Re: Solid freezes with 2.6.25

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Apr 29 2008 - 03:38:59 EST


On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:24:23 +0200 Gabor Gombas <gombasg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 04:29:35PM +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote:
>
> > More info about the machine is attached. I've also seen similar hangs with
> > 2.6.25-rc6 on an nforce4/Athlon64 box but I'm reluctant to re-test there
> > because RAID rebuild takes too long.
>
> Well, I accidentally booted 2.6.25 on that machine and it locked within
> 10 minutes. Machine details follow. On this machine however there are no
> complaints about lost rtc interrupts.
>
> More observations: on the Intel Core2 Duo box 2.6.25 feels much more
> sluggish than 2.6.24.x. Under some I/O load I feel if I was typing
> through a slow remote network link instead of sitting in front of the
> console. Keys sometimes start to auto-repeat in gnome terminal even if I
> just press them once. The AMD box does not feel so sluggish, but sound
> playback sometimes becomes jerky a couple of seconds before the freeze.

I suspect you have two separate regressions here.
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