From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Tyan 2466 SMP lock with 2.4.21-rc1, HIGHMEM + heavy disk i/o
Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 12:31:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030515173128.GA10318@sonny.eddelbuettel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030510134215.GA16397@sonny.eddelbuettel.com>
On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 08:42:15AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> System:
> Tyan 2466 MPX board, 2 Athlon 1800MP, bios 1.01 from March 2002
> 1 gb ram, ibm + maxtor ide disks, ide cdrom + cdrw
> ati rage 128, sb pci 128, on-board 3c905 nic, ps/2 mouse
> no other cards
> hardware configuration unaltered since June of last year
>
> Enabling or disabling the HIGHME patch is enough to trigger/suppress
> hard locking. When HIGHMEM is enabled, locking occurs very easily when
> trying to copy a (cloop-mounted) Knoppix image, or even when compiling
> a kernel.
As a follow-up, 2.4.21-rc2 looks fine so far. The only other change was to
enable support the proper mobo i/o chipset, which I should have done earlier.
Dirk
> I run fairly stock kernels (from Debian kernel source packages) with the
> win4lin patch as the only external patch. ACPI is disabled. Disk access is
> not tuned in any way, DMA gets enabled by default.
>
> Dirk
>
> --
> Don't drink and derive. Alcohol and algebra don't mix.
--
Don't drink and derive. Alcohol and algebra don't mix.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-15 17:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-01 13:52 Tyan 2466 SMP locks hard with 2.4.20 + heavy disk i/o yet runs 2.2.* without problems Dirk Eddelbuettel
2003-05-01 13:56 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-01 16:00 ` Dirk Eddelbuettel
2003-05-03 13:11 ` Dirk Eddelbuettel
2003-05-10 13:42 ` Tyan 2466 SMP lock with 2.4.21-rc1, HIGHMEM + heavy disk i/o Dirk Eddelbuettel
2003-05-15 17:31 ` Dirk Eddelbuettel [this message]
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