2.6.13.2-nitro1 "Down with latency!'

1U · Guru Joined: 21 Jul 2005 Posts: 319

You have a good point about installing a new kernel, but it's really not that hard. I think if enough fixes and updates were made to this one it would justify a new realease. After all, 13 had nitro1-5 so just a second version couldn't hurt.

Also, the 2.6.13.2 thing is a bit redundant. It's almost like how some developers have "program 5.1.6.19.823.62 build 1592496010234234". You and tiger should agree on a standard for naming the releases, I think kernel.version-nitroX is good enough, no need for extra -rcx or .x and etc.

Zyne · Guru Joined: 08 Jun 2004 Posts: 334

miedo95 · Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 2:37 pm Post subject: Re: Problem resolved!!!

a13x · Apprentice Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Posts: 215

The logo is broken in this release. Just disable it and it will work. Or ... wait for the next relase.

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satanskin · Guru Joined: 25 Apr 2005 Posts: 353

Wow. I've noticed this release is a bit sluggish. Especially when switching between open windows. I don't know if this is the problem with the swapping you are talking about, but it is rather annoying. I still have half a gig of ram free and a 64-bit processor so it shouldn't be hardware limitations.

Robin79 · Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 5:33 pm Post subject:

hmm i tried to compile and gets this anyone?

jurrie · Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 6:00 pm Post subject:

Robin79 · Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 6:20 pm Post subject:

dam Juyrrie

i tought you had a answer to my problem so i fast looked back to this thread ;

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tagwar · Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 7:48 pm Post subject: daaaamnn... this is soooo cool..

sorry, if you're already running this kernel, you probably already noticed, so this is for all those who're wondering if it is worth the trouble to install this wonderful thing...

I just got back to my laptop (1.3ghz pentium m), started up firefox, checked my mail, all the "normal" stuff one does... then I did a "ps ax" cause I wondered about the pid of a process I just started... well, what I saw realy interesting... emerge was running and compiling the new firefox... I mean... normaly my system got quite a bit unresponsible when doing big compiles.. now I didn't even notice... :-)

funny... and yes, I'm absolutely sure that it is still the same laptop... :-)

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bbkr · n00b Joined: 04 Jul 2005 Posts: 22

works fine.

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massimo · Veteran Joined: 22 Jun 2003 Posts: 1226

I upgraded my kernel on my home desktop pc (Athlon XP 3200, 1GB, GF6600) from 2.6.12-nitro5 to this one as well as at my office's desktop (Dell Optiplex GX-280 - P4 3GHz ht and smp enabled, 512MB, intel onboardgfx). At home I've one GB of RAM and at my office "only" 512 MB of RAM, which since I've upgraded to this kernel was leading to out of memory errors at the desktop pc at my office -> applications are killed automatically (randomly?) too free up some mem. I'm running a few memory intensive Java applications, so the 512MB RAM are used up very fast. There are just a few architectural and network .config differences, so I really didn't try to change any settings there. This happens although there is enough swapable memory (total ~ 800MB). So at my office I'm back on 2.6.12-nitro5. I'm just curious if anybody else did experience something like that. If anybody knows what to do to resolve this issue with 2.6.13.2-nitro1 I'd appreciate your suggestions.
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bollucks · l33t Joined: 27 Oct 2004 Posts: 606

Disable swap prefetch. It was clearly marked as experimental and was under heavy development. The version in this nitro kernel is known broken.

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XioXouS · n00b Joined: 01 Apr 2005 Posts: 59

well i was gonna wait for nitro2, but i had so homework to put off, so seemed like the perfect time to upgrade kernels

aside from one issue, looking good so far

i applied the logo fix and libata patch mentioned earlier, the ck5 patch to see if there was a difference at all with swap prefetching - think i'm gonna turn it back off completely though, just doesn't seem to be much need, and i also got l7-filters working (2.0.0_beta)

vmware, fglrx, emu10k1 (external alsa), all work normally so far, although fglrx seemed a little slow just in comparison to previous glxgear runs, but the important stuff like ut run fine

alright problem is this, I try to put my laptop to sleep, which has worked great for over a year now, but still one of the first things I check with a new kernel, and I get this nasty message. It's got LVM2 with several Reiser4 partitions, one of which seem to be the failure(s). Can anyone enlighten me at all about these messages? Thanks.

aenertia · Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 10:10 am Post subject: PCMCIA-CS Fixed in this version?

Hi there I have been using .12-nitro5 in both my Opteron Server/Workstation and in A machine upstairs which is p4 based. I have never been able to emerge pcmcia-cs (the cardmgr tools) with nitro5.

I am just about to image the p4 machine to send to my partner who has a p4 laptop. And I need to get those pesky pcmcia-cs tools workin with nitro-5. Can someone let me know if this new e-build works. And anyone who has been using the cardbus succesfully with nitro5.

Kind regards

Joel W (Ænertia)
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aenertia · Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 10:14 am Post subject:

I also noticed that my free memory doesn't go below 300Mb, while I have ~1Gb in swap. I never had more than 2-300Mb in swap (for 1Gb of RAM).[/quote]

You should never have more than 5% of memory free if the kernel is doing a good job. Basically all good kernels will ramp up to 100% useage after a while, then drop down to around 97%. The key is looking at how much of that 97% is cached... it should be around 30% odd. This is good.

More free mem != a good thing, and is a sign that somthing is not working right.
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