From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263743AbTGCTNx (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jul 2003 15:13:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263990AbTGCTNx (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jul 2003 15:13:53 -0400 Received: from air-2.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:1682 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263743AbTGCTNu (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jul 2003 15:13:50 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 12:22:43 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Boszormenyi Zoltan Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.5.74-mm1 Message-Id: <20030703122243.51a6d581.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <3F042AEE.2000202@freemail.hu> References: <3F0407D1.8060506@freemail.hu> <3F042AEE.2000202@freemail.hu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.0pre1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote: > > Hi, > > I actually tried it. It seems that although I compiled an SMP kernel, it > does not use both CPUs. You're right. The kernel sort-of saw the second CPU but it appears to have not come up. Have you used any other 2.5 kernels? Are you able to pinpoint and particular kernel version at which this started to happen? If not then I'd appreciate it if you could test stock 2.4.74. > I got one oops on boot. That's a warning, not an oops. The ACPI IRQ handler claims that it's not handling the IRQ all the time. That's a fairly, err, mature problem actually. > I was doing two "find / | xargs cat >/dev/null" on two terminals and I > didn't notice them. Well that's nice. We have a fancy I/O scheduler in there. > Tried recompiling the .74-mm1 tree with "make -j2" and my xmms does not > skip at all > but my mozilla windows are slowly refreshing, even the compose window is > reacting > slowly. Somehow it's understandable. :-) The machine is a dual P3/500 > with 512MB memory. Thanks for the feedback.