Re: [PATCH] Staircase scheduler v7.4

["Prakash K. Cheemplavam" <prakashkc@gmx.de>]

Wes Janzen wrote:
> 
> Michael Buesch wrote:
> 
>> On Saturday 26 June 2004 22:04, you wrote:
>>
>> >Hi Con,
>>
>> >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.
>>
>> >Any suggestions?
>>
>>
>> Maybe same problem as mine?
>> Some init-scripts don't get their timeslices?
> 
> 
> I was wondering if not.  I didn't notice any problems while using it 
> once it had booted, but then I didn't really try to stress it much 
> either.  I'm running gentoo and have RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP="yes" set in my 
> /etc/conf.d/rc, maybe that's what makes me hit this during init whereas 
> I haven't seen anyone else mention this.

I am not using 2.6.7-mm2, but 2.6.7-ck1 with latest staircase and also 
run gentoo with parallel RC startup. I have no recognizeable delays. But 
my machine is "a bit" more modern than the k6-2 on the other hand. ;-)

Perhaps try 2.6.7-ck2 (or ck1) with latest staircase.

bye,

Prakash