Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8.1-P4

Lee Revell
2004-08-20T10:55:43Z

On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 06:41, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:
>
> > > well, 9 msecs is still not nice. I've been able to trigger larger than
> > > 10msec latencies too on a 2 GHz box.
> >
> > If this is the case then should a make -j12 have ground the machine to
> > a halt the way it did?
>
> well, does it slow down that much with tracing and voluntary-preempt
> disabled too?
>

Yup. turns out, this is enough to use all available RAM and swap space
(1G total). I probably went OOM.

Good stress test though.

Lee