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Bug#292061: marked as done (kernel-image-2.6.10-i386: please disable PREEMPT)



Your message dated Mon, 21 Aug 2006 18:03:22 -0400
with message-id <20060821220322.GA6547@doctormoo.dyndns.org>
and subject line PREEMPT will remain enabled
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Package: kernel-image-2.6.10-i386
Severity: wishlist


Hi,

PREEMPT might be a nice feature for desktop users who reboot their box
3 times a day, but it should be disabled for stability reasons,
especially on the SMP flavours.

This concerns both 2.6.8-i386 and 2.6.10-i386 kernel images.

We should seek a consensus among the kernel team members whether or not
PREEMPT should be enabled, if supported by the corresponding
architecture.

For some concerns, see http://kerneltrap.org/node/2702

Kind regards
Frederik Schueler

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-k7-smp
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

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Sorry.  Preempt is a lot more stable than when this bug was filed, thankfully.
It will certainly be staying on, because it seems to be needed currently for
some realtime applications, and we don't want to ship separate kernels just for
them.  Closing this bug now.

Please do feel free to report any specific PREEMPT-related bugs or slowdowns, of
course!  If there is a documented problem in the current kernel, we want to know.

-- 
Nathanael Nerode  <neroden@fastmail.fm>

Read it and weep.
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Text_of_Gore_speech_0116.html


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