On Wed, Jan 01, 2014 at 05:03:29PM -0500, George Hunt wrote: > [...] > Progress report -- mostly as a log because the hardware seems really > promising and I expect to be coming back to Cubox later in the > year. When I was doing yum updates of the rootfs, top reported 100% > utilization for the yum task, but also 75% idle on the summary > panel.
This might be the process being stalled waiting for disk access, or a kernel thread spinning. The "D" state is reported in load average for the system. The CPU idle may be from a different input. You might work to characterise the available I/O bandwidth. > [...] > As I was trying to load the XSCE software, I found that I needed a > second ethernet adapter, but neither the Cubox, or the trimslice > which I use as tool, seems to have drivers for the AX88772 USB to > 10/100 Fast Ethernet/HomePNA/ HomePlug controller. I'm sure there > are other adapters which the kernel can handle, so I stopped on this > track. For that adapter, enable CONFIG_USB_NET_AX8817X. We have that in the OLPC kernels. > [...] -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
