From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
To: bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Dual Xeon 2.6GHz, Supermicro X5DPA-TGM (SerialATA): 2.4.x causes system pauses, 2.6.0-test6 works fine
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:04:49 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F85F7A1.1070904@cyberone.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bm4ev7$5u7$1@gatekeeper.tmr.com>
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.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-10 0:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-07 18:13 Dual Xeon 2.6GHz, Supermicro X5DPA-TGM (SerialATA): 2.4.x causes system pauses, 2.6.0-test6 works fine Taner Halicioglu
2003-10-09 20:03 ` bill davidsen
2003-10-10 0:04 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
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