[PATCH RFC] sched/rt: preserve global runtime/period ratio in do_balance_runtime()

RT throttling aims to prevent starvation of non-SCHED_FIFO threads when a rogue RT thread is hogging the CPU. It does so by piggybacking on the rt_bandwidth system and allocating at most rt_runtime per rt_period to SCHED_FIFO tasks (e.g. 950ms out ...

Message posted on the May 21st, 2013 - 5:40 PM ET

Bug#704480: dh-make-perl: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Dependency.pm line 157.

I have a reliable reproduction for this bug: # dh-make-perl --cpan Net::Domain::ExpireDate Going to read '/root/.cpan/Metadata' Database was generated on Mon, 20 May 2013 07:41:03 GMT CPAN: Digest::SHA loaded ok (v5.61) Checksum for ...

Message posted on the May 21st, 2013 - 08:30 am ET

Iceweasel run-lock stuck

Dear Debianistas, Up to date Wheezy, I can't start Iceweasel. Every time I try it gives an error, "Iceseasel is already running and not responding. Stop the existing session or reboot." Trouble is, there isn't any running Iceweasel, and ...

Message posted on the May 21st, 2013 - 07:40 am ET

[PATCH] rcu: fix a race in hlist_nulls_for_each_entry_rcu macro

Hi, all! This is a fix for a problem described here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/16/371 . Some network functions (udp4_lib_lookup2(), for instance) use the hlist_nulls_for_each_entry_rcu macro in a way that assumes restarting of a loop. In this ...

Message posted on the May 21st, 2013 - 05:20 am ET

Bug#708169: kde-config-gtk-style: "Show Icons in GTK menus" is read incorrectly from current configuration - fixed upstream

Hi, this bug actually had already been fixed upstream when I reported it, it just hasn't been merged to master: https://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/base/kde-gtk-config/repository/revisions/8f23071c6e7719970be9383246df8f321131048b Another ...

Message posted on the May 21st, 2013 - 04:40 am ET

Advanced Drop-down Menu

I am trying to incorporate data from another sheet from the same file into a drop-down choice on a menu constructed on the last page of the file. I am using Excel 2007 btw. I'm looking to have 3 different choices. The file is DCF financial model ...

Message posted on the May 21st, 2013 - 12:45 am ET

[PATCH 0/5 v2] VFIO PPC64: add VFIO support on POWERPC64

The series adds support for VFIO on POWERPC in user space (such as QEMU). The in-kernel real mode IOMMU support is added by another series posted separately. As the first and main aim of this series is the POWERNV platform support, the "Enable ...

Message posted on the May 20th, 2013 - 11:40 pm ET

lockdep spew from tty

Hi Greg ! Caught that on a console today running some 3.10-almost-rc2 (based on ec50f2a97a4a7098a81b40030e0bfe28bdc43740). Right now I don't have the bandwidth to investigate but I though you might be interested :-) I'll take another peek if it ...

Message posted on the May 20th, 2013 - 09:30 pm ET

Cobol comes to Slackware

So the changelog today has another big bunch of updates, including "open-cobol", which I probably wouldn't have noticed, except for the statement "We're finally a mature operating system. Enjoy. :)". The slew of updates is ...

Message posted on the May 20th, 2013 - 08:18 pm ET

Bug#690414: screenshots not as TODO but under links

Hi, I was just pointed to this bug, since I was thinking about the presentation of screenshots in the PTS. Thinking that it would be annoying to have missing screenshots displayed as yet another todo item (pointless+annoying to too many packages) ...

Message posted on the May 20th, 2013 - 05:30 pm ET

Evidence Bilk needs psychological help

Bilk sees "psychopaths" everywhere, claiming they are "about 4.5% of the population" (even though actual research shows the percentage being closer to 1%), but for some reason most of the people he speaks of in his life he thinks ...

Message posted on the May 20th, 2013 - 04:18 pm ET

Bilk describes himself as a psychopath.

On 5/20/13 5:47 AM, in article 121238d2-8744-4bb9-9996-e2a16563dfa1@li6g2000pbb.googlegroups.com, "Mark S Bilk" <mark@cosmicpenguin.com> wrote: On May 19, 10:36 am, Snit <use...@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote: Subject: Three ...

Message posted on the May 20th, 2013 - 04:15 pm ET

Using VBA to copy data into another worksheet ???

I have an Excel workbook with 5 worksheets (individuals fill out their appropriate worksheet columns A to AW). There is a Totals worksheet in the workbook that has a command click update button. The update button starts with the 1st individual ...

Message posted on the May 20th, 2013 - 03:19 pm ET

Debian systemd survey

Hello, In the past, we have had multiple heated discussions involving systemd. We (the pkg-systemd-maintainers team) would like to better understand why some people dislike systemd. Therefore, we have created a survey, which you can find at ...

Message posted on the May 20th, 2013 - 12:50 pm ET

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