Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 11 April 2005 04:25, Andrew Morton wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm3/ > > > > > > - The anticipatory I/O scheduler has always been fairly useless with SCSI > > � disks which perform tagged command queueing. �There's a patch here from > > Jens > > � which is designed to fix that up by constraining the number of requests > > � which we'll leave pending in the device. > > > > � The depth currently defaults to 1. �Tunable in > > � /sys/block/hdX/queue/iosched/queue_depth > > > > � This patch hasn't been performance tested at all yet. �If you think it is > > � misbehaving (the usual symptom is processes stuck in D state) then please > > � report it, then boot with `elevator=cfq' or `elevator=deadline' to work > > � around it. > > > > - More CPU scheduler work. �I hope someone is testing this stuff. > > Something is not quite right here. I built rc2-mm3 and booted (uni > processor, amd64, preempt on). > mm3 lasted about 30 mins before locking up with a dead keyboard. I had mm2 > reboot a few times > over the last couple of days too. > > 11-mm3 uptime of 2 weeks+ > 12-rc2-mm2 reboots once every couple of days > 12-rc2-mm3 locked up within 30 mins using X using kmail/bogofilter
Unpleasant. Serial console would be nice ;) > My serial console does not seem to want to work. Has anything changed with > this support? > Don't think so - it works OK here. Checked the .config? Does the serial port work if you do `echo foo > /dev/ttyS0'? ACPI? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
