ULE issue on i386 5.3-STABLE

[Mars Trading]

>From what I saw on the -current mailing list, developers need to know
what's going on - like what was the error message when the machine
froze or, better yet, a ktrace or kdump or something similar.

It's tough being a tester! :)

Dennis

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 20:41:29 -0600, Doug Poland <doug at polands.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 05:10:22PM -0600, Doug Poland wrote:
> >
> > The issue I'm seeing, seconds after launching gnome-terminal,
> > gnome-terminal terminal completely froze.  I can move and resize the
> > window, but cannot kill or close it.  A quick look at top shows:
> >
> > 38043 djp       20    0 21040K 16456K RUN    1   0:01  0.00%  0.00% gnome-terminal
> > 39481 djp       20    0 16624K 13948K RUN    1   0:02  0.00%  0.00% gkrellm
> > 39321 djp       20    0  4324K  2220K RUN    1   0:00  0.00%  0.00% gkrellmd
> >
> > In my kernel, I've added:
> >
> > options       SCHED_ULE               # ULE scheduler
> > options       SMP                             # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel
> > options       PREEMPTION
> >
> In addition, both mozilla and firefox "hung" moments after entering
> the command from an aterm.  They were both in the same state as above.
> 
> I was pushing loads of about 15 and using Xorg quite smoothly (with
> Nvidia drivers), also decoding mp3 stream with no skips or
> interruptions.  Then I launched OpenOffice.org-1.1.4.  I got the splash
> screen and the entire interface froze, no pings, nothing.  Forced to
> perform a software reset.
> 
> Is this information useful?  Is there something else I can do as a ULE
> "tester" to make these data more useful?
> 
> --
> Regards,
> Doug
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