Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262006AbUF0Lko (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jun 2004 07:40:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261987AbUF0Lko (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jun 2004 07:40:44 -0400 Received: from [80.72.36.106] ([80.72.36.106]:32428 "EHLO alpha.polcom.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262006AbUF0Lkm (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jun 2004 07:40:42 -0400 Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 13:40:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Grzegorz Kulewski To: Con Kolivas Cc: Wes Janzen , linux kernel mailing list , William Lee Irwin III , Zwane Mwaikambo , Pauli Virtanen Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staircase scheduler v7.4 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <40DC38D0.9070905@kolivas.org> <40DDD6CC.7000201@sbcglobal.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1125 Lines: 27 On Sun, 27 Jun 2004, Con Kolivas wrote: > On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, Wes Janzen wrote: > > > 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. > > Same problem as the rest I'm sure. I'm looking into it. Thanks for report. I have this problem since 2.6.7-ck1. I use Gentoo (with paralell rc scripts). For me it hangs somewhere in hotpluging (hotplug+udev). As a workaround I press SysRQ-P ("Show regs") several times and it does help. Grzegorz Kulewski - 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/