On Mon, 2001-11-05 at 01:34, Gonyou, Austin wrote:
> DMAPI Strikes again.
>
> I tested my target system and my Dell 1550 with a kernel that didn't have
> DMAPI in it. Voila!
> All tests, both the Java test and my spew.pl scripts have been working like
> a champ!
> I just removed the append="noapic" from my lilo.conf and now I'm retesting.
> I think it will go
> well there also. Thanks to all the people who've helped me through this.
>
> I've got one last question though. Is there a way to pass a parameter to a
> kernel to turn off
> dmapi at boot time so I don't have to compile a new kernel until I'm able to
> deploy it to all of them?
> Maybe something like append="nodmapi" in lilo.conf? Thanks for your time.
> You all have been especially
> great! I LOVE OSS!
>
>
> --
> Austin Gonyou
> Systems Architect, CCNA
> Coremetrics, Inc.
> Phone: 512-796-9023
> email: austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks for your persistance on looking at this one Austin, oddly enough
we had a dmapi enabled kernel go into a cpu loop last week - in the
write path, but I did not associate the problem with your configuration.
As a rule I would keep dmapi off, it is really no use to anyone who does
not have a dmapi application to run on the filesystem. All it buys you
in any other case is more code getting exected.
Steve
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