Folks, While doing some performance analysis (doing make -j5 buildkernel) on a set of 14 kernels I've hit one using the SCHED_ULE scheduler that hangs. It happens every time but not necessarily in the same place in the make. When it happens the processes involved in the make are hopping in and out of the "select," "RUN," etc. states but don't go anywhere and the system is otherwise responsive, ie. you can login, run "ps," "top," etc. The hardware is a dual Xeon box. The kernel is SMP w/ SCHED_ULE instead of SCHED_4BSD, the options required for diskless and the following two options: options CPU_FASTER_5X86_FPU options CPU_UPGRADE_HW_CACHE I've attached the kernel configuration, the output of "dmesg," "ps -axuww," and "sysctl -A" prior to the start of the test as well as the output of "make" up to the time it hung. I don't have any experience debugging scheduler problems but if someone wants to tell me what to do I'd be happy to try. -- Adam - Migus Dot Org (http://www.migus.org)
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