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From: r...@astro.ocis.temple.edu (r...@astro.ocis.temple.edu)
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Subject: How stable is Linux?
Date: 10 Jun 1994 04:49:54 GMT
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What is the likelyhood of a crash every week, every month or what ever?
Is Linux bullet-proof and crash-proof like XENIX? How buggy is it?
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From: iii...@uk.ac.swan.pyr (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: How stable is Linux?
Message-ID: <1994Jun10.100053.5546@uk.ac.swan.pyr>
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In article <2t8rdi$...@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> r...@astro.ocis.temple.edu
(r...@astro.ocis.temple.edu) writes:
>
>What is the likelyhood of a crash every week, every month or what ever?
>Is Linux bullet-proof and crash-proof like XENIX? How buggy is it?
By my experience without a lot of networking its as bullet proof as good ole
Xenix was. With networking I'm normally getting reports of 5 day - 2 week
uptimes with some people getting months and a few people having problems.
My target with the networking code is to be as reliable as SunOS 4.1.3 is
on our Sun's. Nine month uptimes are good news, although I doubt most PC
hardware is up to that without some kind of flake out or device crash.
Alan
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Subject: BUG ? read/write on shared memory in 1.1.2x
Date: 30 Jun 1994 09:30:51 GMT
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Hello developers,
i have some serious problems with ipc/sockets.
When I allocate a shared memory block with
shmget/shmat and try a write/read on a buffer
in this memory it works fine under 1.0.0
but spites on it with a
write: Bad address
when I use kernel 1.1.20 - 1.1.24.
I have no problems accessing the shared memory
in C-code (no segment-violation).
Any clues are greatly appreciated. Please mail me
any comments. (I am on vacation for 2 weeks from
now on and the articles would expire in my news-feed)
Thanks in advance,
Michael
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From: a...@loach.cichlid.com (Andy Burgess)
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Subject: Re: BUG ? read/write on shared memory in 1.1.2x
Date: 5 Jul 1994 23:35:12 -0700
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In <2uu3cb$...@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> b...@rog.rwth-aachen.de
(Michael Bartmann) writes:
>i have some serious problems with ipc/sockets.
>When I allocate a shared memory block with
>shmget/shmat and try a write/read on a buffer
>in this memory it works fine under 1.0.0
>but spites on it with a
>write: Bad address
>when I use kernel 1.1.20 - 1.1.24.
>I have no problems accessing the shared memory
>in C-code (no segment-violation).
>Any clues are greatly appreciated. Please mail me
>any comments. (I am on vacation for 2 weeks from
>now on and the articles would expire in my news-feed)
Well I'm not on vacation and I'm having the same problem. I'm using the
buffer program (comp.sources.misc/volume38) which double buffers using
shared memory (to keep your tape streaming).
Worked in 1.1.19, 1.1.24 gives:
loach:aab % buffer
buffer: failed to read input: Bad address
buffer: failed to attach shared memory: Invalid argument
Then after a few times gives:
loach:aab % buffer
buffer: failed to read input: Bad address
internal error, lock id 256
buffer: lock error: Identifier removed
Any ideas? I did ask for the SysV stuff and load sharing during make config.
Thanks
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From: iii...@uk.ac.swan.pyr (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: BUG ? read/write on shared memory in 1.1.2x
Message-ID: <1994Jul6.151903.13103@uk.ac.swan.pyr>
Keywords: bug ipc kernel socket
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In article <2vdjb0...@loach.cichlid.com> a...@loach.cichlid.com
(Andy Burgess) writes:
>In <2uu3cb$...@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> b...@rog.rwth-aachen.de
(Michael Bartmann) writes:
>Well I'm not on vacation and I'm having the same problem. I'm using the
>buffer program (comp.sources.misc/volume38) which double buffers using
>shared memory (to keep your tape streaming).
>
>Worked in 1.1.19, 1.1.24 gives:
>
>loach:aab % buffer
>buffer: failed to read input: Bad address
>buffer: failed to attach shared memory: Invalid argument
1.1.20 + are buggy - they are ALPHA test kernels for a reason. I suspect once
Linus is back this will get fixed.
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From: m...@loki.muc.de (Michael Lausch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development
Subject: Re: BUG ? read/write on shared memory in 1.1.2x
Date: 10 Jul 1994 23:06:05 +0200
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In article <1994Jul6.151903.13...@uk.ac.swan.pyr>,
Alan Cox <iii...@uk.ac.swan.pyr> wrote:
>In article <2vdjb0...@loach.cichlid.com> a...@loach.cichlid.com
(Andy Burgess) writes:
>>In <2uu3cb$...@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> b...@rog.rwth-aachen.de
(Michael Bartmann) writes:
>>Well I'm not on vacation and I'm having the same problem. I'm using the
>>buffer program (comp.sources.misc/volume38) which double buffers using
>>shared memory (to keep your tape streaming).
>>
>>Worked in 1.1.19, 1.1.24 gives:
>>
>>loach:aab % buffer
>>buffer: failed to read input: Bad address
>>buffer: failed to attach shared memory: Invalid argument
>
>1.1.20 + are buggy - they are ALPHA test kernels for a reason. I suspect once
>Linus is back this will get fixed.
>
>Alan
>
Okay here is a quick and dirty patch to repair this. I posted it to
the kernel channel, but my internet connection is currently rather
unreliable. IMHO the shared memory should be included in the
vm_area_struct list of a process. Why isn't it? Is there a reason i've
missed?
Patch
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From: torva...@cc.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds)
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Subject: Re: BUG ? read/write on shared memory in 1.1.2x
Date: 13 Jul 1994 00:23:30 +0300
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In article <2vpnrt$...@loki.muc.de>, Michael Lausch <m...@loki.muc.de> wrote:
>In article <1994Jul6.151903.13...@uk.ac.swan.pyr>,
>Alan Cox <iii...@uk.ac.swan.pyr> wrote:
>>In article <2vdjb0...@loach.cichlid.com> a...@loach.cichlid.com
(Andy Burgess) writes:
>>>In <2uu3cb$...@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> b...@rog.rwth-aachen.de
(Michael Bartmann) writes:
>>>Well I'm not on vacation and I'm having the same problem. I'm using the
>>>buffer program (comp.sources.misc/volume38) which double buffers using
>>>shared memory (to keep your tape streaming).
>>>
>>>Worked in 1.1.19, 1.1.24 gives:
>>>
>>>loach:aab % buffer
>>>buffer: failed to read input: Bad address
>>>buffer: failed to attach shared memory: Invalid argument
>>
>>1.1.20 + are buggy - they are ALPHA test kernels for a reason. I suspect once
>>Linus is back this will get fixed.
>>
>>Alan
>>
>Okay here is a quick and dirty patch to repair this. I posted it to
>the kernel channel, but my internet connection is currently rather
>unreliable. IMHO the shared memory should be included in the
>vm_area_struct list of a process. Why isn't it? Is there a reason i've
>missed?
I just forgot about the shared mem stuff, but it should be ok now in
version 1.1.27. The sysv shared memory is still a rather non-integrated
piece of work, so I just used the minimal vm_area_struct stuff there,
but I'll get around to fixing that properly some other time (or somebody
else will, which is even better :-)
Linus
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From: pa...@to.sem.it (Paolo Zeppegno)
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Subject: Where has Stephen Tweedie gone??
Date: 22 Jun 1994 13:30:48 +0200
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Having been a Linuxer from the 0.12 days, and having spent too much time
reading the mailing lists and newsgroups, I see some people in the Linux
world come, do LOTS of very important stuff and then disappear. One of
the people that really contributed to the linux movement is Stephen Tweedie
While I have nothing to say about the reasons why he doesn't seem to be
with us anymore (maybe a marriage???) there is one thing he promised to
work on that I really would like to see, that is support for a compressed
filesystem. (I know about DOUBLE).
What happened in this year??
(One other project I would like to know more about is the porting of
the Sprite/BSD4.4 log structured filesys "lfs"). Now that 4.4bsd is
available, is anybody working on it? I'm wondering how easy would be
to do some experience porting lfs under userfs to start playing with
it in userland.
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From: rsand...@mindspring.com (Robert Sanders)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development
Subject: Re: Where has Stephen Tweedie gone??
Date: 23 Jun 1994 04:02:57 GMT
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In article <2u97d8$...@pianosa.to.sem.it> pa...@to.sem.it (Paolo Zeppegno)
writes:
While I have nothing to say about the reasons why he doesn't seem to be
with us anymore (maybe a marriage???) there is one thing he promised to
work on that I really would like to see, that is support for a compressed
filesystem. (I know about DOUBLE).
I think his job's gotten extremely busy; at least that's the rumor.
Also, Stephen spent a lot of time chasing and fixing a couple of
long-lived subtle bugs in all the Linux filesystems, and that's
exactly the sort of unrewarding work that will put someone off
volunteer work for a while.
Stephen's a great guy, but he's not the only one of us who's capable
of writing a compressed filesystem. If you really want to see, and
you're a competene programmer, here's your chance to learn a lot about
kernel internals.
(One other project I would like to know more about is the porting of
the Sprite/BSD4.4 log structured filesys "lfs"). Now that 4.4bsd is
available, is anybody working on it? I'm wondering how easy would be
to do some experience porting lfs under userfs to start playing with
it in userland.
Well, Remy Card recently said that as soon as he could get the code
for anon. ftp, he'd work at porting it. I think this may require some
enhancements to Linux's VFS, among other things, so it's likely to be
a big project; I'm sure Remy would appreciate some help. As for when
4.4BSD will be available for anon. ftp, nobody seems to want to make
it available because of the guaranteed ftp storm. FreeBSD will
probably have some of the 4.4BSD code incorporated soon (they have to
because of the USL lawsuit), but there's no telling when. Several
months, at least.
-- Robert
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From: iii...@uk.ac.swan.pyr (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: Where has Stephen Tweedie gone??
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rsand...@mindspring.com (Robert Sanders) writes:
>enhancements to Linux's VFS, among other things, so it's likely to be
>a big project; I'm sure Remy would appreciate some help. As for when
>4.4BSD will be available for anon. ftp, nobody seems to want to make
>it available because of the guaranteed ftp storm. FreeBSD will
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From: c...@masi.ibp.fr (Remy CARD)
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In article <RSANDERS.94Jun23000...@hrothgar.mindspring.com>,
Robert Sanders <rsand...@mindspring.com> wrote:
] I think his job's gotten extremely busy; at least that's the rumor.
] Also, Stephen spent a lot of time chasing and fixing a couple of
] long-lived subtle bugs in all the Linux filesystems, and that's
] exactly the sort of unrewarding work that will put someone off
] volunteer work for a while.
I can't speak for Stephen but I think that he is overloaded with
work and could not work much on the Linux kernel during the last months.
] Stephen's a great guy, but he's not the only one of us who's capable
] of writing a compressed filesystem. If you really want to see, and
] you're a competene programmer, here's your chance to learn a lot about
] kernel internals.
You're right but any volunteer should check with Stephen by e-mail
to avoid duplicating efforts, just in case.
] Well, Remy Card recently said that as soon as he could get the code
] for anon. ftp, he'd work at porting it. I think this may require some
] enhancements to Linux's VFS, among other things, so it's likely to be
] a big project; I'm sure Remy would appreciate some help. As for when
] 4.4BSD will be available for anon. ftp, nobody seems to want to make
] it available because of the guaranteed ftp storm. FreeBSD will
] probably have some of the 4.4BSD code incorporated soon (they have to
] because of the USL lawsuit), but there's no telling when. Several
] months, at least.
I already have LFS since it is now included in NetBSD current.
I have taken a look at the LFS code and porting it to Linux is far from
trivial. Like FFS, LFS relies on the BSD VFS and buffer cache features
and there is a lot of work to do to make it fit in the Linux kernel.
BTW, I have been overloaded with work too (actually, the whole
set of ext2fs programmers have been recently :-() and I won't be able to
work on it in the next weeks (next week is the Linux Conference in
Heidelberg and I had to work a lot to prepare the FS presentations).
After I come back from Germany, I will look into LFS again and
I'll try to incorporate it in Linux.
] -- Robert
Remy