an Intel ICH5 chipset (ABIT IC7-G mobo) and a Pentium 4 2

Re: Re: Mysterious Lag With SATA Maxtor 250GB 7200RPM 16MB Cache Under Linux using NFSv3 UDP

2005-01-17 Thread Justin Piszcz
Yes, only with NFS. On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Norbert van Nobelen wrote: Only with NFS? I have a raid array of the same discs and the system just sometimes seems to hang completely (for a second or less) and then to go on again at a normal speed (110MB/s). I am running a SuSE 9.1 stock kernel (2.6.5-7.1

Re: 2.6.24-rc2 XFS nfsd hang

2007-11-18 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007, Christian Kujau wrote: On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, Chris Wedgwood wrote: Oops, I meant it for NFSD... and I'm somewhat serious. I'm not saying it's a good long term solution, but a potentially safer short-term workaround. I've opened http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?i

Software RAID 5 - Two reads are faster than one on a SW RAID5?

2007-07-20 Thread Justin Piszcz
I have a multi-core Q6600 CPU on a 10-disk Raptor RAID 5 running XFS. I just pulled down the Debian Etch 4.0 DVD ISO's, one for x86 and one for x86_64, when I ran md5sum -c MD5SUMS, I see ~280-320MB/s. When I ran the second one I see upwards of what I should be seeing 500-520MB/s. NOTE:: The

Re: Software RAID 5 - Two reads are faster than one on a SW RAID5?

2007-07-20 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 09:58:50AM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: I have a multi-core Q6600 CPU on a 10-disk Raptor RAID 5 running XFS. I just pulled down the Debian Etch 4.0 DVD ISO's, one for x86 and one for x86_64, when I ran md5sum -c MD5SU

Cannot write file larger than 2TB on x86_64?

2007-07-25 Thread Justin Piszcz
The kernel is 2.6.9-42.ELsmp on RHEL4 x86_64. servername$ dd if=/dev/zero of=4.8tb_file bs=1M count=480 File size limit exceeded servername$ (stopped at 2TB) The 64bit should not need the option obviously, because it is 64bit, is this a b ug in the kernel? For 32bit: .config - Linux Kernel

Re: Cannot write file larger than 2TB on x86_64?

2007-07-25 Thread Justin Piszcz
Erm, unless this is an EXT3 limitation--oops.. On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: The kernel is 2.6.9-42.ELsmp on RHEL4 x86_64. servername$ dd if=/dev/zero of=4.8tb_file bs=1M count=480 File size limit exceeded servername$ (stopped at 2TB) The 64bit should not need the option

Re: Cannot write file larger than 2TB on x86_64?

2007-07-25 Thread Justin Piszcz
s the problem, nevermind! On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: Erm, unless this is an EXT3 limitation--oops.. On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: The kernel is 2.6.9-42.ELsmp on RHEL4 x86_64. servername$ dd if=/dev/zero of=4.8tb_file bs=1M count=480 File size limit exceeded serve

Kernel 2.6.22.6 iPod conflict with PS/2 device.

2007-08-31 Thread Justin Piszcz
When I have an iPod attached via USB to an ABIT IC7-G board before it boots up and let X start etc, the mouse (PS/2) does not function, but the keyboard works OK. GPM does not work either. When I attach the iPod after the machine has booted up, everything is OK, until the next reboot (with th

Re: very very strange simultaneous RAID resync on sep 2, 01:06 CEST (+2)

2007-09-03 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Xavier Bestel wrote: Hi, I have a server running with RAID5 disks, under debian/stable, kernel 2.6.18-5-686. Yesterday the RAID resync'd for no apparent reason, without even mdamd sending a mail to warn about that: This is normal, you probably are running Debian(?) or a

Re: bogomips discrepancy on Intel Core2 Quad CPU

2007-09-03 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote: Bauke Jan Douma wrote: $> uname -a Linux skyscraper 2.6.22.5 #7 SMP PREEMPT Sun Sep 2 12:12:25 CEST 2007 i686 GNU/Linux $> cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep bogomips bogomips: 4813.46 bogomips: 4810.91 bogomips: 4810.91 bogomips: 10583.94 Th

Re: Kernel 2.6.22.6 iPod conflict with PS/2 device.

2007-09-05 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote: On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: When I have an iPod attached via USB to an ABIT IC7-G board before it boots up and let X start etc, the mouse (PS/2) does not function, but the keyboard works OK. GPM does not work either. When I attach

modinfo question

2007-09-05 Thread Justin Piszcz
Is there anyway to get/see what parameters were passed to a kernel module? Running modinfo -p will show the defaults, but for example, st, the scsi tape driver, is there a way to see what it is currently using? I know in dmesg it shows this when you load it initially (but if say dmesg has been

Re: modinfo question

2007-09-05 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Andreas Schwab wrote: Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Is there anyway to get/see what parameters were passed to a kernel module? /sys/module//parameters Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldst

bonnie++ benchmarks for ext2,ext3,ext4,jfs,reiserfs,xfs,zfs on software raid 5

2007-07-30 Thread Justin Piszcz
CONFIG: Software RAID 5 (400GB x 6): Default mkfs parameters for all filesystems. Kernel was 2.6.21 or 2.6.22, did these awhile ago. Hardware was SATA with PCI-e only, nothing on the PCI bus. ZFS was userspace+fuse of course. Reiser was V3. EXT4 was created using the recommended options on its p

Re: bonnie++ benchmarks for ext2,ext3,ext4,jfs,reiserfs,xfs,zfs on software raid 5

2007-07-30 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Miklos Szeredi wrote: Extrapolating these %cpu number makes ZFS the fastest. Are you sure these numbers are correct? Note, that %cpu numbers for fuse filesystems are inherently skewed, because the CPU usage of the filesystem process itself is not taken into account. So

Intel PCI-e x1 1Gbps NIC support in 2.6.23?

2007-10-19 Thread Justin Piszcz
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2276643&body=REVIEWS#tabs REVIEW BY: tesseract Reviewed Jun 26, 2007 Due to a bug in the hardware of this card it doesn't work with Linux. The card does works at 100mb/s speed but when put to gigabit speeds it gets TX U

Re: Intel PCI-e x1 1Gbps NIC support in 2.6.23?

2007-10-19 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2276643&body=REVIEWS#tabs REVIEW BY: tesseract Reviewed Jun 26, 2007 Due to a bug in the hardware of this card it doesn't work with Linux. The card does works a

2.6.23.1 x86 hardware monitoring bug?

2007-10-14 Thread Justin Piszcz
As a regular user, I cannot see the sensors on the A-bit board, but I can see the CPU temperature, how come I can see one but not the other? Kernel: $ uname -a Linux mybox 2.6.23.1 #4 SMP PREEMPT Sun Oct 14 15:20:53 EDT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux Distribution: Debian Lenny $ sensors abituguru3-isa-00e

In response to kernel compression e-mail a few months ago.

2007-10-14 Thread Justin Piszcz
It turns out the one I did not test, was actually the best: Used: 7z -mx=9 a linux-2.6.16.17.tar.7z linux-2.6.16.17.tar $ du -sk * | sort -n 32392 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.7z 33520 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.lzma 33760 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.rar 38064 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.rz 39472 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.szip 39520

Re: In response to kernel compression e-mail a few months ago.

2007-10-14 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Oct 14 2007 15:34, Justin Piszcz wrote: It turns out the one I did not test, was actually the best: Used: 7z -mx=9 a linux-2.6.16.17.tar.7z linux-2.6.16.17.tar $ du -sk * | sort -n 32392 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.7z 33520 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.lzma

Re: In response to kernel compression e-mail a few months ago.

2007-10-14 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Oct 14 2007 15:53, Justin Piszcz wrote: What's with all these odd formats, and where is .zip? :) Somehow... have you tried lrzip? $ apt-cache search lrzip $ I tried most of the main ones in the standard testing distribution within D

Re: In response to kernel compression e-mail a few months ago.

2007-10-14 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, Al Viro wrote: On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 09:46:15PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: (Obviously we shall pick .7z) The hell it is. Take a look at memory footprint of those suckers... For compression with -mx=9 it does use 500-900 MiB of RAM, that is true. For decompressio

Re: In response to kernel compression e-mail a few months ago.

2007-10-14 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Oct 14 2007 16:58, Justin Piszcz wrote: compress: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 10544 war 20 0 700m 681m 1632 S 141 20.7 1:41.46 7z Just how you can utilize a CPU to 141% remains a mystery

Re: 2.6.23.1 x86 hardware monitoring bug?

2007-10-15 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, Mark M. Hoffman wrote: Hi Justin: (added some CCs) * Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-14 15:30:18 -0400]: As a regular user, I cannot see the sensors on the A-bit board, but I can see the CPU temperature, how come I can see one but not the other?

Re: 2.6.23.1 x86 hardware monitoring bug?

2007-10-15 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Hans de Goede wrote: Mark M. Hoffman wrote: Hi Justin: (added some CCs) * Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-14 15:30:18 -0400]: As a regular user, I cannot see the sensors on the A-bit board, but I can see the CPU temperature, how come I can see one b

Re: [lm-sensors] 2.6.23.1 x86 hardware monitoring bug?

2007-10-15 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Rudolf Marek wrote: Hi, Most likely you have distro and custom libsensors installed on the system. (and different PATH for root) Please check how many of libsensors libraries is installed. Thanks, Rudolf I only had one, in /app (lm-sensors-2.10.2) -- which has bee

2.6.23.1: mdadm/raid5 hung/d-state

2007-11-04 Thread Justin Piszcz
# ps auxww | grep D USER PID %CPU %MEMVSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 273 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?DOct21 14:40 [pdflush] root 274 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?DOct21 13:00 [pdflush] After several days/weeks, this is the second time this

Re: 2.6.23.1: mdadm/raid5 hung/d-state (md3_raid5 stuck in endless loop?)

2007-11-04 Thread Justin Piszcz
unt: 60 high: 62 batch: 15 vm stats threshold: 42 all_unreclaimable: 0 prev_priority: 12 start_pfn: 1048576 On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: # ps auxww | grep D USER PID %CPU %MEMVSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND r

Re: 2.6.23.1: mdadm/raid5 hung/d-state

2007-11-04 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, BERTRAND Joël wrote: Justin Piszcz wrote: # ps auxww | grep D USER PID %CPU %MEMVSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 273 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?DOct21 14:40 [pdflush] root 274 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?DOct21 13

Re: 2.6.23.1: mdadm/raid5 hung/d-state

2007-11-04 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Michael Tokarev wrote: Justin Piszcz wrote: On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Michael Tokarev wrote: [] The next time you come across something like that, do a SysRq-T dump and post that. It shows a stack trace of all processes - and in particular, where exactly each task is stuck

Re: 2.6.23.1: mdadm/raid5 hung/d-state

2007-11-04 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Neil Brown wrote: On Sunday November 4, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # ps auxww | grep D USER PID %CPU %MEMVSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 273 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?DOct21 14:40 [pdflush] root 274 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?

Re: 2.6.23.1: mdadm/raid5 hung/d-state

2007-11-05 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Dan Williams wrote: On 11/4/07, Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Neil Brown wrote: On Sunday November 4, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # ps auxww | grep D USER PID %CPU %MEMVSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root

Re: 2.6.23.1: mdadm/raid5 hung/d-state

2007-11-06 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, BERTRAND Joël wrote: Done. Here is obtained ouput : [ 1265.899068] check 4: state 0x6 toread read write f800fdd4e360 written [ 1265.941328] check 3: state 0x1 toread read wri

Re: 2.6.23.1: mdadm/raid5 hung/d-state

2007-11-06 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, BERTRAND Joël wrote: Justin Piszcz wrote: On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, BERTRAND Joël wrote: Done. Here is obtained ouput : [ 1265.899068] check 4: state 0x6 toread read write f800fdd4e360 written [ 1265.941328] check

Re: 2.6.23.1: mdadm/raid5 hung/d-state

2007-11-08 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, BERTRAND Joël wrote: BERTRAND Joël wrote: Chuck Ebbert wrote: On 11/05/2007 03:36 AM, BERTRAND Joël wrote: Neil Brown wrote: On Sunday November 4, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # ps auxww | grep D USER PID %CPU %MEMVSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND ro

Re: 2.6.23.1: mdadm/raid5 hung/d-state

2007-11-09 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Carlos Carvalho wrote: Jeff Lessem ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 6 November 2007 22:00: >Dan Williams wrote: > > The following patch, also attached, cleans up cases where the code looks > > at sh->ops.pending when it should be looking at the consistent > > stack-based snapsh

Kernel 2.6.19.2 New RAID 5 Bug (oops when writing Samba -> RAID5)

2007-01-20 Thread Justin Piszcz
My .config is attached, please let me know if any other information is needed and please CC (lkml) as I am not on the list, thanks! Running Kernel 2.6.19.2 on a MD RAID5 volume. Copying files over Samba to the RAID5 running XFS. Any idea what happened here? [473795.214705] BUG: unable to hand

Re: Kernel 2.6.19.2 New RAID 5 Bug (oops when writing Samba -> RAID5)

2007-01-20 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: > My .config is attached, please let me know if any other information is > needed and please CC (lkml) as I am not on the list, thanks! > > Running Kernel 2.6.19.2 on a MD RAID5 volume. Copying files over Samba to > the RAID5 runnin

2.6.19.2, cp 18gb_file 18gb_file.2 = OOM killer, 100% reproducible

2007-01-20 Thread Justin Piszcz
Perhaps its time to back to a stable (2.6.17.13 kernel)? Anyway, when I run a cp 18gb_file 18gb_file.2 on a dual raptor sw raid1 partition, the OOM killer goes into effect and kills almost all my processes. Completely 100% reproducible. Does 2.6.19.2 have some of memory allocation bug as well?

Re: 2.6.19.2, cp 18gb_file 18gb_file.2 = OOM killer, 100% reproducible

2007-01-20 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Avuton Olrich wrote: > On 1/20/07, Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Perhaps its time to back to a stable (2.6.17.13 kernel)? > > > > Anyway, when I run a cp 18gb_file 18gb_file.2 on a dual raptor sw raid1 > > partition, the OOM

Re: 2.6.19.2, cp 18gb_file 18gb_file.2 = OOM killer, 100% reproducible

2007-01-20 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Avuton Olrich wrote: > > > On 1/20/07, Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Perhaps its time to back to a stable (2.6.17.13 kernel)? > > > > > > Anyway, when I

2.6.19.2 -> 2.6.20-rc5 libata regression

2007-01-21 Thread Justin Piszcz
2.6.19.2: # hddtemp /dev/sda /dev/sda: WDC WD740GD-00FLC0: 27C 2.6.20-rc5: # hddtemp /dev/sda /dev/sda: ATA WDC WD740GD-00FL: S.M.A.R.T. not available - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at ht

Re: 2.6.19.2, cp 18gb_file 18gb_file.2 = OOM killer, 100% reproducible

2007-01-21 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 04:03:42PM -0500 > > > > > > My swap is on, 2GB ram and 2GB of swap on this machine. I can't go back > > to 2.6.17.13 as it

Re: 2.6.19.2, cp 18gb_file 18gb_file.2 = OOM killer, 100% reproducible

2007-01-21 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 04:03:42PM -0500 > > > > > > My swap is on, 2GB ram and 2GB of swap on this machine. I can't go back > > to 2.6.17.13 as it

Re: 2.6.19.2, cp 18gb_file 18gb_file.2 = OOM killer, 100% reproducible

2007-01-21 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 11:48:07AM -0500 > > > > What about all of the changes with NAT? I see that it operates on > > level-3/network wise, I enabled that and ba

Re: 2.6.19.2, cp 18gb_file 18gb_file.2 = OOM killer, 100% reproducible (multi-threaded USB no go)

2007-01-21 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > > > > Good luck, > > Jurriaan > > -- > > > What does ELF stand for (in respect to Linux?) > > ELF is the first rock group that Ronnie James Dio performed with back in > > the early 1970&#

2.6.20-rc5: cp 18gb 18gb.2 = OOM killer, reproducible just like 2.16.19.2

2007-01-21 Thread Justin Piszcz
Why does copying an 18GB on a 74GB raptor raid1 cause the kernel to invoke the OOM killer and kill all of my processes? Doing this on a single disk 2.6.19.2 is OK, no issues. However, this happens every time! Anything to try? Any other output needed? Can someone shed some light on this situ

Re: 2.6.19.2, cp 18gb_file 18gb_file.2 = OOM killer, 100% reproducible (multi-threaded USB no go)

2007-01-22 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Greg KH wrote: > On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 12:29:51PM -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Good luck, > > >

Re: change strip_cache_size freeze the whole raid

2007-01-22 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, kyle wrote: > Hi, > > Yesterday I tried to increase the value of strip_cache_size to see if I can > get better performance or not. I increase the value from 2048 to something > like 16384. After I did that, the raid5 freeze. Any proccess read / write to > it stucked at D st

Re: change strip_cache_size freeze the whole raid

2007-01-22 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, kyle wrote: > > > > On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, kyle wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Yesterday I tried to increase the value of strip_cache_size to see if I > > > can > > > get better performance or not. I increase the value from 2048 to something > > > like 16384. After I did tha

Re: change strip_cache_size freeze the whole raid

2007-01-22 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Steve Cousins wrote: > > > Justin Piszcz wrote: > > Yes, I noticed this bug too, if you change it too many times or change it at > > the 'wrong' time, it hangs up when you echo numbr > /proc/stripe_cache_size. > > > > Basic

Re: change strip_cache_size freeze the whole raid

2007-01-22 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Steve Cousins wrote: > > > Justin Piszcz wrote: > > Yes, I noticed this bug too, if you change it too many times or change it at > > the 'wrong' time, it hangs up when you echo numbr > /proc/stripe_cache_size. > > > > Basic

Re: 2.6.20-rc5: cp 18gb 18gb.2 = OOM killer, reproducible just like 2.16.19.2

2007-01-22 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Pavel Machek wrote: > On Sun 2007-01-21 14:27:34, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > Why does copying an 18GB on a 74GB raptor raid1 cause the kernel to invoke > > the OOM killer and kill all of my processes? > > > > Doing this on a single disk 2.6.19.2

Re: 2.6.20-rc5: cp 18gb 18gb.2 = OOM killer, reproducible just like 2.16.19.2

2007-01-22 Thread Justin Piszcz
> What's that? Software raid or hardware raid? If the latter, which driver? Software RAID (md) On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 14:27:34 -0500 (EST) Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > Why does copying an 18GB

Re: Kernel 2.6.19.2 New RAID 5 Bug (oops when writing Samba -> RAID5)

2007-01-23 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Neil Brown wrote: > On Monday January 22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > My .config is attached, please let me know if any other information is > > > needed and please CC (lkml) as I am not on the list, thanks! > >

Re: Kernel 2.6.19.2 New RAID 5 Bug (oops when writing Samba -> RAID5)

2007-01-23 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Justin Piszcz wrote: > [] > > Is this a bug that can or will be fixed or should I disable pre-emption on > > critical and/or server machines? > > Disabling pre-emption on critical and/or server machines seems to be a good &

Re: Kernel 2.6.19.2 New RAID 5 Bug (oops when writing Samba -> RAID5)

2007-01-23 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > > On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Michael Tokarev wrote: > > > >> Disabling pre-emption on critical and/or server machines seems to be a good > >> idea in the first place. IMHO anyway.. ;)

Re: Kernel 2.6.19.2 New RAID 5 Bug (oops when writing Samba -> RAID5)

2007-01-24 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > Justin Piszcz wrote: > > My .config is attached, please let me know if any other information is > > needed and please CC (lkml) as I am not on the list, thanks! > > > > Running Kernel 2.6.19.2 on a MD RAID5 volume. Copying

Re: 2.6.20-rc5: cp 18gb 18gb.2 = OOM killer, reproducible just like 2.16.19.2

2007-01-24 Thread Justin Piszcz
he ICH8 chipset also uses some memory, in any event mem=256 causes the machine to lockup before it can even get to the boot/init processes, the two leds on the keyboard were blinking, caps lock and scroll lock and I saw no console at all! Justin. On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: >

Re: 2.6.20-rc5: cp 18gb 18gb.2 = OOM killer, reproducible just like 2.16.19.2

2007-01-24 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 14:27:34 -0500 (EST) Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > Why does copying an 18GB on a 74GB raptor raid1 cause the kernel to invoke > > the OOM killer and kill all of my processes? >

Re: 2.6.20-rc5: cp 18gb 18gb.2 = OOM killer, reproducible just like 2.16.19.2

2007-01-24 Thread Justin Piszcz
And FYI yes I used mem=256M just as you said, not mem=256. Justin. On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > Is it highmem-related? Can you try it with mem=256M? > > Bad idea, the kernel crashes & burns when I use mem=256, I had to boot > 2.6.20-rc5-6 single to get b

Re: 2.6.20-rc5: cp 18gb 18gb.2 = OOM killer, reproducible just like 2.16.19.2

2007-01-24 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 14:27:34 -0500 (EST) Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > Why does copying an 18GB on a 74GB raptor raid1 cause the kernel to invoke > > the OOM killer and kill all of my processes? >

Re: 2.6.20-rc5: cp 18gb 18gb.2 = OOM killer, reproducible just like 2.16.19.2

2007-01-24 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > Is it highmem-related? Can you try it with mem=256M? > > > > Bad idea, the kernel crashes & burns when I use mem=256, I had to boot > > 2.6.20-rc5-6 single to get back into my machine, very nasty. Remember I > > use an onboard graphics

Re: 2.6.20-rc5: cp 18gb 18gb.2 = OOM killer, reproducible just like 2.16.19.2

2007-01-24 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > Is it highmem-related? Can you try it with mem=256M? > > > > Bad idea, the kernel crashes & burns when I use mem=256, I had to boot > > 2.6.20-rc5-6 single to get back into my machine, very nasty. Remember I > > use an onboard graphics

Re: 2.6.20-rc5: cp 18gb 18gb.2 = OOM killer, reproducible just like 2.16.19.2

2007-01-25 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > Is it highmem-related? Can you try it with mem=256M? > > > > Bad idea, the kernel crashes & burns when I use mem=256, I had to boot > > 2.6.20-rc5-6 single to get back into my machine, very nasty. Remember I > > use an onboard graphics

Re: 2.6.20-rc5: cp 18gb 18gb.2 = OOM killer, reproducible just like 2.16.19.2

2007-01-25 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > > On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > >After the oom-killing, please see if you can free up the ZONE_NORMAL memory > > >via a few `echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches'

Re: 2.6.20-rc5: cp 18gb 18gb.2 = OOM killer, reproducible just like 2.16.19.2

2007-01-25 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Bill Cizek wrote: > Justin Piszcz wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 14:27:34 -0500 (EST) Justin Piszcz > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Why does c

Kernel 2.6.17.13: eth2: TX underrun, threshold adjusted.

2006-12-25 Thread Justin Piszcz
I am using a dual port Intel NIC on an A-Bit IC7-G; any reason why I get these? [4298634.444000] eth2: TX underrun, threshold adjusted. [4299146.645000] eth2: TX underrun, threshold adjusted. [4299146.645000] eth2: TX underrun, threshold adjusted. [4299147.437000] eth2: TX underrun, threshold adj

Re: Kernel 2.6.17.13: eth2: TX underrun, threshold adjusted.

2006-12-26 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 25 Dec 2006, Robert Hancock wrote: > Justin Piszcz wrote: > > I am using a dual port Intel NIC on an A-Bit IC7-G; any reason why I get > > these? > > > > [4298634.444000] eth2: TX underrun, threshold adjusted. > > [4299146.645000] eth2

Re: System / libata IDE controller woes (long)

2006-12-26 Thread Justin Piszcz
I had the same problem you did when I put 3 identical controllers together. To get around that problem I used 2 TX133s and 1 TX100x2. I believe this is the root cause of your problems. Justin. On Tue, 26 Dec 2006, Erik Ohrnberger wrote: > First off, Merry Christmas, Seasons Greetings and Hap

2.6.20: stripe_cache_size goes boom with 32mb

2007-02-23 Thread Justin Piszcz
Each of these are averaged over three runs with 6 SATA disks in a SW RAID 5 configuration: (dd if=/dev/zero of=file_1 bs=1M count=2000) 128k_stripe: 69.2MB/s 256k_stripe: 105.3MB/s 512k_stripe: 142.0MB/s 1024k_stripe: 144.6MB/s 2048k_stripe: 208.3MB/s 4096k_stripe: 223.6MB/s 8192k_stripe: 226.0

Re: 2.6.20: stripe_cache_size goes boom with 32mb

2007-02-23 Thread Justin Piszcz
definitely have a good idea on what's happening :-) Cheers, Jason On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 06:41 -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote: Each of these are averaged over three runs with 6 SATA disks in a SW RAID 5 configuration: (dd if=/dev/zero of=file_1 bs=1M count=2000) 128k_stripe: 69.2MB/s 256k_st

Intel chooses not to support its HECI/QPS Chip in Linux?

2007-02-04 Thread Justin Piszcz
Hi, Anyone from Intel that reads LKML, could you provide an update as to what is happening with support for your HECI Controller/QPS chip, which is used on 965 (and possibly other?) chipsets. I bought an Intel board, thinking everything would be supported, because it is an Intel board. The

Re: Intel chooses not to support its HECI/QPS Chip in Linux?

2007-02-05 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 10:57 -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote: Hi, Anyone from Intel that reads LKML, could you provide an update as to what is happening with support for your HECI Controller/QPS chip, which is used on 965 (and possibly other?) chipsets

finger @finger.kernel.org -> Connection refused

2007-02-08 Thread Justin Piszcz
It appears to have been dead for awhile now, did I miss something? One of my scripts uses this functionality, which now appears dead/disabled/offline. Can anyone provide an update? Thanks, Justin. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a messa

Re: finger @finger.kernel.org -> Connection refused

2007-02-08 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: It appears to have been dead for awhile now, did I miss something? One of my scripts uses this functionality, which now appears dead/disabled/offline. Can anyone provide an update? kernel.org front page sayz: Aug 21, 2003: Please don't use finger

2.6.20 USB issue(?) [disabled by hub(EMI?)]

2007-02-16 Thread Justin Piszcz
6-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3 Feb 16 09:26:22 p34 kernel: [1007261.527521] usb 6-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice Feb 16 09:26:22 p34 kernel: [1007261.981395] hiddev96: USB HID v1.00 Device [UPS] on usb-:00:1d.1-2 On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Justin Piszcz

RHEL3 2.4.21-37a6smp 10GBps Intel 10GBps NIC: ixgb_clean_tx_irq: Detected Tx Unit Hang - Machine locks up.

2007-02-19 Thread Justin Piszcz
Quick question, I am using the latest ixgb driver (1.0.126) as stated both on Intel's website and here: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=645203 After a number of hours, sometimes days, I will get this error on the console and the box locks up: ixgb: eth2: ixgb_clean_tx_irq: D

Re: 2.6.20-rc5: cp 18gb 18gb.2 = OOM killer, reproducible just like 2.16.19.2

2007-01-25 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Mark Hahn wrote: > > Something is seriously wrong with that OOM killer. > > do you know you don't have to operate in OOM-slaughter mode? > > "vm.overcommit_memory = 2" in your /etc/sysctl.conf puts you into a mode where > the kernel tracks your "committed" memory needs, an

Re: Kernel 2.6.19.2 New RAID 5 Bug (oops when writing Samba -> RAID5)

2007-01-26 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:37:15 -0500 (EST) > Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Without digging too deeply, I'd say you've hit the same bug Sami Farin and > > > others > > > h

Re: Kernel 2.6.19.2 New RAID 5 Bug (oops when writing Samba -> RAID5)

2007-01-26 Thread Justin Piszcz
Just re-ran the test 4-5 times, could not reproduce this one, but I'll keep running this kernel w/patch for a while and see if it happens again. On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:37:15 -0500 (EST) > Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Kernel 2.6.19.2: Belkin UPS on Serial vs. USB

2007-01-26 Thread Justin Piszcz
When I disconnect my UPS from the wall, I have to wait 15-30 seconds before the USB drier 'polls' this information and tells me that the UPS is on battery power (via knutclient or syslog via nut): [EMAIL PROTECTED] POWER ALERT on Fri Jan 26 12:49:29 EST 2007 With a serial connection, I would ge

Re: 2.6.19.2, cp 18gb_file 18gb_file.2 = OOM killer, 100% reproducible

2007-01-26 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 10:54:09AM -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > From: Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Date: Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 04:03:42PM -0500

Kernel 2.6.20-rc7 [Asynchronous SCSI scanning] question.

2007-02-02 Thread Justin Piszcz
Under SCSI device support. -> [*] Asynchronous SCSI scanning Does this affect actual SCSI devices ONLY or SATA drives as well? Justin. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kerne

2.6.20-rc7 USB issue(?) [disabled by hub(EMI?)]

2007-02-03 Thread Justin Piszcz
Not sure if this is normal or not, was not doing anything out of the ordinary and after secs/3600.. ~ 42hrs this occured? $ uptime 19:06:17 up 2 days, 29 min, 10 users, load average: 0.13, 0.07, 0.06 $ uname -ra Linux p34 2.6.20-rc7 #2 SMP Wed Jan 31 20:03:09 EST 2007 i686 GNU/Linux One thi

Re: xfslogd-spinlock bug?

2006-12-12 Thread Justin Piszcz
I'm not sure what is causing this problem but I was curious is this on a 32bit or 64bit platform? Justin. On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Haar János wrote: > Hello, list, > > I am the "big red button men" with the one big 14TB xfs, if somebody can > remember me. :-) > > Now i found something in the 2.6.

NFS Filesystem Size Limit?

2006-12-18 Thread Justin Piszcz
I have a question I could not quickly find on Google/mailing lists-- Say I have some sort of global filesystem or NFS which is 200TB. Is there a limit either: A) In the Linux kernel or B) In the NFS spec That would limit the client as to what it could see via NFS or global filesystem? Or coul

Re: NFS Filesystem Size Limit?

2006-12-18 Thread Justin Piszcz
Thanks for the info! On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 14:21 -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > I have a question I could not quickly find on Google/mailing lists-- > > > > Say I have some sort of global filesystem or NFS which is 200TB. >

Linux Software RAID 5 Performance Optimizations: 2.6.19.1: (211MB/s read & 195MB/s write)

2007-01-11 Thread Justin Piszcz
Using 4 raptor 150s: Without the tweaks, I get 111MB/s write and 87MB/s read. With the tweaks, 195MB/s write and 211MB/s read. Using kernel 2.6.19.1. Without the tweaks and with the tweaks: # Stripe tests: echo 8192 > /sys/block/md3/md/stripe_cache_size # DD TESTS [WRITE] DEFAULT: (512K) $ dd

Re: Linux Software RAID 5 Performance Optimizations: 2.6.19.1: (211MB/s read & 195MB/s write)

2007-01-12 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Justin Piszcz wrote: > > Using 4 raptor 150s: > > > > Without the tweaks, I get 111MB/s write and 87MB/s read. > > With the tweaks, 195MB/s write and 211MB/s read. > > > > Using kernel 2.6.19.1. > >

Re: Linux Software RAID 5 Performance Optimizations: 2.6.19.1: (211MB/s read & 195MB/s write)

2007-01-12 Thread Justin Piszcz
chunk size) On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Michael Tokarev wrote: > > > Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > Using 4 raptor 150s: > > > > > > Without the tweaks, I get 111MB/s write and 87MB/s read. > >

Re: Linux Software RAID 5 Performance Optimizations: 2.6.19.1: (211MB/s read & 195MB/s write)

2007-01-12 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Al Boldi wrote: > Justin Piszcz wrote: > > RAID 5 TWEAKED: 1:06.41 elapsed @ 60% CPU > > > > This should be 1:14 not 1:06(was with a similarly sized file but not the > > same) the 1:14 is the same file as used with the other benchmarks. and t

Re: Linux Software RAID 5 Performance Optimizations: 2.6.19.1: (211MB/s read & 195MB/s write)

2007-01-12 Thread Justin Piszcz
md3 of=/dev/null bs=1M count=10240 10240+0 records in 10240+0 records out 10737418240 bytes (11 GB) copied, 398.069 seconds, 27.0 MB/s Awful performance with your numbers/drop_caches settings.. ! What were your tests designed to show? Justin. On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: > >

Re: Linux Software RAID 5 Performance Optimizations: 2.6.19.1: (211MB/s read & 195MB/s write)

2007-01-12 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Al Boldi wrote: > Justin Piszcz wrote: > > Btw, max sectors did improve my performance a little bit but > > stripe_cache+read_ahead were the main optimizations that made everything > > go faster by about ~1.5x. I have individual bonnie++ benchma

Re: Linux Software RAID 5 Performance Optimizations: 2.6.19.1: (211MB/s read & 195MB/s write)

2007-01-13 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Al Boldi wrote: > Justin Piszcz wrote: > > On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Al Boldi wrote: > > > Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > > Btw, max sectors did improve my performance a little bit but > > > > stripe_cache+read_ahead were the main optimizati

Re: [PATCH] trim memory not covered by WB MTRRs

2007-06-21 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Pim Zandbergen wrote: Jesse Barnes wrote: What, are you going to report this to GigaByte? No, but you should if you haven't already. I think GigaByte probably gets its BIOS from another BIOS vendor (maybe Intel), so when that vendor provides them with an update, the

Re: limits on raid

2007-06-21 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Mattias Wadenstein wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Neil Brown wrote: I have that - apparently naive - idea that drives use strong checksum, and will never return bad data, only good data or an error. If this isn't right, then it would really help to understand what the caus

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