Re: [uml-user] what are the current limits on how many uml's on one host?

2006-03-28 Thread David Lang
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Blaisorblade wrote: On Tuesday 28 March 2006 01:42, David Lang wrote: yOn Mon, 27 Mar 2006, David Lang wrote: I foolishly attempted to startup 25 uml instances on one system (dual 252 opterons with 8G of ram, each um instance getting 256M) what I found was that they see

Re: [uml-user] what are the current limits on how many uml's on one host?

2006-03-28 Thread Blaisorblade
On Wednesday 29 March 2006 00:33, David Lang wrote: > On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Blaisorblade wrote: > > On Wednesday 29 March 2006 00:09, David Lang wrote: > >> On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Blaisorblade wrote: > > http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade/patches/skas3-2.6/ > > sorry, the host

Re: [uml-user] occasional errors on startup

2006-03-28 Thread Blaisorblade
On Wednesday 29 March 2006 00:12, David Lang wrote: > On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Blaisorblade wrote: > > On Tuesday 28 March 2006 23:33, David Lang wrote: > oops, typo, that should have said 2.6.16 (32 bit) does this still need > additional patches? There's one bug which is fixed 2.6.16-bb1 indeed, the

Re: [uml-user] what are the current limits on how many uml's on one host?

2006-03-28 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 28 March 2006 01:42, David Lang wrote: > yOn Mon, 27 Mar 2006, David Lang wrote: > > I foolishly attempted to startup 25 uml instances on one system (dual 252 > > opterons with 8G of ram, each um instance getting 256M) > > what I found was that they seem to be getting in each others way

Re: [uml-user] what are the current limits on how many uml's on one host?

2006-03-28 Thread David Lang
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Blaisorblade wrote: On Wednesday 29 March 2006 00:09, David Lang wrote: On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Blaisorblade wrote: http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade/patches/skas3-2.6/ sorry, the host is a dual Opteron 252 with 8G of ram running 2.6.16 (which I understood includ

Re: [uml-user] what are the current limits on how many uml's on one host?

2006-03-28 Thread Blaisorblade
On Wednesday 29 March 2006 00:09, David Lang wrote: > On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Blaisorblade wrote: > >>> http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade/patches/skas3-2.6/ > >> > >> sorry, the host is a dual Opteron 252 with 8G of ram running 2.6.16 > >> (which I understood included the skas patch) > > >

Re: [uml-user] occasional errors on startup

2006-03-28 Thread David Lang
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Blaisorblade wrote: On Tuesday 28 March 2006 23:33, David Lang wrote: I'm getting two types of errors show up once in a while 1. occasionally on startup the UML instances report 'unable to open an Initial console', this is happeing ~10% of the time, but not to the same uml

Re: [uml-user] Re: (implementation idea) Re: uml and nonstandard memory splits?

2006-03-28 Thread Blaisorblade
On Wednesday 29 March 2006 00:05, Blaisorblade wrote: > However, this doesn't happen because we already implement the "top of the > stack" detection technique in arch/um/kernel/skas/mem.c. So we've > well-tested code doing this, even if maybe at times suboptimal. About that code, $ find arch/um/

Re: [uml-user] what are the current limits on how many uml's on one host?

2006-03-28 Thread David Lang
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Blaisorblade wrote: http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade/patches/skas3-2.6/ sorry, the host is a dual Opteron 252 with 8G of ram running 2.6.16 (which I understood included the skas patch) No, it doesn't if you don't patch it. Add the patch, but you can't run th

Re: [uml-user] Re: (implementation idea) Re: uml and nonstandard memory splits?

2006-03-28 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 28 March 2006 22:02, Jeff Dike wrote: > On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 11:30:05PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: > > That is problem #1, and exists; but when answering I thought to problem > > #2, i.e. that the stub code currently hardcodes the location of the stub > > data page, and that this must

Re: [uml-user] occasional errors on startup

2006-03-28 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 28 March 2006 23:33, David Lang wrote: > I'm getting two types of errors show up once in a while > > 1. occasionally on startup the UML instances report 'unable to open an > Initial console', this is happeing ~10% of the time, but not to the same > uml instance twice in a row. > > host v

[uml-user] occasional errors on startup

2006-03-28 Thread David Lang
I'm getting two types of errors show up once in a while 1. occasionally on startup the UML instances report 'unable to open an Initial console', this is happeing ~10% of the time, but not to the same uml instance twice in a row. host vanilla 2.6.16 (64 bit) AMD_64 8G ram. uml's vanilla 2.6.13

Re: [uml-user] what are the current limits on how many uml's on one host?

2006-03-28 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 28 March 2006 02:16, David Lang wrote: > On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Christopher S. Aker wrote: > > David Lang wrote: > >> what could I do to assist in tracking down what is causing the > >> contention? > > Are you running a skas3-patched host kernel? You didn't mention if you > > were runnin

Re: [uml-user] UML cannot start

2006-03-28 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 28 March 2006 13:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I need to do some experiments with linux kernel and that is why I tried to > use UML. > The trouble is that UML cannot start. It just writes "Killed". I > tried both precompiled binaries Which ones? The stone-age 2.4.19-5 or re

Re: [uml-user] what are the current limits on how many uml's on one host?

2006-03-28 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 28 March 2006 22:28, David Lang wrote: > On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Blaisorblade wrote: > should I be applying the SKAS3 patches? (I can do this for testing, but as > I go into production I'll need to use the vanilla kernels, are these > getting close to being merged?) No, we need to redesig

Re: [uml-user] what are the current limits on how many uml's on one host?

2006-03-28 Thread David Lang
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Blaisorblade wrote: On Tuesday 28 March 2006 01:58, Christopher S. Aker wrote: David Lang wrote: > I upped the pid_max value to 128000 to give me some headroom there (each > of the first 18 uml instances will end up running ~3600 processes when > they finish booting)

Re: [uml-user] what are the current limits on how many uml's on one host?

2006-03-28 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 28 March 2006 01:58, Christopher S. Aker wrote: > David Lang wrote: > > I upped the pid_max value to 128000 to give me some headroom there (each > > of the first 18 uml instances will end up running ~3600 processes when > > they finish booting) > Sounds to me like you're running tho

[uml-user] Re: (implementation idea) Re: uml and nonstandard memory splits?

2006-03-28 Thread Jeff Dike
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 11:30:05PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: > That is problem #1, and exists; but when answering I thought to problem #2, > i.e. that the stub code currently hardcodes the location of the stub data > page, and that this must be fixed; I didn't notice that we must first put the >

Re: [uml-user] what are the current limits on how many uml's on one host?

2006-03-28 Thread David Lang
after things stabilize the results look basicly the same (the exact numbers vary slightly, but the top symbols remain the same should I forward this to linux-kernel as well? David Lang On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, David Lang wrote: rebooting my system with idle=poll and profile=2 I get the following

Re: [uml-user] uml hangs with no errors

2006-03-28 Thread Jeff Dike
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 11:33:21PM -0600, Jack Sparrow wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.6.14.6]# ./linux ubd0=root_fs_slack8.1 > Checking PROT_EXEC mmap in /tmp...OK > Checking for /proc/mm...found > Checking for the skas3 patch in the host...found > UML running in SKAS3 mode Add stderr=1 to the

[uml-user] UML cannot start

2006-03-28 Thread pavelsa
Hello, I need to do some experiments with linux kernel and that is why I tried to use UML. The trouble is that UML cannot start. It just writes "Killed". I tried both precompiled binaries and sources (also with the change 2G/2G address space) or several file systems. Does anybody know what is