On Friday 24 February 2006 12:22, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 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.
I agree, I've had to report using a JPEG file on multiple occasions, because
my mainboard has no serial ports. However, if you're using a 1280x1024
vesafb, which is supported by most systems, you can get a lot of lines on
screen at once..
--
Cheers,
Alistair.
'No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.'
Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.
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