linux-kernel - Re: Postal 56% waits for flock_lock_file

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Date:	Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:40:12 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>,
	Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...el.com>,
	"Ananiev, Leonid I" <leonid.i.ananiev@...el.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <Linux-Kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Postal 56% waits for flock_lock_file_wait

On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 11:00:36PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
 > Ar Llu, 2006-10-02 am 13:40 -0400, ysgrifennodd Dave Jones:
 > > On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 06:51:56PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
 > > "or similar" maybe. The iRam is pretty much junk in my experience[*].
 > > It rarely survives a mkfs, let alone sustained high throughput I/O.
 > > (And yes, I did try multiple DIMMs, including ones which survive
 > >  memtest86 just fine).
 > 
 > That appears to depend on the firmware and featureset used. With vaguely
 > recent firmware apart from the "failed diagnostics at boot" bug the one
 > I was loaned seems to be reliable and has fairly recent firmware.

Mine was latest hardware (rev 1.3), and there wasn't any firmware update
available that I could see. :-/

 > > [*] And from googling/talking with other owners, my experiences aren't unique.
 > Agreed - even in windows 8)

It's amazing crap like this reaches the store shelves.

	Dave

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