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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.

  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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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