Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.5.37 lockup with dbench 36 and make -j3 bzImage and PREEMPT=y. | From | Steven Cole <> | Date | 23 Sep 2002 10:09:30 -0600 |
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On Sat, 2002-09-21 at 04:05, Helge Hafting wrote: > On 2002.09.20 23:05 Steven Cole wrote: > > While running 2.5.37 with 36 dbench clients and doing a kernel compile > > with make -j3 bzImage, my test machine locked up. > > 2.5.36 SMP no preempt locks up under similiar circumstances - a compile > with make -j 3 and moderate disk activity on 2 scsi disks makes it > freeze solid now and then. Perhaps this is some sort of SMP problem > also exposed by preempt? > > I haven't tested this in 2.5.37 because refuses to run X. > > Helge Hafting
Further testing with 2.5.37 over the weekend showed that the lockup also occurred without preempt here too.
This seems to have been fixed in 2.5.38-mm2. I've run up to dbench 128 while doing several kernel compiles with make -j3 with PREEMPT enabled, and have not observed any lockups at all.
Steven
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