2.6.8.1-nitro5 "it cleans your breath while it cleans y

teutzz · Guru Joined: 22 Apr 2004 Posts: 333 Location: .ro

i reversed it, staircase 8.0, (it did however had test1 on top of it) (this is what i originally did) and it failed
as for sc_mw can i apply it on top (reversing if necessary) of watermark1 + watermark_diff + watermark2 (applied in that order)?
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sdaffis · Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 1:22 pm Post subject:

Hey, it doesn't clean my teeth.. False advertising!

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teutzz · Guru Joined: 22 Apr 2004 Posts: 333 Location: .ro

@neonik: i think the sc_mw patch did it, i think it was the final piece of the puzzle where as this kernel is concearned... really
as for staircase8.1 i didn't have the guts or patiance to apply it... maybe later if i don't have anything else to do :lol:

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seppe · Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 3:10 pm Post subject:

FYI, I'm creating a new nitro .. this time with voluntary preempt, it's not going to be an easy job. When I applied staircase8.1 against it, I got a lot of failed hunks. I fixed them, and it compiles cleanly .. but I still have to add like 40 other patches or so

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Robin79 · Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 3:47 pm Post subject:

seppe: i will w8 with pleasure for the next nitro!!!! Me loves nitro-sources i aint even using Love anymore cause the nitro is so much more stable than the love (and f**king mm-sources) and the ck patches just speeding up my system so much!
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miseiler · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Mar 2003 Posts: 118

neonik · Guru Joined: 08 Oct 2003 Posts: 501

Con released the new patchset -ck5 with all the fixes for -ck4.
http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.8.1/2.6.8.1-ck5/

miseiler · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Mar 2003 Posts: 118

Couple of things.

First, the s8.0_test1 and s8.0_s8.1 patches (from ck4dev and ck5, respectively) are both meant to patch against the already-applied staircase 8.0. Also, these are the SAME PATCHES...so you don't need to go reversing staircase, then reapplying the "new" patches or whatnot

... If you've already applied the ckdev s8.0_test1 patch, you are already at the newest version of staircase.

Second, the sc_mw patch is meant to be applied to a kernel already using mapped_watermark.diff AND mapped_watermark_fix.diff. I think neonik already mentioned this, but it's worth repeating, I think...if nothing else to clear up any confusion.

So. To assure that you have the latest patchset from ck5 in your nitro5 kernel, you need to apply these patches in the following order:

s8.0_s8.1 OR s8.0_test1
mapped_watermark_fix.diff
sc_mw.diff
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miseiler · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Mar 2003 Posts: 118

Oh, and I have to say the above fixes all problems entirely. I've been abusing my filesystem (compressing, decompressing, tarring, untarring, moving around 500MB files, etc) and according to gkrellm my free memory has never gone under 1/3rd of my total RAM, let alone swapped out. Which, I should add, is exactly what Con said the mapped_watermark business was supposed to do from the beginning :wink:

I am very, very impressed.
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Rainmaker · Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 11:45 pm Post subject:

Well, I took out the mapped and replaced it with mapped_watermark3 (released today

)

It seems to help for my swap issues. I haven't tested it fully, I'll do that tomorrow sometime. At first glance, all looks well, though I must say I still have a lot of harddisk I/O throughput... A LOT less then I had with the default watermark patch, but still a lot compared to 2.6.7-r11

I tried upgrading the staircase scheduler, but couldn't reverse the patch because of failed hunks. I think I could figure them out, but I'm too tired now

. I think I'll keep running this kernel until the next release comes out. Great work!
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st_lim · Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 3:52 am Post subject: Finally, working

Hi,
I initially had the swapping problem, and was thinking that nitro5 was the absolute worst piece of crap.
I finally got all this working. but compiling without 4k stacks. I did patch in the s8.0_8.1, mapped_watermark_fix and sc_mw.diff. and set the low mem kernel patch.

Hope this helps. I think we have sufficient stuff to get nitro 6 up and running??

Ciao
ST Lim

kohno · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 Aug 2004 Posts: 112

Why is that I don't find reiser4 option in this kernel? Some one told me to deselect 4K stack, then it'd appear, but that didn't work for me.

TierMann · n00b Joined: 11 Jul 2004 Posts: 12

The option you may be missing is under Code Maturity Level Options --> "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers". That should be on to view all the "EXPERIMENTAL" options.

Reiser4 will show up regardless of the 4k stack setting because it's only dependant on the "EXPERIMENTAL" (above) setting. It just (with recent versions) won't let you compile with 4k stacks and Reiser4 enabled at the same time.

Hope that helps.

kohno · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 Aug 2004 Posts: 112

TierMann, thank you for your prompt reply, the "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers" is already on, but still I don't see Reiser4. :cry:

Bot24 · n00b Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 27

Will somebody please releave the confusion us Nitro n00b's are having by giving instructions as to how I should get this ck5 patch set into Nitro and then that other stuff too, or updating the ebuild so that we can be lazy.

jewps · n00b Joined: 29 Mar 2004 Posts: 74

Nitro6 should be out soon, should be composed of ck5 and vol pre-empt. Seppe asked me to fix his work-in-progress patch of nitro6 but it was borked so I couldn't work on it. I think we should hold out till 2.6.9 + ck5, whenever Con decides to release some patches for .9.

Sorry I couldn't fix the problems seppe, IMO, we should hold till 2.6.9.

Vide · Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 11:12 am Post subject:

Bot24 · n00b Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 27

To get rid of the ATI stuff were the monitor stops getting a signal, you need to disable DGA. You might need to update to the latest drivers on all your kernels because there is a module component. I have some kernel module option about AGPLock in my xorg.conf because this fixes crashes with Blender, the latest Crystal Space Libs, and resizing windows that contain an overlay a lot.

Did you get ATI drivers working with acceleration on VESAtng? Mine were stuck in low resolution.

Robin79 · Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 6:14 pm Post subject:

Me want the new nitro eheheh

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