From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Gautam Iyer <gautam@math.stanford.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Increased CPU usage after upgrading to 2.6.21
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 18:30:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070806183019.GA5761@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070718164347.GE9506@math.stanford.edu>
Hi!
> I recently upgraded from 2.6.19, and found the following issues:
>
> 1. 2.6.20 crashed and ran terribly on my system.
>
> 2. 2.6.21 runs on my system, but has a few issues: First, I noticed
> that in 2.6.19 when my system was idle, Gkrellm would show my CPU
> usage as 0%. In 2.6.21, when my system is idle, Gkrellm shows my
> cpu usage as anything between 1 and 3%.
>
> Second, I noticed that X sometimes crashes on resume (i.e. when I
> wake my computer up after suspending to ram). Again, this happens
> only *sometimes*, and is not consistently reproducible. I had no
> issues with 2.6.19 (which I used for a long time).
>
> 3. For 2.6.22.1: The CPU usage issue is the same as above. I only
> tested the kernel for a brief period of time (minutes), during
> which I experienced no crash.
>
> If you have any idea why my CPU usage is reported higher, please let me
> know. I've attached the config files of both my kernels.
>
> About the random crash: I'm not sure how to give you more info on it,
> since I can't consistently reproduce it. Would you have any suggestions
> on what I should do to trace the problem down?
Well, try suspend 50 times in a row to make it reproducible? Then try
unloading modules...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-06 18:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-18 16:43 Increased CPU usage after upgrading to 2.6.21 Gautam Iyer
2007-08-06 18:30 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2007-08-06 18:32 ` Pavel Machek
2007-08-06 22:26 ` Gautam Iyer
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