Messages in this thread | | | From | (bill davidsen) | Subject | Re: Dual Xeon 2.6GHz, Supermicro X5DPA-TGM (SerialATA): 2.4.x causes system pauses, 2.6.0-test6 works fine | Date | 9 Oct 2003 20:03:51 GMT |
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In article <20031007181339.GB1239@boom.net>, Taner Halicioglu <taner@taner.net> wrote:
| Hi, I just built a new system and under all the 2.4.x kernels I tried (latest | redhat, and stock 2.4.22 as well) I would have 10-20s system pauses during | stress testing (a simple kernel compile loop, using make -j4) - appeared to | be disk subsystem, as I could change windows in screen, and network was | working fine. I tried several APIC and ACPI settings to no avail. I tried | disabling Hyperthreading - no dice. I tried running a UP kernel - no dice. | | Upon installing the 2.6.0-test6 kernel, the pauses were gone! (for the most | part... have an occasional 2s pause, but that is considerably better than | 10-20s ;))
Try booting with elevator=deadline, see if the last pause goes away. -- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. - 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/
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