Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 May 2004 15:26:38 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.6 appears to be 3 to 4 times slower than 2.6.5 |
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Alastair Stevens <alastair.stevens@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk> wrote: > > Another "me too" I'm afraid. I'm running 2.6.6 on an ordinary UP Athlon > system under Gentoo, and it behaves very strangely. About 3 out of 4 times, > it hangs during boot-up, at the "Freeing unused kernel memory" stage, and > seems to not get as far as calling init.... > > Yesterday, it got past that stage, and the various startup scripts began to > run, but *achingly* slowly. It took about 10 minutes to get most of the > network services started, with no login prompt in sight - I got fed up and > rebooted then, because I needed to get some work done!
Please try again and if it gets all the way to a login prompt, compare the contents of /proc/mtrr with 2.6.6-rc3. Also play around with `top', etc. See if there's anything unusual happening. - 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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