Re: [2/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

Ingo Molnar
2007-03-08T19:10:50Z

* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> > 3. When I switch to X (CTRL-ALT-F7), X hangs after drawing a couple of windows
> > after waiting for some 10 min, I rebooted. no new messages showed
> > up in /var/log/messages
>
> I think this is likely just more of the disk being buggered, but it
> could again be related to NO_HZ (people report time not advancing, and
> that would make any X timeout taking forever, and you'd see exactly
> your behaviour).

Michael - does your 'date' output advance after resume? If not then i'd
say it's a NO_HZ related problem. If yes then i'd guess it's the SATA
problem.

Ingo