Re: 2.6.9 rc2 freezing

Jeff Garzik
2004-09-15T16:01:21Z

Lee Revell wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 10:55, Ricky Beam wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Zilvinas Valinskas wrote:
>>
>>>Perhaps that is mixture of PREEMPT=y and ipsec ? dunno ...
>>
>>No mixture necessary. PREEMPT is uber-screwed up. Try rebuilding your
>>kernel/modules with it disabled. (make clean first; the kernel deps don't
>>track CONFIG_PREEMPT correctly.)
>
>
> Um, PREEMPT works just fine. Anything that breaks on PREEMPT will also
> break on SMP. And the kernel deps do track CONFIG_PREEMPT correctly.

PREEMPT is a hack. I do not recommend using it on production servers.

Jeff