Gentoo Archives: gentoo-sparc

From: Leif Sawyer <lsawyer@×××.com>
To: gentoo-sparc@l.g.o
Cc: eradicator@g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-sparc] ALSA support on sparc
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 00:03:02
Message-Id: BF9651D8732ED311A61D00105A9CA31516418DE9@berkeley.gci.com
1 Jeremy Huddleston writes:
2 > Ok, you said this was a u2, right? So I assume you have SMP enabled,
3 > and that causes lockups on all 2.6.x kernels. If you don't have SMP
4 > enabled, please let me know as I've been unable to lockup 2.6.7-r17 or
5 > 2.6.8-r11 (not sure if dsd put it in portage yet, but it should be
6 > marked -sparc when he does for testing) on my u10.
7
8 Yeah, SMP + PREEMPT
9
10 > So this is more of a qualitative thing, but was it "easier" to lockup
11 > 2.6.7 than it was to lockup 2.6.6? That's what I've been hearing, but
12 > I'd like a side-by-side comparison...
13
14 when running my stress-test on vanilla 2.6.6, the OOM-killer starts
15 killing things off 'correctly' and it doesn't seem to crash -- at least
16 I haven't run it into the ground yet. I suppose I can try again.
17
18 gds-2.6.7-r16 dies abruptly without ever calling the OOM-killer.
19
20 > If that's the case, would you be willing to test out 2.6.7-rc1 and
21 > 2.6.7-rc2 and help narrow down when the lockup was introduced...
22
23 I assume you're speaking of the vanilla sources?
24 I'll download and compile them....

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