Re: CONFIG_PREEMPT -> crash under load in 2.6.20?

2007-03-04 Thread Corey Hickey
Nix wrote: >>> I can't tell if magic sysrq dies, because as far as I know there's no >>> way to get magic sysrq to do much visible when you're in X, and I can't >>> get anything to go over the network kernel syslog because the network is >>> dead. >> You should still be able to use SysRQ even in

Re: CONFIG_PREEMPT -> crash under load in 2.6.20?

2007-03-04 Thread Nix
On 4 Mar 2007, Corey Hickey told this: > Nix wrote: >> I can't tell if magic sysrq dies, because as far as I know there's no >> way to get magic sysrq to do much visible when you're in X, and I can't >> get anything to go over the network kernel syslog because the network is >> dead. > > You

Re: CONFIG_PREEMPT -> crash under load in 2.6.20?

2007-03-04 Thread Corey Hickey
Nix wrote: > The lockups are almost total: network traffic ceases, the keyboard goes > dead, nothing hits the disk. Once, however, it locked up while I was > playing an ogg (emu10k1 / SB Live), and the sound did *not* die, but > instead went into a ~1.5s-long tight loop. (Perhaps this was the card

Re: CONFIG_PREEMPT - crash under load in 2.6.20?

2007-03-04 Thread Corey Hickey
Nix wrote: The lockups are almost total: network traffic ceases, the keyboard goes dead, nothing hits the disk. Once, however, it locked up while I was playing an ogg (emu10k1 / SB Live), and the sound did *not* die, but instead went into a ~1.5s-long tight loop. (Perhaps this was the card

Re: CONFIG_PREEMPT - crash under load in 2.6.20?

2007-03-04 Thread Nix
On 4 Mar 2007, Corey Hickey told this: Nix wrote: I can't tell if magic sysrq dies, because as far as I know there's no way to get magic sysrq to do much visible when you're in X, and I can't get anything to go over the network kernel syslog because the network is dead. You should still be

Re: CONFIG_PREEMPT - crash under load in 2.6.20?

2007-03-04 Thread Corey Hickey
Nix wrote: I can't tell if magic sysrq dies, because as far as I know there's no way to get magic sysrq to do much visible when you're in X, and I can't get anything to go over the network kernel syslog because the network is dead. You should still be able to use SysRQ even in X. I tested

CONFIG_PREEMPT -> crash under load in 2.6.20?

2007-03-03 Thread Nix
Since upgrading to 2.6.20, my Athlon 4 has been locking up on a very-roughly-daily basis, generally in periods of some load (I've never seen it lock up when idle, but have seen it lock up with a load average of 0.5). I'm fairly sure this didn't happen with 2.6.19 and am certain that it didn't with

CONFIG_PREEMPT - crash under load in 2.6.20?

2007-03-03 Thread Nix
Since upgrading to 2.6.20, my Athlon 4 has been locking up on a very-roughly-daily basis, generally in periods of some load (I've never seen it lock up when idle, but have seen it lock up with a load average of 0.5). I'm fairly sure this didn't happen with 2.6.19 and am certain that it didn't with