Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:04:49 +1000 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: Dual Xeon 2.6GHz, Supermicro X5DPA-TGM (SerialATA): 2.4.x causes system pauses, 2.6.0-test6 works fine |
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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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