ULE issue on i386 5.3-STABLE

[Doug Poland]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 05:10:22PM -0600, Doug Poland wrote:
> 
> The issue I'm seeing, seconds after launching gnome-terminal,
> gnome-terminal terminal completely froze.  I can move and resize the
> window, but cannot kill or close it.  A quick look at top shows:
> 
> 38043 djp       20    0 21040K 16456K RUN    1   0:01  0.00%  0.00% gnome-terminal
> 39481 djp       20    0 16624K 13948K RUN    1   0:02  0.00%  0.00% gkrellm
> 39321 djp       20    0  4324K  2220K RUN    1   0:00  0.00%  0.00% gkrellmd 
> 
> In my kernel, I've added:
> 
> options 	SCHED_ULE		# ULE scheduler
> options 	SMP				# Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel
> options	PREEMPTION
> 
In addition, both mozilla and firefox "hung" moments after entering
the command from an aterm.  They were both in the same state as above.

I was pushing loads of about 15 and using Xorg quite smoothly (with
Nvidia drivers), also decoding mp3 stream with no skips or
interruptions.  Then I launched OpenOffice.org-1.1.4.  I got the splash
screen and the entire interface froze, no pings, nothing.  Forced to
perform a software reset.

Is this information useful?  Is there something else I can do as a ULE
"tester" to make these data more useful?

-- 
Regards,
Doug