Re: Strange delays / what usually happens every 10 min?

Florian Boelstler
2007-11-13T18:00:33Z

Hi Clemens,

Clemens Koller wrote:
> > This is precisely the sort of thing that BIOS/firmware-level SMI
> > handlers do, particularly those that have monitoring or management
> > features. Try to determine if the kernel is doing anything during this
> > time. If the entire kernel seems to be frozen, talk to the people who
> > wrote the firmware.
>
> There is no such thing as BIOS on this MPC8540 embedded system.
> I guess he is also using some bootloader which just gives full
> control to the linux kernel.

Correct, it's the U-Boot boot loader.

> Florian:
> Check the IP route chache flushes, as Eric mentioned.
> I'm working on the MPC854x as well. If you send me your scripts,
> I can give them a run here to gather more information.
> (I'm about to update my kernels here)

Thanks, the rhash_entries argument seems to have cured the problem.

Cheers,

Florian