From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751202AbWDTGof (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Apr 2006 02:44:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751220AbWDTGoe (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Apr 2006 02:44:34 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:16359 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751202AbWDTGoe (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Apr 2006 02:44:34 -0400 X-Authenticated: #14349625 Subject: Re: 2.6.16.1 & D state processes From: Mike Galbraith To: Srihari Vijayaraghavan Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060420055422.37845.qmail@web52610.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20060420055422.37845.qmail@web52610.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 08:45:21 +0200 Message-Id: <1145515521.9712.8.camel@homer> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 15:54 +1000, Srihari Vijayaraghavan wrote: > A couple of interesting things I've noticed after its > recovery: > 1. Executing "time sleep 1", takes more than 1 second. > It reports real as 3 to 5 seconds, while my stop watch > measures it as closer to 50 seconds. Ah. Something bad happened to time keeping, and that likely screwed up (time dependent) io, not the other way around. > 2. Pressing & holding a key at the console doesn't > produce repeating characters. > > Thought they might shed some light on the problem. (I > ought to look at all the RTC & Time related settings > between my minimal .config & FC5's, for I believe > they're connected.) Good idea. What time source are you using? I'd try plain old pit. -Mike (As an aside, I suspect you're going to find that you've got dodgy hardware.)