Bernhard Reiter wrote: >On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 12:42:27PM +0200, Julien Pervill� wrote: > > >>I experienced the stability problem when doing heavy >>compilation on this ibook g4. The culprit was the preemptible kernel >>option. I first suspected bad memory, but this laptop is working fine >>with OSX. Recompiling without CONFIG_PREEMPT did the trick. This is a >>known issue. >> >> > >If this is a known issue, >why not turn off PREEMPT by default >and add a warning to the describing text? > > > This is a 'Know Issue' ... at least is known to a lot of people, particularly on Gentoo because its source based distribution. I don't know if debian default ppc kernel has preempt enabled or not ... if it is i agree with u that it should be disabled. ;)
>I also have problems during heavy compiles (Powerbook 5,6 G4) >and will try 2.6.12-pre6 without PREEMPT now. > >Thanks for the hints! > Bernhard > > Good Luck ;) P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
