Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: 2.0.29 SMP freeze on PPro200 | Date | Fri, 21 Feb 1997 21:07:04 +0000 (GMT) |
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> I should mention that when it works it does it very well. At one time > I had a CPU intensive program that ran in about 30 minutes. I then > launched it twice (at the same time) and the two jobs took only a few > seconds more (each) than the one done alone. No SMP overhead to speak > of. Real nice. > > Can't wait for 2.1 to get somewhat stable and gain finer grain SMP.
Can you provide that code or a subset of it to other people. If so I can get some folks to find out if it looks like a machine/ram/cpu problem (unlikely as you say its predictible) or a kernel bug. Otherwise its rather hard to find that sort of bug
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