New testing kernel. 2.6.10-1.727_FC3

Andy Green fedora at warmcat.com
Fri Jan 7 09:34:02 UTC 2005


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On Friday 07 January 2005 02:02, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 02:16:19PM +0000, Andy Green wrote:
>  > Just in case it is the same problem -- I am noting strange pauses in the
>  > current devel kernel 2.6.10-1.1056_FC4 periodically, interrupting video
>  > playback and audio for a second or two at intervals, even when the
>  > machine is fairly quietscant.
>
> There's a lot of heavyweight debug code in the rawhide kernels right now
> which could account for this.  It's the usual stuff that gets turned off
> just before release (checking for reuse of free'd memory etc..)

Thanks, that can easily explain it if something allocated and freed a big 
chunk of memory and then it is checked for being touched.  I'll wait and see 
if it goes away when a stable 2.6.10 kernel turns up then.

- -Andy

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