[H-GEN] Cool

[Marshall, Joshua]

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Hi Craig,

> I know I can't fix it (other than reboot)... just thought I'd 
> show a few
> people what I've managed to achieve
> 
> USER       PID %CPU %MEM  SIZE   RSS TTY STAT START   TIME COMMAND
> root         4  0.0  0.0     0     0  ?  Z   Jul 23   0:50 (kswapd
> <zombie>)   
> 
> My only concern now is... how I've manged to kill kswapd ;)

You might be interested in the newest kernel update (2.2.11), since you've
got an SMP machine.  I'm not sure if kswapd would have "freed an interrupt"
but something else may have...

--8<--

The interrupt handling has been modified for better SMP performance. An SMP
race when freeing an
interrupt has been cured.

--8<--

full changelog at http://www.linux.org.uk/VERSION/relnotes.2211.html

Cheers,
Josh.

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