Re: [uml-devel] Re: [uml-user] uml help __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0xf0/0)

2005-03-17 Thread Paul Warren
On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 04:13:37PM -0300, itamar wrote: > In the host I have 512 mb of ram > > I am running the guest kernel with mem=256M > Do you make significant use of hostfs filesystems? Paul --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Produc

Re: [uml-user] Beginner - Does not boot into UML

2005-03-16 Thread Paul Warren
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 01:30:41PM -0500, Joel Land wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] umlfs]# ./linux > ubd0=/umlfs/root_fs.fc-2-client.pristine.20040504 > Checking for the skas3 patch in the host...found > Checking for /proc/mm...found > Checking PROT_EXEC mmap in /tmp...OK [...] > Initializing stdio con

Re: [uml-user] lasted 2.4 kernel patch

2005-03-16 Thread Paul Warren
I was about to ask the same. We're having trouble building a stable 2.4.29. We were trying 2.4.29 + the uml-patch-2.4.27-1.bz2 from the main UML web-site (plus an additional patch to fix a kernel stack overflow bug). Unfortunately it seems that hostfs operations leak memory. So we've just gone f

Re: [uml-user] odd swapping issue

2005-02-28 Thread Paul Warren
rgc, char** argv) { calloc(100,1024*1024); sleep(100); return 0; } Will attempt to allocate 100MB of RAM. The second line of output from "free" will give you a much better indication of how much RAM is available before it will start swapping. Paul > On Sun, 2

Re: [uml-user] odd swapping issue

2005-02-27 Thread Paul Warren
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 05:06:46PM -0600, Jason Clark wrote: > I have recently seen an increase in traffic to one of my sites that is > hosted using UML. Previously, I had allocated 128Megs of RAM and 1 gig of > swap to each UML, but I never got close to touching the swap file. It > always rema

Re: [uml-user] Networking Problem

2005-02-21 Thread Paul Warren
Hi Greg, On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 07:50:53PM +, Greg Furlong wrote: > I have been attempting to set up a network in UML using TUN/TAP > I booted my UML using Linux ubd0=file_system eth0=tuntap,,,host-ipaddress > I ran the command ifconfig eth0 host-ipaddress up OK - that's wrong. The addres

Re: [uml-user] tempfs (was: no. of UMLs)

2005-02-09 Thread Paul Warren
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 09:08:08AM -0800, Anthony Brock wrote: > >>> Paul Warren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/09/05 07:12AM >>> > > Right, but the memory is mmapped to that file. My understanding is > that > > the memory will only be synced with the disk wh

Re: [uml-user] tempfs (was: no. of UMLs)

2005-02-09 Thread Paul Warren
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 03:20:11PM +0100, Hegedus Gabor wrote: > 2005-02-09, sze keltezéssel 14:13-kor Paul Warren ezt írta: > > On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 02:59:50PM +0100, Andreas Wohlfeld wrote: > > > Patch your host with skas and see that the temp files go to a tempfs > >

Re: [uml-user] no. of UMLs

2005-02-09 Thread Paul Warren
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 02:59:50PM +0100, Andreas Wohlfeld wrote: > Patch your host with skas and see that the temp files go to a tempfs > mount point (or mount /tmp with tempfs). This will make things a lot > faster. Can someone tell me what the tempfs trick achieves? My understanding was that i

Re: [uml-user] no. of UMLs

2005-02-09 Thread Paul Warren
Adil, I have replied only to the -user list, as this is the appropriate forum for such questions. > is there any limit on the number of UMLs can be run at a time on a single > machine. > > My machine configuration is: > RAM 512 MB > hard disk 80 GB > Pentium 4 > > but when i run more than 4 U

[uml-user] Re: [uml-devel] bridge query

2005-01-07 Thread Paul Warren
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 08:42:30PM +0530, Adil Mujeeb, Noida wrote: > >If you do not add the host interface to the bridge, then guests > >connected to the bridge will not have access to the external network. > >In order for the bridge to pass packets to particular networks (e.g. the > >ethernet ne

[uml-user] Re: [uml-devel] bridge query

2005-01-07 Thread Paul Warren
[ follow up to -user only ] On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 08:25:58PM +0530, Adil Mujeeb, Noida wrote: > what is the use of attaching the host interface in the bridge? Without > attaching the host interface in the bridge we can simply bring down the host > interface with ip 0.0.0.0 & assign the host int

Re: [uml-user] 2.6.9-bb problems

2004-12-06 Thread Paul Warren
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 12:32:25AM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: > On Monday 06 December 2004 22:39, Paul Warren wrote: > > I'm trying to compile a 2.6.9 guest kernel. The vanilla 2.6.9 works > > fine, but with bb2, bb3, and bb4, the kernel hangs as it starts: > > > &

[uml-user] 2.6.9-bb problems

2004-12-06 Thread Paul Warren
I'm trying to compile a 2.6.9 guest kernel. The vanilla 2.6.9 works fine, but with bb2, bb3, and bb4, the kernel hangs as it starts: # ./vmlinux Checking for /proc/mm...found Checking for the skas3 patch in the host...found Checking PROT_EXEC mmap in /tmp...OK [ needs to be CTRL-Ced here ] This