smp in 5.1
Steve Kargl
sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Mon Aug 11 16:10:17 PDT 2003
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 08:25:38AM +1000, Andy Farkas wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Eriq Lamar wrote:
>
> > Is there any advantage in 5.1 over 4.8 for two amd mp's. and if so could
> > someone tell what they are. I am interested in building dual system using
> > mp's but not sure which version would be better.
>
> Scheduling in 5.1 is broken (sched_ule doesn't even work*).
>
> Stick with 4.8.
>
> * for me, sched_ule completely locks up my box, no ping, no keybd. Exact
> same kernel with sched_4bsd works fine.
>
Strange. ULE has worked fine on my UP system for
several months and the SMP system I recently obtained
from a co-worker hasn't panicked while running ULE.
Can you drop into ddb and trace the problem with
ULE on your system?
--
Steve
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