Re: 2.6.9 rc2 freezing

[Jeff Garzik]

Lee Revell wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 10:55, Ricky Beam wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Zilvinas Valinskas wrote:
> >
> > > Perhaps that is mixture of PREEMPT=y and ipsec ? dunno ...
> >
> > No mixture necessary.  PREEMPT is uber-screwed up.  Try rebuilding your
> > kernel/modules with it disabled. (make clean first; the kernel deps don't
> > track CONFIG_PREEMPT correctly.)
>
>
> Um, PREEMPT works just fine.  Anything that breaks on PREEMPT will also
> break on SMP.  And the kernel deps do track CONFIG_PREEMPT correctly.


PREEMPT is a hack.  I do not recommend using it on production servers.

	Jeff


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