From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 01:18:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 01:18:13 -0400 Received: from eunhasu.kjist.ac.kr ([203.237.32.200]:24551 "EHLO eunhasu.kjist.ac.kr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 01:18:04 -0400 Message-ID: <3BC3DA1E.6060806@kjist.ac.kr> Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 14:18:22 +0900 From: "G. Hugh Song" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20010913 X-Accept-Language: ko, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Idle bug net yet solved in 2.4.11-pre6(aa1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=EUC-KR Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I just realized that since around 2.4.10-pre8aa1, I have been having the idle-bug trouble which have been actively addressed at the moment. In patch-2.4.11.log file, I was able to find: Under pre6 - Peter Rival: update alpha SMP bootup to match wait_init_idle fixes Apparently, it has not been fixed even in 2.4.11-pre6(aa1). "top" showed the idle percentage upsurdly high around 10^8 %. Then the machine freezed completely. Configuration: SuSE-7.1 (for alpha) running on UP2000 SMP with 2GB main memory. 5GB swap space all together in three hard disks. Reasonably high mem usage which does not actually need any swap space. I am now using 2.2.20pre9aa2. I have not had much luck with 2.4 kernels yet. Every time I tried 2.4 kernels, I have had all those vm-related troubles. I sincerely hope that the situation will soon be corrected all together. Then, we can say linux-2.4 is truly 2.4 (even numbered version). Best regards, G. Hugh Song