Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: tickless scheduling | From | john stultz <> | Date | Wed, 12 May 2010 13:52:03 -0700 |
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On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 15:54 -0400, Donald Allen wrote: > Before doing what you asked, I ran my home-brew backup script, which > tars up the whole machine, save my home directory, to a big sata drive > in a usb shoebox. I did so by booting the most recent Arch Linux > install/live CD (while I use Slackware, the Slackware install CDs are > not suitable for this sort of thing, having very old versions of > things like tar). While doing so, I observed exactly the same symptoms > I did with the Slackware 13.1 install, which I described in the bug > report. So rather than messing with the hard-won custom kernel that I > now have installed on the netbook, I am attaching the various things > from /proc gathered with the Arch kernel running. Yes, it's a somewhat > older kernel (2.6.30), but I'm hoping that things haven't changed much > in tickless land. If that's not the case, then I will attempt to > reproduce this with the newer kernel on the Slackware 13.1 install > DVD. Let me know if you need me to do this. The attached tar file is > bzip2-compressed, so you want xjf to extract.
Hmm.. Sorry, but I have another quick request. Could you send your /proc/interrupts output from the kernel having the problem?
thanks -john
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