Hi Havis, I'm forwarding your reply to the bug log, so the maintainer can have a better idea of the situation.
Given your workaround (I'm not going to replicate) it's even more clearer a bug in the kernel needing to be fixed before Lenny release. Sandro On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:18, Havis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I have same problems like you. > I have Debian Lenny with 2.6.26-1-686 kernel > I have been running boinc for a long time > and these issues appeard on my PC after > I started using kernels with CFS scheduler (2.6.24+) > my hw is: > CPU: Pentium 4 2.8GHz HT > RAM: 2GB DDR 400MHz > MB: ABIT IC7-G > HDD: Hitachi 500GB, Hitachi 250GB, Maxtor 120GB (all 7200rpm) > > A solution for me was to turn off HyperThreading in BIOS. > I think that -nice 19 processes have too high priority > and that -nice 19 behavior should be changed > so that these tasks get only _free_ (not used) CPU clocks. > > > Sandro Tosi wrote: >> severity 498328 important >> thanks >> >> On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 09:24, Sandro Tosi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64 >> > Version: 2.6.26-4 >> > Severity: normal >> > >> > Hello, >> > I updated 2 days ago to this kernel, and I start notice pretty soon this >> > problem: when I execute a program of mine (even with nice -n 19), with 4 >> > parallel thread (it's cpu bound), the system completely slow down, the >> > mouse >> > starts jumping (not a smooth movement), switching to other application is >> > really slow and the programs starts repeating input chars randomly >> > (verified >> > with amsn and gnome-terminal): this is what I came out trying a "ls >> > /proc...": >> > >> > $ lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllls >> > /procccccccccccccccccccccccc/2808 >> >> Today the situation was much more worst (after 3 days of uptime): >> while trying to access to mysql from terminal, I start typing 'm' char >> and then the drama begins: the 'm' char was repeating forever (and >> it's not a faulty keyboard, since I remove the battery and the flow >> kept going) in every window I choose, both terminals, xchat, >> iceweasel, etc. in the current virtual desktop and in others >> >> After a while, the whole machine start "ranting": switching to other >> virtual desktop result in freezed windows, trying to exit from the DE >> (xfce in this case) was not possible since xfce-panel was not >> responding, and not even ssh from another pc worked!! >> >> Please treat this as a grave bug (I didn't raise the severity to that >> level because I still don't know if it's RC or not). I renew my offer >> to support you in any way to debug & fix it. I saw a -5 was released: >> I'll try it but from changelog it doesn't seem to address this >> problem. -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, Morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]