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SubjectRe: 2.1.91pre2 stable?


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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