On Thursday 04 August 2005 15:56, Erik Zeek wrote: [snip]
> As I understand, it preemption is not exactly a speedup. It is supposed to > improve the responsiveness of the kernel to user input. The kernel can > switch contexts in more places inside the kernel in response to other > inputs. This is great for desktops, but probably not for servers/number > crunchers. That pretty much sums it up. > I have no idea if it's fixed or not. Try disabling SMP and enabling > preemption followed by an emerge of something large (openoffice, kde, you > pick). If it succeeds, maybe it's fixed. If not, then it's still broken. No, it hasn't been fixedyet. :( Please don't attempt to disable SMP with preemption still enabled. //David
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