Re: 2.0.29 SMP freeze on PPro200

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 21 Feb 1997 21:07:04 +0000 (GMT)

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> I should mention that when it works it does it very well. At one time
> I had a CPU intensive program that ran in about 30 minutes. I then
> launched it twice (at the same time) and the two jobs took only a few
> seconds more (each) than the one done alone. No SMP overhead to speak
> of. Real nice.
>
> Can't wait for 2.1 to get somewhat stable and gain finer grain SMP.

Can you provide that code or a subset of it to other people. If so I can
get some folks to find out if it looks like a machine/ram/cpu problem
(unlikely as you say its predictible) or a kernel bug. Otherwise its rather
hard to find that sort of bug

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