Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 13:32:15 -0700
To: Bill Huey <bhuey@lnxw.com>
Cc: Mark_H_Johnson@Raytheon.com, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>,
       Rui Nuno Capela <rncbc@rncbc.org>, "K.R. Foley" <kr@cybsft.com>,
       Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>,
       Lorenzo Allegrucci <l_allegrucci@yahoo.it>,
       Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -VP-2.6.9-rc4-mm1-U1
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On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 01:26:33PM -0700, Bill Huey wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 12:06:22PM -0500, Mark_H_Johnson@Raytheon.com wrote:
> > I also managed to get the machine stuck with
> >   /sbin/reboot
> > not sure why.

> Mount the file system read/write and start slamming it with heavy disk
> activity. If it locks up, then it might just as well be a problem with
> the journaling code and the softirq system backing it. I ran into this
> in my project and it was the softirq related IO code all of the way down
> to the SCSI driver.

Heavy "sync" activity killed my machine. Try stuff that puts loads on
that system. :)

bill

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