From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261426AbUEQOYs (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2004 10:24:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261439AbUEQOYs (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2004 10:24:48 -0400 Received: from bernstein.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk ([193.60.86.52]:55980 "EHLO bernstein.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261426AbUEQOYr (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2004 10:24:47 -0400 Message-ID: <40A8CB2E.1070108@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 15:24:46 +0100 From: Alastair Stevens Organization: MRC Biostatistics Unit User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (X11/20040503) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.6 appears to be 3 to 4 times slower than 2.6.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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! I rebooted with 2.6.6-rc3, which has always been absolutely fine. Let me know if any other info would be useful.... Cheers Alastair -- \\ ........................................ www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk \\ Alastair Stevens, SysAdmin Team \ 01223 330383 // MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge UK \....................... --