Re: [PATCH] Staircase scheduler v7.4

Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-06-27T11:40:44Z

On Sun, 27 Jun 2004, Con Kolivas wrote:

> On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, Wes Janzen wrote:
>
> > I don't know what's going on but 2.6.7-mm2 with the staircase v7.4 (with
> > or without staircase7.4-1) takes about 3 hours to get from loading the
> > kernel from grub to the login prompt. Now I realize my K6-2 400 isn't
> > state of the art... I don't have this problem running 2.6.7-mm2.
> >
> > It just pauses after starting nearly every service for an extended
> > period of time. It responds to sys-rq keys but just seems to be doing
> > nothing while waiting.
>
> Same problem as the rest I'm sure. I'm looking into it. Thanks for report.

I have this problem since 2.6.7-ck1. I use Gentoo (with paralell rc
scripts). For me it hangs somewhere in hotpluging (hotplug+udev). As a
workaround I press SysRQ-P ("Show regs") several times and it does help.

Grzegorz Kulewski