Advogato blog for marcelo

29 Jun 2000

Thu, 29 Jun 2000 00:59:34 GMT

Had a headache tonight. Because of that, I didnt went to school and slept until 10h. Woke up, logged in, and tried Andrea's "backport" of balance_dirty() from 2.4 to 2.2.17pre6. I was right yesterday when I said "maybe we still can make I/O a bit faster". With Andrea's patch, I was able to get 21MB/sec with dbench (48 processes) , against 17MB/sec of 2.2.16pre9. After lunch, ported this patch and sent to linux-kernel. Also I came up with a solution (which does not affect performance) to the problem were a process would wait on IO completion to free a buffer page while there is freeable cache around, pointed by Andrea.

28 Jun 2000

Wed, 28 Jun 2000 01:01:11 GMT

Upgraded my machine to Conectiva Linux 5.1 and XFree 4 to the latest CVS stuff, now I have accents working on it. (thanks to our local XFree hacker). Tested a bit more 2.2.17pre8 VM, maybe we still can make I/O a bit faster. Spent some time on userbeans, file descriptor charging is now working. Also translated elvtune man page to portuguese.

10 May 2000

Wed, 10 May 2000 22:56:26 GMT

More work on 2.2.15 kernel RPM. Released the first version of it for CLS 5.1 Beta. Also almost finised 2.2.15 RPM update for 4.2, 4.0, 5.0 (just a few bits of working to get it done, tomorrow). VIA82cxxx sound card worked on 2.3, tomorrow i hope to do the backport to 2.2. Unfortunately 3c90x driver from 3Com is borked wrt SMP according to Alan.

10 May 2000

Wed, 10 May 2000 00:14:20 GMT

Usual school day. I've been working on the kernel RPM for Conectiva Linux 5.1 this afternoon. Almost finished the update 2.2.15 RPM for other distribution versions. Cleaned the two HA machines and my two test machines _and_ my table. Now with two 2-box clusters we can test HA stuff without screaming "Hey, anyone using the machines?" all the time. Added 512mb of memory to plucky (it had 64mb). Unfortunately one 256mb chip was broken. Tomorrow 1 gig should be arriving so Rik can test his VM stuff with highmem.

11 Apr 2000

Tue, 11 Apr 2000 00:28:07 GMT

<diary lame> The previous diary entry is for 9 April 2000 </diary lame> Woke up 6:10 with Rik making the sound explode with Jimi Hendrix. Went to school, everything proceeded as always there. In the afternoon i found one SMP bug in drbd and now it seems to be SMP safe. Applied the yesterday patch to drbd-CVS, modified it a bit and sent both patches to Philipp. Started to apply by hand my heartbeat per-link status patch against heartbeat-CVS. I will finish this tomorrow, along with more changes i have in mind.

11 Apr 2000

Tue, 11 Apr 2000 00:04:52 GMT

Woke up 8:00, read email and found a bug in the drbd timeout handlers. Around 13:00 walked with Rik to a churrascaria near here. Damn sun. The meat paradise was completly busy, though we dont had to way more than 5min. After meat and a nbd-over swap talk with Rik we came back walking. Fucking sun. Watched "Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii" video again, those guys are good. Walked a bit throught the garden (its almost a jungle) in the back of my house. Fixed the bug i found in the morning, sent the patch to Philipp, and slept.

2 Apr 2000

Sun, 2 Apr 2000 01:37:53 GMT

Woke up 8:00, jumped into my father's car and slept there until 9:30 when we arrived at my family's farm. Then i went to the farm house and slept until 12:00. Woke up again, ate a pile of (excellent) meat (churrasco) and helped some guys removing rocks from a water fountain to do an artificial lake there (this one is going to be cool when ready). After that, me and Rik started to "climb" (40 degrees) a big mountain (for .br padrons). The sun was a pain in the ass. After around 3 hours we returned (almost dead) and i had the stupid idea of showing Rik raw jungle. After around 200m throught it and 10 spider web's in my face, we got stuck and had to return. Came back home, wrote my diary and kissed the bed.