On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 11:42:21AM +0200, Unas Mérnöki Iroda wrote: > Package: linux-image > Version: 2.6.18-4-686 (etch2) > > I have a dual xeon system with 2 xeon 5050 dual core processors with > HyperTreading. > Sometimes one of the physical cores slow down and never speed up again. There > is > a lot of "system" and "user" load (~80-90%) and a lot of "soft irq" (~20-30%) > on > that CPU (on 2 virtual CPU because of HyperTreading). When a process running > on > the slow CPU it finished approximately 10 times slower than on one of the > other CPUs. > > The slow CPU speed up only when I reboot the system. > > I am using Debian GNU/Linux 4.0, kernel 2.6.18-4-686 (etch2). > Used packages: apache2, bind9, postfix, courier, mysql, proftpd, etc... > I am not using x-window.
Does this error still occur with more recent kernel versions? If you're running Etch, could you try to reproduce this bug with the 2.6.24 based kernel added in 4.0r4? http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/linux-2.6.24.html Cheers, Moritz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
