From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Ricky Beam <jfbeam@bluetronic.net>,
Zilvinas Valinskas <zilvinas@gemtek.lt>,
Erik Tews <erik@debian.franken.de>,
linux-kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.9 rc2 freezing
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 12:06:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1095264408.2406.148.camel@krustophenia.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41486691.3080202@pobox.com>
On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 11:58, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 10:55, Ricky Beam wrote:
> >
> >>On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Zilvinas Valinskas wrote:
> >>
> >>>Perhaps that is mixture of PREEMPT=y and ipsec ? dunno ...
> >>
> >>No mixture necessary. PREEMPT is uber-screwed up. Try rebuilding your
> >>kernel/modules with it disabled. (make clean first; the kernel deps don't
> >>track CONFIG_PREEMPT correctly.)
> >
> >
> > Um, PREEMPT works just fine. Anything that breaks on PREEMPT will also
> > break on SMP. And the kernel deps do track CONFIG_PREEMPT correctly.
>
>
> PREEMPT is a hack. I do not recommend using it on production servers.
>
Not every Linux machine is a server. Just because you can't bang a
square peg through a round hole does not mean the peg is defective.
Anyway, if you are running anything on your server that breaks under
PREEMPT, it will break anyway as soon as you add another processor.
Lee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-15 16:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-13 16:55 2.6.9 rc2 freezing Zilvinas Valinskas
2004-09-13 17:12 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-13 17:16 ` Zilvinas Valinskas
2004-09-15 8:25 ` Erik Tews
2004-09-15 9:58 ` Zilvinas Valinskas
2004-09-15 14:55 ` Ricky Beam
2004-09-15 15:48 ` Lee Revell
2004-09-15 15:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-15 16:06 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2004-09-15 16:11 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-15 16:58 ` Ricky Beam
2004-09-15 17:49 ` Lee Revell
2004-09-15 17:52 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-15 17:59 ` Lee Revell
2004-09-16 8:39 ` Helge Hafting
2004-09-17 8:05 ` Zilvinas Valinskas
2004-09-17 13:21 ` Zilvinas Valinskas
2004-09-15 16:59 ` Dave Jones
2004-09-13 17:19 ` Zilvinas Valinskas
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