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From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@cesmail.net>
To: gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] AMD64 dual-core testing on 2007.0?
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 20:29:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4643E32D.7080508@cesmail.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4643B805.3020302@gentoo.org>

Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
>> I can't tell yet whether it's hardware or software, but I'm guessing 
>> the kernel at this point rather than hardware -- I have some 
>> /var/log/messages traces that don't look like hardware. Once I get a 
>> stable OS, I'll load Gentoo from it and do the real debugging. The 
>> 2.4.20 kernel in Gentoo stable has to be better that the 2.4.18s the 
>> other distros seem to be carrying.
>
> What I find to be a cause of a lot of stability issues. Probably even 
> more so on multiprocessor/core systems is preemption. Voluntary 
> preemption is OK, but other preemption still seems to be a bit flaky 
> at places.
>
> Paul
>
Yeah ... I'm attempting to do a kernel build with preemption turned off. 
At those processor speeds, I doubt if it's necessary. :)
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-11  3:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-03  5:29 [gentoo-releng] AMD64 dual-core testing on 2007.0? znmeb
2007-05-03 22:10 ` Chris Gianelloni
2007-05-05 19:34   ` M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
2007-05-06  8:27   ` Stuart Herbert
2007-05-06 18:26     ` M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
2007-05-10  5:50       ` M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
2007-05-10 17:16         ` Chris Gianelloni
2007-05-11  0:25       ` Paul de Vrieze
2007-05-11  3:29         ` M. Edward (Ed) Borasky [this message]
2007-05-11 16:31         ` Chris Gianelloni
2007-05-12 19:39           ` M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
2007-05-13  5:15             ` Andrew Gaffney
2007-05-13 17:57               ` znmeb
2007-05-13 15:46             ` Chris Gianelloni

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