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On 16 December 2002 21:27, Xavier LaRue wrote: > Hi all, > As I asked later this day.. my L2 cache is'nt detected on my dual p3 > 550. But I have another fuzy problem, That's not a big loss. Undetected cache works as good as detected ;) > all application take more cpu power in smp ( like xmms who was taking > .3% take around 3% under and SMP kernel ( I use ps axuf to say this ) SMP operation incur locking overhead. > .. I think the bug came from the kernel(2.4.18) since I build the > smp kernel before adding my second processor and it was using as much > cpu .. and another fuzzy problem, Sometime ( read one time at each 15 > min ) the cpu0 OR cpu1 get more and more loaded till it get 100% of > cpu load and then it reget back to 0%. Can you look which app does this? I see similar thing on SMP kernel running on single Duron. xmms does this. xmms bug? > My question is .. do update my kernel to a 2.4.20 ( or another > version ) should fix my problem, also could upgrading to another > kernel should debug my cache problem ?? BTW, I'm not using an Debian > stock kernel.. I build it yesterday from real scratch.. (make clean > dep; make bzImage;... ) Try newer kernel, cache detection was discussed here recently. Or search archives... -- vda - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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