20 Dec
2003
20 Dec
'03
4:05 a.m.
On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 00:36, Mark Knecht wrote:
The next thing to try is to get hold of a fast IDE disk and see if the
problem is related to the SCSI controller (or driver) or the SCSI disk.
2.6.0 stable. Freshly downloaded and compiled for my listening pleasure.
At least that's what I was hoping as I watched the progress meter for
wget...
I was using 2.4.22 with lowlatency patches on the SMP machine. Trouble
started with the uniprocessor, so I tried all sorts of things, including
the pre-emptible patches for 2.4. Then I went to 2.6.0-test9, then
2.6.0-test11, then 2.6.0-test11-mm1, then 2.6.0. Same story with all of
them.
bye
John
So to confirm
it, I said find /, and the xruns were popping up 1 every 3
or 4 seconds, and sometimes more often.
So it does really appear to be disk based. Whether it's the disk itself, of
something about the way the disk interferes with other things going on I
don't know, but it's good data.
This was on vanilla 2.6.0 with Pre-emptible Kernel turned on, for those
who've been asking.
Interesting. Were you running 2.6 on your SMP machine 2 weeks ago? Same
revision of the kernel, or are you now using the new 2.6 stable release?