From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>,
Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>,
"Ananiev, Leonid I" <leonid.i.ananiev@intel.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <Linux-Kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Postal 56% waits for flock_lock_file_wait
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:40:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061002214012.GC9854@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1159826436.8907.77.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 11:00:36PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Ar Llu, 2006-10-02 am 13:40 -0400, ysgrifennodd Dave Jones:
> > On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 06:51:56PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > "or similar" maybe. The iRam is pretty much junk in my experience[*].
> > It rarely survives a mkfs, let alone sustained high throughput I/O.
> > (And yes, I did try multiple DIMMs, including ones which survive
> > memtest86 just fine).
>
> That appears to depend on the firmware and featureset used. With vaguely
> recent firmware apart from the "failed diagnostics at boot" bug the one
> I was loaned seems to be reliable and has fairly recent firmware.
Mine was latest hardware (rev 1.3), and there wasn't any firmware update
available that I could see. :-/
> > [*] And from googling/talking with other owners, my experiences aren't unique.
> Agreed - even in windows 8)
It's amazing crap like this reaches the store shelves.
Dave
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http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-02 21:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-01 16:53 Postal 56% waits for flock_lock_file_wait Ananiev, Leonid I
2006-10-01 17:18 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-10-02 16:57 ` Tim Chen
2006-10-02 17:11 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-10-02 17:51 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-02 17:40 ` Dave Jones
2006-10-02 22:00 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-02 21:40 ` Dave Jones [this message]
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2006-09-30 17:26 Ananiev, Leonid I
2006-10-01 4:05 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-09-30 5:25 Ananiev, Leonid I
2006-09-30 15:05 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-09-29 15:36 Ananiev, Leonid I
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