From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas List Subject: Re: performance problems? Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 22:16:28 +0100 Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <3DDAAA2C.3030605@rwth-aachen.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: "Grover, Andrew" Cc: Acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Grover, Andrew wrote: >Clearly we are doing something wrong. But, we're not sure what. It only >happens on some systems, so we're kinda in "change something, did that fix >it? no? try this." mode. > >We changed mutex handling in the release yesterday - there's a *slight* >chance that was the needed fix. Can you try that patch? > I will give it a try when I find the time. As Jamie Strandboge proposed I stopped polling the info file. This did give a huge improvement. As described in my first mail the short stops increased when the system was running longer and longer. This for now is gone without touching the info file. Thomas ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: To learn the basics of securing your web site with SSL, click here to get a FREE TRIAL of a Thawte Server Certificate: http://www.gothawte.com/rd524.html