Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 Mar 1998 12:14:53 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.91pre2 stable? |
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On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, Bill Broadhurst wrote: > > What I use to test this is a complete rebuild of the entire X11 suite > which takes over an hour on this machine. I run it on a standard VT > without anything else running (except top but it crashes without top > running) and no X. > > If the processes are shorter the system seems fine unless I really > load the machine. I can reproduce the same thing by repeatedly > running kernel builds on 6 VT's at the same time but it takes longer > that way. I just ran 30 consecutive builds on two VT's without any > trouble. > > This has been happening since 2.1.88 at least. I don't remember > seeing it before that but I went from around .72 or so right to .88 in > a single jump. > > How do I find out what causes this?
Could you please pinpoint which releae this started in, that would certainly help a _lot_. By using a reasonable binary-search kind of algorithm it shouldn't take all that long if you can indeed reproduce it fairly easily and reliably.
Thanks,
Linus
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