January 2008 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Update problems
by Adam Jimerson 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

YOU is showing a update to the kernel and is shows a recommended KMPS package, when trying to install the kernel update even with the KMPS packages I still get dependency errors. The problems kernel modules seem to be XEN and NDISwrapper related packages. Anyone else having this problem or is it just me? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] gmane test
by jdd 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

since the unsubscribe thing, gmane don't anymore have opensuse posts, unsubscribed??? jdd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse] Raid5/LVM2/XFS alignment
by Greg Freemyer 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Resend now that I'm resubscribed On Jan 31, 2008 2:32 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > On Jan 31, 2008 12:48 PM, Ciro Iriarte <cyruspy(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Just for the record, dealing with a bug that made the raid hang, found > > > > a workaround that also gave me performance boost: "echo 4096 > > > > > /sys/block/md2/md/stripe_cache_size" > > > > > > > > Result: > > > > > > > > mainwks:~ # dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024k count=1000 of=/datos/test > > > > 1000+0 records in > > > > 1000+0 records out > > > > 1048576000 bytes (1,0 GB) copied, 6,78341 s, 155 MB/s > > > > > > > > mainwks:~ # rm /datos/test > > > > > > > > mainwks:~ # dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024k count=20000 of=/datos/test > > > > 20000+0 records in > > > > 20000+0 records out > > > > 20971520000 bytes (21 GB) copied, 199,135 s, 105 MB/s > > > > > > > > Ciro > > > > > > > Ciro, > > > > > > 105 MB/s seems strange to me. I would have expected 75 MB/s or 225MB/ s > > > > > > ie. For normal non-full stripe i/o, it should be 75MB/s * 4 / 4. > > > Where 75MB/sec is what I see for one drive typically, the first 4 is > > > the number of drives that can be doing parallel i/o and the second 4 > > > is the number of i/o's per write. > > > > > > ie. When you do a non-full stripe write, the kernel has to read the > > > old checksum. read the old chunk data, recalc the checksum, write the > > > new chunk data, write the checksum. > > > > > > Out of curiosity, on the dd line, do you get better performance if you > > > set your blocksize to exactly one stripe? ie. 3x 256KB = 768KB > > > stripe. I've read the Linux's raid5 implementation is optimized to > > > handle full stripe write's. > > > > > > ie. Writing 3 chunks produces: Calc new checksum from all new data, > > > Write d1, d2, d3, p so to get 3 256KB chunks to the drive, the kernel > > > ends up invoking 4 256KB writes. > > > > > > Or 75 MB/s * 4 * 3 / 4 = 225 MB / sec > > > > > > If you have everything optimized, I think you should see the same > > > performance with a 2-stripe write. ie. 6x 256KB. If your > > > optimization is wrong, you will see a speed improvement because the > > > alignment between your writes and stripes will be wrong. With the > > > bigger write, you will be guaranteed at least one full stripe write. > > > > > > Thanks > > > Greg > > > -- > > > Greg Freemyer > > > > Well, got this now: > > > > mainwks:~> dd if=/dev/zero of=/datos/test bs=768k count=10000 > > 10000+0 records in > > 10000+0 records out > > 7864320000 bytes (7,9 GB) copied, 63,5425 s, 124 MB/s > > > > mainwks:~> dd if=/dev/zero of=/datos/test2 bs=768k count=20000 > > 20000+0 records in > > 20000+0 records out > > 15728640000 bytes (16 GB) copied, 141,317 s, 111 MB/s > > > > The filesystem is not empty anymore and i had several applications > > running during this test. > > > > Ciro > > > > Ciro, > > 125MB/sec is not half bad for write speed, especially if the system > was busy doing other things. > > Out of curiosity do you mind checking your read speed. ie. dd > if=large_file of=/dev/null bs=768k > > Since you will be using this drive mostly to hold large static files, > the next question is how fast is a normal cp, vs. a dd. > > ie. Since you can optimize the bs with dd, you may want to use dd to > load your large files onto the drive. > > > Greg > -- > Greg Freemyer > Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist > http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer > First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - > http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf > > The Norcross Group > The Intersection of Evidence & Technology > http://www.norcrossgroup.com > -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] USB update
by Carl 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

my dvdrw died. I have about 1.6gb updates in i386. can copy this directory to flash and do an update, as if i had an update disk or do I have to copy it to the HD of the computer being updated? CWSIV -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] USB update
by Carl 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

my dvdrw died. I have about 1.6gb updates in i386. can copy this directory to flash and do an update, as if i had an update disk or do I have to copy it to the HD of the computer being updated? CWSIV -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Update conflict resolution - kernel missing
by Philippe Landau 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Hi Unfortunately while trying to update OpenSuse 10.3 32bit on my AMD Athlon 64 X2 i get a conflict again. And i don't understand the dependencies listed in the warning text below. How would you proceed ? Kind regards Philippe -- #### YaST2 conflicts list - generated 2008-01-30 18:55:54 #### No valid solution found with just resolvables of best architecture. With this run only resolvables with the best architecture have been regarded. Regarding all possible resolvables takes time, but can come to a valid result. Conflict Resolution: ( ) Make a solver run with ALL possibilities. nvidia-gfxG01-kmp-bigsmp cannot be installed due to missing dependencies There are no installable providers of kernel(bigsmp:vmlinux) == c8dd6d0d17d138a0 for nvidia-gfxG01-kmp-bigsmp-169.09_2.6.22.16_0.1-0.1.i586[http://download.nvid… === nvidia-gfxG01-kmp-bigsmp-169.09_2.6.22.16_0.1-0.1.i586[http://download.nvid… === nvidia-gfxG01-kmp-bigsmp-169.09_2.6.22.16_0.1-0.1.i586[http://download.nvid… will be installed by the user. kernel-bigsmp-2.6.22.13-0.3.i586 is needed by nvidia-gfxG01-kmp-bigsmp-169.09_2.6.22.16_0.1-0.1.i586[http://download.nvid… (kernel-bigsmp == 2.6.22.13-0.3) nvidia-gfxG01-kmp-bigsmp-169.09_2.6.22.16_0.1-0.1.i586[http://download.nvid… is needed by x11-video-nvidiaG01-169.09-0.1.i586[http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/10.… (nvidia-gfxG01-kmp == 169.09_2.6.22.16_0.1) (null) Conflict Resolution: ( ) do not install nvidia-gfxG01-kmp-bigsmp ( ) Ignore this requirement just here #### YaST2 conflicts list END ### -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] compiz-fusion all white screen after 2.6.22.16-0.1 + nvidia-gfxG01-kmp-default-169.09_2.6.22.16_0.1-0.1
by Nate Pearlstein 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

I don't speak for SGI in this forum. So I upgraded the kernel and nvidia on my workstation this morning. Now compiz-fusion turns the screen completely white. I had tried some of the suggestions for the nvidia black window problem a while back and even now after backing those out I still get a white screen. What is good data to collect to get to the bottom of this? Anything besides the obvious, xorg.conf nvidia model and rpms installed? -- Sent from my wired giant hulking workstation Nate Pearlstein - npearl(a)sgi.com - Product Support Engineer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Problem when update openSUSE 10.3 in new installation
by Jose Thadeu Cavalcante 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Hi, I installed openSUSE 10.3 in my new computer without problem, but I'm had problem to update it, because yast find a checksum error for patch-fetchmsttfonts.sh-4347.xml and so no package is showed for this repositories. I have others machines (oldiest) and in all yast find that error but I see no problem with that to get packages from that repositories. Regards, Thadeu -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] ATI and current kernel update
by Wolfgang Rosenauer 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Hi, and once more I have issues with the latest ATI driver :-( ati-fglrxG01-kmp-default-8.45.4_2.6.22.16_0.1-0.2 x11-video-fglrxG01-8.45.4-0.2 kernel-default-2.6.22.16-0.1 dmesg is telling me: [fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.45.4 [Jan 16 2008] on minor 0 [fglrx:firegl_cail_init] *ERROR* CAIL: CAILEarlyASICInit failed, error 1 [fglrx:firegl_init_asic] *ERROR* Failed to initialize ASIC. [fglrx:drm_vmalloc] *ERROR* [mempages] Allocating 0 bytes [fglrx:firegl_init_pcie] *ERROR* failed to alloc pagelist of size 00 [fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.45.4 [Jan 16 2008] on minor 0 [fglrx:firegl_cail_init] *ERROR* CAIL: CAILEarlyASICInit failed, error 1 [fglrx:firegl_init_asic] *ERROR* Failed to initialize ASIC. [fglrx:drm_vmalloc] *ERROR* [mempages] Allocating 0 bytes [fglrx:firegl_init_pcie] *ERROR* failed to alloc pagelist of size 00 Xorg.0.log has: (EE) fglrx(0): Failed to initialize ASIC in kernel. (EE) fglrx(0): [pcie] Failed to gather memory of size 262144Kb for PCIe. Error (-1014) (EE) fglrx(0): atiddxDriScreenInit failed, GPS not been initialized. (WW) fglrx(0): *********************************************** (WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed! * (WW) fglrx(0): * (maybe driver kernel module missing or bad) * (WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO) * (WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available * (WW) fglrx(0): ********************************************* * Is that any issue on my side or just a broken ATI driver again? Thanks, Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Fresh 10.3 -- 1-click install of nvidia driver fails with dependency conflict
by Wolfgang Woehl 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Hi, The 1-click-install http://opensuse-community.org/nvidia.ymp from http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA fails here with a dependency check error (see the screenshot at http://picpaste.com/pics/nvidia-dependency_conflict-20080128.1201541942.png) I merely wanted to ask if this is a known hiccup in repositories at the moment. Thanks. Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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