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    SubjectRe: 2.1.91pre2 stable?


    On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, Bill Broadhurst wrote:
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    > What I use to test this is a complete rebuild of the entire X11 suite
    > which takes over an hour on this machine. I run it on a standard VT
    > without anything else running (except top but it crashes without top
    > running) and no X.
    >
    > If the processes are shorter the system seems fine unless I really
    > load the machine. I can reproduce the same thing by repeatedly
    > running kernel builds on 6 VT's at the same time but it takes longer
    > that way. I just ran 30 consecutive builds on two VT's without any
    > trouble.
    >
    > This has been happening since 2.1.88 at least. I don't remember
    > seeing it before that but I went from around .72 or so right to .88 in
    > a single jump.
    >
    > How do I find out what causes this?

    Could you please pinpoint which releae this started in, that would
    certainly help a _lot_. By using a reasonable binary-search kind of
    algorithm it shouldn't take all that long if you can indeed reproduce it
    fairly easily and reliably.

    Thanks,

    Linus


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