Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Jul 1999 17:41:28 +0200 | From | Thierry Danis <> | Subject | Re: something terribly rotten with scheduler? (UPDATE 2.3.10) |
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On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 10:28:01AM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote: > On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 02:47:04PM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote: > > - - linux 2.2.10 on an dual SMP intel machine (gcc-2.7.2.3, no patches) > > 2.3.10 seems to work fine under the same conditions, no locked processes etc. > 2.2.10 still accumulates "stopped" running processes, however... > > Also, 2.3.10 is the first 2.3.x kernel that worked without oopsing and > trashing my filesystem for some time: great work, thanks to all who made it > work!! > > Some disturbing thing I noticed in both 2.2.10 and 2.3.10, however, is > that the load average is at constant _3_, when only two processes are > (seem to be) running. To my knowledge, the only thing these processes > do is number crunching and reading/writing files occasionally, so there > should be no hidden processes. > > If I stop the two processes, the load average drops to around zero, as > expected. I'm not sure these problems are related, however the load > average behaves "excpectedly" during compilation for example. >
I reported such a strange behaviour with 2.2.5-15SMP / 2.2.10-ac4SMP and one instance of povray consuming 100% on each CPU. I do not think that povray is multithreaded, but I may be wrong.
> -- > -----==- | > ----==-- _ | > ---==---(_)__ __ ____ __ Marc Lehmann +-- > --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / pcg@goof.com |e| > -=====/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ XX11-RIPE --+ > The choice of a GNU generation | > |
-- Thierry Danis Poste : 53 53 danis@spmo.sagem.fr
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