Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -VP-2.6.9-rc4-mm1-U1

From: hui
Date: Thu Oct 14 2004 - 16:02:56 EST


On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 01:26:33PM -0700, Bill Huey wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 12:06:22PM -0500, Mark_H_Johnson@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I also managed to get the machine stuck with
> > /sbin/reboot
> > not sure why.

> Mount the file system read/write and start slamming it with heavy disk
> activity. If it locks up, then it might just as well be a problem with
> the journaling code and the softirq system backing it. I ran into this
> in my project and it was the softirq related IO code all of the way down
> to the SCSI driver.

Heavy "sync" activity killed my machine. Try stuff that puts loads on
that system. :)

bill

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