CALL FOR TESTERS! [Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2]

[Craig Boston]

On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 02:39:06PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > > Which is odd since the hypothesis Scott was working on should have
> > > shown up clearly in the mutex trace, but did not.
> > 
> > But it is consistent with there being a beat-frequency problem with 
> > respect to the scheduler.  I think the number you really need is not
> > how long giant was held but how long was spent waiting for it.
> 
> It also seemed to show that nothing was really waiting for it (the
> cnt_* entries).

I can set up a serial console an poke around in DDB during my test case
if anyone thinks some useful information can be found.

Unfortunately I'm remote from the machine right now so I won't be able
to do that until Monday :/

Craig