Ok.
> Now to my problem with the sluggishness of my machine. I realized, that
> when the kernel gets gzipped the mouse pointer under X freezes for as
> long as gzip runs. So I did a gzip < /dev/zero > /dev/null and was really
> surprised, when the whole machine stopped. I couldn't stop the process,
> login via ethernet, nothing. I had to reset it.
Ho humm, must be something wrong with the alpha timer code. Sounds like
"need_resched" never gets set, which would certainly give you the
behaviour you see.
If that is true, then the machine should also hang from a simple
main()
{
for (;;) ;
}
does it?
Linus
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