On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 00:36, Mark Knecht wrote: > > So to confirm it, I said find /, and the xruns were popping up 1 every 3 > > or 4 seconds, and sometimes more often. > > So it does really appear to be disk based. Whether it's the disk itself, of > something about the way the disk interferes with other things going on I > don't know, but it's good data. The next thing to try is to get hold of a fast IDE disk and see if the problem is related to the SCSI controller (or driver) or the SCSI disk. > > > > This was on vanilla 2.6.0 with Pre-emptible Kernel turned on, for those > > who've been asking. > > Interesting. Were you running 2.6 on your SMP machine 2 weeks ago? Same > revision of the kernel, or are you now using the new 2.6 stable release? 2.6.0 stable. Freshly downloaded and compiled for my listening pleasure. At least that's what I was hoping as I watched the progress meter for wget... I was using 2.4.22 with lowlatency patches on the SMP machine. Trouble started with the uniprocessor, so I tried all sorts of things, including the pre-emptible patches for 2.4. Then I went to 2.6.0-test9, then 2.6.0-test11, then 2.6.0-test11-mm1, then 2.6.0. Same story with all of them. bye John
