Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 6 Jul 2008 07:37:26 -0700 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.26-rc9 load problem |
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On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 17:25:16 +0300 Heikki Orsila <shdl@zakalwe.fi> wrote:
> Testing 2.6.26-rc9. Doing: > > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null bs=4096 > > causes the operating system to feel very unresponsible. > Even the key repeat interval at tty1 is unpredictable.
Hi,
do you have an idea which version you tried last which didn't show this behavior?
Also, can you try running latencytop to see if that shows where the delays are?
(if rc8 was fine, 18ce3751ccd488c78d3827e9f6bf54e6322676fb is the most likely suspect patch..
http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=18ce3751ccd488c78d3827e9f6bf54e6322676fb
can you see if reverting this helps?
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