Re: [Vserver] please avoid vs2.1.0.5-vs2.1.0.7 ...

From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert_at_13thfloor.at>
Date: Mon 30 Jan 2006 - 00:18:57 GMT
Message-ID: <20060130001857.GA25447@MAIL.13thfloor.at>

On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 09:49:48AM +1000, Anton Umnikov wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 09:37:14 +0100
> Martin Koniczek <martin@koniczek.de> wrote:
> > Mike O'Connor wrote:
> > > So which patch is safe for a 2.6.15 kernel and to the best of knowledge
> > > works correctly ?
> >
> > For this cases, Herbert provided a special Patch Version for 2.1.0.5
> > (just a minor cleanup and the bug mentioned in this thread fixed)
> >
> > http://vserver.13thfloor.at/Experimental/patch-2.6.15-vs2.1.0.5.1.diff
> >
> > (the front page http://linux-vserver.org/ got updated accordingly)
> >
> > It works nice for my test scenarios at least, but it is of course still
> > a patch of the "experimental" tree, and becomes outdated quickly.
> >
> > > I ask this because 2.6.15 is the only stable kernel which as support for
> > > ATA path thought for SATA, which is important for server reliability.
> > >
> > > I suppose the best thing would be someone with more skill then me to
> > > take a stable vs2.0 patch and get it working with the current stable
> > kernel.
> >
> > http://vserver.13thfloor.at/Experimental/patch-2.6.15-vs2.0.1.2.diff
> > is the latest patch of the stable version and is reported to work?

> Yes, it's work, but with some strange events/ For example when I'd
> made piix as module, all PATA disks runned very slow. I'm not sure
> that its vserver related issue. But anyway, it's run:

you probably have to enable DMA and 32bit mode when you
load it as module with something like:

hdparm -c 1 -d 1 -m 16 -u 1 /dev/hd?

> dory:backups# dory:vservers# uname -a
> Linux miskey.ic.dvgu.ru 2.6.15.1-vs2.0.1.2 #6 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jan 26 16:51:24
> VLAT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> miskey:vservers# vst
> CTX PROC VSZ RSS userTIME sysTIME UPTIME NAME
> 0 60 114.3M 37M 35m43s31 42m18s16 2d23h36 root server
> 49153 4 8.3M 3.9M 3m57s25 5m36s20 2d23h36 log
> 49154 11 214.6M 78.3M 20m24s50 2m34s00 2d23h36 tower
> 49155 3 5.4M 2.1M 5m42s78 4m36s93 2d23h36 arc
> 49163 4 8.3M 3.5M 0m00s64 0m00s88 1d18h36 castle

sidenote: better start using static context, the dynamic
ones will go away sooner or later ...

best,
Herbert

> > cu,
> > cohan
> >
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