Re: 2.5.64-mm2->4 hangs on contest

Con Kolivas (kernel@kolivas.org)
Thu, 13 Mar 2003 12:22:12 +1100


On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 23:30, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> At 10:19 PM 3/12/2003 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote:
> >On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 21:37, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > > >Is this in addition to your previous errr hack or instead of?
> > >
> > > Instead of. The buttugly patch destroyed interactivity. This one
> > > cures starvation, and interactivity is really nice.
> >
> >Ok that fixes the "getting stuck in process load" but it still hangs on
> >contest. I'll just have to give mm5 a go and see if whatever problem that
> > was went away in the mean time.
>
> (%$&#!!)

No need to curse. Turns out this is an unrelated bug with the anticipatory
scheduler which akpm is onto. Your fix worked fine for the scheduler based
hang.

> Oh well, Ingo probably has it nailed already anyway.

> (but meanwhile, where's your website again?)

contest?
http://contest.kolivas.org

Con
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