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On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Alan Warren <bluemoonshine@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> I am having some system performance issues with this kernel release. I have |
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> a SMP machine (dual xeon nehalem 8 core / 16 threads) with 24gb non-ecc |
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> memory. |
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> On occasion (seems random so far) my system feels like a Pentium II trying |
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> to cope with Vista. For example, I was in the middle of tar'ing a semi-large |
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> file and noticed all of my apps came to a crawl. Scrolling in firefox, |
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> typing in the terminal, or trying to navigate in my file manager resulted in |
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> breif "pauses" that came in waves. On one occasion my system froze |
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> completely and I had to manually reset the machine. (that was with |
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> 2.6.35-r1) |
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> I didn't activate anything "new" in this kernel release that I don't |
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> normally activate. ie, no cpuidle driver |
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Sounds exactly like the same problem I was having. I posted about it |
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recently on this list. Downgrading to the latest 2.6.34 made |
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everything work normally again. |
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> Is there a proper venu for debugging such matters, or should I just wait for |
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> this kernel to go prime-time? |
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Well, 2.6.35 is already prime-time as far as it has been released and |
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is not RC... |
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The proper way to debug would be to do a git bisect of the kernel.org |
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sources until you find the exact patch that broke things. I haven't |
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had time to attempt such a feat yet, so I'm just waiting patiently for |
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someone else to figure it out instead. :) |
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