Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2: make -j makes it unresponsive | Date | Sun, 20 May 2007 14:57:26 +0200 |
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Hi,
On Saturday, 19 May 2007 07:17, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > It's out there, both patches/tarballs and git trees are updated (although > mirroring might still be ongoing) > > Various random fixes all over - the shortlog (appended) is fairly > readable. The most notable ones are probably more SLUB fixes, and the > epoll optimizations and cleanups. > > But there's stuff in architectures (ia64, SH, AVR32, POWER), libata, > network drivers, sound.. Give it a try. > > I've been telling some people off on merging stuff, and I'll get even more > hard-nosed about it after -rc2, so please don't even try to send anything > but real fixes. > > I think the current situation looks reasonably good for 2.6.22, but I hope > everybody will take a good look at the regression lists (whether they > _think_ they are affected or not), and spend some time wondering "was that > anything I did, or is it something I can look at". Ok?
Running 'make -j' kernel compilation on my test box (Athlon64 X2, 2 SATA drives with 6 software RAID1 ext3 and reiserfs partitions, 2 GB of RAM) makes it completely unresponsive. I can't even move the mouse pointer when it's running, I can't log to the box from the network etc.
The anticipatory IO scheduler is used.
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