From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422905AbXCBG7f (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Mar 2007 01:59:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422976AbXCBG7f (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Mar 2007 01:59:35 -0500 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.246]:56513 "EHLO an-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422905AbXCBG7e (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Mar 2007 01:59:34 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=pwiJkEUEv2kTsDcDNxkMWaWMyKFlcDTA+S4li+DloIOh2FCSa9ntp1Jocwr/kvTKqXWrYQh0VbgD6th5q/nXw5HrX09WpQFYq2aQqKB7kgxN16DwPgwOP7lOK+Brz0P0KCSqsBZ3YhCwkmWFhj3OVLRF6e4w3xF+GXgsOVGlPSw= Message-ID: <8cd998d50703012259l274b2d13k6da5048706c4664a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 17:59:33 +1100 From: "Con Kolivas" To: "Gene Heskett" Subject: Re: belkin bulldog ups monitor vs 2.6.21-rc2 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200703020042.17902.gene.heskett@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200703020042.17902.gene.heskett@gmail.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 48319cd67cb15b50 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 02/03/07, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings; > > I just rebooted to 2.6.21-rc2 and noted that getting x up and running was > about 15 seconds longer than usual. When it got a bash shell going I > went to it and ran htop which showed that the bulldog monitor was taking > 90% of the cpu. Killed it, then restarted it, but when I ran the gui > which ran fine and then stopped the gui, the daemon once again went hog > wild and had to be killed, and I'm losing my kmail composer focus for 30 > seconds at a time now that amanda is making her nightly run. > > There is nothing in the log about it other than from xinetd as it ran the > amanda server stuff. > > Not quite ready for prime time methinks. Using the ck scheduler, this is > terrible performance, virtually no multitasking. Back to 2.6.20-ck1 in > the morning if it lives the rest of the night. HI Gene. I'm not sure if you're saying here that the performance is terrible on 2.6.21-rc2 only with the -ck scheduler, or only 2.6.21-rc2, or that 2.6.20-ck1 is terrible or that it fixes the problem. Can you please clarify this? Regards, -ck