From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965413AbWJBVfX (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:35:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965417AbWJBVfW (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:35:22 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:40905 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965413AbWJBVfU (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:35:20 -0400 Subject: Re: Postal 56% waits for flock_lock_file_wait From: Alan Cox To: Dave Jones Cc: Trond Myklebust , Tim Chen , "Ananiev, Leonid I" , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20061002174039.GA17764@redhat.com> References: <1159723092.5645.14.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <3282373b0610020957u739392eekf8b78c7574e1a6e7@mail.gmail.com> <1159809081.5466.3.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <1159811516.8907.38.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20061002174039.GA17764@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 23:00:36 +0100 Message-Id: <1159826436.8907.77.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ar Llu, 2006-10-02 am 13:40 -0400, ysgrifennodd Dave Jones: > On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 06:51:56PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > "or similar" maybe. The iRam is pretty much junk in my experience[*]. > It rarely survives a mkfs, let alone sustained high throughput I/O. > (And yes, I did try multiple DIMMs, including ones which survive > memtest86 just fine). That appears to depend on the firmware and featureset used. With vaguely recent firmware apart from the "failed diagnostics at boot" bug the one I was loaned seems to be reliable and has fairly recent firmware. > [*] And from googling/talking with other owners, my experiences aren't unique. Agreed - even in windows 8) Alan