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SubjectRe: Dual Xeon 2.6GHz, Supermicro X5DPA-TGM (SerialATA): 2.4.x causes system pauses, 2.6.0-test6 works fine


bill davidsen wrote:

>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.
>

Or try running the compile completely out of tmpfs. That should mostly take
the disk and virtual memroy subsystems out of the picture.


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