On Friday 24 February 2006 12:29, Andres Salomon wrote:
> That would be nice. Unfortunately, I'm trying to figure out why my dual
> opteron box likes to push the load up to 15 and then hang while doing
> i/o to the 3ware 9500S-8 card. Looks like the load/d-state processes
> are caused by a whole lot (well, MAX_PDFLUSH_THREADS) of pdflush
> processes spinning on base->lock in lock_timer_base(); not sure if
> that's intentional or not, but it seems rather odd. Whether the hanging
> is related to the high load remains to be seen.
Sounds like some timer handler is broken. You have to find out which
one it is.
> I don't see why this is a problem. Other architectures have done this
> for ages, without problems. I suspect most people get their backtraces
> from either serial console or logs, as copying them down from the screen
> or taking a picture of the panic is a rather large pain. It seems like
> you're penalizing everyone for a few select use cases.
People submitting jpegs of photographed oopses or even badly scribbled
down oopses is quite common. Serial consoles are only used by a small
elite.
-Andi
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