Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266454AbUFZVid (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jun 2004 17:38:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266451AbUFZVic (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jun 2004 17:38:32 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.de ([213.165.64.20]:141 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S266454AbUFZViS (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jun 2004 17:38:18 -0400 X-Authenticated: #4512188 Message-ID: <40DDECC5.4040008@gmx.de> Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 23:38:13 +0200 From: "Prakash K. Cheemplavam" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7 (X11/20040618) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wes Janzen CC: Michael Buesch , Con Kolivas , linux kernel mailing list , William Lee Irwin III , Zwane Mwaikambo , Pauli Virtanen Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staircase scheduler v7.4 References: <40DC38D0.9070905@kolivas.org> <40DDD6CC.7000201@sbcglobal.net> <200406262211.24373.mbuesch@freenet.de> <40DDE74A.3090301@sbcglobal.net> In-Reply-To: <40DDE74A.3090301@sbcglobal.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.84.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1569 Lines: 44 Wes Janzen wrote: > > Michael Buesch wrote: > >> On Saturday 26 June 2004 22:04, you wrote: >> >> >Hi Con, >> >> >I don't know what's going on but 2.6.7-mm2 with the staircase v7.4 (with >> >or without staircase7.4-1) takes about 3 hours to get from loading the >> >kernel from grub to the login prompt. Now I realize my K6-2 400 isn't >> >state of the art... I don't have this problem running 2.6.7-mm2. >> >> >It just pauses after starting nearly every service for an extended >> >period of time. It responds to sys-rq keys but just seems to be doing >> >nothing while waiting. >> >> >Any suggestions? >> >> >> Maybe same problem as mine? >> Some init-scripts don't get their timeslices? > > > I was wondering if not. I didn't notice any problems while using it > once it had booted, but then I didn't really try to stress it much > either. I'm running gentoo and have RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP="yes" set in my > /etc/conf.d/rc, maybe that's what makes me hit this during init whereas > I haven't seen anyone else mention this. I am not using 2.6.7-mm2, but 2.6.7-ck1 with latest staircase and also run gentoo with parallel RC startup. I have no recognizeable delays. But my machine is "a bit" more modern than the k6-2 on the other hand. ;-) Perhaps try 2.6.7-ck2 (or ck1) with latest staircase. bye, Prakash - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/