[uml-user] Re: [uml-devel] UML freezes at hdd-intensive processes

2005-03-03 Thread Rob Landley
On Thursday 03 March 2005 12:03 pm, Oliver Baltz wrote: > Hi Rob, > > I do use the UBD mount. > > Thanks in advance, > Olli > > > On Thursday 03 March 2005 05:41 am, Oliver Baltz wrote: > >> Hi @all, > >> > >> my UML hangs while intensive processes that use the HDD. For example: > >> rgrep, upgrade

[uml-user] blockdevice performance

2005-03-03 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, has anybody compared the performance of UML's built-in blockdevice, NetworkBlockDevices, ATAoverEthernet, yet? I don't know how UML's blockdevice works, but i know how NBD works. The kernel sends multiple requests to the NBD server, and receives the responses asap. The worse case for UML's

Re: [uml-user] A hardware random number generator for UML

2005-03-03 Thread Jim Carter
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Jeff Dike wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > As I understand it, the kernel adds hardware RNG data to the entropy > > pool if the device is available. > > Can you give me a pointer to code that does this? I see no hint in random.c > that it takes entropy from the hardware r

Re: [uml-user] UML freezes at hdd-intensive processes

2005-03-03 Thread Oliver Baltz
Thanks for all your hints but: @James: My UML got 32M and 256M swap. The UML-Host has 448M physical RAM - I think it`s enough for UML and Host. Or am I wrong? @Ginie: The .config of my UML says: "# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UBD_SYNC is not set". Any other ideas? Olli > On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Oliver Baltz wro

Re: [uml-user] 2 UML clients, fighting for network (uml-bridge)

2005-03-03 Thread Matt Simonsen
On Thursday 03 March 2005 04:24, D. Bahi wrote: > nils toedtmann wrote: > >On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 06:18:34PM -0800, Matt Simonsen wrote: > >>I am using a bridge for 2 uml clients. It works beautifully with only one > >>client, then after I startup the second the network randomly cuts out for > >>e

Re: [uml-user] swapoff hangs forever in UML guests

2005-03-03 Thread Anthony Brock
Quoting Nuutti Kotivuori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: No problem - I'm just mailing here in case someone has encountered the kind of problems we are seeing elsewhere. We've encountered this on some of our systems. However, it only seems to happen on a shutdown, not a reboot. Does this fit with your experi

[uml-user] Re: [uml-devel] UML freezes at hdd-intensive processes

2005-03-03 Thread Oliver Baltz
Hi Rob, I do use the UBD mount. Thanks in advance, Olli > On Thursday 03 March 2005 05:41 am, Oliver Baltz wrote: >> Hi @all, >> >> my UML hangs while intensive processes that use the HDD. For example: >> rgrep, upgrade,... >> >> UML-Hostsystem: 2.4.27-1-386, Intel ICH5 SATA 150-Controller >> UM

[uml-user] Re: UML freezes at hdd-intensive processes

2005-03-03 Thread Gigie Lertriniva
Oliver Baltz wrote: > my UML hangs while intensive processes that use the HDD. For example: > rgrep, upgrade,... I found the following info in the UML Wiki troubleshooting section, hope it can help... Ginie Q: My uml guest hangs when doing large disk I/O such as untarring files or installing pac

Re: [uml-user] Re: failure notice

2005-03-03 Thread Jeff Dike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Me too: i vote for kicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> off the uml > user list, too. These bounces annoy. Done. I get so much spam I haven't noticed this. Jeff --- SF email is sponsored by -

Re: [uml-user] swapoff hangs forever in UML guests

2005-03-03 Thread Nuutti Kotivuori
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There were some crashes fixed after, upgrade to -bs7. I don't think > this is fixed, but just in case... You may also want to try 2.6.11 > as host kernel. Yeah, we will try other kernels as we get around to it. > Hmmm, make sure with some "echo" and commenting / uncomm

Re: [uml-user] 2 UML clients, fighting for network (uml-bridge)

2005-03-03 Thread D. Bahi
nils toedtmann wrote: On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 06:18:34PM -0800, Matt Simonsen wrote: I am using a bridge for 2 uml clients. It works beautifully with only one client, then after I startup the second the network randomly cuts out for each system. I've noticed I can "kill" one by pinging the other

[uml-user] UML freezes at hdd-intensive processes

2005-03-03 Thread Oliver Baltz
Hi @all, my UML hangs while intensive processes that use the HDD. For example: rgrep, upgrade,... UML-Hostsystem: 2.4.27-1-386, Intel ICH5 SATA 150-Controller UML: 2.4.26-3um-1 Any ideas? --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product

[uml-user] Re: failure notice

2005-03-03 Thread nils toedtmann
Me too: i vote for kicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> off the uml user list, too. These bounces annoy. /nils. On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 10:05:15AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi. This is the qmail-send program at pop-mail.india.tejasnetworks.com. > I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message

[uml-user] UML freezes at hdd-intensive processes

2005-03-03 Thread Oliver Baltz
Hi @all, my UML hangs while intensive processes that use the HDD. For example: rgrep, upgrade,... UML-Hostsystem: 2.4.27-1-386, Intel ICH5 SATA 150-Controller UML: 2.4.26-3um-1 Any ideas? --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product G

Re: [uml-user] 2 UML clients, fighting for network (uml-bridge)

2005-03-03 Thread nils toedtmann
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 06:18:34PM -0800, Matt Simonsen wrote: > I am using a bridge for 2 uml clients. It works beautifully with only one > client, then after I startup the second the network randomly cuts out for > each system. I've noticed I can "kill" one by pinging the other one. > > For e