Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: tickless scheduling | From | john stultz <> | Date | Mon, 10 May 2010 18:12:24 -0700 |
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On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 20:59 -0400, Donald Allen wrote: > On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:54 PM, john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> wrote: > > On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Donald Allen <donaldcallen@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 1. Network file transfers and fscks stop on Toshiba netbook unless > >> system receives external events > > > > Can you provide /proc/timer_list output? > > Attached, but again, this is from the system running with tickless disabled.
Is it possible to boot with the kernel showing the issue and provide the details?
> > I assume booting with nohz=off from grub resolves the issue? > > Didn't know about the boot-time option (thanks for pointing it out), > but I wanted to build a custom kernel anyway, so i did so and disabled > tickless.
Ok. It may still be of value to know booting with nohz=off does avoid the problem.
thanks -john
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