Re: 2.6.14-rt1 (now rt6)

[Ingo Molnar]

* Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I've been running 2.6.14-rt6 fine in my smp system the whole day and 
> suddenly, just a moment ago, I suddenly started getting key repeats 
> and screensaver bliiiinks [not my typo]. No HIGH_RES_TIMERS, with 
> PREEMPT_RT. No messages in the logs or dmesg.
> 
> Doing a loop with "sleep 10" bbracketed by calls to date gives me 
> sporadic results:
> 
> --- Fri Nov  4 18:30:25 PST 2005
> 10
> ---
> --- Fri Nov  4 19:43:53 PST 2005
> 10
> ---
> --- Fri Nov  4 19:44:03 PST 2005
> 3

hm ... could you try the -rt9 kernel, does it still produce these short 
timeouts? If yes, then could you strace the 'sleep 10' processes and 
send me the strace output of such a short sleep? (does it still return 
-516, aka -ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK?)

	Ingo
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/