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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Staircase scheduler v7.4
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,

Prakash
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