Package: udev Version: 0.050-6 Severity: normal I am using udev on my Alphastation 500/500 with nobse's kernel 2.6.10.
Looking into df -h shows: none 5,0M 5,0M 0 100% /dev and udev does not work anymore. The interesting thing is: if you create a file in /dev and echo something in it - no error occurs. After that the file is empty (bug in tmpfs?) Looking through /dev/.udevdb which uses the whole space according to "du", I see about 650 files with each about 20 to 40 bytes. On an Atlon box I have the same .udevdb using a lot of fewer memory (about 1/8). This is caused by the kernel page size on alpha machines which is 8192 Bytes, on athlon I think it is 1024 Bytes (correct? /proc/cpuinfo does not show this). Each 20 Byte file so uses a page of 8192 Bytes *RAM* - not good. I raised the maximum size in /etc/udev/udev.conf to 8 MB. Now df-h shows: none 8,0M 5,3M 2,8M 66% /dev udev now works but about 4.5 MB of RAM are wasted in comparison to x86 There are 3 solutions: * raise the default maximum size of /dev in the udev.conf to a higher level (this eats up no ram if for example limit ist very much higher but safe) for alpha machines and other high-pagesize-processors - 4.5 MB of RAM wasted * move udevdb elsewhere - speed issues * rewrite udev to save the udevdb in a large file (best solution) - but this is not Debian's issue. -- Package-specific info: -- /etc/udev/rules.d/: /etc/udev/rules.d/: insgesamt 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2005-01-07 18:54 cd-aliases.rules -> ../cd-aliases.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2005-01-07 18:54 udev.rules -> ../udev.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2005-02-01 00:53 z_hal-plugdev.rules -> ../hal.rules -- /sys/: /sys/block/dm-0/dev /sys/block/fd0/dev /sys/block/ram0/dev /sys/block/ram10/dev /sys/block/ram11/dev /sys/block/ram12/dev /sys/block/ram13/dev /sys/block/ram14/dev /sys/block/ram15/dev /sys/block/ram1/dev /sys/block/ram2/dev /sys/block/ram3/dev /sys/block/ram4/dev /sys/block/ram5/dev /sys/block/ram6/dev /sys/block/ram7/dev /sys/block/ram8/dev /sys/block/ram9/dev /sys/block/sda/dev /sys/block/sda/sda1/dev /sys/block/sda/sda2/dev /sys/block/sda/sda3/dev /sys/block/sda/sda4/dev /sys/block/sda/sda5/dev /sys/block/sdb/dev /sys/block/sdc/dev /sys/block/sr0/dev /sys/class/input/event0/dev /sys/class/input/mice/dev /sys/class/misc/device-mapper/dev /sys/class/misc/psaux/dev /sys/class/printer/lp0/dev /sys/class/scsi_generic/sg0/dev /sys/class/scsi_generic/sg1/dev /sys/class/scsi_generic/sg2/dev /sys/class/scsi_generic/sg3/dev -- Kernel configuration: isapnp_init not present. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: alpha Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-generic Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages udev depends on: ii hotplug 0.0.20040329-16 Linux Hotplug Scripts ii initscripts 2.86.ds1-1 Standard scripts needed for bootin ii libc6.1 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii makedev 2.3.1-75 Creates device files in /dev ii sed 4.1.2-8 The GNU sed stream editor -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
