From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755794Ab0IHVZG (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2010 17:25:06 -0400 Received: from icebox.esperi.org.uk ([81.187.191.129]:41746 "EHLO mail.esperi.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755187Ab0IHVZD (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2010 17:25:03 -0400 To: Damien Wyart Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.35.*: horrible (exponential? >linear) slowdown to unusability (ACPI idle?) References: <87zkvx2ese.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> <20100906053255.GA23340@brouette> From: Nix Emacs: if it payed rent for disk space, you'd be rich. Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:24:59 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20100906053255.GA23340@brouette> (Damien Wyart's message of "Mon, 6 Sep 2010 07:32:55 +0200") Message-ID: <87iq2gyllg.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) XEmacs/21.5-b29 (linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-DCC-URT-Metrics: spindle 1060; Body=2 Fuz1=2 Fuz2=2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 6 Sep 2010, Damien Wyart uttered the following: > So if you can reproduce it quite easily, I guess bisection (even ha ha ha. I thought I could, but it's intermittent enough to make bisection pretty much impossible, and when I gave up and rebooted back into 2.6.35.4 the bug went away entirely. I don't think bisection will work with something this intermittent :/