From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262422AbTJIUNe (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2003 16:13:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262424AbTJIUNe (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2003 16:13:34 -0400 Received: from tmr-02.dsl.thebiz.net ([216.238.38.204]:54288 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262422AbTJIUNd (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2003 16:13:33 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: gatekeeper.tmr.com!davidsen From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) Newsgroups: mail.linux-kernel Subject: Re: Dual Xeon 2.6GHz, Supermicro X5DPA-TGM (SerialATA): 2.4.x causes system pauses, 2.6.0-test6 works fine Date: 9 Oct 2003 20:03:51 GMT Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY Message-ID: References: <20031007181339.GB1239@boom.net> X-Trace: gatekeeper.tmr.com 1065729831 6087 192.168.12.62 (9 Oct 2003 20:03:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@tmr.com Originator: davidsen@gatekeeper.tmr.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In article <20031007181339.GB1239@boom.net>, Taner Halicioglu wrote: | Hi, I just built a new system and under all the 2.4.x kernels I tried (latest | redhat, and stock 2.4.22 as well) I would have 10-20s system pauses during | stress testing (a simple kernel compile loop, using make -j4) - appeared to | be disk subsystem, as I could change windows in screen, and network was | working fine. I tried several APIC and ACPI settings to no avail. I tried | disabling Hyperthreading - no dice. I tried running a UP kernel - no dice. | | Upon installing the 2.6.0-test6 kernel, the pauses were gone! (for the most | part... have an occasional 2s pause, but that is considerably better than | 10-20s ;)) Try booting with elevator=deadline, see if the last pause goes away. -- bill davidsen CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.