Re: [uml-user] UML troubles: spawning thousands of processes

2005-03-09 Thread Maarten
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 12:52, nils toedtmann wrote: > On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 06:30:55PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: > > On Thursday 03 March 2005 02:17, nils toedtmann wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 12:35:23PM -0800, Jim Carter wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Maarten wrote: > > > > > Out

Re: [uml-user] UML memory limits in 2.6.9-bs7

2005-03-09 Thread Blaisorblade
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 18:26, Nuutti Kotivuori wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wednesday 09 March 2005 16:04, Nuutti Kotivuori wrote: > >> I am wondering what are the memory limits for a single UML guest > >> kernel of 2.6.9-bs7? We are running to some sort of problem just > >> below 5

Re: [uml-user] UML memory limits in 2.6.9-bs7

2005-03-09 Thread Nuutti Kotivuori
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wednesday 09 March 2005 16:04, Nuutti Kotivuori wrote: >> I am wondering what are the memory limits for a single UML guest >> kernel of 2.6.9-bs7? We are running to some sort of problem just >> below 500 megabytes already. > > Hmm, in both 2.6.9-bs7 and 2.6.11 the limi

Re: [uml-user] UML troubles: spawning thousands of processes

2005-03-09 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 23:24, Jason Lunz wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > Try using the UML tree downloaded from my homepage (the -bs7 patchset > > against 2.6.9) and it should solve the thousands of shells problem (it's > > normal they are started, the problem is that don't die with SIGKILL,

Re: [uml-user] UML memory limits in 2.6.9-bs7

2005-03-09 Thread Blaisorblade
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 16:04, Nuutti Kotivuori wrote: > I am wondering what are the memory limits for a single UML guest > kernel of 2.6.9-bs7? We are running to some sort of problem just below > 500 megabytes already. Hmm, in both 2.6.9-bs7 and 2.6.11 the limit is at least 768M, and it extends

Re: [uml-user] (probably) dumb question re: SKAS mode

2005-03-09 Thread Blaisorblade
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 13:12, Nuutti Kotivuori wrote: > Dave Pearson wrote: > > Are there any plans to get the SKAS patches merged into the kernel > > at some point? Although the current 'find a suitable skas patch at > > sourceforge/blaisorblade/tuxrocks' search when a new kernel comes > > out

Re: [uml-user] a question regarding temp files and ram

2005-03-09 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 05:28, Jim Carter wrote: > On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Krisztian PIFKO wrote: > > could someone please tell me how much memory an uml consumes > > if the temp dir for the unlinked temp files is on tmpfs? > > The rest of your answer, Jim, is ok. > I imagine that the 31 MB difference

Re: [uml-user] blockdevice performance

2005-03-09 Thread Blaisorblade
On Sunday 06 March 2005 07:01, Jeff Dike wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > Is this like it is implemented now? > > Yup. In both the AIO and non-AIO case, there is a separate thread to which > you send IO requests, and at some later point, UML gets interrupted with > the results. To answer anoth

[uml-user] [ANNOUNCE] Problems about SLIP transport: [POLL] Who is using it

2005-03-09 Thread Blaisorblade
We have currently a problem with SLIP support in userspace, which is going to force for SLIP users the upgrade to newer uml_utilities and newer UMLs (the patch is very simple and applies unchanged to 2.4 and 2.6 UMLs, at least for decently recent versions). So I want to get a feeling of how man

Re: [uml-user] a question regarding temp files and ram

2005-03-09 Thread Blaisorblade
On Sunday 06 March 2005 21:34, Krisztian PIFKO wrote: > hi, > > could someone please tell me how much memory an uml consumes > if the temp dir for the unlinked temp files is on tmpfs? > > for example does a 64M uml use 2*64 megs of ram this way? No, just 64M... at least, this is what I remember fro

[uml-user] UML memory limits in 2.6.9-bs7

2005-03-09 Thread Nuutti Kotivuori
I am wondering what are the memory limits for a single UML guest kernel of 2.6.9-bs7? We are running to some sort of problem just below 500 megabytes already. What is the 2G/2G address space split? What kind of host patches does that require and what are the effects? I could not find any HIGHMEM s

Re: [uml-user] (probably) dumb question re: SKAS mode

2005-03-09 Thread Nuutti Kotivuori
Dave Pearson wrote: > Are there any plans to get the SKAS patches merged into the kernel > at some point? Although the current 'find a suitable skas patch at > sourceforge/blaisorblade/tuxrocks' search when a new kernel comes > out is charming, it would be even better if there was a 'SKAS Mode' > c