Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Thu, 15 May 2003 12:31:28 -0500 | From | Dirk Eddelbuettel <> | Subject | Re: Tyan 2466 SMP lock with 2.4.21-rc1, HIGHMEM + heavy disk i/o |
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On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 08:42:15AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > System: > Tyan 2466 MPX board, 2 Athlon 1800MP, bios 1.01 from March 2002 > 1 gb ram, ibm + maxtor ide disks, ide cdrom + cdrw > ati rage 128, sb pci 128, on-board 3c905 nic, ps/2 mouse > no other cards > hardware configuration unaltered since June of last year > > Enabling or disabling the HIGHME patch is enough to trigger/suppress > hard locking. When HIGHMEM is enabled, locking occurs very easily when > trying to copy a (cloop-mounted) Knoppix image, or even when compiling > a kernel.
As a follow-up, 2.4.21-rc2 looks fine so far. The only other change was to enable support the proper mobo i/o chipset, which I should have done earlier.
Dirk
> I run fairly stock kernels (from Debian kernel source packages) with the > win4lin patch as the only external patch. ACPI is disabled. Disk access is > not tuned in any way, DMA gets enabled by default. > > Dirk > > -- > Don't drink and derive. Alcohol and algebra don't mix.
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