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    SubjectRe: 2.6.9 rc2 freezing
    On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Jeff Garzik wrote:
    >Lee Revell wrote:
    >> Anyway, if you are running anything on your server that breaks under
    >> PREEMPT, it will break anyway as soon as you add another processor.
    >
    >Incorrect. The spinlock behavior is very different.

    Indeed. Enable PREEMPT (my default for some time now) and the machine
    will lockup after spewing pages of scheduling while atomic's. Disable
    PREEMPT and the machine is stable again:

    [jfbeam:pts/2{2}]gir:~/[12:55pm]:uname -a
    Linux gir 2.6.9-SMP-rc2+BK@1.1455 #71 SMP BK[20040914173940] Tue Sep 14 16:14:33 EDT 2004 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
    [jfbeam:pts/2{2}]gir:~/[12:55pm]:uptime
    12:55pm up 19:54, 2 users, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00
    [jfbeam:pts/2{2}]gir:~/[12:55pm]:grep ^proc /proc/cpuinfo
    processor : 0
    processor : 1

    --Ricky


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