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On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 10:25 +1000, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: |
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> > I can't tell yet whether it's hardware or software, but I'm guessing the |
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> > kernel at this point rather than hardware -- I have some |
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> > /var/log/messages traces that don't look like hardware. Once I get a |
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> > stable OS, I'll load Gentoo from it and do the real debugging. The |
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> > 2.4.20 kernel in Gentoo stable has to be better that the 2.4.18s the |
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> > other distros seem to be carrying. |
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> What I find to be a cause of a lot of stability issues. Probably even |
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> more so on multiprocessor/core systems is preemption. Voluntary |
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> preemption is OK, but other preemption still seems to be a bit flaky at |
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> places. |
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Umm... What? |
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I use preemption all the time on all of my machines, which are *all* |
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multi-processor or multi-core. The kernel preemption works just fine on |
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all of them. What tends to be the problem is shoddy APIC or ACPI |
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implementations on the cheaper (read, not server/workstation class) |
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motherboards. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering Strategic Lead |
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Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams |
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Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee |
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Gentoo Foundation |