7.3 installer with XFS

2002-05-20 Thread Florin Andrei
Guys, I might start to modify the 7.3 installer to make it use XFS out of the box. Michael Best did some research on it, and below are his thoughts. Do you think his plan is ok? What are the obvious things missing? I'm planning to use the 2.4.18 XFS-enabled kernel from oss.sgi.com, and also start

RE: Detecting number of Physical CPUs in Intel Hyperthreaded CPU systems

2002-05-20 Thread Matthews, John
>>> processors=`egrep -c ^cpu[0-9]+ /proc/stat || :` >>> I don't believe this works. It simply tells me how many logical processors I have on my machine, i.e. it yields 4 opposed to 2. Does anyone know the current state of hyper-threading support for Linux? I've heard that kerne

Frozen device registry --- why?

2002-05-20 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
Would someone tell me why Linus asked that the device registry be frozen? Don't new devices require new device number allocations? Thanks. --- Vladimir Vladimir G. Ivanovichttp://leonora.org/~vladimir 2770 Cowper St. [EMAI

how to print the call stack of a thread on linux?

2002-05-20 Thread Dharmesh Godha
I want to get the stack trace of current/particular/all threads within a process. I can use pstack like method (i.e. attaching to a thread and get its stack entries in proc) but that it from outside the process or from the parent thread. Is there any way I can generate the stack trace info