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predatorfreak
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 Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 7:10 pm Post subject: 2.6.11.10-dark2: Predator |
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Here's the new release featuring staircase 11.2.
| Quote: | /* dark-sources
* Release: 2.6.11.10-dark2
* Name: Predator
* Apply over: 2.6.11
* Maintainer: predatorfreak
* Highlights: Update staircase to 11.2
* Comments: A tribute to the movie of which my nickname spawns.
*/
/* Dark core (base) */
patch-2.6.11.7.bz2 /* Linux 2.6.11.7 */
patch-2.6.11.7-8.bz2 /* Update 2.6.11.7 to 2.6.11.8 */
patch-2.6.11.8-9.bz2 /* Update 2.6.11.8 to 2.6.11.9 */
patch-2.6.11.9-10.bz2 /* Update 2.6.11.9 to 2.6.11.10 */
patch-ac7.patch /* ac7, minus config_hz and 2.6.11.7 patches */
2.6.11-staircase-10.7.diff /* Staircase 10.7 rediffed for dark */
s10.7_s11-r2.diff /* Update staircase 10.7 to 11, r2 diffed for dark */
s11_s11.1.diff /* Update staircase 11 to 11.1, SMP improvements */
s11.1_s11.2.diff /* Update staircase 11.1 to 11.2, prevents 32-bit overflows */
schedrange.diff /* Infrastructure for more policies */
schediso2.12.diff /* SCHED_ISO for soft realtime scheduling */
schedbatch2.7.diff /* SCHED_BATCH for idle scheduling */
/* Fixes merged from external trees */
2.6.11-ck-scsifix.diff /* SCSI hangfix merged from -ck */
blockdev-mnt-racefix.diff /* blockdev mount race fixes merged from -mm */
buffer-overflow-fixs.diff /* A few minor buffer overflow fixes merged from -mm */
mm-fixes.diff /* Random fixes for files in the mm/ directory merged from -mm */
vmlinux-fix-physical-addrs-all.diff /* Fixes for vmlinux merged from -mm */
properly-share-process-and-session-keyrings-with-clone_thread.patch /* Merged from -mm, rediffed for reject's */
run-softirqs-on-proper-processor-on-offline.patch /* Merged from -mm */
tty-output-lossage-fix.patch /* tty output lossage fix merged from -mm */
cant-unmount-bad-inode.patch /* Unmount fix merged from -mm */
oops-fix.diff /* oops fix merged from -mm */
copy_pte_range-latency-fix.patch /* Minor latency fix merged from -mm */
sys_setpriority-euid-semantics-fix.patch /* Merged from -mm */
mtrr.patch /* mtrr support fixes, merged from -tiny */
2900_alps-tapping.patch /* Merge ALPS tapping fix from gentoo-sources */
/* cfq v3 (cfq-ts) */
cfq-ts-21-rollup.diff /* cfq-ts-21 and fixes from -mm */
isobatch_ionice2.diff /* SCHED_ISO/BATCH ionice values */
rt_ionice.diff /* SCHED_RR ionice value */
/* Additional features */
realtime-lsm.diff /* realtime-lsm, which allows non-root users access to SCHED_RR */
kmalloc-account.patch /* print memory allocation to /proc/kmalloc */
badram-2.6.11.diff /* BadRAM, which works around bad ram spots */
execshield-nx-r1.diff /* execsheild-nx for buffer overflow protection */
mwIII.diff /* Mapped watermark III, merged from -ck */
/* Additional hardware support */
libata-dev-2.6_03-03-2005.patch /* libata-dev snapshot, features new SATA driver's and fixes hdparm support */
sk98lin-8.16.2.3.patch /* Latest version of sk98lin straight from SysKonnect */
skge-netdev-2.6.11-mm4.patch /* SKGE network driver to replace sk98lin, this is considered to be experimental */
/* Other */
irqbal-fast.diff /* irq balance fast merged from -mjb */
slabtune.diff /* slab tuning merged from -mjb */ |
Diff link: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/darkpatches/patch-2.6.11.10-dark2.diff.bz2?download
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martin.k
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| Posted: Sat May 21, 2005 5:22 pm Post subject: |
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I've been testing 2.6.11.10-dark2 the whole day and:
While playing xmms + emerging progs + browsing the web with firefox, the interactivity goes poor. This happens with
heavy CPU loads ~ 90%
Sometimes desktop almost goes stone cold dead... 
I don't know what's the issue. Staircase ?
I'll switch back to 2.6.11-nitro2, she files like an arrow 
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predatorfreak
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| Posted: Sat May 21, 2005 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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| martin.k wrote: | I've been testing 2.6.11.10-dark2 the whole day and:
While playing xmms + emerging progs + browsing the web with firefox, the interactivity goes poor. This happens with
heavy CPU loads ~ 90%
Sometimes desktop almost goes stone cold dead...
I don't know what's the issue. Staircase ?
I'll switch back to 2.6.11-nitro2, she files like an arrow |
staircase works differently depending on where you put it, on my machine, staircase is slicky smooth. It's likely not staircase, but your IO scheduler. I've seen a number of cases where people blame there interactivity on the CPU scheduler, when it's the IO scheduler. I recommend testing out deadline, as and cfq (cfq-ts for dark) and seeing which works better for you. cfq-ts is what I personally use and it provides great interactivity here. Since nitro is based around full ck, it uses cfq-ts by default.
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martin.k
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| Posted: Sat May 21, 2005 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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Tested with various IO schedulers [as][cfq-ts]. It was the first thing to switch to another IO sched when my
desktop started to die. Anticipatory was my default, so I've switched to cfq-ts.
Truth... It maight not be the CPU scheduler case... But then something has happend to IO schedulers between 2.6.11 (my nitro kernel with ck) and 2.6.11.10.
Now my box is back on 2.6.11-nitro2 + [anticipatory]. And as I wrote before - no signs of freezing.
Amarok + kernel compile + firefox... and she flies compared to 2.6.11.10
But I'm a n00b so it may be the case
Maybe it's time for me to switch to genetic-as from Jake Moilanen patchset (I remember that 2.6.9 + genetics was quite fast... But that's Fallow's playground )
Keep up good work predatorfreak!
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predatorfreak
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| Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 6:16 am Post subject: |
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| martin.k wrote: | Tested with various IO schedulers [as][cfq-ts]. It was the first thing to switch to another IO sched when my
desktop started to die. Anticipatory was my default, so I've switched to cfq-ts.
Truth... It maight not be the CPU scheduler case... But then something has happend to IO schedulers between 2.6.11 (my nitro kernel with ck) and 2.6.11.10.
Now my box is back on 2.6.11-nitro2 + [anticipatory]. And as I wrote before - no signs of freezing.
Amarok + kernel compile + firefox... and she flies compared to 2.6.11.10
But I'm a n00b so it may be the case
Maybe it's time for me to switch to genetic-as from Jake Moilanen patchset (I remember that 2.6.9 + genetics was quite fast... But that's Fallow's playground )
Keep up good work predatorfreak! |
No major changes IO wise have taken place in 2.6.11.X, this would conflict with the purpose of the 2.6.X.X tree.
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predatorfreak
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| Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 7:01 pm Post subject: |
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New release in the works, my internet has been flanky lately so I can't promise anything as far as a release date.
Edit: Some changes to the sanity checks in mmap.c caused some minor execshield-nx rejects, test compiling my quick fix now, the quick fix might not work, so, this will require alot of testing.
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| Posted: Sat May 28, 2005 5:52 am Post subject: |
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Running this on my firewall runs great
Great work |
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| 0range wrote: | Running this on my firewall runs great
Great work |
Good to hear and thanks for the complaments.
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