From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Alastair Stevens <alastair.stevens@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.6 appears to be 3 to 4 times slower than 2.6.5
Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 15:26:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040517152638.42e9085c.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40A8CB2E.1070108@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk>
Alastair Stevens <alastair.stevens@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Another "me too" I'm afraid. I'm running 2.6.6 on an ordinary UP Athlon
> system under Gentoo, and it behaves very strangely. About 3 out of 4 times,
> it hangs during boot-up, at the "Freeing unused kernel memory" stage, and
> seems to not get as far as calling init....
>
> Yesterday, it got past that stage, and the various startup scripts began to
> run, but *achingly* slowly. It took about 10 minutes to get most of the
> network services started, with no login prompt in sight - I got fed up and
> rebooted then, because I needed to get some work done!
Please try again and if it gets all the way to a login prompt, compare the
contents of /proc/mtrr with 2.6.6-rc3. Also play around with `top', etc.
See if there's anything unusual happening.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-17 22:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-17 14:24 Alastair Stevens
2004-05-17 22:26 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-05-18 9:19 ` Alastair Stevens
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2004-05-19 12:28 Piszcz, Justin Michael
2004-05-19 13:16 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-05-18 8:32 Daniel Blueman
2004-05-17 15:06 Justin Piszcz
2004-05-18 13:23 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-05-15 12:04 Justin Piszcz
2004-05-15 14:38 ` Gene Heskett
2004-05-17 8:07 ` Duncan Sands
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