Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261407AbUJ0DsS (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 23:48:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261429AbUJ0DsR (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 23:48:17 -0400 Received: from relay03.pair.com ([209.68.5.17]:13583 "HELO relay03.pair.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261407AbUJ0DsH (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 23:48:07 -0400 X-pair-Authenticated: 66.190.53.4 Message-ID: <417F1A76.4070909@cybsft.com> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 22:48:06 -0500 From: "K.R. Foley" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Lee Revell , Rui Nuno Capela , Mark_H_Johnson@Raytheon.com, Bill Huey , Adam Heath , Florian Schmidt , Thomas Gleixner , Michal Schmidt , Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano , Alexander Batyrshin Subject: Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.9-mm1-V0 References: <20041019180059.GA23113@elte.hu> <20041020094508.GA29080@elte.hu> <20041021132717.GA29153@elte.hu> <20041022133551.GA6954@elte.hu> <20041022155048.GA16240@elte.hu> <20041022175633.GA1864@elte.hu> <20041025104023.GA1960@elte.hu> <417D4B5E.4010509@cybsft.com> <20041025203807.GB27865@elte.hu> <417E2CB7.4090608@cybsft.com> <20041027002455.GC31852@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20041027002455.GC31852@elte.hu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1477 Lines: 37 Ingo Molnar wrote: > * K.R. Foley wrote: > > >>Several things in regard to V0.2: >> >>1) Interactive responsiveness seems to be noticably sluggish at times on >>all three of the systems I have tested this on. >>2) My 450MHz UP system is definitely the worst by far. Scrolling through >>the syslog in a telnet session produces pauses every few seconds for >>about a second, that is while it's still responding. These problems seem >>to be network related, but there are no indications of what the problem >>is. This system also at times will just stop responding to network requests. >>3) Both of the SMP systems are lacking the snappy responsiveness in X >>that I have become accustomed to with previous patches, but the 2.6GHz >>Xeon (w/HT) is worse than the 933MHz Xeon. Again no indications of >>problems in the logs. >>4) Using amlat to run the RTC at 1kHz will kill any of these systems >>very quickly. > > > could you try this with -V0.3 too? I believe most of these problems > should be solved. > > Ingo > OK the 450 (UP) dies before it gets out of the gate. From the tail end of the Oops on the screen it looks to be related to the rtc also. Will investigate further after I rest my eyes a bit. kr - 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/