Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 26 Jun 2004 23:38:13 +0200 | From | "Prakash K. Cheemplavam" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Staircase scheduler v7.4 |
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Wes Janzen wrote: > > Michael Buesch wrote: > >> On Saturday 26 June 2004 22:04, you wrote: >> >> >Hi Con, >> >> >I don't know what's going on but 2.6.7-mm2 with the staircase v7.4 (with >> >or without staircase7.4-1) takes about 3 hours to get from loading the >> >kernel from grub to the login prompt. Now I realize my K6-2 400 isn't >> >state of the art... I don't have this problem running 2.6.7-mm2. >> >> >It just pauses after starting nearly every service for an extended >> >period of time. It responds to sys-rq keys but just seems to be doing >> >nothing while waiting. >> >> >Any suggestions? >> >> >> Maybe same problem as mine? >> Some init-scripts don't get their timeslices? > > > I was wondering if not. I didn't notice any problems while using it > once it had booted, but then I didn't really try to stress it much > either. I'm running gentoo and have RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP="yes" set in my > /etc/conf.d/rc, maybe that's what makes me hit this during init whereas > I haven't seen anyone else mention this.
I am not using 2.6.7-mm2, but 2.6.7-ck1 with latest staircase and also run gentoo with parallel RC startup. I have no recognizeable delays. But my machine is "a bit" more modern than the k6-2 on the other hand. ;-)
Perhaps try 2.6.7-ck2 (or ck1) with latest staircase.
bye,
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