Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 May 1998 09:51:54 -0100 (GMT+1) | From | Uwe Thiem <> | Subject | Re: kernel profiling in 2.1 ? |
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On Sun, 17 May 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > On Sun, 17 May 1998, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote: > > > > ok, I forgot to grep the .h, so I missed the x86 profile implementation. > > But for the alpha there is (was) no profiling. I just adapted the x86 > > version, and it works. > > Ok. > > > Now to my problem with the sluggishness of my machine. I realized, that > > when the kernel gets gzipped the mouse pointer under X freezes for as > > long as gzip runs. So I did a gzip < /dev/zero > /dev/null and was really > > surprised, when the whole machine stopped. I couldn't stop the process, > > login via ethernet, nothing. I had to reset it. > > Ho humm, must be something wrong with the alpha timer code. Sounds like > "need_resched" never gets set, which would certainly give you the > behaviour you see. > > If that is true, then the machine should also hang from a simple > > main() > { > for (;;) ; > } > > does it?
Wouldn't that mean that _every_ process hangs the box before terminating?
Uwe
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