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Bug#876035: linux: i386: i/o with PAE kernels and > 8GB ram



Control: severity -1 minor
Control: tag -1 upstream

On Sun, 2017-09-17 at 10:16 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
[...]
> This can be seen on the reproducible builds i386 nodes, after upgrading
> to stretch late june/early july 2017, there was a huge spike in iowait:
> 
>   https://jenkins.debian.net/munin/debian.net/profitbricks-build2-i386.debian.net/cpu.html
>   https://jenkins.debian.net/munin/debian.net/profitbricks-build12-i386.debian.net/cpu.html
> 
> 
> Switching to an amd64 kernel for hardware that supports it is an option
> in many cases, though at least for reproducible builds purposes, doesn't
> test reproducibility issues case by 32-bit vs. 64-bit kernel variations.

This is just not a sensible configuration today.  I'm reducing the
severity accordingly.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
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