Re: Basic testing shows 2.3.99-pre9-3 bad, pre9-2 good

From: Quintela Carreira Juan J. (quintela@fi.udc.es)
Date: Sun May 21 2000 - 14:32:04 EST


>>>>> "linus" == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:

linus> On Sun, 21 May 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:

>> On Sun, 21 May 2000, Lawrence Manning wrote:
>>
>> > That's my observation anyway. I did some dd and bonnie tests
>> > and got abismal results :-( Machine unusable during dd write
>> > etc. pre9-2 on the other hand is close to being as smooth as,
>> > say, 2.3.51. What happened? ;)

linus> What happened was really that I did a partial integration just to make it
linus> easier to synchronize. I wanted to basically have pre9-2 + quintela's
linus> patch, but I had too many emails to go through and too many changes of my
linus> own in this area, so I made pre9-3 available so that others could help me
linus> synchronize.

linus> So on't despair, pre9-3 is definitely just a temporary mix of patches, and
linus> is lacking the balancing that Quintela did.

Hi Linus
   I am working in introducing my balancing changes in pre9-3, but I
   am having problems with it. Now my machines get deadlocked and I
   get a lot of Oopses. I am investigating on that. I get Oops
   indeed in the pre9-3 vanilla kernel. I am studying it to write a
   report of the situation.

   My SMP machine is new, It has passed 6 hours of memtest86 memory
   checker, but I don't know what to blame at the moment. I am
   compiling for my old UP machines to test the differences.

Later, Juan.

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